As the sunlight of Sugar Rush shined through the castle windows the next day, Vanellope awoke from her peaceful sleep. As the president got out of her bed and got dressed, she reflected on the past day. Yesterday, she and her friends had met the game's new avatar, Barry Bubblestein. To keep it short, he was interesting. He told how he was able to use other video game weapons, and that he did it to protect his sister. Then there was his handheld assistant B.I.T, who seemed to act as something of an assistant to Barry.
She figured that once she and the other knew more about them, they get use to his personality."I'll try and invite him out with a group of her friends so we can give him a chance to know us" she thought, as she left her room to head to the kitchen for breakfast.
However, once arriving at the kitchen to get breakfast, she entered to find Barry of all people cooking. He was at the counter top, mixing batter and flipping vanilla pancakes. He had a huge pile already made, and I mean HUGE, like the whole counter was already covered. Barry also wore a white apron and one of those fancy chef's hats over his normal hat and blue hoodie. B.I.T was also active, holding out a holographic cook book for the "chef" to see.
"He wouldn't leave."
Vanellope turned around to see Sour Bill standing behind her, looking as depressed as he always did. "The new racer came here this morning to see you, but I told him the president was sleeping. I had to have the Oreo guards escort him off the castle grounds twice. Afterwards, he somehow got into the kitchen; I found him like this and just gave up trying to kick him out. I apologize miss." Bill explained.
"It's fine I guess." Said Vanellope. "It's not like he's doing anything wrong."
Barry suddenly turned from his cooking and noticed the two. "Oh hey there prez." Barry waved. "Sleep well, I presume." Added B.I.T.
"Yes I did in fact. What are you two doing here?" she asked stretching herself fully awake.
Barry went back to flipping the last of the pancakes into the massive pile. "Well I wanted to repay you for meeting us yesterday, but Ben Stein over here wouldn't let us in." he explained glaring at Sour Bill. "So I had to sneak in near the back entrance and stealth my way to the kitchen." He told Vanellope, as he put the last of the pancakes. "Ahh, nothing like the smell of 329,847 vanilla pancakes in the morning, it smells like victory." Barry said triumphantly.
It took Vanellope a moment to register how much breakfast her new subject had made, "Gee, that's a lot of pancakes, thanks." She said a bit shocked.
"Well..I might have eaten one or two of them." Barry admitted, trying to hide an embarrassed grin.
Then she remembered she wanted to ask him to hang out later. "Hey Barry, Me and Rancis are going on a double date with Taffyta and Gloyd later to get some frozen yogurts. I was wondering if maybe you wanted to join us. You could find someone to bring along too if you want."
Barry thought about it for a moment. "Hmmmm, sounds like a chance for some character development, I got nothing better to do. I have to get going now, so I'll see ya then Vanellope." He said taking off his apron and chef's hat before heading out the kitchen door.
As she waved good bye to him, Bill approached Barry's "Work". "Shall I have the guards serve you breakfast, your majesty."
Vanellope suddenly realized that he ment the large quantity of pancakes Barry had made. "3 is good, just wrap the rest up." She smiled. She would figure out what to do with the leftovers later.
*later at Barry's house, which is a blue gumball*
Barry was clicking some buttons on a holographic keyboard that B.I.T was projecting. "And one more adjustment, aaaaand done. The proto-type for the spin dash is finished" He said happily.
"We'll have to test it out later." B.I.T said. Just then, there was a knock on Barry's door.
"Huh, wonder who that could be?" he wondered as he went to answer the door. Barry opened the door to reveal Candlehead who was holding a cupcake with a lit candle on it.
"HI BARRY!" she greeted him gleefully.
"Hey there Candlehead, what's up?" he said as she held out the cupcake for him to take.
"I made you a mint chocolate cupcake as a way of saying "Welcome to Sugar Rush.", do you mind if I come in?" she asked suddenly. Barry opened the door all the way to let the candle themed racer inside, "Well, this is my place. What do you think?"
The living room was painted light blue, with couch situated in front of a large flat screen TV. A few Game Grumps posters covered the wall behind the TV. There was a PlayStation 3 and a Wii U with a book shelf full of games beside it. Lastly, there were pictures of Deadpool, Sonic, and Mega Man on the wall by the front door.
"Nice place." Candlehead admired in awe.
