Chapter 7: Secrets of Uncovered Truths!

'The second disc battled prevailed with Vanellope as the victor, but Vladimir's plan for her game seems to go beyond what she was originally told. What will happen now?'

Chapter Inspiration: Shelter by Porter Robinson and Madeon (Seriously guys, listen to the song as you read the first and last half of this chapter! It's very good!)

Previously

"Jimmy?!" Vanellope questioned as her mouth hung open from shock at seeing the player. "But I have one more battle to fight!"

"I got news for you." Jimmy began. "I was your third opponent, but I made other plans."

"But what about my dad's data block?" Vanellope questioned as she made her way over to the car. "I can't leave without that!"

Her question was answered when Jimmy held up the precious data block still encased in its orb.

"I don't believe Vladimir has any more leverage." Jimmy grinned as Vanellope hopped into the right side of the car, the door closing behind her. "Especially since he doesn't have this any longer."

"How did you get it?" Vanellope continued to question as Jimmy handed her the block of data.

"Let's just say I have a score to settle with Vlad and he just made my job that much easier." Jimmy answered as he turned his attention to the front of him. "If you have any more questions, feel free to ask me once we're at the safe point. There is a lot more to this than you can begin to imagine. Now buckle up because things will get a bit bumpy from here."

Waving his right hand in front of his face, a visor appeared over Jimmy's eyes. Vanellope put on her seat belt and eyed her father's data block in her lap. Slamming on the gas pedal, both passengers were thrown backwards into their seats as the light runner effortlessly made its way out on the other side of the disc dome, freeing both players from the dome while leaving a pile of debris in its wake.

Seeing that a player under his coded dome betrayed him, Vladimir's expression switched from shocked to calm.

"They escaped sir." Vladimir's assistant observed, eyeing the debris that was the players' entrance into the dome. "What should we do?"

"Let them go." Vladimir calmly answered as his assistant turned to him, confused by his sudden change in attitude. "Oh yes, just let them go. They may have the data block, but we have something much bigger and better at our disposal. Or did you suddenly forget about our Sugar Rush's ace in the hole?"

Behind the two and off in the shadows, Gloyd was listening to every word of Vladimir's and his assistant's conversation, including witnessing Vanellope part before he had a chance to catch up with her.

"Not if I have anything to do with it you don't!" Gloyd mentally voiced to himself as he narrowed his eyes at Vladimir.

Sugar Rush (Code Vault)

Floating right beneath Vanellope's code box was the dimmed code box of King Dacian's. The right corner just above the king's picture on his code box sparked to life as two wires from the top and bottom of the box sprouted...

Currently

"No fair, you cheated!" The five year old Taffyta playfully yelled as she took the red race car from five year old Vanellope's side of the toy race tracks. "I had the car first!"

"But you removed the car from the tracks and you know what that means." Young Vanellope laughed as she took the car back from the girl and placed it back on her side. "You remove the car from the tracks, you lose it to me."

"When did you make that up?" Taffyta questioned as she cocked an eyebrow at the raven haired youngster.

"I didn't, you did!" The raven haired royal laughed as Taffyta took the car back from her friend. "So you have to stick to the rules."

"I remember her saying that if the car falls off the tracks then that player loses." Young Jubileena chimed in from Vanellope's right. "But the car didn't fall off the tracks, Taffyta moved it."

"Taffyta moved it which means it's mine." Vanellope victoriously stated as she took back what was on her side of the tracks.

"Something about this game doesn't make sense." Six year old Candlehead added in from Jubileena's left as she picked up the game's box's bottom. "Did you guys not check the rules of this game?"

"I made up the rules because the game's rules are kind of dumb." Taffyta stated as she picked up the blue car on her side of the tracks. "So my rules are, if a car falls off OR is removed from the tracks, then the player loses."

"Thank you Taffy." Vanellope smirks to her as she picks the car up and peers closely at it. "This red car is staying with me since you removed it from the tracks."

"Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we had a car like these?" Jubileena questioned as she picked up a car and closely observed it. "Like what your dad and mom have Vanellope? Those are awesome cars."

"I always dreamed of having one just like they do." Candlehead sadly stated as she placed the box down and peered to the toy tracks the girls were surrounding on the floor of Vanellope's bedroom. "Too bad we never will."

