A/N: As you all know, I don't own Wreck-It Ralph nor do I own the Smash Bros. series. I also don't own any of the games that are mentioned (well, I own copies except for LoZ: TP, just not the rights). This is based on when my niece and I used to make up scenarios when we played Melee to add some cheap humor in. Summary: Vanellope makes Taffyta play a few matches of Super Smash Bros. Melee with her. How will this end?
Vanellope was at her house digging through old stuff from when she before was in her double-digits age when she found a nostalgic object of her childhood gaming. "Huh? What's this..." she mumbled, pulling it out. "Whoa! No way!" She found her old indigo-colored Nintendo GameCube that she got for Christmas 2004. She was about seven years old then and she remembered this particular one being bundled with Super Smash Bros. Melee and the strategy guide. She smiled as a rush of childhood memories coming back to her: her dad watching and being all nervous at the explosions and violence, her mom playing against her and having fun...
"Huh, I wonder if..." she wondered as she dug through old games: Paper Mario, Pokemon Colosseum, Super Mario Sunshine, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess... "Aha! Got ya, ya little bugger," smirked the raven-haired girl gamer as she held up a Super Smash Bros. Melee disc. That was her very first GameCube game ever, so she had very fond memories of it. Being that she was seven at the time, it took her three years to unlock everything the game had to offer.
"You and I got some catching up to do," Vanellope smiled. She packed up the GameCube, the wires, and everything else needed and ran down the stairs. "Mom, Dad! I'm gonna be at Taffyta's for a few hours!"
"Alright, but don't do anything unimaginably crazy! You know what I'm talking about, Vannie..." her dad, who prefered to be called by his nickname K.C., warned.
"Dad! Why would I bang Taffyta when I have vidya games? Besides, I found the old GameCube!" she sighed. "And I'm only seventeen, almost eighteen, anyways."
"Wait, you found the GameCube? I thought we lost that thing! You better make some time for me so we can have some mother-daughter bonding," laughed Pizzella, not really expecting her daughter to actually agree.
"Sure thing, Mom. But first, I gotta get my Taffy's feet wet in video games," Vanellope smiled grabbing a soda bottle before running out.
She didn't live that far away from Taffyta's; it's about a five- or ten-minute run. Luckily for Vanellope, her exceptional quickness and endurance made the trip not so bad. Jumping over the short stone wall, the gamer girl walked over to the door and knocked on it. While she waited, she looked around; the front door was pretty big with some steps leading up to it. A few gryphon statues sat at each side of the door. The front side looked something out of Greece, actually. Walking around, Van took off her shoes and felt the cool marble floor under her feet.
"Huh. What's with their obsession with marble stone..." she mumbled as the door opened. She jumped a little, only to see the loyal housemaid Muffin. "Whoa! Ya sorta scared me there, Mrs. Fudgecake," she admitted, rubbing the back of her neck.
"Ooh, sorry about that, dear! The rest of the family doesn't get fazed by the door opening, so I'll be sure to see who it is next time," Muffin apologized.
"No problem, Mrs. Fudgecake. Say, how's Candlehead doing? I know she's pretty busy what with all the college applications to sort out. I'm pretty flooded, too..."
"Oh, she's doing great! Thanks for asking, Vanellope. I'll be sure to tell her that you said hi! Come on in!" Muffin stood aside, letting her in.
"Usually, Mrs. or Mr. Muttonfudge gets the door. Where are they?" she asked, hands in her hoodie pocket and all the gaming stuff in a spare backpack.
"Eclaire's baking, so she'll be shocked to see you here!" cautioned the housemaid. "Cadbury, though? He's away on a business trip."
"That explains the lack of Englishman despite the Rolls-Royce being here. No worries, though. I'll say hi to Mrs. Muttonfudge, anyways," laughed the raven-haired tomboy. "Taffyta's here, right?"
"I'm sure she's still here. She's up in her room," the pleasantly plump woman replied, smiling. "Ooh, you two are so cute together!"
Vanellope smiled sheepishly and went to the kitchen. "Hey, hey, my favorite baker!" She smiled at the Frenchwoman.
"Well, well, well. Look who came into the mansion uninvited," Eclaire retorted, the playful tone keeping the more irritated tone in check.
"Ooh, Madam Muttonfudge! I see zat you are baking ze little baked goods, no?" Vanellope asked, using the very over-the-top stereotypical French accent. "Ah! So it eez true! You are making eclairs and you even made a creme brulee!"
