Sugar Coated Armageddon
Chapter1-Ralph
The sound of a Cy-Bug landing near Diet Cola Mountain's entrance jolted Ralph awake. Standing up as fast his semi-awake body would allow, Ralph went to investigate. Careful to be as silent as his size would permit, Ralph crept up to the mountain's entrance and listened. The distinct sound of a Cy-Bug eating hard candy reached Ralph's ears. Taking a deep breath, Ralph crouched and charged through the seemingly solid digital candy wall.
Once outside Ralph was greeted by an angry Cy-Bug who had just finished eating one of the lollipops at the front entrance. The Cy-Bug suddenly morphed into an identical Cy-Bug with lollipop chainsaws instead of claws. Sizing Ralph up, the Cy-Bug raised its lollipop chainsaw arms and they began to spin accompanied by a loud whirling noise. Shifting into a fighting stance, Ralph barley dodged two of the Cy-Bug's lightning fast chain saw sweeps. Rolling out of the way of another attack, Ralph quickly and efficiently smashed the Cy-Bug's face in with one of his oversized fists and then watched as the Cy-Bug disintegrated and reverted back to code.
Scanning the area, Ralph breathed a sigh of relief as he saw that the Cy-Bug he'd just killed hadn't brought along any friends. Turning around, Ralph walked back through the semi-solid candy mountain wall and went in search of Vanellope. As Ralph had assumed Vanellope was still asleep. Looking over the 19 year old woman, Ralph gathered by her constant tossing and turning that whatever she was dreaming about was quite unpleasant. Walking over to Vanellope, Ralph gently sat on her bed (now a more suitable size for a grown woman) and slowly and softly shook her awake.
Ralph gently held Vanellope in place even after she caught him in the jaw with a surprisingly strong right hook. After a few moments (and lots of struggling later) Vanellope's eyes slowly opened. And after she had franticly scanned the room for an unknown danger, Vanellope's eyes came to rest on Ralph.
"Must`ve been pretty bad, huh?" Ralph asked.
"Yeah… it was," Vanellope confirmed.
"Wanna talk 'bout it?" Ralph asked.
"Nah it`s ok I'll be fine," Vanellope said, trying to get Ralph to stop looking so concerned. Ralph, taking the hint, removed the worried expression from his face. And even though he removed the expression Ralph still couldn't stop the concerned train of thought about the fact that this was the 5th time that Vanellope had had extremely violent nightmares. Ralph continued to mentally worry as Vanellope crawled out of his arms and stretched.
"c`mon Ralph we got stuff to do before the Cy-bugs really wake up," Vanellope said while gesturing for Ralph to hurry.
"ai'ght let's get goin'," Ralph said. While they were leaving Ralph began to wonder how it all could`ve lead to this…
Memory sequence…
It all started after king candy/turbo was consumed and transformed into a Cy-bug/turbo monster and tried to kill Ralph. Lucky Ralph was able to overcome the new turbo and kill him with the Mento/Cola beacon from Diet Cola Mountain. And after Felix had fixed the finished line Vanellope crossed it and reset SUGAR RUSH. Thus restoring everybody's memories, instantly repairing all damage done and becoming Princess/President Vanellope Von Schweetz. And so it seemed that everything had turned out for the best… or so everyone thought.
Little did Vanellope know that while the Mento/Cola beacon had destroyed most of the candy Cy-Bugs, a few Cy-Bug eggs had been lain right before they tried to consume SUGAR RUSH. And while Vanellope was busy racing, winning cups and ruling SUGAR RUSH the few Cy-Bug eggs that remained had hatched and had multiplied from under 10 to over 10 million. So after a month of peaceful racing for Vanellope and a month of wrecking for Ralph, Ralph traveled over to SUGAR RUSH for his weekly visit with Vanellope. Once inside SUGAR RUSH (and after being stopped several times by the surge protector) Ralph made his way to Vanellope's candy castle. After an hour of walking and some unexplained trembles in the ground Ralph reached Vanellope's candy castle.
Knocking on the colossal semi see-through candy door, Ralph rocked back and forth on his heels while he waited for Sour Bill to answer it. After a minute or so of waiting there was a loud creaking/groaning sound as Sour Bill opened the giant candy door and ushered Ralph inside.
"Here to see President Vanellope?" Sour Bill asked in his usual depressed monotone.
"That's the plan, so how is the little squirt," Ralph asked as he followed Sour Bill to the throne room.
"She's fine, a little different, but overall she's ok," Sour Bill said.
"Whacha' mean different?" Ralph asked concerned.
