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Indirect
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One's cell phone vibrated in his pocket. He took it out and read the latest message.
Meet me in my office
at 3:00p.m. sharp
today.
Merovingian.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Two, we think we've got another assignment."
"And?"
"We have to meet the Mero in his office at 3 p.m. Today."
"But we haven't had lunch and it's already 2:30." Two complained.
"Well you know the consequences if we don't show up on time."
"Fine, fine." Two grumbled. "We'll go get the car keys."
~ ~ ~
"What do you think he's up to this time?"
"Don't know. Only one way to find out."
One opened the door to the Merovingian's lavishly furnished office. He and his brother both stepped in- and immediately drew out their guns when they saw-
"Omega! What are you doing here?!"
"Nice of you to be able to tell me and my twin apart. And by the way, what do you mean 'what am I doing here' ?" Omega asked mock innocently. "I asked you to come, and you did."
"We missed our lunch to come and meet someone we don't give a damn about?" Two growled.
"Pretty much yes, but you should have had lunch earlier."
"Where's the Merovingian?" One asked.
"He's gone on holiday."
"You're lying."
"No I'm not. He sent you a message through the phone yesterday to tell you."
"We didn't receive anything at all yesterday."
"I merely said he sent you a message. I didn't say you received it."
"What did you do?"
"I simply transed and intercepted the signal in mid-air."
"Oh great." Two muttered. "And how do we know that we're not in the middle of a trap here?"
Omega cocked her head and smiled.
"Well...it depends..."
"On what?"
"Some say love is a trap while others don't..."
"Did she just say- does she mean-" Two stuttered, his eyes growing large behind his shades.
"Unfortunately, Two, we think she did." One managed to finish saying before both of them passed out on the floor.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
When Two finally regained consciousness and opened his eyes, he found himself lying on his back on a sofa. And Omega was staring at him.
"Yahh! Get away from us!" Two yelled, scrambling to get as far from Omega as possible. To his left he saw One calmly sitting in an armchair.
"One, what are we doing here?" asked Two, trying not to panic.
"Ask her." One replied, nodding towards something behind Two.
Two turned and saw Omega smiling at him.
"Not again."
Omega's expression didn't change.
"Okay," Two said, taking a deep breath. "Why are we here?"
Silence.
Something seemed different to Two; apart from the fact that Omega might be in love with him.
He put his hand to his face. His shades were gone. Two glared at Omega.
"Yes, Two?"
"You took our shades."
"Why, you must be psychic."
"And for what?"
"Oh, nothing much; just wanted to see your beautiful silver eyes."
Two goggled.
"One, she didn't just say what we think she said, right?"
"Afraid she did." One was just as shocked as his brother was.
Just then Alpha walked into the room. Upon seeing the Twins she materialized an assortment of switchblades, razors and daggers, holding them in a throwing position.
"Omega, what are these freaks doing here?" Alpha asked, not looking away from the Twins.
"Alpha put your weapons down. I brought them here."
"You WHAT?!"
"Yes, you heard right. I brought them here."
"Omega! I know you like Two, but this is ridicu-"
"So it is official." One cooed at his brother. "She liiiiiiikes you."
"Shut your damn bloody mouth. No one was talking to you." Alpha hissed.
"Our mouth is not bloody."
"It will be if you don't zip it."
One decided not to push his luck to the limit. Two almost felt grateful to Alpha for successfully making his brother clamp up.
"Can I talk to you in private for a sec, Omega?" Alpha said.
Omega walked to the far end of the room and waited for her sister.
Alpha turned to the Twins and gave them a death glare. "You two stay where you are. Don't try to get out. Even phasing won't work. You already know."
Then she transed, disappeared and materialized next to her twin.
"Omega, have you gone mad?" she hissed.
"No. We've already talked through this with Neo, Trinity and Morpheus. Don't bother trying to make me change my mind. You aren't going to be successful."
"I'm not trying to make you change that stupid mind of yours. I just want you to realize what you're doing. They are our enemy! They are working for the Merovingian, trying to stop Neo from defeating the Matrix!" Alpha was so frustrated with her obstinate twin.
Seeing the Duo deep in conversation, One took advantage of the moment and attempted to escape. He phased. Two warningly glared at him as if to say 'We're in deep shit if we go any farther.'
