Tron: Sacrifice Script
Episode Six: Revelation
TRON KICKED HIS foot up as Mara dropped her disk coming back at her, his foot catching her in the side.
"Focus, Mara!" Tron whirled around, sweeping her feet out from under her as he squated and dragged his foot with force. "Pay attention!"
Mara glared at him, suddenly grabbing her disk and throwing it at him from her spot on the holofloor. Tron dashed it easily, and struck Mara with his open hand on her back as she tried to stand up. Mara crashed to the floor again with a grimace, and her disk clanked to the floor as Tron had caught it for her and dropped it.
"Again." Tron said as he walked away to get his position.
She stood to her feet as she picked up her disk. She stared at him with a slight glare.
Mara acted before Tron could give the all go. Her disk collided with his and knocked it out of his hand. She ran at him and jumped up, catching Tron around the middle with her feet. He landed backwards on his back, his breath lost as Mara landed on her feet and twisted.
She kicked out her foot at Tron's mask.
Tron blinked as it shattered and malfunctioned, retracting from his face. He truned away before Mara could see what she'd done, and dashed to grab his disk. Mara Powered herself forward in a run and leapt, landing herself flat on Tron's back and they fell to the floor. Mara held her disk at his back and finally looked closely at Tron's missing helmet.
Mara gasped and dropped her disk and staggered away.
Tron got up, and deactivated his disk. Mara watched him reattatch it to his back, as she stepped back.
"Tron?"
"Mara-" Tron said.
"Tron is supposed to be half derezzed!" Mara said. "If you're Tron, who is in the Clinic with Paige?"
Tron opened his mouth, but he could see Mara's mind working, calculating.
"No!" Mara yelled. "I will not believe it until I see it."
Tron bowed his head a little.
"Show me it isn't who I think it is." Mara said.
Tron moved towards her, but she backed away.
"Mara-"
"Show me." Mara glared at Tron.
Tron stood defeated, shaking his head.
"You have to understand-"
"Show. Me. It. Wasn't. Him." Mara hissed through clentched teeth, her arms at her side and her hands in fists.
Tron turned and headed to the lift. He dialed the code and allowed the shaft to open. He stepped inside as Mara marched into the lift after him.
The ride down was short but the time felt stretched to them both. Mara was ferious. Tron could see it, and still he thought she'd make a very great fighter...if she still wanted to fight. Mara was shaking her head, her aqua hair bouncing with the movement.
When the lift door opened and Tron stepped out, Mara heard Paige greet him as she took a deep breath and entered the clinic.
Paige looked at Mara in surprise.
"She needs to see him." Tron said in a low voice to Paige and Mara saw her nod.
Paige walked away to a panel in the clinic and typed in her access code. The panel slide open and Mara saw Beck sitting in the secret cache.
"You lock him up!" Mara shouted, her fists clentched.
"Mara!"
Beck ran at her and embraced Mara in a huge hug. He laughed and backed away two steps, still holding Mara's arms.
"Where's Zed?" Beck smiled. "Is he here too? They told me there are other programs here!"
Mara gaped and looked at Tron and Paige. They were looking at each other with the same expression.
"Y-yes. Zed's here!" Mara looked back at Beck, wondering exactly what had happened to him. "How are you?"
"I'm fine!" Beck looked around as if expecting someone. "When is Zed coming?"
"Uh, soon!" Mara hated herself treating Beck this way.
"Where's Bodhi and Able?"
"Umm..." Mara bit her lip. "Beck – I-"
"Beck," Tron saved Mara, "You remeber your work friends?"
"Yes." Beck smiled crookedly.
Tron turned to Paige, "Then that is where we shall start.
"Mara, would you mind Paige using your disc to download some memories for Beck?"
Wordlessly, Mara handed Tron her disc
"You should go find Zed." Tron told Mara. "Paige and I will handle Beck."
Mara frowned skeptically, "Sure."
Beck smiled and waved at her as she walked to the lift, and he complied to Tron and Paige as they prepared to download her memories from her disc. Once she was in the lift, she hit her fist against the cold metal and fumed.
"All along…." She murmured to herself as the lift opened to Able's Garage. "Link!"
