Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Matrix ❯ The Matrix- Part 2 ( Chapter 2 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: Neo Rabbit 
Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Thriller / Sci-fi / Martial Arts / Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 11.26.2003 | Pages: 4 | Words: 2.0K | Visits: 258 | Status: Work In Progress
Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Thriller / Sci-fi / Martial Arts / Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 11.26.2003 | Pages: 4 | Words: 2.0K | Visits: 258 | Status: Work In Progress
(Darkness)
Bars of green light form a tunnel then converge into a word on a computer screen. Searching...
(Music playing on headphone)
Articles scroll up the screen as the headline reads "Shadow eludes police at heathrow airport."
(Massive Attack's "Dissolve Girl" playing from headphone)
The computer images reflect on a green hedgehog sleeping safe. He wears headphones over his manic green hair and sits slumped at a U-shaped desk cramed with equipments and stacks of CD. It was Manic T. Hedgehog.
(A/N: He'll be called Manny as a nickname)
The computer screen goes black before words type out saying "Wake up, manic..." Manic blinks and shift his black eyes to the on screen message. In his 20s, manic lift his head. He takes off his headphone and stares at the screen as a new message types in.
Manic: What?
Green letters read "The Matrix has you."
Manic: What the hell?
He looks at the keyboard and presses Control X. A new line types out. "Follow the white rabbit."
Manic: "Follow the white rabbit."
He stares slackjawwed then taps the "Escape" key. Another message appear. "Knock knock, manic."
(Knock Knock)
Manic: (startled, paused) Who is it?
Furry: It's dirk.
Manic looks at his computer. The screen goes blank.
Manic: Yeah. Yeah.
(Unlocking Door)
Manic opens the door and peers at a leather clad couple which is Dirk and Jackie Rabbit (fancharacter).
Manic: You're two hours late.
Dirk: I know. It's her fault.
Manic: You got the money?
Dirk: (sighs, takes out money) 2 grand. (hands it to manic)
Manic: Hold on.
Manic takes the cash and closes the door to his apartment. He opened a book entitled "Simulacra and Simulation." The pages are cut away and computer chips filled the hollowing sides.
Int. Hallway
Manic hands the disk to dirk.
Dirk: (takes it) Hallelujah. You're my savior, man. My own personal jesus christ.
Manic: If you get caught using that...
Dirk: Yeah, I know. This never happened. You don't exist.
Manic: Right. (looks from him)
Dirk: (noticed) Something wrong, man? You look a little greener than usual.
Manic: (looks at him) My computer, (looks the other direction) it's...(scoffs, looks down) You ever had that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming?
Dirk: (nods) Mmm. All the time. It's called Mescaline. It's the only way to fly.
Manic: (looks down)
Dirk: Hey, it sounds to me like you need to unplug, man. You know, get some R and R? (to jackie) What do you think, jackie? Should we take him with us?
Jackie looks manic up and down.
Jackie: Definitely.
Manic: No, I can't. I have, uh...work tomorrow.
Jackie: Come on. (embraces dirk) It'll be fun. I promise.
Jackie wears a black culture top. Manic noticed a tattoo of a white rabbit on her bare shoulder.
Manic: Yeah. Sure. I'll go.
Cut To:
Int. Nightclub
(Rob Zombie's "Dragula (Remix)" plays)
At a nightclub, couples in skippy leather outfits and color grind the beat. Dirk and Jackie sits on a leather couch as someone lights dirk's cigarette. Manic stands by himself against the wall wearing a jacket and jean. Behind him, Bunnie approaches. She wears a sleeveless lay-tech outfit that shows her slender neck and sharp athletic shoulders.
Manic: (saw her)
Bunnie: Hello, manic.
Manic: (paused) How do you know that name?
Bunnie: Ah know a lot about you.
Manic: Who are you?
Bunnie: Mah name is bunnie.
Manic: Bunnie. (looks at her) The Bunnie? That cracked the IRS D-Base?
Bunnie: That was a long time ago.
Manic: (looks from her) Jesus.
Bunnie: What?
Manic: I just thought, um...(looks at her) you were a guy.
Bunnie: Most guys do.
Manic: (realizes something) That was you on my computer. How did you do that?
Bunnie: (approaches closer) Right now, all ah can tell you...is that you're in danger. Ah brought you he-uh to warn you.
Manic: Of what?
Bunnie: They're watching you, manic.
Manic: Who is?
Bunnie: Please just listen.
She leans in close to his ear.
Bunnie: Ah know why you're he-uh, manic. Ah know what you've been doing. Ah know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit at ya'll computer. You're looking for him. Ah know, because ah was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me...he told me ah wasn't really looking for him. Ah was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, manic. It's the question that brought you he-uh. (paused) You know the question, just as ah did.
Manic: "What is the matrix."
