Chapter 6: Fright Fight
"Location: Richmond, Virginia, October 31st 2108"
The crowd of hypnotized children went through the portal and arrived in Richmond, where they were joined up with hypnotized children from the real world, the other parts of The World Of Disney, and The World Of Nickelodeon. The children continued walking through the woods, while Swizzle, Candlehead, Crumbelina, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo followed them while flying in the air.
"Do you see the other racers, Cinndon, and Candace anywhere?" Swizzle asked.
Candlehead, Crumbelina, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo looked around, and Ralph spotted them.
"There they are!" Ralph replied.
Swizzle, Candlehead, Crumbelina, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo saw the other Sugar Rush racers (except Torvald), Cinndon, and Candace walking with the rest of the crowd. They landed on the ground, and Swizzle turned to Candlehead, Crumbelina, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo.
"Go get Cinndon and Candace while I get the other racers." Swizzle ordered.
Candlehead, Crumbelina, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo nodded, and they ran off. Swizzle flew over to the other Sugar Rush racers and lifted them off of the ground a little, which prevented them from walking any further.
"Come on, guys. Snap out of it." Swizzle pleaded.
"Let us go." Taffyta said in a trance as she tried to get away from Swizzle.
"I don't have time for this, Taffyta! We need to get you, the other racers, Cinndon, and Candace out of here!" Swizzle said, anxiously.
"Let us go!" Candi said, also not listening to Swizzle.
Swizzle sighed.
"Alright, you forced me to do this." Swizzle said.
Swizzle's brown eyes glowed yellow, and a pulse came from within his mind. The pulse affected the other Sugar Rush racers, and they cried out in pain as the pulse went into them. But then, Swizzle stopped the pulse, and the other Sugar Rush racers blinked, snapping awake.
"Huh? Where are we?" Jubileena asked in confusion.
Swizzle's eyes returned to their normal brown color, and he put the other Sugar Rush racers back down on the ground.
"You mean you guys don't remember?" Swizzle asked in confusion.
"No. Why are we here?" Rancis asked.
"There's no time to explain. Let's just see if the others managed to wake up Cinndon and Candace." Swizzle replied.
Swizzle then led the other Sugar Rush racers away.
Meanwhile, Candlehead, Crumbelina, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo stood in front of Cinndon and Candace, trying to wake them up.
"Guys, come on. Wakie-wakie." Candlehead said, trying to snap Cinndon and Candace out of their trances.
"Stop talking to us. We have to give our sugar energy to The Doom Tree." Cinndon said in a trance-like tone.
Cinndon and Candace tried to walk away, but Turbo grabbed them in order to prevent them from moving. Candlehead then remembered something and took Vanellope's book out of her pocket.
"Oh. You guys dropped this when you walked out like zombies. You can use it to..." Candlehead started to say in a disappointed tone.
Before Candlehead could finish speaking, the book slipped out of her hands and landed on Cinndon and Candace's feet, hurting them.
"Ow!" Cinndon and Candace cried in pain.
The two of them snapped out of their trances, holding their feet.
"Candlehead!" Candace snapped.
Crumbelina gasped.
"Guys, your awake!" Crumbelina said, happily.
Cinndon and Candace looked confused.
"What's going on?" Cinndon asked.
"Well, when I hurt you, you went back to normal!" Candlehead replied.
Swizzle and the other Sugar Rush racers ran up to them.
"Cinndon, Candace, your okay." Swizzle said, happily.
"Well, not exactly, but yeah. How did we get out here?" Candace asked.
"You all got hypnotized by The Doom Tree, every kid is in a trance and about to give their sugar energy to the tree, and thus..." Swizzle started to reply.
"We're DOOMED if we don't stop them! DOOMED! DOOMED! DO..." Candlehead started to reply frantically.
Annoyed by her, Citrusella grabbed a hold of Candlehead's lips.
"Sorry." Candlehead apologized.
Rancis frowned.
"Wow, she's right. Everyone really is doomed." Rancis said.
"Told ya." Candlehead said as Citrusella let go of her lips.
"Still, we have to do something! My and Sticky's sister is there!" Minty cried.
"Well, we can't just stand here and do nothing. We have to stop The Doom Tree before it's too late. Let's go!" Vanellope ordered.
The Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo attempted to walk ahead. But before they could, the wolfman jumped down from atop a tree and landed in front of them.
"AAH!" Taffyta and Candlehead screamed.
The two of them jumped and landed in Ralph's arms. The wolfman growled at them, and Ralph dropped Taffyta and Candlehead.