"We will one day." Vanellope cheerfully stated. "My daddy said when I were old enough, he was going to make me my very first kart and teach me how to drive it! I can't wait to grow up!"

"My mom is too busy with her business to teach me how to drive a kart." Taffyta expressed sadly as she moved the blue car around on Vanellope's carpet close to the racetrack. "My mom is too busy to do anything with me. I hardly get to see her and the only time I do is when she is coming in for the night when I'm ready to go to bed. She doesn't even come in my room and say goodnight to me like she did when I were four. I feel as if I'm just another person and not her daughter."

Silence quickly fell amongst the girls as each took in what Taffyta sadly stated about her mom and how much time she actually spends with her. Taffyta didn't have to look to each of her friends to know just how they were feeling about her situation. Having never met her mother before, they have noticed how unhappy Taffyta was with her home life each time they met up with the girl for the day. Even though she never voiced how miserable she was, they could read the signs all over her face!

"I don't see my parents too." Jubileena sadly voiced as well. "I only eat one meal with them at night on one day. The rest of the time, I'm here with Vanellope."

"Ditto." Adorabeezle added. "Ditto is right, right?"

"You know you can always come here Taffyta." Vanellope smiled, attempting to cheer the girl up. "All of you guys can. I like playing cars and dress up with you. If my daddy is going to teach me how to drive a kart, he can teach any of us."

"You do have some great parents Vanni." Jubileena expressed as her expression lightened up. "Especially your mom. She makes the best cookies!"

"And she's really nice." Candlehead added in.

"How does she keep her hair so shiny when she races?" Taffyta questioned as her expression also lightened from it's dismal state. "Its like she can't mess it up if she tried."

"I can't really say." Vanellope answered as she removed another car from the tracks, this time a pink one. "I don't get to talk to her much about it."

"When you do, I want to know all about it." Taffyta continued as she placed her blue car back on the tracks. "Ok, back to the game. Whose has next turn?"

"I do and I chose the pink car." Jubileena replied as she raised her left hand in the air. Vanellope playfully pulled the car back towards herself to keep Jubileena from getting it.

"No fair! I just picked it up!" Vanellope playfully whined.

"But I chose it, now gimme." Jubileena laughed as she held out her left hand to Vanellope. Looking to the girl's hand, Vanellope smirked as she handed the car to her. "Ok, I chose the blue track for the win!"

Placing the car on the electric track, Jubileena grabbed the track's remote that sat closest to Adorabeezle. Just as she was about to activate the track to move the car forward, Vanellope's bedroom doors flew open with an angry King Dacian appearing in the doorway, his glaring vision immediately falling on Taffyta. The other girls quickly huddled together, unsure of what was going on and why the king was so angry, but kept their eyes on him to watch his every move.

"You!" Dacian barked as he pointed his right index finger towards the blonde.

"Daddy?" Vanellope meekly voiced as she got to her feet.

"Stay out of this Vanellope!" The king spat to his daughter while keeping his angered vision on Taffyta, his eyes changing to those of his adversary Turbo. "It's all your fault that she's gone!"

"What?" Taffyta replied as she slowly got to her feet, her features expressing how terrified she was of the angry king. "My fault that who is gone?"

"My wife that's who!" Dacian growled as he stomped into the room, his face changing to the ashen grey of Turbo. "It's your fault she was just killed in a fiery kart accident! If you were never here, she would still be alive right now!"

The other girls peered their terrified vision to Vanellope and then to Taffyta before turning back to the angry ruler.

"Daddy! Mommy is gone?" Vanellope questioned, her voice sounding as if she were on the verge of breaking down any minute from hearing of her mother's sudden demise. "I just saw mommy this morning."

"Well it's all thanks to your friend here that she's no longer with us!" Dacian continued as he advanced on Taffyta, a white helmet with a red T forming on the king's head. Through his rage, the king stomped on and destroyed the track set which made the other girls quickly scramble to their feet and out of the room in fear. "I had to literally watch as her kart, the very kart I made for her, kill her because you couldn't leave the past where it should stay! Do you know how that feels to have something so precious taken from you?"

