The light was blinding as Eon opened his eyes, he felt little pricks in his
body. Hundreds of them. His body felt so weak, so helpless. He heard
someone say "he needs a lot of work". He looked up to see a dark skinned
man; the man had no plugs, no holes.
"What're ya doin'?" he asked in a hoarse voice.
"Your muscles have never been used, we're rebuilding them" said Morpheus who was doing something with a pin on his chest.
"Why do my eyes hurt" Eon asked as he scrunched them closed, the pain of the light was too much.
"You've never used them before" said Morpheus and put a hand on his forehead, "Rest, Eon, the answers are coming" and Eon blacked out.
Morpheus looked at the boy on the medical table, the hundreds of pins helping to rebuild his skinny and muscle-less body. The boy's eyebrows and hair had begun to grow back. His hair was black, it was strange, he looked Neo had when they rebuilt him. Morpheus frowned and pulled out another pin when the blue light went out.
Soon they'd pulled all the pins out and put some shabby grey clothes on the boy. Morpheus looked at him as he lay on the cot, the drip in his arm slowly supplying his body with the minerals and vitamins it needed to re- grow to the fullness and strength it had always been denied by the constant drain of energy. The boy's head moved slightly on the pillow, he looked so young. Morpheus shook his head, he should leave, the boy would wake soon and he would need some time alone to try and understand. Morpheus shut the metal door with a clang, fate was a cruel master.
Eon was aware of a dull ache in his arm as he awoke. He stared for a moment at the rusted ceiling above him before hauling himself slowly into a sitting position. He looked around, where was he? He looked down at a drip connected to one of the plugs in his arms, the one a few centimetres before his wrist on his right arm. He gripped it and slowly began to pull it out. The pain was sharp but he pulled it steadily, he gritted his teeth and pulled it right out. He looked at it for a moment before throwing it aside. He looked at the metal plug on his arm and rubbed it so it lay flat in his skin once more. He stared at his arm for a moment before he remembered the cable coming out of his neck. He slowly put his hand to the back of his neck and felt the cold tinge of metal against his fingers. His eyes widened a bit, it wasn't a dream! It was very real. Suddenly Morpheus came in "Morpheus, what is happening to me? What is this place" Eon said immediately.
"More important than what is when" said Morpheus looking at him.
"When?" said Eon in bewilderment.
"You believe it is the year 2003, actually it is closer to 2203, I can't tell you the exact date because we honestly don't know. Nothing I can say can explain it to you. Come with me" and with that Morpheus lead him out of the room he had awoken in and up a ladder to what looked like the deck of a spaceship on a Startrek. "This is my ship, the Nebuchadnezzar. This is the main deck and core. This is where we broadcast and hack into the Matrix. You already know Trinity" he said gesturing to the woman he'd saved as they walked down the crude metal bridge. "This is Link" he said, gesturing to the dark skinned man sitting in front of about five computer screens staring at a lot of computer symbols as they ran down the screen.
They lead him into a chair and strapped him in. Suddenly a long needle like object was inserted into his neck plug and he was in a white room.
"This is the construct" said Morpheus who was standing beside him, "our loading program, we can load anything from clothes to equipment or weapons, anything we need"
"This is a computer program, not real?" said Eon in wonder.
"How do define real, electrical signals interpreted by your brain or the truth? You've been living in a dream world Eon; the world you know doesn't exist. This is the world now" suddenly they were in a barren wasteland; the sky was black and stormy. "Our knowledge is very limited, but we do know that the entire of the human civilisation was in celebration at the beginning of the twenty-first century. We marvelled at our own brilliance as we gave birth to A.I".
"Artificial Intelligence?" asked Eon.
"A singular consciousness that gave birth to an entire race of machines. We do not know who struck first, us or them, but we do know that it was us who scorched the sky. At the time they we dependant on solar power and it was believed that they would die out without an energy source as abundant as the sun. Throughout human history we have been dependant on machines to survive, fate it seems is not without a sense of irony" said Morpheus looking up at the sky.
