The Matrix: Redline
Rating: PG-13 for violence and language.
Summary: There are many important people and programs in the Matrix: The Oracle, The Architect, The One. There are many more as well, but there is one that is the most important, even more important than the One; The Chosen. Who would have thought that that person wouldn't be able to defend himself if his life depended on it, and a person we all know for that matter: Ryou Bakura.
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Disclaimer: Dark-Angel302 doesn't own the Matrix or Yu-Gi-Oh.
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The Matrix: Redline
Chapter 2
Ryou stood on the Domino City docks at about 4:30 in the morning. It was raining heavily and Ryou was getting soaked to his skin but he didn't really seem to care. He was looking for something, and that something was speeding towards him at an incredibly fast pace. A black Jaguar pulled up beside him and a woman with short black hair and leather black attire opened the door closest to him.
"Get in," she said, it was a demand not a request. Ryou got into the back seat with her and shut the door. The car pulled out of the docks and sped towards the streets of Domino. Sitting in front of Ryou was a man with short black hair and wearing a black coat, like Bakura use to wear. But Ryou's bittersweet thought was interrupted as the man turned around to face Ryou, pointing a gun at his head. He wore sunglasses, just like the driver and just like the woman next to him.
Ryou froze, not taking his eyes of the gun, or the finger dangerously close to the trigger. He could feel his heart beats quicken and his breath shorten, why did this seem to be happening to him more often.
"Don't worry kid," the man told him. "This is just for our protection."
"F-From what?" Ryou managed to ask, surprised that he actually got his voice to work.
"From you," the woman answered. "I know you have never seen us before so I will make this brief. I'm Trinity and that is Neo we are here to take you to Morpheus." Ryou nodded, still not looking away from the gun. At least he knew where he was going but was the gun really necessary? How could Ryou of all people be dangerous in any way?
"Take off your shirt."
"WHAT!" Ryou stared up at the man, Neo, instead of the gun for a moment. Did he hear correctly? Neo sighed heavily.
"Listen kid, I went through the same thing, now take off your shirt." Ryou stayed still, staring at the man.
"What are you going to do?"
"We think you're bugged," Trinity told him, loading up what looked like some sort of machine. "Now, lie back and take off your shirt." Hesitantly, Ryou took off his water-logged jacket and pulled the blue and white striped T-shirt over his head.
"Lie back." Ryou did as he was told, and Trinity put the machine over Ryou. There was a click and three barb like things were injected into Ryou's stomach, obviously to hold it in place. A screen lit up and it showed what looked like a tissue X-ray of the space between the barbs.
Ryou looked to his stomach to see something, a lump moving around.
"It's on the move," Trinity told them, or to her self, Ryou couldn't tell. "Shit," she suddenly muttered.
"You're going to lose it," Neo exclaimed.
"No, I'm not," Trinity said sternly. There was a jolt and electrical impulses surged through the barbs. Ryou cringed from the pain, but didn't dare scream, though he was finding it quite hard. Tears stung at his eyes it hurt so bad but he didn't let them fall nor did he let out a peep.
There was another jolt and something sot out of him up a tube like thing, making Ryou let out a cry of pain. He then saw the thing from his dream, the machine that Smith had put in him; moving, squirming around in a small glass bottle.
"Oh my God that thing is real?" Ryou asked in a panicked voice. "I thought it was a dream." Trinity took off the glass bottle and dropped the small machine out on the street. Ryou was breathing heavy, and his stomach still hurt; but he noticed Neo had put the gun away.
"Put your shirt back on, where almost there."
The car pulled up to an old battered looking house, it had about three stories and looked like it was about to collapse. Ryou followed the other two inside as the driver pulled the car around the house. Ryou could almost recognize the person, but couldn't put a finger on the name. The sunglasses didn't help either.
Ryou entered the house, glad to be out of the rain, he followed the other two up the stairs, still a little nervous and confused. They stopped outside of a pair of large oak doors. Neo turned to him, as did Trinity.
