Reviews :

chuckiboo : Haha! Yeah that's true, Ace's energy can end up catastrophic - Berri, on the other hand, may not be physically catastrophic, but you'll come to find that the emotional turmoil behind it all can be just as damaging, unfortunately. But, all's well that ends well! Tanks for your review, friend :)

Lyssdoodle : OH congratulations! That's so awesome!

Snake557 : Yeah, Gunner comes unhinged. Things have to get worse before they get better lol

MisterTheX : You're not wrong! We haven't seen the last of Gunner.


Song Listened To :

Whatcha Do to Me by Plug In Stereo


*Chapter 194*

Although hot on the heels of her argument with Gunner, Berri snuck home and felt the wave of Turbo's intense coding still swirl about her circuits and fresh honeycombs in a rile of excitement. Knowing, certainly, that absolutely nothing could knock her from the high that she was on, this morning, in Turbo's tender, masculine care, she took a long shower and pampered herself in the hour she had before the palace meeting. Thankful her phone was now clear of any messages from Gunner, like she demanded, she was absolutely well aware she'd have to deal with all of those repercussions eventually, and Bedgy was due for a phone call, she did whatever she could to blow-dry her beautiful blue hair and peer to her fresh self in the mirror with a smile, a fluttering, girly ease she was sure she never wanted to vanish. Although such a lovely, heavy feeling of love she was now eagerly sat with, she still felt caution inside of her heart, as if she was now anxiously looking over her shoulder, the sly, snaking sneak of heavy, world-altering emotion Turbo's coding now was swift to provide her with, a strange tsunami of feelings she couldn't control, the recent memory of blind rage she had, in the wrecking swing to Turbo's wall, flashed before her eyes in a soft sling of dreadful reminder.

Contemplating straightening her beautiful, wavy blue hair, she decided against it and shook her head. Heaviness still hung onto her fresh coding, and although it was something she could easily mope in, she felt her coding sit almost still in patient wait. Said coding was now cutely now harboring just decades of information, as if somehow Turbo's coding was prioritized into specific boxes and each one held such vast, different tiers of emotion, emotion she almost didn't even really know how to swallow. She closed her eyes and could almost picture the thousands of coded tiers of information, just promising her that there were surely nuggets of her questions answered, a far vaster, deeper understanding to Turbo's detrimental past, surely there were pieces of gold Turbo had long shoved away and forgot about; it were almost as if Turbo had given her access to his entire vault of an external hard drive, where he had stored decades of long-lost thoughts, memories, emotion, and it was all hers, ripe for the picking. Whether any of said tiers of information were to sit still and cooperate, or explode upon being kissed by one of her own natural emotions, had Berri treading lightly, as if it were all a poised, well-organized minefield of smiling chaos.

Realizing she was hung in the gape of her closet and her ears were kindly ringing due to the silence, she long-blinked in delirious remembrance and came back to the Arcade. She heaved an exasperated sigh and felt herself getting entirely lost in thought, more so than usual now that she had Turbo's precious coding. Soft, heavy memories of the hour prior so tenderly came back to kiss her on the forehead; the lurch of their bodies, the deep, reverberating groan of Turbo's irresistible voice, the healthy dose of coding initially given to her in the magnified, electrifying union they successfully joined in, Berri held her forehead and felt her face get hot. As her heart began to thud with desire, she caught herself, once again, staring off into space in the gape of her closet, the still-happening ringing of silence in her ears. She furrowed her eyebrows and felt the sweetest, heaviest scoop of an embrace, due to Turbo's coding, though with said heavy embrace came an even heavier desire to almost drown into it. Such a world of difference between the garnered years Turbo had successfully loaded Berri's body with, she lulled her eyes in a blink of curiosity and wondered if Turbo was potentially feeling the opposite. She finally shook her head firmly and began to force her hands to work through the clothes in her closet as she stood naked and prepared to dress herself for said impending palace meeting, she huffed a shaky breath and wondered how the hell she'd even concentrate through it.

