Recollection

**Trayden**

((This is a short storry based off the the To the Victor [player] event recap and Mega City News Special reports threads in the community and syntax world Live Event and Next Renaissance boards. Check them for background info. Also this is an open RP thread for those involved in the story in those two threads to allow their perspective for their characters with regards to the events contained in this single thread. Enjoy.))

Fatigue starts to settle into Euforia's limbs. She's been moving around all day, first aimlessly, and now following three men whom she's never met before in her life. Even though in her state of amnesia she felt comfortable around them. It's a feeling that these men are trustworthy and not about to take advantage of her in any way. She walks to the window of the Kalt Chemical building to take one last look before she crawls into the sleeping bag lain out on the carpet by one of the men. She doses off while the other three men keep watch.

Euforia wrestles around in her sleeping bag, trying hard to combat the slew of compressed memories trying to force their way through. The painful images she sees are those of her torture by the hands of Merovingian doctors. They hook weird machines to her head and body and slowly extract code from her jacked-in body. She cannot escape. She suddenly awakens violently from her memories. It takes her a while to calm down but once she is, a flood of memories come back to her -- memories about the Matrix. Somehow, for whatever reason, she knows the state of this reality, although she cannot recall her past memories beyond this point. Also one memory in particular -- the face who had experimented on her.

Euforia settles back down into her sleeping bag as to not disturb the others anymore than she has. She contemplates her next move to get out and go back home. time passes and the other three men settle back into their normal routine of watch. Euforia picks the best opportunity to get out of the building while they aren't watching her closely. She slips out of the sleeping bag and quietly moves to the stairs. Once upon the stairs she runs down them and quickly exits the building. She goes to a phone booth down the street not so far from where the building was. Remembering the instructions that XElite gave her she improvises.

"Operator."

"Home."

Within a few seconds she finds herself in a chain on an abandoned hover barge in the desert of the real. Upon looking upon it more of her fractured memories come flowing back. Memories of her home, Zion. Memories of the stories about Neo. She starts walking in a direction hoping it's toward her home. On her trek an additional name comes to mind -- Morpheus. Somehow she has a nagging feeling that she must find him somehow at any cost.

By the time she makes it back home most of her memories return, except those of her past life, and those that are blocked due to trauma. However she understands everything about Zion, The Matrix, the machine city -- Zero-One, and the group known as Cypherites, and E Pluribus Neo. She stands in front of a very startled commander Locke.

"I am asking for a ship and operator." Euforia says evenly.

"I can't just hand over ships on a whim, operative. Besides we'll need to do some tests to make sure you're ready for the field. Especially since you've come back from the dead and all." He then throws a folder down on the table -- Euforia's folder.

She glances at it and leaves ignoring all orders from commander Locke to stop. One way or another she will jack back into the matrix.