Tron Reformation

Chapter 7: Meeting for the First Time; Duel of the Warriors pt.1

Down in the Armory

The shackled elevator platform continued to descend downward, carrying its worried and frightened prisoners, still shackled to the elevator. It was hard to tell how far they were going, considering it was a rapid descent for the four teenagers. From what they could tell, they were doing down pretty far. Then finally, they had slowed down, as they were finally stopped in a room. The room that they were now in was a subterranean chamber directly connected to wherever they were in, which was obviously under the Game Arena as to what those 'Black Guards' had mentioned before. It was a huge and spacious room with a high ceiling and drab, almost featureless walls. And on the walls, two pairs of sarcophagi were spaced widely apart on each side of the room and those seemed to provide rest points for four unknown and seemingly sleeping inhabitants.

For Chisame, she nearly was worried on what was going on at this moment. Luckily, Renton broke the silence, as he asked, "Hey… what's going on here?"

Satomie looked around as she hypothesized, "I'm not sure. But if I'm probably guessing, this could be a torture chamber of sorts." Seeing the freaked out faces, she sweat dropped and nervously laughed while shaking her hands in defense, "Oh, come on! I'm only getting out ideas. I'm not certain of this."

Fei Ku looked around, and asked, "So why are we in this place? Is this where the games start?"

And then, as if on cue to answer her question, the sarcophagi opened up to allow whoever were in there. For a moment, no movement was made, until four individuals stepped out. They were four females, all in their twenties, beautiful, two were white and two were black. Each of them had the same hairstyle; a beehive bun on the back top of their heads. And they each wore a white and gray skin tight bodysuit with high heels with the heel tip connected to the pad of their foot, with white circuitry designs on them, and each had a white chakram disk on their back. These were the Sirens, the Armories of the Grid as well as the Game Arena.

The four women seemed to possess with them a straight to the point, stoical temperament and had a pleasant but calm, and focused look on their faces. They even seemed to do everything in unison, as they walked towards the four, and stopped six inches from either teenager. For those who watched movies, any one of the teens thought that these women kind of resembled the Stepford Wives.

A bit unnerved by this, Chisame asked, "Um… what's going on?"

Suddenly, she stood straight up, almost as if some unknown force had gained control of her body other than herself. She tried to move or even at least turn around, but no such luck, as she was frozen in place. "H-Hey," she stated, sounding a bit freaked out, "I… I can't move."

"Neither can I," Satomi stated.

"What's going on here?" Renton asked, feeling the same situation.

Fei struggled to make any sort of movement; her face turning blue from the strain. Until finally, she gasped and gave up, "Nothing. Not even a toe wiggle."

The woman standing in front of Chisame, a white-haired woman, reached up to a stunned Chisame, and then took off her glasses, causing her to get nervous as she put them in a compartment in her belt.

"Hey! I can't see without those," Chisame shouted out, angered that her glasses were taken from her. Then, the female program cupped her face, getting a closer look at Chisame, who gulped, "Um, Hey! Wha-What are you doing?"

"Scanning for irregularities," the woman answered to her, "Once issued your Identity Disc, it'll make the proper upgrades and repairs as soon as you and your friends are fitted for your armor."

"Our what?" she asked, but was answered as soon as the females brought up one hand, extending their index finger.

Then the finger's tip lit up with a laser-like torch, nearly surprising the kids at this moment. The women brought the tip of their shirts, and went down in a kneeling position until they were at the kids' knees. As they went down, the kids took notice that the torch had cut a vertical line down their clothing, from shirt collar to the openings of their pants or the end of their skirts. Their socks and shoes were even sliced through, as suddenly, the shackles released them, and they were lifted off the ground only four inches off. The material that was their shoes and socks fell off, exposing their bare feet each, and the material getting sucked up in some open compartment.

Before either one of them could say or do anything else, Chisame let out a gasp when the woman, as well as the others, grabbed a hold of the neckline of her shirt she was wearing and ripped it open. Not only did she rip open the shirt but she also ripped Chisame's bra off in the same motion. Chisame was blushing like crazy, and was about to protest or shout out pervert or rapist, but she didn't get the time to. Then the woman ripped her pants apart, that was a bit more effort, and then he ripped her panties off and threw them aside with the shirt, leaving Chisame completely bare naked floating in the air unable to move at all.

This was done to the others as well, with Satomi next, as the other white clad program took her glasses. Then she grabbed her shirt collar, tearing off her shirt, tie and lab coat. The Siren then ripped her shirt and panties off, leaving her bare naked in the air.

