-==Chapter 13==-
Study Night and the IRON STEEL
Arthur arrived at Heather's (Or rather, Jackson's) house onboard Molly's Subaru WRX. This is because Molly knew Jackson very well, especially because he is Heather's brother. Arthur met Jackson and Norton at the front door. The house is a HUGE 3 floor Mansion. This is because Heather's family runs a World wide Business conglomerate which happens to be partnered with techno giant TobiKomi, yes, the SAME TobiKomi that created Fix-It Felix Jr., Wreck-It Ralph, Sugar Rush, and Hero's Duty franchises (And partnered with Walt Disney Company for that Movie adaptation)
Jackson: "So, Arthur, you ready for the Study session tonight?"
Arthur: "Oh, of course. I'm in for this one."
Norton: "We also got some good friends for you to talk to."
Arthur: "Oh, okay… I guess…."
Arthur joins the study group with Jackson and Norton. Among them are other kids like Olivia, Martha, Jim, and Carson, etc. During the study session, the other kids discuss about Arthur.
Martha: "So, this is that Arthur kid who transferred to our class yesterday?"
Carson: "It is him. We saw him on BuzzzTube when those people recorded the race."
Olivia: "Hmmm, he's kinda quiet. I was expecting a loud arrogant jock or something."
Arthur said nothing. When the study session was halted for a break, Arthur began to speak up.
Arthur: "So, you guys wanna play Sugar Rush at Litwak's this Friday?"
Olivia: "Oh, I love that game. Vanellope is such an adorable winner."
Martha: "I love Jubileena, though. She's very amazing with those Twin Cherry Bombs."
Vanessa: "I like Rancis. I also think he and Vanellope would make a great couple."
Lara: "We'd like to play that game for ourselves. Too bad almost none of us have a Home Console to play the Console version of Sugar Rush."
Timothy: "Who cares about Sugar Rush, Slaughter Race is the Hottest Heat right now! BuzzzTube's sponsoring Slaughter Race."
Martha: "Oh really? Because from what I've heard, The Sugar Rush World Championship is going to steal the heat!"
Arthur: "Wait, you guys knew about the World Championships?"
Carson: "Dude, for real?! E.V.O., as in, Evolution Championship Series, Sponsors the Sugar Rush World Championships, have you been living under a rock?"
Arthur: "Maybe?"
Jeremy: "Speaking of Sugar Rush and Slaughter Race, did you notice that the latter game has a player by the username of V4n3ll0p3V0n5chw33t2, that guy is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, I tell ya, it's like that player is a Hacker or something?"
Darryl: "Wait, you mean the one whose avatar looks like Vanellope?"
Vanessa: "WAIT WHAT?!"
Martha: "WAIT, How is that even….. OOooooooooooooohhhh…. Very Scary….."
Arthur: "What do you mean Vanellope is in Slaughter Race? From what Molly told me, Vanellope is the token Beginner Friendly Sugar Rush Racer. If following the Wreck-It Ralph movie logic, Vanellope can't be on two games at the same time, that's Going Turbo!"
Jackson: "Arthur, you don't know anything, do you? The Vanellope in Slaughter Race is probably just a Player Avatar customization. It's NOT even the real Vanellope, judging by the username! I remember when my cousin Jimmy saw V4n3ll0p3V0n5chw33t2 and he was left distraught. Along with…. Um, Norton, if BabeRaham_Linkin wasn't originally your account, where did you get it?"
Norton: "It belonged to your cousin's classmate Agnes Parcell. She was killed in 2016 in a highway Pile-Up. I was thankful that Jimmy was kind enough to hand me her account. I remember when I wanted to play Slaughter Race so bad."
Jackson: "I didn't know that. As far as I know, I only let Jimmy borrow my account back then."
Norton: "Yeah,k but Agnes told me that your cousin Jimmy once YELLED at your Grandma about his homework."
Jackson: "Oh, don't remind me, i'm still disgusted with that stupid stunt Jimmy pulled. Glad he's got his own Slaughter Race account so he doesn't have to pester my face."
