A door opened in the Hel Club's Kitchens. The Merovingian walked fastly out of it. He made a right turn and suddenly bumped into one of the waiters, who dropped all his food.
"S-sir, I- I don't kn-know wwww-what happened, sir, I j-just wasn't paying-"
Merovingian picked up one of the knives that was on the waiter's plate and stabbed him with it. Then, he yelled," Qvik men! Zis man tripped over me and landed on his knife. Zomeone please take care of zis, I have ozer matters to attend to."
He walked to a large brown door at the back of the kitchen. The door opened for him, evidently, he was being expected. Merovingian walked through the door and then turned around to see who had opened the doors for him. There were two of them, exactly alike, dressed in all white. The Twins!!!
"Vell, Vell, Vell, zo glad to zee you, my faithful zervants," said the Merovingian lightly. The Twins nodded. "I have an eemportant announcement for you. As you problably already know, I am Merovingian. I run zis Club and have a vonderful wife, Persephone. But, and I don't know if you know zis, but I am NOT Merovingian." The Twins nodded again. "Very perceptive. I am Agent Smith, zupposedly deleted by ze Machines, but now I'm back and I plan to stay here a long time. Are you gentelmen vith me?" For the third time, the Twins nodded. "Very good. And now zat I'm back, I have discovered zat I can copy myself, Agent Smith, onto anyone, and their outvard appearence von't change a bit. However, on ze inside, zey vill be under ze control of me! And, because people now can plug in and out of ze Matrix at vill, I can take over two worlds: The Matrix, and The Real World. Vonce I am in ze Real World, I can manipulate ze Machines vith a few of my... tactics, and turn zem against ze humans once more. Zoon, zere von't be a single human left, save Persephone, my fair vife, and you two of course, but I don't know eef you are even human." All three of them sniggered at this thought.
"Come zen, Tvins. Let us put our plan into action!"
OK, next part...
"Just place them over there," said Neo, pointing to a few beds in the corner of room. It was an interesting room. If you looked up, you couldn't see the ceiling because there were numerous wires, ranging to needle thin to sewer pipe thick. There were many monitors there, including one that had the matrix code streaming down it.
Link and Ramsey put Morpheus and Niobe on two of the beds. They were still bleeding quite profulsy.
"Roll them over on their backs," commanded Neo. Link and Ramsey did as they were told. Once Morpheus and Niobe were on their backs, Neo inserted his hands in to their gunshot wounds, and pulled out the bullets. He tosesd them over his shoulder and into a nearby garbage can. Just then, Tech walked in. He was a medium sized man with jet black hair and dark, tanned skin. He had an unsightly scar on his right hand.
"Tech, get a readout on the status of Morpheus and Niobe," said Link automatically.
"Why, what happened to-"
"Just do it, Tech," said Link irritably.
Tech gave Link a nasty look, and then moved over to Morpheus and Niobe. He reached onto a nearby shelf and grabbed a clipboard sized scanner. He ran it slowly over Morpheus's body.
"Seems to be OK, just unconscious," he muttered. "Now for Niobe." HE walked over to Niobe and began to scan her body.
"Seens to be OK too, wait- what the hell?"
"What!?" said Neo and Link together.
"It's Niobe," stammered Tech. "I was scanning her body and... she's pregnant!"
Neo, Link, and Ramsey all looked dumbfounded.
"Are- are you sure about that, Tech?" stammered Link.
Tech shot an impatient look at Link. He pointed to the object in his hand. "See this, Link? It's called a Status Scanner. It tells the user anything it wants to know about the patient's health."
"Then can it tell who the baby's father is?" asked Neo instantly.
"Er... yea, should be able to. Don't see why not," replied Tech.
He performed an additional scan of Niobe's body. When he was done, he turned back to Neo. "Just as predicted, sir, the baby's father is definetly Morpheus."
Neo nodded. "Well, that should do it then. They just need some rest. As do I. Link, keep an eye on the Matrix, and..."
"Ramsey," said Link, pointing to the tall, thin man with long brown hair braided into dreadlocks beside him.
"Right, Ramsey, keep an eye on these two, will you please?"
"Certainly... Neo," he responded.
"Thank you both, he said as he slipped into the bed next to Morpheus and fell into a deep sleep.
"Neo....."
'Stop, lemme sleep,' thought Neo.
"Neoooo!!!!" said the voice even louder
'OK, I'll open my eyes,' he thought. When he did he found Link looking at him from above. "What..." he muttered sleepily.
"It's the Matrix Neo, somethings not right."
"How long have I been asleep, Link?"
"Half a' hour, now c'mon, its urgent!"
Neo rose off the bed slowly and followed Link over to the Matrix monitor.
"Well, whats the problem?" he said, still a little sleepy.
"The code don't lie sir," said Link in a shaky voice. " It definetly dont lie."
"What already!" said Neo, almost angry.
"An Agent Neo! And not just any Agent, Agent Smith!"
Well, you don't have to wait long, cause here it is. Enjoy!
