Chapter 2: Retry
Back in Sugar Rush, Vanellope had heard about the game having mysteriously appeared in the arcade, and learned that Minty had went in and never came out. Realizing it had to be some sort of Trojan game, she had Sour Bill summon the Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Toxika, Damon, and Crepe to the castle throne room.
"Okay, now that everyone is present, let's review the facts. Minty is in potential danger in a new game. It's up to us to find her and bring her back home before the arcade reopens." Vanellope announced once everyone was present.
"We could be jumping to conclusions. She could just be running late. Maybe the guys in the other game are a lot of fun to hang out with, and she doesn't want to leave them to be with us yet." Jubileena suggested.
"But Minty's never late for something as important as our game." Sticky said.
"All in favor of the rescue mission, please stand up." Vanellope ordered.
Everyone got to their feet.
"Wait, maybe some of us should stay behind." Candlehead suggested.
"Are you scared?" Crepe asked teasingly.
"I'm not! But I think that it would be a good idea if we have some people stay here in case Minty comes back. Also, maybe we should have some... extra security here." Candlehead replied.
Taffyta smiled.
"I'll volunteer for that." Taffyta said.
Crumbelina, Candace, and Crepe also volunteered to stay behind with her. Vanellope nodded and glitched to the exit of the throne room.
"Alright then. Let's do this. We've got a friend to save!" Vanellope said.
Her friends cheered.
BEN took Minty to what should have been a boss stage of Majora's Mask. He sat on the sidelines with her and made her watch Link burn to death repeatedly. After what felt like hours of it, she cracked.
"What is wrong with you? I was going to help you! Let me go!" Minty asked angrily.
"You don't understand. You don't know what it's like to not have any friends to play with, to have a father despise you so much that he is driven to murder you, or to spend hundreds of days in an ancient video game watching everyone else get played with!" BEN replied angrily.
His smile flickered, but did not vanish.
"I wanted to save you! Please, you have to believe me! I was going to help you!" Minty said.
"Your a liar!" BEN snapped.
He grabbed his head in his hands and shaking it back and forth, trying to ignore everything she was saying. When he finished his little tantrum, he turned back to her.
"This is your last chance. Time to go back to where it all began!" BEN sneered.
He chuckled with his mouth closed, and Minty shuddered, hoping that help would come for her soon. BEN sensed her distress.
"Are you ready?" BEN asked.
The scene around them changed, and they were back in the fields. The only difference was that there was an enormous tree in the distance. Minty walked towards it, knowing that BEN would not follow her, and would just use his weird skills to get there before she would.
"What do I do now? Are you going to kill me too?" Minty asked when BEN reappeared beside her.
BEN let out the same eerie chuckle.
"No. Now, we wait for them to come. You said that there would be more friends for me to play with." BEN replied.