The Matrix : Redefined Chapter 8
I don't own the setting or the universe. Wakowski Brothers do.
If you recognize I probably don't own em. If you don't, I might.
I just wanna play a little, that's all.
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Just wanted to say thanks to the reviewers so far. Your feedback Provides both encouragement and
help in improving my writing.
I thank you for this. I hope you continue to enjoy.
And sorry for the posting delay(s)
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AP 1 - Day 8 (After peace)
Matrix : Near the building in the city.
Neo saw it and did not understand it at first. The last time this had happened he had not been among the really living. He had not witnessed the process before this and he found it disturbing. The same thing that had trapped him and the others was happening again. He saw it around him as he was still being thrown forward through the air, The matrix slowed until it was only crawling. Soon though it was stopped. Nothing moved, not even the air.
The changes came slowly. The clouds from the blast dissipating slowly into nothingness. The still expanding fireball was next. Simply deleted from the Scene and replaced with open air, the pieces of buildings just hanging in the Air unsupported looking for all the world like a badly done special effect. The pieces of the main building and those caught with it slowly dissolved. Piece by Piece over a period of what would appear to be minutes then hours during which the sun did not move. These changes occurred unseen by any human eye save now for the first time Neo and Trinity who are paused in their headlong flights along with everything else and watch in awe as the disaster is unmade and the basic structure of the paused Matrix was rebuilt.
One by one all the buildings are restored to their previous condition.
One by one the cars, trucks and baby carriages are restored.
One by one all the lives of those killed in the blasts are restored.
One by one every damaged piece is restored to where it was three minutes before. One by one all the myriad of details that make up life are put back in order.
As they were before the blast happened with no knowledge of what had happened.
Neo and Trinity watched all this and marveled at the process. Though unmodified by it they were not unaffected. This!, they both thought at the same time, is how they do edits. Both also thinking of the traps that had captured Morpheus and killed mouse. Fascinating and horrifying at the same time, the world is restored. They will get to see it restart and continue as though nothing had happened, which from the perspective of those still in the matrix, nothing actually had. There would be a few who were missed, a few memories that were not completely wiped, a few details missed, this always happened and was accounted for by the grand design. The basic nature of the matrix was plastic enough to survive a few missed things. Besides, the nature of humanity meant that missing a few details on the edits was simply more believable to them.
Thus perfection, as the architect had learned, albeit the hard way, was not a realistic or always useful goal. The job being done now was a semi routine thing done Whenever a major event caused to much havoc. The pattern of cleaning up set down in silicon, versions ago of the matrix.
Before now though, it had never been seen bye a human, Had never been witnessed by anyone not a part of the process for no one had ever been outside it to have seen it. Neo and trinity watched in now in awe and amazement as the process unfolded in it's own time. The apparent hours involved meant nothing real to them. The time involved also meant nothing to those still captured in the matrix because they were paused along with it. While watching the process both Neo and trinity wandered around to get a better look.
They soon found each other and wandered together. Neo flying and trinity just walking along. Neo spends time trying to show Trinity how to see and interpret the matrix code around them. It takes hours during which the sun does not move and learning comes slow. Eventually though she begins to learn, Though there is a sense of time passing they do not become hungry. Finally just as trinity is beginning to make progress on understanding the fazing trick the matrix resumes without any warning. Her gift they found is slightly different than Neo's, Where he can faze through things she seems more inclined to faze things to be able pass through. The differences are the main topic of conversation as they head back to the restaurant to remake contact with Zion.
The resulting chaos back at the restaurant is difficult to define. Although all the same things are there and all the same patrons are present there is a different feel to the place. As expected though, no time has passed while they have been gone. Unexpectedly they have visitors waiting for them.
"Neo, " The oracle says in greeting as they return and inspect the place.
"Oracle," He replies formally and offers a nod of recognition to Seraph.
"I really am sorry about this mess, I don't know what happened. We fixed it as fast as we could but there is only so much that can be done." She replies apologetically.
"No problem, It was interesting to watch. I've never seen anything like it." Neo replied still feeling tense.
Trinity though is looking at the bodies again studying them closely.
"Neo, " trinity interrupts.
"Yeah trin, whats up?" He replies.
"Look at the bodies. Is it me or is there something different about them?"
"No, "He replies looking at them.
"Whoh," Neo says a moment later stooping to look closer at one.
"See what I mean?" Trinity asks.
Zion : Main dock : Onboard the Hammer
"Councilors, " Locke said rapidly as they unplugged, "I want you out of here now. This may turn into a bad situation, I don't want you in the cross fire."
"Morpheus," Locke continued, "Can I trust the oracle?"
"Yes, of course. I trusted and still trust her even with the fate of zion."
