The Matrix: Rebellion
Chapter 6: Nebuchadnezzer 2
With the class and the crew if the destroyed Hammer, were safely on board the Nebuchadnezzer (2). All that was left to do was young Neo to wake up.
--
Neo lay on the table in the medical room with a devastated Jess sat beside him.
Unknown to them, the great Morpheus stood outside if the room, watching Neo. In the past 18 years Morpheus had aged, but not by much.
Suddenly Yoko came up beside him.
"Are you alright sir?" She asked him.
"Yes, I'm fine," Morpheus replied, not taking his eyes off Neo. He then turns to face her. "How's he doing?"
"Well, he in some kind of coma, that's all I know at the moment."
"Okay, go and get Kid, I need to speck to you both."
Yoko obeyed and went off of to fetch him. A few minutes later she arrived back with Kid behind her. Morpheus nodded at them both before he began to walk to another room. Kid and Yoko immediately followed.
--
As they all entered the room next door to Jess and Neo, Morpheus walked into the middle of the room and then turned around to face Yoko and Kid, as they stood next to each other.
"So what are we going to do about him then?" Kid asked.
"What can we do? We don't even know if he's who we think he is for definite yet," Yoko responded.
"Yeah, but…"
"She's right," Morpheus interrupted. "We don't do anything until we talk to the people who know him best."
Yoko and Kid both nodded.
--
Yoko entered the room, which had Jess and Neo in it.
"Are okay?" Yoko asked Jess. "You look tired, perhaps you should get some rest."
"No, I want to stay with him," Jess replied.
"Understandable." There was a slight pause before Yoko spook again. "So…how did you meet Neo?"
Jess looked up at Yoko in confusion.
"Why do you ask?"
"No reason, it's just that you and him seem close."
"Yeah I guess we are," Jess responded, she turns to face Yoko. "Okay, I meet Neo when I was about 2 years old at the orphanage."
"Wow, that's young. What happened to your parents?"
"Well, my father died when I was only a few weeks old, so I can't remember away thing about him. But from what I've heard from other people is that he was called up to fight in the war. My mother was already pregnant with my brother, Jack."
"Already?"
"Yeah, they probably didn't want a daughter, so they tried again as soon as they could. Anyway, nine months later she died giving birth to my brother. Then Jack and me were transferred to the orphanage where Jack was immediately put into care and I was left on my own. A few months had past and it was like everybody had forgotten about me. However, when I meet Neo in the nursery, everything changed for me. I had finally made a friend and that's the first memory I ever had when I was that age."
"What about your brother? What happened to him?"
"Jack? Well…"
--
"After I came out of care," Jack continued as he sat in front of Morpheus and Kid in a different room, telling his version of the story. "I was then adopted for about 7-8 years until they gave me up and sent me back to the orphanage. Where I found that I had a sister and later became friends with Neo who was her best friend by then."
"What about your two other friends?" Kid asked.
"Tank and Zee? Jess and Neo meet them…"
--
"…When we first started our primary school," Jay continued as she and Tank told their side of the story to their father, Link.
"At first we just became friends with Jessica and Neo…" Tank said.
"…And then we meet Jack a few years after."
"But, why didn't you tell me about your friend Neo before?" Link asked.
"It never seemed that important before. Neo was just a regular friend to us," Tank replied.
"Now, if you don't mind us asking, what's with all the questions about Neo?" Jay asked.
"Well…" Link said.
--
"…18 years ago, there was a man who stopped five sentinels with his bare hand, and then he fell into a coma, just like your friend, " Morpheus answered. "His name was Neo."
"Neo? You mean the One?" Jack asked as Morpheus nodded. "Wow, this has got to be one big coincidence then."
"No," Morpheus disagreed. "When I first saw your friend, I didn't not see coincidence, I saw providence, I saw purpose."
"So are you saying Neo supposed be the son of the One just because of this thing that has just happened?"
"Could be," Kid responded.
"No, he can't be."
"Why not?" Morpheus asked.
