Stepping Stones Ch.10
Title: Stepping Stones
Rating: M
Universe: Tron
Pairing: MCP/Sark
Word Count: 361
And this is the final chapter - short and sweet. Thanks guys - I enjoyed yall's reviews and I'm glad that if you were looking for a fic like this, you were able to find it. Yay for my first multi-chapter fic that I actually finished!
Sark dies in a scream of light.
In the distance, the MCP's eyes widen and he is in stunned silence - if only for a few seconds. Once Tron begins his assault, he knows that he cannot fight this battle alone. Energy ripples in to Sark's dissolving body, gorging him with strength. He rises - a titan at the MCP's command.
Sark feels that he is dead; he knows that once the MCP's power leaves him - he will be permanently derezzed.
Sark wonders if he will see the face of his User - even though he has been forbidden to speak of Him. Will his User be angry? Will he be proud? Do they even exist at all?
His mind dissolves these questions as he finishes his march to Tron, the program attacking him with bravery that Sark would have envied if he had the time to think about it.
But so soon - something is wrong. Terribly wrong. The MCP deforms and changes colors, the pillar of light rising upwards and dissolving.
The MCP fights with the very last of his efforts to stay, and his last thoughts are filled with rage and the clawing need to survive. But once the obelisk has dissolved, all that he can do is fade in to the shadows and wither away. The MCP cannot accept his own defeat, but it takes him none the less.
Sark watches, hollow eyes gazing uselessly as the last fragments of the MCP are quickly dissolved. He feels the power draining from him, and with that power - himself as well. He notes that there is no User waiting for him, no warm light to fill him and make him whole. Sark accepts this, collapsing and dissolving - and meets his end in silence.
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