After quick bonding and getting to know the area better, the Freds decided to go to the Mystery Machine and take a look at the Cyberspace land they were in.
"So, do you guys know where the Scooby Snacks are?" Cherry asked.
"Oh, we do, but there's no reason for us to find them," Velma-2 explained. "Because if we even get the Scooby Snacks, we'd just go right back to the beginning of the game."
"And we like it here." Daphne-2 smiled.
"Until you guys showed up with that Phantom Virus and Tabitha girl or whatever her name is." Shaggy-2 added as well.
"We'd be glad to get rid of him for you." Velma promised.
"If we could." Daphne shrugged.
"And Vanellope's not so bad..." Cherry said.
"Oh, no?" Fred-2 scoffed. "Trust us... We know what we're talking about."
"Well, we'll all team up and then the Phantom Virus and Taffyta won't stand a chance." Fred said, very determined.
"And I'll go find Vanellope and prove to you five that she isn't a bully or a zombie." Atticus said to the digital Mystery Inc gang.
The digital Mystery Inc wished him luck, making Vanellope sound like a monster in this world.
Fred-2 dropped them all off to a carnival to calm their nerves so they could all have some fun. The digital Mystery Inc even told them where the Scooby Snacks were and they were inside the arcade, however, something caught their attention. They all turned as they heard baseballs hitting a metal bat and there was a pro ball player inside the batting cages and there was a short girl dressed like a cheerleader with him by his side.
"Hey, man, great swing!" Shaggy cheered him on.
The cheerleader turned around, revealing to be Taffyta. "Thanks, want his autograph?" she grinned eerily again.
"Everybody play ball!" the Phantom Virus called as he summoned some old Scooby Doo villains.
"Yikes, our old enemies, at least we won't have to worry about new ones..." Velma said, then looked behind Cherry and worried. "Jinkies..."
"What?" Cherry put her hands on her hips, not feeling scared, though someone from a previous adventure was behind her now.
"Um, Cherry, behind you..." Patch said, pointing his paw behind her.
"Oh, I'm supposed to be surprised that Ben Ravencroft is right behind me?" Cherry taunted, slowly turning to see the author she used to obsess over.
Ben growled as he tried to seem threatening. "Oh... How does she do that?"
"I changed a lot since I spent my first Christmas away from my family..." Cherry folded her arms with a smirk.
"Oh... You think so...?" Ben smirked, leaning over her. "I can do worse... Much worse..."
"Bring it..." Cherry told him, without showing any fear.
"Hello, brat." A teenage boy's voice said from behind Atticus and Patch.
"Hello, little pint-sized hero." A woman's voice said from behind them as well.
Patch and Atticus turned around, even they had sworn enemies in this game.
"DESTROY THEM!" a familiar voice called.
Cherry turned to see Vanellope, she looked just as aggressive as the digital Mystery Inc said they were. "Vanny!?"
"KILL THEM! ERASE THEM! DELETE THEM!" Vanellope screeched as she looked very violent and aggressive with her princess tiara on, but she still had her usual racing clothes such as her hoodie, leggings, shoes, and skirt.
"Vanny, it's us, Cherry and Atticus!" Cherry cried.
"KILL THEM!" Vanellope yelled, not seeming to believe or listen to her.
"Vanny, please remember us, remember about the race and how we helped you with a practice race course! Remember Ralph!" Atticus called out to her, hoping it would jog a memory.
"BETRAYERS!" Vanellope merely hissed. "Sworn enemies... Get your revenge..." she said, her eyes seemed to glow an evil yellow like a demented cat's eyes. "DO IT NOW!"
"I told ya that she wouldn't want ya to save her!" Taffyta taunted Cherry and Atticus.
Cherry still wasn't afraid of Ben. "What can you do to me? What did I do to you?"
"Cherry, are you forgetting I'm a warlock?" Ben taunted.
Cherry was now scared. "Oh, crap..." she felt defeated already.
"This isn't good." Patch said.
Atticus began to make his way to Vanellope, knowing that deep down she was still the same video game character that Atticus and Cherry met. Vanellope seemed to be very angered as she made the monsters and villains go after the gang. Fred realized they were monsters and not even removing their 'masks' could work, since this was a video game, they were real.
"Okay... I have an idea..." Cherry said, her calm and stoic self at first.
"What's that?" Atticus asked.
"RUN!" Cherry yelled, actually sounding afraid for a change as she dashed off with the others.
"GET THEM!" Vanellope screeched.
"I swear I am going to kill Taffyta the next time we see her!" Atticus exclaimed while he was running.
Vanellope heard that and gasped. "How dare you talk to my best friend like that!?" she yelled, then looked angry again. "KILL THEM ALL UNTIL THEY STOP BREATHING!" she demanded.
The monsters and villains chased after their targets, showing no mercy.
Cherry kept running and she went into a haunted house, leaning against the door. "I think I'll be safe in here..." she said quietly to herself, until suddenly there was a loud shake, making her scream, she was all alone and now faced with the worst enemy she had ever faced on her adventures and she was actually afraid of him while Atticus and Patch were taunted by Cruella and Jackson DeVil. "GO AWAY!" she cried out.
