The late morning.
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After Trevor had spoken with the rest of the team, he went to the chemistry lab to look for Bio.
"Bio, hey Bio!" Bio was sitting at his desk looking through a tiny microscope at even tinier specks. He didn't even budge to look at Trevor.
"Bio, we need your help. I'll just get straight to the point.....listen, our friend has been taken hostage by Smith, and we really need the Virus Control serum. Please, this is for a person's life.Hello? Bio!?" Trevor glared at Bio whom didn't even seem to acknowledge his presence. "Hey! Bio! Look man, this is serious!" He grabbed Bio's shoulder and spun him around to face him. Bio looked completely surprised to see Trevor. "Trevor! What are you doing here? You know that the lab is closed for the morning." Trevor looked up at the clock. "It's 11:05! C'mon! This is a person's life we are dealing with here," Bio put his hands up, "I know, I know, I heard you the first time," He turned back to the microscope. "This is the Virus Control serum, this of course is just a megabyte of how much you should really use in a dangerous situation, but, just look at the result!"
Trevor looked inside of the microscope to see bazillion tiny blue specks, be covered with a silver white looking substance. "What is going on?" Bio stood up and explained, "The blue specks are chemicals that are related to the matrix. The chemicals found here can ironically be created in our own computers to generate a small portion of..well anything! The white silk, which is the name we dubbed it, is the Virus Control serum. If you look closely, you will see a chemical unbalance in the two, and soon the blue will turn to red and disintegrate,"
Sure enough, Trevor watched as the small white silk devoured and destroyed the blue coding cells. Trevor didn't look up as he watched the magic serum work, but he asked, "How long does this usually take to work? And, I mean on an agent. I know you tried it once too." Bio chuckled and said proudly, "Ah, yes, we took down that agent with only two serums! It was an amazingly fast process, but you must use both in order to destroy the entire being. Otherwise you would just have damaged code floating around."
"But, wouldn't that just eventually kill off the agent?"
"Well, yes, but it could take oh, I don't know, maybe hours, or even days. This way, with two serums, it works in a matter of minutes, or even seconds. It all really depends on how much you give the agent. Like, for example, the agent we tested it on, we had only 5mg in the injection. And, we used two, too. So it was really 10mg to begin with, but handling this is extremely dangerous."
Trevor was still fascinated in the tiny specks of red now, only maybe, 70 of the small original code were left. "Why is it so dangerous? You're killing an agent, I'd figure that as a positive," Bio's tone became suddenly very serious, "Because, if anything, or anyone gets hit with this stuff, Trevor, it could kill them."
Trevor looked up from his trance of looking at all the white silk, now covering every single blue dot. They had begun to disintegrate and most already had. He stood straight up and looked at Bio in the eye. "You're telling me you guys invented a serum that kills agents and people?" Bio straightened himself up, and said nervously, "Well, yes, it's the only way, we haven't found a special type of coding (or at least have any) from any agents. Not any specific ones at least. So, we just made a serum that destroys code, and it works Trevor! It works! We might be able to win this war if all the agents in the matrix have been deleted!" Trevor came closer to Bio, "But you're forgetting one thing, Agents' have the power to 'body hop' so, after you 'destroy them' they are actually in another body."
"Actually, that's not a problem we have to worry about! You see the first vial of this serum was created inside the matrix. And, the guy who made it used it on an agent that he had been running from. He turned as the agent was about pull out its gun, and fired a dart filled with the serum at the agent. The agent was too close and was hit with it. The vial had exactly 11mg in it. Even though the agent pulled out the dart in only 2 seconds later, it killed him in 25 seconds. His code was completely deleted. The guy who shot him, saw only a minute later a young lady who had been standing there for about 30 seconds see the whole ordeal. She ran away, and he followed. But, he never saw her turn into that agent, or any agent for that matter. The agent's code had been completely destroyed. It was erased from any files that might have kept it. An easier way of putting it is that we basically give the agents' a taste of their own medicine. Like Smith, it works almost identically to Smith's power of cloning. But, instead of just replacing code with a new one, it destroys any traces of it at all in that being. But, unfortunately, getting back to your friend, I am not licensed to even be giving you this information. It's just way to risky and not to mention illegal!"