"Let's fight!" Vanellope declared.
The Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, and Candace activated their powers, and Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo prepared to help them. The wolfman charged at them and they all split up.
"Where's Torvald?" Sticky demanded.
The wolfman just growled.
"All right then." Sticky said.
Sticky shot a large blast of marshmallow whip at the wolfman. The wolfman got thrown back and got stuck on a tree. Swizzle flew at the wolfman, but it broke out and swiped Swizzle with his claws, knocking him down. He then went over to Swizzle and attempted to slice him, but then Minty punched him away from Swizzle. Tamora then started firing bullets at him, but the wolfman dodged the bullets and charged at her.
"Tamora, look o..." Swizzle started to call out.
However, before he could finish speaking, Swizzle sneezed and an energy blast shot out at the wolfman, throwing him into a tree.
"Wow, that was close!" Candi said.
"Yeah, and bless you." Candlehead said to Swizzle.
The wolfman got up, and he ran towards Vanellope and attempted to swipe her with his claws. However, Vanellope glitched out of the way and shot the wolfman with a blast of pixels, throwing him back a few feet. The wolfman got up and charged at Vanellope again, but this time, Vanellope didn't have enough time to shoot him with a blast of pixels. The wolfman tried to swipe Vanellope with his claws, but Vanellope put her book up defensively, and the claws slashed the book in pieces.
"Hey! I paid a lot of money for that!" Vanellope snapped.
The wolfman just growled angrily at her. Swizzle quickly charged up an energy ray, but then he sneezed again and fell to the ground, causing the energy ray to shoot crookedly, but it hit the wolfman and knocked him far away into a bush. Vanellope sighed in relief.
"Nice job, Swizzle." Vanellope said.
"No problem. I guess my cold can actually be helpful at times." Swizzle said, rubbing his nose.
Vanellope looked at the scattered pages of the torn book.
"There must be someway that we can defeat The Doom Tree and the wolf." Vanellope said.
Before Vanellope could think anymore, Candlehead called out to them.
"Hey, guys! Come here!" Candlehead called out.
The other Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo walked over to her, and they peered out from behind a tree. They gasped when they saw The Doom Tree and the hypnotized kids walking over to him.
"It's The Doom Tree." Candlehead cried.
"This is bad. What are we going to do?" Felix asked.
When they were trying to think of something, a root came from below the ground and wrapped itself around Candlehead's ankle and dragged her away.
"AAH!" Candlehead screamed.
"Candlehead!" Taffyta cried.
Swizzle quickly grabbed Candlehead's arms, and Vanellope and Adorabeezle grabbed onto Swizzle's legs. But even with their combined strength, they were all dragged away and lifted into the air in front of The Doom Tree. The Doom Tree let go of them, and they fell down to the ground.
"So, you twenty two have come to interfere." The Doom Tree said.
Vanellope scowled as she got up.
"Yeah, we did!" Vanellope snapped.
The other Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo ran out.
"Why do you want the kids sugar energy? What are you going to do with it anyway?" Ralph asked.
"Yeah, and how can you take it away on the day that these kids have so anxiously waited for?" Tamora asked angrily.
"You want to know why? Because sugar energy is the strongest kind of human energy in the world. And if I can absorb all the energy from the children of this world and other worlds, then I will have enough power to exist forever and rule the worlds with darkness." The Doom Tree replied.
"There's your answer. Eternity of darkness, obviously." Turbo said.
"And your obviously living a life of fantasy, Doom Tree. Because you couldn't steal enough sugar energy back then, and you can't steal any now." Adorabeezle said.
The Doom Tree looked at Adorabeezle, and he started to recognize her as someone.
"It's you, the one who sealed me away for all those years. Zadora Quasar." The Doom Tree exclaimed.
"Who?" Adorabeezle asked in confusion.
"Adorabeezle's no Zadora Quasar. She's Adorabeezle Winterpop of Sugar Rush. She always has been and always will be." Snowanna said.
"No, she IS Zadora. You foiled my plans before, so now I will take your sugar energy first." The Doom Tree snapped.
The Doom Tree launched a root at them, and the Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo dodged it and backed away slowly. Adorabeezle then realized something.
"He must be mistaking me for the person that sealed him up years ago." Adorabeezle said in realization.
"So what do we do?" Candlehead asked.
"Maybe we should play along." Swizzle replied.
"How?" Jubileena asked.
"Well..." Swizzle started to reply.
Before Swizzle could finish speaking, a root came from behind them, and no one noticed except for Taffyta.
"Adorabeezle, watch out!" Taffyta shouted.
