Just as everything faded, it all came back in a rush. Pain exploded out of every pour of her body. She gasped for air, but her lungs gave of sharp pangs of pain everything they expanded causing her to have to exhale quickly. Syd opened her eyes and almost thought that she had gone blind. Everything was black and hazy and it was dark, really dark. As she lay there trying to figure out what was going on she heard a humming sound. It was faint at first but it seemed to be growing steadily.

What the hell is that? She thought to herself, her still rebooting brain was struggling to figure out where she was. She thought back to what had happened last. She remembered John holding the broken disc, and the loud horn but… And then it all came back in a rush. She had crashed the car, so then she must be in the hospital. Yeah! That was it. That explained a lot, which was why john wasn't here. The hum must have been a heart monitor or something.

She opened her eyes again, hoping that the time they were closed had adjusted them and that the blackness from before would change to the normal white of a hospital. No such luck, everything was still dark and the room around her looked nothing like a hospital room at all. As she looked around her, her eyes began to adjust to the lighting of the room and she could begin to identify where she was.

Small strips of light ran around the floor against the wall, similar to in a movie theater. It was a white light, about the same brightness as a LED strip. The ceiling looked to be solid until she looked directly above her head. A lighted circle fitted in to the ceiling like an elevator or trap door. Syd went to sit up, but her arms seemed to be cuffed down to the floor. She frowned and tried to kick her legs, again they were cuffed. Syd sat up as best she could and looked at the cuffs. They were bands of light much like…no it couldn't be. They were almost the same as the ones from Tron.

Syd started hyper ventilating. She was losing her mind, something was wrong. This could not be happening there had to be a sane explanation. She looked around the room again, nothing had changed. She looked at the bonds, still there. Finally out of desperation she looked down at her clothing. This would be the final straw to her insanity. They were all black. She sighed in relief. She wasn't glowing, no light strips or circles or any of that. All just solid black clothing. She let her head fall back to the ground with a thud and laughed. She was hallucinating, the shock of the accident had caused her to imagine up something that would be comforting to her. She just had to wait for her mind to realize that and everything would work out.

That was until the floor lit up.

Then the floor around her lifted up until she was standing on the ground, the bands of light that bound her to the piece of metal dissolved, only to wrap around her feet instead holding her in place on the floor. After this had all finished the metal behind her dissolved into cubes and scattered on the floor, to then be sucked into two square holes in the floor.

Small circles lit up on the floor casting bright white light around the room. Syd blinked and went to shield her eyes but stopped when something moved. Sliding panels opened on all four corners of the room. Out of each one stepped a woman in white.

"Sirens," Syd muttered under her breath. She was pretty sure that this was no longer a hallucination. And that explained the humming. It was similar to the sound her el wire made when plugged in and since the movie producers used el wire and tape out the ass it only made since that the originals did to right? The four walked not towards her like in the movie but over to sliding compartments in the wall. Each picked up and assembled different pieces of armor and then as one approached her. The one on her lower left attached the left arm guard, upper right attached the right one, upper left the front chest plate, and lower right the back. As soon as they released the plates an odd material began to form between the plates creating armor that traveled all over her body. Syd looked at herself, trying to figure out why she wasn't glowing yet.

"Attention program," Syd's head snapped up at the sound of the computerized voice. "You will now receive your identity disc." Ah that was why. "Everything you do or learn will be imprinted on this disc. If you lose this disc or fail to follow commands you will be subject to immediate deresolution."

"Disc synchronize completed, proceed to games," the siren on her left said. Syd watched as she backed away into the wall and the panel slid back into place over her. The cuffs on the floor unlocked and Syd stepped forward. Finally alone she looked down at herself. Her alignment color was green. She tried to follow the pattern but a door opened in front of her filling the room with even more light, this time it was accompanied by sound. She knew where that door went.

I am not playing in any of these games. I need to find a new way out. But how? Oh duh, I'm a user, all I have to do is go into the capsule thingy tap on the wall and override the system. Syd smiled to herself as she started walking. After that all I have to do is tell it where I want to go and bingo I'm home free. And heck what's stopping me from visiting CLU for a bit. I've seen it done in enough fanfictions, why not real life, if this was real life. Then after I have a little fun then I can find my brother, get the hell out of here and maybe meet up with Kevin for a bit. Probably not all in that order but…

Syd stepped into the glass dome and tapped on the wall on the side. Nothing happened. She tapped it again, still nothing. "what the, fuck?" she muttered to herself. The cage she was in moved and aligned itself with the platform she was supposed to play on. She was not moving. If I stay here it will take me back down to the…OW! An electric current ran from the ground up into her system causing her to jump. Every time her feet hit the ground another jolt ran through her body. She jumped again but this time fell backwards. She landed with a thud on the platform.

