As much as I wish I did, I don't own TRON.
Beck hops out of the 11th tank,and moves on to the 12th. He spreads out the code to look at it, and inject in my code.
"This better work..."
When he jumps out he comes face to face(Well actually it's helmet to helmet) with a black guard...or maybe it's a sentry...I always get them mixed up.
"What? This isn't my tank...uh...sorry for the mix-up." He gets surrounded, then punches them out. There is an announcement that he is there, and, he almost gets hit by a disk.
"You wouldn't leave without saying goodbye, would you?"says Pavel
"So much for a quiet exit..." he mumbles.
"How 'bout a quiet death, instead?" (is it just me or are the comebacks getting LAMER and LAMER.) Beck rezzes his light cycle just to be surrounded by the tanks he infected. The tanks get ready to fire, but they explode and turn into pixels. "what?" Pavel's furious...YAY!
"It worked..." he starts driveing back to the garage
Mara and I walk into the garage.
I sigh. "no respect."
"If the first shift thinks we're just gonna clean up after them-"
"MARA!"We bolth jump.
"Able!"she says
"We didn't see you come in..."I say
"Have Beck or Zed come in yet?"he asks us.
"no..."I say
"We will let you know your looking for them..."
He sighs. "I have to go take care of some business...Mara's in charge."
I say "Mara" the same time she says "Me?"
"Yes,you...she's all yours Mara."
"I-I won't let you down!"
"I know"
Zed and Beck come in late. "Your late!"says Mara.
"Yeah, so? Able ask us to do some thing?" asked Zed.
"No, but he left a list of things that need to get done while he's gone!"
"Ables gone? Cool." Says Beck"Where'd he go, anyway?"
"That's not important."I say.
"You don't know, do you?"asks Zed
"What I do know is he left Mara in charge." I say
"So...can I count on you to help me out?" she says hopefully.
"Sure." says Zed.
"What do you need?"asks Beck.
"Well...the lift...has been acting up..."
"Ok. When we're done, it will be as good as new."
"Thanks guys." We walk away.
"Give me a break Zed...What do you know about a transport lift?"
"Absolutely nothing...Which is how I broke it in the first place."
"Mara." I say
"Hmm?" she is looking at someone
"Zed broke the lift."
"Yeah...good to know..."she obviously isn't paying attention. I tap into Able's disk.
Able is driving.
It is very boring.
"Ow!" something bit into his arm."Grid bug." he crushes it. In the process, he doesn't realize his truck almost fell off a cliff...er...is falling off a cliff... He looks at a tablet...I tap out, this walk could take a while.
Mara is walking into the break room. Zed and Beck are in there too.
"Well that was fast."says Mara
"Uh...Zed, tell her."
"Um...nothing to tell...worked fine when I tried it..."
"You haven't fixed it yet, have you?" I say.
"We were just about to start." says Beck.
"START!?" I yell.
"See, I told you they'ed be mad!" Says Zed
"Hey, uh, Mara, can we have some time off?"asks Dash.
she sighs."Is the chopper done?
"Not all of it..."says Copper."But, we can't do any more, until someone fixes the lift."
She sighs again."Fine... But don't take to long."
"Thanks Mara!"Yells Copper.
"Yeah, your the best!"Yells Dash.
"Um, don't you have WORK to do!?" I say
"Mara just gave Dash and Copper the afternoon off!"says Zed
"Dash. And. Copper. Didn't break the lift."says Mara
"How-"
"Yeah, I know De told me."
"Fine. But only because I like you.
Mara's face: :o
"A-as a ...what Dash?" He leaves.
"Don't worry. We have plenty of time until Able comes back." Says here a humming outside. We go and see what it is. Recognizers. Oh, this should be good. Pavel (A.K.A. jerk.) is walking out of one, two black guards on his sides."OK...Now you can worry."
Pavel walks up to Mara."Can I help you?" asks Mara
"My tanks have been sabotaged by the renegade. I need them repaired. IMMEDIATELY. The damage is extensive. But I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that."
"Nice one Renegade...real nice..." Beck mumbles.
"If you...want to wait for Able to come back-"
"What I want is fort you to do your job! And if these are not done by the end of your shift...well, there are far worse punishments then the games, I can assure you."
I walk over to beck."Well THIS backfired."
"Well you made it."he says.
"You used it." I say. He rolls his eyes and walks away.
I tap into Able's disk, maybe there will be something interesting this time to take my mind off things.
He sets up some sort of "tent" thing...I'm about to tap out, but he takes off his disk...nothing...he turns around and I see a program with very little white circuitry...he takes his mask off... then one of the white-circle thing I get in dreams appears. Wait...what!?
"..."
"Don't scare me like that!"Says Able. They go inside. "Here." Able says "For your healing chamber...should buy you more time..." says Able
"..."
"What about her?"
"..."
"Why would I?
"..."
"Because I want you to stop! I know about Beck!"
"..."
"To what end? What's your grand plan? if you have one at all."
"..."
"Even if Beck is derezzed in the process?"
"..."
