Dalek-I am so sorry about the links. I don't know what to say except...*facepalm*. But Cindy is here in this chapter!
AnonymousZGirl-WHOA, GIRL. So many OCs, so little time! I'm not saying that I don't like them, because I LOVE so many of your characters. But it might be a little while before I can work them in, so you'll have to be very patient with me.
KylaSoulSongAlchemist-Um...you lay a finger on my Turbo, and I will HURT YOU. I will leave you in a pile of your blood...and my urine...which also has blood...but it's MY BLOOD! (Okay, that was a quote from Drawn Together that I couldn't resist using, I'm sorry.)
Princess LaLaBlue-Thanks for reviewing, as usual! You rock!
Chapter Twenty-Nine
"Are you sure that this is a good idea?" Lulu had been pestering Vanellope since the Random Roster race ended. Snowanna was right: everyone had their doubts. And in this case, Lulu was the only one willing to speak them. Even Vanellope twitched and glitched from anxiety and nerves as the moment came closer and closer.
"I know what I'm doing! Litwak is going to open those doors in five minutes, and when that happens, we aren't going to be able to speak to each other until he closes them! Now come on! We have to get into our positions now!" Vanellope had, of course, been one of the winning avatars from the race. The other eight had been Caleb, Snowanna, Jubileena, Lulu, Cindy, The Swizz, and Minty. They had to be posed on the character selection menu that the players would see before racing.
But today something different was going to happen. The players would soon learn that. And the first to discover this were none other than Mutahar and Moppet Girl. Mutahar inserted his quarter into Sugar Rush and clicked on Jubileena's image. But instead of her moving around in a celebratory fashion, Vanellope spoke to them.
"Greetings, fellow racers," she waved from her box.
"What the heck is going on?" Mutahar gasped.
"I suppose you're wondering what the heck is going on," Vanellope grinned. "And I'm here to tell you. You should see an arrow on the side of the screen. Click on that bad boy and it'll take you to a bonus character." Mutahar and Moppet exchanged a surprised and excited look and did what the tiny girl said. Like she promised, the arrow took them to an extra character. But this one wasn't from Sugar Rush at all. It was Turbo! "I hope you don't mind seeing him here," Vanellope continued. "It took the programmers a lot of work to get him here. And in addition to our good friend Turbo, you'll start seeing some new faces. Don't worry, you'll get to race as all of us. But I'll shut up now so you can play! But remember...play nice!" She winked at the kids before freezing in place, like she had never spoken to them at all and was waiting to be selected.
But Jubileena sprang to life, responding to Mutahar's command. "Oh, yeah!" She shouted, blowing a kiss at Mutahar, who laughed his surprise and prepared to go against Moppet Girl. She had picked Cindy as her avatar. The character selection menu disappeared from the screen, meaning that Turbo and the other avatars could relax for a moment.
"Why aren't they picking me?" Lulu heard Turbo lamenting. "Am I really not as great as I used to be?"
"Chill out, old man," Caleb yawned. "You're retro. The players will be all over you like kids over cotton candy."
"What the heck does that word mean?" Turbo wondered.
"It means...that you're old...but in a really good way, which makes you almost new," Snowanna tried to explain. "What I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't get too comfortable, Turbo, because we all have a long day ahead of us."
"And I am NOT an old man," Turbo protested in a small whisper. Nobody would know if the players were finished racing until a Quarter Alert was given. "I am not old, am I, Lulu?"
"No, Turbo, you're not," she reassured him. "You're MY old man." She had to bite her hand to keep herself from laughing out loud and alerting Mutahar and Moppet.
Knuckles and Alicia had been joined by Tails and the girls from the evil Sonic game, but they had not expected Bubbles to tag along to Fix-It Felix Junior. "Huh, it's been FOREVER since I've been in here," the racer commented, popping her gum. Her blue eyes shone with fear when Felix's voice reached their ears. "Now I remember why that is..."
