Final Decision

Vanellope skipped the Random Roster race for the day. She just couldn't race and keep her head in the game. She stayed in her castle, skipping all the races, waiting for the day to be over. She couldn't understand why she was so sad. She barely remembered Oreanna, only remembering the few days that she helped her with the kart.

After a few hours, Vanellope decided to stop laying around and looked around the castle that was now her home. Eventually, she stumbled upon the NES controller door. She pushed a few buttons until she found a slip of paper on the floor with the code on it.

"Up, up, down, down, left, right, left right, B, A, enter." she mumbled to herself. The door to the code room opened up and Vanellope wasn't too surprised. She remembered this room clearly. It was the last memory she had before becoming a glitch when Turbo tricked her into showing it to him and then knocked her unconscious. Vanellope jumped into the room and floated around for a bit.

She looked around and saw a code box connected to the box for the bakery, just like many other boxes including the Ice Screamer, the Kernel, and all the other karts. But instead, it wasn't connected to any of the tracks or a racer. Upon closer inspection, Vanellope noticed that it was damaged. She read the name and immediately decided to repair it. The box had had a name that was very important: The Cream Getaway. She opened it up and took a look at it. She thought it wide be way less complicated.

"Why can't I do just one thing, ONE THING, to help my friend?" she shouted, expecting no one to answer.

"You can." said a voice that made her jump, or at least float, ten feet. She turned around to see Pix. Oreanna was surprised at this. She didn't expect Pix to visit Sugar Rush. The cloud of pixels floated to Vanellope. "You just have to learn to write code. And I can teach you, if you want."

"Who are you?" Vanellope asked.

"Someone who is not supposed to be here." Pix answered. "But back to the point. Do you want to learn how to write code so that you can fix that kart or, let's say, make or remake avatars." Vanellope's eyes widened.

"What was that last part?" she asked.

"Make or remake characters. That isn't all you'd be limited to. But I know that redesigning Oreanna is probably your first concern."

"I'll do it. I'll learn code. I don't care how long it takes to learn it. Days, months, years, it doesn't ma-" Pix floated through Vanellope. She instantly knew all that she needed to know to write codes.

"Done." Pix said. Vanellope looked from where Pix was, to where he was now, to where he floated through her. "Well you calm down from my knowledge transfer, I should tell you something. You don't have complete knowledge of code, just enough to do what you need to."

"What are you?" Vanellope asked.

"It doesn't matter." Pix said. "I am not supposed to be here. If I stay too long, I could be destroyed. So, I have to go." Pix had flew out into cyber space as fast as he could. Vanellope opened up the code once again and changed a few numbers around. Within seconds, it was fixed.

She glitched out of the room to check on the kart but stopped wondering how to find it. She thought for a moment and smiled. She ran out of the castle, looked around, and whistled. She waited for a few minutes and was about to give up until she heard the sound of an engine coming from behind a hill. She waited eagerly for the coming kart. The Ice Screamer drove over the hill and pulled up next to Vanellope.

"Hey, Vanellope." Candlehead said from behind the wheel. "I heard you took the news about Oreanna's deletion pretty badly."

"What!?" Vanellope yelled, faking shock. "Oreanna was deleted?" Candlehead jumped to her feet. She was about to freak out and apologize a hundred times when Vanellope started laughing at Candlehead. "That was just too easy. I'm just kidding." She was so distracted by the joke that she didn't notice the kart heading straight at her. Luckily, Candlehead did.

"Look out!" she yelled as she jumped out of her kart and pushed Vanellope out of the way. They crashed into the ground as a kart drove by. They looked at it until it stopped a few yards away. The racers stood up and walked over to it. Upon closer inspection, Vanellope noticed that it was the Cream Getaway. Candlehead was up at the driver's seat. "There's no one in here. How did it get here?"

"I fixed the code on Oreanna's kart and whistled." Vanellope answered.

