Rancis, Gloyd and Swizzle were hanging out at Tappers talking about the last race. Swizzle had won by shooting a giant scoop of ice cream and ala mode-ing Taffyta.

Earlier...

The race was on its final stretch out of the Ice Cream Mountain Cave and was on the last straightaway to the finish.

Taffyta was leading with Vanellope in second, Honey in third, and Swizzle in fourth.

Swizzle was trying to catch up but Honey and Vanellope kept blocking him. He didn't want to get fourth place this time.

"These girls are making this too hard! How am I supposed to get past them?", he said to himself.

He looked at the sides of the Candy Kart and the Honey Mobile to try and find a way through but with no such luck. He looked down at his dashboard and saw he still had one power-up left. "The Ice Cream Cannon!", he said excitedly.

He activated the power-up and the cannon appeared on top of his kart. He looked around, trying to choose a target between the three girls ahead of him.

"Crepe! If I aim at Honey or Vanellope, then my kart would get stuck too!", he said, contemplating his next move. He then looked ahead and saw Taffyta getting closer to the finish line. He smiled.

"Oh no you don't, Muttonfudge. Try this one on!", he yelled, pushing button and launching the ice cream. "Stay Sweet!"

The ice cream hit the Pink Lightning, causing its wheels to break off and leaving the main body skidding just 20 feet from the finish line. Taffyta popped out of the scoop just in time to see Swizzle cross the finish line first, with Honey and Vanellope in second and third.

"No!", she said angrily. She got out of the scoop and ran to the finish line.

At the winner's podium, she saw Swizzle being handed his trophy. Swizzle raised his trophy and his fans cheered happily. He looked down to see most of the racers cheering for him as well. He turned and saw Taffyta glaring angrily at him. He just smiled cockily at her.

Taffyta was of course enraged by this she saw Gloyd cheering for his best friend too and got even angrier. She got an idea.

She suddenly started crying and ran over to Gloyd, crying onto his shoulder. Being the good boyfriend he was, he tried to calm her down.

"Hey Taffy, what's wrong?", he cooed.

Taffyta looked at Gloyd with watery eyes. "Did you see what he did to me?", Taffyta said, pointing an accusing finger at the swirl pop boy on top of the winners' stand, holding his golden trophy.

"Yeah? Why?", Gloyd said.

Taffyta huffed a bit. Although Gloyd was a good boyfriend at times, there were still times that he was too dense to understand a few things. "Aw come on! Do I have to spell it out for him?", Taffyta though to herself. "Why does he have to be so dense? Must be his immature programming."

That's when she got another idea. She let her left arm droop down, making it look limp. "Gloyd!, (sniff), That shot of his broke my arm! (Sob)"

Gloyd got worried and carefully pushed Taffyta off his shoulder before taking a look at her arm. What he saw shocked him. Taffyta's arm did in fact look broken. When he touched it, Taffyta pretended to flinch.

"OW!", she cried.

Gloyd started getting angry. "Don't worry Taffy. I'm gonna go give him a piece of my mind.", he told the strawberry girl.

"(Sob)... Thanks Gloyd.", she said, rubbing her eye with her good arm before giving him a peck on the cheek. Gloyd then started heading toward the swirl pop boy.

"Hey Swizz!", he yelled angrily. This got Swizzle's, and everyone else's, attention.

"Hey bro. Great race huh? Check out my trophy.", Swizzle said, giving Gloyd a closer look at the trophy. Gloyd just knocked it away with his hand. "Dude! What's your problem?", Swizzle asked.

"Your my problem, playboy!", Gloyd yelled. "You just broke my girl's arm!", he said, pointing to Taffyta's 'injured' arm.

Swizzle looked over and saw Taffyta was smiling. He got an annoyed look on his face. "

"What are you talking about? I didn't break her arm.", Swizzle said. "Look!", he pointed at the drama queen.

Taffyta just pretended to cry again when Gloyd looked at her.

"Really? Now your saying my girl is a liar!", Gloyd snapped. He pulled his arm back and hit Swizzle with a right hook to the cheek.

Swizzle stumbled back before landing on his back. He got back up and ran over to Gloyd and punched him in the gut. Gloyd clutched his stomach in pain before looking back up at Swizzle.

"That's it!", he yelled before charging at Swizzle and tackling him to the ground. The two started punching, kicking and doing whatever they can to hurt each other.

This caught the attention of all the racers. The two went on an all out brawl.

As the two were fighting, some of the other racers, namely Barry and Taffyta, were chanting "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!", repeatedly.

