The Matrix: Rebellion

- By K. M. Chambers

Chapter 4: Stuck

Neo opens his eyes in confession of what just happened. However, his surroundings were different from what they were a few seconds ago.

He was standing on a top of a tall building in a city.

"Wow, so this must be the Matrix then, I guess," Neo said to himself as he felt the wind hit his face and the sun shining down on him. "And to think, this isn't real."

Suddenly, the mobile phone rang that was there for the crew who were going to go into the Matrix.

Neo walks over and answers it.

"Hello?" Neo answered.

"Neo, we've got to get you out of there! I've set up an exit, all you have to do is make sure you get to it," The operator said on the other end of the phone."

"Okay, just guide me to it."

"Okay, just…Oh god!"

"What?"

"You won't believe this. Agents are heading your way! You've got to get out of there now!"

"Agents! How do I get out of here?"

"Okay, to your right there is a fire that will take you down to the ground."

"Right!"

Suddenly, three agents busted the door, that lead up to the roof, wide open. But these agents were some how different from the other agents in the Matrix. All three of them stepped out and looked around the roof.

Luckily for Neo, he had already reached the ground and done a runner.

"We have him," one of the agents said.

--

Neo ran through the streets as fast as he could as the agents chased after him.

"Where do I go now?" Neo asked the operator on the phone.

"Go to the end of the road, and make a turn left."

"Okay."

Neo continues the chase as he nears the end of the street.

"Wait! Don't go that way now!" The agent warned Neo just before he turned left at the end of the street.

But it was too late.

BANG!

Went the agent's gun when Neo turned round the corner.

Neo slowly looks down at where the bullet hole is as blood begins to bleed out of it. Neo is feels wobbly and shocked from the blast and he is only just able to stand up.

The agent shoots him again, but this time he falls to the ground and is motionless as the agent continues to shoot him several more times.

"Only human," The agent says after his last shot at Neo.

--

Meanwhile in the real world.

As Neo's pulse went dead, all the people on board the ship were upset for his loss.

Everyone cleared the area around Neo, apart from Jess, who was the most upset. She sat at his side, holding his hand in her left hand.

"Neo, I don't know if you can hear me or not," she said to him. "But please do not die like this. Your my best friend, you always have been since the day I meet you, and you've always been there for me. So you see, you can't be dead. I don't know what I'll do with out you."

Jessica bursts into tears.

Suddenly, she fells something gripping her left hand. Jess immediately looks back up at Neo's body.

"Neo?"

--

Back in the Matrix.

Neo opens his eyes and stands up as if nothing had happened.

The agents, who had just started to walk away, looked back at him and all pointed their guns at him again.

"No," Neo whispered just before the agents started shooting at him.

Neo looks up from the ground and sticks his hand out, stopping the bullets that had just been fired right in front of him.

As the bullets fell to the ground, Neo looks around at his surroundings as he can now see the Matrix for what it is.

Suddenly all three agents charged at him, but without even thinking it, Neo took off into the air and escaped the three agents.

"The trace was completed," one of them said as they all watched Neo fly away.

"We have their position," another one said.

"Sentinels are standing by."

"Order the strike."

"Wait, his not out yet." The other agent said as he started to walk over to the direction Neo was heading, the other two agents follow.

Meanwhile in a near by alley, a person dressed in black steps out of the darkness of the alley.

"Yeah, you were right boss," he said on his phone. "He's back."

--

Neo flew through the sky, totally unaware of what he was doing.

He landed on a roof of a hotel with the word "HEART" written down beside it and a little sign underneath it in blue lighting saying "o' the city hotel". This building the exit in, was just a few miles away from the place Neo took off took off from. He opens his eyes, but he could no longer see the Matrix in the green code anymore. However Neo doesn't seem to notice this as well.

He pulls out the mobile phone he had earlier and calls the operator back in the real world.

"Where is it in this building?" Neo asked.

"Go down the stairs to the 8th level," the operator said confessed by what had just happened.

But before he could ask him any thing else, Neo had put the phone down and was already on his way to the exit.

--

On the 8th floor…

Neo kicks the door, which has the number '303' on it, open as the phone, which was on the table in the dark room, starts to ring.

Neo steps forward to answer it, but something strange happens. Without Neo even noticing, something separates from him.

At first it's like a thick black liquid, but then it forms into something, or someone.

Once the forming was complete, there stood behind Neo was a male, dressed in a black suite, had on black sunglasses and was exactly the same size and age as Neo.

He looks around at his surroundings and then spots Neo. He reaches out to grab him but he was too late. Neo had already picked up the phone and returned to the real world.

Moments later…

The three agents busted into the room, but only to find that Neo had already escaped and he guy who separated off him was standing there looking down at the phone.

He slowly looks up at them and smirks at them evilly.

To be continued…