Suddenly they sky changed and became a human baby in a pod! "The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120 volt battery and over 250,000 BTU's of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion the machines had found all the power they would ever need! There are fields Eon, endless fields where human beings are no longer born, we are grown". Eon couldn't believe it; his mind could not handle it. "For the longest time I wouldn't believe it" continued Morpheus, "But then saw it with my own eyes, I saw the fields, saw them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living and standing there faced with the horror I saw the obviousness of the truth". Morpheus turned to face Eon, "what is the Matrix? Control, the Matrix is a computer generated dream world pulled over our eyes to blind us, so they can turn a human being into this" he held up a battery. Eon couldn't believe it, it couldn't be true, it just couldn't. He shook his head viciously, trying to wake up. No it couldn't be true, no, no, no, it just wasn't true. It wasn't.
He woke up suddenly in the chair and tried to get up but they were holding him down. He fought free and scrambled away from them. He suddenly felt a compression on his lungs, he needed to breathe. He tried but couldn't! He couldn't breathe! His body went into shock, he fell to his knees, his body needed air. "He's gonna pop" said Link to his left staring at him in alarm.
"Breathe Eon, just breathe" shouted Morpheus but he couldn't. With a last effort he forced out white fluid that had flowed into his lungs and stopped his breathing, when he went into shock it had happened. When he denied the truth, he collapsed straight after coughing it up. All went black.
Morpheus sat beside the boy as he rested. He should not have reacted like that, that was the reaction of someone over the restricted age. He was fourteen, under the age by about five maybe six years. Something wasn't right he could sense it. He knew this boy was important, Neo had said so. Eon was also very fluent in a language that by any normal human being should have taken about three years to learn and yet the boy spoke it as though he was German himself. It was strange. Suddenly Eon spoke, "So it's all true? I don't want to believe it, I can't. Can't I ever go back?"
"No you cannot, but would you really want to?" he asked Eon. "You know Neo, the man you met in the water fall garden" continued Morpheus and the boy nodded. "How did you know who he was?"
"I've always known him, well sort of. I searched for soon after I lost my memory." said Eon but Morpheus cut him off.
"You lost your memory? When?"
"I think I was about nine, I don't honestly know" he said shrugging.
Morpheus frowned; this boy had more riddles to him than a jigsaw. "Get some rest" he told the boy, "you'll need it". He began to walk out the room.
"What for?" asked Eon sitting up.
"You training" said Morpheus and shut the door behind him.
Eon sat there in the dark thinking, maybe this was supposed to happen and maybe it wasn't but he was here now. Fate had not brought him here he'd come of his own choice. He didn't believe in that fate crap, there was no way that the future was planned out. Suddenly there was a wiring as the ships lights were turned on and he heard someone's heavy tread coming toward his door. Suddenly it swung open to reveal Link, "Did you sleep?" he asked Eon.
"No" Eon replied quietly.
"You will tonight, I guarantee it. I'll be your operator today, I'm pretty eager to see what you can do, if Neo says you're special than by my prediction you'll do something strange". Eon raised an eyebrow and followed Link into the Core.
Link sat down in a large black chair in front of the computer screens after he'd plugged in Eon. "We're meant to start with this operation programs first" he said throwing about seven discs on the floor "but that's major boring shit. Let's do something a little more fun, how about combat training" he held up a disc before slotting it in the machine.
Eon watched the screen above him and it flickered and finally showed a picture. It had a loading bar and just above it were the words JU JITSU. "Ju Jitsu, I'm going to learn Ju Jitsu?" he said incredulously. Link just grinned at him and pressed some buttons o the keyboard. Suddenly his brain was overloaded with information. He suddenly knew every move, kick and punch! "Holy shit" he said when it stopped.
"I think he likes it, you want some more?" said Link.
"Hell yeah" said Eon as Link loaded the next. He closed his eyes and received all the information. And what would have taken others years to learn to him minutes.
Morpheus walked up to the operation screens where Link sat rubbing his eyes. He put his hand on Link's shoulder and asked "how long has been on there?"
