Turbo Takeover

Chapter 3

'Easy peasy, super speedy!' Turbo though to himself.

It was the perfect plan, taking over the Kingdom of Sugar Rush.

He hid nearby the exit from Sugar Rush as gaming hours began, and as he waited until quitting time, he thought up his scheme.

He would come up to this Vanellope figure and ask to be part of her game, and in return, 'teach' her the secret skills of being a greater racer than she already is, though to be part of the game, he would need to take a new form.

That part wouldn't be hard, as he would need to get into the codes of this game. He just needed a good lot of convincing.

Much later, the arcade was closed once more, as Vanellope was at her castle at the moment, the other racers were excited for the up coming roster race auditions.

"Those were some smooth race moves you pulled back there, Tafyta!" one of the racers, a girl with a candle on her head complimented to the girl named Tafyta.

"No problem, Candlehead," Tafyta said to Candlehead, "I look pretty forward in having you join in the next roster tomorrow."

"It would be great to have a little extra challenge to our races!" Rancis said, as the two agreed with him.

"Excuse me, fellow racers."

The three were a little surprised when they heard a voice come up from behind them, as they turned, they saw Turbo, much to their surprise to see an unexpected visitor to their game.

"Didn't mean to intrude, but could you be so kind as to point me to where your ruler would be?" Turbo asked, with a kind grin on his face.

"She's at her castle," Candlehead explained, as she pointed to the castle in the distance to show Turbo, "if you go see Sour Bill, her assistant, he could take you to her."

"Thank you so much, my new friends!" Turbo said, with the grin still on his face.

The other racers were a little baffled as he left, wondering about this new guy…

After meeting up with Sour Bill, Turbo was brought up to the castle, in which he was completely amazed of the architecture, especially that the color of it being salmon.

"Hoo-hoo! Gaudi's style…" Turbo said to himself as he looked around.

The two then entered the thrown room, where nearby her throne/race car, was Princess Vanellope, all dressed up in her royal outfit.

"Your majesty," Sour Bill said, in his usual gloomy tone, as he introduced Turbo to the princess, "a visitor wanted to see you. He's a racer."

"No, an EXPERIENCED one." Turbo said, correcting Sour Bill, as he then bowed to Vanellope.

Vanellope, on the other hand, was quite surprised to meet him, "A racer? Like me?"

"The GREATEST racer ever!" Turbo said, as he then gave double thumbs up with a grin as he did his famous line, "Turbo-Tastic!"

"Well… heh, heh," Vanellope said, a little awkwardly as she looked at Turbo, "Huh… are you from an old-style racing game?"

"Oh yes," Turbo said, "an ICONIC arcade game, your highness," it was then his mood began to darken a little.

"But Litwak unplugged it for a stupid fancier one! It's unfair, isn't it?" Turbo stressfully said, the part being a fib, as he continued, "I haven't driven for 10 YEARS! You can't imagine my suffering!"

"Goodness…" Vanellope muttered in surprise.

"By the way… can I live here, your highness?" Turbo said as his mood quickly changed into a nice one with a big smile on his face with a pleading look.

"Um, sure… of course," Vanellope said, a little curious as she looked at Turbo, "but you can't race in an official racing. Our world can't recognize your avater…"

Yes, that's is true, I know that," Turbo said, as he approached Vanellope and made his move, "But, maybe, I can modify a little bit of your game code… that way, your world will recognize my avatar as a part of it…"

"It's impossible!" a startled Vanellope explained, "Only conceptors can rewrite a code!"

"Oh, really? How many gold coins you bet?!" Turbo said as he explained his deal, "In exchange, I'll help teach you to become the most ADORABLE winner of the race track!"

"REALLY?!" Vanellope asked, now getting a little excited, as she liked to be an adorable winner, "OH YES!"

With that deal made, Turbo was living now in a new race game… one that would be his very soon…

As time went by, during after arcade hours, Turbo would teach everything about racing, from one racer to another, all while scheming a way to get into the codes.

Throughout his time, Vanellope gave him a tour around the kingdom, Turbo keeping track on what's what, such as the bakery, where minigames on creating a kart happen, as well as explaining the route of the race track, how to avoid obstacles and how to avoid going off track with the twists and turns (especially with the final part of the track inside the ice cream section of the course).

Some time later, Sour Bill met Turbo.

"Hello there, Sour Bill," Turbo said happily, "how are things?"

"Fine, I guess…" Sour Bill said, as he was about to walk on when Turbo stopped him.

"I know it's been a while, but could you at least let me know if I can get into the codes?" Turbo asked.

"Mmm… not so sure…" Bill explained, very uncertain, "I don't know…"

"Please, Bill, any friend of the Princess can be a friend of mine." Turbo secretly fibbed, which seemed to have worked as Sour Bill looked up to him.

"I suppose…" he said, "the way into the codes is through the throne room… which would led to a lift, taking you down to the code chambers…"

Turbo grinned evilly, completely unnoticed from the sour ball.

"The code for door to get in is up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start…" Sour Bill finished as he revealed the password.

"Thank you so much, buddy!" Turbo said as he walked away, leaving the sour ball to continue his duties.

