A/N: Okay, so this is a What If thing I've wanted to write about since I first started writing fanfiction. Plus this is my first time tackling something with the Hurt/Comfort genre. So enjoy.
"All hail the rightful ruler of Sugar Rush, Princess Vanellope." Sour Bill announced to all the racers glumly.
All of the Sugar Rushers stared in shock at what was before them. For fifteen years, they had bullied Vanellope relentlessly because she was a glitch. Something that their king had told would bring about the unplugging of their game if she raced with them. But now that their memories had been restored from the game resetting, they could see that what they thought was just a mistake never meant to exist, was actually their leader.
"Now I remember, she's our princess." Taffyta leaned in and whispered to Candlehead.
"Oh that's right!" She said in shock, remembering who the poor girl they had tortured for so long really was.
"We are SO sorry about the way we treated you." Taffyta mournfully apologized to Vanellope.
"Y-y-yeah, those were jokes." Rancis chuckled nervously. He and all the others realized the power she now had to punish them.
"And I was just doing what Taffyta told me to do!" Candlehead suddenly shouted, pointing an accusing finger at her friend who turned to see that she was talking about her. The platinum blonde looked like she wanted to say something back at her, but realized that she was in front of her royal leader.
Vanellope just watched in confusion as her former tormentors begged for forgiveness, especially Taffyta. Like she thought a simply apology would make up for so many years of treating her like a mistake. "Tu tu tu. As your merciful princess, I hereby decree, that every racer who was mean to me shall be…executed."" She announced in a soft sweet tone.
"WHAT!? No no no, please forgive us. We don't want to die!" Taffyta and the others got on their knees and started to cry as they begged for their lives, much to Vanellope's joy.
She let this go on for a couple of seconds before she let most of them off. "Okay, I'm just kidding. Settle down." She told them all. The racers seem to calm down a bit from being told this. "After all, I couldn't execute…all of you." The princess trailed off as they all looked up at her in confusion. "I mean, if I killed all of you, there would be no racers left for the roster." Vanellope explained to them. "So I'll just have to settle with the racer who led your pack." She began to smile devilishly and waved to Wynchel and Duncan to join her.
"Lock up Miss Muttonfudge in the castle Fungeon if you please." Vanellope instructed the two donut cops.
"As you wish your majesty." Duncan nodded to her as he and his partner both approached the pink racer and each grabbed an arm. It took Taffyta a moment to register what was happening to her before she started to struggle and plea. "Wait, no stop! Vanellope please, I said I was sorry! It wasn't our fault, just listen to me!" She cried to the princess.
"Silence! Corruption or not, what you and the other racers did could be considered treason." Vanellope yelled, pointing her lollipop wand at Taffyta. "As your princess, I sentence Taffyta Muttonfudge to death by the candy guillotine under the charge of bullying me for fifteen years. Take her away!" She gave her orders to the pastry policemen.
"No please! I don't want to die! We didn't know you were really a princess! I'M SORRY! STOP! PLEASE!" Taffyta began to scream as fresh tears formed in her eyes. All the other racers watched in fright as their friend was dragged away toward the castle. "NOOOOO! PLEASE! LET ME GOOOO! I SAID I WAS SORRY!" Taffyta screeched as she began to thrash and try to break free from the cops. Wynchel signaled for three more Oreo guards to come and restrain her. "VANELLOPE, IT WASN'T MY FAULT! I'M BEGGING YOU! VANELLOPE!" The girl called out to the princess before she was too far to make out what she was saying anymore.
Vanellope turned back to the rest of the racers who were staring at her in fear and shock from what had just happened. "What do we do now?" Minty looked to her fellow avatars for the answer.
"You don't really plan on killing Taffyta, do you?" Candlehead asked.
"Are you going to kill us as well?" Jubileena wondered with a bit of fright in her voice.
"I don't want to die!" Gloyd cried out to the princess.
"Quiet!" Vanellope raised her lollipop wand to get their attention. "You will all be present in the front courtyard of the castle for Taffyta's execution tomorrow morning." She ordered them. They all silently nodded as she left.
"Please reconsider your majesty." Rancis called out to Vanellope as she walked back to the castle. Reconsider? Why would she ever reconsider getting rid of the one girl who did her best to make her life miserable. True it wasn't their fault entirely. King Candy, or as he turned out to be, Turbo had locked up their memories and told the racers that Vanellope was to be kept from racing at all cost. Even though he had spoon fed them all lies, it was their choice to listen to him. Their choice to bully her.
Then there was Taffyta. True to what Candlehead said earlier, she often led the other racer when it came to tormenting Vanellope. But she was especially cruel and had a mean streak when it came to bullying what was once a glitch in the game. Mocking her, calling her horrible names, and shoving her aside when she was in the way were all the past fifteen years had been for Vanellope when it came to Taffyta. The pink racer had even been known for picking on her own friends. A couple of days before Ralph showed up and everything changed, Vanellope had spied on her teasing Rancis about how he didn't have as many victories as she did. "This needs to be done to set an example of what happens when you cause your ruler all this pain." She told herself as she approached the castle entrance.
