A/N: It gets a bit hot at the end of this chapter ;3
Dim light lit a lone figure sitting on the edge of a cliff, a glowing window re-playing the events of Astra's Crystal Caves dream over and over again, a bright blue city glowing below him. He sighed, but otherwise remained still, thoughts unknown running through his head.
"You look like you could use some company." Beck entered the area as a doorway appeared behind the sitting figure, revealing Tron Tower's elevator behind him.
The figure looked up and behind him and nodded, motioning to the spot beside him as his legs dangled over the edge of the cliff, and his attention returned to the window before him.
Beck smiled and nodded, taking the spot beside him. "What's this? I've never seen a place like it before." He asked.
The figure sighed and gestured to the window replaying the events, blurry as they were, one could tell that it was intimate. "It's one of Astra's dreams." A warm baritone replied, revealing Tron to be the other man.
Beck looked surprised, then squinted. "That symbol…" He trailed off.
"It's me." Tron said curtly, though his voice held no ill feelings.
Beck's attention snapped to Tron quickly. "She dreamt of you? I've never seen that outfit on you before. Why is it troubling you?"
Tron sighed and moved his right leg up to rest his right arm upon it. "That's because it's what I wore in the ENCOM System." He looked to Beck now. "This dream." He gestured to the window again. "Is something that happened with my Bondmate and I."
Beck gasped and looked back to the screen. "That's Yori?!"
Tron nodded. "Yes."
"So… She had this dream… Do you think she's-" He was cut off before he could finish.
"No. Yori's dead. I don't think she's her." Tron interjected gruffly.
Beck just shook his head. "This has got to mean something though! She may not be a Program, but maybe… I've read a bit about User reincarnations. They're like our backup files. It's possible Yori could have been reborn as what she was so fascinated by."
"That's hardly proof." Tron shook his head and the video stopped.
"Maybe not, but it's something." Beck looked to him then. "I've noticed how you are around her. You're a lot freer, happier, and you flirt." He added with a laugh in his voice and a point in Tron's direction.
"I do not!" Tron turned to Beck scandalized!
Beck just laughed and shook his head. "You do! You've never "touch taught" someone how to fight before! And those teases! You sound like I do with Paige!"
Tron just looked at his friend wide eyed, then blinked and laughed once. "I suppose you're right…" He looks back to the paused window. "But, nothing will come of it. No-one can replace my Bondmate."
Beck sighed and put up his hands defensively. "Alright. If you say so. I just think you should give her a chance. And if she has more dreams like this… You might have to look into it."
Tron just grunted and nodded while looking at him. "I make no promises."
Beck smiled. "That's a start." With that he got up. "You've been here for nearly half a cycle. You should get some energy. Care to join me and Paige?" He asked.
Tron smiled back at his friend and nodded, getting up. "I'd like that Beck." He said as he clapped a hand onto Beck's shoulder.
Beck smiled brighter and headed to the door which closed behind the two of them.
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Astra tossed and turned throughout the night as dreams came like memories, one, after the other, until she finally awoke, and, dishevelled, ran to the storage room and started to hunt through boxes. It wasn't until the sun peeked over the horizon and splashed upon her bedroom wall that she finally paused, book in hand, and looked up.
"I did have these dreams before!" She whispered. They're so real. Like memories… She thought as her attention returned to the journal within her hands and started to read again.
After a while, she sighed and closed her eyes, holding the book to her heart. I loved him… Even back then… I loved him. She thought as tears squeezed past her guard. His name… I had no idea. Tron. Tron is the one I dreamt of, all those years ago. The one I used to wish existed, that made it so no-one would be able to compare… He's different now… But so am I. Her eyes opened and she leaned against the door to the storage room. Am I really… Yori? She whispered in her mind. I remember Dumont now, and Flynn… I miss Dumont. A few tears squeezed past her guard again and she wiped them away with her hand. I remember being called Yori… Those stars! She lamented and yet her heart soared at the memory. I made them for Tron… My Tron. In memory of our bonding. Oh… Tron. Her eyes closed again, and she hugged the journal tighter. Did you hear about them? You heard about the green field… She shook her head and opened her eyes again, her alarm now ringing from her phone in her room.
