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Chapter 2

The Crew of the Neb.

The afore named people run into the room.

'What??'

Morpheus points at Danae and moans: 'She took BOTH. Now look at her!'

All look at Danae, who is curled up asleep on the floor sucking her thumb and mumbling something about Orlando Bloom

'Weird.' Switch muses.

'Yup,' Is all Apoc can find to say

Danae wakes up suddenly

'Hey! Now what?' She asks.

'We unplug you. Come on.'

They take her into the 'Unplugging room'

'Take a seat. Try and relax.'

Danae sits down cautiously and gets the sticker-thingies stuck on her

'Errm... can I ask you a question?'

Morpheus seems to ignore her question.

'Have you ever had a dream, Danae, that you were so sure was real?' he asks.

Danae rolls her eyes.

'Uh, I said, Could I ask you a question, not you ask me!'

'You're spoiling the melodrama.'

'Yup. I'm pretty good at doing that!'

She looks at the cracked mirror, which seems to heal itself.

'Hey, cool!'

Her arm goes out, she touches it, it creeps up her arm

'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

Morpheus yells into his cell phone.

'Now Tank! Now!'

'...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

we are sucked into her scream, drawn into the HUMAN PLANT.

*melodramatic music*

Danae's eyes bulge out of her head.

'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' she wails.

Her hand goes up, she feels that her hair is gone

'...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAA...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

She looks back down, and sees all the nasty wires plugged into herself

'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!! ICKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

Our heroine sees the spider-machine-unplugger thingy come at her

'I'M DEAD!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

With a whoosh, she is sucked into the waste-pipe

'WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!'

She faints, to wake up in a dirty metal room, with Morpheus standing over her.

'Welcome to the real world, Danae.'

'BUT WHY'S MY HAIR GONE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?'

'Rest, Danae. The answers are coming.'

Danae snatches the hat Morpheus is wearing and slams it down on her head

'Hey!'

'If you gimme some kinda pill that makes me lose all my hair, you can afford to lose just your hat and not your life.'

The Next Morning...

Morpheus comes into Danae's room.

'Good morning, Danae. Did you sleep?'

Danae doesn't move. Her eyes are tightly shut

'Ugg. Leeme 'lone.' She grunts

'No. The readers are getting bored. Come on.'

'Humph.'

'This is my ship, The Neb.'

'The "Neb"? Weird name.'

'Yeah. The Author can't figure out how to spell the whole name.'

'So I'm stuck with 'Neb'?'

'Yep.'

'Oh.'

'This is my crew. That's Trinity...'

'You mean Kidnapper.'

'I acted on Morpheus' orders.' Replies Trinity smugly

'Ahem. Here's Switch...'

'You're not very pretty.'

'Who asked you?' Switch says, affronted.

'I did.'

'... Mouse...'

'I can see where the name comes from.'

'Thank you.' Mouse said sarcastically.

'You're Welcome.'

'Don't start that one again. This is Cypher...'

'Dude. You look like someone who is about to betray your leader and kill all your friends.'

Cypher grins. 'Ironically, that's not too far from the truth.'

'What truth?'

'That there is no spoon.'

'O-kay...'

'...Tank and his big brother Dozer.'

'What's with all these names? Can't say much for your parent's intelligence levels.'

'...And that's Apoc.'

Danae's eyes go ve-ery big. A grin spreads over her face 'Hel-lo handsome!!!'

Apoc just stares.

All of a sudden, Neo bursts into the scene, shouting:

'Hey! I thought that I was the handsome guy around here! You should have a crush on ME!'

'Yeah, but the Author doesn't think so. She likes Apoc.'

'Some people have no taste.'

Don't I know it,' moans Danae

Morpheus plants a hand on her mouth. 'Shut up. You're lowering his morale.'

Danae bites his hand, which is hastily removed.

'Why would I care?' she scoffs

'Because I'm the One!' pouts Neo

'Cool. Then I'm the Two!'

The crew of the Neb stares blankly.

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