Once she was back inside of her palace, she let out a stressed sigh as she glitched out of her dress. Vanellope was now kicking herself mentally about announcing the execution. Since Taffyta wasn't a glitch like she had been, she would just respawn, making a fool out of the princess in front of her subjects. She suddenly felt a hand tug at her foot. Vanellope turned to see Taffyta, reaching out through the bars of a small window connecting to the Fungeon.
Her face and outfit had mascara smudged all over them from her crying. "Vanellope please. I know fifteen years is a long time, but just give me a chance to show how sincerely sorry I am." Taffyta pleaded with her. However Vanellope just shook her hand off of her.
"Shut up! You did what you did and that's that. Tomorrow, I'll be able to show you just how much pain you caused me." Vanellope leered at her prisoner, whose eyes shrunk due to her knowing what that meant. Her fate had been sealed.
"NO! VA-VANELLOPE, IT W-WASN'T MY FAULT!" She began to cry again, smearing her make up even more.
The princess just rolled her eyes with an annoyed sigh. "Ugh, stop being such a whiner. Pretty far cry from the number one racer now isn't it?" With that, she headed to the throne room. The racer, who once said her name in a mocking tone, was now screaming it in desperation. Vanellope still remembered the hurtful things she had said.
"You're an accident just waiting to happen."
"Glitches can't race."
"You will NEVER be a racer, because you're a glitch, and that's all you'll ever be."
Vanellope just smiled to herself. She had sure knocked Taffyta down from miss popular to the crybaby that was begging for freedom she was now. However, one quote wouldn't leave her head.
"You will NEVER be a racer, because you're a glitch, and that's all you'll ever be."
"All you'll ever be."
"All you'll ever be."
At first Vanellope tried to ignore it, but it just wouldn't leave her mind. "I'M NOT A GLITCH ANYMORE!" She screamed out loud, kicking over a nearby chair. "If only there was a way to make her a glitch. Show her what it's like to have people tormenting you on a daily basis." Vanellope pondered angrily.
"There is actually a way, your highness." She felt tug on her pant leg. Still in her shouting mindset, Vanellope turned to yell at whoever it was, but she held back when she saw Sour Bill standing at her feet. He recoiled back a little when she faced him with rage, but regained his usual grumpy expression after she held back. "Allow me to show you." He flatly told her, leading her to behind the throne.
Vanellope followed the little sour ball, who was accompanied by an Oreo guard, as he led her down a glowing hall toward a large NES controller on the wall. He handed her a small piece of paper, which Vanellope realized was a napkin after she felt it. "Input that code on the controller." He told her. She examined the napkin and found a series of arrows and letters written on the back. "Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start." Vanellope quietly murmured to herself. Once the last button had been pressed, the controller split apart, and revealed a large void of blackness.
Sour Bill had the Oreo tie a liquorice rope around him before handing another one to Vanellope. "Tie this around your waist. It's for safety." Bill instructed her as she did so. Once they were both tied, the grouchy assistant led the princess out into the abyss toward a massive heap of flashing boxes and wires. It took a little help from Bill for Vanellope to get use to floating, but she slowly worked her way towards the mass of lights. "This is the game's code." He explained to the confused girl. "This controls everything and everyone in Sugar Rush."
Vanellope floated past boxes and wires, reading off some of the names of the various tracks, features, and karts. "Why did you bring me here?" the ruler of the game asked the green ball.
"This is how Turbo ruined your life for fifteen years." He looked at her. Vanellope turned her attention to her assistant, wondering what he meant. "He came in here, ripped your code box out of the wiring, locked up the racer memory box in a chest, and placed his code box in your place, as King Candy."
Vanellope just stared for a moment, taking this in. Then she got an idea. "So if I wanted to turn Taffyta into a glitch, all I have to do is find her code box, and rip the wires out?" She asked him. Sour Bill nodded in confirmation. She then started to float towards where all the character boxes were, searching for Taffyta.
This was it. She had found a way to show Taffyta what it was like to be a glitch and kill her permanently. Since glitches didn't regenerate when they died, if she turned her into a glitch, she would be gone forever. No more. She scanned the cluster of character boxes. Crumbelina, Gloyd, Snowanna, Duncan, Swizzle. Then she found it.
Taffyta Muttonfudge.
Her code box floated in front of Vanellope, flashing her name in big letters, accompanied by a picture of her. Vanellope processed what she was about to do. All she had to do was pull the wires connecting her box, and the girl who had caused her so much pain would be a glitch, just like the princess was for so long. Then Vanellope started to remember that line again.
"You will NEVER be a racer."
She clenched her fist as new rage boiled inside of her.
"Because you're a glitch."
Tears started to fall from how mad she was.
"And that's all. You'll ever. Be!"
Finally moving her arms, she wrapped her hands around the top set of wires, making sure she had a firm grip on them. "Let's see how you like it, glitch."
And with that, Vanellope started to pull.
A/N: Well, how did I do for the first chapter? A review would make my day.
Next Chapter: The Execution