"Shit." Was all Kid could say. The crew stared at the screen,
speechless, afraid.
"I'm gonna kill him when he gets out." Sela said.
"Well its apparent what needs to be done." Ratz stated, "We need to jack in and get Tetsujin out." The crew stared at Ratz as if first noticing his red eye. "Who knows, he might be onto something in there, either way, it's better if we jack in and help him, with either what he's doing, or help him get out."
"No, the Matrix isn't done loading, it'll consider us a part of the system, going in is suicide. Tetsujin was a huge dumbass to go in, in the first place. He'll be the prisoner of his own demise." Zombie stated with feeling.
"Yeah, you could be right... then again, that speech could be your excuse to not go in." Ratz hit a chord there.
"Are you calling me a coward?" Zombie asked ready to pounce if the answer did not please him.
"Yeah." Zombie lunged for Ratz,
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT FUCKING PROGRAM DID TO ME? THOSE FUCKING MACHINES, TOOK AWAY MY FAMILY! I WON'T LET THEM TAKE ME!!!." Ratz threw Zombie off him.
"First off, it wasn't the machines that restarted the Matrix, Zion confirmed that, secondly, the program is to blame, if you have a score to settle go in and fight it. How the hell do you think I feel? That piece of shit program made me a social outcast, but I've dealt, but ya know, I'm gonna settle that score when I go in." Zombie got up, calmed down. "Are you with me?" Zombie hesitated at first, but nodded in agreement.
"You know, after that scuttle, I have the authority to deny you permission to jack in..." Ratz and Zombie nodded, like they were little kids being scolded. "But, we all deserve revenge, let's go start some shit."
The crew cried out in excitement. They were all pumped.
Load jacked everyone in. "Ready," they nodded, "set," they nodded, "...go." He pressed the button.
Tetsujin and Seraph were still running, they were in the sewage system now.
"It was foolish of you to enter the Matrix when you did." Seraph said as they ran.
"Why? Isn't the Matrix loaded up fully?" They jumped over a sewage dam.
"It might have seemed such, but no." Seraph turned right, Tetsujin followed.
"So am I part of this system?" He splashed a puddle.
"No there is still time for you to leave, but you need your crew to do that." They tumbled through a tight squeeze.
"Fuck." Tetsujin felt extremely stupid. There was a half block at an angle, Tetsujin ran up the side of the wall to avoid it, and flipped back to his regular position once through. Seraph did the same.
"What of Smith? How does he have so much power?" Tetsujin asked.
"Smith was the one who rebooted the Matrix, he can now control any program he chooses. But he is new to the control aspect; he hasn't learned all the "ropes" yet. He has to teach himself how to do so, also." Seraph dived through a hole in a wall, Tetsujin followed.
"Meaning if we act now, we can stop him before this becomes a bigger problem than it already is."
"Correct" Seraph replied.
"What happened to Neo?" Tetsujin felt it important to ask this question considering he was the only one to ever defeat Smith.
"I do not know, but there is one who might." They turned left.
"The Merovingian." Tetsujin did not need to think about that answer.
"Yes, so we must find him." Seraph laid out the plan.
"My first mission." Tetsujin stated. Seraph nodded.
They continued to run.
Zee was trying to make her way to control. She had to take the secret passages. Nothing was working. This upped the difficulty a bit.
Every new passageway, every new strategy, every new obstacle, all made Zee want to push on, and give up at the same time. She had to find the fate of her children, and her husband.
Zee climbed up a ladder, it was a long way down if she fell. She might have well had closed her eyes, Zion was dark. Her touch was her only safe-box. Zee reached the platform she was aiming to come to. She sat down.
She looked out, at the dark city. She wondered if anyone else had not been plugged in. She did not believe she was the only one not plugged in, but even so, she felt alone. She held her luck chain. She went to put it on; a gust of wind blew it out of her hands, down into the dark abyss, in which she had just come from. For some reason, the oxygen vents were still online. Apparently either someone had brought it back online, or the one who was controlling the Matrix wanted Zion's people to live.
Either way, Zee wished, that air system had not been on. That way she would have to bear this hurt.
She almost wished she could have been plugged in as well. Everyone in Zion could now. But by thinking that, she was letting the Matrix win...
She did not care.
"We're in." Kid called up to Load.
"Right," Load replied. "Now I'm still trying to find Tetsujin, so you guys should maybe head towards the city. I'll contact you once I confirm his location."
"Affirmative." Kid hung up.
Zombie looked around. "I never thought I would have to come back in this hell of a paradise."
"None of us did. But we can't control the events that happen to us. But we can control how we interpret those events. Basically, don't fall so far into hatred that you can't fight this thing." Zach said.
Ratz stood facing a park. He bent down and stroked the grass. The dew made his hand wet. He stared at his hand. "It seems so real. But it feels so constricting, how could we not have realized we were in a prison. Maybe the human race is not meant to be free; maybe... maybe this is our fate. We continue to come back to it. Even though I know this is not real, it certainly feels real. How do we know that our other world isn't the Matrix? Maybe this is the real world. Or maybe neither is real. Or maybe both are real. How do we know we just aren't some story someone is reading, and while they are reading it, we are real?" Ratz continued to stare off, his back turned to his crew.
"Who knows? No one will ever know. We just have to deal with things the way they are presented to us." Sela answered all of Ratz' questions in one simple answer.
Ratz did not do anything. He just continued to stare.
"Ratz?"
Ratz turned to his crew. "Well if that's how we have to do things." Ratz smiled. "Let's waste this bastard."
