Thanks you all for posting reviews to my story, they have inspired me to keep on adding chapters.

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Well class is starting this coming week, so I won't be updating as often with my story during the semester. But I'll see if I can work on it with some tech that I have come into contact with. If all else fails, I will type this out with my thumbs between classes. Thank you IPod Apps.

Additionally, I have been reading over other works and the themes that have been arising from them and been using them for inspiration for story points.

Sabi… I read over that section that you did for your story that I recommended for the power outage and because of how you wrote both versions of it I decided to do my own spin to it. Hope that you like.

Oh and the Fish sticks and the Vanilla Pudding joke from last chapter is a reference to the 11th Doctor's regeneration from when he crash lands in front of Amy Pond's house at the start of Series (Season) 5 and has a bad case of the munchies. Just something I wanted to clarify for those of you who were not fans of Doctor Who.

Well now with that out of way, on with the Story.


Chapter 6:


Jet had spent the last few hours doing research on the network to see if the Solar OS emulator he was running was handling the Hard Drive that He, Sam and Quorra had found in Flynn's old Hackers Cave. Between having to run various computer repair utilities to nurse the drive's data back into shape. The most recent changes to the system pointed to a few days before Sam's father disappeared to a program called the Grid. Then the strange thing was that the programs started running as if they were part of a cybermass program.

What had Kevin Flynn been running when he disappeared? It looked to be some sort of multiple AI social environment.

Why would Flynn build a city environment for computer programs?

Hell some of these programs look like they had build dates going back to 1982 and before.

There was a subroutine for something called PARASCOPE and Jet wondered what that was for but Jet had the feeling that it pertained to something to the program environment of the Grid. After some consideration Jet activated it to see what it would do.

Jet watched as the display to his tablet computer start to spit out data on the system emulator he was running.

GRID ENVIRONMENT RUNNING AT 99%

IO TOWERS - ON STANDBY

TOTAL PROGRAM POPULATION 1,671,145,616

AVAILABLE AREAS: TRON CITY, BOSTRUM, LIGHT CITY, ARENA CENTER...

The list of areas available on the system went on for a while. So Jet decided to let the system complete its location run and decided to type in view for Arena Center.

With that a window opened up and a wireframe structure started to show a large sports arena complex.

Grid was some sort of gaming environment that Sam's father had been working on. Well you couldn't interact with it but at least you could watch. That is when Jet realized that many of these programs were playing in games that Sam's father had written back in his early days at ENCOM. Why would Kevin Flynn want to watch AI Programs play his old computer games? Maybe the answer would present itself if he just let the system run.

Might as well watch Jet thought as he sat down with his cup of instant sweetened green tea as he let Anna and Sam get some sleep as he took his shift watch on Quorra and watched a few of these programs play on the screen.


Gem had heard word about the finding of Flynn's layer in the Outlands by the abandoned Bostrom colony... Over the last few cycles Anon and a small team of Programs had scowered over the data they had found. But it was when they had found Flynn's Journal log that things started to get interesting.

Mostly Flynn blamed himself for what had happened to the Isos, Tron, even for the hell that he had put Alan through by going missing in the User World... Anon had figured that Flynn was talking about the User Alan1 by the description he had given in the journal.

But it was Flynn's sadness in that he hadn't been there for his son Sam. To see him Grow up... From what had been learned was that Users had a compile stage that they underwent for several cycles and not being there for Flynn to see Sam's compiling up into a full User had saddened him greatly.

The event that Flynn had talked about most was the fact that he wasn't alone. Quorra, the Last Iso had been there to make the loneliness somewhat tolerable for him.

Quorra... Gem thought of the young Iso, being so alone after the Purge. What would it be like to be the last of any program type? The last of your kind! Gem thought of all of the pain she had experienced in her life and multiplied it by a factor of a thousand and it didn't feel like it was enough for what Quorra could have possibly gone through in her lifespan.