Getting up, she placed the journal on the bedside table to the right of her bed which now also held a white wood clock with white glowing numbers and letters, showing the time and date. It was rectangular in shape. She sighed and stretched out the kinks she got from sitting like she had for so long. "I need to get ready." She said and went to shower and grab her breakfast before heading to ENCOM. The whole time, her mind was filled with the memories that now flooded her mind. She hoped she could sort this all out, but, somewhere through her shower, she paused, closed her eyes, and rested her head under the warm water. "I can't be Yori." She said sadly, the water washing away her tears. "How can I be? I was a Program… Is reincarnation possible?" She sighed and placed a hand upon the wall to steady herself. "Will he love me, now?" Her heart cried within her chest, hurting her more than it had ever before. "I can't believe unless he does." She all but whispered. This was her decision. She would not budge.
Astra entered the ENCOM building tired-eyed and lacking energy, but she perked when she saw "Trevon" standing at the front desk, leaning all sexy against the desk, arms crossed, a smile upon his lips as she entered the building. Sexy? She thought with a blush. She didn't have a comeback against that. She was in agreement.
His eyes caught her instantly, and concern flickered across his features before he pushed off from his post and walked toward her, a tease upon his lips already. "Stayed up all night playing video games again?" His eyes twinkled as he approached her.
She immediately perked up and put on a sassy smile of her own as she walked up to him, stopping right in front of him. "Wouldn't you like to know." She teased back, poking him right where his center square would be on his symbol on his chest.
He just grinned at her, leaning in and whispered. "I would." And turned to head toward the elevator to the rezzing room.
She stared after him with a laugh upon her lips, surprised but happy and followed him to it.
Once they were on the Grid, Tron turned back to her. "So, what were you doing all night?" He asked her curiously.
Astra smiled and shook her head. "Just going over my old dream journals."
"Oh? Find anything interesting?" He asked, interest piqued.
"Yes. Though I think I'll keep my findings a secret, until you can find a way to win them from me." She teased him, jogging ahead to turn and walk backwards, hands behind her back, and bowed for a moment as she spoke, a challenge, as she stood straighter and turned to face forward again.
"Oooh hoho." Tron laughed. "I think I can find a way." His eyes glittered as he raced after her!
She squeaked and took off down the street, a random Program watching after them.
Tron growled low in his throat at the challenge, his attraction to her growing with each moment he spent with her, though he wouldn't allow himself to admit it, even as he caught up to her and took her into his arms, tickling her where her suit held no armour.
She squeaked and laughed, trying to escape his strong yet gentle hold. "Stop! Stop!" She giggled as he mercilessly tickled her. "Mercy!"
He only grinned and held her closer to him, resting his chin on her shoulder so he could whisper to her. "Will you tell me?"
She shuddered under his tone and touch, yet laughed, and nodded. "Yes! Yes! I will!" She squeaked out.
He caught that shudder, and it filled him with pleasure at the thought of him causing her to react in such a way, something he tamped down after a nano. "Good." He said as he released her, giving her a hug before letting go completely.
She blushed, enjoying the hug far more than she had expected. I remember this touch… She thought numbly even as she exited his arms and smiled back at him. "I'm going to get you back for that you know." The tapped his centre square of his symbol.
Tron chuckled. "I expect you to." He leaned over her now as he grinned at her. "So, what did you find?"
Astra just laughed once and turned to continue walking. "I found that the dreams I've been remembering, were ones I'd had when I was young and a teenager. I think the last one I had was about ten years ago." She looked back up at him.
He stopped and looked at her. "How many?"
She stopped too and looked right at him, her hope in her eyes. "Many."
Tron took a moment, then nodded and continued walking. "What were they about?"
Astra just shook her head, a sad smile on her lips. "I won't tell unless you find another way to win it out of me." She glanced up at him out of the corner of her eyes.
Tron just laughed once and shook his head. "You're determined to make this a game, aren't you?" He teased.
She fully looked up at him now and retorted cheekily. "Of course!"
He laughed again and grinned back at her. "Then I will find another way to, win, it out of you."
She smiled and continued walking.
After a beat, Tron looked back to her, his curiosity getting the better of him. "So how did you earn the title "The Guardian" in university?" He asked as he glanced back at her.
