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Chapter 2 Suit Up.

"I see. I get it now," he pulled out a gun from the gun rack and examined it, wondering if it were real. "all of this. is just a fake?" He continued to meddle with the rifle, and a round went off accidentally. Out of instinct, he dropped the gun and backed away. In front of his eyes, the rifle lost its colour, became a green digital frame and disintegrated into dust. "Whoa." he gaped in awe.

"You are not exactly correct Mister Williams, the Matrix as you see it, might be just a imaginary world. On the contrary, its in fact as real as it can get." Finishing his sentence, he walked up to Gareth and punched him in the stomach. Gareth was shocked by Morpheus sudden hostility and immediately reacted by punching back at him with all his might. However, Morpheus dodged his attacks with amazing speed and agility, to Gareth, the way Morpheus moved was just a blur.

"Okay, another weird thing, how'd you do that?" Gareth noticed that Morpheus was only showing him how real the Matrix was.

"You'll know in time." He smiled through his black shades. "Time to get you suited up kid." He smiled again. "Operator, hit it."

Like before, racks of guns, suits and overalls fell from the sky. Gareth noticed that he was a bit too close to the falling zone of a gun rack, so he moved back. Once the racks had stopped falling from the sky, he browsed through the many suits and overalls, not daring to touch the guns yet. He looked at Morpheus and Trinity; both were wearing black outfits, and then looked at himself. He snorted and took a black suit off the clothes rack, went over the overalls rack and randomly pulled out one. After selecting his clothes, he saw a rack full of shades. "Hmm." he pondered. Trinity and Morpheus looked at each other and smirked. Gareth's eyes were caught by a silver light-reflecting shade and took it off the rack too. After choosing his apparel, a changing room dropped on the ground on his right. He opened the door and went in. Not long after he went in, he came out looking very similar to someone Trinity and Morpheus knew. The first person that came to their mind was Neo. His face, his hair, his figure; all matched. For the first time in a long time, Gareth smiled slightly, obviously satisfied with the clothes he had chosen. His new clothes had apparently made him more aware of his surroundings, his body language showed it. When he approached the gun racks section, Morpheus walked over to him. "This is where the real deal starts, pick up as many weapons as you want. They'll serve you well when you start going out with us." With this, Gareth strolled leisurely down the many gun racks as if he were at the grocery store. He took a dual gun pistol holster and strapped it onto his chest, together with a set of USPs. He went further down the aisles and pulled out a long M14. However, he did not know how to use any rifles. "Pity." he sulked, looking longingly at the assault rifle. He put it back and continued down. Morpheus and Trinity were following him, making sure he didn't try to fool around with any of the guns. As Gareth walked further and deeper into the arsenal of weapon, he figured that he didn't know how to handle most of them.

"I might as well do with these two pistols here, I know nuts about rifles and stuff like that." He told Morpheus and Trinity.

"Very well, these will be the weapons you will be training on." Morpheus nodded thoughtfully at Gareth while Trinity did nothing but smile.

"Now its time for you to meet the crew. Operator, get us the hell out of here." Morpheus said through his futuristic mobile phone, which he had taken out.

Gareth's eyes flew open like shutters. He sat straight up. He felt like he had just awoken from a nightmare, sweat was flowing profusely down his forehead. Immediately, he looked around, afraid to find the same blankness of the world he encountered in his 'dream'. Fortunately, he met two familiar faces opposite his armchair, although they were not wearing the same black clothing as before. Morpheus stood up and went over to Gareth. "Welcome to the Nebuchunezzar, I am the captain of this hovercraft." He greeted Gareth again warmly.

To be continued.