Tron sped through the dilapidated city with ease. Even though the city was slowly rebuilding, Tron could not help but feel distress.
As he scoured the city and took in its destruction he could only feel guilt. After all, he was the one that failed to stop CLU and even fell victim to his reprogramming.
Gripping the handle bars in frustration, Tron easily took a sharp turn and made his way to the edge of the city. From there he cruised along the city walls and surveyed them for damage or weak points of entry.
With the city's internal problems, it would not do for any malicious software to enter the city.
Seeing his city after all this time and knowing that he was partly responsible only made Tron want to redeem himself. This place was his namesake, and one of Flynn's greatest creations. And although there were talks of retirement, he would put those plans on hold until his city was once again the pinnacle of the Grid.
Tron frowned beneath his helmet as he patrolled. While it was good for him to get out and reacquaint himself with the world, patrolling gave him too much thinking time. How much of the Grid had been destroyed? Was is just Tron City, or had the other metropolitans been affected? For that matter, did Clu's rule reach beyond Tron City as well? What about Argon City? Or Arjia City?
There were so many holes. And there was only so much Tron could remember from his time as Rinzler.
As he titled the light cycle to make a gentle turn, Tron noticed a program leaning against one of the city walls.
-failsafe-
Sam sighed as he stopping scrolling through Beta's 'manual.'
Beta's data wasn't as difficult as he initially imagined. Most of her operating system was based on following commands. Mainly inputs from Tron. She had quite a few interesting segments of data, but Sam would have to initiate them in order to find out there functions. But from the notes, they mostly seemed like anti-virus operations.
He had already fixed her freezing problem and worked out 3 other bugs that would likely cause her to freeze along the way, as well as tweaked a few things to correct some minor run time issues. Hopefully those fixes would be enough to ensure that she wouldn't freeze again.
At the moment she was in reboot. It wouldn't be very long before she would be up and running again.
Rubbing his eyes, Sam groaned in frustration. He had way too much in his life going on.
Between running a Fortune 500 company, going back to school and taking night classes, and his business lectures from Alan, working on the Grid was not easy.
Sam flinched at the thought of his business lessons with Alan. They were a good call, but damn did they take up a lot of time. In order for Sam to stand up to the big shots like Lex Luthor and Bruce Wayne, he would definitely need a better understanding of how to run the company.
And he still needed to discuss Wayne's proposal with Alan when he got back…
Looking back to his father's notes, Sam raised an eyebrow at a particular feature.
"Non-essential data?"
-failsafe-
The world began to light up again. Noises turned into words.
"Hey, how are you feeling?"
Beta focused her eyes and stared at the User before her. "All system running at optimal level. Initiating internal scan." Sam blinked as Beta remained seated, he eye trained on the opposite wall. "Scan complete." She blinked and got up from her recharge system.
"Good. You seem to be functioning properly again." Sam said as Beta gave him a confused look. "Tron said that you were having trouble booting up. I went in and fixed a couple of bugs that might have caused your freeze, so you should be fine now."
"I froze?" Beta asked, more to herself than to Sam. She gazed at her recharge station and frowned.
"Yeah, do you know what could have cause it? I could-" Sam was stopped by Beta dashing over to the large office window. "What are you—"
He didn't get to finish when Beta slashed through the window with her light disc and swan dived out onto the street.
Running to the window, Sam just barely caught sight of the lightcycle rounding a corner down the street.
-failsafe-
Hi everyone! I'm so sorry but not updating in almost a year! A lot has happened and I just couldn't find time to work on this.
I had a chapter ready in JANUARY but then my computer started acting up. I had to take it to the Genius Bar about an hour away from where I live and they ended up having to re-install my OS.
I thought I had backed up everything onto my external hard drive, but evidently I forgot to save the new chapter plus all the notes I made for future chapters.
So that was really annoying.
Then I got swamped with school work and there was a wedding and then summer but I had to do work for a scholarship and then family crap and then I started school again and CHEMISTRY SUCKS SO MUCH.
So once again, I apologize for my absence and the lateness of this chapter. The length of which is quite pitiful.
I'll try to write more, but winter finals are approaching. I will also have to try and remember all the things I had planned for future chapters. While I still have a beginning, middle, and end… I need to fill in the gaps between.
Thanks for reading!
