Chapter 12

Sam even after cooperating with another programme named Aqua was still unable hold long in the light cycle fight.

Aqua's Light Cycle shattered like glass, but the program was thrown safely clear. Proud that he survived, Aqua raised his arms in triumph.

Although Sam came to help Aqua,Clu saw that the young program was off his Light Cycle. revving his own cycle, Clu shot down a ramp and struck the teenager head-on.Aqua was instantly derezzed.

No! Sam thought.But he barely had time to react. Clu had skidded into a full circle and revved his engine. A moment later he shot forward, bearing down again—this time on Sam.

Above the whine of the Light Cycle's power processors, Sam could hear the audience cheering.

I'm the last one left, Sam realized. It's him or me now!

Sam kicked his Light Cycle up to full speed and took aim. With the crowd cheering and shouting, Sam made a final, suicidal charge at Clu.

Clu destroyed his lightcycle throwing him off, Clu turned around and returned heading straight for Sam in his lightcycle raising his disc for the deathblow.

Clu raised his disc for the deathblow.

Sam freed his own disc, its deadly sharp edge gleaming in the blue-black light too. Out of the corner of his eye Sam saw a vehicle burst out of a hidden ramp. He recognized it immediately.

"A Light Runner," Sam whispered in awe. It was the bonus vehicle from the final level of the Tron game. The Light Runner had a razor-sharp nose that cut through the grid as it moved, splintering it. Behind the Light Runner, a wall of a refractive index similar to that of water. This transparency therefore gives light ribbons a liquid appearance.

These crystal walls created a deadly wake. Sam watched the Light Runner cut right in front of Clu's cycle. Clu tried to swerve, but it was too late. His cycle struck the runner's crystal wall and exploded into spiky shards.

Clu bounced helplessly across the grid, with bits of his armor breaking off as he flew. The crowd gasped. The Light Runner circled Sam and halted beside him. A hatch opened.

The crowd gasped.

The Light Runner circled Sam and halted beside him. A hatch opened. "Get in," a voice told Sam.

The announcer voice resonated within the arena"Illegal combatant on the Grid.System failure. Release Rinzler."

Sam didn't know what to do. He looked inside the hatch and saw a driver behind the controls. But he couldn't see through the driver's dark visor.

It was Qorra, who insisted"Get in…now,"

Sam with no better choices, leaped into the Light Runner's cabin and settled down beside the driver. The hatch closed, and the vehicle made a 360-degree turn. Across the grid, Clu got back on his feet and muttered"Game on,old friend."

He motioned for the pursuit cycles to get moving. With a thundering roar, the black cycles raced after the Light Runner.

By now, a speeding pursuit cycle had caught up with them.

Sam felt a jolt as the Light Runner slammed the other speeder. The pursuit cycle flipped over and derezzed. It wasn't enough. More pursuits drove through the jagged shards of the first.

Sam looked back Among the, Sam saw Rinzler, the dark warrior program who had battled him in the arena.The driver tapped a control on the console. The button released explosive mines from the belly of the runner. Bombs fell one after another into the path of the pursuit cycles. One derezzed instantly, then another, then a third. Others were coming.

Club seemed to have ordered more to enter the field and they were relentlessly pursuing them.

Sam looked at his so called savior and said with a worried tone "There are too many of them and they are closing in."

Qorra replied"Don't worry, I have someone on it."

Sam then saw something drop from the sky, it was humanoid and seemed like high tech armor , it also had some sort of wings.

Alexander studied the incoming group with Rinzzler on his heads-up display, while told EVE"Make sure to keep Tron from being derezzed"

EVE replied"I am locking on everyone expect him."

A sound canon or sonic disruptor popped open on Alexander's left gauntlet and fired unleashing a sonic blast BOOOOM !.

But Tron launches ... himself out of the light cycle at the last minute, while he misses a colossal sonic blast hits the rest of the riders , !!

Shattering them into thousands of cubical voxels, which scatter on the ground like broken glass. The cube-like voxels appear to remain on the Grid after deresolution.

Tron then lands hard on the ground, while

Alexander lifted off again, heading back toward the Kevin base.

Sam saw everything and was in shock, but he turned to question his savior then realized he was facing a more dangerous threat. Their Light Runner was on a collision course with the grid's boundary wall! They were going too fast. And the driver showed no signs of stopping!

Sam yelled"Pull up, man, you can't make that!"

At the last possible second, the driver punched another button on the control panel. Two electric blue missiles fired from tubes in the hull. They blew a massive hole in the wall! A split second later, the Light Runner roared through the opening.

She switched to "off-grid' the Light Runner transformed to adapt to the rougher terrain by extending small studs from its tires for better traction, and adjusting its suspension for better ground clearance and shock absorption.

The landing was slightly rough, but they cleared "Made it," the she said, finally retracting the dark visor. "I'm Quorra."

Sam was in daze seeing Qorra, but broke out of is and noticed they were not being followed , so he asked"They're turning around."

Qorra explained"Not by choice.Their vehicles can't go off Grid.They'll malfunction on this terrain."

Sam stupidly questioned"What about us?

Quorra laughed and answered"Obviously not."

While Sam once again noticed flying figure zip through the air, so he asked"Who is that?'

Quorra smiled and with slight excited tone replied"My boyfriend."

Sam just ohhhed and changed topic"Where are you taking me?"

Quorra mysteriously replied"Patience, Sam Flynn."