I've had this beauty around for a while now, and since apparently everyone looks over the Tron fandom to be a WiR crossover -and in honor of Daft Punk's new album next week!- I'm getting back to writing this. I hope you enjoy it, and PLEASE review!
~Allyson
Chapter One- The Mistake
A young man sat at his chair, his cheap desk covered in stacks of papers, which surrounded a big machine about the size of five microwave ovens put together, the screen black with green lettering flicking back and forth impatiently on it.
"Hey, Craig!" Said a voice from out of view, the lights flickering on and off to get his attention.
"Bret! You know I'm working!" Hissed Craig, his big blue eyes framed by his big glasses. Bret put up his hands in defense. "Whoa whoa whoa! I just wanted ta' see if ya' maybe wanted to...ya' know...get a beer with me and the guys after you finish?" He said, referring to their fellow co-workers.
"I can't. I have to finish coding this game. Jameson's gonna have my head on a silver platter if I don't get this done by tomorrow. You of all people should know that." Craig said, his eyes locked on the screen as he spoke.
Bret sighed, zipping his leather jacket, and running a finger through his short dirty blond hair. "M'kay, then. Catch you on the flip side!" Craig heard the door shut behind him as he left.
He let out a loud sigh. He couldn't be stuck doing the extra overtime work again. He had always been the guy who put in his own fair share of time and effort, but he always put in a good fraction of everyone else's too. He sighed, tapping away at the keys, looking for some shortcut. All he had left was to design characters, and lacking all creativity in the field, he had to find a loophole, and fast.
Then he found it.
There had been an 8-bit game the company had created as one of it's big games that made the company skyrocket to #1, by the name of Fix-It Felix, Jr. . Craig examined the coding for the characters, and realize it would be easy enough to add these codes into the new game with a few tweaks that would change their looks and coding to drastically, that there'd be hardly any evidence of his shortcut. Within the next two hours, he had added all the characters, finally ending with the somewhat-more-complex code of the 8-bit's villain Ralph, and typed rapidly to replace the jumble of old code.
Right as he was about to go home, he check the official game mode, looking at his flawless job of Ralph's re-coding. Instead of any bright red pixels or the phrase 'I'm gonna wreck it!" blasting out at him, the handsome face was on the screen, the logo in a futuristic font stating the game's name boldly in glowing blue.
TRON.
Okay- this was the only thing I have per-written, and at the time I had no timeline/80's tech and computer coding/80's Tron/etc. knowledge, or if I did- it was very little.
I PROMISE it will get better!