Somehow that young Games Champion of the Isos had somehow through sheer luck survived everything and found Flynn. Well from what Flynn's journal had said that he had found her near derezzing and nursed her systems back online when he found them some shelter until he could get them to his Safehouse in the Outlands. Then to keep her reigned in Flynn started to teach her about the User World.

The things that Quorra must have learned about the User World...

Even Jarvis was scared even after he read through his first text file on a journey to places Called Hell and Heaven. Though given how Jarvis talked about this Hell place, it was probably where the Users had sent Clu for his crimes. The image of spending eternity trapped with other individuals in one of the lower nine levels of this place felt some how appropriate for an individual like Clu. For those who had lost loved ones under Clu's reign, the thought that Clu would be forever trapped for eternity with other treacherous individuals who had committed crimes against the Users just felt right. Gem felt that somewhere whatever action she had done. Some little thing such as given Sam that little bit of advice before he entered the Games is what had saved her from one of the many fates that had been referenced in the Inferno.

Now Gem sat beside her friend as they drove through the old Games Arena in a procured hover transport watching for anyone who had appeared since the most recent rains had occurred in the past hour. The number of the Rerezzed had been popping up had been steady rate over the last few storms. When her old friend Janelle asked her to help scourer the Arena for survivors on light cycles and a few transports, it felt like the right thing to do.

So far they had found a few individuals but that last one they had found was an female program wondering the area wearing nothing much than an Identity Disk and only an Identity disk.

One of the other programs, a Bostrom Iso name Gibson, had lent his jacket to the under dressed program until they got back to some of main areas and could track down some clothing. So far Gem had practically been on the verge of slugging the Gibson senseless after he had made a pass at her, but seeing that the girl was scared Gem thought otherwise. The last thing anyone in the transport needed was a full tilt panic attack, people were still on edge from being undeleted.

That was when they had to go back because there was a second storm coming. Then the IO towers started to glow then there was a flash that covered the entire Grid.

Suddenly Gem felt like nothing had changed but there was an itchy feeling in the back of her programming that something had changed. Like she was being watched.

"Hey did you feel that?" Gem said looking around the transport as it was on the path to pull into the repair terminal to drop off its current load of passengers.

"A little." Gibson said as his code started to glow brighter some. That was when several of the other Rerezzed started to look around.

"Are we going to be used in the games?" The girl said getting scared. Gem turned to look at the girl and walked over to her.

"No... Clu was defeated..." Gem swallowed hard. "Did you see the world of the Users?" The girl got nervous at this.

"No... Wait... The world of the Users... Did a User defeat Clu?" Gem realized that she was heading into some scary territory here. Gem nodded in confirmation. "Was it Flynn? Was it he that destroyed Clu?"

"I don't know... I am one of the returned too." Gem said solemnly before she looked away. "One moment I was at the End of Line Club the moment that Zuse sold out Flynn and was betrayed by Clu when Clu decided to ensure that he was the only one who had seen the information on Flynn's stolen Identity Disk that Zuse had in his possession. The explosion..." Gem shuddered remembering the flames rushing towards her body, her code being ripped apart, and things she didn't really want to remember as the derezzing process started to take place. Gem reached out to steady herself as the Program she was talking to stand up and take hold to her. "I was Derezzed..." There was a long pause before she continued. "I don't know why I have returned, but the person that I saw when I returned was a security program meant to aid Tron named Anon. Since then I have been trying to put the pieces back together of why the Users returned me." Gibson looked at Gem.

"Well, I see that you got Derezzed in an explosion. Anon had to Derezz me after I got infected with the virus striking through the system." Gem looked up swallowing hard.

"You were infected?" She moved backwards away from the green toned program and shielding the younger program behind her.

"Was... Then the next moment I can clearly remember is that I wake up on the floor of a Disk Wars platform." Gibson looked around slowly. "Do you sense that?" Gibson said as he started to look down on the Grid. "Hey we have another survivor." It took a while as they got closer to realize that it wasn't one person but two that were walking together.

"Hey... isn't that..." Gem watched as Janelle slowed the transport down and brought it to a stop before the two programs.