As he walked away, Turbo got out an old napkin from Tapper's, and using a pen, wrote the password onto it so he can remember.

Much later, after another arcade hour, Turbo knew the close was clear… this was his chance!

Secretly going behind the curtains in the throne room, Turbo saw the lift door in front of him, pressing the button, the doors opened, allowing him to enter and go down.

Once the doors opened again, he saw around him were circuitries and wires, all leading to vault door up ahead.

As he got out the napkin, Turbo pressed on the buttons as mentioned by Sour Bill.

Once it was done, the vault door opened and Turbo gazed in amazement, the codes were, as some would say, the sweet lifeblood of any game in the arcade.

And Turbo was going to have a bit of fun.

Strapping himself up with some licorice rope, Turbo jumped from the opened door, and into the back abyss, though he can actually float, resulting him to look like he was swimming in thin air.

He then approached the code boxes, seeing many great possibilities, before finally find the code box for characters.

As he opened up the box, he began to fiddle a bit with digits as he worked on his magic.

Adding his avatar into the mix, he then started altering it around, "0011=King=0010011=Sugar Rush Racer=0110101010… code, code, code, code," Turbo muttered to himself as he was almost finished.

Once he believed it was all-good, he said out "Done!" and closed the data box.

At first, nothing seemed to happened, but then Turbo looked as he began to glitch and fizz, a big grin on his face and a chuckle let out as he work has done.

A regal king, with fluffs of grey hair and a cartoonish nose, instantly replaced the race Turbo.

On the character data box, a new appeared on it… King Candy.

King Candy chuckled as his plan was working brilliantly.

"IT WORKED!" cried out the king who was once Turbo, "Now on to step 2: deleting the ruler's codes and step 3: erasing their memories…"

"Tur… turbo?!" came a voice behind him, giving him a startle.

As he turned around, he saw Vanellope, all dressed up in a casual outfit, standing on one of the code boxes.

"Vanellope?!" King Candy cried out, trying play cool, though it wasn't quite working a bit.

"Sweet mother of monkey milk, it's really you?!" Vanellope cried out as she saw the new figure that was Turbo, as she had came down to learn that someone was in the codes, and she didn't expect Turbo to be there, let alone taking a new form.

"It's incredible," she continued, "you're less scary!"

"Ha-ha, "Scary", she says…" King Candy said to himself as he looked to Vanellope, "So, how do I look like? I'm a handsome? Cute or… adorable?"

"You look… nice," Vanellope said, looking suspicious, "even if your design is less closer of a chibi's style… but something bothers me: Why a King?!"

"Isn't it obvious?" Turbo asked, his smile growing wicked as Vanellope began to grow nervous.

"You… you're not a virus… are you?" she asked, nervously.

King Candy let out a dark chuckle as he replied, "Who are you calling a virus?! Somebody who's tried to survive alone in this arcade for 10 stinkin' years? How could you know what that's like, Glitch?"

Vanellope didn't have time to answer as King Candy then pounced on her shouting "You'll know soon enough, brat!"

Vanellope, however was a bit quick, as she manage to kick King Candy in the stomach she starting grabbing hold of her rope, puling on it for her to be pulled back to the code entrance.

"Sour Bill! We're under attack!" she called out, as she was pulled back fast, "Turbo's a virus! Call the guards!"

Meanwhile, recovering from the blow, Turbo saw what was happening, "No!" he said to himself, "She'll ruin everything!"

It was then that he finally saw what he was looking for: Vanellope's code box!

He hurriedly floated to it as he said, "You're not going to ruin my fun before it starts! NOT ON MY WATCH!"

With that, he started pulling out wire after wire from the code box, as he did that, up ahead, Vanellope began to fell weird, and noticed that she was beginning to glitch!

"Sour Bill… sour…" she cried out, as the what was happening began to hurt her a bit, "It's painful! Someone… HELP MEEEEE!"

"Hahahahahaha!" King Candy cried out as he continued his dark deed, "Yes! Yes! All hail the rightful ruler of Sugar Rush!"

After pulling out the last of the wires, Turbo began to push the code box out of the bundle of code boxes and out into the blackness, "Haha! Turbo-Tastic!" he cried out in victory.

He then looked to a now unconscious Vanellope, having been put in to much pain from the glitching.

"That was close," he said, "and she had the gall to call me a virus! Me, the greatest racer ever!"

he then turned to see another bunch of code boxes: these ones represented the memories of everyone in Sugar Rush, both the citizens and racers' memories, even Vanellope's.

Knowing that he had to make sure no one remembered him as Turbo and Vanellope as their original leader, he began to create a chest, then began to bring the chest towards the memory boxes.

"Your majesty," Sour Bill's voice called out as King Candy heard him, "the royal guards are here, is everything alright?"

"Oh don't you worry, my ball of sourness," King Candy said, as he began to open the chest, "your king is fine and everything's alright! What's to worry about? You remember me being your mighty ruler, don't you?!"

Before the sour ball could respond, the chest was closed, with the memory boxes still inside it!

Turbo then pulled on his rope, and someone responded with pulling him in, the racer knowing that the minute they bring him in, they would think he was their ruler.

Turbo grinned as he smiled wickedly.

He finally got his kingdom!