Matrix Relived

[Writer]

And Beth fell into her now customary silence.

[Curt-Man]

"Strait to Mr. Jones then?" Rogue said to break the silence.

[Darth NeoVenom]

"Yeah..." replied NeoVenom. The group followed Zin as they made their way to the library door. When they got to the double doors, Zin took out a key from his pocket and insert it in the lock. First a clicking sound could be heard, clearly a sound of a door locking, and then followed by another sound of the doors unlocking. Once the library doors open, there were no fancy armors, no carpet, no windows looking onto a garden, but an alleyway. Zin extended his right hand towards the doors, "There's your exit and good luck." Arcon nodded and stepped out first, followed by NeoVenom, Zaphire, and Shadow. When Arcon looked around, he saw that this alleyway was behind the restaurant they were in.

[jokemaster]

"Why can't it ever be easy? Y'know here's the key you can have him, here's a map with a route that has no agents on it highlighted."

[Writer]

"Agents move around," Beth answered quietly. "There are no 'non-agent' routes. As to the key, I thought you liked complications and chaos." A thin smile came to her face, but did not reach her eyes. It was as if she were saying, "See? I can still joke."

[jokemaster]

"What was that? Was that a joke from our own miss bethany tyler? Huzzah! there is hope in the world!"

[Writer]

Beth didn't smile... but she did answer. "Yes. That would have been a joke."

[jokemaster]

Jokemaster grinned, but now kept quiet.

[Curt-Man]

"I'm stunned, I really am Beth." Rogue snickered

[Writer]

"Maybe you'll grow out of it eventually," Beth muttered. Then, she fell silent again.

[jokemaster]

"Maybe you'll grow into it."

[Curt-Man]

"I prefer Joke's response" Curt said with a smile.

[Darth NeoVenom]

To Jokemaster comment about the key, Zaphire spoke, "Well being that the keymaker is dead, and there is no key that leads to the place we gotta go." She frowned a bit after she finished speaking. "And as for a "non-Agent" route, Beth was right. Agents know everything route there is. They probably know where this warehouse but thought it was useless to go inside, or maybe they don't know about it. You never know..." added NeoVenom. "Well standing here isn't any good, we got to move out for every second counts. We have to get guns because this mission is going to be dangerous. This means we have to jack out and jack into the construct, then from there we’ll jack back into the Matrix as close as possible from the warehouse." said Arcon.

[Writer]

"What are we waiting for?" Beth sighed irritably.

[jokemaster]

"For you to stop, breathe and count to ten."

[Curt-Man]

((can we stop with the insults and get on with the bullet time fighting? ))

[Writer]

Beth rolled her eyes, stopped exactly where she stood and took a deep breath. Holding her breath, she counted to ten visibly on her fingers and let her breath out in Jokemaster's face.

 

"Happy?" she growled. Turning to Arcon, she said. "Let's get going."

[jokemaster]

"I thought she was supposed to be the calm one."

[Writer]

Beth said nothing.

[Darth NeoVenom]

Arcon didn't reply to the way Jokemaster and Beth were acting. He simply reached inside his trench coat pocket and took out his cell. Radar gave the usual "Operator" reply and then Arcon spoke, "We need an exit." Once Radar gave the directions, Arcon lead the group to an old abandoned store and one by one they all found themselves back on the Solaris. Arcon remain seated on his chair as NeoVenom got up to stretch, Shadow did the same. Arcon looked at his crew and spoke, "Alright here is the plan, like I said before; we all are going to jack into the Construct, get our weapons, and then jack back into the Matrix. Our number one priority is getting Mr. Jones out alive and then to get out of the warehouse before Agents come. Understood everyone?" The crew nodded their heads and sat back down on their chairs. One by one, each crew member got jacked into the Construct.

 

They all appeared in the usual white room and all over the place, in rows, were millions of guns on millions of gun racks. Each person chose the guns of their liking. Arcon picked up two Berettas and put them in their holsters and opened up his trench and holstered a shotgun. NeoVenom picked up two Socoms and a MP5 and put them one by one in their holster. Zaphire picked up two Glock-18s and two Mini Uzis. Shadow picks up Berettas, Glock-20s, and one Uzi. "Be sure not to carry too much..." said Shadow to Beth, Jokemaster, and Rogue.

[Writer]

Beth appeared to ignore Shadow's words, but she picked a shotgun and strapped on a large ammo belt. Finally, as if just hearing Shadow, she said, "This won't slow me down."

[Curt-Man]

Rogue scowered the gun rocks until.

"Ah-ha! found it!" Rogue pulled out a sniper rifle and ammo for it. "Booya, armour piercing rounds, this thing can shoot through cement walls." Rogue said as he put it on his back, then went and grabbed a walter.

[jokemaster]

"We should program the BFG from doom into this thing" said Jokemaster as he strapped two Ingram 9mms to his belt, then holstered two .44 Magnum revolvers next to those, strapped an M4 rifle to his back.

"This should be enough for me."

[Darth NeoVenom]

"I see that everyone is set." asked Arcon. He yelled out, "We're ready!" All the gun racks zoomed away from them so fast that within second there was nothing in the room. Seconds later a Telephone booth skidded to a halt in front of the group. Arcon went first towards it as the telephone began to ring and picked up the receiver. His whole became transparent and a white grid covered his whole body. Moments later, he disappeared, as if he teleported to some other place. NeoVenom hanged up the receiver, waited for the phone to ring, and did the same thing Arcon did. The same result happened to him as he picked up the receiver next to his head. Zaphire did the same and then Shadow. The only ones left in the Construct now were Jokemaster, Rogue, and Beth. The phone rang waiting for one of them to pick up.

[Curt-Man]

Rogue approached the phone and picked it up, he was transported into the matrix.