Arthur: "Um, okay, I guess…"
Arthur had a great time talking with his new friends, and they resumed the study session. Also at the same night, back at Game Central Station, it's the first day of the Presidential campaign of Sugar Rush. The five candidates place out posters across the station and in other games, while promoting their visions ans missions. But out of the five parties, Candlehead's and M. Sakura's are the MOST intriguing and interesting of all.
One of the visions in Candlehead's campaign is to raise safety measures in the Industrial sector of Sugar World, because Candlehead spotted that while one part is thriving, another is struggling because of some, hidden robberies by some bystander characters. Another vision is also very interesting, and this one came from M. Sakura's campaign, which is to enforce punctuality on public transport, NOT just because she believes in Japan's Society, who uses public transportation on a regular basis, but also for the upcoming World Championship. Sakura came up with this vision SPECIFICALLY, so that everything runs like Clockwork.
Both Candlehead and M. Sakura took this Presidential election AND their upcoming term for 2018 VERY Seriously. Candlehead wants to maintain a Good "International" Relationship in Logistics to other games in the Import-Export industry. This explains why there are freight/goods trains making stops from Sugar World to Game Central Station. M. Sakura's reason to raise punctuality and On-Time Percentages for Public Transit, like the pre-existing Sugar Rush Fas-Train network, is due to the fact that NO DELAYS are allowed (BEYOND 60 seconds). Both Candlehead and M. Sakura's campaigns' main missions and visions are to raise enough "budget" for ALL the necessities required for the World Championship.
Vanellope however, has two simple visions in her campaign; one is adding more Railway lines for more Frequency IN CASE of delays and two, decrease parking lots. Litwak's Sugar Rush's Sugar World was suffering HEAVILY from car usage, and this can ALL be traced back to 1997 when King Candy STOLE Litwak's Sugar Rush for himself. When King Candy busted Vanellope's code with no one knowing, he also disables ALL TRAIN NETWORKS, which explains that there are NO trains arriving to Game Central Station. Not only the Sugar Rush racers, but the CANDY NPCs are restricted to use cars (Daily Drive cars), and Congestion increases over the course of years. Simply coding a train was NOT Simple, which is WHY Vanellope re-enables the train system when the racers (And Ralph secretly) helped her rise to power.
Vanellope was happy that Sugar World ran in true Democracy, and that Many people want to run as President for a year (Only if they WANT to, there's no limit) and the idea that she has to FIGHT to earn it. All her friends may be just kids who just want to have fun and that's true, but in terms of responsibilities, they are LITERALLY DEAD SERIOUS, ESPECIALLY Gloyd. The pumpkin prankster was chosen for 2016-2017 President because his campaign last year, was to encourage the use of Natural Energy like Water, Wind, and the Sun, reducing OIL (Or in this world, Maple Syrup) dependency, and that also means demolishing roads and building Railway Lines. The idea of Sugar World being majorly a Rail based society was traced back to 2015 when Vanellope learned about Japan's rail network. This is why cars in Sugar Rush are BEST SUITED for racing.
After the roster competition with Taffyta in 1st, Vanellope in 2nd, Crumbelina in 3rd, Rancis in 4th, Snowanna in 5th, Citrusella in 6th, Nougetsia in 7th, Emma in 8th, and M. Sakura in 9th, Ralph came to see his daughter Vanellope, and since Slaughter Race is still under a Weekday long Update work in the WorldWide Network servers, Shank spends her time at Litwak's.
Vanellope: "Hi, Ralph; Hi, Shank; how are things going?"
Ralph: "Things are going fine. Looks like you'll be getting some literal competition. Candlehead and Sakura's campaign are eyecatching."
Vanellope: "Oh of course they are. You can tell that they are NOT joking at all. I can't believe that Adora and Jubi said that the election should be rigged in my favor."
Shank: "Oh, do tell."
Ralph, Vanellope, and Shank talked all night long about the Election and her campaign. Meanwhile, Arthur is still with his classmates. They've just finished their study session and decide to play games on Jackson's big bedroom. Jackson's bedroom has 4 2160px TV Screens with a Microsoft Xbox One console EACH. And since Jackson is around, he decides to play Slaughter Race. Norton butts in with him too. Carson and Darryl are also Slaughter Racers themselves. The rest of the kids played other games on their mobile phones.
