Chapter 1: Party Preparations

"Location: Litwak's Arcade, The World Of Disney, August 15th 2108"

It was a warm Monday morning at the arcade. In Sugar Rush, it was Candi's birthday, so the racers were preparing for Candi's party. Meanwhile, at the castle, Vanellope, Candlehead, and Jubileena were going over preparation items that needed to be done. However, there weren't enough items for the party, so instead of having someone go to another part of the arcade, or another part of The World Of Disney, The World Of Nickelodeon, or the real world, Vanellope just resolved to going to the Code Room and making the rest of the items for the party.

Vanellope, Candlehead, and Jubileena made their way to the Code Room, which had a sign that had the instructions for what to put in order to get into the Code Room. Vanellope put in the right password and the door opened. Vanellope then tied a licorice rope around her waist and Jubileena held onto the end of the rope. Once the rope was secure, Vanellope took a deep breath and swam out into the Code Room. When she was in the Code Room, she created the items that were needed for the party and then started to leave. However, as she swam by the racers code boxes, she saw something that she hadn't noticed before. Drifting lazily through the void of the Code Room, towards the far back corner that was behind the racers Code Boxes, an empty and un-wired code box came into view. However, the most interesting part of the code box was that a symbol of what appeared to be Diet Cola Mountain appeared to be stamped onto the code box.

"Huh? What's this?" Vanellope wondered.

Vanellope swam over to the code box and double tapped it. The code box opened up to reveal a normal looking code box. She skimmed through the data until she came across a button that had the words 'Activate'. Vanellope frowned and pushed the button. The code box shook for a few moments before it started turning on. Vanellope nodded, closed the code box, took a hold of the items that she had created, and then tugged on the licorice rope two times. Jubileena then pulled Vanellope out of the Code Room. Vanellope gave the items to Candlehead and Jubileena, and the three of them walked back up the hallway that led to the throne room.

"Um, Vanellope, me and Jubileena saw that you activated a blank code box. Are you sure that you should have done that?" Candlehead asked.

Vanellope nodded.

"Of course I'm sure, Candlehead. If it's a racer that never got unlocked, then we shouldn't just let him stay unlocked forever, right? Besides, what's the worst that could happen?" Vanellope asked.


Meanwhile, inside the Code Room, unknown sounds filled the endless room. However, no one heard any of the mysterious sounds, since the locked door blocked all of the sounds. There were many clicking sounds, and the code box that Vanellope activated started to repeatedly glitch a red color. The code box grew and decreased in size, and it looked as if the code box was having a seizure.

Finally, the code box stopped and glitched a little more before it floated over into the atmosphere until it was surrounded by the other code boxes. The code box opened up as if it had been clicked by someone to reveal all of the data. A sound that sounded like someone was knocking on door was heard and a bright flash of blinding white light shined throughout the code room from the malfunctioning codebox. Eventually, the bright light dimmed down to just the normal glow of the code box. The code box stopped glitching and revealed to have a name written upon it.

However, the name that code box had on it read a name that would change everyone's fate in the arcade.

It read in red letters the name 'Licortwist Hothead'.