"I'm gonna kill him when he gets out." Sela said.
"Well its apparent what needs to be done." Ratz stated, "We need to jack in and get Tetsujin out." The crew stared at Ratz as if first noticing his red eye. "Who knows, he might be onto something in there, either way, it's better if we jack in and help him, with either what he's doing, or help him get out."
"No, the Matrix isn't done loading, it'll consider us a part of the system, going in is suicide. Tetsujin was a huge dumbass to go in, in the first place. He'll be the prisoner of his own demise." Zombie stated with feeling.
"Yeah, you could be right... then again, that speech could be your excuse to not go in." Ratz hit a chord there.
"Are you calling me a coward?" Zombie asked ready to pounce if the answer did not please him.
"Yeah." Zombie lunged for Ratz,
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT FUCKING PROGRAM DID TO ME? THOSE FUCKING MACHINES, TOOK AWAY MY FAMILY! I WON'T LET THEM TAKE ME!!!." Ratz threw Zombie off him.
"First off, it wasn't the machines that restarted the Matrix, Zion confirmed that, secondly, the program is to blame, if you have a score to settle go in and fight it. How the hell do you think I feel? That piece of shit program made me a social outcast, but I've dealt, but ya know, I'm gonna settle that score when I go in." Zombie got up, calmed down. "Are you with me?" Zombie hesitated at first, but nodded in agreement.
"You know, after that scuttle, I have the authority to deny you permission to jack in..." Ratz and Zombie nodded, like they were little kids being scolded. "But, we all deserve revenge, let's go start some shit."
The crew cried out in excitement. They were all pumped.
Load jacked everyone in. "Ready," they nodded, "set," they nodded, "...go." He pressed the button.
Tetsujin and Seraph were still running, they were in the sewage system now.
"It was foolish of you to enter the Matrix when you did." Seraph said as they ran.
"Why? Isn't the Matrix loaded up fully?" They jumped over a sewage dam.
"It might have seemed such, but no." Seraph turned right, Tetsujin followed.
"So am I part of this system?" He splashed a puddle.
"No there is still time for you to leave, but you need your crew to do that." They tumbled through a tight squeeze.
"Fuck." Tetsujin felt extremely stupid. There was a half block at an angle, Tetsujin ran up the side of the wall to avoid it, and flipped back to his regular position once through. Seraph did the same.
"What of Smith? How does he have so much power?" Tetsujin asked.
"Smith was the one who rebooted the Matrix, he can now control any program he chooses. But he is new to the control aspect; he hasn't learned all the "ropes" yet. He has to teach himself how to do so, also." Seraph dived through a hole in a wall, Tetsujin followed.
"Meaning if we act now, we can stop him before this becomes a bigger problem than it already is."
"Correct" Seraph replied.
"What happened to Neo?" Tetsujin felt it important to ask this question considering he was the only one to ever defeat Smith.
"I do not know, but there is one who might." They turned left.
"The Merovingian." Tetsujin did not need to think about that answer.
"Yes, so we must find him." Seraph laid out the plan.
"My first mission." Tetsujin stated. Seraph nodded.
They continued to run.
Zee was trying to make her way to control. She had to take the secret passages. Nothing was working. This upped the difficulty a bit.
Every new passageway, every new strategy, every new obstacle, all made Zee want to push on, and give up at the same time. She had to find the fate of her children, and her husband.
Zee climbed up a ladder, it was a long way down if she fell. She might have well had closed her eyes, Zion was dark. Her touch was her only safe-box. Zee reached the platform she was aiming to come to. She sat down.
She looked out, at the dark city. She wondered if anyone else had not been plugged in. She did not believe she was the only one not plugged in, but even so, she felt alone. She held her luck chain. She went to put it on; a gust of wind blew it out of her hands, down into the dark abyss, in which she had just come from. For some reason, the oxygen vents were still online. Apparently either someone had brought it back online, or the one who was controlling the Matrix wanted Zion's people to live.
Either way, Zee wished, that air system had not been on. That way she would have to bear this hurt.
She almost wished she could have been plugged in as well. Everyone in Zion could now. But by thinking that, she was letting the Matrix win...
She did not care.
"We're in." Kid called up to Load.
"Right," Load replied. "Now I'm still trying to find Tetsujin, so you guys should maybe head towards the city. I'll contact you once I confirm his location."
"Affirmative." Kid hung up.
Zombie looked around. "I never thought I would have to come back in this hell of a paradise."
"None of us did. But we can't control the events that happen to us. But we can control how we interpret those events. Basically, don't fall so far into hatred that you can't fight this thing." Zach said.
Ratz stood facing a park. He bent down and stroked the grass. The dew made his hand wet. He stared at his hand. "It seems so real. But it feels so constricting, how could we not have realized we were in a prison. Maybe the human race is not meant to be free; maybe... maybe this is our fate. We continue to come back to it. Even though I know this is not real, it certainly feels real. How do we know that our other world isn't the Matrix? Maybe this is the real world. Or maybe neither is real. Or maybe both are real. How do we know we just aren't some story someone is reading, and while they are reading it, we are real?" Ratz continued to stare off, his back turned to his crew.
"Who knows? No one will ever know. We just have to deal with things the way they are presented to us." Sela answered all of Ratz' questions in one simple answer.
Ratz did not do anything. He just continued to stare.
"Ratz?"
Ratz turned to his crew. "Well if that's how we have to do things." Ratz smiled. "Let's waste this bastard."