Here's the new chapter! Thank you all for your reviews, I'd like to give reply to them.
Reviews,
Guest: Oh, well, she hasn't forgotten but she just avoids them. Resetting the game didn't just made the memories of her getting tormented and bullied magically 'disappear', but don't worry, she will learn it eventually haha
PresidentTaffyta: I too think Taffyta and Shank have things in common, but I'm trying to figure out how to properly 'build' their friendship lol. I always like your reviews btw :)
Hikoshi: Well, wait and see. But I'm quite sure things aren't gonna be the best for Vanellope :P
Back to the story now, hope you'll like it. I don't own Wreck-it Ralph.
"Heyo! Anyone want a burnt pie?" Ralph asked as he marched through the apartment, accidently tripping and the pie crashing into Felix's face. "Oops, sorry, Felix."
Felix sighed and took out his hammer. "I can fix it." With a tap on his face with the hammer, he fixed his face.
"When are you gonna be done with baking that stuff, Wreck-it? Because no one wants to eat that." Calhoun folded her arms.
"Well, I never knew baking could be so interesting." Ralph said as he licked his fingers. "You wanna try too, Felix?"
Felix shook his head before sighing. "No, thank you, Ralph. I appreciate the offer though." Calhoun and Felix held each other's palms.
"Come on, how long are you guys gonna keep thinking about the kids not being here?"
"It's just too empty here without them," Calhoun said with a sigh. "Those kids were real tough guns."
"I know, but at least they can keep up with their racing there."
"They'll be safe there, right Ralph?" Felix questioned.
"Hey, I was worried about the same thing when Vanellope wanted to stay there. You know, I ended up doing some nasty stuff like putting virus in the game. But turns out the place isn't so bad, the people are great there."
"What about Vanellope? How'd she react to it? I mean to the kids."
Ralph paused for a moment. "She…kinda acted weird. I think she's just unable to make things up with the kids, you know, after she left without a word. She's just a bit overwhelmed by everything happening so suddenly, at least that's what Shank said." He sighed. "I hope she's okay and those kids won't…well, bother her."
Felix placed a hand his Ralph's huge hands. "They won't, brother. They're better than that, I know them very well, trust me."
Calhoun nodded. "Yeah, Wreck-it, they have better morals. And I'm not dead yet, anyone bothers and anyone and they have go through me." Ralph replied with a nod.
Vanellope leaned down the open bonnet of her with a wrench in her hand, checking carefully that everything was functioning precisely.
"You know, that car actually looks pretty cool." Rancis commented as he observed her car. Vanellope wept the sweat off her forehead, as she paused and looked at him.
"Thanks." She simply said. "I call her Lickety-Split." She replied. Taffyta turned to look at her, raising an eyebrow.
"Lickety-Split?" he asked. "Wasn't that the name of…"
"My old handmade pedal powered go-cart that you guys destroyed, yeah." The kids looked down in embarrassment, remembering the time they used to torment her. "I named her after it. It's a good reminder how some people who used to say I can't be a racer, you know, cuz' I'm a glitch were proven wrong." She said, giving a glance at Taffyta who narrowed her eyes. "Also, I kinda see a gleam of the Lickety-Split in her. She's fast and trustworthy, just like her."
"So, it's like a tribute?" the blond boy asked, still nervous. Vanellope stared at him and shrugged.
"Maybe."
Taffyta placed a hand on Rancis' shoulder and pulled him away while still looking at Vanellope. "Well, good thing she remembered that weird little cart, even though she just forgot about Sugar Rush and got it unplugged again."
Vanellope narrowed her eyes and glared at her. "I wasn't talking to you."
"Neither was I."
"You were talking about me."
"So were you."
"So what? I was saying the truth." Vanellope replied as she shut the bonnet of her car and hopped over it.
"So was I. You literally got our game unplugged again." Taffyta pointed out.
"Well, uh, I didn't say anything about you guys being in my game now."
"Your game? Excuse me, it's not just your game, miss." Taffyta stepped closer to her and folded her arms. Everyone started to get worried. "We're only here because Shank is okay with it, no one gives a fudge about your opinion, princess."
