Based on Disney's Wreck-It Ralph! Also guest starring Professor Layton from Nintendo, Samus from Metroid, Leon Kennedy from Capcom, Billy Kane and Geese Howard from The King of Fighters and Litchi Faye Ling from Blazblue.

Sugar Rush

Glitch and Reboot

"A sick Game"

Again, on dreams, where I meet Litwak I wake up.

(Vanellope's point of view)

I tell Litwak everything that happened. "I'm sorry...dunno what else to say, what're you planning to do?"

I respond. "I don't know...I honestly don't know what King Candy's sick game might be to avoid at all cost to not give me a chance to race!"

Litwak looks at me with worry. "You didn't answered, are you gonna race or not?"

"I don't know...Felix almost lost his life because of that. I won't be having any fun...if I'm risking someone else's life just because I wanted to race all my life."

My tone, with some frustation as I responded. "Do you think I should race?" Litwak looks at me with a smile as she responds.

"Well, if you ask me, I know that your life might possibly change after you race, besides you honestly want King Candy to have the last word on this matter?"

I gently turned around, aiming my eyes to the empty floor, looking to my small feet as I think about it. "Well...you have a point there, but..."

All of a sudden, Litwak interrupts me. "Well, you have been avoiding the topic, tell me more about this green haired girl who fell asleep." Litwak tells me with a smile on her face, I simply turn around with a raised eyebrow.

"What about her? Is just a girl, why would I be avoiding the topic?"

"Maybe because you like her?" My face turns pink and respond loudly.

"Wow! No! Candy is just a friend allright?!" Litwak chuckles soflty.

"Oh right, anyway, have you tried kissing her, maybe that'll wake her up?" Once again, my face turns worse than the first time.

"No one is kissing no one! Are you serious?!" Litwak just giggles and we just keep discussing, me trying to figure out what to do in the real world.

(End of Vanellope's point of view)

Far away from there, early in the morning, the investigation on Pixels' case continued. Calhoun was having some coffee in the scene with other police officers, mainly them watching Phoenix's contact Professor Layton who had been looking at the scene for a very long time. Suddenly Leon, a short brown haired man asked. "Is this guy ever gonna speak?"

"Dunno, I trust Phoenix, but this Layton guy is really getting on my nerve, I'm starting to doubt if he has any detective skills."

All of a sudden, Samus, a long blonde woman with a blue special forces suit responds. "Well, the guy isn't even a psychologist, is an archeologist, what else you thought? I mean...really?"

Suddenly, finally Layton turns his back, english gentleman wearing a brown top hat, smiles at Calhoun and the rest as he finally begins to talk. "Hey, my apologies, I could hear you talking. But this is a fascinating case indeed. Just imagine what you could learn from this mind, it's so...chaotic, yet so...I don't know how to even describe it, I mean, the subject is trying to reach perfection, tell me what you already know please?"

Calhoun and the rest listened, raising an eyebrow. "I don't know, perhaps my concept of fascinating is very far different from yours. Anyway, yeah, Pixels MO is just the same like previous cases, tears apart everything, even people then out of remorse fixed them back together."

"Nope. There's no remorse here."

Leon raises an eyebrow. "You're telling us, we're wrong?"

Layton chuckles softly. "Just lightly Mister Kennedy. You've been looking at this picture on the wrong view, this is all just a game to Pixels, is making a point here, being King Candy's trusted men, I'm here, wrecking your world, and I'm gonna fix it, you just watch me."

Calhoun looks at the other police people more confused than enlightened. "I don't follow."

Layton then adds. "There's no remorse here because that's Pixels sick game. If Pixels would feel remorse, wouldn't fix everything that broke here, I mean you see, all this things look broken but their glued somehow." Layton took a bottle on the table to make his point.

Everyone along Calhoun looked at the bottle which looked broken but it was pieced back together, just like the rest of the stuff in the room. "Pixels only fixes anything back, because Pixels can't be around broken things, there's something the subject can't fix about herself and therefore drives her mad."

"Are you telling me, Pixels is a woman?!" Calhoun asked, which Layton then responded.

"It's a theory, men don't usually clean their mess, but yeah, pretty much that."

Then Samus asked. "What about the bugs? The Cy-Bugs I mean, is that some sort of riddle or something?"

Layton responded. "Well, this little insects might be just representing part of the codes of what Pixels left on the computer, you know, bugs? Errors in programming?"

Little did the rest of the people understood what Layton was trying to say. "And the Equals Three on the wall?"

