Ha ha... This is my first attempt at writing a TRON:Legacy fanfic, so bear with me... I've been writing this since I saw the movie a second time and that would be last December (it's almost February) Ya, I know I'm slow. Anyways, here's the usual:
DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own anything related to the TRON universe. it is copyrighted to Disney. I DO own Shay and Rebecca, my original characters in this thing.
Don't know how long it'll be, and please don't yell at me for changing the movie plot, it is a FANFIC for heaven's sake.
Oh, and thanks to Macs for giving me a couple pointers, I hope this "final" (?) version meets everyone's expectations.
Anonymous: Are you sure you can carry this out? From what we heard, you're the best of the best but we have reason to be cautious.
Raith: Everything's going according to plan. If you provide the money, I'll provide the package.
Anonymous: Good. We'll wait for your delivery at the usual place. I assume you know what we're capable of if you fail?
Raith: I can assure you that won't happen.
Anonymous: Let's hope your confidence is concrete.
[Anonymous is offline]
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A figure wearing a full black body suit with a hood and carrying a bulging backpack slipped silently past the group of sentry guards and continued to her destination, keeping as much to the shadows as possible. She went around a corner and checked behind to be sure no one was following, then turned and started down another adjoining hallway.
"Shay are you friggen there yet?" Someone exclaimed over the headset she was wearing.
"Stop distracting me!" Shay quietly said, "I''m going as fast as I can without all these cops getting alerted!"
"Well, hurry up!"
"I'm turning off the COM now Rebecca." Shay said, annoyed.
"I know you won't, I'm the one who tells you where those so called cops are."
"Then do your job and quit complaining!" There was static over their connection and Shay smiled; Rebecca was always complaining during a mission.
The girl started to walk down a hallway, her blue-gray eyes darting back and forth as she waited for directions from the COM.
"Take a left, there's a camera ahead." She ran into the next corridor just as a security camera rotated her way, "There should be a vent somewhere near the ceiling. You'll have to use your screwdriver to get in."
Shay lifted her head, searching for the metal grate and finally spotted it across from a door leading to the stairs. She unzipped her pack, took out a screwdriver and set to work. She was halfway through the third screw when running footsteps echoing softly up the stairwell made her spin around. Shay brandished the tool she was holding like a weapon and prepared for the worst, but what she didn't expect was a blond haired man looking to be around his mid-twenties also dressed in dark clothing.
"Who are you?" They both demanded, staring at each other warily.
"I asked first." Shay quickly said, narrowing her eyes.
The man circled around, studying her. She could tell he was debating whether or not to say anything.
"I don't have all day." The girl snapped, also circling so she could keep him in her sights.
"My name is Sam, and you are sneaking around in my building apparently up to no good. What are you doing here?" He folded his arms and stared at her accusingly.
Shay stopped dead in her tracks, "Sam Flynn?" She looked around, trying to find a way to get past him.
"Shay, you need to get out if there now!" Rebecca stated over the COM. She ignored the message, a sudden thought appearing in her head.
"Wait, if you are THE Sam Flynn, why are you sneaking around? It's your company isn't it?"
"I'm the biggest shareholder of Encom, yes...I guess you could say I own it, but you didn't answer my question: What are you doing here?" He demanded.
"So that means they answer to you." She put her hands on her hips, refusing to let Sam dodge her own question and raised an eyebrow at him mirroring the man's own stance. "And for your information, I don't trust strangers so why should I tell you why I'm in Encom? I could be a worker here for all you know."
Sam's mouth twitched as his expression changed from suspicious to amused. "Apparently workers wear dark clothes, have screwdrivers and like to break into vents."
"Shay!" Rebecca snapped, "Get the friggen package and leave! No time for small talk!"
"You know, there's an easier way to get to the computers." Sam was wearing a smug grin and had his hands in his pockets, looking all the world like what she was doing was completely normal to him.
"You are an idiot if you think I'm doing something as obvious as that." But that was exactly where Shay was heading.
Sam just stared at her, the smile growing wider. Then he started walking, waving for her to follow.
"This is awkward," She said over the COM, "Should I go with him? If there's a way to get to the computers without crawling through a dusty vent, I'm all over it."
There was a sigh from the other end then, "Fine. He's heading the right way, but the route will take you straight past Encom's main meeting room and right now a lot of the important businessmen and women are in there. They're probably preoccupied at the moment though...be careful."
"You wont have to worry. I can take care of myself."
"That's what I was afraid of, just don't kill anyone." Rebecca said.