Bunnie: The answer is out the-uh, manic. It's looking for you...and it will find you if you want it to.
She brushes against his face and looks into his eyes.
(Buzzing)
She walks away.
Int.
In the morning, Manic wakes up and switches off his clock's radio.
Manic: Oh, shit! (gets up) No. Shit. Shit.
The clock's time was 9:10am.
Cut To:
Int. Metacortex
Later in a skyscraper office of metacortex, manic wears a suit. He waits at his boss' desk (which is an echidna) and watches the window washer outside.
Boss: You have a problem with authority, Mr. Hedgehog. You believe that you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously, you are mistaken.
(Window squeaking)
Manic: (paused)
Boss: This company is one of the top software companies in the world because single employee understands that they are part of a whole. Thus, if an employee has a problem, the company has a problem. (leans up, crosses hands) The time has come to make a choice, Mr. Hedgehog. Either you choose to be at your desk on time from this day forth, or you choose to find yourself another job. Do I make myself clear?
Manic: Yes, Mr. Echidna. Perfectly clear.
Cut To:
Later, manic sits in his cubicle under the pale green hue of office lights. The delivery man walks up.
Delivery Man: Manny Hedgehog?
Manic: (turns around) Yeah, that's me.
Delivery Man: Ok.
The delivery man walks up and hands him a clipboard to sign.Then, runs a scanner over a Fed-Ex envelope and gives it to manic.
Manic: (gives back clipboard)
Delivery Man: Great. Have a nice day.
Manic watches him leave then tears open the envelope. He slides out a cell phone into his hand.
(Ring)
Manic opens a flap and puts the phone to his ear.
Manic: (on phone) Hello?
Shadow: (from phone) Hello, manic.Do you know who this is?
Manic: (paused, on phone) Shadow.
Shadow: (from phone) Yes, I've been looking for you, manic. I don't know if you're ready to see what I want to show you, but unfortunately, you and I have run out of time. They're coming for you, manic, and I don't know what they're going to do.
Manic: (on phone) Who's coming for me?
Shadow: (from phone) Stand up and see for yourself.
Manic: (on phone) What, right now?
Shadow: (from phone) Yes. Now. (pause) Do it slowly. The elevator.
Manic stands up slowly and spots police with the agents in sunglasses. He ducks.
Manic: (on phone) Oh, shit!
Shadow: (from phone) Yes.
Sleet marches around the cubicle.
Manic: (on phone) What the hell do they want from me?
Shadow: (from phone) I don't know, but if you don't want to find out, I suggest you get out of there.
Manic: (on phone) How?
Shadow: (from phone) I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say.
Manic: (on phone) Okay.
Shadow: (from phone) The cubicle across from you is empty.
The cops sprints off from the agents by command.
Manic: (on phone) What if they--
Shadow: (cuts him off, from phone) Go! Now!
Manic scrambles to the empty cubicle just as the agents turned the corner. Manic crouches with the phone.
Shadow: (from phone) Stay here for just a moment.
Manic peers up. Sleet and Dingo glance at each other then head in the opposite direction.
Shadow: (from phone) When I tell you, go to the end of the row to the office at the end of the hall. Stay as low as you can.
Short Silence...
Shadow: (from phone) Go now.
Manic steps out. A foot away, a cop stands with his back turned. Manic hurries in the other direction staying as low as possible. A worker at the copier watches, manic dashes pass, hunched over. Manic scrambles into the empty office and closes the door.
Shadow: (from phone) Good. Now outside there is a scaffold.
Manic: (panting)
Manic eyes the window washing scaffold.
Manic: (on phone) How do you know all this?
Shadow: (from phone) We don't have time, manic. To your left, there's a window. Go to it.
Manic goes to the window.
Shadow: (from phone) Open it. You can use the scaffold to get to the roof.
Manic opens it)
Manic: (whispers, on phone) No way! No way! This is crazy!
Shadow: (from phone) There are 2 ways out of this building. One is that scaffold, the other is in their custody. You take a chance either way. I leave it to you.
(Click)
Manic lowers the phone and looks around the office.
Manic: This is insane. Why is this happening to me? What did I do? (climbs to window) I'm nobody. I didn't do anything. I'm gonna die.
He steps out the window and looks over the ledge to the streets hundreds of feets below. He stumbles back from the edge.
Manic: Shit. Shit!
Manic braces against the window frame and steps back out onto the ledge.
(Wind gusting)
Clinging to the windows, he shuffle steps around the corner. A rectangular vertical post blocks his path to the scaffold. Hugging the post, he looks down in the dizzying view of the streets. Suddenly, a gust of wind pulls his arms away and blows the cel phone out of his hand.
Manic: Oh, shit! Unh!
Manic throws himself back against the post and grits his teeth in fear.