Taffyta shrunk in fear under the king's blazing stare, feeling every bit of warmth in her body quickly escape. If being terrified could send one into shock, Taffyta would be well on her way there!

"Do you?!" The king iterated.

"I didn't do anything!" Taffyta stammered as she turned to Vanellope, but just as quickly back to the king. "I wasn't there, I was here with Vanellope."

"Don't you stand there and lie to me!" The king growled. "I knew you were bad news from the start! I wish my daughter never met you! The sight of you sickens me! You are banned from this kingdom from this day forth!"

Continuing to shrink under the king's terrifying glare, tears rushed to the girl's eyes as she fell to her knees, on top of the debris that was their race track game. Her vision became blurry as heavy tears brimmed her bottom eyelids and finally ran down her cheeks.

Dacian stomped over to Vanellope, harshly grabbed her right arm and began dragging the royal from the room while angrily barking commands to the girl, including never seeing Taffyta again. The platinum blonde girl was left to her misery as she slumped over and placed her face in her arms, more tears spilling down her cheeks as she cried with sob after sob racking her frame.

"Taffyta..."

"Vanellope, I'm sorry." Taffyta continued crying into her arms. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to take her away!"

"Taffyta, we need you!"

As the girl continued crying, the entire room was suddenly shrouded in darkness and the area became unbearably cold. The tears on her face froze as her entire body became encased in ice. Despite the biting sensation of the chill blanes that covered her body, the blonde continued sobbing at the loss of her friend's mother.

"Taffyta, this is your game! You have to avert all disasters while Vanellope is gone! Taffyta, wake up!"

Taffyta's eyes suddenly shot open as she sat up with a start, her breathing labored due to the nightmare she just had. Frantically looking around the room, the blonde teen noticed that she was laying in Vanellope's bed. Taffyta's breathing began slowing down as she continued to take in her surroundings, suddenly noticing Ralph sitting on the floor at the foot of the bed staring right at her with a concerned look on his face. Confusion appeared on her features as she kept her eyes glued to him.

"Ralph?!" Taffyta asked in a slight panic as her breathing continued slowing down. "What's going on and how did I get here?"

"You collapsed after seeing your kart at the warehouse about an hour ago so I brought you in here to reset." Ralph informed her. "But I could ask you that same thing. I could swear I heard you saying you were sorry in your sleep. What were you sorry about or am I hearing things?"

Turning her vision away from the wrecker, Taffyta's eyes fell to the comfortable mint colored quilt that covered the lower half of her body as the dream she previously had came rushing back to her vividly.

"Vanellope's father." Taffyta began, her words seeping out quietly as she turned her vision back to Ralph's. "He was so angry and kept blaming me for her mother's death that I didn't cause."

"Why would he blame you?" Ralph questioned with confusion. "Vanellope told me her mother died in a kart accident when she was just a baby. You and her are the same age, therefore, you had no knowledge of it until she told you."

"I know." Taffyta nodded in agreement. "But something about that dream felt real, like I'm responsible for whatever happens to this game, even with Vanellope here as the core. You should have seen him Ralph, he was very angry and even wishes I never met Vanellope."

"Ouch, harsh." Ralph voiced with a flinch. "That doesn't sound like her father to me. Vanellope speaks very highly of him as the nicest guy you can meet."

"I know she does, which makes the dream all the more weirder!" Taffyta's tone pitched. "Why would I be responsible for killing her mother when I never met her mother? I know Vanellope and I don't have the best past, but I would never do that to her!"

Noticing how upset the girl was getting over the dream, Ralph quickly got to his feet and made his way over to the bed, taking a seat on the end of it. He reached over and pet the blonde's smaller hands in an attempt to calm her down. His vision once again caught with Taffyta's as a warm smile made its way onto his face.

"Listen Taffyta, it was all a dream which was probably caused by the amount of stress you're under while watching this game for Vanellope." Ralph warmly began. "I'm right there with you as I promised Vanellope that as long as I still have a code in my system, I wouldn't let anything bad happen to her or her game. Just imagine the amount of stress she's under right now. She had to game jump in order to recover a block of her father's data in order to try to stabilize this game. That was a tough decision to make knowing what could happen to this game without her here. Her father looked down on game jumping, but she did so she can save him and this game. So if you ask me, she has it worse than any of us right now."