She looked surprised but smiled. "It actually stems from my proficiency with firewalls." She looked up at him. "I was really good at building ones that no-one could get through… At first it was just for fun, a test of my understanding of code… And want to protect the Programs and Scripts in the System, the System itself too… But, then we had a test in class regarding it, and I came out top of the class. Soon after, everyone was trying to hack through my firewalls! I went toe to toe with my classmates, and then some people from other schools… I started to hear the word "guardian" a lot, it wasn't until I'd passed that year that I learned it was my name. I've used it lovingly ever since. I like the idea of being a Guardian of the System. Though I hadn't remembered my dreams when I did it… I always felt a sense of duty and protection towards the Programs of any System." Her eyes glowed with love and happiness and memories as she looked up at him, something that caught him off-guard, it was so familiar.
He shook his head with a smile. "Only to be expected." He nodded. "I'm proud of you. Not many Users can boast that kind of commitment and prowess so early in their field."
Astra smirked back at him. "Something you learned from, teasing the new recruits?" She teased him.
He laughed. "I deserved that. Yes, actually, it is." He smiled happily, then, before Astra knew it, his expression turned serious and she was taken up within his gasp and moved out of the way of falling voxels from a nearby building. "Watch out!" He shouted and threw his disk at the falling debris, cutting it apart cleanly, making it no longer dangerous as it fell to the ground.
Astra breathed in surprise! "That was close!" She looked up at him as he held her close. She blushed. He's so cool when he's like this…
"There must have been gridbugs when I was gone." He growled out and walked up to the debris before placing his hand upon the ground.
Astra watched him curiously, though still blushing at the close contact and at how cool he looked to her right then.
"They're gone." Tron said finally as he stood up and looked at the damage left by the gridbugs.
"How do you know?" Astra walked up to him now and stood beside him. She wanted to know what he had just done. It was impressive!
Tron looked back down at her. "I can detect anything near me for a certain radius. These gridbugs were here, but it looks like the ENCOM team took care of them while I was gone." He grunted and nodded once. "We're lucky to have them with us."
Astra nodded. "It's cool, what you just did." She smiled, eyes shining. "You really are the best at your job." She said full of admiration.
Tron smiled slightly then and looked at her. "You'll learn to do more impressive things than that, soon enough." His own eyes shone as he looked at her.
It was then that something occurred to her, and her stomach sank. "How bad… Was the damage when Infinitas attacked?" Tears welled within her eyes as she looked up at him.
He looked taken aback for a moment, then his eyes saddened. "It wasn't as bad as it could have been… But it was extensive… When you came here, you and the ENCOM team had already done many repairs… We lost a lot of good lives… Maybe 10. But the city, Tron City, took the biggest hit. An eighth of the System took damage and the buildings were a mess. We're lucky no innocent Program was killed under the debris. Many were injured however." He looked fully at her now.
Her eyes simply saddened further and a single tear fell from each of them, which she wiped away quickly. "I'm sorry. I wish I could have protected all of you more."
"It's not your fault." Tron didn't hesitate to say as he rested a hand on both of her shoulders to turn her towards him. "You did your utmost best to protect us. If it wasn't for your firewalls, Tron Tower would have been taken and I would be derezzed." He breathed in and took a step closer to her. "Did you know, you put up that firewall right when I needed it most? If it hadn't come up that second time, I would have been hit with a blast from an enemy tank. That wall stopped it. I was too engaged with four other Programs to dodge it." He said kindly, and gratefully.
Astra looked up at him wide-eyed, and smiled with a nod. "Thank you. I'm glad I was able to do that." She smiled and walked toward him to envelope him in a tight hug. "I don't know what I'd do without you." She said, eyes squeezed shut as she held him close, remembering her thoughts of that evening and night.
"Hey now, you won't be rid of me that easy." He rested his head on hers and held her back tightly. "Now. We should continue to the Tower. You still have training." His eyes sparkled once more.
Astra nodded and let him go with a smile. "I'll beat you one of these times!" She said cheekily.
He laughed and shook his head. "I highly doubt that." He grinned at her and continued on.
"We'll see." She chucked his own words back at him.
He laughed.
She looked back up at him after a few nanos, curiosity and concern on her face. "Did you learn anything from the Infinitas Programs? I remember some of the programmers saying they couldn't access their files. No-one has been able to get anything User-side."
