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His stride was even and light. There wasn't room for hesitation or weakness. This moment would change everything.

Kevin and TRON walked together in the distance, chatting casually. CLU felt his gut tighten at their soft words. Kevin never talked to him like that; they didn't share the memories from the old system. He was inferior to TRON in the eyes of his maker. His image.

No more.

"FLYNN!" The user halted and looked over at him with a confused grin. TRON gazed past Kevin, watching.

"AM I STILL TO CREATE THE PERFECT SYSTEM?" CLU called. His pulse was out of control, surging through him at an extraordinary rate. Kevin's grin faded a little.

"Yeah." He replied like it meant nothing. Nothing. But this was his system now and it meant everything. CLU took a step back and his helmet appeared around his face. The cold black casing numbed his expressions and his heart. Kevin Flynn was nothing, not the system.

Guards appeared around the two and TRON told Kevin to flee. CLU felt a tingle roll up his spine. Power. He'd dreamt of this day for many cycles, thinking it would destroy him to betray his user. But he was wrong; this was incredible. Kevin ran foolishly and CLU caught him, throwing him to the ground. CLU's senses were dulled from adrenaline and he didn't hear Kevin's pleads as he slid backwards under him.

A force knocked CLU off his feet, sending him crashing to the ground. TRON lay on him, defending his friend fiercely with hard jabs. TRON called to Kevin, holding CLU down.

"FLYNN GO!" CLU shoved with all his might, flipping the program off of him. They both stood and CLU whipped an arm across TRON's head, hurling him to the ground. Removing his disk, he brought it down as Kevin disappeared around the corner.

CLU hit him across the jaw with the blunt side of the disc. TRON cried out and fell unconscious. CLU wanted to end him, the humming weapon skill hovering over the program's face. Footsteps broke his trance and he looked up.

ZOE appeared from the shadows, many guards flanking her sides. She'd missed all the action; he was supposed to wait for her arrival. CLU panted inside his helmet, grinning slowly.

He'd done it.

Flynn was on the run and TRON was theirs for capture. With time, he could be repurposed and used to hunt down his old friend. ZOE signaled towards two guards and they took TRON's arms, dragging him out from under CLU's stance.

He couldn't see her face but he knew she was smiling at him. They had locked gazes and neither had wavered since. He could only stand there and admire her. CLU had the perfect partner and she would help him to create the perfect system. His feeble creator no longer obstructed them. Them: together. His heart swelled with pride.

"CLU!" She lurched forward suddenly, her voice gurgled from behind her helmet. He turned and was knocked down on his back with a guard's body. TRON whirled and kicked the second guard, taking his rod before he fell. TRON snarled as he lifted the glowing stick over his head.

"I fight for the users!" He bellowed, bringing the staff down towards CLU's open torso. CLU closed his eyes, waiting for the pain. A scream rang in his ears and he accepted his fate; but no pain came and his eyes flew open. ZOE's face hovered over his helmet and then disappeared, fizzling away into darkness.

It hadn't been him screaming.

TRON dropped the rod with a clang, terror slapped across his face.

"No…" He whispered, falling slowly to his knees. CLU sat up, running a hand over the pixels that were scattered over his chest. TRON started to cry, his cheeks shining with tears.

"She—" He choked, reaching up to his face in horror. CLU finally took a breath.

"Zoe." His eyes scanned the ground. Error. He couldn't comprehend this. Her face, the scream. Error. "Zoe?" CLU felt desperate, groping the tiny pieces shattered around him. Guards grabbed TRON by the arms, yanking his limp form.

"She dove—" He whispered. CLU went cold, mindlessly searching for his partner, his lover. Error.

"Zoe!" The agony swept through him, the image of her last expression burned into his eyes. He let out a scream, retracting his helmet. Sorrow racked his circuits like a dry heave. CLU knelt on all fours, screams seizing his body as he fought the crippling anguish that flooded his programming. TRON wept silently, hanging his head. Anger grew in the pit of CLU's stomach and he raised his eyes, watching the program cry.

This was his fault.

CLU flew at him. Rage filled his code, overriding the excruciating misery that grew in his body.

"YOU!" He snarled, slamming a fist into TRON's face. The program didn't flinch or react but hung limply in the guards' grasp. He hit him again, pixels falling from the impact, then another and another, his hand stinging from ruthless punches. CLU didn't stop until TRON's jaw was a gnarly edge and his once smooth cheeks were pitted, chunks missing from the abuse. The program didn't plead or cry out, taking each blow with lifeless eyes.

CLU ripped his disc from his back, holding it to TRON's throat. Only then did he get a response.

"Do it." TRON croaked. He lulled his head back, exposing his neck. Then CLU understood. TRON welcomed death. After killing his student, TRON was willing to die. His student. CLU scoffed. TRON had lusted for ZOE as equally as he. Even when she'd pledged her allegiance to another, TRON would gaze at her from afar in hopes of catching her eye. He would have never done this to her; it was torturing him.

Torture.

That is what he deserved. For the rest of his existence, TRON would suffer.

"No." CLU hissed, replacing his disc. He grabbed the program's face with his hand, pinching it harshly while more pixels fell. "You will be repurposed." TRON's eyes filled with despair. "You will be a slave. You will destroy hundreds of programs at my command." TRON struggled in the guards' hold.

"No!" CLU wanted TRON to feel it fully, to understand the agony he would be forced to endure without ZOE at his side. The pain TRON had caused would be replaced with the joy at his demise.

"YOU WILL KILL THE USER. YOU WILL BE RUTHLESS. I WILL TAKE ALL OF YOUR HAPPINESS AND LOVE! EVERYTHING YOU TOOK FROM ME."

"NO!" TRON yelled, panic making him thrash. CLU gripped his face harder.

"You will be mine." He growled, digging his nails into the destroyed flesh. TRON froze, fear taking hold of his body. Fear. Delicious.

"Take him away." CLU ordered, releasing the program. The guards obeyed immediately, dragging their capture towards an arriving Recognizer. TRON slumped in defeat, silently crying once again as he was loaded onto the ship. Eventually, it rose again and disappeared, leaving CLU alone on the dark ground.

He crouched and ran his fingers through the tiny shards that remained at his feet. She was supposed to be there forever, never leaving him. CLU let the tears fall and he wept silently, alone in the middle of the street. He recalled the cycles they'd had together: the joy, the love, and the sex. He thought about her first fight, her blushes and humility. CLU gritted his teeth when he remembered her words, loving and praising him. ZOE had completed him.

"Sir?"

CLU's fury returned with a vengeance, fire rising in his circuits. Jarvis stood a distance away, nervously eyeing the scene before him.

"Bring my ship." CLU hissed. The program disappeared and CLU stood.

"We will continue. You have always overcome."

Her words sang in his head, killing the weakness within him. She had believed in him and the grid. For her, the it would be perfect. She wouldn't want him to falter. Suddenly he felt no fear, no sadness, no pity, and no love. He would rid the system of imperfection. He would bring it to ultimate power and he would control it with an iron fist.

Nothing would stop CLU.

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