Damn The Red Pill

Chapter 7:

The Real World

" Oops I did it again! I played with your heart, got lost in the game. Oh baby, baby! Oops…you think I'm love. That I'm sent from above…I'm not that innocent"

My mind screamed with fury. My eyes burned. Just to hear that awful song was enough…but to actually see the damn video clip?! I was hysterical. With my hands over my ears and my eyes closed, I screamed over at Morphius.

" Turn it off! Please! Just turn it off!!"

" I'm trying!"

" WELL TRY HARDER!!!"

Finally he switched the channel. I breathed a sigh of relief and laid back down, brushing a bead of sweat from my fore head.

" Phew…"

" Welcome to the real world"

I wasn't really paying attention but all of the sudden; we were cast away from the 'white nothing' and put into big desert. I shivered slightly. It was pretty horrible. Lightning flashed overhead and I couldn't help but wonder why everything looked so…dull.

" Welcome to the desert of Disney Land"

As if on cue, lightning flashed and I spun around, looking for any sign of life. Morphius…wriggled around in his seat for a minute before continuing.

" We only have bits and pieces of information but what we do know is that in the late 21st century, all of mankind rejoiced in celebration and…um…and…"

He took out the paper and read it over. Once satisfied, he slipped it into his jacket and cleared his throat. " We marveled at our own brilliance as we gave birth to A.I"

" A.I…after incorporate-man-eating-spiders ?"

" Yes, a singular celled – NO! Not after incorporate-man-eating-spiders you dumbass! Its artificial intelligence!"

" Oh…well I thought we were playing Simon says again ok! So don't blame me!"

" Simon says is when you copy the other person only if they say – "

" – Yeah I know! You already told me!!"

" The you should have known!!"

" Okay!!"

We sat in silence for a minute. He was fuming and I was angry. Simple enough. I'm pretty sure you're on my side anyway. He crossed his arms and continued his speech.

" This single conscious spawned an entire race of machines. We don't know who struck first…them or us. But we do know, it was us who invented the new Dove chocolate, Desire"

I smiled. " Yeah I had one of those, they're pretty good"

" Yeah…anyway…at that time it was believed that they could only run on solar power. How were they to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun?…so we spray painted the sky black. It was believed that we could not survive without the machines…yet fate it seems, is not without a sense of irony…Squall….Squall?"

He walked over to me.

" Squall! Wake up!" He kicked me in the side. I yawned grumpily and sat up. " What?"

" This is kind of important you know?"

" Yeah yeah alright, continue"

He sat back down and cleared his throat. " As I was saying. The human body produces more energy that a …a…something volt battery and its all body heat. Combined with a form of fusion…the machines had found all the heat they would ever need"

" You know Zell…that's the longest dialogue that you've said, that actually made sense to me"

" Thanks. There are fields…endless fields, where humans are no longer born, they are grown. For the longest time I refused to believe it. But then I saw them for my own eyes. The machines held this nice little tour day so we could walk around and have a look. I watched them liquefy the dead to feed to the living and then I came to conclusion that it was obviously all true"

I had this really, really big urge to fall asleep again…

He turned the TV off. Oh and yeah, we were back in the white nothing again. He placed the remote on the TV and turned to me.

" What is the matrix…it is control. The matrix is a computer generated world, created to keep us in control in order to turn a human being into this…"

He held out a kit-kat. I began to walk away from him. My memories came back to me. The day I choked on a kit-kat. I almost died.

" No…no…I wont believe it…I wont!"

" I didn't say it would be easy Squall…I just said it would be the truth"

" Did not"

" Did so"

" Did not"

"Did so"

" Did not!

" Did so!"

" Ok ok whatever! Just get me out of here ok"

" Alright…"

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