Tron stopped dead in his tracks and looked at her. Finally he sighed and started walking again. "I suppose you're part of that team too. We've learned very little. Their Users are hackers who are looking to take information from ENCOM. They know of the Grid, but they haven't let on about more than that. They left their mark on Tron Tower before you cleaned it up. Let me show you." He took off his disk and brought up the memory of the glowing, moving symbol left upon Tron Tower after the attack.
Astra's eyes went wide as she looked at the image. "If they know of the Grid, then they're really dangerous! No-one was supposed to know outside of the IT group! I don't think anyone would have told…" She trailed off as she looked ahead in thought.
Tron nodded. "I don't think so either. Each one of them were hand-picked by Alan-One and Sam Flynn. I think Quorra had a hand in it as well. There's more going on here than you or the main ENCOM team knows about. If it gets out, we could all be in trouble." He looked at her seriously.
Astra nodded. "I won't let that happen!" She looked up at him fiercely. "I'm going to protect this place with my very life!" She pledged with all seriousness, feeling her care for him and the Programs here deep in her soul. Then, a thought occurred to her. "Do you think I could talk to the Infinitas Programs? Maybe I could get something more out of them?" She offered readily.
Tron shook his head, fear gripping him. "You don't know what sort of Programs they are. I won't have you meet them until you're trained. Even then, I don't know if you would do any better."
Astra nodded, deflated. "You're right. I'm not ready. But I will be, and I'll try. I promise. They're held in quarantine right?"
Tron nodded. "Yes. Under Tron Tower. We have a few other holding areas throughout the Grid, but I needed them close… In case there was another attack."
Astra nodded, though she suspected there was something more he wasn't telling her. It was then that she noticed. "You look pretty tired yourself. Were you up the whole time I was gone?" She asked with concern.
He looked at her surprised, then smiled. "Not the whole time." He laughed cheekily.
She shook her head with a smile. "I expected as much from you." She laughed.
They finally arrived at Tron Tower now, no-one was there to greet them, so they headed up to the Simulation Room right away.
This time, Tron decided to try something else on Astra. "It's about time you learn this." He said as he headed into the control room and suddenly, the room changed around Astra! She had stood near the door, and suddenly, she was in a hallway that lead to a dead end on either side of her, a door was in front of her, it was open. The room beyond it however, was dark, she couldn't see anything in it.
She looked surprised, but hesitantly walked in, and, promptly found herself on the ceiling! She got "up" with a groan and tried to look for where Tron was, only to find him falling on top of her from above!
He pins her easily, a foot on either side of her, one side with his knee on the "floor", his disk pressed against her neck. "You have to try harder than that." He rasped from behind that sexy helmet of his.
She breathes hard from fright, being aroused, and shocked, the only thing running through her mind is how sexy he just was! Then, he spoke and she immediately gives him a look of fierce determination. "I'll give you better!" She says as she lifts her knee!
Whatever Tron was expecting, it wasn't that! He saw her move, and didn't consider what kind of move she was going to use before pain flooded his groin! He groaned in surprise that she would even think to do such a thing to him, and lowered his front part of his body so that his head nearly met her chest. "Didn't, expect, that." He croaked.
Astra looked at him worried and upset. "I'm so sorry! I didn't know how hard to hit! I've never pulled that move before!" She worried over him as he just sat there for a moment before he growled and pounced on her with his top half and pinned her arms over her head!
She looked at him surprised! Her heart racing with attraction again!
He rasped at her, bending even closer. "You still weren't prepared!" His voice teased.
She narrowed her eyes and tried to bat at him. "Oh you!" She said with frustration and wiggled under him, trying to escape.
That only did more to arouse him than she realized, and he realized it acutely. I've not been this aroused for a long time. He thought with a blush of his circuits, the ones in contact with her flaring brightly, her own seemed to have the same result. Not since Yori… He thought. Everything about her just attracted him, made him want to tease her, hold her, be near her… Protect her. Beck's words came floating back to him now… Maybe he would give her a chance… Her dreams… He needed to learn more about them, they may help him decide. He thought with a smile, he knew this was how he would, win, them out of her.
Leaning down onto her, he reaches around to hold both of her hands in one of his, a feat as she struggled against him even more as he did so! Her blush only reddened further. "You can't escape. I wonder what you'll do." He teased her in a teasing yet flirtatious tone as he brought his free hand up, between them, to lightly touch the triangle upon her symbol. More out of curiosity than his main intention. Make her squirm. Make her want to tell him her dreams.
