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all u people are vampires
One thing I need to mention before the next post. As Raz was about to die, his gun WAS out of bullets. It was Morpheus who shot through Mange's head. Oh, yea, and I started to call the Zion main building the Compound. No difference, just a way to vary up the words. Just clarifying 😄
All time seemed to be standing still in the hallway where all the action had just taken place. Morpheus was slightly shaking, not only from his knife wound, not only from the fact that three crew members were dead, but fromthe fact that Zero was gone. Everyone wanted answers, and they wanted them now.
"Neo, how where were you my dude?" asked Link. "I mean, you came in kinda late..."
Neo looked at Link with a tired face. "I know, I know, I'll explain everything."
"Good," added Taze. "But make it quick, because right now isn't exactly an opportune time for story hour. That blue ball you crushed released Smith's code. He could be anywhere right now in the Compound."
Neo nodded. "First off, I heard a voice scream earlier in the night. I ran out to see where it was coming from when I ran right into Raz. He said he didnt hear any voice, but I knew what I heard so I ran. I ran as fast as my legs could carry me. I ended up in the Zion Mainframe with Mange laying on the floor and Smith about to pull a lever. I slammed into Smith as hard as I could to try and stop him, but I was too late. The lever snapped off, and then everything went black. Next thing I knew..."
"That will be all for that Neo," said Morpheus. "Right now, someone has to find out where my son is and go in to help him. Uh, lets make it Taze, Pandora, and, uhhh, Ramsey. Neo, you must go to the Machine Mainframe as fast as you can. Link, monitor the Matrix until your eyeballs fall out." Link smiled and saluted Morph. "The rest of you, and I guess that means just you and me Melonious, have to prepare Zion for war."
Once again, there was silence. Suddenly, everyone heard footsteps from the corridor. A man by the name of Scope ran into the hallway. He was shaking like a leaf.
"Moprheus, sir, I-uh, I wwwas in th-the Mainframe, and the EMP is uhhh- disabled, the lleevvve-r is bb-broken. And the Machines are cllos-closig in fast."
"Damnit," mumbled Morpheus. "That means this plan has to work right now. Link, take Taze, Pandora, and Ramsey into the plug in stations. Neo, are you ready my friend?"
Neo nodded slightly.
"Good, but I must tell you something first. If you turn left and follow the hallway, you will walk over some sewer grids. If you lift up the third one, it's solid red, then there is a tunnell that will take you directly to the Machine Mainframe. It was established once peace was made, but some Machines might still be in there. Still though, it's a lot better than going outside through the whole army. Are you ready?"
"Yes," said Neo quietly, but confidently.
Morpheus gave him a pat on the back. Neo returned the gesture with a nod and took off into the hallway...
"Ok, guys," said Link with a superior-sounding voice. "Taze and Pandora can eject into the Matrix at free will, but we all know that our dude Ramsey here, well, he can't."
Ramsey's face remained expressionless.
"Rigghht then, I'll send Ramsey into the Matrix as far as I can put him, directly outside the door to the Architect. Getting into the Source will be your problem, I'm afraid, but if you're lucky, Zero might be just outside the door now..."
Zero looked up at the building. It was a new sight for his young eyes. The whole building was made of red streaming code (similar to the green code that Neo now sees the Matrix as).
"I don't wanna go through the whole building," said Zero to himself. "Maybe I can jump."
"Maybe you should step down, you annoying little youngster," said a voice from behind Zero. Without even looking back, Zero jumped as high as he could. His body was launched into the air up towrads the middle floor of the building. Zero braced himself for impact, btu he glided seamlessly into the wall. He ended up in a hallway, where the walls were white and the doors were sky blue...
Ramsey sat down in the recling chair that would soon not exist as his mind would soon be shot into a computer program, the Matrix. Link looked at the code and saw that Zero was in the hallway leading to the Architect's door. "I can time this perfectly. Once Zero is opening the door, I can send you into the Matrix Ramsey, and Pandora and Taze will eject into it as well. When the door is open, there is a loophole where I can pass you through it by wrapping the Zero code around your digital readout. Basically, you wont set off the security system. Right now though, we just watch and wait..."