Decided to make a hopefully not too long story for the Turbo/Vanellope pairing. :3 It's set to pre movie eventually following into movie storyline except it's AU, so no cybugs but Ralph should still be making an appearance later.
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It was dark, quiet, uncomfortable, and worst of all…boring.
Vanellope could only sit lazily in the middle of the so called 'fungeon' as King Candy has so fondly called it. She shifted a bit, causing the chains connected to her waist to let out clinking sounds against the wall.
Resting her head in her hands, Vanellope let out a loud sigh, her hazel eyes began to examine the wall as she swung her legs idly back and forth to keep them from getting numb. She blinked as her eyes finally caught some interesting stuff posted on the walls.
"Someone's been naughty," she read aloud, moving onto the next sign. "Bad girl…are these new? How did I never notice them before?..King Candy's a weirdo."
She was staring blankly at the pictures of the clowns when the door creaked open. "Well, if it isn't his royal sugarness." She muttered sarcastically.
"Hello, my little glitch! Have you thought about your naughty actions that caused you to get a time out?" He asked sweetly, bouncing happily into the room.
Vanellope glared down at the ground. "I didn't do anything wrong.."
King Candy giggled cheerfully. "Hoohoo, yes, you did," he sang. "You don't think that breaking into the kart making factory and trying to build a kart without MY permission isn't bad?"
The candy covered girl chewed on her lower lip anxiously. "I just want to race.."
His highness giggled once more and reached a hand out to capture his prisoner's chin, gently lifting her head until her sad gaze met his own stern ones. "I already told you before that. You. Can't. Race. You'll put the game AND yourself at risk of getting unplugged, and I just can't have that."
Her hands fiddled with the end of her peanut butter skirt, eyes staring desperately up at the king. "B-but..I'll try to control my glitch, I promise." She cringed as she felt her body start to glitch as soon as she finished her sentence.
King Candy stared at her intently, thumb brushing along her flickering jawline before pulling his hand away as he watched her body continue to flicker erratically, the glitch proof chains making sure that she never glitched away from the spot she was in. "As you can see gumdrop, your glitch is not something that you can control." He told her, staring pointedly at the blue codes flowing along her form.
She wringed her skirt in her hands, willing her body to stop glitching. "I can…I can practice controlling it…then I'll be able to race." She insisted, glancing at him from under her bangs to see him shake his head with a frown drawn on his usually smiling lips.
"No, you can-"
"Please!" She pleaded, feeling herself become desperate. "Haven't you ever wanted to race so bad that you felt like you would do anything just to get the chance to do it?" She asked him softly, hearing her voice crack near the end, much to her chagrin, as tears gathered in her eyes.
Vanellope expected him to be sending her a sneer, a mocking smile, or even a look of indifference but what she saw made her eyes widen a bit. He was staring at her with what looked like sympathy in his eyes, she blinked in disbelief and the look was gone, replaced with his usual smiling expression, as he studied the blue codes still running along her body, constantly flickering her image more than usual.
"Like I said gumdrop, you can't control your glitching…I mean just look at yourself, it turned you from a kid to an adult." He pointed at her form, as the uncontrollable glitching finally died down.
"Hoohoo! You most definitely can't race now glitch!" He told her gleefully, taking joy in the horrified expression on her face as she looked down at herself.
"No…no..no! This can't be happening!" She screamed, squirming around, trying to break free of the chains wrapped snugly around her slender waist. King Candy silently watched her fit with a carefree smile.
Eventually, the child turned adult calmed down, choosing to stare down in sorrow at her petite body, she opened and closed her long, slender fingers in front of her face, almost like she was trying to prove to herself that they were really her hands. "I…I can't believe this is happening to me.."
The King chuckled and reached a hand out to tilt her head up, stealing her attention from her hands. "Well, you better believe it gumdrop. You're a glitch, and now you're too big to even fit into a kart."
Without her noticing, a tear managed to slip down Vanellope's cheek, King Candy, however, noticed and quickly swiped his thumb across her cheek to catch it. He then wiped his thumb off on Vanellope's sweater. "What's the matter glitch? Can't handle the fact that you can never race?" He teased.
She coiled her head away from his touch, lowering it down to face her lap. "Just let me go back to my room."
He chuckled and brought his hand back to his side. "No, I don't think so. I've been too generous by letting you stay at my castle."
The young girl stared up at him with wide eyes. "W-what?"
"You heard me," he released a heavy breath, looking almost like he was hurt. "I've let you stay here out of the kindness of my code. I ignored the fact that you're a freak and gave you your own room, and you thank me by breaking into the kart factory and trying to build a kart after I've already told you that you were forbidden from racing."
Vanellope watched him silently, rendered speechless for once, her jaw trembling lightly as she fought the tears from surfacing.
