YOU ARE THE ONE
Over the last two hundred years pass and people who subconsciously rejected the Matrix are released their memories imprinted so that they can believe that they are the survivors of the Matrix. Some who reject the Matrix's program are raised as orphans by the Oracle. They are given limited information on the history of the war between humans and machines.
His name is Alex Munrroe, a computer engineer who works for Comstar Computers. Alex is six feet tall with a slender build, black hair, and brown eyes. He drives a black, Ford Mustang and lives alone in a one, bedroom apartment. Every morning he showers, get's dressed, get's his breakfast at Subway, before driving to work.
When he gets to work a man named Victor is waiting, "You got my money?" Alex asks.
"Here ya go…ten thousand in cash."
He hands him a suit case. "Until next time." Alex likes to bet on football games. He places the suit case in a secret compartment in his car and heads to his work station. After greeting everyone he gets to work on the new flat screen computer. At lunch he eats pizza with his coworkers, as they laugh and make jokes.
After work he stops to buy his dinner for the next two days and gets on his custom, made computer. Alex's online user name is Ares. He uses that name for gaming, surfing the web, online dating, etc. Alex has all his favorite sites open as he plays the online game Star Legion. He pauses the game as he gets a message in the dating site.
From Victoria
High Alex I saw your picture, read your profile, and I am extremely intrigued….Email me back.
"Damn!" He says looking at her picture. She is six feet tall with red hair, a C-cup, big green eyes.
From Alex AKA Ares
Hello beautiful. I like your picture and profile as well, lets chat somtime…
For the next two weeks Alex converses and flirts with Victoria on line. In the third week they agree to meet at a restaurant for dinner. "Wow your picture does you no justice." He says pulling out her chair.
"Neither does yours."
"Your menus…What may I get you to drink this evening?" The Waiter asks.
"A bottle of your finest wine and I would like to start off with Lobster Rosatto."
"A salad for me."
They laugh and talk, then after the appetizers Alex orders a steak and baked potato, Victoria orders the shrimp pasta. "Excuse me I have to go to the bathroom."
"Hurry back." Victoria says.
Alex goes to the bathroom and empties his bladder in the urinal. As he washes his hands a man walks up behind him and uses chlorofome on him. The window is opened and a rope is thrown in. The man ties the rope around his waist and Alex is pulled up. Meanwhile Victoria gets impatient, her eyes turn red and she codes scans the bathroom. "Shit…Red Pills."
Victoria stands up and pulls out her cellphone as she walks to the men's room. She kicks the door down as the man is about to exit through the window. She pulls an AK-47 out of her purse. "Rogue Program!" The man says diving to the side as she shoots. He shoots back through bathroom stalls. Victoria's body becomes red code and she melts into the floor. Then spikes come up killing the man. She phases out of the floor and through the wall as a van drives off.
"Go!" The driver screams. As they drive off Victoria starts shooting.
Meanwhile back in the restaurant a few patrons turn into Agents. Agent Hill appears with two Agents. There are Red Codes in the Restaurant and they start shooting at the agents. Agent dodges the bullets and kicks a table at the Red Code.
"This is Agent Hill…We have encountered Red Codes…Please send more agents." A few of the patrons cowering in the restaurant become agents and help in the shootout. The Red Codes code phase and the bullets pass through them. Agent Hill leaps at a Red Code and they start fighting hand to hand.
CAPTAIN ARC
"Captain we got company!" Mode yells.
"Operator here."
She takes out her cellphone, "Space…Code 9…We have the One, but we are being chased by Red Codes and cops."
"I know…Shot the cops are now agents."
"Send Live Wire in and get the new exit ready."
Meanwhile Victoria chases them on a motorcycle, with four other Red Codes chasing on cycles as well. The Police and two agents are chasing them all in police cars. An apache helicopter appears and it is flown by Live Wire. "Boss Live Wire is here to save the day."
"What did I tell you about calling me boss?"
He laughs as he fires missiles at the cop cars blowing them up one after the other. He turns his copter around and lowers a magnetic grapple grabbing the van. "All aboard." As the van pulls up, Victoria leaps at the van and that is when Mode opens the back with a rocket launcher.
"No hitchhikers bitch!" He says firing the rocket at Her. She code phases missing the van as the rocket passes through her. She lands phasing through the street and into the sewers.
"This is Victoria…The Chosen One got away. He had help from the Resistance."
"Return to base."
"Yes ma'am."
AGENT HILL
"The Resistance got away in a military grade helicopter augmented with a magnetic grapple." Agent Rhodes says.
"Tell your Agents to stand down." The Oracle says entering the Restaurant with Seraph at her side.
"The Oracle…What are you doing here?"
"I was sent by the Collective…You captured a Red Code?"
"We did…They exist and they are very powerful."
"Bring the Red Code to the Central Hub."
THE HUB
The Hub, is the main operations building of the Architect, the Agents, and the gateway to the Machine Mainframe. They bring the Red Code named R5 to an interrogation/torture room. "What is your name?" The Oracle asks.
