They soon stopped and looked around as they saw what looked like a chocolate based location.
"Here it is, The Chocolate Swamp!" Mint told them.
"And there's the chocolate bridge or of what's left of it." Rancis said.
"Your shortcut is cut short!" Jib told Mint.
"Oh, terrific!" Princess Lolly groaned. "Now how do we get across?"
"Uh, Princess Lolly, you do know you have wings, right?" Atticus asked.
"Oh... Of course... This'll be a breeze!" Princess Lolly smiled as she walked up the bridge as it seemed to have a bigger gap up close. She then giggled before flying herself across with ease.
"You're next, Jolly." Patch said.
Jolly soon turned into a kangaroo and hopped over.
"At least it's not Kangaroo Jack?" Cherry smirked with a small shrug.
"Alright, Jib, you're next." Patch said.
"I'm on it..." Jib smiled as he nodded and soon ran over and jumped across the bridge with ease, but he soon lost his balance. "Whoa!"
"Jib!" Princess Lolly cried out.
Jib soon fell right into the chocolate swamp.
"Oh, no! Jib!" Patch panicked.
"Jib!" Mint cried out.
"He's stuck!" Princess Lolly yelped. "We gotta do something!"
"Please help me!" Jib cried out as he was stuck.
"How do we get him out?" Rancis asked.
"There must be someway." Cherry replied as she didn't want to give up just yet.
"Mr. Mint! Please help him!" Princess Lolly cried out.
"Yeah, you can use your candy cane!" Pupcake told Mint.
"It'll have to do." Mint replied as he soon took out his candy cane.
Lord Licorice was soon heard coming.
"Oh, come on!" Cherry complained.
Mint looked worried about that.
"Hurry up!" Cherry told him. "We're losing time!"
"Yeah, and unwanted company is coming!" Atticus added.
"I want that scepter!" Lord Licorice glared.
"Jib, grab hold!" Mint called out as he took out his candy cane for the gingerbread boy to grab onto to be pulled up into safety.
Jolly soon dived in to save Jib as he morphed into a dolphin. Jib soon tried to grab onto Mr. Mint's candy cane to save himself from the chocolate swamp, only for him to fall.
"This is bad..." Cherry grabbed on her hair in a frenzy. "Atticus, now what?!"
"Go on ahead, you guys, go!" Jib told the others as it seemed hopeless for him.
"No way! We're not leaving you!" Strawberry told him.
Princess Lolly soon handed her scepter to Gloyd before she jumped over the bridge to help the gingerbread boy. "I'm coming, Jib!"
"She's really amazing." Gloyd had hearts in his eyes about Princess Lolly.
"I don't think it'll work out between you guys," Swizzle smirked. "She is a princess and you're a prankster."
"Besides, I thought you had your eyes for her older sister." Rancis told Gloyd.
"Meh, I can dream." Gloyd shrugged.
Rancis and Swizzle sweat-dropped to that.
"You realize you'll have to choose, right?" Swizzle asked Gloyd.
"...I guess..." Gloyd replied.
"That is, if they aren't already engaged like in arranged marriages." Rancis then said.
"Bleh! Arranged marriage," Vanellope stuck her tongue out. "We may not be programmed to grow up, but I am so not using arranged marriage since I'm The President/Princess of Sugar Rush."
"And that's a good thing." Swizzle said.
"Oh, um, r-righto." Rancis smiled nervously to Vanellope since she was right next to him.
"Hold on!" Princess Lolly told Jib as she came to save him. She soon saw something to grab onto as Jolly morphed into a floaty.
"Ooh, what a fine time." Lord Licorice smirked as he stood over the others on the bridge.
"Oh, buzz off!" Mo told him.
Lord Licorice soon kicked them all into the chocolate swamp.
"Leave my friends alone!" Vanellope glared.
"Oh, great, it's you." Lord Licorice glared back.
"You are just twisting my Twizzlers, you son of a glitch!" Vanellope scowled.
"Now, now... Is that any way to talk to your uncle?" Lord Licorice replied.
"I don't care if you're my uncle; I don't want anything to do with you!" Vanellope glared as she started to glitch.
Lord Licorice soon went to lunge out for her to grab her. Suddenly, Vanellope glitched around like she would in Sugar Rush almost like she had a special ability to teleport, and where Lord Licorice missed her as he crashed on the ground.
"Uh, is your friend okay?" Strawberry asked her cousin.
"Oh, that's right!" Taffyta replied. "Vanellope's a glitch back home, and it looks like she can glitch here too!"
"Well, Candy Land is apart of Sugar Rush." Rancis said in clarification.
"...I guess that's a good point." Taffyta replied.
"What? But how did you do that?" Lord Licorice asked her.
