Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Matrix ❯ The Matrix- Part 7 ( Chapter 7 )
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By: Neo Rabbit 
Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Thriller / Sci-fi / Martial Arts / Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 12.03.2003 | Pages: 3 | Words: 1.5K | Visits: 210 | Status: Work In Progress
Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Thriller / Sci-fi / Martial Arts / Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 12.03.2003 | Pages: 3 | Words: 1.5K | Visits: 210 | Status: Work In Progress
Cut To:
Ext. Simulated Streets -- Station Square Simulation
Now, a "Don't walk" sign glows red. On the cities street, pedestrians cross on green. Shadow and Manic were within the crowds.
Shadow: The matrix is a system, manic. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmens, teachers, lawyers, carpenters -- The very mind of the furries we are trying to save. But until we do, these mobians are a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand -- Most of these furries are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopefully dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
Manic eyes a female furry in a red dress.
Shadow: Are you listening to me, manic? Or were you looking at the furry in the red dress?
Manic: I was--
Shadow: (cuts him off) Look, again.
Manic turns to see snively. Manic ducks.
Shadow: Freeze it.
The scene freezes with snively holding a gun to manic's head.
Manic: (noticed) This...this isn't the matrix?
Shadow: No. It's another training program designed to teach you one thing -- If you're not one of us, you are one of them.
Manic: What are they?
Shadow: Senient Programs. They can move in and out of any software still hardwired to their system. That means that anyone we haven't unplugged is potentially an agent. Inside the matrix...they are everyone...and they are no one. We have survived by hiding from them and by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding al the doors. They are holding all the keys, which means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them.
Manic: Someone.
Shadow: I won't lie to you, manic. Every single man or women who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought an agent, has died. But where they have failed, you will succeed.
Manic: Why?
Shadow: I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall. Furries have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air. Yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.
Manic: (long pause) What are you trying to tell me, that I can dodge bullets?
Shadow: No, manic. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready...you won't have to.
(Cell phone rings)
Shadow: (answers it)
Tails: (from phone) We got trouble.
Cut To:
Ext.
Now, the nebuchadnezzer speeds through a dark tunnel. Neon blue light glows on the hall of the bulking ship as it careens down a turbular passage way.
Int.
Shadow joins cyrus in the cockpit. Behind them, Manic and Bunnie loses their balance as the ship shakes.
Shadow: Did Floating Island send the warning?
Cyrus: No. Another ship.
Radars show a squid-like hologram.
Cyrus: (noticed) Shit. Squiddy's in quick.
Manic: (to bunnie) Squiddy?
Bunnie: A sentinel. A killing machine designed for one thing.
Cyrus: Search and Destroy.
Shadow: Set her down right over here.
The ship reaches the end to the tubular passageway and descends into a tavern of chambers where metal pipes line the walls. The nebuchadnezzer steer rear, neon blue lights cut through the darkness as the landing gear extends. Turning around, the ship backs into the mouth of a tunnel and touches down.
Int.
Shadow: (on intercom) How we doing, Tails?
On Tails
Tails furrow his brow at the computer and strokes the keys. Lights go out and monitors go black. A red dial glows under a plastic cover.
Tails: (on intercom) Power offline. EMP armed...
On Manic
Tails: (from intercom) ...and ready.
Manic: (to bunnie) EMP?
Bunnie: Electromagnetic Pulse. Disables any electrical system in the blast radius. It's the only weapon we have against the machines.
On Shadow
Shadow pulls on a beret.
Ext.
Outside the ship, mist squirts in the dense chamber.
Int.
Manic: (whispers) Where are we?
Bunnie: (whispers) Thier old service and waste systems.
Manic: (paused) Sewers.
Bunnie: (whispers) They used to be cities that spanned hundreds of miles. Now these sewers are all that's left of them.
Shadow: (whispers) Quiet.
A squid-like robot with a dozen cable tentacles drift by. Then, another appears from behind a nearby ledge. It moves closer. 15 red lens glowing like eyes on its oblong face. It thrust out 2 tentacles. On the end of one, a claw opens. The other arm pulls a projectile shaped like a small satellite dish. The tentacled robot turns and flies off.
Int.
Cyrus: (sighing)
Shadow and the others exchange a glance.
(Darkness)
Fade In-
Int. Core
Nack sits at a bank of monitors. On 3 screens, bright green symbols string down in columns of rapidly changing codes. Behind him, someone walks up quietly.
Nack: (sees him, startled) Whoa! Manic! You scared the bejesus out of me!
Manic: Sorry.
Nack: It's okay.
