InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ "The Matrix Has You" ❯ Chapter 17 ( Chapter 17 )

Chapter 17

 

Kagome was having difficulty trying to decipher what had just happened. She knew Disk was opening the door to the conference room. When she had came down from the stairway she had instantly saw the sword within Arc's body blood flowing slowly from the wound.

Then the sword was ripped out she couldn't help but flinch from the pain shown by Arc as he fell to the ground, she wasn't sure if he was dead or not, but she desperately wanted him to survive.

Disk could only stand there bewildered, this couldn't be possible. Arc was the captain of the ship, the best fighter he had known, and now he had a possible death wound. This was the man who he had always tried to top, and now just like that, he was going to die?

He looked up and saw Caedes' chuckling face; how could he find pleasure in something like that? He would just kill the person Disk admired and bask in its glory. He couldn't stand it. He clenched his hands into fists so tight that they almost cut into his skin.

He shot his head up and stared at Caedes his eyes brimming with rage, Caedes a smirk on his face, this boy was too overflowed with anger his death will be very soon, he thought to himself.

Disk charged running as fast as he possibly could to Caedes only a few feet away. He crouched down and readied his sword for just the right moment. At the perfect time, Disk inches away from him, he ripped through with his sword, expecting him to be sliced in half.

He looked up and saw Disk just above the sword, he couldn't believe it, there was no possible way anyone could have dodged that. He could only stared amazed as Disk ripped out his pistol and aiming it at Caedes' head, all seeming like in slow motion to him. Then he realized it, Disk was moving at a super fast speed simply a blur.

He could only stare entranced at the barrel, this was something in all his life he had never felt before, was this…fear he was feeling? He smiled, how very interesting this was, this must have been how his victims felt right before being killed, well at he was going to die enlightened.

Three shots where fired, zooming into Caedes' head creating a huge blast of blood and head parts shooting out with it. He was knocked back as Disk came to the floor. He could clearly notice the smile on Caedes face, covered with blood as he fell to the ground sword clanging on the ground, dead.

Ruby was now more dumbfounded than ever, Disk had just dodged a sword swing that would of no doubt have cut through anybody, including her from that distance. But in a flash he had been up in the air just above the sword. The only other people who she had seen doing something like that was an agent, but then…was Arc right?

This thought suddenly brought her back to the main concern; she quickly ran over and kneeled next to Arc, slowly turning him over to be on his back. She could still hear Arc breathing, that was good he wasn't dead, but there was a good chance that he could die from blood loss from the wound made by the sword.

Ruby flipped up Arc's undershirt and inspected the wound; she couldn't help but grimace at the gash. It went straight through the body cutting through several organs, she felt very overwhelmed at this point, she wasn't sure how she could close a wound like this, even if she did there was the chance of heavy internal bleeding from the organs being attacked, still she had to try.

Kagome quickly ran over to Arc as well, leaving Inuyasha having to rest against the wall to his left with his hand. She stopped at the doorway and covered her mouth with her hand in horror. Her attention immediately going to the wound, which Ruby was inspecting. She turn to Arc's face which reacting in pain to Ruby's examining, she noticed his eyes twitching and slowly opening and looking over to Disk who was now just arrived after walking slowly from attacking Caedes.

Disk just stared at him and asked softly “Why did you do that?”

Arc exhaled painfully and said “Your a lot more important than me.” He said with some difficulty.

Disk was about to ask what he meant by that but he was already aware of it. “You knew…didn't you? About us…”

“Yep, that you guys are the descendants of Neo?” Arc said interrupting Disk who then took a quick glance at Kagome who glanced at Disk as well.

“Why didn't you tell us?” Disk asked unable to keep all his anger contained in his voice.

“The only person who can truly find out anything about you…is yourself.” Arc said with a slight smile. Disk stayed silent, Arc was right he would have never believed if just been told by someone, it seemed to make sense as well, how he had save Kagome from the agent before entering the source, dodging the attack from Caedes, all proof of what he was.

“All right, this might hurt.” Said Ruby bringing Disk out of his trance. Ruby had ripped a long strand of her dress off which was now showing the side of her left leg. She carefully raised Arc up who still grunted from the pain while his wound was wrapped around on both sides by the strands tying them together on his right side.

