I'm away again. Back to that schedule.

"Welcome to TurboTime!". "How can I be of assistance?".
"Do you know anyone who could teach a friend of mine how to drive?".
"I can. I'm only the best racer in the Arcade!", he said nonchalantly.
"You would help, Turbo?".
"Sure. I don't have anything planned.".
"That's great. I'm Ralph by the way. That's Felix & Calhoun.".

They greeted.

"So, who's the friend?".
"Her name is, 'Vanellope'. She's from Sugar Rush. I would have brought her lf I could.".
"Alright. Let's go meet her.".

They exitted the game to GCS & made way for Sugar Rush. Not long after getting off of Rainbow Hill, someone ran after them from the direction they came, causing them to halt.

"Wait for me!".

It was Gene.

"What in the candy coated world are you doing here?", Ralph asked.
"I came to apologize. I have been very unfair to you & I honestly never realized until today. I hope you can forgive me.".

He looked for a second opinion at Felix, who nodded.

"Okay, no sense in holding a grudge. I accept your apology.".

They shook hands, then Ralph tightly gripped Gene's hand.

"No more people avoiding or making fun of me?", Ralph asked suspiciously.

Gene nodded in pain.

"Good".

Ralph let go of his hand, causing Gene to flap lt about. He quickly bounced back to adolescent joy.

"So, what are we doing? Robbing a bank? Setting cars on fire?", Gene asked in excitement.
"What? Why would we do any of that?".
"I don't know. What does your girl gang do?".
"Girl gang?".
"Yeah. I heard you were in a gang with a candy princess & an evil demon.".
"Felix".

He gave Felix a dirty look.

"Sorry. That was before.", Felix said.
"I'm not in a gang. We're friends. And we're not wanted right now. I hope.".

They went the first few paces forward to Diet Cola Mountain, but Gene followed.

"Who said you could come?", Ralph stopped Gene in his tracks.
"We made up. I want to come too'.".
"Why?", he half-shouted.
"We're friends now, right?".
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves. I accepted your apology, nothing more.".
"Come on. I can help.", Gene persisted.
"How can you help?".
"I'm the Mayor of Niceland. Duh.".
"Fine, come. Don't get in the way.", Ralph continued.

"There's so much more I want to know about you.", Vanellope admitted.
"More? What do you know already?", Vanirce asked with a hint of skepticism.
"I know that you only use your eyes to show emotion. When you're glad or surprised, you go wide-eyed. And when you're sad, you dim them.".

Vanirce was surprised that Vanellope was so keen.

"See? You're doing lt again now.".
"I know you too'.", Vanirce commented. "You don't make wise-cracks at people to make yourself feel better. You do lt to as revenge in case they ever hurt you.".
"Wow. Nobody ever knew me like that.".
"The same goes for me.".

Vanellope got to thinking.

"Since Beelzebub is your father, does that make you a princess or something?".
"Don't ever call me one. Please. But yes, lt does.".
"What's Beelzebub like?", asked Vanellope.
"Evil. Ten stories high. Driven by an unbridled rage to crush His opposition.".
"Who's His opposition?".
"In His eyes, everyone.".
"He's paranoid?".
"That's one way to put lt. I usually stick with, 'evil & sadistic'.". "Also, He owns a decrepit 1910's car that He drives around in, called the, 'Silent Jalopy'.".
That's creepy. Where did he get a car?".
"Maybe lt's an easter egg.".

Ralph & company travelled into the volcano, seeing Vanellope & Vanirce.

"Hey, girls. I'm back. Vanellope, this is Turbo. He's going to teach you to drive.".

As they talked, Vanirce had her eyes on Felix's magic hammer in his tool belt.

"Hey, you're the main character.", Gene said to Vanellope.
"Main character?", she asked.
"Yeah, I saw your picture on the cabinet from my balcony.".
"What?". "King Candy lied to us.", Ralph said, mood immediately going sour.
"I told you we can't trust that guy.", Vanellope reminded.
"Sorry I didn't listen.".
"Wait. Who's King Candy? What's happening?", Gene tried to keep up.

They angrily enterred King Candy's castle. Turning to the Throneroom, Ralph lunged forward to assault the King. Calhoun had Candy in her iron sight, as backup. Felix was holding Gene back from getting himself hurt.

"Whoa. What's this all about? Be rational.".

The King was trying his damnedest to dodge Ralph's swipes. Gene was throwing air punches in the background, in Ralph's figurative shoes.

"No more lies, Candy.".

He attempted to pummel the small king, squabbling to get behind his throne.

"I haven't lied. I swear.".
"Oh, yeah? You want to play this game? Then why is Vanellope's picture on the game?", he temporarily humored.
"It is?", he seriously pondered, forgetting about safety.
"Yeah! What did you do?".
"I didn't do anything. What are you even getting at? I had no idea her picture was there, but so what?".
"You did this to her!".
"How can you be so cruel to me; & Vanirce? You've never even been to BeelZeBub Arcade.", Vanellope said.
"I have.", Sour Bill said.

With the exception of some divided, 'hmm?'s, everyone shut up to listen to him.

"It was a horrible game, to say the least.", Bill said, now with more disdain than misery.
"Sorry to interrupt.", Vanellope said. "But how could you have been there? It got unplugged long before Sugar Rush came in.".
"I have a confession. I'm not from Sugar Rush at all.".
"What, then where ARE you from?".

He gave a curious quarter-smirk.

"I fit right in, don't I?. I'm originally from, 'New Prime & Bill', a prototype game that was never finished. After the unplugging, I was gameless for years. Until THAT game came out. I sought refuge there, but upon seeing what goes on there, I decided heavily against lt. Whenever I wasn't being tailed by psycho pedestrians with the intent to kill me, I found myself in such an eerie silence & fog that I actually wished I was. The whole atmosphere was unwelcoming & I felt the need to vomit. I high-tailed lt out flawlessly, travelling from game to game until the day that King Candy accepted me into Sugar Rush.".
"I felt bad for him, having heard the many rumors about that game at the time.", King Candy added. "And also, I needed an assistant. But you see, everyone from that game is evil.".

Vanellope classified every word of his as false.

"You're evil. You lied to us.".
"I told you I didn't. The programmers must have planned to have you in the game, but ran out of time. I don't know. But the fact is that you're definitely a glitch.".

The information hit her hard. A light bulb lit up in Turbo's mind.

"Wai-wait. A glitch, you say?", Turbo interrupted quickly.
"Yes", King Candy answered, unknowing of where he was going.
"Why didn't anyone say that before? I know code better than anyone. I can definitely repair her code.".
"You can?", Ralph asked.
"I can do better than that. I'll make her complete.".
"Thank you.", Vanellope exclaimed. "Looks like I can race.".