"We only have one word of advice," Trinity said. "Be honest, there is more than you know at work here." And with that, Neo opened the door, to where a tall, bald, black man stood; wearing something similar to what Neo had on. The other two left Ryou there, and retreated to the other end of the room.
"Welcome Ry," said the man in a deep yet welcoming voice, and using Ryou's hacker name as well. "As you can guess, I am Morpheus."
Ryou blinked, before slightly bowing to the man. "It is an honor to meet you sir." Neo looked a little confused, but then remembered they were in Japan.
"No, the honor is mine," Morpheus answered, holding out a hand. Ryou shook it, feeling a little embarrassed. "Come, sit." Morpheus beckoned him towards two arm chairs facing each other. Ryou sat down, seeing a small table with a glass of water on it close to him.
Ryou continued to expect the room, while absent mindedly wringing out some longer locks of his hair.
"I suppose," Morpheus continued, not sitting down. "that you feel somewhat like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole." It took a moment for Ryou to figure out what he meant, he was referring to Alice in Wonderland.
"I guess so . . ."
Morpheus nodded, smiling a little. "I can see it in your eyes." He circled the chair opposite of Ryou. "You have the look of a man who excepts what he sees, because he is expecting to wake up." Morpheus finally sat down, much to Ryou's relief, he was really starting to scare him. "Ironically, that isn't far from the truth."
Off to the side, Neo laughed to himself. He had never noticed this, but Morpheus seemed to say the near exact same speech to everyone they saved. And it seemed everyone they saved had the exact same answers.
"Do you believe in fate, Ry?"
What kind of question is that? Ryou thought to himself. "Uh . . . not really, no."
"Why not?"
Yeah, why not? Why couldn't he ever just go the way without questions? They only seem to make things more complicated. "Uh . . . I guess, I don't like the idea, the feeling that I'm not in control, in charge of my life. Someone or something else makes my choices for me. It's just not . . . right." A smile crawled up Morpheus' face as he spoke each word.
"I know exactly what you mean." It wasn't until that moment that Ryou noticed a small silver case in Morpheus' hand. Exactly identical to the one Smith had. "Let me tell you why you're here," Morpheus began.
"You are here because you know something, sense something like many before you. But what you know, you can't explain." Ryou stared unblinkingly at Morpheus, how did he know how he felt? It wasn't the thought that Morpheus could assume he knew how Ryou thought that scared Ryou, but that he was right. "But you feel it. You have felt it your entire life: something's wrong with the world. You don't know what, but it's there." God, this is starting to creep me out, Ryou thought to himself.
But you know he's right.
What?
You have always thought that there was something wrong with the world.
More with my life . . .
No, with the world. And you know it.
But how-
At first you thought it was shadow magic, and the whole Millennium Items deal.
But, it's not . . .
Yes, there is something else.
Ryou argued with himself for a while, that little second conscious always seemed to get the better of him. But Morpheus continued, breaking off Ryou's argument. "Like a splinter in you mind, and it's driving you mad." No shit! You could tell something was bothering Ryou a lot if he cussed, only that rarely ever happens. "It is the feeling that has brought you to me, to us. Do you know what I'm talking about Ry?"
No, not really. That was what Ryou wanted to answer, he had a feeling right now that he was getting himself into something he would regret. But he answered the question after deep thought.
"The Matrix?" he tried. Morpheus nodded, but didn't say anything for another minute.
"Do you want to know what it is?" All Ryou could do was nod. "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You see it when you look out your front door, or when you turn on your TV. You feel it when you go to school, when you go to the park, when you do your homework." Ryou cocked the head to the side in confusion as Morpheus continued to explain the unexplainable. "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."
"What truth?" Ryou asked quietly, almost afraid to ask. But something kept driving him.
"That you are a slave." Morpheus kept turning the silver case over in his hands. "Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot touch or taste or smell. A prison for your mind." Ryou stared at him, not sure what to make of Morpheus' riddles.
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself." Morpheus opened the small case and held two small objects in his hand. Putting the small case on the table with the water, he held one object in each hand. "This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back." Ryou nodded to show he understood.