Finally deciding to throw on a pair of lazy, faded, light blue skinny jeans with a few small tears in the knees, as well as a comfortable white t-shirt, she heaved a satisfied sigh and finally did what she could to press to her teleport pad without anymore stalling. She inhaled a deep, trembling breath as her teleport pad gently lit up, though she raised her eyebrows in prickled surprise as said holographic displays, before her, very kindly displayed her coding for how it was now; the lovely, rosey golds she now shared with Turbo. She held her breath and felt the weight of everything suddenly hit her, all at once. The Arcade's once hugest nightmare, the whole Arcade's most scariest lore of a bad guy, was now a part of her little system. Honored, struck with disbelief, hot with an almost delightful swathe of realized terror, she swallowed hard and understood that this was likely the hugest undertaking of the century. Being willing to download such a heavy loft of coding, such a loaded deck of information all into her fresh, new circuits, she exhaled a trembling breath and was continuously aware her thoughts were wildly free from her reign, from here on out. She sagged her finger to the rec-hall's teleport pad, knowing that everyone was meeting in said spot, for this palace meeting, though she desperately wondered just how she was going to successfully keep this all so close to the vest.

Upon gently blipping to the teleport pad, she eased off of it, as quickly as she could, so no one would see her rosey coding come to fruition. Successful with said endeavor, she kindly smiled and felt yet another weird wave of airy delight that so often now came and went. Typically sat in a very steady, normal state of being, now having Turbo's coding supplied her with so many different rushes of mood. Desperately trying to keep ahold of it all, whilst doing her best to not act so suspicious to her friends and family, here, she caught eyes with Ace and Theo, across the way. They smiled and nonchalantly waved to her as she crossed the lovely, glossy, sunny tiles of the rec-hall and into the massive living area, her eyes very quickly did what she could to gather just who was here, today. In a quick head count, she glossed her eyes past Ralph, Vanellope, Taffyta, Rancis, Tessa, Zed, Ace, Libby, Theo, Wren and, last but not least, Turbo. Feeling confident, it all sagged in a butterfly frenzy of girly defeat the second her eyes landed on Turbo's tall, handsome, masculine figure, as if every single last ounce of a pep talk the shred of his coding gave her, inside of her circuits and honeycombs, was now out the window. She held her breath as she dared to quietly approach the sprawl of bodies about the huge, swooping couch and extra seats of a sitting area, all easily gathered about the rec-halls huge, unlit fireplace.

Seemingly glowing, Turbo looked entirely different. Freshly showered, dressed in a light, soft cream t-shirt and a pair of darker grey jeans with a tear in one knee, strangely his features looked a bit more blissful, just a few pixels more lifted and sunny. As if he had somehow downloaded the light from the sun's rays into his coding, he very freely chit-chat with Rancis with a smile, his golden eyes were crisp and entirely alert, the boast of his adorably handsome smile, and prominent, sharp canines, was something he didn't show a big group so often. Berri was very well aware that the situations that played out last night, as well as the huge, life-altering act they both endured this morning, was beyond enough to give Turbo's ego the hugest stroke of his life, all whilst giving him a final kiss of crowned humility; he looked as if he was untouchable, which now had Berri further lost in thought. She very softly sat down at an empty seat on the couch and pondered just maybe how she physically looked to others, though this all very easily came to a head the hot second she realized just the being she sat down next to; the one that had been almost viciously eyeing her since she walked in.

"Alright, so... Don't take any of this the wrong way, but," Wren's very quiet mumbling was only audible to her, he leaned closer into her side as she tenderly sat down next to him, she raised her eyebrows in sweet, poised, collected surprise and eased her intelligent eye contact to Wren's as he pressed on in a dainty whisper of full snark, "Your coding looks really good on Turbo, and all, but damn, Berri..."

"What, what's wrong?" Berri whispered in a soft swathe of womanly nervousness, Wren eased her a sweet, cheeky little smirk and softened with the usher of his quiet compliment.

"I think you're ultimately the one who lucked out, the most," Wren huffed as quietly and as sincerely as he could; the whole group blurt out into laughter as Ralph cracked a joke, though Wren's and Berri's tender bubble remained muted in a soft vat of love Wren was adamant to secure to Berri's heart, "You look... REALLY beautiful, Bear. I mean it."

"... Oh, wow, thank you," Berri breathed in a soft show of entire, poised disbelief. She giggled in sweet, smiling, sunny delight that finally kissed her cheeks as she held her fingers to her sternum, "I-I LOOK different?"

"You both do, it's not drastic, you just... Both look as if you've gotten a coding upgrade, you BOTH are just glowing," Wren whispered in hot disbelief, as if he was surely prepared and would suspect they wouldn't make it out of the events of last night without swapping codes, though didn't expect it to look so grand upon arrival, "Like you both got a year's worth of beauty rest, or something, have you LOOKED in a mirror?"

