Settled in the loneliest corner of the Tapper, a lone blue-clad racer sips a maple milkshake. The grey skin and yellow eyes would make most do a double take. But the raven hair and blue jumpsuit quell any thoughts.

The raven´s name is Jet, he was a part of TurboTime and is the only surviving character. It's been at least a year since King Candy was destroyed but he still gets suspicious glances from Tapper´s other customers. Fortunately today there was almost no one, so Jet carefully removes a tattered, faded photograph from his pocket and opens it. The Twins, Shift and Drift, holding Jet on their shoulders while Turbo poses beside them. The photo was taken when a player put in the code that activates him, three months this after TurboTime had been updated and he was dumped into the game. A sad smile crosses his lips as the memories replay in his head.

-{+}-

The first thing Jet ever knew was his name and that he liked the sky. He didn't know anything other than that, he had no known backstory he could remember. Nope. Nothing. He sits up and mechanically goes to his car before someone pops in front of him, he screams in fright. This person he learns is Drift, the sweeter twin of the Turbo Twins.

"You must be apart of the update Mr. Litwik installed!"

Drift wasn't the one who asked the question. Jet, startled, just nods and shivers as he fixes his helmet, as Shift, Drift's brother appears from behind his twin.

"Um...Yes I am, my name´s Jet."

A huge blush bursts across Jet´s face as he listens to his own lisp. Thankfully he could pronounce the 's' but it ended with a 'th'. Shift and Drift look each other, a ´XD ´ speech bubble appears over Drift's head as Shift chuckles.

"At least it's not as bad as Turbo's, heh heh heh."

Jet stands up in his cart, "Shut up!"

The two fall over laughing, Jet frowns and sits down crossly. A blue glitch ripples across his arms. He growls and whips the car around and punches the gas. Dirt and gravel are kicked up at the twins as Jet speeds off. He opens his mouth a little and rubs his thumb on his front teeth. Two rounded buck teeth greet the soft grey skin.

"Great."

-{+}-

"Hey Tapper!"

Jet jumps as M. Bison sits across the room. The Bad Anon must of just let out, he quickly folds up the photo and places his helmet on over his fluffy curls. He was about to leave when Ralph, Sgt. Calhoun and Felix march in, Jet swallows and a red glitch ripples through his form. The next thing he knows he's shoved against the bar counter with Calhoun aiming her gun at his head.

"Turn around slowly."

Jet shudders as he does, yellow luminance eyes wide with fear. Felix jumps between the two and pats Jet´s shoulder, "Don´t mind her, Jet she-"

Jet just glitches again in terror, Felix´s own code unravels and is absorbed into Jet. The glitching stops right there, but the looks from Ralph and Calhoun makes his very code cower. Ralph lifts the small racer up to eye lever by his suit. He swallows and kicks out with a frown, Ralph just turns, "I'll be back, I think I know where to put him."

Jet draws himself into a ball, looking like a kicked puppy as he passes the Tapper. The man had given him a home and job for past 17 years. Tapper just smiles encouragingly, trying to keep him from freaking out. Ralph carries him to the train that then takes them to Game Central, he then marches over to the Sugar Rush terminal. Jet claws desperately at the wrecker´s large hand. He did not want to go the game where Turbo died, he kicks out and screams out silently. He could feel Turbo´s loose code swirl and try to reunite with code within him. The pain of it all, the code and memories causes Jet to pass out.

-{+}-

"So you're the easter egg that was in the recent update huh?"

Jet yelps and smacks his head off his kart´s under carriage. He rolls out from under it, rubbing his throbbing forehead.

"Yes...I'm Jet."

He looks up at the man who caused the lump now on his head. His heart sped up and his throat becomes dry, it was Turbo. The older racer looks at Jet, he leans in, Jet flinches.

"You ok? Tha' doesn't hurt too much now?"

"N-no it...it doesn't...not any more that is."

Turbo quirks an eyebrow, "Hmm?"

Jet smiles sheepishly and reveals the rounded front teeth, Turbo smirks, "Go' yourself a lisp there huh heh heh.."

Jet stands and gets in Turbo's face, "Mine's not as bad as yours!"

Turbo is still laughing, "It's still pretty bad."

Jet growls and stomps back to his kart, "Let's race, I win you shut up about my lisp. You win and I won't complain when you laugh."