Trevor put both his hands on both of Bio's shoulders. "Listen," he began, "I know now what this serum can do. It can save lives. Thousands of lives, because right now inside that very matrix a monster is killing, no to light of a word, murdering hundreds of people each hour, each minute! And, our friend Kat is inside there with him. As a prisoner. My team and I were assigned to meet Smith tomorrow evening near the alley where Kat was caught. Commander Carter thinks it unwise to do things Smith's way, so....." He looked at the microscope across from him. "We are going to do it our way, with that serum. If we destroy Smith, we could eliminate our biggest problem right now......Bio, this is a direct order from the head Commander, hand picked by the council. Will you be the first to disobey him? Kat is his daughter."
Bio shuddered under the thought what would happen if he were responsible for the Commander's only child's blood on his head. He looked over at the microscope, and back at Trevor. "We only have until tomorrow evening Bio, can you make us 2 vials then? And, don't' bother to alert your superior.......he has already known from the Commander himself. He didn't want to tell you because; he didn't want word to get around. This meeting seems much less conspicuous, wouldn't you agree?"
Bio, looked back at Trevor, and nodded heavily. "But be careful Trevor! And, please be if anything, on target when you shoot it out of this," Bio handed Trevor a dart gun. It had two empty vials in it. "I can extract an exact amount later," he looked up at Trevor, and said, "I hope you have good luck getting Kat back, I talked to her once in a while, she was nice to me. But, now leave, it's almost time for the lab to open, and I don't want anyone to see us together now, around such a product,"
Trevor nodded and left, Bio shouted after him, "Come back tomorrow at exactly 6:00 before you leave! The serum will be done and steady by then.."
Trevor gave some thought about this whole thing. Maybe it would work with Smith........it had to! If he could destroy the infamous Agent Smith, he could become a hero! Not only that, but he could even maybe get Kat back! But, soon Trevor's face turned from victorious, to stern in no time at all when he thought of what Kat would do if he shot Smith right in front of her. She would probably never forgive him.
She loved Smith. He knew that......he'd seen that. It had to end. It didn't matter who had to suffer now, it was past the point of no return for him. For both of them, for them all. It was too late. It was she though. Kat.......her. It was all her fault. If she hadn't been so curious in the first place about 'infamous Smith' and caught up in the fact that he was just some trapped code that couldn't get out; maybe this would never had happened. If Kat stopped thinking that Smith was more human than machine, it would never have happened. It was almost sad that Kat had fallen into the whole wolf under sheepskins trick. If she had just started thinking like a human being and seen the truth under the wool, this would never have happened. Trevor looked at the clock.......it was already 11:32.
"Smith," Kat said as she relaxed in the grass, "Come over here," Smith stepped slowly onto the grass and sat down next to Kat. He didn't speak. "Smith, I really want you to see how beautiful life truly is. And, I succeeded.....a bit. But, there is still one major problem." He looked down at her with his dark shades on. "What problem?" She sat up and looked at him, and then she looked over at the cities and park they were currently in. "What do you see?"
Smith gazed around at the sights of trees and silver buildings all around him. He looked back at her, to see her staring into nothing. "I see nothing out of the ordinary," Kat closed her eyes, and whispered, "What do you hear." It wasn't really a question, more of a statement in the way she had said it. More in a way of ........giving up. Smith looked out again and closed his eyes to concentrate on something.....anything. He opened his eyes and said nothing. Kat sighed and answered for him, "Nothing."
He looked into her deep blue eyes and tried to find what she meant. She sighed deeply and he noticed tears in her eyes. Then she spoke almost inaudibly, "Where are all the people, Smith," she turned toward him, "Where is everyone? Where is the noise of the children playing? Where are the bird's songs? Where are the people? Smith............what have you done?"
She stood up and walked away from him. He stayed on the ground and closed his eyes again. He tried to search for the sounds she was explaining to him. But he heard none. "You have to stop this." He turned to look at Kat. She was devoid of any emotion. "You have to stop killing people. Stop hurting me. Stop destroying beauty," He got up and stared at her. "That's what my purpose is." She stared blankly at him. "What purpose? Smith, you don't have a purpose anymore." He felt a sudden shock through him. Was it another emotion? Most likely the one called, shock, surprise, or even pain. What was she saying? Why was she saying this?
"You don't have that purpose anymore, you're 'purpose' is to love me, and, everyone alike. But, that's not what you're doing. You're doing the opposite and murdering countless lives Smith." She walked towards him a bit, "Stop this, or I will never love you. I could never.....I want to love you Smith," she said with some difficulty, "But, how can I love you if you just keep telling yourself that this is your actual purpose? How can I love you if you just can't see the beauty in anything? How can I love you if......," she turned her head down, she couldn't finish.
