Programs

**TimeMaker** · 12/13/2006 18:57:02

Freyjas hovercraft sped through the underground tunnels like a bullet. She had just received a call from Commander Locke.

"Freyja, we have a sleepwalker, play fetch."

"What am I? His *CENSORED*?" Well at least the tunnels were save with the truce and all.

"Try not to hit that wall again, ok Radar?" Freyja said.

"Oh shut up and let me drive!" Radar replied without looking up. Freyja laughed a wild and crazy laugh at his reply. The sleepwalker was in for a big surprise here in the real.

"Captain, we're almost at the surface." Radar said. "Good, get a lock on his pod."

The sleepwalker had been sitting in his pod awake for more then half an hour, soon the machines would come and send him down the garbage chute. They planned to be there when that happened.

*

My plan had been formulated, now all I had to do was wait for a hovercraft to come pick me up and deliver me back to Zion. I passed the time watching the electricity bounce up the pods around me. I looked out over my pod to get a better view of a bolt that had just started at the bottom. It was a beautiful sight to behold. It bounced around so gracefully, with the speed and agility of a small animal, now it jumped towards me like a ballet dancer, and left in a bright flash of light.

When I could see again there was a metallic thing staring at me. This had to be one of the machines. I waved to it but it only blinked in reply. Next thing I knew I was speeding sown a chute.

Lately I've been to lazy to replace my *s with the lines, so that's all those mean.

**Denary**

TimeMaker wrote:

Frejas hovercraft sped through the underground tunnels like a bullet. She had just received a call from Commander Locke.
"Freja, we have a sleepwalker, play fetch."
"What am I? His *CENSORED*?" Well at least the tunnels were save with the truce and all.
"Try not to hit that wall again, ok Radar?" Freja said.
"Oh shut up and let me drive!" Radar replied without looking up. Freja laughed a wild and crazy laugh at his reply. The sleepwalker was in for a big surprise here in the real.
"Captain, we're almost at the surface." Radar said. "Good, get a lock on his pod."
The sleepwalker had been sitting in his pod awake for more then half an hour, soon the machines would come and send him down the garbage chute. They planned to be there when that happened.
*
My plan had been formulated, now all I had to do was wait for a hovercraft to come pick me up and deliver me back to Zion. I passed the time watching the electricity bounce up the pods around me. I looked out over my pod to get a better view of a bolt that had just started at the bottom. It was a beautiful sight to behold. It bounced around so gracefully, with the speed and agility of a small animal, now it jumped towards me like a ballet dancer, and left in a bright flash of light.
When I could see again there was a metallic thing staring at me. This had to be one of the machines. I waved to it but it only blinked in reply. Next thing I knew I was speeding sown a chute.

Lately I've been to lazy to replace my *s with the lines, so that's all those mean.

tis good, as usual. I barely passed my English with a very very low C, my english is liek balls

**TimeMaker** · 12/13/2006 18:58:05

"He's going down now!" Radar shouted. Pure excitement had hit the ship; a new recruit was on his way down towards their hovercraft. Now all they had to do was catch him and not kill him in the process.

"Alright crew, ready?" Freyja shouted over the whirring mechanics of the ships hatch opening.

"Ready!" They replied. "Well good, because here he comes!"

*

This was by no means a fun waterslide. It just kept twisting and twisting, and I couldn't stop myself. I felt weak and nauseous... another turn and there wouldn't be anything left inside me. Finally it went straight and I could see out through the end of it. A Zion hovercraft was sitting there waiting for me. "Perfect" I said to myself as I flew out of the hole and into the water.

I fell with a splash into the water. This I wasn't prepared for, I thought maybe I could swim, I guess I didn't have any muscle... seeing as I had lived in a simulation all my life. I was drowning now and looked up at the Zion hovercraft. Did they know who I was and about my plan? Just before I went under I saw the hatch on the bottom of the hovercraft open, my salvation was at hand.

*

"Jesus Radar! You missed by a mile!"

"Actually it was only 20 yards..."

"I don't want excuses! He could have drowned!" Freyja said angerly.

"Yes mam, sorry mam..." Radar said, knowing not to fight with her. "And Radar?" Freyja said. "Yes'm?"

"Don't call me mam... you make me sound old. Now let's see this new kid." Freyja turned to leave the desk and walked out briskly.

"Harsh when she wants to be isn't she? But I do love being behind her!"

"Hlew!" Radar said. "Never, again... you know she's probably got the shipped bugged!"

"Probably?! She does have it bugged, and she listens to you talk in your sleep." Hlew retorted. "I don't talk in my sleep!"