"It is very zimple, Tvins. All I have to do eez take control of von of ze humans in my Club, and zen hav myself unplugged from ze Matrix. Zat vay, I can begin my domination on two fronts!" said Merovingian excitedly. The Twins nodded once more. "However, I vill need something zat vill allow myself, once out of ze Matrix, to gain access to ze Machine mainframe. Yes, zis vill save me an encounter vith ze Architect. I need a key. Boys, vould you be so kind...?" The Twins nodded, transformed, a very similar transformation to Ramsey's, and sunk into the ground. "Now, I vait for zem," said the Merovingian in a bored sort of voice.
He didn't have to wait long. Almost a minute later, the Twins appeared in front of him. One of them was holding a key. Merovingian sprang up. "Exzellent!! Most exzellent! Now, if you excuse me, gentlemen, I vill be in ze Club." The Twins nodded and walked up the stairs and out of site.
"Hmmm. How do I go about zis. I could lure a woman and use her, but I vill need someone stronger. Hmmph! I'll just have to look around, zen."
Merovingian strolled back into his club and began scanning all the tables with his eyes. His eyes came across a well built man, with good size muscles and a look of strong will on his face. "Perfect..." Merovingian whispered.
He walked casually over to the table, bent down, and whispered into the man's ear," Come vith meeeeee..." Automatically, the man stood up from his table and followed the Merovingian into a door off to the side of the Club. HIs wife who was at the table looked quite shocked, perhaps a bit angry.
When they were both inside the office, Merovingian held out his hand and said," Good day. I am ze Merovingian, pleased to meet you."
The man started to raise his hand to return the shake, when the Merovingian plunged his hand past the man's outstretched hand and into his abdomen. The man looked down at the hand in his gut with an expression of terror on his face. Soon, however, that expression faded, and the man now started to smile. Merovingian withdrew his hand and said, "You may use ze room just to ze left of zis one to eject yourself from ze Matrix, instead of having to go to one of ze public stations. The man now controlled by Merovingian smirked and nodded. He turned toward the door when Merovingian said, "In the heat of ze moment, I forgot to give you a name. However, I now zee zat it vouyld have not been a vise idea to do zat. You are now going to be known by either Merovingian or Smith, got zat?" The man nodded. "Also, you must realize zat I am the one true Merovingian, and ze one true Smith. I am ze Negative One, you are merely a copy of myself, got zat, too?" The man nodded once again and smirked at the same time.
The Merovingian gave a broad smile that flashed his white rows of teeth. "Go zen, and oh yea! Take zis key. It vill get you into ze Machine Mainframe, where you can take over ze Machines. Don't do zat until I tell you too, OK? For now, just take control of as many humans as you can in ze Real World, and I'll do ze same here, agreed?"
"Yea," said the man in a burly sort of voice.
"Good, I'll keep in touch. Good-bye."
The man turned on his heel and walked out of the door.
"Exzellent! Everyzing is working out just as I vanted. Soon, I vill be strong enough to survive on my own, and zen, it vill be ze downfall of Neo!"
"Oh boy Neo, come look at this, hurry!" said Link, who had been watching the monitor of the Matrix, ever since the appearance of Smith. Neo walked up beside Link's chair.
"What's up," he said.
Link pointed to the screen. "Two Agent Smith's, and wait- whoa, not good, one of them just left the Matrix."
"Damn," said Neo. "That means that Smith is going to spread in this world too. Can you get a location on where the second Smith disappeared?"
Link started to type rapidly. Several new maps and surface area structures were popping up on the surrounding monitors. "Ha ha! Got it, but it's not good, it's like going right into the lion's den."
"Where is it? Surely it couldn't be one of the public stations."
"Well, your right there man. It wasn't a public station, it was a private one, located in Hel, Merovingian's club."
Neo started pacing the room. "This just doesn't make any sense. How did Smith come back. Did you guys ever see a trace of him or any other Agent before I returned?"
"No, we didn't," responded Link.
"How did I return anyway?" Neo said quizically.
Link looked up at him with angrim expression on his face. "No one knows. We had just got done seeing the Oracle, and she said, well, maybe you better go see her yourself. She might be able to give you some answers."
Neo let a tiny smile escape. "Knowing Oracle..."
Link smiled back at him. "C'mon, I'll plug you in."
Neo looked at Link. "You gotta be on the lookout. Any site of Agent Smith in Zion and I want the nearest phone outa there, got it?"
Link looked slightly afraid at the thought of Smith in Zion. It had happened once before, when Smith was copied onto Bane. Neo remembered Bane well, because he fought him. That was how he lost his sight. When his body reappeared in the Matrix, he had regained his sight.
"Neo?" said Link, looking at him strange.
"What, huh... oh, sorry, plug me in."
Neo laid down on a reclined chair and Link pushed the plug into the back of Neo's head. He then returned to the monitor.
"Holy..." he said as he took a look at the code. He could see numerous codes, all identical, all belonging to Agent Smith. "So it's begun..." he mumbled.
Oh, yea, just becuase the Reconquering of the Matrix has begun, doesn't mean that this story is gonna end. I'll let you know when I will end Reconquered and begin posting Revelations. Tell me what you think of the story so ! Peace!