Suddenly Leon responded. "Isn't it a way to tell us that they're actually three subjects, and not one? Just throwing away theories?"

Layton shooked his head. "Nope, it's just one, but something tells me that this Equals Three has something to do with Pixels' identity. Also I have to comment, theorical aswell, but Pixels might be having some problem with communication."

"What do you mean?" Calhoun asked. "Well probably a stutter, that's what I mean?"

Calhoun and Samus looked at each other, confused. "How would you even know that from just looking at the mess she did?"

Layton chuckled. "I could try to explain, but it can be quite complicated really. Well, we should head back, I need some more information about the previous cases to be sure."

All of a sudden, Markowski, one of Calhoun's team arrived. "Hey, sorry boss, but I kinda was in the middle of trafic."

Markowski looked at the scene a bit shocked and then looked at the Equals Three on the wall and chuckled. "Cat face..." Layton turned around as he heard Markowski, giving a enlightened face, looking at Calhoun after which made her shook her head.

"No, it can't be, you can't suggest that Pixels is a cat right?"

Layton chuckled and responded, shaking Markowski's hand. "You're a genious, good sir."

Calhoun sighed then asked Markowski who immediatly began texting on his phone. "What're you doing?"

Markowski responded. "Calling my momma! I'm a genious!"

Leon then asked. "Wow, are you serious about this Equals Three being a cat face and not a code?"

Layton chuckled and responded. "Think about it? Have you seen a cat playing with it's food? They tear them apart!"

Then Samus answered. "But they don't fix it back, I'm sure of it!"

Then Layton responded. "Evolution! What's more curious than a human being, a cat, I'm sure, which explains her big knowledge on codes and programming, no?"

Calhoun then responded. "It's...silly."

Layton suggested. "Well, try to search for cat people in Arcade and we'll try to find a match."

Calhoun thought about it, then again, it might be a bad idea after all, if they finally solve Pixels case at last. "Allright, what do we begin with Felicia the pop singer? Maybe she's Pixels." Calhoun joked and soon did Layton, walking out of the scene at last back to the police station.

(Vanellope's point of view)

After making some coffee, I go back to my room, where Ralph, Felix and Litchi, a chinese medic I called to take a look on Candlehead, still examinating the sleeping girl on my bed. "Well, pulse is normal, she can breathe, I took Candlehead's case a bit back but decided to hand it over, the issues of the mind were always a sick game to me." Litchi told me as I handed her a cup of coffee.

"Is there anything wrong with her mind?"

Litchi then responded me, sipping at her coffee. "It's a neurological problem Vanellope, Candlehead's brain sometimes shuts down, forcing her to sleep. It's strange tho, cause she can be asleep for a very long time, she had a surgery but didn't helped much, at least she sleeps much less than before."

Listening, I looked at Candlehead deep asleep, still worried, even tho Litchi told me not to be, since she will wake up, but what if she doesn't? "Also, it affects her sugar levels, so therefore, I'll leave you this little thing, if there's the chance that she doesn't wakes up soon."

Litchi told as she showed a little bottle of medicine? I don't know what she means with her sugar levels, probably they went down drastically, dunno what's going on. But I nod, looking at Litchi injecting a little of that thing on Candlehead so her sugar levels could be back to normal, I guess. "Allright then, anything else?"

"Has anyone tried to kiss her?"

I gasp at Litchi's weird question, my face all my pink once again. "Wow, why would you even suggest that?!"

Ralph suddenly interrupted with a raised eyebrow. "Wow, what's up with you, Litchi probably was joking?"

Litchi with a surprised expression just nodded. "Calm down, I wasn't serious."

Suddenly I began to calm down, but damn, I got to drive the attention away from that reaction. "Sorry, it's just that currently thinking what I'm gonna do after Felix fixes the car, I just well..."

Litchi and the rest nodded. "Well, that's your decision after all, thanks for the coffee and good luck with Candlehead, but have to head back to Kagutzuchi, something going there and I have patients to take care of."

I nod and then asked. "Hey, by the way, if you ran into Ragna the Bloodedge can you give him a message for me?"

Litchi looked back at me in shock. "You're friends with Ragna? You do know he's a criminal right?"

I protest. "No he's not! I just know there must be a reason for...what he did..."

All of a sudden, Litchi puts her hand on my shoulder. "Anyway, can't promise you I'll find Ragna but if I run into the guy what do I tell?" Litchi smiles and me and I gently take one of my accessories from my hair, a candy.

"Give this to Ragna please and tell him that...someone hopes he's doing the right thing..."

