Author's notes: Just one reminder, I'm English. So I might say or spell thing different from you if you're from a different country.

The Animatrix - The Next Generation - By K. M. Chambers

Chapter 7

It had gotten dark quite quickly as the storm began. Neo landed outside a tall building in the middle of the city with Trinity and Pan.

Pan stayed where she was as she looked up at the building, while Neo and Trinity walked up to it and stopped outside the front door.

"We're here," Neo said.

Trinity back to an astonished Pan.

"Come with us," she said to Pan.

Not sure what else to do, pan agreed to follow them into the building.

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"Where are you taking me?" Pan asked as they walked up the stairs.

"To you're your to the question you have been asking yourself for the past six years," Neo answered.

"You mean I'm going to meet him?"

"Yes," Trinity replied.

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When they got to the level they were heading to, they stopped outside a room with double doors. Neo and Trinity turn to face Pan.

"This is it," Neo said.

"Let us just give you one piece of advise, be honest," Trinity said to Pan. "He knows more then you can imagine."

All three of them enter the room. In there are two dark red chairs facing each other next to an old fire place, with a small table in between them which had a glass of water on it. As they entered, a flash of lighting struck outside as a bald black man turned around to face them from the window.

"At last," he greeted as he walked up to Pan. "Welcome Pan, as you have no doubt of guessed, I am Morpheus."

Pan sticks out her hand to shack his hand.

"It's an honour to meet you," Pan responded.

"Thank you," Morpheus replied as he shacks her hand. "It's quite an honour to meet you to."

Pans looks suddenly turned from nervous to very confused as Morpheus said this, as he guided Pan to one of the dark red chairs. Meanwhile, Neo and Trinity exited the room from another door. As they left, Morpheus shut the door double doors behind them and then starting to walk over to where Pan is sitting.

"I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice," Morpheus said to her as she still had a confused look on her face. "Tumbling down the rabbit hole."

"You could say that," Pan replied as she realized what he meant.

"I can see t in your eyes. You have the look of a person who accepts what they see because they are expecting to wake up. Ironically this is not far from the truth." Morpheus stands behind the dark red chair that was opposite the one Pan was sitting in. "Do you believe in fate Pan?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"I just don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life."

"I know exactly what you mean." Morpheus finally sits down on the chair as he holds a small sliver box in his hands. "Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, and even stronger in the past 6 years, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?"

"The Animatrix."

"Do you want to know what it is?" Pan nods. "The Animatrix is every where, it is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you out your window or when you turn on your television. You can felt it when you fly around, when you go to work, when you pay your taxes, or when ever you train or fight. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."

"What truth?" Pan asked as she leant forward.

Morpheus also leans forward towards Pan.

"That you are a slave Pan. Like everyone else you where born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot taste or touch. A prison, for your mind." Morpheus leans back into the chair. "Unfortunately no one can be told what the Animatrix is, you have to see it for yourself."

Morpheus opens the little sliver box he had in his hands and took something out of it. He then places the box on the table right next to the glass of water, and leans forward again. Pan sits up straight.

"This is your last chance, after this there is no going back," He said as he opened out his left hand that had a pill in it. "You take the blue pill, story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe what you want to believe." Morpheus opens his right hand, and revels a different colour pill. "You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

Pan thinks about it for a few seconds, but then reaches out to take a pill.

"Remember, all I'm offering is the truth, nothing more."

Pan reaches out and takes the red pill. She puts it in her month and drinks the water, as another flash of lightening struck outside. Morpheus was pleased with this decision Pan had just made.

"Follow me," He said as he stood up and walked towards the doors Neo and Trinity exited out of. Pan immediately follows.

To be continued...