Manic: I can't do this.
He edges away.
Ext.
Outside the office building, Sleet and Dingo bring manic to a waiting car. Bunnie sits on a motorcycle watching them in her rear-view mirror.
Bunnie: Shit.
She drives off.
Bars of green light form a tunnel then converge into a word on a computer screen. Searching...
(Music playing on headphone)
Articles scroll up the screen as the headline reads "Shadow eludes police at heathrow airport."
(Massive Attack's "Dissolve Girl" playing from headphone)
The computer images reflect on a green hedgehog sleeping safe. He wears headphones over his manic green hair and sits slumped at a U-shaped desk cramed with equipments and stacks of CD. It was Manic T. Hedgehog.
(A/N: He'll be called Manny as a nickname)
The computer screen goes black before words type out saying "Wake up, manic..." Manic blinks and shift his black eyes to the on screen message. In his 20s, manic lift his head. He takes off his headphone and stares at the screen as a new message types in.
Manic: What?
Green letters read "The Matrix has you."
Manic: What the hell?
He looks at the keyboard and presses Control X. A new line types out. "Follow the white rabbit."
Manic: "Follow the white rabbit."
He stares slackjawwed then taps the "Escape" key. Another message appear. "Knock knock, manic."
(Knock Knock)
Manic: (startled, paused) Who is it?
Furry: It's dirk.
Manic looks at his computer. The screen goes blank.
Manic: Yeah. Yeah.
(Unlocking Door)
Manic opens the door and peers at a leather clad couple which is Dirk and Jackie Rabbit (fancharacter).
Manic: You're two hours late.
Dirk: I know. It's her fault.
Manic: You got the money?
Dirk: (sighs, takes out money) 2 grand. (hands it to manic)
Manic: Hold on.
Manic takes the cash and closes the door to his apartment. He opened a book entitled "Simulacra and Simulation." The pages are cut away and computer chips filled the hollowing sides.
Int. Hallway
Manic hands the disk to dirk.
Dirk: (takes it) Hallelujah. You're my savior, man. My own personal jesus christ.
Manic: If you get caught using that...
Dirk: Yeah, I know. This never happened. You don't exist.
Manic: Right. (looks from him)
Dirk: (noticed) Something wrong, man? You look a little greener than usual.
Manic: (looks at him) My computer, (looks the other direction) it's...(scoffs, looks down) You ever had that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming?
Dirk: (nods) Mmm. All the time. It's called Mescaline. It's the only way to fly.
Manic: (looks down)
Dirk: Hey, it sounds to me like you need to unplug, man. You know, get some R and R? (to jackie) What do you think, jackie? Should we take him with us?
Jackie looks manic up and down.
Jackie: Definitely.
Manic: No, I can't. I have, uh...work tomorrow.
Jackie: Come on. (embraces dirk) It'll be fun. I promise.
Jackie wears a black culture top. Manic noticed a tattoo of a white rabbit on her bare shoulder.
Manic: Yeah. Sure. I'll go.
Cut To:
Int. Nightclub
(Rob Zombie's "Dragula (Remix)" plays)
At a nightclub, couples in skippy leather outfits and color grind the beat. Dirk and Jackie sits on a leather couch as someone lights dirk's cigarette. Manic stands by himself against the wall wearing a jacket and jean. Behind him, Bunnie approaches. She wears a sleeveless lay-tech outfit that shows her slender neck and sharp athletic shoulders.
Manic: (saw her)
Bunnie: Hello, manic.
Manic: (paused) How do you know that name?
Bunnie: Ah know a lot about you.
Manic: Who are you?
Bunnie: Mah name is bunnie.
Manic: Bunnie. (looks at her) The Bunnie? That cracked the IRS D-Base?
Bunnie: That was a long time ago.
Manic: (looks from her) Jesus.
Bunnie: What?
Manic: I just thought, um...(looks at her) you were a guy.
Bunnie: Most guys do.
Manic: (realizes something) That was you on my computer. How did you do that?
Bunnie: (approaches closer) Right now, all ah can tell you...is that you're in danger. Ah brought you he-uh to warn you.
Manic: Of what?
Bunnie: They're watching you, manic.
Manic: Who is?
Bunnie: Please just listen.
She leans in close to his ear.
Bunnie: Ah know why you're he-uh, manic. Ah know what you've been doing. Ah know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit at ya'll computer. You're looking for him. Ah know, because ah was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me...he told me ah wasn't really looking for him. Ah was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, manic. It's the question that brought you he-uh. (paused) You know the question, just as ah did.
Manic: "What is the matrix."
Bunnie: The answer is out the-uh, manic. It's looking for you...and it will find you if you want it to.
She brushes against his face and looks into his eyes.
(Buzzing)
She walks away.
Int.
In the morning, Manic wakes up and switches off his clock's radio.