Eclaire took a very deep breath. That stereotypical accent annoyed Eclaire very much, since it was obvious that she never spoke like that even with her strong French heritage. After composing herself, she nodded and forced herself to smile. "Yes. I'm comparing a few recipes for the bakery. I may be the manager and owner, but I do a fair share of the work. Unfortunately for you, today is Sunday, which means that the bakery's closed. That also means I'm home. And what is in that bag, Vanellope?"
"Vidya games. Gonna be showing Taffyta the wonderful technological world of video games. I've gotten a facial treatment on her request and went shoe shopping with her, so it's fair for me that she does something I ask her to do," Vanellope reasoned, smiling innocently.
"Keep the volume low, and if I see you doing something you shouldn't, I will give your father a good smack upside his head," huffed the high-strung baker.
"Yeah, yeah, I know. 'Don't sleep around with my daughter!' I get the memo a lot, actually," shrugged the energetic teen, grabbing an eclair before running off, much to the woman's displeasure. Running up the stairs as always, Vanellope was like a spark; one minute she's there and gone the next. Opening up the door, she saw Taffyta on that fancy little iMac, chatting away on Facebook. She snuck up on her, covering her eyes when she got close. "Peek-a-boo! Guess who, Taffy!"
Taffyta whipped around and playfully pushed the other girl away, laughing. "Vanellope! Don't ever sneak up on me like that," she laughed.
"What? Can't give my girlfriend a surprise greeting?" the sillier of the two mock-pouted, giving her a kiss on the cheek.
"Whatcha want now, ya silly goose?" the obviously more level-headed and girlier of the two questioned.
"I'm gonna teach ya video games, Strawberry," Vanellope happily exclaimed, hopping around.
Taffyta sighed. She didn't need this. She didn't do video games. "Vannie, look at me and what do ya see? Definitely not someone who has a lot of time on her hands playing some electronic toys."
"And I'm not someone who cares about shoes or spa treatments, but I still did that for ya," the other countered. "It's only fair. Pwetty pwease? With a cherry on top?"
The pink girl stared at Vanellope, her stolid expression quickly breaking down into guilt. "Fine, fine! Just don't give me that look again," she cried, legitimately on the border of tears from that begging face.
"Yay!" the other girl squealed excitedly, running down to the basement. When Taffyta came down a minute later, everything was already plugged in and ready to go. "What took ya so long? C'mon, the game's already up an' running!" Vanellope teased, patting down a spot next to her.
"Well, you're the one born of lightning! Who's your real dad? Hermes?" the girly teased back, sitting next to Van and grabbing a controller. "So what's the goal of this game?"
"This is Super Smash Bros. Melee, so it's clearly a fighting game. There's a few single-player modes, but multiplayer's where the fun's at!" explained the fighting veteran. "Basically, just knock out your opponents!"
"This isn't too violent... Right?" the rookie asked warily.
"Nah. Just a few explosions and lots of hitting around," the other assured, shaking her head.
Vanellope described the menus to Taffyta, ranging from the obvious to the fun stuff. "We'll go over the trophies more in-depth later. That's one of the best parts of the games, to be honest," Van promised. "Now we fight!"
So now they were at the character select screen, Vanellope choosing Marth and Taffyta unsure who to choose. "So who's the best one out of the bunch?" inquired the newbie.
"You'd be surprised. Peach and Jigglypuff are pretty good. Marth's pretty good. Zelda's good for Shiek and that's pretty much it. It all depends on your play style," advised Vanellope. "But for rookies? Probably Peach might be suited for ya."
So Taffyta chose the princess of the Mushroom kingdom and Vanellope chose the stage. The match was a stock match with five lives each. "Wait, what are the basic controls?!" Taffyta panicked when the match started on Final Destination.
"X or Y to jump, directional attacks with B are for special moves, A for simple attacks, and Z to grab. You can do a number of moves with the A attacks, like aerial attacks or ground attacks. Anyways, L or R to shield and while the shield's up, you can dodge by moving left, right, down, or up. If you failed to grab, Z can also be a shield. Not sure if it'll be weaker or not, but it'll last longer," Vanellope explained quickly. "Here, I'll let you attack me so you can get a feel of the controls." With that, the generous raven-haired, tomboyish, gamer girl let the controller sit on her lap and sat back a bit, allowing the newbie to take few hits at her.
"Wait, what does this do?" wondered Taffyta, seeing the Toad her character pulled out.
