Author's Note: I've changed my mind... there will be another chapter after this and then I'll post the ending. By the way... this story has mothing to do with Marilyn Manson's 'Mechanical Animals' song- I haven't even heard it yet. But I have heard 'Rock is Dead' and it is the best song- I love it!!!

Disclaimer: One day, I may own thhe Matrix and all shall bow to me, but at the moment- the W.bros do (damn them!).

Mechanical Animal

'I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose,
Cuz inside I realize that I'm the one confused.

I don't know what's worth fighting for, or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate, and say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way, I know it's not alright
So I'm breaking the habit,
I'm breaking the habit, tonight.' Linkin Park- Breaking the habit

While lying in her trapped, tortured state-
Her mind is racing through a million thoughts.
Tearing through the membranes into the hollow depths of her psyche.

Her life is not her own.
It is owned by some wretched animal.
A mechanical animal.
An animal who had caught her,
Played with her,
And enslaved her.
He held her like a dog on a leash.
He controlled her;
Every movement,
Every breath.

Her stomach gurgles while a salty liquid fills her mouth.
Oh no!
Not again!
Fighting every pained nerve,
She sits up;
Yet crashes to the floor in disorientation.

The shock of the impact sends her stomach open;
A mix of stomach acid, blood and bile flood out and collapse over the
floor.
There she is...
Seething furiously in a sea of vomit and tears.

She has to get out-
She has to escape his crushing presence...