(in the Grid)

Oreanna had woken up and heard a knock on the door. She stood up and went to answer the door. "I don't know about what you-" she said as she opened the door. She stopped when she saw Jet and Set at the door. "Wrong guy." She invited the two in and sat down. "What's up?"

"We haven't seen you in a while so we were wondering if you wanted to hang out for a while." Jet said.

"Sure, why not?" Oreanna answered. "What do you wanna do?"

"We haven't thought about that." Set said. "How about a race?" Oreanna thought for a second.

"Sure, I could take a couple minutes out of my day to beat you two."

"You wish." Jet said. "You couldn't beat us if we were blindfolded."

"I really wish I could lose to you."

(Five minutes later)

Oreanna had just crossed the finish line with Jet and Set following behind.

"So what's the score now?" Oreanna asked.

"284 to 1 to 0." Set answered sadly.

"It's gotten too easy to win races." Oreanna said. She thought of the events in Sugar Rush. "I'm gonna have some curly fries and take a nap." Oreanna spawned some fries, picked them up, and laid back in her kart.

(later on)

Oreanna had tried to sleep for about an hour but found it too hard. She had a huge life changing decision to make. On one hand, she could go back to Sugar Rush. In this scenario, she would be reunited with Vanellope and all of her friends. She would constantly have new friends with every new arcade game. The Sugar Rushers and characters from other games would provide constant challenge. On the other hand, she stays in the Grid. She would stay with all of her friends there. If Sugar Rush gets unplugged, then Vanellope, still trapped, would come there. And new friends would come all the time. Plus, if she went back and was, for whatever reason, deleted, she wouldn't be able to come back to the Grid. She would be gone.

While she pondered this, a panel flipped with Pix on the other side. He floated behind her without her noticing and landed on the back of her kart. "More good news, Oreanna." he said. Oreanna jumped up. She accidentally hit the gas pedal and went forward extra fast. Pix was unprepared for this and fell backwards. Oreanna looked back and saw him.

"Why did you do that?" she asked.

"I figured it would be funny." Pix answered.

"No, I mean go back to Sugar Rush and purposefully give Vanellope the idea to remake me."

"I know. I figured it'd be funny." Pix waited to see the look on Oreanna's face. She was angry. "I'm just kidding. I did it to support what I believe in and I believe that everyone should have a choice."

"But I didn't want a choice. You've given me the choice to either stay here and completely break Vanellope or go back and hurt a lot of people here. When I didn't have a choice, I couldn't do anything about it. Therefore, I wouldn't have felt guilty." Oreanna waited for a minute and was about to continue until Pix turned red.

"I don't care about your guilt." he said angrily. "I risked my role as master of the Grid to give you a choice." Oreanna was confused. "It may be hard for you to understand but I have rules to follow. One of them is that I'm not allowed to leave the four dimensions of the Grid."

"Four?"

"Black Grid, White Grid, Knowledge Grid, and Rotary Grid. The last two, off limits to you and the other characters. Rotary grid allows me to visit games. It only allows me to visit certain games at certain times. So one minute it takes me to Sugar Rush, the next minute it takes me to Street Fighter 4. But I went to Sugar Rush an hour ago by leaving the Grid.

"Why is that against the rules?"

"It destabilizes me. Anyway, there are three possible futures to what I did. One, nothing happens. Two, I die because my program is unstable. Three, the Grid will be deleted, completely." Oreanna gasped, shocked.

"Why would you risk that!? That was too much to risk."

"I only found out about the last one a minute ago in the Knowledge Grid. I underestimated how important I was. The Grid locks onto me. If I can't find a suitable replacement in the case of my deletion, then the Grid is gone. Its not a certain future but either way, I made the choice to risk my life so that you could have a choice."

"Right." Oreanna thought for a moment. And shook her head. "I've had the decision made for a while. It's what I know that all my friends here would advise me to do." Pix's pixels finally turned blue again as he waited patiently. "I'm going back."