Smith walked up to her, and held up her chin. "I see beauty," Kat's face curled into shock and confusion, "I see her standing right in front of me." She smiled and kissed him. It was long and involved and again he loved it. After they had broken it, Kat turned away and he held her in his arms. "I am sorry Smith, but I just need more then that, I need to believe you. If you wish to keep your beauty, then you must make some sacrifices." He tightened his grip on her waist and sighed. He had to stop.
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"Smith!" Kat cried as she held out her arms to him. She saw him fall to the ground and roar in pain and anger. She turned to see who had betrayed her. Who lied? "Who lied!?" she screamed. A group of people whose faces she could not see stepped out and began to chant. "Traitor, traitor, traitor, traitor," Kat backed away from them. "NO! I'm not! I didn't mean to!" She looked at Smith who had stopped moving, and was being consumed in what looked to be like a white sheet of liquid. "I never knew! I am so sorry! I betrayed you! It's my fault!" The sky turned black with her despair and she let out a humanly wail. "Sacrifice,"
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"NOOO!" Kat shot out of Smith's arms and into the grass. Smith was caught unaware and was left lying on the ground alone and bewildered. "Kat?" Kat was panting and screamed. Smith ran to her and grabbed her roughly, he didn't mean to, but she was acting crazy now. "Kat! KAT!" He shook her as gently as he possibly could manage. She choked down her tears, and stared directly up at him. She began to speak frightened, "Wh......who? What, how, what time is it? What happened?" Smith tilted his head to the side, and said, "Why don't you remember? We lay down on the grass when I told you that I would stop, and you fell asleep. Then you just shot out of my arms and here we are! What's wrong with you!?"
She shivered under his cold tone, but answered slowly, "I had a bad, bad nightmare Smith, but this time, I remembered it." She looked down, "I remember it all," "Remember what?" Kat stared up at him, but seemed to have no life in her eyes at all. "Your wretched cry,"
********Thank you for reading, more chapters soon to come, please be patient with me as I am still debating the ending of this piece, I hope you like it so far, and all reviews are welcome (except no put downs okay? I try!) Oh, and I do not know any figurative science names (mg), just ones I have heard or used in my biology class (last year) or TV. /movies. (Credit to phantom of the opera as well).
After Trevor had spoken with the rest of the team, he went to the chemistry lab to look for Bio.
"Bio, hey Bio!" Bio was sitting at his desk looking through a tiny microscope at even tinier specks. He didn't even budge to look at Trevor.
"Bio, we need your help. I'll just get straight to the point.....listen, our friend has been taken hostage by Smith, and we really need the Virus Control serum. Please, this is for a person's life.Hello? Bio!?" Trevor glared at Bio whom didn't even seem to acknowledge his presence. "Hey! Bio! Look man, this is serious!" He grabbed Bio's shoulder and spun him around to face him. Bio looked completely surprised to see Trevor. "Trevor! What are you doing here? You know that the lab is closed for the morning." Trevor looked up at the clock. "It's 11:05! C'mon! This is a person's life we are dealing with here," Bio put his hands up, "I know, I know, I heard you the first time," He turned back to the microscope. "This is the Virus Control serum, this of course is just a megabyte of how much you should really use in a dangerous situation, but, just look at the result!"
Trevor looked inside of the microscope to see bazillion tiny blue specks, be covered with a silver white looking substance. "What is going on?" Bio stood up and explained, "The blue specks are chemicals that are related to the matrix. The chemicals found here can ironically be created in our own computers to generate a small portion of..well anything! The white silk, which is the name we dubbed it, is the Virus Control serum. If you look closely, you will see a chemical unbalance in the two, and soon the blue will turn to red and disintegrate,"
Sure enough, Trevor watched as the small white silk devoured and destroyed the blue coding cells. Trevor didn't look up as he watched the magic serum work, but he asked, "How long does this usually take to work? And, I mean on an agent. I know you tried it once too." Bio chuckled and said proudly, "Ah, yes, we took down that agent with only two serums! It was an amazingly fast process, but you must use both in order to destroy the entire being. Otherwise you would just have damaged code floating around."
"But, wouldn't that just eventually kill off the agent?"
"Well, yes, but it could take oh, I don't know, maybe hours, or even days. This way, with two serums, it works in a matter of minutes, or even seconds. It all really depends on how much you give the agent. Like, for example, the agent we tested it on, we had only 5mg in the injection. And, we used two, too. So it was really 10mg to begin with, but handling this is extremely dangerous."
