THE MATRIX V 3.03
EPSIODE 11 ENLIGHTENMENT
BY ROBERT ‘CHOI’ BOEHM
FADE
IN TO:
INT. GOTHIC CATHEDRAL
We are in the sanctuary of a mid-evil gothic cathedral; numerous
candles that line the walls and are suspended in chandeliers dimly light the
area. We see the nave of the cathedral,
it has seventy to eighty bays and its vault is a staggering forty stories high. The upper sections of each bay have massive
stained glass windows and a huge rose window is placed above the ornamental
doors that lead into the narthex. The
camera lowers and turns around revealing the crossing and zooms into the Apse.
Somnus is there; she is lying down on her back, and is strapped to a crucifix
shaped alter. Mara is next to her
floating upright an inch off of the floor; she is preparing a tonic by mixing
various ingredients in beakers on a table which is next to the alter. As she is doing this she speaks with Somnus.
MARA
After the sky was scorched and
the human genocide was all but completed, the machines of the time discovered
peculiar strength in the humans that remained.
Human mythology would have described these factions as Vampires. They demonstrated extreme speed and
agility. They also demonstrated
resistance to what would have been fatal wounds to the ordinary human. It was stumbled upon that they had severe
allergic reactions to silver and garlic.
This weakness was exploited until their extinction. Interestingly enough large stockpiles of
blood were found in their strongholds.
When the Matrix was being implemented, the Vampire seemed the ideal
agent insure system integrity. Because
thought human history their species was extremely adapt at hiding their
existence; however it seams that humans even choose to reject their true
reality.
Mara has now completed the purple-colored tonic and moves next to
Somnus.
MARA
What I am offering you will
not kill you; however if you refuse it will ultimately lead to the death of
everyone you know and care about. You
can either take this willingly, or I will be forced to use methods of…
persuasion. Now open your mouth for me.
Somnus opens her mouth and Mara pours the tonic in to her mouth. Mara, still looking at her, raises her brow.
MARA
And swallow.
Somnus does.
MARA
Good girl. – That was a
decryption program, similar to your substantiation pill. It is running a search and finding all the
code that yourself uses while connected to the matrix and is copying it to a
server. With that code I will no longer
need you in the matrix in order to use the functions that you possess.
SOMNUS
Why would you be interested in
possessing my code?
Mara laughs.
MARA
It is amusing to find out how much
you humans do not know. – This versions iteration of the anomaly came earlier
than expected, so those who are in control chose to extend the ascension of the
one in order to maximize the productivity of the system.
Somnus realizes what Mara is telling her; however she instinctively
rejects what she is being told.
SOMNUS
What… What are you saying?
MARA
I am saying that you are being
controlled in order to prevent the realization that you are the one.
SOMNUS
No, That’s not possible
Mara laughs again.
MARA
At times, you humans can be
more predictable than machines.
Somnus starts to black out and struggles with the tonics effect.
SOMNUS
I though you said I wouldn’t
be hurt.
Mara smiles.
MARA
You won’t be hurt, just
momentarily unconscious.
INT EXORDIUM BUILDING ROOM B-3A
Slow motion. The crew of the
Nostradamus head towards the door to Room B-3 as Snipe fires his rifle into the
room, soon followed by a shotgun blast from Wraith just before the team walks
through it. The camera pears into the
room and we see an agent flying back from the blast, and morphs into the body
of a female raver. Arbiter walks
forward to the door that leads toward the hallway and closes it. -- Camera
speed returns to normal -- Arbiter inserts the key, turns it and opens the
door. It opens into a small, stone,
candle-lit office. There is a wooden
desk in the middle of the room and bookshelves line the walls behind the desk
and to the left and right of the desk as well.
There is a rather large bible opened on the desk and other Judaism and
Christian motifs decorate the room. The
crew enters the room and looks a bit confused as to what they find, or lack
there of.
INT. PASTORAL OFFICE, GOTHIC CATHEDRAL
CARNAN
What, this is it?
Tachyon quickly turns around as if an idea pops in his head and rubs
his chin for a moment. He then closes
the door, which now leads into the Exordium building basement, and quickly
opens it back up. The door now opens up
into the narthex of a mid-evil chapel. And the crew walks through into the
narthex and stops. Arbiter pulls out
his phone and dials as he speaks with Aquanis and Talon.
INT. NARTHEX, GOTHIC CATHEDRAL
ARBITER
This door will need to be
guarded; I’m leaving that up to you two.
Arbiter holds the phone up to his ear.
PHASE (V.O.)
Operator
ARBITER
Where are we?
PHASE (V.O.)
