Not to shabby Smith thought to himself walking through the Matrix,
its programs loading before him. The shops, the streets, the roads, the
buildings, all false, all made to fool its human inhabitants. And to think
he controlled it all. The Matrix was his. He controlled the agents, the
architect, the oracle. The humans could no longer use it to free their
fellow humans plugged in, Smith would make sure of that.
He also smiled of the fear he had created. He had seen the group of humans run to be free from a simple computer program. It had given him joy, to see them frightened. But there was that last human, who had given the order to run. The wave was spreading, and assimilating, yet when one of his comrades fell, he went over to her, without fear. Smith had to admire him, but the human reminded him much too much of his counterpart...Neo.... And this human also fought the agent without fear. But once Smith made the Matrix into what he saw fit, that human as well as all humans wouldn't even dare speak the name of the Matrix.
Then again, I have no idea what happened to Mr. Anderson.... Maybe the Merovingian will know. No mistakes. Smith continued to walk, a slight bit of concern in his mind.
* * *
It was still night aboard the Neb II. Tetsujin was walking around the magnificent ship. He walked down the metal stairs to the loading area. He saw his friend Ratz sitting down at the operator's station. If race had still been a factor in the current world, Ratz would have been Asian. He had an all red eye, which came from a problem in unhooking him from the matrix; the eye resembled the eye of a Rat, which is why he was called Ratz.
"Tetsujin, you should be asleep, you need to 'reboot' your mind." Ratz laughed.
"Were you referring to the matrix being rebooted, or do you always think of things in a computer fame of mind?" Tetsujin asked pissed off.
"Look man, I know your feelin like shit 'cuz boss cut your idea, but you gotta get over it man. If it makes you feel any better, we can go into loading, training, and simulation programs now. The Matrix ain't quite loaded yet though." Tetsujin looked at the screen, the code was moving slowly, changes coming in every second.
"Speaking of sleep Ratz, why are you up?" Tetsujin inquired, wanting to change the subject.
"Restless, tired, anxious. I wanna find out exactly why the Matrix is back up, and what we're gonna do to stop it." Ratz replied.
Tetsujin's move of avoiding the subject failed. Inevitable I suppose. It's not something people are going to take lightly. He thought to himself.
"Realize my friend that this will take a long time to resolve. It's not going to be something we're going to resolve over night." Tetsujin said explaining something that he himself had just figured out.
Ratz looked away, an aggravated face on display. He knew Tetsujin was right, but he didn't want to believe it. Ratz's eye was twitching, a sign he was in a deep state of thinking. Tetsujin had always wondered, as everyone had, how Ratz's eye became like that.
As if reading his mind, Ratz answered Tetsujin's question to himself.
"Have you ever wondered why my eye is like it is?" Tetsujin nodded. "Well as far as you and everyone else knows, locating and unhooking me was difficult, they could almost not complete the trace to find me, I was in almost completely in arrest, but they found me, and I was unhooked. I was in the process of becoming the machines' battery forever, no matter what. But I was unhooked, while the process was occurring. I woke up and saw nothing but red, my body had an extremely hard time releasing itself from the plugs. And there was a process by which they would seal my eyes to completely preventing if I ever did manage to get out, I would be useless, and would be seeing the matrix in front of my eyes, but my surroundings would be completely different. They did it eye by eye, one eye was finished, and then I was found, and released. The cords ripped themselves off me, the back of my head, the main plug, almost took my brain with it when it was taken out, and my eyes were blinded. If no one has ever told you, it was extremely hard to rebuild me. Especially my optics... we almost never have to work on that, but in my case they did, they had to find spare parts, to make me function adequately. But they could never have rebuilt my eye. So I can see fine out of it, but I see things almost as a machine would. I see readings, and the matrix is more code than anything to me. And it is all in red. So... if you were ever wondering, that's my story."
Tetsujin was speechless.
"And if your wondering, I saw you looking at my eye, as everyone does, even if they've known me as long as you have. And I knew the question you were asking yourself. So I answered my friend. Maybe that's why I want to go into the matrix... not to save the human beings connected to it, but to settle the score with the machines that did this to me." Tetsujin had no words. "Well Tetsujin, I'm tired, see ya tomorrow, hopefully we can do what you want us to do then."