Unfortunately, Alpha had already sensed One's change though her back was turned.
"Excuse me a moment." Alpha quickly said to Omega.
She transed, glided up to One and grabbed him around the neck. "Don't even think about it." She threatened, her eerie two-toned voice echoing. Shifting her grip down to the collar of his trench coat, she lifted him into the air and flung him back against the armchair. One phase back to normal in mid-air, hoping that he would at least get a cushioned landing on the chair and not a skull shattering one on either on the wall or floor. He felt it would be safer to stay and be safe, rather than to leave and have Alpha come after him.
Two shot an 'We tried to warn us!' look at One. One shrugged.
'We told you we'd get into trouble.' Two thought to his twin.
'We know, we know.' One thought back.
'Scared of her?'
'Um . . . no.'
'Yes we are.'
'We am so damn not.'
'Liar.'
'Would we shut up?'
'See? We are scared of her. Admit it.'
'Fine. But we admit that we love Omega first.'
'We do not love her! We hate her! We hate them!'
'Then why didn't we try getting out of here just now like we did?'
'Well we saw what Alpha did to us. And that was just a warning.'
'Never mind. Just zip it. End of conversation.'
They both gave each other looks of annoyance before folding their arms across their chests and looking in the opposite direction thinking 'Idiot'.
Meanwhile, the Duo were also quarrelling with each other.
"Have you realized that if the Matrix collapses, SO DO WE?!" Omega screamed.
"I know that!" Alpha yelled back. "But we have to help Neo!"
"I don't CARE! Why do we?!"
"We were programmed to help him! Defeat the Twins! The Merovingian!"
"Well I ain't gonna defeat anyone! Lest the Twins."
"You bitch."
"Now you've stepped on my last nerve. You are so DEAD!"
Omega did a back flip and kicked her sister squarely in the lower jaw. The impact sent Alpha flying into the wall. She sat there, dazed, for a while. Putting her hand up to her mouth she found she was bleeding.
"Omega! You are gonna get it!"
"Bring it on."
They both transed at the same time, followed the shadows on the walls up to the ceiling where they changed back to normal, falling while trying to throttle each other.
"Hey bro. Check this out." Two nodded towards the fight scene. One directed his gaze from out the window to the other end of the room.
"Cool."
The Duo were using everything they had to fight. Ninja stars were stuck in the wall, ceiling, furniture, everywhere, and still more were of them were flying through the air. There were rows of switchblades, daggers and razors lodged into the floor at an angle. Other unexpected weapons were in just about every single unexpected place. Now the Duo were transing through the floor, through the walls, through each other . . . what ever it took to get the other beaten down. Alpha had just managed to get one of the switchblades out of the floor when she heard her sister coming at her from on top and behind. Omega held her daggers pointing downwards, aiming for Alpha's throat. Fortunately, Alpha managed to dodge the daggers. Unfortunately, she collided with her twin anyway.
"Okay. Now they're really distracted. Let's go." One said to Two.
"We're not risking it."
"We love Omega."
"WE DON'T!!!"
And so, the second fight of the day broke out in the very same room.
Alpha and Omega were just about o stab each other when they saw what the Twins were doing. Surprisingly enough, Alpha let them continue their tussle, not really caring about anything inevitable happening. Omega seemed more amused than concerned for Two. The Duo stopped fighting. It was their turn to watch.
The balcony glass doors had already been shattered and the walls, chairs and tabletops were peppered with bullet holes. Empty bullet shells were strewn all over the floor. Alpha and Omega comfortably leaned against a wall and watched the Twins in combat.
One phased, not to escape, but more on side of catching his brother off guard. He did it so well that Two who was used to playing that trick on others, didn't notice his brother phase up through the floor behind him. Only when One phased back to normal did Two become aware of what One was doing. He spun around and tried to shoot One, but it was too late. One pulled the trigger first. Two didn't phase fast enough and the force of the bullets leaving the gun's multiple barrels and hitting him in the shoulder sent him sprawling.
"Two!" Omega screamed. "Condemn you to Hell, One!"
"He'll be okay. He can phase, remember?" Alpha said with a half sigh.
"Well he can't phase if he's unconscious, dummy."