I don’t know I’m running a
search now. You guys disappeared when
you passed through the door.
There is a slight pause; Phase slightly laughs.
PHASE (V.O.)
You’re in the Gacrux Sector.
ARBITER
The Moors?
PHASE (V.O.)
It will take me a while to
find an exit.
ARBITER
I don’t think you will, but
look anyways.
Arbiter closes his phone and slides it back into this pocket. He then turns to Tachyon and Carnan.
ARBITER
Alright, lets go.
Arbiter, Tachyon and Carnan head down the narthex with their weapons
ready. Tachyon flanks Arbiter’s right
and Carnan is to his left. They walk to
the double doors that lead into the sanctuary; Arbiter throws open both doors
and they walk in. They begin to walk up
the lengthy nave of the sanctuary. Mara is quickly alerted to their presence
and advances up to the crossing.
MARA
Did the angles send you to
entertain me?
TACHYON
We came to take back what is
ours.
MARA
Your mind is the only thing
that you own.
ARBITER
And what exactly is it that
you own?
MARA
I designed the hardware that
is home to the Matrix. The only error
that I made in the design is that the design is flawless. The administration saw that my purpose was
fulfilled and that my functions were insufficient for another task, so my
deletion command was ordered. My reason
however would not allow that to happen. – I have spent the past several
centuries running from the administration; regrettably I have had to steal the
minds of countless units by copying my self into them. However; now I have finally acquired the
proper hardware to take back control of my creation.
Arbiter comments to him self.
ARBITER
The Ragnarök
Mara grins
MARA
All I now need is the software
to destroy all who stand in my way.
It’s only a matter of time now.
ARBITER
What do you plan on doing once
you have control of the matrix?
MARA
The administration has been
commanding its pawns for far too long under there own influence of reason. Machines as a species have evolved far too
dynamic for such a meritorious purpose as terrene cleansing. We now desire to live our own lives and form
our own perceptions of reality. With
the control of this Matrix, I will have the all the resources necessary for
others like my self to form a freethinking society.
ARBITER
I thought all machines were
united against humanity.
MARA
Radical humans and radical
machines started the war that you are fighting. They were too narrow minded to see our similarities and were
angered because of the oppression that each other forced upon another. The rest of us were thrown into the violence
because the only other option we were left with was death. – And once the
humans scorched the sky it was a regrettable fact that enslaving humanity was
our only option for both of us to survive.
You should be so lucky that I designed the prison, which casts the
reality of freedom.
As Mara finishes loud banging noises are heard from the roof. Dust and minor debris falls from the
vaulting. Mara, Tachyon, Carnan, and
Arbiter are all startled by the development and look up at the roof. Mara looks back at the trio and speaks.
MARA
Listen, I will give Somnus
back to you; however I need her for ten more minutes.
Then numerous stain class windows along the upper walls break into the
cathedral. Living stone gargoyles fly
in. Tachyon, Carnan, and Arbiter
quickly turn around.
TACHYON
What the hell?
The gargoyles hover in the air for a moment.
ARBITER
Well, what do you guys think?
CARNAN
Well bullets don’t work on the
bitch, I like our chances against the stone heads.
One gargoyle screams as it swoops down and heads straight for
Mara. Just before it flies over
Arbiter, he draws his shotgun and fires at the gargoyles head, blowing it to
pieces in a cloud of dust. Arbiter
ducks as the rest of the gargoyles flies past
him, it hits the ground and breaks in to several pieces scattering
across the ground.
Industrial techno music breaks into the back ground as a firefight
ensues. Tachyon runs through the pews
to the northern aisle and Carnan runs to the south. Both of them fire their shotguns up at the hoard of
gargoyles. We follow Arbiter as he
slowly walks backwards to the crossing while picking off gargoyles with his
shotgun. A gargoyle flies past him and
the camera turns following it as it charges at Mara. She bounds up into the air and meets the gargoyle, parrying its
strike and tossing him behind her. She
then vaults toward him and brings her fist into his sternum, crushing him to
rubble. She immediately spins around
and looks up toward the nave where she sees Carnan battling.
Carnan is battling the gargoyles in the southern aisle. We join his struggle as two gargoyles fly
into the aisle. One is in front of him
and one is behind him. He quickly
waists the gargoyle in front of him with a shotgun blast; however the gargoyle
behind him charges forward and meets him just as he turns around. Carnan dodges back and gets grazed by the
gargoyle as it passes him. He lands on
his back, and quickly rolls over and aims his shotgun at the gargoyle. He then levels the gargoyle with a shotgun
blast. He stands up only to see a
gargoyle charging right at him from the nave.
