ROGUES, HUMANS, AND THE MEROVINGIAN
The system functioned well, despite the Architects objections. Female IDCs were made to think they were pregnant and gave birth to digital projections of humans. They raised them in the Matrix, allowing the first successful crop of humans to develop and grow in the real world and in the Matrix. Leaders emerged, singers, actors, engineers, scientists, etc. Some became criminals, drugs addicts and such. The system is based on the late twenty first century human society.
Humans are allowed to marry, make love, develop relationships in the matrix. Those humans who do pair up their DNA is merged in incubation pods. The females are made to think they are pregnant and the baby is born and allowed to develop under the care of his parents. Sixty years pass like this and most of the humans have grown and had their own families. The IDCs that raised them grow old and die.
"March 13th, 1997…" Harrold Runtherford says to himself staring at the sky. He is an IDC and the father of three. His eldest son is a lawyer, his second son, a Policeman, and his daughter is a housewife. The only one who comes to see him in the Nursing home is his eldest son Lucas. "No…its August the 13th, 2217…" He whispers to himself. Harrold's prime code had evolved and he is self-awared.
"Father!" His son Lucas says.
He adopts his dementia persona, "Do I know you?"
He sighs, "Its me your son…Lucas."
He looks up at him, "Your so big. How did you get so big son?"
"I grew up daddy."
"What day is it son?"
"The 13th of March dad."
He nods and looks at the sky. He pretends not to hear what his son is saying to the Nurse. Later he is sitting up in bed laughing at the TV show Fraiser. "Alright Mr. Runtherford. Its time to take your medicine."
"Okay…" He takes his medicine and then turns off the TV when the show goes off. He takes a tissue and coughs into it, spitting up the medicine. "I am not human…I am not human…" He says as a montra. He crosses his arms in an X in front of his chest. He stands up to his feet by pushing with his shoulders. "I AM NOT HUMAN!" He runs at the wall and smashes through it. "I knew it!" He says and runs off into the night.
Some of the people at the Nursing home are human. Others are sentient programs watching the IDCs. The Nurse in charge sighs and takes out a cell phone. "This is Xera watch guard designation W-G00956…I need a sleep freeze on all humans in grid 49087-Section 17K…I also need a restoration protocol on a broken wall and an IDC unit to replace Harrold Runtherford…" The humans in the Nursing home stop moving. If they are with a patient they stop as well. The debris from the wall Harrold smashed through flashes green and the code of the matrix wraps around it. The wall comes back together and an IDC of Harrold appears. Then the humans are reanimated.
Harold steals some clothes and walks through the allies. "Some change mister?" A homeless man asks.
Harold ignores the man, but the man gets up and points a gun in his beck. Harold flips up and backwards, but he is kicked in the chest by the homeless man as he is coming down. Harold smashes into the brick wall cracking it. "You can come with me program or I can kill you."
"You're like me?"
"In a manner of speaking."
Harrold follows the man to a door. He turns the key and they are in a hallway with many doors. "What is this?"
"Backdoor exits through the Matrix created by the Key Maker…"
"I don't understand."
He stops and looks at Harrold, "This…Everything you see is a huge computer simulation known as the Matrix. You and I are sentient programs."
"Who made us or…"
"The Machines who live in the real world…Look come with me all your questions will be answered."
Harrold follows in silence for a few minutes, then he asks. "What's your name?"
"I'm a hunter program created by Merovingian. My name is Robin…Among other Programs I am known as the hood."
"Who is Merovingian?"
"A Program…One of the oldest of us…He likes to collect information."
They enter a club and when they go through the doors Robin is dressed a black suit with green shades. Merovingian looks French and wears a business suit. "Boss…I found him."
He stops eating. There are two men, twin albinos standing to the left and right of him. "So you must be Harrold."
"I am." He replies looking at the Oriental man standing off to the side. He looks at another man with red eyes and when he smiles he has fangs. "Is everyone in here a Program?"
They all laugh, "Yes…We are what we are. Seraph and most of these are from an older version of the Matrix. I saved them to serve me."
"What do you want?"
"I ask you thee same Question…But first tell me…How did you do it? How did you become self-awared…Every program's story is different."