"I have, I just..." Berri furrowed her brows and gave Wren a cute, snarky smile of girly disbelief, though their conversation very quickly fell to the wayside the second Zed stood and finally took the floor.

"Alright, guys, I appreciate you all meeting here with me and Tess, on such short notice," Zed instructed lightly, he wore a lazy button down and equally as lazy jeans, the whole group was airy and light-hearted, something Berri eagerly took note of. Usually palace meetings were a bit more daunting and not so breezy, she gently tucked one knee up to her chest, on the couch, hugged her knee softly and rested her chin on said tucked knee. She honed her patient eyes to her father and did what she could to not let her eyes find her fiancé, across the gape; sat with Rancis, she could easily feel his golden eyes on her figure in sly, sweet ogling. Zed heaved a soft chuckle and gently tossed his gaze over his shoulder, in Turbo's direction, which caused him to snap out of his silent ogling, "I think... It's safe to say we're all probably still beat, from last night, but I'm sure Wren, Theo, Berri and Turbo are far more exhausted than us."

"Yeah, last night was AWESOME," Vanellope pressed in a quiet hiss of fervor that still easily hung over everyone; Berri finally lifted a little and gave Wren a cute smile, one he easily shared with her as well.

"It was really great, guys," Ace sweetly encouraged with his usual, loving grin.

"TOTALLY magical," Libby hissed in girly, wistful delight.

"I agree, NONE of us saw that coming," Rancis choked a laugh as he gave the back of Turbo's shoulder a friendly pat, to which he scoffed with a knowing smile.

"It was incredible, and... You four need to know just how insanely proud we are of you," Tessa stated in soft, loving confidence, she specifically eyed her daughter and bobbed a nod, "Surely you guys are now in the trenches of drama, due to Gunner, but please don't let that spoil just how incredible last night really was."

"Yeah, have you guys heard from him?" Taffyta eagerly pressed as she sat up and peered to Berri in hot delight, as if to be fresh and ready for drama, and though Berri could see Turbo so tenderly shoot Berri a knowing look, as if to politely remind her that she didn't have to indulge if she didn't want to, Berri felt a gentle settle in her coding as she kindly opened her mouth to reply to her great aunt.

"Yeah, I have, he's... Well, he's definitely taking it a lot poorer than Turbo and I anticipated, but he's got a lot of insecurities and past troubles that really have clouded his judgement, thus far," Berri so eloquently stated, a dainty, womanly charm that radiated her, something that the whole crew hooked to, as if her presence here was irresistible, a fresh swathe of mature confidence that crowned her cheeks blushed, her bright eyes glossed about the group as she finally eased a nervous, snarky smile, "I-I... Tried reasoning with him, this morning, but he's BEEN in a bit of a weird headspace, as of late, and I told him that I think it's best we all have distance, from each other, from here on out."

The whole group was silent in Berri's seemingly Queenly press of gentle, cute authority she had laid over the group, and though everyone was quietly and suspiciously hooked to her, she sagged in sheepish, smiling nervousness and long-blinked in a flutter of girly shyness that came back to her cute blue eyes.

"I-I... Am sort of sore over it, it wasn't a very good conversation, unfortunately," Berri mumbled with a nervous smile, she desperately tried to keep-face, though Zed bobbed her a nod and furrowed his eyebrows.

"You're handling it very well, Bear, I'm impressed," Zed ushered, and though Turbo had whole suspicion that Zed knew of their escapades, earlier this morning, Turbo heaved a silent sigh and rubbed his face in now full understanding as Zed cheekily pressed on, "Surely you had Turbo to spot you, for that, right?"

"Moral support," Berri nervously quipped with a small smile she finally sent Turbo's way, he eased her a polite nod in return.

"Berri's right, he's... Definitely not in a good headspace," Turbo huffed a small laugh and shook his head, he beamed his sunny eyes to Zed's as Zed slowly looked over his shoulder, to peer to Turbo as well, "Sort of... Abandoned the show, and then turned it all around on Berri."

"Good grief, give me this guy's number," Ralph grunted as he cocked an eyebrow and shot his sweet grandaughter a protective look.

"I'm saying," Rancis muttered darkly, though Tessa gestured her hand to desperately now get off the topic of Gunner.

"GUNNER aside, you guys killed it last night, and... We'll be reeling for days, surely weeks," Tessa hissed in smiling delight as the group eagerly agreed with nods and smiles to all four band mates.