"Ten hours straight, he's still in the machine".
"No change?"
"None".
"Then I think he's ready to see her".
"The Oracle?"
"Yes".
"What're ya doin'?" he asked in a hoarse voice.
"Your muscles have never been used, we're rebuilding them" said Morpheus who was doing something with a pin on his chest.
"Why do my eyes hurt" Eon asked as he scrunched them closed, the pain of the light was too much.
"You've never used them before" said Morpheus and put a hand on his forehead, "Rest, Eon, the answers are coming" and Eon blacked out.
Morpheus looked at the boy on the medical table, the hundreds of pins helping to rebuild his skinny and muscle-less body. The boy's eyebrows and hair had begun to grow back. His hair was black, it was strange, he looked Neo had when they rebuilt him. Morpheus frowned and pulled out another pin when the blue light went out.
Soon they'd pulled all the pins out and put some shabby grey clothes on the boy. Morpheus looked at him as he lay on the cot, the drip in his arm slowly supplying his body with the minerals and vitamins it needed to re- grow to the fullness and strength it had always been denied by the constant drain of energy. The boy's head moved slightly on the pillow, he looked so young. Morpheus shook his head, he should leave, the boy would wake soon and he would need some time alone to try and understand. Morpheus shut the metal door with a clang, fate was a cruel master.
Eon was aware of a dull ache in his arm as he awoke. He stared for a moment at the rusted ceiling above him before hauling himself slowly into a sitting position. He looked around, where was he? He looked down at a drip connected to one of the plugs in his arms, the one a few centimetres before his wrist on his right arm. He gripped it and slowly began to pull it out. The pain was sharp but he pulled it steadily, he gritted his teeth and pulled it right out. He looked at it for a moment before throwing it aside. He looked at the metal plug on his arm and rubbed it so it lay flat in his skin once more. He stared at his arm for a moment before he remembered the cable coming out of his neck. He slowly put his hand to the back of his neck and felt the cold tinge of metal against his fingers. His eyes widened a bit, it wasn't a dream! It was very real. Suddenly Morpheus came in "Morpheus, what is happening to me? What is this place" Eon said immediately.
"More important than what is when" said Morpheus looking at him.
"When?" said Eon in bewilderment.
"You believe it is the year 2003, actually it is closer to 2203, I can't tell you the exact date because we honestly don't know. Nothing I can say can explain it to you. Come with me" and with that Morpheus lead him out of the room he had awoken in and up a ladder to what looked like the deck of a spaceship on a Startrek. "This is my ship, the Nebuchadnezzar. This is the main deck and core. This is where we broadcast and hack into the Matrix. You already know Trinity" he said gesturing to the woman he'd saved as they walked down the crude metal bridge. "This is Link" he said, gesturing to the dark skinned man sitting in front of about five computer screens staring at a lot of computer symbols as they ran down the screen.
They lead him into a chair and strapped him in. Suddenly a long needle like object was inserted into his neck plug and he was in a white room.
"This is the construct" said Morpheus who was standing beside him, "our loading program, we can load anything from clothes to equipment or weapons, anything we need"
"This is a computer program, not real?" said Eon in wonder.
"How do define real, electrical signals interpreted by your brain or the truth? You've been living in a dream world Eon; the world you know doesn't exist. This is the world now" suddenly they were in a barren wasteland; the sky was black and stormy. "Our knowledge is very limited, but we do know that the entire of the human civilisation was in celebration at the beginning of the twenty-first century. We marvelled at our own brilliance as we gave birth to A.I".
"Artificial Intelligence?" asked Eon.
"A singular consciousness that gave birth to an entire race of machines. We do not know who struck first, us or them, but we do know that it was us who scorched the sky. At the time they we dependant on solar power and it was believed that they would die out without an energy source as abundant as the sun. Throughout human history we have been dependant on machines to survive, fate it seems is not without a sense of irony" said Morpheus looking up at the sky.