The sound of the game starting filled her ears and drowned out the sound of the crowd. Slowly she got to her feet and looked over at her opponent. It was a girl not much taller than her with blue alignment. She removed the disc from her back and helmet rose up over her face and her disc began to glow. Syd blinked in shock, this could not be happening. She grabbed at her disc and felt her armor rearrange itself, only instead of forming a helmet it formed a pair of what looked like sunglasses. "You've got to be shitting me," Syd said in despair. She held the disc ready to throw. But her opponent acted first.

The blue disc came flying at her head and she had to step to the side to avoid it. Syd freaked and threw her disc blindly. The girl deflected it off her disc and began to charge Syd. Behind her the disc ricocheted off the wall twice before coming back. The girl had jumped of her platform and onto the center circle when the disc caught up to her. It sliced through her legs and she fell. Syd was barely able to catch the disc as it came back at her. As she did so the platform moved and the computerized voice announced, "Combatant seven, winner."

"Combatant seven vs Combatant three begin." Syd looked up and saw her brother standing on the platform across from her. This was not going to be good.

"Syd," John called over the arena. "How are we supposed to advance without killing each other?"

Syd looked around, she had an idea but didn't want to yell it that far. She walked over to the edge of the platform and looked over at John. She backed up a few steps and then ran. Barely hitting the platform she jumped again and grabbed at the side of the ring before falling. John ran over and helped her up.

"We have to create a hole." She said looking at her brother then at the ground.

"We have to what?"

"Take your disc and slam it against the ground. Fall through; we have to make a hole."

"Are you insane, we'll drop onto the top of the other ring and…you mean like Sam did in the movie."

"Exactly, ready…one…two…three."

At that both dropped to the ground and slammed the discs on the same tile. It shattered beneath them and they dropped onto the top of the other ring. John took off for the center first he leapt and cleared it with no issue. Syd followed he feet slid a little when she landed but other than that she was fine. John was making his way to the outside and he was trying to stop.

"Keep running," Syd yelled, and he did. Without stopping John jumped for the stands and made it, having the momentum that Sam lacked in the movie. Syd jumped soon after she grabbed at the side again and had made it. But the audience members had started swinging at her. Her grip slipped and she fell backwards. She landed painfully on her back in the ring again.

Syd gasped for breath as the computer talked. "Final round, combatant seven vs Rinzler." And her blood ran cold. If she wasn't panicking before she sure as shit was now. Syd slowly stood and looked over at the opposite side of the large arena and at what could very well end up being her death. Syd gulped and drew out her disc. The visor coming back into place. Rinzler removed his disc and split it into two. And then he threw one.

Syd dodged but ended up with her back to Rinzler while watching the disc. She heard purring behind her and she jumped. He was mere inches from her. He swung at her face with his disc. She dodged, he made an upper cut and she attempted to block. Maybe she could just keep avoiding him until her got bored, maybe she could win. Then the second disc came back.

Every slash she blocked he had another waiting in reserve. Every time she dodged he was waiting in the exact location she stepped into. She was doing well with keeping away from death until the arena flipped. And she landed on her ass. She struggled to get up and block but he was faster. Delivering a blow that would have derezzed a program, he slashed at her stomach and gashed it open.

Syd dropped to her knees and curled up over the wound. It hurt, it hurt like fucking hell. She found it hard to breath and began to gasp for air. She curled up into an even tighter ball hoping to stop the pain. The purring of Rinzler increased as he walked up close to her. She looked up at him and she did the most embarrassing thing in the world. She threw up at his feet. Her vision began to blur up and she dry heaved several times before all of the adrenaline wore of and she collapsed to the ground, narrowly missing the puddle of vomit and blood.

John weaved in and out of the mass of programs. He had made it over the lip and thinking that his sister was right behind him he made his way into the crowd easily forgotten amongst the programs. But when Syd didn't follow and he began to worry. He slowly made his way back to the outer edges, but started going faster when he heard the announcement. He watched as she fought Rinzler, and nearly cried out when she was cut down. After she collapsed and Rinzler was named the victor, he ran. It wasn't until after he was out of the stadium that he realized two things. One, he had no idea as to where he was. And two, he was alone. Syd was dead. He collapsed to the ground with his back to a wall and did something he hadn't done in a long time, he cried.

"So you're the user," A voice filled the empty alleyway he was sitting in and he looked up. A blurry figure approached him and John panicked, thinking it was a member of the Red Guard. He whipped his eyes and got to his feet ready to fight when he realized that the program was blue. "Come on he wants to see you," the program said before turning and walking away. John followed, if not for a lack of a better idea.

Disclaimer: Sorry the intro was so tedious but now things start happening. Hope you enjoyed please r and r.