Chapter 6
Vanellope hopped off her makeshift raft once she was certain she was far away from Disgust.
Looking around, she decided to take her chances and keep walking,
meanwhile, Dash was looking around too, trying to see if anything was familiar to him. So far, nothing.
Eventually, Vanellope found a tree where she took a seat and buried her face in her hands. She was hopelessly and utterly lost, and she had no one to talk to or help her.
As she was sinking deeper into her thoughts, she heard a SNAP. Head shooting up, she looked around.
The snap had come from Dash who had decided to rest his feet on the other side of the tree.
After a bit, Vanellope got up and looked around, the forest was quite dark and ominous.
Eventually she saw a path that looked good enough.
Meanwhile, Dash had pulled out his compass and was using it to find his next path.
Suddenly, dark mist came from the ground towards Vanellope. In a panic, Vanellope turned to run, and ran smack dab into Dash.
The two of them looked at each other in shock before Vanellope glitched three times and ran away.
Dash turned and chased after her in surprise.
"She's like me!" He thought.
Meanwhile, Frogslip and Llort had seen the whole exchange.
"A boy?" Frogslip asked in surprise.
"I hope there's nothing serious between them." Llort began.
Meanwhile, Vanellope kept running, the sound of footsteps in hot pursuit after her.
Turning, she realized that the boy chasing her was starting to run abnormally fast. Stopping, she turned to give him a warning look.
When Dash saw her look, he paused and turned to leave.
"Don't run away!" Vanellope exclaimed, tackling him.
They fell on the ground and Dash slipped into a mud puddle.
Vanellope was curious, she had never seen someone move as fast as he did. Was he even human?
She cautiously made her way over to him.
"What are you?" She asked, surprised.
"I'm not a what." Dash responded.
"I'm a who. Like you are."
Vanellope's eyes widened. "You are like me! Abnormal!"
She helped him up. "Where did you come from and what are you doing here?"
Dash gulped. "I'm trying to find other abnormal people like me."
"Thats what I'm doing too!" Vanellope happily remarked. "I've never met another abnormal person before."
Dash lowered her head. "Me neither." Dash replied. He didn't know why, but this girl was making him feel tongue-tied.
After sorting out his thoughts, he finally said. "Where are you from?"
Now it was Vanellope's turn to lower her head.
"I... I don't know..."
"I don't know either!" Dash exclaimed.
Maybe if he was lucky, they could go on this journey together and he would get to understand more of this girl.
"I do remember one thing from my past..." Dash added. "A phrase: Bill her."
"Bill her?" Vanellope laughed.
Dash shrugged. "Yeah... I don't know what it means either... but Bob said I definitely came from somewhere."
"Bob?" Vanellope asked, surprised.
Dash smiled to himself, at the memories he and Bob shared, but now, Bob was... sighing he sat down and pulled his knees to his chest.
"He raised me."
"What was he like?" Vanellope asked, sitting next to him.
"He was very big, but also very kind. There will never be another man like him."
Eager to change the subject, he turned to Vanellope.
"Enough about me, who raised you?"
Vanellope scowled. "I wasn't raised." She huffed. "I was incarcerated. But I don't have to worry about that anymore, now it's just me and my thoughts."
Dash's face fell for a second until an idea hit him. "Well..." he began, "I was thinking... since we're looking for the same thing... do you think we could look together, just US and our thoughts?"
Vanellope thought it over. She did feel lonely traveling alone, and they seemed to be getting along quite well.
"I'd like that." She finally said.
Then a familiar voice screeched "there she is!"