HEY EVERYONE! MG681 Here with another WIR Story, but I'm not working on my own on this one! I have a very special guest that will be working with me writing this story!

This special person was the very first person I met/read a story of here on FF, and so I thought it'd be fun to do a collaborative story with them! So, without further ado, I must introduce my special guest! *Drumroll In Background* The person helping me is none other than...

AMARIS-THE-DEMON!

Yes, it is Amaris, your 116 year old mortal demon, or at least that's what it says on her profile!

Alright, this Idea was all hers, because I couldn't come up with anything... great!

Now, let's actually get to the story, shall we?

[Ch. 1- How could this happen to me?]

I made my mistakes, I've got nowhere to run. The night goes on as I'm fading away

[Tessa POV]

It's been a month since my fight with my father in GCS. Everyone has learned to accept me for who I am. I could NOT be happier than I am at this very moment! However, I get the sense something BAD is happening, I just don't know what it could be!

I hear the sirens first, so I run up and get Vanellope so she knows what's going on. I only know about this from one other time. I didn't actually experience it though. I recoil at the memory

Dad was in a happy mood for once, which came up as a shock to me. He tried to be nice with me, but heaven knows how far that would have gone. I punched him in the gut and yelled "What is it that you want?"

"I WAS going to say sorry! But not after that! Now, I'll just tell you this. Don't ever stay in a game when you hear a siren! NEVER! It means the game is getting unplugged! This one's going to have it eventually. And YOUR staying here!" He yelled that last part and then shoved me into the wall. He then proceeded to hit me in the head numerous times with his helmet until he knocked me out cold.

"Tessa? You in there Tess?" I hear Vanellope and it pulls me out of my wretched recurring dark thoughts.

"Yes! Sorry if I scared ya there Coach! I was just... thinking!" I say back to her. Like I'm really going to say what was running through my head? That'd be weird, and I don't know that she could handle it to be completely honest. I probably SHOULD tell her since she's my best friend and all, but I'm not a risk taker!

"Well we need to go warn everyone else and get out of here!"

Outside was total chaos, candy citizens were screaming and running in the streets. Their screams and horrified looks will haunt me forever.

"EVERYONE GET OUT NOW!" Vanellope was yelling. I hopped in my kart. I stared out across the crowd and saw every racer except-

"Swizzle!" I exclaimed and sped towards his house.

He was just standing outside his house with a dazed look.

"SWIZZLE MOVE YOUR MOLASSES RIGHT NOW BEFORE I MOVE IT FOR YOU!" I screeched at him. He snapped out of his daze and jumped into his kart. We sped towards the exit and I chanced a look behind me.

My jaw dropped.

The entire game was literally falling apart. Pieces of pixelated candy houses were floating off of the ground and heading towards a huge black hole. The ground itself was falling out from underneath our wheels.

I gunned it. Swizzle and I didn't even get out of our karts as we approached the exit we just sped up the rainbow bridge and into the tunnel. Most everyone had gotten out.

The tunnel was dark and all that could be heard was Swizzle and I's panicked breathing as our entire world seemed to be literally torn away from us. We saw the exit and sped out of it just seconds before out plug was completely pulled. I screeched to a halt and just sat in my kart.

I rested my forehead against my steering wheel breathing heavily. My bottom lip quivered and my entire body was glitching with fear. My senses felt numb.

Tessa, Tessa I thought I heard some in my head calling me Snap out of it... Someone grabbed my shoulders and shook me hard.

"Tessa! Snap out of it!"

I snapped out of my daze.

"Vanellope!" I exclaimed seeing she was the one who had shaken me out of my daze.

"You're alive" Vanellope said "You're alive"

"Barely" I said and looked at all the racers, but there were only the racers "None of the citizens got out?"

"No" That one word she said was choked with grief and regret. She looked like she was on the verge of crying. I squeezed her shoulder reassuringly.

"Hey, you saved some characters and that's better that none" I told her. She nodded half-heartedly. I got out of my kart and walked over to the racers.

No one was hurt but everyone was shaken. Candlehead was squatting on the ground rocking back and forth on her heels.

"W-we just got unplugged. Unplugged...screaming...gone...black hole" She was rambling. I squatted beside her and just put an arm on her shoulder. I knew there was no point in trying to talk to her, she just needed comfort. Vanellope walked over and just stood in front of the racers. I looked up at her sadly. Taffyta looked mad but I knew that was just her way of hiding fear.

"What are we going to do?!" Taffyta all but yelled at Vanellope "Our game just got unplugged!"

"Unplugged...we're...screaming...gone all...gone" Candlehead kept murmuring. I tightened my grip on her shoulders.

"Shh, easy Firefly" I whispered to Candlehead trying to calm her.

"I don't know" Vanellope answered Taffyta while staring at her feet.

"You don't know?!" She yelled incredulously at Vanellope "What kind of president are you?!"

I glared at Taffyta.

"All gone...the voices...they're gone...all-all...screaming" Candlehead kept murmuring.

"SHUT UP!" Taffyta snapped at Candlehead. That did it.

"Taffyta! No one was expecting our game to be unplugged. The last thing we need right now is to turn against each other" I growled at her. Candlehead gripped the sides of her head.

"M-make it stop...the screaming..." She said.

"Shhh. It's okay Firefly, it's okay. Shhh" I tried to soothe her; I looked back up at Taffyta "Alright? Whether you like it or not Lady Luck we've all we got. So stop acting like a spoiled brat and help out the people that are the closet thing you'll ever have to a family"

"I'm sorry. I'm just...scared" Taffyta whispered.

"I know Lady Luck" I said and looked at Candlehead who had tears rolling down her cheeks "I know."

I sigh, turning around, and go find my corner of GCS that only I know about. Well, I don't know that I can say THAT, but very few people know about. It's at the end of the long hallway, and then tucked in beside an outlet. I'm deep in thoughts when I hear Vanellope call for me. "Tess? Where'd ya go Tess?"

I jump out of my hiding spot and quickly run up to Vanellope. "Yes Coach?"

"Something's getting plugged back into our outlet. Let's all go find out what it is!"

"Alright Coach!"

We go to our outlet and see the game get plugged in. When the sign changes from "VACANT OUTLET" to the game name, we're all shocked. It's the one game we never could have expected...

(Tessa belongs to A-t-D, SR Racers belong to Disney, but a few people met in the next (maybe not next, have to see) chapter will be property of me!)

(IF you're confused as to who Tessa is, please read Amaris' story "Let it fade into Grey" first! This story takes place after it, so... yeah!)

Alright, Stay Awesome Everyone.

-Marioguy681&Amaris-the-Demon!