"What do you have against Felix?" Amy asked. "He seems so nice!"
"I guess he is," Bubbles said. "But he's just...a little too happy for my taste!" She shuddered. "It gives me the creeps! Like that Happy Mask Guy does!"
"But if it does, then why did you come with us?" Knuckles growled. He was irritated when he and Alicia no longer had any privacy, and it looked like Bubbles was sticking to them like glue stuck to the bottom of a shoe.
"You really have to ask that?" Bubbles snorted. "It seems that everytime somebody leaves their game, something bad happens. We just got Lulu back, and I don't want to lose any of you to some crazy character or a bad virus."
"We're still early," Cream reminded them. "Shouldn't we get back to Sugar Rush?"
"Nah, let's hang out here for a while!" Bubbles suggested, sitting down by the pile of bricks that served as Ralph's home. From here they got a good view of the action. Felix was fixing the damage Ralph was causing to the building owned by the Nicelanders. Felix spotted them and froze in place. Alicia waved at him, but Bubbles avoided all eye contact.
"Don't worry, we're okay," Alicia mouthed, and Felix resumed his repairs. Ralph was soon defeated and thrown from the top of the Nicelanders' flat. He landed in a puddle of mud, but got up and back to his starting position when another Quarter Alert sounded.
"What are you guys doing here?" He asked through clenched teeth. "You're not going Turbo, are you?"
"No, we're not!" Knuckles snapped back.
"We got bored," Alicia laughed. "We wanted to come and talk to you about the apartment plans again, but we were too impatient to wait until after the arcade closed. So we decided to take a break from Sugar Rush and watch the show in here."
"Fine," Ralph said. The next Quarter Alert rang out for the second time, warning the characters to get in place, and he sighed. "I can't stay and chat now. Duty calls. And don't make any potty jokes using that word!" He warned when Bubbles opened her mouth with a very Vanellope-ish smile.
"Is he a mind reader?" She asked when the bumbling bad guy stomped onto the screen, shouting threats.
"No, he isn't. Don't tell me you're afraid of him, too," Alicia groaned.
"I can't tell if I'm attracted to him or afraid of him or both," Bubbles answered, chewing on her gum as she thought. "And I can't decide if it's a bad thing."
"Why does love have to be so complicated?" Knuckles whined, shaking his head. His dreadlocks danced around his face, and Alicia gaped at him.
"How is love complicated?"
For once, Knuckles knew when to keep his mouth shut. He didn't say a word for at least two hours.
Jenna didn't want to go to Wheatley for help, especially not during game hours, when he would be the least helpful and the most sarcastic. So she decided to give the boring and time-consuming task of finding the codes to the Mario game to herself. "Okay...there's one code room and about ten thousand worlds here?" She guessed when she snuck into the game. She camped out in Yoshi's House to avoid being seen by any players. "This is going to take a while." She was exhausted just from thinking about it.
But she had to keep thinking, and she thought about the code room inside of Sugar Rush. It was located in the largest building of that world...wouldn't it make sense if all of the code rooms were located in the wonders of the games?
That was it! The code room had to be in Bowser's palace! "Jenna, you are a genius," she whispered to herself, leaving the house and preparing to sprint for the last world of the game.
What could possibly go wrong now?
Who is ready for the most awesome news ever? *pause for dramatic effect* I. Am. Going. To. Be. INTERVIEWING THE CREATOR OF SONIC DOT EXE! *squeal of joy* It's really nothing special...it's for a paper I'm writing about the history of Creepypasta and the effects it has on the online community (and the rest of the world). But still...I love this guy's work! He's amazing! In addition to the five versions of Sonic dot exe, he's made original Sonic games of his own, one of which I downloaded. (It's safe, don't worry. I also downloaded the fourth version of Sonic dot exe, and that's safe to. But to exit out of the game, use Ctrl-Alt-Del. The ESC button won't work with Sonic dot exe. YOU CAN NEVER ESCAPE CORRUPTED SONIC!)
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