Thankings to all reviewing persons. Replies are at the end of the chapter, assuming that I remember, which I will, hopefully.

Note: I don't own any of the NON-Matrix stuff I mention(ed) either. And i guess it has to be said, annoyingly, no offence intended to anyone. Honestly, it wasn't.

SOMEWHERE IN THE ZION DOCK:

(The kid is slowly lumbering towards the gate in Mifune's APU.)

Kid: Keep my weight forward. Light as a feather, as a feather...



ZION COMMAND:

Technician: Commander. Holographic reports. Captain Mifune's APU is up and moving to gate three.



SOMEWHERE IN THE ZION DOCK:

Kid: Don't over squeeze trigger... Hwoom...Whoosh!

ZION COMMAND:

Technician: Captain Mifune's APU has just reached gate three.

Lock: How much time?

Technician: Two minutes to impact.

Lock: Captain Mifune, do you copy?

Technician: Captain Mifune is down, sir.

Lock: This is Lock. I don't know if you can hear me, but if you can hear me...



ZION DOCK:

Lock's voice on the receiver: ...I'm not wearing any underwear. I have to tell someone, it's the most interesting thing I've done all year.

(Sniggers from those around him are heard over the receiver.)

Zee: Eew...



THE HAMMER

Roland: Get to the main deck, charge the EMP!



ZION DOCK:

(The kid's about to get torn to pieces by a sentinel when Zee shows up and frazzles it.)

Zee: Do it, kid.

Kid: Neo, I believe.

(Shoots, counter weights break and the gate opens).

Kid: What the? I did it! I did it! (APU starts flailing about randomly due to the Kid's celebratory dancing), I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD!

Zee: That's gate four you idiot.

(Loud clunk from gate three.)

Kid: Whoops.



THE HAMMER

Niobe: Shit...

Morpheus: Why isn't the gate open?

Niobe (To herself): We ain't come this far...

Link: Almost home, almost home...

(The Hammer reverses slightly, charges forward and smashes straight through the gate).

Morpheus: Burn it, Link!

Link: Right, (sets EMP control switch on fire and starts whistling to himself.)

Morpheus: (To Niobe) Do you smell burning?

Niobe: (Looks over her shoulder), Damn it Link, he didn't mean that literally!

Link: Oh, sorry. (Flicks switch) AHHHH! IT BURNS! IT BURNS US!

Morpheus: You did it...

Niobe: I did, didn't I?

Morpheus: you're one hell of a pilot.

Niobe: Some things in this world never change.

Morpheus: But some things do.

Niobe: Yeah, like when did you stop using deodorant? You smell like a goat Morpheus.



ZION DOCK:

Zee: Link!

Link: Zee...?

Zee: Link!

Link: Zee!

Zee: I knew you'd come, I knew it...

Link: I made a promise ...

Zee: You did wear it...

Link: You kidding? I'm never gonna take it off...

Zee: Thief! Thief in our midst!

Link: What? What's wrong?

Zee: Thief!

(Everyone stares at Zee who runs off suddenly after taking her fancy beads back.)

Link: Not again.



A RANDOM ZION BASED PLACE:

Lock: Three captains, one ship. I assume the other ships were lost under equally foolish and amusing circumstances?

Niobe: Good to see you too, Jason.

Lock: (Looks over his shoulder, not knowing that Jason is him.) The Council's waiting to hear an explanation. You'll forgive me for not attending, but I have to try to salvage this debacle.

Roland: Did I miss something, Commander? I thought we just saved the dock.

Lock: That's the problem with you people. You can't think five minutes in front of your face. That EMP knocked out almost every piece of hardware and in the dock, we've lost the jukebox, the floodlights, and all twelve mini-fridges. If I don't get this mess sorted out the P.T.A will eat me alive. Saved the dock, captain? You've just robbed it of it's soul.

(Lock buggers off.)

Niobe: Why the P.T.A

Morpheus: The writer couldn't think of anything else.



ZION COMMAND:

Lock: Get that cable cut! I want that system back online. I'll be damned if I'm going to miss Angel again.

Technician: Commander, it's the dock. We've got incoming.

(Yet more sentinels arrive).

Lock: ARGH! BEASTS! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!



ZION DOCK:

Technician: I stand by my belief that none can harm me in my enchanted swimwear and codpiece.

(A sentinel grabs him by the leg and drops him from a great height.)

Technician: My codpiece will save me! ( He is smashed to bits upon landing.)



ZION COMMAND:

Technician: All clear.

Lock: Do it.

(The wrong tunnel explodes and fifteen people are crushed or incinerated)

Another technician: What the? Steve! What the fuck is wrong with you?

Steve: Sorry.

ZION:

Councillor Dillard: So you gave them your ship.

Niobe: That is correct, Coucillor, I did.

Councillor: Knowing what they planned to do with it?

Councillor Hamann: And the Oracle said nothing of this.

Niobe: She told me Neo would need my help and that I could either help him, or be stabbed through the heart with her kitchen knife there and then.

Councillor West: That doesn't sound like the Oracle.

Niobe: How would you know?

Councillor West: Good point.

Morpheus: Neo is doing what he believes he must do. I don't know if what he's doing is right, I don't know if he'll reach the machine city, and if he does, I don't know what he can do to save us. But I do know that as long as there is a single breath in his body, he will not give up and neither can we.

