FIC: Tron Prompt Drabbles III [Tron (Legacy), Misc]
Title: When All Else Fails
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Charlie Bean & co’s Tron: Uprising.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Zed x Beck x Mara x Cyrus
Summary: Yet more about Zed’s crushes.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by ranoutofrun. Enjoy!
When All Else Fails
One of them kept an open channel of circuit-to-circuit contact the whole time. Hard to say who - his mind was muzzy, the music mesmerising. The other two were just as close and brushing against them almost as much.
You couldn’t hear anything over the music, but all the same they kept up a steady stream of chatter and laughter. Mara smiled at his jokes, Beck valued his opinions and advice, and Cyrus was an unstoppable flirt.
Zed was fairly certain he shouted “I’m so happy, I wish this date would never end!” at one point...
And then he woke up.
Title: The Young Man’s Game
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Charlie Bean & co’s Tron: Uprising and Joseph Kosinksi & co’s Tron: Legacy.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: Past character death.
Characters & Pairings: Tron & mention of Sam & Beck
Summary: If Tron knew what ghosts are, Sam would be one to him.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by Grey Liliy. Enjoy!
The Young Man’s Game
Tron sees double when he reboots, memories colliding across a 1084-cycle Rinzler-red gap.
Their respective kinds show age in different ways, but it’s obvious SamFlynn is young. Something in his eyes and bearing says ‘beta’ - says Beck.
Is this how it’s going to be forevermore? Children stepping in to do his job for him? Protecting the once-protector?
Tron should be on his knees begging SamFlynn for forgiveness-judgement-punishment, but there’s an [error] flashing in his head.
Beck’s death is logged in Rinzler’s databanks. But he can’t remember how.
When he struggles to his knees, it’s not the User he’s begging.
Title: One-Eye in the Land of the Blind
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Steven Lisberger & co’s Tron and Joseph Kosinksi & co’s Tron: Legacy.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above, though nothing specific.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Clu 2 & Flynn & Lora
Summary: It’s been a while since Flynn cooked anything other than code.
Author’s Note: Written for a prompt by coraregina. Enjoy!
One-Eye in the Land of the Blind
“Alright, I’ll bite,” Lora said, looking around the ruined kitchen. “What happened?”
Flynn didn’t lift his head from his hands. “What do you think?”
“I think you shoved a cookbook in Clu’s hands and left him to fend for himself with half a vocabulary and - pardon the pun - no clue how to use the appliances.”
Clu began making wheezy noises and doubled over.
“Don’t laugh,” Flynn groaned.
Clu almost fell out of his barstool laughing.
Lora raised an eyebrow.
“Clu made a perfect soufflé, all by himself,” Flynn admitted to his fingers. “And then I set the eggs on fire.”
Title: Uti Possidetes
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Charlie Bean & co’s Tron: Uprising.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Up until episode 17, “Rendezvous”.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Beck (x Paige) & Tron
Summary: All hope is not lost for Beck and Paige. (AU end to “Rendezvous”.)
Author’s Note: Written for a prompt by ShadowSpark “Uti possidetis”, Latin for “as you possess”: a principle that territory and other property remains with its possessor at the end of a conflict. The opposit of returning to the old status quo. YORI LIVES, btw. Enjoy!
Uti Possidetes
“She’s a good person, you know.” He sounds defensive. He doesn’t care. Beck doesn’t even understand how Paige can uphold such ideals yet remain loyal to Clu and Tesler, so he doesn’t expect Tron to.
“You two kissed, didn’t you?” Tron deadpans.
“What?! No, why would you -”
“You keep touching your mouth like you can barely believe it’s there.”
Oh.
Tron sighs, ‘what-am-I-going-to-do-with-you’-like. “Did she start it?”
Beck nods.
“Then don’t despair. Kisses are a gift from the Users. Feelings sealed with one will overcome any odds.”
...is Tron glitching? “What makes you say that?”
Tron almost smiles. “Experience.”
Title: The Light Ahead
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Jai Nitz & co’s Tron: Betrayal, Chris Borders & co’s Tron: Evolution and Joseph Kosinksi & co’s Tron: Legacy.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above, though nothing specific.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Radia aka Ophelia & Quorra
Summary: Radia nurtures in Quorra a fire that she knows, once kindled, will never be snuffed.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by . Enjoy!
The Light Ahead
ISOs manifest, Flynn says, like a flame. Radia does not know ‘fire’, but she knows this: life is a light in the darkness. In the Outlands, in the void of space - life everywhere is lonely, and fragile. It should be cherished.
Radia personally welcomes every new spark emerging from the Sea, every one precious, unique and therefore rare, and every new soul could be the last.
She has no name yet, and just one circuit. But in Radia’s mind, an exotic light shines nonetheless. She bathes in it.
Warm. Radiant. Beautiful.