"And that's just the living room, come check out the bedroom." Barry led her into his bedroom which, of course, was also light blue. His bed was just a gumball shaped pod with a few blankets inside of it.
But what really caught Candlehead's eye was across from his bed was a work bench and a wall completely filled with game weapons of all sorts hanging from it.
"WOAW, Look at all these cool gadgets!" Candle said excitedly. On just a small chuck of the wall, she could see a pair of steel mallets, twin swords, Nightwing's escrima sticks, a cluster of batarangs, a few freeze grenades, Mega man's mega buster and super adaptor, Protoman's shield, and Sonic's elemental shields.
Barry could see she was amazed. "You like what you see?" Barry asked proudly.
"Yeah, I do." Just then, she noticed that there were small plates underneath of each weapon with a group of numbers on it. "Hey Barry, what are these number's for?" she wondered.
"They're how I use these weapons." Barry explained taking Pit's bow and arrow off of the wall. "You see, this gallery is just for show. In order to actually use any of these, I input the codes underneath each weapon into B.I.T," B.I.T popped up from Barry's device. "Then he calls on me to materialize the weapon for him to use at any time." He finished off.
"Cool" Candlehead replied. "Uuuh..Can I.. ask you something else too? She asked sounding a bit nervous suddenly.
"Sure, what's eatin' ya?" said Barry as he was examining the bow/arrow set, half listening.
"I was wonder if… Couldteachmehowtomakethosesamejokesyoualwaysmake?" Candlehead said quickly.
Barry stared at her for a moment, "Wait, you mean break the 4th wall?" he asked.
"Yeah that" Candle nodded, "You seem like a really cool, funny, guy. Since I was programmed to be ditzy at times, I say embarrassing things like I did yesterday when Vanellope said "Proposal". If I could be funny like you, maybe I wouldn't think of myself as much of a ditz."
"Sure, why not. How about the day after the race, I give a lesson in how make my kind of jokes."
Candlehead beamed at him "Thanks, it's a date." They both started to head towards the front door.
"We should try and invite her to join us when we meet Vanellope." B.I.T suggested.
"Good idea. Hey Candlehead, do you want to join me with Vanellope and her friends to hang out."
"Oooohh yes I'd love to." She squealed. "You're such a nice racer; You'd give Jubileena a run for her money."
Barry smiled back at her, "You're a nice racer too." Then he turned to the reader. "Don't worry, this isn't a pairing fic. I just think Candlehead is a sweet girl who seems to look up to me."
Candle glanced around confused, "Who are you talking to?" she asked adjusting her candle before heading out
Barry went back to opening his front door "it's not importAAANT.."
Barry went to take one step out of the front door, but fell forward out it. He looked up to see not the candy coated hills of Sugar Rush, but an empty void of whiteness where Sugar Rush should be. Candlehead peeked out the door, "What happened to everything?" Barry got up and closed his front door.
"Hold on a sec." he told Candlehead, trying to conceal a bit of frustration.
Barry dialed some numbers on a holographic keypad on B.I.T. suddenly, a phone started ringing. "Hello." came a voice on the other side.
"Hey Ojaminator, my author." Barry greeted with mock cheer. "Yeah I was just going through my Fanfic, advancing the plot, minding my own business when, all of a sudden, something screwed up. What's up with that?" he ended angrily.
"I'm sorry, Barry. I have writers block." the author replied "Give me like an hour or two." Barry thought about it for a moment, "Fine. But make it snappy, we were almost at the end of this chapter." With that he hung up, and took a bite out of the cupcake Candlehead had given him. "Mmm, delicious."
Barry turned to Candlehead. "So, do you like video games?"
*one hour later*
Barry and Candlehead had spent the whole hour playing his collection of video games. To his surprise, his new friend was quite good at them. During DDR, Candlehead had beaten him on Sugar Rush's theme; But Barry had completely dominated her in the next song, Escape from the City. They had just finished up a round of Injustice: Gods Amoung Us, with Candlehead being the winner. Barry had picked the Flash, but unfortunately, the mint racer was pretty skilled with Harley Quinn. Finally, he did manage to get to teaching her a bit about 4th wall humor.
He went to go and open the front door again, and this time, they were greeted by their usual Sugar Rush.
"There we go, chapter's finished, let's go."