"Will you hurry up?" One shouted to Two, who was lagging behind.

"I'm trying to hurry, One, but these suitcases are awful heavy!"

One sighed and rolled his eyes.

"Here, take Angel's computer." Two handed One the computer before he ended up dropping it. One took it and waited for his slow brother to get a hand on the baggage he held. After Two finally got his luggage situated, he walked up beside One.

"Are you through?" One calmly asked, trying to fight back a chuckle.

"I think so."

"No wonder I get shot in the arm. You're the slowest brother I've seen!" One shook his head and sighed.

"I beg your pardon?"

"You're slow!" One repeated.

"Am not!"

"Are too."

Two was about to say something else, but decided not to and decided to change the subject instead.

"What do we do now that we're in Paris? How do we go about getting Angel back?"

"We've got to find Neo, then from there find the Master."

"You mean that Neo?" Two pointed across from them where Neo was standing, calmly waiting for them over by the passport area.

"Well what do you know? Looks like Neo found us this time."

"Where are the others? All I see is Neo."

"Dunno." One shrugged. "Come on, pick up your bags and let's go meet him. Maybe he knows where Master is hiding out."

Two picked up his bags and hurried to catch up to One.

"And for the last time, I am not slow!" Two said after running up to One's side.

"Then what are you doing when Trinity is blasting a hole in my arm?"

Two opened his mouth to say something, but closed it again. He huffed a little and sighed. He hated being the youngest, or hated being treated like the youngest. One always got the upper hand on everything, even their brother arguments. So what if he was a little slow? No one's perfect, not even a ghost or program.

When the Twins made it to the passport area, they greeted Neo with a nod of their head. Neo did likewise.

"I thought you two would never make it here." Neo said.

"Had a little trouble." One replied. "The Merovingian kidnapped Angel."

"I know. You two were supposed to keep an eye on her!" Neo gruffly said, unfolding his arms.

"We tried to, but Master made fools of us."

"I want Angel back!" Two suddenly said. One nudged him a little to quiet him.

"Where are the others?" One asked.

"Back at the hotel." Neo answered. "Waiting for me to return with you two so we can get this started."

"Do you know where the Mero is?"

"Yes. We trailed him to a warehouse on the other side of the city." Neo stopped and looked in Two's direction, then continued. "I was there when he took Angel in with him."

"Angel?! Is she safe? What's he doing to her?" Two almost knocked One down trying to get over to Neo.

One placed his hand on Two to keep him back.

"Is it a long drive there?" One asked Neo.

"No, only a couple of minutes."

"Let's get going then. No telling what's happening as we speak."

The Twins quickly followed Neo to get their passports stamped, then followed him out of the airport and out onto the sidewalk where they waited for a taxi to come. When they arrived at the hotel, Neo stopped.

"What's wrong?" One asked.

"Someone's here." Neo whispered. "I can feel it."

The Twins looked around but found no one in sight.

"Are you sure?" One replied.

"Yes." Neo started forward. "Come on, let's go quickly."

The Twins followed Neo into the fancy entrance of the hotel and to the elevator, where Neo calmly yet quickly pressed the elevator's button. The ride up was quiet, aside from the occasional throat clearing one of them did and the shuffle of booted feet. When the elevator stopped at the floor Neo had told it to, the Twins and Neo got off.

"This way." said Neo, pushing his way past the Twins and hurrying down the hall to the room everyone was waiting in. Neo grabbed the doorknob and pushed the door open. The Twins walked in and placed their suitcases on the floor where they stood. They both felt a little uneasy at first. Around them where the people they normally were enemies with. They came in anyway and stood rather awkward as close to the wall as they could.

"They finally arrived." Were Neo's words before he turned to the Twins. "I'm pretty sure you know everyone here."

The Twins nodded as they looked around the room and silently greeted everyone with a nod of their dreadlocked heads. There was Niobe and Trinity, Morpheus, Ghost, and a new member of which the Twins were a little unfamiliar with, but knew to be Ice. Ice was a middle-aged looking woman with blondish hair. She wore black clothes and had a black lacy choker around her neck.

"I'm sure you've heard of Ice, Captain of the Gnosis." Neo said, gesturing towards Ice. The Twins again nodded then nodded in greeting as their eyes met Ice.

"The Matrix never ceases to amaze me with the creatures it can create." Said Ice, looking the Twins over.

"Shall we get started?" Neo said, a little frustrated. Everyone immediately turned their attention to him, who motioned towards Morpheus to continue it. Morpheus stood up.

"You all know why we are here and you all know what our mission is at the moment. We are to get Angel back and stop the Merovingian from taking over this world like he tried doing before. In order for this to work as planned, we are going to have to work together and trust each other."

After Morpheus finished he turned to Niobe.

"We have pinpointed the Merovingian's location and know that he has Angel captive inside. We have to be careful. Who knows what the Merovingian will do to Angel if we make a wrong move." Niobe stopped for breath. "The Twins here are our hope of saving Angel."

