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Zuse spoke into the communicator.

"You found him?"

"Well," came Kevin's voice. "More like he found me. He's reprogrammed, he's on our side."

"Is he alright?"

"Ask him yourself."

"Zuse?" Tron's deep tones sounded over the communicator.

"Tron! Good to hear you, my friend. Kevin tells me you're with us."

"That's right. Where are you? I thought you ran that club..."

"I did... Things have changed, I'm sure Kevin will fill you in on the parts you missed. I'll be joining you as soon as... Possible."

"I look forward to it, Zuse."

"Zuse, I can't access all the codes..." Kevin had taken control of the comm again. "Some parts of the outlands seem to have disappeared."

"Yes, that's because I made them disappear. Had to have somewhere to hide from CLU if the occasion arose. And the fugitive programs went there too... Oh. Yes, they'll be there."

"So how can I access them?"

"You... Um, you can't."

Silence for a second.

"You're telling me I'm the creator, and one of my own programs has set the codes so even -I- can't access them?"

Zuse paused, debating what he should say.

"Yes." was the best he could come up with.

Kevin started laughing. "That's... Oh that's brilliant! Heheh, great... Well done, man! Ok, well as soon as Xia wakes up, get your all-powerful ass up here and reset them. Got it?" Kevin chuckled.

"Yes, sir." Zuse was smiling.

"And bring me my bike!" Tron's voice came through just before the communication was terminated. Zuse chuckled to himself.

"It's good to see you laugh."

He turned to see Xia leaning heavily against the doorframe.

"Xia! You're awake..." he went to help her and she leaned on his arm to walk to the couch.

"Here, Kevin told me to give you this." he handed her the vial. She took it and drank as he watched her intently.

"I'm fine, Zuse. Don't look so worried, I feel like I should be collapsing again the way you're staring."

He gave her a dry look. "My dear, you were lying sliced in two on the ground not long ago." he tried to sound sarcastic but there was an almost inaudible shake in his voice.

"I'm fine. Anyway, how am I fine? You haven't told me."

"The creator rearranged your coding and, um... repaired you."

"You mean you don't know."

He huffed and turned away, folding his arms. She smiled.

"I'm just messing with you, Zuse. I know you know everything. So where are the others?"

"Sam and Quorra returned to the users' world, and Kevin found Tron at the portal. He's going to reprogram Tron city to be the way it was supposed to be."

"And you're ok with that?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that now CLU's gone, you'll just be Castor... Or Zuse... Owner of the End of Line. Is that enough for you?"

"Well, I expect Kevin will set up some kind of system to replace the warped order that CLU forced on this world. I'll just have to be on the right side of that system this time."

She nodded.

"Kevin wants us to join him, do you think you're fully functioning yet?"

"I should be, why? What do I need to do?"

He gave her a playful grin. "How's your driving, pretty miss?"