Meanwhile, Princess Lolly soon flew the others to Granma Nutt's home.
"I hope she's home." Rancis said.
"You and me both." Princess Lolly agreed with him.
They soon came into the window which was open, and they found the older woman playing a game of Checkers.
"Granma! Granma!" Princess Lolly cried out as she flew in before accidentally falling onto her kitchen table on top of the board game.
The others soon got inside through the window.
"You okay, Lolly?" Gloyd asked.
"It happens." Princess Lolly sighed about her little fall.
"How often?" Mo asked.
"Too often." Princess Lolly pouted.
The dog panted and smiled to Princess Lolly as he seemed to be a basket of peanuts.
"Oh, goodness, Lolly! What's wrong, dear?" Granma Nutt frowned as she saw a sad look on the young princess's face.
"I... I... I lost my scepter!" Princess Lolly cried out.
"Yeah, some Licorice Bites stole it and kidnapped Vanellope." Atticus said.
"Well, you've all come to the right place." Granma Nutt smiled as she gave a hanky to Princess Lolly to calm her down a bit.
"Um, thanks, ma'am." Cherry gave a small smile as she liked the kindness in this woman.
"I just don't understand why they stole the scepter and kidnapped Vanellope." Strawberry said.
"Why, I believe you're Strawberry Shortcake." Granma Nutt smiled.
"I am, ma'am." Strawberry smiled back.
Meanwhile with Patch and the others...
"Is this it?" Patch asked once they came to a stop.
"I'm not sure, but I'll run over to that house and ask for directions," Mint replied before running across the peanut brittle road, breaking it slightly. "Oops."
"What is that on his shoe?" Pupcake asked.
Patch sniffed the substance before licking it. "Tastes like... Peanut butter..." he then said.
They soon heard someone coming down by the slide close to the house.
"Ooh! Visitors! Come on!" Granma Nutt smiled to Princess Lolly.
The others looked over and they were soon given some company, but some was familiar.
"I sure hope Vanellope is okay," Rancis frowned. "I never got to tell her that I... That I love-"
"Hey." Vanellope smirked.
"Vanellope!" Rancis gasped.
"What were you about you say? Something about love?" Vanellope asked.
"I love... I... I... I love... Peanut brittle." Rancis said.
"Mm-hmm..." Vanellope replied.
"Smooth." Gloyd smirked playfully to Rancis.
Rancis looked a bit bashful as he kind of chickened out.
"Man, this house looks like something out of Chuck E. Cheese," Patch said before looking over. "Atticus!"
"Hey, boy!" Atticus smiled, holding out his arms for his dog.
Patch soon rushed up to his owner. Atticus smiled before getting tackled and laughed as he hugged Patch once they were reunited. Pupcake and Custard began to rush right up to Strawberry Shortcake.
"Oh, you guys!" Strawberry beamed to her pets.
They soon ran up to her, hugging and licking her.
"Oh, I was so worried about you two." Strawberry smiled to her pets.
"I'm so sorry, I got distracted." Pupcake frowned.
"Oh, it's okay, I was just worried about you," Strawberry replied. "I was hoping you two were safe."
"Sorry, Strawberry." Custard and Pupcake told her pets.
Mo smiled as it was nice to see the pets ruined with their owner at last.
"Oh, before we forget, Lord Licorice has the lollipop scepter." Patch told them.
Princess Lolly gasped and cried to that as she felt miserable about her scepter being taken.
"And he plans on using it in The Sweet Celebration." Pupcake said.
"Oh, where are my manners? My name's Granma Nutt, and this is Baz!" Granma Nutt smiled to her company.
"It's nice to meet you both." Patch smiled back.
"Aren't you just darling?" Granma Nutt smiled.
"I seem to be... Stuck!" Mint grunted. "What is this goo?"
"That's 100% pure peanut butter under there," Granma Nutt giggled. "Right, Lolly?"
"I thought it tasted familiar." Patch smiled to the woman.
"So, who are you three?" Atticus asked Mint Jib and Jolly.
"I'm Mr. Mint, and this is Jib, and Jolly." Mint replied.
"Ugh... I feel a little sick..." Vanellope groaned as her belly seemed big after eating so much licorice to free herself.
"Well, no wonder with how much licorice you had to eat." Patch said.
"Poor thing... Come inside, I'll help make you feel better." Granma Nutt coaxed to Vanellope, looking to her the same way King Kandy and Lord Licorice did before.