The same was done to Fei Ku, as her Chinese dress and undergarments were all torn off, exposing her bare and tanned boy exposed. And finally, Renton was stripped down as well into nothing but his birthday suit. The teens would have all shouted or tried to cover themselves but they were unable to move. Their bodies and limbs were frozen in place, as the shredding of what used to be their clothing and shoes were sucked into the small vacuum port and closed up.

Before they could shout out or protest for being completely in the nude, a small black blot no bigger than a dodge ball appeared from under each of them, slowing rising up to meet their bodies. Much to the teens' horror, each of their black blot sphere seemed to stretch and branch out two tentacles that moved around. As the tentacles reached their bare feet, each blot started off by encasing one teen by their feet in its black spandex skin. It began to slither up their bare skin, linking and wrapping around their flesh all over their bodies.

Chisame gulped as this happened, 'Great! Our clothes were in danger, as well as our modesty! Now they've set us up with a tentacle molestation!' But her thoughts were proven wrong, as the longer she looked at what was going on.

The black blots had finally slunked their way up to their hands, and wrapped them up in web-like patterns, wrapping their hands and for some of them encasing some or all their fingers. The blots encased all over their skin, encasing most of their bodies, and smoothing out, forming on them tight full-body black spandex suits.

And yet each one was differently designed.

For Chisame, she was mostly covered from neck to toe, save for her right arm and her back, which ended just above her tailbone. Satomie's body was covered neck to toe, save for her arms; her hands were gloved up leaving only her thumb out. Fei Ku's was mostly a one piece bathing suit with a turtleneck and exposed her back that ended above her tailbone, as well as stockings that reached up to her hips, and fingerless and thumbless gloves. And finally, Renton's was a full body suit except for his forearms and on the gloves had no fingers except for his index finger and thumbs.

The four teens had been fully clothed now, but weren't let back down on the ground. The four Sirens then walked towards the walls, leaving the teens to watch them in mid-air. Then suddenly, two large sections of wall between the sarcophagi opened up, revealing storage compartments for various kinds of equipment.

The Sirens were currently overlooking certain armor pieces, until one of the ebony sirens looked to the Siren that took Chisame's glasses. "These four are different," was all that she replied.

The four then returned to the four teens, and started fitting them with their armor pieces. Once they were finished, the four Mahora students were set back down onto their foot shackles, and were now fully armored up.

Chisame's armor involved two medium boots that stopped at the middle part of her calves, high heeled type with no opening for a heel tip. A mini-shirt that was hiked up on her right side and ended above her left knee, as well as a hip guard on her right, along with a belt around her waist. A breastplate that exposed her neck collar and bellybutton, and formed a backpack guard of sort. On her right arm, an oval shaped forearm guard had formed with a skin-tight black glove that ended above her elbow. Her left arm had the same forearm guard, and had a circular shaped shoulder guard on it. Her circuitry was colored lavender, and was on both her forearms and hands covering her knuckles, went up on her left arm and shoulder in a circle, two lines on her breasts that started at her nipples and ended at the bottom of her breasts. On her skirt, two circles were present and a line going down at an angle to the left side of her skirt in the front, and on her belt in the back. On her skirt was a star-shaped circuitry pattern, and on her right hip a circle shaped circuitry design. On her boots, the circuitry went around the opening of her boots and on the inner side of them, encasing her heels.

Fei Ku's armor involved a breastplate that exposed her stomach and bellybutton and didn't cover her shoulders, but it did go up as to cover her collarbone and neck. An armored back plate was in place, and her hands were covered in armored hand guards. Her knees had armored kneepads that connected to armored greaves. A Chinese styled skirt was shown that extended down above her ankles and split sideways and ended above her hips. Her heels and toes were armored up, as well as her ankles but had no soles whatsoever. Her circuitry color was yellow, and it was present as triangular designs on her toes, hand guards, the end tip of her skirts, her belt design along with two triangles pointing inward, and two arrow-like patterns on her breasts.

Satomie's armor created an open breastplate that was a Y shaped opening going from her neck collar to her bellybutton. Like the others, she had a back plate as well, and around her waist was a belt. She had a shawl of sorts that opened up in the front that ended below her knees, and a chastity guard in front. Her greaves were armored up and connected to her shoes, which covered her toes, heels, ankles, and sole. On her forearms were cylinder-shaped armguards with a rectangular hand guard, and her shoulders were more like sleeve shoulders on a business suit. Her circuitry color was blue, with three vertical lines on her shoulders, two circles on her collar, and two lines going down from her nipple to hips. Her belt had two circles on the front and the back, and her shawl had blue lines tracing the outer part of it. Her knees had a vertical line going down them and to the ankle. The tips of her toes glowed blue as well, and her forearm guards had rectangular circuitry patterns on it as well as her hand guards.

