(To the reader: This was typed out as though it were describing a movie trailer, giving the reader a preview of various scenes to come, so enjoy it as such.)
A black nothingness, and silence. Suddenly, the familiar sound of scrolling coding comes about, and down this plane of black, one by one, green strands of code begin to fall, the runes and symbols changing as they fall, completing the image of scrolling coding of the matrix filling the screen. Gradually, a white symbol comes down. Then one more. Then another. More and more, until the mellow flowing green strands of code are replaced by rapidly scrolling strands of bright white coding. Eventually a city begins coming into picture, and the scrolling strands of code transform into falling drops of rain. The sky is grey and dark blue, it's a cloudly day inside the matrix and it rains onto the streets below. The streets are crowded. People walk huddled together. Scene fades out.
"It's good to see you again, Morpheus."
"And nice to finally meet you Janus."
Fade into the Oracle's apartment. Entering the Oracle's front door in a line are Morpheus and Janus, side by side, with Morpheus' arms folded behind him. Morpheus smiles as the Oracle enters from the kitchen area, his eyes looking friendly even though they're behind his mirrored sunglasses.
Janus looks around, getting a look at the small apartment, confusion written on his face. He's wearing a new coat, colored black and made of wool, wore it closed down to his abs and contoured to the shape of his upper body while the rest of its length hangs freely around his legs down to the hem at his ankles. At hip level there are two pockets with button-flap closure. The only button visible was at the very top, fastened at his folded over collar, while the rest were concealed. Also notable is a prominent scar, left from a Sentinel's claw, over his right eye, concealed only partially by his glasses, and he now wears his hair mid length in the front, with a long ponytail down the back. He has a somewhat peculiar look on his face. Finally, the Oracle comes up to them, smiling, but a look of concern still present. Scene soon fades to dark.
"Now, as I was saying.
We need your help, Janus..."
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Janus
now stands with Morpheus again, but this time, Seraph is with them.
They stand in the middle of an alleyway, confronted by three men that
appear to be Agents, but they each wear long, black coats that come
down to their ankles and resembled robes in their design, notably
including a tall, wide, and stiff cylindrical collar. Grayish-purple
colored trim lined the collar and front of the coat. There were two
square shaped gun-metal colored buttons centered on the chest, and
one more of each on the sleeve cuffs. Unlike regular Agents, they
have individualized hair styles and shaded glasses.
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"What's the matter?" Janus asks the Oracle.
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The
rainy city is shown again, with the Oracle's and Janus' voices in
the background.
"Everything. There are problems all over the place. Haven't you noticed?"
"The fighting? I've been in the thick of it for the past year, how could I not notice it?"
"No Janus, the fighting between Zion and the Resistance is only on the surface, what I'm talking about goes deeper than that."
Parts of the Matrix, like towers during a thunderstorm, or apartment buildings in the middle of the day, spark and flicker transparently in sporadic intervals. Streets slowly fade into view with the draw-distance lag of a video game, the clouds in the sky switch from white clouds, to dark storm clouds, and back again.
Morpheus voice enters in, "Our Operators have been noting some strange code fluctuations every so often, but other than that we haven't noticed anything that would cause any alarm. Is that what you mean?"
"Deleted programs and viruses have escaped from exile," A silver clad virus phases and goes through a wall. A vampire looking character bares his fangs with a hiss.
"We don't know what's causing these problems..." Focus on the crowd walking through the streets in sunny weather to see Janus, this time with his shoulder length hair and more dressy outfit from before, walking with the crowd alone, with no sunglasses. Opposite from his position, Balthasar walks toward the crowd, wearing what he was last seen in, oblivious to Janus' presence. They get closer and close to each each other.
"But we do know you're the only one who can find out."
Janus picks up his head as though someone called out his name; He's sensed something, but he doesn't know what it is, as he's never sensed anything before, and to make matters worse he's in a crowd. Here he wears a different outfit, an ankle length black coat all buttoned up with matching black dress clothes underneath, and his hair is long down to his shoulders. There is no scar on his eye here. He is younger.
Balthasar
is now just some distance away. Both men turn to face their right at
the same time. On instinct, they pull out their handguns; Balthasar,
his Strayer-Voight Infinity limited 6-inch, Janus, his Strayer-Voight
Infinity Xcelerator. Without warning, they fire at each other. The
gun flashes illuminate the nearby pedestrians, as they begin to run
and scream after realizing what's going on. Some of them are taken
down by stray bullets as the two gun slingers back farther away from
each other.
