Chapter 10: The Battle Against The Tree Soldier
Meanwhile, the Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, and Candace were making their way through the jungle. So far, they had made great progress through the game, and they were about ten minutes away from the abandoned laboratory. As they walked, Candlehead spoke up.
"You know something, guys? This seems too easy." Candlehead said.
Candace nodded.
"Yeah, your right. I thought that we would be facing resistance from Sylvia." Candace said.
Taffyta frowned.
"Well, maybe, she's too cowardly to face us, so she's not fighting us because she knows that we'll beat her." Taffyta suggested.
Vanellope frowned.
"I wouldn't say that, Taffyta. Based on what the others told us, Sylvia sounds dangerous. But besides that, I don't know why Sylvia isn't trying to stop us from rescuing Sephiroth." Vanellope said.
The Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, and Candace continued walking. As they headed to the abandoned laboratory, Candi raised her hand up into the air.
"Excuse me, Vanellope?" Candi asked.
Vanellope turned to look at her.
"Yes, Candi?" Vanellope asked.
"Um, I'm confused. When we rescue Sephiroth, why are we going to kill Sylvia?" Candi asked.
"We're not going to kill her. We're going to try to talk sense into her. But if we can't, then we'll have to fight her." Vanellope replied.
Candi nodded in understanding. Suddenly, there was rustling noises up ahead. The Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, and Candace stopped walking, and they prepared to use their powers, just in case if they got attacked.
"What's that noise?" Snowanna asked.
The rustling noises stopped, and the tree soldier jumped out. Gloyd gasped.
"That must be one of Sylvia's minions." Gloyd said.
The tree soldier noticed the Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, and Candace, and it's arms grew and expanded until they were long whips that were made of twisted vines. It then twisted it's arms around as if getting used to them. Candlehead laughed and smirked.
"Ha, can you believe this guy? I've got this." Candlehead said.
Adorabeezle frowned.
"Wait, Candlehead, we need a pla..." Adorabeezle started to warn.
"Charge!" Candlehead screamed, running full speed towards the tree soldier.
However, before Candlehead could attack the tree soldier, one of it's arms shot out and wrapped around her neck. The vine tightened, and with incredible strength, the vine lifted Candlehead into the air and started to slam her around. Taffyta and Torvald attempted to use their powers to attack the tree soldier, but the tree soldier used it's other arm to knock them aside. It then threw Candlehead into Jubileena and Citrusella, causing them to fall down to the ground. Minty wrapped her arms around the tree soldier from the back, and the tree soldier stopped, but it didn't resist. Instead, it just stood there, but then without warning, large wooden fist erupted from it's back and hit Minty, knocking her away.
Vanellope watched in shock.
"Darn it, what is that thing made of?" Vanellope asked.
Rancis looked at the president.
"Plants and roots?" Rancis asked.
Vanellope sighed.
"That was a rhetorical question, Rancis." Vanellope replied.
Adorabeezle transformed into her snow beast form and charged at the tree soldier like a determined juggernaut. The tree soldier extended it's hand, which was a stump, and with incredible force, it slammed the stump against Adorabeezle's face, sending her flying back. Adorabeezle crashed into a tree and fell to the ground, unconscious, and she transformed back to her human form. The tree soldier attempted to start walking again, but then Sticky shot the tree soldier with a blast of marshmallow whip, blowing it back and leaving it stuck to a tree. Sticky then attempted to shoot another blast of marshmallow whip so she could bury the tree soldier in a marshmallow mess, but the tree soldier broke out, grabbed Sticky, and threw her into a tree. The tree soldier then looked at Vanellope and charged at her. However, Rancis got in it's way and shot toxic sweet sludge at it. But unfortunately, the sweet sludge did not affect the tree soldier.
"Uh oh." Rancis muttered.
The tree soldier grabbed Rancis, slammed him around, and then threw him away into a tree. The tree soldier then resumed charging at Vanellope and tried to attack her. However, Vanellope glitched out of the way and shot a blast of pixels at the tree soldier's stump hand. The stump hand was blown off, causing it to rot and disintegrate. The tree soldier rolled it's shoulder and the arm started to grow back. It then used it's other arm as a whip, and it slammed Vanellope's side, knocking her to the ground. The tree soldier approached Vanellope and formed it's arm into a spike, which it attempted to use on her. But when it raised the spike in order to strike her, a voice spoke up, causing it to stop.
"Hey, Barkbrain!" the voice said.
Candlehead jumped and wrapped her arms around the tree soldier, throwing it off balance. But before Candlehead could start to burn it, the tree soldier used it's good arm to grab Candlehead and throw her off it's back and towards Vanellope.
Nougetsia started to shoot ice out of her hands at the tree soldier. The tree soldier took a few ice blasts before forming a dense shield out of what looked like thicket branches with one arm in order to take the ice blasts. Nougetsia, seeing that the multiple ice blasts weren't working, decided to try and create one big ice blast, and she used both of her hands at the same time. That caused the tree soldier to stop and use it's other arm to support the shield, which was being covered in a layer of thick ice. Jubileena formed a cherry bomb and was about to throw it at the tree soldier, but then she saw that something was growing out of it's back. It appeared to be an arm that looked ready to throw something. The arm whipped around, and the top of the arm separated from the rest and made a beeline for Nougetsia's head.
"Nougetsia, look out!" Jubileena called out.
However, it was too late. The piece of wood hit Nougetsia in the head and caused her to fall to the ground. Jubileena and Cinndon went to her side and saw that she was unconscious. Cinndon became angry, and he looked at the tree soldier.
"Hey!" Cinndon shouted.
The tree soldier looked at him.
"Let's end this between us, shall we?" Cinndon asked angrily, forming globs of cinnamon goo in his hands.
The tree soldier charged at Cinndon, but right before it was about to ram into Cinndon, Cinndon formed a thick cloud of cinnamon dust. The cinnamon cloud blinded the tree soldier, and Cinndon took the time to get behind the tree soldier. Once the cinnamon cloud dispersed, Cinndon gave a yell and shot cinnamon spikes at the tree soldier. One of the arms got cut off and fell to the ground, and then Cinndon fired more cinnamon spikes that made a large gash in it's chest. However, the tree soldier still wasn't very injured. The tree soldier punched Cinndon hard in his chest, and the Cinnamon themed racer yelped and was thrown back against a tree. Candace watched as Cinndon got thrown away and then she glared at the tree soldier.
"Darn it, this is getting ridiculous. I'll finish this myself." Candace thought.
Candace snuck behind the tree soldier and then tackled the tree soldier, squeezing her hands around it's neck. The tree soldier tried to fight, but fire started to spread across it's body. Eventually, the tree soldier burned completely, and it fell to the ground. Candace stood up and looked at the Sugar Rush racers and Cinndon.
"Is everyone alright?" Candace asked.
The Sugar Rush racers and Cinndon nodded.
"Yeah, we're fine now, thanks to you." Taffyta replied.
The Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, and Candace then continued making their way to the abandoned laboratory.