Chapter 1: The Start

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"Is it plugged in, Sir?"

A man wearing a referee shirt nods his head as his stands up and backs away from the surge protector.

"Yes, this is the first racing game I've bought in while."

"What other racing games have you bought in the past?" The mechanic asks.

"It was a while ago, around when I first opened this place in 1982. I bought a game called Turbotime. It was so popular among the kids. But after I got another racing game, Roadblasters in 1985, both games malfunctioned and I had to send old Turbotime and the new game, Roadblasters out to the pasture. Since the incident, I haven't bought another racing game since. Let's hope this new game works; the kids will love it."

"Okay, Stan."

Mr. Litwak walked over to the new racing game that was pink in color. It had flashing lights on the sides of the colorful screen. On the screen showed a girl with black hair covered with candy. She was wearing a white racing-suit and she was racing in a white kart with a crown on the front. Below the nine-year old girl, flashed 0/2 credits: $0.50.

Mr. Litwak got two quarters out of his coin belt and placed them in the machine in the coin slot next to a button labeled $0.50.

The screen changed from 0/2 credits to 1/2 credits. After Mr. Litwak placed his second quarter in the machine, the screen changed from 1/2 credits to 2/2 credits. The bottom words changed to Start!

Mr. Litwak pressed the button in the center of the steering wheel. The game screen changed to a screen of nine racers. The top read 'Chews Your Racer'. Mr. Litwak chose a racer and began to play the game.

After three laps around the track, Mr. Litwak got in second place playing as Taffyta Muttonfudge. "The characters really give you a run for your money." He replied, slightly upset that he didn't win the race. Even though he didn't win, he couldn't deny that the game was really fun. "The game works, I'm sure the kids will love it." Mr. Litwak said as he stood up and left the game.

Many kids ran over to the game, wanting to the next one to play the colorful, candy-themed racing game.

For the next couple of hours, Sugar Rush was played non-stop. Every kid wanted to play the new game of 1997.

A couple hours later, Mr. Litwak walked over to the line of kids waiting to play the new game.

"I'm closing up shop. I'll let you kids have one more game before I'll have to kick you out for closing time."

"Awwwwwwwww..." The kids complained.

"One more game." Mr. Litwak said as he started to walk away. "Don't worry kids; the game will be there again tomorrow."

"Okay." Some of the kids agree.

After the last race is finished, Mr. Litwak cleans up his arcade, locks the door and leaves.

"All clear." A random video game character yells out to all the other video game characters.

All the video game characters began leaving their posts.

In Sugar Rush, the racers hopped out of their karts.

"Great first day of racing, everyone." The princess happily said.

All the racers clap their hands in honor of the first day.

"Tomorrow, we will have nine new racers on the roster."

"Who?" Swizzle Malarkey asked.

Vanellope put her finger under her lip and thought to herself. "I hadn't thought of that. Maybe, we can just pick by random draw?"

"Can't we just race to decide the new roster?" Taffyta questioned.

"I guess..." Vanellope decided.

"Then, let's get this race started. I can't wait to be on the roster again, for the second time in a row." Taffyta replied selfishly.

"Okay, Taffyta. Make sure to stay sweet, when I kick your butt." Vanellope trash-talked her friend.

"You're on." Taffyta said, challenging Vanellope to winning first place at the Random Roster Race.

Vanellope, Taffyta and all the other racers got into their karts and got ready for the race. A countdown began as all the racers sat patiently at the starting line.

3...

2...

1...

GO!

All the racers were off and the fight began for first place.

A distance away, at the very top of the rainbow taffy bridge was a racer wearing a white racesuit along with a white helmet with a big red T on it. He brushed some of the dirt off of his favorite racesuit.

"It wasn't easy getting inside here, but I was finally able to do it. So, Litwak finally decided to purchase another racing game. Let's see what's my new home is going to be like."

Turbo walked down the rainbow taffy bridge and reached the brown sugar dirt at the ground.

"This is Sugar Rush? All the bright colors are kind of annoying. Also, that darn theme song! I hate that song; that is one thing I know. I can't listen to that irritating theme song all the time even if my life depended on it. But besides that, the place looks pretty turbotastic."

A blast of wind comes towards Turbo's direction. A few racers race past him on the racetrack. None of the racers even noticed he was standing there.

'Turbotastic! I can't wait to race again.'

He walked over on the side of the racetrack and followed his way to the starting line.
He saw groups of candy fans in boxes cheering for their certain racer. In the center of the boxes full of candy-people was a popcorn box with the letters VVS written in cursive.

"I can't wait for this all to be mine." Turbo said giddily. 'Now, where would that coderoom be?' He wondered. 'The racetrack? The stands? No, that's too obvious.' He looked around the candy-coated game. He turned around and then, a light bulb went off in his head. 'Of course, the only logical place for the coderoom is inside the castle.'

He scurried off in the direction of the sugar castle that sat on top of a tall hill. He stared at the castle and it made him full of joy. "I've waited so long for this moment and now, it's here."

He walked up to the castle door and knocked like any normal person would do.

The door opened up just a crack.

"Yes." A monotone voice answered.

Turbo was looking for the source of the voice, but he looked downwards seeing a sour green cough drop by the door.

"Who are you?" Turbo questioned.

He answered, "I'm Sour Bill, the princess's assistant."

"Good...good." Turbo muttered.

"What's good?" Sour Bill wondered without a single hint of curiosity in his voice.