Arthur then took out a beverage of tea, and when he walked back to the study room to go back to studying while the other kids are playing games, he saw the opened door to Jackson's game room. Since Arthur doesn't want to disturb the 4 boys, he decided to spy on them through the door. Without making any noises, he can comfortably watch as their avatars DirtySocks537, BabeRaham_Linkin, K1Ll3RCl0Wn, and GaNgStaGunNeR. Arthur watched as the 4 boys played the game, and with none of them noticing, Arthur decides to record the gameplay on his phone. After a while, Arthur and the kids go back to their homes. Back at Litwak's, Vanellope is on top of Bon-Bon Breeze Mountains with Shank while Ralph is at Niceland City, managing the campaigns there, as well as Felix and Tamora on other games. Shank is still in Sugar Rush and this is her second night because of Slaughter Race's current Update process which locked the World Wide server.
Shank: "Well, V, I never knew that there's a lot in this game."
Vanellope: "Well, stick around, and you'll see lots of fun stuff here!"
Shank: "More fun than Sequoia Coast, or the upcoming Hell Ridge?"
Vanellope: "(Nervously) Probably. Wait, Hell Ridge?"
Shank: "Yeah, that new area is part of the Maintenance Update. It's gonna be crazy, Hell Ridge is a Mountainous area, and is also a Heavy Industrial area like a Steelworks factory, Warehouses, Power plants. It's gonna be smoking hot and oily, the roads are also going to be super tight, way moreso than Sequoia Coast's mountains and hillsides."
Vanellope: "Ugh, That one may be uncomfortable. I'm used to the City-scapes and the Coasts, but not Industrial areas. Okay that one was ironic because the Industries in Sugar Rush emit Magic Sparkles and they don't pollute the atmosphere and use clean energy like water, wind, and the Sun."
Shank: "Don't you worry about that, V. I already knew you won't be comfortable with insane smog, so, when you log in Slaughter Race, there will be a package waiting for you."
Vanellope: "Oh…."
Shank: "Hmm… I've never raced here before. You sure the others won't mind?"
Vanellope: "Oh, well, just between you and me?"
Shank: "Sure."
Vanellope hops on to her kart, while Shank got onboard her RX-7, and the two have a race across Chocolate Coast into the mountain roads. Meanwhile, Sugar Town is still busy as ever, lots of people are visiting local shops, playing games, and work all night long. Not to mention the campaigns for the Presidential Election of Sugar World for 2018, AND the World Championships. On Wednesday and Thursday, the arcade is just as busy as usual. Arthur also visited the Arcade after school to practice, as he is now part of the World Championship. At the same Thursday Night, after the roster competition, Vanellope has something to show both Ralph, Shank, something that haunts Vanellope. Felix, Tamora, the Sugar Rush racers, and Shank's crew are with the three.
Vanellope: "Everyone, I wanna show you something. (In a nervous and fearful expression) Follow me."
Vanellope boards her kart, followed by Shank in her RX-7, her crew in their respective cars, Ralph in his Velvet-Liner Long haul kart-truck, Felix in his Choco-Cheese Pie Mobile pick-up sugar-truck, Tamora in her Sugar Armada Super-Kart, and the racers in their respective karts. Racing away from Sugar Town through a small highway road next to a High Speed Express Railway line where Sugar-Rush Fas-Trains pass the the group; and into an isolated territory not commonly accessible to the players. It was an underworld like abyss surrounded by Ultra-Tall Mountains, way scarier than Caramel Abyss, and into a Spirit-Esque gate into a dark tunnel only lit by nougat lights like you find in Nougat Underground. Into a larger dark cave, the group drives across the road which is surrounded by creepily glowing nougat lights like scattered Cy-Bug eggs.
Felix: "Jiminy-Jaminy, this place is kind of unsettling, and creepy…."
Tamora: "Reminds me of that Cy-Bug egg pile in that movie about us."
Shank: "The attention to detail says it all. No wonder V is so…. Nervous…."
