A man with dark black hair that went by the name of Neo looked up at the ceiling of his room on the Neb. His indefinite black eyes glared at the ceiling. His bruised left eye was pulsing. He could feel the blood rushing to it. The jagged cut down his right arm was bandaged, but his veins drizzled.

Neo sat up and looked at the bandage.

"Trinity."

His eyes softened and he closed his eyes remembering her kindness.

Flashback, 35 mins ago, the core

Neo's eyes flared with hatred as Trinity pulled him away from the others. Blood dripped from his mouth and arm. His head stung. This feeling, pain, was upon him. Something he had never felt before triggered him deep inside and squeezed his heart.

She led him into the medic's room and motioned for him to sit down. Her face showed uncertainty, but her eyes held concern.

He looked up at her his eyes softening. He couldn't bring himself to glare at her.

"Neo are you alright?"

He remained silent and only looked up at her blinking. She grabbed a white box from the cabinet and he studied it.

What is she doing? He thought staring curiously at the box.

She pulled out a gray cloth and gently held his face. He was taken aback and stared at her confused. But she continued by gently dabbing the blood from his lip. He watched her, mesmerized. She put the cloth aside and took his arm gently. Trinity pulled a white path of cotton and a clear bottle from the box.

Neo cocked his head to read the box. Firrst Aeide? (A/N: Yeah, i kno its spelled wrong, he's reading it!)

He pondered. Then he yelped and pulled his arm back, for it all of a sudden felt as if the skin was burning off. He looked up at his arm and where the flesh was the gash had been was fizzing.

His eyes widened with fear, but Trinity smiled and took his arm back gently.

"It's ok, it's just cleaning it."

He looked at her questionly to see if she was telling the truth. She made herself not laugh and wrapped the gauze around his wound.

Neo's eyes softened. Why? He thought. Why is she so kind to me?

End Flashback

He smiled and made himself shake her out of his head.

Neo fell back onto his cot and closed his eyes. "But everyone else...." He said aloud to himself.

His eyes still closed, he brought his and up to gently touch his eyes. Once he did he winced. It stung. He snorted, disgusted at his pathetic flesh wound. His eyes lids opened. He ginned evilly.

"But it was worth it....."

Flashback, the core, 50 mins ago.

Neo worked silently on weapons, cleaning and reloading them. It was his given "job" until they got to Zion.

Zion... He dazed while slightly lowering the gun.

Apock and Cyper stared up at him from their cleaning duties and saw him looking thoughtful with the gun in his hand.

"Wonder what he's thinking..." Cyper snickered. Apock shook his head.

Neo's head slowly, and turned to face them sideways. He glared at them. Cyper and Apock glared back, but they thought He heard us?

Neo snorted and returned to his work. But Apock wasn't done; he wanted revenge for making him look like an idiot the day before.

"How on earth did you get stuck managing the GUNS?" He mocked.

Neo didn't flinch or say anything. He kept to his work. This angered Apock and Cyper. Not only was he not responding it was like he was toning them out. It seemed like he always did. He only spoke to Morpheus and Trinity, and spoke only when needed.

Cyper snorted. "Morpheus must be a fool then, isn't that right, Neo?" Cyper had gotten up and stood right behind Neo. Still, he refused to budge.

Apock got up and stood behind Cyper in case backup was needed. Then, Cyper made his mistake. He shoved Neo into the gun rack, all of the guns he spent hours cleaning and fixing fell to the ground clashing and clanking.

All accept the one in Neo's hand. Neo held onto the rack for a second, and then turned around to face Cyper, two feet away.

"Answer me." Cyper said angrily.

Neo smiled. That fake smile. Cyper growled and moved to forward to get to Neo again.

"I said-" chi-chick

Cyper was now face to face with the gun in Neo's hand. A shiver went down Apock's spine.

"You..."

Neo's fake smile grew wider. Cyper froze, nothing in his body moved.

"You wouldn't da-"But he was cut off. Neo pulled the trigger and the gun made a click.

Cyper yelled and jolted back. "Ahh!"

Neo laughed.

Cyper glared. "Why you!"

Neo furrowed his brows as if to say 'What?'

Cyper snapped. He grabbed the nearest tool and snapped his fist around, making contact to Neo's extended arm. The gun in Neo's hand dropped and he screamed out in pain. Apock followed by punching Neo in the eye, making him fall back into the gun rack again.

Apock and Cyper stood there for a moment. Neo looked up slowly, his black eyes flaring hell. Before they knew it, Neo had dashed at both of them. They each got into a fighting stance, but Neo jumped up and grabbed the bars on the Ships ceiling. He used his momentum and thrust his boots into their chests throwing them back into the ship's hard wall.

Neo dropped down, waiting for them to get up. Cyper moaned and got up. He ran at Neo and threw a punch at him, but Neo grabbed his arm and twisted till a rough crack erupted from Caper's arm. He yelled out in pain. But Neo wasn't done. He crescent kicked Cyper right in the middle on his face, sending him and his broken nose to the ground.

Apock came from behind and grabbed Neo. Neo planted himself back, throwing Apock off balance. Neo's arm came up from under Apock's chin, pushing him back. Neo regained himself, turning around and chop, back fist, and one knuckle punched Apock.

Cyper had somehow brought himself up and came behind Neo, but he heard him. Neo turned around and they started exchanging punches.

A few seconds after wards, the rest of the crew came in to see Cyper and Apock trying to put their weight on Neo so he would quit beating the shit out of them. All three were throwing punches and kicks of all kinds. Dozer and Switch ran to grab Cyper and Apock, but Morpheus and Trinity had to grab Neo to keep him from Apock and Cyper.

The ship was filled with cursing and insults from both sides. Until finally Morpheus shouted.

"That is enough!!!"

The fighters stopped yelling and stood there, still being held back panting and glaring at one another. Morpheus turned to Trinity. "Take care of him."

End Flashback

Neo snorted and closed his eyes.

"Fools, how could they think I could be defeated so easily?"

He drifted off, falling asleep.

"Idiots, shame they are going to die....."

Bum-ba-ba....hope you liked this chapter, it's my favorite so far!!