This is Chapter 1 of the story. This is all about LM's past before the Matrix, and then he dreams about the truth.
Chapter Notes: A couple of things I put in this chapter is similar to the Matrix and Animatrix. You'll see it when you read it.
Narrative: Italics
Disclaimer: I don't own the Matrix.
Chapter 1: Dreaming the Truth
LM: It all started on April 15th, 2001. I was 17 years old and I had a normal life like any other teenager, wake up in the morning, go to school, head home, and go to sleep. I was a great kid though, I get good grades in high school, help out my family, hell I even head to karate to practice my moves two to three times a week. It was nothing out of the ordinary until that day. I was sitting on living room chair with a small cut on my forehead and my parents were arguing to me about it. What happened was that I had an argument with a student that won't keep her mouth shut in history. I forcefully pound my fist on her desk with the pointed pencil sticking upward. She moved my fist away from her but in the process, cut my forehead open with the sharpen pencil. I didn't know it was an accident or it was on purpose, all I know is that she did it and it made my parents real pissed off.
Luis was sitting on the chair bowing his head in disappointment as his mother was arguing at him about his actions. His dad is at the sofa watching the news, saying that a group of terrorists bombarded a federal building.
Mom: I can't believe you! What were you thinking about letting her cut you like that?
Luis: Mom, I didn't know that it was going to happen. Besides she said she's sorry for what happen today.
Mom: Did she really mean it? I don't think so. She must've done it on purpose!
Luis: But mom-
Dad: Your mom is right son. You said to us that the girl caused you problems in the past, but you can't admit that she was sorry for what she did to you. Look at you, that cut is almost to your eye. If that pencil were to make contact to your eye, you would've gone half blind. And if that's the case, you should've at least gone to the doctor's and had it examined. Instead you let her go give you a bandage to patch up you up. You could have like an infection from the bleed or something.
Luis: How was I supposed to know that there could be infections in that cut?
Mom: Listen Luis, what were trying to say is that you think that life is just a game. Truth is that it's not a game, it's all real. You have to learn how to defend yourself from anything, to act your age when you're older.
Luis: As if I can act my age!
Luis got out from his chair and hurried to his room, leaving his parents in total shock.
Mom: You think we were too hard on him?
Dad: Don't worry about it, he's just a teenager, kids like him always act like that. Its just part of the stage on growing up. Just give him a few days; he'll be back to normal soon enough.
Meanwhile upstairs, Luis was in his room feeling upset about what happened downstairs. He was throwing pillows and papers to the floor then laid on his bed still thinking about what his mom said.
Luis: How can she, how could my mom say that I need to act like a real person. Sometimes I think that I'd never want to act my age so that I would do whatever I want. Though my mom does have a point, this life is real, (feeling tired) not just a game.
Luis slowly closed his eyes and drifted to sleep.
LM: Yes that was true, I once thought that the world around me was real. Sadly I was wrong.
Luis was sleeping peacefully when he heard a very weird noise. He opened his eyes a strange looking centipede that had red eyes and a metallic body. He slowly sat up as the metal centipede crawled away from him. When he looked up he wasn't in his room, he was in a desolate area looking at what seemed to be a city only it looked like it went through the apocalypse.
Luis: What the… Where am I?
He got out of his bed and walked down a desert field and into the disastrous city. As he walked down the deserted street he saw debris and smashed cars but no sign of any life what so ever.
Luis: Strange, I wonder where is everybody? (yelling) Hello, is anyone out there? Hello!
He then heard a strange noise coming from an abandon apartment store of some kind. He entered the store and looked around the area only to see a destroyed floor filled with broken appliances and skeletons. He proceeded further into the store when he saw a mysterious shadow walking away.
Luis: Hello?
Luis followed the shadow into a dark hallway that only illuminate blue light from the sky. He then stopped when he saw the figure in the dark corridor.
Luis: Excuse me, but can you help me out for a moment? I'm kind of lost and I don't know what happened to this city. Perhaps you could tell me about what happened here.
The figure slowly walked to a blue light coming form the ceiling. When Luis saw it, he couldn't believe it. The figure was a strange robot thin spider legs, oddly shape bodies, and two glowing red eyes with wavy antennas sticking out of them.
Luis: What the…
Before he could find out what it is, the robot jumped upside down landing on those wavy antennas, which were now tentacle like legs. There was a head that had four red eyes that was looking at him, and then position itself in battle and lunged itself on Luis.
Luis: Holly crap!
Luis started to run for his life as the robot landed right side up and ran after him with its spider like legs. Luis continued to go from corner to corner to get away from the robot but it surprised him from one place to another. He quickly went to another hallway where there's a door at the end of it. He ran for the door the same time as the robotic drone got closer to him. Luis made it to the door, but when he opened it, he started falling into a dark abyss. He kept falling until he grabbed an unknown cable and slid down to a cylinder structure and landed on one of the strange pods that were attached to the structure.
Luis: That was new. At least I got away from that thing, whatever it was.
Luis quickly looked up to find the door but couldn't find it. The only thing he sees were more cylinder structures that had the same red pods with lightning bolts zapping in different directions.
Luis: Great, now where am I.
He then looked at one of the pods and saw a young naked woman floating in some strange liquid. To make things more creepier is the tubes that are connected to her arms, legs, spine, and even in her nose and mouth.
Luis: Oh god! This is horrible! Who would do something like that?
Luis carefully sidestepped one pod after another hoping not to fall. He took a look at each pod and saw different type of people in them connected to tubes. Young and old, male and female, white and black, each of them were in those strange type of prisons. But what really got his attention was the pod that he was on. He took a closer look and saw himself?
Luis: Is that me???
Suddenly, two octopuses like robots came down the sky with seventeen red eyes and fifteen tentacles. Luis looked up and noticed those things. The only thing he could do is to jump off the pod hoping that he would land on something comfortable. He walked up to the edge of his pod and jumped off it. He thought he got away from octopus robots, but one of the tentacles grabbed him by the waist and slammed him on the wall of the cylinder structure. Luis was trying to get out of the metal claw that is attached to the tentacles but it's just too strong to let go. The robots just floated there waiting for something when a strange drone hovered down between the two octopus bots and used the camera lens to look at Luis. It quickly opened itself up, showing multiple surgery tools. Fear came into Luis's eyes as he struggled to break free from the tentacle but it was all useless.
Luis: Let me go!
The floating drone approached Luis with a small drill poised at his forehead. Luis couldn't do anything but just stare at the drone, completely scared. Without warning, the drone stabbed its drill on Luis's forehead by force.
Luis: No!
Luis jumped out of his bed with sweat dripping down his face. He looked around and was back in his room. He then saw his mom and dad entering the room checking on their son.
Mom: Luis, are you O.K.? What happened?
Luis: I don't know. I was in some strange world in some destroyed city. Then weird robots attacked me with drills and tentacles, and I see people nude in some pods connected to some tubes. They attacked me and-
Dad: Son, it was just a dream. Dreams don't hurt anyone; they're just your imaginations. Now get back to bed, you have school tomorrow.
Luis's parents then left the room but Luis just sat on his bed still thinking about his dream.
Luis: (talking to himself) But it felt so real.
That's all for chapter 1. To tell you the truth, that incident in high school really happened. Actually, it was on October of 2002, not in 2001. I just want to start the story some way before the dream. Please Review.
