As routine he sat in the Dentist-replica chair and waited for the technology to be organised around him.
“We’ve got a new system we’re going to try this time Neo,” said Morpheus, “As you know, we’ve had a little difficulty with previous hardware, so don’t be surprised if things are a little different this time”.
“Goody” thought Neo.
He closed his eyes and waited to be plugged in. Then suddenly he was away, travelling through a complex computer system, and once more he found himself in his long leather jacket and mysterious Sunglasses, with a cell phone in his hand, only something wasn’t right…
He looked around. These weren’t the New York streets. They weren’t even streets of any description…and the atmosphere had a much stickier moist feel to it.
He felt his cell phone vibrate in his pocket, he quickly answered it.
“Neo,” said the startled and guilty voice of Morpheus, “ we have a problem. When typing your placement instructions into our new computer software, we made a typo. What was meant to be “Prison Cell: Matrix”, turned out to be “Pig Cell Matrix”. At present you are in a pig’s Liver cell matrix. I do apologise. This error will take us a good few hours to correct. Meanwhile we’ll synthesise a tour guide for you, and you can learn a bit about the workings of a cell, no doubt it will come in handy at some point.”
There was a silence.
“Erm…ok then” said a slightly concerned Neo.
“No need to worry Neo, no Agents will find you here. The technicians need all the help they can get right now, so I’ll ring you when its fixed, and we’ll get you back home, ok?”
“Ok then”.
As soon as the cell phone connection was lost, the tour guide appeared, and introduced himself.
“Hey Neo, I’m Jeff, shall we get started?”
“Sure, where do we start?”
“How about right here? We’re in the aqueous matrix of a mitochondria. As you can tell, it has a jelly-like consistency and is enclosed by an inner membrane, which is one of two membranes belonging to the mitochondria. The matrix contains enzymes and DNA, this makes it unique within an animal cell, for no other organelle except the Nucleus has DNA of its own.
