(ooc: holy cheese nix! The Misadventures of four Teenagers has had a HUGE positive response, i am amazed. but i need help from you guys. with jet's ability to absorb code he has 'power ups' one already is Mario's fire balls. I'd love to hear your thoughts! right now it's arcade game power ups, something from an effect to a full on power all are encouraged. i will expand to video games later in the story. so help? you can find the boys on my tumblr; Ask-Misadventuring-Teens. get to know them, ask questions or smother them in love. all are welcomed)

((ooc: thank you all for reading, following, and reviewing. i love all your support!))

"P-please d- be a- dr-dd-dream."

Turbo's eyes open, he looks around in confusion, "Where the hell are we?"

-{+}-

Jet laughs and cries softly, hugging Turbo. The white clad racer sits up a little and sits Jet on his lap.
"Y-you ne-ver ch-change, do -ou."

Turbo looks up at Jet, "JJ...ok question round. Where's Turbo Time?"

"Gone..."

Turbo shudders, "How long?"

"Th-irty years."

"Where are the Twins?"

"In my code.."

"Where are we?"

"Sugar R-ush"

"Where have you...stayed?"

"T-apper's"

"You've been alone for thirty years?"

"...Yes..."

Turbo stares, he removes Jet´s helmet and kisses his forehead. The warm contact causes Jet to jump forward and tightly hug Turbo. Unable to offset Jet´s weight, the newly formed racer falls on his back with a curse.

"What the hell J-?"

A soft sob and Jet´s weak shivers bring Turbo back to reality. Jet´s been alone for thirty years; he assumed he went through with attacking Road Blasters. The Twins are gone but Jet is wearing Drift's scarf, did they help Jet escape before they died when the game was unplugged? Who helped Jet out? Tapper did, but did Felix? The handy man liked the four of them, maybe he did help Jet. A sigh passes through his lips as he reaches down and pets the crying racer's head. He then returns his hug and whispers softly to Jet, trying to calm him down. After a minute or two just a hiccup and tears were left. Turbo wipes away the last tears, "Hey buck up kid, I'm not going anywhere. I'm not leaving you, understand?"

Jet nods and sniffles, turning his head to the side he listens to Turbo breathe. Turbo groans and runs a hand through his white hair, "You're glitching again...then again you just lost a huge amount of code to remake me. Hmph..."

Jet just smiles timidly, the corners of his mouth twitching a little. The older racer sighs, "Knowing you, you've got no loose code to balance out the lack of code you are now suffering from. Sweet Creator, Jet!"

All he gets is a smile, he presses the heel of his hand against Jet´s forehead, "Dumbass."

Jet pushes against Turbo's hand and smiles happily, this was real; Turbo was truly back. Lost in his own thoughts he didn't hear Turbo try and get his attention, till he gets knock on his temple.

"Code to Jet! You in there?"

"W-hat?"

"You need code, which is outside this game, you can't leave yet, how am I gonna go get your code?"

Instead of answering Jet grasps Turbo's head and focuses a glitch, his avatar covers Turbo's. Jet was Turbo, Turbo was Jet.

"You can not stay like that."

A blue glitch ripples from Jet's head to feet turning him back to his original avatar. Turbo seemed satisfied, "Are they racing?"

Again Jet doesn't answer, instead he takes Turbo to the main room and out onto a balcony. Turbo gasps in shock at the expanse before him, the candy landscape, the race tracks and diverse characters amaze him.

"St-ay away from th-the tracks an- just go to th- rainbow bridge...and str-aight to Tapper´s..."

Turbo nods grimly, he eyes the tracks and maps the best way to get out.

"Ok, you go back to the room so people don't get suspicious, I'll take care the rest."

Jet turns and back down the hall, "Th-at's what I was afrai- you'd s-say..."

"Where's your faith Jay?"

Jet looks back for a moment, "Just...please come back..."

He closes the door behind, leaving a stunned Turbo in his wake. His voice didn't crack or glitch, and the soul crushing loneliness in his voice. Turbo shivers and makes sure his Jet disguise is still intact. He reminds himself to stay away from the tracks. Staying low and moving swiftly, Turbo reaches the bridge with no confrontation. He looks up at the golden gate will he be able to go through? Reaching out his hand and waiting for the blue light, nothing happens. He jumps through the gate and down to the train that leaves as soon as he's settled.

