A/N: So I lied…. Anyways, here's the next chapter. I hope…

I believed one thing/But you had a fling/You turned me into a fighter/Now I'm a smiter/I'll take a lighter/You'll burn brighter/You wanna fight me?/I'll take your heart out/I'll make you find out/What it means/To live and die/To see the end/But miss the chance/To stay in peace/I wanna end this/I wanna bring this war/To a close/Stop the bloodshed/Free the homestead/Tears of lead/My heart has bled/I'll fight you

You made me what I am/But this has been a sham/I don't like you/I'm nothing like you/I wanna fight you/I wanna bite you

Are you there?/Can you hear me?/This'll make me/Or it'll break me./Beat you back/Make you crack/Make you bleed/Make you scream/I don't like you/I wanna fight you/I wanna end this rage inside me/I cannot see you/I cannot hear you/I do not fear you/Free my soul/Fill the hole/Kill the mole/Burn the scroll/I'll fight you

You made me all that I am/But this has been a sham/I don't like you/I'm nothing like you/I wanna fight you/I wanna bite you

I'm gonna fight you/I'm gonna right you/You can't hide/You will fall/Rage against you/Rage against you/I will fight you/I'll fight you

~@~

The car pulsed with the sound coming from the speakers. The new group, Butcherz Blok, had put out a song that seemed to fit the rage everyone had against everyone else, but Neo found it hauntingly true. A cloudy day inside the Matrix, he thought.

The people passed, minding their own business, living their lives out inside a pod with their minds strapped into a computer. He was looking for a code, a small code that would open a certain locked door to a certain apartment with a certain disk inside.

But why do I need the disk? he thought. How would I read it? And what's on it? Ah, but he said 'when things get outta hand' and things are definitely outta hand. I guess I'll just get it.

He pulled into a parking lot, turned off the engine, and took off his seat belt. He waited for several minutes, lost in thought. He finally came back to is senses and looked around him. He was in a parking lot next to a school, the bell had just rung, and a hoard of girls had come flooding out of the building. They all had their backpacks and messenger bags and brown paper sack lunches. They were finding places on the lawn to sit and have lunch and chat with their friends.

One group came trouping out last, fake galloping and knocking their pens on their binders, quoting Monty Python. They went to the far end of the lawn and set up camp beneath an old oak tree. Neo could not hear what they were saying, but he felt that it would be worth listening to. He "tuned" his ears to listen and he caught the last part of a conversation.

"Oh but we know you want a sex god, Martini!" one girl said.

The others laughed.

Another said, "But you want one, too, Roger. I'll bet you a jar of my jelly, you do!"

The girl who spoke first, (and was apparently called Roger) answered, "You know me!"

"Hey ya'll shut up! I gotta teach Scotch here about DNA! You can listen if you want," another girl said. "OKAY! So first you got yourself a strand of DNA, and it's a code, m'kay?"

A blonde who had 'Scotch' written on her forehead answered, "Yeah, I get that part."

"Kay, so you get the A! T! G! C! (she jumped to the side at every letter) part right?"

"Mm-hmm," she responded.

"HEY! RHIANNON!" someone yelled from the other side of the lawn.

"YEAH?!" the demonstrator yelled back.

"COME READ MY STORY!!!"

"I'M TEACHING BIOLOGY, KATE!"

"HEY, HEY, HEY! WAIT FOR ME!" Kate yelled back. Then she yelled, "HEY EVERYONE! REE IS GIVING BIO HELP!!!"

Ten minutes later, Rhiannon was putting her brown ponytail back up, having just explained transcription and translation to about twenty people, most of whom she knew. Neo stood watching her, something was strange about her…he couldn't put his finger on it, but he felt it in his gut. He was about to look at the code, but…

~@~

The bell rang, or rather beeped, and the girls on the lawn moseyed back inside to finish the school day. Rhiannon sighed, although English class was fun, the internet never worked in that classroom.

When she got to class, she perked up. Two of her buddies were in her class, one in front and the other behind. She sat down and watched all of the girls pull out their laptops and powercords, their pens (although they rarely used them, they all still had them), and fiddled with the antennae on their internet cards, hoping the white and blue box on the wall would give them a good signal.

Rhiannon paused to look at her laptop. It had several colorful stickers on the lid. There was a tree (she didn't quite know why), a 'boys are stupid, throw rocks at them' sticker, a Spongebob Squarepants sticker, a St. Claire's School bumper sticker, a Ravenclaw emblem, a 'Jesus loves you, but I'M his favorite' sticker, and several smaller stickers of Garfield, Snoopy, Chococat, and several dragons. She looked at it harder, and harder, and still harder as she tried to see what the code was for that dragon in the upper left; it was just too brown.

"Hey, Ree, did we have to memorize anything? Because I didn't…" Rhiannon's friend Caryn asked.

Rhiannon laughed. Her laughs had always been full, merry, hearty, jovial, good. She said, "If we did, I didn't either"

The bell rang, and Ms. Winola rushed into the room, muttering something about a chair. She took roll, and class began, although they probably only got ten minutes of their work done. Rhiannon managed to get the internet for about ten minutes, long enough to download a Harry Potter screensaver and a new Ravenclaw background. She spent half of the class whipping around to look out the window behind her; she just knew someone was watching her….only not.

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A/N: Alright, no more cliff notes for you! Now, if you will excuse me, I have to go study for the Sassafrass, she thinks that knowing eleven dates by heart is good for our little lives. Stupid woman…. She thinks she's a history teacher, too! (PS anyone think that St. Claire's sounds like something else, too?)