Arc exhaled after grunting and said “You know what needs to be done right?” his breath becoming heavier and heavier.

“Stay quiet.” Said Ruby softly “You need to keep your energy.” Putting the finishing touches on the makeshift bandage.

“Don't bother, it's not like it's going to do any good, this is the choice I made, and I know well of the consequences.”

“Just stay quiet.” Ruby said through her teeth, not wanting to realize the truth.

“Did the oracle say this would happen?” Kagome said to Arc out of nowhere the group taken aback from the subject of the question. Kagome had to know, was all of this preplanned, was she simply just a tool of some more powerful force at work? Was everything she went through only a part of the system the Architect described? Did she even possess free will now even after finding out the truth?

Arc stared at Kagome for a few moments and said mysteriously, “She said I would have to make a choice. Same thing she always says.”

That wasn't good enough for her; she was sick and tired of everything being said to her making no sense. She didn't want a philosophical lesson she wanted to know what the hell was going on.

“She did already know this was going to happen?!” yelled out Kagome starting to get angrier. Disk stared at her dumbly feeling loss from his body, as if in a dream.

“…No one can see pass a choice they don't understand.” Arc said calmly much weaker than before, quoting the exact words of the oracle when he had asked what would happen because of that choice.

“It seems that Morator planned this from the beginning.” Said Arc, changing the subject again. “Letting us hack into the base to steal the codes, while he took the jewel. And returning to jewel back to us so we could destroy it right when he's going to use it.” He said coughing at random times during his speech.

“But, the oracle set us up with Morator in the first place right?” Disk said

A long silence “That's a good point.” Said Arc barely above a whisper.

“Heh, knew she couldn't be trusted.” Inuyasha said disgusted, finally entering the conversation.

“No, we made the choice…the only thing she provided was the door. Let's not worry about whose fault it is. Now then, Morator—“ Arc grunted heavily his voice starting to get scratchy. Disk could only watch helpless as he realized that Arc was slowly dieing. He quickly got down to his knees and held on to his wrist hoping somehow he could stop it.

“Morator is up on the roof, I know you won't disappoint me, I got the best damn crew in the world.” his breathing becoming ragged. Arc stared upwards but it almost seemed to Disk if he was looking right into his eyes through silted eyelids.

“Remember…Belief is the only true reality.” He said quietly Disk looking at him in shock realizing of what he had just said.

It had been back when he had first started his training after being awaken from the Matrix.

“If my whole life has been some virtual reality…how do I know if this is real and not part of some other program?” He had asked Arc.

Arc had sat there silently for a few moments and said simply “You can't.” and then said the exact same words as he just spoken a few seconds ago.

He felt Arc's arm become limb in his grasp, and could only stare speechless at the eyes of Arc which where now glazed over. Disk heart felt like it had suddenly just stopped and was tiring desperately to return to its normal operation. Disk started breathing more rapidly gripping firmly at Arc's wrist, trying to defy his own logic in some attempt to return Arc to life. In his heart he wanted to believe it wasn't possible, but in his mind, he knew that Arc was dead.

Ruby stood up and walked away silently to stand face first at a wall, hands latched at the opposite forearms. Trying to keep herself from breaking out in tears, “You must never let emotions get in the way of duty.” the code that she lived by being recited in her head.

Kagome couldn't help it, as much as she didn't want to she spun and started sobbing, arms wrapped around Inuyasha. She was sick and tired of crying all the time; it just proved to her and others that she was just a scared little girl. But this was too much for her, she wasn't used to death as the others where, and Arc had become a mentor and friend to Kagome, and so she cried.

Inuyasha put his arms around Kagome trying to comfort her. He never had been on good terms with Arc and he wished now that he had left him with a better impression. He didn't take it as hard as the others; still he felt heavy sorrow and was very glad that he still had Kagome to hold next to him.

Disk felt like someone had taken a dagger and stabbed it right into his body over and over again, each time with more agitation and power. He felt as if he had lost his own father, he didn't know what to feel, at one point he would be filled with sorrow, and in a few seconds in a rage at himself for being unable to do anything, and then confusion on why Arc had chosen this.