"Either you die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the bad guy. Tell Ragna that please, he'll know."

Litchi nods and takes the candy with her, soon enough she leaves and I hear Felix telling me. "I'm gonna go to the main room to keep fixing your car, sure there's nothing you wanna talk about?"

"No, don't worry, I'll be fine, I'll just be here, to see if she wakes up." Aiming my eyes towards Candlehead who was still deep asleep, Ralph and Felix look at each other and nod. "By the way, if you hear some loud noises of something being hit, it's just me using that punching bag, allright?" Ralph then chuckles nodding.

(Candlehead's point of view)

Blank space, this is weird...I sigh, holding my staff close to me. Suddenly I see her, I raise an eyebrow, in the distance, there's a woman there. I ran towards her direction and gently reach her, green haired just like me, but she's wearing a lab coat and glasses. Now that I see her face closer I gently ask. "Hi, who are you?"

Suddenly the woman gasps, turning her eyes towards me and asks back. "Wait, you can see me?"

I then respond gently. "Well duh, you're right there."

Chuckling, that's all she did. "Wow, maybe things are really changing."

I then ask. "What's your name? I'm Candy, but everyone calls me Candlehead? Don't you get the strange feeling, that you look a lot like me?"

"Don't remember much, unfortunetly. I'm having some kind of headache, but nice to meet you Candy? That's a cute name." I notice her accent, she might be english just like Billy and then I look at her lab coat and a ID hanging there.

"Well...you're ID tells you're Candace Caine? Arquitect?" Wow, Candace Caine? Candy Cane? Coincidence?

"Oh, I didn't noticed, guess yeah, you can call me Candace then." I then respond.

"It's scary...my name is Candy Cane! You look like me! But...is this some sort of thing when you meet an older version of yourself or this one of those tricks from that Queen Boo, no, she's locked on the Fungeon, it can't be her..."

"Wow, you just called me old?" Candace asks me and I giggle softly.

"Well, let's face it, you're not exactly young you know?"

Candace chuckles softly. "Oi girl! You have some mouth! But I don't know, why we look so similar."

Then I gently respond. "Oh I know, this is a dream."

Of course, I'm sleeping, wow I was starting to get worried. Candace gives me a raised eyebrow. "Dunno, perhaps you're sleeping but that doesn't makes me any less real...Oi Candy! Focus, my eyes are here?" Candace snaps her finger at me as she noticed me taking a look at her body, I giggle to myself, if she looks like me, I wonder.

"Wham!" Suddenly I turned around and my clothes changed like magic, a mirror appearing in front of me as I take a look at myself wearing similar clothes to Candace, glasses, lab coat, skirt and high heels. "Oh wow, this clothes certainly look good on me! HA! I told you this was a dream, how can you explain this?!"

Candace sighs softly. "Fine, you had your fun, but I'm real, I know that."

I simply nod with a smile. "Allright, oh wow, even tho this is a dream, is hard to walk with these things, how can you...?" I began walking trying to walk with the high heels, one leg after another, I then turned around, hands on my hips posing. "Don't I look gorgeous?!"

"Oi Candy! Stop playing around, are you like this all the bloody time?!"

I giggle. "You sound like Billy, it's funny."

Candance raises an eyebrow, crossing her arms. "Who's Billy? And get serious girl, you have a hard time focusing you know?"

I responded. "Oh you know, british guy, with red staff, and a jacket with a No Smoking logo on the back."

"Exactly, how do I sound like this Billy you're talking?" I then imitate Billy's voice, exagerating of course.

"Oi Candlehead! How many times have I told ya to bloody focus or you're gonna get everything on fire!" I giggled. "How was I? I could be a british lady right?"

Candace laughs softly. "Right, no don't know the guy why?"

I respond softly. "Cause you're like a part of my dream, shouldn't you know everything I know?"

Candace sighs. "I'm not a dream, this around might be a dream, but I'm real."

I keep trying out the high heels, which still felt so real for some reason, I then told. "Wow, it's weird, you know, it's Caine, Cane and Kane? That has to be more than just a coincidence right?"

"Don't know, probably it just is." Then Candace suddenly notices, damn, this change of clothes left those discovered, usually my whole hand except for my fingers are covered by my mint chocolate gloves, but when I changed my clothes to match Candace, she noticed them...the scars on my knuckles. "Hey, what happened to your hands? That's some nasty scars there, huh?"

Instantly I pulled my hands behind my back along my staff, my expression changing. "I don't like talking about it...but guess I can tell you, but first you gotta tell me what a Arquitect is?"