"Radia..." Gem slid the door of the transport open even before it came to a stop. The late co-administrator froze as another program came out from behind her and raised his disk to them. Gibson joined Gem as they exited the vehicle.

"Radia..." Gibson said dropping down his hood to show that he wasn't one of the infected. The he caught a look at program protecting her. "Council member Jalen!" Gibson stopped cold. "I knew that the rains were bringing back the derezzed, just that... "Gibson shook his head. "Wow... Talk about things getting weird." This was when Jalen looked at the racing program.

"Could someone tell me what is happening?" Gibson decided that things were fairly normal for the Rerezzed.

"I think that the Users have returned..." Gibson said looking towards Gem. "I think Gem has more experience with what has been happening." Radia looked towards Gem.

"Tell me... Has the Plague been stopped... or has someone found a cure for it?" Gem looked around realizing that for the time being she had the most answers. Radia looked at the Jalen who from all appearances had the look of someone who had been through the deepest recesses of the Trash Bin before being returned to the realm of active programs.

"The Plague virus..." Gem paused before continuing. "There is much to explain, but... I believe that you should come with us..." Gem motioned to the transport.

"Gem... I am starting to feel some real strange code around." Gem watched as the young program that was doing her best to cover herself with Gibson's over-sized coat pulled it closer around her hoping the coding cloth would protect her more.

"Where do you sense the strange code?" Gibson said rushing back to the Transport.

"Here!" The young program said as she felt Gibson's jacket start to turn to Basic Blue with her coding.

"What do you mean here?" Gibson raced into the transport as he started to see some strange coding appear her. "You mean here!" Gibson watched as the girl pointed her hand towards the strange code. As Gibson leaned in to look at it and reach towards it a spark of strange code jumped at the two and Gibson and the young program were pushed backwards from the energy discharge as the strange code flowed through their systems before the visible charge dissipated. Attempting to right himself Gibson reached up and placed his hand on the council of the transport and...

"... What the... Come on man... at least show me what Gibson and that girl were about to encounter... Don't crash on me..." A voice rang out from the terminal...

"Wha..." Gibson said as he heaved himself up to look at the screen. "hey..." Gibson turned to see an image on the monitor under his hand. It was a strange program wearing a strange pair of thin rimmed goggles and a very muscular build. Then there was the sound a tapping on a surface as this individual attempted to do something to his terminal. "Come on, come on, reestablish file connection..." the strange program said as a voice came over the audio.

"Hey Jet... what's up?" The voice sounded familiar as Janelle and Gem rushed over to help the young female program up. "Nothing much Sam... I was just in the middle of some Machanime program that your old man had on his system. It was getting good, up until the encoder program crapped out." Sam moved onto frame. Gem's programming cycles missed a beat as she saw SamFlynn's face.

"Sam... Gibson how did you do that?" The Loner Iso blinked a few times... "What do you mean? I just got thrown against the wall here and you are saying that put the patch of coding there was..." There was a beat as Gibson realized as with everyone in the transport now understood what they were now looking at. "Sam... as in SamFlynn as in the User SamFlynn..."

"So what was this video file about?" Sam said reaching into a box and pulling out a container that contained some fluid which he decided to remove the lid from and proceeded to drink.

"I think it was some soap opera or drama that your old man had created about some sort of reverse rapture happening to some alien civilization. Kinda of cross between the plot line of the second Resident Evil movie and the vintage flick, Damnation Alley." Jet the user who had been watching started talk some more. "Well it looks like they were driving around in some transport picking up survivors. There had been an argument between this Gem girl who was working with one of her Friends and some jerk of a jackass named Gibson..."

"Jackass... the guy called me a Jackass..." Gem grinned at this as she listened on.

"Well it kinda of fits you Gibson." Before Gibson could protest Jalen reached over and stopped him as they realized that whatever was going on, they were getting the User eye view of what was happening to their world. "I don't think this user knows that he had been watching us. He thinks that we are some prerecorded file on Flynn's system." Jalen said realizing what they were witnessing were two Users communicating in their natural environment.