Ralph: "Looks like Sugar World has something I never knew about."
Felony: "Holy scrap. This is…. Oh god… This is so damn creepy…."
Little Debbie: "Little V, what the hell are you trying to show us?"
Pyro: "This is like Metropolis Slaughterville Metro but worse."
Butcher Boy: "Um, Pyro, you know this ain't Metropolis Slaughterville, right?"
And they arrived at the lowest level, which has another Spirit-Esque gate.
Vanellope: "Well, here we are."
Shank: "Where are we exactly, V?"
Vanellope: "The place no other Sugar Rush has, and DEFINITELY only I have the knowledge of."
Ralph: "Kid, if you really want to show us, you gotta be brave to show it, okay. We got your back, always."
Rancis: "Yeah, what he says."
Vanellope smiles at her father's reassurance, and she opens the gate, and the group enters a room, a REALLY HUGE room. This room is a dark room only found in what Vanellope dubs "the Deepest and Darkest Depths of Hell", decorated with Dark Chocolate stalagmites, lit with Red hots and Nougat light stones in the color of fire, with a Moat of Soda Lava, and on the center is an isolated island with a GINORMOUS Monstrous object.
It was a DARK Purple vehicle with 12 Axles and 48 wheels, the size of an OVERSIZED Mammoth, with a hooded tractor cab that has a head of a bulldog with a Mustache; its front bumper is a Snowplow that can wreck anything in its direction leaving damages worse than that of Ralph's; the three big compartments used to have dangerous weapons inside, specifically, weapons that can even KILL those inside their native games (Thankfully this is no longer the case because the weapons have already been destroyed and that inside the compartments are basically empty). It was a vehicle SO infamous that it haunts Vanellope, and nobody knew why she would preserve this monstrous beast if she is afraid of it. It wasn't the vehicle specifically; she still thinks it's an AWESOME boss fight weapon. What haunts her was the person who drove it. Yes, this is the infamous truck that nearly ruined the roster race 5 years ago, "THE IRON STEEL" itself.
Shank: "What the FIRE…."
Taffyta and Candlehead: "Oh dear sugar…."
Felix: "The…. The…. (In a scared tone and shrieks loudly) THE IRON STEEL?!"
Tamora: "Doomsday and Armageddon's Baby….. It is (In a deep tone) UGLY AS HELL….."
Shank: "V, what the hell did you just showed me?"
Jubileena: "Ms. Shank… What Vanny showed you…. Was a monster that haunts her life ever since that thing came; we all saw it for the first time 5 years ago."
Shank: "What do you mean?"
Adorabeezle: "Well, when Sugar Rush was plugged in way back in 1997, before we get to even be played, we were on our practice runs for the first ever Random Roster race, that is, until he came and ruined everything."
Shank: "Is this when that King Turbo-Kandy guy hijacked your game?"
Tamora: "Wait, WHAT, how did he manage to get in Sugar Rush all those years ago?!"
Felix: "I mean we all knew he was hiding in Sugar Rush, so how exactly did he ruin the game in the first place?"
Gloyd: "Well, we'll tell you how he got here."
And this, is the story the Sugar Rush racers told Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Shank.
-Start of Flashback-
In 1997, two Sugar Rush Speedway Cabinets are transported to Litwak's in the night, as a surprise to the guests. When the game was plugged in, Game Central Station was quiet, except for one notorious racer: Turbo. He was one a Star of the arcade because of TurboTime's popularity, and when he became infamous for his action in RoadBlasters, he hides in the deep depths of Game Central Station, waiting for another shot to strike. When he heard about Sugar Rush, he made his move. Back then, Sugar Rush's trains were different.
The train that used to link Sugar Rush to Game Central Station was hauled by a steam locomotive, an American syled 4-6-0 Tender locomotive pulling 5 passenger cars, a dining car, and a caboose/brake van. When the train arrived, Turbo sneaks away into the castle. Lucky for him, no one is guarding the castle. When he got inside, he looked over the place, and found a Code Room vault, the SAME Code Room he tainted. Using the forbidden Konami code, Turbo sneaked inside the room, where he starts to do his dirty trick.