"Deal, may the best racer win."

Jet won, hands down. He left Turbo in dust, even the twins were shocked. As Jet steps out of his kart Turbo turns to him and bows, "You are truly the best."

Jet jumps up in delight and hugs him. Startled by Jet´s reaction, Turbo freezes up his yellow eyes wide and a nervous chuckle coming from his lips. Jet, realizing what he just did, jumps back with his hands up. Turbo quirks an eyebrow and looks at the twins, who shrug in unison. Jet blushes and turns towards his cart.

"Sorry!"

He jumps into his kart and punches it to the floor, embarrassed by his reaction to Turbo's kind words. His code told him to that, his code is clearly unstable and that scares him.

He had hid from the Turbo Trio for a few days, terrified that they hated him. Drift was the one who found him and brought him back to the other two. So he stood in front of them, eyes down and his foot punishing the ground. Shift goes up him and puts a hand on his shoulder, "Jet it's ok. We are not mad at you, just um...curious. What's your backstory?"

Jet looks up at the twin, "I don't know..."

Drift's speech bubble has a big red '!?' mark while Turbo blinks in shock. Shift coughs and blinks, "What do you need, 'I don't know'?"

Jet states solemnly, "My own story is a mystery to me...the programmers redid me so many times...I don't know my story..."

Turbo straightens up after he got over his shock, "Maybe it'll come to you, ya kno' while you do things."

Jet frowned and shook his head, "It won't work..."

"Well, Jet...wake up, come on wake up!"

-{+}-

The delirious racer wakes with a start and a violent glitch. When his code snaps back into place he gives a silently groan. Turns out he had glitched right out of a...cake? He rubs his head glances to his right, coming face to face with Vanellope. He eyes her a little, a blue glitch ripples through him. She tilts her head, "How can travel through games with that glitch?"

He shrugs and Vanellope just nods, clearly he didn't know. She watches as the terrified racer begins to take in his surroundings, he gestures around the room. Vanellope blinks, "Oh you can't speak can you?"

Jet simply nods, dusting off his jumpsuit. He misses the flinch when she notices the red 'T's on his person. She clears her throat and speaks up.

"Ralph said that it was a safety thing, to keep you from taking others coding."

Jet began to panic, -N-no I can't stay here, my home is in the Tapper! He gave me a job- nonono I can't stay!-

He begins to glitch until he bursts into a cloud of pixels. Vanellope ducks as the cloud zips outside the room. They snap together with a silent cry of pain, Jet grasps his stomach and takes off down the hall.

"Hey wait!"

Jet doesn't stop, she scoffs and glitch-jumps trying catch up to him. For a unstable glitch, he was fast, and gone by the time she leaves the castle. All she sees of Jet just as he disappears through the Sugar Rush gate. Frustrated she has to decide whether to follow Jet and give up the Random Roster or do the race and have an angry Ralph. She sighs and glitch-jumps up to the top of the rainbow bridge. She hesitantly steps through and hops onto the train just as it departs the station. Jet was glitching nervously, fiddling with the fingers on his gloves. As soon as the train let's off he sprints out into GCS. She can barely keep up with him as he disappears into Tapper´s gate.

"-ARCADE WILL OPEN IN 15 MINUTES-"

Vanellope looks back at Sugar Rush, "Just one day..."

Again she glitches over to Tapper´s gate and dives into the train. She enters the Tapper´s as Jet turns into the hall in the back. Tapper looks at her, "President! What are you doing little missy?"

"I wanted to know why Jet came here, what's his job here?"

"Just stick around and you'll see."

The muffled announcement of 5 minutes till opening reach her ears, "Ok."

Jet returns in normal Tapper NPC clothes, Vanellope gasps softly, he was playing in this game? Tapper tells Jet he looked good, with a twiddle of fingers he goes and sits at a stool. He seems to be waiting, his yellow eyes longing up at the console screen. Tapper clears his throat and addresses Vanellope.

"Vanellope you should go in the back, you can still see him, but the gamers won't."

With a nod, Vanellope walks into the back hallway just as the first quarter alert goes off. Jet looks up eagerly and smiles sheepishly before the first gamer of the day.

"Why hello Jet! You look good today!"

Vanellope peeks around the corner towards the console screen. There was the face of a little girl, she swiftly took care of Tapper´s customers and Jet, who did a 'cheers' pose for her.