Trevor was still fascinated in the tiny specks of red now, only maybe, 70 of the small original code were left. "Why is it so dangerous? You're killing an agent, I'd figure that as a positive," Bio's tone became suddenly very serious, "Because, if anything, or anyone gets hit with this stuff, Trevor, it could kill them."
Trevor looked up from his trance of looking at all the white silk, now covering every single blue dot. They had begun to disintegrate and most already had. He stood straight up and looked at Bio in the eye. "You're telling me you guys invented a serum that kills agents and people?" Bio straightened himself up, and said nervously, "Well, yes, it's the only way, we haven't found a special type of coding (or at least have any) from any agents. Not any specific ones at least. So, we just made a serum that destroys code, and it works Trevor! It works! We might be able to win this war if all the agents in the matrix have been deleted!" Trevor came closer to Bio, "But you're forgetting one thing, Agents' have the power to 'body hop' so, after you 'destroy them' they are actually in another body."
"Actually, that's not a problem we have to worry about! You see the first vial of this serum was created inside the matrix. And, the guy who made it used it on an agent that he had been running from. He turned as the agent was about pull out its gun, and fired a dart filled with the serum at the agent. The agent was too close and was hit with it. The vial had exactly 11mg in it. Even though the agent pulled out the dart in only 2 seconds later, it killed him in 25 seconds. His code was completely deleted. The guy who shot him, saw only a minute later a young lady who had been standing there for about 30 seconds see the whole ordeal. She ran away, and he followed. But, he never saw her turn into that agent, or any agent for that matter. The agent's code had been completely destroyed. It was erased from any files that might have kept it. An easier way of putting it is that we basically give the agents' a taste of their own medicine. Like Smith, it works almost identically to Smith's power of cloning. But, instead of just replacing code with a new one, it destroys any traces of it at all in that being. But, unfortunately, getting back to your friend, I am not licensed to even be giving you this information. It's just way to risky and not to mention illegal!"
Trevor put both his hands on both of Bio's shoulders. "Listen," he began, "I know now what this serum can do. It can save lives. Thousands of lives, because right now inside that very matrix a monster is killing, no to light of a word, murdering hundreds of people each hour, each minute! And, our friend Kat is inside there with him. As a prisoner. My team and I were assigned to meet Smith tomorrow evening near the alley where Kat was caught. Commander Carter thinks it unwise to do things Smith's way, so....." He looked at the microscope across from him. "We are going to do it our way, with that serum. If we destroy Smith, we could eliminate our biggest problem right now......Bio, this is a direct order from the head Commander, hand picked by the council. Will you be the first to disobey him? Kat is his daughter."
Bio shuddered under the thought what would happen if he were responsible for the Commander's only child's blood on his head. He looked over at the microscope, and back at Trevor. "We only have until tomorrow evening Bio, can you make us 2 vials then? And, don't' bother to alert your superior.......he has already known from the Commander himself. He didn't want to tell you because; he didn't want word to get around. This meeting seems much less conspicuous, wouldn't you agree?"
Bio, looked back at Trevor, and nodded heavily. "But be careful Trevor! And, please be if anything, on target when you shoot it out of this," Bio handed Trevor a dart gun. It had two empty vials in it. "I can extract an exact amount later," he looked up at Trevor, and said, "I hope you have good luck getting Kat back, I talked to her once in a while, she was nice to me. But, now leave, it's almost time for the lab to open, and I don't want anyone to see us together now, around such a product,"
Trevor nodded and left, Bio shouted after him, "Come back tomorrow at exactly 6:00 before you leave! The serum will be done and steady by then.."
Trevor gave some thought about this whole thing. Maybe it would work with Smith........it had to! If he could destroy the infamous Agent Smith, he could become a hero! Not only that, but he could even maybe get Kat back! But, soon Trevor's face turned from victorious, to stern in no time at all when he thought of what Kat would do if he shot Smith right in front of her. She would probably never forgive him.
She loved Smith. He knew that......he'd seen that. It had to end. It didn't matter who had to suffer now, it was past the point of no return for him. For both of them, for them all. It was too late. It was she though. Kat.......her. It was all her fault. If she hadn't been so curious in the first place about 'infamous Smith' and caught up in the fact that he was just some trapped code that couldn't get out; maybe this would never had happened. If Kat stopped thinking that Smith was more human than machine, it would never have happened. It was almost sad that Kat had fallen into the whole wolf under sheepskins trick. If she had just started thinking like a human being and seen the truth under the wool, this would never have happened. Trevor looked at the clock.......it was already 11:32.
