The Matrix: Ride of the Ennead

Azrael ran. He ran as he had three times before, and he ran from the same thing he had ran from three times before. An agent. Who had cocked up the mission, he didn’t know. It should have been a simple jack in, take a few documents from a poorly defended police station, jack out. Azrael and his partner Kaeo had just been retrieving the files when a team of SWAT had burst in. Behind the rebels had been a large window which they had leapt from, separating as they hit the ground three floors down. Then the agents attacked. Three of them burst out from the station, two following Kaeo, and the other following Azrael. So he ran.

The buildings loomed large on either side of him as he ran. He whipped his cell phone out, and dialled the operator,

“Operator.” A familiar voice answered.

”Get me an exit!” Azrael spoke bluntly into the phone

“Okay…” The voice paused, and Azrael could hear fast typing, “Take the next left, there’s a fire escape, get up that onto the roof. Call back then.”

Azrael did as instructed, taking the left. He was in a dark alleyway, and he could see the outline of a ladder hanging about 12 feet off the ground. Behind him a section of the wall exploded as the agent tried to take him down as he rounded the corner. Azrael sprung off his leading foot, soaring into the air. He slammed into the ladder and began climbing. When he reached the top of the ladder, he sprinted up the stairs, reaching the roof in a matter of moments. . Ahead of him an old man was talking to some pigeons that had settled by him.

The man began to shake, and Azrael swerved to avoid the agent in front of him. He ran for the edge of the building, his nerves tensed for the sound of a shot. And he jumped, knees bent, arms outstretched to either side, virtually flying across the gap. He risked a look back, and saw the agent follow him, jumping so high as to smash the concrete roof he landed on. As he leapt across the next street Azrael’s phone began ringing. He reached into the pocket of his trenchcoat as he landed and answered it.

“Ahead of you is a door, go through it.” Azrael threw himself at the door shoulder first and it burst open, swinging shut again with a bang. He was on a large square spiral staircase with a large gap down the middle. “Down two flights, along to room 307 – there’s your exit.”

He jumped as the agent kicked open the door, falling the two storeys onto the balcony by the corridor. Suddenly a phone started ringing, Azrael followed the sound and shouldered open the door of room 307. On the round table in front of him a phone was ringing. He picked it up and placed it to his ear just as the agent;s first shot hit him in the arm. The rest of the bullets hit nothing, Azrael was back in the real world.

great story so far better than mine

Thanks. I liked your pitched battles though. Can you think of a name?

pitched battles? name...uh post part 2 and i might come up with 1 coz its 2 early to tell

Give me a while. Word keeps crashing!:@

Azrael gasped as he opened his eyes, swinging himself round on the seats they used as ports to jack into the matrix. The first person he saw was Davis, the operator for the Ennead.

“The captain’s going ape. Kaeo is stuck in there; he took a wrong turn. Coder has jacked in to try and get him out, but the coppertops have got them both pinned down, in a church. He told me to ask if you would get back in there. Now?”

“Oh shit…” Azrael breathed, then lay back down onto the chair. “Do it.” He commanded Davis, and suddenly he was surrounded by white. He looked down. He was wearing a long black trenchcoat, black leather trousers, a leather shirt, and some tall black boots. Racks of guns came shooting toward him from nowhere. Azrael pulled out 2 Ingrams machine pistols, and several clips. Reaching down he slipped 2 knives into sheathes in his boots, and he straightened up, reaching for his phone.

“I’m ready.” He told Davis, and a few seconds later he was opposite the church. Outside a crowd of policemen held back a growing crowd of civilians. Several SWAT vans were parked outside, and gunfire could clearly be heard. Azrael walked purposefully across the road, pushing to the front of the crowd. A policeman walked toward him, hand outstretched but Azrael kept going, toward the open doors. The policeman put his hand on Azrael’s arm and Azrael grabbed the offending hand, pulling the cop forward. With his free hand, Azrael punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground.

People in the crowd screamed as the cops drew their pistols and started firing at Azrael, but he had already moved, spinning directly to another cop. He grabbed his gun and span the terrified man around, turning to face the other policeman. Immediately they stopped firing, and Azrael placed his hand on his hostage’s trigger finger. All at once he started squeezing and policemen started dying. The crowd began to run, a few people falling and being trampled by the others.

The cops started to return fire and bullets ripped into their comrade. When the last of the police had dropped to the ground Azrael dropped his shield and ran up the steps to the church. Some of the SWAT team had retreated back to the doors to see what was going on outside. As the first guy walked out Azrael grabbed the barrel of his gun and smashed it up into his face. The SWAT guy staggered back and Azrael kicked him in the chest. As he skidded back through the door the 5 members of the retreating party ran forward, guns raised. They formed a semi-circle around him but before they could fire he leapt into the air and kicked 2 of them. As he landed he punched a third hard in the chest, who flew backward into the pews. He reached out to either side and grabbed the barrels of the guns, slamming their owners together in front of them. They fell limply to the ground.