"So far they had encountered these two political figures a Cleopatra looking woman named Radia and some other guy named Jalen..." There was pause as things got depressing for the User. "Then the girl said she sensed something strange and she and this Gibson guy touched something and poof... the codec crashed." Sam now placed his drink down and walked over to the display as it shifted towards Sam's face.

"How much of the codec got fried Jet?" Sam said as he started to look at the data on the other side of the screen.

"I don't know... from all I can tell the codec is still running, but I'm not able to view information from the other side. It's like the file has stopped, but data is still being sent through the system. Kinda of like trying to watch a video file with the wrong codec installed, sometimes you get audio but no video. Other times you just get really crappy video. Here the file is still running, just no audio or video is coming out." Sam moved and sat down and started tapping on the screen.

"Wait, did you hear the information is still being sent, except..." Gem spoke aloud.

"Except instead of them seeing us, we are seeing them." The young program said realizing what was happening.

"Do you have a back up of the codec?" Jet Nodded.

"Yeah... I have a copy of all of the data from the original drive Sam... Hell you asked me to go through and use my skills in system repair to purge this nasty bit of corrupted programming called Clu." Jet said taking a break from the system. "So... Can't sleep." Sam nodded.

"After all that happened yesterday... between the attack on ENCOM and the police investigating and Martin's medical bills." Jet reached out his friend and patted him on the shoulder.

"Yeah... That old guy must be glad that you are helping him like this. I mean you B and E-ed your way into ENCOM tower, Stole data that was the rights of the people and placed it on the web so everyone could download it free of charge…" Jet paused for a moment as he ran down the list of things Sam had done that night. "…And scared the old fool thinking that you were going to commit suicide." Sam grinned at this.

"Yeah and every morning I bring the guy coffee to pay him back for the hell I put him through that night." Sam said looking at the screen. "Looks like the coding got swallowed up by two programs and..." Sam rubbed his chin. Gibson and the girl were getting worried. Sam was looking at them... Their Code... Their inner workings, the codec was within them now. "Looks like a Basic and a..." Sam turned towards Jet. "An Iso? Jet how many Iso programs have you salvaged man?" Gibson looked worried at the User who was wondering at the skill and talent that his friend had used to repair and restore the Grid to its former glory.

"Well out of a total population of over a one point six billion programs; about a third went missing due to the Clu program mucking up the system that I had to yank back from the abyss of the recycle bin that was on the system. But I can't tell you how many are these Iso programs and the standard Basics I have come across from that bin they had been tossed into. I have just treated them the same, just working hard to repair the damaged system." The user that had brought them back had no preference to Iso or Basic, in his eyes they were equal. "Though I have been chunking malicious code left and right, reverting back to an earlier state in some cases, while in others, just chunking it in seeing that it is just making a mess of things, but that came down to a judgment call to its impact on the overall system." Gem gulped hard at that realizing that she just missed being deleted by just a choice. "Mostly it was easier to revert some of the programs back to their last saved point and restore from there."

"Hopefully you can show Quorra off your talents when you present her with the restored system." Sam Patted Jet on the back. Quorra... Wait, they were talking about Quorra Gem thought as she leaned closer to the screen.

"Yeah, the mysterious Ms. Iso... the Apprentice of the Mighty Kevin Flynn..." there was a sigh..."So how is old Padawan Girl doing from the double whammy of being tazed and barbecued at the same time?"

"Well, she is a little tired but the meds painkillers are doing wonders for her system." Sam Exhaled

"So, doped up, high, has the munchies and..." Jet waited for the rest to come into play.

"Sleeping though most of the pain, though I swear Marvin is getting envious of the toaster as he tried to run off with it the moment Quorra's hold on it weakened." Jet cheered.

"Go Marvin!" Sam understood and joined him in the laughter. "I swear that Quorra and Marvin have been the best two influences in your life since your dad went missing all those years ago." That was when things got somber.