Councillor Hamann: Very profound Morph…

Morpheus: There is always hope, hope is what separates us from the machines, hope is what…

Niobe: Shut up Morpheus.

Morpheus: …keeps us alive. Without hope, we would…

(Niobe pushes him over, Morpheus wisely keeps quiet).



LOGOS:

Trinity: Temperature's dropping. Here we go.

Neo: We're over the fields.

Trinity: How do you know that?

Neo: I can feel them.

(Trinity looks over to Neo and sees that he's dangling him arm out of the window and running his hand over the tops of the pods.)

Neo: Over there... There's some eh... Can you see it, three lines...

Trinity: Power lines.

Neo: Follow them.



ZION COMMAND:

Woman: What are they doing?

Technician: I don't know. Lieutenant?

(The digger gets up and promptly buggers over again.)

Random Sentinel: Shit

(They try again, the digger fizzles slightly but stays on the floor).

Random human: Here, let me. (Kicks digger. It miraculously springs to life).

Random human: There we go, oh wait, maybe I shouldn't have (Sentinel rips his head off).

Lock: (Shouting out of a window overlooking the dock) ARSEHOLE!

Technician: What do we do now, Commander?

Lock: Go out there are wave your fist at that man's corpse.

Technician: What? The sentinels will rip me to shreds.

Lock: (Starts singing 'My heart will go on' by Celine Dion')

Technician: I'm going, I'm going!





ZION:

Lock: It's now a matter of time. The machines will breach the walls of the city. I recommend the Council to join the rest of the non-military personal inside the temple.

Councillor: How long do we have?

Lock: Two hours, maybe less. My men have begun fortifying the entrance with enough artillery to make our last stand. You should see it, it looks really cool, I even get my own seat from which to shout things. Beyond that, there's isn't anything more I can do.

Councillor Dillard: Commander, do you think we that have any chance of surviving?

Lock: If I were you, Councillor, I wouldn't ask me that question, I would ask him. (Points at Morpheus.)

Councillor Dillard: Why?

Lock: He hasn't said anything for a while.

LOGOS:

Neo: There. Those mountains. That's it.

Trinity: Do you see what's out there?

Neo: Yes, I mean no, sort of. It's hard to make anything out of this crazy orange goo.

Trinity: If you tell me we'll make it, I'll believe you.

Neo: We'll make it. We're the main characters. No harm can befall us.

Trinity: You do know you're blind right?

Neo: Hah! A piffling flesh wound.

Trinity: Sentinels!

Neo: Where?

Trinity: Ooh... Gotcha!

Trinity: Come on! Neo! I need help here!

Neo: I can't beat them.

Trinity: What do I do?

Neo: Go up, over them. The sky... it's the only way.

Trinity: Then up we go. Hey does this mean I'll get to see the sun? I've always wanted to do that.

(The Logos flies above the clouds, its night time.)

Trinity: Shit!

Neo: Pump the igniter, the ship will start.

Neo: Again, slowly.

Neo: Now!

Trinity: Noooo...

(Logos crashes)

(Authors note: Trinity's death scene is too moving and depressing to make fun of. Hence I just skipped that bit.)

ZION:

Lock: Get that damn thing mounted, I want to have a cup holder on my chair of wonders.

Technician: Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!

Link: Neo, if you're going to do something, better do it quickly...



ZERO ONE:

(Deus Ex Machina appears in front of Neo, the small machines that double us as a face begin to fly around Neo, many of which crash into each other and explode. Those that are left form a crude, incomplete face.)

Neo: I only have come to say what I want to say. After that you can do what you want, no one will try to stop you.

Deus Ex Machina: Speak.

Neo: I was speaking

Deus Ex Machina: No you weren't

Neo: If that's true, then I've made a mistake, and you should kill me now.

Deus Ex Machina: As you wish.

Neo: Wait! That's not right! Let me try this again.

(After twelve failed attempts, Neo finally gets his speech right.)



ZION:

(Sentinels stop and stare at the human creatures.)

Niobe: What are they doing? What are YOU doing?

Lock: Morpheus!

(Everyone stares at Morpheus who is mimicking Vincent Vega's dance from Pulp fiction).



ZERO ONE:

Deus Ex Machina: And if you fail?

Neo: Fail? Me? The mighty and invincible Neo? (Falls over).



ZION:

Niobe: Neo?

Morpheus: Where? Where? Damn it woman, stop getting my hopes up!

Niobe: 'Sniggers'

To be concluded.

Replies:

Cinn: You know, you're right, I know I've already said that in a review but I can't think of anything else to say. Thankings; and good luck with your writing ways.

Agent Josey: Glad you liked it; I like death in a story. It makes me feel all warm inside. Except on the occasions when it doesn't.

Angel-of-lightness/Naz/um, something else: Unless I'm mistaken, Hedwig and the angry inch is a musical about a botched sex change operation. It was on the100 worst, or was it greatest, yeah, it was greatest musical things. Anyway, glad you like it, and why do you think that we tire of thee.

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Alocin: I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to face a horde of sentinels without some bright yellow flippers.

Followthewhitering: Glad you like it, I probably should have said something similar before I started now that I think about it, oh well.

Anyone else who reviewed whilst I wasn't looking: Thankings, I hope.