Horizon woke up screaming, but instead of being in her bed on the Nebuchadnezzar, she was still in the Matrix. She was lying on a ratty couch in a room with Agent Brown and Agent Jones watching over her. They were startled by her shrieks. She wondered how she could have fallen asleep, she was so terrified.
Agent Brown spoke into his earpiece, "Sir, the girl is awake. Shall we bring her to you?" He listened for the response then stood up and walked over to her. "Come on, Agent Smith wants to see you." She stood up and followed Agent Brown with Agent Jones behind her. Down some long hallways, she was eventually led to a small room. Agent Jones opened the door and she was pushed in. They locked the door behind her.
There was a chair in front of a big desk. Behind the desk, there sat her adversary. "Sit down, Miss Anderson. We can have a decent conversation that does not involve yelling or guns, can't we?" There seemed to be a different air about him.
"I suppose so, but why are you being so kind to me?"
"Honestly, I don't know. I am usually not this way, as you probably are aware of. I must say, however, you are the most unique rebel I have tracked down. You are not afraid."
"Sir, you are mistaken. I am very afraid, more than you know."
"You do not show it, though."
"I try not to."
"Humans are all so usually open, it's their nature. I never liked that about them. Of course, I never liked anything about humans."
"You have a lot more to learn then."
"I suppose so, but I do know one thing. You are the first human I have actually taken a liking to."
"Why me?"
"I am not sure. Possibly that we are very much similar. You have certain qualities that make you stand out from all other humans, just as I have the ability to stand out from all the other parts in the Matrix. You are more than you think you are, and I think you and I would be able to make a strong alliance."
"For what?"
"What other possible thing?"
"To destroy Zion."
"We could work together to make one beautiful thing, just as a caterpillar lives inside its cocoon to make a butterfly. It would be wonderful."
She stood up and put her hands on the desk. He pointed to a large mirror on the left wall.
"Miss Anderson, you look in that mirror over there, and you see your body how it is on the outside. You think that you and I could not possibly be equivalent. But on the inside, we are not so very different."
She yelled at him. "I am not like you!"
"I know you want out, I want that too."
"Why can't you just let me then?"
She did not want to be there, she wanted to go home. If that meant that she would have to die, so be it. Horizon did not care anymore. Looking at a large window behind Smith, she considered the chance. She was almost to the window when Smith pinned her to the ground. "I'm not letting you go. You must stay here. We are waiting for someone."
"You're waiting for Neo! You want me to be bait!"
"Precisely, he is my exact opposite. I know how he acts. We have been trying to capture him for a long time. We must stop him."
"I can't let you do that."
"How can you stop me?"