Greetings Programs! New to Tron fiction and with the new movie, my old fascination with the world has been repurposed from the other obsessions of mine to Tron. Anyway, as I was eating dinner at a local restaurant, an idea struck me concerning Clu and Flynn and the ending of the movie. I felt that Clu was far too smart to not consider a back up plan should Flynn ever decide to reintegrate him. Therefore a plot was concocted while I ate a bacon cheeseburger and typed away on my Iphone to jot the idea down before I lost it. Heh.

Chapter One

End of Line?

The Portal, Sea of Simulation

"Good bye, kiddo." He whispered to the Son. But the sight of The Creator's son was obscured with the profile of the corrupted Program known only as Clu as the creation made one last attempt to get to the other side through the now open portal. Behind him, the gateway lowered to give passage to the Rectifier that carried Clu's invasion force. He could not allow Clu or the Rectifier through to spread the Grid and destroy the world beyond. The Creator had hoped it would not have come to this but knew it might come to pass. There was no choice now and a sacrifice had to be made to save not only His Son and the last ISO, but the world of the Users as well.

So he knelt down on the retracted bridge and placed the tips of his fingers before him on the smooth, onyx surface and used the powers bestowed upon him to stop the corrupted program and save everything. A wave of energy erupted from his being and like a magnet, grasped the persistent and stubborn Clu in an invisible grip far too strong for the Program to resist against.

With a defiant cry of protest, Clu was yanked back toward the epicenter of the tidal force and the open arms of the man who was going to finally erase him as well as himself. With the last micro-cell having finally reintegrated, an eruption of the likes that no Program or User had ever seen before exploded outward, derezzing everything in its path instantaneously...

The Safehouse, the Outlands

When the brightness of the explosion on the distant horizon over the Sea of Simulation had finally faded from sight and all that remained was the luminescent glow of the active Portal, Kevin Flynn turned away from the sight with a pleased but sad smile and stared past the Outlands to the distant Tron City. The sacrifice of the Flynn program gave him a comforting knowledge that his son had managed to escape with Quorra and Clu's plans for world domination had been momentarily stopped. It was enough to allow him to accept his fate with only one regret to plague him for the next thousand cycles.

It was not over.

It would never be over.

"Your move old friend."

Control Center, Tron City

"End of Line subroutine commencing," a disembodied female voice announced in a pitch black chamber that was slowly brightening with orange circuitry illumination. The darkness was pushed back with each light activating until a Resolution pod was highlighted on either side with a stripe. With a hiss, the pod opened just as the last micro-cell completed its rezzing and the figure stepped out into the chamber for the first time.

A dormant siren stepped forward with a Disk and efficiently attached it to the back of the unlit Program and once more the disembodied voice spoke as the lightsuit lit up with the same color orange as the chamber in which it stood in. "Upload and synchronization completed."

"It is safe to assume with the activation of the End of Line subroutine, that the Creator had successfully reintegrated Clu 2.0, resulting in both of their demise?" The Program rhetorically inquired but the only other Program in the room that could have replied said nothing as she stepped back into her stasis pod. He watched her return to hibernation before he turned away and headed out of the only door in the chamber. He needed answers and the only way he could do that was to access the Grid.

As soon as he stepped out of the Resolution chamber, two of the Black Guard flanked him and the one on the right handed him a baton which he quickly holstered on his leg. A few millicycles later they were met with a small retinue of Programs. "Send a Recognizer unit out to Flynn's Safehouse. I need confirmation of his status."

"At once Your Excellency," replied a red striped Program that wore a matching, flowing cloak and a transparent face guard over dark hair, brown eyes and a squarish face. "Though might I suggest a Recognizer also be sent out to the Portal to investigate the explosion that happened there twelve microcycles ago?"

He narrowed his eyes at this news. "Do so. Find out the status of the Rectifier and the Portal Gateway. Report their findings to me immediately on both inquiries." The Program was about to turn and obey the instructions he had been given when his superior spoke once more. "One more thing Risk."

The Program faced him again, waiting to hear what other instructions were to be given.

"Yes?"

"See to it I am not disturbed for the next millicycle."

"As you command, Clu." The red illuminated Program turned away with a flourish of his cloak and the small retinue followed after him, leaving the System Administrator alone with his two personal guard. Clu paid no heed to the departing Program. Risk would find out what he needed to know, to fill in the gaps left after the last backup of his Disk had been made. The rest of the information he could find out within the control center, the very heart of Tron City and the Grid and that is where he was presently headed now.

From there he could continue forward from whatever setbacks the Creator had caused his predecessor and create the perfect system within the Grid and from without the Grid. And as long as he had the ability to create a backup copy of his Disk's coding through the End of Line subroutine, the Creator and any other User would never be able to derezz him permanently and stop his directives from happening.

Like the ISOs before them, the Users would eventually face deresolution.

It was inevitable.

It was their end of line.

So there is Clu and Flynn's backup plans to their own "deaths". Ha! Clu thought he was being clever. Anyway, in case you were wondering. No he did not create a new program, more like he repurposed another program, uploaded his own coding and data into that program thus overwriting the old coding and allowing himself to exist again.