The craft arrived at a place out in the Outlands of the Grid. It looked like a rock formation, but the Doctor correctly guessed that there was a hidden door somewhere. William\u2019s observation only confirmed it. \u201cHang on, this is where Kevin Flynn hid,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe place was just lying abandoned,\u201d replied the mystery woman. \u201cWe figured it was a good place to use as a bunker. It sure looked like it.\u201d Her helmet finally vanished to reveal a woman in her early 60\u2019s. The Doctor grinned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGreat to finally see your face!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe gotta stop meeting like this, Professor!\u201d chuckled the woman. The two then hugged like old friends. The other woman then dismissed her helmet, revealing a Chinese woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cErm, Ms. McShane,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFa Mulan!\u201d breathed William. The Chinese woman turned to see William. \u201cDr. William Davies,\u201d he said as he held out his hand. \u201cHuge fan and admirer of how you took down Shan Yu.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNice to meet you,\u201d replied Mulan as she shook William\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs long as we\u2019re introducing one another,\u201d said the Doctor. \u201cEveryone, I\u2019d like you to meet an old friend of mine, Dorothy McShane, or as I knew her, Ace!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHi!\u201d said Ace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026Are you the same Dorothy McShane that started A Charitable Earth?\u201d asked William. \u201cMy brother\u2019s old orphanage is under your umbrella.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAh, so he got adopted, huh?\u201d asked Ace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe\u2019s working as the head of the American branch of your company,\u201d replied William.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNo kidding?\u201d asked Ace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cErm, Ace,\u201d interrupted the Doctor, \u201cI believe there are some questions to answer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRight. Come on, everyone!\u201d Ace led everyone into the bunker. Under its new owners, it looked a little cluttered, compared to when Kevin Flynn was occupying the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSorry about the mess,\u201d said Mulan, \u201cbut we\u2019re still trying to puzzle out a few details. Welcome to Rinzler Base.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRinzler?!\u201d yelped William.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m not the program you saw in Tron: Legacy<\/em>,\u201d came a voice. Out stepped a program with blue light trim, a hole in his cheek where data flowed, and a face of regret and pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2026Tron!\u201d realized William. \u201cBut\u2026how?!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy User, Alan-One,\u201d replied Tron. \u201cHe saved me from the Sea of Simulation somehow. I\u2026I could not be fully restored\u2026nor could I undo what I did in Clu 2\u2019s name. But I could resume my fight for you Users. Unfortunately, Alan-One was arrested in the real world as Maleficent took over, using a disguise. She sent various Disney Princesses down here to fight for the amusement of Sark and a restored MCP.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Master Control Program, I presume,\u201d remarked the Doctor. \u201cHow did he come back? He was destroyed bit by bit, yes?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought he was,\u201d confirmed Tron. \u201cBut Gantu found his old source code and the source code of another program, combining the two into a new MCP. I\u2019ve been trying to rally other Users to my cause, but the political landscape-.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cToo volatile for the rest of us to concern ourselves with supposed works of fiction,\u201d replied William. \u201cEven using fiction to escape the stresses of the world is becoming controversial.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was losing all hope,\u201d said Tron. \u201cBut then AcesHIgh entered the Grid and broke Mulan out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was entirely by accident, but a happy one,\u201d explained Ace. \u201cI was doing something for UNIT because their agent came back terrified at what he saw. They can\u2019t get anything out of him, Professor. He\u2019s been catatonic for the past week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cProbably because what he considered fiction was proven to be real,\u201d remarked the Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was trying to send my findings to Kate, then the MCP digitized me and put me on the Grid. \u2026Didn\u2019t exactly comply, though.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou never did like an oppressive regime,\u201d chuckled the Doctor like a parent with their grown-up child. \u201cBut why is Maleficent sending Disney Princesses down here in the first place?