The digitization bay occupied a whole floor of the ENCOM tower. Most of it was filled with hardware: parallel clusters, lasers, particle traps; there were much fewer terminals than expected. One of them was occupied by a youthful man about 30 years old, who seemed very involved with the first-person shooter his computer was currently running.
Clu approached him silently.
"Colorful" Clu exclaimed, standing right behind him. The young man was startled.
"I'm sorry, I was just..." he started to say, but then he stood up and introduced himself: "My name is Jet Bradley."
"And I am Kevin Flynn, I'm sure you heard of me. So, are you in charge in here?" asked Clu.
"Yes." Jet answered.
"Wrong. I am." was Clu's reply. "There are going to be a few changes here."
"What?" asked Jet. "Are you firing me because I was playing a videogame I made?"
"Nobody said anything about firing anyone" said Clu. "I mean the equipment. I need to run a certain... experiment. I need my old computer and digitizing laser to be brought here from the basement of my arcade, and connected to our LAN. Do we have delivery men?"
"Yes."
"Then call one and tell him what I told you."
After the call, Clu approached Jet's computer.
"So, what's this?" he asked.
"This is Tron 2.0." answered Jet. "You know what happened to you in 1982? Something like that happened to me in 2003. That's a fictionalized account of it. Man, that Mercury chick was hot!"
"And you made this game as a shipping fan fiction, with yourself as the Mary Sue character, just because you could not have her in real life."
"Noo! I didn't mean..." Jet began. "Wait, are you a troper?"
"Since this morning. Surprised?" replied Clu. "But tell me: those weapons you use in the game..."
"They're all real."
"Excellent."
Kevin's computer was placed next to Jet's desk, with the digitizing laser behind. Clu switched on the computer, connected a network switch to its 10BASE-T connector and ran a firewall script to reject any incoming or outgoing connection from any non-ENCOM computer. Finally, he typed:
touch /opt/LLL/run/ok
LLLSDLaserControl -ok 1
The digitizing laser activated. Jet turned toward Clu and said: "Hey! What are you..."
Before Jet could finish the phrase, Clu was back in the Grid.