Sorry I've taken so long to update. About Lightning flooring Trinity you have to remember that Lightning is going really fast and the fact that she surprised Trinity by just dropping out of the air. I'm sorry if people thought that was a bit rash.

Here's the next part.

Neo POV

I watch as Trin trips Lightning and then fall and grab her foot and Lightning slam to the floor and skid into a pillar at great speed. I can remember the first time I was smashed into a pillar and boy does it hurt but I wasn't going into it at about twenty miles an hour. She is going to be sore.

I walk over to Trin's chair to help her out of it. She winces slightly as she puts her foot down. I look up and see Morpheus helping Lightning out. She stands up for about ten seconds shakily before she falls into Morpheus. He sighs and picks her up at which she cries out in pain.

"Uh ribs" she says and he puts her down carefully "I'm alright I just need a bit of time for my legs to come back online" she smiles and shakes her head slightly.

"Why do they do that?" I ask and she just shrugs.

"I have no idea. Ever since I've been able to do this really, it used to be a lot worse when I first ran for more than about fifteen minutes or so I would be unable to walk for at least two days. It gradually got better in the matrix I could run at my very top speed for about half an hour and I only had about an hour or two of no feeling afterwards, at lower speeds I could run for longer periods of time but after about four to five hours I would kind of collapse of exhaustion."

"I'm not surprised" Morpheus says.

"Yeah well this should get better after awhile I think my body is acclimatising to this world"

"Well you will be for some time you've only been here for about a week" Trin says "But well done you managed to floor me"

"Yes and you tried to kill me I think we're even" she says sticking her hand out.

Trin laughs and shakes her hand. I'm still not really used to Trin laughing openly she doesn't do it often. I think her sister is good for her. Morpheus gives her to Tank and he carries her off to the med bay I assume. Trin is looking after them

"It wasn't your fault" I say and she looks at me

"I should have realised"

"Better to do it now than inside" says Morpheus and I nod.

Lightning POV

Tank is carrying me to the med bay complaining about how much I'm wriggling.

"Would you just stay still? It won't help your frigging ribs if you keep wriggling or if I accidentally drop you of course"

"Oh ha, ha" I say wincing slightly. I am in pain not that I want to admit that.

"That was pretty amazing what you did in there" Tank says and I look at him.

"What?"

"You floored the great Trinity in under five minutes. No one can do that except Neo and maybe Morpheus. It usually takes at least fifteen"

"Maybe it's the genes" I say

"Maybe" he says "Do you want to go the med bay or back to your room?"

"Can I go to my room please?" I ask looking at him pleadingly. He turns around and walks back down the corridor to go to another turning.

"You know you're as bad my little niece and nephew"

"You have family in Zion then"

"Yep. I have a sister and my brother's widow"

"I'm sorry to hear that" I look at him he looks sad "What was his name?"

"Dozer"

"Good name" I say and he smiles "What are the rest of your family called?"

"My sister is called Zee and her husband is Link. My brother's wife is called Cass and her kids are Jazzy and Kai. They're six and four"

"They have you wrapped around their little fingers I expect"

"Yep"

"Well Lightning here's your room" he says putting me down gently. I grab onto the wall and pull myself along until I get to the bed. "You ok?" I nod "I'll just go and get an IV and some ice."

"Thanks" I say as he leaves. I lie back on the bed carefully. I hate having hurt ribs it means it hurt to breathe which is more than slightly annoying. Well might as well try and get some sleep I suppose.

Trinity POV

Neo bound my foot for me telling me at the same time not to step out in front of any cars for awhile. He's so witty sometimes.

Anyway that was yesterday and today we have a meet a potential inside. Lightning is up and about sort of she has to lean on things and pull herself along to get anywhere. It took her about fifteen minutes to get to the cock pit this morning but she's learning to drive now as it is about all she can do. Another shudder, you can always tell when a newbie is driving you tend to hit more things and have more abrupt turns. Neo isn't used to this and is a little bit edgy.

"What's up with you?" Tank says as Neo clings onto the side on the panel.

"I'm not used to the whole jerking thing. I still trip over the wires without the extra bumps and swerves" he says shaking his head slightly.

"You were just as bad" he says.

I smile at this remembering Neo swearing he was never going to go near the cock pit again after having a near collision. I saved us just in time but he was scared off driving for awhile until I persuaded him to try again. I look up through the grating above me and see Neo smiling down at me.

"No admit it I was worse" he says still looking down at me.

"How did Trinity get you to go back and drive?" he asks slyly. I walk underneath him and grab his foot making him shriek and jump up as Neo blushes then laughs as Tank jumps. He looks down and almost growls at me as I smirk up at him. "Damn you two are so annoying"

"We can only try" I say going back to welding and fiddling with these damn wires. What the hell is up with them?

"You need any help Trin" Neo says from above.

"You know how these circuits are wired don't you?" I ask.

These are new they were put in last time we went to Zion and they blew this morning, the second time in ten days I might add and only Morpheus knew how to fix them.

"Yeah Morpheus showed me the other day. You want me to show you?"

"Yeah" I say and then sit back and wait for him to get down here. I push the hair out of my eyes then rub my eyes with both hands. I feel hands on my shoulders and look up to see Neo kneeling next to me.

"Hey" he says quietly.

"Hey" he leans down and kisses my forehead gently.

"Come on sit" he pats the floor between his legs and I look at him "Come on I can still show you like this it takes awhile so…" he pats the floor again and I sigh

"Alright if it keeps you happy" I say as I sit down.

"Ecstatic" he says kissing my neck.

"Neo we do need to get some work done"

"I know" he says and grabs the tool kit putting it in my lap "Here hold this would you?"

"Of course" I say sarcastically.

We are like that for about half an hour before Morpheus comes looking for us. I knew we'd have to go in soon chiefly from the fact that we'd stopped moving.

"Neo, Trinity where are you?" he called. Neo sighs into my hair before saying.

"We'll be right up" he lets me up and I get to my feet. We smile at each other as I pass him to go up the stairs first. I see Lightning sitting on one of the jack-in chairs that used to belong to Switch. She smiles as she sees us and then jumps up off the chair.

"Hey you can walk again" Neo says. She nods.

"I can even dance if I have to" she spins round proving this point looking quite a lot like some orphan in rags that I saw at a musical once. Everything on this ship is far too big for her you can't see her hands or boots most of the time.

"Are you coming in with us then?" Neo asks.

"I don't know" she says "Morpheus didn't say" Morpheus appears behind her and she jumps turning round to face him.

"I don't think you should come this time little Lightning. You need to run the jump program and the agent program."

"I know about agents" she says "They can be anyone that is plugged in. They're stupidly fast fighters and can dodge bullets. They have a lot of stamina too but aren't all that speedy"

"So that one less program we have to run" said Morpheus "But you can be our back up today ok?"

"That's fine I want to see how it's done anyway" she says.

Tank shows her how to load someone up demonstrating with Neo and then she does me. I smile up at her as she holds the needle unsure.

"It's ok" I say

"I don't want to hurt you" she says

"You won't it's alright you get used to it" I say "It just feels weird now"

"Ok" she says then pushes the needle in.

TBC

Hope you like. I'll update quicker next time.