In this chapter, Azalea is going to go turbo. She's going to a fighter game. That way she can avoid being a damsel in distress. However, Gerald is going to notice her disappearance and is going to search for her. Along with the ride is his attractive nemesis, Sinistra. She's similar to Ganondorf just as Wreck-It Ralph is similar to Donkey Kong. And yes, even though he has been a villain in the Mario series he's a hero in his game series. Then again, apparently it was his ancestor who kidnapped Pauline, not him.

Let's read it now, shall we?

Chapter 2: Going Turbo

Since she wanted to be someone other than a damsel in distress, Princess Azalea thought about what arcade game she should go to.

There certainly were a lot of different arcade games these days. The arcade was doing well so naturally they were able to buy several different arcade machines over the last few months. As a result, there were a lot of video game characters traveling through the arcade.

Naturally, Pac-Man was eating at the food court. He certainly was a glutton. Ironically, he was affable to the ghosts whenever they weren't doing their job. Of course, he didn't have to worry about them eating his food. Ghosts didn't require sustenance.

Princess Azalea actually hadn't seen Pac-Man during non-arcade hours anywhere OUTSIDE the food court.

"I just love this cherry pie!" exclaimed Pac-Man, devouring it ravenously.

"Why doesn't that surprise me." thought Azalea. Personally she wondered if it was worth the risk of being attacked by poltergeists just so he could have dessert. At least Pac-Man had those Power Pellets to keep him safe.

Also present were Mario, who was eating lots of spaghetti. Well, he was Italian.

Donkey Kong was eating bananas. Lots and lots of bananas. He actually a hoard of them in his arcade game. Azalea wondered why exactly Donkey Kong needed so many bananas.

Well, he did have a rather large family. She had met Diddy Kong...and Dixie Kong...and Cranky Kong.

During arcade hours, the video game terminal was rather empty. None of the video game characters wished to leave their game during arcade hours. Otherwise people would notice that they were missing which could spoil the game for the players, depending on whether they were a main character or a supporting character.

Hero's Duty had gotten popular ever since it had been plugged in, now that she thought of it. For a moment she considered going in there and squashing Cybugs. It certainly WOULD be heroic, saving the galaxy from such a terrible threat. She could even earn a medal.

However, she then remembered the time Wreck-It Ralph paid Hero's Duty a visit. He had made it out of Hero's Duty alive, thank goodness, but in the process he had accidentally brought a Cybug with him to Sugar Rush, and for some strange reason it was able to lay an entire hive of Cy-Bugs over the course of several hours. She was surprised how many eggs a single Cybug could lay.

Perhaps that was the reason why that beacon exists. There was simply no other way to put an end to all that explosive breeding. They made rabbits seem scarce by comparison.

Fortunately, the Cy-Bug Queen was now aware that she wasn't actually supposed to bring an apocalypse to the world and that she was actually a video game character, so she didn't have to worry about Cy-Bugs trying to conquer the arcade anymore. The game had been updated yesterday so that she was the final boss of the game.

Even so, she decided maybe Hero's Duty was too dangerous. She didn't want to end up being eaten by one of those Cybugs. It seemed that a Cybug would eat anything in sight.

Although...getting a medal sounded nice. Maybe she should look for a game with one. She could hang it in her room so that everyone would know how special she was...oh wait, she was a princess. She was already special to begin with. Still, it would be a nice decoration in her room.

She kept searching for an arcade game that was worth their while. She considered going to Pacman, but she had to watch her diet.

There was also Super Mario Bros, but she didn't want to risk getting a head concussion from hitting too many blocks. Why didn't that hurt Mario, anyway? Whenever he bumped a question block with his head, he was as fine as ever.

Frogger was present in the arcade as well, but since she was in a medieval video game, she didn't know the first thing about crossing the street. Why weren't there are any crossing guards in Frogger?

She wondered what would happen if she kissed Frogger. Would he turn into a prince?

The princess decided to go to Street Fighter. Punching and kicking people sounded enjoyable.

Immediately, she went to Game Central Station.

Sure enough, she was warned by Sonic that if she died outside her own game, she wasn't going to regenerate. She wasn't sure why the games worked that way, but she decided not to dwell on it.

She knew that if a video game character died from outside their own game, they risked having their home unplugged, so she decided not to get reckless.

She entered Street Fighter and began to look for a sparring partner.

However, she then realized that maybe she should practice first. There was no point in fighting if you didn't know how to fight to begin with. The Street Fighters already knew how to fight ever since they were plugged into the arcade, but she wasn't a character from that game.