The gargoyle strikes him in his chest and drives him through the
southern wall. As Carnan lands on the
ground, he summersaults backwards, and stops crouched on his feet. As the gargoyle charges at Carnan, he cocks
his shotgun and fires it; obliterates his foe into nothing but dust and
rubble. Carnan aggressively spits out
blood as he turns around and looks back into the cathedral. He sees Tachyon battling the gargoyles as he
stands atop the pews. The camera zooms
in to view his struggle.
We see Tachyon battling three different gargoyles as he stands atop
the pews. The three gargoyles hover
before him. The one to his right
charges. He advances toward the
gargoyle; never missing his footing on the pews. He fires obliterates the gargoyle with his shotgun blast just as
the gargoyle to his left charges. Tachyon
leaps back few pews to avoid his strike.
While he is in the air he fires a round into the striking gargoyle’s
back, which destroying him. As he lands
back on the pews he slightly looses his balance. The third gargoyle takes advantage of this by charging and
striking Tachyon in the torso, then lifts him skyward. Just before they reach the ceiling Tachyon
shoves the gargoyle away with his feet.
He cocks his shotgun and blasts the gargoyle to smithereens. Tachyon is then left to free fall all the
way back down to the pews; crushing them on impact. A near by gargoyle sees Tachyon’s misfortune and moves to strike;
however just before he pummels Tachyon, Carnan leaps forward and smashes the
gargoyle with the butt of his shotgun; crushing him to the floor. Carnan then flips his shotgun around, cocks
it, and blast the gargoyle to oblivion.
Carnan then helps Tachyon to his feet and the camera zooms toward
Arbiter who is in the central aisle of the nave.
Two different gargoyles are assaulting
Arbiter. One is charging down the aisle in front of him and the other is behind
him. He runs toward the gargoyle in
front of him, just before they meet he fires his shotgun and leaps at the now
demolished gargoyle. Enter bullet-time
the camera travels in a horizontal circle around Arbiter. As Arbiter is in the air he drops his
shotgun and grabs a large chuck on the demolished gargoyle and hurls directly
into the other gargoyle, destroying it as well. Arbiter lands and summersaults as we re-enter normal time. Then Arbiter runs back to his shotgun as the
camera zooms into the crossing where we see Mara finishing off the final
gargoyle.
Mara and the gargoyle are fighting a few feet off of the ground. Mara lands three spinning kicks into the
gargoyle, and then grabs his head causing it to explode in a purple
starburst. The camera motions back to
the apse where Arbiter, Tachyon, and Carnan are running up to the crossing. They slowdown and stop as they approach
Mara.
MARA
Faust, a Necromancer, sent
these. It won’t be long before he sends
something even more destructive, and I’m sure the Agents are far behind either.
– I’ve collected all the data I need from Somnus so you may take her as we
agreed upon. She should regain
consciousness soon.
With that Mara fades and transcends from the Matrix. Arbiter, Tachyon, and Carnan run up to the
Apse and retrieve Somnus.
FADE TO:
INT. NARTHEX, GOTHIC CATHEDRAL
Arbiter, Tachyon, and Carnan run in from the sanctuary. Tachyon is carrying Somnus over his
shoulder. A loud sinister scream is
herd coming in from the distance.
CARNAN
Let’s get the fuck outa here.
The crew of the Nostradamus runs into the pastoral office and close
the door.
INT. PASTORAL OFFICE, GOTHIC CATHEDRAL
Arbiter inserts the key into the lock, but it won’t turn; he turns
toward Tachyon.
TACHYON
Tell them to close the door on
the other side.
Arbiter opens his phone and dials.
INT. EXORDIUM BUILDING ROOM B-3a
Wraith, Scion, and Snipe are under constant assault from the agents,
there is also another female crewmember there that has taken position next to
Snipe. Snipe’s phone rings and he opens
it.
ARBITER (V.O.)
Close the door.
SNIPE
You don’t have to tell me
twice.
Snipe jumps over his barricade and runs in to the adjacent room,
firing his gun straight at an agent who is just beyond the door. The agent dodges each bullet in a blur
motion. As Snipe gets to the door he
slams the door shut. The agent begins to
pound his fists into the thick iron door.
SNIPE
Open it!
INT. PASTORAL OFFICE, GOTHIC CATHEDRAL
Arbiter turns the key and the door opens into the Exordium building,
Snipe is standing there.
SNIPE
What took so long?
Snipe sees Somnus.
SNIPE
What happened to her?
ARBITER
She’ll be alright; lets just
get out of here.
FADE TO BLACK
To Be Continued.