Chapter 2 Preparing

Disclaimer: Terminator is owned by Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister, Dot). Tron is owned by Disney.

A/N All I know about Jet Bradley is that he is Alan's son in the video game TRON 2.0. I have not played the game or read much about it. I assume that Lora married Alan and that Jet is her son. So I'm making a lot of this up based on what I know from the movie.

John Connor worked tirelessly with Kate to clean up the old bunker and to find out what was there that could be used as weapons. He began plotting out loud with her as they cleaned.

"Okay, so we have some contacts. The first order of business is to get some people together to form an army and fight the machines. We need to strike as early as possible and as quickly as possible in order to make certain that Skynet is weakened before it grows, advances, and adapts too much."

"Actually," said Kate, " our first goal should be to raise human morale and convince people to rise up all over the globe. We don't need an army yet. We need a large number of guerillas from whom we can build an army in a year or so. We can't try and hurry the armed portion of the Human Resistance. We first need to get word out as to what has happened, and see what networks we can build."

"But they need a victory. Someone needs to show them that the machines are defeatable."

Meanwhile, Kevin Flynn was in the game grid, having gotten separated from the Bradleys and now trying to find his way to the bunker that they had all prepared. He had become sort of like the old gruff uncle to the family, and never having married, sort of hung around a lot. Alan didn't mind so much, after Flynn stopped showing any interest in Lora.

It was weird, Flynn thought, how all of the defensive systems of the internet were somehow translated into video games. Riding a sort of surfboard through the "skies" was a strange experience, and yet in the grid, Kevin felt like he was in his twenties again and could do anything.

Suddenly that thought was tested as large robots from the game "Berserk" appeared and began firing on him. Flynn knew that he was powerful, being a user, but had no idea what the limits of his powers were or whether a user could be subjected to de-resolution or die in some other way.

Fortunately, he was not limited by the game basis of his opponents, and he dispatched the robots with his disc, as Tron had done 20 years earlier to his program opponents.

"Maybe we need technology," suggested John to Kate. "If we had a plasma weapon, we could do some serious damage to... whatever you call those robots Skynet has now. Pre-terminators? Neanderthal terminators? Model T Hunter-Killers?"

"We should lie low at first. Not make ourselves a threat until we are more powerful."

"Skynet already knows that I am a threat."

"No," said Kate, "it doesn't. Didn't the T-X kill some of the people who are meant to be your lieutenants or something? For all it knows, it can defeat you now. Hell, history has been changed, for the worse and for the better. You delayed Judgment Day, but a lot of our future warriors were killed by the T-X. We need to gather our forces and get ready before we strike."

"We need some way to slow Skynet down. But how?"

"We need to get into its system. It may be decentralized, but if there is an overall mind controlling these things, it can be sabotaged. But we need some way to get into the computer system."

In a faraway Bunker in Idaho, a large laser gun began shooting into a chair. Slowly, the form of Kevin Flynn materialized. "Okay," he said, "time to find the Bradleys and to figure out who started the war." He began tapping away fur