The Sugar Rush Soldier
I want to apologize for the delay on this chapter. There's been a lot of activity going on that prevented me from being able to write. Thankfully i should be up and running again with only minor delays.
(With Minty Zaki, Standard POV)
Minty was sitting down watching television and eating one of her favorite snacks, mint ice cream. Devouring her sweet treat, she placed the spoon in the bowl and put in on her coffee table.
"Mm that was good, now what to d- "she was cut off by a sharp pain in her head and chest. "GHAAA BRAIN FREEZE!" Minty yelped out grabbing her head. Giving herself a few seconds, the pain quickly went away and she was her functional self again. "Alright, 200th note to self, stop eating that delicious ice cream so fast" Minty reminded herself. "Now what to d- "she was cut off again but by kart engines this time. Outside her house Vanellope and Rancis drove by at a high speed. "Hmm they seem to be in a hurry, something interesting must of came up. Maybe I could join them, I sure they wouldn't mind." Quickly, Minty grabbed her racing helmet and ran out the door.
"So where exactly did Jubileena say this base was?" Rancis Asked. Vanellope locked her gas pedal in its place and turned to her boyfriend.
"Just up the road. Jubi said a new path was created that branches off from the bottom of the main gate. So we should be there in like 5-10 minutes." She yelled to overcome the loud engine of her kart. Rancis nodded and checked his mirror. In it, a familiar green kart was approaching them at a higher speed. "Uh babe, Minty is following us" he yelled over to his girlfriend. Vanellope turned around to see that Minty had caught up to them in seconds and was pulling up beside her.
"Hey!" Minty yelled out.
"Uh hi" Vanellope yelled back.
"Whatcha guys up to?"
"Jubileena said her and Swizzle found a military base. Would you be interested in joining?"
Yeah I'd love to! I figured you and Rancis were doing something interesting because of how fast you drove by"
"Well if all goes well, we should find tons of military equipment and the individual that is supposed to use it."
"Yeah that sounds fun!"
(With Swizzle and Jubileena)
"Vanellope and Rancis should be here soon. It's kind of convenient how the gate to this place just sort of unlocked" Jubileena said turning to Swizzle.
"Yeah, I think everything is unlocked. It doesn't even look like this place has power" he responded peering into the entrance. "I suppose since we're the only ones here, we could make out?" Jubileena looked her boyfriend in the eyes and put on a flirty look.
"Oh I'd like that." She said approaching Malarkey. Justas they were about to violate each other's mouths, the sounds of kart engines roared from down the road. Disappointed, the couple turned their attention to the 3 karts heading in their direction.
"Damn" Swizzle muttered under his breath.
"Maybe another time babe" The cherry girl told her boyfriend. Vanellope, Rancis, and Minty stopped their karts right in front of the gate and all excited.
"Hey, we're finally here!" Vanellope greeted Jubileena.
Hi Vanellope, Rancis, and Minty. Are you joining us in our exploration?" She happily greeted her friends.
"Yeah, I hope it's not much of a hassle" Minty responded. Jubileena smiled and shook her head.
"Oh no not at all, the more the better!" she hopped in excitement. Suddenly Swizzle spoke up.
"Well, we better get going soon, it's getting dark and soon it will be hard to see." Hearing that, Minty jogged over to her kart and reached into the glove box.
"I knew I'd need these someday" she said producing two flashlights. Minty clicked the power buttons on both, accidently shining one in her face. "Perfect, they work!" she added while rubbing her eyes.
"Great, now we have a group, some lights, I'd say we are ready to enter." Vanellope spoke out "Let me get a flash light and let's head in." Minty passed her a flashlight and then they all grouped up. The mint girl flashed her light forward to examine the base gate.
"High tech-ish" she said looking at all the panels and scanners. As the group walked in, various buildings caught their eyes.
"Look, there are hangars for tanks and stuff… cool" Swizzle said.
"Check this one out, there's like a plane type of vehicle on its roof" Rancis followed.
"Woah…" Minty gasped out. In front of her stood a giant tower with a weapon resting at the top. Shining her light on one of the control panels, she read out loud. "Automatic and Manual anti air and air strike firing tower, big name for a big gun."
"My mod, I'd hate to be the one that thing is aimed at" Jubileena said staring down the machinery in awe.
"This thing's got no power either, looks like this place isn't in the power grid yet" Swizzle said examining the outer control panel. Vanellope was still looking around while the others examined the missile launcher. In the distance she spotted a blue light shining through the window of another building.
"Huh" Curious she started talking "Hey guys, we should try to get into that building over there. There's something interesting about it" she said as if it were calling out to her.
"Why Vanilla, did you see something?" Rancis responded to her.
"Yeah… come on let's get in there" she said while walking un the buildings direction. When they got the door, they were faced with disappointment.
