Sora opened his eyes with a gasp as he had an odd feeling. Looking around, he found himself in a sort of futuristic town. First he crossed his arms and as he noticed something, "What? This outfit…"
Indeed his outfit changed… he was now in a black jumpsuit with blue and white glowing lines over his body. His necklace was also now a form of glowing and ones his back was also a crown to see. Now he wears a helm with visor as well with these glowing lines. But parts of his hair were still seen. Then it came to him. "Hey, I know where I am!"
As a strange noise was heard, he looked up and spots a flying object. It had a sort of cockpit between two pylons. It was black colored with yellow lines. Sora stared at it. "Whoa! What is that?" and runs after it.
Moments before Sora opened his eyes were three figures walking up to a fourth figure. One was a girl wearing a black skintight suit with blue lines. She also has a black boy cut and blue eyes. The second was an elderly man with long, grey hair and a bushy moustache and beard on his face. He is clad in long, charcoal robes, the inside of which glows white. The third was a boy. He possesses short, light brown hair and dressed in a black, skintight outfit with blue lines. All three of them had a sort of discus on their back.
The creature they are nearing was completely black with a helm on the head and with horns without tops. His wings resemble the ones with jets and posses small jet engines. From the chest and shoulders to the lower region the body turns bigger and ends in a tail with an end that could serve as a mace head. On both shoulders are disks like the ones of the backs from the other three.
The brown haired man asked the elderly one, "Dad… what is that?"
"I have no idea Sam! I cannot recall that I programmed something like that! And it is for sure not an ISO," replied the father of Sam. As the girl of the three walked closer, the man told, "Quorra! Stay away."
"I don't think there is any danger of it!" told Quorra and moves her face closer to the visor of the creature. She jumped back as the head lifts slightly and blue glowing dots are seen on the visor. Over the entire body, red lines appear, while the ones which appear on his "belly" are blue, on the horns and mace like end appears glowing tips. Also on the legs appear glowing claws.
Quorra stepped back while the creature looked around in confusion. Sam took his disk and the edge began to glow and he looked like he was about to throw it at the creature. However it moved into a battle ready stance and the two shoulder disk detached from the shoulders and hovered diagonally to the head much to its confusion.
The elderly man moves his hand in front of Sam. "Don't! I think it is just reacting to you… I have the feeling we can solve that peacefully!"
"But Dad!" protested Sam, however his father didn't listen as he moved closer to the creature.
"Don't worry! We don't mean harm to you!" told the old man.
"Then he has to put away his weapon!" told a male voice. The man was surprised at first, but nods and signaled Sam to put the disk away. First he refused but did it. As the creature saw that the weapon was away, it relaxed and sat up on the hind legs while the two disks returned to the shoulders. Then it began, "Where am I? And what happened to me?"
"I am Kevin Flynn and this is Quorra and my son Sam!" told Kevin and points to the other two. "And since you are not used to the surroundings here or the disks I assume you got digitalized and transported here! I just wonder why you have been inactive until now."
"Digitalized?" asked the creature and Kevin just said "it is complicated to explain… do you understand it when I say we are in a place where everybody who comes went through changes?"
"If it is the case then it explains why I am black with these stripes now" told the creature. "But I didn't introduce myself yet: I am Fugeo"
"I would say welcome Fugeo but you came in a bad time," told Sam and Fugeo sighs "When does I arrive a new place in a good time?"
"Since we don't know about your previous encounters we cannot answer that," told Kevin and Fugeo asked, "Philosopher?"
"That happens when you are hiding for 20 years," was Sam reply, much to his father's protest. However suddenly they are bathed in light as a flying object was above them and several men wearing black, skintight suits lined with circuitry, and uniform, featureless helmets. They have orange lines on their body. Four wings in the same color like their lines appear on their back as they hovered down and they tossed ball like objects. Sensing the danger, he jumped away from the balls and saw that they exploded. The two disks on his shoulders turned back to the position like earlier as he felt threatened from Sam and as he wanted to shoot fire balls, laser shots erupts from the disks. They hit one of his targets and the black clothed man shatters apart into a form of unknown material.
Fugeo noted in his mind that in this world some rules are different… like his attacks. He turns to Kevin and the other two. "Run! I'll catch up once I take care of them!"
Sam first protested, wanting to help their new friend, but Kevin reasoned that he is risking himself for their behalf and shouldn't waste it.
Some of the opponents were trying to follow the three but Fugeo shot them down and as he saw that the rest have now staffs with glowing ends in their hands, he took a battle pose and waved his tail to indicate that he will put up a fight by the first wrong move from them.