He looked away from her with a sad sigh. "I've given you too much it seems, you're starting to think you can do anything you want. So, as your punishment, I'm taking away your room. You are no longer allowed to live in my castle."
She stared at him in bewilderment as his words registered into her head, she sucked in a shaky breath, blinking her eyes rapidly as it began to get blurry with tears. "Where…where am I supposed to live?"
The king was completely unsympathetic to her plight as he laughed cheerfully. "That's something for you to figure out on your own, my dear. Now that you're an adult, you should be perfectly capable of taking care of yourself." He turned away from her, making his way back to the entrance, intending on calling the guards to release her.
"Hoohoo, we'll see how long you'll make it without my help, there's food everywhere of course, but you won't have the luxury of living in an actual home. We'll see how long it'll take you before you come crawling back and begging me to take you back in."
"I hate you." Those three words stopped him right in his tracks, slowly he turned back to face his prisoner.
"What did you just say?"
The chained girl gulped noisily, forcing herself to not be intimidated by him, she glared up at him as all her sadness flared into anger, she straightened her back and steeled her voice as she repeated herself. "I said that I. Hate. You." She growled.
The man stared at her blankly for a few seconds, then promptly broke out into cheerful laughter. "Oh, you're funny glitch! Nobody hates me, everybody loves me!" He informed her, inbetween laughs, wiping mirthful tears from his eyes.
Vanellope gritted her teeth, furious that he assumed that she would just love him blindly like everyone else, despite the way he was treating her.
Her smoldering eyes burned into his once they connected. "Well, I for one don't love you! I hate you! I hate your candy covered guts!" She screamed viciously, she took a deep breath once she got him to stop laughing and continued in a more calm voice. "And I certainly don't need you, I can survive without you. I will never beg for your help."
They stayed silent, glaring each other down, their breathing being the only sounds in the suffocating room. Finally, King Candy spun away from her with a huff. "Hmph, we'll see about that." He muttered, exiting the room with a slam of the metal door, leaving the young woman to herself in the lonely room until the guards came to release her.
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King candy watched from his window as the young woman walked calmly away from his castle, never once glancing back, much to his irritation. "You don't love me, huh? We'll see about that. Nobody hates me, everybody loves me," he mumbled to himself. "Everybody loves me…and that includes you too, my precious little glitch." He continued muttering to himself as his eyes never once moved from her shrinking form until she disappeared completely from his sight.
He left his room and strolled past his little sour assistant. "Well, I have lots of time until the arcade opens, I'm going to go see where the glitch is planning to make her home. Sour Bill, you're in charge of the castle until I come back." He told the green candy who agreed with a quiet hum.
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Vanellope let out an exhausted sigh, she had been trekking around for a while now and still could not find any place where she would be comfortable to live at.
Stopping in front of one of the many lollipop trees, she reached up and broke off one of the lollipop branches, bringing it down to her level, she gave it an experimental lick, eyes lighting up in approval. "Mmm, grape."
With her newfound treat in hand, the girl made her way over to diet cola mountain. Once she reached it, she turned around and leaned back, intending to rest there for a bit, before continuing her search for a new home. A squeak escaped her lips when she felt no support on her back and found herself falling backward through the mountain wall to land painfully on the ground, her lollipop having fallen on her face in the process.
"Ow.." She groaned, peeling the sucker off her face and sat up to look at her surroundings. "Whoa, I'm inside the mountain?" She wondered out loud.
She stood up and began to wander around the hidden area, a smile playing at her lips the deeper she wandered in, taking notice of the fact that it looked like an unfinished level. "This is so cool!" She squealed in excitement, as she stopped in front of the hot cola spring, giving the warning signs only a brief glance. She found herself staring in amazement at the bubbling liquid.
The candy haired girl then looked up at the ceiling to see the many mentos hanging there, an eyebrow rose as she looked at the white candy, then looked back down to the sizzling soda, then back at the candy as a devious smirk tugged at the corner of her mouth. "Oh, this is going to be fun."
Bending down, she picked up a medium sized chocolate rock, she playfully tossed it into the air and caught it before taking aim at the candy stuck on the ceiling. She quickly tossed the rock as hard as she could and watched in anticipation as it smacked a candy loose, causing it to fall and drop into the boiling cola.
"Whoa!" She laughed, jumping back in surprise, voice and body distorting suddenly, as the hot liquid splashed up, some of it landing by her feet as soon as the mento hit the soda.
"This is most definitely gonna be my new home." She announced out loud to herself, as her hazel eyes stared appreciatively at her new place.
"Who says this is gonna be your new home?" A voice replied.
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Before anyone asks, yes, King Candy messed with her code to make her older. She didn't just randomly glitch into one. Oh, and I apologize for any oocness, I'm trying to keep them in character as best as I can.
Anyways, thanks for reading! :D
p.s. does anybody have an idea for a title? I have no idea what to make the title so I'm just calling it Vanilla for now.