Sorry if this chapter isn't the greatest . . . I wanted to make it unique to Switch and not just copy the movie word for word.
-gwen
Sydney waited for something to happen. Nothing did. "Well that was rather anticlimactic."
Morpheus smiled. "Come with me." He got up and walked out the door where Niobe and Ghost had disappeared a moment ago. Sydney followed, but somewhat reluctantly. By some instinct, she felt that if she walked through the door, her life would change forever.
It's a bit late for that, stupid. Your life has already changed forever.
Ignoring her (rather annoying) inner voice, she stepped through the doorway. It was like passing into another dingy, litter-strewnwarehouse the two had been in a moment before, this was a tiny, computer and technology packed room. A young woman with black hair, perhaps a bit older than Sydney sat at one of the moniters. She looked up and smiled as they entered.
"Still nothing, Morpheus."
Morpheus nodded. "We have time Trinity, don't worry. Niobe?" The African-American woman nodded and gestured for Sydney to sit in the only chair in the room. Then, pushing up the sleeves of the teen's shirt, she attached white sensors to her arms and temples.
"What's that for?" she asked.
"We need to moniter your vitals, in case you go critical before we locate your body in the real world."
"What do you mean, the real world?"
Niobe smiled. "Just try and relax. Your questions will all be answered in time."
Ghost looked up from his computer screen. "Irregular brain activity . . . the delusions have started."
"You're leaving?"
Sydney snapped her head around. Fiona was there, looking confused and panicked. "What are you - where did she come from?" She looked to Morpheus, but he just shook his head.
"I need you Sydney! Don't leave, you can't leave me!" Fiona reached towards her, starting to cry. "You know what will happen!" The tears turned red - blood. "You can't leave!" she screamed.
"Trinity, Ghost, hurry."
Fiona stumbled towards Sydney, who squirmed away, pressing herself hard into the back of the chair. "Don't leave me, please!" Blood started pouring down her face and she fell to the ground. She reached up and grabbed Sydney's hands.
"Auugh! Get away," Sydney said. She looked down in horror at her hands, now bloody. The red liquid started oozing upward. "It's cold, it's cold!" She shuddered and tried to wipe it off. "Help me," she yelled at the others, who, to her, appeared to be standing by impassively.
The blood was up to her neck now. "I got her," Trinity yelled.
Morpheus whipped out a cellphone. "Now Tank," he barked into the phone.
Sydney screamed.
And woke up.
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-gwen