Vanellope searched for a kart to her to go around instead of just walk. The only thing she found was a smaller replic of King Cady's kart but pink.
Even in a racing kart she took around half an hour to find Swizzle at the border of Chocolate Rock Canyon. If things were being normal she could be surprised in find him alone, but in the actual circunstances...
"Hey Swizz!" She called.
Swizzle looked at her in surprise.
"Princess Vanellope, what happened to you?" He asked. "You're looking so..."
"Rebel?" She suggested.
"Yeah. Something like this. Your higness." He added.
"Please, don't call me it. And maybe I have changed."
"Since yesterday?"
"Yeah, believe me. Can we talk in somewhere private?"
"We're alone now."
"No, I prefer a place more secret. Maybe somewhere outside." She suggested.
"Vanellope, it's dangerous to go outside. The Cy-Bugs were all around there and you never know where or when one will appear. Adora created a dispositive to keep them from enter the two only remaining games on the whole Arcade, but outta here we couldn't survive." Swizzle explained.
"You're saying the whole Arcade was ruined?" Vanellope asked "Ad about the characters?"
"Some got missing, and a few survived but mostly are death. They say there was a small chance, Adora and Fix-It Felix were creating an anti-virus program to restore the Arcade."
"And why they didn't it?"
"Because both got missing. No one even dared to try to find the program again. At least no one I know. But ask Sticky, she know more about it than me since she was close to Adorabeezle."
"And where I can find her? I'm not up to another long search around Sugar Rush."
"I bet she's at home. You still know where it is, right?"
"At soda lake?" Vanellope asked uncertain.
"Yeah, it was last time I checked, today morning."
"Thanks Swizz." She walked back to her kart and drove fast to Sticky's house."
Sticky was really home, alongside with Minty and Torvald, the three watching a movie, like nothing was happening outside.
Vanellope knocked the open door nervously.
"Your higness!" Minty and Torvald quickly stood up, making a reverence to her.
Vanellope just shook her head and asked:
"Can I talk with Sticky in particular?"
"Of course." Torvald replied. "Sticky, we're going now. See you tomorrow." And with that the two leave the house.
Sticky made a gesture calling her to sit down at her side.
"So, what's up?" The teal girl asked happily.
"Why are you the first who wasn't treating me like the princess you all think I am?"
"Because we're friends. I think I'm still the only one you have."
"Why?"
"What's wrong with you Vanellope?"
"Let me just say I'm not myself right now. I need to know about the project Adora was working on."
"Who told you about the project?" Sticky suddenly stood up surprised.
"Swizzle told me."
"Vanellope, well, I can't do it. Look, you aren't the best person to know about it and I..."
"Please. You don't understand... You noticed something diferent about me?"
"Yeah. What's up?"
"I think I'm from another dimension. I need to know more about it to back home."
Sticky sighed.
"All right. I will show you, but please, don't tell anyone, principally your father."
"Who?!" Vanellope asked surprised.
"King Candy." Vanellope gulped and followed Sticky.
The two parked their karts at the border of the Lovely Forest, or the (pomar) of love-apples.
"No one come here since Adorabeezle was gone." Sticky told her, climbing on a three and taking an apple. "Hey, taste it!" She shouted, throwing the apple to Vanellope.
Vanellope bite it. It was sweet outside and a little acid inside, so good.
"Wow! It's wonderful. This track don't exist in my world."
"You have to taste the chocolate ones. I will see if I find one."
"So, why are we here? Just to take apples?"
"No. Adorabeezle's old laboratory is here. I will take you there."
"And about Clarion?" So Vanellope noticed what she had said "I mean..."
"Clarion is a lot mysterious. Since her father's death she turned wild and rebel. I'm one of the few you know something real about her, but I will not tell you, not by now."
"You think this anti-virus can be on the lab?"
"I and Gloyd already searched there. If it is, it's very well hidden. But I think it isn't, it has to be somewheree outside."
"But Swizzle said we can't go outside." Vanellope protested.
"Normally we just go outside with a guard when we're needed in Dragon's Hunters, but no guards will take you to walk around the Arcade searching for something mostly not even believe exist."
"All right, I understand. So why you brought me here?"
"I want to show you something. Come with me."
Sticky leaded Vanellope to Adorabeezle's secret laboratory. She and Gloyd were the only who knows where it was. The two girls cautiously entered the lab. It was empty like it should be, or maybe not, something seemed out of place, someone seemed have revisted that place, have marks everywhere in the cocoa dust.
"Someone has been here." Sticky whispered nervously to Vanellope.
It seems. But who? And searching what?"
"I don't know, but look at this hand mark, it has five fingers, so, it wasn't a Sugar Rushian. And this footstepps... A young outsider child, I know all the remainings, just one could had done it..."
Before Vanellope could ask something a figure emerged from a corn behind a machine and runned past them. This figure was about their height and was all dressed in black. The two tried to chase it, but as soon as the two reached outside the figure was gone.
"Who was that?" Vanellope asked shocked.
"Just one person could do it. And believe me, better to you if you know nothing about it. Better we go now, we have a party to be in some hours."