"Great, Now Niobe, can I trust Morpheus?"
"Locke?" Niobe asked in reply.
"I asked captain Niobe, whether I can trust captain Morpheus. Yes or no?"
"Yes commander locke, " Niobe replies sounding puzzled, "You can trust him."
"Good. Morpheus, secure the construct. Niobe, secure the dock." Locke continued while gesturing to them to follow him outside as he left the ship to take care of several things.
Matrix : The park.
"About time," The architect said as he watched Seraph walk into the park.
"I am sorry I am late" Seraph says in apology, "Something has come up. She just contacted me and requested that I bring you to the restaurant immediately."
"Why?"
"She wants you to see something in person."
"Very well, I just hope she knows what she is doing this time."
Matrix : The restaurant.
"Well what is so important that I simply must see it in person?" the architect asked entering the restaurant and approaching the crowd around several bodies he saw on the floor in the middle of the main lobby.
"These bodies are twenty minutes old by the clock on the wall" Neo said without preamble or hesitation, "How is that possible?"
"For that to be accurate," The architect was saying as he approached the closest body. He stopped, the body was obviously several hours old. In fact the bodies were severely out of sync with the matrix itself, There time/date stamps were not off by several hours, though the state of decompisition was. That of course was impossible, yet, here they were, rotting away at the normal just seventeen hours faster than they should have.
In fact the closer he looked, The less he likes what he saw. Then he chided himself for the use of both a human word and the attached emotion. Of a more Pressing matter though was the link back code. That could only work if.. .
Zion : Main landing at the hammer.
"Morpheus, " Locke says bluntly leading into a question.
"Yes."
"Yes or No, Can we trust them?" Locke asks gesturing to the sentinels.
"Yes!, And I see where you are going with this. Dreamer, We need another unit assigned to Locke to act as liaison to the other sentinels."
"This was anticipated, " Dreamer replies, "The unit is called Key." And one tentacle points to a now approaching sentinel. "You can thank or blame Neo for the naming scheme. He suggested a greek sense of humor in them."
"Hello commander," The new unit says upon arrival at their group.
"You are called Key?" Locke asks.
"Yes commander. What can I do for you?"
"Well to begin with this goes out only to those here. I have reason to believe there is another Zion out there and that they may not be friendly. I need a perimeter setup around Zion to see if anything comes and goes. Can you do that."
"Yes commander we can. Would you like that done now?" Key asks in reply.
"Yes, and nothing about this leaves this group, Get it?"
"Yes, " They all reply even the councilors.
"Good, get to it then." Locke says turning away then turning back.
"Morpheus, I want a feed setup to channel the take from the sentinels directly to control Via the hammer. In control I want one third of the surviving systems isolated and given the feed from the sentinels. I don't know if I can really trust the machines, but because of not knowing if I can trust our own either I think it best if they are kept apart. That way if the other Zion has agents here they can't corrupt the sentinel feed. And if I can't trust the machines then they can't corrupt over a third of our monitoring. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean I won't get the best use I can out of it."
"Cynical but logical." Key replies sounding not in the least offended.
Locke just gives it a sideways look that could pass for a grimace or a smile depending on your mood.
It takes hours but the business of cleaning up the docks begins. The sentinels showing no sign of being bothered by cutting up the remains of so many of their former comrades. The humans slowly coming to at least believe the machines would not attack today.
The matrix : A restaurant somewhere.
"You are sure that the link can not be traced?" The first voice asks.
"Yes of course."
"We have lost nearly five dozen in a day. Can they be replaced?"
"Easily, The modified tracer program replaces the interface for the RSI and gives us use of the form. Once we have that, replacing the rest is easy."
"Then ready your programs, we will shortly need more recruits."
The matrix : Architects office.
"So where does this code lead to anyway?" The oracle asks of the architect.
"Initially it leads as one would expect directly to the merovengian. On closer inspection though I find that it bypasses him entirely on the second to last routing. The new route sums up the same as the rest of it, but, if you trace each step by itself you find an extra layer between two other layers and then the rest of the routing header is pointless. Without knowing what is in this new layer there is no way to interpret the direction in the rest of the header." The architect replies sounding both annoyed and curious at the same time while staying oblivious to the irony of how he sounds just then.
"Isn't that how the trainman works?"
"Yes, it's the same interface. Just that this one goes somewhere else."
"Any idea where?" The oracle asks with a knowing smile.
"No clear data indicates. However the ideal solution would be to follow when someone is infected by the what is obviously a variant of a tracer virus ans then see where they go. The path is obviously dynamic. Based on a geometery of routing done once you pass a certain threshold soemwhere."
"So what we need is a pawn then." The oracle replied smiling.
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Hope to have the next up a little sooner.
