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Chapter 4

After about an hour of toiling across the road on foot, Lara and Glitch came to a large tower lined with a gold brick.

Glitch walked up to a large door on the side and opened it, walking inside, motioning for Lara to follow him. She did, hesitantly.

Inside the tower there was an elevator, which Glitch walked into, Lara following at his heels, hand wrapped around the butt of her gun.

Without touching any buttons, the elevator shot down an a dangerouse speed. Lara fell to her knees and winced, the elevator pulling to many g's for her to bare. Just as quickly as it started, the elevator halted. Lara stood up, trying to fight down the contents of her stomach.

Glitch walked out of the elevator, and Lara followed as fast as she could. Glitch led her down a flight of stairs, across a long corridor and through several doors.

Finally they reached a very huge room with several hundred reclining, rather uncomfortable looking chairs, with holes in the heads.There was a lot of mechanicle machinery around, and people rushing every which way.

"Woah.." gasped Lara. "Glitch, what is this place?"

"The Neb Matrix HQ. Where you will be unplugged," said Glitch, walking up to the chairs, trench coat billowing behind him.

Lara swollowed and followed him. He laid her down into a chair

"This may feel a little odd," he said. Lara felt her stomach drop. Glitch gave her a red pill and a glass of water, which she took without question.

"What was that?"

"A tracer, so we can pinpoint your position in the Matrix. Just try to relax, Lara."

Lara woke up. She was in some sort of..Red liquid. As her sences returned, she saw that she was naked, but after the shock of that wore off she saw where she was. She was in a red sort of..capsul in a towere in a blackened Earth. There were hundreds of them..All full of..Sleeping humans. Suddenly plugs in her arms, back, legs, and head flew out of her, and the pain was so severe she screamed out. The liquid drained and she was hurled through a long tube and into a pool of water. She moved around, but she bumped into hundreds..of..dead bodies..

She let out a scream. A huge sort of space ship game down over her as she surfaced and a log mechanicle arm came down and grabbed her, pulling her up into the ship. Into the unknown. She screamed again, but a hand covered her mouth and gave her a warm towel.