"Shut up."
"I won't. You're no boss of anyone here. So, quit with that attitude cuz' you don't got that stinky balloon of a bad guy groveling before you to serve you here, miss Arrogant von Schweetz." Vanellope snarled and directly pounced at Taffyta, pinning her to the ground and ready to pack a punch. The two kept trying to strangle each other as everyone tried to stop them.
"Don't you say another word about my best friend!" Vanellope warned as she let go of her before turning away and walking to her Lickety-Split, stomping with anger.
"Calm down, Taffyta." Candlehead said, as Taffyta shove away her arm, glaring at the former princess.
"You call yourself his best friend? After leaving him in dust? I'm quite sure that's not what a friend is supposed to do."
"Taffyta, stop it, okay?" Candlehead convinced again. "Remember what mom told us? No fighting."
"Ralph and I know each other better than you." Vanellope replied. "And you're the last person I'm learning friendship from."
"Yo, V." Shank said as she approached and noticed the heated situation. "Um, is everything okay here?"
Vanellope kept cleaning her car. "Yup, cool as a cucumber. What's up?"
"Well, good. The game's gonna be online in a moment, we got a race at the Sequoia Speedway. You ready?"
"Will be right there before ya', Shanky."
Shank chuckled. "You better check your car twice, it's a mountainy and a super foresty track, it's gonna be a tough one."
"That sounds fun, can we be there too?" Swizzle asked.
"Well, I suppose you can. You'll get an idea about the racing in here."
"Be careful you don't get your candy butt chopped by a truck, haha." Vanellope muttered with a giggle, that nobody seemed to have found funny.
"Be careful you don't accidently glitch your royal butt away from the finish line while you laugh at us, princess." Taffyta replied with a smirk. Vanellope rolled her eyes, Shank stopped herself from giggling at the weird argument of the kids.
"We'll see." Vanellope hopped into her car as she drove off. Shank shook her head before driving off herself.
"So, what do we do?" Rancis asked. "We don't have any car here."
"Hey, guys, come over here, I found something cool!" Swizzle called out from a garage.
"Looks like it's players DirtySocks537 and BabeRaham_Linkin again. These players are real tough cookies." Shank commented as soon as she caught up with Vanellope. "What do you say we teach them a lesson, V?"
"Why not?"
Felony, Pyro and Little Debbie's cars also caught up. "Have you guys seen Butcher Boy?" Felony called out. Everyone shared look.
"He's not here?" Shank asked. "Call him and tell him the gamer's here. V, come with me." Felony nodded and dialed up Butcher Boy.
"Where are you, still listening to TED Talks? The player's here!" Felony scolded him on the phone.
"Uh, actually I was just looking for my car. I can't find it." Butcher Boy replied on the phone as he looked around in the garage.
"What? How the heck could you lose your car?"
"I don't know, okay? The garage was open and the car was missing." Felony raised an eyebrow, who would steal his car?
Shank matched up with the pace of the players, Player DirtySocks537 pushed her car against the wall. Vanellope entered with a drift jump that caused the player to slow down his car which gave Shank the opportunity to get back to the track. Player BabeRaham_Linkin jumped in as well and blocked Vanellope's way, but Vanellope knew well about dealing with this stuff and was just managing to overtake the player before a bullet hit her car's tire and busted it. Vanellope shrieked as her car dazed out of balance and ran off the track, crashing into the shrubs.
"Wow, that was cool, DirtySocks." Player BabeRaham_Linkin commented on her microphone to her fellow gamer who had just managed to successfully bust the kid's car.
"Hah, I just unlocked this upgraded gun, how cool is that? Let's get Shank and jack her ride." Player DirtySocks537 replied.
"Sure, why not?"
Shank glanced back to see if Vanellope was okay, although she knew nothing can probably happen to Vanellope she was still a bit worried but decided to keep the game up. Her most skilled sidekick was out, she had just started to wonder where the rest of the guys were until she noticed Butcher Boy's car coming, but instead of him, it were the little candy coated racers driving it.
"This car is cool! I've never been in a car so fast before!" Swizzle commented as he drove the car, astonished.
