A/N: Back! Early! Be happy!

Disclaimer: I have almost perfected my lawyer repellent. Only problem with it now is that rather than repelling lawyers, it attracts crebain. The kind from Fangorn. And I live in the USA. MILES away from Middle Earth. Ah, well. TARGET PRACTICE!! *crebain fly away quickly*

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Chapter 11

SCENE: A SIGN DEPICTING A GUY STANDING. HE IS RED. THAT PROBABLY MEANS HE'S ANGRY AND ABOUT TO SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST. THAT OR IT'S A SIGN FOR PEOPLE TO NOT WALK.

(The sign changes to a green man walking. The green probably means that the red man has turned into a leprechaun with a flamethrower rather than spontaneously combusting. A mob of people start walking, and Morpheus, like a salmon, goes in the opposite direction of all the people. Either this is a symbolic training simulation, or they're in a really big city where people have no manners. Or both.)

MORPHEUS: *walking easily through the crowd* The Matrix is a system, Neo.

NEO: *bumps into random guy* Hey! Watch where you're going!

MORPHEUS: And that system is our enemy.

NEO: Then does that mean we've been eaten by our arch nemesis? Isn't that what always happens in Resident Evil?

MORPHEUS: Depends on if you think Umbrella Corp is the enemy for creating the T-Virus or if you believe the enemy is the big zombie with spiky hands and tentacles and exposed vital organs that you have to kill at the end.

NEO: Uhh…the second one? *runs into another person* HEY!

MORPHEUS: Anywho, what do you see when you're inside? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters…

NEO: I saw a nun! I ran into her and she hit me over the head with a big book! Something called "The Holly Bibbel".

MORPHEUS: *mumbling* Another note to self: have Tank download entire Hooked on Phonics series into Neo.

NEO: Can you repeat that? I didn't hear what you were saying.

MORPHEUS: That was the point.

NEO: Oh. Okay, continue on then.

MORPHEUS: We're trying to save these people. Until we do, these people are a part of that system, and are therefore our enemies.

NEO: So, you're saying we tell them about the Matrix, shoot them in the faces, or change them into bars of soap for Cypher to use?

POLICE OFFICER: THE HORROR! THE HORROR! *runs away screaming*

MORPHEUS: Yeah, pretty much. But you have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. They might wake up, go psycho, and vomit in my ship.

NEO: Look, I apologized for that, isn't that enough?

MORPHEUS: No.

NEO: Fine. How about to make up for it I save your sorry drugged-up ass if you ever get taken hostage by Agents and forced to give away the access codes to Zion's mainframe?

MORPHEUS: Deal!

NEO: Yay!

MORPHEUS: Were you listening to me, Neo, or looking at the woman in the red dress?

NEO: Uhh…you weren't saying anything.

MORPHEUS: Just say yes.

NEO: Yes.

MORPHEUS: Good. Now look again.

NEO: Well, I didn't actually see her in the FIRST PLACE, so…

MORPHEUS: Just turn around!

NEO: Okay. *turns around to see the gun of Agent Smith*

SMITH: I'm baaaaaaaack, Miiiiiiiiiiister Aaaaa…

MORPHEUS: Freeze it!

(Everyone stops moving. Agent Smith still has his gun raised, and his mouth opened in an odd way, due to being stopped in the middle of talking. Neo has wet himself thinking he'd be shot, when Jamie Kennedy comes out of nowhere)

JAMIE KENNEDY: Neo, you've been Xed! You're on the Jamie Kennedy Experiment!

NEO: Like, oh my God. Oh. My. GOD! Are you serious?!

JK: Look at the hidden camera, it's right over there! *points*

(Neo looks and sees an elephant with a large camera-like device on its back)

NEO: Wow, I never would've expected a camera to be on the back of a giant elephant in the middle of a large city! You're so good at hiding those cameras!

JK: Thank you! You are the stupidest, most idiotic person I have ever met. Bye!

NEO: Bye!

MORPHEUS: *laughing insanely* HA HA HA HAAAAAAA!!! That was the BEST!

NEO: I know, right? It was like, totally WHOA when he came out! And that elephant? MOST EXCELLENT!

MORPHEUS: DUDE!

NEO: DUDE! This is like, totally not the Matrix, is it?

MORPHEUS: No!

NEO: SWEET!

MORPHEUS: This…is another training thing, designed to teach you one thing: if you're not one of us, you're one of them.

