Vanellope woke up with a big headache. She saw herself back in her room, back in Sugar Rush. She sat up dizzy. Maybe what happened, at least the last part, was just a stupid nightmare.
So she noticed she wasn'talone. Calhown was sat down on a chair at the left side of the bed.
"Sarge." She muttered sleepful. "What happened?"
"Well, I think you found the Arcade's Pirates. I thought after last time you already learned to not mess with them. You was lucky Felix and Sticky were with the others, the two are the only really good ones on the group, besides I think Roxas, Ralph and Turbo are just protecting themselves and something they believe, but Clarion, Gloyd and the twins Kopa are very dangerous."
So that wasn't a nightmare.
"But, what about them and why attacked me?"
"Well, I think they thought you was going to delate them for something they think you know. And about them... Let me see... Except for Roxas, and the two Sugar Rushians, all they lost at least one parent in the attack. Clarion is the leader. She is the daugther of Krisatris Duskwalker from Dragon's Hunters and Kyle Fletcher, one of the bad guys from American's Spy. She live with her father and has his habilities. Is a totally troublemaker and hate her princess side. Her principal follower is Gloyd, a great trickster. So has the twins Kopa, the little bad guys are trouble in double. A little less dangerous we have Turbo, passionated for races, and my son, Roxas. They're a little more conscious, but not so much. Ralph try to get away from the troubles, but rarely he manage to do it, and he still enjoy it a little. So has Felix, the only conscious guy in the group, but rarely the others hear him, and Felix keep being around them because they are good friends. Sticky by other hand is their Spy. She is good, but she will do everything to protect her friends. Even when something happen are just Felix, Sticky and Roxas who we find, they're loyal to the others and nothing we can do can make them tell us where's the rest of the group. I think your father can do it, specially if he find out Sticky is a spy, but I never told him. Rox believe they're doing it for us, and I just don't know what to believe."
"Why they thought I could be dangerous?"
"Well, because you normally are. But your father told me you was strange since yesterday."
"But I'm not who everyone think I am. I came from another dimension!" Vanellope protested.
"You're a lot confuse princess. Take a rest and we can talk when you're feeling better."
"I'm feeling perfectly fine!" Vanellope protested. "Why no one believe me?"
But before Calhoun reply, Rancis entered running the rom.
"Sorry enter this way, but they attacked again." The boy said between breaths.
Vanellope looked confuse, but Calhoun imediatelly stood up and leave the room, Rancis not even looked back before foollow her. Vanellope saw no choice instead follow them.
Everyone was gathered in front of Taffyta's house and Taffyta herself seemed very worried.
"What they stealed this time?" Calhoun asked.
"Old coins. Just records, but it's why they were so important." Taffyta protested.
"Saw one of them? Something strange happened?"
"Well, the two answers are the same. One of them come to visit today. The coins were here before he came, and aren't anymore afther he leave."
"Who? Gloyd?"
"No. Your son, Roxas. He came here today asking by Sticky. When I said I doesn't knew where she was he asked by Megan. After the same answer he asked be if I knew Adorabeezle well. We talked a little, he not even mentioned the project, so he leave and I went to finish my clean up, when I noticed the coins had disappeared." Taffyta told.
Vanellope couldn't believe what she was hearing. So they were a bunch of thiefs too? Really, the word pirates was perfect to describe what they were and Clarion was the capitain. She never thougt Clarion's life with her family could be worst than her life as an orphan on the streets of the real world.
She just couldn't believe Sticky, Felix and Ralph were taking part on that. The destruction of the Arcade wasn't the only thing there worst than in her world, everything was worst.
"You can find them?" Taffyta asked hopefull to Calhoun.
"I already told you, no one can do anything against them. If one of them is around he or she is innocent. And no one know where's their hideout."
"If aren't they who began all this mess." Rancis commented, crossing his arms, angry.
Vanellope sighed and King Candy put a conforming hand on her shoulder.
