APPLICATIONS -- 2010; 001

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Kevin Flynn | Tron | Reserved | 3/?

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2010:

• 21 years have passed in the real world, and nine thousand eleventy hundred billion (I may be exaggerating) have on the Grid, 'cause computers are fast. Flynn, who is now like 1,200 years old but looks about 60, has embraced Zen Buddhism, because what the hell else has he got to do with his time?
  
• CLU is looking for Flynn's identity disk, this glowing frisbee everyone keeps on their back that records their lives, because as both a User and the Creator of the system, Flynn's disk has special properties that will let CLU get out of the computer and into the real world.
  
• Stalemate!
  
• Responding to a page CLU sends to the beeper that Alan still carries after 20 years because it's Alan, Flynn's son Sam finds Daddy's old workstation in the arcade and zaps himself onto the Grid. That family has a problem with accidental laser discharges.
  
• Sam has adventures that are suspiciously like Flynn's adventures from the first movie until Quorra rescues him from the Game Grid in the Batmobile and takes him to Stately Flynn Manor out in the wastelands, for a reunion and some exposition over dinner, where Flynn proceeds to disappoint his son by being Zen at him.
  
• Sam decides he's getting the hell off the Grid and delete CLU from the command line even if Flynn isn't going to help, and runs off after dinner to find Zuse, a program Quorra said would be able to help him. Zuse of course sells Sam out to CLU.
  
• Flynn pokes his head out of Enlightenment long enough to realize Junior's gonna get himself de-rezzed, and goes into the city after him, thus bringing his identity disk within CLU's grasp.
  
• Flynn kicks some ass, User style, and saves Sam from CLU's forces. However, as he's leaving, a masked program who fights with two identity disks and totally isn't a reprogrammed Tron even a little nuh-uh uses a batarang-type thing to steal the disk off Flynn's back.
  
• Oops.
  
• Flynn, Sam, and Quorra hop a flying freight train to the Portal. Quorra is kind of in a coma at the time from getting hit in the fight, and Flynn fixes her while bonding with his son, 'cause he's the Creator and he can do that. He tells Sam that hell or high water, Quorra needs to be saved, on account of being the last unicornISO.
  
• Flynn thought of wireless Internet in 1985. Trufax.
  
• Yeah so, it turns out CLU is staging his real-world invasion army in a floating fortress-thing right by the Portal. This will prove handy for getting Flynn's disk back!
  
• Sam goes and steals back Flynn's disk, Flynn goes and steals a plane, and Quorra goes and gets herself caught, but it's a handy distraction.
  
• Flying chase! It's pretty much the escape from the Death Star scene from the first Star Wars movie. Tron gets redeemed just in time to plummet to his probable de-rezzing. *sniffle*
  
• The three arrive at the Portal. Guess who's already there!
  
• Yes, it's CLU.
  
• CLU monologues for a bit, and Flynn apologizes for giving him an impossible task in "perfecting" the Grid. It's a little too late for all that, and as Flynn urges Quorra and Sam to the Portal, CLU steals Flynn's disk.
  
• Flynn wasn't rezzed yesterday. It's actually Quorra's disk! Quorra has his. Ha-ha!
  
• CLU charges toward Sam and Quorra, but Flynn is the Kwisatz HaderachCreator, and reintegrates CLU by an act of will.
  
• They explode, apparently leveling the Grid, as Sam and Quorra beam out.
  
• ...Sequel?

I'll be pulling Flynn from before Legacy begins, since the movie takes place over the course of about a day, and he dies at the end.