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe wants our power,\u201d replied Mulan. \u201cWe all have certain attributes that little girls admire, humility, courage, forward planning, curiosity, all that stuff. The MCP thinks we\u2019re the best, so he intends to absorb us into him so he could study these attributes, that was the deal he made with Maleficent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDoctor, I think our goals align with theirs for the moment,\u201d remarked Rassilon. She pulled out the tracer and pointed it in the direction of Sark\u2019s ship. It crackled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2026Either Maleficent or Gantu has the segment of the Key to Time,\u201d realized the Doctor. \u201cAnd now, they\u2019re on the Grid. \u2026We\u2019ll need to lure them to us somehow. And the MCP wants me dead. He singled me out so that my friends would die in the games and I would die immediately at his metaphorical hand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2026That\u2019s not like the MCP,\u201d remarked Tron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2026Tron, have they ever come here?\u201d asked the Doctor. \u201cSark and his forces?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey scoured the entire Outlands,\u201d replied Tron. \u201cThey never found our base. Flynn made it too well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThen we\u2019ll have to lure them to the MCP\u2019s base so all parties can get what they want. Now then, everyone, any ideas?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe MCP will want to know your presence is real,\u201d remarked Rassilon. \u201cAnd any disruption at his base will summon Sark to his aid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf I might indulge,\u201d offered Ace, \u201ca hole in the wall at the citadel should do the trick.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA hole you\u2019ll create, I presume,\u201d guessed the Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNaturally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd I have the code needed to defeat the MCP,\u201d offered Tron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2026All right, here\u2019s the plan,\u201d said the Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was a three-pronged assault. Ace, Mulan, and William would blow a hole into the Citadel, while the Doctor and Rassilon strolled through the front door. Amy and Tron would slip in through the confusion, then while the Doctor distracted the MCP, Tron would use his Identity Disc to upload the code into the MCP and derezz him, while Rassilon checked each villain for who had possession of the segment of the Key to Time. Once that was discovered, Rassilon would use the tracer to turn the object back into its original segment form and they would defeat the villains in the confusion, then send all the prisoners back to the real world and expose Maleficent and Gantu\u2019s plan to control Earth\u2019s governments. Once everyone was set on the plan, the craft took everyone to the MCP\u2019s citadel. The Doctor and Rassilon headed to the door as Ace and her team prepared the explosives. The two Time Lords arched their eyebrows at the appearance of the MCP. \u201c\u2026Aren\u2019t you going to get dizzy?\u201d called the Doctor. The MCP stopped rotating and faced the Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDoctor!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2026You seem to have me at a disadvantage,\u201d remarked the Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDoctor, how does the MCP know who you are?\u201d asked Rassilon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBe silent, Rassilon,\u201d interrupted the MCP. \u201cYou\u2019re no god here. That honor belongs to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTell me, were you always this megalomaniacal?\u201d asked the Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019d hardly call it megalomania if it\u2019s true,\u201d answered the MCP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMCP, I can\u2019t say as I recognize you,\u201d admitted the Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat\u2019s because, last time we met, you were still in the world of the Users. You were a dandy at the time. Your third incarnation, I believe your Identity Disc called him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOh, yes, I remember him,\u201d remarked the Doctor. \u201cA touch bitter, for my tastes. Though, being exiled to one time zone WILL do that to you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m sure, Doctor.\u201d The MCP then looked distracted. \u201cAh, so you\u2019ve summoned Sark here. Good. Perhaps I can reeducate him on who the master is. His\u2026BOSS, if you will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2026Why did you emphasize that word?\u201d asked the Doctor, a nasty suspicion forming in her brain. She then heard struggling. Rassilon heard the same. They whirled around to see everyone brought into the Citadel, restrained by guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSorry, Professor,\u201d said Ace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cACE!\u201d yelped the Doctor. She whirled on the MCP. \u201cLet them go or I\u2019ll-!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou\u2019ll what?\u201d scoffed the MCP. \u201cSummon Kate Stewart to finish what her father started with me? Perhaps bomb the place like a typical American? 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