Matrix Online: Chapter 5.3: System Shock
Matrix Online: Chapter 6.2: Uneasy Peace
Zion operatives begin searching for Brenda Utley. It soon becomes apparent that there is corruption within Pendhurst-Amaranth corporation, and this is connected to Ms. Utley's disappearance. It is discovered that Unlimit has infiltrated PenhurstAmaranth at a high corporate level, and Brenda Utley is subsequently saved. The mole placed on the Board of Directors for Pendhurst-Amaranth is dealt with, and Anome is dealt another setback.
Machine operatives, in an attempt to locate Anome, decide to follow a lead, namely someone called Caboclo, who was one of Anome's highest ranking officers. Through their investigations, they messages from Caboclo regarding Anome's past. It is revealed that Anome was pod-born, but something was wrong with his mother. She knew that the Matrix was not real, but she mistakenly thought all the people in it were unreal, as well. This included her son, Anome. She'd talk to him sometimes as if he were a spy; inhuman; a device. She'd contrive to hurt him in a deniable way- "accidentally" dropping him, letting him touch the stove burner, or fall off a porch. His screams meant nothing. But then she'd shake it off, love him despite everything. The next day she would tell Anome that he was a machine, a robot. She would slap and pinch and twist his fingers, then tell him he wasn't really feeling pain, just acting like it hurts to control her. “Robots can't hurt,” she would tell Anome. Her husband and therapist would threaten to take him, and she would shape up. She was afraid of being institutionalized. But it never lasted. Then one day, when Anome was six, she tried to pull him with her as she jumped off a bridge. "It's not real, sweetie. We're going to a real place," she said. He wrestled free and watched her fall. A Redpill who kept watch for likely recruits- kids who didn't conform to the Matrix- running through the social welfare system approached him, explained in the standard way Zion operatives did to kids, and gave him a red pill. But Anome misunderstood. He thought he was going to see his mother again in the better place. He wanted to, despite all, because he was a six-year-old kid. For a couple of years he thought she would turn up, somewhere in Zion. Slowly he fit in, buried the trauma deep. But the liberating effects of the elixirs have brought his psychoses back up. He is getting back for everything she did to him. Nobody is safe. Finally, Caboclo reveals Anome's hiding place: above the Creston Heights North hardline, on the balcony. With the Anome's location now known, and a killcode specifically designed for him, the Machine begin to make their move...
Thanks to some exposure to the cheat codes, the Merovingian's men have found a way to detect the code remnants of the Twins (last seen in the movie The Matrix Reloaded, where Morpheus blew up the vehicle they were in). It is discovered that their code fragments have been floating around in the atmosphere, out of reach until now. Merovingian operatives scour the city and are able to piece the Twins back together, and they rejoin the Merovingian ranks.
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