"Aw damn, doors jammed or locked" Minty sighed "looks like we're not getting in."
"Man, I really thought we'd find something interesting in here" Vanellope said disappointed. Behind the three girls, Swizzle and Rancis started making a plan.
"Want to break it down?" Swizzle asked.
"Yeah sure, let's try Rancis replied, confirming the plan. The two boys paired up next to each other before calling out to the girls. "You three might want to move!" Before the girls knew it, they had two boys booking it in their direction. With the three girls moving out of the way, the two smashed through the door and into the hallway.
"There we go, that should do it" said Rancis proudly. The girls looked into the doorway to find Swizzle, Rancis, and a door on the ground.
"Look at you two stop men" Minty said sarcastically. "Maybe next time you should warn us earlier before you break out in full sprint at us." Swizzle chuckled.
"Sorry you three, never broke a door down before, we were kind of excited to do so." Vanellope and Minty started to laugh, but Jubileena was more interested in exploring the newly opened establishment.
"Come on slowpokes, let's go" she said skipping down a hallway while Vanellope and Minty shined their lights at her so she could see. Room by room, all five of the racers searched the building, finding beds for others, a kitchen, and finally a dark room filled with machines. Swizzle looked around at some labels on various boilers and heaters.
"This must be where everything is controlled, like water, heating, and electricity. Maybe we should look for a power box and see if we can light this place up" he said while reading the labels Vanellope was lighting up. The group nodded and started searching through the many boilers and other machinery to find their mark. While Jubi and Minty were searching, Minty tripped over a stray wire that was laying on the floor.
"oof, ahh ow ow ow" she cried out in pain landing on her knee.
"Oh my mod, Minty are you okay" Jubileena asked picking up Minty's light and shining it on her. Minty's knee was scrapped and blood was coming up from the cut.
"No it really hurts" Minty replied trying to stand up. Yelling out in pain, she collapsed back on the ground.
"Guys, hurry up and find the power and come over here, Minty got hurt!" The cherry themed girl yelled out to her friends.
"Found it!" Rancis said slamming down a lever. In seconds, all the machinery roared to life and the lights flickered on and the room became illuminated. Everyone rushed over to the two girls sitting on the ground.
"Oh my there's quite a bit of blood" Vanellope said rushing over to the two and kneeling down with them and grabbing a bandage from her bag. "Let's get her out of here, we can always come back." Swizzle and Rancis ran over and started to pick the Mint girl off the ground when suddenly a computerized voice that called out through the speakers.
"Scanners online, Recalibrating… Scanners recalibrated. Good afternoon sir Oreon, it seems you have guests looking for you." Swizzle looked around the room for camera's.
"That thing knows we are here, what the hell did we do!" he said freaked out. "Come on let's get Minty out of here." Everyone excited the room and tried to get out of the building. When they looked out, spotlights and lasers were lighting the base up and the gate was closed. Jubileena accidently kicked a piece of debris out the door way, which was immediately had multiple lasers pointed at it, following bullet holes. That's when Minty and Jubileena started to panic while Rancis and Swizzle were looking for another way out. Behind them, Vanellope turned around to see a man leaning up against the wall of the kitchen doorway.
"Oh shit" she said panicked. "Uh hello?"
"I wouldn't go out there if I were you guys. Those security turrets will tear you to shreds before you even leave the doorway" the man said. The other four turned to face the mysterious character standing before them.
"Who are you and what's going on?" Vanellope spoke in a demanding tone.
"The names Benjamin Oreon, and what's going on is you guys tripped an alarm while I was restoring some machinery. That's why all the power was off. However, that not important right now, one of you are injured, please bring her over here" He said gesturing the group to follow him into the kitchen. When they walked into his kitchen, Ben pulled out a chair so that they could sit Minty down. "So how did this happen?" Oreon asked while going through his drawers and cupboards.
"I think I tripped over a wire or something while we were looking for the power thingy, it really hurts" Minty explained. Ben grabbed another chair and lifted her leg onto it while doing his best not to cause more pain.
"So how are you going to help her?" Jubileena asked. Ben looked down for a moment before making a plan.
"By using medical supplies of course, hey Barry!" He called out. The others had looks of confusion on their faces when he called out another name.
"Yes sir, how may I help you?" A computer asked. The faces of Oreon's guests were changed to shock when they heard who answered. Ben Smirked at them and started talking again.
"Send two medic drones to the kitchen and a builder drone with a bio scanner, I need them"
"Right away sir"
"Who was that" Rancis asked while looking around the room.
