(Back in world designer, city welcome center)

The racers, Ralph, and Calhoun were all sitting in the welcome center, waiting for Felix to exit the games code to tell them why the racers were becoming adults at random. After 10 minutes of waiting, Felix came out of the code room holding his hat in his hands.

"Any news?" Ralph asked

"This is hard to explain, but it starts with the npc citizens roaming around" Said Felix

"What do they have to do with anything? They don't say or do anything, they just walk back and forth between buildings" Said Taffyta

"Yes, but they're able to have kids, and their codes allow them to age within the span of a day. Now when we entered all the kids codes into the game, some of the npc code fused with theirs. Since they were programmed to always be kids, the aging works a little differently. You're able to glitch from teens to adults and back to kids at will if you're able to control the glitching it seems. There's really no way to explain this any other way" Said Felix

"Why doesn't it affect us?" Calhoun Asked

"We were never programmed to ever be kids, so it seems like the game never saw a reason to affect our codes, only the kids" Said Felix

"This is so weird" Said Ralph

"But it's cool, we all have a cool new superpower" Said Candlehead

"I can finally drink" Said Gloyd

"Just don't go too crazy with doing adult things until you learn to master this power you kids all have" Said Calhoun

"We won't mom, we're not gonna start having kids of our own so soon. Maybe just explore the internet a little" Said Minty

"Ok, but if any of you kids are going out, stop by my gym and arm yourselves with a weapon. I know you kids can take care of yourselves but we saw what those soldiers were gonna do to Vanellope. Vanellope I suggest you arm yourself too, just in case" Said Calhoun

"Sounds alright to me" Said Vanellope

"What about that security system in steam?" Asked Ralph

"We're not exactly sure how that works yet, better be safe than sorry. If we've learned anything here today, this place is different than game central station, not all bad guys are normal and good outside their games like Ralph, some like those soldiers and the Bobbies are bad all the way down to their programming" Said Calhoun

(Outside Of Steam)

It was another day of working for J.P. Spamley, he wandered the gaming district today with his trusty pop up sign, trying to get internet users to visit his site. It was a hard life for spam like himself, but he was spam worth trusting, only trying to make an honest living. Now if only someone would listen to him.

"Hey mister, you wanna get rich playing video games? No? Ok thanks anyway. Hey lady, you wanna get rich playing video games?"

He approached a blonde haired internet user, but was pushed back by a blue pop up blocker in a black suit.

"Back off spam. Right this way Ms. Jefferson"

The pop up blocker led the internet user to where she needed to be while Spamley sat on the floor and brushed off his sign.

"It ain't easy being spam like me" Spamley said to himself

He heard someone giving a nasty cough. He turned around to see General Grievous walking up to him.

"Hey mister, need a cough drop?" Spamley Asked

"The cough is part of my programming. I am General Grievous from EA's Star Wars battlefront 2, I am the leader of the galaxies biggest droid army. Are you J.P. Spamley?" The cyborg General Asked

"Yes I am, would you like to get rich playing video games?" Spamley Asked

"I hear you're the kind of guy who can get things for folks who need them, am I correct?" Grievous Asked

"Yeah, you name it I can get you anything. I know my way around every game and every site due to my work" Said Spamley

"I need a Nazi Panzerhund from the Wolfenstein games"

"Oh I can't get you that, sorry" Said Spamley

Grievous pulled a lightsaber from his waist and pointed it under Spamleys head.

"Look pal even if I find one the Nazis don't just give up their machines, you know how prideful they are, they think they're better than everybody" Said Spamley nervously

"Then I suggest you find a way" Said Grievous "I'm not a patient man"

"I think I know a game I can get one easily" Said Spamley

"Then I suggest you get to it, meet me in front of Battlefront 2 when you succeed. I'll have droids awaiting you outside the game. You have 24 hours, or I will end you" Said Grievous

Grievous turned to walk back into steam, leaving Spamley alone to consider what he was gonna do. Grievous was walking back to his game when he noticed Ralph talking with a security drone. They were walking in the distance towards an unmarked gate. Ralph was the reason Grievous needed a panzerhund, he was going to make his game pay, his coding made him hold bad grudges. He quickly approached Ralph, but remained hidden.

"I can assure you mr Ralph, security drones like me are watching these halls at all times, if you are to get hurt it won't be through gunfire. Most enemies have their limits, most. There are some we have to keep locked away, what I'm about to show you is what's called the vault, the most dangerous characters from delisted games are kept here, too dangerous to find new homes for themselves and to keep out in the open"

"Why does a game get delisted?" Asked Ralph

"Some games are online only, when their servers shut down their games are removed, others could get removed by request of publishers, or due to licenses expiring, it happens to games every now and then. We are just one of many gaming sites on the web, but we are probably the biggest. To answer another question we don't really interfere with personal matters unless absolutely necessary, like if you were to be near beaten to death we'd rush to your aid and provide instant medic packs that'll heal you in no time. This room isn't guarded much, but you don't have to worry, most game characters don't want to bother who goes in here, these characters are dangerous to everyone"

The security drone entered a code on a keypad and the huge vault door opened.