Nack turns off a set of monitors.
Manic: (looks at front monitor) Is that...
Nack: The Matrix? (nods) Yeah.
Manic: (looks closer) Do you always look at it encoded?
Nack: Well, you have to. The image translators work for the construct program. But there's way too much information to decode the matrix. You get used to it. I-I don't even see the code. All I see is hedgehog, echidna, squirrels. Hey, you, uh...want a drink?
Manic: Sure.
Nack pours him one from a battered tin jug.
Nack: You knoe, um...I know what you're thinking...'cause right now, I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I-I been thinking it ever since I got here. (sighs) Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill?
Manic: (chuckles)
Manic smiles down at the floor then glances at nack.who takes a swig from the gallon jug. Manic sips from a cup.
Manic: (coughing)
Nack: (pats his back) Good shit, huh? Cyrus makes it. It's good for 2 things -- Degressing engines and killing brain cells.
Manic: Ooh!
Nack: So, uh, can I ask you something?
Manic: (nods)
Nack: Did he tell you why he did it?
Manic: (looks at nack, paused)
Nack: Why you're here?
Manic: (nods)
Nack: (shakes head) Je...sus! What a mind job. So you're here to save the world. What do you say to something like that?
Manic: (paused)
Nack: (paused) A little piece of advice. You see an agent, you do what we do...Run. You run your ass off.
Manic shift his gaze then took another drink and hands back the cup.
Manic: Thanks for the drink.
Folding his arms across his chest, Manic walks away.
Nack: Sweet dreams.
Cut To:
Int. The Matrix
Resturant Simulation
Nack cuts a steak.
Snively: Do we have a deal...Mr. Weasel?
Nack: You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth...the matrix is telling my brain that it is...juicy...and delicious. (paused) After 9 years, you know what I realize?
Snively sternly watches him chew a bite.
Nack: (sighs) Ignorance is bliss.
(Playing Arpeggios)
They sit near a harpess.
Snively: Then we have a deal.
Nack: I don't want to remember nothing. Nothing. You understand?
Swallowing, nack sniffed a glass of red wine.
Nack: And I want to be rich. You know...someone important...like an actor.
Snively: Whatever you want...Mr. Weasel.
Nack: Okay. And I get my body back in a power plant, reinsert me into the matrix, (lits cigarette) I'll get you what you want.
Snively: Access codes to the Floating Island Mainframe.
Nack: No, I told you. I don't know them. I can get you the furry who does.
Snively: Shadow.
Nack drops his gaze and puffs a cigarette.
Ext. Simulated Streets -- Station Square Simulation
Now, a "Don't walk" sign glows red. On the cities street, pedestrians cross on green. Shadow and Manic were within the crowds.
Shadow: The matrix is a system, manic. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmens, teachers, lawyers, carpenters -- The very mind of the furries we are trying to save. But until we do, these mobians are a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand -- Most of these furries are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopefully dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
Manic eyes a female furry in a red dress.
Shadow: Are you listening to me, manic? Or were you looking at the furry in the red dress?
Manic: I was--
Shadow: (cuts him off) Look, again.
Manic turns to see snively. Manic ducks.
Shadow: Freeze it.
The scene freezes with snively holding a gun to manic's head.
Manic: (noticed) This...this isn't the matrix?
Shadow: No. It's another training program designed to teach you one thing -- If you're not one of us, you are one of them.
Manic: What are they?
Shadow: Senient Programs. They can move in and out of any software still hardwired to their system. That means that anyone we haven't unplugged is potentially an agent. Inside the matrix...they are everyone...and they are no one. We have survived by hiding from them and by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding al the doors. They are holding all the keys, which means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them.
Manic: Someone.
Shadow: I won't lie to you, manic. Every single man or women who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought an agent, has died. But where they have failed, you will succeed.
Manic: Why?
Shadow: I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall. Furries have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air. Yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.
Manic: (long pause) What are you trying to tell me, that I can dodge bullets?
Shadow: No, manic. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready...you won't have to.
(Cell phone rings)
Shadow: (answers it)
Tails: (from phone) We got trouble.
Cut To:
Ext.
Now, the nebuchadnezzer speeds through a dark tunnel. Neon blue light glows on the hall of the bulking ship as it careens down a turbular passage way.
Int.
Shadow joins cyrus in the cockpit. Behind them, Manic and Bunnie loses their balance as the ship shakes.
Shadow: Did Floating Island send the warning?
Cyrus: No. Another ship.
Radars show a squid-like hologram.
Cyrus: (noticed) Shit. Squiddy's in quick.