"We all know the stakes! But only one seems concerned about the consequences!" The tent ripped opened. "Beck isn't ready for this...AND YOU KNOW IT! We both know how this ends! I can't keep helping you like this. Not if you continue to involve Beck."
"..."
"I won't just let Beck become one of your mistakes! Your leaving me no choice!"
"..."
Able takes off his disk.
"Not you ya big dummy! GRID BUGS!" They are literally hundreds falling from the top of the tent."There's to many of them!"
"..."
"Let's get this over with..." they take a light cycle and jump through the tent.
"..."
"I'm with you on that."says Able.
"De!"Yells Mara,right into my ear.
"Dah! Oh...sorry...what?"I say
"I need you to do an analysis of the coding..."
"OK." I bend down and look at it.
"Well?"asks Mara.
"The damaged code is constantly mutating, it's design is irreversible."
"Irreversible... genius..." says Beck...OK,was that an insult or a compliment?
"So...what's the plan?"asks Zed.
"We need to examine the code, one by one...isolate the problem..."
"How long will that take?"asks Dash.
"I don't know..."I say"But it's our only option, it will be faster if we work together, figure this out as a team..."
"We don't have TIME" says Dash stepping out of the crowd "Every one,take a tank, divide and concer, we can reconstruct the code from scratch."
Mara steps up to him."What do you think your doing? Able left me in charge, and I agree with De-"
"And that decision is gonna get us all derezzed. Anyone who doesn't want to end up in a million little pieces, follow me." he walks away, everyone but me, Brck, Zed, and Mara go with him.
"Look, we can do this if we all just work together...THIS ISN'T HOW ABLE WOULD HAVE WANTED!"she yells, but no one listens. She puts her head I'd her hands like she's crying.
"Thanks for your vote of confidence back there!" I say in an annoyed/angry voice
We are working. Trying everything we can think of to fix the tanks...Me and Mara are going around helping people.
"Uh...is this normal?"I here link yell. It turns around, and shoots the wall.
"Shut that thing down!" I yell. He does. Zed's tank rolls into the sea. real smooth. I think.
"I am gonna get us all sent to the games."says Mara
"Hey,it's not your fault that Link blew a hole in the garage"
"Or that Zed drove a tank into the sea."
"What?"asks Mara.
"Zed...drove the Tank into the sea..."says Beck.
"What?"I ask.
"Link."says Mara. We walk over to him
"Link...I need your help!"
"You do?" he say
"You do?"me, Beck and Zed all say together.
"Yes, I do. You got your tank to fire, show me exactly what you did." He does something with the coding. Mara pushes me down to look at it.
I smile."Link, you hit a fail safe, it unlocked the original code! If we isolate it...we can duplicate it...and...there!" I hit a button and it starts up.
"How much time do we have?"asks Beck.
"Not enough...there are to many tanks..."
"we'll get them done." says Zed."Beck and I can start on the others. Right Be...where'd he go?"
"Come on."says Mara. I follow her.
"Hey!" I yell
"Where do you think YOU'RE going!?" yells Mara.
"Gonna see if I can recruit some extra mechanics."
"No. You really think that's gonna work? Because its NOT. Your terrible excuses may have worked with able, but they are NOT going to work me! So maybe if you would spend less time, trying to get out of work and actually DOING work, we might not be sent to the games! Now, go back out there, and get to WORK!"Wow. Now THAT was scary.
"EVERYONE! Listen up. I know today has been hard on all of you. And I know a lot of It's my fault. I tryed to be your friend, when you needed a leader. But, I won't let you suffer for my mistake. If we don't finish, I wil go to the games in place of all of you. But that won't happen if just work together." I show them how to reverse it.
"Tell us what you need to do."
The time is up...all the Recognizers are here. Pavel comes out. "I'm feeling generous, so I'll give you all a choice. Be derezzed now or at the games."
"All your tanks are here Pavel. As instructedd, fully operational."
"We'll see about that." he says. One of the guards comes up to him, and whispers something in his ear.
"Well, these do look good...except for the tank that's MISSING! So, I ask again, derezzed now or at the games.
"SORRY!" someone yells from the distance "Just giving it a last minute polish!" Zed turns the corner, Riding a tank.
"We got what we need, let's MOVE OUT!" yells Pavel.
Me and Mara watch te recognizers leave. I don't think I have been so relieved in my entire life.
I'm working with Mara. NORMAL work thank goodness.
Able walks up to us."Well, the garage is still standing...everything went well then?"he asks us.
"Hhhmmmm...nothing out of the ordinary..."says Mara
"Good. From the looks of things, I made the right choice."
"I thought you didn't have a choice?"she says.
"You were first and only choice. I'm glad I was right."
"Me too." says Mara.
OH MY GOSH I AM SO SORRY!This took...a month and a half?! ugh...any way...thanks SO MUCH TO MY BETA, Rabecca13787 for comeing back on the cite! now...MAKE DOCX CONECTION! So Every time I send to beta(s) I publish at different times...you guys "got lucky" (ha ha, see what I did there?) because I sent this to Ryan (2thesky) on saterday and planed on publishing on Wednesday...but I'm bored so publishing today!
