GothGirl4800, Saskia D. Fox , Sbgchan, LilianaDragonshard, Tiryn and NewYorkCelt
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"So let me get this straight. You don't know how to drive" Ralph stated.
"Well, no, not technically. I just thought that…" Vanellope began.
"What did you think? Oh, I'll just magically win the race just because I really want to!" he mocked.
"Listen, wise guy. I know I'm a racer. I can feel it in my code!" she snapped back.
Ralph groaned in frustration and threw his hands up in surrender "That's it'! I'm never getting my medal back"
"What is the big whoop about that crummy medal anyway?" Vanellope asked trying to push her cart off the boulder.
Ralph whipped around and glared at her "The big whoop? Well, this may come as a shock to you, but in my game, I'm the bad guy and I live in the garbage" he told her.
"Cool" Vanellope grinned.
"No. Not cool. Unhygienic and lonely and boring, and that crummy medal was going to change all that. I go home with that baby around my neck and I'll get a penthouse. Pies. Ice sculptures. Fireworks!" he said with a longing smile then sighed "It's grown-up stuff. You wouldn't understand." He slumped his shoulders. Shay looked back and forth between them, she really wanted to intervene but she knew that they both needed this so she stayed silent.
"No, I get it! That's exactly what racing would do for me!" Vanellope exclaimed.
"Well, guess what?"
"What?"
"News flash! Neither one of us is getting what we want!" he growled and stomped angrily. They flinched when they heard an explosion in the background.
"What was that?" he asked walking towards were the sound had come from. Shay trailed after him curious to see the famous Diet Cola hot springs.
"Diet Cola Hot Springs? Watch out for falling mentos?" he read the signs out loud.
"Yeah! Check it out. Look!" Vanellope said throwing a small candy rock at the mentos with enough force that it broke off and fell into the Cola hot spring and exploded upon sinking.
"Oh, ow" Ralph said taking a step back as a splash of it hit his foot.
"You got to watch out for the splash. That stuff is broiling hot" Vanellope pointed out.
"Yeah, I got that. Thank you" he stated boredly "What is this dump?"
"I think it's some sort of unfinished bonus level. Yeah. Pretty cool, huh? I found that secret opening, and now I live here. See? Oh, look, look, look." She said excitedly and grabbed Shay's hand pulling her to a small area that had a bed and was built from scrap parts.
"Welcome to my home!" she climbed up on the bed and grabbed a couple of the candy wrappers that were just lying there "I sleep in these candy wrappers. I bundle myself up like a little homeless lady." She rolled around to show them. Shay's heart melted at the site and grabbed Vanellope and hugged her close to her chest, taking note that the kid snuggled deeper into her arms.
"By yourself? With all this garbage around you?" Ralph asked softly.
"Well, yeah." Vanellope peeked out of Shay's arms "I mean, everyone here says I'm just a mistake and that I wasn't even supposed to exist. What do you expect" she said sadly.
"They're wrong, you are not a mistake" Shay told her.
"Listen, kid…I know it's none of my business but why do you even stick around this game?" Ralph asked her.
"You really don't know anything, do you? Glitches can't leave their games. It's one of the joys of being me." She sighed and rested her head against Shay's shoulder. Shay looked up and gave him a pleading look. He nodded in understandment and began to pound on the ground.
Vanellope quickly squirmed out of Shay's hold "Hey, what are you doing? Come on! I know it's a dump, but it's all I got." She called out to him.
"If you're going to be a racer, you're going to have to learn how to drive. And you can't do that without a track" he finished say while dusting off his hands.
"Whoa" Vanellope looked at the track he had just made with his bare hands and Shay grinned.
"All right, now." He set her cart on the tracked and waved her over. "Let's hustle up. We've got some driving to do." He smiled.
"I'm going to learn to drive! I'm going to learn to drive!" she running around and all worked up only stopping briefly when a thought came to her "Oh, wait. Do you know how to drive?" She asked him.
"Yeah! I mean, I haven't done it, but…look, I flew a spaceship today, okay?"
"You crashed it" she told him plainly. Ralph grabbed her and gently tossed her I in the driver seat.
"Just get in. How hard can it be? Okay, uh…started it up" he told her. it took a second but Vanellope found how to start it "There we go. So there are some buttons on the floor."
"Pedals" she corrected him with a small laugh and Ralph smiled.
"Pedals. Right. Now, uh, that's the go pedal" he said pressing on it lightly and the engine began to roar louder, then pressed the one beside it "That I believe is the stopper" he noted when nothing happened and then pressed the last one "And this…Wait. What is this? That doesn't do anything." He said repeatedly pressing the pedal.
Shay laughed "That's the clutch pedal" she told him.
"The what?" he said looking at her confused.
"Ooh, what does this joystick do?" Vanellope said moving it while Ralph was still pressing on the clutch and the cart took off.
Ralph groaned as he face planted on the ground and slowly got up again "Okay, good. Let's try that again"
"How'd you know what that was?" Ralph asked Shay.
"Oh I know how to drive" she answered sheepily.
"Why didn't you say anything before?"
"Hey in my defense I only know how to drive automatic, not manual, my sister tried to teach me once but I thought it was too much work" she admitted. Ralph looked surprised.
"You have a sister?"
Shay's eyes widened at what she said, then quickly shook her head. "I use to. It was before the Cy-bug war broke out in Hero's Duty" she lied quickly. Ralph nodded and got the feeling she didn't want to talk about it so he dropped the subject.
They both began to teach Vanellope how to drive each attempt ending up with Ralph getting hurt in the process. It wasn't until the 6th try that Vanellope was finally somewhat getting it.
"Okay now shift it. That's good. Keep going!" Ralph instructed as Vanellope began to get the hang of it.
"Shift it again!" Shay shouted.
She let out a laugh "I told you guys, racing's in my code!"
Ralph chuckled "I got that medal in the bag!" he turned and grinned at Shay.
"Hey, Ralphie, Shay, watch this!" Vanellope called out speeding off faster and going off the track and onto the unfinished race track. Speeding up the ramp to jump over the gorge.
"Look out!" Ralph shouted when he saw her glitch a few feet higher and coming close to the mentos.
"Whoa!" Vanellope quickly ducked down the end of her kart hitting some mentos and making it rain with a couple of them. Ralph yelled and ran trying to dodging the boiling hot after splashes, lifting up Shay in his arms as he tried to avoid them as best as he could. Vanellope came crashing down on the track to a skidding stop in front of them.
"So how did I do?"
Ralph sighed and struggled a way to say something nice "Well, you almost blew up the whole mountain" he stated.
Vanellope pushed her hair behind her ear and nodded "Right, right. That's a good note"
Ralph flinched when another mento fell into the hot spring. He held Shay closer to him and turned to glare at Vanellope.
"You got to get that glitch under control, kid." He scolded.
"Okay, I will, I will….and then you think I got a chance?" she asked him.
"Um…tiny" he smirked down at her and Vanellope began to jump up and down in happiness.
"Yes, I'm going to win!" she repeated over and over.
"You can put me down now" Shay smirked at Ralph making him blush. He then turned towards Vanellope.
"Top shelf" he offered her his fist.
"Top shelf" Vanellope smiled bumping her tiny fist with his enormous one.
"Alright, short stuff go practice some more" Shay told her "And be careful with that glitch!" she shouted as Vanellope drove off excitedly.
"You think she's got this?" he asked her.
"Totally" Shay nodded.
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