Thanks to Neo Lover, I'll explain the eye thing at the bottom, to Divamercury, twice, thank you soo much, I'm pleased you enjoy reading it, and I couldn't keep Morpheus and Niobe out for long, to Kal Torak, twice, thanks for the suggestions for ship names, I may use them in my other fic, when I write it, thanks again to Cinn, to richard the pedantic, thanks for reviewing, I hope you enjoy the next chapters, to Starlight623, thank you, I like writing cliffys! Here's another!
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When Morpheus and Niobe entered the Logos, Niobe made a beeline to the stairs, going straight up to the pilot cabin.
They got there, Niobe entering the cabin first to find it empty, but a lot of rubble and dried blood on the floor. Also on the floor was three pipe endings, all encrusted in blood. Morpheus was getting worried. There was too much blood there, more then enough to kill a person.
All of a sudden, there was the sound of quiet footsteps behind them, and they both turned around, startled at the noise. They both got a shock to see who was there.
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Lara was getting reports from the sentinels about another ship in the vicinity, which had identified as one of the rebel ships, the passengers inside identified as Morpheus and Niobe. She still had Neo connected to her Construct, as her brother was only a little while into the operation to replace his eyes. Lara asked Charlie if it would complicate matters greatly if she go check them out, and he gave his consent. She informed the two humans that she would be transferring them into the ship's construct. They requested that a sparring program be loaded. She agreed
Charlie helped Lara remove the detachable plug connection from herself to free her from Neo so she could move freely. The plug connection continued broadcasting, only now to the new location of the ship's construct. When connected, the individual plugged in is in Lara's construct. If the plug connection were disconnected, would automatically broadcast to the nearest construct with a receiver, a safety feature, which was one of the upgrades that had been added to the Logos' computer system.
Lara left the sick bay and headed to the main ladder, which was the only access for most of the ship. She could sense heat on the highest level, obviously the two visitors had chosen to inspect the Pilots cabin, but Lara knew what they would find. It was up to Neo and Trinity to make the first contact with the rest of the humans, not hers. Lara didn't want to make the wrong impression on them, but she knew that she had to talk to them.
She exited the long passage to the Pilots cabin to find a woman crouching on the ground, inspecting the blood there, a man standing beside her, a pained expression on his face. They looked up suddenly at her arrival, and started to back away from her. The man, Morpheus, was the first to speak.
"Who are you, what did you do to them?"
Lara didn't know how to respond that wouldn't make the situation worse, so she thought she'd try the most logical thing, and tell the truth.
"My name is Lara, I'm a doctor machine of human medicine. I haven't done anything to harm them. And I won't do anything to harm you. The female that was here, Trinity, is downstairs, in the Core. The male, Neo, is in the sickbay. I'd advise going to the Core where you can see them. Follow me. There is nothing behind you that will attack you, and I'm in front of you, so there is no danger of me attacking you." She added, seeing their reluctance.
They entered the Core, which had only one person lying on one of the chairs. Morpheus and Niobe rushed over to her, trying to see if she was okay. They noticed three holes in her top, there white was underneath. When Lara treated her, her top had been removed to access the woman's injures, and then had been cleaned to remove the blood, but the wholes there the pipes had penetrated where still there.
They lifted up her top to see that the white was indeed bandages as they had expected, and that without inspecting the injuries themselves, she appeared to be in good health.
Their attention was then taken towards the operators station, where Lara had gone, and was fiddling with some wiring behind the screens. What had got their attention, however, was that Lara had connected some of the wires as she wanted them, and was now providing the sound to what was obviously going on in the construct judging by the screens, including the three largest ones that usually showed the matrix code. Eyes on the screens, the two captains would see that there was a very fast moving and impressive fight going on in the construct. The two figures were moving so fast that they were almost a black blur on the screens.
Lara had finished connecting the last of the cables to herself when there was a very loud yell from the speakers. It could be recognized as Trinity's voice that shouted, "Hey, that's cheating!" and the fight slowed down to show Neo hovering in mid air, just out of Trinity's reach to throw any punches or kicks. He was smiling down at her while she was yelling at him. Lara moved to position herself directly in the center behind the largest screen. Morpheus and Niobe couldn't hear all of what was being said, but it was obvious that Neo had been cheating whilst fighting, blocking some blows with his powers, and now flying to avoid her! Trinity kept yelling at him till something caught her eye, and even Neo's smile faded a bit into curiosity, as she slowly moved towards the middle screen (from the other side) where Lara was positioned behind, and looked through it.
"Morpheus? Niobe?"
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I have a problem. I have exams starting on Wednesday that goes on for 1 ½ weeks. I need to revise, and so I wont be writing as much as I have done. I will keep writing then, but I won't be up-dating as frequently as I have been doing. At the very lease, I may only be able to update at the weekend. I'm sorry about this. THIS FIC IS NOT FINISHED, AND IT IS NOT ABANDONED. IT WILL BE ON HOLD FOR 1 OR 2 WEEKS. I will continue writing after, so don't worry.
Right, to Neo Lover and others who didn't understand Neo's eye operation. What Lara and Charlie have done is replaced Neo's old eyes with these new ones, which are basically like little cameras, sending their signal to a separate receiver because the machines couldn't send the signal down the optical nerve, because they couldn't for some reason. The receiver looks like a little disk the size of one of those plugs at the back of peoples heads. Its connected to one of those spikes that are used to send someone into the matrix. What it does is it sends the signal it gets from the new eyes to the part of the brain that 'sees' things. What happens when someone is connected into the matrix is that the spike sends signals to the brain to over-ride the 5 senses with senses that should be received in the matrix. What the spike does is the same, only with the visual sense.
I'm sorry, I don't know how to explain it very well, I hope that helps, but just bare with me.