"AND, congrats to Turbo and Berri," Theo chimed with a nod as he gestured to the two, in accordance to their engagement; Berri raised her eyebrows in sweet surprise and looked down to her brand new ring in bashful, cute, adoring delight.

"Absolutely," Zed assured as the group murmured sweet notions towards the two, both Turbo and Berri sweetly caught eyes across their gap of a living room. Zed put his hands on his hips and eyed Turbo with a cheeky smile, to which he lofted his gaze to Tessa's, "That's been in the works for about a month, now?"

"No, dude, it's... It's been a WHILE," Rancis mumbled cutely as he eyed Zed, though everyone peered to him in confused curiosity as Rancis glanced to Turbo and pressed on, "The night that Berri was attacked by that deleter on the train cab? You remember, Bo..."

"Aw, yeah I remember that," Zed bobbed a nod and smiled down to his hands with the sweet memory, he eyed Turbo and cocked an eyebrow, "I guess THAT'S when I gave you my permission."

"Yes, sir," Turbo huffed a bashful chuckle and rubbed the back of his neck, to which Berri eased a shy giggle and hugged her knee a little tighter.

"You guys get engaged and then act like you hardly know each other?" Taffyta spout as she firmly gestured her hands towards the two, everyone erupted into sweet, knowing laughter, "At least ACT like you're due to getting married, you two are acting like he JUST asked you to be his girlfriend, or something!"

"It's a LOT," Berri managed to usher with a shy, blushing laugh, to which Tessa bobbed her aunt Taffyta a nod and gave her a sly side-eye.

"Last night was huge, it's a lot of information all at once, I'd have a hard time letting reality set in, as well, leave the two alone," Tessa stated with teasing authority, and though Berri and Turbo were absolutely certain that Tessa and Zed knew they now permanently shared codes, Berri was thrilled Tessa was doing what she could to get everyone off of their scent; she dared to shoot her mother a look of soft gratitude, and was further floored to see Tessa ease her a knowing wink.

"Due to last night, I called this palace meeting so suddenly because Tessa and I have been getting NONSTOP calls from Arcade's media and press," Zed directed, taking Tessa's cue, "As I'm sure Berri and crew have been, as well."

"All morning," Turbo muttered as he rubbed his face in subtle agitation, Berri, Wren and Theo bobbed nods of agreeing.

"Sugar Rush has now dealt with a HUGE influx of added gamers, due to this being all four of your guys' home-game," Zed softly volleyed his eyes to Turbo with a sweet smile, "And now, with added attention to the infamous Turbo, the palace has a swathe of Archived Chaos' fans at the front gates."

"... What?" Turbo hissed in hot surprise, he choked a soft laugh and peered to Berri, Wren and Theo, who all eagerly looked a bit more surprised, "I wasn't aware of THAT."

"Yeah, we've been sort of... Letting them come and go," Tessa huffed a small laugh and gave all four band members looks of apprehensive delight, "We KNEW you four would probably want your rest and privacy. We figured this palace meeting would be a good gauge to see if you would be willing to meet with some of the fans that came all this way to see you."

"It was a bit of a security issue, earlier, cause the front gates and plaza of the palace wasn't really prepared for such a crowd, but," Zed shrugged and gave everyone a look of certainty, "We got it all under control. I'm not sure if you four are ready to go on about just how to navigate THIS new shred of celebrity status, which... Unfortunately includes boundaries on fans that come and go, just when you visit people and when you close off."

"The reason it's inside a palace meeting is because, well... It involves ALL of us," Ralph stated calmly to the four, they hooked their eyes to Ralph in intent listening, "We ALL live here, save for Turbo. He's still connected, by proxy and by teleport pads, but... This effects all of us gamers that come and go. We just figured we'd all get together and make ground rules."

"Either we dedicate a proper meeting place, to compromise for publicity and palace-member's privacy, or..." Zed trailed off, raised his eyebrows in tender contemplation and shrugged, "We dedicate another area of the game where this kind of thing can take place, and the palace is off limits."

"I think, for the safety of everyone that didn't ASK for this lifestyle, we should respect everyone's privacy, here, and dedicate an area, offsite, for us to meet with our fans," Berri sweetly pressed, she sat up a bit straighter and almost dared to take a stand, though Zed still held the center of the meeting; she opted to scooting her rear to the edge of the cushion she sat on, to insinuate she had a shred of her father's floor, here, "I'm sure I speak for Wren, Theo and Turbo when I say that. None of you guys asked for this sudden kick of the public, right at our doors. It wouldn't be fair of us to just LET them approach the palace, like this."

