Unintended



"Let's move it."

"Right behind you."

Trinity got on her shiny black motorbike with intricate white streaks down the front fender. Alpha balanced herself in the pillion seat.

"Good luck." Neo.

~ * ~ * ~

"So I'm here without Alpha because?" Omega asked Morpheus.

"The Twins have been searching for you both since yesterday until a few hours ago. Now they've split up and taken separate routes to all the possible and likely places you may be. One is going on the freeway. Two will be searching around this district."

"This isn't going to be like yesterday's fight, is it? They both have cars for this?"

"Yes. Take care."

"Get Link to send in a bike."

"All right. Do your best."

~ * ~ * ~

As Trinity and Alpha pulled away from the parking lot, Neo launched into the air and flew back to where he arranged to meet Morpheus, praying for the safety of the three gals. . .

. . . 'Don't worry Neo. Today will be the day they return to the Source.'. . .

"I certainly hope so, but don't go along with them." He softly said to himself, in response to what Alpha had said earlier.

~ * ~ * ~

"Thanks Link." Omega said, watching a curtain of code flow down and leave a motorbike in its place. She leaped onto the bike and headed towards where she had just seen a silver Cadillac go by.

~ * ~ * ~

"Why so quiet, Alpha?" Trinity asked. From what she could see in the mirror, Alpha had her eyes shut, her brow furrowed.

Only a few minutes later when Alpha had roused herself from her trancelike silence did she say the first thing in the last half hour.

"Just preparing myself. Not that I'm nervous, mind you."

"Then what are you thinking about?"

"When we get to the freeway, keep your bike one lane away but in line with his car."

"His?"

"Two has gone off somewhere else where Omega with do her fair share of the work."

"Got it."

~ * ~ * ~

"Cutter; Kris; daggers; switchblade; razor. All set and ready to go." Omega revised while going through her storage. She could see the silver car not far up ahead. "This is going to be a cinch. . ."

She followed the car around a corner and out to a relatively quiet two-way, totaled eight lane road. Increasing her speed she was soon directly behind the virus who had originally been searching for her.

"Hey albino!" she called out, making sure that Two knew she was there.

Two turned. "You. . ." he hissed.

~ * ~ * ~

"Stupid." One grinned to himself, seeing Alpha on the bike behind Trinity glaring at him. "Amazingly stupid. Don't you think that I'd be more on my guard this time?"

Perfectly balanced, Alpha stood up in- on the seat, about to jump.

"So that's the way you want to do it." One slammed down on the auto pilot button before proceeding to open the sun-roof and climb out onto the top.

"You're so predictable." Alpha snickered.

One leaped at her with perfect aim and precision, but halfway through his jump, Alpha, working momentum to her advantage, leaped sideways and knocked him back in the direction he had come from.

~ * ~ * ~

Omega 'led' the way to an abandoned construction site and quickly dismounted her bike. The Cadillac pulled up seconds later and she saw Two phase out of the car, machine gun held in an upright position.

Taking aim, Two was about to pull the trigger, when a thought hit him.

"Can't be this simple, can it?" he muttered. Caught up in his own thoughts, he didn't notice Omega disappear from where he just had her at gunpoint, and reappear behind him.

She reached over and under the arm holding the gun and yanked her elbow back, snapping his shoulder into a torturous position. The gun went flying out of his hand and clattered to the ground a few meters away.

"I knew it."

~ * ~ * ~

Landing on the road shoulder, One managed to pin Alpha down after a brief struggle. She gave him a 'is that the best you can do?' look. Before One had a chance to do anything else, Alpha drew her knees up to her chest and kicked him off her. He went crashing through the barrier and down to the riverside dock more than forty feet below.

A part of the shadow cast by a pillar One landed next to broke off and materialized. "I hope you haven't given up yet."

~ * ~ * ~

"Lemme see what you can do." Omega invited.

Two gave her a nonchalant half-nod, half-shrug in return.

"Ready?"

Omega flung the cutter at him. It spun open, fanning out its lethal blades. Dodging left, Two barely managed to avoid being sliced in half.

~ * ~ * ~

"Do we look like we're a program which would give up so easily?"

"In that case, let's bring this up a level, shall we?" Alpha said with a fake smile.

"Whatever. As long as you end up dead, we don't care."

"Wonderful. So now, the rule is: no phasing or transing."

This surprised One a bit, but his ego wouldn't allow him to decline the challenge.

"Yes or no? The only problem is that you might end up dead, while I survive the whole experience."

They both phased/ transed once more to heal. After that came the fight where they were just as vulnerable as any other human.

~ * ~ * ~

Two attacked Omega with double side kick then with a punch to the side of her face, sending her flying into and through a rough, ivy-covered door.

He came at her again, but she lithely jumped up and ran along the dusty walls, retrieving her cutter on along the way.

Holding the jagged disc, she propelled herself off the wall and at Two, transing in mid-air. She became invisible. Two lost sight of her. The next thing he knew, Omega had transed back to normal when the cutter was in the middle of his gut and she had swung around using the cutter as a hinge.