Radia almost knows fire, because one day, Quorra will.
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Charlie Bean & co’s Tron: Uprising.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Zed x Beck x Mara x Cyrus
Summary: Yet more about Zed’s crushes.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by ranoutofrun. Enjoy!
When All Else Fails
One of them kept an open channel of circuit-to-circuit contact the whole time. Hard to say who - his mind was muzzy, the music mesmerising. The other two were just as close and brushing against them almost as much.
You couldn’t hear anything over the music, but all the same they kept up a steady stream of chatter and laughter. Mara smiled at his jokes, Beck valued his opinions and advice, and Cyrus was an unstoppable flirt.
Zed was fairly certain he shouted “I’m so happy, I wish this date would never end!” at one point...
And then he woke up.
Title: The Young Man’s Game
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Charlie Bean & co’s Tron: Uprising and Joseph Kosinksi & co’s Tron: Legacy.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: Past character death.
Characters & Pairings: Tron & mention of Sam & Beck
Summary: If Tron knew what ghosts are, Sam would be one to him.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by Grey Liliy. Enjoy!
The Young Man’s Game
Tron sees double when he reboots, memories colliding across a 1084-cycle Rinzler-red gap.
Their respective kinds show age in different ways, but it’s obvious SamFlynn is young. Something in his eyes and bearing says ‘beta’ - says Beck.
Is this how it’s going to be forevermore? Children stepping in to do his job for him? Protecting the once-protector?
Tron should be on his knees begging SamFlynn for forgiveness-judgement-punishment, but there’s an [error] flashing in his head.
Beck’s death is logged in Rinzler’s databanks. But he can’t remember how.
When he struggles to his knees, it’s not the User he’s begging.
Title: One-Eye in the Land of the Blind
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Steven Lisberger & co’s Tron and Joseph Kosinksi & co’s Tron: Legacy.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above, though nothing specific.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Clu 2 & Flynn & Lora
Summary: It’s been a while since Flynn cooked anything other than code.
Author’s Note: Written for a prompt by coraregina. Enjoy!
One-Eye in the Land of the Blind
“Alright, I’ll bite,” Lora said, looking around the ruined kitchen. “What happened?”
Flynn didn’t lift his head from his hands. “What do you think?”
“I think you shoved a cookbook in Clu’s hands and left him to fend for himself with half a vocabulary and - pardon the pun - no clue how to use the appliances.”
Clu began making wheezy noises and doubled over.
“Don’t laugh,” Flynn groaned.
Clu almost fell out of his barstool laughing.
Lora raised an eyebrow.
“Clu made a perfect soufflé, all by himself,” Flynn admitted to his fingers. “And then I set the eggs on fire.”
Title: Uti Possidetes
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Charlie Bean & co’s Tron: Uprising.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Up until episode 17, “Rendezvous”.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Beck (x Paige) & Tron
Summary: All hope is not lost for Beck and Paige. (AU end to “Rendezvous”.)
Author’s Note: Written for a prompt by ShadowSpark “Uti possidetis”, Latin for “as you possess”: a principle that territory and other property remains with its possessor at the end of a conflict. The opposit of returning to the old status quo. YORI LIVES, btw. Enjoy!
Uti Possidetes
“She’s a good person, you know.” He sounds defensive. He doesn’t care. Beck doesn’t even understand how Paige can uphold such ideals yet remain loyal to Clu and Tesler, so he doesn’t expect Tron to.
“You two kissed, didn’t you?” Tron deadpans.
“What?! No, why would you -”
“You keep touching your mouth like you can barely believe it’s there.”
Oh.
Tron sighs, ‘what-am-I-going-to-do-with-you’-like. “Did she start it?”
Beck nods.
“Then don’t despair. Kisses are a gift from the Users. Feelings sealed with one will overcome any odds.”
...is Tron glitching? “What makes you say that?”
Tron almost smiles. “Experience.”
Title: The Light Ahead
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Jai Nitz & co’s Tron: Betrayal, Chris Borders & co’s Tron: Evolution and Joseph Kosinksi & co’s Tron: Legacy.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above, though nothing specific.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Radia aka Ophelia & Quorra
Summary: Radia nurtures in Quorra a fire that she knows, once kindled, will never be snuffed.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by . Enjoy!
The Light Ahead
ISOs manifest, Flynn says, like a flame. Radia does not know ‘fire’, but she knows this: life is a light in the darkness. In the Outlands, in the void of space - life everywhere is lonely, and fragile. It should be cherished.
Radia personally welcomes every new spark emerging from the Sea, every one precious, unique and therefore rare, and every new soul could be the last.
She has no name yet, and just one circuit. But in Radia’s mind, an exotic light shines nonetheless. She bathes in it.
Warm. Radiant. Beautiful.
Radia almost knows fire, because one day, Quorra will.