Greetings, Programs! Tython055 here with an important A/N. This is my first time writing a fanfic and I would appreciate any advice or ideas that can make the story better. Inspired by the failed fanfic TRON: Defragged, this story takes place 20 years after TRON: Legacy and 6 months after the end of New Testament Volume 22. Since TRON 3 is confirmed that the script isn't scrapped by Disney and is on 'Cryogenic Freeze' as of now, this story will temporary give closure to the TRON franchise until official - I repeat - OFFICIAL confirmation that TRON 3 is announced. I'll check back with you guys until this chapter is over. With that being said, enjoy the story.

Disclaimer: The following is a non-profit story that is considered an alternate universe of two franchises co-existing with each other. TRON is own by Disney and Steven Lisberger. The 'A Certain' franchise is own by Kazuma Kamachi and ASCII Media Works.

Prologue

"Evolution is the greatest force in the material world. Evolution will provide us the next step of intelligent life. But it will come from somewhere unexpected."

- Kevin Flynn

(Daft Punk - 'The Grid' plays)

"The Grid. A digital frontier. One man tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What do they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? He kept dreaming of a world he thought he'd never see. And then one day...

"He got in," the young voice replies.

"That's right. He got in," the older voice confirms with a chuckle.

TRON

California, 2019

It was a quiet night in a small home in California. A man in his late 30s is telling a story to his 5-year-old son. The man has short brown hair and brown eyes and inherits a short beard. As for the boy, he has short jet black hair he inherited from his mother and brown eyes he got from his father.

"And the world is more beautiful than your grandfather had ever dreamed, but also more dangerous than he ever imagined. When he first came to the Old Grid, he met a brave but powerful warrior-", the father - who is revealed to be none other than an older Sam Flynn - telling the story of the worlds that his father - Kevin Flynn - and many years later himself [visiting the New Grid] when he was younger, visited.

"Tron!", the boy interrupts, knowing who his father is talking about.

"You're right. Tron."

"He fights for the users."

"He sure does. Oh boy, he showed him things that no one had ever imagined: disc battles fought in spectacular arenas and cycles that raced on ribbons of light. It was amazing. The two fought the evil Master Control Program and liberated the Old System. Sometime later, he wanted to create a new world. A new Grid. For both Programs and Users."

"But he couldn't be in two places all at once. Right, Dad?

"Yeah. So, he decided to create a program in his own image that can think, like humans can. And his name was C.L.U.

"As in Codified Likeness Utility?"

"Correct. And CLU, Tron, and your grandfather, they built a system where all information was free and open. It was so beautiful. And then, one day, something happened. Something that changed everything forever."

"The Miracle."

"The Miracle. The ISOs in which your mother is one," Sam smiling to his son.

The boy already knows about his heritage from his mother's side, what became of the ISOs, how his father and mother met, the reunion between Kevin Flynn and his son, and the aftermath of the boy's grandfather's selfless sacrifice to save his parents.

"Will I be able to go to the Grid like you and Grandpa did?", his son asks.

Sam sighs sadly, "Son, your mother and I haven't been there for over a decade. And with the death of CLU, I'm not sure what the Grid is like now. But one day, we'll take you there. I promise."

The boy gets excited at what his father said and wonders, "Really? You mean it?"

"Course I do, sport. That's what the Flynn name stands for," he promises to him.

Sam checks the time and sees that it's almost 10.

"It's getting late. And it's time for you to get to bed."

"Awwwww," the boy groans, wanting to stay up a little longer.

"No exceptions, Anon. Besides, I'm taking you to Flynn's [Arcade] tomorrow after a board meeting at ENCOM."

"Okay, Dad," he sighs and starts yawning. "G'night."

"G'night, kiddo.", as he watches his son walk upstairs to his bedroom. "Looks like nothing will ever go wrong for the three of us."

The Next Day...

In a large, isolated room, a tube resides in the center of it. In it houses a man who 'looks like an adult, yet a child; like a man, yet also a woman; like a saint, yet also a criminal'. He is Aleister Crowley, the General Superintendent of Academy City, in which the city he rules is 30 years ahead of the entire world. Aleister is in the middle of watching the news to see what's going on in the outside world, making sure there are no changes that could threaten his plans from being shattered. And then, something tragically happened as a News reporter speaks:

"Good evening. Our lead story: ENCOM board member Sam Flynn has died in a car accident. He was the son of the missing and deceased Kevin Flynn who design TRON and Space Paranoids, ENCOM's two bestselling video games back in the 1980s. Sam Flynn took back the company in 2009 as ENCOM's stocks rises again. Things have looked well for ENCOM until today. With Flynn's untimely death, ENCOM is on the verge of collapsing again. ENCOM board members have recently promoted David Gibbs - the son of the late founder of ENCOM [Walter Gibbs] - as the new board member, promising to make sure that the company will not suffer the same fate back when Dillinger Systems dominated the gaming industry in its time after the disappearance of the elder Flynn in 1989. What will become of the world without Sam Flynn? Only time will tell. This is Sarah Garcia from CNN signing off."

With that, the news report ended, and this gave Aleister a newer opportunity to further his plans.

"It would appear that it's time for Academy City to make its move on ENCOM. It's showtime," he thought as he grins.

A/N: Hey everyone! So, what do you think of the prologue? Leave some feedback and tell me your opinions. And if you're wondering about the timeline and are asking, 'how come this story takes place in 2029 and not 2004 like Toaru?', hear me out. While it's true that Academy has developed technology 30 years ahead than the rest of the world, I want to incorporate that in this AU because even though Academy City invented their version of the iPhone before Apple did, 2029's version of Academy City's phones are advanced than the world's current iPhones in that reality. Secondly, this AU is similar like our universe but with major differences. Anything post-2019 is different from our current timeline such as how the US President or a new British Royal family is not like ours. And lastly, this AU must work with a Post-TRON: Legacy setting, otherwise this story wouldn't work at all.

Now it'll be sometime before I start chapter 1 so you'll have to be patient until I have a good story direction planned out. See ya soon!

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