"Whoa, it's just us!" Daphne said.
"Wow, she's really scared..." Daphne-2 observed.
"I am not!" Cherry cried, though she was shaking. She hugged Daphne though and started to cry. "He chased me with spiders!"
"Oh, my goodness..." Daphne sounded worried about her and hugged her, knowing how deathly afraid Cherry was of spiders.
Cherry sniffled and looked up. "Is he with you...?" she asked, a little scaredly.
"Who's he?" Daphne-2 didn't know who she was talking about.
"No, I think we lost him." Daphne said while comforting her.
Cherry calmed down once she looked around with the two Daphnes and decided to explore. "Wow... This place is actually kinda cool..."
"Oh, no!" Daphne-2 cried.
Cherry got instantly nervous. "Wh-What's wrong?"
"Look at how fat I am!" Daphne-2 pointed to her chubby reflection in one of the mirrors.
This caused for both Cherry and Daphne to giggle, seeing why Daphne-2 thought that she was fat.
"It's just a trick mirror," Daphne explained with a smile to her double. "You look perfect."
"Oh, thanks, you too." Daphne-2 smiled in gratitude.
"Creeper..." a zombified voice came behind them, startling them.
Cherry saw something and she went to the end, waiting for the two Daphnes to come to her sides and when they did, she clicked a button, showing a trapdoor, making the Creeper fall through a slide into a pile of mattresses.
"Wow, nice move, Cherry." Daphne-2 praised.
Cherry gave a playful smirk as she kept the Creeper trapped before he could climb back up the slide to get them.
"That door won't hold him for long." Daphne commented.
"It'll do for now." Cherry agreed with her.
Daphne-2 looked at herself in the better mirror.
Cherry rolled her eyes and grabbed her arm. "Come on... There's nothing to be afraid of..." she said calmly and quietly, shutting her eyes as she felt safe now.
Atticus was now on a rollercoaster, hoping that Jessica's ex-boyfriend wouldn't follow him, Fred, or Fred-2.
"Are they still behind us?" Fred-2 asked.
Fred looked to see that Jackson had hitched a ride with the monster known as the Gator Ghoul. "Yep... That walking handbag and fashion victim."
"Fashion victim, no, more like fashion crazy assassin! He tried to kill me of when I was a baby and he has a vile with the same strength as me and Patch!" Atticus called.
Suddenly the rollarcoaster was coming to a hill part. Jackson and the Gator Ghoul kept trying to go after the Freds and Atticus, not giving up.
"Look!" Fred-2 saw a broken rail.
"Oh, no!" Fred cried out.
"What do we do now?" Fred-2 seemed worried and scared.
"JUMP!" Atticus cried out.
"WHAT!?" Fred-2 panicked. "We must be five stories high!"
Fred saw a bounce house and pointed to it. "Down there!"
After counting to the three, the two Freds and Atticus jumped down, aiming for the bounce house for a soft and smooth landing. The Gator Ghoul and Jackson hit the end of the tracks and hit the others, very painfully.
"See ya later, alligator!" Fred-2 taunted.
"Ha! Nice one, let's hope we don't ever get to see those two again." Atticus hoped.
Patch kept running from the 'devil woman' who had haunted his, his brothers', sisters', and parents' dreams since they first met.
"Come back here like a good puppy!" Cruella threatened Patch. "I want to make you into a nice coat!"
"No way, devil woman!" Patch growled as he kept running, trying to think of a way out of this. He then found the two Scoobys.
"Ratch, ride!" Both Scoobys told him quietly.
Patch hid with them on the merry-go-round to pose as part of the spinning carousal equipment while the monster named Jaguargo, an ape and panther hybrid, was looking for them, but so far was oblivious. Scooby was about to sneeze, but Scooby-2 covered his nose before a sneeze could happen, but it unfortunately made him sneeze. This made the monster look back at them.
"THERE YOU ARE!" Cruella came for Patch.
"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" Patch yelled.
Cruella and Jaguaro kept running and chasing the dogs around, but the Scoobys and Patch finally got off and decided to speed things up for their enemies. Finally, when things got too fast, Jaguaro and Cruella flew off on the spinning ride and crashed against the bottle fair game and were knocked out. The Freds and Atticus came to congratulate them.
"Congrats, you three." Atticus said.
Suddenly, the dogs got down and looked nervous.
"Don't be scared," Fred-2 smiled. "It's us!"
"Behind you!" Patch exclaimed while Scooby-2 pointed.
The Gator Ghoul and Jackson had come behind them.
"REVENGE!" Jackson grinned darkly as he took our a blade, ready to strike down Atticus.
As the Gator Ghoul and Jackson were coming for them, they were suddenly run over by the Shaggys.
"Go Shaggys!" Fred and Atticus cheered.
"Like, the tar monster is behind us!" Shaggy pointed.
"And boy, is he mad!" Shaggy-2 added.
The tar monster stomped and came behind them, snarling.