Taffyta pushed Adorabeezle out of the way, and the root grabbed her.
"Taffyta! Let her go!" Adorabeezle ordered angrily.
"Never!" The Doom Tree said.
A pink glow formed around Taffyta, and the sugar energy began to flow down the root of The Doom Tree. When it stopped, he threw Taffyta back at Adorabeezle. Jubileena and Citrusella ran up to them and saw that Taffyta was unconscious.
"Taffyta? What happened?" Citrusella asked.
Taffyta started to wake up, and once she did, she slowly sat up.
"Guys? I feel really weird." Taffyta said, weakly.
"The tree took Taffyta's sugar energy." Adorbeezle said in realization.
"Correct, Zadora. And your next." The Doom Tree said.
Crumbelina suddenly remembered something.
"Swizzle, what about that candy involved plan that you said you had before?" Crumbelina asked.
Swizzle remembered the plan, and he turned to Candlehead.
"Do you still have the candy, Candlehead?" Swizzle asked.
"Uh... yeah." Candlehead replied nervously.
"Okay, hand it over." Swizzle ordered, holding his hand out.
Candlehead reached behind her and pulled out the two bags of candy. Swizzle looked inside one bag and saw that it was half empty.
"Candlehead!" Swizzle snapped.
"Sorry, when we were fighting the wolfman last time, I got nervous and ate some of the candy." Candlehead explained.
Swizzle slapped his head, irritated.
"Uh, guys?" Adorabeezle asked.
The other Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo turned to see Adorabeezle trying to dodge The Doom Tree's root that was trying to grab her. But before they could help her, the wolfman jumped down in front of them.
"Well, it's time to put the plan in action." Swizzle said.
Swizzle shot an energy ray at the wolfman, knocking him back. Adorabeezle ran over to Swizzle.
"Swizzle, do you have a plan?" Adorabeezle asked.
"Yep. We're going to eat candy!" Swizzle replied, enthusiastically.
"Awesome." Taffyta said in a low tone.
"What? How is that supposed to help?" Vanellope asked, confused.
"You'll see." Swizzle replied.
Candlehead reached into the bag and happily ate a handful of candy. Everyone then saw the wolfman charging towards them, but Candlehead released a massive torrent of fire, which singed him and knocked him away.
"You think you can scare me? Yeah, I think not! Because I think that you are just a big dummy head! That's what I think!" Candlehead shouted at the wolfman hyperactively.
Candlehead then laughed and ran away.
"See what I mean?" Swizzle asked, smiling.
"Yeah, but even though you and the other racers live in a candy themed game, too much candy always makes Candlehead a little hyper. How is that supposed to help us beat them?" Turbo asked.
"Don't you see? Candy can actually increase sugar energy, and with all of this candy, we'll have enough strength to beat The Doom Tree and the wolfman." Swizzle replied.
Vanellope began to understand what Swizzle was saying, and she and Taffyta smirked at each other. They both reached into the bag and took a handful of candy. Vanellope ate her handful of candy, and like Candlehead, she started to feel jumpy, even though she lived in a candy themed game.
"Ha ha! I'd really like to see that old aged tree try and take my sugar energy now! I really would!" Vanellope said, glitching violently.
Vanellope glitched off to join Candlehead in battle while laughing insanely.
"Wow. I don't know whether Vanellope is charged up or nuts... really nuts..." Swizzle muttered.
Taffyta then ate her candy and waited for her sugar rush, but nothing happened.
"Hey! How come I'm not going crazy like Vanellope and Candlehead?" Taffyta asked.
"You got your sugar energy taken away, remember?" Nougetsia asked.
Taffyta groaned. Meanwhile, Swizzle took some candy out of the bag and looked a bit nervous.
"Well, now it's my turn." Swizzle said.
Swizzle ate some candy, and he started feeling like Vanellope and talked fast.
"Wow, I haven't felt like this since I was eight! Of course, it was Halloween like today, except for the fact that I'm in the woods and we're fighting a wolf and a tree!" Swizzle said.
Swizzle chuckled excitedly and saw Vanellope and Candlehead fighting the wolfman.
"Hang on, guys. I'm coming and I'm going to kick butt this time and not let my cold get in the way! YEAH!" Swizzle shouted.
The other Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo watched as Swizzle ran off.
"They're all nuts." Tamora muttered.
Meanwhile, Swizzle flew in and fought the wolfman by shooting multiple energy rays at him.
"You like that? Huh? Huh? Huh?" Swizzle asked energetically.
Candlehead threw a fireball at the wolfman.