"It's difficult to explain…you should just see for yourself," Sour Bill said as he stopped and opened the door to the throne room. Ralph thanked Sour Bill and watched as he left. Taking a deep breath to prepare himself for the worst, Ralph entered the throne room. Ralph was surprised and relieved by the sight before him. There, in her same get-up, was Vanellope but to Ralph it seemed that something was different. And after a moment of deep thought Ralph pinpointed the difference.
The change, though small, was that Vanellope had apparently grown. The growth consisted of Vanellope limbs being just a tad bit loner and her cheek bones being slightly more pronounced. Ralph began to ponder the reason for the change and was unaware of anything even as Vanellope flung herself at him in a flying tackle hug.
"Ralph, oh Ralph I'm so happy to see you!" Vanellope enthusiastically shouted while clinging to Ralph's arm.
"Good to see you too, small fry," Ralph said as he gently set Vanellope down.
"Sooo… whacha' been up to, wrecking things I presume?" Vanellope asked.
"Yeah… pretty much same old same old," Ralph said with an exaggerated shrug.
"The Nicelanders treating you better?" Vanellope asked.
"They treat me well enough, so what have you been doin' since I last saw ya?" Ralph asked.
"Oh you know me same things I always do, racing and winning cups," Vanellope answered.
"What about your presidential duties?" Ralph asked. Vanellope didn't answer but instead burst into a fit of laughter.
"What's so funny?" Ralph asked after Vanellope had finished.
"You said duty." Vanellope said. Ralph sighed, it appeared that even though Vanellope had grown physically that she was still the same little girl he knew and loved. Ralph decided to drop the subject when there was suddenly a loud rumbling noise and the ground began to shake uncontrollably.
"What's goin' on Ralph!" Vanellope screamed in a frightened tone of voice.
"I don't know!" Ralph exclaimed as he wrapped his arms securely around Vanellope in an act of protection. Ralph picked Vanellope up and ran out the throne room as an innumerable amount Cy-bugs started exploding out of the floor.
"Quick Ralph, head to the garage," Vanellope shouted. Ralph, instead of following the traditional route just charged straight through any wall in his way while still protecting Vanellope. Once Ralph had smashed his way into the castle's garage and he and Vanellope had gotten into her kart the pulled off.
"Where we headed," Ralph asked as he hung on tightly on to the back of Vanellope's kart.
"Diet Cola Mountain," Vanellope answered, as she swerved sharply to avoid an attacking Cy-bug which Ralph then smashed.
"Why?" Ralph asked confused.
"Cuz it's the last place they would think to look," Vanellope pointed out. Ralph shrugged and didn't say anything seeing that Vanellope had a good point. The duo rode in silence and soon they reached Diet Cola Mountain. Ralph quickly got off the back of the kart and picked it up as he and vanellope ran inside Diet Cola Mountain. Once inside Ralph set the kart down and watched as Vanellope depressedly sat down on her old sponge cake bed.
"Best 10th birthday ever," Vanellope said as she put her face in her hands. Ralph chuckled sadly as nothing could be farther from the truth.
Reality
Ralph's stroll down memory lane was interrupted by Vanellope repedeatly calling his name.
"Huh…?" Ralph said coming back to reality.
"C'mon Ralphie we gotta get movin'," Vanellope said beconing Ralph with her arm and hand. Ralph said nothing as he followed Vanellope out into what SUGAR RUSH had been reduced to.
Chapter 2-Vanellope
Once outside Vanellope whipped slightly around and discreetly looked at Ralph's face. While an immediate warmth and a kind of giddiness filled Vanellope it was almost immediately replaced by guilt. Because, for some reason, Vanellope couldn't shake the thought that Ralph was still worrying about her from earlier. And while Vanellope was secretly overjoyed that Ralph cared about her enough to worry, she still felt badly. And so Vanellope turned around and skipped to Ralph.
"What's wrong Ralph?" Vanellope asked, already knowing the answer.
"Nothin' just thinkin'," Ralph answered trying to take his mind off it's worrying about Vanellope. Vanellope dramatically shrugged her shoulders and skipped ahead to scan the area. And even though what she was doing was vital to their safety, Vanellope still couldn't stop thinking about Ralph. She knew that he was worrying about what she dreamed about lately. The dreams themselves (now turned to nightmares) had begun two weeks ago. But only in the last week had they turned disturbing.
Originally the dreams had only consisted of Vanellope confessing her feelings of love to the object of her affections himself, Ralph. But lately in the past 5 days the sweet and innocent little dream that gave her so much joy had started to haunt her. More specifically when the dream had turned nightmarish because at the part right after Vanellope confessed to Ralph, Ralph would suddenly begin beating her up. And when he was done he would say "I hate you" then Ralph would walk away leaving her alone. Now when she was younger this would've only bothered her because Ralph was her best friend but now, considering her new feelings, this nightmare bothered Vanellope on a whole other level.
