Thanks again to the authors who let me use their oc's for my story. I would like to point out that althought I said that many of the oc's will be added here, not all of them will play an important part. Some of them may just be brief cameos or mentions. But I do promise to add them in the next story.
Also, I would like some requests for funny or awkward situations to put the racers in for a short story or ficlets.
Disclaimer: I don't own Wreck it Ralph or the oc's except for Alden Monde.
After the Royal family and Jack had finished getting ready for the day, Vanellope sounded the alarm for the racers to gather at the Castle.
At Alden's home...
Alden was just finishing off his breakfast of chocolate banana oatmeal cookies and mango frozen yogurt when he heard the alarm.
"Time to go.", he said. After placing the dishes and the utensils in the dishwasher, he was about to dash out the door when he heard the Thriller song again. He tried to push the button on his hat, only to find out that he wasn't wearing it. He went back inside and found his hat on the couch.
"Yes Kuya?", Alden said.
"O Alden, tumawag lang ako para masabi sa iyo na papunta na ako." "Hey Alden, I just called to tell you that I'm on my way."
"Yeah, I heard the alert. I was on my way to the Castle.", Alden responded.
I looked at him strangely. "Are you sure you're not forgetting anything?"
Alden tries to remember. "Oh yeah! I forgot the swordcane.", he said, grabbing the item.
"Anything else?"
"Oops! I forgot the hat.", Alden answered, picking up the hat and placing it on his head.
"ANYTHING ELSE?"
Alden thought again. "Nope. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get to the Castle." He said, going to the door again, somewhat annoyed by me.
As he was about to step out again, I yelled. "ALDEN!"
"What is it Kuya?", he asked, obviously irritated.
(Queue deadpan voice here) "Pants.", I said before logging out.
Alden looked confused. He looked down to see what I was talking about. "What about my pa- Aaahhh!", he said, shocked to find out he had forgotten to get dressed and was outside his house in a pair of Spiderman short shorts and nothing else. He rushed back inside, and got ready for the day (correctly this time) before going back out to the Cloud 9 and driving to the Castle.
At the Castle...
All the racers were driving up the winding road leading up to the Castle. The racers parked their karts and entered the Castle and made their way to the throne room.
The Royal Family was already gathered in the throne room. Vanellope was playing Asphalt 8 on her IPad Pro while King Candy and Oreanna were talking about the prank they plan to do on Vanellope. Jack was beside Oreanna, listening in on the conversation.
"Do you think that this prank of yours will work, my dear?", King Candy asked his Oreo themed daughter.
"It will, it will.", she said. "At least I hope it will."
As the two Royals were talking, Sour Bill entered the room. "Your majesties...", he said. "Ahem", Vanellope said. "...and Presidency.", Bill added. Vanellope smiled at the candy ball before going back to her game.
"Yes Bill?", King Candy asked.
"The racers are here.", Bill answered.
"Oh good, send them in.", King Candy ordered. Bill nodded before walking away.
A few seconds later, the racers entered the throne room. Some of them still looked tired, obvious due to Snowanna still having hair curlers in her hair. Taffyta herself did not have any makeup on. The mint sisters had mismatched clothes, probably in too much of a hurry to realize which color is theirs. Gloyd was carrying what appeared to be a stuffed candy corn toy and was actually asleep, using it as a pillow, while standing.
After a bit, Vanellope looked up from her game and stared at the racers, giggling at how ridiculous some of them looked.
Taffyta glared at the black haired girl. "This better be good Vanellope!", she sneered. If there was one thing that made her angrier than people being better than her, it was the former glitch turned ruler laughing at her expense.
"Hehe... Sorry about that.", Vanellope apologized to the racers. "And to answer your question, yes, it's important." Vanellope added.
"But first, hey Bill!", she called. One second later, he appeared right next to her.
"You called?", Bill said in his monotone voice.
"Woah!", Vanellope yelled, stumbling from the sudden scare. "Bill!".
The sour ball just responded with a "mhmm".
Vanellope just shrugged off the little candy's lack of reaction before speaking up. "Hey Billy-bob, can you get some of these guys some caffeine? Looks like they need they it.", she said, pointing to Gloyd, who was on the floor with his butt pointing to the sky and the stuffed toy under his head. There was also a weird sound coming from him.
"Hey Taff, does Gloyd snore?", Vanellope asked the pink racer.
Taffyta looked strangely at Gloyd before turning back to Vanellope. "No, he doesn't snore.", she sighed. "But it's something more embarrassing."
Vanellope looked curiously at her friend. "Well, what is it?"
