//------------------------------// // Chapter 13 // Story: The Maretrix OC // by Violet Runner //------------------------------// A phone in a phone booth started to ring, just as Violet, Crescent, and Hawkeye arrive at the subway station. “You first, Crescent.” Violet said, putting a hand on his shoulder. Crescent walked into the phone booth and picked up the phone. A moment later he disappeared as he put the phone to his ear and the phone dropped, dangling by its cord. An old homeless man who was lying on a bench nearby looked on in surprise as he watched Hawkeye put the phone back on the receiver. He then looked at the alcohol bottle he was holding before throwing it away. The phone started ringing again and Hawkeye was about to answer it, but suddenly stopped and turned to face Violet. “Violet, I want to tell you something...but I'm afraid of what it would mean if I do...” Hawkeye said looking down as he looked at her. “Everything the Oracle has told me has come true. Everything but this.” She was about to say something else but changed her mind, and walked into the phone booth. As she picked up the phone, she saw the old man had changed into Agent Smith and was aiming a gun at the phone box. She looked on in shock as she was pulled back into the real world, and just before Agent Smith shoot the phone booth severing the link. “Violet!” Hawkeye said sitting up, as Mixer stared at her. “What the hell just happened?” Mixer asked worried. “An agent! You have to send me back!” She exclaimed laying back down. “I can't!” Mixer said noting the link to that area was cut. Violet stared at the exit of the subway station getting ready to run after seeing the line had been cut. “Mr. Anderson! We meet again…” Smith said as he approached him, smirking. “Run, Violet! Run!” Hawkeye said as she, Crescent and Mixer watched him on the monitors. Violet looked back at the exit but suddenly spun around and stared straight at Agent Smith, with a focused look on his face. “What is he doing?!” Hawkeye asked confused to why he was just standing there. “He's beginning to believe...” Crescent Sliver said half-smiling to himself. Violet and Smith stood at opposite ends of the station. Violet took a deep breath, focusing. He clenched his hands into fists, before relaxing them, pushing his fingers outwards. Suddenly they both lunged for their guns, firing, as they ran up the walls, and meet in the middle of the room, suspended in mid-air, as bullets flew all around them. They fell to the ground, their guns pointed at each other's heads. “You're empty...” Agent Smith smiled. “So are you!” Violet scowled at him. They stay there for a moment, as Smith's smile faded as he clicked his gun and no bullets came. They both then stood up, throwing their guns away. Agent Smith then stated attacking Violet, his fists flying at furious speed as Violet managed to counter them moving at the same speed. He then managed to duck in time to miss being hit by Smith's fist as it slammed through the wall behind him. Violet then counter attacked with renewed strength, as he kicked the Agent's head hard, knocking his sunglasses off. “I'm going to enjoy watching you die... Mr. Anderson!” Agent Smith said glaring at him, grimacing. He then attacked Violet furiously, moving faster than before, punching him with incredible force and sending him flying across the room and into a wall. “Jesus, he's killing him.” Hawkeye said, watching the whole thing. She then ripped up a piece of cloth, and dapped the blood coming from his mouth. Violet lay on the floor, in pain as Agent Smith smiled to himself. Taking a deep breath Violet supported himself on his hands, and spit the blood in his mouth onto the ground, before getting up and turning round to face Smith. He then lunged forward attacking the Agent again, and for a while it seemed like he's going to win. But suddenly Agent Smith grabbed hold of him, lifting him into the air, and hurled him against the curved wall of the train tunnel, before he fell inches from the electrified rail. Smith jumped down beside Violet, who was lying on the rails, barely conscious. He then grabbed him by the neck and lifts him up, choking him as the sound of an on-coming train filled the station. “Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson?” Smith asked referring to the train. “That…is the sound of inevitability... that is the sound of...your death. Goodbye...Mr. Anderson.” “My name...” The brown haired man said as he managed to get enough air to speak. “Is…Violet Runner!” With the last of his strength, he pushed Agent Smith up into the air with him, slamming him down onto the track. He looked at the on-coming train briefly before jumping up onto the edge of the platform, just in time to get out of the way of the train as the Agent is flattened. Hawkeye smiled as this happens, but it was quickly wiped off her face, as Mixer turned around with a very worried expression on his face. “What happened?” She asked looking at him “I don't know. I lost him...oh shit!” The Cobalt Unicorn said as he turned around and looked at a monitor not hooked up to the Maretrix to see that sentinels were approaching their ship, and turned to Crescent. “Sentinels! How long?” The brown earth pony mare asked? “Five, maybe six, minutes...” Crescent said shrugging. “Mixer, charge the CMP.” “You can't use that until he's out!” Hawkeye exclaimed looking at the Black Unicorn. “I know, Hawkeye...don't worry, he's going to make it...” He said looking over at the monitor. Violet ran up the stairs of the subway station when the train suddenly stopped and Agent Smith stepped out. “Shit!” He said as he exited the station and began running down the street, away from the Agent. As he ran, he noticed a man talking on a cell