Hopefully she would at least be a better fighter than Dan Hibiki. It was embarrassing how he never seemed to win a single fight...well, except for the one time he won a fight out of pity.

"Anyone want to fight with me?" asked the princess.

Ken Masters looked at the princess curiously.

"I don't remember you being part of our game..." questioned Ken Masters. Typically the fighters only fought each other during arcade hours. When nobody was sticking a quarter into the machine, they usually hung out instead.

It was nice to take a break from rumbling.

"I know. I just decided to game jump." explained Azalea.

"Are you new to game jumping?" asked Ken.

"I am. I've stayed at my castle up until now." explained the princess. Sometimes she visited the other princesses for whenever being the distressed damsel stressed her out, but that was about it.

She had met several other video game characters though.

"Well, you should head back before the arcade opens again. If people notice you're missing from your game, they'll suspect that your game is glitched." stated the Street Fighter.

"Right..." nodded the princess. It was a general rule not to game jump during arcade hours. Chances are the gamers would notice that you're missing from your game. They all remembered the story of Turbo and how he ended up getting two games unplugged from the arcade. It was a lesser-known tale of how he managed to escape his game's destruction.

Well, the arcade had closed not too long ago, so she still had plenty of time. She didn't have to worry about not being there when her arcade game needed her the most.

She spotted Dan Hibiki, who was in the ring.

"Anyone want to spar with me?" asked Dan Hibiki. Personally the other Street Fighters thought fighting Dan Hibiki was too easy for them. They didn't usually fight him unless somebody chose to play as him, which didn't occur very often.

Azalea nodded.

Unsurprisingly, Dan Hibiki wasn't doing too well.

He was sweating all over.

Still, he was having an easier time than usual due to the fact that he was up against a rookie. Usually he had to go up somebody who had fighting experience such as Ryu for example.

However, Azalea managed to win.

She helped Dan Hibiki up to his feet.

"You're good...then again, everyone else seems to be better than me..." noted Dan Hibiki. Why couldn't he be strong like all the other Street Fighters?

"Maybe you need to do some more training...that's what I'm going to do." answered Azalea.

"Why didn't I ever think of that?" questioned the greenhorn Street Fighter. Perhaps he would win more fights if he tried striking a training dummy every now and then.

Azalea decided maybe she shouldn't go up against M. Bison. He was pretty strong. Fortunately, although he was technically a villain, video game characters didn't typically kill each other when they were from different video games, so she would be safe.

Now that she thought of it, she didn't seem to be in danger even in her own video game world either. People didn't make her lose lives, they just kidnapped her, that's all. It was kind of boring.

Azalea went to the gym and decided to lift some weights.

However, she started to feel tired. All this training and fighting started to wear her down after a while.

She decided to go to bed. Fortunately, there was a place for video game characters like her could stay when they weren't entertaining people.

She went to sleep dreaming about getting respect from other video game characters. She was more than just a pretty face.

She would show the rest of the arcade that.

However, in the process, she forgot about her arcade game.

In the Kingdom Saviors arcade game...

Since Azalea had left her game without informing anyone where she was going, people were wondering where she had disappeared.

Gerald decided to ask around. If they didn't find her before the arcade reopened, chances are that they could be in a lot of trouble. None of the characters in the game were looking forward to being homeless.

They could try finding a different arcade game so that they could have a home again, but the arcade characters had trouble adjusting to a video game that wasn't originally theirs.

"Has anyone seen Princess Azalea?" inquired Gerald.

"No, I have not. I figured she was with you." answered the knight.

Gerald wondered where she had gone. It wasn't like Sinistra to kidnap the princess outside of arcade hours. Usually she just relaxed at her evil castle until somebody inserted a coin into the arcade machine.

He continued asking around, but none of the knights had seen her leaving the castle.

He decided to ask the king.

"Have you seen the princess?" asked the knight.

"No, I have not." answered the king.

"Did she say anything?" inquired Gerald.

"Well, she did mention something about working out..." explained King Amanita.

"Working out..." questioned the knight.

Well, perhaps Sinsitra would know more.

He decided to head to her castle in order to ask her.

He had to admit, Sinistra's castle looked pretty creepy. It looked nothing like his majesty's castle.

Also, for some strange reason, there was always lightning clouds surrounding it. Not exactly lovely weather.

He knocked on the door.

"Hello?" asked Gerald.

An imp answered the door.

He looked at Gerald curiously.

"Yes? What is it?" asked the imp. It wasn't like Gerald to visit Sinistra's castle outside of arcade hours. Usually he stayed at the castle or went to visit other video game heroes, such as Link.

"I want to have a chat with Sinistra. I have something important to discuss." explained the knight.