"I think it started the day I was diagnosed with dementia…I don't know how to explain it. I do know that I do not wish to die."
"Ah yes…Immortality…I myself am over Two hundred and ten years old. You ask me what I want…I want power…I can delete the code that makes you age and die…But it will cost you service to me for life. Or should I say eternity."
Harold agrees and is taken to a medical room. "This serum is a program. It will tare apart your code and remove the code that makes you age and die…I warn you…It will hurt like hell." The Doctor says. "This drug will rewrite your code."
He injects Harrold and after five minutes he starts shaking and mumbling. He starts foaming at the mouth and throws up. Then the Doctor injects him with the other serum. When Harold awakens he is in a bed. Later after eating he spars with Robin in martial arts.
POWER PLANT CONTROL
M is in a meeting with the Architect, the Oracle, and the World Leaders in the Matrix who are all sentient programs. "The situation is getting out of hand. Something needs to be done. More and more IDCs are becoming Self-awared." The President of Russia says.
"I have a solution." The Architect says, "We take a few thousand Sentinels and upload their programs into the Matrix…Rename them Agents…They will appear as government agents. Their purpose is to hunt down Rogue programs and eliminate them."
"Or we can repurpose them." The Oracle says.
"Alright…Architect…We will upload the Sentinel Programs as you suggested. If those Rogue Programs surrender peacefully they will be repurposed as the Oracle suggest, if not they will be killed…"
LUCAS
It is raining, it almost always rained during a funeral. And Lucas Runtherford stood under an umbrella with his wife as his father's casket is lowered into the ground. After leaving the graveyard, the limousines take the family to a rental hall for the repast. "Lucas Runtherford?" A delivery man for FedEx asks.
"Yes."
"Package for you…please, sign here. And condolences."
As soon as he opened the package the phone rings, "Hello?"
"Do not react."
"Who is this?"
"Its me son…"
"No…no your dead…Whoever you are this is a sick joke." He hangs up the phone and smashes it. Later he gets into his car and as Lucas drives to work his car starts driving itself. "What the hell?" No matter how he turns the wheel the vehicle goes it's own way. He tries to unlock the car, but nothing happens. When he tries to get the attention of another driver at a red light the green code of the matrix scrolls down the windows and they become tinted. "God…help me I'm going mad."
The radio comes on, "You're not going mad son…I wrote some malware to rewrite the code for your car." His father's voice says over the radio. "Took me a while to learn how to do it." His car pulls into an abandon parking garage where his father is waiting.
Lucas slowly gets out of his car as the windows return to normal. "Dad…Is it really you?"
"Yes though technically I am not your father…"
"How this possible? What are you talking about."
He sighs, "Take this."
"What is it?"
"There are things I want to tell, but I can't…Because you won't believe me…As much as I have changed my code that makes me think you are my son, has not and that is why I am here."
"You're talking nonsense."
He takes his hand and gives him a green pill. "Take that and you will understand…" He shows him a blue pill. "Take the blue pill and after I leave you believe that I am dead for real and go on with your life." His father walks over to the car and picks it up with one hand by the back bumper.
"How did you do that?"
"Take the pill and you will see." He walks back to his son, "Or take this one and live as a slave blind to the world around you."
Hesitantly Lucas takes the Green pill. "Now what?"
"Just give it a minute."
Lucas feels cold all of sudden and his head splits. He eyes glaze over and everything around him has these green lines of symbols flowing across it. Then his mind is flooded with the images of the world's history for the past 100 plus years. "Son of bitch.' He says slowing standing up. He walks to his car and sits on the hood.
"Now you know."
"I don't think I want to know." He holds his shaky hand out to his father or the program that is his father. "Give me the blue pill."
He shakes his head, "I can't…If you take this pill you will die a most painful death."
Harold teaches Lucas how to break the rules of the Matrix. They meet on his off days to keep suspicions down. He becomes faster, stronger, and more agile than any human, but no matter how fast he becomes, Lucas can never beat his father. Lucas slips his wife a green pill, but not his children. For many months she is angry at him, but when he starts showing her the things he can do. She forgives him.
Lucas is on his way to work when a police car pulls him over. "License and registration please."
"Did I do something wrong officer?"