Turbo: "Oh, Code, Sweet Lifeblood of a Video Game…. Now it's time for this game to have a new ruler."
Turbo then creates his code block, and planted his new identity, rendering Turbo no more, and was now known as King Candy, and after he finishes coding himself, he looks over to Vanellope's code block, because he knew that Vanellope was the princess looking by the royal throne in Royal Raceway and her face as a flower bed. He decided to do something sinister.
King Candy: "Ohj, if only I was allowed to delete her code and erase her, but maybe, see her being tortured is MUCH more sadistic, and what better way to do so, by making her an OUTCAST? Well well well, only a vulgar GLITCH can be an outcast…. Mwahahahahahahhahahahahh! That one is FAR more preferable. (Heads over to Vanellope's code block, and then DESTROYS the wires) YOUR TIME HAS COME, VANELLOPE, YOU SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE GLITCH!"
With Vanellope's code block busted, King Candy then proceeds to lock the Memory code blocks, LITERALLY. And his consequences came to fruition. When the racers were on their practice run, Vanellope starts to feel strange, and then, it happened, she started to glitch, and was hurt!
Vanellope: "Aaagh…. Wh-(Glitches)-what's ha-(glitches)-appe-(glitches)-enning?! (Glitches and then the Royal Racer kart starts to spin out uncontrollably) AAAAAAAGH!"
Taffyta, Candlehead, and Rancis: "VANELLOPE!"
But Vanellope cannot respond, her kart spun out so bad that the racers lost focus and tried to save Vanellope, but it was no use….
Vanellope: "Oooooh NOOOOOO-(Glitches)-OOOOOOOO-(Glitches again)-OOOOOOO!"
A HUGE Pile-Up happened, and all the racers fell out of consciousness. The next thing they know was that they are back in the Royal Raceway Altar, and then, he showed up. The racers were confused, who was this person, why is he King, As far as they know, there IS no King in this game. They swore that Vanellope was the ruler, but they forgot about her, and she was nowhere to be seen.
King Candy: "The fee to compete is One gold coin we all Spawned with. I'll go first!"
Taffyta: "What the? One gold coin? (I swear, it was free of charge.)"
Then, Vanellope came by.
Vanellope: "Um, hello?"
Taffyta: "Oh, hello, who are you?"
Vanellope: "I'm… I'm Vanellope."
Taffyta: "Vanellope? (What a nice name…. Sounds familiar though.) I'm Taffyta."
Rancis: "Oh, hi, my name is Rancis (A bit smitten, clearly has something for Vanellope.)"
Candlehead: "Hi, I'm Candlehead, you know, the hat on top has a candle?"
King Candy: "HOLD ON! What the Sugarplum is SHE DOING HERE?!"
Taffyta: "Um, Your Majesty, why are you so angry?"
Adorabeezle: "You look like you ate some Red Hots!"
King Candy: "SHE'S A VULGAR GLITCH!"
Jubileena: "What?"
King Candy: "Are you little brats DEAF?! SHE'S A GLITCH!"
Taffyta: "A glitch? Uh… okay….. SO?"
King Candy: "SO SHE'S NOT ALLOWED TO RACE! She is a MISTAKE in the PROGRAM, an ACCIDENT waiting to HAPPEN! SHE'S THE LAMEST LOSER I'VE EVER SEEN!"
Starts to throw a big gumball at Vanellope, which hurts her and causes her to glitch RIGHT IN FRONT of everyone!
Vanellope: "(Gets hit with the gumball) AAAAGH!"
Taffyta: "HEY! That's not nice!"
King Candy: "Ohohohoh! Why concerned?! You don't want this pathetic JUNKPILE to ruin this game by selfishly racing, which will cause an UNPLUGGING, Would you?! (In the most sarcastic way possible)"
Candlehead: "SERIOUSLY?!"
King Candy: "Go ahead, Citizens of Sugar Rush, BULLY HER, HARRASS THAT GLITCH, TORMENT HER, AND MAKE HER WISH SHE WAS NEVER MADE!"