"Sam..." A female voice called out as the two male Users looked to something or someone off screen.

"Anna?" Sam concerned. "What's happening?"

"Quorra's awake and is wanting to talk to you and only you." there was a pause before she continued. "I think it is about why she was looking for you before she was attacked." With that Sam got up and walked away from the display as fast as he could. Everyone in the transport was looking at each other.

"That was the world of the Users..." then everyone looked at Gibson and the girl. "You two have the power to look into the world of the Users." Radia said with growing concern. "Tell me what has been happening, and why these two have been blessed with the power to see into the world of the Users. And how an Iso such as Quorra has been able to make the journey there?"

Gem decided to start from the beginning. Within the next little while the two Iso leaders had been floored by the revelations that had taken place. Now with this new piece of the puzzle presented towards them there was a complete set of new questions taking place: How had Quorra of the Isos wound up in the world of the Users?


Quorra sat up in bed. Her skin still tingled from the beam that had hit her but it was how her head felt. It felt like someone had used her head for disk wars disk against Rinzler or by Rinzler, probably both given the feeling behind frontal lobe and temples. Looking over and seeing that Anna had been in bed sleeping with her was a bit strange, but seeing Marve staring down the toaster on the floor was stranger. That was when Quorra reached up to touch her left arm and felt the bandage over her glyph. Quorra winced as she touched it.

The burn, the... The camera, the heat. Anna defending her... The cold hiss of the white cloud covering her skin.

Pain...

Waking up in the repair bay with repair Programs... No... Users. Adult female Caucasian approximate age mid to late twenties. Has a First degree burn over the left side of her body. A second degree electrical burn on her upper left bicep. Subject has a white tattoo in same area.

Miss what is your name?

Quorra

Okay Cora, do you remember what happened with you?

Pain, burn like candle, hot boiling water, arm.

Anna save... Tell Flynn someone controlling clouds over ENCOM. Users.

Then the woman. Dark hair, accent, not of this sector. Sounded like Mario, or Godfather.

Rest... Memories. Flynn. The Dark Times. Full User powers. Fight against Clu's Fleet.

Innocents slain, tricked by Clu.

Human shields. Break Flynn's will to fight.

Flynn sense of defeat.

Powerless, sadness.

Quorra was scared when Flynn returned. Just knelt there for millicycles, wouldn't eat, wouldn't drink.

Master Flynn please drink! Just a little.

I don't want to be alone!

You're the only family I have!

Flynn looked at her. Family. He had family here that needed him.

Please tell me of the World of the Users. Flynn looked out upon the Grid.

How like Sam you are, curious of worlds you haven't seen but want to experience.

There are Trees, living structures made up of cellular matter, that some of which stand as tall as the legs of a Recognizer. They have a rough Brown outer coating around a cylinder structure and at the top they have branch like structures that have green spade like structures called leaves. Now these absorb light energy to convert nutrients from the soil into fuel.

Are there many of these?

There are... and many different kinds and configurations. some small that can fit into a bowl, while others as wide as a ground transport.

I have books on the subject, do you want to see?

Yes I would.

Then images, data that wasn't her own... Horses... The woman riding next to a man with long dark hair. So in love.

Veronica, do you think Merlin will accept that we are in love.

A sorcerer's job to protect. But love grants it's user the greatest power, to find the strength to overcome all foes before them.

Sadness... Great Evil had to be stopped...

Wait... These were the woman's memories

Trapped, Evil... so alone...

The Prime Merlinian... Heir to the Magic and Powers of Merlin... Balthazar Blake my love you have found him...

A young boy... A bit younger than Sam... Current time... Named... Dave Stutler... NYU Physics 101 Instructor.

Becky... "You are listening to NYU Radio... This is the Becky Barnes Show..."

Veronica... you need to at least have some clothes that will allow you to blend. But make you feel comfortable... Quorra blushed at this...

The symbols in the book... Wait, the were like Master Flynn's..

Quorra looked over at Anna. Needed to Tell Sam...

