I'm currently sunning myself in spain (to the best of my ability, I don't tan all that well) writing this on a laptop that is being lent to me by a boy I met at my hotel called Neil. He's a matrix fan and we've had some long philosophical disscussions about just about everything and now everyone thinks we're insane. He threw me in the pool over whether that bodyguard of the merovingian's is male or female and now I am soaking wet so he's bought me a milkshake and agreed to help me write this chapter (he read the rest in a record amount of time. Ok now. This chapter might just scar you for life. There are totally strange things in this chapter which may just creep you out.
Disclaimer: I own nothing exept my characters and the story. The matrix belongs to the WB.
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The black car pulled up in front of an extremely tall glass building in the middle of town and Eris was lead towards it. Smith and Garcia flashed a couple of security passes to the man at the door and he opened it for them. Inside, the place was huge and seemed cold, as if it was alien and didn't belong there. The people inside moved with precision and speed. They all had purpose. They all had something that they were supposed to do.
The place wasn't natural.
Eris, being totally unatural wasn't bothered in the slightest. She just kept following Smith and kept in front of Garcia as not to get lost. She didn't know much about feelings (Quite like the agents actually) or this world either but she did know one thing and that was that she didn't like being lost. She didn't like her so called 'family' either but that was quite another matter.
Garcia grabbed her arm and the turned a sharp corner. She was about to pull out her claws when she stopped herself. These men were going to help her after all.
They got into a lift with about 13 other men dressed exactly like Smith and Garcia and got out at the hundred and first floor. Garcia walked ahead and opened a door with a silver number 1717 on the door. Eris was sure that the whole building was like a huge system of numbers.
Smith walked in first and Garcia held the door open while Eris entered. From what the mistress had told her, Eris knew that these men, these programs were Evil. That may have been so, but they were still perfect gentlemen.
"Garcia. I need to go out. Wait here with Miss Eris. I'm sure I can trust you with that?" Garcia nodded to his brother as he walked out.
***
"I don't get why this bothers you Cypress." sighed Salix. "Just think. If Jeuneun and I did get together you an the twins would be sisters."
Cypress shuddered. "It's just wrong. You can't like Jeuneun. It's just... wrong."
Salix sighed. She really had given up on her little sister this time all she seemed to be able to say on the subject of her and Jeuneun was that it was just wrong.
"Why is it wrong?" Salix inquired for the fourth time.
"Because me and the twins are already like sisters and that makes Jeueune our brother and you're our sister and its just... wrong. Plus he's the Merovingian's son. You hate the Merovingian."
Salix gave the Merovingian an apologetic look. He was never in the best of moods with her and now that he had learnt that she and Jeuneun had kissed he was even more annoyed than usual. The lat thing she wanted was to be thrown out of the chateau.
"What's that got to do with anything? Honestly Cy, you're making no sense!"
Cypress put on a trying expression and changed the subject.
"How are we human?" she asked. "I'm too young to remember how it happened."
Salix wrinkled up her nose up in thought. That was as hard to explain to someone of Cypress's age as it was to explain where baby's come from.
"Um..."
Jeuneun had turned around to listen as well, causing his sisters to beat him on the games console (again). He knew that Salix had not always been human and he had been meaning to ask her that question for a while.
Cypress looked up at her egarly.
"Um. Well, I've been around for a while..." Salix began. "There is a city full of machines called 01 and I was created there, before the matrix was even created. I didn't have a real body though. I didn't even have a gender back then. It was all mechanical because only my mind could exist without the matrix at that time. I was one of the machines You know the story of the second renaissance, when the humans and the machines were at war don't you?"
Cypress was silent for a minute but then nodded. Jeuneun was listening intently. He didn't know the story of the second renaissance but he was sure that Salix would fill him in later.
"Well, when the world leaders refused to let 01 join the UN, we machines tried again. Not many people know this but there were various attempts to gain acceptance. I was one of the machines programed to think and act like a human in an attempt to get the real humans to think that we were not that different and we could live in peace. All I ever wanted was to be human. I don't know why though.
"The humans started all of this. They didn't want want to live in peace with machines. In an attempt to get rid of us they destroyed the sky. Operation Dark Storm, they called it." She chuckled. "It was their undoing."