The Twins stiffened at Niobe's words. Them? They were their hope?

"The Twins know the Merovingian more than we do, so they will be able to help us as they did before."

"What if we can't help?" One interrupted. "What if the Master destroys us along with all of you?"

"Then that is a chance we'll have to take." Morpheus sighed.

The Twins exchanged nervous looks with each other.

"Trinity and I will go first and make sure everything is ok. Ghost, Ice, and Neo will sneak around to other entrances to the building, surrounding all areas of escape incase the Merovingian tries anything. Morpheus will wait incase we need backup." Niobe turned to Neo.

"What about us?" Two asked.

"You will come with us." Niobe quickly answered.

"Let's go." Neo said.

"The sooner the better." Ice added.

"Everything must be done right. We'll only have one shot at this." Niobe continued as everyone rose and walked to the door.

A few minutes later found the group outside of a small warehouse. Being at night, the place was deserted of all life. Piles of boxes and other junk was scattered all over and in front of the doors.

"Watch your step, everyone. This could be dangerous." Trinity whispered to the Twins and Niobe as she cautiously walked up to the warehouse's front doors.

The Twins nervously glanced around them for any signs of someone following.

Trinity quickly turned her head to look behind her at the sudden crash that echoed through the night's silence. Niobe and One followed.

Two grinned sheepishly at meeting Trinity's eyes.

"Sorry 'bout that." He whispered as he carefully picked up the trash can he had kicked and knocked over accidentally.

"Quiet!" Trinity snapped.

Two lowered his head and continued to follow the party. One grabbed onto his brother's arm and jerked him over beside him and gave him a silent stern look. Two swallowed and remained quiet.

"This is it. I hope Ghost, Neo, and Ice are ready." Trinity whispered.

"Let's do it." Niobe said.

At Niobe's words, Trinity swiftly kicked the doors to the warehouse open and everyone bolted in, guns raised. After making sure it was clear, Trinity spoke,

"That was easy."

"A little too easy." Niobe added. "You'd think they would have had the doors locked tighter than that."

"Uh, ladies." One said.

"What is it?" Trinity looked over at One.

"The Master is inside the Matrix."

"What?" Niobe walked over to where One was standing.

"See there." One pointed over to one of the warehouse's offices where a computer showed the green Matrix code on its monitor.

"He's got Angel in the Matrix?!?" Two looked over One's shoulder.

Everyone exchanged glances.

"H-How is it possible?" One hesitated and stuttered. "Angel has no plugs to allow her to be plugged up to the Matrix."

"He must have found some way of doing it." Trinity looked around. "The place is clear. Go over there and see if you can find out what the Merovingian is up to." Trinity shoved One forward toward the office.

One carefully entered the dark room, walked over to the computer, and seated himself in the chair next to the desk. Looking at the scrolling code for a few minutes, One started to type something on the keyboard. He stopped and carefully turned toward his right at hearing a breathing sound. He got up and walked over in the direction it was coming from.

"Angel..." he whispered to himself at seeing the lifeless form of Angel sitting in a chair. One reached out and touched Angel's wrist. "She's alive." He whispered to himself again. One, then, turned and seated himself back in the chair.

"Two!" One suddenly blurted out after nearly jumping out of his skin at feeling Two's hand on his shoulder. "You nearly scared the Matrix code out of me. Never ever do that again!" One shook his head and sighed.

"I'm sorry, One. Didn't mean to scare you like that." Two whispered.

"You're fortunate I didn't pull my razor out on you." One punched a few keys on the keyboard.

"Is Angel alright?"

"Yes, she appears to be fine. She's over there." One motioned toward Angel.

"Angel?" Two hurried over to Angel's form and knelt beside it. Two ran his hand over her hair and down her face. "What's wrong with her, One?" Two's voice began to crack.

"It's impossible, but she appears to somehow be inside the Matrix program." One punched a few more keys. "The Master has the system locked and protected from anything outside. Blast!" One pushed himself away from the keyboard in frustration.

"What do we do?"

"The only thing we can do is go inside." One got up from his chair and sighed. "Where are Trinity and Niobe?"

"They're out there, guarding."

One walked to the office doorway and motioned for the two women to come inside.

"What did you find?" Trinity asked, following behind Niobe.

"It appears that the Master has somehow jacked Angel into the Matrix program."

Niobe and Trinity both looked at One in a weird and confused way.

"I know it's impossible, but he's done it. I don't know how or why, but he has. Look, there she is over there." One pointed toward Angel's body and Two. "She's alive and seems ok, but she doesn't respond to anything you do to her."

"What do you suggest?" Trinity looked at the computer monitor.

"Go inside the Matrix and see if we can free her from inside. The Master has placed protective locks on it to protect it from being tampered with outside, so there's no other way but to go in."

"There's no way for us to get in. There aren't any jacks here." said Niobe.

"Yes, there is a way." Trinity looked at Niobe then at One. "Only two of us here aren't human and they're the only two who can get inside without jacks."

Both Niobe and Trinity turned their heads toward the Twins.