Shay smiled and ran up to Sam, walking a little behind him as they went farther down the hall. Both were silent the entire time, skirting past the open meeting room and up to the door leading to the computers. Shay stopped, a sudden wary look in her eyes.
Wouldn't you think such a successful company would have more security? We could have taken down the entire group of people behind us without a peep from the cops. She thought, studying the door suspiciously as Sam walked up to it. Using his phone, he got the opening code and the lock changed from red to green. He clicked his penlight on and slowly shuffled into the room. Hundreds of computers as tall as Shay were placed in rows, their lights blinking orange as sounds of whirring and clicking filled the air.
"Um...?" Rebecca said over the COM her voice shaking, "Sam just activated an alarm; you need to get what you came for and leave immediately!"
Shay jumped back a few steps to safety as she searched the door, finally noticing a barely discernible laser a few inches from the floor. Acting quickly, the girl ran and leaped over it into the computer room and sped to one near a back corner. Hopefully security would think Sam was the only person in here. Sure enough minutes later, a guard entered, his flashlight beam sweeping over the machines.
"I know you're in here!" He called out, "Let's make this easy." He started inching towards Sam and Shay knew he hadn't seen her yet. Turning her attention back to the task at hand, she brought out a memory chip and opened the compartment of the computer where other chips were plugged into the motherboard. She placed her own into an empty slot, waited a bit as the machine recognized the new device, then turned on her phone. Taking out a downloading cord, she inserted it onto the chip and connected the other end to the cell, then waited impatiently as data uploaded onto it.
"HA!" Shay jumped when the guard shouted and heard running footsteps followed by the sound of a door latch. The girl peeked around her chosen computer just in time to see the guard taking off after a fleeing figure. Shay smirked and returned to downloading Encom's technology data onto the chip. Shouting caught her attention and she strained to listen to what the words were. Apparently Sam had run onto the roof.
"Rebecca," She asked, "What's on the top of this building?"
"A death trap that's what." Was the curt reply, "Don't go up there or they'll catch you."
"Then Mr. Flynn is pretty much screwed." Shay looked down at her phone just as it flashed "download complete" She unplugged the chip, wrapped up the cord and placed everything in a small black case which she put in the backpack. She moved silently and crept back to the hallway, remembering to step over the laser and continued to the stairs.
"All attention is on Sam so you shouldn't have too much trouble." Rebecca announced, "You'll have to do something about the cameras though, we don't want any recordings of you."
"And you can't turn them off because the remaining cops would get suspicious." Shay sighed in annoyance at the situation, then slowly opened the stairwell door, "Can you at least tell me where they are?"
"Of course! What are friends for?" Rebecca said cheerily, "The first one is above the door near the left corner. It's a mounted camera so it can only look down the next flight of stairs."
"Hmm..." Shay had an idea, "Well, I don't want to take a long time getting out, is there an open window nearby?"
There was a gasp from the COM then, "You're not thinking what I think you're thinking are you? That item's a prototype, I wasn't expecting you to use it!"
"Then you shouldn't have given it to me." The girl said as she turned and walked back the way she came, being careful not to draw the attention of Encom's leaders. They were making a lot of noise in the meeting room as they panicked about whatever Sam had done.
"Where is the main file?" She heard a man yell, then another voice exclaimed, "It's on the web."
Why would Sam put Encom's technology on the internet instead of keeping it for himself? Shay thought, Better yet, why steal his own company's data in the first place? Let's just hope he didn't take OS 12, or my buyers will NOT be happy. But Shay suspected that was exactly what he had done. Her suspicions were confirmed when Rebecca spoke over the COM;
"Oy, Shay...Sam just put Encom OS 12 on the internet; the data you got is useless now, no one will buy what's already free."
"WHAT?" The girl yelled, instantly regretting her outburst as the meeting room went silent. "Aw frick, I just alerted everyone that I'm here." Shay groaned, running towards a window, "I'm going to have to smash some glass." She stooped to pick up a nearby potted plant, stumbling a little because of its weight and swung it at the window. With a shattering crack, it exploded, shards of glass flying out and down the building along with the unfortunate plant. She only hoped there wasn't anyone below on the streets. Ignoring the footsteps coming closer behind her, Shay produced what looked like two hand held grappling guns from the backpack. "Alright, I have them out, but in your tutorial you never said anything about straps." She eyed the dangling pieces suspiciously.
"They're supposed to wrap around each of your wrists to keep you from falling to your death."
