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A/N: Hello everyone! Alisi Thorndyke here with another WIR fanfic for you guys, but it's more of a collection of one-shots than it is an entire story. Within this one-shot collection, a variety of pairings will be displayed from Jawbreaker, VanillaButter, PeanutbutterTaffy, VanillaPumpkin to even TwistedMint (SwizzlexMinty Zaki). Viewers/reviewers can request one-shots for the collection as well as I will update with an idea that comes to mind. If M rated material is requested, you can be sure it will be tasteful in my care and just a warning, one-shots will jump from angst to heartwarming to humorous when you least suspect so keep your peeled! If nothing else, on with the first story! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own WIR because if I did, I'd be set for life! Nuff said lol!

Summary: A compilation of one-shots surrounding the racers of Sugar Rush, their enemies, and confidants within the Arcade! Requests welcome! Story one: After Candlehead is injured in an accident during a roster race, Gloyd vows to avenge the racer that injured her, but most of all, vows to never leave her side! Jack-O-Lantern!

Chapter One: Pumpkin Hearts

The Game Central medical center, the busiest place in the entire arcade that tends to self made as well as user made programs from games of all origins. Numerous gamers are taken to the medical center daily after having suffered an injury of some kind from their game during arcade hours. A player from the Street Fighter game was rushed into the medical center not too long ago and placed in a room for a ribcage fracturing injury, that room being right next door to the famous cupcake themed racer from Sugar Rush who was checked into her room an hour before for the numerous injuries she incurred during the roster race. The injuries that she was being treated for weren't as extensive as some of the patients that were checked into the hospital that night, but none the less, were extensive enough. A deep gash on her forehead, a sprained right wrist, and a hairline fracture in her right arm, injuries any racer risks gaining during such a high stakes race and unfortunately, the light hearted racer incurred them.

An accident involving the newly added Versus Avatars that were added to the game during another upgrade due to the immense popularity the racing game came into. Litwak felt the need to expand on the game so to give the racers more edge and competition after years of the normal racers racing against each other, something the Sugar Rush racers certainly got!

During the roster race, one of the new and most aggressive avatars knocked off several racers from the Cake Way race track and injured the owner of the Ice Screamer. The new avatar that Candlehead was to race against became too aggressive when using the good cheating rule and knocked her from the track entirely. While the cupcakes that normally surround the cake themed racetrack would have been the perfect cushion for the racer, sadly those were less than a cushion and her along with her kart, took a hit which landed her room 2B and her kart in restoration. As the racer laid unconscious in her bed with an IV in her left arm and oxygen attached, she wasn't aware that her fellow teammates were sitting along her right bedside, their concerned eyes locked on her, Vanellope's showing the most concerned as one of her own was hurt within her game. It wasn't enough that they had to share their game with new avatars and yet one of those new avatars attacks one of her gamers!

"I knew that Versus Avatar mode was nothing but trouble!" Taffyta being the first to speak up, her voice dripped with venom. "Why did Litwak have to add that feature onto our game?! We were perfectly happy with the game being just us, but now we have to share our game with those talentless avatars!"

"I don't understand it either." Vanellope calmly replied as she got to her feet and walked over to Candlehead, the core of Sugar Rush looming over her fellow confidant with sad eyes. "Because our game has the most popularity in the arcade, he felt adding that feature would do wonders for our game. I just don't see it."

"Well it certainly worked!" Swizzle barked as he heaved a heavy sigh. "After today, every kid in the arcade will wonder which one of us they can knock off next with that feature!"

"Please don't say that." Vanellope requested as she shut her eyes briefly, but just as quickly opened them, her vision still fixed on an unconscious Candlehead. "But my question is, how did any of this happen? I heard screaming and before I knew it, the race was brought to a sudden halt!"

"You want to know what happened?!" Taffyta voiced, her voice rising as she jumped to her feet. "I'll tell you what happened! One of those newbies felt he had something to prove and started knocking all of the racers off of the track one by one! The only reason why you, Rancis, Swizzle, and Jubileena didn't get attacked was because all of you were ahead of us. I, along with everyone else, got knocked off just so that jerk could go after Candlehead! That's what happened!"

Sighs could be heard from the racers as Vanellope took a minute to let what Taffyta told her sink in. While Vanellope was in the number one spot, she only caught bits of the race behind her from the jumbotron while keeping her focus on the race. One of the new avatars tried to pass her, but being a skilled racer, she was able to block him every time he tried to get ahead of her. She refused to give her number one spot to anyone!

"Since one of them attacked her, there's no telling what they are planning for the next race!" Taffyta continued.

"Taffyta might be on to something." Rancis added. "Since we have to now share our game with new avatars, there is nothing we can do except do our best to avoid them on the track. What else can we do?"

"We can't stop racing that's for sure." Snowanna voiced in disagreement. "We just have to show those new avatars who the real winners are! They are in our game so we show them who's boss in the next race!"

"We just have to make a fail-safe strategy for the next race." Jubileena suggested. "We were just caught off guard considering we didn't get a chance to know the new avatars before the roster race since we are on a separate side of the game from them."

"Is there such a thing as fail-safe?" Minty Zaki questioned to herself.