Morpheus opened one hand to reveal a blue pill. "You take the blue pill; the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe." He then opened his other hand, where there was an identical pill, only red. "You take the red pill; you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
Ryou paused, he was speaking in too many riddles; but at least Ryou got the concept. He could take the red pill, what would he have to lose? Bakura had been gone for days, probably disappeared like all of his real friends. What would he have left if he stayed? Ryou slowly reached for the red pill.
"Remember," Morpheus said suddenly, causing Ryou to freeze. "All I am offering is the truth, nothing more."
The truth is all I want.
Ryou took the red pill and placed it in his mouth, suddenly realizing what the glass of water was for. He swallowed the pill easily after on sip. And Morpheus smiled before standing up.
"Follow me."
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Chapter 2 done! Wow, that was short. But took FOREVER to write!!!
Anyway, thanks to all of my wonderful reviewers.
viva rose – unique? Nice word choice! :D You rock too!!
Aka-sama – I updated! Happy now! XD
Helena-Ryou –Dude, you need to see the Matrix. You have no idea what yur missing. And Ryou plushies this time! :D
The-Living-Dead-Girl – Well, if you ever put it up, tell me okay? I'd like to read it. XD
Meiko: That wasn't so bad.
Bakura: Baka no Pharaoh would have liked it, too many riddles for me though.
Ryou: . . .
Angel: Ryou?
Ryou: . . .
Bakura: I don't think he knows what to say.
Meiko: I think he's dead. pokes Ryou, who just falls on the floor
Bakura: No, just fainted. -.-
Angel: Well, please review. And as Helena-Ryou requested . . .
RYOU PLUSHIES AND BIG BASKET OF CHOCOLATE TO ALL WHO REVIEW!!!
Meiko: -.-
Angel: Ya gotta love the chocolate!!!
Meiko: I have to hang around sugar-high nut cases for the rest of the day . . .
Bakura: At least I can leave.
Angel: types madly on keyboard
Bakura: falls to the floor, tied up and completely rendered helpless Have I mentioned how much I hate you?
Angel: All the time :D
Meiko: Please review, and while your at it save me???
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Angel
Dark-Angel302
Rating: PG-13 for violence and language.
Summary: There are many important people and programs in the Matrix: The Oracle, The Architect, The One. There are many more as well, but there is one that is the most important, even more important than the One; The Chosen. Who would have thought that that person wouldn't be able to defend himself if his life depended on it, and a person we all know for that matter: Ryou Bakura.
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Disclaimer: Dark-Angel302 doesn't own the Matrix or Yu-Gi-Oh.
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The Matrix: Redline
Chapter 2
Ryou stood on the Domino City docks at about 4:30 in the morning. It was raining heavily and Ryou was getting soaked to his skin but he didn't really seem to care. He was looking for something, and that something was speeding towards him at an incredibly fast pace. A black Jaguar pulled up beside him and a woman with short black hair and leather black attire opened the door closest to him.
"Get in," she said, it was a demand not a request. Ryou got into the back seat with her and shut the door. The car pulled out of the docks and sped towards the streets of Domino. Sitting in front of Ryou was a man with short black hair and wearing a black coat, like Bakura use to wear. But Ryou's bittersweet thought was interrupted as the man turned around to face Ryou, pointing a gun at his head. He wore sunglasses, just like the driver and just like the woman next to him.
Ryou froze, not taking his eyes of the gun, or the finger dangerously close to the trigger. He could feel his heart beats quicken and his breath shorten, why did this seem to be happening to him more often.
"Don't worry kid," the man told him. "This is just for our protection."
"F-From what?" Ryou managed to ask, surprised that he actually got his voice to work.
"From you," the woman answered. "I know you have never seen us before so I will make this brief. I'm Trinity and that is Neo we are here to take you to Morpheus." Ryou nodded, still not looking away from the gun. At least he knew where he was going but was the gun really necessary? How could Ryou of all people be dangerous in any way?
"Take off your shirt."
"WHAT!" Ryou stared up at the man, Neo, instead of the gun for a moment. Did he hear correctly? Neo sighed heavily.
"Listen kid, I went through the same thing, now take off your shirt." Ryou stayed still, staring at the man.