"I know it's hard to you dear, but you have to accept, they're dangerous and we can't take the risk of let them free or alive."
Vanellope gulped, and without say a word she walked away. That words sounded so dark that let she still more lost. The last thing she heard was King Candy saying:
"It has to stop. Can we talk in private?"
She launched a look back and saw he walking away and she couldn't help but felt something very wrong was going to happen, she just not knew to what side.
Fifteen minutes after Vanellope was laying down or her bed, alone in her room, her hazel eyes filled with tears. She was missing her friends, but her true friends, from her true world. Had they noticed her fault? Or where they so busy to that? If they where there they could help her to solve that?
She looked to the blue marks on her wirst. Where had that come? Maybe from that strange thing James had found? Maybe she should'd heard her friend's warning that time and not touched that. Why that things had to happen with her?
"Clar, please, help me!" She asked loud.
And like to attend her wish, a face appeared on her window.
"Hey Nellie, how about a walk?"
It was James. He sounded a lot like the James from her world, happy, slight rebel, sweet."
"What's doin' here Jay-Jay?" She couldn't resist call him by his Sugar Rush name in her world.
"Why call me this?" He asked confuse.
"If you don't like just tell me how you want I to call you."
"Jay-Jay is good. It's just strange, you never called me this before."
"Glad you like it. Because I couldn't help call you this way."
"You will come out or want me to come in?" James asked.
"If you don't mind, can you please come in?"
"Yeah." He jumped in by the window. "If your father catch us here..."
"He will not. May I ask you about your sister? What is she doing, searching, what are them?"
"In normal situation I wouldn't say you it, but the way you're acting since yesterday, I trust you. Clarion believe Fix-It Felix and Adoraabeezle managed to finish the anti-virus project and it's hide somewhere in the Arcade."
"But what is really this project?"
"The only think that can restore the Arcade to what it was before the attack. She believe, and her friends believe her, but no one else does."
"And you, believe?"
"You talked with Calhoun?"
"Yeah. What it have to do with my question?"
"I, like her, have a familiar on this, and I don't know what to think too. I want to believ they're doing it for us, but when this happen and they steal something, I don't know what to think."
"I'm confuse too. What you would say if I told you I'm from another world?"
"That you was crazy. May I ask why?"
"What happen if it was true? Just tell me what if."
"Well, Adorabeezle say you're completely tied to where you come from. Time... dimension... world... You can travel through it, but you can't cause a reaction to turn you part of another world, or you'll be tied there forever."
"Can you explain it in english?"
"Let me put this way, if you was from another dimension, if you marry with me, you will never can go back to your world again."
Vanellope gasped in shock and imediattely stood up, walking out of the room.
"Hey Vannie, where are you going?" James asked, but she wasn't hearing anymore. She needed to stop that, and just one person could do that for her right now.
James hold her by the hand and smiled sweet.
"I'm loving the way you're acting right now. It wasn't your normal, but it's so perfect. So hear me, it wasn't hopless. You need to go back to them, they will know the truth, give you a second chance. Do the right thing Vanellope."
He finally let her go and just stood up there smiling 'till she disappeared on a corn.
While it in the normal dimension...
Everyone was sat down on Clarion and James' workshop's living room. Two days had passed and Vanellope haven't woke up. Everyone was geting worried, James more than everyone. She just couldn't help to blame himself for it.
"Jay, calm down, it's not your fault. If we would blame someone, it was Vanellope's curiosity." Clarion told him. She just felt bad seeing her brother that way.
"I know. But I couldn't avoid the feeling something bad happened."
"I feel it too." The girl admited.
"Hey, don't be so pessimist kids, all will be fine." Ralph assured them.
"I hope so." Clarion sighed. "Last thing I need is more trouble."
"Well, it's a surprise comming from you." Calhoun pointed out.
"I know. But it's just like this right now."
But as Clarion walked away she couldn't help but smirked.
