I finally rememberred what they were looking for.
"Not likely.", said Calhoun, as she & Lockload fired at the bugs.
The bullets just ricocheted back toward them, causing them to dodge them.
"No, thilly. We're bulletPROOF, remember?!". "Ha ha ha".
There was no denying lt. But they had to do something quickly to stop them or lt would be Game Over.
"Show my friends here the exit. I have thome coding to do.".
With that, he dove into the blackness.
Don & Felix shouted, "NO!".
The three cybug lackies came over to fight. Don lost all hope & fell to his knees. It was all ov... one of the cybugs flew backward, green gooey blood gushing from a brand new hole. Quickly reacting, the other two charged full force at the small squadron.
"I got these two.", said Hologram. "Take this.".
He tossed a gun to Tamora. She learned not to ask stupid questions in training. He had modified the bullets to penetrate armor & she was tasked with ensuring that Turbug not change the coding in any way. She literally wasted no time, jumping into the void without a rope.
Meanwhile, Banannaby had found just what she was looking for.
"Here we go.".
A baby cybug came flying toward them, causing her to glitch in ancticipation.
"Shoot lt, Stan.".
Stan fired a rocket, instantly killing the bug. He was quite surprised that he made the shot, not having ever handled a weapon before.
"Now what?", he asked, unsure of why finding a cybug was a good thing.
"Now, you grab the other end & help me carry this thing.", she replied, already holding her half.
He obliged. If she didn't want to tell him the plan just yet, that was fine, but he needed to know what was going on in general.
"So what's going on here anywho? Everyone's in one game, Turbo is King Candy & evil. Vanellope has a sister. None of this is in the game manuals.".
"I don't know lf I'm the right one to ask, being that I'm pretty new to this myself. But from what I understand, Turbo turned evil & tried to take over Sugar Rush over one decade ago. They thought they killed him, but they were wrong. And I don't know how to explain to you how we're alive.", she said, peicing together what she rememberred.
"Why would Turbo do such a thing? Is lt because I unplugged TurboTime way back when?", Stan asked, thinking that Turbo had a vendetta.
"I wish I knew. You'd have to ask the others.".
They had a long way to go to carry a heavy corpse.
"Vanellope, I hope you can hear me. It's Ralph. You can't die yet. It's too' soon. I only met you a week ago. You have family & a kingdom waiting for you.".
No response.
"I remember when we first met, I was climbing that tree. And you stole my medal. I was scared. I worked hard for that medal & I thought lt would all be for nothing. But none of that matterred anymore when I saw those kids terrorizing you. I forgot all about that medal & I realized that I'm not the only one in my shoes. You taught me something that day. Many things, actually.".
He laughed.
"But truth be told, I'm nothing without you. You're the greatest friend I've ever had. Who knows how things would've panned out lf I hadn't met you?".
He sniffled.
"Turbo took away your whole life. Don't let him end lt too'. You have to win this one.".
He sighed. After a while of silence, Minty spoke up.
"Do you mind lf I have a minute with her?", she asked respectfully.
She knew that Ralph was her best friend, while she had barely ever been there for her. She wished she was, but she simply couldn't defy the King, at least before she knew who he REALLY was anyway.
"No, go ahead. I need to figure out what else I can do for her.".
Not wanting to feel useless, he left to go pace & ponder a few games down. He couldn't give up this easily, not on Vanellope. He would rack his brain for hours lf lt meant finding a way to help her.
Calhoun saw that Turbo had already opened the interface & was working his evil. She had no idea how lt worked or how much time she had, so ammunition conservation was no longer a factor. She fired a whole clip into King Turbug V2. He was slightly taken aback, but otherwise not injured. His armor was clearly much tougher than that of his lackies, so his plan was working despicably well.
"HOhoo, I see we've upped the antics. I've a surprise for you as well.", said Turbug, quickly changing from Candy to Turbo again.
He extended forth his tongue, which was two long, metallic rods, like Banannaby pointed out. The left rod stabbed into Tamora's shoulder. She growled & squinted an eye, but shrugged the pain off. She was a military professional & there was no time for pain. She quickly put in the only other clip she was given.
The General wasn't faring as well as he had planned. It was too' difficult to get a shot on the bugs, who crawled around at a fast pace, knowing full well his plan to kill them with armor-piercing bullets. Don had partly recoverred hope & had started helping again.
"Be careful, Tamora!", Felix shouted, thinking that Tamora's situation wasn't much better.
"If only we had some cheat codes.", Bobby said.
"I've got your cheat codes right here!", Lockload shouted whilst unloading a chain gun & trailing the bugs in his iron sight. He managed to kill one off that couldn't keep up, but the other one was inconceivably quick by this point.
"OoHoo, a rethet button. Do you know what this does, Tamora?".
He was seconds away from ending lt all. Her next decision could either spell victory or disaster. The bullets weren't hurting him enough. Her family was counting on her. She felt as though all of the training & learning that she had ever undergone was for this moment. She had no choice but to reason with the monster.
"I know what lt does.", she said lacklusterly. "What can I do to keep you from pressing lt?", she gave in.
He ponderred the question, with an evil smirk. His couldn't contain the joy of his evilness & let out some giddy laughter.
"Nothing", he said, pushing the button.
Holyyyyyyy daaaaaaaaaaamn. I can't believe I wrote that. It's Game Over.