NEO: More pronouns. Lovely.

(Neo walks up behind Agent Smith and puts his hand below Smith's mouth. He then moves his hand up and down and talks in an annoying, deep voice.)

NEO: Hi, I'm Agent Smith. I'm a them. What is them?

MORPHEUS: You mean "What are they?", Neo, it's basic subject-verb agreement.

NEO: Whatever.

MORPHEUS: Them are sentient programs. They move in and out of software hardwired to their system. They are everyone…and they are no one.

NEO: Sounds like either a serious identity crisis or you're just trying to confuse me with the world's biggest oxymoron.

MORPHEUS: Yeah, probably that second one. We, being the chickens that we are, always run and hide from Agents. They're the gatekeepers. They're guarding all the doors and holding all the keys.

NEO: Sounds like a boring job.

MORPHEUS: Maybe, but it means that we'll eventually have to fight them. Well, YOU'LL have to fight them.

NEO: Me?

MORPHEUS: I won't lie to you, Neo. Everyone that has stood their ground against an Agent has died. I've seen an Agent punch through a concrete wall. Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air…

NEO: Well, THAT'S sure a morale booster.

MORPHEUS: But, look on the bright side: they won't be as fast or strong as you can be.

NEO: What are you trying to tell me?

MORPHEUS: That you're gonna be fighting all the Agents for us, bucko.

NEO: So I can dodge bullets?

MORPHEUS: No, I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

NEO: So I just let them shoot me?

MORPHEUS: NO! *goes into a flashback with all the stupid remarks Neo has made and the vomit fiasco* …on second thought…yeah, you go right ahead.

NEO: I dunno, it kinda seems suicidal…

MORPHEUS: *hack hack, cough cough*

(cell phone rings)

PHONE: We got trouble.

CUT TO: NEBUCH…NEBA…CUT TO: THE NEB, GOING THROUGH TUNNELS…OF THE REAL!!!

NEB: ZOOM!

NEO: Zoom zoom zoom!

EVERYONE: SHUT UP!

(Morpheus runs into the cockpit and jumps into his seat. Neo and Trinity are running in as well, and they both fall over.)

NEO: Man! Who's driving this thing?

(Morpheus turns around.)

NEO: Ah, no wonder.

MORPHEUS: Didn't you see? I turned on the fasten seatbelt sign! You should be in your seats!

TRINITY: But our seats are up here!

DOZER: No they're not. We moved them.

TRINITY: Where to?

MORPHEUS: The top of the ship.

NEO: Which side's the top? Which way is up? WHY THE HELL ARE YOU SPINNING SO MUCH?!

MORPHEUS: It looks cool.

NEO: Oh, okay.

MORPHEUS: (to Dozer) So anyway, did Zion send word?

DOZER: Naw homie, another ship did. It was from my dawgs on that ship that was in that tunnel.

MORPHEUS: I just love your mind-boggling specificity.

DOZER: You love my WHAT?

MORPHEUS: Specificity.

DOZER: That's like…*counts on fingers* FIVE syllables! How am I supposed to know what THAT means?

MORPHEUS: Neo, you teach Zero here how to read, okay?

NEO: Can I dig holes instead?

MORPHEUS: No, you might get attacked by yellow-spotted lizards.

NEO: Whoop-dee-freakin-doo, they're just LIZARDS.

MORPHEUS: Yeah, big, scary, red-eyed lizards with pointy black teeth *does hand-protruding-from-mouth teeth sign like Tim from Monty Python and the Holy Grail*

NEO: You know, you look really stupid when you do that.

MORPHEUS: Thank you.

NEB: HEY! I think you're FORGETTING something!! *shakes violently*

TRINITY: WHOA! *grabs onto thing in the roof*

MORPHEUS: Thanks for bringing up the 3-D holographic squiddy detecting radar!

TRINITY: *looks around* Uhh…Yeah, sure, no problem.

DOZER: SWEET MARY MOTHER OF JESUS SON OF GOD! A SQUIDDY'S COMING IN REAL QUICK!

EVERYONE: …

NEO: As in…one?

DOZER: YEAH!

NEO: What's a squiddy?

TRINITY: Sentinel. A killing machine designed for one thing.

NEO: …killing?

DOZER: *like Mr. T* No, fool! Search and destroy!

NEO: Oooooohh, I KNEW there was a difference!