"Good morning to you too. My mom's been doing good this week. Still can't walk...but she is excited to hear I found you here! She wants to know if anyone else is...well..you know, around?"

Jet frowns and shakes his head sadly, she frowns, "Oh. I see. Sorry I didn't mean to touch a sensitive subject for you..."

She rubs her neck nervously and plays in silence but it only takes minutes, "Mom wanted to know if you miss racing."

Jet does sad 'cheers' the girl nods, "You could see if you could go to Sugar Rush, you'd fit right in!"

Jet's eyes widen as she chuckles at the thought, "Mom said in Turbo Time you looked like you had a blueberry on your head! Heh heh, that's funny!"

Tapper looks at Vanellope as he passes the hall, a sad sparkle is in his eyes.

"Oh! If you disappear from this game then I'll look for you in Sugar Rush, deal? Mom really wants to see you race again. Well you and the others, but I don't know if they could come back...can they? Turbo and the twins?"

Jet does a 'cheers', both Tapper and Vanellope gawk. Jet had a secret he told no one but the Turbo Trio; he can store others code within him. Perks of being unfinished, he had Turbo and the twins code inside his own. With every day he collects more and more of loose lines of code. In fact Turbo is almost complete, the red glitches prove it. The girl gasps and jumps excitedly, "Wow! Really! That's so cool! To play you and the others, oh, mom would so happy!"

She squeals in happiness and smiles down at her digital friend, "It's a deal then! You get the others and I'll bring my mom when you get into Sugar Rush, but don't force yourself in- but you're sweet and kind. It would Turbo that would worry me, but you'd keep him in line right?"

Another 'cheers' was Jet's answer.

"Ok, well I just wanted to talk, see ya. I'm closing up here Tapper. Bye!"

With that she leaves, Tapper closes up and begins to clean the place. Jet slips off his stool, takes a drink of his milkshake and helps Tapper clean up. The older character smiles, "Thank you Jet. Go run off now, you've done your part."

Jet salutes him and runs to the back room. Vanellope comes out, "Who was that?"

"Well, I don't know her name exactly. But I did know her mom, Rose was her name. Best Turbo Time player I've ever seen, she loved the four of them. But as time passed, she was injured and unable to play as often. When Turbo Time was unplugged Rose was heartbroken, even more so when she heard what Turbo had done. Cuz, well, she knew that we aren't just lines of code. Rose was the first to learn that we are people. She would talk to every game, lost a lot of friends but gained us, the game characters. Her daughter, who you just met, has been coming for three years. She has been searching for any of the Turbo Time characters and one day Jet forgot to hide and she saw him. From there he's played as a NPC here, until now that is."

Vanellope looks at Tapper, who is casually cleaning a glass.

"He's been waiting since the game was unplugged, that's 30 years...how has he endured racing withdrawal? I at least had a kart...he didn't..."

Tapper chuckles, "Well he's drowned himself in the past, his room in the back is filled with things from Turbo time, pictures, trophies and pieces from the karts. He also helps and NPC in other games, not sure which ones but he really likes just staying here, in his memories. Easy thing to do when your code is that shredded...Vanellope, he can not speak, his voice file is missing from his code since the game's been unplugged.."

She blinks in shock, so that's why he wasn't talking earlier. Tapper places the glass down, "He doesn't like people to know but really misses them, Turbo and the twins you know, he keeps a photograph in his helmet and I've heard him cry himself to sleep a few times...poor kid...he's game age is 16...lost all he knew and is forced to wear the mark that Turbo left on the Arcade...not many like him..at all..."

Jet comes back and smiles at Tapper but stops when he sees Vanellope, a quick back step and confused hand gestures. She recognizes the mannerisms that King Candy showed, did Turbo pick them up from Jet? She shakes herself mentally, this is Jet, not Turbo. But the nagging thought of him returning scared her.

"I'm sorry Jet but I followed you here, I needed to watch you. I'm so sorry."

Jet rubs his neck and looks at her from under his helmet, with a huff he flicks his curl back into place. He gestured if they should leave, she nodded, "It would be better if we did, now come on, wouldn't want Admiral Underpants to be angry."

A quirked eyebrow is what she gets, "Ralph, a doh!"