"How would you know? You can't hear yourself, but I can, you never shut up! We need another room in this hovercraft so I don't have to bunk with you."

"Love you too Hlew."

Over in another part of the hovercraft Freyja sat down beside the new recruit, or so they hoped to make him. He had thousands of needles sticking out of him, each working his muscles with small jolts of electricity. This was always a necessary part, and Freyja never liked to watch it, but she stayed with him nonetheless. This kid could be just the crew mate she was looking for to complete her crew. He was no one special, but he was self aware.

A sleepwalker as they called them in Zion. Not still asleep, but never having taken the redpill. There were only a handful of people like him, and all of them ended up being excellent fighters. Maybe things would finally get better.

Anyway, thanks for the compliments, and if I can do anything better like Tony said adding more detail... Which I'm not sure I did, just say the word and I'll try... This is a learning expierance for me too.

**TimeMaker**

Apperantly the name is Freyja... the girl I'm modeling the char with got REALLY pissed at me for missing a Y, now I have to run around and correct those eventually... And I forgot b 1tch was cencered.... hmmm, how to get around that one like all my others....

**TonyJaa**

if i knew that this would go on for 4 pages i wouldnt make such comment...u did good!uve put a lot of hard work for that!!Grats

**Sixerz**

yes, very good stuffz!

**Good_Game_son**

Where it's at now.

**TonyJaa**

where are u timemaker??

**Good_Game_son**

Sitting at my computer, night after night, realizing the truth yet not grabbing it.

Also known as school. Poop > or = Grades.

- TimeMaker

**TonyJaa**

Good_Game_son wrote:

Sitting at my computer, night after night, realizing the truth yet not grabbing it.

Also known as school. Poop > or = Grades.

- TimeMaker

ahhh so there u are...

**Good_Game_son**

Oh no, this isn't me, I just made good friends. =) And begged....

-TimeMaker

**TonyJaa**

Good_Game_son wrote:

Oh no, this isn't me, I just made good friends. =) And begged....

-TimeMaker

im confused SMILEY

now

vincefan

Tiiiimmme! come back to meeeeee!

**TimeMaker**

   Anna woke up on an uncomfortable concrete slab. She sat up to see where she was moaning as she went, everything hurt. A window sat above her new bed, and a cell door to her left. She stood up on her bed to look out the window, the forest sat out there in its eternal twilight.

            She slumped to the floor. She longed to be back home, or anywhere but this place, this forest. Time had completely passed her by; all sense of it had left awhile ago. She looked around the grimy, moldy room. There was no exit, the bars were to thin. No way out unless the voice popped up again.

            "Well hello there! We meet again" Someone said, almost on queue. "You certainly get stuck in a lot of problems. Can't you do anything without my help?"

            This guy was not helping his image much, but at least he was good in a pinch like this one. "So wanna get me outta here?" Anna almost begged. As if it was magic the cell door opened at her words. "Thanks, I can take it from here."

            "No, no you can't." The voice said, "Let me help you." The shadows in the corner moved and a woman walked out. The first thing Anna noticed was her necklace.

*

            Freyja woke up with a start; she had dozed off next to the new kid. The electric hum of the hovercraft was dead, except for the needles, those were still working. She got up from her chair and walked towards the bridge. With everything this quiet they must be back in Zion. She entered the bridge only to find her crew still there, motionless. "Radar? What's going on?" She asked. Radar shushed her and said, "They'll hear you!" "Who will?"

"Sentinels."

Sentinels? But what about the truce? Had someone violated it?

"Radar... it's coming towards us..." Hlew whispered.

"I know... I know..." Radar replied.

"Kill it Radar!" Hlew said slightly louder.

"No, the truce could still be in place."

Fear had engulfed the entire ship, growing ever tenser as the sentinel approached them.

"Radar! If the thing dares to get within firing range of the EMP kill it." Hlew said getting louder and more scared.

"Hlew, shut up!" Radar said still whispering.

"Hlew, Radar, shove it!" Freyja retorted. If they weren't such good operatives she would have left them there in the tunnels to die.

"Sorry." They said, like well trained school boys. Both of them looked scared now, and Radar never lost his cool. The sentinel was within firing range of the EMP now.

"Activate the EMP." She said reluctantly. "Then get the ship the hell back to Zion.

            Hlew lifted a hatch on the center consol and jammed the button he found inside. A blue light immediately spread from the button. Any activated electrical equipment that it caught would be fried.

