Hey Guys! I wanna wish one of my reviewers: Jillian, a happy Birthday! :) You might have noticed that I changed the cover design. I just thought it would seem suitable for the later chapters to come! As usual, thank you for all of the encouragement to type more chapters quickly! I really appreciate it!

Chapter 25

Paige ran over to the Renegade and tackled him and pinned him to the ground. "What are you doing here?" Paige demanded as she held the disk up to his neck. The Renegade slowly looked up at Paige. "Calm down, I'm more than happy to explain the situation everyone's in."

Paige frowned. "What's going on?" She asked. The Renegade explained just below a whisper. "There's some kind of device attached to the main engine. I'm not entirely sure what it is, but I know what it does." Paige raised an eyebrow. "And?" She persisted.

The Renegade glanced at Paige's disk, which was still held up against his neck. "Do you mind?" He asked, gesturing towards the disk. Paige scowled as she retracted her disk and docked it. "Just remember, I'm keeping my eye on you."

The Renegade stood up, facing Paige. "Now, show me this device that you spotted." He turned around to guide her towards the engine room. "Wait." Paige said. "Let me go find some mechanics, I know there are three on this train somewhere… ah there's two."

"Two's fine." The Renegade quickly. "We don't have time to be looking around for the third. I'll be in the engine room." Paige didn't want the Renegade to be alone for a second, she ran over to Zed and Mara.

"You two, get up now and head for the engine room." "But, what's going on?" Zed asked. Paige stopped him with her hand. "No time for questions, now move." Zed and Mara were confused and didn't know what was going on.

But the moment they entered the engine room and saw the Renegade, they had a slight idea of what was going on. Paige walked over behind him. "Find anything new?" She asked, clearly annoyed that he's here. The Renegade shook his head.

"I have no idea what this device is. But if there's too much disruption, it will go off. And this train will become a nonstop death sentence for every passenger on this train. And if we want to figure out how to solve this problem, we all have to work together."

Zed and Mara looked at each other. "Ohhhh. So that's why you didn't arrest him yet." Zed smirked. Paige scowled. "I might do that anyway, I still don't trust you. And how do I know that you didn't attach this device on this train?"

The Renegade looked at Paige sharply. "That's a stupid question to ask! I'm a program smart enough to know that if I ever attached an override device to a train, I would not stay on board to be part of the fireworks."

Mara looked at Paige. "He does have a point." She defended. Paige folded her arms. "But how did you know that it's an override device?" She asked. The Renegade responded without turning around.

"It doesn't take a genius to figure that part out, come have a look at it. See for yourself." Paige walked over to have a look, the Renegade moved out of the way. As Paige carefully examined the timed device, she gasped.

"Well, now I know for sure that you didn't sabotage this train, but… it's not possible." The Renegade tilted his head. "What do you mean? Do you know what that thing is?" Paige slowly nodded her head.

"Well… yeah. It was meant to be part of a top secret government project. Someone must have taken it and put it on this train, but I don't know who would do such a thing." The Renegade then spoke. "Gee, I think you'd be surprised of what programs would do. Has it been tested yet?"

Paige shook her head. "No, it wasn't tested yet." The Renegade sighed with frustration as he leaned against the wall. "Then we're the test subjects." He said bitterly. Zed glanced at Paige. "I don't suppose you know how this thing works?" He inquired.

Paige shook her head. "Sorry, no." The Renegade shook his head with slight disappointment. "It's fine, we can figure this out on our own. Now let's think about this. We know what this device does; we might be able to figure out how it exactly works through reverse engineering."

Mara's eyes widened. "Yes, of course! Why didn't I think of that?" The Renegade continued. "But we'll have to be very careful, we don't want this thing to go off early, which it will if there's too much disturbances."

Zed whistled. "Well, the odds are clearly not in our favor now." The Renegade looked at Zed. "Well… unfortunately, I'm not really a lucky program… I never was. We may be able to resolve this issue in time if we are very careful, and effective."

I'll try to type another chapter to upload today, if not, definitely tomorrow :) Remember, Tron Lives!