Chapter 5
Trinity continued to makes herself comfortable in the captain's chair as Neo scanned the bridge. Her invisible twin appeared by her side again.
"That chair suits you." She said.
Trinity knew her doppleganger was right, she was suited for command. Her twin continued to whisper into her ear.
"Now all you have to do is get that bitch out of the way." And then she disappeared just a s mysteriously as she appeared by Trinity's side. She looked over to Neo who was making scans with his tri-corder.
"The readings are off the charts here Trin. I've never seen anything like it." Neo told her.
"I wonder what the files can tell us." Trinity said.
Neo took a seat at the console where Trinity joined him a few seconds later.
"Computer, please access all crew files of this ship." Trinity commanded.
"Searching." The computer said.
They both looked as the crew files came up and they noticed a exact twins of themselves. Neo grew pale.
"Computer stop, go back to files with Neo and Trinity." Trinity said.
"Neo first." He said.
The computer quickly gathered up the data and pulled up his file as requested. It started to speak.
"Neo. Matrix name Thomas A. Anderson also known as The One. Awakened by Captain Morpheus of the ship Nebacanezzer. Hero to all of Zion and 01 when he defeated the virus program Smith in the matrix."
"Did he survive?"
"No both Neo and Smith were destroyed in the final battle. The outcome brought peace to both Zion and 01 for many years to come." The computer said.
"If it would have been me, I would have lived." Neo mused to himself.
Trinity chimed in.
"So you're The One huh? Interesting." She turned to the computer.
"Computer tell us about the one called Trinity."
"Searching."
A few moments later Trinity had all the information on her counterpart.
"Files found for Trinity, second in command to Morpheus of the Nebacanezzer."
"Story of my life in both universes." She said out loud to herself.
"Trinity was instrumental in helping Neo defeat Smith but was killed on the way to the machine city of 01."
"Oh fucking great." She said as she rolled her eyes.
As the computer continued to give her history on this other Trinity, she could not help but think as to how weak her counterpart from this alternate time line really was.
Meanwhile in sickbay, Smith and Scarlet were looking over files for other crew members. The names Switch, Apoc, Mouse and Tank all flashed through the screen with the computer telling them of each individual person. Scarlet wondered where she was.
"Computer. Please find files on Scarlet." She ordered.
"Searching."
A few moments later the computer came up with her file it was short.
"Scarlet. Matrix name, Dawn Miller. Awakened by Morpheus but only had a short life span in the real world when she encountered the agent program Smith and was killed by his hand."
She looked over at Smith and Smith looked over at her with concern in his eyes. He knew something was wrong. How could it be that in one universe she would die at his hand and then in this one they would be lovers? They both hated the fact that they had to sneak around because relationships between humans and cyborgs were frowned down on. But this was a different Smith and a different Scarlet from another time line who never had the opportunity to love each other like they did. Smith walked up behind and wrapped his arms around her.
"It's alright. They aren't us." He told her.
"But in a way they are." She said.
"I know, but this Smith hated all humans. I don't." He said as he looked at her with his deep blue eyes.
"One would think that you would with the way most humans have treated you since you were created."
Smith just held her close and let out a small laugh as he kissed her forehead.
"You're not like all humans Scarlet. You treated me with compassion and respect when no other human would. You saw me as a man and not a machine. That's why I love you."
And then he kissed her softly.
Behind the corner Bane was watching.
"Well, well, well." He mused to himself. "Looks like there's a reason the good doctor took an interest in our cyborg after all."
Bane could not help but seeth with jealousy as he watched Smith kiss her. He was a machine, she was human and it looked so wrong in Bane's eyes because he had wanted Scarlet for himself for so long.
A few moments later, The Oracle came up behind Bane as he watched the whole scene unfold. She couldn't see anything.
"Bane?" The sound of her voice made him jump.
He quickly spun around to find the old cyborg staring at him.
"Where the hell have you been?" She asked.
"I'm sorry I wandered off."
Smith and Scarlet heard voices and broke their kiss. Bane and The Oracle entered. Smith and Scarlet looked busy. Scarlet looked over her shoulder.
"Oh sorry, we didn't see you two."
"We just got here." Bane said as he lied through his teeth.
Smith checked his watch.
"I think we better meet up with the rest of the crew."
Scarlet looked in his direction and nodded.
"Yeah, Niobe expects us to report back soon."
The four of them walked towards the rondavue point where they would meet up with Trinity and Neo. They all took their seats inside the shuttle craft as it headed back to their home ship. Bane sat next to Smith.
"Hell of a girl, ain't she?" Bane nudged him.
"Who?"
"You know, our doctor." Bane prodded.
"Yes, we would be lost without her." Smith said.
"I'll bet. So do you think she's pretty?"
"I'm a machine Bane. Hello?"
"I was just wondering, besides I would give anything to be down that hot red heads pants."
That comment unnerved Smith. How dare Bane talk about Scarlet in that way. If they would have been alone, his neck would be snapped in two just for saying that. But Smith sat in silence as Bane continued to talk his trash.
"But then again, I'm not her type. But then again since you're the one who spends a lot of time with the pretty human doctor. You should know what her type is. Right?"
"Fuck off." Was all that Smith said.
The shuttle reached the ship and all of them got out. Smith immediately joined Scarlet by her side as they walked over to the captain's briefing room to report on what they found on the other ship. Bane followed behind them several feet as he glared at them. Smith cracked a joke and made Scarlet laugh.
'Fucking machines! Why can't they stay away from our women?' Bane thought to himself as he watched Smith and Scarlet in front of him.
Finally they reached the briefing room an were greeted by Captain Niobe.