"Anna wake up..." Quorra shook Anna awake... "Anna!" The young User awoke.

"Quorra... What is it?" Anna was worried as she started to come out of her Sleep cycles.

"I need to speak with Sam." Quorra licked her lips to moisten them... "Now... It has to do with the Clouds around ENCOM and someone finding out how to take control of them." With that Anna given her computer security skills started to think about the threat presented.

"I'll go and get Sam." Anna said as she got out of bed wearing some sweats and a "Han Shot First!" t-shirt and headed out the door.

Quorra reached over onto her back for her disk to retrieve the data from her dreams by sheer instinct and she froze when she felt just her skin.

A moment later Sam walked in. He looked haggard and worried like his father had been on some of the Bad Days where Clu's continue reign just ate into him. Seeing the same look on Sam made her worry.

"Quorra..." Sam said as he sat down on the bed next to Quorra and hugged her. Quorra was still unused to how tactile Users tended to be around each other, but this... This felt comforting. "... don't scare me like that." Quorra felt the warmth of Sam's body against her's. The only memory she had of something like this sort was when in the first few weeks since her arrival on this plain of existence was experiencing a brown out that had occurred in the early morning. The idea of power going out in a sector where Sam lived had scared her. She clung to Sam as he fished out an emergency glow stick.

Quorra had been scared but fascinated by this piece of technology that so reminded her of home as she panicked over the sun not rising in the sky. Sam had wrapped her in his arms and started to tell her a condensed version of how the universe worked on rotational scale. That sun didn't move, but it was the Earth that moved. That the Rotational body they were on had functioned for centuries upon centuries without fail due to it spinning around the Sun since the creation of the world they were on. This had fascinated her as she looked at the glow stick. At that point Quorra decided that she wanted to learn about Nature.

Between the trip to the botanical park, planetarium, and the zoo one weekend turned out to be the best day ever for her and Sam since coming from the Grid. Even some of Quorra's questions that same thought were off in other circumstances, seemed almost at home in those places. Simple curiosity had made Quorra connect with people, including the smaller Users that were with them that day. Though one of the parents had commented that Quorra had a mild form of Asperger's Syndrome when it came to her social interactions of the subjects she was talking about, but they didn't mind in that their own child suffered from it.

Afterwards Sam started reading up on this phenomenon and others like it and as a result, Sam seemed more connected to her as he figured how she saw the world around her. It was like he could anticipate her next move. At first it was scary, but... now...Sam knew how to act and think like an Iso as he taught her to be like a User. Then Quorra's mind started going back over the events prior to her... The woman... clouds... The woman was like her in that out of place feel that she felt everyday in the User World, but the woman had the powers like Master Flynn. What had she been doing searching Quorra's memories?

"Sam... I was on your way to your office to talk about the Clouds over ENCOM." Urgency hit. "The only time I have seen clouds act like that was back on the Grid... Your father stated that in one of his theories that you could control Clouds through..." Quorra became flustered... Then she remembered something... "Sam... There was a person who snuck into your dad's system under the old arcade... who posted some of what he found to the web. I think that there is a person who was able to get though and... "Quorra looked worried. "Sam, I think someone used Tech from the Grid on me at the healing complex." Quorra started to go through her memories.

"What do you mean Quorra?" Sam started to look concerned.

"I think someone used a Data Disk on me and it had some data from the person using it on it." Now she had Sam's full attention.

"Wait... A disk from the Grid is here?" Sam held her by the shoulders. "Quorra... You saw me and Jet take apart the digitizer and move it to ENCOM. I checked the system hasn't been plugged in." This is when Quorra got worried.

"What about before it was unplugged?" Quorra swallowed hard. "Please Sam, I need to use a tablet to show you what I saw before I came to find you." Sam understood. The thought of having a piece of Grid Tech in someone's hands who didn't know how to use it would be devastating. Sam and Quorra still had their rods from the Grid and the thought that someone would rez a weapon such a Grid Tank in the city scared her.

