A.N.: MAN! The first part of this chapter was HARD to write, I'm not an expert on narrating car races so I hope I did O.K. at least in my first try. Had to look for some references in other fanfics to see how others do it.
Anyway! The moment you all have been waiting for has finally arrived. Now is when the story REALLY begins.
Warning: This chapter is LONG! Even though I divided in two (chapter 2 was the first part) I kept adding more details to the narration…so sorry!
Have fun!
Chapter 3: Queen Chocolette Von Schweetz
Upon hearing the booming voice of the announcer say 'GO!', all of the karts sped away, and immediately began jockeying for the top positions.
Vanellope wasted no time in securing first place for herself, followed closely by Taffyta, Rancis and Candlehead as usual. Next were Jubileena, Snowanna, Crumbelina, Gloyd, Swizzle, Minty Zaki, Adorabeezle, and finally the eight new racers who were still getting familiar with the track.
Reaching the end of the Royal Track, the racers jumped the first ramp and soared high into the air, heading into Gumball Gorge. Landing with expertise, Vanellope proceeded to maneuver between the giant gumballs skillfully, while the others far behind her struggled to some degree, especially with going uphill and downhill at the same time. She knew that the racetrack had been modified, but so far she hadn't noticed anything unexpected.
But just as she was thinking this, her eyes widened in horror as she drove deeper into Gumball Valley. The giant dispensers began to throw spiky gumballs at the uneven track, much bigger in size than the usual massive gumballs. She let out a sharp yelp when one came too close to her and barely managed to dodge it in time.
Unfortunately, Candlehead didn't have the same luck and she disintegrated upon crashing with the nightmarish confection.
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'Oooooooh, birthday cake disaster! Candlehead is out!'
The announcer's voice echoed while Candlehead's fans booed in response. Ralph, Felix and Calhoun watched in awe as the spaced-out racer and her kart got regenerated back at the Starting Line, a confused look on her face.
"Looks like the races got a little spiced up," Calhoun noted, returning her gaze back to the JumboTron to watch Taffyta fire a sweet-seeker at Jubileena, who had surpassed her for an instant. The red racer soon reappeared at the Starting Line, looking furious.
One by one, more racers started to reappear at the starting line. The eight new candy racers followed after Jubileena, and then Swizzle and Adorabeezle arrived after having crashed into each other while trying to dodge a double spiky gumball.
"They haven't even arrived at the Ice Cream Mountains yet and half of the racers have already been eliminated," Felix said with worry.
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Vanellope jammed her foot down on the gas pedal to speed up as she saw Birthday Cake Mountain at the end of Gumball Gorge, with Taffyta, Rancis and Snowanna right at her heels while Gloyd, Crumbelina and Minty were trailing far behind. They started to swerve around the spiral mountain as fast as they could, climbing higher and higher towards the cake top.
Passing through a line of power-up cubes, some of the racers were equipped with various candy weapons as Vanellope heard the booming voice of the announcer describe each one.
Snowanna, who had been in fourth place, fired a toffee torpedo at Rancis's kart, causing him to swerve from one side to another, dodging the projectile effectively. Minty used a speedy candy star to try to overtake the three karts ahead of her, but missed one of the left behind candy wrappers thrown by Gloyd, losing control of her vehicle and spinning uncontrollably until she collided with Crumbelina's kart with such strength that the kinetic force rocketed them both off the road and into the abyss.
"Minty Zaki and Crumbelina DiCaramello are out." Vanellope heard after reaching the cake's top tunnel. She revved her engine with an echoing growl, speeding up to make the jump from the highest peak of Birthday Cake Mountain. She rocketed into the air with the four remaining racers and soared down towards the rolling ramp, until one by one, each of them nosedived and landed without crashing on the sugar-crystal pavement. They all zoomed rapidly down the straight stretch of road that led to the Ice Cream Mountains.
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"The Pipsqueak has gotten better at this," Calhoun said, crossing her arms with a satisfied smirk. "She hasn't even glitched once to try and gain an advantage over the other cavities," Calhoun said with a smirk, crossing her arms in a satisfied manner.