While they were fighting, Rancis crossed the finish line in last place. He didn't really want to race today but went with it anyway, just for fun. As he was about to pull his kart over, he saw the racers grouped around something. As he got closer, he saw Gloyd and Swizzle fighting. He stopped the RV1 and ran over to the two. He grabbed Gloyd while Jerry, who was keeping Bubblina from getting hit by the brawling racers, grabbed Swizzle.

"Come on guys! Calm down.", Rancis said, struggling to keep Gloyd from escaping.

"Dude! What happened?", Jerry asked, struggling to do the same with Swizzle.

As they were trying to hold down the two boys, King Candy drove up to them in the Royal Kart. "HEY!", he yelled.

The racers suddenly stopped cheering. Gloyd and Swizzle stopped trying to escape as well and calmed down a little.

King Candy cleared his throat, got out of his kart, and made his way to the two racers. "Now, does anyone mind tells me what happened here?", he said in a calm tone.

Gloyd was the first to speak up. "Swizzle broke Taffyta's arm.", he spat, glaring at the blue boy.

"No I didn't!", Swizzle defended. "She's lying."

"No I'm not!", Taffyta yelled. She held her injured arm and walked toward the group. "See King Candy, he broke my arm.", she told the King, showing him the arm.

"See?", Gloyd said. "Shut up.", Swizzle said, not caring about his friend.

King Candy took a closer look at the arm and it did seem broken, proven by the fact that Taffyta whimpered when he touched it.

"Hmm... Mr. Fluggerbutter, Mr. Berry, would you mind letting these two go?", the King requested. Rancis and Jerry nodded and let go of both the swirl pop and pumpkin boy, but kept their guards up. Fortunately, the two did not go and attack each other again.

"I'm sorry Mr. Malarkey, but Ms. Muttonfudge is right. Her arm is in fact broken.", King Candy said sadly.

"B-but, I-I d-didn't do it!", Swizzle stuttered.

"I'm sorry but for hurting your fellow racers, you're going to have to spend a night in the fungeon.", King Candy said.

The guards appeared and were about to take him away. Suddenly, Barry and Alden intervened. "Wait!", they both yelled.

The guards and King Candy stopped and looked at them. "Yes?", the King asked.

"We have proof that Swizzle's innocent.", Alden said.

King Candy looked intrigued. "Are you certain about this, boys?"

"Yeah we are. We have a video showing Taffyta is lying.", Barry said, pulling out a usb cable from B.I.T. and handed it to Alden. Alden plugged it into his hat and a large holo-screen appeared.

In the video, it showed the part of the race where Taffyta got out of the ice cream scoop and ran to the finish line.

"Huh, that's weird. You said that Swizz broke your arm when he shot you with that scoop.", Alden said in a fake amazed reaction.

The video kept playing until it reached the part when Taffyta started crying on Gloyd's shoulder. It showed Taffyta letting her left arm dangling to fake her injury.

The racers looked at the taffy girl and saw she was holding onto her right arm.

"Hey Taff, didn't ya injure your other arm?", Barry said.

The strawberry taffy racer looked nervous.

"Okay, I've seen enough.", King Candy said. "You can turn this off now, please.", he told Alden, who turned off the holo-screen and gave the cable back to Barry, who then retracted it back into B.I.T.

"Ahem...", King Candy cleared his throat, "well Ms. Muttonfudge, what do you have to say for yourself?", he said, adjusting his bow tie.

Taffyta's eyes darted around, trying to look for a way out. "Uh, wellll...about that, hehe", she mumbled before trying to make a break for it. As she pushed through the Oreo guards, Vanellope glitched infront of her and blocked her path. Taffyta bumped into Vanellope and fell backwards.

"Where ya going Taff?", Vanellope asked.

"Um... Nowhere.", Taffyta answered.

King Candy, Alden, Gloyd, Rancis, Jerry, Barry and Swizzle, also the Oreo guards, caught up behind Taffyta. The guards picked her back up.

"Taffyta Muttonfudge, for framing your friends, manipulating your boyfriend, and being an overall bad sport, I sentence you to a night in the fungeon.", King Candy said.

"Are you serious?", Taffyta asked, shocked.

"And your kart will be taken away for tomorrow's race.", Vanellope added.

"What?! NOOOO!", she cried. "You can't do this!"

"Yes we can. After all these years, you still can't stand anyone else winning. You're just a rotten racer.", Oreanna said.

Taffyta felt offended. "Well sorry!", she said in a snobbish tone. "It's not like I can do anything about it. It's how I'm programmed." She said, feeling a bit prideful of her 'excuse'.

The group went silent for a minute before Vanellope spoke up.

