"Oh my God."

Neo had to smile at Trinity's reaction when he finally succeeded in what he was trying to do. He had caused the clock to explode when using the large generator's power. The only way anyone knew he was actually using the generator's power and not his mind was that when he took power from it mentally, the generator's glow darkened.

"Okay then. That worked well. Uhhh, Sparks, you can stand up now, there are no other parts flying around." Neo laughed upon seeing Sparks flat on the ground.

"Right then, onto the laptop. I'll just go stand with Trinity since she seems to be a safe distance away." Sparks commented, jogging over to Trinity on the exit ramp of the ship.

"She's not. No one is. I'm just forcing the explosion not to go towards her since I don't want her harmed." Neo answered.

"And you want me hurt?"

"No, you're just much closer. The further away, the easier to stop the parts from going there, the closer, the harder because I have to react faster to stop more parts." Neo explained as he walked over to the laptop.

Neo placed the laptop on the stool and backed up about 40 feet. Stretching out both hands, one directed at the generator, the other at the laptop, Neo concentrated on taking power from the generator and then shoving it into the laptop- overloading it's power source. As the laptop exploded into hundreds of parts, Neo moved his left hand towards Trinity, Flash, Detrick- who had joined Trinity before Neo had started his experiments-, and Sparks. Flash yelled out as he saw all the parts flying towards them. Flash, Detrick, and Sparks all hit the ramp on their stomachs, leaving Trinity to stand, unafraid. Just inches before most of the pieces would hit her- most likely severely harming her, all the pieces stopped in midair.

"Showoff." Trinity called out.

"You knew I'd stop them." Neo shot back.

"Holy shit." Sparks muttered, staring up at the pieces "frozen" in the air above his head.

"I think I've succeeded quite well, don't you think?" Neo commented.

"Try the generator. Then we'll tell you whether you've succeeded or not." Flash challenged.

"Move." Neo commanded, causing the four of them to back up to allow the pieces to drop.

"I'm getting the rest of the crew to see this." Detrick yelled to Neo before he could finish walking over to the small generator.

~~*~~

"Neo, are you sure you can do this?" Niobe questioned from her position on the ramp.

"Trust me."

"Go ahead Neo, we won't move." Trinity implored gently.

"I wouldn't advise it." Neo muttered under his breath.

Stretching out his hands again, he focused on the generator for the last time. A gasp from the ramp could be heard as the small generator began to smoke and fizz while the large one began to go out- losing all its power. Neo stopped before it exploded, afraid he wouldn't be able to stop an explosion from something of that size from harming someone.

"Wow. That was so, cool." Link commented, eyes bouncing from the sizzling generator to Neo and back again.

"Yeah. I guess it is." Neo replied, smiling softly.

~~*~~

"So, what does this all mean in the long run?" Morpheus asked Neo once they entire crew went into the core for a meeting.

"I don't know. I can only do what I did if I can take power from an alternate power source." Neo answered, shaking his head.

"Would that alternate power source include a human?" Link asked.

Neo paused a moment before answering.

"No."

"Oh, okay, good." Link answered.

"A human has too many- complicated parts. More than a machine. We are constantly changing, our minds at least. Too many soft parts that can be damaged by doing that."

"What do you mean, 'soft parts'?" Trinity asked, slightly miffed.

"Well, we all like to think every one of us are tough, brutal, soldiers-" Neo began.

"Which we are." Trinity interjected.

"-But, we are still human, and humans are made up of bones, muscle, flesh, and blood. None of those things can really put up a fight against metal. Metal is hard, unchanging. We have constantly changing skin temperatures, blood flow, muscle flexes. Nothing's constant. Which is why it's dangerous to do this on a human. I don't even want to try to see if I can. I'm just going with the 'no I can't' answer." Neo finished, seemingly unfazed by Trinity's interruption.

All the crewmembers were still trying to understand how these two could flow so well together, even in an argument, but only the closest of friends knew that later, these two would work off the anger from his comment and her interruption another way than talking. Morpheus smiled tightly both at Neo's explanation and the thought that Trinity would have some serious steam to work off from his comment that she had 'soft parts' like every other human. Trinity didn't like to let others, and sometimes even herself, know that she could be hurt, and was only human. Morpheus' thoughts were interrupted as some people began to get up- leaving the Core for lunch.

As Morpheus exited, he smiled at the looks Neo was receiving from Trinity. No they most likely wouldn't be joining the crew for lunch today, though they needed it due to Neo's coma and Trinity's inability to leave his side for it's duration. Well, he would just keep the crew out of the Core for a few minutes longer to give them time to be presentable. Morpheus shook his head at the thought that he had to cover for them because of the uncontrollable need for each other. Well, someday they'd have to learn. Not today though.