Ahead of him he could see a squad of SWAT crouched among the pews exchanging fire with a single figure, who seemed to have taken cover in the pulpit. Azrael picked up an MP5 from one of the corpses and raised it, opening fire on the SWAT. As they turned Azrael cut down their number from 20 to about 15. They started firing so Azrael dropped his rifle and sprinted for a nearby pillar. As he reached it he jumped, and used both legs to kick off it, shooting into the air, and landing among the SWAT. From behind the pulpit Coder also jumped, landing next to Azrael.

The bewildered SWAT suddenly found themselves defenceless, since their guns were liable to shoot other cops at such close range, so they resorted to fists. Azrael looked at Coder and grinned. This was going to be easy. He ran up the first man to attack him and kicked him in the head, then backflipping to kick someone else in their head. As he landed he crouched and pulled his knives from his boots. He rose, and a blur of metal surrounded him, killing all who touched it. Suddenly there was only one man left, and Azrael threw up his knife and caught it by the point, throwing it into the man’s throat. He looked at Coder.

“Where’s Kaeo?” Then he heard a groan from the pulpit. “Oh, shit.”

Coder spoke quietly, “Those SWAT bastards surprised him, help me get him to the exit.”

Azrael climbed to the pulpit and picked up Kaeo, avoiding the brutal wound in his chest. He draped the limp body over his shoulder and headed out a side door with Coder.

Hey, this is good! Keep going ^_^ I'm no good with names, though, so sorry, I can't help you there.

how about: The Matrix: Reality. crap but im the same as trinity matrix

I'm how about The Matrix: Renegades?

Also, name-wise, change the name of the ship. Angel does exactly fit in with Nebuchadnezzar, Mjolnir, Caduceus, Osiris, Logos, etc. You get the idea...

OKay, I'll change the name to The Ennead and post the next part of my story tomorrow. Going ot see LOTR today, and then going to a play.

enjoy

Have fun.

What is Ennead from?

Um, it was the nine(Ii think) original Eygyptian(i think) gods. It was like the colelctive name for them.

Cool! Sounds good to me...

I can make the name changes if you have any more.

Ennead, The

The collective name given to the great deities otherwise known as the Nine Gods of Heliopolis, who feature in the fullest ancient Egyptian account of the creation of the world. The first of the Ennead (derived from the Greek ennea, meaning nine) was the sun god Atum or Ra-Atum, who came into existence on the mound that rose from the Nun, the dark primordial waters. He planned all creation and then put his semen in his mouth, spitting or sneezing it out to produce the next two members of the Ennead, Shu, the god of air, and Tefenet, the goddess of wetness and water. This was the first division into male and female. Shu and Tefenet went to explore the Nun, and Atum, fearing them lost, sent his eye (a powerful divine force thought to be his daughter) to find them. When the eye returned with his children, the god wept tears of joy which became the first humans. Shu and Tefenet had intercourse and produced the next two deities of the Ennead, the earth god Geb and the sky goddess Nut. Geb and Nut also had intercourse but embraced so tightly that their children could not be born until they were separated by their father, Shu. The air god supported Nut above the earth with the assistance of eight beings known as the Heh gods, thereby making room for living creatures and giving them air to breathe. Nut eventually gave birth to two sets of divine twins; Osiris and Isis, and Seth and Nephthys. Osiris, who was the eldest child, became the first ruler of Egypt.

Dunno if you really care, but thats what i got it from...

how bout The Matrix: Rereveloutions lol

Ha...ha...ha...

I care, Trickster. I'm a history nut. 😛

Keep goin with the story, though!

Ain't got much time, so heres a taster.

Outside was a normal street, filled with cars. It looked as if the cops hadn’t thought of covering the side door, so Coder ran down to the nearest car, a flashy black porsche convertible. He jumped over the door and quickly hotwired the engine. Azrael ran down the steps, laying Kaeo on the back seats. He slid over the bonnet, and got into the passenger side. Suddenly from the front of the church three cars came speeding round the corner, sirens wailing. Coder shoved the car into reverse, speeding backward away from the cops.

Azrael reached into his coat, pulling out his machine pistols. He pulled the trigger hard, and sprayed the driver of the first car with bullets. The cop car swerved to the side, crashing into those already parked, and the other cars smashed into it from behind. Coder pulled a 180 degree handbrake turn and they sped off down the road.

Ooh, fun 🙂

And I like the name of the ship, too...yeah, I'm a bit of a history nut myself...

That makes two of us...