USH'S MATRIX GAME 2006 FIFTH ASSIGNMENT- 'The Pagoda'

Not much time for talking, Melkor.

Jericho is astonishingly aggressive aggainst Daniels, whose mighty straight pnches can break and batter him, but Jericho simply raises again each time, and Daneisl has to deflect sword thrusts time and time again. He doesn't seem worried, though.

"I killed you many times, Jericho, and with a certain satisfaction, I might add," he says, as Jericho gets up after being nsapped in two over Daniel's knee. "Now I hear you cannot die..."

Indeed, the Agent with the Shield is heading over to Melitus.

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Cloud will try and get to his feet and then help his first officer to his feet. "I think it's time we do what one shepard said to another shepard, and get the flock out of here..."

"Oh, that sounds like a great idea..." San says, getting up and looking around them. "I don't trust those Agents, they'll probably try and kill us as soon as they hand over the Shield..."

"**** yeah they will," Ares says. "Buggering off, now!"

"I'm down with bolting..."

Time to leave, guys. The Agents will handle it.

...I feel very odd saying that.

In any case, our mission is done unless the Agents screw with it or screw up.

Are we sure we want to bolt just yet guys. I mean there is still those of us infected maybe now we have a chance to I don't know ask Melitus if there is anything he can do to save us?

Anyways if we do Bolt Berserker will grab anyone unable to stand and help carry them out.

Well, here's the reveal about what to do-

One of thw Agents approaches Melitus, unscrews the vial... and starts to pour the contents into Melitus' drip bag.

"That's what you wanted, isn't it, Jericho?" says Daniels, Intercept Punching one of Jericho's slashes. "To live here, in the Matrix, forever, your place of safety?"

He catches the next blow and twists Jericho around in an arm lock.

"Your existence has no meaning, Jericho. A facsimile of an inferior race. What purpose to infinite meanginlessness?"

Jericho executes a very smart spin to free himself from that grip... but as he does so the bearner of the third set of footsteps after Daniels that passed by Mors places his hand on jeircho's shoulder.

It is the Doctor.

Well, that logically makes a lot of sense.

Right, guys, if you've somehow managed to not get the hint by how everyone's starting to scatter...it's time to get the **** out of here.

I'm down with leaving. These Agents will have no reason to not kill us now that the Shield is administered.

Heph will scramble to his feet and stagger towards the exit.

As you guys slip out, Jericho staggers back, as a thin virtual film seems to start to cover him all over.

He;s dropped his sword, and manages to get to his voice synthisier.

"How/.../you/can/.../not..."

"You are my creation, Jericho," speaks Melitus. "I gave them the..."

hahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

"...secrets of your coding."

Jericho is now writhing as the film covers him all over.

"Well, you will have plenty of time to ponder that question, Jericho," says Daniels. "Your immortality- a gift to me. A curse for you. Goodbye."

And Jericho is gone.

"He has chosen his fate." -Melkor comments, shrugging, as he chose his own doom as well, much more foolishly. Though he preferred to think that he tricked....it didn`t really matter, at the end.

We can get away on the Osprey?

"An eternity with Agent Daniels," Ares comments. "I wouldn't even wish that on Melitus..."

Ares will get moving, if he can. How crippled is our group, Ush?

Indeed, you guys are getting out of there.

"The procedure is complete," says one of the Agents.

"What of the Humans?" says another.

"It does not matter," says Daniels.

"They will all be dead soon," says the first again. The Agents start to stroll out of the room.

"All in all, a good day," says Daniels quietly, to himself.

Melitus is simply smiling.

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You guys break out of the Pagoda. It is pissing down with rain out here.

"Come on!" Cloud yells to the rest of the team, "To the Osprey, it won't be long before those agents are done in there and after us! Plus it's raining..."

"That'll be the Shield at work," Mors says, making for the helicopter (if the Agents have left it in one piece).

Mors will dial the Shez as the crews clamber onto the Osprey.

"Captain, we've done it. Lo Qi and his Advisor are dead, Agents have subdued Jericho, and Melitus has activated the Shield."

Yes, the Osprey is still there.

There's a problem, though. Those infected have all collapsed, and even Azrael... in fact, Azrael is worst of all. He is coughing, over and over and over again, and blood is coming up each time. It does not stop.

Klez collapses to the ground, hacking horribly as he tries to pull himself towards the helicopter.

"Mors...go..." He stops to wheeze and hack. "Go on...with...without us! Go!"

Berserker who has been going on pure adrenaline all of a sudden drops as the rain pours on him. He looks towards his friends and back toawrds the agents.

"Yeah...."Berserker breathing heavily and coughing, ".... Klez is right...get out!"

Oh geez...

Are the uninfected in any condition to be pulling our dying friends into the helicopter?