"Uh-oh." Hlew said. "What?" Radar asked. "The new kid..." Freyja remembered the needles still in him, each one about to release all the energy inside into his body when the EMP touched it. Radar began to run for him. "I got it!" he shouted back to them, chasing the blue light. All they could do was hope. Freyja followed behind him. Anna woke up on an uncomfortable concrete slab. She sat up to see where she was moaning as she went, everything hurt. A window sat above her new bed, and a cell door to her left. She stood up on her bed to look out the window, the forest sat out there in its eternal twilight.

            She slumped to the floor. She longed to be back home, or anywhere but this place, this forest. Time had completely passed her by; all sense of it had left awhile ago. She looked around the grimy, moldy room. There was no exit, the bars were to thin. No way out unless the voice popped up again.

            "Well hello there! We meet again" Someone said, almost on queue. "You certainly get stuck in a lot of problems. Can't you do anything without my help?"

            This guy was not helping his image much, but at least he was good in a pinch like this one. "So wanna get me outta here?" Anna almost begged. As if it was magic the cell door opened at her words. "Thanks, I can take it from here."

            "No, no you can't." The voice said, "Let me help you." The shadows in the corner moved and a woman walked out. The first thing Anna noticed was her necklace.

*

            Freyja woke up with a start; she had dozed off next to the new kid. The electric hum of the hovercraft was dead, except for the needles, those were still working. She got up from her chair and walked towards the bridge. With everything this quiet they must be back in Zion. She entered the bridge only to find her crew still there, motionless. "Radar? What's going on?" She asked. Radar shushed her and said, "They'll hear you!" "Who will?"

"Sentinels."

Sentinels? But what about the truce? Had someone violated it?

"Radar... it's coming towards us..." Hlew whispered.

"I know... I know..." Radar replied.

"Kill it Radar!" Hlew said slightly louder.

"No, the truce could still be in place."

Fear had engulfed the entire ship, growing ever tenser as the sentinel approached them.

"Radar! If the thing dares to get within firing range of the EMP kill it." Hlew said getting louder and more scared.

"Hlew, shut up!" Radar said still whispering.

"Hlew, Radar, shove it!" Freyja retorted. If they weren't such good operatives she would have left them there in the tunnels to die.

"Sorry." They said, like well trained school boys. Both of them looked scared now, and Radar never lost his cool. The sentinel was within firing range of the EMP now.

"Activate the EMP." She said reluctantly. "Then get the ship the hell back to Zion.

            Hlew lifted a hatch on the center consol and jammed the button he found inside. A blue light immediately spread from the button. Any activated electrical equipment that it caught would be fried.

"Uh-oh." Hlew said. "What?" Radar asked. "The new kid..." Freyja remembered the needles still in him, each one about to release all the energy inside into his body when the EMP touched it. Radar began to run for him. "I got it!" he shouted back to them, chasing the blue light. All they could do was hope. Freyja followed behind him.
*
I woke up with a burning pain. Every muscle in my body felt like it was on overdrive. I picked my head up to look around. Thousands of needles stuck out of my body. What were these Zionists doing to me? I ripped needles out in pain and anger until only 5 were still in my left leg. I started on those when a blue light caught my eye. It came out of the door to the room, and soon more through the walls. It moved towards me, pulsing with life and death, an in-between. It approached and retreated, child like in its ways. I heard footsteps but didn't bother to look, the light was amazing. Someone yelled something at me but I didn't care.

Half dazed and drunk with the light, nothing could take me from where I was. The light continued to swallow creep towards me. I reached out to touch it, and it engulfed my hand, and then my entire body. Then it happened, the light pulsed through my body and left me in pain. I screamed but heard no words. The pain left as fast as it could come, numbing my left leg, the rest of me in a conscious shock.

*

Freyja came into the room listening to the sound track of pain. Radar must not have made it in to the off switch in time; her new operative could be paralyzed or even dead in just a few more seconds. She looked over at Radar who was smiling. She stared into his sea blue eyes, looking for a reason to smile. He directed her gaze to the pile of needles on the floor. "Radar, how did you remove them so fast?" Freyja questioned. "I didn't, he did." He pointed to the moaning man on the table. There were five needles still in his left leg, and that could heal, although he might have a limp for awhile at best. She laughed at her own over reaction.

            "Radar!" She commanded. "Yes mam?"

"Tell me when the pain dies; I'm going to make sure Hlew doesn't crash us."

"You... you let him pilot!"

"Yeah. Oh, and Radar?" She said with a smile, "Don't call me mam."

"Yes sir!"

She picked up a needle from the floor and threw it at him on her way out.