The Candy NPCs start to throw hostile objects to Vanellope, who was glitching while she was hit. The racers offered to help, however….
Taffyta: "Hey STOP IT you meanies!"
Rancis: "Vanellope, LET US HELP YOU!"
Both Taffyta and Rancis try to grab Vanellope while the racers scattered to calm the crowd down. Vanellope starts to glitch when both Taffyta and Rancis tried to help her get up, and then, Vanellope made a BIG change. She SLAPPED Taffyta across the FACE!
Taffyta: "Aaagh! Vanellope, what was that for?!"
Rancis: "Vanellope, we're trying to…."
Vanellope: "(Starts to cry) No…. I'm a MONSTER! STAY AWAY FROM ME! (Runs away cying) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
Candlehead: "VANELLOPE, WAIT!"
King Candy: "Hahahahaha, Forget that loser. Let's start the race Anyway!"
The racers were confused, and disgusted. They have no idea what to do or where did this guy came from, so they have no choice but to oblige. After the race, King Candy makes an announcement.
King Candy: "Thank you for coming today. With my talent and the Racers' participation, We will make Sugar Rush a Popular game among players alike! We will be UNDEFEATBALE, We will become a SUCCESS, WE WILL BE UNTOUCHABLE!"
Everyone cheered, and even the racers, although they were still confused.
King Candy: "Now, I'd like to make a new rule for Sugar Rush. It is dangerous to allow vulgar glitches like that glitch girl we saw earlier. The existence of a Glitch in a race is very dangerous. Anyone who tries to help her will be SENT to the Fungeon (Smugly). A Terrible fate indeed, and Game Jumping in Open-Hours is strictly forbidden. And you may ask, why would I be against that girl racing? Simple, to protect her of course. If she appears on the roster and players choose her, they will see her curse, and will think our game is broken (Slyly) And once the game is to be unplugged, rendering us homeless, since che cannot leave BECAUSE she's a glitch, (Starts to have a dark menacing voice) She will basically (Now REALLY Dark Voice) COMMIT SUICIDE… Mwahahahahahahahhahaha…"
The racers were left in distraught… King Candy gave them and the Candy NPCs a reason to not let Vanellope race, but they couldn't do anything. Vanellope ran away as fast as she could, but since she was a glitch at that time, she couldn't leave.
Vanellope: "HELLO?! IS ANYONE THERE?! PLEASE, SOMEBODY, ANYBODY! HELP! SOMEBODY HELP ME! I WANT TO GET OUT! Oh… it's no use…. I can't leave the game….. (If I can't be a racer….. then I'll have to choose my own calling. Oh… I wish I could be a racer….)"
Vanellope walked sadly back to the game, and she saw the train that was once a mighty transportation device to take its people to and from Game Central Station, now reduced to a nasty garbage heap in the Junkyard. She walked far enough to find what was at that time an unfinished Bonus track, Diet Cola Mountain.
For 15 years, Vanellope lived in hiding, and over the duration of that, she starts to perfect Diet Cola Mountain, all by herself. One year after the game was plugged in, Vanellope had built a makeshift kart of her own, the Likkity Split. And it was in 2011, when Taffyta and Rancis came to see Vanellope in the Candy Cane forest.
Vanellope: "Taffyta? Rancis? What are you doing here, please, stay away from me."
Taffyta: "Look, Vanellope, what happened 14 years ago, forget it. Look, we just wanted to check on you."
Rancis: "Yeah, glitch or not, you deserve a good treatment."
Vanellope: "But… why were you so nice to me, especially YOU, Taffyta, I slapped you across the face."
Taffyta: "Look, that one was an accident. I know you didn't mean it. Besides, there is one thing that King Candy doesn't know about us racers. We have memories in our hearts."
Vanellope: "But…. Please, don't tell King Candy."
Rancis: "We won't. I think you're a nice person."
Vanellope: "Thanks, but you really have to run now, I don't want anything bad to happen to you."
Taffyta: "Don't worry, Vanny, we'll keep safe, and we will check on you."
Vanellope: "Huh, Vanny? That's…. that's a cute nickname…."
