Gloyd, Minty, Calhoun, and Ralph woke up being chained to torture tables. The room they we're in was completely dark except for yellow spotlights that we're on each character.

"W—Where are we?" Minty said; as the last thing she remembered was the random roster race.

"Oh no not again." Ralph said as he struggled against the binds; but even he couldn't break out. Suddenly the group heard foot steps, and the figure stepped out of the darkness.

"Hello hero's and villain. Today you have five choices. All except for little Ralphie and Tammy." The figure said, the two mentioned characters looked at her.

"What did we do? We played this game of yours last time without even laying a finger on you!" Calhoun said; the figure chuckled.

"They aren't games. There tests. And you failed mine." It said,

"Lier! We did exactly what you said!" Ralph retorted.

"You we're disloyal to the ones you supposedly cared about. That's not way to treat your husband or Kit. After all the NPC finally has had a happy ending." The figure said; Ralph and Calhoun's eye's widened in horror.

"What is going on!?" Gloyd said feeling terrified and confused, Ralph and Calhoun opened their mouths to warn the racers. But the figure was quick to grab a needle and thread. And sewed their mouths shut; their warnings and screams of pain both muffled. The racers eye's widened in horror and the figure threw the needle and thread away. The figure walked over to Gloyd and Minty,

"Alright racers. You have three choices you can either pick Gloyd, Minty, or Fudge. If you choose Gloyd then I will rip his skin off and replace it with pumpkin skins. If you choose Minty then she will be left in a tank of peppermint mouthwash until she almost drowns. But if you pick Fudge you two will be free to go and I'll take Fudge here where she will have to get fifty lashings with a cat nine whip." It said. Gloyd, unfortulently, didn't think before he blurted out:

"Fudge!" Minty looked at him with disgust.

"Gloyd! Fudge had a family she can't get whipped!" She said,

"Well I don't want to get my skin ripped off! Plus who's to say you wouldn't drown! I don't trust this thing!" Gloyd said. Minty rolled her eye's,

"That's exactly why you need to think! Ralph and Calhoun are here for a reason!" She said. Gloyd opened his mouth to speak; but the figure interrupted.

"I'm getting board with this chit-chat. And you won't like me when I'm board." Minty gulped, as she thought of each choice. And the consequences that would soon follow. Finally she spoke;

"I choose me." The figure seemed to frown slightly under the cloak,

"That's no good. Now we need a person to even out the choice. But I think I'll let you two wait a bit, I need to punish some disloyal characters." It said as it turned to Ralph and Calhoun with a wicked grin.

*

Meanwhile Felix and the nicelanders we're in game central looking for Ralph.

"Where is he? He hasn't been seen in eight hours." Mary said, Felix didn't say anything. He was too afraid too as his mouth felt like a dessert.

"Maybe he is at Tappers he could've fallen asleep in the restroom." Gene said, just before Vanellope ran into game central.

"Ralph! Felix! Calhoun!" She said, the nicelander's and Felix's head snapped to her. The vanilla themed racer ran into Gene;

"Vanellope!? What wrong?" Felix said.

"Minty, Gloyd, and this new character Kit and Fudge told me about are missing! We looked everywhere after Gloyd and Minty's karts exploded! But we can't find them! Please tell me you've seen them!" Vanellope said,

"Sorry but no." Nel said, "We've been busy looking for Ralph." Felix nodded in agreement trying his best not to shake in fear. The princess bit her lip feeling ever more worry and terror.

"This couldn't get any worse." She said, but Vanellope was wrong as a couple soldiers from Hero's Duty walked up to them.

"Felix have you seen Sargent Calhoun?" One of the soldiers asked looking quite worried, Felix paled slightly and shook his head no. The other solider groaned,

"She has missed training the new cadets. And we don't have any experience with that we need to find her." He said. The search parties sighed they needed to find their friend's.

"Well I should get back to Sugar Rush to make sure no one else goes missing." Vanellope said, and the nicelanders and Felix said their goodbyes. As the Hero Duty soldiers walked over to some other people to see if they had seen their leader. The nicelanders and Felix then left getting back to their own game. But as they walked home the handyman couldn't help but fear the worst for his wife and best friend.

*

Meanwhile the cloaked figure stared at Ralph and Calhoun who both had deep gashes from cuts. The figure looked unsatisfied;

"Huh. Your not as much fun as I thought…..I'm gonna have to try something else." It said as it's eye's flickered over to Gloyd; a malicious grin spread on it's face. While the pumpkin themed racers blood ran cold;

"Hmm…..I'm going to have to find someone to decide Minty's fate." The figure muttered to it's self, the figure then walked towards the door and opened it.

"I'll be right back." It said before walking out the door and slamming it shut. Leaving her victims and victim-to-be in complete silence. The figure was walking down a dirt road as it looked up at the sky. It giggled as it pulled out an amulet shaped like an eye. The amulet glowed as the figure stared at it unblinking;

"Don't worry Fudge and Kit will suffer soon." It said. And the figure out it's amulet away before continuing it's walk. With a determined yet frightening grin on it's face. As it thought of a selfish person who would throw Fudge to the sharks without hesitation.