Hey Guys! I finally finished this chapter, it took me forever to write! Anyways, this chapter was a little harder to write than I planned. Sorry if the characters aren't quite like themselves, this one might get a little awkward.

Chapter 19

Paige kept walking up to the Renegade and stopped, out of their reach. The Renegade saw Paige first and stopped cold. Paige saw he was shaking, badly. He slowly, painfully raised his hands in the air as a sign of surrender.

His masked partner turned and looked at Paige. She ignored him, he wasn't important to her; she was more focused on the Renegade. Paige tensed though, when his cold, hard voice spoke. "What do you want?"

Paige's eyes flickered down to the Renegade's hands, which were still raised in the air, and visibly shaking. His wrists were showing a glowing foreign code, it sort of messed up his circuitry whenever it was disturbed or touched.

Paige has seen this before, back when she was a medic. She has treated this particular foreign virus before, but they weren't this serious, or ever located on the wrists, and she could tell he had it for a while.

Paige took a step toward the Renegade, he flinched slightly and his friend drew his disk. "Not a step closer! What do you want?" Paige shot him a hard, serious look. "In case you didn't notice, that's a corrupted code encrypted on his wrist and I might be able to treat it."

The Renegade tilted his head slightly, obviously trying to comprehend what Paige just said, she rolled her eyes. Wow, he must have gone through a lot of abusement in that short amount of time to be acting like this. The dark program activated the disk. "You didn't answer my question! What do you want with him?"

Paige looked in the direction where she assumed the program's eyes were. "He knows some things that I care to know." The program tightened his grip on his disk. "Like his identity?" He asked. Paige quickly shook her head in response. "No, the matters that I want to discuss are completely unrelated to that."

Paige wasn't sure, but she could have sworn that she heard him growl. The program slowly put his disk back into its holder. He obviously didn't trust Paige, she didn't blame him. She was a commander in the army, and he was a rebel from what she could tell.

Paige turned her attention towards the Renegade again. From the way he acted and moved, she would have guessed he was in a lot more than simply pain. He has definitely been through a lot tonight.

Paige knelt down beside the Renegade to take a closer look at the code, it looked really bad… and definitely painful, now she understood why he was shaking so badly. "Ouch, that's really gotta hurt." She said sympathetically.

"May I?" She slowly reached for his wrist and the Renegade saved her the trouble by carefully placing his wrist in her hand. The condition his wrist was in was unbelievable, she was surprised that the Renegade was only shaking and groaning.

His hand was burning hot, and there was steam coming off it. Paige was appalled. "Was this burnt into your hand?" The Renegade tilted his head to the side. "Y-Yeah I guess, it's… sort of fine, now… I think."

Paige gently ran her finger of her free hand up and down the coding and the Renegade was trying his best not to cry out. Paige was well aware that it was hurting him, but she had no other way to examine the damaged codes.

"What did you do, stick your hand into pure corrupted code?" The Renegade responded quickly. "No, it was the restraints I was in that did it." After another brief moment of examination, she lifted her head and explained what she found out.

"That coding encrypted on your wrist isn't technically fatal, but it easily spreads. According to its design, it was meant to take over a host body until they go completely insane and do something stupid enough to get themselves killed. And the process was meant to be very painful."

Paige looked up at the dark screen that concealed the Renegade's face. "How long have you had this virus?" She asked. The Renegade shrugged. "About three cycles after the public showdown against Tesler." Paige shook her head. "No, this particular virus would've taken you over many cycles ago."

The Renegade glanced downward for a moment, thinking hard, and then he looked back up at Paige. "This isn't the first time I had a coding encrypted on my wrist. I suffered at the hands of Cyrus before." Paige looked back up at him. "Let me guess, the previous one wasn't treated either."

The Renegade shook his head. "How was I supposed to know what to do? I didn't even know what the heck this coding was before you came along and had a look." Paige shook her head slowly in slight disappointment, and then she glanced back up at the Renegade's mask.

"May I see your disk? It will be easier for me to see the damages that were done. " The Renegade's partner started to growl again. "Oh give it a rest!" Paige shot at him. What Paige said took him aback, but it shut him up.

The Renegade took off his disk and shakily handed it out to Paige. She reached for it, but he held it back. "First, what do you want to know?" He suddenly asked.

Paige glanced at Cyrus's derezzed pixels. "Who was that program?" The Renegade handed his disk over. "Who, Cyrus? He's… crazy." He responded. "More than crazy." His friend added. "Yeah, so far he tried to kill us three times."

"Not to mention Tesler's dead." Paige added. The Renegade's friend said. "Oh, Cyrus is responsible for that." The Renegade lowered his head. "I never thought I'd be so sad, myself to know that Tesler's gone. You know, he probably wasn't that bad if you got to know him well enough."

Paige looked at The Renegade again. "You got to know General Tesler?" The Renegade looked at her. "Oh… no, I was just guessing what he was like. But in all fairness to Tesler, he wasn't that bad of a fighter, it was actually kind of fun once it was all over." Paige rolled her eyes and changed the subject.

"So, why does Cyrus hate you so much?" Paige asked. The Renegade lifted his shoulders uncomfortably as he answered. "He doesn't like us for many reasons." His friend joined in the conversation. "He's jealous of you." He said.

Paige shot him a look. The Renegade answered. "Because we believe in free will." Paige looked confused and the Renegade tried again. "Tell me, do you believe that I was destined to become the next Tron?"

Paige's expression looked unreadable, but she was definitely shocked. "Where did that question come from?" She demanded. The Renegade sighed and palmed his mask. "You're missing the point! Just give me your honest opinion."

"No! A million times no! Besides, Tron's dead, nothing can change that fact!" The Renegade nodded his head. "You see, Cyrus believes that things that occur, and supposedly will occur, were always meant to be. In other words, he is not convinced that I'm acting beyond my programming."

"He's jealous of you." The Renegade's friend said again. The Renegade turned towards him. "Brilliant! Name one reason of how he could possibly be jealous of me. I nearly died-just because I'm the Renegade-countless times!"

The program responded calmly. "It's very simple. Cyrus missed the old times when he was my successor." The Renegade spoke again, sounding annoyed. "Well that explains why he totally hates you now, but what about me?"

His friend answered. "It's the fact that he doesn't get to wear that awesome suit anymore." Paige raised an eyebrow as she got a good look at the brilliant, glowing white suit. Then her eyes flickered to the 'T' on his chest, the emblem seemed to look the brightest of all the other circuitry.

Paige looked back up at the Renegade's mask with a quizzical expression. "I have one more question though, but I doubt you'd answer it." The Renegade's head turned towards her. "Oh? Try me." He challenged.

Paige took a deep breath and asked. "Where and how, exactly did you get that suit?" The Renegade glanced down at the suit for a moment. His mysterious friend spoke up for him. "You don't need to know that, besides we can't tell you anyway, we're very secretive."

Paige raised an eyebrow. "Must be quite a secret." She commented. "You have no idea." The Renegade responded. Paige turned off the hologram and gave back his disk.

"By the way, I want you to know, I only helped you so I can get answers. Since I'm finished, I'm going to go back to fighting you again, later. Like this never, ever happened." Her voice was cold as snow.

The dark program spoke again. "Well, it looks like we're done here, we're leaving." He stood up, and then he helped the Renegade back onto his feet. "One more thing." The Renegade's friend scanned the ground and picked up Cyrus's disk. "We'd better destroy this." He said. "I agree." The Renegade said.

The mysterious program took out a smoke bomb and threw it on the ground. A cloud of smoke bursted up, and when it cleared, both programs were gone.

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