-Go straight to Tapper´s, don't talk to anyone, that shouldn't be hard...hopefully-

Turbo scans the station, making sure no one is going to see him. With the coast clear Turbo books it across the station and into Tapper. He peeks into the console after hopping off the train. Tapper wasn't being played and his back was turned, Turbo carefully sneaks into the back room, using a key in Jet's avatar had in it's pocket. He unlocks the door and looks back, no one heard. Slipping into the room he freezes, the room was covered in things Jet had collected over the years. There were trophies and medals from Turbo Time, Turbo runs a gloved hand over the photos, news and other memorabilia Jet had.

"What happened to our game?"

He looks up, a frame was covered by the checkered flag, he lifts it and jumps at the headline; "TURBO GAME JUMPS!" The article tells about his game jumping, ruining both Road Blasters and his own game, and the loss of twins. A picture had Jet hiding his face in Drift's scarf. Turbo runs a hand over said scarf, "Oh Jet...what the hell was I thinking that day?"

Turning his attention away from the news article and to the room itself he sees loose code everywhere, "Well, that was easy."

Sure there was code, but how to get it all? Scratching his head Turbs looks for something to put the code in. The only thing that looked big enough was the checkered blanket on Jet's bed.

"That'll work."

He gathers as much as he can, careful not to absorb any himself. With the code tied up he leaves the room, unfortunately Tapper was in game.

"Hi Tapper, where's Jet?"

Tapper looks up at the gamer and shrugs before serving root beer. The girl frowns and chews her lip, "Hmph, wonder if he is trying to get into Sugar Rush. I hope so, it'll be nice to see him race again my mom said, him and Turbo and the Twins as well! Mom's so happy to hear that Jet has a chance to bring them back. Heh, well um, give Jet my luck and best wishes Tapper!"

She just leaves, Tapper finishes up and closes the game session. Turbo's eyes were glued to where the girl had been, why was she so familiar? Blinking and shaking his head Turbo looks over towards Tapper, who is not paying him the least bit of attention. He quickly leaves and holds Jet's code close to himself.

"Who...was...she?"

Shaking off the feeling of deja vu and foreboding, Turbo cautiously crosses GCS while looking out for Surge Protector. Successfully making it back to Sugar Rush a new challenge opened up; get back to the castle without being seen.

"Great..."

-{+}-

Meanwhile Jet has been occupying himself with one of his many power ups; Mario's fire balls. Flicking his wrist the flame appears in his hand and he casually flings it at the vanilla rock wall. Yet another burn mark on the wall, he smiles softly and taps his chest twice, his code opens up and he scrolls through till he gets to Tron's power up. Clicking it the white on his jumpsuit and his scarf glow bright blue.

"I like this..."

He smiles and double taps again, "Come on, thirty years and a plethora of power ups, where are they?"

Just as he clicks to deactivate the glow the door opens up. He glances up at his copy, " 'ello Turbs."

"Your voice isn't glitching."

Jet points to the exposed code, Turbo nods and shows him the blanket. Jet perks up as he sees blue glows through the fabric.

"First change me back."

Jet hops over and grasps Turbo's face and glitches, his avatar recedes and Turbo becomes Turbo again. He grabs the blanket and puts it on the floor, untying the knot and releasing the code. He brings the code closer and sorts through it all before cleaning out any viruses and malware. Jet smiles up at Turbo, "Thank you."

He places the code within him again, each time a glitch ripples through him. Turbo watches but pays close attention to the door.

"Who's the girl that plays Tapper? She was looking for you."

Jet simply puts, "She's Rose's daughter. I don't know her-ugh- name but she knows we're not just lines of code."

Turbo looks at him in shock, "Daughter?"

Jet sighs and looks up at him, opting to gesture at him.

-It's been thirty years dummy-

"Sorry if all my memories are the night before I left..."

That hit a nerve, Jet looks away and brings the blanket to himself and whispers, "Do you know what's this blanket is?"

Turbo stares, "No."

Jet chuckles and flips it over, a big red T was in the middle of the blanket. Turbo blinks in shock, it's the first blanket he gave Jet.

"You kept it?"

"Well, yea, it's special to me."

Confusion covered Turbo's face, "How did you- How do you HAVE it?"

Jet points to his chest as he slips the last few code lines into place. Turbo smacks himself in the head, he was an idiot, "Oh."

He receives a giggle from the smaller racer. A growl bubbles up from Turbo's throat, no one laughs at his stupidity. Marching straight up to Jet he yanks him up. Jet squeaks and struggles to loosen Turbo's grip, he glitches in panic and it spreads to Turbo. He drops Jet and stumbles back as his avatar spasms, groaning in pain.