"'Cause he told me, he's always saying that his father couldn't be the One!"
There was a slight pause before somebody again.
"He told me that his parents are still alive when I saw him at your orphanage," Kid said. "How does he know this?"
"Yes that's true, Neo does believes this for some reason, but I don't know why," Jack answered.
Morpheus sat there and thought about what Jack just said.
"Would anybody else know?" he finally asked.
"Um…my sister Jessica might know, Neo sometimes tells her about thing like that."
--
"Neo always tells me that he just knows his real parents are alive," Jess started to explain to Yoko.
"How? I mean, I thought he was an orphan like you," Yoko responded.
"He is, but what a lot of people don't know about Neo is…"
"Is what?"
"When Neo was only 3-4 years old, he went missing."
"Missing? How?"
"It was like he disappeared or something, 'cause nobody could find him. He was token from the orphanage other night, and then just reappeared a few months later."
"Wow, does anyone know who done it?"
"No, nobody cared to do anything once Neo returned."
"So do those people believe his parents done it then?"
"Nobody knows, Neo just says he remembers his parents after it happened."
--
Morpheus and Kid continued asking Jack questions, when suddenly Roland entered the room.
"Sorry to interrupt, but there's a call for you," he said to Morpheus.
"Okay," Morpheus replied as he turns to Kid. "Stay here with him."
"Yes sir," Kid responded.
--
Morpheus walked up on to the main deck, and grabbed the headset for the phone of AK and put it on.
"Hello," Morpheus said in to it.
"I bring news from the Oracle," Seraph said at the other end of the phone. "You must come at once."
--
Meanwhile in somewhere else…
Neo opened his eyes, sat up off the floor and looked at his surroundings. He was sitting in some kind of underground train station that had the words 'MOBIL AVE' on the wall.
Neo got to his feet, walked over to a near by bench and sat on it.
'Where the hell am I?' Neo thought to himself before he took a deep breath. 'Okay, I've just got to calm down, if I was some how able to get in here, I can get my self back out as well.'
Neo looked down at the ground and closed his eyes.
Suddenly a vision flashes inside his mind.
= The vision =
He was flying through the city at a very high speed until he suddenly stopped at a building.
Just in time to see something or someone crash into a car below.
= End of vision =
Neo suddenly opened his eyes in shock of what he just saw.
"What the hell was that?" He said just before he heard sounds from one end of the tunnel.
Neo stood up as a train arrived at the platform. The doors opened, and the trainman stepped out.
"Who are you?" Neo asked.
"They call me the trainman," he answered.
"Where is this place?"
"This place is a construct stuck between the Matrix, the machine mainframe and the real world. Now, you're coming with me to see my boss."
"Your boss?"
"The Merovingian, he's a very dangerous program, and so am I if you don't do what I say!"
"No, I would rather stay here than go with you!"
"Oh really, but guess what, down here I make the rules. And we can either do this the hard way, where I use force to get you on this train. Or the easy way, where you come on this train on your own free will. But then where's the fun I that?"
Neo just stood still, totally unafraid and looks at the trainman straight in the eye.
"My answer is still the same, I'm not moving!"
"Fine then,"
Suddenly the trainman ran up to Neo and before Neo could do anything, the trainman punched him in the face.
Neo went flying back into the wall behind him and then fell to the ground with some of the broken tiles fell on top of him.
Next thing Neo knew was being dragged onto the train.
Neo opened his eyes to find himself lying on the train floor with the trainman in the drivers seat at the front of the train while pointing his gun directly at him.
"Well, back to the Matrix we go then," the trainman said as the train started to leave the platform.
'Oh no, not again!' Neo thought just before he started to have a pain in his head and blanked out, again.
To be continued…
Author's notes: Hi there, I hoped you enjoyed the chapter. If you have any questions about the story so far, just say in your review and I'll either say in the next chapter, or I'll e-mail it to you (if you leave me your e-mail address) and I'll be more than happy to answer them for you (depending what the question is).
