A new day on Litwak's arcade. It seemed to be like every other, but this time something was different. Because of Sugar Rush's big succes since Vanellope Von Shweetz became a racer and was reveled as being the reall princess of the videogame, Mr. Litwak decided to plug on another machine of the racing game. That way not only they didn't fight for turns, but they could also play on multiplayer mode.
Truth be told, installing that new machine was one of the best things the arcade owner had ever done in his life. Gamers were really happy to have the multiplayer mode.
But the happiest person was Vanellope Von Shweetz, who was chosen for most races. But there was a problem now. There were two of her now, and they both were on the roster, so when one of the playes chose one of them, they weren't able to pick the other, and viceversa.
But none of them was complaining. When one of them played, the other just rested.
"Who thinks can beat me?"
"Oh, darn, I wanted to be Vanellope!"
"C'mon Taffyta make me win this race!"
"Yeah! I win, in your face dude!"
Those were just some of the most common phrases Vanellope heard all day. It was almost 20:00 o'clock, and the people on the arcade started to go away.
"Time to go boys" Litwak said to two boys that were still playing. "But you can come back on monday"
With "awww" and "Yeah! I was winning the race" both boys left.
Litwak grabbed his coat and the keys. He turned off the lights, and walked out the door locking it behind him.
"The arcade is closed!" One of the Dance revolution girls shouted.
Vanellope let out a sigh of relief.
"Finally, I thought it was never gonna end"
She was usually happy of racing like a 90% of the races, chosen as the gamer's character. But that was somewhat an exeptional day. And she was really tired. But that wouldn't stop her from going to the new candy cart's racing game machine to meet her other self.
She had asked Ralph, Felix and Calhoun to tag along on lunch time, the only free hour they had, since the arcade was closed from 12:00 to 13:00 hs, time that Mr. Litwak took to take a bite. The three of the little girl's friends agreed on going with her.
Vanellope slowly crossed the portal that divided Sugar Rush from Game Central, and walked over to Fix-it Felix Jr., place where they had arranged to meet. She crossed the entrace, and walked over to Ralph's house door.
She knocked on the door loudly, and a few seconds later Ralph opened it.
"Hey kid, how was your day?" Ralph asked.
"Pretty exahusting, booger face." She answered with a smirk on her face.
Ralph also smiled, and then he moved aside for the kid to go in. As soon as he moved, Vanellope ran towards a black leather couch, only to lay on it, completely relaxed. Vanellope had always thought this was the most comfortable couch in the world, even more than the one on the castle, which was completely made of candy cotton.
The both sat there talking, waiting for Felix and Tamora, but it wasn't long until they arrived.
"Hey Ralph, hi Vanellope" Felix asked as he crossed the door, closing it behind him.
"Hey hammer man" Vanellope said indiferently.
"Wreck-it, kiddo" Calhoun said.
Both mentioned saluted back.
"Should we get going?" Ralph asked.
"Yeah we should" Tamora answered.
And with that the four of them walked to the new Sugar Rush.
When they crossed the portal and walked to the Candy Cane Forest.
Vanellope felt some kind of shiver go down her spine, kind of like a bad intuition, something told her she shouldn't be there. But she shrugged it off. It couldn't be that important.
Meanwhile, the sergeant had her gun clutched on her hands, and she wouldn't let go of it. It looked like a Cy-bug would jump out of nowhere, and she would have to use it.
Ralph was looking arround the well known by him videogame, while Felix looked everything arround him amazed.
"Where are we supposed to be going?" Ralph asked sttoping on his tracks.
"I guess the other me lives on the castle"
"Not necesarily" Tamora said.
"What do you mean?" Felix asked.
"If it's something which is not related to the game's rules, or something related to the games's general code, it can be different on every videogame" She explained.
They all had a puzzled expression on their faces.
She sighed.
"It means that things which aren't related to the games's coding can be different on every videogame."
Vanellope was still trying to get what Calhoun had said.
"It means for example Ralph maybe you're best friend here, but maybe in another arcade you'd hate each other. Still Ralph's game coding would be the same. He would only be the big guy who wreck's the building. No offense man" Felix explained for his wife.
"None taken"
"Now I'm confused..." Vanellope said. "Still, we should go to the castle"
She then ran in the direction the castle was, the other three slowly walking behind her.
She was one mile away from the building when she got tired of running, so she just glitched to the entrace.
She knocked on the door, and waited. SourBill opened.
"Oh no" he whispered in hope the girl didn't hear. "Princess Taffyta" he called.
