Oh yes, that had gotten to him. Could it be he still had a soft spot for what was left of Tron? Or was he simply offended at Clu's assessment of his handiwork? Whatever the case he made note of it. The bit about Dyson, though, was what prompted his next response, namely a derisive snort.
"If Dyson'd had his way, Tron wouldn't have survived long enough to turn into Rinzler," he said. "And he wouldn't know decent codework if it hit him in that giant head of his. Glitch tried to brute-force hack an already damaged program; the fact that Tron didn't derezz completely before someone found him is astonishing. I can't take credit for most of the physical repair work- that was another of his allies-, but the fact that he remained himself as long as he did? That was all me."
For all the good it had done in the end. But they'd both known what the inevitable outcome would be. Clu had simply allowed Tron to do some good, accomplish something for the resistance before the trojan code claimed him.
The rest of it though... he briefly debated replying at all, but the lag was miniscule. It was a relatively quick decision tree; all in all, his best chance of survival and escape was to keep his captor talking and find out as much as possible.
"And I can do a lot of things. I can't say whether or not what you want is on the list unless you tell me what it is. The real question though, is whether or not I will do it. Which is unlikely, but also depends partly on what the task is. So come out and tell me what you want from me, cause this conversation will just keep looping if you don't dump that data, and I suspect neither of us has time for that."
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"If Dyson'd had his way, Tron wouldn't have survived long enough to turn into Rinzler," he said. "And he wouldn't know decent codework if it hit him in that giant head of his. Glitch tried to brute-force hack an already damaged program; the fact that Tron didn't derezz completely before someone found him is astonishing. I can't take credit for most of the physical repair work- that was another of his allies-, but the fact that he remained himself as long as he did? That was all me."
For all the good it had done in the end. But they'd both known what the inevitable outcome would be. Clu had simply allowed Tron to do some good, accomplish something for the resistance before the trojan code claimed him.
The rest of it though... he briefly debated replying at all, but the lag was miniscule. It was a relatively quick decision tree; all in all, his best chance of survival and escape was to keep his captor talking and find out as much as possible.
"And I can do a lot of things. I can't say whether or not what you want is on the list unless you tell me what it is. The real question though, is whether or not I will do it. Which is unlikely, but also depends partly on what the task is. So come out and tell me what you want from me, cause this conversation will just keep looping if you don't dump that data, and I suspect neither of us has time for that."