"I... I dunno, I just do." Vanellope replied as she hid away from him the best that she could.
Lord Licorice soon saw the lollipop scepter. Vanellope also looked to it and the two seemed to glare to each other upon getting the lollipop scepter. The two of them soon raced for it.
"You best stay out of my way, girly!" Lord Licorice glared to Vanellope.
"Never!" Vanellope glared back.
"Don't let him get the scepter!" Princess Lolly told Vanellope.
"I won't!" Vanellope promised.
A Licorice Bite soon tripped her, making her fall into the chocolate swamp before it got the scepter for Lord Licorice.
"Aw, come on!" Vanellope complained.
"Not so tough now, are ya, little crumb snatcher?" Lord Licorice smirked. "Well, all of you enjoy your swim! I'm due at the castle to take over Candy Land! Ta-ta!" he then laughed as he walked off with his Licorice Bites in victory.
"We can't let him get away with the scepter!" Rancis told them.
"We've got to get out of here!" Princess Lolly added.
"Yeah, before a monster or something shows up." Minty shivered.
"Oh, please, like some monster actually lives here." Cherry scoffed.
"Then why do I feel something moving?" Patch asked.
"Maybe it's your stomach." Cherry replied.
They soon heard growling with some bubbles beneath the swamp.
"...Uh... I'm sure it's nothing." Cherry said, trying to keep calm.
"I sure hope you're right." Taffyta said.
Eventually, someone came out of the swamp, revealing to be a monster.
"...I'm not gonna say anything." Cherry muttered to herself.
The monster seemed to growl at them which made them all panic.
"Don't eat us!" Rancis panicked.
The monster held out its arms as he came closer.
"Hey... He's not gonna hurt us... I think I know what he needs." Patch smiled as he soon swam up to the chocolate monster.
"What are you doing?!" Cherry panicked.
"I don't think he's gonna hurt us, Cherry," Patch smiled. "I think I know what he needs."
"Wait!" Cherry told him. "Look, Patch, I know we've had our differences, but I couldn't live with myself if you didn't make it out alive!"
"Patch, please, don't throw your life away!" Mo begged.
"Hey, big guy, you want a hug?" Patch smiled. "Come here."
The monster looked to Patch and they soon shared a hug.
"I'm just glad chocolate won't poison me anymore thanks to Cherry's friend, Willy Wonka." Patch smiled to the monster.
"Wait, that's all that monster wanted?" Cherry asked. "A hug?"
"Come on, everybody!" Patch smiled to the others. "Team hug!"
"Alright." Atticus said.
"Uh, I think I'll just hang out here." Cherry said as she tried to exclude herself from the hug. She soon saw the monster pouting. Cherry turned her head.
"Aw, come on, Geeky," Vanellope said. "One hug's not gonna kill ya."
"He's fine." Cherry replied.
"Oh, come on, Cherry!" The others begged.
Cherry sighed sharply. "Fine..." she then crawled over to the chocolate swamp monster and held out her arms. "Get in here."
The monster smiled and soon grabbed her into a smothering hug.
"Good thing you're made of chocolate." Cherry muffled.
"And I guess he's not so bad." Vanellope smiled.
"Guh..." Cherry groaned as she was a big mess right now.
"I don't know your name, big fella, but we'd really appreciate if you could help," Jib smiled to the chocolate monster. "We've got to warn the King! Lord Licorice is going to turn everything into licorice!"
"Yeah, we'd really appreciate your help." Mo added.
The chocolate monster soon nodded to the idea of helping them and put them on the ground away from the swamp.
"Thanks," Mint smiled. "You're kinda gloppy, but it's been fun!"
"Yeah, and you're tastey." Cherry said.
The chocolate monster soon hugged her and planted a kiss right on her.
"Whoa! Ugh... Okay... Thanks..." Cherry muttered.
"Come on, we have to hurry." Patch said.
"Coming!" Cherry called out as she soon went to join them.
The chocolate monster smiled and waved as they continued their quest in Candy Land.
"This is so much fun." Gloyd smiled.
"I just hope we make it to the castle in time!" Vanellope replied.
"We will, Your Highness, I just know it!" Strawberry said to her.
"Aw, don't call me Your Highness, call me Vanellope!" Vanellope replied.
"Um, okay, Vanellope." Strawberry said.
"You got a lot to learn, Strawberry Shortcake." Vanellope hid a small smirk.
"I guess I do." Strawberry said.
Cherry soon took out a checklist of people she had met on various adventures, and added Strawberry's name to the list as they hurried to the Candy Castle.
"Let's hope we'll stop him in time." Swizzle said.
"I'm counting on it." Minty said to him, a bit worriedly.
As they got to to the Candy Castle, it almost looked as though they were too late.