"Turbo? Turbo are you ok?!"

Sliding down the wall and holding his stomach he says glitchily, "H-How do yo- s-tand th-this?"

Jet chuckles and touches Turbo's shoulder, the glitching stops, "Remember I was created like that. You and the Twins weren't."

Turbo shivers, "UGH! That's awful!"

Jet laughs but stops, "Someone's coming, hide."

Turbo scrambles behind the bed and hides under it. Jet wraps the blanket around himself and stares at the door, slightly frightened. Vanellope walks in, "Arcade's closed, you wanna race?"

Jet lifts his hands and moves them like a steering wheel. Vanellope blinks, processes what he what he was trying to say.

"Oh! A kart! Um well I have something to show you, come with me!"

She turns and skips away, Jet places the blanket on the bed and follows Vanellope. He pauses to cast Turbo a sorrowful glance and leaves the room.

-{+}-

"Hmmm, clearly I'm not all that welcome here."

Turbo claws himself from under the bed and straightens his helmet. He takes a piece of paper from his pocket and writes, "Will be hiding out by one of the beginners tracks, find me when arcade opens."

Turbo places under Jet's blanket and sprints out of the room like pac man was on his heels. To get away from this place is blessing in itself. One glance back as he hit the candy tree forest was all he gave, he would not go back there unless he didn't have to hide.

-{+}-

Jet follows Vanellope deeper and deeper into the castle. His anxiety continues to raise with each step, a gentle hand on his shoulder eases him however. Vanellope smiles seeing Jet calm from the contact, "This place is deep in the cliff, but it's really cool! King Candy had a taste in karts."

She walks away and turns right down the hall, "Come on Winters!"

Jet blushes softly and runs after her, and trips as he tries to stop next to her. He gets a face full of floor, Vanellope crouched next to him.

"Foot racing is not your strong point, huh?"

Jet lifts his head and nods, separating his code he fixes his cracked tooth.

"Cool trick."

Jet hides his face and sits up, pointing to the door in front of them.

"This- well let me show you."

She opens the door, lights flicker on and reveal the surprise. Karts, at least a dozen of them are lined up neatly in this garage. Jet gets to his feet, walking in a trance into the room. This was like finding a secret level or bonus item to the race starved racer. Each kart was beautifully crafted right down to the little details. He looks over each one, reading off the stats in his head. It was until his hand brushed a curtain the trance was broken, he points.

"Oh, what's behind this curtain. Oh, you'll like it."

Curiosity claws desperately at the sixteen year old's will. Lifting a shaky hand he pulls on a rope, the curtain falls back. Jet gasps in shock, he's caught between crying and laughing.

"I told you that you'd like it!"

-{+}-

Turbo had been marching determinedly, trying to find a good place to hide. What he finds he immediately fell into, literally, the ground gave out from under him and swallows him. The hole disappeared leaving Turbs in near darkness. The disgruntled racer growls, pushing his helmet back in place. He stands up to dust off his jumpsuit, while flicking off the chocolate splinters from his shoulders. Scanning the area Turbo sees one tunnel leading, what looks like, up. His frame droops and he gives a 'fuck my life' face, "Hmph...ok?"

Turbo walks towards the tunnel, hesitant but he mentally slaps himself.

"You are Turbo, afraid of nothing!"

He glances up at the ceiling of the cave, the hole was still gone. Cursing softly under his breath, he heads into the darkness.

"Better not be stuck down here!"

-{+}-

Four classic crafted karts gleam at Jet, the colors make a sob catch in his throat; it was Turbo Time styled Sugar Rush karts. There were two karts with the same central designs the twins. He recognized his own kart, running a trembling hand over sugar glazed hood. The last one amazes him; it was Turbo's original kart design. Only someone from the game would have known the design. Unlike the up-beat feelings a cold shiver shoots up his spine, could it have been Original Turbo? The mere thought made Jet worried, how corrupt could Original Turbo be? If only Jet knew the truth about his original Turbo, how he attacked and ruled Sugar Rush in disguise. Vanellope looks at Jet, jumping up and waving her arms, "Hey Winters!"

Jet jumps back and bumps into his kart, he clutches the door in attempt to stay grounded in reality.

"Hey are we gonna race?"

Jet gives a slow, timid nod.

"Then let's race!"

(sorry for any errors, I'm writing on my kindle, it eats words or does weird auto correct)