"Well, she did promise to the racers that she would never do it during a Random Roster Race," Sour Bill commented in his dry voice. "The princess -I mean- madam president didn't want to be accused of 'cheating'. Of course, she still does it in game mode, and only if a gamer activates it with the control code sequence that is."
"Yeah, the kid is a moralist deep down," Ralph joked with his eyes glued on the JumboTron's screen.
"She might've picked that up from us," Felix said proudly, glancing at his wife who winked back at him, making him blush.
"Honestly I don't see what's wrong with using it once in a while," Ralph complained, his massive fists planted on his hips. " If it's a legal 'superpower' accepted even by the game's program, it shouldn't be considered 'cheating'. The cavities are just jealous of her and the kid just wants to be on good terms with them, that's all."
"Is that your bad-guy code speaking, Wreck-it," Calhoun said with a smirk.
"…Shut up," he said with his eyebrows knit in a straight line.
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Still leading the pack, Vanellope drove carefully over the slippery ice-covered road that ran through what used to be the uneventful Ice Cream Mountains track. Some new colorful snowmen armed with candy canons were shooting popsicles at the racers from the top of the hills, cracking the road with each missed shoot. Vanellope wondered if these were the new bad-guy characters that Ralph had mentioned earlier. Her code had identified them as such, but instead of feeling the expected fear that bad-guys supposedly gave to protagonists, she only felt cockiness and mockery when glancing at them. She even blew a raspberry at one after dodging a popsicle aimed at her kart.
Looking back over her shoulder, she checked the few racers who were still behind her.
Taffyta was having a hard time, her hard-candy kart skiing over the slippery track, while preventing Rancis from overtaking her second place. She saw Gloyd race through another power-up cube and a chocolate syrup canon appeared on his kart's body.
'Sweet mother of monkey milk, don't do it Gloyd,' Vanellope thought with alarm, jamming down the gas pedal to gain more distance and place herself as far away from his firing-range as she could.
Taffyta noticed Vanellope's sudden speed change. Glancing in her mirrors, she barely averted the reckless move from the orange racer.
"RANCIS! WATCH OUT FOR GLOYD!" she shouted at her blond friend just before they all heard the voice of the JumboTron announcing the attack.
'HOT SYRUP BEAN!'
"Stupid Gloyd," Snowanna cursed as she barely dodged the bean by moving out of the road and into the rocky field of the mountain for an instant.
"Ain't falling into that trap with ya buddy," she said as she watched the hot syrup fall on the ice road ahead of Gloyd, almost reaching Rancis and Taffyta's karts.
To Gloyd's horror, the hot liquid rapidly melted the crystal ice track and opened a pit in the middle of the road, leading into the deep abyss of the mountains. His eyes bugged wide and he immediately slammed his foot back on the brakes, but the slippery surface of the road didn't allow his kart to halt in time and he miserably fell into the pit with a shrieking scream.
Having avoided the trap, Snowanna returned to the track's road smiling triumphantly as she secured fourth place.
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Gloyd regenerated back at the Starting Line, breathing rapidly after such a scary fall.
"Smart move, genius," shouted Swizzle "The Swizz" Malarkey with sarcasm as the rest of the racers started laughing at him. Gloyd pouted with a frown while maneuvering his kart to the side of the track, joining the rest of the disqualified racers with shame.
Ralph snickered at the sight. "Ralph," Felix chided in disapproval. "That's not funny. The kid just didn't think his plan through."
"Sorry, sorry," Ralph said, wiping a tear of laughter from his eye.
"You gotta admit, hun, that kid messed up his chances of winning quite horribly," Calhoun said, making no effort to hide her own mocking smile. "He could have waited until entering the Rainbow Road Cave to fire up that bean."
"Well, I still don't think its right to mock his loss," Felix insisted.
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"What a moron," Vanellope said, rolling her eyes after watching Gloyd fall into his own trap. She heard Taffyta, Rancis and Snowanna laugh behind her and she suddenly realized that the Roster had pretty much already been decided, with Gloyd, Crumbelina, Minty, Swizzle and Adorabeezle keeping the five remaining qualifying positions after having been knocked out of the running with the rest of the Sugar Rush avatars.