Manic: (to bunnie) Squiddy?
Bunnie: A sentinel. A killing machine designed for one thing.
Cyrus: Search and Destroy.
Shadow: Set her down right over here.
The ship reaches the end to the tubular passageway and descends into a tavern of chambers where metal pipes line the walls. The nebuchadnezzer steer rear, neon blue lights cut through the darkness as the landing gear extends. Turning around, the ship backs into the mouth of a tunnel and touches down.
Int.
Shadow: (on intercom) How we doing, Tails?
On Tails
Tails furrow his brow at the computer and strokes the keys. Lights go out and monitors go black. A red dial glows under a plastic cover.
Tails: (on intercom) Power offline. EMP armed...
On Manic
Tails: (from intercom) ...and ready.
Manic: (to bunnie) EMP?
Bunnie: Electromagnetic Pulse. Disables any electrical system in the blast radius. It's the only weapon we have against the machines.
On Shadow
Shadow pulls on a beret.
Ext.
Outside the ship, mist squirts in the dense chamber.
Int.
Manic: (whispers) Where are we?
Bunnie: (whispers) Thier old service and waste systems.
Manic: (paused) Sewers.
Bunnie: (whispers) They used to be cities that spanned hundreds of miles. Now these sewers are all that's left of them.
Shadow: (whispers) Quiet.
A squid-like robot with a dozen cable tentacles drift by. Then, another appears from behind a nearby ledge. It moves closer. 15 red lens glowing like eyes on its oblong face. It thrust out 2 tentacles. On the end of one, a claw opens. The other arm pulls a projectile shaped like a small satellite dish. The tentacled robot turns and flies off.
Int.
Cyrus: (sighing)
Shadow and the others exchange a glance.
(Darkness)
Fade In-
Int. Core
Nack sits at a bank of monitors. On 3 screens, bright green symbols string down in columns of rapidly changing codes. Behind him, someone walks up quietly.
Nack: (sees him, startled) Whoa! Manic! You scared the bejesus out of me!
Manic: Sorry.
Nack: It's okay.
Nack turns off a set of monitors.
Manic: (looks at front monitor) Is that...
Nack: The Matrix? (nods) Yeah.
Manic: (looks closer) Do you always look at it encoded?
Nack: Well, you have to. The image translators work for the construct program. But there's way too much information to decode the matrix. You get used to it. I-I don't even see the code. All I see is hedgehog, echidna, squirrels. Hey, you, uh...want a drink?
Manic: Sure.
Nack pours him one from a battered tin jug.
Nack: You knoe, um...I know what you're thinking...'cause right now, I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I-I been thinking it ever since I got here. (sighs) Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill?
Manic: (chuckles)
Manic smiles down at the floor then glances at nack.who takes a swig from the gallon jug. Manic sips from a cup.
Manic: (coughing)
Nack: (pats his back) Good shit, huh? Cyrus makes it. It's good for 2 things -- Degressing engines and killing brain cells.
Manic: Ooh!
Nack: So, uh, can I ask you something?
Manic: (nods)
Nack: Did he tell you why he did it?
Manic: (looks at nack, paused)
Nack: Why you're here?
Manic: (nods)
Nack: (shakes head) Je...sus! What a mind job. So you're here to save the world. What do you say to something like that?
Manic: (paused)
Nack: (paused) A little piece of advice. You see an agent, you do what we do...Run. You run your ass off.
Manic shift his gaze then took another drink and hands back the cup.
Manic: Thanks for the drink.
Folding his arms across his chest, Manic walks away.
Nack: Sweet dreams.
Cut To:
Int. The Matrix
Resturant Simulation
Nack cuts a steak.
Snively: Do we have a deal...Mr. Weasel?
Nack: You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth...the matrix is telling my brain that it is...juicy...and delicious. (paused) After 9 years, you know what I realize?
Snively sternly watches him chew a bite.
Nack: (sighs) Ignorance is bliss.
(Playing Arpeggios)
They sit near a harpess.
Snively: Then we have a deal.
Nack: I don't want to remember nothing. Nothing. You understand?
Swallowing, nack sniffed a glass of red wine.
Nack: And I want to be rich. You know...someone important...like an actor.
Snively: Whatever you want...Mr. Weasel.
Nack: Okay. And I get my body back in a power plant, reinsert me into the matrix, (lits cigarette) I'll get you what you want.
Snively: Access codes to the Floating Island Mainframe.
Nack: No, I told you. I don't know them. I can get you the furry who does.
Snively: Shadow.
Nack drops his gaze and puffs a cigarette.