*

            She had laughed at me! I was cold, hungry and in pain, and all she did was laugh! The man she called Radar spoke to me realizing my reaction. "You know, she's really not that bad once you get to know her."

"Ok Sonar, whatever you say." I said crossly.

"It's Radar; you'll get it eventually,"

I disliked him already, how long did I have to put up with these people? When I get to Zion they had better let me transfer ships!

            Radar left the room, probably to get his captain. This was a perfect opportunity for sabotage, but what to play with?

*

            "Left turn here Hlew." Freyja said "Now up there. Good. Watch out for that! Now that..." Hlew reached over and slapped her.

"Ow! What was that for?" "No back seat driving." Hlew said angrily. She slapped the back of his head. The ship took a dive and Hlew tried to regain control. "Are you trying to get us killed?" Freyja screamed.

            Hlew looked ticked now. "Once we get back to Zion we had better have a long break." "Sorry hun" she said, enjoying herself "But we have to train the new recruit, so one day at best." Hlew looked like he was about to commit mutiny. "Fine, just fine"

            Radar walked in, pleased with himself. "Freyja, he can speak without screaming now." "Great." Freyja said crossly. "If he turns out like you two..." She stormed off to see the kid, leaving them with a full example of why they needed a break.

            "Hlew, what did you do?" Radar asked. "Nothing I don't normally do."

"Ah, so that's her problem."

"Not my fault."

"At least we get a long break from her."

"Yeah," Hlew said suddenly changing from anger to depression, "twenty-four hours, at the most." Radars smile fell off his face and all the way through the floor.

***

A pair of legs blocked my view of the ceiling; the legs disappeared a moment later and revealed a face. "Hey kid, what's your name?" it asked. "Tim." I said crossly.

"Tim? What, did Radar name you?"

"My mom did, why do you ask? I said angrily.

"Oh, no chosen name yet? Well you need one of those, no one is going to want to run around calling you Tim, especially not your operator; nor will I. So go ahead and pick one." She said false flowers and sunshine in every word.

"From what list?" I asked her.

"The list in your head. Just pick a name, throw letters together or pick a word that means something to you. Take Radar for instance. He used to work in a submarine, always watching the sonar. He didn't like sonar much so he went to a category name, Radar."

I thought for a second and only one name came to mind.

"TimeMaker" The name everyone else had called me, and the name I realized belonged to me.

"You can't have that one! I mean... it's taken. By um, someone else... How about Time... umm..."

I guess I hit a soft spot with that one, was I supposed to know her? I wanted to ask for more but her distress affected me.

"Um well, how about..." I had no idea what I was going to say. More time to think would have been better. Was I the TimeMaker or was I not? Maybe I could anagram TimeMaker. M I K E T A M E R. No, no way, lame.

"Well?" she asked puzzled and excited. Time was running short. Time that was it! It had to do with time. Anagrammed made it... I T E M. Nah, not enough... Ah!

"Xitem. That will do fine." I said. I pulled off a name, not something I would want to name my child, but I liked it. X, what a great letter.

"Xitem, hm, very nice, well Xitem, lets get your trained."

*

"Training? Now? What about out day off! You said we got 24 hours!" Hlew screamed.

"I said 24 hours at the most, anyway, it's not like your actually putting him back into the matrix already, he's not ready for that. Just use a construct. You're such a genius... now get going."

This got weirder and weirder as it went on. At least I was causing trouble. I wondered what I would get to do first...

"Radar!" Hlew said, trying to mimic Freyjas voice. "Plug him in and I'll love you forever!"

This didn't amuse Freyja, she exercised every ounce of self control she had, and still ended up throwing something metal in his direction. This place was crazy.

"Missed me, now don't break the equipment." Hlew said.

Radar looked like he had just been attacked by French maids with feather dusters. Without noticing Radar, Freyja stormed out, the second she was out of view Radar exploded with laughter.

"Radar, Radar, Radar, calm down. Just plug him in and help me find a program to run. Then the real fun begins, and I'll jack you in to help."

"Alright Hlew." He turned to me. "Ok kid, come over here and sit down."

"I have a name you know" I replied.

"Oh really now? Well I'm sure we'd like to know, eventually." Hlew said.

"Die in a fire, both of you." I replied.

"Well now, drown in a puddle." Hlew said, which caused Radar to laugh even harder.

I sat down in the chair, hoping to get this over with. Nothing could make this any worse.

"This is gonna feel really weird."

"What is-"

He stuck something in the back of my neck and the whole world went white.

*

"Welcome to Tahiti!" A voice said.