Ratz got up off the chair, and went to his quarters. Tetsujin just stared at the Matrix and realized, if you had been connected to the matrix, at any time, in some way, bug or small, it was an abuser, and you were its victim. Tetsujin looked at the operator's chair, and sat down, staring at the Matrix, hating whoever it was that rebooted it. And knew if he ever found out who and why they rebooted the Matrix... Tetsujin would kill them without hesitation....
* * *
Seraph opened his eyes; he was sitting in a teahouse, his teahouse. He looked around at his surroundings, the tables and the cups, and the bamboo that was in the room. Seraph knew something was out of order. Why am I here? I thought once I finished protecting the oracle or once the matrix would shut down, I would go back to the source. And I believe one of those two things has occurred. Well if the matrix had been shut down, I would never come back here, for this is inside the matrix, or if I have finished protecting her, then I would be at the source and would have no reason to come back here. I remember the first time I was here like this suddenly was when the matrix was first up. But it was never shut down, just restarted. And if I have no memory, then the matrix must have been shut down... and rebooted.
Seraph realized what has happened, he looked outside and saw the incomplete parts of the matrix loading. He remembered what happened now. The One had disposed of Smith, so humans were released, and the matrix was shut down. So it must have been rebooted... but by whom?
The handle of the door was turning, Seraph snapped his head towards the movement, he did not remember this ever happening before.
The door opened, and Seraph fell, he looked at his chest, a hand was inside it. Seraph looked up, and saw Smith. He was terrified. He felt like he had never had before, he felt emotion.
"Seraph my friend, you should have realized sooner what has happened. But its to late now, in a matter of moments, you will be under my control. And there's nothing you can do. I will not make the same mistakes as last time." Smith said feeling very pleased.
"There is one... who c-can... defeat ...y-y-you his n-name is..." Seraph could not finish.
Smith needed this information. "WHO?!? ANSWER ME NOW! ANSWER!!!" Smith screamed at Seraph interrogating him fiercely.
"...T-T-......Tets-........" Seraph became under Smith's control, and did not finish. "I do not remember." Seraph replied.
Smith bared his teeth, and growled. "Well in that case, I'll consult the Merovingian. Thank you for your partial help. Now sit down, drink your tea, and if anyone comes looking for you, me or anyone I control... Kill them." Smith gave his orders.
Seraph nodded in agreement. Yes Smith, I will play your game, ignorance and cockiness will be your downfall....
Smith walked out, closed the door behind him, and went off to find the Merovingian.
He also smiled of the fear he had created. He had seen the group of humans run to be free from a simple computer program. It had given him joy, to see them frightened. But there was that last human, who had given the order to run. The wave was spreading, and assimilating, yet when one of his comrades fell, he went over to her, without fear. Smith had to admire him, but the human reminded him much too much of his counterpart...Neo.... And this human also fought the agent without fear. But once Smith made the Matrix into what he saw fit, that human as well as all humans wouldn't even dare speak the name of the Matrix.
Then again, I have no idea what happened to Mr. Anderson.... Maybe the Merovingian will know. No mistakes. Smith continued to walk, a slight bit of concern in his mind.
* * *
It was still night aboard the Neb II. Tetsujin was walking around the magnificent ship. He walked down the metal stairs to the loading area. He saw his friend Ratz sitting down at the operator's station. If race had still been a factor in the current world, Ratz would have been Asian. He had an all red eye, which came from a problem in unhooking him from the matrix; the eye resembled the eye of a Rat, which is why he was called Ratz.
"Tetsujin, you should be asleep, you need to 'reboot' your mind." Ratz laughed.
"Were you referring to the matrix being rebooted, or do you always think of things in a computer fame of mind?" Tetsujin asked pissed off.
"Look man, I know your feelin like shit 'cuz boss cut your idea, but you gotta get over it man. If it makes you feel any better, we can go into loading, training, and simulation programs now. The Matrix ain't quite loaded yet though." Tetsujin looked at the screen, the code was moving slowly, changes coming in every second.
"Speaking of sleep Ratz, why are you up?" Tetsujin inquired, wanting to change the subject.
"Restless, tired, anxious. I wanna find out exactly why the Matrix is back up, and what we're gonna do to stop it." Ratz replied.
Tetsujin's move of avoiding the subject failed. Inevitable I suppose. It's not something people are going to take lightly. He thought to himself.
"Realize my friend that this will take a long time to resolve. It's not going to be something we're going to resolve over night." Tetsujin said explaining something that he himself had just figured out.