"Hey, is that a nitro?" Rancis pressed a button.
"Get your hands off, Rancis! I'm driving!"
"You've been driving all the way here, now it's my turn!" Minty shouted and tried to snatch the steering wheel from him.
"Well, I mean I'm the one who found it, okay? Now back off." Swizzle pushed Minty back.
"We all should get turns!" added Adorabeezle.
"Ooh, what does this lever do?" Candlehead wondered as pulled the lever, causing the car to spin around with a screeching noise.
"No, Candles! That's a handbrake!"
"I don't suppose we have that feature in our carts, this is fun!"
"Stand back, Candles, we're gonna crash!" Taffyta shouted, as the car kept spinning until it crashed into player BabeRaham_Linkin's car, sending it flying over. Shank raised an eyebrow. "That's it! Back off, I'll drive!" Taffyta shoved Swizzle off the driving seat and took over.
"Well, that was one crazy move." Shank commented from her car as she matched up with their pace. "You think you can take down the other one as well?"
"You bet." Taffyta replied increased the speed, running straight ahead the player's car into a bunch of barrels full of gunpowder. "Light 'em up, Candlehead." Candlehead used her candle to light up the barrel.
"Uh oh," player DirtySocks537 flinched as his the barrels exploded at his car as soon as he reached them.
*END OF THE ROAD* said the game screen.
"Gosh, dang it! I hate this game!" he cried and threw away the remote controller.
"Haha! That was fun!" the kids cheered.
"Well, that was one cool race." Shank said with a smile as she hopped out of her car. "You kids did pretty good job there."
"Thanks, you did a good job too."
"Oh there you are, my car!" Butcher Boy came and hugged his car. "Oh, I was worried sick."
"Well, that's one cool car." Candlehead commented with a smile.
"I suppose it's time you kids get cars for yourselves." Shank said, glancing at Butcher Boy hugging his car. "Y'know, so that you don't have to steal Butcher Boy's car next time."
"Oh my gosh, really?!" the kids asked. "You mean we all get cool cars like that?" The adult racer smiled and nodded.
"Uh, guys, I think Little V needs some help." Felony called out. Shank realized that she had almost forgotten about Vanellope and quickly rushed to see Vanellope's car stuck in the woods.
"V, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I guess." Vanellope glitched out and checked her car's condition, which was definitely not the best. One of the tires of the car was busted and it also had body damage due to the crash. She sighed with a frown. "Fudge, how could I get off guard?! That was so close, if only this stupid thing had not busted!" she angrily kicked the tire.
"Well, good thing your little friends saved the day." Shank replied as the racers smiled. Vanellope gave them a look.
"They did?"
The kids nodded. "Yeah, because some princess accidently glitched her royal butt out of the track like I said." Taffyta mocked.
Vanellope glitched, offended. "I didn't glitch, my tire got busted! What was I supposed to do?!" They giggled at her little tantrum, much to her own annoyance.
"Okay, let's get your car back for repairing then." Shank said as she started to walk away. "And by the way," she turned to the kids. "I'd love to race with you guys again. Wanna come?" The kids shared a glance and nodded with a smile. Vanellope glitched again, standing there dumbstruck. Taffyta turned to her with a smirk and winked, licking a lollipop. Vanellope looked at her, annoyed.
'Huh! Just got lucky busting two cars and acting a champ.'
Vanellope back at the garage, smashed opened the bonnet of her car with an annoyed grumble, checking for damage. She kept scolding herself for letting her guard down and embarrassing herself in front of everybody. "Sweet Mother Hubbard, what was I thinking?" she muttered as she opened a nut with her wrench. She remembered when Taffyta winked at her in a mocking way, she had never felt so embarrassed before. Of course she couldn't blame her, Vanellope herself had given her an opportunity by embarrassing herself.
"Come on, kid. It's no big deal you got distracted and crashed, it sometimes happens to everyone." Felony commented from some distance, watching the distressed kid trying to fix her car.
Vanellope just nodded. 'Yeah but that wasn't the perfect time to have a crash.' She thought.
"Yeah, why are you treating it like it's the end of your life's biggest race?" Pyro wondered. "What's the big whoop?"
