Chapter 6: So now I'm a Battery?
I have been through a lot of strange experiences in my lifetime. But this was by far the strangest. You don't think so? Well try having a large metal rod shoved into the back of your head. Yeah that's right. Shoved right into the back. Ouch…
Sitting down on the uncomfortable seat. I started to get a little worried. Morphius was in the seat next to me. Smiling.
" Hey Squall, don't worry man, its fun!"
Joy…Rinoa picked the rod up. " Are you ready?" She asked.
" No!" I yelled. Oh well. She probably has hearing problems because she slid the thing right up into my head. You know, through the metal hole at the back.
" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
When I finished screaming my lungs out. I was no longer in the main deck…I was in a white nothing.
" Morphius…where are we?"
He grinned. " This is the loading program"
" Loading program?" It was just a white nothing. Honest! I wasn't even standing on anything…but I sure wasn't floating.
" So…are you going to tell me what a loading program is…or are playing Simon says?" I asked.
He rolled his eyes. " Squall…Simon says is when you do what ever the other person says only if they say 'Simon says!' first…its not a guessing game!" He laughed a little and crossed his arms.
"……"
" Ahem…anyway. The loading program is one of our most useful programs. You can basically load anything from cashew nuts to almonds. It great"
" Right"
" Look at what you're wearing. Your no longer wearing the really gay outfits you wear back on the ship, what you're wearing now is what we call ' self residual image'"
So I looked at myself…and couldn't help but notice something was wrong. I had no idea my 'self residual image' was wearing bunny slippers and a pink leotard…
" Zell…"
He chuckled then gained his composure and coughed. " Sorry about that. Quistis, change him back now"
I changed into 'normal' clothes. Black shirt…blah blah. You know.
" Sit down"
Morphius motioned to a pair of red seats in front of a TV.
" Whoa! Where'd they come from?"
" I loaded them silly"
" I didn't here anything…"
" Its silent ok! Now just sit down and watch"
Rolling my eyes I sat down and looked at the TV. He picked up a remote, (that just so happened to come from thin air) and turned it on. It was an extremely old TV…doesn't he believe in new technology?
The screen burst to life and as he was about to explain his boring speech… when a fly buzzed past.
" Uh…Morphius…what's the point in loading a fly?"
He looked a bit dumbstruck for minute…but then her noticed the fly.
" Oh…no. I didn't load that!" He yelled out to Quistis through his mobile. " Quistis! It's a fly! Quick!!!" I frowned. It's just a fly for heavens sake! The fly grew bigger and bigger until…it disappeared.
" What the hell just happened here?" I asked.
Zell sat down, he looked a little shaken. "It was a glitch"
" Right" So much commotion over a fly…I sure as hell wasn't going to get used to this place. I looked back at the TV screen. " Is all this real?"
" What is real? How do you define real? Is it what you can see, smell, touch and taste…then real is just…" He paused, looking a little lost. From inside his jacket he pulled out a piece of paper. He quickly read it over then resumed his speech, " Then real is just electrical signal interpreted by your brain"
" Yeah okay whatever…what was with the bit of paper?"
" Oh it just helps me sometimes. You know it's kinda hard to explain this crap to everyone all the time"
" Oh I see"
He turned on the TV. It showed Deling city. The huge skyscrapers and buildings. Al the café's lined up neatly on the 6th avenue boardwalk.
" This is the world as you know it. The world as it existed in the end of the…something…century. This world is nothing but a neural active simulation that we call…The Matrix…You've been living in an ice-cream factory Squall"
" No I haven't…I live in an old apartment"
He took the piece of paper out again. " Oh yeah…that was Seifer"
" Hey, why couldn't you have just told me, 'The Matrix is a neural active simulator' in the first place?"
" I have no idea"
We sat in silence for a while.
" This is the world now…" He clicked the channel thingy and I was met with one of the most awful sights in my entire history of awful sights…
Scribbles: Aha! I'm back from the dead. Sorry this chapter was put on 'dead hold' for a veeery long time. For all of you have read and are going to review…bless you! Thankyou soooo much!
Chapter seven will be up next week…