Chapter Seven: Destiny Shcmestiny

The crews of the Nebizzle Two, the Pogo Stick, and the Comatose are sitting in the back room of an adult movie store. Morphbus is sitting in a large, red lazy boy and sleeping. The Key Taker is explaining the way to get to the Source.

He holds up ten fingers.

"Ten words!" yells Peo. "First word…little word! Dick!"

The Key Taker looks at him strangely. Finite smacks him on the back of the head.

"Ow," Peo says, rubbing his head. "Fine. I QUIT!" He walks to a corner and starts sobbing. Suddenly, he begins talking.

"Why do you cry, Peo?" he asks himself. Then he answers himself.

"The bitch hit us. It hurts us!"

"We told you she would! We must get the precious…"

"Yes, the precious will be ours…"

Finite walks up and kicks Peo in the back. He returns to "normal." Morphbus wakes up.

"No, don't let the clowns get me!!!!" he yells. Everyone looks at him.

"What joo looking at, homes?" he yells. Everyone turns away. The Key Taker starts to talk.

"Well, since obviously you don't need me, I'll just tell you what to do and how to do it. Inside the building on the second floor, there's a bathroom where no door leads and no stairway reaches. Inside this bathroom is a stall which holds a toilet. When this toilet is flushed, the One will be sucked into the Source."

"What do you need us for, then?" Dobbie asks.

"If the toilet is flushed, a bomb will go off, unless the electricity goes out. We need you and Boast to take out the power plant and Boring and his crew to take out the backup generator. Unfortunately, they will be killed by a weapon the Sentinels invented in the past five seconds and Finite will have to do it. But we're not there yet."

Everyone nods sagely.

Dobbie sits in a car, staring at a power plant.

"You know," she begins, "Why do we get the larger target when we have a much smaller crew then Boring?"

"Because we can't die, and because this is a cooler level for Enter the Matrix," Boast answers.

"Oh, right, I forgot. Attack away."

Dobbie shakes her head. "Morphbus…what if you're wrong? What if the Prophecy is a lie?"

"Then tomorrow we may all be dead," he answers solemnly. Everyone starts panicking. Boring kicks the door open and walks out. Peo starts bawling and calling for his mommy. Dobbie starts stripping.

"What are you doing?" Boast asks.

"If this is our last night alive, I might as well enjoy it…"

"STOP!!!!" yells Morphbus. "I said may! Let me finish!"

Everyone calms down and comes back.

"As I was saying…how would that be different from any other day?"

"We'd all be dead," Dobbie says. Morphbus shoots her a look, and she shuts up.

"This is a war," he continues. "We are soldiers."

Peo shouts, "What? Since when?? I thought we were rebels! Soldiers die!"

The mention of the word die sends everyone into a panic again. Morphbus shouts for order.

"God, you people are idiots," he says. "Anyway…I believe this night holds for each and every one of us the very meaning of our lives."

"The meaning of our lives is to die?" Boast asks skeptically. Everyone starts yelling. Morphbus fires his gun for order. Boring's crew member, Hexadecimal, falls over with a bullet in her throat.

"Whoops. Anyway, as I was saying, when I see three ships, three crews, three captains…"

"I know this one! It's time to get your vision checked!" yells Peo.

"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!! I see PURPOSE! I see PROVIDENCE! I see SHIT!!!!!! JUST FUCKING GO!!!!!!!"

"God, calm down, Morphbus," Peo intones.

Boring and Hektor walk across the street. A car, driven by Dobbie, rockets around the corner and runs Hektor over. He gasps and dies.

Dobbie runs away from the power plant. It explodes. She cheers, then falls flat on her face.

"I need a drink."

Boring suddenly gets bitten by a vampire, strangled by a controller cord, trips over an Animatrix DVD and drowns in some PowerAde.

Finite says, "Oh shit. I gotta go in." She goes in.

Finite deactivates the thingy. Then she does some stuff. At places. With people. Then an Agent comes.

Morphbus and Peo and the Key Taker are sitting in a room. The lights go out.

"It is time," the Key Taker says. They walk through the Programmer's Hallway and come out inside a bathroom. The first stall opens and Kiss comes out.

"Mister Handerson…"

The other stalls open and Elrond, Priscilla, and Raven come out. Peo runs and hides behind a sink. Morphbus runs out, and the clones all chase after him. The Key Taker gets shot a bunch of times.

When everyone is gone, Peo walks towards the middle stall. He opens it and flushes the toilet. It seems as if it is the Milky Way being flushed, and then Peo appears in a room in front of some old guy.

"I am the Architect. I created the Matrix and PowerAde."