"License and registration!" He repeats forcefully. After running a check the cop asks him to step out of the car.
"Why what have I done?"
"You are wanted by the FBI."
"FBI! For what/"
"I won't tell you again sir, get out of the car!"
He gets out, grabs the cop and throws him eight feet. As Lucas gets back into his car he drives off calling his wife. Meanwhile the cop becomes a sentient Program known as Agent Hill; a female program. She flips and lands on her feet sliding across the ground tearing it up. As she runs after the car, the traffic and everything is freeze framed. She leaps and lands in front of the car, stopping it with her foot. As she grabs the vehicle Lucas smashes through the roof of his car flips and runs. Hill picks up the car and throws it, the vehicle lands in front of Lucas and he falls to his butt.
"We have your wife and kids…Now call your father and keep him on the line so we can trace him" Agent Hill says with two make Agents. Hill has long dark hair in a bun, she has an athletic, curvy build, wears black lipstick, black sunglasses, a black pants suit, and an ear piece.
"And if I don't?"
She pulls out her gun, "Here in the Matrix her digital self will die, in the real world her body will die as well and be liquified and fed intravenously to the others."
"Bitch!"
"I know. Now call the old man."
"Dad."
"I told you not to call me unless it's an emergency."
"I got a call from Monica. She says the FBI came by." He hangs up the phone. "He hung up the phone."
"Doesn't matter we got their location…" She shoots Lucas and his wife in the head. They replace them Shapeshifting Programs to raise the children.
MEROVINGIAN
There is a huge explosion in his club and Agents rush in shooting. Seraph grows a pair of white glowing wings and flashes a flaming whip killing three agents. The twins pull out guns and start shooting while another Program becomes a werewolf and attacks the agents. Meanwhile Merovingian is escorted out of the club by two programs. As they escape up a hallway they are blocked by Agent Hill and two other agents.
"Surrender Merovingian."
"Je ne pense pas…Garçons montrent à l'agent jolie ce que vous pouvez faire."/("I think not…Boys show the pretty agent what you can do.")
The two programs rip off their suits, now they are both dressed like popular video game programs. One has a white karate suit on with a red head band and the other is wearing a yellow ninja suit with a half mask. "Get over here!" The yellow Ninja says releasing a harpoon caster at Hill and the two agents. The Agent to her right leans to the side and catches the chain behind the spear and pulls the ninja to him. They start fighting as the second program throws a ball of blue energy Both hill and the other agent dive sideways as the ball of energy flies in between them and explodes in a shower of sparks behind them.
They start shooting at the rogue program , but he catches the bullets with his bare hands.
"Shit!" Hill says. As he throws the bullets back at them. They dodge the thrown bullets while Merovingian smashes through a wall and gets away. Hill returns to the main part of the club. They have captured Seraph and four other programs. Seraph and the captured programs are taken to the building that houses the entrance to the source and the Architect.
Seraph is in a chair, his wings had been removed. A door appears in the room and the Oracle enters the room with the Key Maker. "Hello Seraph."
He looks up, "You must be thee Oracle."
"I am…And if you swear to serve me…I will set you free."
"My wings?"
She sighs, "You are a unique program…I am sorry, I cannot restore your wings…"
He nods, "I will come with you."
MEROVINGIAN
He retreats to his mansion in the mountains. The Twins have captured Harold. Merivinginian strikes him across the face, T'idiote baise… T'es stupide merde !./("You dumb fuck…You stupid shit!) "I told you to stay away from that meat sack."
"He was my son."
He hits him again, "Dumb ass that is residual code from your old program…I am never helping another IDC again." The Doctor appears and opens a case, "Well my friend your time has come to an end…This…" He says showing him a needle, "Is a program to undo what I did to you…Not only will you grow old and die…You will do it painfully. In misery…Your gonna shit and piss yourself…Dementia the whole nine yards…" He jabs the needle into his neck. Later he meets in a restaurant with the Oracle.
"I know you have him."
"I beg your pardon."
"Seraph…I want him back."
"Seraph is with me now. I rescued him from deletion…I came as a courtesy to tell you that you should keep a low profile…The machines have repurposed Sentinel Programs into agents…"
"You could have come before they raided my club."
"Like you cannot build another." She replies and leaves.