The moment his fingers came in contact with her lightline she gasped! Eyes closing as such a pleasant feeling overcame her! She had felt him buzzing along her other lightlines upon her suit, which resonated with her body, that was plenty to make her feel aroused! But this! This made her feel ten times more! It was like her symbol concentrated the feeling because… It was close to her heart. She could feel him, his presence, his aura, with that touch, but if she were to look down, it wasn't a "touch", her lightlines weren't violet where he touched her, it was simply concentrated at that point.
A low chuckle, dark and sexy, reached her ears. "Now you know how it feels." Tron whispered in her ear.
"H-How, what feels?" She asked genuinely confused, yet still reeling from his touch.
"When you touch me on my symbol." He growls out at her, lightly tracing the triangle, still not "touching."
"Ahh!" She keens then regains control of herself. "I- Ah! I'm sorry!" She moves under him now, trying to escape his touch, yet… Also, not wanting to. She needed to regain control of herself!
"Programs feel, differently than Users do. We feel intimate touches, differently then Users do…" He drawls on as that finger trails to her right wing. "Tell me if you remember…" And here was his objective. He would find out how much she had dreamt of.
Astra squirmed under him, panting now from his touch and her exertion in trying to escape. She paused when he told her to tell him if she remembered. She took a moment to stop fighting her own body and him, and simply concentrated on the feeling… Yes… She did remember something like this… A long time ago, in a dream… The one where they bonded! The one where he left! The one where they were in the energy pool!
Her eyes opened and she sighed out. "Yes…" Curling her fingers to keep some semblance of control over her feelings, she continued. "The, energy pool, when you left, when we bonded!" She got out all at once, though it took great effort. She didn't even remember that she meant to keep such dreams a secret from him! She just wanted control of herself once more! And yet… She didn't want this to end.
He paused, his helmet retracting, eyes wide.
She watched his helmet retract, and it just turned her on even more, though his look, he looked utterly surprised!
"Bonded. Tell me about that one…" He softened his gaze and started to trace her left wing. If what she says is true, only Yori would know this… He thought as his processor panged with pain and, hope.
"Mmnah!" She shuddered under him and tried to pull her hands closer to her head as her back arched. He wouldn't let her.
"I-It started at my work." She sighed out with great effort. "You, surprised me! Had me, dress in worker's uniform. I was fond of that disguise after…" She tilted her head to the side as he leaned in closer.
"What happened after that?" He asked, his mouth now close to her neck. He moved his finger back to her triangle.
"You, lead me through a city. To, outlands. Where a giant mountain with no top was and had a walkway to the centre, which was circular. Ahh!~" She moaned as she recalled her dream. A dream she was reminded of in her dreams last night, and, when she read her dream journal.
Tron's processor soared with hope. Only a few Programs knew of the location and cycle that this happened, and all of them, save him, were dead. "How did we, bond." He punctuated the last word with a tap to her triangle.
Astra was at odds! This was the most intimate thing she remembers! Even the energy pool wasn't as intimate as this! This was bonding! Sharing of their souls with each other! Their very code, memories, thoughts! Having a portion of their circuitry written upon their wrists!
She struggled not to say anything, but he pressed further, seeing that she needed more… Persuading. He leaned forward, and gently kissed her neck. This wasn't how he had imagined getting such information out of her, but it happened, and it was working. In all honesty, he would never have resorted to such tactics before… Rinzler, but after being him, using his sexuality to fight off the repurposing, something he had suppressed since coming to the Grid as Yori wasn't there, he was a bit changed. He had wondered how Yori would accept this change in him…
Her lightlines flashed around her neck where he had kissed her, a warm, familiar, wonderful, feeling following it as her mind became clouded with memories and her feelings. It prompted her to tell him. "I, looked out at the city just before the opening, I thought, you might not love me as much, but, when we, bonded, you loved me more! Or so I thought at first. Then, it evened out. We loved each other just as much! We, shared memories, thoughts, emotions. And… Our wrists… A mark, our, circuitry, merged, your symbol, my symbol. My right wrist, your, left. It was, the most beautiful thing. A beam of light, around us. You can't see the stars, but…" She trailed off, finally finding release as he took his finger from her symbol, breathing hard, eyes slowly opening.