Turning her vision away from his once more, Taffyta nodded in agreement.

"I can imagine." Taffyta voiced.

"And who knows, maybe the dream was trying to tell you something." Ralph wondered as he gestured his right hand outward. "I couldn't quite tell you what that is, but it could be anything. But I do know her father wouldn't blame you for a death that you weren't even around for. Plus her mother's accident happened at the-"

"DisneyLand arcade." Taffyta finished the wrecker's thought. "Her mother was in the final lap of a very complicated track when she was ran off the road by her rival and her kart exploded when it hit a concrete wall. After that incident, the game was moved here to Litwak's arcade. It wasn't long after that when I and the other racers were programmed into the game. But the weird thing was, her mother's rival looked just like me. Same eye color, hair, and look just like I do. Vanellope told me the woman hated her mom because her father chose Veronica over her and the woman vowed to take her place anyway she could."

"Wow, I never knew that." Ralph nodded. "But even she did, it's not like-"

Ralph's thought was abruptly cut off by the blaring alarm of the code vault tearing through the comfortable air between the two.

"INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! CODE VAULT ATTEMPTED ENTRY!"

"Great! As if this game needs anymore trouble!" Taffyta shouted as she covered her ears from the blaring alarm. "Now someone's trying to break into the code vault!"

"This might be a dumb question, but by any chance did Vanellope set the alarm siren that loud?" Ralph yelled over the blaring alarm as he too had his large hands plunged over his ears.

"That's a dumb question alright!" Taffyta slightly laughed as she jumped off the bed and ran towards the bedroom door with Ralph getting to his feet to follow suit.

Code Vault Entrance

"Incorrect access code!" The vault's computer loudly voiced as Jet entered another combination of what he thought was the vault's code, a loud buzz indicating that he entered the wrong code once more. "You have no attempts left! Castle security is on its way!"

"Come on!" Jet sighed as he pressed the start, select, A and the B button only to get the angry buzzing as a result. "One of you has got to be the code! I have to get in here to reset the game! Don't you care what about happens on this grid?! Because I do!"

Pressing a combination of the up and down arrows, the start, and select buttons, Jet is met with the angry buzzing once again. The turbo twin was beyond livid at that point!

"Come on! It can't be this hard!" Jet practically yelled as he tried another combination of the code. "I'm going to get into this vault if it's the last thing I do!"

"Zero attempts left! Castle security is on its way!" The alarm voiced loudly.

"What castle security?!" Jet yelled as he tried another code. "Everyone pretty much ba-"

"Jet! Step away from that controller!" Set's voice barked as he abruptly cut off his brother's thought. Jet turned around and noticed his brother slowly advancing on him, an angry scowl etched on his face. "You have done enough! Back away now and I promise I won't drag you back to the tracks by your neck!"

"Set, I can't be bothered right now!" Jet retorted as he turned back to the gamepad to continue trying to gain access to the vault. "I don't know about anyone else here, but I care enough about this game not to let it go to the digital graveyard!"

Being fed up with his brother's stubbornness and one track mind, Set lunged at his brother and grabbed him by the shoulders. Gripping onto his shoulders, Set slung Jet around to face him with the slightly younger twin's right hand slamming into the up arrow twice!

"Jet, this game is in enough trouble!" Set growled, his angry vision catching with Jet's as he pushed his brother's back roughly into the pad. "These racers can not afford to loose their home! If you go into that code vault and tamper with anything, that will give Litwak one more reason to unplug this game! You saw that orange tag! What else do you need?"

Mustering his anger, Jet pushed himself off of the pad with his right foot, not knowing that he pushed the down arrow twice with it!

"I'm trying to help this game!" Jet growled as he forcefully pulled his brother's hands from his shoulders and sternly pointed his right index finger at him. "Can't you see that?! Taffyta is not doing the job that Vanellope gave her so someone has to take the lead here!"

"Jet, we're new avatars and for the love of user, the poor girl is overwhelmed! Can't you see that?!" Set yelled, practically to the top of his lungs. "We don't have the slightest clue about what goes on in that code vault! Our game was not this advanced remember?!"