Taffyta took in a deep breath, but later regretted it. "It's uh...well... Hah... Sometimes he sleep farts."
Vanellope took a while, as did the racers, and King Candy, to take this in. Vanellope spoke up. "No way that can be real.", she said, doubting the pink racer's claim. "You're just making that up.", she added, crossing her arms.
However, just as she said that, Gloyd suddenly farted in his sleep. This caused the racers to laugh then cough from the sudden emission.
"Cough,cough... Okay, I believe you.", Vanellope said. "Someone crack a window! Hey Bill!", she called out again for the little green candy.
"You called?", Bill said, appearing next to Vanellope holding a tray of Coffee Candy, also startling Vanellope.
"Gah! Bill! Will ya quit that!", Vanellope yelled in surprise.
"Leave me to my simple pleasures, your Presidency.", he said, looking down but smiling. "Here you are ma'am.", he added while handing over the candies to the teal girl.
"Thanks Bill. By the way, could you also open the window?", she requested. Bill nodded and opened the windows, letting fresh air into the room.
The racers all sighed in relief. Candy corn does leave a strange smell, and knowing how much Gloyd can eat, it was a wonder they were not suffocated.
"Now that that's out of the way, here guys, take one.", Vanellope said, offering the candies to the racers. They each took one candy and instantly felt the caffeine start working.
"Wow, that does pack a punch! Thanks V.", Swizzle said.
"No prob guys. Now onto some serious matter... Hey are we missing someone?", Vanellope said, pointing at the racers.
The racers looked around and realized that they were in fact missing two racers. "Yeah, where are Rancis and Alden?", Candlehead asked.
Barry pulled out a large pocket watch. "They should be here in 3...2...1..."
"We're here, we're here!", Rancis and Alden yelled as they burst through the door.
"What happened? Did someone hurt you Nelly? Did anyone take any of your pictures of me working out?", Rancis asked frantically as he rushed over to his girlfriend.
Vanellope blushed red at this. She didn't want the others to know about her 'collection'. Now they do. "I-I don't know what you're talking about Rancis. I'm fine.", she said nervously. She then pulled Rancis to the side.
"What going on Nelly?", Rancis asked.
"I'll tell ya all later but for now...", she said, getting close in his face.
"Yes Nelly?", Rancis said, feeling uncomfortable at the closeness.
"Don't you ever mention that 'collection' to anyone again, got it!", she said in a threatening tone and jabbing him in the chest. Rancis nodded quickly. "Good. Now let's get back to the others.", she said, pulling him back to the group. "Oh and Rancis, you might wanna take that off.", Vanellope added, pointing to a hair curler in Rancis's hair. Rancis blushed and ripped said curler out of his hair. Surprisingly, it held its familiar shape.
"Okay, so now that everyone's here, I want to tell you all why I summoned you.", Vanellope said to the rest of the racers. "You see, today, we are all going to get another update!"
The racers seemed shocked by this.
"Another one? Don't tell me we're gonna get another guy like him.", Taffyta said exasperatedly, pointing to Alden who then scowled.
"What? What did I do?", Alden asked, feigning innocence.
"Anyway...", Vanellope interrupted, "we won't be racing today since the guy doing the update asked Mr. Litwak to keep the gamers from playing."
"Aaawwww!", most of the racers whined. "So we won't be racing today? What are we supposed to do now?", Crumbelina asked.
"I don't really know.", Vanellope answered. "But considering this is an update, we should still stay in our game." The other racers agreed. It would be very dangerous to go outside of their game and risk their codes getting damaged.
"But hey, we could still relax until the update comes. Right guys?", Oreanna said, trying to brighten the mood. The racers smiled.
"Don't worry Crumbs, I know something fun we can do.", Ron said, walking up to his girlfriend and draping his arm around her shoulders. Crumbelina smiled at him and nodded.
The racers all thought of some stuff they can do on their day off as well. The room was getting noisy from the kids' ideas so much that the game's monarch suddenly called out to them.
"Okay, now that that's settled, you all can go now.", King Candy said. The racers thanked him and left, except for Barry, Alden, and Rancis.
Rancis walked up to Vanellope, "So Nelly, want to join me at Chocolate Lake?", he asked.
"Hmm, maybe later Flugs. I still have to tell ol' Stinkbrain about the update. Ya know how worried he gets.", Vanellope answered.
Rancis frowned a bit but soon realized that she was right. "Ok, I guess I'll call you later then.", he said, turning around and walking out the door.
"Flugs, wait!", Vanellope shouted before glitching infront of him. "You forgot something."
"What?", Rancis asked.
"This.", Vanellope said simply before kissing him.