Ratz looked away, an aggravated face on display. He knew Tetsujin was right, but he didn't want to believe it. Ratz's eye was twitching, a sign he was in a deep state of thinking. Tetsujin had always wondered, as everyone had, how Ratz's eye became like that.
As if reading his mind, Ratz answered Tetsujin's question to himself.
"Have you ever wondered why my eye is like it is?" Tetsujin nodded. "Well as far as you and everyone else knows, locating and unhooking me was difficult, they could almost not complete the trace to find me, I was in almost completely in arrest, but they found me, and I was unhooked. I was in the process of becoming the machines' battery forever, no matter what. But I was unhooked, while the process was occurring. I woke up and saw nothing but red, my body had an extremely hard time releasing itself from the plugs. And there was a process by which they would seal my eyes to completely preventing if I ever did manage to get out, I would be useless, and would be seeing the matrix in front of my eyes, but my surroundings would be completely different. They did it eye by eye, one eye was finished, and then I was found, and released. The cords ripped themselves off me, the back of my head, the main plug, almost took my brain with it when it was taken out, and my eyes were blinded. If no one has ever told you, it was extremely hard to rebuild me. Especially my optics... we almost never have to work on that, but in my case they did, they had to find spare parts, to make me function adequately. But they could never have rebuilt my eye. So I can see fine out of it, but I see things almost as a machine would. I see readings, and the matrix is more code than anything to me. And it is all in red. So... if you were ever wondering, that's my story."
Tetsujin was speechless.
"And if your wondering, I saw you looking at my eye, as everyone does, even if they've known me as long as you have. And I knew the question you were asking yourself. So I answered my friend. Maybe that's why I want to go into the matrix... not to save the human beings connected to it, but to settle the score with the machines that did this to me." Tetsujin had no words. "Well Tetsujin, I'm tired, see ya tomorrow, hopefully we can do what you want us to do then."
Ratz got up off the chair, and went to his quarters. Tetsujin just stared at the Matrix and realized, if you had been connected to the matrix, at any time, in some way, bug or small, it was an abuser, and you were its victim. Tetsujin looked at the operator's chair, and sat down, staring at the Matrix, hating whoever it was that rebooted it. And knew if he ever found out who and why they rebooted the Matrix... Tetsujin would kill them without hesitation....
* * *
Seraph opened his eyes; he was sitting in a teahouse, his teahouse. He looked around at his surroundings, the tables and the cups, and the bamboo that was in the room. Seraph knew something was out of order. Why am I here? I thought once I finished protecting the oracle or once the matrix would shut down, I would go back to the source. And I believe one of those two things has occurred. Well if the matrix had been shut down, I would never come back here, for this is inside the matrix, or if I have finished protecting her, then I would be at the source and would have no reason to come back here. I remember the first time I was here like this suddenly was when the matrix was first up. But it was never shut down, just restarted. And if I have no memory, then the matrix must have been shut down... and rebooted.
Seraph realized what has happened, he looked outside and saw the incomplete parts of the matrix loading. He remembered what happened now. The One had disposed of Smith, so humans were released, and the matrix was shut down. So it must have been rebooted... but by whom?
The handle of the door was turning, Seraph snapped his head towards the movement, he did not remember this ever happening before.
The door opened, and Seraph fell, he looked at his chest, a hand was inside it. Seraph looked up, and saw Smith. He was terrified. He felt like he had never had before, he felt emotion.
"Seraph my friend, you should have realized sooner what has happened. But its to late now, in a matter of moments, you will be under my control. And there's nothing you can do. I will not make the same mistakes as last time." Smith said feeling very pleased.
"There is one... who c-can... defeat ...y-y-you his n-name is..." Seraph could not finish.
Smith needed this information. "WHO?!? ANSWER ME NOW! ANSWER!!!" Smith screamed at Seraph interrogating him fiercely.
"...T-T-......Tets-........" Seraph became under Smith's control, and did not finish. "I do not remember." Seraph replied.
Smith bared his teeth, and growled. "Well in that case, I'll consult the Merovingian. Thank you for your partial help. Now sit down, drink your tea, and if anyone comes looking for you, me or anyone I control... Kill them." Smith gave his orders.
Seraph nodded in agreement. Yes Smith, I will play your game, ignorance and cockiness will be your downfall....
Smith walked out, closed the door behind him, and went off to find the Merovingian.