One night on October 2012, in Litwak's Arcade, a daily random roster race was held in Sugar Rush. The nine racers for the next day were King Candy, Taffyta, Rancis, Candlehead, Adorabeezle, Gloyd, Snowanna, Minty, and Citrusella.

When the speedway emptied out and only the racers were left, Taffyta looked around to see if anyone was here. "Okay guys, let's go." She said after realizing no one was around.

The racers got into their karts and drove to the junkyard, mainly because that's where Vanellope spends most of her time. When they arrived there, they parked their karts and looked for Vanellope.

"There she is." Rancis said, pointing.

Taffyta and the others turned to where Rancis was pointing, and found Vanellope lying on a chocolate puddle. Vanellope usually uses a chocolate mud puddle as her napping spot. When the racers asked her why, she said its one of her joys of being a glitch.

The racers approached, and noticed a few tears on Vanellope's eyes. Taffyta knelt down. "Hey Vanny." She said.

Vanellope opened her eyes and turned to see the racers. "Oh, hey guys." She said.

Taffyta chuckled a bit. "Everything okay?" She asked.

"Yeah, but not really." Vanellope said as she got up to her feet, the mud dripping from her clothes. Taffyta, Rancis, and Candlehead wiped the mud from her clothes.

"How were you guys today?" Vanellope asked.

"It was fun." Said Candlehead. "We were happy of the gamers playing our game."

"That sounds good." Said Vanellope, smiling a bit. "By the way, who are the nine racers for tomorrow?" Then Taffyta told her about the nine racers for tomorrow.

"I see." Said Vanellope. "You must be very happy Taffyta. You always get in the roster."

"I am." Said Taffyta. "But my happiness isn't full yet."

"Really? Then what would fill up your happiness?"

"Seeing you being happy and living a better life. Your sadness makes me and my friends sad too."

"Oh, I see." Said Vanellope, and sighed. "You know, I sometimes dream of being-"

"Being a racer like us, right?" Minty finished for her.

"Yeah right." Said Vanellope. "But that'll never happen, because I'm a glitch!" Then she groaned.

Rancis tried to comfort the glitching girl. "Relax Vanellope. At least we're your friends."

Vanellope stared at him a bit, and smiled. Rancis did the same in response.

Taffyta suddenly noticed something in the back of Vanellope. "Hey, what is that?" She asked. She walked towards to stare at this junk kart.

"Oh yeah, I forgot." Said Vanellope. "That's the Likkity Split, my hand built pedal powered kart. I didn't make it for racing, but for my transportation. I was too tired of just walking."

"That's a good idea." Said Taffyta. "Cause you would never be able to win a race with this piece of junk."

"Hey, come on!" Vanellope retorted. "I know it's a junk, but it's all I got!"

"Sorry." Taffyta apologized.

Candlehead walked up to see the Likkity Split. "Woo! Looks cool! How did you built this, Vanellope?" She asked.

"I built it by using the parts of some scrapped karts." Said Vanellope. "I took 20 days to build it."

"20 days?!" Gloyd said, shocked.

"Yeah. 20 days. I had some frustrating moments when it wasn't built as what I was thinking."

"Then why didn't you ask us for help?" Jubileena asked.

"That's because I wanted to be at least good at something." Said Vanellope. "Like building."

"Oh, I see." Said Jubileena. Vanellope smiled in response.

"So, what do we do now?" Crumbelina asked.

"Maybe we can play together." Said Candlehead.

"Yeah, but not me." Said Vanellope.

"Wait. Vanny, you don't want to play with us?" Taffyta asked.

"I'm not feeling good now. Just leave me alone. I wanna be solitude now." Vanellope said as she lied back on a chocolate puddle.

Everyone felt poor for Vanellope. All of them wanted nothing better than comforting her. A few moments later, they finally got an idea. The idea of making Vanellope happy.

Vanellope lifted her head up and saw the racers digging around the puddle she was lying. "Guys, what are you doing?" She asked.

"We're trying to make you happy." Said Taffyta.

"We're gonna spend times with you." Said Rancis. "Do you know what that means?"

"I get it!" Said Vanellope. "This is great!" Then she lied back.

Soon, the chocolate puddle got more wide than before. One by one, the racers threw themselves into the puddle.

However, Minty accidently landed her face first into it, tasting the sour chocolate milk flavored mud. "YUCK!" She muttered. She began wiping the chocolate from her tongue, causing the others to laugh. Minty glared at them, but came back to normal.

A few moments later, Gloyd noticed Crumbelina lying right next to him. Since he was a prankster, Gloyd always wanted to prank someone with the chocolate mud, and now was his chance.

With one quick motion, he splashed the mud hardly, giving Crumbelina a face full of mud. "Gah!" She muttered. Gloyd quickly lied back on the puddle.

"Who the heck did that?!" Crumbelina asked angrily. Vanellope pointed at Gloyd.

Crumbelina glared at Gloyd, who was now nervous. "Ohh, Gloyd, I'm going to kill you!" Crumbelina shouted angrily, but in a playful mood.

Gloyd ran away and Crumbelina chased after him. The others watched the two racers chasing around.

Some minutes later, everyone stood up from the puddle. "Man, we're filthy." Said Candlehead.

"I know, right?" Said Vanellope. "But nevertheless, thank you guys! I've never been this much happy before!"

"You're welcome." Taffyta replied. Vanellope smiled in response.

"Well, we better go home now." Said Adorabeezle.

"Oh yeah, we need to." Said Vanellope. "Time to go back to my diet cola mountain home."

"Wait, Vanellope!" Said Rancis. "Why don't you sleep in our house today?"

"Your house?" Vanellope asked.

"Yeah! Where we all live together! What do you think?" Swizzle asked.

"I agree!" Said Vanellope. "I wanted to have a better home!"

"Great!" Said Taffyta. "I'm happy that you agreed."

"Me too." Said Vanellope. "But, can I take my kart too?"

"Of course you can." Said Taffyta. "But since it's not that fast, we're gonna have to tie it to my kart and tow it to our house."

"Got it." Vanellope replied.

Taffyta found a licorice rope in her kart. She tied one side of the rope to the Likkity Split. Rancis tied the other side to the Pink Lightning. Then everyone got into their karts.

"Okay Vanny, you ready?" Taffyta asked.

"Yes, I am!" Said Vanellope. "But remember, my kart is very weak, so don't drive fast. It would get destroyed."

"I understand." Said Taffyta. Then everyone drove carefully to the racers' house.

Author's Note: Chapter 1 is done! What do you think of them playing in the chocolate puddle? I parodied it from the mud festival. Stay tuned for the next chapter!