"What are you going to do?"
"We think you're bugged," Trinity told him, loading up what looked like some sort of machine. "Now, lie back and take off your shirt." Hesitantly, Ryou took off his water-logged jacket and pulled the blue and white striped T-shirt over his head.
"Lie back." Ryou did as he was told, and Trinity put the machine over Ryou. There was a click and three barb like things were injected into Ryou's stomach, obviously to hold it in place. A screen lit up and it showed what looked like a tissue X-ray of the space between the barbs.
Ryou looked to his stomach to see something, a lump moving around.
"It's on the move," Trinity told them, or to her self, Ryou couldn't tell. "Shit," she suddenly muttered.
"You're going to lose it," Neo exclaimed.
"No, I'm not," Trinity said sternly. There was a jolt and electrical impulses surged through the barbs. Ryou cringed from the pain, but didn't dare scream, though he was finding it quite hard. Tears stung at his eyes it hurt so bad but he didn't let them fall nor did he let out a peep.
There was another jolt and something sot out of him up a tube like thing, making Ryou let out a cry of pain. He then saw the thing from his dream, the machine that Smith had put in him; moving, squirming around in a small glass bottle.
"Oh my God that thing is real?" Ryou asked in a panicked voice. "I thought it was a dream." Trinity took off the glass bottle and dropped the small machine out on the street. Ryou was breathing heavy, and his stomach still hurt; but he noticed Neo had put the gun away.
"Put your shirt back on, where almost there."
The car pulled up to an old battered looking house, it had about three stories and looked like it was about to collapse. Ryou followed the other two inside as the driver pulled the car around the house. Ryou could almost recognize the person, but couldn't put a finger on the name. The sunglasses didn't help either.
Ryou entered the house, glad to be out of the rain, he followed the other two up the stairs, still a little nervous and confused. They stopped outside of a pair of large oak doors. Neo turned to him, as did Trinity.
"We only have one word of advice," Trinity said. "Be honest, there is more than you know at work here." And with that, Neo opened the door, to where a tall, bald, black man stood; wearing something similar to what Neo had on. The other two left Ryou there, and retreated to the other end of the room.
"Welcome Ry," said the man in a deep yet welcoming voice, and using Ryou's hacker name as well. "As you can guess, I am Morpheus."
Ryou blinked, before slightly bowing to the man. "It is an honor to meet you sir." Neo looked a little confused, but then remembered they were in Japan.
"No, the honor is mine," Morpheus answered, holding out a hand. Ryou shook it, feeling a little embarrassed. "Come, sit." Morpheus beckoned him towards two arm chairs facing each other. Ryou sat down, seeing a small table with a glass of water on it close to him.
Ryou continued to expect the room, while absent mindedly wringing out some longer locks of his hair.
"I suppose," Morpheus continued, not sitting down. "that you feel somewhat like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole." It took a moment for Ryou to figure out what he meant, he was referring to Alice in Wonderland.
"I guess so . . ."
Morpheus nodded, smiling a little. "I can see it in your eyes." He circled the chair opposite of Ryou. "You have the look of a man who excepts what he sees, because he is expecting to wake up." Morpheus finally sat down, much to Ryou's relief, he was really starting to scare him. "Ironically, that isn't far from the truth."
Off to the side, Neo laughed to himself. He had never noticed this, but Morpheus seemed to say the near exact same speech to everyone they saved. And it seemed everyone they saved had the exact same answers.
"Do you believe in fate, Ry?"
What kind of question is that? Ryou thought to himself. "Uh . . . not really, no."
"Why not?"
Yeah, why not? Why couldn't he ever just go the way without questions? They only seem to make things more complicated. "Uh . . . I guess, I don't like the idea, the feeling that I'm not in control, in charge of my life. Someone or something else makes my choices for me. It's just not . . . right." A smile crawled up Morpheus' face as he spoke each word.
"I know exactly what you mean." It wasn't until that moment that Ryou noticed a small silver case in Morpheus' hand. Exactly identical to the one Smith had. "Let me tell you why you're here," Morpheus began.
