Author's Note- So, i may have gone on a bit of a spree, because i have managed to write 3 chapters of content in one go. So i will be posting them all. Enjoy this major addition to the story. This is where the fun begins. Enjoy. I dont own Wreck-It Ralph, Banjo-Tooie, or any of their characters. Licortwist Hothead belongs to TCKing12.
Sugar Isles
Chapter 14; Licortwist's Storm
Licortwist walks into the station and looks around.
"This is a strange outlet. How do I get in?"
He summons a scout, which shortly directs him to the wood sign near the track. When he approaches the sign Coal's Hologram appears.
"Chuffy is relaxing by the coast on the Isle-O-Hags. Would you like Chuffy to pick you up?"
Licortwist raises an eye brow, unfamiliar with the new game. He selects 'Yes'. Moments later, Chuffy steams into Game Central Station and stops in front of him.
"Interesting." Licortwist said with a smile as he climbed into the cabin.
Inside, he looks around and spots the green 'Go' pad and steps on it. Coal appears in front of him.
"Hello. I am unfamiliar with your name." Coal says.
Licortwist plays innocent. "You can call me Licortwist."
"A pleasure. I will leave you to pick any option you choose and I will take you there." Coal states before his hologram vanishes.
Licortwist summons a line of licorice from his arm and forms it around the pad, hacking it. The list automatically highlights 'Grunty Industries'. He selects the option and retracts his hacking licorice line. Moments later, Chuffy lurches forward.
Meanwhile, back in Sugar Rush, Vanellope and the rest of the racers found their way to Licortwist's cell.
"This guy is bad news." Gloyd says.
Cinndon walks up to the small platform in the middle, loose iron chains on the ground. "Must have been a major pain to keep locked up, given the fact that these chains are made of metal."
Vanellope walks over and picks up the main brace. "Power Disabling?"
Taffyta looks over. "Why do I not like the sound of that?"
Vanellope looks over the brace. "I dont like it either. I want to know how he got out of them."
"Im more interested in what power the chains were ment to disable." Rancis said.
Cinndon bent over and picked up a shaped spork and showed it to Vanellope. "Looks like we know how he got out."
"Dang prisoners can make impromptu tools out of anything." she replied.
"Maybe his code box may explain what 'power' he may have." Sticky said.
Vanellope nodded as she sat the chains down and left the cell, the rest of the racers in tow.
Back in Banjo-Tooie, Chuffy steams into the train station at Grunty Industries, Licortwist exits shortly after it stops and releases a licorice scout.
"Guide me." he said to it.
The scout flies off out of the train station and Licortwist runs after it. In the main floor of the factory, he comes to a set of iron doors blocking the entry into the factory.
"An obstruction." he says grinning.
Licortwist summons strands of licorice and lifts the doors leading out. "Too easy." He gloats as he continues to follow his scout out of the factory.
In Sugar Rush, Vanellope and the others are in the Code Room, digging through the info in Licortwist's Code Box.
"Anything yet Vanellope?" Taffyta asks.
Vanellope looks through text after text. "Nothing yet. Wait." She finds a info box labeled 'Powers' and opens it.
"Found it."
The rest of the racers drift closer as Vanellope skims through the info. "Licorice themed powers. According to this list, he has the power to rival a small army."
The racers gulp.
"How are we going to contest with that?" Candlehead asked.
Cinndon floated up to Vanellope. "We cant do this alone."
Vanellope nodded as she closed the code box. "Right, lets go find some help."
Licortwist exits the world and emerges into the Isle-O-Hags. He looks up and sees a large green spire towering into the sky.
"Green, menacing, stretching into the sky? Sounds like the place to put a weapon of mass destruction to me." he says as he summons a platform of licorice to lift him up to the entry way to Cauldron Keep.
Inside the world, Licortwist walks up the narrow ramp and sees the main tower, surrounded by a purple moat, he looks up the tower and immediately spots a giant laser jetting out from the top of the tower. "Jack pot." he says as he begins his accent, reaching the outcropping in no time.
He walks into the tower next to the laser, emerging in the control center. Licortwist looks around and spots the control panel, the letters B.O.B across the top.
"Bob? Thats a strange name for a superlaser." he says.
"It actually short for 'Big-O-Blaster."
Licortwist jumps around and looks up to see Gruntilda standing at the top of the ramp leading to another part of the fortress.
"Who are you?" he asks.
"Gruntilda, most people call me Grunty. Im one of the main characters of this game." she explains.
Licortwist snickers. "Not much of a character, just a walking pile of bones."
Grunty glares at him slightly. "Thats what this blaster was designed to do. Drain the life force from the island and use it to recreate my body."
Licortwist's eyes lit up as his demeanor changed. "Really? Does it work?"
Grunty is taken back by his change of attitude. "The device itself does work, but it never blasts the island entirely, the heroes stop that plan at the end of the game and reverse the damage."
He looks back at the blaster and snickers.
"Your not like the other ones from your game." Grunty notices.
Licortwist looks back at Gruntilda. "Your right about that."
Grunty takes a small step back. "Why are you here?"
Licortwist summons a mass of licorice pieces that begin to float around him, as well as longer strands of licorice that wiggle around like tentacle arms. "For my revenge on those pesky racers."
Grunty looks around at the mass of floating licorice around Licortwist before turning and running back through the door.
Licortwist is lifted into the air by his licorice platform as evermore licorice pieces appear. "This game is now mine."
Gruntilda runs into the Tower of Tragedy game room where her sisters are waiting. "Run you fools!" she yells as she makes a break for the exit.
"What rustled her bones?" Blobbelda asked.
Soon arms of licorice burst through the wall, causing the sisters to follow suit and run for the exit.
Outside the tower, the sisters are catching their breath as licorice pieces surround the top of the tower.
"What happened Gruntilda?" Mingella asked.
"This character from Sugar Rush. He intends on taking control of the Blaster." she says as she points up to B.O.B.
"But why? Why would he need a giant plot device?" Mingella asked.
"He said something about his 'revenge on those pesky racers'." She answered.
"Then we must warn them." Blobbelda said.
Mingella looked at Gruntilda. "Grunty, go find Banjo and Kazooie, then go warn Sugar Rush."
"What about you two?" she asked.
Blobbelda hobbled next to Mingella. "We will stay here and stall for time."
Just then, a large explosion occurred on the top of the tower and the witch's drilling machine, Hag 1, fell past them, down to the island below.
Grunty gave a sad look at them. "You two don't stand a chance against that kind of power."
"We can stall." Mingella said. "Now go."
Grunty nodded as she ran through the world entry.
Back in Sugar Rush, Vanellope and the other racers gather in the center of town.
"We need some way to fight against Licortwist and his power." Vanellope stated.
Swizzle spoke up. "We could modify some of our race power-ups and use them as weapons."
"I can help with that." Gloyd stated.
The group looked over at him.
"I was designing a mod for my kart that would suck up and store power-ups." he answered
"Why would you be designing..." Taffyta started before Vanellope cut her off.
"We can figure that out later." Vanellope said. "Gloyd, you go around the track and collect up as many power-ups as you can hold. The rest of us will be thinking on how we can re-purpose them for weapons."
Gloyd nodded before jumping in his kart and driving off quickly.