R3SET
Who: AU!Jalen paying a visit
Where: Grid Arcade
When: Now, or as close as possible.
What: Jalen, if he'd lived, if everything had been different, and Clu actually been a nice guy.
Warnings: Angst. Random hugging? Violence only if your character attacks first - he's a Disk Wars champion, though, be warned.
Alright. A full millicycle's delay had been concerning, but by the time Flynn made it through the digitization portal, alone, Jalen was officially worried. That worry only got worse, too, as time passed, and no matter what assurances Yori gave him, the simple truth was; Clu's coding was simply not in the cache.
There were reasons why that could be, speculation about what happened, that his friend was only suspended in stasis, alright, safe. But...not present.
Jalen was still worried.
When, finally, Radia found him, he had already made up his mind to go find Clu, and crash the consequences. She was understandably upset about it, and had tried to talk him into staying. That he was needed, that there were so many projects dependent on him. Jalen, calmly, had argued back that he had several trained teams both for construction, and transport that could, and did handle things in his absence when he had to travel to subsystems. That if something had happened, he was the best candidate to have a hope of finding out what. Radia was needed here, and she knew it, but he could see it in her eyes; she wanted to go with him.
But someone had to stay with Flynn. Someone must remain the responsible one, and she has always been best at that.
Tron had also argued that he should go, and it was a needless risk for Jalen to personally risk the obviously unknown glitch with the portal, and for the first time in cycles, Jalen had actually pulled rank, and stated that if there was danger, it was his job to analyze it. He was in charge of the imports, and exports coming through the portal daily. The Portal, of course, has been closed since "the incident" but under admin's orders, the cordon was lifted, and Jalen went through.
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Something, of course, was very wrong here. This vintage construction, the small, dark subsystem lighting, and the unfamiliar coding in the constructs of this place scream one thing to Jalen; Piracy. Someone must have got their hands on Encom technology, and created their own subsystem, detached from the network, and were up to who knows what in here!
Jalen, feeling an uncommon sense of real anger, stalked his way out of the arcade - another bit of similarity that adds to the scowl on his face - and found the first terminal he could. His overrides entered.
"I am co-admin for the primary grid, and network hub supervisor Jalen. You are in possession of an illegal subsystem, and guilty of kidnapping. Return co-admin Clu now, and the only legal ramifications you will face will be digital-based. Earth laws are very prohibitive against violation of the Geneva Convention."
There! That should do for his purposes.
((OOC: Please excuse the rushed icons, but this is AU!Jalen from nice!Clu's grid. He's trying very hard to seem intimidating, too. ))
Where: Grid Arcade
When: Now, or as close as possible.
What: Jalen, if he'd lived, if everything had been different, and Clu actually been a nice guy.
Warnings: Angst. Random hugging? Violence only if your character attacks first - he's a Disk Wars champion, though, be warned.
Alright. A full millicycle's delay had been concerning, but by the time Flynn made it through the digitization portal, alone, Jalen was officially worried. That worry only got worse, too, as time passed, and no matter what assurances Yori gave him, the simple truth was; Clu's coding was simply not in the cache.
There were reasons why that could be, speculation about what happened, that his friend was only suspended in stasis, alright, safe. But...not present.
Jalen was still worried.
When, finally, Radia found him, he had already made up his mind to go find Clu, and crash the consequences. She was understandably upset about it, and had tried to talk him into staying. That he was needed, that there were so many projects dependent on him. Jalen, calmly, had argued back that he had several trained teams both for construction, and transport that could, and did handle things in his absence when he had to travel to subsystems. That if something had happened, he was the best candidate to have a hope of finding out what. Radia was needed here, and she knew it, but he could see it in her eyes; she wanted to go with him.
But someone had to stay with Flynn. Someone must remain the responsible one, and she has always been best at that.
Tron had also argued that he should go, and it was a needless risk for Jalen to personally risk the obviously unknown glitch with the portal, and for the first time in cycles, Jalen had actually pulled rank, and stated that if there was danger, it was his job to analyze it. He was in charge of the imports, and exports coming through the portal daily. The Portal, of course, has been closed since "the incident" but under admin's orders, the cordon was lifted, and Jalen went through.
---
Something, of course, was very wrong here. This vintage construction, the small, dark subsystem lighting, and the unfamiliar coding in the constructs of this place scream one thing to Jalen; Piracy. Someone must have got their hands on Encom technology, and created their own subsystem, detached from the network, and were up to who knows what in here!
Jalen, feeling an uncommon sense of real anger, stalked his way out of the arcade - another bit of similarity that adds to the scowl on his face - and found the first terminal he could. His overrides entered.
"I am co-admin for the primary grid, and network hub supervisor Jalen. You are in possession of an illegal subsystem, and guilty of kidnapping. Return co-admin Clu now, and the only legal ramifications you will face will be digital-based. Earth laws are very prohibitive against violation of the Geneva Convention."
There! That should do for his purposes.
((OOC: Please excuse the rushed icons, but this is AU!Jalen from nice!Clu's grid. He's trying very hard to seem intimidating, too. ))