She looked up to see that everyone in the room was watching her intently. She smiled. She liked being the center of attention.
"The machines didn't have to worry that they had lost the power from the sun. They had found all the energy they would ever need. Every human body contained more bio electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTU's of body heat. They began to grow humans in great fields.
"Then they created the matrix. Everyone in those fields, in those pods, was living in a dream world. Four kilometers beneath them however, Zion had begun to take shape."
Jeuneun shuddered as he remembered the beautiful city.
"I was still living in 01 as a machine at the time, when an order was sent out that all of my kind, the H-17-OP1 that were programmed as humans were to have their data transferred into the dead from the war so that they could be used as energy. I was scared of course. Everything was about to change, but I wasn't programmed to resist.
" How the machines did it was quite micraculous. Our microchips, if you want to call them that, and all our data was transferred into the dead humans brain and then they were... how do I put this? ... Jumpstarted."
Cypress giggled.
"I was the woman, Salix from then on. I was badly scared from the war but it was still who I was. Then we were transferred to the fields. Into the pods, it was awful for a while but then, when we were in the matrix nothing was quite so bad. We looked human and acted human, not like those awful agents who look human and act like something mechanical, but we were not human. We just assumed that we were programs."
"What do you mean we?" Asked Jeuneun, who was abosultely fasinated by the subject.
"Well there were quite afew of us, I know of two that are alive today but I cannot be sure about the others."
Jeuneun nodded, satisfied.
"I found a small apartment and I just managed to pay the bills. I still knew that I was in the matrix and none of that was real but as time went on I got wrapped up in my own life. The only problem was that I didn't seem to age so I couldn't stay in one place for so long. I met a man and had Cypress-"
"What do you mean you had Cypress?" asked Persephone who had been listening from a chair in the corner of the room. "You're her sister."
"I look too young to have a daughter don't I?" Smiled Salix guiltily. "It just doesn't seem right when I say that I'm her mother so we agreed that we're sisters, didn't we?" Cypress nodded. "Anyway... Cypress stopped aging when she was seven. Her father moved out and my whole world fell apart. I was a wreck. Then I met the twins. They were working for Cypress' father at the time. That's how I met them They tricked some idiot from Zion into freeing my mind, because at that point I was still plugged in and then they did something that I can't explain very well. They made the chip leak - so to speak. They made all the imformation in that chip run into my brain and then they removed it and I couldn't have been happier. You'll have to talk to them if you want any more imformation about how they did it. The machine in me was gone and I then thought of myself as human. My mind made it all real and Cypress then became human through me."
Salix sank back into the bed satisfied that she had told a good account of the story.
Jeuneun frowned in thought.
"What?" asked Salix.
"There's only one thing that doesn't add up in your story. You said that the twins were working for Cypress' father at that time and that's how you met them. But the when the twins were training me they told me that they had always worked for my father. Then... who's Cypresses father?"
Salix bowed her head guiltily.
The merovingian stood up from his chair in the corner of the room.
"I am."
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So alas, The Salix/Jeuneun thing cannot last as she is basically sort of related to him (sort of)!
Me likes this storyline even if no one else does! You have to admit that was a shock!
Neil: Hey, I'm Neil. I'm glad to share a name with Neil Rayment who Hazana obsesses over ^-^
If Hazana got any of the imformation in Salix's speech wrong don't blame her, I'm the one who has an animatrix obession and I gave her the imformation.
They showed The Matrix in the lounge last night (Love this hotel) and by about the middle of it all the oldies had got confused and gone to bed (including our parents) so we were all alone in the lounge
watching the movie on this huge TV. The lounge was also huge and by eleven o'clock it was pitch black. All you could hear was us quoting the movie and having imaginary fights (I tried to imitate Smith and fell on my ass. Hazana obviously won quite specacularly that time...)
Hazana: Ok that story goes nowhere exept total madness and us getting thrown out by the bar staff so I'm gonna stop you there.
Neil: O.o - Well anyway... after we got thrown out of the lounge we acted out scenes from the movie in the corridors - it was about midnight now - and this guy came out of his room wearing a buisness suit complaining that he'd only just got in and he was tired and then -
Hazana: Ok that's enough. *Clamps his mouth shut*
Neil: *muffled* Haze thought he was an agent and ran screaming down the corridor - "I'm too you to die!"
