Sorry about the delay, as I said in my last chapter, I'm having exams at the moment. I hope to keep up my writing after, so don't worry. I hope you like this chapter.
Thanks to Zaneta, so much for that complement, you really made my day reading that, to Neo Lover, I have to confess, any suggestions about a further plot for this story will be appreciated. I'm not sure what to do after this plot is done, and I'd like to keep this up. Thanks again to Divamercury, you do cool reviews, did you know that?, to Kal Torak, don't worry, chapter 9 is here. You'll have to wait at least a week for the next one, I'm afraid, so make the best out of it!, to Xauhquia, (cool name by the way), I hope to up date is soon, thanks for reviewing.
Here you go, what you've all been waiting for!
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Trinity was furious. She had just been having an invigorating fight with neo. Punches were thrown and kicks were shot out to the opponent, only to be blocked without fail. It was a very exciting fight, the two were very evenly matched. Except for the fact that she was slightly more talented than him. Whilst Neo used his moves to great effect, Trinity had a wider range of more, what you could say, exotic moves than he had.
She had just tried to use a scorpion kick, but her target had vanished from its place. She adjusted the kick into a sort of flip to bring her round, and looked for her opponent. Neo wasn't in front of her. She looked up slightly to see him hovering above her.
"Hey, that's cheating!" she cried in outrage.
Neo started chuckling.
She started ranting about some of the numerous times she had noticed Neo using his powers to avoid her blows, and now he was flying. She suddenly stopped yelling when something caught her eye.
She could see the Core of the Logos, where her body was currently plugged in.
It was like she was behind the operator screens in the Core, looking through them as if they were only windows, through which she could see the interior of the Logos from where she was still standing in the Construct program.
She could see herself lying in the chair, white bandages showing in a few holes of her ragged clothes, and for the first time she saw just how vulnerable and defenceless she looked, lying there, unconscious.
She also saw two other people standing by her chair that she had thought she would never see again.
"Morpheus? Niobe?"
The two people in question started to move slowly towards the screens, eyes fixated on her and Neo behind her, who she knew would have flown down and be by her side. Without fail, she felt his hand slip into hers.
"Neo, Trinity… How'd you… What, er… How are you?" Morpheus stammered for the first time in ages, so shocked at seeing the two of them alive again. Niobe seemed to be speechless for what seemed to be the first time ever, startled at the man she had such faith in, standing by that woman of such power. And of course of the tremendous renovations and upgrades to her ship, which she had thought she would never see again.
Apparently she wasn't the only one who was having trouble speaking, as it seemed the two people behind the screens didn't have an answer. Obviously 'Okay' was out of the question, and of course taking into consideration the fact that she had most likely died judging by her injuries, and who knew what Neo had been through, so describing how they were was pretty much impossible.
Niobe decided to find her voice and break the silence. "What happened? Where are you plugged in?" she said, directing the question to Neo.
"Don't worry, I'm okay, for now at least. What did Lara tell you about what she and her brother have done?"
"Not a lot. We were concerned about seeing you, she took us straight here when she found us."
"What happened to you, she mentioned you being in the sickbay?" Morpheus enquired, eye brows creased in confusion and worry.
"My eyes were badly injured… sometime. Charlie is currently doing an operation on them. I'm just here, fighting it out." Neo answered, faltering at the beginning, not wanting to bring up bad memories. They flooded in however, and he knew he'd have to tell them sooner or later. He wondered when.
"What? How, what happened?"
Yep. Obviously sooner. "Bane. Long story. We'll tell you later. I suppose you're here to stay for a while?"
Both Morpheus and Niobe could see they had reached a touchy subject, which had clearly effected the two of them greatly. Neo was looking down at the floor, frowning at what only he could see, Trinity was looking at him, concerned, but also had her eyes cast downward. It was painful.
"What happened to him? Where is he?"
"He's in the floor below. I killed him. But I do have an explanation, though."
"And…?" Morpheus prompted.
"Smith. He was Smith. Smith took him over like he was taking over the other programs. You remember. He tried to do it to you." Neo refrained from adding, 'He did it to me too. He succeeded', as he knew it would only bring up more questions, questions that he didn't want to answer, memories he did not want to see. He knew Morpheus could see something was wrong, but he hoped he would let it go. Neo had never really been able to hide his feelings, unlike Trinity, who was quite an expert.
A voice to be recognised as Lara's, human sounding in the construct, mechanical out, said, "Charlie wont be done for a while, and then Neo would probably spend a while in here/there, so why don't you jack in, it would be easier to talk, I'd imagine."
Morpheus and Niobe agreed. The visual connection in the construct was disconnected as Lara went round to insert the neural plugs into Morpheus and Niobe.