Candace raises an eyebrow and tells me. "Well someone who builds buildings, you know..."

"No, that's not what that ID on your lab coat means, I know what an Arquitect is, but I feel like it's some sort of code to something else, King Candy shivers at mention of the word Arquitects, I mean...why?"

Candace looks at her ID and shrugs. "I don't know, I told ya, don't remember much."

"Well, you don't look scary!" I joke, giggling softly.

Candace smiles. "Of course not, I'm not a bad person you know. Now tell me, how you got this scars?"

My expression changes again, a bit uncomfortabe, then again I gotta talk about it to someone at least. "Well, I used to have so much anger in me when I was young."

Suddenly the dream began materializing fragments of my previous memories. Right after I had that wonderful time with Vanellope, I was thrown on the Fungeon, me and Candace could see a younger version of myself crying in the dark, that was both my greatest day and the worst day of my life. It didn't happened here, but it was the beginning.

After a bit, I tell everything to Candace about my condition, I had an episode on the Fungeon and I was brought to the hospital later, I had surgery, and I spend more time on the hospital that I could handle. Obviously...King Candy lied, none of us had the courage to betray the mad King Candy, so no justice was made for the Fungeon. Gladly, it's shut down now, but holds a bigger threat there, Queen Boo, hope she never gets out.

"Hang in there Candy, maybe we'll have our happy ending with Vanellope after all, who knows? Right?" I walk towards the little version of myself and try to tap her in the shoulder but my hand vanishes like if it wasn't even there.

Candace then asks me. "Who's Vanellope? Another weird name." I simply giggle, turning around holding my hands together, closing my eyes and responding with a bright blush on my cheeks.

"Oh well, my love~" I respond, with a loving tone on my voice.

Candace simply responds. "Oi! Are you one of those persons who draw a heart and writes their names and their crush's over and over?"

I giggle softly again pulling my hands together to my now pink colored cheeks. "Aww what can I say, she's the love of my life. Vanellope Von Schweetz...how does Candy Von Schweetz sounds?"

Candace laughs softly. "What a riot. Well good luck with that I guess, and about that name, I dunno, you really want to change your name just like that? I mean."

I simply respond giggling again. "Yeah...just like that." Just like Vanellope changed hers." I bit my lower lip softly, just thinking about it, finally someone that heard me out, how I've been hiding this, not even Billy has heard me talking about Vanellope like this I mean, ah love.

Suddenly more fragments come, and we see how Taffyta and the rest would tease me about being a bit...slow. I hear Minty telling.

"Maybe all that time sleeping has gave you some brain damage!" The little version of myself glared, a few tears on her eyes, then Taffyta 'defended' me.

"Hey leave Candlehead alone! She might be dumb but she's my friend!"

I then heard Candace. "Whoa, not cool."

"I know..." I responded a bit pissed off, that was so inapropiate. Little Candlehead was walking away from the scene and soon she found herself away from them. "Like I mentioned, I was so angry, I was forbidden from talking to Vanellope, give her a coin, I have my own glitch which knocks me out to sleep, and everyone just kept calling me dumb for day dreaming. I soon found myself staring at that wall..."

Candace then gasped. "Oh man...I don't know if I wanna see this." Little Candlehead began hitting the wall with all the little strenght she had, I mean, I did, cause I remember that, the frustation, everything, it was painful, I cried in pain as I continued hitting the wall, I even broke a finger but I kept punching the wall until Billy arrived.

"Hey stop it! What're you doing, are you dumb?!" Billy pulled me back and I protested immediatly when I heard the question.

"I'm not dumb!"

Billy then responded. "Well it's not very smart to be hitting the wall like that! Look at this, look at what have you done to yourself!"

I began to cry, suddenly the pain began to feel intense. "No, don't touch me...! It hurts!"

"You think it hurts now? You wait till you ran out of adrenaline! Now, let's get to the hospital, come on!" Billy carries me and I cry all the way to the hospital, I didn't want to go back there. Right there on the hospital, King Candy arrived after a while, I was on a room, I was kind of drugged a bit, because of the medicine for the pain, my hands wrapped, I was told not to use my hands until they healed, then I over heard them.

"Look, you might be King of this place Candy, but she told me, what you and those idiotic friends of her have done. We know your dirty little secrets Candy, so you lay a finger on her again and I will beat you with my staff, did I made myself clear?!" King Candy just looked at Billy with a daring look, Geese was also there, chuckling.