Two lay on the floor, out cold, blood-stained sleeve in shreds.
"If he bleeds to death, I swear I will not spare you." Omega growled at One.
"If our dear brother dies, we die anyway. Either because we share one mind and we can't survive without the other half, or the Merovingian's going to send us back to the source as punishment." One reasoned.
"Good."
"So we'll make sure he won't die."
"Good."
"So now let's get him off the floor."
"Somewhere more comfortable."
"Make sure he doesn't lose anymore blood."
Alpha and One got Two lying on Omega's bed. You could plainly see she was worried and almost apprehensive.
"Omega, he'll be fine! He'll be fine! Stop this ridiculous behavior." Alpha glared at her twin.
"How'd he get his shades back?" Omega asked as she walked over to where Two was lying.
"He phased."
Checking her storage, Omega found that by phasing, Two had retrieved from her what she had taken. "I see."
Omega looked down at Two. He woke up.
"You . . . okay?"
"We will be if you get away from us."
She walked over to Alpha. Two stood up and phased.
"Good. Now can we go?" One impatiently asked.
The Duo exchanged glances.
"Yeah. And make sure you bastards keep out of my way for a long, long time."
"Guys? I- she didn't mean that. . ."
"Yes I did."
"You couldn't have. Not if you want to have another fight with them soon."
"Right. So now you're calmly telling me you want us to fight them."
"You. Not us."
"Alright. So you actually want me to kill them for you?"
"No."
"THEN WHAT?!"
"Figure it out yourself, idiot."
Suddenly aware the Twins were still standing in the doorway and watching their conversation with some interest, Alpha whipped around and yelled "GET OUT OF HERE YOU FUCKERS!"
The Twins hurriedly left.
"Hey. They forgot their guns."
"Still got ammo."
"Try them out?"
"No way."
"Why not?"
"Two very good reasons, Omega. Firstly, I do not want to use anything that those freaks have. Secondly, we've already trashed this place enough."
"You're right . . . this place is a mess." Omega agreed, looking around. The room was an awesome sight to behold. Not one square-foot of space had been some kind of destruction of other.
"Right. Let's get back our stuff."
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Indirect
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One's cell phone vibrated in his pocket. He took it out and read the latest message.
Meet me in my office
at 3:00p.m. sharp
today.
Merovingian.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Two, we think we've got another assignment."
"And?"
"We have to meet the Mero in his office at 3 p.m. Today."
"But we haven't had lunch and it's already 2:30." Two complained.
"Well you know the consequences if we don't show up on time."
"Fine, fine." Two grumbled. "We'll go get the car keys."
~ ~ ~
"What do you think he's up to this time?"
"Don't know. Only one way to find out."
One opened the door to the Merovingian's lavishly furnished office. He and his brother both stepped in- and immediately drew out their guns when they saw-
"Omega! What are you doing here?!"
"Nice of you to be able to tell me and my twin apart. And by the way, what do you mean 'what am I doing here' ?" Omega asked mock innocently. "I asked you to come, and you did."
"We missed our lunch to come and meet someone we don't give a damn about?" Two growled.
"Pretty much yes, but you should have had lunch earlier."
"Where's the Merovingian?" One asked.
"He's gone on holiday."
"You're lying."
"No I'm not. He sent you a message through the phone yesterday to tell you."
"We didn't receive anything at all yesterday."
"I merely said he sent you a message. I didn't say you received it."
"What did you do?"
"I simply transed and intercepted the signal in mid-air."
"Oh great." Two muttered. "And how do we know that we're not in the middle of a trap here?"
Omega cocked her head and smiled.
"Well...it depends..."
"On what?"
"Some say love is a trap while others don't..."
"Did she just say- does she mean-" Two stuttered, his eyes growing large behind his shades.
"Unfortunately, Two, we think she did." One managed to finish saying before both of them passed out on the floor.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
When Two finally regained consciousness and opened his eyes, he found himself lying on his back on a sofa. And Omega was staring at him.
"Yahh! Get away from us!" Two yelled, scrambling to get as far from Omega as possible. To his left he saw One calmly sitting in an armchair.
"One, what are we doing here?" asked Two, trying not to panic.
"Ask her." One replied, nodding towards something behind Two.
Two turned and saw Omega smiling at him.