"Take that, you overgrown puppy!" Candlehead shouted.
Candlehead started laughing repeatedly. But then she got punched by the wolfman and was thrown back.
"Candlehead, you got hit!" Vanellope shouted.
But then Vanellope got hit also. Vanellope got thrown into the back of a tree and landed on someone.
"Hey, get off!" the person ordered.
It turned out to be Torvald, who pushed Vanellope off.
"Torvald?" Vanellope asked.
Vanellope got up and saw Torvald. She then smiled and hugged her.
"Your okay! We were really worried about you, especially Minty and Sticky, but why wouldn't they be? I mean, after all, they are your older siblings! Then we came after you and we found you, but actually I did by myself! Now we're fighting the wolfman, and it's totally cool. Can you believe that?" Vanellope asked quickly with a big grin on her face.
Torvald looked a little confused.
"What's up with you?" Torvald asked.
Vanellope smiled with her eye twitchy.
"Sugar energy!" Vanellope replied.
Torvald sat down.
"Okay, but I feel completely drained. I think that tree sucked something out of me." Torvald said.
Vanellope realized what she meant.
"That fiend! The Doom Tree sucked away your sugar energy! But I'm going to get it back, and he ain't getting mine! I need more sugar!" Vanellope cried.
Vanellope ran away, laughing. Torvald stared at her as she ran away.
"Wow, she's nuts." Torvald muttered.
"Tell me about it." Taffyta said, walking by.
Swizzle shot a large energy ray at the wolfman, who got thrown back into a tree and got knocked out.
"Now for The Doom Tree." Swizzle said.
The Doom Tree began to speak.
"You may have defeated my wolfman, but like you, I can charge myself also." The Doom Tree said.
A bunch of roots came out of the ground and started grabbing the kids that were there, and the roots started sucking away their sugar energy.
"The sugar energy that he's stealing is making him stronger!" Ralph said in realization.
"Stronger! Stronger!" Candlehead shouted as she ran around in circles.
"I know, I know, I know! We need more sugar if we want to stand a chance!" Swizzle quickly shouted.
Taffyta and Torvald watched what was happening.
"I'm not even that crazy." Taffyta said.
While Taffyta was eating some candy out of the bag, Vanellope ran up to her and grabbed the bag.
"Give me some more candy! I need it! Need it!" Vanellope demanded, glitching.
Candlehead and Swizzle ran up to them, and Swizzle grabbed the bag.
"No way! I need some more! I do, I do, I DO!" Swizzle shouted.
Candlehead grabbed the bag.
"I say it's mine! Mine, mine, mine!" Candlehead shouted.
Candlehead, Vanellope, and Swizzle kept fighting over the candy.
"You know, if it weren't for the fact that the world was about to be destroyed and that I don't have any sugar energy, this would be really funny." Taffyta told Torvald.
"Yeah, but this has gone on long enough." Torvald said.
Torvald then tried to calm Vanellope, Candlehead, and Swizzle down.
"Guys, can you snap out of it?" Torvald asked.
Candlehead just kept eating candy.
"I'm normal, don't I look normal? I do, don't I?" Candlehead asked frantically.
Swizzle also ate candy.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no way that The Doom Tree can hit us." Swizzle said frantically.
Without warning, The Doom Tree smacked Vanellope, Candlehead, and Swizzle away with his root.
"Your shouting and running became irritating. Now your sugar energy shall be MINE!" The Doom Tree declared.
Vanellope slowly got up and groaned.
"Is everybody alright?" Vanellope asked.
Candlehead got up.
"He's too strong even for my super energy!" Candlehead replied.
Swizzle got up.
"There must be some way that we can beat him." Swizzle said.
Vanellope dug into her pocket and took out a piece of paper. She read it and found something.
"Hey, guys, I found something!" Vanellope called out.
The other Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo ran over to her.
"What is it?" Candi asked.
"This page from the book shows information about The Doom Tree. It says that if the candle was ever lit, then it would bring The Doom Tree back for one night." Vanellope replied.
"We know that part already. That's kind of why we're here." Rancis said.
"Don't you get it? When Candlehead lit the candle, it only brought The Doom Tree back for this ONE night. So that means unless he can steal enough sugar energy from children, then by the time midnight comes, he'll be gone." Vanellope said.
"So we distract him?" Ralph asked.
Crumbelina checked her watch.
"That sounds like a plan. We just have to wait for... five minutes." Crumbelina replied.
"FIVE MINUTES?" everyone asked.
"We can't wait that long! The Doom Tree is getting more powerful!" Sticky snapped.