And lastly, Renton's armor had been finished. He had a breastplate that went from his collar to his stomach. It covered his whole chest, and armored his abdomen, with a single line of armor guarding his spine, and with a hoodie on the back of it, and a back plate. His shoulders had diamond shaped shoulder guards while his biceps to his elbows were armored up, and his hands had circular hand guards. He had a belt along with thigh guards protecting the outside and knee but not the inner thigh, and had on running shoe-shaped armored pieces. But unlike the others, his circuitry color was reddish orange. There were two vertical obtuse lines going down on both sides of his chest, and one line around his belt, with two circles on front and back. Two obtuse lines going down from thigh to knee, as well as on his shoulder and elbow, with two lines on his middle and fourth finger knuckles. On his shoes, the toes were glowing with circuitry and on the back heels as well. The Hood had a fat vertical line going down the backplate, while the outline of the hood had a circuitry line around it, while the inside of the hood glowed reddish orange.

As they were admiring the armor they each had been given, Renton finally asked, "So… are we good to go?"

"Almost," Chisame's Siren stated, as another compartment on the walls opened up, "Each of your armor is different. You'll have the same defenses, but later on as you progress in the games, you'll each be upgraded. But for now… you shall receive your Identity Discs."

The Sirens walked towards the wall, and in them, each on display were four black Chakrams. Once they were displayed, the teens were turned around so now they were facing each other, and their backs were turned to the Sirens. As this was being done, a voice on an announcement speaker was speaking out instructions.

"Attention, Programs," the voice announced to them, "You will each receive an identity disk. Everything you see, hear, or learn will be imprinted on this disk. If you lose your disk or fail to follow commands, you will be subjected to immediate deresolution."

"Don't lose disc or disobey," Fei Ku reminded herself on these important details, "Gotcha."

The Sirens then walked back to their respective teen, and held their disc up to place. They pushed each disk on to the backplate, snapping them in place, and turned them clockwise to the right, activating the discs in place. The discs inner circle lit up their users' respective circuitry color, signaling that the disc's mirroring of their users was commencing. To this, each of the teens gasped, almost as if the disc had hit some kind of pleasure or nerve center for them. Their pupils lit up for a moment, as their discs were synchronizing with their respective user.

"Mirroring complete," Chisame's Siren stated as she saw the pupils lit up, and then returned to normal. "Discs activated and synchronized. You may proceed to the Games."

And then they walked away, heading back to their sarcophagi and leaving the teens to where they were. Once they were back in them, the sarcophagi closed back up, and the Sirens went back to sleep. The kids were still as confused as ever, not even sure about what was needed in these games. The Armor? The new clothing? And now the Identity Discs? And more importantly… what was so dangerous about the Games at all?

But before Chisame's Siren went back to hibernation on a job well done, Satomie asked aloud, "Wait! What exactly are we supposed to do? For the Games, I mean."

The Siren smirked at all four of them, and simply gave an answer summed up in one word, "Survive." Her sarcophagi then closed, and she shut down for the time being.

A moment of silence swept through, until Chisame finally shouted at the Siren, even though she wasn't awake, "WELL, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? AND GIVE ME BACK MY GLASSES!"

"Kind of a vague answer at best," Satomie replied with a crossed eyebrow.

But her question went unanswered as their foot shackles were released once more, and finally deactivating, allowing the kids to move around. However, their passages were closed, and only one doorway was opened to them. They all seemed to stand there, unsure on how or what to do on this. Although, only one moved forward at the moment, and that was Renton.

Seeing this, Chisame attempted to have him reconsider this decision, "Hey, wait! You don't even know what's down there. For all you know, it could be a trap."

"It's better than nothing," Renton stated, and just continued to walk down the lit up hallway, "And a lot better than waiting here for anything else to happen."

Chisame just stood there, not sure if Renton had lost his mind, but then took notice of Satomie and Fei following after him. "Hey! Where are you going?" she shouted, flailing her arms around.

Satomie replied, not turning her back on the way down, "It's pretty plausible we need to go this way."

"Yeah," Fei replied, "Though I doubt staying here is an option. They'll probably send those black and red guards down to pitchfork us."

Sighing in defeat, Chisame knew there wasn't a choice in this matter, and ran after them, shouting, "Alright then! Just slow down, this isn't a freakin' race!"

Back At Surface Level

The four had managed to walk their way to wherever the tunnel took them from the Armory. So far they had taken a very long stairway back to the top. All the while, they hoped it would have been a way out, but when they got up on the final step… it was all for naught. For once they finally got up from the final step, they had walked right into a separate room. In other words, it was a dead end.

