Author Note: Since different people who write Wreck it Ralph stories give Turbo's 2 competitors, the TurboTwins, different names and the 2 competitors actually do not have official names, in this story I am going to use the names I have seen used in other stories: Jet and Set. With that said, enjoy my story!
As Turbo from Turbotime won another race, as usual, he declared his catchphrase, "Turbotastic!" He actually only had 2 other competitors, but hopefully more were going to come after the update they were going to have tonight.
Jet crossed his arm in disapproval, "You know you always win. Why not give me or Set or chance? You're lucky that you're the main character, not us because we would always beat you and you'd be a NPC. Right, Set?"
Set just nodded his head to agree with his twin brother but he didn't want Jet to start a fight with Turbo.
Turbo smile of victory slowly faded into a scowl."Well, if to both of you think that 'winning is easy and that you could beat me any day,' then, why do you guys try? Because you guys both told me you 'try your hardest everyday' to beat me."
Set knew one thing for sure: a fight was starting to form.
Jet replied angrily, "Well, it's not our fault that the programmers liked you best and gave you the best car in the whole game."
"Well, hey I...!" Turbo started to fight back before Set had to try to put an end to this.
"STOP IT, you guys! And besides we don't know what this update may bring. It could change the game completely-we don't know. But, that's all we should stay focused on, okay?"
Both Turbo and Jet didn't say anything and turned around, facing away from each another crossing their arms. Set whispered in his brother's ear, "We probably should leave Turbo alone here for a while and get going. We've got a lot of time to kill because we will be here for the night because of the upgrade."
So with that said, both the twins left and Turbo was standing by himself, lonely. Well, except the golden trophy he had in his hand which had made him so happy.
He looked at his reflection in the trophy and smile, even though he wasn't really happy. Deep down, even though he couldn't stand the twins, he wanted them to like him. Most people in the arcade weren't very good friends with the ghostly pale racer, except for the friendliest handyman everyone knew and loved-Felix. But besides Felix, deep down Turbo knew he was alone and wasn't loved like he always acted like he was. He started to walk away with his trophy which he won from the last race and headed to his house. He couldn't go hang out at Tapper's, like everyone else did. His game was actually going to get an update-he hoped it was something good. Like changing the faceless crowd that he had to race by every single time he raced or his ghost-like appearance which made him look like a monster. After all this thinking, he laid down on his bed, which after a few minutes he realized he forgot to take his helmet off which revealed his dark hair, which used to be lighter before he wore the helmet on his head for many years. He then lay back down and tried to clear the thoughts out of his head before he fell asleep.
Morning came sooner than he expected. He wondered what the programmers changed in that update over the night. He got up and placed his helmet back on his head and started to look around at all places he pasted as he walked outside of his house to see if he saw anything different from before.
'They'd better have changed that audience.' He thought to himself.
For the most part, he didn't notice anything different until he set foot outside. The circler track was way bigger than before and he also noticed another small detail outside-another building was added.
'Probably like a gas station or something.' He thought. It didn't cross his mind that this building could be an improvement or change the game. He looked at the audience stands and was depressed by the sight of the pixel audience still just a bunch of random pixels not any actual people or game characters. No real people to actually give the racer some attention. He sighed in defeat as this statement became more and more true. He walked towards the garage-where all the cars were kept and he pressed the garage opener. The garage opened up to his car, a red speed machine, along with both of the twins' cars which were both blue and also there was another car there. But it was one that Turbo never saw before in his life. Its overall design was similar to Turbo's own car (but slower obviously) and instead of being red with a white stripe down the side, it was lime green and had a white stripe down its side also. "What the...?" Turbo asked, surprised by this new car. He knew one thing for sure, it wasn't his car.
'Maybe the twins' car? But they already have a car, maybe...maybe a new character?'
Turbo started to get nervous about the thought of another racer.
"Another competitor? Another person I need to beat?"He asked out loud.
But it wasn't as if someone was going to answer him, the twins were still asleep even though the arcade was going to open in a half an hour.
Turbo really hoped that this was just an error and not someone who possibly could mess with his chances of winning.
Winning was the only thing he knew he had and if he couldn't win, then he had nothing. Well except for Felix being his friend, but Felix was friends with and nice to everyone (even somewhat Ralph) so he didn't count him because he was friends with everyone literally.
Turbo hoped he could see who this person was who was going to steal his precious attention away from him and he only had less than half an hour to do it in. He pressed the button to close the garage and left to go find the owner of the mysterious green car. He went off to the first place he thought this person could be: the race track. Which when he walked up to it, it was completely silent not even the crowd of pixels were there for the time being. He sighed at the sight of the racer not being there and left.
'If they weren't on the track, where else could they possibly be at? The houses?'
He knew that the person wasn't in the garage, so the only other place in the game they could possibly be besides the racetrack was the houses. He also knew if the person went into his house he was going to hit them so hard it wouldn't be funny. So the only reasonable choice for the new character to possible be is at the twins' house. Turbo started over there and knocked on the door of the twins' house.
He heard no response but in the distance he heard a voice saying, "The arcade will open in 5 minutes. Please report to your starting locations. I repeat the arcade will open in 5 minutes."