Suddenly they sky changed and became a human baby in a pod! "The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120 volt battery and over 250,000 BTU's of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion the machines had found all the power they would ever need! There are fields Eon, endless fields where human beings are no longer born, we are grown". Eon couldn't believe it; his mind could not handle it. "For the longest time I wouldn't believe it" continued Morpheus, "But then saw it with my own eyes, I saw the fields, saw them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living and standing there faced with the horror I saw the obviousness of the truth". Morpheus turned to face Eon, "what is the Matrix? Control, the Matrix is a computer generated dream world pulled over our eyes to blind us, so they can turn a human being into this" he held up a battery. Eon couldn't believe it, it couldn't be true, it just couldn't. He shook his head viciously, trying to wake up. No it couldn't be true, no, no, no, it just wasn't true. It wasn't.
He woke up suddenly in the chair and tried to get up but they were holding him down. He fought free and scrambled away from them. He suddenly felt a compression on his lungs, he needed to breathe. He tried but couldn't! He couldn't breathe! His body went into shock, he fell to his knees, his body needed air. "He's gonna pop" said Link to his left staring at him in alarm.
"Breathe Eon, just breathe" shouted Morpheus but he couldn't. With a last effort he forced out white fluid that had flowed into his lungs and stopped his breathing, when he went into shock it had happened. When he denied the truth, he collapsed straight after coughing it up. All went black.
Morpheus sat beside the boy as he rested. He should not have reacted like that, that was the reaction of someone over the restricted age. He was fourteen, under the age by about five maybe six years. Something wasn't right he could sense it. He knew this boy was important, Neo had said so. Eon was also very fluent in a language that by any normal human being should have taken about three years to learn and yet the boy spoke it as though he was German himself. It was strange. Suddenly Eon spoke, "So it's all true? I don't want to believe it, I can't. Can't I ever go back?"
"No you cannot, but would you really want to?" he asked Eon. "You know Neo, the man you met in the water fall garden" continued Morpheus and the boy nodded. "How did you know who he was?"
"I've always known him, well sort of. I searched for soon after I lost my memory." said Eon but Morpheus cut him off.
"You lost your memory? When?"
"I think I was about nine, I don't honestly know" he said shrugging.
Morpheus frowned; this boy had more riddles to him than a jigsaw. "Get some rest" he told the boy, "you'll need it". He began to walk out the room.
"What for?" asked Eon sitting up.
"You training" said Morpheus and shut the door behind him.
Eon sat there in the dark thinking, maybe this was supposed to happen and maybe it wasn't but he was here now. Fate had not brought him here he'd come of his own choice. He didn't believe in that fate crap, there was no way that the future was planned out. Suddenly there was a wiring as the ships lights were turned on and he heard someone's heavy tread coming toward his door. Suddenly it swung open to reveal Link, "Did you sleep?" he asked Eon.
"No" Eon replied quietly.
"You will tonight, I guarantee it. I'll be your operator today, I'm pretty eager to see what you can do, if Neo says you're special than by my prediction you'll do something strange". Eon raised an eyebrow and followed Link into the Core.
Link sat down in a large black chair in front of the computer screens after he'd plugged in Eon. "We're meant to start with this operation programs first" he said throwing about seven discs on the floor "but that's major boring shit. Let's do something a little more fun, how about combat training" he held up a disc before slotting it in the machine.
Eon watched the screen above him and it flickered and finally showed a picture. It had a loading bar and just above it were the words JU JITSU. "Ju Jitsu, I'm going to learn Ju Jitsu?" he said incredulously. Link just grinned at him and pressed some buttons o the keyboard. Suddenly his brain was overloaded with information. He suddenly knew every move, kick and punch! "Holy shit" he said when it stopped.
"I think he likes it, you want some more?" said Link.
"Hell yeah" said Eon as Link loaded the next. He closed his eyes and received all the information. And what would have taken others years to learn to him minutes.
Morpheus walked up to the operation screens where Link sat rubbing his eyes. He put his hand on Link's shoulder and asked "how long has been on there?"
"Ten hours straight, he's still in the machine".
"No change?"
"None".
"Then I think he's ready to see her".
"The Oracle?"
"Yes".