Title: The Choices Are Incomplete
Author: Johanney
Keywords: A/U, Matrix I
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own The Matrix, or any of the characters in it. Because, let's face it, if I did, there would be a girl named Trinity who'd still be alive.
Summary: Takes place right before the events of Reloaded. Reloaded characters will still show up, but I'm taking a different spin on the story.
Author's Note: Please Read/Review. This is my first Matrix fic, and I just had to stay away from the ending of Revolutions!
Prologue
"How do you prepare the unprepared? How do you tell someone the biggest news of their life? How does seeing the future not kill you, eat you alive? Well, I guess NOT being alive actually helps in my situation.
"When I met them both, I told them of their futures, their destinies, but they had doubt. They didn't see their lives spread in front of them in a topographical map, like I see every day.
"They didn't know their choices, themselves. The girl is strong; a warrior, a soldier of truth. Yet when I told her the truth of the love she would give, she scoffed. 'No time for that,' I felt/heard her say, but I knew differently, as I always do.
"I switched tactics. I told her of the long battle ahead, and she was satisfied, unknowing that love had chosen her, just as she had chosen it and it would come with time, at a vengeance.
"The boy, his doubt about bowled me over. Nothing can usually do that, but his radiated in waves. He doubted his power, his position, his ability, so I catered to him; let him believe what he wanted for the moment. He would realize his choice when it happened.
"He made me proud; can't say that about many. Well, except maybe their leader. His problem, however, is that he's too impatient. He doesn't understand that the war will not end for a long time; the cycle is not complete, choices aren't finished being made.
"They are under attack right now, but this too shall pass. The One, the Savior of humankind does not need to intervene yet. Survival lies in the hands of the inhabitants of Zion, and they are strong enough to withstand the machines, for now. Until destiny arrives in bloom.
"Smith was ultimately created as the polar opposite to The One, just as calculated. He is violet to Neo's red, and will stop at nothing to defeat him because they are equal in strength, both of mind and body. Fortunately, he has something Smith and the machines couldn't plan on.
"Endurance, perseverance, power, intellect; these things win a war, but the machines have all of this. They were, after all, built in man's image. But love, pure, clean, smooth love cannot be replicated by any race other than humans; no matter how 'smart' the machines continue to evolve to be.
"They weren't ready for that news back then, at those first meetings. I doubt they'll ever be ready to hear it from me unless they see it before their eyes, but they have to know, for safety's sake. For Zion's sake, and the sake of the future. It is time for them to know about Leya.
"It is time for them to know Leya."
-The Oracle