"Not again."
Omega's expression didn't change.
"Okay," Two said, taking a deep breath. "Why are we here?"
Silence.
Something seemed different to Two; apart from the fact that Omega might be in love with him.
He put his hand to his face. His shades were gone. Two glared at Omega.
"Yes, Two?"
"You took our shades."
"Why, you must be psychic."
"And for what?"
"Oh, nothing much; just wanted to see your beautiful silver eyes."
Two goggled.
"One, she didn't just say what we think she said, right?"
"Afraid she did." One was just as shocked as his brother was.
Just then Alpha walked into the room. Upon seeing the Twins she materialized an assortment of switchblades, razors and daggers, holding them in a throwing position.
"Omega, what are these freaks doing here?" Alpha asked, not looking away from the Twins.
"Alpha put your weapons down. I brought them here."
"You WHAT?!"
"Yes, you heard right. I brought them here."
"Omega! I know you like Two, but this is ridicu-"
"So it is official." One cooed at his brother. "She liiiiiiikes you."
"Shut your damn bloody mouth. No one was talking to you." Alpha hissed.
"Our mouth is not bloody."
"It will be if you don't zip it."
One decided not to push his luck to the limit. Two almost felt grateful to Alpha for successfully making his brother clamp up.
"Can I talk to you in private for a sec, Omega?" Alpha said.
Omega walked to the far end of the room and waited for her sister.
Alpha turned to the Twins and gave them a death glare. "You two stay where you are. Don't try to get out. Even phasing won't work. You already know."
Then she transed, disappeared and materialized next to her twin.
"Omega, have you gone mad?" she hissed.
"No. We've already talked through this with Neo, Trinity and Morpheus. Don't bother trying to make me change my mind. You aren't going to be successful."
"I'm not trying to make you change that stupid mind of yours. I just want you to realize what you're doing. They are our enemy! They are working for the Merovingian, trying to stop Neo from defeating the Matrix!" Alpha was so frustrated with her obstinate twin.
Seeing the Duo deep in conversation, One took advantage of the moment and attempted to escape. He phased. Two warningly glared at him as if to say 'We're in deep shit if we go any farther.'
Unfortunately, Alpha had already sensed One's change though her back was turned.
"Excuse me a moment." Alpha quickly said to Omega.
She transed, glided up to One and grabbed him around the neck. "Don't even think about it." She threatened, her eerie two-toned voice echoing. Shifting her grip down to the collar of his trench coat, she lifted him into the air and flung him back against the armchair. One phase back to normal in mid-air, hoping that he would at least get a cushioned landing on the chair and not a skull shattering one on either on the wall or floor. He felt it would be safer to stay and be safe, rather than to leave and have Alpha come after him.
Two shot an 'We tried to warn us!' look at One. One shrugged.
'We told you we'd get into trouble.' Two thought to his twin.
'We know, we know.' One thought back.
'Scared of her?'
'Um . . . no.'
'Yes we are.'
'We am so damn not.'
'Liar.'
'Would we shut up?'
'See? We are scared of her. Admit it.'
'Fine. But we admit that we love Omega first.'
'We do not love her! We hate her! We hate them!'
'Then why didn't we try getting out of here just now like we did?'
'Well we saw what Alpha did to us. And that was just a warning.'
'Never mind. Just zip it. End of conversation.'
They both gave each other looks of annoyance before folding their arms across their chests and looking in the opposite direction thinking 'Idiot'.
Meanwhile, the Duo were also quarrelling with each other.
"Have you realized that if the Matrix collapses, SO DO WE?!" Omega screamed.
"I know that!" Alpha yelled back. "But we have to help Neo!"
"I don't CARE! Why do we?!"
"We were programmed to help him! Defeat the Twins! The Merovingian!"
"Well I ain't gonna defeat anyone! Lest the Twins."
"You bitch."
"Now you've stepped on my last nerve. You are so DEAD!"
Omega did a back flip and kicked her sister squarely in the lower jaw. The impact sent Alpha flying into the wall. She sat there, dazed, for a while. Putting her hand up to her mouth she found she was bleeding.
"Omega! You are gonna get it!"
"Bring it on."
They both transed at the same time, followed the shadows on the walls up to the ceiling where they changed back to normal, falling while trying to throttle each other.
