Authors note: okay I is back again. I have not given up on the Legion fic that I've been working on for a year now but the ending is kicking my ass (and my computer erased what I had) but sadly right now my brain is locked onto Tron so I'm gonna go with this for a bit and hope it releases my brain to the open abyss of fandom so I can get back to Legion. As a side note this is a self-insert. BUT not one of the Mary-sue I rule the world versions. As i have an obsession with Clu it will move in a direction towards him. It will NOT be an I meet Clu and he is magically good. Nor will my character(s) be gods, though they are users. So without further ado I give you Universal Exchange.
"John, move it!" A girl yelled from the driver's seat of a 1998 Dodge Neon. She had shoulder length brown hair and, in her opinion, shit brown eyes. She sighed and put the car in park. The engine kicked and began the process of stalling. "Come on, Envy. Just hang in there."
You see the girl was not what one would define as entirely normal. She spent her time attending high school, working at a local grocery store and reading fan fiction. And yet that sounded normal, but… she also would spend a week max on a fandom. She would spend at least two hundred dollars on said fandom and then fall out of it. This week happened to be Tron. She also had a habit of naming her cars, a trait she had inherited from her father. She was eighteen and had the Dodge Neon since her sixteenth birthday. It was dying on her fast.
Right now she was sitting in front of the Maine Memorial Elementary School, waiting for her younger brother. No he did not attend this school. He was on the Lacrosse team and they had practice up here. The girl leaned forward to see around one of the many posts that held up the cover to the front walkway. No one was in the front field. "Come on, John."
She sat there drumming on the steering wheel. She sighed and flipped the channel on her radio. There were only so many times she could listen to Ke$ah's Blow before she lost her ever loving mind. Five channels later featuring: Drop it to the floor, Firework, Grenade, Down on me, Forget you, and E.T. she slammed the button on her dash board that said CD. Jeff Bridge's monologue from the beginning of Tron: Legacy filled the car. With a content sigh she leaned back in the seat and closed her eyes.
She had progressed through the CD to the song Derrezed when something tapped her window. She opened her eyes to see her brother smiling at her from the other side of the glass in the passenger side door. She laughed and unlocked the car.
"Sorry, Syd, got held up by…" John started; he was putting his lacrosse gear in the back of the car when he paused altogether. He was listening to the music. That was till he screamed in frustration, "Are you seriously listening to the Tron soundtrack again?"
Syd, short for Sydney, smiled before looking over at her brother, her head still resting on the back of the chair, "Technically John, it's a score not a soundtrack because there is no singing. But because of track two I will allow you to go on calling it a soundtrack."
John who was finally seated in the passengers' seat threw his head back against the head rest of the chair and let out an agitated groan. He inhaled sharply and pinched the bridge of his nose. He opened his eyes slowly and then opened his mouth. But then he shut it again immediately after. He did this for several seconds (all of which Syd spent laughing because he looked like a fish) before he finally said, "Look I'm tired, and I'm hungry, and I just got my ass kicked by seniors. I just want to go home text Katie take a shower and eat something. All in that order, and with as little Tron as possible."
Syd laughed and switched off the CD. Disturbed filled the car and she laughed again. Taking the car out of park she pulled out of the school parking lot and onto Rt. 27. The drive was quiet, aside for the music which was turned down, until they hit twist run. As they rounded the first turn through the rocky pass John's lacrosse stick fell over onto a bag that Syd had sitting on the back seat.
"Shit, John. Grab the bag. I have something that could get broken in it," Syd yelled as she completed the second turn. John reached behind him and pulled the bag into the front of the car. He opened it and pulled out a disc.
"Please tell me this is not what I think it is," John said turning the disc around in his hands.
"If you're thinking it's a Tron: Legacy disc that I gutted and the strung el wire through the C ring and then used LED's on the outer ring to make it glow, and that both of those just happen to be the orange/yellow color of CLU… well then I'm sorry John, but it is what you think it is," Syd answered. John groaned again, he seemed to be doing that a lot today, and dropped the disc back in the bag. There was a load smashing sound, like plastic hitting something metal really fast, and Syd looked over at her brother. "If that is broken…I swear, John it will be the last thing you will ever do."
"What are you gonna do, crash the car?" John asked. He was being a smart ass and Syd was not in the mood. He looked over at her, smiling, but she was glaring at the road in front of her. Getting that she was pissed at him, John quickly pulled the disc back out to check for any damage. "Everything's o…"
On the very bottom of the disc was a long crack that spanned the entire length of the bottom. John gulped and Sydney looked over. "What…how…in the FUCK could you pull that off, John. You have the disc in your hands for what? Six maybe seven seconds and you break it. Jesus Christ J…" Sydney was yelling at the top of her lungs and as she did so she forgot to keep her eyes on the road. The sound of a truck horn brought her attention back to her surroundings. An eighteen wheeler was coming at them fast and Sydney could not swerve the car in time. She looked over at her brother and saw a terrified expression on his face which probably mirrored hers.
Pain exploded out of every cell in her body. She felt like she was on fire and was unable to move. Fist she couldn't smell, then she couldn't hear, next to go was feeling and then finally everything went black.
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