Disclaimer: I don't own The Matrix.
Thanks for the reviews! I don't know why I'm continuing this story, but oh well.
I spent the next few weeks feeling miserable. Now and then, my owner would pick me up, make me bend and smile at me, but I never smiled back any more. I knew the truth now, and there was nothing he could do to change that.
Some of the other spoons on the SIMS sympathised with me. One of them belonged to Tommy. His name was Dake, and he was a dinner spoon with a criss-cross pattern on his handle. He told me that he knew how bad his owner could be at times. Dake still had some dried oatmeal on his scoop because Tommy hadn't washed him properly the last time. I felt sorry for Dake. No spoon should be allowed to live in such unhygenic conditions for so long.
Dake told me stuff about Tommy's private life, like how he spent night after night playing Minesweeper as the computer ran searches for something called the Matrix. Tommy had never finished an expert level Minesweeper game before, and Dake found that very funny. The rest of Tommy's cutlery found it funny too, and they were always laughing at him.
Then one night, strange things happened to Tommy's computer when he was sleeping after about a hundred unsuccessful attempts to finish a Minesweeper expert level game. Green words appeared on the screen and told him to wake up. So he woke up. The words said some other stuff too, but the part Dake remembered most was when it told Tommy to follow the white rabbit.
Dake was scared of rabbits. All spoons are scared of them, because of what happened some time last year. A spoon, Nia, was left lying on a field when her owners forgot to take her with them after their picnic. After a while, a wild rabbit came up to her and sniffed her. Nia was terrified, but she couldn't do anything. Then the rabbit peed on her, and poor Nia was scarred for life. She never got back to her owners, too, and was left on the grass covered with rabbit urine until the day she went mad. No one can bear to talk about her any more.
Anyway, Dake said that some days after the green words appeared on the computer screen, Tommy left and never returned again. He thought that I was probably the last spoon to have seen him, but apparently an old spoon who lived under a carpet in Lafayette Hotel said she had spotted him that morning. She'd tried to tell him that his cutlery all missed him deeply, mainly because they couldn't laugh at his Minesweeper skills - or lack of them - any more, but Tommy hadn't replied. None of his friends had said anything either. Humans. They're all the same.
Days passed. And then I was spoonnapped.
It was Morpheus who did it. I saw him sometimes whenever he came to bring people to see the Oracle. I like the Oracle. She treats all her cutlery very well, especially the spoons. They're always kept clean and shiny.
Morpheus said something to my owner about testing out a new theory he had, then he took me and stuck me into his pocket. I freaked out. It was dark in there. When Morpheus took me out again, we were in this huge, scary-looking smelting place. And then he put me over a furnace! I screamed, but he didn't stop. The heat was killing me! My handle started to go soft and funny, when Morpheus suddenly poured some red liquid over me. It kinda dissolved into my melted handle, I think. I'm not sure, because that was about when I fainted.
The next thing I saw when I regained consciousness was a bunch of humans around some weird-looking equipment. I was fully solid again, which was good. I checked with the other spoons over the SIMS to see if they knew where I was. The old spoon who lived under the carpet in Lafayette Hotel said she could see me from where she was.
I didn't know why Morpheus would be bringing me here. There was this mirror thing nearby that suddenly started to look like the Stargate from the movie Stargate. One of my friends had seen his owner watching it, and had shown me pictures over the SIMS.
The mirror was getting gooey. It was gross, but it was even worse when Morpheus suddenly stuck my handle into it.
I screamed. The black gooey stuff was spreading all over me! I screamed again as I was totally covered, when suddenly I found myself in this red coloured pod thing.
I felt strangely different. I also felt like I was drowning, which was strange, because I'd been underwater many times before when I was being washed and it felt nothing like this. Then I looked down and saw myself.
I was human.
I fainted.
TO BE CONTINUED... Review!
Mystic Kyra: Thanks for reviewing! I've got more fics from the POV of an inanimated being, if you want to read them.
just64helpin: There IS a spoon. ;P Thanks for your review! And for adding this to the Matrix Maelstorm C2 community.
Grim Reaper: Okay, so Kyn's going into the real world. Oboe players of the world unite... Uh, why'd you review twice? Not that it matters. I like reviews.
Draken72: Thanks for the idea to make Kyn human too! Now I just need a reason as to why the machines would make some people be spoons in the Matrix.
Nithke: Thanks for reviewing!
Atiaran: Okay, I will! Thanks for your review!
HyperCaz: There IS a spoon. Stop denying it. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie's coming out May 6th! Argh... right before the exams too, and followed by Star Wars 3. I wonder if my parents will let me go watch. Why do all the good shows have to come out this year? Thanks for reviewing!
Ryu-Gi: Yep, spoons are fun. Sunglasses might be fun to write about too, but that weird green tie that Morpheus wears... uh... don't think so. Thanks for your review!