Taffyta appeared wearing the pink dress Vanellope had worn only when she was revealed to be the ruler of Sugar Rush.
"W-what are you doing here Vanellope?" Taffyta asked half nervous, half afraid, but still trying to sound interested.
Ralph, Tamora and Felix appeared right behind Vanellope.
"Who are they?" She asked once again now even more nervous.
Vanellope got nervous at that point. She had never thought she would be in this situation.
"Um... well, you see... I'm the other Sugar Rush's Vanellope, and this are Ralph and Felix from Fix-it Felix jr., and Sergeant Calhoun from Hero's Duty. We just came to say hi, you know... yo say welcome to the arcade" She explained, though she didn't know what to say.
Taffyta stared directly into her eyes for a minute. Vanellope didn't even move.
The other three looked weirdly at them.
"You can come in!" Taffyta said now relaxed, and excited. "Let's go"
Vanellope let out a little cough, and tiltedher head over to her three friends.
"Oh and you're friend are welcome too" she added smiling at them.
Taffyta led them to the dinning room, where every racer was, sitting arround a large table that was filled with food. They were talking with each other... until they saw Vanellope. They all shut up and got up from the table.
"What is SHE doing here?" Swizzle asked.
"Don't worry guys, she's from the other Sugar Rush" the new game's princess said "oh, and they are her friends"
"How would you know that?" Snowanna retored.
"Trust me, I know she's from the other game, just chill out." She walked to the table and sat down. "SourBill, bring four chairs"
He got the chairs and spred them arround the table.
"C'mon guys relax" Taffyta said to the rest of the competitors, "Sit down" They slowly walked back to their chairs.
They knew Taffyta wouldn't let anything that could hurt them in the castle.
"So, Vanellope, who's YOUR game's princess?" Minty asked.
"Well, in fact that's me... and it's not princess, it's president"
"You? President? What?" Adorabeezle said.
And with that Vanellope told the racers the whole story, since her being a glitch, until recovering Sugar Rush's throne and becoming president, with the ocassional comments like "Yeah!", and an angry face when she told the medal incident from Ralph who was eating a blueberry pie.
"Wow, that really happened?"
"Yep, and I can still..." she glitched and appeared right in the fron door "do this" she finished glitching back to her seat.
Everybody was amazed. After that, the whole situation became more comfortable. They all talked to each other, like they had known each other for ages.
"Does it really work?" Gloyd asked to Calhoun refearing to her gun.
"Can I try?" Swizzle asked.
"Are you sure?"
Swizzle nodded his head.
"Just... don't drop it yeah? It's fragile"
She handed the gun the the boy. He aimed to a vase that was restin on a table and shot. He missed, almost shooting SourBill who was on the way.
"Upss... sorry Bill"
He handed the gun back to Tamora.
"You just need some practise"
Meanwhile, Snowanna, Jubileena, Candlehead and Adorabeezle were talking to Felix about his wedding.
"Aww, so cute" Candlehead said.
"You were completely nervous, weren't you?" Snowanna asked.
"And how, I was sweating so hard I could fill a pool with sweat"
"Disgusting, still cute" Adorabeezle said "can you show us the ring... again?"
He extended his right hand, and showed out the finger where the ring was resting on. He couldn't help but smile as he did everytime he saw the ring.
"So sweet" Jubileena said.
Vanellope, Ralph, Taffyta, Minty and Crumbelina were all talking and laughing together.
"So you really thought the medal was a coin?" Minty asked laughing.
"Hey, don't blame me it was my only chance to race!" Vanellope defended herself"
"You know, you should've learnt to DRIVE if you wanted to RACE before stealing MY medal" Ralph said.
"Shut it stink brain, you said you were a tree inspector, and if I'm not wrong, you ended up inside a cupcake"
This made the three girls laugh, and Ralph look angry.
"It was your fault, mayor body odor!"
"You ended up inside a cupcake man! How could that be my fault?" She asked laughing a little more.
She didn't hear Ralph's answer. She remebered the reason she had gone to the videogame for. She looked arround, but Vanellope was nowhere arround.
"Um... can I ask you something?" She asked to the still laughing Taffyta.
"Go ahead"
"Where is Vanellope?"
"If I'm not wrong you're sitting on that chair" she answered now serious.
"I mean the other me, she isn't here is she?"
When they heard her question everybody shut up, even Tamora and Felix.
"Why would you want to know about that lame excuse of a racer, that almost led Sugar Rush to the ruin?" Princess Taffyta asked now completely serious.