"Okay... I'll go and get a tablet to bring here." Sam said getting up and walking out of the room. Quorra waited for Sam to return. Quorra stared out the window and wondered about Dave Stuter, about who he was and why the symbols on the floor of his lab mirrored the markings Flynn had made for his training circle on the grid.


The past night Dave had done his best to read through everything that Becky had been able to dig up on the late Kevin Flynn. Other than some information that they had been able to find on the web about Flynn's city project which Dave, Becky, Balthazar and Veronica had been able to confirm as true. Quorra Iso remained a mystery. Add to that ENCOM and sent the police the footage of Dave's face from where his illusion spell had been captured on tape.

So far Sam Flynn had stated that this individual had used some sort of augmented reality technology to back track the steps of Quorra and her co-worker. Given that Dave had fried the camera had made him a person of interest. he needed to tell Quorra and Sam Flynn that he wasn't responsible for the attack. He just accidentally set of the trap that had been set for Quorra.

Dave pulled out his Smartphone and opened up a weather app that did minute by minute streaming weather updates before he cast the biometrical tracking spell Balthazar had used to track down the Grimhold.

This is stupid... Dave thought as he remembered seeing the security guard getting burned by the hidden microwave gun. I shouldn't be doing this. Then Dave decided in his mind: "I have to say I'm sorry about your friend getting hurt, I just wanted to find out what happened."

Then Dave cast the locate spell.

After a moment the clouds slowly started to form along the coastline before starting to descend down. Looking at his Smartphone Dave noticed that image was showing a buildup of the clouds in a specific locality. Then Dave tapped the screen of the phone and started to watch the cloud formation start to change color. The brighter the cloud depth and thickness of the participation of Dave's locater cloud, the more that the center point was show on his phone's screen which was zeroing in on Quorra's location.

Then Dave's phone started ringing as the last image pointed towards a small structure made up of shipping containers. The number said 1-0123456. Dave recognized the number as being a voice over IP address.

"Hey Bennet... So, any calls from the Dean?" Dave said over the phone. Who he heard on the other side got his attention.

"Dave Stutler..." A female voice said. "I think that you were looking for me earlier at the office and shall I say your It-tal-e-an friend was... Sorry... I must be butchering the name of your friend's home sector... Land. Damn it." Dave could practically see the person slapping their hand against their forehead.

"Uh... are you Quorra?" Dave swallowed hard at saying those words.

"If I am, then why are you using an Atmospheric disturbance over me and Sam's dwelling? Is it some sort of tracking algorithm that reorganizes the layout pattern of the condensation of the water and because I am using mine and Sam's own tracking algorithm over you." Dave looked up into the sky to see some light clouds, but no depth that indicated a tracking spell. "Dave... You are standing on the roof of the Golden Dragon Hotel... And your friend Becky is walking up behind you." Dave turned around to see Becky standing behind him.

"Okay... Listen... You have my complete attention now." Dave said looking with worry at Becky. Becky looked at Dave as she realized that something was up given how he was looking at her.

"Dave..." Dave stopped Becky from speaking anymore by raising his hand up and shaking it to warn her not to speak.

"Why were you in the Building after I was attacked?" Quorra said awaiting his response.

"Trying to find you, to talk with you…" Dave mouthed to Becky. 'Find Balthazar and bring him here!' Becky nodded realizing that something was up and it had to do with the person on the other side of the phone.

"Were you the one responsible for hurting me and Sam's friend Martin?" Quorra was asking these questions to figure out if Dave was a threat. "Why is your friend Becky walking away from you?" Dave got scared... Crap, Quorra had mastered a type of remote viewing spell.

"Becky Stop!" Dave called out in fear. Becky stopped cold.

"Listen, whatever powers you have... I'll tell you the truth... I wasn't responsible in you being hurt. Just don't take your anger out on Becky... I love her..." Dave was trembling at this time when Balthazar walked onto the roof.

"Dave what is going on?" Balthazar said in his usual, "What have you done now Dave." tone of voice that stated Dave had bitten off way too much than he could chew with his powers.