"Toad. He counters stuff, but there's a weird delay. Like, you have to time it a second before the attack connects," explained Vanellope. "Ooh! Point the control stick down and press B. I think you'll like beating people up with it!"
"Alrighty, I trust ya, Vannie," Taffyta mumbled as she did what Vanellope told her. "Is that a...?"
"A turnip? Yep!" Vanellope laughed as she couldn't resist temptation anymore and made her character start attacking Peach. Receiving a glare from her girlfriend, the teal-hooded girl smiled sheepishly. "Sorry. Couldn't help myself."
"Oh, yeah? Well, I hope you and your character loves turnips!" the pink girl snickered as her character threw the turnip at Van's character.
"Say, ya know, my mom and I... We used to make up some insane scenarios to add some substance into the game, so Marth, the guy that I'm using, is apparently the husband of another girl by the name of Zelda. And we made Link their kid!" Vanellope roared out, relishing the memories. "And we also made Peach and Roy a couple, and we also made Zelda and Peach sisters, so that Young Link and Ness were Link's cousins."
Taffyta couldn't help but laugh at how stupid and ridiculous that was. "No way. Really? I knew that my girlfriend was a goofball, but that's just ridiculous!"
"Yeah, gadoi! We also made Kirby, Ness, Young Link, and the Ice Climbers students, so Mario was the principal, Luigi was the vice-principal, so on and so forth. Hell, we even turned YL and Ness into thugs because they had a dark alternate costume! Well, actually, Ness didn't actually have a dark costume, but he wanted to be a thug, so... Anyways, we used to do some batshit insane scenarios like that," reminisced Vanellope. "Say, let's do something crazy! Mom and I thought of a bizarre scenario where Marth and Zelda were getting married and Marth called Zelda an Elf Girl, so Zelda got so unimaginably pissed at him and whooped his ass."
"So..." wondered the girly-girl, raising an eyebrow. She was lost on this.
"We should do that. Heh. We coined the term 'Going Shiek' in the house as getting pissed because of those matches," revealed the gamer, quitting the match and choosing Zelda, changing her outfit. "And because Dad watched us sometimes, even he knew what the phrase meant! Really funny, actually."
Taffyta chose Marth, nervous of the outcome. Knowing the backstory and her lack of skills, she's gonna have a bad time.
Less than five minutes later, the match ended, Vanellope the clear victor there. "Ah, don't worry. Taffyta. You'll get better eventually."
"I think I prefer listening to your stories rather than actually recreating them," Taffyta sighed. "I dunno why, but it seems a hell of a lot more fun to listen to your stories!"
Vanellope laughed, "You really think so, Taffy?" She scratched the back of her head and blushed a bit. "Say, wanna do just one more match? This time with thugs? Lemme make it a team match against Ness and YL, alright? We'll be the cops."
"Oh, fine. A match for each of those two things I made ya do, so I'm stuck here till I pay my debt, huh?" remarked the she-would-rather-be-shopping-now girl.
"Oh, yeah. Definitely," quipped the other as she chose Captain Falcon. "Samus and C. Falcon are designated cops, mind you. Oh, and Samus is a girl. Just wanted to let you know." At that, she chose Ness and Young Link for their opponents; however, since team colors are only Blue, Red, and Green, Vanellope had to settle for Red.
"Yeah, right. That's so not a girl," argued Taffyta, rolling her eyes a bit. Another match started up again, this one finishing even sooner than the last, due to Vanellope leaving the CPU level at one so they'll basically walk into Taffyta's attacks or just stand there and let her attack. Vanellope got almost all of the kills, with Taffyta getting a lucky one after she fired a Charge Beam by accident.
"Alright, I think that's enough. Ya actually did okay for a total newbie. Went in blind and managed to get a kill for the team," the more experienced teen praised, turning off the GameCube and laid down on the couch, her feet on the other girl's lap. "Sorry my feet's in the way, Taffy!"
"You really are a goofball," Taffyta smirked, shaking her head a bit. "Ya know, I actually will get better in these fights. One of these days, I'm so gonna kick your ass, Von Schweetz!"
"Yeah, well, I'm gonna have to go, alright?" Vanellope quipped, sticking her tongue out as she got up and packed the system up. "See ya whenever." And with that, she gave Taffyta a kiss goodbye and ran up the stairs, leaving the girl to relax a bit.
A/N: Sheesh, I so apologize for the length of this chapter. I wanted to get some descriptions outta the way and I had a wee bit too much fun describing scenarios. My niece and I actually still do that stuff!