But her racing code craved for more competition, just as they were about to enter the Rainbow Road Cave and the final section of the racetrack. It was pretty much just one straight boring road until the finish line, so what better to make things more entertaining than a not-so-friendly race for the glory. Narrowing her eyes, she looked back to face the remaining racers.
"Yo chumps! Whaddaya think about keeping on with the race 'til the end and see who really is the fastest racer of Sugar Rush 2?" A defiant smirk crossed her lips as she awaited their response.
Taffyta and Rancis exchanged looks with Snowanna, and the three leered back at her, eyes shining with excitement.
"You're on Pres!" Snowana chirped back with a devious grin.
"I hope Madam President doesn't regret losing her 1st place position!" Rancis shouted gallantly.
"Oh she will, bring it V!" Taffyta finally agreed to the challenge, crunching her lollipop between her teeth.
"All right then, see ya at the finish line suckers," Vanellope saluted them as the sound of four engines roared with fury as they entered the mouth of Rainbow Cave.
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Unknown to the racers, right above one of the snowy hills next to the cave's entrance, two snowmen watched as the four karts plunged into the darkness of Rainbow Cave. Exchanging blank nods, one of them picked a button off of his body, lifting it up to his mouth like a radio speaker.
"The princess has entered Rainbow Road with the other top three racers… your grace," he reported in a dark tone.
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Ralph watched, slightly bored, as the top four racers fought furiously for first place, speeding down the inclined and borderless Rainbow Road. With the revelation of the colorful and clumsy Snowmen as the new bag-guy/obstacles in the Ice Cream Mountains track, he had practically given up his worries concerning Vanellope's safety. He realized that if they were indeed the aforementioned new villains that the Surge Protector had warned them about, the princess made president was more than capable of dealing with them on her own.
Unknown to him, Calhoun and Felix silently agreed with him.
"Seems to me that the pipsqueak will have no problem handling those snowy pussywillows," the Hero's Duty protagonist said dismissively.
"I agree with my sweetie pie," Felix said, relieved. "Those guys don't seem to be capable of causing huge havoc here. I highly doubt that they can even leave the Ice Cream Mountains since they would melt in the much warmer area of the game."
"Yeah, I don't think I'll be able to invite them to the Bad-Anon meetings," Ralph said, half smiling.
He saw Vanellope swerve her kart to avoid hitting Taffyta's while running through a lengthy stretch of the colorful floating road. Right behind them, Snowanna had quickly overtaken Rancis after he had gotten distracted from a snow-cone cannon power-up that he had just missed in one of the curves. The crowd and the racers around them cheered the competitors with enthusiasm, excited to discover who of the four was going to be crowned the first champion of Sugar Rush 2's first Random Roster Race.
He watched Vanellope grin deviously at Taffyta before jamming down her gas pedal to surpass her, retaking first place a split-second before the track had become too narrow for the two karts to cross it side by side. Taffyta clenched her teeth as was left behind in second place once again. The road was so narrow that the racers had no choice but to maintain their positions until they exited the cave.
"Were you looking for the new bad-guy when you visited this morning, Wreck-It Ralph?" Sour Bill suddenly asked him.
"Yeah, Surge told us about it and we thought that the kid might be in danger since new bad-guys always go wacko at first. COME ON KID, SPEED UP MORE!" Ralph cupped his mammoth hands around his mouth and screamed at the JumboTron. Glancing down for a moment, he offered a slightly embarrassed smile before returning his attention to the giant screen. "I guess I was wrong about needing to be worried since those frosty felons didn't give her one bit of trouble, right Bill? GO KID GO!"
"You mean the snowmen on the Ice Cream Mountains track?" the small candy asked with a worrying frown. "I'm afraid those aren't the bad-guy you're looking for."
Ralph, Calhoun and Felix looked down at him with shock while the crowd grew louder in excitement as the racers neared the cavern's exit.
"Whaddaya mean cough-drop?!" Ralph exclaimed, his eyebrows forming a hard line. "You know who the new bad-guy is?!"
"You sonnuvagun," Calhoun snapped at the tiny candy. "Speak up already!"