Turbo stopped his knocking on the door and sighed in defeat. 'I guess I'll find out more about this kart and character problem later.' He thought as he started to walk away towards the racetrack. As he started to walk away, the twins finally opened their door. They really slept in until the last second they possibly could.
"Turbo? Is that you?" Set said, slightly more awake than his brother.
Turbo turned around to face the mellower of the twins and nodded his head. "Yeah, the one and only!"
"Jet and I will be at the racetrack shortly, we'll meet you there."
"Fine." Turbo said more grumpily than he meant. He actually didn't really want to talk to the twins now anyway. But then again even though the twins annoyed him greatly, he actually wanted them to be his friends. He had no friends or appreciation by his fellow neighbors. On his way over to the racetrack, he noticed that building again-the one he saw earlier and still something wasn't right about it. He couldn't exactly put his finger on it, but he knew something was wrong. But he pushed all his thoughts about that strange building to the side and went to go get his racecar out of the garage and onto the bigger circular track. He hopped inside his car and waited for the twins to show up and momentarily, they did. Both twins were wide awake, as if they haven't just got up out of bed a minute or so before and they both got their cars ready for the start of the day.
The three all heard an announcement, "The arcade is now open. Please report to your games."
Outside the games, in the arcade, many kids rush inside ready to play the games. Many kids rush over to Turbotime because told the kids a couple days ago that the popular racing game was getting an update.
In the game, Turbo and the twins got ready as they heard a quarter alert."Quarter Alert! Quarter Alert!"
The kid who put his quarter in the cabinet got ready as he saw a countdown.
3...
2...
1...
Go!
The three racers were off doing what they all loved and were programmed to do: race.
But even though Turbo was trying to stay focused on racing, he couldn't stay focused because that car thing bothered him for some reason. 'If that car does belong to a game character, why didn't they show up? Or is there not even a new character and I just hallucinated the whole car thing? That has to be it! Now I can stop worrying about that car thing! Turbotastic!'
That's what he thought for the rest of the race and he stayed focused on racing, well up to when he was few feet away from the finish line, when he saw something speed right on by him."Huh?"
'I've never seen either of twins drive so fast before. Unless... No! It can't be...'
He finally crossed the finish line in second place. As soon as he possibly could, he got out of his car looked around for the first place winner. But, he couldn't see where the person who won the race was and he couldn't go look for them-he still had to deal with the gamer in front of the screen.
The silver trophy appeared in his hands and he knew what he had to do next. His catchphrase: "Turbotastic!" As much as he wanted to see who this person was, he job forced him to have to wait until the arcade closed.
The day went by very slowly after the first race. Even though he loved racing, he just wished that could stop racing so he could see who the mysterious person was who kept winning. After hours of waiting, finally told the kids he was going to close soon and they would have to leave. Even though the kids grumbled and complained, they listen and left the arcade.
'Finally!' Turbo thought. He could finally see who this mysterious racer was.
About 15 minutes later left and everyone could finally take a break from their jobs and go to Game Central Station. Well, just take a break, in Turbo's case. He held his trophy from his last race, a silver trophy and started to take it back to his house first.
But today, he got more silver trophies than he ever did in his lifetime. 'It's all that new racer's fault I barely won any gold trophies today...' He complained in his head as he went inside and carelessly put his silver trophy in his trophy case. When he would get more gold trophies, he would get rid of the silver trophies to fill more of the space with all golden trophies in there. Anyway, after he carelessly put his trophy away, he left his room and headed for the door. He opened it and saw a person on the other side of it. "Who the heck are you?" Turbo asked.
The character replied, "I'm that new character from the upgrade. My name's Hannah."
Turbo looked at the girl from head to toe. Her outfit indeed matched the car he found earlier. She had a lime green racing suit with a helmet to match. On the side of her racing suit there was white stripe. She also had pale skin with bright green eyes. Last but not least, her hair, which stuck out from underneath her helmet, was brown and was shoulder-length.
Turbo was extremely shocked by the new racer. He never would have guessed a girl would be added to the game. The game's target audience is for boys and all the characters in the game so far were none other than boys. But he doesn't know maybe the programmer wanted to mix it up a bit.
When he was staring at her outfit and in the amazement of his competitor, who beat him, who was a girl, she stared at Turbo and accidently said out loud, "Man, he sure is cute."
But luckily for her, he didn't hear her.
"So... your name's Hannah? Well I'm Turbo, the greatest racer ever!"
"Turbo...," 'Even his name is awesome.' She thought before saying, "...well I guess since I beat you that makes me better than the greatest racer."
He frowned at her response slightly but replied, "You got lucky."
"Yeah, probably I just raced that way because I didn't know I was competing against you."
The last remark Hannah said made no sense to Turbo at all so he just assumed it was because she loved him, like everyone did because he was such a great racer. "Thank you. Anyway I should get going because I have some things I've got to do." He swerved around her from his house and closed the front door.
"Well...I guess I'll see you later then?"
"Yeah, whatever."
"Okay."
Turbo left the new girl and decided to go to the station for some peace and quiet. So, he got into the small train and traveled to Game Central Station.
