Characters scrambled into their games as quickly as they could. From what was seen outside the arcade a storm was coming.
Storms were always bad. The threats of power outages loomed over the arcade. It was rare though. Even so it was frightening.
It didn't take long for Game Central to empty, for each and every game to be refilled with its characters.
"I hate storms." Josh muttered, pulling the blanket tightly around himself, brow furrowed. It was clear he was less than pleased. Just then the sound of thunder was heard throughout the arcade, causing a large leap from the ex-ninja.
Not even a moment after and Vanellope was laughing at the sight of Josh on the ceiling, clinging to it, blanket draped off him.
"What are ya, a cat?" Vanellope asked still snickering slightly.
"No!" Josh retorted, dropping down, back onto the bed. "I just happen to be very….agile." This only caused Vanellope to laugh harder.
"You're a cat then."
"I am not a-" Josh was quickly caught off by another bolt of lightning going off, causing him to scramble out of bed, onto the floor, under the bed.
"I'm pretty sure that's what cats do." Vanellope said, leaning over the side of the bed, looking under it at Josh.
"I was trained by a bunch of old guys to be super fast and agile. I am not a cat."
"Kitty then?"
Josh crawled out from under the bed, jumping up to his feet with a pout on his face.
"No! I am a ninja! I was trained to use many different weapons, know tons of different hand-to-hand fighting styles and was trained how to shoot a pistol by Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun!"
"And you're afraid'a lightning." Vanellope added with a smirk.
"That is a very reasonable fear!"
The conversation came to a halt when another lightning strike hit the arcade, causing a massive glitch to run through each and every game plugged in.
And before anyone knew it, everything reset.
A spark of electricity ran through game central, flowing to each game, turning them back on, waking everyone up.
"Sound off!" Calhoun called out as she examined herself, making sure nothing happened. It didn't take long for her soldiers to call out. "Murkowski! Hold down the fort. I'm going to go check on Fix-it." And with that she was off to see the Fixer in his game.
Josh however respawned in front of the code vault, laying down. His eyes blinked open and he took some deep breaths before sitting up.
"Ow…." He said quietly, rubbing the back of his neck. "That….wasn't supposed to hurt. I don't think." He jumped to his feet and began making his way back to Vanellope.
"Josh?" Vanellope said quietly, looking around the room. "Ey moron! Where are you?" she basically yelled, hands cupped as a megaphone.
"Here! I'm here!" Josh said, walking into the room. "Hello. Sorry." Vanellope turned to him and let out a sigh of relief.
"Moron." She said with a chuckle. "Come on. Let's go check on Stinkbrain." Taking Josh by the wrist, Vanellope began dragging him out of the castle.