Sour Bill felt chills run through his short round body from the menacing looks on her and Ralph's faces. "I-I… W-well… you see…," Sour Bill started to try and explain, but the booming voice of the announcer startled them.
'New Racetrack unlocked!'
The four of them turned their eyes back to the screen and watched in shock as a big black spot appeared on the Sugar Rush Speedway Map, just when Vanellope and the other three racers came blasting out of the cavern at full speed. The crowd suddenly went silent as everyone watched in confusion as a new dark and stormy set came into view on the JumboTron's screen.
The camera suddenly focused on the faces of Vanellope, Taffyta, Rancis and Snowanna as the four grew wide-eyed in alarm at what had just appeared.
"I think you're going to find out now," Sour Bill said in a trembling voice just when the camera moved again to focus on what the racers were supposedly watching in fear, revealing what looked like a giant and scary castle made of cola bottles standing tall and defiant in front of a very familiar volcanic formation.
'Welcome to the Black Cola Castle track!'
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The announcer's voice echoed darkly as thunder and lightning illuminated the cloudy purple sky of the new track that Vanellope and the three remaining racers had just entered at full speed. Vanellope gulped as they kept running down the road that was currently leading them into the black castle's proximity. 'Is this what the Diet Cola Mountain level was supposed to look like?' she wondered, feeling chills run down her spine.
She suddenly realized that the sound of roaring engines and pistons had stopped. Looking back at her friends, she noticed with shock that they had slowed down. Concentrating, she used her glitch to step back a few miles until she had rejoined the pack, startling the racers as another thunderclap roared just as she reappeared in front of Taffyta.
"Oh my Wonka, don't do that again Vanellope!" Taffyta complained, torn between rage and fright.
"Sorry, I just wanted to know why you guys had slowed down!" Vanellope shouted at them as more lightning flashed ahead of them.
"Are you kidding me pres?!" Snowanna screamed behind her. "Look at this place!" The rainbow-haired girl stretched her arms in indignation at their president's question.
"So? It's just a new part of the racetrack! I know it looks gloomy but the finish line is right after the Diet Cola Mountain, remember?" Despite her confidence, she wore a nervous smile. Wait, why was she nervous anyway? Was her code telling her something?
"Ye-yeah, but that means that we have to pass through the-the castle," Rancis said in a shaking tone while pointing with a trembling finger at the now much closer dark formation that was in their path.
"Oh come on! It's just one big dark castle! I bet it's probably empty inside." The princess-president could feel her confidence starting to ebb.
"Pres, I really, REALLY, have a bad vibe about this!" Snowanna insisted as the castle loomed larger and larger. "Don't try acting brave now! We have the Roster assembled anyway!"
"Snowanna's right V!" Rancis pleaded as the wind grew stronger. "Come on! You can check out the castle later if you want but please don't make us cross it!"
Vanellope looked at them and then directed her eyes to the platinum-haired racer.
"Are you scared too Taffyta?" she asked her with narrowing eyes.
Taffyta narrowed her eyes back at Vanellope but remained silent for an instant. She turned her gaze at the Black Cola Castle and then back to the president after coming to a decision. "I say we could go around the castle instead of going thru it. We'll be off the road but we could jump back on it after passing Diet Cola Mountain." Silently, she thought to herself, 'No way I'm crossing that soda forsaken place, Vanellope!'
"I second that idea!" Rancis finally managed to say in better spirits.
"Me too!" Snowanna backed up them.
Though she felt relieved, Vanellope rolled her eyes at their final decision.
"Fine! We'll go around the scary castle and take the path surrounding Diet Cola Mountain instead! Geez! Bunch of cry babies!" She slammed down the gas pedal as she veered her kart onto the side of the road, just passing by the side of Black Cola Castle.
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"Seems that Vanellope and the others have decided to not cross the castle," Felix said contentedly after the four had watched the racers go off the road and were now rounding the castle through the uneven area of the familiar and less frightening Lollipop plains.
Ralph and Calhoun breathed in relief when suddenly the announcer's voice boomed again.
'Warning! Boss level alert! Boss level alert!'