Hazana: enough.
Neil: *Snickers insanely* You can just imagine it can't you?
Hazana: Wish you were here everyone! *to Neil* Although you won't in a minute...
Disclaimer: I own nothing exept my characters and the story. The matrix belongs to the WB.
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The black car pulled up in front of an extremely tall glass building in the middle of town and Eris was lead towards it. Smith and Garcia flashed a couple of security passes to the man at the door and he opened it for them. Inside, the place was huge and seemed cold, as if it was alien and didn't belong there. The people inside moved with precision and speed. They all had purpose. They all had something that they were supposed to do.
The place wasn't natural.
Eris, being totally unatural wasn't bothered in the slightest. She just kept following Smith and kept in front of Garcia as not to get lost. She didn't know much about feelings (Quite like the agents actually) or this world either but she did know one thing and that was that she didn't like being lost. She didn't like her so called 'family' either but that was quite another matter.
Garcia grabbed her arm and the turned a sharp corner. She was about to pull out her claws when she stopped herself. These men were going to help her after all.
They got into a lift with about 13 other men dressed exactly like Smith and Garcia and got out at the hundred and first floor. Garcia walked ahead and opened a door with a silver number 1717 on the door. Eris was sure that the whole building was like a huge system of numbers.
Smith walked in first and Garcia held the door open while Eris entered. From what the mistress had told her, Eris knew that these men, these programs were Evil. That may have been so, but they were still perfect gentlemen.
"Garcia. I need to go out. Wait here with Miss Eris. I'm sure I can trust you with that?" Garcia nodded to his brother as he walked out.
***
"I don't get why this bothers you Cypress." sighed Salix. "Just think. If Jeuneun and I did get together you an the twins would be sisters."
Cypress shuddered. "It's just wrong. You can't like Jeuneun. It's just... wrong."
Salix sighed. She really had given up on her little sister this time all she seemed to be able to say on the subject of her and Jeuneun was that it was just wrong.
"Why is it wrong?" Salix inquired for the fourth time.
"Because me and the twins are already like sisters and that makes Jeueune our brother and you're our sister and its just... wrong. Plus he's the Merovingian's son. You hate the Merovingian."
Salix gave the Merovingian an apologetic look. He was never in the best of moods with her and now that he had learnt that she and Jeuneun had kissed he was even more annoyed than usual. The lat thing she wanted was to be thrown out of the chateau.
"What's that got to do with anything? Honestly Cy, you're making no sense!"
Cypress put on a trying expression and changed the subject.
"How are we human?" she asked. "I'm too young to remember how it happened."
Salix wrinkled up her nose up in thought. That was as hard to explain to someone of Cypress's age as it was to explain where baby's come from.
"Um..."
Jeuneun had turned around to listen as well, causing his sisters to beat him on the games console (again). He knew that Salix had not always been human and he had been meaning to ask her that question for a while.
Cypress looked up at her egarly.
"Um. Well, I've been around for a while..." Salix began. "There is a city full of machines called 01 and I was created there, before the matrix was even created. I didn't have a real body though. I didn't even have a gender back then. It was all mechanical because only my mind could exist without the matrix at that time. I was one of the machines You know the story of the second renaissance, when the humans and the machines were at war don't you?"
Cypress was silent for a minute but then nodded. Jeuneun was listening intently. He didn't know the story of the second renaissance but he was sure that Salix would fill him in later.
"Well, when the world leaders refused to let 01 join the UN, we machines tried again. Not many people know this but there were various attempts to gain acceptance. I was one of the machines programed to think and act like a human in an attempt to get the real humans to think that we were not that different and we could live in peace. All I ever wanted was to be human. I don't know why though.
"The humans started all of this. They didn't want want to live in peace with machines. In an attempt to get rid of us they destroyed the sky. Operation Dark Storm, they called it." She chuckled. "It was their undoing."
She looked up to see that everyone in the room was watching her intently. She smiled. She liked being the center of attention.
"The machines didn't have to worry that they had lost the power from the sun. They had found all the energy they would ever need. Every human body contained more bio electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTU's of body heat. They began to grow humans in great fields.