"hehe, Thanks Nelly.", Rancis said before getting into the RV1 and driving away.
Back in the Castle...
Vanellope was walking to her throne when she realized the two racers still remaining.
"Hey, what are you guys still doing here?", she asked.
Alden didn't respond and stayed still, staring at the wall.
Vanellope got closer to him and waved her hand infront of his face, trying to get his attention. "Hey Alden, are ya in there?"
Barry walked up to the President and grabbed her shoulders, causing Vanellope to glitch in surprise. "Barry!", Vanellope whined.
Barry paused the screen and looked at the viewer...
("Don't you have anything else to write? It sounds like you don't know any other words.")
"Sorry, but I tend to be forgetful. Don't remind me of my vocabulary. I already have low scores in my English class."
Barry just rolled his eyes and continued playing the story...
"Easy there prez.", Barry chuckled. "He's fine. He's just thinking."
Vanellope just responded with an annoyed huff. "Hmph. What are you still doing here anyway?", she said, crossing her arms.
Alden started to speak up again. "Oh, that. Well, Kuya called me a few minutes ago. He said he's on his way."
"Woah, really? So we're gonna get that update sooner than we thought huh?", she said, smiling. This smile suddenly disappeared,however. "Wait! I didn't get to tell Ralphy.", she said sadly.
"I wouldn't worry about it.", Jack said from behind the throne. "Didn't you and the others already talk about this yesterday? "
Vanellope thought back. "Oh yeah. phew... I was worried for nothin'", she said, wiping her brow with her sleeve.
The game characters suddenly heard Mr. Litwak outside the console.
"Well, here we go.", King Candy said.
In the 'Real World'...
"Hey Paolo! Welcome back!", Mr. Litwak said, opening the door and greeting me.
"Hello sir. Mano po.", I said. I took his hand, bowed and placed it on my forehead.
"What was that now?", Mr. Litwak asked.
"Oh, I'm sorry sir. I forgot last time. You see, this is a sign of respect in my country. We do it to our elders.", I explained.
"Oh, well, thank you my boy. I didn't really know about that. Sorry.", Mr. Litwak apologized.
"That's ok.", I said. I clapped my hands together. "Now, how about we get started on the update."
"Oh yes. Come on, let me show you the machine.", Mr. Litwak said, leading the way. It wasn't really far. A few steps separated the Sugar Rush game from the door.
"So Mr. Litwak, have there been any issues since my update?"
"Not really son. This new character did show up though.", Mr. Litwak answered.
"Oh, that's my character Alden Monde."
"Oh, so that's who he is. You know, he has been quite popular. Moppet loved playing as him, you know. But a couple of days ago, your character looked strange while Moppet was racing. He didn't even have a kart.", Mr. Litwak added.
"Actually Mr. Litwak, I did that on purpose. I made it so you can get a different 'mode' for Alden after playing him three times in a row."
We finally get to the Sugar Rush game. "Let's see what we have here.", I said as I pulled out a laptop from my bag and plugged it into the game. After a few minutes, I find a problem.
"Sorry Mr. Litwak but I got some bad news." Mr. Litwak comes over to me.
"What is it my boy?", he asked concernedly.
"Well, apparently the game is too full for any update to be added. The hardware is a bit too old to do anything else. At this point, adding one will cause the game to crash and possibly damage it. All of the data will be erased."
Inside the game...
The game characters all heard this announcement and were all getting worried. If the update was added, they could all lose their memories again. Vanellope already had tears in her eyes. The thought of her losing her family again was a bit too much for her. Oreanna felt the same, as did King Candy.
Back outside...
Mr. Litwak scratched the back of his head, "Well, what can we do? This game is very popular with the kids. I don't want to take that away from them. Plus, I love this game as well."
"Don't worry Mr. Litwak. I have an idea. I know a guy who works at a video game testing company for Tobikomi. When I first did the update, he asked me if I needed anything. I said no but I'll call him if I did. He can get us the new hardware to save this game and prep it for the update."
Mr. Litwak thought about this for a moment. At first, he wasn't sure if this would be the right decision. But the more he thought about it, the more he realized that it was the best choice for the game. After making up his mind, he agreed to let the new hardware get put in.
"Okay kid, I'll let you get the new hardware.", Mr. Litwak said. "When can we make this happen?"
I took out my phone and dialed the number. While it was dialing, I also used the laptop to save a copy of the game's data. On the phone, a female voice answered.
"Hello. Hardwrapping Hardware and Gaming Company. How can we help you?", the female voice answered.
"Yes, hello. Can I please speak to Henry Hardwrapping?"
To be continued...