"So that's where they are kept, interesting" Grievous said to himself before rushing away from the scene.

Inside the vault were black boxes locked with nothing more than combination locks. Each box had a game name on it, all delisted games, as well as enemies contained inside. Ralph took a look at some enemies locked within the vault.

Wolfenstein 2009: Nazi soldiers

Wolfenstein 2009: Hans Grosse and Wilhelm 'Deathshead' Strasse

Transformers movie games: Decepticon soldiers

Transformers movie games: Megatron, Starscream, Devastator

Rambo the video game: Vietnamese soldiers

Rambo the video game: Soviet soldiers

Rambo the video game: police officers

Terminator salvation: t-600 endoskeletons and t-7t's

Terminator salvation: hunter killers and Harvester

Those were just some boxes Ralph looked at. There were rows of identical boxes, each filled with codes to the characters listed on the boxes. If the boxes were opened, the codes would spill out and reconstruct whoever was inside them. All these enemies were too dangerous to roam around without their games being active.

"I know you worry about this room Ralph, but do not worry, while this room is not guarded, no character would think twice about breaking in here. Everyone knows the risks of these characters, they'd be bad for everyone" Said the security drone

(Candlehead)

Candlehead was back In world designer putting up the finishing touches to a building she made for herself on the beach of her game.

"Now I got what every beach needs, a gift shop"

She sat behind a checkout desk.

"Kind of slow today"

She looked at her shop full of shirts and toys and other beach stuff for a minute.

"Still slow"

(Calhoun)

Calhoun was working out in her gym/armory/ gun range. She was punching a punching bag, keeping in shape. Other characters from the arcade such as sonic the hedgehog and paperboy were also working out, running on a treadmill and attempting to lift weights.

(Felix)

Felix was still in the welcome center, connecting new characters from the internet into their game.

"And what's your name sir?" Felix Asked a black haired man

"Bj Blazkowicz, from Wolfenstein 2009, I'm a Nazi killer. Been delisted for who knows how many years now, my game wasn't for sale too long, company went out of business. Been wandering around for years, then I heard about this place"

"You've come to the right place to settle down, doesn't matter where you're from, we don't discriminate. All are welcome to settle down here" said Felix "and what about you sir, what's your story?"

Felix was talking to the only other person in the welcome center with BJ, a strong looking black haired man.

"John Rambo from Rambo the video game, was delisted years ago, people said my game wasn't fun so now I'm here"

(Rancis)

Rancis was roaming around the game station looking for some more Star Wars games, ones with star fighters. Ever since his experience in battlefront 2 yesterday, he has been fascinated with them. Racing on the ground was cool, but there was something about soaring through the air that made him feel so alive, he could reach places his old candy kart couldn't take him. It felt so exhilarating to him. He wanted to get some starfighter codes and put them in his game, surely the other games wouldn't mind, he was just making copies.

He approached a game titled Star Wars Starfighter and walked inside, he couldn't wait to fly an x wing again and fight off star destroyers. It wasn't until he got inside he was told that this game took place years before any of those ships existed, taking place during episode 1 of the movies, whatever that meant. Rancis entered the last level of the game, thinking it could provide him a good challenge. After being given his instructions as well as his panic button to eject should he feel he's about to die, he was sent into the level.

In the level, Rancis found himself in a Naboo starfighter flying past a blue earth like planet, Naboo. Out in the distance was a trade federation droid control ship, destroying it would deactivate the federations droid army invading the planet.

"These droids get their orders from those receiver stations around the rim. We must destroy those receiver stations first"

Rancis flew his starfighter towards the control ship as vulture droid starfighters were sent to attack his squadron.

"This is where the fun begins" said Rancis

Rancis fired his laser cannons at the satellite dishes on the control ship, blowing them up one by one.

"There's still some receiver stations on the ball section of the control ship, we must destroy them"

"I'm on it" Said Rancis

Rancis headed for the core section of the control ship to destroy the receiver stations, but was being fired on by vulture droids.

"Can I get a little help here?" Rancis Asked

"On my way bravo 10"

Another Naboo starfighter flew behind Rancis' ship and fired on the vulture droids, blowing them up.

"Thanks, I appreciate that" Said Rancis

"Don't thank me yet bravo 10, watch for enemy fighters"

(Vanellope)

Vanellope was busy looking for a game that sounded cool to explore. At her waist she had a pistol holstered, just like all the other racers, Calhoun's orders. She could care for herself, but after her experience with the bobbies and the Nazis, who proved to be an even bigger threat, Calhoun wasn't going to take any chances. Vanellope still couldn't believe the Nazis were prepared to execute her for having a tiny bit of Jewish heritage in her, she was still a little shocked by just learning that as she didn't know what that was. She didn't know a whole lot about the Nazis or the Wolfenstein games in general, only that there were a bunch of them. She did her best to watch her surroundings in steam and approached a game called Spyhunter remastered.

