Ok, thanks to Divamercury, I've got the story figured out, I don't think you will be disappointed, to Kal Torak, thanks for the complements, and don't worry, this story wont be left unfinished when I'm through writing it, and I'm gonna fit those conversations in when they all meet in Zion. And to -me! (and no, I'm not talking about myself, there is a reviewer called '-me!'), thanks very much, here's the next chappie, I hope you like it, it's a long one!
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Niobe was ready to go. She was the only person on the Logos. No wait, scratch that, she was the only human on the Logos, Charlie the machine was there as well, in the Core, fiddling with some of the wires, and the sentinels were hovering round as usual. Trinity, Neo and Morpheus were in the Alada, the former two in the sick-bay with Lara, who was caring for them. They figured it was a better arrangement when going back to Zion.
She watches the other ship leave, happy to be sitting in her old baby again. Boy, did she miss her ship. He may have not realised it then, but lending Neo her ship felt like killing her. Now, she was glad to have it back.
Niobe sat in the Pilots cabin, and was deep in thought again. This time, it was about what little Neo and Trinity had told them about their mission, but it was enough to think about. They hadn't been told about what happened to Bane, and why, or how the two of them had survived the journey. In fact, they hadn't been told anything. It was mostly Niobe and Morpheus doing the talking, the other two seemed very reluctant to tell them anything.
The Alada left, and Niobe looked at the panel in front of her to do the same thing, when something caught her eye. One of the fuses was blown. She climbed down the ladder to the lower part of her ship to replace it, and saw a sight that stopped her dead.
Wires everywhere, dried blood, and in one corner, a body.
She had completely forgotten this was Bane's resting place, and now saw that Neo and Trinity weren't just avoiding talking about the subject. They had left the place as it was, when it happened.
Niobe had had a complete lack of explanation as to what had happened with Bane, and she was the type of person that needs to know things, and if she doesn't, has to find them out. So that's what she did.
She looked around, surveying the surroundings. She went over to the hole to the lowest level where the fuses were, and shone her light there. Broken glass, tattered ends of a piece of tied rope. She straightened up, and thought all the facts through.
Once Bane had come onboard, he must have drawn Trinity in, probably with the blown fuse, which Niobe had come down for.
"I should've known he'd send his bitch first… I think I might enjoy killing you as much as killing him."
Judging by the amount of dried blood on Bane's face, she had fought back.
Trinity kicks frantically at Bane's face, as he follows her up the ladder, through the hole. Her face is a mask of pure terror.
Niobe figured it was Trinity who did most of the damage, as she had been freed from the Matrix much longer than Neo had, and was stronger, having been helping out in the tough physical side of real-life. Neo might be a superhero in the matrix, but he wasn't outside of it. He probably could cause a moderate amount of damage, though, but Trinity would definitely have caused a lot more than he could have done. Trinity had some how broken her lamp in the fight, possibly on Bane himself. She would have used that opportunity to get help.
She swings the lamp at him, and it shatters. She makes a dash for the ladder.
If Trinity had escaped Bane for a moment, she would have used the intercom to call out to Neo about Bane.
"Neo! It's Bane, he's psychotic!"
Niobe looked at the intercom, and saw several black strands attached to it. There must have been a fight there, Niobe reckoned. She remembered the tied rope she had seen in the lower level, and the mark she had seen on Trinity's neck, as if she had been threatened at knifepoint. Niobe knwe that if Bane had tried to tie her up, than it would be impossible to do that whilst she was still conscious.
Bane hastily ties rope around the unconscious Trinity's wrists, looking up for any sight of Neo, smiling at the still form in his arms, finally conquered after all those years of escaping him again and again.
He had probably knocked her out at the intercom, which tore out a few of her hairs that had been forced into the casing when gravity brought her body down.
He grabs her head, and slams it against the wall, knocking her out. She falls to the floor.
"You're gonna pay for that."
Neo would have then arrived, bringing the plasma gun with him.
Neo scrambled down the ladder, gun in his hands, frantically searching around. He sees her, hands pulled behind her back, Bane standing behind her, a scalpel at her throat.
There would have been some words between Neo and Bane, and then they would have fought over the gun. The loose, cut wires were evidence to that. They must had been severed by the gun's ray.
They both grabbed for the gun, and it fires in their hands. And as they moved round to aim it at each other, the cable ends litter down around them.
Trinity was most likely dumped in the lower level; the rope and shattered glass of her lamp were there, as that would have been the only thing she could have used to break through the rope. She always hated being in helpless situations, and being in a situation of helplessness, with your lover fighting for their life, was even more unbearable.
Trinity frantically looks up towards the sound of the fight as she maneuvers the fragment of glass in her hand to cut the rope binding her.
Neo had been blinded during the fight. That was pretty much the only thing that Morpheus and Niobe had got out of them.
Neo ran at Bane again, and bane responded, plunging the end of one of the sparking electrical cables into Neo's eyes. There is a defining howl of pain.
When that co-insided with Bane's death, Niobe didn't know. If Neo was blind, how did he kill Bane, when Bane would have had the advantage of sight; and if Neo killed Bane with full vision, how did he get blinded? He wouldn't have slipped up afterwards. He might have been hurt, badly, but he would have taken care with his steps so as to not increase that damage. He may not have been the brightest star in the sky, but when it came to common sense, and self-preservation in the battlefield, he wasn't an idiot.
"Neo. Oh no. Your eyes."
"I'll be okay. It's all right, Trin. But I think you're gonna have to drive."
Neo tries to comfort Trinity, but they are both still shocked, and neither is accepting or giving any more artificially given comfort. It's bad enough without the lies, and that was something that the two of them didn't do, lie. They could both see right through each other's acts, it wouldn't help matters now.
Whether Niobe had figured out what had happened correctly, she didn't know, but it seemed to fit, if she knew Trinity's instincts, and what would happen in that sort of situation. Niobe couldn't know for sure, but she'd have to wait to be told for her theory to be proven, and she knew the story would have to come out sometime. They were most likely saving all the painful stories to be told once, to everyone who needed to know. She didn't blame them. She could only imagine what they must have gone through.
She left the place as it was, and climbed back up the ladder to start the journey back to Zion.
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ok, the next chapter might not be here for a while, I am in school for the majority of the day, but I will keep on working on it as much as possible, and at the very least, it will be updated by the end of the weekend, but most likely before. I'm going through a stressful time at the moment, so have pity on me, I'm getting my Mock exam marks back!!! Oh, I'm so nervous.