I don't own the setting or the universe. Wakowski Brothers do.
If you recognize I probably don't own em. If you don't, I might.
I just wanna play a little, that's all.
-----
Just wanted to say thanks to the reviewers so far. Your feedback Provides both encouragement and
help in improving my writing.
I thank you for this. I hope you continue to enjoy.
And sorry for the posting delay(s)
-----
AP 1 - Day 8 (After peace)
Matrix : Near the building in the city.
Neo saw it and did not understand it at first. The last time this had happened he had not been among the really living. He had not witnessed the process before this and he found it disturbing. The same thing that had trapped him and the others was happening again. He saw it around him as he was still being thrown forward through the air, The matrix slowed until it was only crawling. Soon though it was stopped. Nothing moved, not even the air.
The changes came slowly. The clouds from the blast dissipating slowly into nothingness. The still expanding fireball was next. Simply deleted from the Scene and replaced with open air, the pieces of buildings just hanging in the Air unsupported looking for all the world like a badly done special effect. The pieces of the main building and those caught with it slowly dissolved. Piece by Piece over a period of what would appear to be minutes then hours during which the sun did not move. These changes occurred unseen by any human eye save now for the first time Neo and Trinity who are paused in their headlong flights along with everything else and watch in awe as the disaster is unmade and the basic structure of the paused Matrix was rebuilt.
One by one all the buildings are restored to their previous condition.
One by one the cars, trucks and baby carriages are restored.
One by one all the lives of those killed in the blasts are restored.
One by one every damaged piece is restored to where it was three minutes before. One by one all the myriad of details that make up life are put back in order.
As they were before the blast happened with no knowledge of what had happened.
Neo and Trinity watched all this and marveled at the process. Though unmodified by it they were not unaffected. This!, they both thought at the same time, is how they do edits. Both also thinking of the traps that had captured Morpheus and killed mouse. Fascinating and horrifying at the same time, the world is restored. They will get to see it restart and continue as though nothing had happened, which from the perspective of those still in the matrix, nothing actually had. There would be a few who were missed, a few memories that were not completely wiped, a few details missed, this always happened and was accounted for by the grand design. The basic nature of the matrix was plastic enough to survive a few missed things. Besides, the nature of humanity meant that missing a few details on the edits was simply more believable to them.
Thus perfection, as the architect had learned, albeit the hard way, was not a realistic or always useful goal. The job being done now was a semi routine thing done Whenever a major event caused to much havoc. The pattern of cleaning up set down in silicon, versions ago of the matrix.
Before now though, it had never been seen bye a human, Had never been witnessed by anyone not a part of the process for no one had ever been outside it to have seen it. Neo and trinity watched in now in awe and amazement as the process unfolded in it's own time. The apparent hours involved meant nothing real to them. The time involved also meant nothing to those still captured in the matrix because they were paused along with it. While watching the process both Neo and trinity wandered around to get a better look.
They soon found each other and wandered together. Neo flying and trinity just walking along. Neo spends time trying to show Trinity how to see and interpret the matrix code around them. It takes hours during which the sun does not move and learning comes slow. Eventually though she begins to learn, Though there is a sense of time passing they do not become hungry. Finally just as trinity is beginning to make progress on understanding the fazing trick the matrix resumes without any warning. Her gift they found is slightly different than Neo's, Where he can faze through things she seems more inclined to faze things to be able pass through. The differences are the main topic of conversation as they head back to the restaurant to remake contact with Zion.
The resulting chaos back at the restaurant is difficult to define. Although all the same things are there and all the same patrons are present there is a different feel to the place. As expected though, no time has passed while they have been gone. Unexpectedly they have visitors waiting for them.
"Neo, " The oracle says in greeting as they return and inspect the place.
"Oracle," He replies formally and offers a nod of recognition to Seraph.
"I really am sorry about this mess, I don't know what happened. We fixed it as fast as we could but there is only so much that can be done." She replies apologetically.
"No problem, It was interesting to watch. I've never seen anything like it." Neo replied still feeling tense.
Trinity though is looking at the bodies again studying them closely.
"Neo, " trinity interrupts.
"Yeah trin, whats up?" He replies.
"Look at the bodies. Is it me or is there something different about them?"
"No, "He replies looking at them.
"Whoh," Neo says a moment later stooping to look closer at one.
"See what I mean?" Trinity asks.
Zion : Main dock : Onboard the Hammer
"Councilors, " Locke said rapidly as they unplugged, "I want you out of here now. This may turn into a bad situation, I don't want you in the cross fire."
"Morpheus," Locke continued, "Can I trust the oracle?"
"Yes, of course. I trusted and still trust her even with the fate of zion."
