'Ello, so just saw Tron, amazing soundtrack and style! Just loved the movie. So I wrote this up listning to the soundtrack, I just didn't like Sam all that much, he lacked personality in my opinion :P Anyway I've been looking up a few things about the Tron series and decided to write this. It takes place after Tron: Legacy maybe like a week after or a month, or something. So please enjoy and leave your opinion I hope to make this a long fanfic. It's mainly centred around these five, who are the only things I own the rest is Disneys. On a side note (yes I know this is a long intro thing) I am a nerd so please don't be offended by my cliches and grouping.
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Violet Yami 3
"Flynn's, this is the place."
The group that stood in front of the old abandoned arcade looked up at the sign with a look of interest. There were 5 of them and looked like your average bunch of university students, except for the fact that none of them were drunk out of their minds and it was already 7 pm on a Friday night.
Yes, you could call these five nerds. Not like that's categorizing people or anything.
Not that Joseph and his twin sister Johanna could recite 100 digits of pi, or Zed, as she liked to be called due to the fact she was born in Canada, was already working on her PhD in virology despite being only 20. And oh no Griffin who had been apart of the MLGs since he was 11 and spent his life trying and failing to program video games was a nerd. Instead he spent his time testing them. And poor Nathaniel, who lived in his life in books and studying politics, but too timid to even talk in public, saving his voice for his friends.
No, no one would ever say these students were nerds.
"My Dad used to talk about this place, how it was the place to be in the 1980's!" Griffin explained, becoming overexcited as usual, waving his arms in the air as he talked, his voice too loud.
Zed looked at Griffin, obviously not impressed, "You dragged us all the way out here... for this?"
Griffin's face of joy fell off his face like a brick, "And you're not in awe?"
Johanna looked at her brother and then back at Griffin. She replies in her British accent, "The place isn't even open anymore; we just came here to stare at the thing?"
Griffin waves his finger at Johanna, his mood changing quickly, he pulls out a carefully pulls out something wrapped in cloth out of his backpack. "I borrowed this off of Jake."
"Jake? Come on Griff, why do you even talk to losers like him?" Zed moans.
"Funny I think that's what Jake calls us," Joseph laughs.
Zed ignores him and looks at Griffin with her trademark scowl, "So what did you get from him?"
"This!" as Griffin whipped off the cloth dramatically.
Unfortunately the mood was destroyed by the fact that the cloth had clung to the things inside it and thus the things fell to the ground.
Zed simply crossed her arms and raised one eyebrow.
"Shut up." Griffin muttered and went down to collect the metal tools.
"Wait, wait, are those lock picking tools?" Nathaniel yelped, finally speaking up.
"Yup," Griffin smiles mischievously.
Zed sighs, "Can I just go home now?"
The twins laugh, "Come on Zed, we're with Griff, lets have a little fun!"
She replies, "When you too talk at the same time, it creeps the hell out of me. And anyway isn't Flynn that crazy guy who was the head of ENCOM?"
Griffin's face had a look as if Zed had just called his grandmother a whore, "CRAZY? The guy was a genius! He created some of the greatest games of all time!"
Ignoring Griffin, Johanna spoke, "Didn't he disappear and leave his company to his son?"
Her twin jumped in, "Yeah, and speaking of his son I heard that he just took control of the company."
Johanna replied, "No way! 'Bout time, ENCOM was becoming just another rubbish company."
"Whatever! Fact remains I think it's a bad idea breaking into the old CEO's arcade," Zed explained getting back on topic.
"Oh really?" Griffin stood straight, his 6'5 towering over tiny Zed's 5'3.
But the tiny Asian girl did not back down, her ego stood about 200 feet high. Her dark eyes bore into Griffin's crystal blue. "Yah really."
The two starred at each other till Griffin broke the epic stare down. "Jo!"
"Yes?" the twins replied at the same time.
"Mechanical Jo!"
Johanna replied, "Yah?"
"Start on that lock, you are the engineer."
Johanna let her head fall to the left as she peered at Griffin quizzically, "And that means I can pick locks?"
"Hey! I'm the sarcastic one," Zed mockingly shook her fist at Johanna.
"Just hand over the kit Griff," Johanna rolled her eyes and held out her hand.
Nathaniel suddenly raised his arm, "Wait! Let's think rationally here, I'm with Zed! I mean breaking into some one's property! My parents would kill me!"
Joseph laughs, "Bloody hell! We're 20 years old and you're afraid of your own mother?"
"Yah," Nathaniel mutters, dropping his head in shame.
"Come on you two, we go in, look around, and get out," Griff smiles, "It'll be fun."
Nathaniel shifted his eyes nervously and looked at Zed, who glared at Griffin, "Fine, but if we get caught I'm blaming Nathaniel."
Johanna was already working at the lock and other three gathered around her.
"Wait why me? I didn't do anything!" Nathaniel exclaimed suddenly realizing what Zed had just said.
The others ignoring him, Johanna heard a click, "Ahh there we go."
With a creak the door swung open as the group peered through into the dark room. They saw a room filled with dust and ancient arcade games. However none would admit, except maybe Griffin, but each felt some sort of energy in the place. Almost as if the arcade had an air of mystery, secrets hidden in it. The silence of eerie and the wind behind the group almost pushed them in.
"Wow. This place, it's almost as if it's calling to me or it has its own energy," muttered Griffin.
Zed stood up first, walking into the darkened room, "Well are you just going to stand there?" she asked looking back at her friends.
Reaching out Zed found one of the old arcade machines, she pulls off the plastic.
"Look at this thing," she mutters in amazement. She touches the controls, the one button and joystick.
Griffin smiles at the machine fondly patting the thing, "And to think we can handle two joysticks four triggers, and six buttons these days."
"Not to mention we can just wave our arms like maniacs these days," Joseph adds as he looks around at the other games.
Griffin smiles again.
"Oh no, I don't like that smile. That smile means you have another stupid idea," Nathaniel moans, hovering by the door, ready to run at the first sign of trouble.
"You mean brilliant!" Griffin starts to look around him feeling the walls in the darkness.
Joseph rolls his eyes as he flicks a switch he found, "I already found the power Griff."
"It's like you can read my mind dude," Griff states as he punches Joseph in the arm.
Johanna answers for him, "It's not hard Griff, you're like an open book."
"That's not always a bad thing."
"And sometimes it is," Zed tells him as the three watch as the lights flicker on and spread through the room. The games turn on nearest them, but the energy soon spreads and the music of the games fill the rooms with the music coming from some stereo. The flashing lights spread, the screens showing previews of the games they are. But there's a flash at the back of the wall that catches all of their eyes. The blue sign stood out and the game under it seemed as if it was under a spot light.
"Tron."