In the meanwhile Sora reached the unknown flying object just shortly after it landed. He called, "Whoa! Oh man!"
One of the figures by the vehicle noticed Sora and walked up to him with three others. One stated, "Stade your handle, program."
Sora looked confused. "I, uh… don't have any handles, but the name's Sora!"
"Verifying handle 'Sora'…" then one grabs on his shoulder. "Handle not found. Stray program recognized."
Sora struggles and another grabs his free shoulder and began to drag him to the vehicle with the explanation "Isolating for quarantine."
"Woah there! That is so unfriendly!" protested Sora and struggles free. He flees from the black guards and reaches a bridge where he encounters another one, who took out two disks and had in difference to the others four orange squares arranged in the shape of a "T" on the chest.
Sora went into a defensive position.
In the near are Kevin, Quorra and Sam. Kevin explained, "Tron… He's alive."
They noticed the Keyblade in Sora's hand and Quorra told, "Look at that boy's weapon. It's different."
"And I guess it isn't programmed like this Fugeo?" asked Sam.
The old man nods. "I've never seen it."
Sora and "Tron" still stared each other down but the black masked man took the disk away and ran away, leaving Sora in wonder. "What was that about?"
"Hey, that weapon. Can I see it?" a voice suddenly asked behind him and he turned around. He saw three people come towards him and as they were in front of him he held it out so the girl could look at it.
"This is just incredible. What a program – the weapon and the wielder," told the girl and turns to the other two.
"Program? Not me," told Sora but suddenly he heard "Stray programs."
They turned to the source and saw the soldiers that followed Sora. The younger of the two males, the girl, and Sora got in battle position but suddenly one of them got hit by lasers and was destroyed. The rest turned to the source of the laster and the next one was smashed by Fugeo's tail as he made a forward saldo in the air. He jumped at the third and slammed his front claws into the chest and shot the last one into the face.
Sora looked at first surprised. Then Fugeo turned around and asked, "Sora? Is that you?"
"Fugeo?" asked Sora and slowly recognized his friend. "Wow! You look awesome like that!"
"You look just weird for me," retorted Fugeo and asked, "Any idea where we are?"
"Yep! I was in a place like that before! This is a world like Tron's!"
"You know Tron?" came from Kevin suddenly. Sora crossed his arms and explained, "I, uh… yeah, I've met him… and stuff."
"Listen. The Program you just fought was Tron." Told Kevin and Fugeo looked at Sora. "When why did he not recognize him?"
"Tron looks different! If he had been him I would have recognized him!" told Sora.
Kevin sighs. "CLU… he took Tron and made him into a new program called Rinzler."
Then he continues, "That's the thing about programs. Mess with the code just a little, and their whole nature and memory can change."
"But that's… horrible!" told Sora and Fugeo shook his head. "You really tell us messing with somebodies mind is here easy?"
"Only with programs! The ones who truly inhabitant this place Fugeo," told Kevin.
"Most of this is over my head," told Sora "but both Tron and this world do seem pretty different." Told Sora.
Fugeo mumbled only, "Everything is totally alien to me…"
"Still, if that's really the Tron I know, we should change him back." Told Sora.
"And how without killing him? From my experience of freeing the ones who are under control of evildoers a lot is required to free from that! However from what I saw these programs are too fragile to the therapy I know," told Fugeo.
"And how does this therapy looks like?" asked Sora.
"From the experience of mine and my sister Cynder… either you break through on your own somehow, like by me even though there was more but it would take too long, or hit him hard enough. The first case can we cut since Tron doesn't have what I had when I understand the principle of this place right and for the other solution we have the problem that Tron might to fragile for that and isn't under a spell like Cynder was," explained Fugeo.
"He is still up to speed," told Kevin and mentions to Sora, "If we're lucky, CLU kept a backup of Tron's source code. He's a program, after all. He'd be methodical like that."
"And where can we find this source code?" asked Fugeo.
"I'll show you the way" told Qorra.
"Quorra, we have to keep moving," objected Kevin and Kevin adds, "Yeah. What are you gonna do if Rinzler attacks again?"
"if we're in a hurry, we have to take care of Rinzler first." Countered Quorra.
"If you have a problem… take it out by the root" came Fugeo and Sora adds "The three of us can handle him!"
Sora and Quorra nods to the others and Sora turns to Fugeo. "Let's go!"
Fugeo nods and they head off.
"Why did you let them go?" asked Sam.