"No it's not!", she yelled, surprising everyone. "That's just a poor excuse Taff.", she stared down at the pink girl. "Look at me. I'm supposed to be programmed as a princess but I changed that. What your programming originally was doesn't say what you should be to others. You really are just a spoiled racer."

Taffyta though for a bit. After a moment, a fear tears started forming in her eyes. Everyone saw this. Vanellope felt sorry for her and knelt down.

"I-I'm sorry Taff. I didn't mean it like that.", she said in a soothing voice.

Taffyta sniffled for a few more seconds before calming back down. "N-no. You're right Vanellope. I do want to change and be nicer. I just don't know how.", she said in a low and sad tone.

Vanellope stood up straight. "Don't worry Taff. I think I know who can help you with that.", she said, holding out her arm.

Taffyta looked confused. "Really? Who?", she asked a bit hopeful.

Vanellope giggled a bit. "It's Stinkbrain!"

Taffyta looked surprised. "Van, are you sure that he won't just kill me?", she asked, her enthusiasm going down.

"Yeah I'm sure. I would never let him hurt my friends.", Vanellope said happily. "So do we have a deal?"

Taffyta thought about it. On one hand, she was still scared of the wrecker even after three years. On the other hand, she trusts Vanellope and Vanellope trusts this Ralph guy. She was about to make her choice when Vanellope interrupted her.

"Hey Taff! Are you in there or what? My arm is getting tired.", she said, holding her arm up with the other.

Taffyta smiled, took her friend's arm, used it to stand up and shook it before hugging her. "Yeah Van. I'll give it a try."

Vanellope smiled and started jumping around. "Great! You and Stinkbrain can start tomorrow."

"Yeah thanks V. But I do have a question.", Taffyta said.

Vanellope looked at her. "Hm? What?"

Taffyta looked embarrassed. She scratched the back of her head. "What am I supposed to do?"

Vanellope smiled at her again. "You just have to go to a few meetings to deal with your 'issues'", she answered.

"Oh really? Ok then.", Taffyta said. She and Vanellope then walked to King Candy.

"Hey dad, guess what. Taffyta agreed to go with Stinkbrain to some meetings to manage her jealousy.", Vanellope said.

Everyone was surprised at this announcement. King Candy spoke up. "Really, that's great news.", he said, turning to the blonde girl.

"Thanks. I'll try to be nicer next time, okay.", Taffyta said to King Candy before turning to Swizzle.

Taffyta walked over to Swizzle. "I'm sorry Swizz."

Swizzle stared at her a bit before answering. "Yeah, its ok."

"Hey dad...", Vanellope said, pulling at her father's sleeve. "Is it ok that we don't send Taff to the fungeon?"

The King looked at the racers and saw they were fine with it. "Sure my schweet.", he chuckled. Vanellope rolled her eyes playfully before hugging her dad. "Thanks dad.", she said.

"Well, looks like our job is done here.", Barry said. " Wanna get a drink at Tappers?"

Alden takes out his silver sunglasses. "Yeah. I kinda feel...TAPPED OUT." (YEEAAHH!)

He turned to the other racers. "You guys wanna come?", he asked. They all nodded. "Well, c'mon on!". He took his sunglassses off and slowly started putting them on again. "The more... THE MERRIER." (YEEAAHH!)

As they were walking, Gloyd walked up to Taffyta. "I can't believe my own girlfriend tricked me into beating up my best friend.", he said, smiling. "That was a good one."

Taffyta smiled back. "Thanks pumpkin. I've got a trick for you later.", she said, giving Gloyd a peck on the cheek.

"I'll be looking forward to it.", Gloyd answered back in a teasing voice, to which Taffyta giggled.

Alden took his sunglasses off again and started putting them back on. "Well, you two look like you're gonna get... YOUR JUST DESSERTS." (YEEAAHH!)...

Now...

"And that's how we all ended up here at Tappers.", Barry said, hugging Beezy on their side of the booth while Alden stayed on his side with Nougey.

"Yeah, most of the racers had gone home. Now, Swizzle, Gloyd and Rancis are bored because their girls left a little early.", Alden said.

"But don't worry. The funny part of the story will come tomorrow.", Barry said.

"Wait...", Alden interrupted. "My part using the CSI Miami theme wasn't funny?"

"It was. But that wasn't the point of the story.", Barry said.

"Come on Alden, I thought it was funny.", Nougetsia said, trying to cheer Alden up.

Alden looked at his friends and smiled. "Yeah, thanks. Anyway, see you in the next chapter."

"BYE!", All the racers said.

Barry leaned over to Alden. "They do know that we're the only fourth wall oc's, right?", he whispered.

"Just go with it.", Alden answered as the screen faded.

to be continued...

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