"Let me guess, I look familiar, right?" Vanellope guessed.
"Yes, you really do, you look like someone I once knew... Let's get you down on the couch." Granma Nutt said.
"Heh... Story of my life today, lady." Vanellope replied.
"After we take care of your tummy ache; we'll have to warn the king." Patch said.
"Thanks..." Vanellope replied as she held her stomach. "Ugh... Licorice..."
"Dang licorice vines." Patch said.
"We can't let Lord Licorice take the scepter with the Sweet Circle, otherwise all of Candy Land will turn to licorice!" Granma Nutt panicked.
"I'm the one who's supposed to be in the circle!" Princess Lolly pouted. "That's my job!"
"Yeah, I don't think Lord Licorice cares." Cherry said.
"I was supposed to be responsible, but I wasn't!" Princess Lolly cried. "And now Candy Land will be ruined, and I don't know what to do!"
"We'll figure that part out later." Mo said.
"But there oughta, gotta be something we can do!" Mint frowned.
Jolly began to cry himself.
"Now maybe you'll think I'm nuts for thinking this, but I don't care," Granma Nutt smiled to them. "'Cuz everything here is nuts already!"
"Your point?" Cherry replied.
"The point is, you're not stuck if you don't give up!" Granma Nutt smiled.
"This may sound crazy, but she's right." Mo said.
"When a sticky problem tries and tries to drive you nuts, Sometimes you get sad and blue, no ifs or ands or buts~" Granma Nutt soon began to sing which made Vanellope give a small smile as she seemed to like this woman. "Sure, you've got a problem, but good gracious! Deary me! Nothing is as bad as you imagine it to be~"
'What is with these people and singing?' Vanellope thought to herself.
Cherry sat beside Vanellope as she seemed to tune out the song with her own headphones. Vanellope began to do the same thing. Eventually, the song ended and everyone soon felt motivated after Granma Nutt helped them.
"She's right! We can do this!" Jib smiled. "All we have to do is come up with a way to lure Lord Licorice to get the scepter back!"
"Yeah." Pupcake smiled.
"We can do it! We can do it!" Mint beamed only to get stuck in yet even more peanut butter. "Oops."
"Again? Really?" Cherry asked, unimpressed.
"Hey, I've got an idea!" Jib smiled. "Listen to this!"
"Okay." Princess Lolly smiled back.
"I guess we oughta help Ronald McDonald here." Cherry said.
"My name's Mint." Mint smiled to her like she forgot his name.
"Oi." Cherry groaned.
They soon huddled together and Jib told them his plan. Strawberry smiled hopefully as this sounded good so far as she hugged Custard and Pupcake, and where they were happy to be back with their owner. Atticus and Mo smiled as it was nice to see Strawberry Shortcake reunited with her pets. Granma Nutt soon gave Vanellope a special cupcake, and when the young princess ate it, she looked like she felt a lot better from her tummy ache blues.
"Whoa!" Vanellope smiled.
"It's an old family recipe, it works every time." Granma Nutt smiled back to her.
"Gee, thanks, Granny!" Vanellope replied. "Maybe I should give some to Ralph."
"Is that a friend of yours?" Granma Nutt asked.
"Yeah, one of my best friends," Vanellope said. "He's from the video game Fix-it-Felix Jr, and he's the bad guy, Wreck-it-Ralph. He's like a big brother to me though."
"Well, that's interesting." Granma Nutt said.
"Tell me about it." Vanellope replied.
"It's sure been a while since we last saw Ralph." Atticus told Cherry.
"Yeah, it has," Cherry had to admit. "I wonder how he's doing?"
"You guys gotta come over again soon," Vanellope begged. "Pleeeeease?!"
"Oh, alright." Atticus smiled.
"Yes!" Vanellope beamed. "You guys are the best big brother and sister figures ever!"
"Aw, I wouldn't say that." Cherry said bashfully.
"Well, I would." Vanellope smiled.
"Wow, thanks, Vanny." Cherry smiled back, feeling touched.
Soon enough, they were told about the plan. Lord Licorice was soon on his way with his Licorice Bites carrying his throne into Candy Land, not knowing about the plan.
"Faster, my chewy chums!" Lord Licorice demanded. "That Gingerbread Brat and other freaks couldn't have gotten that far on foot!"
