Her First Friend

Oreanna Sprinkletop (description in profile) was walking to the candy cane forest. She was looking for new decorations for her kart. She didn't do anything for speed. Oreanna only raced for fun, never for victory. Even so, she always tried her best.

She walked up the hill to see a girl about her age. She seemed to be building something. Oreanna went down for a closer look and saw that it was a pedal kart. She went down to greet the girl.

"Hi." Oreanna said. "Need some help?" The girl turned around, a little angry.

"What do you want?" she spat. "You gonna make fun of me like the others?" Oreanna backed away a bit.

"No. I despise those kinds of things." she said. "Do you want some help?" She motioned to the kart.

"Sure." the girl said. "I need some wheels still. You find those and I'll look for a seat." She was about to go and then stopped. "My name is Vanellope by the way." She pixelated a bit as she said it. Then she dashed off to the marshmallow valley.

Oreanna went the other way to look for wheels. She searched far and wide to look for good pieces. She looked far and wide for wheel like materials. She journeyed as far as she could for what she could use. It led her to the base of Diet Cola Mountain. She found two tall lollipops that, if broken off the stick, could be used as wheels. She tried getting them off but found it impossible. She eventually fell off and was going to bounce off the wall of the mountain. Or so she thought.

Instead, she fell right through the wall and into the mountain. She was amazed to be in the mountain. She journeyed further in to find mentos in the form of stalactites. Oreanna thought they would be perfect wheels. She tried to knock one down to grab it but when it hit the pit of diet cola, it caused a spout of molten diet cola. She dodged as fast as she could. She looked at the mentos again. She decided that she would need help to get them. She ran out and went to look for Vanellope.

(a bit later)

Oreanna found the place where Vanellope was building her kart. When she looked in that direction, she noticed there were more racers. At first she thought that the other racers were going to help too. Then she saw them push Vanellope away. This surprised Oreanna, but not nearly as much as what happened next. All the racers smashed the cart out of nowhere like they were in street fighter. Oreanna jumped out and shouted for them to stop. Taffyta looked over and smiled.

"Hey, you wanna help?" she asked. Oreanna was disgusted.

"No, I don't wanna help." she shouted. "What's wrong with you people?"

"Don't worry it's okay." Adorabeezle said.

"Yeah, she's just a glitch." Rancis said. This angered both Vanellope and Oreanna.

"Oh, she's a glitch, that changes everything." Oreanna said sarcastically. "It makes it perfectly okay to just break her stuff. So what if it's not her fault?" She picked up a candy cane tree branch that fell on the ground. "You know this puts a whole new light on the matter. Now that I think of it, I always hated your blond hair, Rancis." She took the branch and hit his car as hard as she could. Rancis screamed for her to stop. Everyone else, especially Vanellope, watched the events, unmoving with wide unblinking eyes. Oreanna took a few more swings. "Apologize and get out of here." No one moved. She looked at Gloyd. "I hate candy corn." She walked to the kernel.

"I'm sorry for breaking your kart!" he shouted as he ran for his kart. He drove off before anything else. All the other racers did the same. Oreanna looked toward Vanellope.

"Are you okay?" she asked as she helped Vanellope up.

"Yeah." she answered. "You didn't have to do that, you know. I don't want you to lose the friends you have."

"I wasn't that popular anyway." Oreanna said. "It doesn't matter. I don't wanna be friends with them if they would do this for nothing." She nodded toward the half broken kart. "So what are you building this for, anyway?"

"I want to race." she said while starting to fix what she could.

"You realize it's impossible to win with a pedal kart?"

"I don't care." she said. "I just want to race. It's in my coding." She glitched, unintentionally. "Did you see it? Let me show you again." She glitched again, this time on purpose. She laughed with Oreanna.

"So you can control that?"

"Not exactly. I can't stop myself from doing it but I can make myself do it." Then she remembered. "Did you get the wheels?"

"I actually think I found something that would work pretty well. And there's hundreds of them too. I'll show you the way." She was about to run and then stopped. "Check out this upgrade I got on my kart." She whistled and suddenly her kart, the Cream Getaway came riding over the hills. Vanellope was thoroughly impressed. "It cost a bit but it comes in handy." They both got in the kart and Oreanna drove to Diet Cola Mountain. "Hope this works in a kart as well as on foot."

"Watch out, we're gonna crash." Vanellope said. She started screaming until they passed through the wall. Oreanna stopped by the diet cola pit.

"I think those mentos up there are good." she said. "But when I try to knock one down..." Before she could finish, Vanellope threw a rock at the mentos. Oreanna pulled her behind the kart as an explosion of diet cola erupted. When it ended, they looked over the edge. "...that happens."

"So we have to get them without letting the diet cola touch them." Vanellope concluded.

"I think that this taffy rope could do it." Oreanna said as she grabbed a rope from her kart. She looked around the cola roof to notice a couple thick stalactites at the top connected to each other making a loop. Oreanna threw the rope through that loop and tied one end to herself. "Use this to lift me up." Vanellope pulled her end of the rope and pushed Oreanna to get momentum. Vanellope pulled the rope a little more to get Oreanna level with the mentos. Oreanna swung herself to grab the four bottom ones. She grabbed them and threw them over to the ground, just to be safe. "Okay, swing me back over."Just then she heard a crack. It was coming from the stalactites that she was hanging from. "And hurry." Just then, the stalactite broke and Oreanna plummeted toward the diet cola.

"NO!" Vanellope shouted. She ran straight toward Oreanna and without noticing what happened, she was holding her while they were still over the pit. Then they were suddenly back on the other side of the pit. They were both completely surprised. "What just happened?" Vanellope asked.

"I don't know but let's never do that again." Oreanna said. "Just to be clear I mean the bungee jumping over diet cola. Not the teleporting because that was cool."

"I know!" Vanellope said. "I really wish I knew how I did it." She picked up the mentos. "Let's get these things on the kart." She loaded them into the Getaway and sat down behind the driver's seat waiting for Oreanna. As soon as she was in, they rode off toward the pedal kart.

"It's gonna be hard to fix the damages the others did." Oreanna said.

"We can fix it." Vanellope said. "We have four good hands and that's enough." As she said this though, she looked at the road and almost fell off the kart because of what she saw. The kart was fixed already. It was in perfect condition minus the parts it already didn't have. On it, there was a note. Oreanna picked it up and read it aloud.

"We truly are sorry. We fixed the kart as best we could." She turned it over. "No name." She shrugged. "At least we know someone is on our side."

"Are you sure that you don't want to go back and pretend this never happened?" Vanellope asked. "You'd have a better life if you had treated me as badly as they did."

"Yeah but so far, you're more fun than they will ever be. I don't want to make friends that way, anyway."

"So we're friends?"

"Of course." Oreanna said. She put her hand out. "Friends until the end."

Vanellope shook her hand. "Until the end." She shivered. "It feels nice finally having a friend."

"I was just thinking that."