Silence. The download hadn't just brought him into the Matrix; it had isolated him.
"You sure about this?" Niobe asked, her fingers hovering over the hardline sequence. "A 'free download' from an unknown signal? It sounds like a Merovingian trap." Enter the Matrix Free Download
"It seems," the lead Agent said, his voice a cold, mechanical rasp, "that you've taken something that doesn't belong to you." Silence
The world didn't dissolve into the green rain of code they expected. Instead, the deck of the Logos seemed to fold in on itself. Ghost felt the familiar, sickening jolt of a pirate signal override. When he opened his eyes, he wasn't on the ship. He was standing in the middle of a rain-slicked rooftop in Downtown, the neon signs of the Mega City blurring into streaks of electric blue. "Niobe? You copy?" "A 'free download' from an unknown signal