Neo stopped, horrified, and then slowly knelt beside Trinity. Her leather
suit was ripped and torn, bloodied scratches showing through. Her left eye
blackened, skin split. He gathered her into his arms, shocked by her
limpness, and gently stroked her dark hair, sticky with blood.
"Trinity."
He gazed into her face, completely floored by her wide open eyes. She was alive - he could feel her heart beating - but to see those familiar blue eyes with no recognition or life inside left him feeling physically ill.
What if he'd lost her?
He tried to muster his failing resolve. He'd found her, that was something, he had her with him physically. But how to rescue her mind?
The Oracle had said she'd been hacked - her mind program hacked. Neo wasn't sure how that would work. Surely they'd need some device in order to access the main program data - a remote device. Embedded in her skin somewhere. And, he reasoned further, Trinity wouldn't have waited around to have her mind invaded. She would have run.
He held her to him and gently ran his finger down her back, following the ridge of her spine. Her nervous system. Her control centre.
Nothing . . .
There! His fingers came to rest on a large red welt through a hole in the leather, And in the centre of the welt he felt a small, egg-shaped metal bullet, burrowed deep into her skin. He sensed instinctively that if he tried to forcibly remove it he would hurt Trinity terribly.
He surveyed the code of the device, red in a sea of green. Different to the surrounding Matrix, but still computerised. Neo was the One. He could do things other people couldn't.
He placed his hand on the device, reading its code carefully.
And entered Trinity's mind.
"Trinity."
He gazed into her face, completely floored by her wide open eyes. She was alive - he could feel her heart beating - but to see those familiar blue eyes with no recognition or life inside left him feeling physically ill.
What if he'd lost her?
He tried to muster his failing resolve. He'd found her, that was something, he had her with him physically. But how to rescue her mind?
The Oracle had said she'd been hacked - her mind program hacked. Neo wasn't sure how that would work. Surely they'd need some device in order to access the main program data - a remote device. Embedded in her skin somewhere. And, he reasoned further, Trinity wouldn't have waited around to have her mind invaded. She would have run.
He held her to him and gently ran his finger down her back, following the ridge of her spine. Her nervous system. Her control centre.
Nothing . . .
There! His fingers came to rest on a large red welt through a hole in the leather, And in the centre of the welt he felt a small, egg-shaped metal bullet, burrowed deep into her skin. He sensed instinctively that if he tried to forcibly remove it he would hurt Trinity terribly.
He surveyed the code of the device, red in a sea of green. Different to the surrounding Matrix, but still computerised. Neo was the One. He could do things other people couldn't.
He placed his hand on the device, reading its code carefully.
And entered Trinity's mind.