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Vanellope looked around in shock after hearing the voice of the announcer resonate around them, looking for any sign of incoming danger when suddenly the background music changed into a rock & roll tune.
The four of them then heard the distant thunder of an unknown engine, revving strongly several times and accompanied by the sound of screeching tires. Looking back at the castle, Vanellope saw the big gates of the black architecture opening wide. A thick purple fog came from inside just as a pair of bright lights shown through it. Something in Vanellope's code changed and she unexpectedly found herself paralyzed in shock when a purple and black flash blasted from the gates of Black Cola Castle and was now running at a burning speed in their direction.
"BAD GUY INCOMING!" Rancis screamed with all the might of his lungs and slammed down the gas pedal in utter fear.
Snowanna and Taffyta mimicked him with equal screams after seeing the black and purple object rapidly closing in on them. Vanellope gasped in horror and proceeded to gain as much distance as she could, maneuvering in between the lollipop trees and the gumdrops.
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"What the hell is that thing?! Someone tell that camera marshmallow to give it a close up!" Ralph demanded, feeling his heart racing at an unnatural speed. The candy fans were shouting and running in fear and the racers where gathered around the JumboTron with worried eyes. No one seemed to know what was happening.
"Ralph, calm down," Felix pleaded, moving his eyes back and forth between Ralph and the screen.
"Don't you dare to tell me to calm down Felix!" Ralph snapped at him, feeling his own temper kicking into overdrive. "Vanellope is in danger and on one knows what that thing is!"
Calhoun noticed Sour Bill go pale just as the cameraman had finally managed to focus the image into a visible treat.
"It-It's… It's," he babbled before abruptly passing out.
"Oh for the love of…," Calhoun muttered in irritation.
"RALPH LOOK!" Felix screamed at him, directing his attention back to the screen.
"Wh-what the…," Ralph said, wrinkling his eyes.
The image was blurry because of the incredible speed of the object, but Ralph managed to distinguish what looked like a racer sporting a black helmet driving an equally black kart.
"Does that look like bad-guy material to you Wreck-It?" Calhoun said between gritted teeth just as a pair of menacing black canons suddenly sprung up on each side of the mysterious black kart, despite the kart having not gone through any bonus-cube.
"I think we found it," Ralph finally said while clenching his fists.
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Snowanna yelped in fear at sight of the fearsome weapons that were now aimed right at her. She was going at her kart's maximum speed and yet she couldn't lose the approaching racer. She heard an explosion and her world started to spin at an uncontrollable speed, just as she felt a strong and painful electrical shock go through her whole body. She heard screams in the distance and thunderous crashing sounds along with the screech of tires. Her kart spun alongside another object and both flew high into the air, t-boning each other before landing on top of another hard object in the pavement.
A few seconds passed until she finally opened her eyes again, finding herself back and unharmed at the Starting Line. She looked to her side and saw Rancis and Taffyta lined up with her, fright and confusion written all over their faces. The other Sugar Rush avatars ran to where they were.
"GUYS! Oh by Wonka, are you all right?" Candlehead asked them with tears in her emerald eyes.
"What just happened?!" Taffyta asked in confusion. She remembered tailing behind Vanellope at full speed, running away from the black racer before her vision had gone blank.
"That black racer shot some kind of electric pulse at Rancis and Snowanna, making their karts lose control!" Swizzle told her with a frown. "They crashed into you while they spun uncontrollably tangled with each other!"
"Where's the pres?!" Snowanna suddenly asked. They all looked to the JumboTron screen to see the black racer catching up with Vanellope, positioning right alongside her.
Ralph jumped from the Royal grandstands with Calhoun and Felix at his tail, his nine foot tall frame looming over the finish lines. He looked down the last stretch of racetrack, desperate for any sign of Vanellope approaching.
Calhoun loaded her rifle and stood firmly behind him.
"Guys…," Felix said while gripping his golden hammer. "We should take it easy… I mean, it's the official bad-guy of the game we're talking about… he's just doing his job, right?"
"We'll see about that," Ralph said, frowning darkly.