"Dave... is that your Master?" Quorra said almost giddy. "Put me on Speaker." Dave did knowing he was screwed if he didn't do it.

"Who are you talking to?" Balthazar said as Veronica also joined them on the roof.

"Hi... My name is Quorra, and I think that you were looking for me earlier." Balthazar looked at Dave with the "Oh, you are up to your eyeballs in it this time."

"Did Dave call you?" Balthazar said concerned.

"No... I called him." Quorra said before she waited for a moment. "Listen... I know that you are not a threat from the memories that I have been able to gather from the member of your group named Veronica. She cared for me while I was injured. It felt so comforting knowing that User with her powers was there for me. I felt safe." With this Veronica walked forward and spoke.

"You saw my memories... How?" Veronica said sensing that this young Mage had quite a bit of talent at her disposal.

"When you looked into my memories... The door swung both ways. I remember the woods where you and Balthazar would go and watch the clouds. I saw Dave and Becky... Yes Dave needs work with his powers. But Master Flynn said that he was the same way in his youth. But Dave's heart is in the right place." Dave looked at his phone wondering what Quorra was about to do.

"So you are not going to hit Becky with a lightning bolt or some Death Ray?" Dave stated with concern.

"No... sheesh... You thought I was..." Quorra's voice grew mortified. "Wait... You thought because I can see Becky's location that was going to hit her with a death ray. I know that it is reference often in your media as a weapon of mass destruction that can destroy a city or be so narrow that a person can be picked off from orbit." About this time Becky was looking scared. "That Master Flynn stated that some individual back in the Eighties decided to place a fleet of these things high in your sky." There was a pause for a moment. "If I am scaring your friend, I don't mean to. I'll disengage the tracking system if you want." This is when a male voice started to speak.

"My name us Sam Flynn, and from what Quorra has told me about you from her experience and my own with the tech you used. I believe her." There was a pause for a momentary beat before he continued. "I believe that you were there to meet me and Quorra, but you wanted to run some recon before we met face to face." This is when Quorra chided in.

"I believe that we should meet someplace neutral where we can put all of our cards on the table and see what the other has found out." There was some faint talk as Quorra commented did she get the proper jargon right. Followed by a outstanding yes.

"What will happen if we decide to attend this meeting?" Balthazar said watching as Becky was able to move from where she was standing and join them.

"That is up to you, the last thing we want is the knowledge and technology that my Dad created to be used for evil." Sam said as Balthazar realized that Sam and Quorra were concerned about this new magic being used for ill means.

"Okay, you have an agreement there." Balthazar said nodding to the group.

"Good, there is a cheesy restaurant nearby that might suit our means. I'll e-mail you the location and meeting time for tomorrow." Sam said waiting for Balthazar's response.

"Understood…" Balthazar said realizing that both groups would be on the defensive until mutual trust could be earned by both sides.

"Good, we plan to see you then." Quorra said before saying goodbye and hanging up.

"That was strange." Dave said growing concerned.

"Yes and they showed the same concern over us as we did them." Veronica said looking at her love.

"Now here comes the question that no one has thought about. Who was the individual who was responsible for attacking Quorra and why?" Becky said as everyone became concerned that there was a third player that hadn't shown themselves and didn't want Quorra around for some reason.


TBC


If you haven't noticed, I have been doing my research on the Tron: Evolution games to piece together the events of Clu's rise to power.

The Mechanime concept came from me watching Red vs Blue on Youtube and I decided to show what would happen if the Programs got a look at our world for a change. What would they think of us? I am going to play with this in the next few chapters. But the movies are the classic Damination Alley from Eighties Weekend Movie Cable TV, and Resident Evil 2 from the current Weekend Movie Cable TV lineup.

Right now I am working on a name for the young program that touched the Codec with Gibson. I have several in mind, but I'll see how the dressing room scene plays out before I choose a final one. If anyone has any ideas for a name, let me know.

Well, please post a review down below and let me know what you think of the story.