Ten minutes later, the entire population of sugar rush was inside the massive throne room of White Chocolate castle. King Candy stood on the raised platform at the back of the room, all eyes on him. "Hello my royal thubjects!" He addressed the crowd. "What a wonderful game we are lucky to be a part of. It was a wonderful day of racing!" The crowd cheered, as they adored a good race. "But I'm afraid that I have thome disorienting news." He began. "I'm afraid that our game is infected with a vulgar glitch!" He said. The crowd gasped. "She looks just like our beloved rather avatars, but beware! Her hideous flashes of zeros and ones could very well be the end of Sugar Rush as we know it!" The crowd screamed, as they were easy to believe whatever the monarchy told them. "Thith glitch belongs in the dungeon, so if any of you my royal thubjects see her lurking anywhere, report to my faithful police team of, um…" he trailed off, realising he didn't know anybody's names yet. "Wynchell and Duncan?" Sour Bill whispered. "Wynchell and Duncan!" King Candy said as he bounced off his feet.
"So I address all of you. That glitch musth not be aloud to race!" He began to explain the story of what would happen if Vanellope crossed the finish line, failing to mention the fact that none of it was true, the game would simply reset, and she wouldn't be a glitch anymore. Her code would be restored and his hard work would have all been for nothing. He turned to Beard Papa who owned the Kart Factory where all the karts were made. "Beard Papa, please make sure that Vanellope is not aloud anywhere near your factory. Put up a sign or thomething." Beard Papa nodded. "And you, my wonderful avatars" he gestured to the 15 colourful racers at the front of the crowd. "Make sure she doesn't show her face anywhere near the racetracks." The kids nodded.
"We won't let her race!" Exclaimed Candlehead. "Yeah, we don't need her kind around here anyway!" Called Rancis Fluggerbutter. "In fact, let's find that little twerp and chuck her in the mud!" Cried Taffyta, and the crowd cheered. "Down with the glitch!" A random candy citizen called, and eventually the entire crowd was chanting and cursing Vanellope's name. King Candy smiled horribly at the chaos. He didn't know why he hated Vanellope so much. It was something about how all the players picked her every time. In Turbo Time, Turbo was the only option, the gamers had no choice. But here, there were new racers daily, with nine perfectly unique and adorable options made available each day. Vanellope was the favourite. Out of everyone else, she was always the one picked, and she was only a child. She didn't tamper the code to make herself faster. She didn't get painfully sub-sided for anybody else. She was everything Turbo wanted to be, and it made him sick. So he was going to make Vanellope feel exactly how he had felt for ten whole years. It only seemed fitting.
Eventually, the noise got too loud and the party was dismissed.
And so began the reign of King Candy. First, he disabled the train access in and out of the game so people knew to keep their distance. Second, he introduced a new way of racing which included a gold coin, making it impossible for anyone without one to enter the race. He had given all the racers a certain amount of coins during a free-for-all race, where first place would get 15 coins and last place would get two. Third, he recorded his own voice track for the announcer panel, as there obviously wasn't already one for him, and lastly, changed every emblem resembling Vanellope's time of rule with cartoonish depictions of his own face and initials.
Throughout his reign, Turbo filled his citizens heads with lies about Vanellope, telling them that she was dangerous and a threat to the game. The little racers young minds contorted with the lies their ruer told them, and they became afraid and prejudice towards Vanellope to whom they would bully constantly. They cornered her at every opportunity and jeered at her, threw rotten candies at her and chased her down with their karts.
"She's dangerous! Run her down!" Taffyta would often say. "There's no way I'm racing with a glitch." Snowanna would bicker. Sometimes a racer would speak up in Vanellope's defence, thoughts of how what could be so possibly wrong with the girl who always left them alone ran through their mind. But Taffyta would just silence whoever defended the glitch, calling them a traitor and threatening to throw them out of the friend group. The Vanellope support would stop after that.
After a while, King Candy became a crowd favourite in the Sugar Rush fandom, and gamers would line up to play him as their avatar. Although some gamers wondered why they hadn't seen the princess character in a while, or why this new character had her exact same kart, eventually the gamers at Litwack's forgot about Princess Vanellope Von Schweetz.
Life was "sweet" for Turbo in the meantime. However, much to King Candy's dismay, Vanellope tried to race. She built kart after kart, each one pedal-powered and made out of junk of course, but each time they were destroyed by Taffyta and her goons. Somewhow, she managed to avoid arrest every time King Candy spotted her at the racetracks and sent his police team after her. The reason why the king didn't just lock her up when she was in the castle was because he didn't have a dungeon yet and there wasn't really anywhere for her to go, so he decided to subject her to the streets and hope that she stayed out of trouble. Boy was he mistaken.
Vanellope was beginning to lose hope of ever being a racer. She had once tried to sneak into the kart factory but the door was bolted shut, with an extremely unflattering illustration of her on the door. "I do not have fangs!" She had commented on the sign before she heard the wail of police sirens in the distance. "Oh boy..." She exclaimed, and took off for her home that she had discovered, Diet Cola Mountain. It had a secret opening, and she had made herself a little sanctuary out of garbage. But King Candy knew he'd have that little brat someday. He knew he would.