"Speaking of caught off guard, where is Gloyd?" Vanellope questioned as she turned to the other racers, remembering that the pumpkin themed racer didn't arrive at the medical center when they did behind CH.

"I've been wondering that myself." Rancis replied as he fixed his hair in his compact mirror. Seeing that it was fixed to perfection at that point, he put the mini reflector back into his jacket. "Hopefully he didn't try to get back at that avatar by pulling one of his silly pranks on them. While it only annoys us when he does it, it's a different story with someone else."

"I wouldn't think he'd do something that like in a situation like this." Vanellope calmly defended. "Hopefully he gets here soon."

"So what is the plan for our next race?" Crumbelina questioned, her billowy eyes also fixed to the still unconscious Candlehead. "We can't let this happen to another one of us."

Before anyone could speak up to answer Crumbelina, the door to the hospital room opened with Gloyd, panting heavily, walking through. All eyed turned to him, everyone noticing how out of breath and somewhat scuffed up the racer looked to be.

"Gloyd, you finally made it." Vanellope cheered quietly. "But what happened to you?"

"I caught up with the avatar that attacked Candlehead on the track, but before I could use any of my sweet seekers to take him down, he crossed the data wall that keeps the both sides of the game separated." Gloyd explained as he continued catching his breath while making his way over Candlehead. "I was so close!"

"Did you get the name of the guy who did this to Candlehead?" Rancis questioned.

"His name is Axel." Gloyd reluctantly answered. "He was behind Candlehead in seventh place."

Reaching the unconscious racer, a wave of sadness washed over him at seeing how helpless she looked as she lied in the bed with machines that kept her stable from her accident. Despite being unresponsive, Gloyd could tell how sad she was, but most of all, scared. Gloyd always knew the risk he and his friends took every day when racing, but never in his wildest imagination has he ever thought about any of them ending up how Candlehead was at that point, especially Vanellope. If something, anything happens to her, their entire game would be down the data drain! The very thought scared him, despite him not ever admitting it outwardly.

The entire room fell silent as all eyes remained trained to Gloyd as his once anger, now billowy sadness, filled eyes remained trained to Candlehead. Just from his expression, Vanellope knew what to do next. After months of watching the two moderately flirt back and forth, the leader knew that leaving the two alone would be best at that point.

"Come on guys, let's leave these two alone." Vanellope voiced as she turned to the other racers. She then turned back to Gloyd. "Gloyd, We'll be outside if you need us."

Gloyd didn't respond, but his ears pricked at hearing the others getting to their feet and exiting the room behind Vanellope. In passing, Swizzle laid a hand on Gloyd's shoulder in support. With no words spoken, Swizzle removed it and made his way out of the room behind the others.

The only sounds that filled the room were the sounds of the IV machine that injected saline solution and pain medicine into the resting racer and her heart monitor. The sound of a chair being moved added in with the previous noises that already occupied the room, Gloyd pulled a chair up to Candlehead's left bedside and took a seat while gently taking her left hand. He lowered his head temporarily, but then raised it back to Candlehead with a heavy sigh. Just seeing her injuries was enough to get his temper flared in under sixty seconds, but he knew that that was not the time or place to think or behave in such a manner, no matter how much he wanted to release it.

"Candlehead, I know you can't hear me right now, but I want to say I'm sorry, I should have covered you on the track." Gloyd began while doing the best he could to keep the forceful tears that were threatening to spill over back. "If I had of, you wouldn't be here right now. Axel used a good cheating rule to attack you and I did the best I could pay him back for hurting you before I came here, but the data wall surfaced and I couldn't reach him. This is all of my fault, but I will make amends for this, I promise. I will pay Axel back for this."

Before that day, Gloyd literally never knew that he could muster the feelings of vengeance, but seeing that one of his closest confidants was laying in the position she's in now, at that moment, he felt every phase there was to know about that feeling from start to finish! His code seethed with rage, but that wasn't the time to let it get the best of him.

"Candlehead, I promise you from this point on I will be by your side and never leave you alone again." Gloyd promised as he heaved another heavy sigh. "And I promise to get Axel back for attacking you the way he did. The good cheating rule is never meant to be used that way!"

Feeling the rage continuing to build within his code, it took everything within the pumpkin themed racer to keep the feeling from surfacing, but just seeing the one close to his heart in the condition she's in made his code boil! Once he catches up to Axel, he plans to scatter his code all over the race track if that's the last thing he did!

"I will be here with you day and night until you are feeling well enough to leave." Gloyd continued. "I will do whatever it takes to nurse you back to health. I just want to see you race, but most of all, see you smile again. This game wouldn't be the same without you, especially on the track."

Lowering his head once more, Gloyd sighed, but with his vision turned to the ground, he missed one thing and that one thing was, the smile that made its way across Candlehead's face.

Despite the pain medicine that kept the anger of her injuries to a minimum, no amount of medicine could ever heal her heart the way that Gloyd ever could and at the moment, did.

Ok, my first time writing this couple. Was it good? Bad? Meh? Could do better? Drop me a review and let me know, but most of all, requests are welcome! Chapter 7 to Fight For The Code will be updated next week so be on the look out! If nothing,

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