He couldn't prevent a few tears slid down his checks head faced down to the floor. `I can't cry, Arc wouldn't want me to mourn his death.' He thought to himself wiping his hand downward across his face. He took the same hand and used it to place both of Arc's arms across his chest. Normally he would of though something like that was stupid and unnecessary, but it felt it was the least he could do to show this man some sort of respect.

The ringing of Arc's cell phone that was sitting across the room having being dropped by Arc when Caedes had attacked suddenly broke the long silence. Each of them took expressionless glances at each other the phone ringing two times before Ruby walking over and picking it up.

“Ruby!” yelled out Ram. “Arc is—“

“I know.” Interrupted Ruby quietly, Ram quickly becoming silent giving a short time for remembrance.

After about two seconds Ram continued “Ruby we got a bunch of Sentinels coming after us. We need you out here.” He said trying to keep calm even after his captain being killed.

“What?” Ruby exclaimed “There's no way they would attack us this close to Axthon, unless they want to restart the war.”

“That's the problem, they've cut off our signal with a blocker, and are sending a fake signal of ours. If anything happens to us, no one would know.”

“You can't destroy it?”

“The only way would be using a EMP and,”

“I know, I know.” Said Ruby, interrupting Ram again, if they would have to use the EMP they would have to shut down their connection to the Matrix, killing her and the others.

“Besides something's messed up with the Matrix, there's been a order by the machines for everyone to exit it. They've already exited a whole bunch of non-awaken humans already. Something big is happening, even though I have no idea what it is. Oh!” Ram said suddenly remembering something. “Did you guys get rid of the jewel?”

Ruby had completely forgotten about that, in honesty she had no idea what had happened to the jewel. She turned to Kagome who was standing next to Inuyasha who had his arm around her shoulder. She had stopped crying but still hadn't recovered completely.

“Kagome,” said Ruby kindly, removing the cell phone from her ear. “Did you destroy the jewel?” Kagome was shocked by the question, she didn't think about what the others would think about choosing not to destroy it. Would they even believe that they needed it to stop Morator?

“…No.” said Kagome looking downward at the floor discontented.

“What The Hell?!” yelled out Inuyasha stopping noticing the hurt look on Kagome's face. “Why not?” he said much calmer.

“We need it to stop Morator he's going to destroy the Matrix.” Said Disk plainly still staring at Arc's dead body. Inuyasha and Ruby both looked at Disk shocked.

“You sure about that?” asked Ruby seriously

“That's why he stole the Jewel in the first place.” Disk said turning his head back to look at her.

Ruby simply stared at him for some time and then returned to the phone.

“No.” she said simply.

Disk, Kagome and Inuyasha even standing quite a distance from the phone could all clearly hear Ram yelling, a curse word in nearly every sentence. Ruby placed the phone away from her ear not wanting to become deaf. Once she thought it was safe she placed it back and said, “We need it, Morator is going to destroy the Matrix.”

“No way.” Said Ram his angry disappearing in a few seconds

“Yes, and we have to take care of it.” Ruby said removing the cell phone from her ear going to close it till she heard, “Ruby!” yelling out from it.

She brought it back to her ear and heard. “…Be careful.” in uncertainty.

“I know.” Ruby said almost whispering and closed the cell phone.

With that Disk slowly stood up from his spot on the floor, his eyes not visible from his hair covering them his head facing down. `Thank you' He moved his head upward filled with purpose and underlining rage. “Let's go.” he said knowingly

 

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Morator stood calmly admiring the view from on top of the building, it was late afternoon and the sunset was soon approaching. He couldn't help but marvel in its beauty even if it was the thing he was trying to eliminate.

`It's odd, I almost feel bad about it, like destroying a work of art.' He thought to himself as he stood and watched till the sound of a door opening behind him brought him out of those thoughts.

He turned his head around and saw Disk standing in the doorway, if looks could kill Morator would be cremated. Behind him he noticed Ruby, Kagome and Inuyasha who was no longer resting on Kagome's shoulder gaining back enough strength to walk on his own.

“So, I would guess that Caedes is dead.” He said as if it was nothing as the group closed the door from the stairways and stood with Morator on the rooftop.

“But I notice that it would seem that Arc was dealt the same fate.” He said a sly smile on his face, the group all watching him in anger.