"Oh yay..." Shay fastened the straps, then stood at the edge, looking down at the city's tiny lights below.
"Step away from the window." Someone said behind her, a hint of panic in their voice.
Shay smiled, then jumped. She heard shouts of surprise, but didn't look to see who it was. Gravity immediately kicked in, pulling her down towards the concrete.
"Shoot the hook!" Rebecca was screaming in her ear. Shay pointed the gun on her left arm to a tower on the other side of the streets and squeezed the trigger, watching with interest as a small harpoon shot out, trailing a black wire behind it. The line went taught when it latched onto something on the building and jerked Shay roughly, almost pulling her arm out of it's socket. She pointed the other gun to another tower on her right and shot a harpoon into it as well. Recalling Rebecca's tutorial, Shay pressed a small button near the butt of the left gun and it's harpoon was released only to be replaced by another one locked and ready. She aimed again, shot and swung lower.
"How exactly do I land?" Shay asked in confusion, she hadn't remembered anything about learning what to do once you were swinging.
"Honestly, were you listening when I showed you what to do?" Rebecca said, "You're going to have to decrease the momentum so you're not swinging so hard and brace your feet against a solid surface once you think the speed is slow enough. The guns also act as a rappelling line so you can lower yourself after you've stopped moving."
Shay laughed, "I feel like Spiderman!"
"Just don't get carried away, there's a limited amount of hooks and sooner or later you'll run out." There was a hint of amusement in Rebecca's voice.
The girl was startled out of her fun by a loud yell. She turned her head, and saw something dark and big above her quickly coming closer.
"Are you seeing this?" Shay asked incredulously.
"I've been watching ever since you made that reckless dive." Her friend huffed, "It looks like Sam Flynn has some tricks up his sleeve, but...he released the parachute too late." She said smugly, "He'll run into a pole."
Shay raised an eyebrow, but stayed quiet. Instead she ignored Sam, singled out a brick wall that was jutting out and placed her feet in front of her. She winced as they made contact, there would be bruises in the morning. Shay released another harpoon and used the remaining gun to lower herself to the ground.
"Ow ow ow...!" The girl yelped, cringing when she had to put weight on her protesting feet, "Good thing the cops aren't after me, I can't run let alone walk! Get over here."
"I'm coming I'm coming." Rebecca snapped followed by static over their connection.
There was a sound of tires screeching in the distance and a sleek black Lamborghini Murcielago swerved around the corner heading straight for her. The vehicle stopped in the road and Shay was forced to limp over to it, dragging the grappling guns behind her. The passenger window rolled down to reveal a platinum blond woman who was looking at her with a mixture of annoyance and relief.
"Get your butt in here before you cause any more trouble."
"Nice to see you too Becca." Shay smiled sarcastically as she threw the guns by her feet next to the rest of her thieving gadgets and got in the car.
"The police are all over the place thanks to Sam so we'll have to take the back roads."
"We're not going back home," Shay said, suddenly serious, "I have an unfinished score to settle with Flynn; he deprived me of a hundreds of thousands of dollars business opportunity and my buyers will not be happy that it's on the web.
Rebecca sighed, she knew that once Shay got set on doing something, there was no way to stop her till she accomplished it.
"Alright...He'll most likely be going to jail; even if he is the biggest shareholder, that doesn't mean the law won't apply to him. I think the nearest one is..." She grabbed a GPS from the glovebox and began a search, "About 5 miles away." Shay stared ahead while Rebecca put the car into gear and drove off, taking less used roads till they arrived at the local jail. A few minutes later, three police vehicles drove up to the building. The cops in one of the cars got out and guided Sam inside.
"Now we wait." Shay said, staring with no apparent interest at the entrance doors.
An hour later, their intended target walked out and headed to the lot where vehicles were held. He re-emerged, guiding a dark motorcycle out, mounted it and drove off. Behind, a black shadow pulled away from the curb, the only sound a quiet purr as it followed him.
Well, there you have it. Review please, I want to know what I'm doing wrong.
Also, I made whatever Becca said over the COM bold so it's easier to read.
Next chapter, you guessed it: Shay is thrown headfirst into the Grid (with possibly Rebecca, don't know if I'll add her yet, maybe I should take a vote?) though, since the girl is somewhat skilled in combat, stealth and thievery, she quickly adapts to this unfamiliar world and makes a few friends in unexpected places. Also, the mystery of her buyers is explained a little bit in the future (not necessarily in the next chapter, just in the FUTURE)