Thanks for support! When I reference the Sims in here, by the way, it's not real, as far as I know... I'm just trying to create a game that'll work!

"Stop it! Let me go! I gotta be... No!" Vanellope screamed.

Ralph would've complained any other time of her fighting back, but this time, it might've stopped her from being trampled. Sure enough, the crowd was getting angry at her, trying to get her to stop glitching.

"Oh my land, they think it's a repeat of the 2003 incident!" Felix cried.

Back in '03, a game called Sims: Life in the Country had a main character named Faith. Everyone in the arcade loved her (and there were even rumors of boys fighting over her). One day, however, she developed a sort of glitch. For whatever reason, she could leave her game, but it caused her to go crazy. She became obsessed with the glitch and was afraid that anyone who came near her would take it away. One day, she stole a gun from a store in Sims and walked into Game Central Station. A Nicelander (her name was Georgia) approached her to ask about her day. Faith open-fired. Luckily, before she could kill anyone else, a crowd tackled her to the ground. She shot herself.

"I didn't even think of that!" Ralph cried. "We have to stop them before..."

He didn't want to finish his sentence. It was too scary to think about.

Vanellope managed to glitch away from the crowd and onto Ralph's shoulder. Her eyes were back to normal, but she was holding her stomach. The little tough girl, though, managed to keep moans in and sit up.

"Don't touch her!" Ralph yelled when the crowd advanced toward her.

"She's like Faith!" someone cried.

"No, she's not. She's just a child! Leave her alone!"

"She's going Turbo!"

Felix could see Ralph turning red in anger. If he didn't do anything soon, he'd do something bad.

"Friends, come on, why would a child go Turbo?" Felix asked.

"She glitched!"

Sure enough, Vanellope had a wave of red code wash over her. She wasn't saying a word, and the pain had subsided.

Felix managed to calm down the crowd (he was always highly respected) enough to give Ralph and Vanellope time to escape back to Fix-it-Felix Jr. Vanellope collapsed onto the bed and waited to see what Ralph would do.

"What was that all about?" she asked, a glimpse of fear glittering in her eyes.

Ralph sighed and explained the '03 incident. He tried to keep his voice level, but it was difficult, considering fear, sadness, and relief were welling up inside of him. Even in the gamer world, girls had hormones, so he'd seen them (especially Diana and Mary; Felix had learned to keep them apart around certain times). But he'd never felt them. It was like a well of emotions, all rising at once, and wanting to explode. He was angry at the crowd. He was scared that Vanellope would die. He was relieved that they had gotten away. He was sad that this was happening.

"Where's Faith now?" Vanellope asked.

"She killed herself. The glitch took her over."

Vanellope shivered. Her glitch, her blue one, was never that bad. Sure, she'd been depressed, but she was always convincing herself that things would be okay, just like now. In the back of his mind, a voice reminded her that she'd be dead soon, yet her thoughts convinced her that she'd be okay, that Ralph would fix everything. Sure, he was no Felix, but that was okay.

"Princess! Princess! Princess!" someone cried, bursting in the room.

The cry made Vanellope jump, then flinch in pain. She held her stomach. "President. And what do you want, cough-drop?"

"Gloyd and Crumbellina fell sick," Sour Bill said, gasping for breath. "You need to come back!"

Vanellope looked at Ralph, then painfully got up. "I have to handle this before someone dies."