I didn't get much response on part 1, but more things are happening in this part. I hope to get more reviews this time :) It might be a while until I post part 3, as it's not finished.

Chapter 2

Her head felt so heavy. Signet blinked, and slowly rolled over as she noticed she was laying down. She groaned, and opened her eyes slowly. Where was she? Her eyes stung a little, and she found herself on a bed in a small room. There was a nightstand next to her, with a lamp on that was turned on. But there was no windows in the room. Feeling curious and confused, Signet sat up in her bed. She was fully clothed. What was the last thing she could remember? Right.. she was with Mitai in the kitchen part of the lab. She must have passed out right after that. Weird, considering it was morning then, she thought, but then again she had hardly slept the night before and had to get up early to catch the bus. Mitai could probably answer this mystery too, so Signet stood up to find her. Dizzyness overwhelmed her, and she had to sit down and try again. "I probably have the flu..." she sighed, and finally walked out the door.

Signet found herself in a long hallway, and she walked down it to find out where Mitai might be. It was still light outside, so she couldn't have been out for long. Finding a door that had a "main lab" sign on it, she opened it and looked in.

"Signet! There you are, now come here so I can show you. Slept well?" Mitai's voice sounded sugar sweet. Signet walked in, and closed the door. There was another man in there, also in a white lab coat and an ID badge. Before she got to answer, her scientist friend went on: "This is Menlo. He has helped me alot on this project. Besides us and another partner who is somewhere else in the lab now, no one else has seen this project. So feel honoured." Mitai smiled.

"So tell me, what is the project about?" Signet's head still felt funny, and she rubbed her forehead with her hand.

"Well, I know you love the Matrix triology, and you want to play The Matrix Online when it is launched, right?" Signet nodded, and groaned because it hurt doing so. "Good, because I need you to alpha test this. As I heard you often have lucid dreams, I realised you would be perfect for this."

Signet stared at her. "What are you telling me?"

"Well, my partners and I... we have created our own Matrix. All we need now is to test it." Signet's first reaction was to laugh.

"Really? You're kidding, right?" Signet smiled as she giggled. "No really, what is your project about?"

"I'm serious." She pointed to Signet's side. "Right there is it. All we need." Signet looked to the corner, and she saw a group of huge computers standing there, along with a desk with several monitors. There was also a recliner chair there, very much like the ones in the triology. This one was just not worn out yet.

Signet couldn't help but smile. This couldn't be serious. "I can't test... I have no head plug." she laughed.

"Oh, but you do!" Mitai said in her sweet voice and smiled. Signet suddenly looked very serious. She hesitated, then put her hand to the back of her head. As she did so, she felt something hard there. Her finger slid over the round metal surface. She also felt that parts of her hair was shaved off. Indeed, she now had a cranial jack. Signet freaked out.

"You gotta be kidding me!! What have you done to me?!" Signet backed away, and walked into the wall.

"Calm down, Signet..."

"No! Get this thing off me..."

"Menlo, now!" The two people grabbed her, and partly dragged and carried her over to the recliner chair. She was pinned down, and Menlo held a firm hand on her forehead. Before she got to protest any further, the spike slid into the plug. She tried to scream, and for a split second she felt a sharp pain in the back of her head, and her whole body went numb. At the same time, everything changed around her.