Chapter 20

Indigo sat in her cell in silence, she had just eaten and couldn't keep anything down. She felt ill, like she had a really bad case of the flu. The ship's doctor came in to check on her. The doctor was a somewhat heavy set middle-aged man about in his 40's. He had a kind demeanor about him.

"How are you feeling?" The doctor asked.

"Like the room is spinning." She told him.

The doctor looked at her for a moment.

"What are your symptoms?" He asked her.

Indigo started to speak.

"Well whenever I get up I feel dizzy and I just ate dinner but I couldn't keep it down. This has never happened before."

"Can you stand?"

"I think so, why?"

"I would like to run some tests on you."

Indigo nodded and took in a deep sigh.

"Okay."

The guards escorted Indigo and the doctor out of her cell and into the sickbay. Once there the doctor put nodes on her forehead and scanned her brain waves. He studied them for a long time trying to determine what was happening. So far he saw nothing wrong.

"This is weird." He had obvious concern in his voice.

"What?"

"With as long as you have been in the matrix, everything seems normal." He informed her.

"So I should be as fit as a fiddle right Doc?"

"Well that still dos not explain why you are throwing up everything you eat and why you are feeling dizzy. This is a long shot, but I want to try an ultra sound."

Indigo was puzzled.

"Why?"

"Well with as long as you have been inside the matrix, there is no telling what the agents have done to you."

Indigo was hurt by the doctor's assumption. They had kind to her during her stay and they were far from the programs they had once been a long time ago.

"Well Doc, I can tell you they didn't inflict any harm on me whatsoever."

"Indigo, I want to believe you. But please let me do this ultrasound. I have to find the reason as to why you're so sick. They could have injected you with a virus or worse."

Just then Onyx walked in.

"Hey sis."

"Hey brat."

"How are you doing?"

"Besides being sicker than a dog and puking, I think I'll live."

Just then the doctor fired up the ultra sound machine. He placed gel on her stomach and swirled two flat handles near her belly. Onyx looked on.

"Oh my God ..." Said the doctor.

"What?" Onyx asked him.

"This is impossible." The doctor was beside himself at what he was seeing on the screen. It looked like a fetus at three weeks growth.

And then he turned up the audio to what sounded like a small heartbeat. Indigo was scared.

"Doc? Please tell me what's going on?" She pleaded with him.

The doctor took a deep breath and then he finally spoke.

"You're pregnant."

Onyx was in shock.

"No fucking way!" Onyx was in disbelief.

"That's impossible Doc ... I can't be ..."

"Ultrasounds don't lie Indigo. You are indeed pregnant." The doctor informed her.

"But how?" She was in shock.

And then the doctor proceeded to ask her questions as Onyx was still in shock over the news.

"When you were in the matrix, were ever intimate with anyone who was unplugged?"

Indigo shook her head.

"No. I wasn't."

And then he turned to Onyx.

"When Indigo was jacked in, did anyone else watch her besides you?"

"No, I kept an eye on her the whole time. Cutter wanted to volunteer but I wouldn't have it. I didn't trust him alone with her when she was jacked in."

"So you were there by her side the whole 30 days she was plugged in?"

"Yes, I was."

And then the doctor turned to Indigo.

"When was the last time you had intercourse here in the real world?"

"It's been over two years now."

She had thought back to her first time there in Zion. Her first time being with Cutter, immediately she knew it was a mistake and never went there again. But in the matrix Smith had been her first and it was more meaningful than it would ever be with Cutter.

"Are you positively sure about that?" The doctor asked her again.

"Yes Doc, I'm sure."

Finally Onyx spoke up.

"Actually Doc I can vouch for that."

The doctor studied the ultrasound even more and was more shocked at what he found.

"This is impossible."

"What?" Onyx asked.

"This is not a normal fetus."

"What do you mean?" She asked.

"I'm saying there is a possibility that this baby is only part human."

"What?"

"I'm saying this baby is radiating more energy than any live human."

"I don't understand."

"Your child, Indigo is half-machine. If you want, and this is your choice we can do something about it."

"Are you talking about abortion?"

"Regretfully yes."

Onyx was still silent.

"I don't know Doc."

"Just think about it."

Just then security came in and escorted her back to her cell. She sat down on the bed and a whole flood of emotions came over her. In her mind, she was happy to be having this child but she knew that if she kept it, the child would grow up to have a very hard life especially if it were only half-human. But she thought back to the time she and Smith said goodbye and how tearful it was. It was then she had made up her mind, she was going to keep this child. Deep down she knew that Smith was the father and secretly it made her happy knowing he gave her something that remind them of their love. She knew that if she terminated this pregnancy she would lose him twice and it was something she just could not bear.