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FILL: "Triad" Part 1

[allronix1]

Title: “Triad”
Author: Allronix
Rating: PG-13 (language, adult themes)
Prompt: http://tronkinkmeme.livejournal.com/1551.html?thread=58639#t58639 (OT3 Solar Sailer)

It happened right after that match with Crom, right after he threw away the ball and ended the match. Not like it mattered. The other conscript was sent plunging to his death, but the act of defiance for its own sake thrilled Flynn to no end. Poor Crom never had a chance, but at least Master Control and Sark couldn't turn him into their executioner. They may have hauled him here, but it didn't mean he wasn't going to stop being a professional pain in the ass

FILL: "Triad" Part 2

[allronix1]

Flynn was still drifting in and out of consciousness, feeling pain in places he hadn't known could ache. Wiping out on his first motorcycle didn't even hurt this bad. For a terrible moment, he thought he was back in his Game Grid cell, but he felt hands cupping his face and on his chest. It almost felt like trickles of energy were flowing into him, stabilizing him so he wouldn't pass out again

FILL: "Triad" Part 3

[allronix1]

Yori almost stammered out an excuse to go back to the controls, but there was something in Flynn's voice that talked her out of it. He was on their side. He had risked their lives for them without hesitation. Tron trusted him, so why did he make her feel so profoundly glitched

FILL: "Triad" Part 4

[allronix1]

“You don't have a directive?” The realization was stunning. Programs always had a directive that was embedded into their source code and focused their actions, simple words the Program could interpret and carry out as they saw fit. Tron was embedded with Alan-1's directive to protect the System from threats, and Tron's interpretation of that directive was a hard-coded belief to defend and protect Users. Her own directives centered on interpreting incoming data into usable patterns, repairing what was broken, and keeping existing patterns stable. It wasn't as hard-coded and immutable as Tron's directive because Lora-3 and Walter-1 needed an adaptable retainer within the system. She realized that it left her with more flexible parameters than most Programs

FILL: "Triad" Part 5

[allronix1]

She walked over to the controls and made a check of the Sailer's energy readouts (optimum), the beam strength (high, fast), and checking for any pursuit craft (none). Still, she kept looking between the control panel and the sleeping User on the deck. Tron walked up behind her

FILL: "Triad" Part 6

[allronix1]

“Wait a nanosecond - you're thinking of...”

“Well, just because Alan-1 and Lora-3 thought we'd be a good match doesn't mean we can't incorporate a third,” she pointed out. “It would complicate things, certainly.”

He looked between them, weighing it in his processor. “He may not even want that. Only he would know what his kind considers proper for sharing functions.”

“I understand,” she said. “If it's possible, forget what he is. Assume he is a simple gaming script if it helps.”

“If he were a gaming script, it would be less of an issue. He would understand what we would be offering him.”

“I...” Yori's circuits blushed violet for a picosecond. “It was just a glitched process. I thought we could help him, somehow.”

He put his hand on her back. “It's not a gliched process. They're really the only things we can offer him - a directive, a function, a home, ourselves.”

She moved in a little closer. “How do you feel about him, though?”

“He's careless, occasionally foolish. But a good spark. A beautiful spark.” Discarding the

FILL: "Triad" Part 7

[allronix1]

The sleep did Flynn some good. He felt a little stiff, but nothing like the all-over ache he had earlier. Stretching with a large yawn, he pulled himself to his feet and stepped onto the bridge level where his friends were looking over the console.

“How we doing?” he asked. “No nasty surprises, I hope.”

“Nothing for the next sector,” Yori said. “Flynn, Tron and I were talking when you were in sleep mode.”

Suddenly, his feet didn't feel all that steady. It sounded a little too close to Lora's final “We need to talk,” which were the four words men dreaded hearing from a woman they were dating. Yes, there were a laundry list of reasons it could never work out in the long-term for them. They were better off as friends and knew it. It didn't do a damn thing for the messy feelings on his part, though

FILL: "Triad" Part 8

[allronix1]

God, his heart was pounding, his mouth went dry, and the pounding in his head wasn't just the aftereffects of channeling a bazillion watts of power through his body.

This could go seriously wrong. Heart-breaking, train-wrecking wrong.

It could also go seriously right. Maybe he would never have his old life back, but they were offering him a lifeline, a chance. Trapped, sure. But not without a purpose, not alone.

Flynn wanted to say something reverent and profound, something that acknowledged his gratitude. Unfortunately, that kind of sentiment never seemed to make it from his mind to his mouth.

“The three of us? We kick that thing's ass together and then...” Flynn laughed, wrapping an arm around each one. “Yeah! Sounds like a plan to me. Great plan! I'm totally on board with this.”

But what his words said with bravado, his arms said with sincerity, pulling them both into a tight hug as he willed the emotion outward with the same intensity he had used to pull the beam across the junction

FILL: "Triad" Part 9 - END

[allronix1]

Quick nods among the three of them and it was back to business. Yori went back to the controls, Tron went aft to look for dangers and prepare for the inevitable battle. Flynn got to his feet, still leaning on the rail, and concentrated on getting his strength back. They'd need him as much as he needed them

Re: FILL: "Triad" Part 9 - END

[allronix1]

Wow. That was amazing. I love how it went full circle to the beginning with Flynn's inner "I would die/live for them" monologue. I'd tell you more how this made me feel but I can't think of the words right now.

Re: FILL: "Triad" Part 9 - END

[allronix1]

It's mostly because of who's POV I'm using, and attempting to keep it canon-compliant. :) I'm also showing them at their worst.

Alan's depicted as a bit of a jerk in 2.0 - worse in the comics. Ghost in the Machine is absolutely *vile.* "Ron the Death Eater" vile. One of the visions that the antagonist uses to mind-frell Jet depicts him *killing* Lora. Yeah - that bad.

Good guy, but...has a very firm idea on how the world is supposed to work that doesn't quite mesh with how it actually does. Dillinger even snarks about it in the novelization. This is the guy you trust with the pager, the car keys, your safe deposit box...but that would still think you're nuts if you said anything that sounded supernatural

Re: FILL: "Triad" Part 9 - END

[brightdreamer]

This was amazing! I love the characterizations, and I could really see this happening. Heheh, Yori, who wouldn't want to see "a couple of well-rendered Grid fighters" together, really?

Now I wanna see a sequel with Flynn coming back to take them up on their offer... or perhaps an AU where jumping into the MCP doesn't actually send him home...

Re: FILL: "Triad" Part 9 - END

[allronix1]

Yeah. I guess part of me does see Lora as a bit of a stealth pervert, and passed the trait along to her Program.

1) Trapped on system in 1982? Might be a really killer AU.

2) They'd be too polite to push the issue, but after Jordan dies, they might let their grieving friend know that the proverbial door is still open.

Re: FILL: "Triad" Part 9 - END

[shadow_spark]

Those would be neat, particularly the first one.