"Um...yeah?" Mara saw the nervous smile on his face, like he was almost always in trouble.
"Where's Zed?"
"He's in the back. Something about a new bike…"
"Thanks."
Mara walked onward, realizing that she hadn't been in Able's Garage in the longest time. Everyone was working and talking, Mara felt a little left out. She walked to the back and Zed instantly saw her.
"Mara!"
He was excited. He ran up to her and took her hand, pulling her to one of the back test rooms.
"Zed!"
"Mara, you have to see this!" Zed pulled her inside and showed her a baton.
Mara looked at it, "A baton. Yes, I see."
"But it's not just any baton!" Zed activated it. "I combine some codes together, and-"
"Zed! That's risky work! With mixed codes it could easily malfunction!"
"Well, I do still need to test it, but look!" Zed gestured at the bike.
"I added this lever here by the acceleration gauges on the handle bar." Zed pointed it out to her. "This contains the light jet I improved. All Tron or the Renegade has to do is push the lever, and the jet transfers the its code to the main computer, and switches activation with the bike. Want do you think?"
"That's really great, Zed," Mara said, "but I have to show you something."
"What?" Zed said.
"Come on." Mara lead the way to the lift with Zed close behind.
The lift closed and she cleared them to shoot to the clinic.
"Mara?"
"You know all those times? When Beck had something else to do? Or he didn't feel like working?"
"Yeah?" Zed took in her sadness. "Mara it's okay. The Renegade will find him. Beck is just probably in hiding."
Mara looked at him. Zed was so serious sometimes, but he still didn't understand.
The lift opened at Zed looked out and froze.
Mara looked down and put one arm around herself before exiting the lift, prompting Zed to follow her.
"Beck?" Zed whispered.
"Mara?"
She stopped and turned around to look at Zed.
"What were you saying?" Zed said looking baffled. "Before?"
Mara bit her lip, "Beck wasn't around because he was the Renegade."
Zed shook his head. "How?"
Zed looked at Beck at the downloading conduit.
"I don't know, but it must have been after Bodhi..." Mara shook her head, feeling helpless as they watched Beck smile when Tron handed him back his disc.
They watched him lift his disc over his head and attach it. Beck closed his eyes, reading the memories in his mind.
"What are they...?" Zed started.
"Beck was playing Tron at the Garage all those cycles ago." Mara said. "He was injured, and his disc was badly damaged. He lost his memories."
"What?" Zed looked at her, then back at Beck.
"He doesn't remember Bodhi and Able are gone..."
Zed looked at Beck sadly, and then his attention was drawn to Tron.
"And..." Zed nodded to Tron. "If Beck was the Renegade and he pretended to be Tron, then Tron was filling in for Beck?"
Mara nodded.
"I have so many questions," Mara said after a long silence. "There is so much we don't know about what happened. Like Able..."
"Yeah, Able..." Zed bowed his head. "We have to know."
"We do."
Tron came over to them with a small smile, "Beck responded well to the download. He needs to reboot his systems to make the memories permanent."
He handed Mara her disc, as they watched Paige take Beck to his hidden nook in the wall.
"We need to know everything, Tron." Mara said strongly.
"What really happened?" Zed clarified, "With Able?"
"Cyrus."
Tron stopped explaining, and looked up at Mara and Zed.
They were stricken.
"I called him a murder." Mara said, bowing her head and glancing at the wall concealing Beck and Paige.
Then her brow furrowed with thought.
"Shouldn't Beck's systems be updated and running by now?"
Tron looked around at the wall. "It's hard to tell, considering how we don't know how Beck will react to the download."
He walked over to the walk and called out the conduit to enter the pass-code, and the wall revealed Paige kneel down by Beck's crumpled form.
"What happened?" Tron asked Paige as Mara and Zed jumped up to help carry Beck off the floor.
"I don't know." Paige said. "He was just functioning normally and then he collapsed."
Beck moaned softly and he opened his eyes.
"Beck?" Mara said slowly.
"Who?"
Paige turned away, crossing her arms and walking out of the room.
Tron watched her, as she gripped the table with a strong grip, then swiftly hitting everything off the counter and letting it smash when it came into contact with the floor.
"Help him," he told Mara and Zed, and he followed Paige.
