Sweet Dreams and Screams 3

When Vanellope opened her eyes a few hours later, she was still in her nightmare. It was getting lighter outside and it was getting closer to the time the arcade would open.

She saw that Rancis looked even more mutilated. His clothes were torn and there was blood all down his jacket. His hands looked pale from the little blood there was left. There were other tortures but Vanellope couldn't see them since a sound changed her attention. Vanellope assumed that Rancis wasn't conscience so she didn't bother trying to call to him.

She turned and saw Nicki being held by the waist by the creature that she was talking about earlier. It was hidden in shadow except the hand and eyes.

Nicki seemed more like her normal self aside from the fact she was balling. "I did what you wanted so please just let him go!" She said with a wail.

"Let another racer that could ruin my game survive? Now why should I do that?" Vanellope looked at her feet and saw a blue hat and dark hair. She could tell it was Gelli but she wasn't going to say anything. Nicki had been the one torturing her. She had to pay for this, so Vanellope said nothing. "I'm going to take over control here." It said and one of its legs came and moved Gelli over to a light patch. The creature took one of its legs, as Nicki began to scream, and plunged a claw into Gelli's abdomen. The creature laughed a strange metallic laugh that sounded like gears grinding. Gelli glitched as the creature forced its claw through the boy's whole body. Vanellope tried not to feel sorry for Nicki but it was difficult.

"No!" Nicki's scream echoed through the mountain. Gelli had red code drained from his body as Nicki tried to shove the claw away from her. Nicki looked at Vanellope, knowing that there was no chance of help. "Just wait. You're next." Nicki said. Vanellope felt little about her words. It was getting easier to break out of this dream.

Turbo moved toward Vanellope, Nickiwas tightly gripped in his hand. He pushed Gelli's body aside as Nicki tried to get away. "Now Vanellope, stop smiling. You can't get away until the arcade opens and that is at least 2 hours away." He smiled evilly as he moved his face closer to hers so Vanellope could see the true face. She studied its face, trying to make sure that it didn't see her feelings. "Now I have an idea." It said with a full metal smile. "I won't torture Rancis and you but you two have to hurt each other. You'll have 3 minutes to torture each other without killing the other. Whoever does the best job after a couple of rounds won't be mutilated by me until morning. Okay?" Vanellope nodded. The creature crawled over to Rancis, who was barely awake, to tell him of the game.

Rancis opened his eyes and Vanellope stepped back in shock. His eyes were black, the whole eyeball. There was a dot of yellow in the center as a pupil but the rest was dark.

"Vanellope goes first." He crawled back over to her and broke the two candy ropes. "Now go. I want you to dazzle me." Vanellope slowly stepped forward, not believing she was truly free. She knew that he wasn't joking so she moved toward the walls, looking for something. She located something and pulled it toward her. It was a crossbow hidden among the walls.

"Don't do it Vanellope!" Nicki cried, horrified by the suffering she had caused. The curved bow made from pretzels had several rock candy arrows ready to shoot. She wanted to test and see if she could get away. She aimed the crossbow at Rancis and stood still.

She took a deep breath. Shoot him through his pudgy eyes. Then we can get out of this dream. She turned and pulled the trigger twice with perfect aim. She stood still, wanting to see her captor in pain.

Instead it just laughed. Without taking the arrows from his eyes, it moved toward Vanellope. "Sweet child, you should know better than to do that to me. I'll forgive you this once though." He moved back as Nicki tried to get down. He held the racer closer and made sure she could see as Vanellope lifted the crossbow again and shot it through Rancis's knees, causing him to wail in shock.

Vanellope stumbled, but knew that wouldn't be enough for the monster. What more could she do to her poor boyfriend? He was bloody and looked like a punching bag more than a racer. She tried to think of something else to do but she couldn't all she wanted to was make jokes. That's what she did when she was in pain and upset, make jokes. If she didn't, she would never have given up a long times ago. "Since you're not doing anything, I guess you're done." He said with a sigh "I was hoping for more but oh well! Let's see what your sweet boyfriend is willing to do to you after he sees what you look like." The creature laughed and clapped its hands with glee, causing Nicki to become dizzy.

"What do I look like?" Vanellope retorted.