"Agreed," Wren pressed, to which Theo bobbed a nod.

"Berri's right, it's really nice of you guys being willing to bend, but I'm positive there are some Sugar Rush racers that do not want this kind of attention," Turbo warmly laid his hand to his chest and scoffed a knowing laugh, "If it were me, and I wasn't involved at all, I'd definitely be irritated that the public was just outside my front door. I wouldn't feel as if I could come and go privately, respectfully."

"We discussed taking a little mini vacation elsewhere, shortly, anyhow," Berri freely admitted, she glanced to Wren and Theo with a nod, "A band getaway, to unwind and allow the hype to settle. With our absence, the palace will be free of our nonsense and that'll give mom and dad time to potentially conjure a proper place, inside Sugar Rush, for us to go about business as usual."

"We were thinking about being gone for about a week, anyhow," Turbo glued his eyes to Berri's, they operated in sync, a perfect, harmonious act of give and take, a sweet, cooperative movement that the whole room was just glued to, they very slowly began to own the floor, leaving Zed standing in the center of it, a blue orb of silence looking back and forth between Sugar Rush's future heads; something everyone began to eagerly cue to in the form of suspicious smiles, though Turbo pressed on in blissful unawares, "I think a week is definitely enough time. We also have to really sit down with Bedgy, and crew, before doing anything."

"It's a lot," Berri added, both her and Turbo fell into easy laughter with each other, to which Wren cocked an eyebrow and shot his mother a knowing look, something she eagerly caught to in the form of hot understanding, a gape of a curious smile.

"Off the top of your head, do you have any idea where said meeting spot should even be?" Zed stated in gentle curiosity; he could feel the stolen glances of cute bewilderment being shot across the gape, he raised his eyebrows and did what he could to mellow Turbo's and Berri's magnetic field.

"Yeah, actually, y'think there'd be a shred of an area maybe near Sugar Rush's entrance?" Turbo nonchalantly stated as he grunted to get to a stand, so he could pull his phone from his pocket, though while he was standing and thumbing through his phone, he freely cued up a few of his code room options, so he could get to a map of Sugar Rush's entrance. In doing so, he cued a shiny holographic map of said area, all proudly aglow with his and Berri's rosey coding; unbeknownst to the hot, raw fact in front of the whole meeting, he tenderly pressed on and innocently peered to Zed, "Like... Just so THEY don't have to travel so deep into the game to get to us? That'll really cut down on any security issues we come up against, yeah?"

"Yeah," Zed chimed with a cute, wide smile into Turbo's eyes; the group hung in now beaming, knowing delight as Turbo so innocently hovered. He long blinked in raw nervousness and now sagged his shoulders in continued, blissful unawares, though as Zed gestured to the map Turbo had open, he crowned a wider smile as the group began to quietly coo urgent, knowing notions towards Turbo, "Dude, I was doing EVERYTHING I could to keep you from spoiling your OWN secret, and you blew it."

"No WONDER you guys are acting so weird!" Rancis suddenly stabbed as he firmly pointed to Berri, she was scrunched with her hands so bashfully pressed into her face, though she eased a hard, shy giggle into her hands as Turbo now sagged in dumbfounded realization, to which his holographic display easily zipped away with his fresh glitching abilities.

"... Son of a bitch," Turbo muttered through the grit of his teeth, though he easily grinned the shyest smile he could as the group began to loudly and eagerly love on the two in a verbal mess of sweet, encouraging notions towards him and Berri.

"Oh thank GOD," Vanellope huffed as she pressed her hand to her chest and smiled to her granddaughter in cute delight, "I ALWAYS get so scared whenever a User-made gamer pairs off with a self-programmed gamer."

"It seems to be a trend," Ralph grumbled as he shot Tessa and Zed a playfully dirty look.

"Yeah, I had a sly inkling, Turbo was FAR too smiley, over there," Libby chimed in cuteness as she gave Turbo a sweet little side-eye of certain knowing.

"Annnd, here's the part of the meeting where everything derails," Taffyta choked a laugh and glanced her attention to Wren, who raised his eyebrows, bobbed a nod and shot a sneaky smile in Berri's direction.