**TimeMaker**

The light was fading and I now found a beach all around me. People walked back and forth, over beach tanners. Then I saw it... This was a nude beach! I felt warm sun on my body and looked down at myself.



            This was some kind of sick joke right? I looked up and then noticed it. Everyone on this beach was a girl! And not just any girls, models. Brazilian, Spanish, Japanese, everything else a man could ever ask for.



            Someone came up behind me. "This is going to make things hard." To late, I thought. "What will?" I asked. The female voice rang in my ear again. "Hlew put in the one program I didn't want." It was Freyja, one of the last people I wanted to see while I stood here naked. I didn't dare turn around; if she was too... well I didn't want to see.

I blushed at once and covered myself from the rest of the world, even though, wasn't this half the point of a nude beach? "That won't be necessary." She said, walking out towards the sound of the crashing waves. I could see now that she was fully clothed, someone up there still loved me a little. Her pink dress shirt shimmered as it caught the light of the sun, un-tucked from her skirt. I could hear the sound of her blue flip flops as she walked through the sand, like she had many times before, never once faltering.

"This Xitem is the Matrix, a computer program, to say the least." I knew that. Anything new in this speech? "Now most people aren't ready to be unplugged like you. Most of the people in the simulation don't realize that this place is a prison, a curtain on the stage of a play, covering the behind the scenes work, covering the real. But you, you were special. You, like most of us discovered its existence and we're ready to be unplugged. You saw past the curtain, and pulled it back with out the choice. That is what makes you different from the rest of us. Disconnected without shutting down, if you will." I looked around the beach, the smell of the salt water intoxicating me, telling me to relax and stare at those around me. A wonderful distraction from this horrible truth. All self control was about to go. The girls looked delicious, rolling over on their backs, to tan their fronts in the sun. My mouth watered.

"Xitem, are you even listening to me? Hey X!" I looked back at her, pushing back my needs and wants. "Fine, go stare," Freyja said, "don't pay attention." She walked off and I turned to look. Every girl was now dressed in a black suit and tie, earpieces curling around their now manly faces. Guns hovered arms length from their bodies pointed at me, they still smiled, beckoning me to come forward. All triggers were pulled at once and the resounding bang left me cowering behind my hands. Seconds passed and nothing hit me. I looked out from between my fingers; bullets hovered all around me, frozen in time, and Freyja laughing.

"This is the very essence of the Matrix." She giggled. "Pay attention or die!"

*

"I think we should move on to combat training before he pisses himself." Hlew's voice rang out against the now empty beach.

"Good idea." Freyja said. "But upload the programs to him first, I'll be sleeping." She walked to the end of the beach to stand in the surf and let the unreal crystal blue water splash coolly onto her feet.

The world suddenly started dropping slowly around me. My head felt light and I reached up to massage it, only to find my hand turning into code. I watched in horror as it engulfed my hand and flew towards the sky, like an inverted rain shower. I tried to scream but I couldn't. The last thing I saw was Freyja staring out over the crystal blue ocean.

*

I found myself back in the reclining chair they used to jack me in. I tried to move but found myself still plugged in through the hole in the back of my head. I reached around the back of the chair to unplug it. "No, don't do that."

Radars voice floated across the room in an attempt to stop my and probably calm me. I stopped but felt no better. "What do you want to learn first? Kung Fu? Karate? Aikido? How about something more obscure?" Radar laughed, "Ninjitsu?"

"Ninjitsu is fine." I picked.

"Any order you want?"
"Whatever pops up first."

"Alrighty then, you're easy.

*

Freyja stared out over the peaceful water, listening to the rhythmic sound of the waves against the beach, like the great heart of the world. She knew it was all fake, a lie, but they had done a pretty *CENSORED* good job with it. The ocean pleaded with her to return to her ignorance, just get a house on the beach and stay up with it and listen. Maybe even come out and listen at night and sleep. That was all it asked of her. Attention. Sail a boat on it, let the tides splash up on and over her feet. Bringing foam, salt, water, shells, and anything else it felt like sharing with her. This was why it was her favorite program, now that the Agents had been taken out, along with the beach goers. She was alone now and could reflect on her day.

The new recruit showed promise, he hadn't panicked yet either; strong will. He seemed fully capable of operation inside and out of the Matrix, well aside from that fact that he hadn't yet had combat training.

"What do you think about that kid Tim?" A tall dark man appeared beside her with deep set blue eyes and a smile set to kill. "He'll do fine.

"I hope you're right."

Freyja took his perfect dark hand and headed off towards the end of the beach in darkness. Just off the shallows was the shimmering light that was their beach house. Both of them headed towards the bed room.