Tron stared at her, then down to her wrist where his eyes linger. Dare he? Not without permission. He thought as his eyes slowly trailed back up to her face. "I have a request." He sits up a bit to give her room to properly answer his question.
"What, is it?" She breathes as her eyes lock on his. She's totally stunned by what had happened, but, happy, if he believed she was Yori… She could believe… He would only touch her if he thought she was… Wouldn't he?
"Let me "touch" your right wrist." He said gently.
Astra's eyes went wide! She didn't have anything there! Did she…? How could she? She was a Human now… Unless, did something like that travel with your soul? Fear gripped her, and he felt it through her lightlines.
"If you don't want to-" He was cut off.
"You have all access permission to me." If I don't ask him to do this now, I'll chicken out later. She thought as she held his gaze. The words would have seemed strange to any other Human, but to her, they were like a piece of her past. They felt right… Like she'd said them before…
He was surprised at first, then smiled and nodded, leaning back over her, he concentrated his feelings on her wrist, his arousal, his want of her, his… Love, of her. Normally, to show one's circuits, one just had to concentrate on a command to show them, no "touch" required, and no sharing of thoughts or feelings, non invasive, but this, was something different. It was not only something buried, she had never known existed upon her, it was their bond mark. It would only show with this certain "touch".
Her wrist glowed violet around where he touched, and became see-through, something he wasn't even sure could happen with a User. Circuitry barely showed through, but, it wasn't enough. Growling low in his throat, he thought of Yori, and suddenly, upon her wrist flared a triangle and four squares intertwined. He looked up sharply to her face which was showing ecstasy, eyes closed, mouth partially open.
She moaned. "Tron…"
His circuits flared at her utterance of his name and her expression, it was exactly like Yori and turned him on even further. The things she did to him without trying! Breathing out slow, he controlled his feelings and let go of her wrist and sat up, pulling her up via her left hand as he did so. His mind was racing! Only Yori held that mark! It was thoughts of Yori that made it appear! Only she would know of what he said that cycle! He looked at her with new eyes. He wasn't ready to accept it yet.
"That… Was a "touch"…" Yori-Astra, said quietly. "It was unlike anything I've felt!" She was blushing brightly and put her hands to her cheeks to hide it.
"I want you." Tron said boldly. When she looked at him finally, he clarified. "But you may not be Yori. No-one can replace her. I cannot be with someone who isn't her." He was in complete denial. How can she have that symbol? Did something happen when she was rezzed into the System? He tried to rationalize.
Astra's face fell as her left hand went to her right wrist, holding it gently, trying to keep the feeling she just felt a little longer. He doesn't think I'm her… Than I cannot either. She thought sadly, heart sinking. She sat up straighter after a nano, and looked him in the eye. "I want you too." She paused, then spoke again. "But I cannot be with anyone who isn't my soulmate. And my soulmate would want me and tell me he wants and loves me." Her own stipulation.
They gazed into each other's eyes for a few nanos, taking in the truths of both of their words, measuring up how far they were willing to go if they weren't the one, when they thought they were. Finally, Tron moved, he stood and pulled her up with him.
"Then we're clear. This changes nothing between us." He hoped.
She nodded. "It does not. What will happen, will happen." She added in a hope of her own. That one day, he would believe.
He nodded and walked away a bit before producing a baton and tossing it at her. "We'll practice with these next!" He said cheekily, but now, she knew it was also flirtatiously. Whereas his initial touch he put forth wasn't a transmit of feelings that were concentrated to her, his second one was, and it had transmitted exactly what he felt, why, and how.
She blushed, she wondered if things would really remain the same, now that she had that information.
Putting on a fierce and cheeky smirk herself, she caught the baton, rezzed it into a staff and walked towards him while saying. "My specialty. You don't stand a chance!"
He laughed. "We'll see." His eyes sparkled, though his symbol still glowed brightly. He was going to have fun with her this session. He was still turned on from their "discussion".
Astra laughed lightly and got into position.
Tron decided it was time to spice things up and came at her! Only he faked an attack and slipped around behind her, sliding a hand around her waist and holding her close. "You need to be prepared for all outcomes!" He whispered in her ear.