"Well it's never too late to learn!" Jet shot back as he turned back to the gamepad to continue trying to input a code. "And I'm willing to if no one else is!"

Feeling his temper flare to the surface once more, Set lunged at his brother again, this time slamming the front of his body against the pad. Placing his hands on the pad to push himself off, Jet's hands pushed the right and left arrows twice while slinging his brother backwards onto the ground.

"You better not touch another button!" Set urged to his brother as he got to his feet. "I'm warning you Jet! Touch another thing on that pad and you'll lose every last finger on both hands!"

Ignoring Set's warning, Jet pressed the B and A buttons to begin trying another combination of a code, despite the blaring alarm.

"You really did it this time!" Set loudly growled as he lunged at his brother, slamming the front of his body against the start button and practically knocking the wind out of him!

With the correct code inputted, a clicking sound occurred and the game pad flipped horizontally as the doors to the vault opened with a soft whir. Having been thrown against the doors and with a licorice rope already tied around him, Jet and Set fell into the vault with Set tightly holding onto his brother's legs. Feeling his anger quickly change to panic, Set looked around the vault before looking down to the vast void below him.

"Jet, whatever you do, don't drop me!" Set begged as he gripped tighter onto his brother's ankles while continuing to look down. "I'm sorry for fighting with you out there and I wouldn't blame you if you made me let go! I probably deserve that if you did! But just know I'm sorry! Just please don't drop me!"

Jet only heard his brother's words in passing, but his attention was drawn to the sight in front of him as he and his brother continued slowly floating towards the mass collection of code boxes. The king's code box's wires were continuing to sprout from the top and bottom, slowly reaching the connecting points of the vault so it could have the life it once had.

"Jet, I know you really want to help the game out and I guess I wasn't really seeing it your way." Set continued as he looked up at his brother. "I know you can be really emotional and I can be the str-"

Set's thought was cut off as his attention was suddenly drawn to what Jet's attention was hung onto, the sight of the King's code box slowly regaining life. Cocking an eyebrow, Set turned his attention towards his brother before turning it back to the code box.

"Um, I don't think that's normal." Set voiced.

Outside of the vault, Taffyta and Ralph arrived and noticed the doors were open and that one of the ropes were drawn into the vault.

"Boy, that intruder didn't waste any time did he?" Ralph observed as Taffyta turned off the vault's alarm by panel and grabbed the last rope, quickly tying it around herself.

"Well then, he won't waste any time giving me the answers I'm looking for!" Taffyta barked as she yanked onto the rope to ensure it was tightly tied around her waist. "I don't know how he got around the alarm, which would be enough to scare anyone off, but he won't get around Taffyta Muttonfudge! If he wants to take the game down, he's going to have to get passed me first!"

"Good luck to you." Ralph voiced. "I'm going to head back to my game now as I'm sure Felix is having a major game over with me gone. But if it helps, you're one of the best people to ever come into Vanellope's life. I can't tell you what that dream was trying to say, but Vanellope wouldn't have trusted you with her game if she didn't see any good in you."

Hearing those endearing words from Ralph was enough to push the blonde girl's anger to the side for a moment and let a smile sprawl on her face.

"Thanks Ralph." Taffyta sweetly voiced. "That means a lot."

"You got it kid." Ralph replied. "Now you go in there and show that bottom feeder what for and if you need me, I'm right across the station at Fix It Felix Jr."

With a nod, Taffyta turned and dived into the vault as Ralph made his way out of the cyan walk away. Feeling her anger bubbling to the surface once more, Taffyta's eyes followed the first rope's path and spotted the outline of two figures in the light created by the data streams. One with the rope tied around his waist and another hanging off of the first figure. Taffyta narrowed her eyes and gritted her teeth slightly at the sight.

"I've got you now you code eater!" Taffyta cursed as she began swimming the length of the rope. "And you brought a friend! Once I get my hands on both of you, you'll regret ever stepping foot in my game!"

Fiercely swimming along the length of the rope and as she got closer to the code vault's intruder, her eyes widened at who she saw on the end of the rope. That made her anger flare that much more! Swimming up to them, the girl narrowed her eyes to angry slants!

