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Prologue: Sam had just returned from the grid. He had found his father after twenty years only to lose him again. He knows that Kevin made an act of self-sacrificing bravery when he reintegrated with CLU. The pain of loss still hurt, but he was also proud of his father for giving his life to help him escape. Inside the arcade Alan was waiting, having received a page. Sam would inform Alan he was taking Encom back and appointing him Chairman. Outside Flynn’s Arcade, Quorra was waiting for Sam. As they rode away on his motorcycle, Quorra would see her first sunrise while Sam contemplated what changing the world would mean for both of them.
He didn’t know how long he drifted, days, weeks. As he slowly woke up he was surrounded by crushing blackness. His memories were slower to recover. As his motor functions returned he found himself swimming, or he thought he was swimming. As his consciousness returned he began to realize where he was. He had fallen in to the Sea of Simulation after a fight, but a fight with whom. As he broke the surface, he found his way to land. Slowly he begins to remember the light jet battle, trying to stop fugitives. One of them seemed familiar, a face from his past. He then begins to remember a voice, “Rinzler, take the shot! Finish the Game!” As he watched in his memory he sees one light jet pull off from the chase, thinking it was strange until he remembers that was his action. Then the whole fight comes back. He is flying a circle over the three person light jet, looking down he sees the Creator, Kevin Flynn. He couldn’t hear what Flynn said, but the movement of the words came out as: “Tron, what have you become?” He flashes back to after he pulled out of the battle, and he is flying his jet towards the other pilot, and “I fight for the Users” springs up and he says the words aloud again. He now remembers everything, CLU beating him in combat while he fought desperately to help his friend Flynn escape. Being repurposed to become Rinzler. Most of all he remembers who he was before. The words come out strong.
“I am Tron.”
Tron slowly stands up, regaining his strength and begins to make his way back to the city, hoping that it survived CLU’s destruction.