Please review.
Chapter 6: Nebuchadnezzer 2
With the class and the crew if the destroyed Hammer, were safely on board the Nebuchadnezzer (2). All that was left to do was young Neo to wake up.
--
Neo lay on the table in the medical room with a devastated Jess sat beside him.
Unknown to them, the great Morpheus stood outside if the room, watching Neo. In the past 18 years Morpheus had aged, but not by much.
Suddenly Yoko came up beside him.
"Are you alright sir?" She asked him.
"Yes, I'm fine," Morpheus replied, not taking his eyes off Neo. He then turns to face her. "How's he doing?"
"Well, he in some kind of coma, that's all I know at the moment."
"Okay, go and get Kid, I need to speck to you both."
Yoko obeyed and went off of to fetch him. A few minutes later she arrived back with Kid behind her. Morpheus nodded at them both before he began to walk to another room. Kid and Yoko immediately followed.
--
As they all entered the room next door to Jess and Neo, Morpheus walked into the middle of the room and then turned around to face Yoko and Kid, as they stood next to each other.
"So what are we going to do about him then?" Kid asked.
"What can we do? We don't even know if he's who we think he is for definite yet," Yoko responded.
"Yeah, but…"
"She's right," Morpheus interrupted. "We don't do anything until we talk to the people who know him best."
Yoko and Kid both nodded.
--
Yoko entered the room, which had Jess and Neo in it.
"Are okay?" Yoko asked Jess. "You look tired, perhaps you should get some rest."
"No, I want to stay with him," Jess replied.
"Understandable." There was a slight pause before Yoko spook again. "So…how did you meet Neo?"
Jess looked up at Yoko in confusion.
"Why do you ask?"
"No reason, it's just that you and him seem close."
"Yeah I guess we are," Jess responded, she turns to face Yoko. "Okay, I meet Neo when I was about 2 years old at the orphanage."
"Wow, that's young. What happened to your parents?"
"Well, my father died when I was only a few weeks old, so I can't remember away thing about him. But from what I've heard from other people is that he was called up to fight in the war. My mother was already pregnant with my brother, Jack."
"Already?"
"Yeah, they probably didn't want a daughter, so they tried again as soon as they could. Anyway, nine months later she died giving birth to my brother. Then Jack and me were transferred to the orphanage where Jack was immediately put into care and I was left on my own. A few months had past and it was like everybody had forgotten about me. However, when I meet Neo in the nursery, everything changed for me. I had finally made a friend and that's the first memory I ever had when I was that age."
"What about your brother? What happened to him?"
"Jack? Well…"
--
"After I came out of care," Jack continued as he sat in front of Morpheus and Kid in a different room, telling his version of the story. "I was then adopted for about 7-8 years until they gave me up and sent me back to the orphanage. Where I found that I had a sister and later became friends with Neo who was her best friend by then."
"What about your two other friends?" Kid asked.
"Tank and Zee? Jess and Neo meet them…"
--
"…When we first started our primary school," Jay continued as she and Tank told their side of the story to their father, Link.
"At first we just became friends with Jessica and Neo…" Tank said.
"…And then we meet Jack a few years after."
"But, why didn't you tell me about your friend Neo before?" Link asked.
"It never seemed that important before. Neo was just a regular friend to us," Tank replied.
"Now, if you don't mind us asking, what's with all the questions about Neo?" Jay asked.
"Well…" Link said.
--
"…18 years ago, there was a man who stopped five sentinels with his bare hand, and then he fell into a coma, just like your friend, " Morpheus answered. "His name was Neo."
"Neo? You mean the One?" Jack asked as Morpheus nodded. "Wow, this has got to be one big coincidence then."
"No," Morpheus disagreed. "When I first saw your friend, I didn't not see coincidence, I saw providence, I saw purpose."
"So are you saying Neo supposed be the son of the One just because of this thing that has just happened?"
"Could be," Kid responded.
"No, he can't be."
"Why not?" Morpheus asked.