MORPHEUS: Set her down right over there. *points*

NEO: Wasn't Nebucha-whateverhisnamewas a…guy?

MORPHEUS: …Maaaaaaaaaaybe.

NEB: *lands in conveniently ship-sized tunnel*

EVERYONE STANDING: *fall over after landing*

MORPHEUS: (into radio thing) How we doing, Tank?

TANK: Well, doesn't look like anyone's injured after that horrible landing of yours.

MORPHEUS: That's not what I meant!

TANK: Oh. Well…the power's off. And the EMP is armed…

(long pause)

MORPHEUS: Great, let's just wait and see what hap…

TANK: …and ready.

MORPHEUS: I think that was kinda redundant, but thanks for clearing that up.

NEO: EMP?

TRINITY: CNN. ABC. NBC. CBS. TNN. TCM. CMT.

DOZER: BFG?

MORPHEUS: MTV?

TANK: ESP.

SWITCH: *through clenched teeth* PMS…*attacks Cypher*

TRINITY'S BRAIN: Isn't it a little too late for that?

NEO: But WHAT'S AN EMP?!

TRINITY: Electromagnetic pulse. It disables any electrical system in the blast radius.

NEO: …Then wouldn't it disable this ship?

TRINITY: I won't even bother explaining it. It's good enough, it's the only weapon we have against the machines.

(Morpheus puts on a hat)

NEO: What are you doing?

MORPHEUS: Huh? Oh, this? *points to hat* Just in case I get to go skiing.

NEO: Oooooooooookaaaaaay….Hey, where are we?

TRINITY: Service and waste systems.

NEO: …Sewers…Crap rivers…urine waterfalls…

TRINITY: No, for the machines.

NEO: Oh, good, that way I didn't have to get any more disgusting.

TRINITY: There used to be cities here, that spanned for miles and miles, and these sewers are all that's left.

MORPHEUS: SHUT UP!

NEO & TRINITY: o_O

MORPHEUS: I mean…be quiet.

SQUIDDY #1: OMINOUS!

NEO: Wow, that sure looks ominous.

SQUIDDY #2: MORE OMINOUS!

DOZER: *looks like he's on the brink of tears*

SQUIDDY #2: LOOK AT SHIP AND SHOW CLAWS MENACINGLY!

TRINITY: AHH! Mommy!

SQUIDDY #2: SCAN SHIP WITH RADAR! BLINK A LOT! FIND NOTHING! FLY AWAY!

DOZER: *sighs* That was close. I really had to pee before that squiddy came.

NEO: As in…the past tense?

DOZER: Yeah. But I don't have to go anymore.

MORPHEUS: Right…I'll just be out here…*runs out of the cockpit*

TRINITY: I…uhh…I left something in the oven! *runs away quickly*

NEO: I…I…err…CHEESE MONKEYS! *runs away screaming*

DOZER: Guys? Hey, guys? My seat's all wet…

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A/N: Yay! A quickie update! Thank you much to all my wonderful reviewers (even though I didn't give all my reviewers time to review the last chapter. So thanks to my QUICK reviewers).

Hobbit-eyes: Yeah, unless you have the equivalent of 5,000 U.S. dollars you can throw in my general direction, it ain't happening. Ah, well…I'll have to go when I get out of school, I've always wanted to visit! Antidisestablishmentarianism, huh? Yeah, that's a lot of syllables. Hey…I should've used that earlier when Agent Smith was there…Ah well. Maybe later. Maybe never (I have a bad habit of remembering things like that).

The Farting Menace: Uhh…well, I saw it just last year, but then again it could've been the fact that my friend was sitting next to me saying "let's go outside let's go outside let's go outside" over and over again and being very spastic in general. So maybe I just wasn't able to enjoy it because of the distraction. And you caught the Spaceballs reference! Yay!

alocin: Yes…yeeeeess…..the obsessive fangirls of DOOM! They will take over the world with their girly squeals at the mention of certain names, and will take over FF.Net with their Mary-Sues! GASP! Glad to know my parody is now an educational VIRUS…kinda scary, since my computer DID get a virus last week…it's cured, though (yay!).

theshiz: I won't consider you an obsessive fangirl since you like the minority. The last thing I need is more squealing about Neo. You know what? Emilio doesn't really look like an Emilio…*shrugs*

Next chapter up hopefully soon!