“Now then, may I ask what has happened to the Jewel?” he said as calm as possible, only irritating the others more.

“We still have it, we know what's going on.” said Disk absolute serious in his voice in perfect clarity.

Morator looked at the group with a hint of surprise rubbing at his chin with his hand. “That's interesting, I'm not sure how you found out about it, but it's no concern. Even with the jewel you can't stop the virus.”

“Why not?” asked Kagome confused, if the jewel could make the virus it could very easily get rid of it also, right?

“You underestimate me. Even without the jewel I am an expert at programming. In fact both of my bodyguards are actually programs that I designed myself.” Morator said the smile staying as he talked. The group all took quick sideways glances at each other, keeping themselves facing Morator.

“The virus has been in design for almost a year now, until it was a work of perfection. The only thing missing was something enabling it to be able to hack into the very core of the Matrix's system and cause the termination of the entire program.”

`And of course this was achieved by the means of the legendary Shikon Jewel, provided so kindly by you Kagome, thank you.” He said staring at Kagome making her want to throw up with the smiling look that he was giving her.

“The virus cannot be stopped unless my coding somehow leaves the Matrix. And then removing the virus itself is a daunting task in it's own.” Said Morator his voice more serious.

“You're lying.” Disk spat out right after Morator had finished, right on que.

“Yes, I could.” Morator said interested. “But are you willing to take a chance on it?” he said softy. Disk stared angrily at Morator, as much as he hated it, Morator was absolutely right.

“I'm getting sick of his babbling!” Yelled out Inuyasha surprising everyone as he started charging at Morator pulling out his sword at the same time.

`You idiot' Disk thought to himself as he watched Inuyasha disgusted, sprinting at Morator sword out straight in front of him if to stab Morator through the chest.

Morator didn't move from his spot until the very last second and dodged the sword moving to the side and did the same to the attacks afterwards in incredible ease. Morator continued to evade each shot Inuyasha swinging as fast as he possibly could in every direction feasible. He had recovered greatly from the agent fight, but even he had to admit he wasn't at his best.

“Let's Get This Over With!” Inuyasha yelled out in frenzy and made a giant sideways swing once Morator had made a quick jump backwards away from Inuyasha. From the swing large bright orange-yellow waves radiated outwards from Inuyasha, zooming across the roof top Morator disappearing in a blast of light, a shocked look on his face.

“Feh, that was easy.” Said Inuyasha a haughty grin on his face, the others watching in surprise. Disk had a hard time believing that Morator could have been taken care of that easily. Still he still saw no sign of him from the blast, only improving that possibility more.

This notion was quickly silenced when Disk notice a figure in the air above the blast falling down toward Inuyasha, leg extended out. Inuyasha also noticed this but way after Disk and didn't have enough time to react.

Morator came crashing in with a foot right across Inuyasha's check sending him back and rolling across the roof top not far from the rest of the group's. Kagome quickly ran over to check on him once he had stopped and starting to get back up. Morator meanwhile had landed perfectly at where Inuyasha had been standing, still no change to calm smile on his face.

“Inuyasha, let me handle this!” Disk yelled out still facing Morator.

“Fuck You!” Inuyasha yelled out standing up and facing Morator also his sword out in front of him. Kagome standing behind him looking concern that he may fall over any minute “I'll handle this on my own!!”

Disk growled under his breath, there was no end to this guy's stubbornness. He decide to ignore it and charge along with Inuyasha, who took an annoyed glance at him, irritated that Disk couldn't stay out of his business.

Disk sent a flying round house and Inuyasha sent an upward swing both of them aiming at the head of Morator. Morator jumped back dodging both of the attack and ran up and made a quick sweep across the ground with his leg tripping both Disk and Inuyasha.

While the two where both in the air, Morator made a quick spin from doing a sweep to be on the palms of both of his hands placed on the roof his chest facing down, and sent a heavy kick to both abdomens. Shooting them across the roof sliding and stopping next to the guard wall at the ledge of the building.

Morator got back to his feet just in time to block the incoming attack by Ruby. She made several quick strikes with the hands straight out to chest, all of them blocked using a very similar fighting style. Ruby sent another strike that was stopped by grabbing Ruby's wrist stopping in its track.