Chisame hunched over in a fit of anger at this moment, shaking with rage at this predicament. She then turned to the one who started the walk, and shouted while jumping at him, "Great! No thanks to you, we're more lost than what we should be!"

Renton shot back to her, "Well, at least we weren't stuck down there waiting for something! Just waiting around without knowing what's gonna happen is just stupid!"

"Rushing into things without thinking about it is just stupid too," Chisame shouted.

As the two argued, Fei Ku cluelessly smiled at them both, and mistakenly commented, "Wow. You two are almost like brother and sister."

When they heard that, Renton and Chisame turned towards Fei Ku and shouted, "LIKE HELL WE ARE!"

Fei jumped back, not wanting to face that kind of wrath, but Satomie just pondered on it as she hunched her shoulders, "Your unison attitudes say otherwise."

Before anything else happened, the room they were in suddenly lit, showing that they were now in some sort of holding room. They found out it was a holding room, because they weren't the only ones occupying it. In the room were about three humanoids and teenagers at the best.

The first one was a young boy about the age of sixteen years old. His frame was a slim yet muscular build; the body of a surfer and swimmer. His skin was slightly tanned, due to the only exposed skin on him was his elbows, thumbs, index fingers and pinkies. Like everyone else in the room, he was wearing a black skin tight outfit that exposed his elbows, thumbs, index fingers, and his pinkies. Black armor was located on his chest, belt, upper back, shoulders and side of his arms, his forearms, back of his hands, knees, thighs, hips, greaves, and the toes and heels of his shoes. But he had green circular and rectangular circuitry decorating the armor. On the back of his belt was a silver baton like device, his right greave had a black baton as well. But on his upper back, he had a chakram disc as well, with the outer part glowing green. His had messy mid-sized blonde shaggy hair with three bangs that hung in his eyes, a face that gave him the appearance of a cute surfer boy, and green eyes with much seriousness. He was leaning on the wall, arms folded and appeared to be waiting for something to happen.

The other one was another boy about the same age of sixteen. Like the first one, his frame was slim and muscular; although his body was that of a teenage martial artist. His skin was Asian pale, only shown on his face and fingers, and not his thumbs. He had dark brown shaggy hair, and golden yellow eyes, but on the left side to where his eye was, a patch of red circuitry scarring was shown around his eye and going down his left cheek. He wore a black skin tight body suit that only exposed the four fingers on his hands and covered his thumbs. He had a breastplate that covered his upper chest, and protected half of his abdomen, and a belt with a pelvic guard. His thighs were armored as well, but his hips were unprotected, as to where his knee connected as well. He had circular shaped joint shoulder guards, but the one on the right seemed a bit bigger than the left. He also had armor on his greaves, forearms, ankles, toes, and heels were all armored up. His right forearm guard seemed a bit enlarged a bit, and the hand guard was also connected to it, unlike the left one which was circular and unattached to the forearm guard. Like the blonde green boy, his Asian Red boy had a silver baton on the back of his belt, but had two batons on both his greaves. And on his back, a chakram disc, with the inner part glowing red. The four human teens seemed a bit scared at first, considering the boy's face was always in a scowl, and that his circuitry was of similar design, and that it was bright red, to the sentries that had brought them to the arena.

However, he seemed not like the sentries at all, considering he wasn't wearing a helmet. But the last one seemed like someone to worry about a lot.

He was another teenage boy, appeared to be the age of seventeen. Unlike the other two he was talking to, his frame was large and very muscular; the body frame of a teenage body builder being trained by Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was African American, dark black, with no hair, and brown eyes; a look on his face saying 'It's Smack-Down Time'. like the other two boys, he was wearing a tight spandex body suit, minus any sleeves at all, allowing his muscled arms to show. He had armor present on his chest, abdomen, thighs, knees, greaves, boots, and on his forearms and fingerless gloves. His circuitry was more of a light neon brown, as a U-shaped pattern was on his chest and had two lines across his ribcage at an angle with the U, with two circles on the collar bone, as well on both front and back on his belt. there were U-shaped patterns on his thighs, and a line going down on both his knee guards, and line patterns on his knuckles, as well as an A-shape pattern on his forearms. But on his forearms were two small outlet ports on to where the elbows were, and only one vent port on the thighs. And on his back, an Identity Disc was present, with the inside glowing light brown.

The others kept their distance, but Fei Ku, being a warrior Martial Artist, sensed the same thing from those three, as she would anyone of such caliber. She poked through the three brainiacs, and smirked, "Wow! Those three look strong."

Next Chapter: Meeting for the First Time; Duel of the Discs pt.2