"Great, Now Niobe, can I trust Morpheus?"
"Locke?" Niobe asked in reply.
"I asked captain Niobe, whether I can trust captain Morpheus. Yes or no?"
"Yes commander locke, " Niobe replies sounding puzzled, "You can trust him."
"Good. Morpheus, secure the construct. Niobe, secure the dock." Locke continued while gesturing to them to follow him outside as he left the ship to take care of several things.
Matrix : The park.
"About time," The architect said as he watched Seraph walk into the park.
"I am sorry I am late" Seraph says in apology, "Something has come up. She just contacted me and requested that I bring you to the restaurant immediately."
"Why?"
"She wants you to see something in person."
"Very well, I just hope she knows what she is doing this time."
Matrix : The restaurant.
"Well what is so important that I simply must see it in person?" the architect asked entering the restaurant and approaching the crowd around several bodies he saw on the floor in the middle of the main lobby.
"These bodies are twenty minutes old by the clock on the wall" Neo said without preamble or hesitation, "How is that possible?"
"For that to be accurate," The architect was saying as he approached the closest body. He stopped, the body was obviously several hours old. In fact the bodies were severely out of sync with the matrix itself, There time/date stamps were not off by several hours, though the state of decompisition was. That of course was impossible, yet, here they were, rotting away at the normal just seventeen hours faster than they should have.
In fact the closer he looked, The less he likes what he saw. Then he chided himself for the use of both a human word and the attached emotion. Of a more Pressing matter though was the link back code. That could only work if.. .
Zion : Main landing at the hammer.
"Morpheus, " Locke says bluntly leading into a question.
"Yes."
"Yes or No, Can we trust them?" Locke asks gesturing to the sentinels.
"Yes!, And I see where you are going with this. Dreamer, We need another unit assigned to Locke to act as liaison to the other sentinels."
"This was anticipated, " Dreamer replies, "The unit is called Key." And one tentacle points to a now approaching sentinel. "You can thank or blame Neo for the naming scheme. He suggested a greek sense of humor in them."
"Hello commander," The new unit says upon arrival at their group.
"You are called Key?" Locke asks.
"Yes commander. What can I do for you?"
"Well to begin with this goes out only to those here. I have reason to believe there is another Zion out there and that they may not be friendly. I need a perimeter setup around Zion to see if anything comes and goes. Can you do that."
"Yes commander we can. Would you like that done now?" Key asks in reply.
"Yes, and nothing about this leaves this group, Get it?"
"Yes, " They all reply even the councilors.
"Good, get to it then." Locke says turning away then turning back.
"Morpheus, I want a feed setup to channel the take from the sentinels directly to control Via the hammer. In control I want one third of the surviving systems isolated and given the feed from the sentinels. I don't know if I can really trust the machines, but because of not knowing if I can trust our own either I think it best if they are kept apart. That way if the other Zion has agents here they can't corrupt the sentinel feed. And if I can't trust the machines then they can't corrupt over a third of our monitoring. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean I won't get the best use I can out of it."
"Cynical but logical." Key replies sounding not in the least offended.
Locke just gives it a sideways look that could pass for a grimace or a smile depending on your mood.
It takes hours but the business of cleaning up the docks begins. The sentinels showing no sign of being bothered by cutting up the remains of so many of their former comrades. The humans slowly coming to at least believe the machines would not attack today.
The matrix : A restaurant somewhere.
"You are sure that the link can not be traced?" The first voice asks.
"Yes of course."
"We have lost nearly five dozen in a day. Can they be replaced?"
"Easily, The modified tracer program replaces the interface for the RSI and gives us use of the form. Once we have that, replacing the rest is easy."
"Then ready your programs, we will shortly need more recruits."
The matrix : Architects office.
"So where does this code lead to anyway?" The oracle asks of the architect.
"Initially it leads as one would expect directly to the merovengian. On closer inspection though I find that it bypasses him entirely on the second to last routing. The new route sums up the same as the rest of it, but, if you trace each step by itself you find an extra layer between two other layers and then the rest of the routing header is pointless. Without knowing what is in this new layer there is no way to interpret the direction in the rest of the header." The architect replies sounding both annoyed and curious at the same time while staying oblivious to the irony of how he sounds just then.
"Isn't that how the trainman works?"
"Yes, it's the same interface. Just that this one goes somewhere else."
"Any idea where?" The oracle asks with a knowing smile.
"No clear data indicates. However the ideal solution would be to follow when someone is infected by the what is obviously a variant of a tracer virus ans then see where they go. The path is obviously dynamic. Based on a geometery of routing done once you pass a certain threshold soemwhere."
"So what we need is a pawn then." The oracle replied smiling.
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Hope to have the next up a little sooner.