"Captain! We're picking up a signal from the sewers!" Tank shouted. Morpheus ran over to the cockpit. He hadn't expected to get a signal at this time of the midnight watch.
"What is it?"
"It looks like the same signal we get when someone is unplugged, sir."
"Have you heard of anyone being unplugged later?"
"No."
"That's what I was afraid of."
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"Shit!" Kid shouted as he plunged into the water. His arms waved and his legs kicked but he still sank slowly. His lungs burned. His eyes burned. Everything burned. He finally succumbed to the pain and fell into unconsciousness.
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"We're approaching the source of where we were receiving the signal." Tank announced. Neo suddenly knew where he was. He didn't know how, but it was like he sensed the man. He sensed the boy like he could sense agents in the matrix.
"He is where you found me." Neo said.
"How do you know that?" Tank asked.
"I don't know… I just do."
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Am I dead? Is this Hell? He would definitely be in Hell when he died, he knew. He had done things… Kid lay on a pile of trash, thinking, keeping his mind off of the pain. HE had gotten pretty beaten up while floating through the sewers. He dimly saw a dark shape with lights on it. I must be seeing things. Boats don't, can't fly. A light appeared, with a shadow in it. The shadow seemed to grow bigger…