Vanellope pushed the thought out of her head as she spotted two unusually large Cy-bugs munching on some licorice twists. Vanellope quickly and quietly skipped back to Ralph and warned him.
"Stay here while I take care of it," Ralph said.
"Be careful," Vanellope cautioned.
"Don't worry I'll be fine, just stay out of the way till I give the all clear," Ralph assured her. Vanellope watched as Ralph then crept as silently as he could around the Cy-Bugs so that he was behind the pair. She continued to watch as Ralph silently closed in on the duo and smashed one of the overgrown Cy-Bugs with a double handed over-head swing. This caused the other steroid induced Cy-Bug to fly into the air and let out a screech like sound before Ralph jumped up, pulled it to the ground, and beat it to death. Vanellope felt an immediate rush of relief that Ralph had emerged from the scuffle unscathed. But the feeling of relief was automatically replaced by worry as she heard multiple buzzing of a swarm of overgrown Cy-Bugs.
Vanellope watched in horror as she tried to warn Ralph about the Cy-Bugs as said swarm tackled him and began tearing at Ralph flesh. Vanellope was petrified with fear and didn't move until ralph suddenly stood up and began valiantly fighting the entire swarm at once.
"Vanellope, RUN!" Ralph exclaimed as he smashed two Cy-Bugs to code by slamming their faces together. Vanellope did as she was told and struck off, sprinting as fast as her legs could carry her. After 30 minutes of sprinting, Vanellope reached Diet Cola Mountain and ran inside. Once inside Vanellope fell to her knees and began sobbing uncontrollably.
2 hours later
After 30-45 minutes of nonstop crying Vanellope had finally been able to pull herself together and get up from the floor. And now Vanellope was pacing back and forth, biting her lip and feeling sick with worry. Then suddenly, Vanellope's ears picked up on the familiar heavy thud of Ralph's large feet. But for some reason something seemed off, the thudding seemed slower and more labored. After a minute of labored breathing and slow heavy thuds Ralph emerged through the semi solid candy wall. The immense relief was instantly washed away as Vanellope laid eyes on Ralph's body.
To say that Ralph was in poor shape would be a major understatement. His once proud smirk was replaced a look of extreme pain, and rightfully so seeing as what state he was in. Ralph's arms were covered in giant bite marks, his face had on long cut starting from his eye and ending at his chin. Along with an uncountable number of large bruises and he had a broken nose and a black eye. And to top it all Ralph's chest and stomach were bleeding profusely from unseen wounds.
As Vanellope was taking all this in, Ralph suddenly collapsed, falling face first in the dirt. Running to his side, Vanellope put her President/Princess medical training to work.
Chapter3-Ralph
Ralph, having passed out from near death exhaustion and extreme blood loss, was being tormented by his subconscious. This meant that Ralph dreams (which were usually pleasant enough) had become nightmarish so much to the point that Ralph would trade anything just to wake up. The current nightmare that was the center of Ralph was such.
Dream scape
Ralph was standing at the finish line on the day they had defeated the King Candy/Turbo/Cy-bug boss monster and restored Vanellope to her rightful place as President/Princess of SUGAR RUSH. And after Congratulating Vanellope on her knew title and returning to Fix It Felix JR., Ralph decided to take a long nap in his new shack/house.
Once Ralph was inside and asleep, he began to faintly smell something akin to smoke. And when the smell not only stayed but became stronger Ralph was stirred awake. At first Ralph almost fell back asleep when he felt the heat in his shack. But when the heat began to become intolerable Ralph came to the conclusion that something was wrong. Getting out of his brick bed, Ralph stood up and looked out his window and nearly had a heart attack.
What Ralph saw (not that he could really see anything) was that an inferno of flames had somehow engulfed his shack/house. Seeing the danger, Ralph quickly smashed through the wall of his house that had the least amount of flame. Once outside and away from the scorching heat of the blazing house, Ralph was with a bloodthirsty mob of Nicelanders( led by Gene) who were armed to the teeth with; torches, switch blades, hunting knives, pistols ect.
"What the FUCK Gene, You could've killed me," Ralph said hurt by the Nicelanders actions.
"That was the point, Ralph," Gene said, looking totally unconcerned with the whole situation.
"But…Why?" Ralph asked, hurt and confused.
"Because, Ralph, nobody wants you here," Gene explained.
"So you thought that killing me would be a good way to solve the problem?!" Ralph exclaimed even more confused than before.
"That was the plan," Gene said.
"You know what… FUCK YOU GUYS I'm leaving!" Ralph roared in anger.
