Meta sat at Tabor North, the gray sky was gliding above, it was another overcast day inside Mega City. He looks around, garbage were scattered all over the place. He saw a few bluepills walking around, talking, or reading. It was lunch time so many of them were on their lunch break. It was rare for Meta to not have his mask on, but he took it off for a special reason. He look pass the fence to see the coastline of Richland, the water from the river was gently splashing up against the wall,...Green River Flows..Then to Meta's right a woman appeared. She was five feet nothing, had long dark brown hair flowing from her face down to her back. Her cheek were sunken in a bit, and her brown eyes were wide. A big coat is wrapped around her small, skinny frame and she had on bell bottoms jeans. She sat down next to Meta and gave a small smile. Meta smiles back.
"So, how are you Jess?"
"I'm fine, how are you Sean?"
"Fine, I'm sorry I haven't been around lately, Kalt is making me work overtime."
"It's ok, I understand. How have you been doing though?"
"I've been doing fine, been keeping myself busy, why do you ask?"
"Well it has been a year since you lost your wife, and lost track of your son."
*Sigh* "Yes, I know, you didn't have to remind me."
"Sorry."
Meta reached into his coat and produced two sandwiches. One of them was a ham sandwich with mustard and Mayonnaise. Another one was a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich, both of them were wrapped in plastic. Meta handed the ham sandwich to Jess.
"How have you been doing Jess?"
"I've been doing fine, I'm working for Metacortex as an Invoice officer, it's dull but it pays the bills. I'm living with my dogs in my studio apartment in International, so I guess I can't complain."
"Yea, Kalt has been good to me, most of the hours are graveyard shift, but it's still good."
"I miss you Sean, I wish we could spend more time together."
Jess places her soft, small hand on Meta's glove.
"I know...I'll talk to my Supervisor and see what I can do."
Meta looks at Jess and into her eyes, and they both smile at each other. Jess always had a nice smile, never really shows any teeth, but you can tell the smile was sincere.
"Well I better get back, call me tonight ok?"
"Ok"
Jess got up and kisses Meta on the cheek and started to walk away.
"Dammit..." Meta's thought. "Why the Hell was that redpill forced down my throat...."
Meta waited until Jess was out of sight and then he approached the Hardline. He dialed in the code for Historic District North. Green code enclosed upon him and all the sudden he was rushing through a tunnel of green codes. As soon as the trip began it ended with his approach at Historic District North. The Green code became green mist and in a second dispersed. Meta started to walk towards the Archives, where he worked as a Bluepill. All of the sudden hairs on the back of his neck stood up. He listened closely and he could hear fire. Meta reached into his coat and pulled out his Submachine guns and swirled around. There was two Smith's approaching him. "Dammit, these machines need to get rid of this thing! Maybe I can introduce them to Norton's Anti-Virus." Meta said growly under his breath.
Meta lets out a burst of gunfire on the Smiths and several shot hit the viruses. All of the sudden screams erupted from the bluepills. They all dispersed from the park. Meta lined up his shot to one of the Smiths and pulled on the trigger. The gun roared as bullets left in a rapid fashioned. The virus stumbled back and slip on the ground. Meta then aimed at the other virus and let the gun roar with the same rapid succession of bullets. The second Smith Virus also slip. Meta ran up to them, exchange his two sub machine guns for two handguns. He, kneel down, put the barrel to the forehead of both Smith's Virus and pulled. He got back up and as soon as he look back down to the two defeated Smith viruses, they rapidly deteriorated into green code and vanished.
Meta tucks his handguns and submachine guns back into his coat. "Well, that was fun" he said to Joan over the bluetooth. "I bet, I'm not seeing anymore though, so why are you going to the Archives again?" "Research." Joan nodded at the computer screen in front of her and Meta started to make his way again to the Archives.