"The big whoop?" Vanellope grumbled under her breath as she slammed closed the bonnet of her car. "Taffyta just got a chance to mock me, that's the big whoop!" the two racers rolled their eyes at her. "I don't know what Shank might be thinking about me!"
"You know, kid? You really need to chill out." Butcher boy said as he drank cola from his can. "You see, I watching a Ted Talk last night," He begun, Vanellope rolled her eyes and sighed. "…and I don't really remember what it was about but the point was, losing doesn't define us, it help us improve."
"You're saying I'm a loser?" The kid asked, narrowing her eyes and folding her hands.
"What? No, I'm saying you shouldn't be so hard on them."
"Those guys stole your car, man."
"Yeah, they did raced pretty good. So, I don't really mind."
"You wouldn't mind if they'd even blown up your car and destroyed it, would you?" Vanellope guessed. Butcher Boy hesitated to answer.
"Well, uh, I…don't suppose that-"
"Of course you don't. Do you guys want me to count up how many times they destroyed my handmade carts just because they didn't believe I could become a racer? Or bullied me, threw me in the mud or bodily and emotionally tormented me?" Vanellope asked. Everyone stayed silent at her words. "Of course you don't. No one ever did, because no one ever cared. Good thing I do have a person who actually cares." Her phone suddenly vibrated in her pocket, she took it out. "See? There he is." She picked up the call, as a hologram of Ralph appeared.
"Hey, kid." He greeted.
"Hey, Stinkbrain."
"How's your day going? How are the other kids?" Ralph asked.
Vanellope paused. "Um…yeah, they...they're having fun." The adult racers decided to give the kid some privacy and left the garage.
"Great, good to know they're doing okay there. You know, Felix and Calhoun have been on my tail since I dropped them there."
"Woah, you have a tail? How come I never noticed?" Vanellope joked, Ralph giggled at her.
"I hope you're doing well with them, aren't you kid?" He asked with a hopeful smile. Vanellope hesitated a bit before giving him a slight, assertive nod. She couldn't disappoint him after all. "That's my buddy, I knew it! You know, the kids were saying that you're not going to be pleased to see them or treat them well, but I knew that my Vanellope is better than that. I'm so proud that you saved me and everyone in the arcade from taking care of those obnoxious kids by befriending them, good thing everything is fine now. No, literally, I'm proud of you, sis."
Vanellope couldn't help but smile at him. "Yeah, thanks, buddy. You're the best." Ralph gave her a huge grin.
"Man, I could've hugged you right now if it wasn't just a hologram. Well, I gotta go right now, the arcade might be opening soon. See ya' later, Fart Feathers."
"Bye, Stinkbrain." Vanellope replied. Ralph was about to give her a fist bump but she already hung up. She switched off the device and sighed. She realized that she didn't tell him about the crash.
'Better not mention to him, he'll just start to worry.'
"So, I see there's nothing to worry about." Felix said as soon as Ralph hung up the phone. "Of course Vanellope is having a great time with the racers."
Ralph put the device back into his pocket. "I know, but look, the kids still have seriously bullied her in her past. And of course she forgave them, she still doesn't seem to have mixed up with them much."
"Wasn't it Turbo who had locked up their memories?"
"Yeah, it was, but that still doesn't clear the memories she has with them."
"Well, now you know, Wreck-it, you can trust the youngsters. Those kids are some real tough and trained soldiers now." Calhoun added up as she walked by.
"I agree with Tammy, as long as there's no danger on the kids there, I don't suppose we have to worry." Felix said. "Vanellope will befriend the racers, I know."
"Yeah, now it looks like she will." Ralph said with a small smile. "Anyway, I'm making another burnt pie tonight. Interested?"
Felix and Calhoun groaned. "Not again, Ralph!"
A/N: So this chapter was longer than I expected. I was going to part this in two separate chapters but thought this works well too. Sorry if the racing scene wasn't that impressive, I'm not good at writing those. School is opening now so updates might be slower, hope you guys will understand.
Anyway, hope you liked it. Reviews would be very much appreciated, thanks.