"And everyone's sugar energy will be gone by then." Jubileena said.
Vanellope shook her head.
"Not unless we stall him." Vanellope said.
"How are we supposed to do that?" Taffyta asked.
Adorabeezle thought for a while.
"He's after me, so..." Adorabeezle started to reply.
Nougetsia gasped and hugged Adorabeezle.
"Don't do it, Adorabeezle. You can't let The Doom Tree get you!" Nougetsia cried.
Adorabeezle pushed Nougetsia's arms off of her and transformed into her snow beast form.
"I have to, sis." Adorabeezle said.
Adorabeezle then ran out, and The Doom Tree spotted her.
"Come and get me, you piece of bark!" Adorabeezle teased.
The Doom Tree swung his root at Adorabeezle, who quickly used her claws to sever it.
"Ha! Not good enough!" Adorabeezle teased.
Another root appeared and tripped Adorabeezle, who quickly got up and ran away.
"I can't let her do this by himself." Gloyd said as he watched.
Candi placed her hand on Gloyd's shoulder.
"Don't worry, Gloydie. Adorabeezle knows what she is doing. She's a genius." Candi said in a sweet tone.
As Adorabeezle ran, she looked at her watch.
"Only two more minutes. I just have to..." Adorabeezle started to think.
However, before Adorabeezle could think anymore, she tripped on a rock and fell to the ground.
"Adorabeezle!" Citrusella cried.
"Oh no!" Snowanna cried.
The Doom Tree's root grabbed Adorabeezle.
"I have you now, Zadora Quasar." The Doom Tree snarled.
"No!" Nougetsia and Snowanna both shouted.
Nougetsia and Snowanna ran over to her, and the two of them grabbed onto Adorabeezle's legs. Nougetsia used her ice powers to freeze her hands onto Adorabeezle's legs in order to give herself more support.
"I won't let you take her sugar energy!" Nougetsia cried.
"Very well. Then I'll just take your sugar energy as well." The Doom Tree said.
The Doom Tree grabbed Nougetsia and Snowanna with his other root. The other Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo gasped, and they charged at The Doom Tree in order to help Adorabeezle, Nougetsia, and Snowanna. However, The Doom Tree easily overpowered them and grabbed them with the root. They gasped as a pink glow formed around them, and their energy began to flow down the root.
"I'm sorry I lit the candle, guys." Candlehead apologized as her sugar energy got taken.
"It's... not your fault, Candles." Taffyta said, weakly.
Crumbelina slowly opened her eyes and glanced at her watch, which said that it was midnight. She then smirked and looked back up at The Doom Tree.
"I hope you had a happy Halloween, Doom Tree... because it looks like your time is up." Crumbelina said with a smile.
The Doom Tree became confused.
"What?" The Doom Tree asked.
The Doom Tree noticed her watch, and he saw that it was midnight. He gasped and then began to disappear.
"NO!" The Doom Tree shouted in defeat.
The Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Ralph, Felix, Tamora, and Turbo fell to the ground, and they watched as The Doom Tree disappeared, along with the wolfman. After they did, a pink glow formed around Taffyta.
"Hey, I got my sugar energy back!" Taffyta said excitedly.
"Me too!" Torvald said.
"So does every other kid." Vanellope said.
Vanellope pointed to the other kids, who had their sugar energy back.
"Everything's back to normal now." Felix said.
"Yeah. We even got to eat all of our candy when we were fighting. There's absolutely no downside to all this." Taffyta said as she shook an empty bag.
"Location: Litwak's Arcade, The World Of Disney, November 1st 2108"
In the morning, at the castle in Sugar Rush, Vanellope, Taffyta, Candlehead, and Swizzle were in the same bed in the room that Swizzle had stayed in the previous day. They groaned and their faces were green. The four of them had eaten so much candy that they got a bad case of the stomachache.
"My cold may be gone, but now I feel worse then before." Swizzle groaned.
"Ugh..." Taffyta groaned as she nearly puked.
The other Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Sour Bill, Wynchel, and Duncan entered the room.
"Did you guys really eat two bags of candy just to defeat a monster?" Wynchel asked.
"Two and a half bags actually." Candlehead replied.
"I ate the other half." Taffyta added.
Taffyta burped loudly, but she still felt bad.
"Well, all of us are still heroes, even if you four are sick." Candace said.
Swizzle smiled.
"Yeah. At least we beat the wolfman and The Doom Tree, saved all of the kids, and saved Halloween." Swizzle said.
The other Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, and Candace nodded in agreement.