I mean, I trust Billy, but not Geese, for what happened next. King Candy prevented some guards that were with him from laying a finger on Billy for the threat. "Don't worry, Kane's just a criminal, I'm under control here."

Geese then layed a hand on King Candy's shoulder. "Do you feel in control?"

Suddenly King Candy responded a bit nervous. "Don't you dare go Turbo on me, you're rich because of me!"

Geese then responded. "And this gives you power over us? Billy is making a point here, we know your little secrets, plus you might made me rich, but remember who put me here, the Arquitects, and you don't want me to call them do you?"

King Candy shivers and I look at Candace asking. "Don't remember what an Arquitect is?" Candace just shooks her head and we kept watching the scene.

"Besides, you of all people shouldn't be using the word Turbo, 'King Candy'."

Immediatly King Candy responded furious. "Shut up!"

Geese then responded. "So, you don't touch Candlehead again and we will keep your secret hidden allright?"

After a while, everything changed and the memories fragmented turning white everything once again. I look at Candace and began telling her the rest of the story. About King Candy keeping his word of not laying a finger on me again if I kept myself to Taffyta's side all the time, I don't know why still. But Billy trained and I kinda became her bodyguard.

Suddenly I changed my dream again and I was back with my normal clothes once again, high heels are fun and glamorous, but I think my shoes are just fine. After a bit I began hearing the voices of myself and Jubileena, and the memory began.

"You sure about this?" Teenage Candlehead would ask Jubileena who gently leaned forward taking my hands with hers.

"With all my heart." Jubileena kissed me.

That made Candace chuckle softly. "Oh wow cute."

I then sigh. "No, I wasted my first kiss on her, she broke up with me because she...was confused, I tried make things up but she just yelled at me no, she broke my heart, gave me hopes, and then crushed me. After a while Jubileena told me she made a mistake and told me we should try...again, but..."

"What happened?" Candace asked concerned.

"I might not be the brightest candle in the cake, but I'm sure not stupid enough to make that mistake twice."

Candace nodded. "I'm glad, that's good I mean." All of a sudden I just sit myself on the white floor, then I see someone approaching me.

That someone was Vanellope, as beautiful as ever. "You need someone to actually care about you."

Vanellope speaks to me, and Candace simply tells me. "Oh, I think I should leave you alone, I'll just go." Candace then walks away and I find myself staring up at Vanellope's face, my cheeks so pink and hypnotized by the emotion of love.

"Yeah, please...give us some privacy~" I respond to Candace who simply tried moving around the empty space with no luck.

"Don't mind me! I'm just looking for an exit!" All of a sudden, Vanellope reaches a hand towards me and I take it, getting up before gasping as I felt Vanellope pulling me up rather quick into her arms, her arms holding me by my torso, her forehead against mine, we stare into each others eyes, our noses touching, I screamed on my mind as I bit my lower lip looking at Vanellope's eyes so lovingly.

Why are you so quiet? Why are you taking so long?! Just kiss me! "Vanellope...I have..." Vanellope chuckles and shuts me down, I feel like I'm melting on her, my hands gently resting on her shoulders, feeling so weak on her arms, suddenly she begins to lean forward and I screamed again on my mind, closing my eyes along her and then...I woke up...damn, why I can't kiss her, not even on my dreams.

I hear a noise of something being hitted, I try to adjust my eyes, this doesn't looks like my room, oh right...I think I remember now, I had an episode, so this might be...Vanellope's house, I then looked around and there she was, Vanellope hitting constantly a punching bag, this kinda rings a bell, but I was hitting a wall instead.

Suddenly, Vanellope hit the thing so hard it went flying across the room. Vanellope still didn't noticed I was awake, me just biting my lower lip with a small smile on my face, wow, I have to admit it, impressive, Vanellope should get an air conditioner on this room, cause it's definetly the room!

"I don't know if you can hear me..." Vanellope turns around and I pretend to be asleep, I hear her then. "I mean, Candlehead, no Candy, you deserve to be called by your name." Aww thank you! "I don't know if I wanna race anymore, I don't want to risk you guys' lives, I mean, King Candy is seriously go that point to avoid me from racing, it's not fun anymore, I just can't race."

I then simply try to clear my throat, but damn I felt it really dry, even so, I finally talked to her, making Vanellope know I was awake as I told her. "No...you gotta race" I tell her, throat so dry it feels like a whisper.

"Wow, you're awake!" Vanellope gasps in surprise and smiles, I blush lightly and nod, perhaps some day, my dream would come true, maybe.