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"We've got to get him, or else they'll get Zion's coordinates," shark said. "They can't know"

"No shit" Aires replied "They get that, we're fuckin' fucked"

"Well, what the hell do we do", Snow asked.

"We go in," Winter said.

It was a dubious idea sending three rebels (Aires, snow, shark) into the matrix to rescue the pilot of a ship that had just been destroyed and was surrounded by sentinels, but it was the only hope. Whether it would work or not was not the question, the odds were 10-1, the question was whether it was suicide. As the team mounted up, each took a possible last glance at the real world. "They say it looks different, more beautiful, like it was 500 years ago, when you jack in to die. I gotta tell ya, lookin' differn't," Shark, the captain, said.

"Okay, here's the plan," York, the computer operator, said "You guys go through vents, split up when you see the elevator. Snow, Shark get the helicopter. It will be fully equipped, and besides, you've got the key and the training." York seemed confident in the operation. "Okay, let's do this," he said.

Snow was first in; she came out in a subway telephone. As did Aires, who was next To get jacked in. Finally, Shark went inside. All three were now in the matrix, the next checkpoint would be to get inside the government building.

"All right, you're in," York said "This is the best I can do"

"Okay, where's the building," Shark said "You said it'd be close by"

"Two blocks down on your right," York said "It's the big glass building."

They drove up, but parked a good block away for security. The agents would undoubtedly spot them if they didn't. Besides, all civilians had to park outside the government entrance.

"Okay," York said "Here's how it goes: Shark and Snow; Get the helicopter; it's located on the roof, that'll be Aires escape route. Aires; you're to kill capt. Rourke , he's the one there interrogating. You'll get in via the ventilation shafts, Just get onto the sixth floor, Go into the bathroom shaft, I'll take from there. Cool? Okay, let's do this.

"We'll be going in via the matinence stairs. You should take the other flight of them," Snow said.

"How'll you get authorization to use those stairs," Aires replied.

"That's the easy part," Shark said "York already took care of that."

Shark handed Aires a yellow authorization card. "Pull this out, and it's all downhill from there."

"Why didn't York tell me about this," Aires thought.

They made there entrance and as they reached the sixth floor, they parted. "Well, this is my stop," Aires said sarcastically, reducing Shark and Snow to giggles. "Anyway, you better grab that helicopter. If you don't I'll be screwed and pissed.

Aires opened the door to no commotion, a very good omen. The floor was empty, other than the interrogating room where Rourke was getting fried. Aires hoped it would stay this way as he made his entrance into the bathroom. He opened the vent and climbed in, praying the agents didn't hear him. Once he was inside, he called York. Who gave him the directions. "Okay turn left here." Aires could feel Rourke's pain as he came over him. "Don't worry, you'll be out of pain soon," He said to himself. "Okay, break the shaft now," York said.

Aires smashed the vent and whipped his two Mac2's, blasting them at anything moving, the agents or Rourke. One of His bullets got lucky; It hit Rourke in the chest. Rourke screamed in pain as the blood ran down his chest. Aires was nearing the window when he saw the helicopter. He fired one last bullet, scattering Rourke's brains across the room. As he jumped through the window, two bullets, from the agent's guns hit him; One in the lower back and one in the leg. He grabbed onto the helicopter, As Shark let go of the machine guns trigger. As Aires pulled himself up, Shark was hit square in the head by Agent brows last clip. He lay dead on the ground, a large pool of blood surrounding his head.

Meanwhile, the machines had tracked there ships position, several sentinels were only a half mile away and counting. "Shit, we got squiddies," winter said "And there movin' fast"

"We can't give 'em more than five minutes, or we'll all die," York said.

"You're right, charge the EMP.

Meanwhile, another agent had hit the helicopter in the engine. "We're goin' down," Snow said "Aires jump."

Aires leapt off the chopper, hitting the ground with excruciating pain. He saw the chopper, it wasn't going to land. The last he saw of it was an enormous explosion as it crashed into a massive crane working on a skyscraper. Aires received a call. It was York. "There dead," Aires explained.

"No shit Sherlock," York replied. "Listen, you gotta get to the exit, 'cuz we got fuckin' company."

Aires raced to the exit, picking up the phone as quickly ass it rang. With a swift snatch of the phone, he was back out.The first thing he saw was a Sharp claw piercing York's heart. In a millisecond, the EMP was blown.