At the end of the tunnel was the most amazing, colorful land I've never seen; Sugar Rush. I listened to the melodious main theme that was playing all around.

Donna michita tte

Massugu janai darou

Sou magari kune tte

Dekoboko shiteru hazu sa

Tsurai koto toki ni wa aru you ne

Bokutachi wa soredemo hashiru yo

Amaimono te mo ikaga?

S-U-G-A-R

Jump into your racing car

It's SUGAR RUSH!

SUGAR RUSH!

S-U-G-A-R

Jump into your racing car

It's SUGAR RUSH!

SUGAR RUSH!

It suddenly hit me: The main theme was sung by the same artist who sang the Hoshikuzu Robot Force theme song! This must mean that Hoshikuzu Robot Force and Sugar Rush were made by the same developers! What a coincidence!

I happily soared around, admiring the giant confectionary landscapes. Unfortunately, I was a little too absorbed in my excitement that I accidently landed on the race track.

I turned around and saw a whole gang of sugar-coated go-karts coming towards me!

"OUTTA THE WAY!" one of them screamed.

Quickly, I rolled out of the way before they hit me. They continued to zip along, determined to win.

"Damn, that was close!"

But not close enough. One racer that was falling behind was going top-speed behind me, and it didn't even bother to yell out. I turned around just in time to see it crash into me, knocking me back and causing the kart to blow up in an explosion of chocolate.

When the smoke cleared, I wiped the fudge off of my windshield and hopped out of my mech to see if the driver was OK.

"Hey, kid! Are…are you OK?"

I ran over to the wreckage. There was a small kid with a blazer and what appeared to be a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup on her (I'm pretty sure it was a girl) head. She opened her eyes and looked up at me "What happened?"

"Sorry about that. I didn't mean to make you lose the race." I said, reaching my hand out to her. She raised an eyebrow, but took it.

"Do you even belong here?"

"No, I'm from Hoshikuzu Robot Force"

"Hoshi-what-now?"

"Hoshikuzu Robot Force. I'm not surprised you don't know it. We were plugged in three days ago. My name's Ren."

The little girl chuckled "The name's Rancis. Rancis Fluggerbutter!"

Once we got the pleasantries out of the way, there was still the matter of how she was going to get to the finish line.

"How 'bout a lift?"

Rancis looked at my now chocolate-covered robot "Y'mean in your giant metal monster here?"

"It's a mech. In my game, we use these to battle each other. Nothing serious, we just tussle into one of us sheds oil or loses a-"

"HEY! Flapping your gums isn't gonna get me to the finish line! Let's go!"

I jumped back into my bot, and Rancis jumped in and sat on my lap, since our mechs didn't come equipped with backseats. She felt quite warm, and it felt kind of nice…

Once we took off, we headed up ahead to where all of the other racers were. There was only a little bit left until the finish line.

"You ready?"

"I guess!"

I opened up my mech's hand and out from its palm popped out a mini motorcycle. All of our mechs were equipped with motorcycles just in case of an emergency.

"NOW!"

I opened up the cockpit and Rancis jumped out, freefalling downwards to try and catch the motorcycle. I watched while the sweet-scented wind slapped my face repeatedly as Rancis grabbed onto the motorcycle before it and her splattered onto the ground and sped ahead of the others. I could tell that they were pretty surprised to see a motorcycle in a go-kart game.

Sure enough, Rancis won the race. The crowd of anthropomorphic candies and junk food cheered and whooped. I began to descend down to the finish line, and as I did, the crowd stopped yelling in joy, and began yelling in fear. Motorcycles weren't the only uncommon vehicle that these little munchkins have never seen before!

"What is that thing?" asked one of the race spectators.

"It's some kind of rock candy monster!" screamed another.

I was about ready to abandon Rancis and book it to a different game when suddenly another little girl with messy black hair and a green hoodie raised her hand into the air. The whole crowd froze, and she started to walk towards me.

I hopped out of my mech and tapped Rancis' shoulder "What's up with her?"

"She's Princess, I mean, President Vanellope."

Vanellope walked up to the both of us. She looked up at me "So Rancis, who's your friend?"

"His name's Ren. He's from Hoshikuzu Robot Force. Y'know, the game made by the same developers of our game?"

Vanellope nodded, picked up a tiny little Wonka Nerds candy off the ground and threw it at my mech. It left a bright purple dent "Well Doctor Frankenstein sure has a nifty monster here"

"Hey, watch it! That 'monster' is worth more than you'll ever make in your life!"

I could tell that she was a bit startled by my anger "Why are you even here?"

"I left my game because they don't need me anymore. My team leader unveiled this thing called the MIRROR Engine that makes copies of any Hoshikuzu pilot and mech so that if the player is playing as, for example, me, and they're on my designated round where they'd fight me as an opponent, the MIRROR Engine will automatically generate a copy of me to fight."

"Sorry, you lost me at 'copies'" said Vanellope, eyes half-closed like my whole sob story bored her to death.

"He's saying that they got some kind of cloning machine, so there was no reason for him to stay" Rancis explained.

Vanellope flashed a look of deviance "Well then, if you're going to be staying with us, why not help us out with a little problem we've been having?"

Rancis gasped "Miss President, do you mean the…civil war?"

Meanwhile, back in Hoshikuzu Robot Force, it was nighttime in Shorai City. Kumakichi somehow managed to sneak into the Core, which was Shorai City's main power plant, and the location of the game's code nexus.

Kumakichi crept into the dark hallway leading to the nexus. He then came to a large locked door which had a monitor and a big Super NES controller on the front of it.

He pressed the Start button on it, and on the monitor appeared an "Enter Password" screen. Kumakichi navigated through the letters and numbers with the control pad

"J…U…S…T…I…N…B…A…I…L…E…Y"

After he submitted the password, the door instantly opened up. He took a step inside, and he knew that he had found the game's code. He walked over to the section that had the code for all of the Hoshikuzu pilots. He plucked out a little of all of our codes and dragged them over to the MIRROR Engine.

After he had successfully connected our copied code to the MIRROR Engine, black and white clones of each and every member of the team, from Beta to me, appeared behind him. He begun to chuckle as he turned around.

"My loyal servants, together we will bring about a new era of dominance to the arcade! Every single last game will be under our control. Every hero will be brought to their knees. With the MIRROR Engine at our control, we are IMMORTAL!"

The evil clones raised their hands to their heads in a salute to their new ruler.

"Ha ha ha…turbo-tastic!"