"I have the feeling that they are trustworthy," replied Kevin.
On their way to CLU's ship, Sora asked to Fugeo, "Do you know why we have been separated again?"
"No clue Sora! But I met her and the other two by waking up. Then these guys in black showed up and I held them the back free while they escaped."
"You know how to sneak on as well so fast and surprising you took these four earlier out," told Sora.
A chuckle came from Fugeo. "You cannot catch your prey if you cannot be stealthy. And it was easy in this case since they have been too focused on their own preys… I could say you were the bait for them. Even when not planned."
"Next time tell us when you use us as bait," told Quorra.
"I warn next time so far I know in time that I am using a bait," countered Fugeo.
They keep on, however in one point they came into trouble: They had to pass a point but too many guards were there. Suddnly Fugeo jumped forward and fought them. They called out alarm but Sora and Quorra used the hole that Fugeo made for them.
"Shouldn't we help him?" asked Quorra.
Sora just shrugs. "He will be fine! And he would be mad at us if we seriously mess up with his efforts." Quorra accepts that and they keep on.
Fugeo fought the soldiers and he saw that more came but as Sora and Quorra made it in he began to retreat slowly. Once he was sure they won't notice the infiltrators, he took off at high speed into the air.
However soon he spotted some of them on flying objects and Fugeo assumed these are sort of vehicles. Not interested into a fight he speeds up as fast as possible and keeps dodging their shots.
Then he spots an opening he assumed he could use if he retracts the wings. He dived down and like assumed they followed him but their vehicles were too big for the hole.
On the other side Fugeo found himself in a large room and looked around. Then suddenly a voice he heard before told him, "Fleeing… fleeing in fear is all you are good at! You only fight if you are sure you can win!"
Fugeo turned around and spots the Ryu dragon he encountered in the last world. He wondered why this nightmare wasn't affected by this worlds laws like he was. "What do you mean?"
"You are weak in your heart! You said no to a great thing just for your own selfish goals! IF you had seen the bigger picture then you might have known what the right thing to do!" told the Ryu dragon and shoock his head. "However! You might be not living long enough to understand!" and took off.
Fugeo shoock his head but suddenly noticed that the room he was in… suddenly started moving!
In the meanwhileQuorra and Sora reached CLU's ship and Sora asked, "You sure we'll find Tron's source code here?"
Then they began to search. However after they looked into every database and hidden place they found Quorra stated, "It's not here. Maybe CLU has it with him. Sora. Let's look elsewhere."
"All right."
Suddenly the doors open and they face Rinzler. Quorra took her disk out but Sora interrupted her. "Wait, Quorra! Let me talk to Rinzler. A little heart-to-heart might jog his memory."
Quorra countered, "He's a program, Sora. Programs don't have hearts."
"That's not true." Protested Sora. "The Tron I remember he had something."
Then he moves over and told Rinzler, "Hey, you used to be called 'Tron,' right? CLU did something to you to mess with your memory. You're a little confused but that't okay."
As no reaction came Sora added, "C'mon, remember, Tron!" Then he took his two disks out and threw it at Sora. Quorra jumped in front of Sora and shields him but they were both pushed back. Qourra threw her disk towards Rinzler. He however jumped over it.
As the disk returned to Quorra she stated, "I don't think RInzler… is quite the friend you remember."
She stormed forwards while Sora looked down, not noticing she was fighting Rinzler and stated, "He just needs time, that's all."
Then he noticed that Quorra collapsed and called her name. As Rinzler was about to striker her down, Sora called, "Tron, don't!"
Sora rushed over but the doors closed before he could make it. Then Sora noticed that the ship moved and began to fly. He looks at his hand in sadness and wondered "Tron… why?"
"That's what we do. Put the most precious memories in the back of our minds where they're safe. Or in your case, the most precious… hearts?" told a voice and Sora regonized the boy from the last two worlds.
Sora called annoyed, "Not you again!"
"The memory and heart are tightly linked." Told a new voice and Sora gasped "Xemnas!"
"Rub a few memories together, and you get a spark of emotion, a feeling." Explained Xemnas. "But in a digital world, memories does not work like that. Nothing is ever felt. You can hold a thousand, a million times the information, but there is still no heart with which to parse it. Once, my master, Ansem, found an old system and made a copy of its Master Control Program… and used it to serve his own ends."
Then he keep on. "This is the original data of that system. Here, data can be copied. Memory can be changed and easily manipulated. Tron is a dgital entity, so why would he be any different? He obeys the rules of this world. Sora- what about you?"