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, you see Ralph you're a menace, something that should be expunged," Gene said. Seeing the imminent danger, Ralph cracked his oversized knuckles and took a fighting stance. And then, by some unheard order, the mob of Nicelanders charged. Ralph cleared Mary and Roy with a punch and grabbed Nell before Deanna repedeatly stabbed him in the side. Taking Nell, Ralph brought his knee up while bringing Nell down, thus breaking his spine like one would break a stick. Ralph then smashed Lucy's head with both of his hands.
After smashing Lucy's head, Ralph turned to Deanna who was still stabbing him and took the switch blade from her hands and shoved it through her eyes into her brain. Norwood (being the only one armed with a pistol) shot at Ralph and hit him in his arm. Feeling then sudden stinging pain Ralph turned, ran up to Norwood, took the pistol from him and shot him in the stomach twice with it. He then took the pistol and threw it like a boomerang at Meg crushing the side of her skull. Ralph quickly looked around and spotted Don trying to run away.
Now usually, being the passive person he is, Ralph would've let Don go. But seeing the difference from normal circumstance, Ralph began to hunt Don down. Eventually Ralph had Don cornered by the train station. Picking Don up by his neck, Ralph crushed his windpipe and threw him as hard as he could into the train tunnel. Looking around Ralph saw that Gene was the only nice lander left alive.
Ralph walked deliberately slow, giving himself time to think of the most painful way to "expunge" Gene. Once Ralph was standing in front of Gene he almost scoffed at how pitiful he looked compared to how confident he had been a minute ago. Standing at his full height, Ralph glared down hatefully at Gene. Putting up his hands in a fetal attempt to shield his face and said "Please don't kill me Ralph, I have so much to live for".
"Should've thought about that before," Ralph said. Ralph then proceeded to break every bone in Gene's body and then tore off both his legs and walked away, leaving him to die. While Ralph was walking away he was suddenly sucked into the air by an unknown force. While moving at near light speed Ralph noticed that he was being pulled into a bright white void. A second before he was about to enter the void, Ralph covered his face and braced himself.
Reality
Ralph's eyes slowly and begrudgingly opened only to be assaulted by a bright light (much like the one in his dream). When the light faded Ralph eyes began scanning the room and eventually came to rest on the sleeping form of Vanellope. For some reason the sight of Vanellope being there by his side when he woke up filled Ralph with a strange warmth that he had never experienced before. Ralph thought about this for a moment and couldn't place the source or reason for the warmth. Shaking it off as beat as he could, Ralph slowly tried to sit up.
The pain that assaulted Ralph the moment he sat up quickly put any thought of movement out of his mind. Laying there, trying to will away the pain, Ralph thought he would try sitting up again. Sitting up as slowly as possible in an attempt to avoid the excruciating pain, Ralph managed to right himself. Looking down, Ralph tried to see where the pain was emanating. As soon as he looked down, Ralph spotted multiple laffy taffy bandages covering his arms and his chest.
While this caused Ralph to momentarily pause in confusion, he then wasted no time searching his body for more bandages. What Ralph found (along with quite a few sore spots) was that most of his body was bandaged including his; arms, chest, stomach, his nose, the right side of his face, and most of his back. While Ralph was examining himself, Vanellope had woken up and was watching him with a concerned expression on her face. Eventually ralph became aware of a pair of eyes watching him. Quickly scanning the room, Ralph's eyes came to settle on Vanellope.
"What's wrong?" Ralph asked, seeing Vanellope's worried facial expression.
"It's nothing, how you feeling," Vanellope responded while discreetly wiping a tear away.
"Ok, so I'm guessing I have you to thank for the medical services?" Ralph asked while casually gesturing to his many bandages.
"Yeah… it wasn't that hard," Vanellope responded while nervously moving a strand of hair out of her face.
"Since when were you a doctor?" Ralph asked at Vanellope's new found talent.
"Because you numbskull I'm the President/Princess," Vanellope playfully said. Seeing that Ralph was still confused, Vanellope continued her explanation.
"Since I'm the President/Princess of this game I have basic medical knowledge in case of emergencies, plus my maturity programming allows me to age till 25 so I can be a better leader. Member?" Vanellope said while repedeatly gesturing with her hands. Ralph pondered this and not finding any memories on the subject, dramatically shrugged his shoulders. Suddenly a sharp pain exploded in Ralph's head and he lost consciousness.
Chapter4-Vanellope
Vanellope yelped in surprise as Ralph suddenly went limp. Quickly checking Ralph's vitals, Vanellope was relieved to find that his pulse was stable and that his breathing was at a regular pace (or normal for Ralph anyway). After a few minutes of monitoring Ralph's condition, Vanellope was finally able to completely calm down. Checking the multiple bandages covering Ralph's body and seeing that nothing was infected went to look for something that Ralph could bite down on so she could reset his nose.