"Smith," Kat said as she relaxed in the grass, "Come over here," Smith stepped slowly onto the grass and sat down next to Kat. He didn't speak. "Smith, I really want you to see how beautiful life truly is. And, I succeeded.....a bit. But, there is still one major problem." He looked down at her with his dark shades on. "What problem?" She sat up and looked at him, and then she looked over at the cities and park they were currently in. "What do you see?"
Smith gazed around at the sights of trees and silver buildings all around him. He looked back at her, to see her staring into nothing. "I see nothing out of the ordinary," Kat closed her eyes, and whispered, "What do you hear." It wasn't really a question, more of a statement in the way she had said it. More in a way of ........giving up. Smith looked out again and closed his eyes to concentrate on something.....anything. He opened his eyes and said nothing. Kat sighed and answered for him, "Nothing."
He looked into her deep blue eyes and tried to find what she meant. She sighed deeply and he noticed tears in her eyes. Then she spoke almost inaudibly, "Where are all the people, Smith," she turned toward him, "Where is everyone? Where is the noise of the children playing? Where are the bird's songs? Where are the people? Smith............what have you done?"
She stood up and walked away from him. He stayed on the ground and closed his eyes again. He tried to search for the sounds she was explaining to him. But he heard none. "You have to stop this." He turned to look at Kat. She was devoid of any emotion. "You have to stop killing people. Stop hurting me. Stop destroying beauty," He got up and stared at her. "That's what my purpose is." She stared blankly at him. "What purpose? Smith, you don't have a purpose anymore." He felt a sudden shock through him. Was it another emotion? Most likely the one called, shock, surprise, or even pain. What was she saying? Why was she saying this?
"You don't have that purpose anymore, you're 'purpose' is to love me, and, everyone alike. But, that's not what you're doing. You're doing the opposite and murdering countless lives Smith." She walked towards him a bit, "Stop this, or I will never love you. I could never.....I want to love you Smith," she said with some difficulty, "But, how can I love you if you just keep telling yourself that this is your actual purpose? How can I love you if you just can't see the beauty in anything? How can I love you if......," she turned her head down, she couldn't finish.
Smith walked up to her, and held up her chin. "I see beauty," Kat's face curled into shock and confusion, "I see her standing right in front of me." She smiled and kissed him. It was long and involved and again he loved it. After they had broken it, Kat turned away and he held her in his arms. "I am sorry Smith, but I just need more then that, I need to believe you. If you wish to keep your beauty, then you must make some sacrifices." He tightened his grip on her waist and sighed. He had to stop.
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"Smith!" Kat cried as she held out her arms to him. She saw him fall to the ground and roar in pain and anger. She turned to see who had betrayed her. Who lied? "Who lied!?" she screamed. A group of people whose faces she could not see stepped out and began to chant. "Traitor, traitor, traitor, traitor," Kat backed away from them. "NO! I'm not! I didn't mean to!" She looked at Smith who had stopped moving, and was being consumed in what looked to be like a white sheet of liquid. "I never knew! I am so sorry! I betrayed you! It's my fault!" The sky turned black with her despair and she let out a humanly wail. "Sacrifice,"
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"NOOO!" Kat shot out of Smith's arms and into the grass. Smith was caught unaware and was left lying on the ground alone and bewildered. "Kat?" Kat was panting and screamed. Smith ran to her and grabbed her roughly, he didn't mean to, but she was acting crazy now. "Kat! KAT!" He shook her as gently as he possibly could manage. She choked down her tears, and stared directly up at him. She began to speak frightened, "Wh......who? What, how, what time is it? What happened?" Smith tilted his head to the side, and said, "Why don't you remember? We lay down on the grass when I told you that I would stop, and you fell asleep. Then you just shot out of my arms and here we are! What's wrong with you!?"
She shivered under his cold tone, but answered slowly, "I had a bad, bad nightmare Smith, but this time, I remembered it." She looked down, "I remember it all," "Remember what?" Kat stared up at him, but seemed to have no life in her eyes at all. "Your wretched cry,"
********Thank you for reading, more chapters soon to come, please be patient with me as I am still debating the ending of this piece, I hope you like it so far, and all reviews are welcome (except no put downs okay? I try!) Oh, and I do not know any figurative science names (mg), just ones I have heard or used in my biology class (last year) or TV. /movies. (Credit to phantom of the opera as well).