"Me?" wondered the brown haired boy.
Xemnas continues, "Your heart, memories, your data, and your dreams. The bits and bytes that have made up your life so far – can you say for sure they are not just copies of someone else's?"
Sora shoock his head. "Yes! My memories and feelings belong to me."
"You had better check." Told Xemnas, "make certain the box's contents match what's on the label… since you have been chosen."
Then he walked into a dark corridor while Sora wondered "Chosen for what?"
"You are wrong if you think this is the ream of dreams." Told a new voice and the doors opens, causing Sora to fight from being off from the ship. He saw that a red ryu dragon nightmare flew in while the grey haired boy explained, "Data does not dream, cannot dream."
"You are in a real world now!" told the dragon. "You didn't realized that you already lost your path."
"What do you mean?" demanded Sora. "And who are you?"
However they ignored him and walked off in a dark portal. Then Sora fell out of the Ship and lands in a sort of stadium inside a closed room. However the walls, floor… everything could be seen through so that the crowd could watch whatever happens inside there.
"What in the world?" asked Sora and saw that a second platform raised and a computer voice told "Combatant 1 to 12 versus Virus!"
As Sora looked more closely he saw that Fugeo was in the center of the room, surrounded by twelve different Programs. Also Sora heard the voice telling "Combatant 13 versus Rinzler."
In front of Sora a small platform raised into the room he was in are in. A man began, "Greetings Sora! I have been waiting!"
"Who are you?" demanded Sora and the man answered, "I am CLU."
A gasp came from Sora and he demanded, "So it was you! You're the guy who turned Tron into Rinzler!"
"Correct. I had to repurpse his code" explained CLU and Sora ordered, "Well, un-repurpose it!"
"Yes. Under the right parameters, I might." Agreed CLU causing Sora to let a questionable "Huh?" out.
CLU explains, "You have a little item called a Keyblade. It can open any lock, isn't that right? Hand it over, and I'll change Rinzler back into Tron."
Sora called his Keyblade and wondered, "The Keyblade?"
"I… I-" began Sora however before he could answer and explosion was heart and the computer voice called "Player 1 and 12 derezzed."
They looked to the source and saw that Fugeo has defeated his two opponents somehow. CLU stated, "This virus is a pesty one. We need more harsh methods to take it out. Rinzler, take the Keyblade by force while I take care of that."
Rinzler stormed over to Sora and threw his two disk at him. Sora blocked, calling to him, "Tron, why can't I get you through to you?"
"Fight Sora!" called Quorra suddenly from the outside and Sora exclaimed happily "Quorra! You're okey! I can't believe it!"
"Yes. I think Tron heard you. Long enough for me to escape!" called Quorra back. "You can do it. You can get through to him!"
Suddenly the ship she was on took off and Quorra called, "Sora, you have to fight him!"
"But Quorra! How can I-" but he had to jump to avoid the disks while Quora answered, "You have that key. It will bring him to his senses."
Rinzler jumped to him and clashed his disk at Sora how holds the Keyblade at it in a defensive position. He pushed Rinzler back and stated, "Let's go, Tron!"
In the meanwhile Fugeo looked at the ten remaining programs which surround him. He growled at them but was glad that he could take out two and weaken the remaining ones with a fire blast. To bad for him he couldn't use it for a while but he had still has his other abilities to use.
The programs began to throw their disks and Fugeo used his agility to dodge them in jumps and rolls. But it didn't save him from being hit a few times, thankfully no serious damage. During a salto he hit one of the disks with his tail and shot it back to the owner, slicing the head off.
Then he shot a few times with the laser disk, he had to make them move, and jumps to the closest one. While pinning him down, Fugeo blasts one more time and jumped away as he saw a disk flying from above to him. The weapon derezzed the program he just released. Fugeo took one out with a short ranged blast as the program tried to make a close combat move at the dragon. His thrusters activated as he wanted to use one of his moves but a disk hit it and kept stuck. A roar of pain escaped the dragon and was forced to land. He looked at the damage and knew he couldn't fly for now.
And there are still seven programs with the goal to kill him. He rushed at one and jumped as the program threw the disk at him. Before the program could recover from the shock, Fugeo slammed his tail end into the head, shattering the program.