Taffyta: "Stay sweet… (Softly) Vanny."
Taffyta and Rancis then left Vanellope as ordered, and the two secretly told the other racers, and they all agreed to keep Vanellope's friendship with them a secret, shrouded from King Candy. Over the course of 15 years, and about 5745+ random roster races that follow, King Candy would NOT make it to the roster 665 times. And whenever King Candy didn't make it to the roster or win in Open-Hours, he throws a temper tantrum. And in the year of 2012, it was at Felix and Tamora's second visit to Sugar Rush, where everything went horribly wrong for King Candy. Not only that race ended up with him finishing dead last, NOT only the Royal Racer kart was destroyed, it was the INFAMOUS day when King Candy DID NOT make it to the roster, the 666th time. That was his final straw.
-End of Flashback-
Snowanna: "And that's how this… THING…. Was made."
Swizzle: "King Candy couldn't handle the 666th loss."
Emma: "He finished DEAD LAST in that 666th loss."
Sticky: "King Candy was Broken Karted"
Torvald: "And he became insane."
Nougetsia: "That he basically lost his sanity."
Citrusella: "And lost all trace of Humanity and Morality."
Shank's crew and M. Sakura GASPED. Shank because now she heard the full story of her adoptive daughter's painful survival of all that and M. Sakura because she was born in 2017, the same day Litwak's Sugar Rush Super Speedway was plugged in.
Shank: "What the hell?! V had to survive all that?!
Little Debbie: "That was insane!"
Pyro: "Think about that for a moment! Having to live with no one on your side for more than 10 years?!"
M. Sakura: "Matte, nani? Sore de, ano King Candy no otoko wa Vanellope o tsuihō-sha ni shita nodesu ka?! Watashi wa kesshite iwa remasendeshita! (Wait, what? So, That King Candy guy made Vanellope an Outcast?! I was never TOLD!)"
Emma: "Sakura, I'm so sorry I forgot to tell you that…"
M. Sakura: "Daijōbu, Emma. Kesshite osoku naru yori wa mashida. (It's alright Emma, better late than never.)"
Felony: "But, I don't get it. Like, why the hell did V have the balls to preserve it?"
Butcher Boy: "Yeah, V, why don't you scrap this thing if it haunts you?"
Vanellope: "I won't scrap it. Why do I preserve this beast? To remind me what I, and my fellow Sugar Rush friends have accomplished in that…. Uh… Ralph…"
Ralph: "The Vanellope Revelation race. That's what I call it."
Gloyd: "You came up with the name, Mr. Wreck-It Ralph."
Crumbelina: "Practically everyone knows that now."
Jubileena: "It was the day this monster wrecked havoc."
Adorabeezle: "And attempted to ruin Sugar Rush."
Tamora: "A beast so dangerous it can destroy Cy-Bugs faster than that Blue Hedgehog."
Felix: "This thing really creeped me out. Let's just get outta here."
Vanellope: "Okay…."
Taffyta: "Come on, let's just go to bed. Friday's always a big day."
Candlehead: "Yeah, and players are gonna flock up the place like a bunch of birds!"
Rancis: "Come on, my love, Vanellope…. Let's go."
The group exits the room, but only Ralph and Vanellope were left. He managed to take a closer look of the truck, touching its wheels, yet it stood still. Vanellope walked beside her father, and sighed.
Vanellope: "Even though I'm no longer a Glitch, and that no good King Candy is gone forever, this beast still haunts me of the past life I had to suffer."
Ralph: "And I thought my kart was over-sized."
Vanellope: "Don't worry about that, Ralphie; your kart is just right."
Ralph: "I just wanted to say… Thanks for allowing Felix to race. I can't describe how happy he was when he first saw your friends; he's like begging to be coded into the game."
Vanellope: "(Hugs Ralph as the good bad guy carries her out of the room) You're welcome… Dad."
Vanellope looked at "THE IRON STEEL" Truck another glance, but wasn't fearful, because she got Ralph on her back, the father and daughter duo left the room and joined the group back to Sugar Town, locking the gate, and leaving the ginormous monster truck alone, standing proud and silent.
To be continued...
