Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Matrix films, so please don't sue me.

The Matrix: Rebellion

- By K. M. Chambers

Chapter 2: The Dream

Kid ran straight down the corridor after Neo, who had just walked out of his last class.

"Neo, wait up," Kid yelled as Neo stopped to see who was calling his name.

"Who are you?" Neo asked, "and how do you know my name?"

"I just saw you in your drama class, and may I just say you were so much like him."

"Who?"

"Neo! The One of course, who else? You fought so much like he did."

Neo starts to laugh. "Yeah right, I was only acting."

"No way, you looked way to serious just to be acting. It was like you were really fighting that guy. Plus it seemed like you know exactly what happened, like you where there or something. Are you shore you're not related, maybe you are actually the son of The One. I mean, how do you know?"

"Because I choose to." Neo says as he begins to walk away, Kid starts to walk along side him.

"How can you be so sure of it?"

Neo stops and looks Kid in the eye.

"Look, that women Trinity and this 'one' Neo quite possibly died before I was even born. Also I know that my real parents are still alive."

"Really? How do you know?"

"I just do," Neo walks on as he leaves an astonished Kid behind to go and join his friends.

'Oh my god, can it really be true?' Kid thought to himself.

= In the lunch hall =

"Hi guys, what's wrong?" Neo asked Jack and Jess.

"What's wrong? It was like you where trying to physically hurt me in there," Jack responded.

"Yeah Neo, what happened to you?" Jess asked.

Neo quickly realises what they are talking about.

"I…I don't know," Neo answered, "It was like my body was still there in the room, but my mind was somewhere else."

"What on earth are you talking about?" Jack questioned.

"Well…" Neo began before Jess cut him off.

"Wait Neo, maybe we should go some where more private to talk about this." Jess suggested.

Neo and Jack both nodded and followed Jess out the lunch hall down the corridor that lead into another building, up the stairs and into Jess's and Jack's room.

In the room there were two beds with a table with a lamp on between them, two wardrobes, a desk, a window and a bathroom.

Neo and Jack sat on his bed while Jess went and sat on hers, facing the two guys.

"Alright now Neo, think back to where you think you was while was doing our act," Jess asked him.

Neo nodded his head and closed his eyes.

"Okay, I'm there," He answered.

"Where are you?"

Neo thinks deeply before answering his friend's question.

"I'm not sure, it looks like some kind of street, but I don't feel like I'm in the real world anymore."

"Are you in the Matrix then?" Jack interrupted

Again, Neo searches through his mind for an answer.

"Jack, how is he supposed to know that? None of us have ever been in…" Jess said before she was cut off.

"Yes," Neo replied, "I am. I don't know how I got there, or how I know this. But I just do."

"Wow, what's I like there?" Jack asked.

"It's raining. Very, very heavily."

"Is there anyone else there?" Jess questioned.

"Yes, there are thousands, no wait millions of them."

"Who?"

Neo ignores the question "There all watching my every move as I walk up in the middle of the road, some of them are grinning and laughing at me evilly and the rest are just standing there motionless while still giving me an evil stare. And then one of them comes out and stands about under a quarter of a mile away from me, starring directly at me. He specks, and then he charges at me. Without even thinking about it, I charge directly at him as well. Then the fight begins when he…"

Suddenly Jack shakes Neo by the shoulders roughly. "Neo, Neo, snap out of it!"

Neo immediately opens his eyes.

"Sorry, we just didn't want to lose you again."

"Thank you."

"Neo, you know you said that you got the idea from a dream you had," Jess pointed out.

"Yeah,"

"Well, did those exact things of which you just told us happen I this dream you had?"

Neo begins to think back. "Well…yes and no."

"Huh? What do you mean by that?" Jack questioned.

"In my dream, instead of fighting, I'm in the crowd I told you about earlier. I don't think they could see me because by just looking that them I seemed to be the odd one out. In the long and narrow road the same fight is going on. The guy I faced before this still there, but his opponent, of which I was, was a different guy."

"Who? Do you know?"

"I'm not sure, I some how fell like I know him. But I some how can't see his face, so I can't identify him properly."

"Okay, I think your losing it Neo."

"Jack!" Jess yelled at her little brother. "Neo, your quite possibly under a lot of stress at that moment. Go and get some rest, don't worry, I'll tell the teacher you wasn't feeling very well."

"Thanks Jess," Neo replied.

Jess pulls Neo into a friendly hug, and Jack gives him a pat on the back as Neo leaves Jack and Jess's room to go to his room, which directly opposite.

Neo didn't want to have a roommate, so he lived alone. His room is similar to Jack and Jess's room, only that he has one of every thing they have.

Neo enters his room and lies on his bed and shuts his eyes.

As young Neo sleeps, he is totally unaware that someone or something is watching him.

To be continued…

Author's notes: Wow, what/who do you think is watching Neo? If you can't figure out it out (which most of you won't in this stage of the story), you'll have to wait until after Christmas or after the New Year to find out, because that's I'll hopefully be putting up Chapter 3.

But until then check out my other stories, which are called 'The Animatrix - the Next Generation' (DBZ/The Matrix crossover) and 'Love and Betrayal' (DBZ)