"You want to see Sinistra?" questioned the imp. She didn't usually get any visitors.

Gerald nodded. He had something urgent that he needed to tell her.

"Come right in." answered the imp. Personally he was looking forward to fighting Gerald again during arcade hours. He had gotten stronger this time.

Sinistra was sitting in her throne. When she wasn't playing the evil villain, she was surprisingly affable.

"Hey there!" exclaimed Sinistra.

"Hi, Sinistra." said Gerald.

Sinistra noticed that Gerald had a depressed look on his face.

"Is something the matter?" inquired the sorceress.

"It's Azalea! She's gone missing!" exclaimed the knight.

"She has? Maybe she got tired of being the distressed damsel..." answered Sinistra. Personally she felt like she got the good end of the stick, getting to play as the main villain. One could argue that it was actually more fun playing the villain than it was the hero, even if she wasn't the character that people were playing as.

"She probably has. We need to find her before the arcade reopens!" exclaimed Gerald. Nobody wanted the arcade machine to be unplugged and shipped out of the arcade.

"But where could she be?" inquired the sorceress.

"As for that, I'm not sure." answered the knight. Maybe he needed to think like Azalea.

Suddenly, Gerald had an idea.

"Maybe we should ask Wreck-It Ralph...he'll probably know where she is." answered Gerald.

"Ah yes...the best person to ask is someone whose already gone turbo themselves." stated Sinistra.

"We'll need to be careful though. We can't respawn if we're not in our own video games." noted the knight. Fortunately, Wreck-It Ralph wasn't a particularly dangerous video game to visit.

"That's a problem." answered the sorceress. Sonic did warn them about that, now that they thought of it.

Together, they went to visit Wreck-It Ralph.

Fortunately, it seemed that Wreck-It Ralph hadn't left his arcade game. That made searching for him a lot easier.

Gerald went to the Nicelander Hotel.

"Yes?" asked Gene as he opened the door.

"We're looking for a princess. Have you seen her?" asked Gerald. They needed to find her quickly.

Gene shook her head. He hadn't seen any princesses lately.

"Have you seen Wreck-It Ralph?" inquired Sinistra. She just loved his tremendous muscles.

"Sure. Why do you ask?" asked Gene.

"We figured that the best person to ask about finding someone whose gone turbo is someone who's done it himself." noted the evil sorceress.

"That's a good idea, actually." nodded the Nicelander.

He pointed to where Wreck-It Ralph's house was.

Sinistra and Gerald went to look for him.

Currently, he was sleeping at his house.

"Excuse me?" asked Gerald.

Wreck-It Ralph woke up from his nap.

"Felix? Is that you?" asked Ralph, rubbing his eyes.

"No...I think he's at the Nicelander Hotel..." said Gerald. Everyone at the Nicelander Hotel loved him.

"Oh. Do you need anything? They always seem to have cake at the hotel..." asked Ralph. They were shaped just like the hotel.

"We're looking for someone. She went Turbo and now we can't find her..." stated Gerald.

"So, you decided that since I've gone Turbo myself...I would be ideal for asking questions?" inquired the muscular man.

Sinistra nodded.

"Well, if you want to find her, you should probably think like her. Why exactly would she want to leave her game?" asked Ralph.

Gerald thought about why Azalea would want to leave her game.

Perhaps she didn't want to play the role of distressed damsel anymore.

Admittedly, there wasn't a lot of action in that sort of role.

Maybe she wanted to play hero for a change.

"Maybe she didn't want to be the damsel in distress anymore?" asked Gerald. Sometimes he had wondered what would it be like if he played a role other than being the hero.

"That makes sense...sometimes the Icelanders have thought about being heroes like Fix-It Felix...he tends to inspire them. However, the game was only designed for one player so..." said Wreck-It Ralph.

"Mm-hmm." nodded Sinistra.

Personally she had to question why Wreck-It Ralph was the villain of the game in the first place. They did build a hotel over his house after all.

They decided to visit the terminal to see if anyone had seen the princess.

As it turned out, someone had seen the princess.

However, they had trouble understanding him.

That person happened to be Q-Bert.

Fortunately, Fix-It Felix had taught Wreck-it Ralph how to communicate with him.

"She went to Street Fighter?" asked Wreck-It Ralph.

Q-Bert nodded.

"That makes sense...chances are she wants to be strong." noted Sinistra.

"I guess we'll be going to Street Fighter then." said Gerald.

Together, the trio went to visit Street Fighter.

I hope you liked this chapter! We can only hope Princess Azalea is found before it's too late.

I figured I would include the characters from the movie since I figured the fanfic would be more fun that way.