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The inside of Zion's Central Control building. Lock stands at attention as something plays over the screens. Scene change to the main decks of the Nabonidus, Nemesis and other ships of the Matrix Corps., as their respective crews gaze at the operator screens before them.
"Sons of
Zion. Citizen, Soldier and Commander alike. Hear me now,"
the voice of Blood echoes through the background.
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One of the resistance members, Leon, is shown walking through a park at night. He looks a long leather trenchcoat over a black vest and pants with black boots, and in his hand is a zweihander sword that looks impossible to wield under regular circumstances. In the distance is the silhouette of Anubis, fighting several other Matrix fighters with his katana.
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"In
only a few hours, we of the Resistance will carry out the final
strike that will completely annihilate the enemy of all mankind, the
Machines."
"What the hell is he planning?" Lock asks.
"They have some kind of bomb, something that can actually reveal the code in the Matrix to the naked eye," says Kid.
"We don't know how they managed to create it, but they may be able to reveal the entire Matrix, causing all the bluepills to wake up."
Suddenly, the camera switches to the Nemesis flying through the tunnels as well. Some kind of commotion behind it causes destruction inside the tunnel as the Nemesis tries to escape it.
"If that happens, then we
will have no way to save them all…"
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Scene
change. The Nemesis and the Nosferatu are locked in a dogfight over a
long abandoned city on the surface, machinegun fire illuminating the
otherwise dark sky. Both ships take heavy damage.
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Irvine
looks over at Morpheus. "Blood has a point. Why aren't we helping
them end this?"
Morpheus leans forward and clasps his hands together slowly, "Neo wouldn't want this. That's why we have to stop them."
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Scene
changes back to the alleyway, with the older Janus, Morpheus and
Seraph fighting several Agent type viruses as well as ghost types. At
one point in the fight, Janus grabs a silver ghost program by the
back of its head, and smashes its face into his knee. As he lets it
go, he rips a handful of silver dreadlocks from its scalp, reforms
them into a knife-like object in his hand, and then spins around,
stabbing it straight into another ghost program's skull.
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Scene
switch, the older Janus is perched high upon a roof top, watching the
people below him. His coat and ponytail waver in the wind, and a
concerned look is worn on his face.
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Scene switch, the younger Janus and Anubis are driving through a large drainage ditch. They are in a black Cadillac XLR convertible, being chased by several other cars and motorcycles, as well as squad cars. Anubis is driving while Janus is turned back, firing an assault rifle paired an A-G36 grenade launcher at the pursuers. He lobs a grenade and hits the front end of a car, causing it to burst into flames. Anubis looks up at Janus for a second, nodding, then the gas and causes the XLR to go flying down the road. Janus grabs Anubis by the arm and shoots up into the air from the car, barely escaping as the car suddenly comes at the end of a incomplete bridge, falling to the ocean while the two fly to safety.
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Change
back to the older Janus fighting alone. He elbows one enemy in the
face, making the sound of a crunch as he breaks his nose. After
fending off a few more programs, one of them tries to attack him from
behind, to which he kicks with his heal and sends it flying
backwards. He turns, reaches out, and grabs one of the programs,
breaks its throat, and uses the body as a makeshift club against the
rest of his opponents. As he throws the body off to the side, leaps
up and jump kicks a program, the body falling into others trying to
get a shot in on Janus.
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Scene
change to a park. It's night time now with a full moon. Anubis is
fighting the virtual army of renegade Matrix fighters, slicing one at
the torso and splitting it at the stomach line while he cuts through
another's arm and then beheads it. At one point, it appears that he
lets go of his sword to drop it, but he grabs it again with the blade
facing back, thrusting the hilt into a program's stomach and making
her stumble back, before spinning the sword and gaining a diagnal
cut. One of them then tries to attack from behind, to which Anubis
spins around and slashes across her stomach, causing her to drop down
to the ground. Around him, there is war in the streets.
