Two Tron plot ideas from last night
Last night, I had such a hard time trying to get to sleep, because every time I closed my eyes, I'd get a new must-write-it-down fic idea. Most were random and not worth writing down, but two clung to life.
1) Tron/Iron Man. This idea can be taken two ways, and plays merry hell with timelines and canons. Clu gets out of the Grid, and becomes Obediah Stane. Tony and Sam join forces to bring him down. (yeah, doesn't make a lot of sense that way. Let's try the opposite direction.) Encom became a subsidiary of Stark Industries; Obediah Stane (who is possibly Kevin Flynn's relative of some kind, maybe a cousin or uncle or brother) had help controlling his Iron Monger battlesuit. Like Tony had Jarvis in his suit, Obediah uploaded an old backup of the CLU program that Kevin Flynn had left behind to help control his systems. When Stane gets fried on the roof, the power surge connects the battlesuit's circuits to the Grid, which formed the basis of all Stark Industries tech. Now Clu is back and attacking programs like Jarvis and the rest of Stark Industries' systems. Tony and Sam join forces and return to the Grid to stop Clu's rampage, with some help from a restored - and haunted by his memories of being Rinzler - Tron.
2) AU of Legacy's end. Clu is winning. Quorra and Kevin Flynn are gone, derezzed by Rinzler. Tron is beyond saving, and Sam is the only one who makes it out of the portal in the end. But in his grief as he goes over the program code from the outside, he discovers a glitch in the Grid's timekeeping codex, causing the entire system to loop. Sam returns to the Grid and finds that everything returned to the way it was before he stepped out of the duplicate Arcade. This time, he knows what the score is - he has his clothes, his Identity Disk, his dad's location in the Outlands, and - thanks to a quick stop to Alan's place - the knowledge of how to restore Tron from Clu's corruption. Of course, nothing is ever as easy as one might think.
1) Tron/Iron Man. This idea can be taken two ways, and plays merry hell with timelines and canons. Clu gets out of the Grid, and becomes Obediah Stane. Tony and Sam join forces to bring him down. (yeah, doesn't make a lot of sense that way. Let's try the opposite direction.) Encom became a subsidiary of Stark Industries; Obediah Stane (who is possibly Kevin Flynn's relative of some kind, maybe a cousin or uncle or brother) had help controlling his Iron Monger battlesuit. Like Tony had Jarvis in his suit, Obediah uploaded an old backup of the CLU program that Kevin Flynn had left behind to help control his systems. When Stane gets fried on the roof, the power surge connects the battlesuit's circuits to the Grid, which formed the basis of all Stark Industries tech. Now Clu is back and attacking programs like Jarvis and the rest of Stark Industries' systems. Tony and Sam join forces and return to the Grid to stop Clu's rampage, with some help from a restored - and haunted by his memories of being Rinzler - Tron.
2) AU of Legacy's end. Clu is winning. Quorra and Kevin Flynn are gone, derezzed by Rinzler. Tron is beyond saving, and Sam is the only one who makes it out of the portal in the end. But in his grief as he goes over the program code from the outside, he discovers a glitch in the Grid's timekeeping codex, causing the entire system to loop. Sam returns to the Grid and finds that everything returned to the way it was before he stepped out of the duplicate Arcade. This time, he knows what the score is - he has his clothes, his Identity Disk, his dad's location in the Outlands, and - thanks to a quick stop to Alan's place - the knowledge of how to restore Tron from Clu's corruption. Of course, nothing is ever as easy as one might think.