He phased. She transed along with him. Phase back to normal. Omega followed suit.

Never had he not been able to phase to get out of something like this. Never.

He remained still for awhile, his mind unable to grasp the possible reality that this really was the end for him.

It couldn't be . . . it couldn't be . . . not so soon. . .

Out of the corner of his eye he spotted something lying in a shaft of light. His gun.

~ * ~ * ~

Alpha and One charged each other and erupted in a series of kicks, punches and throws. Even without phasing or transing, their stamina was unbelievable. They kept up the fight without any weapons for a solid half hour, until they began to get bored.

Alpha got out her ninja stars and threw them at One, who didn't notice them heading for him, and was soon pinned to a wooden fence by his trench coat sleeves and sides.

"No transing." One reminded Alpha.

"I didn't trans. Not materializing things wasn't part of the deal." She retorted. "And you better remember what we agreed on."

One yanked his arms away from the ninja stars, shredding his coat. Never mind. He could fix that when Alpha had been disposed of.

"Stay where you are." Alpha said. "I'm not finished yet."

Running towards One who was just about to free himself, she fixed him into a crucifixion position by impaling his arms back to the fence with her daggers.

Then, as she exaggeratedly swaggered to and fro in front of One, taunting and making fun of him, she removed her spike studded neck band and held it up, dangerously gleaming in the sunlight.

"This looks so nice on me." She said. "And it's comfortable too. But I doubt it would be if I wore it inside out. Since I'm not about to put my life in danger just for the sake of trying something as stupid as wearing this with the studs on the inside. . ."she stopped pacing and stood glaring at One. ". . . why don't you try it first?"

Smiling, she pressed the spiked side of the leather strip against One's exposed throat.

His blood poured down his front in a plentiful stream. His breathing became short. His vision began to get hazy. As a last resort, he phased.

"Cheater!" Alpha yelled, the word of anger and hatred coming from a vague shadow. Using one hand she held down the strip, using the sharp metal nails on the other she clawed at the back and base of his neck, willing him to remember his last moments as ones of sheer agony.

Nobody to help him, no where to run. . .

Movements he saw around him were getting slower . . . slower . . . darker. . .

~ * ~ * ~

Summoning up what was left of his strength, he dragged himself towards the last thing that could save him, despite Omega holding him back. At last . . . got it. Pushing aside the increasing pain searing throughout his entire body, he weakly aimed the gun at Omega's head.

Left with no other option, she transed, taking the cutter with her.

Two phased and healed. Vitality restored, he threw his switchblade at her. Immediately when she leaped to the side to avoid his throw, he pulled the trigger on his gun.

The first few bullets grazed her shoulder. But then, contrary to her attacker's expectations, she side swept the oncoming bullets and neatly caught them all in her right hand. With an amazing display of strength she quickly molded the metal bits into a sleek boomerang. She flung it outwards at Two. He got hit on the temple and his shades got knocked off.

Glancing up in shock at Omega, he made the mistake of staring at her directly in the eye. Their gazes locked. For the brief moment which seemed to stretch into an eternity, neither of them could move.

Omega was the first to break the silence. "No. . . no. . ." she whispered. "It can't be . . . how could it . . .?"

Looking away, Omega opened a mental conversation with her twin.

'Alpha. . .'

'I'm busy. Almost done.'

'No! Don't. . . don't kill him. . .'

'What in the blazes are you saying?!'

'Don't kill him. Leave now. We need to contact Neo and the rest. . .'

'WHA -'

'Now.'

Omega transed and turned to leave, but Two stopped her. "Wait-" he broke off, as everyone does before they get to know another person slightly better.

"The name's Omega. My sister's Alpha."

"Two. Brother is One."

With a quick nod, Omega vanished.

~ * ~ * ~

One phased back to perfection.

What was that about? He was about to black out, when Alpha had gotten a distant look for a few seconds, then she transed and was gone.

Slowly, while clearing his mind of all the questions and answers that only led to more questions, he phased and started in the direction of the Chateau.

~ * ~ * ~

"What is this about?" Morpheus asked.

"I have no idea." Alpha replied in a pissed off tone. "I was happily fighting and about to win, when she suddenly tells me not to kill the twin and that we have to meets up with the three of you."

"Well, Omega?"

"Where is she?"

"Up here. I do not wish to be seen. . ." Came the troubled reply from the shadow cast by the support beam.

"What did you need to see us for?" Trinity asked gently.

"Don't tell me you're having problems just fulfilling your purpose?"

"I don't think it's that. . ."

"Then what could it be?"

"Maybe it's . . . no. . . that's not right."

"Omega, this better be good."

"What interfered?"

"We had to be sisters didn't we?"

"How-"

"Stop flooding me with questions!" Omega yelled. Everyone fell silent. Even Alpha, whom you could clearly see was on the verge of exploding with rage.

"Trinity?" Omega said softly.

"Yes?"

"You should understand."

"Understand what?"

Omega transed and stood still in one spot, avoiding the looks she was getting from the four other people in the room.

Finally her head lifted.

"Tell me, what was it you felt . . . the first time your eyes met Neo's?"