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Vanellope looked at the black racer next to her cautiously. She still couldn't figure out who the racer was even though her code was tingling with alarm and fear towards him. She peered intensely at the black helmet and yelped in surprise when the racer turned his head towards her. For a few seconds that seemed to stretch into eternity, they stared at each other silently, engulfed by the roaring sound of their karts' pistons and the whistling tune of the wind caressing their chassis. Vanellope saw her reflection in the racer's helmet visor and felt her heart shrink with an unknown feeling; her code was reacting strangely towards the mysterious racer and she felt the unexpected urge to cry.
'Why am I feeling like this?' she mentally questioned. 'Who are you?' The racer kept running alongside her without doing anything to harm her. She frowned at the black racer for a moment before grinning mischievously.
"All right, show me what you got buddy!" she shouted to the racer, pushing her gas pedal to the floor and steering her wheel, swerving back onto the racetrack. They sped up to their maximum speeds as Vanellope raced straight towards Diet Cola Mountain. She located the secret entrance and went through the two sugar free lollipops with a zapping sound.
The moment both karts entered, Mentos began to fall down, loosened by the booming sounds of the karts' engines, landing in the volatile spring below and splashing the grueling hot cola all over the place. Vanellope jumped on the spiral ramp, going up through the twisting track rapidly with perfect veers of her steering wheel, losing no speed on the turns. She noticed that the ramp was now completed and saw a new exit tunnel that went through the Mentos roof. She barely glanced back a bit to see if the black racer was still close at her heels and saw with surprise that the racer had disappeared.
"Uh? Where did he go?" She looked at the hot cola pit to see if the racer had fallen in by any chance. The sound of a claxon blaring from the opposite side caused her to squeal in surprise, the unexpected noise startling her. Vanellope's eyes bugged wide when she noticed the black racer running impossibly along the wall in a dangerous incline without falling down the volcano's walls.
"SWEET MOTHER OF MONKEY MILK!" she exclaimed in surprise, almost losing control of her turns.
Shaking her head in disbelief, she checked again and discovered with shock that her eyes had not been fooling her. The black racer kept running at her side along the wall as if gravity didn't affect him. Vanellope's eyes narrowed, her moment of stunned silence giving way to a fresh, overpowering surge of competitive determination. She shot a dark grin at the racer while tightening her grip on the steering wheel.
"No more games!" she shouted, slamming the gas pedal down as far as it would go, spinning her wheel until the roof came into view.
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Ralph felt his heart skip a beat when he saw Vanellope's kart fly out of the top of Diet Cola Mountain, soaring high into the air followed by a nosedive at full speed. "Come on kid, GLITCH," and just as he had said the word, he saw her disappear in a pixilated blue spark and reappear again with her kart bouncing across the pavement. She quickly stabilized herself and started to pick up speed again.
The last leg of the race lay straight ahead of her with no racer or obstacle to stop her from crossing the line. The moment she came to the final stretch of track and the golden sparkling arch of the finish line came into view, a distant, boisterous cheer exploded from the grandstands of the candy citizens and among the Sugar Rush avatars. Ralph smiled proudly at her while Calhoun and Felix whistled and cheered in a mix of bliss and relief.
Just as Vanellope started to smile broadly, already tasting the sweet flavor of an oncoming victory, seconds away from crossing the line… she heard it again… the sharp blare of the warning claxon.
Her face went pale and her eyes nearly fell out of their sockets when she saw the black racer, once again appearing along her right side in a bright flash of purple pixels. The racer quickly saluted her with two fingers before pulling ahead of her with an explosive roar of his kart's engine, leaving purple flames in his wake and a scandalized Vanellope far behind.
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Ralph, Calhoun and Felix gasped in unison at the sight of the incoming dark vehicle rocketing toward the finish line. The three of them quickly moved out of the way just as a black and purple flash crossed the arch, followed by a thick golden cloud of sugar powder.
The sugary dust cleared as the announcer spoke up to identify the winner of the Roster's cup.
'We have a new sweet champion,' the voice echoed silently through the racetrack, but not a single cheer of victory came from the crowd.
The mysterious racer parked a few inches past the finish line. Ralph and the others ran over to Vanellope's side, seconds after she had crossed the line right after the black racer.