"Hey bro. Check this out." Two nodded towards the fight scene. One directed his gaze from out the window to the other end of the room.
"Cool."
The Duo were using everything they had to fight. Ninja stars were stuck in the wall, ceiling, furniture, everywhere, and still more were of them were flying through the air. There were rows of switchblades, daggers and razors lodged into the floor at an angle. Other unexpected weapons were in just about every single unexpected place. Now the Duo were transing through the floor, through the walls, through each other . . . what ever it took to get the other beaten down. Alpha had just managed to get one of the switchblades out of the floor when she heard her sister coming at her from on top and behind. Omega held her daggers pointing downwards, aiming for Alpha's throat. Fortunately, Alpha managed to dodge the daggers. Unfortunately, she collided with her twin anyway.
"Okay. Now they're really distracted. Let's go." One said to Two.
"We're not risking it."
"We love Omega."
"WE DON'T!!!"
And so, the second fight of the day broke out in the very same room.
Alpha and Omega were just about o stab each other when they saw what the Twins were doing. Surprisingly enough, Alpha let them continue their tussle, not really caring about anything inevitable happening. Omega seemed more amused than concerned for Two. The Duo stopped fighting. It was their turn to watch.
The balcony glass doors had already been shattered and the walls, chairs and tabletops were peppered with bullet holes. Empty bullet shells were strewn all over the floor. Alpha and Omega comfortably leaned against a wall and watched the Twins in combat.
One phased, not to escape, but more on side of catching his brother off guard. He did it so well that Two who was used to playing that trick on others, didn't notice his brother phase up through the floor behind him. Only when One phased back to normal did Two become aware of what One was doing. He spun around and tried to shoot One, but it was too late. One pulled the trigger first. Two didn't phase fast enough and the force of the bullets leaving the gun's multiple barrels and hitting him in the shoulder sent him sprawling.
"Two!" Omega screamed. "Condemn you to Hell, One!"
"He'll be okay. He can phase, remember?" Alpha said with a half sigh.
"Well he can't phase if he's unconscious, dummy."
Two lay on the floor, out cold, blood-stained sleeve in shreds.
"If he bleeds to death, I swear I will not spare you." Omega growled at One.
"If our dear brother dies, we die anyway. Either because we share one mind and we can't survive without the other half, or the Merovingian's going to send us back to the source as punishment." One reasoned.
"Good."
"So we'll make sure he won't die."
"Good."
"So now let's get him off the floor."
"Somewhere more comfortable."
"Make sure he doesn't lose anymore blood."
Alpha and One got Two lying on Omega's bed. You could plainly see she was worried and almost apprehensive.
"Omega, he'll be fine! He'll be fine! Stop this ridiculous behavior." Alpha glared at her twin.
"How'd he get his shades back?" Omega asked as she walked over to where Two was lying.
"He phased."
Checking her storage, Omega found that by phasing, Two had retrieved from her what she had taken. "I see."
Omega looked down at Two. He woke up.
"You . . . okay?"
"We will be if you get away from us."
She walked over to Alpha. Two stood up and phased.
"Good. Now can we go?" One impatiently asked.
The Duo exchanged glances.
"Yeah. And make sure you bastards keep out of my way for a long, long time."
"Guys? I- she didn't mean that. . ."
"Yes I did."
"You couldn't have. Not if you want to have another fight with them soon."
"Right. So now you're calmly telling me you want us to fight them."
"You. Not us."
"Alright. So you actually want me to kill them for you?"
"No."
"THEN WHAT?!"
"Figure it out yourself, idiot."
Suddenly aware the Twins were still standing in the doorway and watching their conversation with some interest, Alpha whipped around and yelled "GET OUT OF HERE YOU FUCKERS!"
The Twins hurriedly left.
"Hey. They forgot their guns."
"Still got ammo."
"Try them out?"
"No way."
"Why not?"
"Two very good reasons, Omega. Firstly, I do not want to use anything that those freaks have. Secondly, we've already trashed this place enough."
"You're right . . . this place is a mess." Omega agreed, looking around. The room was an awesome sight to behold. Not one square-foot of space had been some kind of destruction of other.
"Right. Let's get back our stuff."