Jet perks up and waves to Tapper and heads to the train. Vanellope smiles and races after him. The silence was comfortable for both of them. Thankfully with it being arcade hours there was no one around other gameless characters. Jet smiles softly at them as they enter Sugar Rush's gate, they seem excited for him. The slight pain in the back of his head returns and starts throbbing.

-No can't pass out here...can't...pas-

He slumps forward and gasps in pain, Vanellope turns around quickly. Cold sweat was running down his forehead, he couldn't even think straight.

"Jet? Jet what's wrong?"

He points to his head and promptly passes out. Vanellope is just able to catch his head.

"Drat, well um..."

-{+}-

Again Jet wakes in the cake bed, Felix cleaning his warm forehead.

"Oh my land you're ok!"

Several blinks is Jet's response, Felix stands and leaves the room. Ralph, Vanellope and Sgt. Calhoun walk in after a few seconds, Jet scrambles against the wall. He seems to try to merge with the chocolate walls, Vanellope hops onto the bed, "Easy Jet..."

He struggles to put his heart back in his chest, and out of his throat. A shimmer of blue pixels roll through him, Felix sighs in relief. Ralph takes one step and is towering over Jet, who clutches Vanellope in fear.

"Ralph! He's just a kid!"

The four of them look at her, Jet still clings to her, shivering slightly.

"How do you know pint size?"

"I talked to Tapper."

Jet's eyes widen, Tapper told her things about him. Panic raced through his code, he squirms and tries to bolt away again but Ralph catches him by the jumpsuit. He kicks and fights, desperate to escape. Felix clears his throat, "Let's take him up to the main room maybe he won't freak out."

Jet begins to gesture wildly, angry at the treatment he's receiving, but he soon realizes that none of them understood his language. He crossed his arms and pouts angrily as his carried like a bad puppy up to a salmon colored room. He takes in the room, the detail was beautiful, stunning even. But a flicker of movement towards the far end of the room catches his attention the most; loose code. It's red luster told him exactly who's it was; Turbo's. Excitement filled Jet till he glitches free of Ralph's grasp, but he doesn't go for it, fear of being caught before grasping the code kept him still. Felix fixes his hat, and looks at Vanellope, "Ok so what did Tapper tell you?"

"Well...he's game age is 16. He can't talk because he's missing his voice file. Ummm...oh he needs other characters code to function properly."

Jet flushes in embarrassment, she was giving up sensitive information about him and he didn't like it at all. He claps a hand lightly over her mouth to silence her, a red glitch ripples through the fearful racer. Vanellope understands that the others probably shouldn't know Jet´s weaker points. She nods and removes his hand from mouth and, "It's ok Jet, the adults don't need to know the good stuff."

Ralph grumbles and straightens, "Whatever...come on the arcade is gonna open soon."

Vanellope blinks and looks towards Jet, "Can you stay here? I have a race to host."

Jet nods and soon all four leave, Felix murmuring something to Vanellope. As the double doors close Jet turns toward wisps of loose code. Cautiously he walks to it, the glitching pixels memorize him. If he could just touch them, he wouldn't be alone anymore, Turbo and he would be facing the world. Removing a glove he extends his fingers, grey flesh caresses the code before absorbing it all. A deep rooted warmth begins to spread from his fingers to his very core, he clutches his chest and shivers.

-My room, I-I have get back to it-

Stumbling almost drunkenly, Jet makes his way back to his room. Slamming the door closed his legs give out and he falls to his side, panting and scrabbling at the ground for breath. To his horror he watches his avatar slowly turn white. Panicked gasps and thrashes to shake the transformation carry on for about ten minutes before Jet collapses in exhaustion, half of his body has been consumed by Turbo's avatar. Oddly there is no pain, only pressure as Turbo's code begins to take over more and more, and a strange sense of peace washes over Jet. It's weird, to carry someone's code for so long only to be consume by it. He shuts his eyes as the avatar begins to cover his head, blackness sweeps in swiftly. Just as Turbo's code completely covers Jet he explodes into pixels, a cloud of blue and red pixels swirl and separate. Jet's code snaps back together and he falls onto his knees, stunned. There he watches the red pixels form limbs and body, Turbo was back! Turbo's legs give and Jet just catches him.

"P-please d- be a- dr-dd-dream."

Turbo's eyes open, he looks around in confusion, "Where the hell are we?"