"Jet! Set!" Taffyta called as both boys turned in her direction. "I thought there was an intruder in the castle and was coming in here to slaughter them, but instead I find you two in here! Care to tell me what you're doing in here and just how you got in?!"

"Yea, funny story about that." Set voiced first as Taffyta placed her hands on her hips.

"I was trying to get into the vault so I can reset the game to erase all the problems it's having now." Jet began spilling. "But my codes didn't work and set off the vault's alarm."

"I tried to stop him, we fought, and somehow we ended up falling in." Set continued his brother's thought as he turned his attention back to the endless void below them. "By the way, how deep is the drop down?"

"When we got in here, I immediately found that." Jet finished as he pointed to the king's box. Taking her attention off of the turbo twins, Taffyta noticed that the King's box had sprouted wires that were growing longer by the second. "Something about that just doesn't seem right. I thought the king vanquished years ago which means his box shouldn't be active."

Eyeing the box suspiciously, Taffyta noticed the ends of the wires were trying to feel around the vault for a reconnection point.

"He did." Taffyta slowly answered Jet as Set began climbing up on his brother for a safe point. "I need to check Vanellope's box to find out what's going on."

Swimming away from the boys, Taffyta swam upward towards Vanellope's box. Reaching it, the blonde tapped it twice and as the box opened in front of her, a barrage of sparks came flying out. Floating a few inches from the box, the sparking simmered down enough for Taffyta to see that the communication link that she and Vanellope share had been severed. Her eyes widened in shock as Jet with Set clinging to his back swam to her right, taking notice of the same sight.

The three looked to the king's struggling box, back to Vanellope's open code box, and then back to each other.

"Ok, I'm going to take that as a really bad sign." Jet voiced.

Castle Hall

A lovely hand blown crystal vase with two dozen fully bloomed roses in it was mashed over Gloyd's head in an attempt to keep him from reaching Rancis's throat once more. Recovering quickly from his disoriented state, the pumpkin themed copy shot a death glare at the blonde as he lunged at him. Latching onto the boy's waist, Rancis was slammed against the wall harshly, his back biting at the blonde for the pain that just erupted. Letting go of the boy, Gloyd watched as Rancis slumped over in pain and took that opportunity to grab him by the throat with his left hand while lifting him off the ground. Feeling his fighting spirit quickly fade, Rancis mustered up what energy he could to try and pry the copy's hand from this throat.

"I don't know what the princess even sees in you!" Gloyd mocked as he lifted Rancis higher off the ground, the boy kicking his feet in an attempt to deflect his attacker. Rancis's cheeks flushed due to the amount of oxygen he weren't getting due to his attacker's hand cutting off the air he could receive. "If only she would open her eyes and see that the man for her is standing right here!"

"She'd rather lose every last bit of her coding then to ever date someone like you!" Rancis choked, which made Gloyd growl and tighten his grip on his throat.

"If I were you, I would watch what comes out of my mouth!" Gloyd darkly growled. "Because I'm two seconds from shutting it! But once I delete you from this grid, I'm going to scatter your useless code into SodaStream Bay! Don't bother to worry about Vanellope, I'll be sure to give her all the comfort she needs and one whopping big kiss from you!"

"Quite the contrary!" Adorabeelze's voice chimed in as Gloyd was suddenly engulfed in a block of solid ice. With the grip on his throat loosened, Rancis fell to the ground and began trying to catch his breath as he drew in large gasps of air while holding his throat. "It is your code that will be scattered in Soda Stream Bay and I'll be the one doing the scattering!"

Adorabeezle walked from behind the ice block, dematerialized her ice rocket, and knelt down to help Rancis to his feet. Grabbing his right hand, Adorabeezle pulled him to his feet while noticing the shattered vase and scattered roses under foot.

"And that didn't knock him out?" Adorabeezle questioned.

"Beezy, I owe you big for this!" Rancis choked as he continued catching his breath. "But how did you know what was going on?"

"Minty." Adordabeezle revealed. "She alerted me to the problem not long ago and I would have been here sooner except I was stuck in the kitchen. Taffyta assigned me to bake Vanellope's coronation/birthday cake."