"'Cause he told me, he's always saying that his father couldn't be the One!"
There was a slight pause before somebody again.
"He told me that his parents are still alive when I saw him at your orphanage," Kid said. "How does he know this?"
"Yes that's true, Neo does believes this for some reason, but I don't know why," Jack answered.
Morpheus sat there and thought about what Jack just said.
"Would anybody else know?" he finally asked.
"Um…my sister Jessica might know, Neo sometimes tells her about thing like that."
--
"Neo always tells me that he just knows his real parents are alive," Jess started to explain to Yoko.
"How? I mean, I thought he was an orphan like you," Yoko responded.
"He is, but what a lot of people don't know about Neo is…"
"Is what?"
"When Neo was only 3-4 years old, he went missing."
"Missing? How?"
"It was like he disappeared or something, 'cause nobody could find him. He was token from the orphanage other night, and then just reappeared a few months later."
"Wow, does anyone know who done it?"
"No, nobody cared to do anything once Neo returned."
"So do those people believe his parents done it then?"
"Nobody knows, Neo just says he remembers his parents after it happened."
--
Morpheus and Kid continued asking Jack questions, when suddenly Roland entered the room.
"Sorry to interrupt, but there's a call for you," he said to Morpheus.
"Okay," Morpheus replied as he turns to Kid. "Stay here with him."
"Yes sir," Kid responded.
--
Morpheus walked up on to the main deck, and grabbed the headset for the phone of AK and put it on.
"Hello," Morpheus said in to it.
"I bring news from the Oracle," Seraph said at the other end of the phone. "You must come at once."
--
Meanwhile in somewhere else…
Neo opened his eyes, sat up off the floor and looked at his surroundings. He was sitting in some kind of underground train station that had the words 'MOBIL AVE' on the wall.
Neo got to his feet, walked over to a near by bench and sat on it.
'Where the hell am I?' Neo thought to himself before he took a deep breath. 'Okay, I've just got to calm down, if I was some how able to get in here, I can get my self back out as well.'
Neo looked down at the ground and closed his eyes.
Suddenly a vision flashes inside his mind.
= The vision =
He was flying through the city at a very high speed until he suddenly stopped at a building.
Just in time to see something or someone crash into a car below.
= End of vision =
Neo suddenly opened his eyes in shock of what he just saw.
"What the hell was that?" He said just before he heard sounds from one end of the tunnel.
Neo stood up as a train arrived at the platform. The doors opened, and the trainman stepped out.
"Who are you?" Neo asked.
"They call me the trainman," he answered.
"Where is this place?"
"This place is a construct stuck between the Matrix, the machine mainframe and the real world. Now, you're coming with me to see my boss."
"Your boss?"
"The Merovingian, he's a very dangerous program, and so am I if you don't do what I say!"
"No, I would rather stay here than go with you!"
"Oh really, but guess what, down here I make the rules. And we can either do this the hard way, where I use force to get you on this train. Or the easy way, where you come on this train on your own free will. But then where's the fun I that?"
Neo just stood still, totally unafraid and looks at the trainman straight in the eye.
"My answer is still the same, I'm not moving!"
"Fine then,"
Suddenly the trainman ran up to Neo and before Neo could do anything, the trainman punched him in the face.
Neo went flying back into the wall behind him and then fell to the ground with some of the broken tiles fell on top of him.
Next thing Neo knew was being dragged onto the train.
Neo opened his eyes to find himself lying on the train floor with the trainman in the drivers seat at the front of the train while pointing his gun directly at him.
"Well, back to the Matrix we go then," the trainman said as the train started to leave the platform.
'Oh no, not again!' Neo thought just before he started to have a pain in his head and blanked out, again.
To be continued…
Author's notes: Hi there, I hoped you enjoyed the chapter. If you have any questions about the story so far, just say in your review and I'll either say in the next chapter, or I'll e-mail it to you (if you leave me your e-mail address) and I'll be more than happy to answer them for you (depending what the question is).
Please review.