"Fuck you bitch!"
She sighs, "I can do this hard way if you like." He ignores her. "As you wish…" Cords rise up out of the floor and insert into his skin. He starts to scream as his body flashes in red program code. The Oracle takes a cord and sticks it into her ear. "Accessing…Accessing…This Program was written by the Red Code Victoria…He does not know who the Red Lord is." The Oracle exits the interrogation room. M and the Architect are waiting. "Recommend we delete that Program."
"What is he exactly?" M asks.
"A sentient Program with special abilities…Most likely created by an original program made by M1 that went Rogue. These Red Codes and their leader is a real threat to all machines."
"Could Merovingian be behind this?" The Architect asks.
She shakes her head, "Merovingian likes power for the sake of power…He only causes chaos when it serves his purpose…No this is not him. This is something else…Something full of rage."
"The Red Codes were after the Chosen One…Does this unforeseen element affect the plan?" M asks.
"No it should not."
ALEX
When Alex awakens he is on a bed in a room with a beautiful woman sitting beside his bed holding a gun. "Who are you? Where am I?"
"My name is Arc."
He frowns, "Arc? What kind of name is Arc?"
She is five feet eleven inches tall with long, black hair in a braid. She wears dark sunglasses reflecting Alex's image. She wears a long black trench coat and knee-high boots. "That is the name I am known as among computer hackers."
"Arc! Thee Arc? The Arc who hacked Interpol?"
She smiles, "The one and the same."
"What do you want from me?"
"Is that the Question you really want to ask me?"
Alex looks down trying to think of any other possible question he should ask. Then it hits him, "What is the Matrix?"
"The Matrix is everywhere. It surrounds us, blinds us, it steals from us and makes us believe what is not real is real and shows us what it wants us to believe."
"I don't understand."
"I was once like you. Lost with no understanding. A slave to the Matrix…Come with me." Alex follows Arc to the roof of building. "I bought you here because you have a destiny Ares."
"That is my online name."
"Why Ares?"
"Ares the god of war and it sounds cool."
They are joined by Mode, "This is Mode my first officer and second in command."
"Are you guys in the military?"
She smiles, runs to the ledge of the ten, story building, and jumps to the roof of another building on the other side of the street. "Oh my God!" Then he watches as she jumps back. "Oh my God! How did you do that?"
"The Matrix is an artificial world created by the machines that use to serve mankind. Now we serve them against our will feeding them our bio-energy so that they can survive."
"You are crazy."
"Come with us and I will show you." They go back down the stairs, "This entire building is controlled by the Resistance."
"Listen I don't want to be a part of your cult. So can I go home." They enter a room with more people and a rotary phone on a table. Alex watches as the phone rings. Mode picks up the phone places it to his ear and vanishes. "How did he do that? Where did he go?"
"I told you Alex…This is the Matrix…Mode left it and re-entered the real world."
"What is the real world?"
"Our historians disagree on the time frame…But a hundred or so years ago A war ended. A war between human beings and machines. The machines won that war. But before they won we humans scorched the sky and blotted out the sun with a perpetual storm cloud."
"Who started this war?"
"Humans started the war. Before the war our ancestors lived a life of ease. The machines did everything for us. Then we turned on our creations and they built their own society. A society that became too powerful…So we tried to destroy it…"
"Why are you telling me all this?"
"Because you are the chosen one…Destined to free us from the machines and end the war."
He starts laughing, "You…Me…That is you chose wrong. I'm no savior…I'm no hero."\
"I have one more thing to show you." She turns on the television and shows him a recording of his abduction and the fight after.
"Is this for real?"
"It happened earlier."
"I don't know what to believe." She hold her hands out fist closed. "What are you doing?"
"The time for show and tell is over. Now you have a choice to make..." She opens her hands. In her right hand is a red pill and the left a blue pill. "I have done all I can to show you the truth…The rest is up to you now. Take the blue pill and go home. Continue living the lies the machines feed you. Be a slave! Take the red pill and fulfill your destiny." Alex hesitates, but eventually he takes the red pill.
THE REAL WORLD
Alex awakens to a cold pod filled with a pink, goo, like substance. His body is weak all over and he can barely move. He rips open a sack and sits up in the pod. There is a feeding tube going into his mouth and cords going into his body. He pulls out the feeding tube and vomits. "What the fuck…" He whispers looking around. He is high in the air in a pod on a large tower of some kind. There are other pods going around the tower with people in them asleep.
Arcs of lighting jump in between the other towers and pods lining the towers. Alex looks down and cannot see the ground. That is when a bug like machine flies towards him. It scans him and releases an arm grabbing him by the neck. "Let me go…" He struggles to say. That is when the machine releases him and flies off. A round door opens and Alex is flushed down a pipe. He lands in a sea of slimy water. All seems lost when a huge object flies overhead and extends a claw grabbing him up and into the object.
Alex looks up squinting his eyes and sees Arc, "Welcome to the Real World." She says. He passes out.