"You are here because you know something, sense something like many before you. But what you know, you can't explain." Ryou stared unblinkingly at Morpheus, how did he know how he felt? It wasn't the thought that Morpheus could assume he knew how Ryou thought that scared Ryou, but that he was right. "But you feel it. You have felt it your entire life: something's wrong with the world. You don't know what, but it's there." God, this is starting to creep me out, Ryou thought to himself.
But you know he's right.
What?
You have always thought that there was something wrong with the world.
More with my life . . .
No, with the world. And you know it.
But how-
At first you thought it was shadow magic, and the whole Millennium Items deal.
But, it's not . . .
Yes, there is something else.
Ryou argued with himself for a while, that little second conscious always seemed to get the better of him. But Morpheus continued, breaking off Ryou's argument. "Like a splinter in you mind, and it's driving you mad." No shit! You could tell something was bothering Ryou a lot if he cussed, only that rarely ever happens. "It is the feeling that has brought you to me, to us. Do you know what I'm talking about Ry?"
No, not really. That was what Ryou wanted to answer, he had a feeling right now that he was getting himself into something he would regret. But he answered the question after deep thought.
"The Matrix?" he tried. Morpheus nodded, but didn't say anything for another minute.
"Do you want to know what it is?" All Ryou could do was nod. "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You see it when you look out your front door, or when you turn on your TV. You feel it when you go to school, when you go to the park, when you do your homework." Ryou cocked the head to the side in confusion as Morpheus continued to explain the unexplainable. "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."
"What truth?" Ryou asked quietly, almost afraid to ask. But something kept driving him.
"That you are a slave." Morpheus kept turning the silver case over in his hands. "Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot touch or taste or smell. A prison for your mind." Ryou stared at him, not sure what to make of Morpheus' riddles.
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself." Morpheus opened the small case and held two small objects in his hand. Putting the small case on the table with the water, he held one object in each hand. "This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back." Ryou nodded to show he understood.
Morpheus opened one hand to reveal a blue pill. "You take the blue pill; the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe." He then opened his other hand, where there was an identical pill, only red. "You take the red pill; you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
Ryou paused, he was speaking in too many riddles; but at least Ryou got the concept. He could take the red pill, what would he have to lose? Bakura had been gone for days, probably disappeared like all of his real friends. What would he have left if he stayed? Ryou slowly reached for the red pill.
"Remember," Morpheus said suddenly, causing Ryou to freeze. "All I am offering is the truth, nothing more."
The truth is all I want.
Ryou took the red pill and placed it in his mouth, suddenly realizing what the glass of water was for. He swallowed the pill easily after on sip. And Morpheus smiled before standing up.
"Follow me."
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Chapter 2 done! Wow, that was short. But took FOREVER to write!!!
Anyway, thanks to all of my wonderful reviewers.
viva rose – unique? Nice word choice! :D You rock too!!
Aka-sama – I updated! Happy now! XD
Helena-Ryou –Dude, you need to see the Matrix. You have no idea what yur missing. And Ryou plushies this time! :D
The-Living-Dead-Girl – Well, if you ever put it up, tell me okay? I'd like to read it. XD
Meiko: That wasn't so bad.
Bakura: Baka no Pharaoh would have liked it, too many riddles for me though.
Ryou: . . .
Angel: Ryou?
Ryou: . . .
Bakura: I don't think he knows what to say.
Meiko: I think he's dead. pokes Ryou, who just falls on the floor
Bakura: No, just fainted. -.-
Angel: Well, please review. And as Helena-Ryou requested . . .
RYOU PLUSHIES AND BIG BASKET OF CHOCOLATE TO ALL WHO REVIEW!!!
Meiko: -.-
Angel: Ya gotta love the chocolate!!!
Meiko: I have to hang around sugar-high nut cases for the rest of the day . . .
Bakura: At least I can leave.
Angel: types madly on keyboard
Bakura: falls to the floor, tied up and completely rendered helpless Have I mentioned how much I hate you?
Angel: All the time :D
Meiko: Please review, and while your at it save me???
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Angel
Dark-Angel302