Manic: Oh, shit! (gets up) No. Shit. Shit.
The clock's time was 9:10am.
Cut To:
Int. Metacortex
Later in a skyscraper office of metacortex, manic wears a suit. He waits at his boss' desk (which is an echidna) and watches the window washer outside.
Boss: You have a problem with authority, Mr. Hedgehog. You believe that you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously, you are mistaken.
(Window squeaking)
Manic: (paused)
Boss: This company is one of the top software companies in the world because single employee understands that they are part of a whole. Thus, if an employee has a problem, the company has a problem. (leans up, crosses hands) The time has come to make a choice, Mr. Hedgehog. Either you choose to be at your desk on time from this day forth, or you choose to find yourself another job. Do I make myself clear?
Manic: Yes, Mr. Echidna. Perfectly clear.
Cut To:
Later, manic sits in his cubicle under the pale green hue of office lights. The delivery man walks up.
Delivery Man: Manny Hedgehog?
Manic: (turns around) Yeah, that's me.
Delivery Man: Ok.
The delivery man walks up and hands him a clipboard to sign.Then, runs a scanner over a Fed-Ex envelope and gives it to manic.
Manic: (gives back clipboard)
Delivery Man: Great. Have a nice day.
Manic watches him leave then tears open the envelope. He slides out a cell phone into his hand.
(Ring)
Manic opens a flap and puts the phone to his ear.
Manic: (on phone) Hello?
Shadow: (from phone) Hello, manic.Do you know who this is?
Manic: (paused, on phone) Shadow.
Shadow: (from phone) Yes, I've been looking for you, manic. I don't know if you're ready to see what I want to show you, but unfortunately, you and I have run out of time. They're coming for you, manic, and I don't know what they're going to do.
Manic: (on phone) Who's coming for me?
Shadow: (from phone) Stand up and see for yourself.
Manic: (on phone) What, right now?
Shadow: (from phone) Yes. Now. (pause) Do it slowly. The elevator.
Manic stands up slowly and spots police with the agents in sunglasses. He ducks.
Manic: (on phone) Oh, shit!
Shadow: (from phone) Yes.
Sleet marches around the cubicle.
Manic: (on phone) What the hell do they want from me?
Shadow: (from phone) I don't know, but if you don't want to find out, I suggest you get out of there.
Manic: (on phone) How?
Shadow: (from phone) I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say.
Manic: (on phone) Okay.
Shadow: (from phone) The cubicle across from you is empty.
The cops sprints off from the agents by command.
Manic: (on phone) What if they--
Shadow: (cuts him off, from phone) Go! Now!
Manic scrambles to the empty cubicle just as the agents turned the corner. Manic crouches with the phone.
Shadow: (from phone) Stay here for just a moment.
Manic peers up. Sleet and Dingo glance at each other then head in the opposite direction.
Shadow: (from phone) When I tell you, go to the end of the row to the office at the end of the hall. Stay as low as you can.
Short Silence...
Shadow: (from phone) Go now.
Manic steps out. A foot away, a cop stands with his back turned. Manic hurries in the other direction staying as low as possible. A worker at the copier watches, manic dashes pass, hunched over. Manic scrambles into the empty office and closes the door.
Shadow: (from phone) Good. Now outside there is a scaffold.
Manic: (panting)
Manic eyes the window washing scaffold.
Manic: (on phone) How do you know all this?
Shadow: (from phone) We don't have time, manic. To your left, there's a window. Go to it.
Manic goes to the window.
Shadow: (from phone) Open it. You can use the scaffold to get to the roof.
Manic opens it)
Manic: (whispers, on phone) No way! No way! This is crazy!
Shadow: (from phone) There are 2 ways out of this building. One is that scaffold, the other is in their custody. You take a chance either way. I leave it to you.
(Click)
Manic lowers the phone and looks around the office.
Manic: This is insane. Why is this happening to me? What did I do? (climbs to window) I'm nobody. I didn't do anything. I'm gonna die.
He steps out the window and looks over the ledge to the streets hundreds of feets below. He stumbles back from the edge.
Manic: Shit. Shit!
Manic braces against the window frame and steps back out onto the ledge.
(Wind gusting)
Clinging to the windows, he shuffle steps around the corner. A rectangular vertical post blocks his path to the scaffold. Hugging the post, he looks down in the dizzying view of the streets. Suddenly, a gust of wind pulls his arms away and blows the cel phone out of his hand.
Manic: Oh, shit! Unh!
Manic throws himself back against the post and grits his teeth in fear.
Manic: I can't do this.
He edges away.
Ext.
Outside the office building, Sleet and Dingo bring manic to a waiting car. Bunnie sits on a motorcycle watching them in her rear-view mirror.
Bunnie: Shit.
She drives off.