Chapter 5

Truth can be hard

Disclaimer: I vow I don't own Kim Possible and Co. or the Matrix and anything related to it.

Monique tried to open her eyes but she found it is painful all she could do was squint. "Why does my body and eyes hurt?"

"You never used them before. Rest, you will get better." Answered an unknown source. Then Monique fell to darkness again. She woke up later to find she was in baggy, worn-out clothes, she looked at her arm to see a needle in a plug, she removes the needle in great pain. The door is opened by Kim "Come on Mon', time to get you introduced to the ship and crew." Monique gets up and is lead by Kim into the control room of the ship. "This is the control room of the ship, where we hack into the matrix. You know most of us but this is Brad and his little brother Wade, they are our operators."

"Before you asked what is the matrix. Let me show you." Drakken guides Monique over to a jack chair, "This may feel a little odd." They slot the needle into the plug at the back of Moniques head. Monique feels intense pain all around her then it stops, she looks are and a the machinery is gone and the people are too, she looks around once more to see Buffer, in a suit(shirt and pants). "This is the construct, where we can load anything from sparing programs to guns."

"You mean we're in a program?"

"Is it that hard to believe lassie. Your hairs back, no plugs and your thinner." Monique feels her hair and were the plugs use to be. "It's what we call RSI, your residual self image. It's what your mind sees you as." Then two chairs and a old tv appears.

"Is it real?"

"How do you say what's real, what you can see, touch, taste, then real is electrical impulses interpreted by the brain, you lived in a dream world lassie, this is what you thought the world was," Shows a picture of Middleton all happy and safe "This is what it is today" Buffer clicks a button and it shows Middleton all destroyed and black, "Welcome to the desert of the living." They are now in a destroyed Middleton high. "At the end of the 21st century mankind was united in the birth of A.I."

"Artificial intelligence."

"Yes lassie. One mind that spawned millions others, all these machines, it was bound to start a war, it did, we don't know you fired the first shots, probably us but we were the ones to blacken the skies. At that time they were dependant on solar power but hey found another source, us. They combined us with a kind of fusion and thy found all the energy they needed, they need us to turn us into this." Buffer finished by pulling up a battery, this freaked Monique out she started to break down, Insight came from the shadows and helped Mon' up and sat her on the couch. "Wade, get Mon' out."

Next thing Monique knew was is was back in the chair Kim and Ron were on either side of her, Kim picked Monique up, who was sobbing uncontrollably, and took her to her room to let her sleep. Once Monique hit the bed she fell asleep immediately, she woke up later to find Ron sitting near her "Come on Monique, we gotta train you." Ron pulled Monique out of her bed and dragged her down the hall and into the jack room.

"Training?"

"Yes Mon', we're gonna make you strong." Brad pulls out somethings that Monique sees as floppy disks while Ron is trying to get her into the chair and ready for the training, "These are just pieces of crap, so lets start with something fun. How 'bout combat training." Brad holds up a disk.

"I'm going to learn taekwondo." Then Moniques body starts shacking, it stops with her panting.

"She likes, she likes. Want more?"

"Hell! Yes." She sits back.

Kim and Ron appear walk up beside Brad, who is blinking."How long?" Kim asks.

"8 hours, she amost beat Neo." Kim walks over to Moniques body. Monique opens her eyes and has a smile on her face.

"I know kung fu."Kim leans forward "Show me."

Next thing Monique knew was see was standing in a dojo in a white gi. Insight was standing in front of her in a black gi. "This is our sparing program, it has the same basic rules as the matrix, what you have to learn that these rules can be bent or broken." said Insight

"Alright." Monique answers

"That quickly, so hit me." Insight says with a challenge in her voice.

Monique charges at Insight, punches at her head, Insight blocks and counters by sweeping Monique's legs out, Monique jumps up just as a heel comes down where she was, Monique kicks at Insight's chest just to have her foot caught and then slung into the ground, Monique keeps trying to hit Insight but she keeps blocking and countering until Monique bounces off the wall at Insight with a kick, Insight just moves to the side and grabs the leg and swings Monique into the ground.

"How did I beat you?"

"Your to agile."

"My reflexs don't matter in here, by the way do you think that's air your breathing." Kim turns around. "Again."

Monique and Kim are in a new rebuilt dojo and are facing off again, it happens much like the first one expect Insight is on the offensive, but the oddest thing happens, Moniques arms are moving at such intense speeds the air around them turn to flames forcing Insight to stop blocking because of the heat. Then Monique punched forward with the flames still around her arms falling a inch short of Insight's nose "I know what your trying to do."

Insight laughs "I know what your matrix name."

"What?"

"Inferno." Insight points to Inferno's arms to see their still on fire. "Wade, load the jump."

Inferno and Insight were now standing on top of a large skyscraper

"Fear, doubt, let it all go. Free your mind." Insight then ran to the edge of the 'scraper and jumped the enormous gap between the two. Monique seeing this thinks 'don't look down', she runs at the edge and jumps the distance, leaving everyone not jacked in awe struck, Insight expected this because see knew Inferno was one to think simple things that enables her to do incredible things, like light her arms up with fire. When Inferno landed Insight congratulated her "Well done Inferno, you're the first person to do that the first time. Let's get outta here."

With those words Monique and Kim returned to the real world.

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My datanotes:

Finally broke the typers block

Monique is Inferno

When in the matrix or construct I will refer to them by their matrix name ie: Inferno, Insight, Buffer

When in the real world I will use their real names ie: Kim, Drakken, Brad

To recap whose who: Kim is Insight, Ron is Shadow, Shego is Phoenix, Drakken is Banks, Killigan is Buffer and Monique is Inferno.

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