Vanellope entered the game and found herself in front of a huge facility at night with signs bearing the name Nostra Corporation, it's logo consisted of a fist clutching the planet Earth. Vanellope spotted a pretty sleek silver car. She approached it and saw a sign on the door that read 'to start game, start the car and escape the nostra agents'.

"Now this is a cool car, where have you been all my life?" Vanellope Asked

She entered the car and familiarized herself with the controls, besides a steering wheel, she had weapons, machine guns, rockets, oil slick, smokescreen, mortars. She glitched into her adult body and clutched the steering wheel. She fastened her seatbelt and hit a button to start the game. The Nostra facility instantly blew up, and men with machine guns fired at her car. Vanellope sped off from the scene and onto a nearby road, with black cars and a helicopter following her. Vanellope glitched ahead to avoid missiles shot by the helicopter at her, and used smokescreen to blind the cars behind her. She looked in her mirrors to see the cars swerve off the road.

"I can definitely get used to this. This is so much better than my slaughter race car" Said Vanellope

Semi trucks appeared out of nowhere and sandwiched her between them to try and crush her. Vanellope simply glitched behind them and fired her rockets at the trucks, blowing them up. She was speeding towards a closing gate. She fired her machine guns and rockets at the gate, blowing it up and allowing her to pass through.

"This is awesome" Vanellope screamed "I'm definitely making a copy of this cars coding"

(Later That day, tappers restaurant)

All the racers, as well as Ralph and friends were sitting at Tapper and pepper jacks restaurant on the beach, getting themselves dinner. The racers now that they were able to turn into adults, were having their first drinks, some liking them more than others.

"Don't go too crazy with alcohol" Said Felix

"We won't dad" Said Taffyta

Tapper had hired a game cover band to perform music for his guests for the evening and they were performing on a small stage outside facing the beach.

'Oh I've made a big mistake, is there something I can do about it? With or without you I'm moving on in search of something neeeewwww. Pleeeeease, I wanna stay the saaaame. Nooooo, I'm never gonna change for youuuuu'

"Oh I love this song, don't you lads"

"I agree"

The group turned to see who said that and were surprised to see some bobbies standing at their big table. The group reached for their weapons but the bobbies placed their hands up.

"No need to be alarmed, we're not here to hurt you. In fact we've come to welcome you to the neighborhood. We brought you all a fruit basket"

One of the bobbies placed a basket of fruit on the table with a card reading 'Wellington Wells welcomes you'.

"We May have gotten on the wrong foot earlier, sorry about our rude behavior, its in our programming, we can't help it"

"We're still getting used to seeing kids outside our game, our backstory is very tragic involving kids, we gave them away to the Germans, they never came back, that's why we take joy, to forget about that"

"We never meant to hurt you little boy and girl, our programming gets the better of us sometimes. We're hoping to make things better, maybe become friends. After all a police officers gotta be nice to people"

"Well thanks, I guess" Said Ralph

"Again, no hard feelings, we're not completely evil, but watch for those joy doctors, they're not as forgiving as us"

"And word of advice, try not to go into our game, seeing children, it makes the citizens so sad, and crazy. And you big guy, wearing that, they'll beat you to shreds"

"Yeah I noticed that yesterday" Said Ralph

"Well, we're not gonna bother you anymore for the night. You lot have a good dinner, see you around sometime"

The bobbies turned to leave.

"Well that was unexpected" said Calhoun

"Guess they're not so bad after all" Said Rancis

"But best we watch them close for now, until we learn if their intentions are true. After all they did hurt rancis and Vanellope" Said Adorabeezle

"And me and Felix" Said Calhoun

A delivery man wearing a brown shirt with the Hasbro logo walked up to their table.

"You fix it Felix jr?" The delivery man asked

"Yes" Said Felix

"Sign here please"

Felix signed his name on a clipboard and many different deliverymen dropped off boxes from Hasbro, Mattel, and Lego.

"Here's the toys you ordered man, have a nice night"

The deliverymen walked away while the racers and Vanellope looked at the many boxes.

"Well kids, here's my surprise to you, enjoy" Said Felix

Vanellope and all the racers turned back into kids and jumped into the pile of boxes looking to see what was inside them.

(Back in steam)

Spamley had managed to collect a panzerhund from the game Wolfenstein cyberpilot from a French resistance hacker, and was riding it towards battlefront 2 where 2 battle droids were waiting for him. Grievous exited out of the game with a briefcase full of credits.

"So what do you need this thing for anyway?" Spamley Asked

"That is none of your concern, but it involves a man named Ralph who has bumped into me far too many times since he's arrived. Now get out of my sight" Grievous demanded before walking back into his game.

'Ralph? Only Ralph I know is wreck it Ralph. He can't possibly be talking about him can he? He lives in an arcade, not the internet. Does he live in the internet? Sooner or later he would bump into him, he always does' Spamley thought to himself