"Kid, are you ok?" asked Ralph, while glaring menacingly at the stranger. On the opposite side of the kart, Calhoun was already aiming her rifle, her finger lightly feathering the trigger.
"I'm fine, 'cept for my ego!" she said while looking over at Felix who was currently holding out his trusty golden hammer tightly, ready to fix any damage she might have suffered.
Vanellope jumped out of her kart and marched in the direction of the figure, much to Ralph and the Sergeant's surprise.
"Yo, nice racing out there!" she said, stopping at a safe distance and narrowing her eyes. "Nobody's ever beat me in a race for an entire year, so congrats I guess. Though we don't usually accept unknown racers to the Random Roster Race, so I-… wait a minute…" Vanellope cut herself off, scrunching her vision and looking closely at the racer's kart.
She could tell that the sporty racing kart was mostly made of hard black marzipan, with purple fondant thin stripes streaking along each side of its massive body. The wheels were fancy looking, eerily similar to Vanellope's default white kart, made of sparkling black marzipan with purple candy crystal disk brakes in their centers. It also had an aerodynamic high wing on the back and a deflector on the cockpit, both made of purple crystal candy. A set of matching purple mirrors finished the look.
It was much longer and sharper around the edges than the typical Sugar Rush racing karts. But what really caught Vanellope's attention was the crown with the twin lollipops symbol of the Sugar Rush Kingdom's emblem engraved on the doors and bonnet.
Vanellope frowned at that and returned her gaze to the mysterious racer. "Who are you?" she asked softly while arching an eyebrow.
The mysterious racer finally decided to step out of the kart, and everybody gasped at the sight of a slim and quite curvy figure. 'She' was barely as tall as Calhoun, dressed in a tight, black leather racing jumpsuit with purple stripes that ran all along her sides. A black and purple skirt covered her tight black spandex pants while her already trim waist was adorned with a thick black and white checkerboard belt. Purple and black striped high platform boots (very similar to Vanellope's leggings design), and spiral candy knee-patches covered each leg. A white scarf around her neck with the same crown symbol on the front and purple fingerless gloves completed the image.
Lifting up her helmet, she finally revealed her face to them.
"Oh my land!" Felix gasped audibly, earning a burning glare from his wife. Meanwhile, Ralph stared intensively and involuntarily at her.
The racer was beautiful, there was no doubt about that, and her facial features oddly resembled Vanellope's own, but with much more matured physiognomies. She had fairer skin, faint blushing cheeks and black painted lips; her big eyes were a vibrant electric green instead of hazel and sharper on the edges, sporting dark purple eye-shadow and thick black mascara. Her long hair, which was currently warped in a tall twirling ponytail with a golden crown on its base, was jet black with a few white stripes going all along its creamy and curly length, nearly reaching her waist.
She shook her recently liberated long hair a few times, making her tall ponytail bounce seductively in slow motion, much to Ralph's awe.
Directing her narrowed green eyes upon the young president, she smiled darkly at her.
"Well hello there… lil' sis," she said in a soft, playful tone while arching an eyebrow at her.
Ralph, Calhoun and Felix almost lost their balance at her words, gasping for air while their hearts stopped simultaneously in utter shock.
Vanellope looked at her with an eyebrow raised in a quizzical expression, when suddenly she felt an update in her code. Her eyes widened at the revelation, slightly glitching in surprise.
"I-I have a sister," she repeated softly with a blank expression. Vanellope turned her gaze towards her sister, smiling, and was about to say something when the final piece of information reached her code. Her face fell a little as her sister chuckled darkly at her.
"You… you're…," she struggled to say while frowning slightly.
"I'm Queen Chocolette Von Schweetz… your new bad guy," her sister finally announced with an evil smirk.
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MOTHER OF GOD! THIS WAS SUCH A LOOOOOOOOONG CHAPTER!
I'm never writing a race EVER! Oh my god that was HARD to narrate!
I hope you have all enjoyed this chapter! Please don't forget to leave a review so I can keep feeling encouraged into writing the story!
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Oh and if you are interested to know, Chocolette's kart is based off the EV-X11. Google it up and be amazed! It's a quite badass looking racecar model in my opinion.