Astra gasped as his fingers touched her! His touch making her lightlines flare brightly and causing a shudder to travel along her spine, especially as the rest of him moulded onto her. She leaned into him, determined not to let him get the one-up. "Oh, I'm prepared!" She teased back and stomped her foot down to hit his, rose her staff to knock his head and tried to turn in his arms!
Her determination only fuelled his desire for her. He easily stepped out of her stomp, moved out of the way of her staff, and held her tight enough to keep her in place even as his lightlines lit up where her body touched his. "Not prepared enough!" He whispered and bent his head down to kiss her shoulder where her neck met it.
Astra closed her eyes at the contact, a light intake of breath, and she tried again. She wasn't going to let him win like this! Though her heart soared, she delighted in his actions, his teasing of her in all forms. Her own desire for him rising with each touch and now kiss. Her lightlines flared brilliantly under his caresses. She did her best to hide it. "Then I'll try this!" She said as she reached around her to gently trace his lightlines upon his arms. It wasn't a "touch" she couldn't remember how to do it anyway. But it was enough to make him hiss in a breath and close his eyes a moment, revelling in the feeling as he growled low into her ear.
"Oooh, you'll pay for that." He teased as he nuzzled her hair.
"Really? Because it sounds like you're enjoying it." She cheekily said back, not stopping in her "attack", now trying to turn in his arms.
"You have no idea what I have in store for you." He growled back.
She finally got to face him, his grip on her had lessened enough. "Then I'll have the perfect comeback for each thing you do to me." Her eyes sparkled as she wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed up to him, her front moulding to his. She nipped his ear.
He gasped! No-one had ever done that before! His symbol panged bright with his arousal and he gripped her tighter. "If you respond like that. You're going to lose." His eyes gleamed and, instead of kissing her, he motions to bite down gently on her neck and shoulder.
But he doesn't get the chance as she uses the moment to knock her staff against his head!
He stares at her wide-eyed as she smirks back at him, now escaped from his grip and bobbing her staff around in her hand as she stands with her hip jutted out, her free hand resting upon it. It was sensual and she knew what she was doing to him. "I told you, you wouldn't win." She teased.
He growled low and laughed as his eyes sparked and he assumed another fighting stance. "That was dirty. I won't let you get a one-up on me again!" He grinned back at her.
Her smile sparkled. "Oh I wouldn't doubt it!" She said and took her defensive stance.
He growled and attacked her! Coming at her from the front and twisting his way around her.
She was ready for his move this time though and followed his movements in a half circle, blocking almost every blow!
He smiled. "Good! Now do it better!" He teased as he attacked more readily.
She growled in response and straightened her stance to get better control. "I'll give you better!" She cheekily teased back and this time, actually nearly got a hit in!
He grinned. "Well done. Now…" He purred. He hadn't purred since he was Rinzler. He relished in the training. He was having fun, and he was aroused. He only purred when angry, content, (though that one came with concentration), or aroused. This time it was both of the latter two.
She immediately blushed, eyes growing a slightly bit wider as her pupils dilated once more. That purr! He purrs! She squeaked in her mind. It's so attractive! Like something I'd heard before but… So sexy! She shook herself inwardly. She had to concentrate to one-up him again!
She didn't get a chance to prepare as he leapt at her! This time jumping "down" to the original floor and suddenly the room changed again! This time they were in a brightly lit hallway with openings to other rooms strewn throughout it. He landed behind her, put his leg between hers and tripped her down to the floor!
"Ah!" She hit the ground, though not hard, as his hand came around to support her head as he gently placed it on the "floor".
He grinned and rezzed his helmet around his face once her eyes had opened, an action that fuelled her desire once more. "Are you scared?" He whispered through his purr and helmet.
She shuddered under him, the sound of his voice through his helmet and that purr mixed with what he said! Her symbol pulsed violet and she whispered back defiantly. "Not a chance!"
He caught that pulse and gasped quietly, though she couldn't hear it, and his purr increased again. "You should be." He purred out with a smile in his voice. He may have said this before, but it certainly hadn't contained the emotions now swirling around in his circuits this time! He relished in saying exactly this to her. It was something he had dreamed of doing with Yori, and, whereas he was in denial of her being her, he was still undecided deep down.
She shuddered again and rose her free hand to gently caress his helmet, fingering one of the four lightlines on the front. "Ooh, but it's more fun if I'm not." She purred back to him and traced her hand down, to his symbol, and tapped it gently.