Turbo picked the sour green ball off of the ground and stared directly into his eyes.

"You. You are going to show me the coderoom whether you like it or not." He replied in a completely serious tone.

"I'm not going to help you." Sour Bill denied Turbo's request.

Turbo thought of what he could use as blackmail. "If you don't, I will lick you. Then, whenever I do find the coderoom, I'll delete your code."

Sour Bill frowned and said, "You wouldn't."

"Oh yeah? Well, I'm the greatest racer and virus ever. Yes, you heard me said virus."

Sour Bill moved back alarmed. "Oh no."

"Yes, I need to go to coderoom. Now, let's start over again, shall we? Where can I find the coderoom?"

He put Sour Bill back down on the ground.

"Sir, it's over here." He said as he began walking over near the throne. He walked behind the throne and pulled the curtain aside. "Here."

Turbo went down the hallway hidden by the curtain.

"Perfect...perfect." He said as he walked up to the game console door.
He reached into the pocket of his racesuit and pulled out a napkin from Tapper's with writing on it. Then, he began pressing the buttons into the game console. "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start."

The door opened up and Turbo's eyes widened with excitement. "The coderoom, the sweet life and blood of the game." He said amazed as he walked into the dark room full of codes. He started floating away in the vault. "Hey, Sour Bill."

"Hmmm...Yes?" He said in a drowsy tone.

"Toss me a rope!" Turbo commanded. He was starting to lose control of where he was going and he started floating away.

"Okay." Sour Bill said as he turned around and searched for a rope.

"Anything. Anything will work, just toss me something that I can tie around my waist." Turbo yelled.

The only thing Sour Bill could find was a roll of licorice. "I guess this will have to do." He said as he picked up the roll of licorice. He tossed it over to the racer who was floating around in the code vault. "Here."

Turbo caught the rope in his hands. Then, he tied the red licorice rope around his waist as fast as he could, so he could stop wondering around the space-like area.

"There." He replied, accomplished as he finished tying the rope around his waist.

'So far, so good. I, Turbo, the greatest racer ever, will now be the ruler of Sugar Rush. Not that little irritating candy-hair girl. But what should I call myself here? I can't use my real name; too many people know who I am. King...something. I'll figure out my name out later.'

He floated over to the codes inside the coderoom. He looked at all the codes as he passed by them. He stopped when he spotted the game's leader. How did he know who was the game's leader? He could tell because under the section of racers, there was only one character with the word 'princess' in the name. The racer was Princess Vanellope Von Schweetz. He swarm over to the codebox and pulled out some of the wires out from the top.

'There sure is a heck of a lot of wires.'

He kept pulling more and more wires out of the codebox.

'Any time now.' He thought, growing impatient.

Finally, he finished and pushed Vanellope's codebox to the side. He changed the title on her codebox to just Vanellope Von Schweetz. He didn't need another royalty spoiling his plans.

He swarm over to the side of the game and tapped a codebox labeled 'Deleted'.
The codebox opened up with a bunch of random different files. Some of the files were of old deleted racer designs, old kart designs, racetracks and basically anything candy-related.

Turbo pushed some buttons and pulled out an old deleted design. He also pulled out a random codebox. He closed the codebox titled 'Deleted' and swam back over to where Vanellope's codebox used to be located. He plugged in a blank codebox he found under the 'Deleted' codebox to the wires that used to be connected to Vanellope's code.

He tapped the codebox and deleted all of the contents to make sure the codebox was completely empty. Then, once the codebox was empty, a search bar appeared on the screen. Turbo knew what it meant; he had been studying code for a while now. He had to type in a character code. What is a character code? It is a code given to every character and every object inside the game. That was how you programmed characters, objects or locations into the game.

Turbo began typing on the on-screen keyboard. He typed 'Turbo' into the search bar. He tapped 'enter' and the codebox began loading information. The codebox began processing information and it read 'Loading...' as it loaded information from Turbo's code into it.

"Loading complete." a voice spoke aloud.

The word 'Loading' disappeared and the codebox was now labeled 'Turbo' with many files inside.

"Perfect, a codebox. Now, all I have to do is a couple things. I have to change my name, appearance, personality and every possibly trace that King... King Candy is me, the greatest racer ever!"

Turbo began changing his codebox rapidly. He changed his appearance to look like he was a candy themed character from the Japanese racing game. He also edited his statistics and changed some minor details about his code before he left the coderoom as a completely new person; King Candy.

He was greeted by Sour Bill, his new assistant. "Sir, were you careful? If you change the code of the game too much, it could trigger an error or even a glitch." Sour Bill warned him.

Turbo just waved him off, "No, of course that didn't happen. But, you do give me an idea."

"What it is about?" Sour Bill wondered.

"I'll tell you about that later. For now, it's time to go to the racetrack and do the one thing I love to do; race." With that said, King Candy and Sour Bill walked away from the coderoom, passed the throne and left the castle.

Inside the coderoom, near the deleted files box, a new codebox started to form. Many pieces of code formed the small purple box. After the box was created, a title labeled the box. The name on the codebox read 'Crimson Crunch'.

'Uploading...' The box read as it began placing data inside the codebox. As soon as the box finished loading, it read 'Loading Complete'.

Author's Note: So, that's the end of chapter 1. This chapter and the next chapter are prologue. But, what or who is this character 'Crimson Crunch'? Please review :)