Paperwork. If there was one thing Sergeant Calhoun hated more than a cybug, paperwork was it (or at least was at the very top of the list). There wasn't much, but Surge Protector was insistent that she do it. Totals, tallies, that kind of thing. She leaned back, pushing her bangs back with a gloved hand. She looked at her wedding photo. "Just a little longer, Felix," she said. "And I can see you again." Then Kohut came into her office.
"Sarge!" He yelled. "Sarge, there's been an accident."
"What do you mean, Kohut?" She asked, and something about his face made her heart drop. "Kohut, what's going on?"
"Your husband-" Kohut choked. "He's dead."
"What?" To add to her heart dropping, her stomach joined in. "Kohut you can't be serious. Please. Please don't lie to me like that." She got up out of her chair and walked over to him. "You know I can't take it."
"It's true. He was brought here by this big purple and red cybug. I've never seen one like it before."
"Purple and re-" She stopped mid-word before getting a running start toward the door. "Kohut, I've got to go. Tell the men I'll be back before opening on Monday."
"You know I can't let you do that."
"You don't have a choice!" She barked, boarding her cruiser and setting off towards her game's exit. She clicked the accelerator with her foot, speeding off toward Fix-it Felix, Jr. "Please be there," she whispered. "Please, baby. Please."
But Felix was nowhere to be found. Instead, Wreck-it was waiting for her. "Hey, Sergeant, have you seen-"
"No," she said, wiping her eyes on her sleeve. "Kohut said a cybug got him…but that can't be."
"Well come on," Ralph said. "Let's go look for him. Maybe he's with Vanellope."
Calhoun entered Sugar Rush, and almost immediately afterward, her body began glowing red. "What the-" She asked, before her curiosity was eclipsed with pain. She struggled to breathe, and when she pulled at her neck she found a collar around it. The collar began to beep and she futilely began to scratch at it. "Wre-Wreck- he-lp m-" She began to cough. "Get it-" She gasped for air as it grew tighter around her neck. "Off!"
She watched as Wreck-it reached for her collar. But as soon as he touched it, he glowed red and screamed before he fell to the ground, dead. "RALPH!" Calhoun screamed. "Ralph, no, please, not you too!"
She was answered with a chuckle. "You've been infected, my dear Calhoun." That's when she saw it, a cybrid. The half-human, half-cybug villain she'd heard about from Wreck-it Ralph was standing before her, and she started to shake. She'd never seen a cybrid in full before. "I could have done so much better," he said. "You look like you've got one of those hedgehog's rings around your neck. Now, one moment." He snapped his fingers and she could breathe again. The collar had been changed from a thick golden ring to a thin, tasteful chain necklace with a ruby dangling from it. She shuddered at his touch as he lifted her chin.
"Stay away from me," Calhoun bit. "I'm not in the fucking mood." She backed away, and found only solidity where the portal should have been. She looked behind her and kicked the entrance with her heel and noted that the area she kicked turned red.
"You're a virus now, my dear. You can't leave," the cybrid said. "Unless I alter its code."