"All right. What do you want?" Link asked, fingers poised over the keyboard.

"Guns, and a black Ducati." Trinity replied into her cell phone.

"One Ducati and all the toppings coming right up."

Trinity smiled as she heard Link typing furiously before the white of the Construct was filled with four rows of small arms and a sleek motorcycle at the end. After a few minutes of loading up, Trinity kicked started the bike- a signal that she was ready to go in.

~~*~~

Arriving in a run down mechanic shop, Trinity dismounted her bike to pick up the ringing phone.

"I'm in. Where's Neo?"

"Search almost done. Got him. Four blocks south, in an old Chinese restaurant, 'The Black Dragon'." Link replied.

"Got it."

"Now don't you go make any trouble, you hear? I don't wanna see any cops around you." Link commented. Trinity could practically hear him smiling.

"What makes you think I do anything like that?" Trinity answered before shutting off the phone- cutting off Link's reply in the process.

Now, The Black Dragon, not a bad place to be- the owner hated cops of any kind so this should be easy. Trinity jumped onto her bike and after revving it, floored it around the corner. Arriving at the restaurant only a few minutes later, Trinity walked in the back doors- intent on making sure the owner wasn't hiding Neo. Finding no one around the back, Trinity walked swiftly to the front. In the kitchen, the owner was heating some water.

"Sir. Where is the man you have here?" Trinity asked.

The man jumped at her voice, obviously interrupted from his thoughts.

"Who are you? What do you want? Why are.Oh. Trinity. I'm sorry. You want to speak with the man I found on my doorstep? Why?" The small Chinese man's anger dissipated upon seeing the form of a former contact. He would give her help in deleting hers and the other crewmember's files in the government databases in turn for freeing his daughter and two sons.

"He's free." Was her simple answer.

"He doesn't recall."

"I know. Is he out front, in the dining area?" Trinity asked, turning her lens-covered eyes towards the kitchen doorway.

"Yes, I was making tea. It will be ready in a few moments. I'll bring it out and leave you alone." Trinity smiled gently and nodded. As she began walking towards the door, the man asked, almost fearfully,

"How are my children? Are they alive?"

"Yes. Dragon is an operator, Vise and Ether are crewmembers." Trinity replied. She wasn't completely lying she thought. That's what they were, until almost every ship was destroyed save a handful.

"Thank you." The man smiled and bowed slightly before turning back to the tea.

~~*~~

Neo sat in a booth, his back facing the kitchen. He had his hands clasped together on top of the table when Trinity slid into the seat across from him. Trinity removed her glasses and placed them gently on the table to the side.

"Hello Neo."

Neo's eyes, which up to this point had been glued to the tabletop, slowly moved upward. His breath caught slightly in his throat as his eyes went further and further up, until he met a pair of ice blue eyes, staring intently back at him. Those eyes staring at him seemed so familiar. ~Get a grip on yourself, she just sat down. You have no idea who she is- just like the Chinese man. ~ But Neo's thoughts were interrupted as the Chinese man walked over and placed two small cups of tea beside them.

Neo watched as this woman, dressed in black, who looked almost menacing, smiled softly at the Chinese man. ~Why do I get the feeling she doesn't smile often? ~

"Neo. Do you know who I am?" Trinity asked again. Trying to cover her sadness at how he didn't even respond to his name.

"Is that my name? It sounds familiar." Neo asked back.

"Yes. Do you remember anything?"

Neo shook his head no before taking a sip of the tea. Discovering it was too hot, he licked his lips and blew on it gently. Trinity was mesmerized by his reaction before trying a different tack.

"Do you know anything besides what you just woke up to?"

"Well, see that's the problem." Neo began, setting the tea down, and cupping it between his hands before continuing. "Nothing was familiar until you sat down. I knew somehow that I knew you. I just felt like I knew you. And when you said my name, it sounded familiar. But I can't place it. Do we know each other? Do we work together or something?"

"Both." Off Neo's confused look, "We work together and something."

"What's the something?" Neo asked.

"As much as I'd like to tell you, right now, that's not what you need to know. Neo, when you woke up earlier, did you feel that this world around you, just wasn't right? There was something wrong with it?"

"If I say yes, will you laugh?"

"No."

"Then yes."

Trinity leaned back, slightly relaxing. As Neo finished his tea, Trinity began the story- only the much-condensed version.

"This world that we are in right now, is a computer program created by machines to make the human race slaves to them. Few of these humans find the truth. And those that do- are freed to live a life dedicated to fighting the machines. Everything around us is computer generated. The air we're breathing, the tea you drank, the lights, the seats, everything. This world we are in right now, is not the Real World. It is the Matrix."

Neo took this in. Nodding his head slightly,

"Right, right. And then the Terminator will come back in time to tell me that I'm going to be the savior of the human race. Right."

"Actually, minus the Terminator part, you aren't that far off."

Neo's skeptical look vanished into that of interest.

"Huh?"

"You want the truth?" Trinity asked.

Neo nodded.

"Then come with me." Trinity stood, and not waiting for Neo, turned and walked back through the kitchen. She pushed the back door open, put on her glasses, opened her cell phone, and pressed speed dial.