"Sooner or no, you came right on time." Rancis clearly voiced, having finally caught his breath. "It appears that we have a mole in our game."

"One I don't mind sending back to Tron!" Adorabeezle snarled as she wrinkled her nose and turned back to the block of ice that was Gloyd. "Whoever sent him, is going to get one heck of a delivery when I stamp him return to sender!"

Giving the girl a once over glance, Rancis took a step back from Adorabeelze.

"You're not suggesting we go to Tron to send that back are you?" Rancis dared to question. "We can't just game jump! Vanellope already took a huge risk by doing it herself!"

"Who said anything about you going?" Adorabeezle shot back as she gave Rancis a sly side eye gaze. "I plan to make it a quick drop off."

Tron Legacy (Safe Point)

On a hillside that sat right across from the entrance of the game were Jimmy and Vanellope as they stared at the game's infinite iridescent teal horizon.

"So once I decided to turn the tables on ol' Vlad and swipe the block, I knew he'd try to think of some kind of revenge." Jimmy continued as he leaned forward while turning his attention to Vanellope. She had her legs pulled to her body with her arms wrapped around them. "He never even saw that coming!"

Vanellope uttered a giggle while keeping her vision fixed on the horizon.

"You know, I once knew your dad and your mom." Jimmy continued as he looked to the horizon. "They were two of the best people I ever met in this arcade, especially your dad. I once considered leaving this game just to get my code written into Sugar Rush."

"What stopped you?" Vanellope finally voiced as she turned towards Jimmy.

"Well, once you get use to a game, that's the only coding you really know." Jimmy replied as he sighed through his nose. "Plus at the time I were thinking about it, Vladimir launched a rebellion against Sugar Rush."

Taking in the last of Jimmy's explanation made Vanellope's eyebrows raise in curiousity.

"What do you mean he launched the rebellion against Sugar Rush?" Vanellope questioned in almost an interrogating tone. "Vladimir told me that Garry lead the rebellion and that my dad offered him a position as a castle guard."

"Classic misdirection." Jimmy chuckled. "I figured he would pin that on Garry, but let me fact check whatever Vlad told you. Garry didn't lead the rebellion, Vlad did because Vlad was envious of what your father was, but Garry was so eager to be his right hand man that he was an easy target to pin that fight on to keep his name out of it. Plus your dad never offered him a position. Vlad tried several times to kidnap your mom while you were being coded, but your mom had the moves to keep Vlad in line, much like you did in the ring back there. I know you might not want to hear this, but your mom was pretty hot."

"Ok, gross!" Vanellope spat. "Not you too!"

"Let me finish." Jimmy laughed. "Your mom was hot, but she was a pretty skilled fighter much like you and not to mention, you look just like her."

"I get that a lot." Vanellope smiled as she looked back to the horizon. "So can you tell me what my mother was really like? I never got to know her as she died when I were just a baby."

"I could, but that would take more time than we have right now." Jimmy retorted as he got to his feet. "You have another block of your father's data to get and meet up with an ally who will lead you to your next destination."

"An ally?" Vanellope questioned as she got to her feet. "How will I know who that is?"

"Trust me, you'll know." Jimmy confirmed with a wink. "And when you get the chance, tell your dad I made up my mind about the offer."

Before Vanellope could reply to Jimmy's last statement, Jimmy grabbed his identity disc and lined it up with hers, both discs glowing brightly from the connection. Her data was then broken down and wiped from the game's grid.

"See you in Sugar Rush." Jimmy greeted in a farewell tone.

In the hall of Game Central Station, Vanellope's data was reconstructed as her entire form became completely defined. Feeling slightly disoriented, the royal surveyed her surroundings and noticed she was back in the arcade.

"Made up your mind about what offer?" Vanellope questioned to herself as she gestured her hands outward.

"Vanellope Von Schweetz?" A calm voice spoke to the royal from behind. Whipping around, Vanellope spotted a tan skinned woman with green hair standing about her height, hazel eyes, and wearing a white and gold kimono standing behind her.

"Who are you and how do you know my name?" Vanellope voiced, her tone laced with suspicion.

"My name is Tea Tootsie." The woman introduced herself. "And we must hurry to retrieve the next block of your father's data."


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