"Why don't you have a look?" King Turbo said with malice and handed Rancis a mirror. He stumbled forward and the mirror slid to a stop in front of Vanellope. Her hair was still there except it was matted and felt sticky from blood. Most of the candy was still there, a surprise to Vanellope. The fingers on her left hand were still missing. There were slash marks on her hands where she could almost see bone. Her front teeth had been pulled out and her eyebrows were waxed off. There were scars that reached from the corners of her eyes to her mouth. Her feet and nose hurt and she had a major headache. She looked at her hair again and noticed that it is was moving. She reached up just as mint chocolate mouse scurried through her hair as it ate more candy. Vanellope could not believe what was happening. He was letting the mice eat the candy in her hair before they moved on to the rest of her body. He was probably going to let Rancis watch as that happened, that sick twisted thing.

"Hey Braceface!" Vanellope called. Insults were her greatest weapon. It made her happy to insult that thing. It turned toward her for a second before moving over to the hot cola. She didn't know what it was doing but she didn't stop. "If you think I look ugly now, just imagine what you used to look like! You looked a billion times worse." Vanellope said with a laugh.

Turbo's face didn't change as he threw Nicki at the boiling pool of lava. She screamed as she happened to land on a piece of marshmallow and flew to the ceiling with one bounce. She grabbed onto the rock candy on the side of the volcano. Some mentos fell into the cola and shot soda into the air, nearly burning the bespectacled girl. "What am I going to do?" Nicki asked herself as she tried to see what was happening at her feet before several rocks crumbled in her hands.

These are not going to last long with me here. She quickly looked around and found part of the old track that didn't look much more stable but it was the only place she could find. She quickly jumped and looked to see if anyone knew she was alive. No one even looked up. Vanellope was still laughing as Turbo was reaching his hand into the cola. Nicki watched in shock and terror as he felt no burns from the cola. He smiled at his victims and he moved closer to Vanellope as he held a small round burning object in its hand. Nicki watched as the monster took the ball and shoved the burning coals into Vanellope's mouth. She gagged on burnt sugar that was cooling in her mouth, but not before branding her tongue with an ugly letter T. Nicki cringed as she watched the T appear in her tongue. Nicki could only imagine how much pain that had caused the President of the game. This caused her to take in a deep breath and make a decision.

Gelli was gone, that creature couldn't hurt him any more and Nicki knew that he would want her to be a hero. It was the only way to redeem herself for what to do earlier. She looked around, trying to find a way out of the nightmare. She saw a large jawbreaker a little higher up. Gelli had told her about a his best friend, a jawbreaker themed racer, that Turbo had killed when he took over. The racer was gone and Turbo started taking apart and decoding the jawbreaker themed level, which was in Diet Cola Mountain. She crawled to the where there was the jawbreaker. Nicki was smart. She knew that the jawbreaker would move enough cola to burn Turbo or at least be enough of a distraction to let Vanellope and Rancis get away. There was one thing that the smart Nicki didn't know about jawbreakers. If they were heated and under a lot of pressure, they will explode.

Nicki went and began to push the giant jawbreaker toward the cola. She knew that she might have to go in with the jawbreaker but that didn't matter. Gelli was gone, why live when she could save others?

The jawbreaker moved slowly over to the edge. She kicked away sugar cobwebs as she pushed the jawbreaker. It teetered on the edge, refusing to go over. Nicki realized that it would take all of her body weight to push it over the edge. The track was cracking under her feet and with one final push the jawbreaker and Nicki fell.

Vanellope saw the large objects flying through the air and a look of shock came over her face. Turbo turned as Nicki yelled to it "I hope that you die." Just as the jawbreaker hit the cola a large amount of soda, in a large tidal wave landed on Turbo as Vanellope grabbed Rancis and glitched out of the way. The cola covered the creature and just before Nicki sunk beneath the cola lava, she saw the cola burning the lower half of his body. She smiled slowly and then she was gone.

Vanellope was about to look at Turbo when she heard a rumbling and then an explosion. Jawbreaker shards and boiling cola rocketed out of pool and hit the Turbo creature. It nearly enveloped everything but the shiny metal smile.

Vanellope saw the crossbow lying nearby and then she grabbed an arrow sticking out of Rancis's knee. He winced with pain but made no sound. She loaded the crossbow, aimed and fired right into the sinister smile. The creature fell back into the cola where it sunk underneath the surface.

"Come on Rancis" She commanded her boyfriend but he didn't move. When she pulled out the arrow from his knee, he had lost more blood and combined with everything that he lost, it was just too much and he died. Vanellope closed her eyes and cried, realizing that it was her fault. There was one good thing though, the nightmare was over.