phone and grabbed it as he ran by. “Fuck! Hey! That's my phone! That asswhip‘s got my phone!” The man shouted before turning into an Agent and running after Violet. “Got him! He's on the run…” Mixer said as Violet called him. “Magic Man! Get me the buck out of here!!” The Brown haired man said weaving his way through a crowd of people. “Got a patch on an old exit, Dawn and Simcoe!” Mixer said guiding him. Violet ran for it, seeing various people around him turn into Agents, and cause chaos among the people walking the streets. As Violet turned into an alleyway, he came to a dead end. “Shit! Uh… Help?! Need a little help here!?” Violet said looking for a way over the wall. “Door!” Mixer instructed as Violet spotted the door on the side of one of the buildings and ran through it. “Now take the door on your left!” He said as Violet opened the door on his right to find a utility closet. “No, your other left! Back door!” Violet quickly banged the right door down, dashing through the room, just missing being hit by a woman taken over by an Agent, who through a knife at his head. Back on The Lunar Dream the sentinels had arrived and were getting ready to take the ship apart. “Oh no...!” Hawkeye said as the proximity alarm went off. “Here they come...” Crescent said as he charged the CMP and Hawkeye gave him a worried look. “He's going to make it...” He said reassuringly. “Fire escape at the end of the alley, room fourteenth, five, fifteen, that’s it!” Mixer said giving the last of the directions. Violet chucked the phone away, as he started to go up the fire escape, closely followed by the three Agents, constantly firing their rifles at him. The sentinels were drilling through the hull of The Lunar Dream. The computer started flashing red warned the crew of the hull breach. “They're inside...” Mixer said looking around at the ceiling. “Hurry, Violet...” Hawkeye whispered into his ear, whipping his forehead with a cloth as the airship shook. Violet got into the building, and ran along the corridor until he reached room 14515. He could hear the sound of the phone ringing from the other side of the door. As he opened the door however he came face to face with Agent Smith, who looked him straight in the eyes, and shot him. Violet touched his wound, as blood came out onto his hand. He looked up at the Agent, as he shot him again, and he stumbled back against the wall. Smith shot him a few more times and he slid down the wall, and slumped on the floor. Hawkeye and Crescent Sliver watched stunned as his life signs went dead. “Can't be...” Crescent said his eyes never leaving the monitor. “Check him!” Agent Smith said to one of the other two Agents in the hall, as he looked down at Violet’s corps sceptically. “He's gone...” One of the Agents said checking his pulse. “Goodbye...Mr. Anderson...” Smith said as he and the other Agents turned around and began walking away. The sentinels had broken through and were now on the main deck, ripping everything apart. Trinity was still sitting by Violet. “Violet... I'm not afraid anymore!” Hawkeye said still sitting by his lifeless body. “The Oracle told me I would fall in love, and that stallion, the one that I loved, would be The One. So, you see, you can't be dead...you can't be...because I love you....you hear me? I love you...” The green manned mare said as she leaned over and kissed him. As she said this, the blow echoed deep in Violet's mind and in the Maretrix, his eyes snapped open. Hawkeye almost screamed as his life monitors jumped back to life. Mixer and Crescent just stared in disbelief. “Now get up!!” She ordered. Violet sat up, trying to focus. He stood up, and the Agents turned around, staring at him, also in disbelief. Agent Smith grimaced and aimed his rifle at him, firing the last of his bullets at him. “No...” The brown haired man said putting his hand out. The bullets slowed down and stopped in front of him as the Agent’s clip emptied. Violet looked at them, as he picked one of the bullets out of the air. He looked at it, and then dropped it to the floor, he then looked at the rest, and moved his head down and they all fell to the ground. The Agents stared, and all took a step back. “How!?!” The Cobalt Unicorn asked surprised. “He is...The One...” The Crescent said smirking. Violet looked at Agent Smith, and ran towards him. When he got close he leaped at him but instead of tackling him, he appeared to go inside the Agent's body. Suddenly he burst out of his skin, and pieces of the Agent, that look something like green glass, flew all over the room. As Violet, he looked down at the ground with his eyes shut, the room appeared to bend, like the spoon the boy gave him when he went to the Oracle. His eyes quickly snapped open and he looked up at the two remaining Agents. They look at each other, and run for it. Violet watched them run away as his vision became 3D Maretrix code. Back on The Lunar Dream the sentinels were slowly destroying the whole ship. One suddenly broke through the ceiling and loomed near Hawkeye, who jumped to cover Violet. The sentinel was quickly taken out by Solo Gamer who shoved a blade between its joints disabling it but soon other sentinels began to tair through the ceiling. “Punch it!” The Black Unicorn said, running over to the controls to activate the CMP. In the Maretrix, Violet lunged for the phone, just as Crescent Sliver used the CMP to destroy the sentinels. Violet's eyes opened, and he smiled at Hawkeye as he kissed her. “Ok I don’t know about you guys but I’m putting in for a transfer to another ship.” Mixer said shaking his head as he looked back at everything that happened in the past week. “Me too.” Solo Gamer said looking at him. “I’m sick of shit like this happening every other week.”