Tron: Uprising is finally getting the spottlight and attention it deserves; so in honor of this I decided to do a humans are weird story about The Grid. Jacob decides to take his alien friend, Noxx, on a little vacation to the galaxies favorite deathworld, earth. But, instead of the normal sights and attractions around earth, Jacob decides to take Noxx to a little place in Center City; a little arcade named Flynn’s Arcade.
“Noxx honestly we're just going outside you don’t need-”
“We are on a category epsilon death world, Jacob!” Noxx said, their voice muffled from the three layers of high-density impact armor they wore, armor meant to be used in the vacuum of space, “Your species is madcap for living on such a disordered world!”
“Ah, yes sorry my species evolved here, now take off the armor or I’m bringing out Waffles again.” A small little bell rang as a tiny calico cat came from the kitchen. Jacob picked Waffles up and brandished her like a gun and aimed her at Noxx.
“Alright! Alright! Just put that murder fluff away from me!!” an hour later, Noxx borrowed some of Jacob's clothes and headed out. In the car Noxx queried Jacob on where they were headed.
Jacob passed a glance and smirked at Noxx, “Your just gonna have to see for yourself bud.” Jacob parked in front of an old brick building, the sounds of blips and beeps emanating from inside.
“Fly-inns Ark-aid?” Noxx’s translator wasn’t the latest model so they tried their best to read the sign.
“Close enough, but people just call it Flynn's.”
“Flynn’s? I can remember that.” They made their way inside. The inside was dark and the sounds blared even louder in here, along with the crowds of people inside, Noxx felt no sense of comfort, “This place doesn’t seem to agree with my definition of fun Jacob.”
“Good, cause we're not here for the arcade games.” Jacob grabbed Noxx’s hand and pushed through the crowd until there was a clearing, “We’re here for that.” Jacob let go of Noxx’x hand and pointed to a lone game cabinet, named Tron.
A large bulky human stood next to it, “Jacob! How’ve you been?”
“Ekco! you ISO son-of-a-bitch It’s been a long time hasn’t it?” They hugged and chatted with small talk; after they were done catching up Jacob pulled out a strange card from his back pocket, it was pure white with glowing lines covering it, “I’m going to take alien friend here for a little fun on the Grid, that cool?”
Ekco scowled a bit after Jacob said that, but it wasn’t a scowl of annoyance more of concern, “Look, Jacob humans are alright but I don’t think your alien friend over there is gonna work well with some of the ISO’s or Basics.”
“Come on if he’s with me it’ll be fine.”
“That doesn’t solve the issue here Jacob, they might think he’s-”
“They,” Jacob interjected.
“Sorry, might think They’re a virus and will try to derezz them.”
Jacob let out a heavy sigh and pinched his eyes, “Look yeah they may have more eyes and arms and a tail, but they still have the basic silhouette, what if you give me a masking code when they get their disk, huh?”
Ekco pondered for a moment, “that could work.” Ekco handed Jacob a strange transparent disk with circuit lines pulsating from it, “Your lucky I had one,” Ekco knocked on the Tron arcade cabinet, suddenly the whole wall swiveled outward revealing a set of stairs heading down, “Enjoy the Grid, try not to die.” Ekco looked at Noxx.
“Wait did that guy just say try not to die!?”
“Don’t worry Noxx I’ll watch your back,” Jacob said, trying to reassure Noxx.
As they made there way down the stairs to the basement of the building Noxx noticed that the basement floor was metallic, “Is this the ‘Grid’?” Noxx asked in confusion.
“Nope, but we're about to head there in a second.”
“What are you-” Noxx’s sensor frills on their head noticed the smell of charging photons, “Jacob what's going on-” A bright flash suddenly engulfed the room in an instant, suddenly the room was dark, “Jacob!”
“Calm down, I’m over here.” Noxx turned to Jacob to see that their clothes had changed, Jacob was now wearing a strange all-whit trench coat like bodysuit with glowing white lines on the edges and seams, “I look good right?”
“How did you change so fast?”
“I didn't, this is just what Users get when they enter the Grid.” Jacob didn’t make any sense “Users,” “Grid” it was all too strange for them, just what in the universe were these humans doing, “Look you have some too.” Noxx turned around to see a large mirror behind them, in it they got to see what they were now wearing; it was the same color scheme as Jacobs new attire, only it looked more like the priest’s robes from their home planet of Kxaxa, long and flowing shawls and sashes with a large hood. “Good, now I need to take a look at your identity disk.”
“It's on your back.” Noxx touched their back and felt a smooth and rounded object was attached to them, they pulled it off seeing that it was some kind of flattened ring of sorts; it flashed to like as a hologram of their face appeared along with images and videos of memories they’ve experienced all throughout their life, “Careful, it a lot to take in just make sure you don’t activate-” suddenly the disk’s outer edges electrified to life with a ringing hum; startled Noxx dropped the disk which sliced the flood like it was nothing, “Don’t activate the combat mode by accident, that was what I was going to say.”
Noxx handed their disk to Jacob, “Sorry friend.” they said apologetically.
“It's fine just let me put this in first this,” Jacob waved the device he got from Ekco, “On your ID disk, okay?” he placed the device on Noxx’s ID disk, the device dissolved into the disk, “Now put this back on,” he said Handing the disk back to Noxx.
After placing their ID disk back on a strange light began to trail all over their body, surprised the looked back into the mirror to find that the looked near-perfectly human, “H-how is this-”
“It’s one of the few gifts of the Grids technology, now come on let's head back up top I wanna show you something.” As they made their way to the front Noxx became stunned by what they saw, sky scrappers made of light and glass perfect symmetry, strange flying objects leaving trails of tangible light, and people wearing the same kind of strange clothing only the colors consisted of black base and different colored lights, “Beautiful isn’t it?”
“Jacob, what is this place?”
Jacob laughed and placed his hand on Noxx’s shoulder, “My friend, welcome to the Grid.”
Finished, I hope you enjoyed reading it and as always like and reblog and if this gets enough I’ll do another part. thank you