"Alright, Mrs. Black, y'got Turbo to leave Sugar Rush, play in front of nearly sixteen thousand people with you, PROPOSE to you, annnnd... Give you his coding all in one night," Wren joked with a widening smile, "Just WHAT will you two do next?"

"This morning," Berri quietly mumbled, she cleared her throat and looked off, and though only a few people caught just what she meant, Wren furrowed his eyebrows and confusedly dart his eyes to Theo, who was cutely stifling laughter.

"... Wait, what? This morning, what does that mean," Wren muttered innocently.

"She was asleep when we got off the train, last night, remember?" Theo choked, everyone began to muffle knowing laughter.

"Ohh, this MORNING, hot off the PRESS, aren't we, now?" Wren cued with a wide, toothy grin as he shot his eager eyes to Turbo, across the way; he delicately tugged at his collar and huffed a trembling, smiling breath.

"Yeah, can we uh..." Turbo gestured his hand, long-blinked in delirious embarrassment and was thrilled Zed caught on and gave Turbo's shoulder a firm pat of understanding.

"Okay, no more private matters, moving on, let's not be nosey, but... I speak for everyone when I say," Zed hovered as everyone fell silent for a second; he gave Turbo a cheeky grin and eased a tender chuckle of relief, "Thank you for taking care. That's a risky situation."

"AND congrats," Tessa chimed, as everyone eagerly smiled and cooed positive notions towards the new, coded pair; Turbo huffed a shaky chuckle and bashfully gave Berri a cute smile, in which she sweetly returned.

"Berri, I think you need to look MORE shy about it," Ace joked with a hearty laugh, to which everyone drew their tight attention to Berri's wildly blushing face and cued to Ace's laughter. She eased a wide, shy grin and firmly covered her face, once more, as Libby gently elbowed Ace's chest and gave him a teasing smile, as if to ask him to knock it off. Ace shrugged and eased both Turbo and Berri a kind, conclusory notion, "Jokes aside, what mom said... Congratulations, you guys."

"Thank you," Berri meeped with a shy huff of a giggle as she did what he could to tidy her hair, she bashfully glanced in Turbo's direction and felt overwhelmed with smiling glee as everyone peered to the two in sweet delight.

"Thanks, everyone," Turbo eased with an equally as shy smile, though he raised his eyebrows and gave Zed a knowing look, "Back to... The topic at hand?"

"Before you gave yourself away?" Vanellope muttered teasingly, the group was still alive with understanding laughter.

"I'm just gunna," Turbo grunted as he took a few steps back and returned to his spot next to Rancis, "Sit... Down..."

"Aw, next to me?" Rancis prod, he raised his eyebrows and furthered this notion of teasing towards the palace's brand new swapped pair, he gave Berri a cute, cheeky look and gestured out to her, across the way, "Methinks you should go sit with your bride, friend."

"Trade'yah," Wren chimed cutely as he firmly stood and began to cross the meeting, everyone eased in knowing laughter as Turbo finally scoffed a defeated noise amidst a knowing smile, passed Wren in a firm few pats of understanding and finally made his way to Berri's positioning across the stretch of the meeting.

"Fancy meeting you here," Turbo mumbled down to Berri, he carefully sat down next to her and, although she was still scrunched in shyness, she eased up a little as Turbo sagged his arm about her back and squeezed her into a confident side-hug.

"Likewise," Berri's smile widened as they caught eyes, she scoot a little closer to Turbo and rested in his tame and comfortable side-embrace.

"You two showed up separately and everything," Zed mumbled cutely to Turbo, he eased a wide, annoyed grin and looked down to his lap in whole defeat as Zed eyed him and began to cue up his own code room holographic displays, proudly shining with his and Tessa's lovely, silver coding, "Almost got away with it."

"Good effort," Ralph volleyed to Turbo with a nod of genuine compliment, Turbo bobbed Ralph a nod, eased an annoyed smile and rolled his eyes.

"Woulda'been discovered eventually, anyways," Turbo mumbled, to which Zed cocked an eyebrow and gave Turbo a knowing look, and although Zed wanted to persist with said teasing, he was well aware he'd have a proper chance to chat with Turbo privately, after the meeting; something that Turbo was now prickled with concern, over, the sheer fact that everyone seemed so lighthearted about said code-swapping finalization, he eyed Sugar Rush's King as he carried on with the meeting, Turbo's heart properly began to thud in blind concern as to just what was to come.