Morator took the opportunity and fired an attack with his free hand to Ruby's chest. Ruby stopped this with her free hand and continued to do so as Morator kept the strikes coming.

Ruby did the best she could but eventually Morator got through her defenses and jabbed her right in the middle of her ribcage knocking the wind out of her. Completely open to an attack Morator released Ruby's arm and sent a kick to the right of Ruby's chin shooting her back spinning in midair and landing on her chest.

“BASTARD!” Morator heard behind him he turned around to see Inuyasha only a few feet away from him about to swing his sword though his face. There was no time to dodge it so Morator made the swiftest mode he could make and sent a powerful upward kick to the flat side of Inuyasha's blade knocking it up and out of his way grazing just above his head cutting the very tips of his hairs.

Inuyasha recovered quickly from the sudden change in his momentum and sent a diagonal backhand swing of the sword directly after swinging the sword over Morator's head. Morator wasn't going to take another chance and made a cartwheel roll to his left dodging the attack leaving Inuyasha with the Tetsusagia striking the ground and creating a huge crack in it.

With Morator standing near his right side Inuyasha scraped the Tetsusagia across the cement rooftop, sparks shooting out caused by the friction. He made a huge uppercut with the sword Morator dodging it with a step back and a slight lend back along with his head the blade very close to his chin.

Morator made another step back as Inuyasha twisted his arms moving the Tetsusagia to prepare for a horizontal slash. Morator gave a quick grin as he waited for Inuyasha to start swinging.

Inuyasha swung as hard as he possibly could, he would make sure that Morator would get hit this time. Inuyasha watched the swing focused keenly on it and saw that it was only slashing though air.

The Tetsusaiga was forced down to the ground by a heavy object on top of it, Inuyasha bending down along with it. Inuyasha made a quick glance upwards and saw Morator standing on top of the blade. He had looked up just in time to see one of his feet being fired toward his head.

Disk shook his head knocking out the last of the effects of being kicked in the chest and shot into a guard wall. The first thing he noticed was Morator sending a roundhouse kick right to Inuyasha's face rocketing him back at least twenty feet, loosing his grasp of the Tetsusagia. Which to both Disk's and Morator's surprise transformed in a bright flash into a normal size Katana.

Morator stared quite interested at the sword and looked like if he was going to pick it up when he noticed Disk running toward him and spun toward him and backing up a few steps preparing for him.

Disk sent a high kick to the right of Morator's head, blocked by a raised forearm. Disk then fired several quick jabs to Morator's chest also blocked, and then came a strong punch to the head. Morator stopped it by grabbing it at the wrist area and the elbow and using Disk own velocity to throw him over and smash him into the ground below on his back; judo style.

Morator shot up his head and stared right at Kagome, who jumped from the intense look in his eyes, which could only be matched by a stare of Naraku or Sesshomaru. With everyone else currently out of commission Morator zoomed to Kagome bending down getting as much aerodynamics as he could.

Kagome let her instincts take over as Morator released his attack. She blocked as many as she could but couldn't keep up with the speed of Morator and found herself with his left hand around her neck choking her slightly he attempts to block halting.

Inuyasha just about ready to use a Wind Scar regardless of who was in the way of it's path, got back to his feet and quickly noticed something that may have him reconsidering that idea. Kagome was still in Morator's grasp being held up with little effort over the edge of the building her legs waving with nothing under her. She had hands at her neck as well trying not to be suffocated.

“If you wont at least try to fight fair, I have no choice but to do the same.” Morator said calmly a look of slight annoyance on his face.

Disk and Ruby who where now just getting up slowly also quickly took notice of the situation the three of them unsure what to do.

“Ah, screw this.” Disk could barely hear Morator said as he let go of Kagome. She started falling down as she screamed loudly. The group stared in horror as Morator stood there looking bored.

 

((Sorry bout the long time it took to update…lots of junk going down, anyway so I wanted to ask my fan base, which I think is like 3 people…or something…when I'm finished with this fanfic, should I write another one(it would be completely different and I already have a good idea of the storyline and whatnot) or do something original or…something not retaining to writing…just want to see what your guy's opinions are…))