Tron Legacy the Junior Novel - Alice Alfonsi [26]
Kevin considered his son’s words.
“Come on, dad. We can do this.”
But once again Kevin shook his head. “If we go now, at least maybe you can get out. At least there’s a chance.”
“What about everything you created?” Sam asked.
“It’s just a program, Sam!” his father responded, finally losing his cool. “It can all be rewritten. You can’t. It’s not worth your life.”
“What about you? What about Quorra?” Sam asked. “You said it yourself, dad. Some things are worth the risk.”
Kevin blinked in surprise. His own words had come back to haunt him.
“I’m not going back alone, dad.”
Before his dad could argue, Sam took off toward the bridge—and his father’s disc.
THE MOMENT SAM EXITED THE ELEVATOR, he was attacked by two Sentries. He hurled his disc at one, derezzing him instantly.
The other swung his disc. But Sam ducked in time and gripped the Sentry’s legs. With a heave, he tossed the armored guard over the rail.
Three more Sentries appeared. A warrior in action, Sam quickly reduced them to pixels. Then he crossed the bridge and stood before the pedestal. The disc glowed with an inner radiance. But as Sam reached for it, Counselor Jarvis rose in front of him.
“Stop!” Jarvis shouted.
Sam raised his disc with threatening fury, and the cowardly program shrank backward.
“At least I can say I tried to stop him,” Jarvis muttered to himself.
Sam returned to the pedestal. But he was back in Jarvis’s face a moment later. “I came with a girl—a program,” he said. “Where is she?”
A door opened. Sam saw Quorra standing there. He rushed forward to meet her.
That’s what Rinzler was waiting for—he stepped out of the shadows, surprising Sam.
“Sam! go!” Quorra shouted.
Instead, Sam faced Rinzler. dropping into a crouch, he reached behind him with his left hand while he raised his disc with his right.
Rinzler drew his own disc and split it. With a quick flick of his arm, he fired off the first. The toss was aimed directly at Sam’s head.
Sam deflected the first throw with his own disc, but the move left his torso exposed.
Rinzler smiled as he shot his second disc. The razor-sharp edge was coming right for Sam! He was going to be cut in two!
That’s when Sam brought his left hand forward. It was holding his dad’s disc!
Sam knocked aside Rinzler’s second throw. Then he sent his dad’s disc ricocheting off the ship’s hull. The attack surprised the enforcer. He had no time to react.
The sharp edge of Kevin’s disc struck Rinzler square in the chest. Pieces of his thick armor broke off and derezzed. Rinzler howled as the force sent him backward, over the bridge rail.
Sam put up his hand, snagging his father’s boomeranging disc in midair. Then he sheathed it beside his own and went to Quorra.
She threw her arms around Sam and squeezed him tightly. “Thank you,” she whispered.
“Let’s go,” Sam said, pullingggg awayandsnatching some familiarfamiliar
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