"There is nothing more I can do!" Paige said, frustrated. "I don't know what else I can do."
Defeated, Paige crossed her arms on the counter and put her head down.
Tron took a deep breath.
"There may be something else we can do." He began, and Paige lifted her head to look at him.
"What?"
"I didn't want this to be an option, considering its source." Tron began roughly. "Cyrus told me how he was reactivated. The ISOs brought him back."
"ISOs?" Paige's face darkened. "They are destructive and dangerous! They-"
"Did Tesler teach you that? They are innocent of these terrible misgivings he manipulated you to believe." Tron said. "They are natural to the Grid. They know things that we cannot possible imagine about the Grid. They helped Cyrus."
"Another reason why we should not go to them!" Paige stood up straight and glared at Tron. "The ISOs destroyed my Medical Unit. I was the sole survivor! I treated their wounds! And they destroyed everything in return!"
"So Tesler couldn't save all those medics from…how many ISOs?"
Paige stopped, and sighed.
"Two." Paige turned away from Tron.
"I knew some ISOs. They weren't deceptive or dangerous, but they could defend themselves if they had to. There is no way in all the possible ways of the Grid that two ISOs could destroy an entire facility."
"You think Tesler did that?" Paige asked.
"I won't put it past him." Tron answered. "The ISOs are not so destructive and violent."
"They attacked me, and I woke up to Occupation soldiers."
"Oh?" Tron said.
"When the alarm was activated." Paige said.
"So they attacked you to defend themselves, and made you unconscious to protect you from the authorities."
Paige's eyes narrowed at Tron.
"If you want to throw Beck's life away by taking him to runaway ISOs, just know that I will be there to protect him the whole way."
"Mara, Zed?" Tron peaked around the threshold of the hide out. "I need to ask you something.
"I know this is hard, but I need to ask of you a great deal right now." Tron said stepping inside. "I need to ask you to part from Beck for this instant."
Zed stood up, faltering when he saw the intensity Mara used to glare at Tron.
"Mara!" Zed whispered, as she crossed her arms.
"What you need to ask, Beck is allowed to hear." Mara stated fiercely and they glanced at a once again unconscious Beck.
"Zed," Tron said after a stiff silence. "I need you to take charge of the safe house for me."
"You're leaving?"
"Yes." Tron nodded. "Promptly. If I can.
"And with Mara-" she shot him a lasering glare when Ton looked at her "- if you would consent to accompanying me?"
Mara stood up and crossed her arms, her solid stance giving Tron her answer.
"Mara." Zed pleading softly.
She looked at Zed, and, seeing his expression, faltered in her denying will.
"Will this help him?" She said.
"Yes, I have a plan," Tron said.
Mara looked at Zed, then at Tron, and then Beck.
"Okay." Her arms fell to her side.
"If you would come with me?" Tron said at gestured at the exit.
Mara stepped to Beck's side, at looked at his limp form, discovering Beck did all those acts to give all programs a better chance. All of this to start a revolution…for nothing if Beck was derezzed.
Without a word Mara walked out of the room, followed by Tron. Once in the lift Mara stepped up to Tron, real close and threatening.
"No. More. Secrets."
Tron nodded his head.
"No more secrets." He agreed.
The lift opened to the holodeck.
"So." Mara said, angrily. "What's the plan?"
"We're stealing a light sub, but first," Tron paused, "we need to do something about Cyrus."
"Dyson?" CLU fiddled with his disc as his commander appeared. "I do not see Tron with you. Why is that?"
"Sir, I-"
"You disobeyed my orders, Dyson." CLU looked finally, glaring into Dyson. "Did I not make myself perfectly clear?"
"Your orders were clear, Sir."
CLU slowly stood up, tall and intimidating in the wake of his throne, and stepped down the steps dangerously stiff with livid anger.
"Then what makes you think you can show your face here without Tron? I. Want! HIM!"
CLU threw his disc at Dyson, just missing him by a hair. CLU observed Dyson's reaction was passive; he didn't even blink.
CLU caught his disc coming back.
"Explain yourself, Dyson!" CLU shouted, angry he could make Dyson fear him just this once.
"We received a tip on one of Tron's accomplices."