"Then they created the matrix. Everyone in those fields, in those pods, was living in a dream world. Four kilometers beneath them however, Zion had begun to take shape."
Jeuneun shuddered as he remembered the beautiful city.
"I was still living in 01 as a machine at the time, when an order was sent out that all of my kind, the H-17-OP1 that were programmed as humans were to have their data transferred into the dead from the war so that they could be used as energy. I was scared of course. Everything was about to change, but I wasn't programmed to resist.
" How the machines did it was quite micraculous. Our microchips, if you want to call them that, and all our data was transferred into the dead humans brain and then they were... how do I put this? ... Jumpstarted."
Cypress giggled.
"I was the woman, Salix from then on. I was badly scared from the war but it was still who I was. Then we were transferred to the fields. Into the pods, it was awful for a while but then, when we were in the matrix nothing was quite so bad. We looked human and acted human, not like those awful agents who look human and act like something mechanical, but we were not human. We just assumed that we were programs."
"What do you mean we?" Asked Jeuneun, who was abosultely fasinated by the subject.
"Well there were quite afew of us, I know of two that are alive today but I cannot be sure about the others."
Jeuneun nodded, satisfied.
"I found a small apartment and I just managed to pay the bills. I still knew that I was in the matrix and none of that was real but as time went on I got wrapped up in my own life. The only problem was that I didn't seem to age so I couldn't stay in one place for so long. I met a man and had Cypress-"
"What do you mean you had Cypress?" asked Persephone who had been listening from a chair in the corner of the room. "You're her sister."
"I look too young to have a daughter don't I?" Smiled Salix guiltily. "It just doesn't seem right when I say that I'm her mother so we agreed that we're sisters, didn't we?" Cypress nodded. "Anyway... Cypress stopped aging when she was seven. Her father moved out and my whole world fell apart. I was a wreck. Then I met the twins. They were working for Cypress' father at the time. That's how I met them They tricked some idiot from Zion into freeing my mind, because at that point I was still plugged in and then they did something that I can't explain very well. They made the chip leak - so to speak. They made all the imformation in that chip run into my brain and then they removed it and I couldn't have been happier. You'll have to talk to them if you want any more imformation about how they did it. The machine in me was gone and I then thought of myself as human. My mind made it all real and Cypress then became human through me."
Salix sank back into the bed satisfied that she had told a good account of the story.
Jeuneun frowned in thought.
"What?" asked Salix.
"There's only one thing that doesn't add up in your story. You said that the twins were working for Cypress' father at that time and that's how you met them. But the when the twins were training me they told me that they had always worked for my father. Then... who's Cypresses father?"
Salix bowed her head guiltily.
The merovingian stood up from his chair in the corner of the room.
"I am."
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So alas, The Salix/Jeuneun thing cannot last as she is basically sort of related to him (sort of)!
Me likes this storyline even if no one else does! You have to admit that was a shock!
Neil: Hey, I'm Neil. I'm glad to share a name with Neil Rayment who Hazana obsesses over ^-^
If Hazana got any of the imformation in Salix's speech wrong don't blame her, I'm the one who has an animatrix obession and I gave her the imformation.
They showed The Matrix in the lounge last night (Love this hotel) and by about the middle of it all the oldies had got confused and gone to bed (including our parents) so we were all alone in the lounge
watching the movie on this huge TV. The lounge was also huge and by eleven o'clock it was pitch black. All you could hear was us quoting the movie and having imaginary fights (I tried to imitate Smith and fell on my ass. Hazana obviously won quite specacularly that time...)
Hazana: Ok that story goes nowhere exept total madness and us getting thrown out by the bar staff so I'm gonna stop you there.
Neil: O.o - Well anyway... after we got thrown out of the lounge we acted out scenes from the movie in the corridors - it was about midnight now - and this guy came out of his room wearing a buisness suit complaining that he'd only just got in and he was tired and then -
Hazana: Ok that's enough. *Clamps his mouth shut*
Neil: *muffled* Haze thought he was an agent and ran screaming down the corridor - "I'm too you to die!"
Hazana: enough.
Neil: *Snickers insanely* You can just imagine it can't you?
Hazana: Wish you were here everyone! *to Neil* Although you won't in a minute...