The Licorice Bites kept carrying him until they came up to a sign.
"Ooh... I don't remember this part of the castle," Lord Licorice commented. "Must be a shortcut. Onward, my Licorice Lumpkins!"
The Licorice Bites began to groan as they carried the throne while they went down the shortcut. The others soon came out and the sign was revealed to be Jolly all along.
"Nice job, Jolly!" Mint smiled.
"Yeah, you did great." Patch added.
"Yeah, good work! Now go do your second trick," Jib added. "Come on, everyone, let's go!"
They then walked off down the path to go to Lord Licorice and his Bites.
"This is gonna be so much fun." Vanellope smiled.
"Oh, come on, you lazy bites!" Lord Licorice complained.
The Licorice Bites soon collapsed from exhaustion, dropping his throne on the way.
"What in the world are we doing up here?" Lord Licorice glared as he came off of his throne to the edge of the cliff. "And what's with all the slides?"
Gloyd soon took out a paper bag and blew into it before making it big enough and soon popped it with his hand, startling Lord Licorice off of the cliff and going down the slide in front of him. "Enjoy the ride." The prankster Sugar Rush racer soon smirked.
Lord Licorice yelped as he was taken for a ride against his will. The others watched him as he got hit by some pans inside of the house and soon landed hard in the ground, getting smothered in peanut butter.
'Yes, the plan worked.' Mo thought to herself.
"Hey! Get me out of here! What's the big idea? I'm stuck!" Lord Licorice complained about his literal sticky situation.
"Thank you." Atticus smirked as he snatched the lollipop scepter from Lord Licorice.
"Ya big Licorice Stick-in-the-Mud!" Patch added. "I oughta tear your gizzard out!"
"Good thing your mother wasn't here to hear you say that." Atticus said as he returned the scepter to Princess Lolly.
"Heh... No kidding." Patch smiled bashfully as he remembered his mother scolding him for saying that.
"Ah! My scepter!" Princess Lolly smiled as she hugged her scepter once Atticus gave it to her.
"Wait, what about the Licorice Bites?" Mo asked.
The Licorice Bites soon decided to go down the slide after their master.
"Idiots." Cherry muttered.
"I suggest we make a run for the castle." Atticus suggested.
"This way." Cherry replied.
They soon rushed off as soon as they could only to stop. However, some of the Licorice Bites got loose, much to their annoyance and dismay.
"We have to stop them!" Princess Lolly frowned.
"Too bad we don't have our karts." Minty said about her and the other Sugar Rush racers.
"Duh!" Atticus said as he hit his forehead before making the Sugar Rush racers' race karts appear with his crystal powers.
They soon looked around.
"Not to worry, sweeties! This is what I call a cracker of a good time!" Granma Nutt laughed as she rode off in her own car.
"Let's go!" Jib told the others. "If we hurry, we can still make it on time!"
"Come with me, Strawberry Shortcake, to the Pink Lightning!" Taffyta told her cousin, taking her over to her kart.
"Alright, cous." Strawberry Shortcake smiled.
The Sugar Rush racers then got in their respective karts like they were back home on the speedway.
"Um... Vanellope? In case something happens, I wanna tell you something..." Rancis said nervously as he got into his kart known as the Kit-Kart.
"It's okay, Rancis, we're gonna make it, so wait until The Sweet Celebration." Vanellope told him.
"But, Vanellope-" Rancis frowned.
"Come on, we gotta get moving!" Cherry told the racers. "There isn't much time left!"
"That's right." Atticus nodded.
Rancis sighed as he seemed to fail to tell Vanellope how he really felt about her, and they soon got ready by starting their engines and they soon drove after Granma Nutt.
"Come on, gang, we're almost there!" Mint smiled.
They soon heard the bell go off as they were dangerously close to being out of time.
"Oh, no! There's only one gumball left! We gotta hurry!" Princess Lolly panicked.
"Mint, do you know a shortcut?!" Patch asked.
"Sure! This way!" Mint smiled as he took them down a new path.
"Good grief! Not another shortcut!" Jib cried out.
"With the karts, we'll get there in no time with this shortcut." Atticus smiled.
"Groovy!" Snowanna smiled back to him.
Crumbelina nodded as she was silent as always, but had a small smile, but as they went down the shortcut they saw a bridge broke.
"Whoa, boy!" Vanellope cried out before hitting the brakes on her kart.