"That was Barry, he's a computer software who helps me run this place. I mostly controls the drones and gives them the commands I ask him to" Ben responded while waiting for the three drones to arrive. Just as he was getting impatient, all three arrived and one was carrying a device. The two medic drones started going to work. One of them covered Minty's cut leg in a special light that stopped the pain and allowed Minty to finally take deep breaths. The other started wrapping the cut with a disinfectant cloth and tapping everything together with medical tape. "Hand me that please" Ben asked the builder drone. The machinery handed over his scanner and Ben immediately started analyzing Minty's cut.
"What are you doing?" Minty asked while whipping tears off of her face. Ben looked her in the eyes and smiled.
"I'm checking out your cut. There is stuff in there that can cause odd glitches in code when its exposed to it. It's nothing lethal, but it can cause dizziness and make you throw up. I just want to make sure you didn't get any of it inside of yo- oh…" he said checking the scanner closely.
"What is it?" Vanellope asked, now worried.
"Turns out she did get the chemical in her leg, a goods night rest should make it go away, but I don't think you should go home by yourself. You could hurt yourself from the dizziness. You can stay here if you'd like. It would be best if I could monitor you to make sure you are alright." Ben offered her. Minty looked at him, then started to think.
"If it's not much trouble, I can stay here" Minty said while looking at him. As she was doing this, she started to get a weird feeling. She didn't feel sick, but attracted, she had a crush on him, or did she. To her the feeling was much worse, like she was in love. Immediately she shook the feeling out of her head.
"Well if you want then I guess it would be a good idea" Vanellope said to the mint girl. "Now how do we get out of this place?"
"I'll disable the turrets and open the gate for you all, but before you all leave, could I get your names?"
"Well I'm Vanellope von Schweetz, the president of Sugar rush, and right here is my boyfriend, Rancis Fluggerbutter, these two are Swizzle Malarkey, and Jubileena Bing-Bing, and that is Minty Zaki" Vanellope introduced everyone. Ben shook all of their hands and gave Minty a bow, which made her smile.
"It's a pleasure to meet you all. Barry, can you disable the turrets, open the gates, and add all of their code signatures to the data base" Ben said.
"Right away sir" after making the base safe again, the other four said their goodbyes and gave Minty hugs and made their way out of the base.
"11:30, you don't have a bed time do you?" Ben chuckled and smiled. Minty laughed and rubbed her eyes.
"I don't haha, but I am tired. Where do I sleep?" she asked. Ben stood there and thought before getting an idea.
"Well we can go to my room and you can have my bed, I just have a few things to work on before I got to bed so I'll be in there too, but after that I'll be gone to one of the guest rooms" he smiled and explained.
"Oh no I couldn't possibly take your bed; you can have it" she said declining the offer. Oreon wasn't having it though.
"Nah, you are taking it, I don't need it right now. I'm going to pick you up now and bring you there, is that okay?" he asked. Minty nodded and blushed a little bit from the offer. Ben reached under her and picked her up bridal style to walk her to his room. Minty was red by then and tried to find something to distract her. Looking down at the arm that was supporting her legs, she had a question to ask.
"What happened to your arm?" She asked trying to stop her blushing.
"I lost it in an explosion, or at least that's what my backstory says, there was a car bomb that went off when I was a child, I grew up most of my life without it until one day a tech engineer gave me an offer; get a new arm and do some of his work for him when he couldn't. At first I thought it was a good idea, the arm worked great, but soon I realized how crazy the man was. At first it was stuff like take a few items like phones and such, and then it escalated until one day he asked me to kill someone, of course that was too far so I ran away. Odd backstory haha" he said.
"Oh wow, so you use to be a thief with a good heart?" Minty asked.
"I guess, I never wanted to be, but that's just what happened. Of course now I just want one thing" he said while looking at her.
"What would that be?" Minty responded. The entire time she was being carried, she felt safe. The boy who had her in his arms was so nice. Could it be love at first sight she asked herself. She never believed in love at first sight. A crush maybe, but this was way beyond a crush, she felt a warm feeling just by being with him. She had to talk to someone about these feelings.
"I want love, someone to wake up to every morning" he said looking forward. That was too much for her, her face went bright red, and she tried to hide her face in his shirt. Seeing this, he laughed. "Hey look, you have arrived to your destination" he said mocking a GPS. Minty turned her head to see a room with many different things to look at. There was a shelf littered with tools and a computer resting on top of it. The wall had a fish tank and a sword was hanging there too.
"You have a sword too, damn boy you have everything around here" she commented.
"Yeah I have plenty of Knick knacks around here" he responded while placing her in his bed. "How are you feeling?" Ben asked.
"Just a little light headed, but I'm okay" she told him. Ben sat down and started working on. During that time, the two never spoke, and after some time passed Minty fell asleep. Ben decided to call it a night and head to bed. Before turning the lights out he spoke quietly.
"Sleep well miss Zaki, I hope you feel better in the morning" he said, and then walked to his guest room and went to sleep. Tomorrow morning was going to be his first roster race.