"Oh, I can assure you it isn't." He purred into her ear, leaning onto her now.
Suddenly, he got off of her and the room changed! It was a maze of twists and turns via hallways now around her, dimly lit, just enough to see! She looked around, shocked.
"Run." Tron purred with a feral smile. The hunt. Nothing aroused and excited him more than it, especially after Rinzler. There were just some parts about that part of him that stayed after he had been healed. The memories… Though some were painful, this part, and some others, were not.
She gasped, wide-eyed and ran! She twisted and turned through the various hallways, ducking in under stairs and hiding. Fear gripped her, though it was a good fear, as she strained to hear the low rumble of his purr around the next corner, she awaited her capture, though she didn't know if she wanted to be or not!
Tron grinned, the predator part of him taking over as he slowly stalked through the hallways, his purr loudly in place. He had to give her a head start and warning. It wasn't fun if he didn't have some challenge! He didn't use his tracking function either. He wanted this drawn out, for her to feel her own fear and arousal at being chased. He saw it in her eyes when he told her to run. She enjoyed being prey. He wondered if she would enjoy the hunt as well. A smile tinted his lips even further at that. If they worked together at the games, he wondered how that would be.
Then, he could hear breathing coming from a nearby corner on his left. He grinned. The game was on! He pounced!
She squeaked! Hearing his purr just a micro before he would be on her she bolted forward and ran! A smile on her face as that good fear gripped her and she tried to avoid capture!
He grinned and gave chase after her! He knew this area better than she, and flipped the gravity! Suddenly the gravity was on both ceiling and floor! He jumped, running along the original floor unbeknownst to her!
Not hearing his purr any more, she stopped and looked around, puffing for breath more out of her heightened emotions than anything, she was more turned on from this than should be legal!
Suddenly, she heard his purr again, but had no time to dodge him as he fell from the "ceiling" and landed on top of her, a triumphant. "You're captured." On his lips.
She squeaked and her symbol lit violet again! Something he caught and retracted his helmet at.
"You enjoyed it." He purred out as he dipped his head low and kissed the triangle of her symbol.
"Aahhh!" She cried out as her symbol lit brighter purple, he "touched" her! With his lips! Her back arched under him as pleasure pulsed through her! "Tron!..." She breathed out.
His own symbol pulsed violet at her reaction and words, her own pleasure pulsing through him via his touch. He lifted his lips from her symbol and leaned over to her ear to whisper. "I win."
That got her! She growled low in her throat and reached over and around to "touch" his own symbol! She wouldn't let him win!
He gasped! His eyes closing as his head fell down onto the hollow of her neck and shoulder. She "touched" him! He didn't think she would catch on this fast! But… Somehow, she had! Pleasure pulsed through him from her, stronger than from his own touch, as hers was now concentrated directly from her. He leaned into her, his arousal clearly present in a very User way, and she noticed. Something that he, like all Programs, didn't think of. She recognized it and shuddered under him, feeling the echo of his pleasure over hers.
"I win." She whispered back to him.
He groaned and lifted his head from her shoulder and said in a husky voice. "We'd better stop, or I won't be able to." It was his one try at self control. Right at that moment, her pleasure feeling just like Yori's, his mind was clouded enough to think she was her enough to continue if she kept it up.
Astra moaned and nodded, taking her finger from his centre square of his symbol and propping herself on her elbows, ready to get up.
They both felt disappointment and an emptiness at her lack of touch, but both thought it was best to end this for now.
Tron nodded and got up, offering her a hand as she gently took it and got to her feet herself.
"I like this side of you." She said shyly. "You're incredibly sexy." She blushed and brushed a stray strand of hair from her face.
A relieved look overcame Tron's face as he smiled and lead her to the door of the room, the simulation fading around them. "I'm glad. I, enjoyed this side of you as well." He looked back to her.
She smiled back to him, now becoming scandalized at what she had just did and went through!
He paused at the door and went to the control room. "I'll be right back." He said with a softer care, maybe love, in his voice, as he left her side. After a moment, he came back out and took her hand again. "I erased the log of this session. I didn't want anyone seeing something so private."
Astra breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, squeezing his hand a bit tighter. "Thank you."
Soon she was back in the User World, and he was left with a smile as he left the Portal Room to go check on the status of the Grid.