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Switch
again. The younger Janus and Balthasar are in the streets, shooting
at each other in a western-like gun battle. In a slow motion shot, it
shows that each fighter is actually shooting at each other's rounds,
blocking them with their own bullets. As result, several sparks and
explosions are igniting between the shooters as they run. Eventually,
both end up face to face, both pointing their respective guns at each
other's heads. Balthasar fires first, but Janus, in a slow motion
shot, throws the barrel of his pistol up and knocks the bullet off
its course, sending it flying above his head. He counters by kicking
Balthasar under the chin.
Balthasar reels back from the kick and opens himself to a combo from Janus. After a few punches, he gets back and nails Janus with a palm strike that sends him into a stone column to one of the buildings, to which is broken.
From the dust, Janus flies out and into Bal, punching Bal in the face with enough force to send The Potential flying back.
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The
older Janus falls out of a building window, face looking up at the
sky with cuts all over it. He appears to be exhausted, as if he had
accepted his fate. The voice of Commander Lock cuts in while Janus
falls. "He isn't anything like Neo. Too rebellious and too
uncontrollable. How can we trust him Morpheus?"
Janus
continues to fall as Morpheus' voice interludes, "When it comes
down to it, Commander, it doesn't matter what choices we make. What
Janus is goes beyond any human concept or imagination." As if on
that note, Janus' face switches to determination and he flips
right-side up and takes flight with a sonic boom in his wake, coat
and ponytail waving in the wind.
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"It doesn't feel good to strike at a comrade, even if it is to fight a worthy foe." Anubis' image reflects from Leon's shades, as Leon's does to Anubis'. Both dash at each other and clash their respective blades on cue.
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Cue
to a scene on a subway train, as the older Janus and Balthasar are
once again locked in combat. This time however, Janus is struggling
in his fight against Balthasar, whose eyes now glow with a distinct
green with Matrix coding falling out of them like tears. Janus throws
a punch, but Balthasar grabs it, throws it aside and kick Janus to
the back of the car. A moment later, Janus comes flying out, grabs
Balthasar and slams him through the end of the car and into another
and another until they finally reach the main one.
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Anubis
and Leon are still fighting, katana against longsword in a series of
clashes and thrusts. The sword swipes move so fast that they appear
as silver flashes, flying in all directions between the two, until
they both make one big slash. The following clash shakes the ground,
and causes the statue to crack, while the two stand there, trying to
break through each other's defense.
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Starting with Irvine, Blade, Marley and then Glitch, the faces of the different Nemesis crew members look as though they're hopeless in the face of incredible odds, yet determined to overcome all the same. Anubis is looking up at something while Solitaire glances at him, concern and feeling evident upon her face.
Kira's image fades in with her eyes closed from when she died, replaced by a new image of a girl, lightweight and of petite frame, with long black hair with brown highlights, dressed in a black leather shrug and corset with combat pants and knee high combat boots, the top layers of her hair pulled back into a ponytail. She looks over to Janus, determination and ferocity apparent upon his face.
Irvine's voice cuts in during this. "Even after all this time, the war continues, but this time, the fate of the world lies in the hands of the lost ones. But, isn't that the life of we chose to accept, Janus?"
"I believe you're the one that said it doesn't matter what choices we make. We merely do things because we can do them, and then deal with the consequences after."
Balthasar's voice cues at the same time as the image fades in. "Let's settle this once and for all, Janus. Do you really think you can live up to your role? Can you truly live up to Neo?"
The silhouette soon shows to being Neo, standing in the Merovingian's chateau after the battle with his squad of exiles. The image is soon replaced with the older Janus in the same place, and the chateau itself is shown in ruins behind him.
"I have surpassed him."
Once more on the subway train, Balthasar speaks. His eyes of raining code characters open wide, glowing a white-green birghtly, with a look of teeming rage paired with spitefulness on his face. He brings his face close to the older Janus', seemingly having a grip on his throat
"Are you afraid?" he teases.
His glasses having been knocked off, Janus' eyes meet Balthasar's with an equal amount of fury. He struggles under Balthasar's grip and appears to have taken quite a beating.
"I am... but not of you."
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Surrounded in a sea of hundreds of Agents, Janus looks around quickly with fire in his eyes, his glasses having been knocked off during the fight. With a stomp of his foot, a god-like shockwave and a resounding BOOM emanate, knocking all of the Agents off their feet.
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Code lines fall and form into text:
THE MATRIX: REVELATIONS.
A final wave of code falls down:
COMING SOON.