The last six seems to get the idea to team up and formed a formation carefully. Fugeo growled and looks surprised as a disk killed one of the remaining six. His head turned and saw that Quorra came to his aid. Fugeo stormed forward and shot a barrage of lasers while Quorra threw her disk again. The five shattered but two of them were caught in either Fugeo's blasts or Quorra's disk. One of them looks unsure and Fugeo's hunting instincts kicked in, running up and jumping at the Program. They took into the air by the impact and before they made contact, Fugeo used his front claws to twist the head of the program. The last two went on back to back while Fugeo and Quorra faced them from different sides of the area.
Fugeo wanted to try something and aims at one of the walls. The two disk went in front of the face and between them a ball of red light formed. It shoots through the disk in the front and hit the wall. It bounces off and the Programs and Quorra were forced to watch it. Fugeo jumped forward and digs his claws into the program while using his tail to push the last one into the blast he released, ending the battle.
Fugeo looked at Quorra. "Thanks for the help!"
"You're welcome! But we need to help Sora!" was her reply. Fugeo looks up and told, "Yeah!"
Rinzler jumped at Sora who held his Keyblade up to black the disk and Sora counters with his Keyblade. Then he runs up to the program but was caught in surprise as Rinzler attacked with his disk.
Sora countered the next attack luckily and got into distance. He raised his Keyblade and a bunch of balloons appears. He jumped at them and the balloons flew at Rinzler.
The program however attacked again and hit Sora two times before the Keybearer managed to block with his Keyblade and starts to slash a few times.
Then Sora managed to change the reality and jams Rinzler's disks. The program however runs into distance and Sora could only run after him. Then Sora casts a fire spell at Rinzler which hits.
But suddenly Sora found himself hit by two disks. As Rinzler was close again Sora tried a thunder spell but it missed him and Sora got hit again. In pain, he falls on his back but rolled to the side before Rinzler could attack and got back on his feet.
Sora tried to slash with his Keyblade but Rinzler was faster and hit Sora again. Sora blocks the next strike and made a counter which sends Rinzler into distance.
This opportunity was used by Sora and he used the Balloon summoning again, sending a fire spell afterwards. However Rinzler dodged the fire spell and hit Sora two times with the disks.
Sora managed with last strength his fire spell and hits Rinzler straight into the chest. With that, the program remains in mid air.
Sora knew he was defeated and pants while holding his Keyblade with both hands. Then he raised his Keyblade and a small field appeared above him.
Sora went over and touched the field with his hand. A crystal opened with several small cubes floating around it. The cubes went into the crystal and it closed after it rose a bit. Rinzler fell on the ground and Sora called his Keyblade back.
CLU rose from behind and with a growl he took his disk out and threw it at Sora. Rilzler put Sora aside and blocks the disk with his own. Sora watched as the disk hit the walls until it hit the ground under Rinzler. He began to fall as the section shattered and Sora reached his hand out. "Tron!"
Rinzler looked at Sora and while he fell he reached is hand out but…
They couldn't reach each other in time. Sora watched helpless how the program fall.
CLU called, "I'll deal with you later! I have to retrieve Rinzler!"
From behind, Sora, Fugeo, and Quorra came up and Sora replied, "He… reached out for my hand… Tron is still in there."
"Sora… I am sorry that I couldn't help you or your friend…" told Fugeo and looked at his wing. Due to the match, a disk it hit and the jet engine remains useless.
"It wasn't your fault Fu… you was caught in your own battle." Answered Sora and Quorra told him, "You and that key have a special power."
"So do you- power to make me see it." Replied Sora.
"So, does that mean we're friends?" asked Quorra and Fugeo laughed, "Then I hope you won't try to kill us when we meet again!"
"Don't worry!" chuckles Quorra. "See you later" and left.
As Fugeo and Sora stood alone in the area, Sora wondered. "What if my memories aren't my own?"
Fugeo looked at Sora while he continued. "No, I gotta be like Tron. Maybe we're walking the wrong path, but our hearts will lead us back to the truth."
The keyhole appeared and while Sora used his Keyblade on it Fugeo told "I don't see why you should hold memories which doesn't belong to you. And if you are lost, you just have to look for a way to get back to your place."
Sora nods to Fugeo's words and smiles as the light blinds them… once again…
In the meanwhile the creature stood on a field after slaying a bunch of Heartless and looks into the skies. "You move again... the last two worlds and the world you are leaving… unreachable for me… will it be the same with the next one? When do you enter a world that I can walk on and be together again with you?"
Suddenly it heard voices and quickly left the scene.
A boy and a girl came to the place and the girl wondered, "Odd! There should be a big bunch of heartless but nothing!"
"Indeed! But Tron was sure that there are more heartless then the defense system of the town could handle," replied the man.