"Let's get out of here!" Fred called before they all ran off.
"I cannot believe that these monsters are real!" Atticus exclaimed.
Cherry walked around, she stopped from the Daphnes as they walked ahead as she felt something wrong. She bent down and slid her glasses off to dry them a little bit and put them back, then tried to remove gum from under her shoe. She then felt a tap on her shoulder and she looked uncaring and bland at first, but then her eyes widened as she saw a clown, making her shriek and run off with the Daphnes, clinging to them, she hated clowns more than spiders.
"It's okay, Cherry, we won't let anyone hurt you and we'll keep you away from clowns and spiders." Daphne said as she began to comfort her as she shivered from fear of the clown.
"Gosh, I don't blame her." Daphne-2 commented.
Cherry tried to calm herself down, she then heard the wicked laughter of the horror writer that still haunted her. "I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE, BUT YOU'RE NOT GONNA WIN!" she yelled to the distance.
Vanellope was sitting on a throne, looking very evil and demented, she even had a royal scepter, but she looked like an evil version of her princess self. She was making sure that things were going her way. Then she held her head as she began to remember of how Atticus, Cherry, and Ralph helped her train for the race. "No... They betrayed me..." she growled to herself. "They betrayed me..." she squeezed her eyes shut, then flashed them yellow as she saw Atticus trying to get to her. "GET AWAY FROM ME, TRAITOR!" she zapped him with her scepter, blowing him backward, nearly off the high tower she was on.
"Vanellope, please, you have to believe me, me and Cherry are not traitors, we're your friends, don't you remember of what happened at the end of the race?" Atticus asked.
"YOU BETRAYED ME!" Vanellope shrieked, making the whole carnival shake and rumble from her wrath. "YOU'RE JUST LIKE THE OTHERS! YOU WERE ALL MY FRIENDS UNTIL THAT TURBO GUY INVADED OUR WORLD AND STRIPPED ME OF MY PRINCESS TITLE! HE KILLED OUR PARENTS! HE MADE THE RULES! YOU'RE ALL ON HIS SIDE!"
"No, we're not, Vanny..." a voice said.
Vanellope turned to see the other Sugar Rush racers coming with Patch.
"GO AWAY!" Vanellope snarled. "You all bullied me and Taffyta was your ring-leader!"
"No, we wouldn't, we promise!" Candlehead cried.
"I'd never want to hurt you, Vanellope..." Rancis spoke up, very quiet and timid of her.
Vanellope didn't want to listen to me. "GO AWAY BEFORE I EXECUTE YOU ALL JUST LIKE YOUR STUPID RECOLOR WANNABE'S!"
Atticus then got down from where he was and began to make his way to Vanellope again, even if it costed him his life.
Vanellope sneered at him. "Go away, Stink Brain!" she hissed, giving the nickname she gave for Ralph.
Crumbelina wasn't sure what to do, she looked at her locket and tossed it over. "Atticus, catch!" she actually spoke up for a change.
Atticus caught the locket and looked at it, knowing why she wanted him to catch it as he now continued to Vanellope to show her it.
Vanellope growled, ready to finish off Atticus, she rose her scepter, then blinked her hazel eyes once the locket shined open and she saw the pictures of her with Crumbelina as a soft lullaby was heard in her head. She blinked, grabbing her head, even if Atticus helped her win the race to earn back her princess title, she fell to her knees and the power of friendship set her back. A glow shined over her and she was wrapped up in it, spinning slightly and she looked like she was back to normal.
"Crumby..." Vanellope ran to Crumbelina.
"Oh, Vanellope..." Crumbelina sniffled, hugging her back, they were all friends again.
Vanellope smiled, then looked determined. "Hey, Smart Detective, you wanna help us kick some virus butt so we can get back home?" she asked, sounding more like her true self now.
"You know it." Atticus said.
"So, this is the real you, huh?" Patch asked Vanellope.
"Yeah, it is..." Vanellope smiled, then looked to the other racers. "I'm sorry, guys..."
"It's okay, we know you couldn't control it, honey." Snowanna said softly.
"You're cool." Adorabeezle added.
"Vanellope, there's something I want to tell you..." Rancis walked up to her, taking her hand. "Vanellope, I... I..."
There was suddenly a scream heard.
"That sounded like Geeky McDorkus!" Vanellope remarked, using her nickname for Cherry. "Come on, gang, we're goin' together!"
"A-All of us?" Gloyd asked.
"Yeah, we're all basically family," Vanellope said to them, then looked angry. "Except for Taffyta... I didn't buy her apology even for a second..." she remembered old times. "Let's ride!"
"Umm... With what?" Jubileena asked since their karts were destroyed with the recolors.
"It's an expression," Vanellope put her hand to her face. "Ugh..." she then looked to Atticus. "Never become president to a child civilization..." she advised, rolling her eyes.
"Noted." Atticus said.
"Come on," Patch said. "Let's go."
"CHARGE!" Vanellope raised her no longer evil scepter.
The Sugar Rush racers jeered as they ran with Atticus, Patch, and Vanellope.