Chapter 1
Aggie, the Doctor's part time companion, opened the door of the TARDIS and peered out. She gave a gasp. It looked like the world had horrible graphics, but that was only in movies, not in actual life. She spun back around. "Doctor where are we?!"
"We're in an arcade." The Doctor replied matter-of-factly. He stepped out, Aggie following. "At least I was aiming for the arcade, I think we ended up inside one of the games instead."
"The TARDIS can end up in a game?" Aggie questioned in disbelief.
"The TARDIS can go just about anywhere. Unless time is too wibbely-wobbely."
Aggie shook her head. "Why do I keep going with you?"
The Doctor turned back to her. "Do you want to stop traveling with me?"
That made Aggie think. She'd been nearly killed by the same Sith about 3 times, had been chased by daleks, and found a bomb in a banana. But she'd barely gotten to go anywhere with the Doctor, and if she said yes, he would never come back. "I'll let you know when we get back."
"Excuse me Sir, Ma'am." Aggie turned and tried not to jump in surprise. She was eye to eye with a carpenter in a blue suit. And he was a really short one at that, because Aggie was short for a girl and they were about the same height. "I'm Fix-It Felix Jr, this is my game, and I can't say I've ever seen you around here before."
"We're visiting." The Doctor explained. "I'm the Doctor. This is Aggie Emmons."
"Pleasure to meet you." Felix shook both their hands. "Now, we're always happy to have guests in the penthouse, but I was just about visit a new game. . ."
"We'll come with." The Doctor volunteered.
"You will?" Felix asked. The Doctor nodded. "Well then come along. I'll introduce you to my friends. They're coming to the new game too." He led them off to the entrance of the penthouse. Most of the people there were just short humans, but there was also an odd orange ball that was perfectly alive, and 3 more that broke the patern. Felix introduced those 3. "This is Wreck-It Ralph, Vanellope Von Schweets, and my wife, Tamora Calhoun."
Odd couple. Aggie thought. But with the huge gun at Calhoun's side she wouldn't dare say it out loud.
Felix continued. "Everyone, this is the Doctor and Aggie. They'd like to come with us to greet the new game."
"Great. Now let's go before this parade gets any bigger." Calhoun didn't actually make it sound like it was 'great' at all.
"Right of course." Felix agreed. "Q*Bert," He turned to the orange creature. "You'll be in charge while I'm gone."
Q*Bert made some strange noises and a bubble appeared over his head with symbols. This time, Aggie really did jump.
"Him?" One of the short people questioned. "He doesn't even have a game."
"He does now Gene." Felix told him. "And I'm sure he can handle it for the few hours we're gone." Gene didn't seem happy about this at all, but he didn't argue.
The 6 left the game on a little train. Aggie gasped as they exited. Outside there were game characters wandering around all over, going into different games. Tappers seemed to be a popular. "Wow." She gasped.
"So this new game, what is it?" The Doctor was asking Felix.
"Something called Polybius."
The Doctor's expression became more troubled. "Doctor, what is it?" Aggie asked.
The Doctor shook his head. "Nothing. The name just sounds familiar."
"Well, it was originally here in the 1980s, and it really popular then. Not sure why it was unplugged." Felix informed them.
Calhoun meanwhile, had been looking at them suspiciously. "I haven't seen you 2 around the arcade before. What game are you from?"
Aggie worried the Doctor would tell these 4 they were from the outside world, and she wasn't sure how well they'd take that. So she answered quickly before he could. "Oh we're not from the arcade. We're just visiting."
Calhoun wasn't done with them yet. "Won't someone notice you're gone from your game?"
"We don't have a game." The Doctor replied honestly. Aggie flashed him a glare.
"Oh, it was unplugged." Felix automatically assumed. "I'm so sorry you to hear that. Of course you can stick around the arcade as long as you like. We gave Q*Bert a role in our game, we could give you one too if you like."
The Doctor quickly shook his head. "No that won't be necessary. We won't be staying."
Calhoun was still suspicious of them, but no one else was the group of 6 kept moving across GCS. She gave them one last glare though. "I'll be keeping my eyes on you 2."
"Oh 1 for each of us." The Doctor nudged Aggie. "Good thing we didn't bring our other friend huh?"
"Yeah. . ." Aggie agreed, not liking the situation at all.
Luckily the awkwardness of things ended then, because they'd reached Polybius. They entered the game. Aggie blinked and shook her head. The entire back-round had black and white spirals going around; it was making her head hurt. Add that to the maze/labyrinth like feel of the place, it was quite disorienting.
"Hello?!" Felix called out. He sounded less certain than before. "Hello, we're here to welcome you to the arcade!"
"Well then," Everyone gave a little jump and turned. "We're very glad to meet you." A man in a space suit extended his hand. He'd taken his space helmet off, it was tucked under his other arm, but his space gloves were still on. "I'm Paul, this is my ground work partner, Virro." He waved his hand at the other man, who looked like he was in a green version of Calhoun's battle suit. He gave a little salute.
Felix shook Paul's hand. "I'm Fix-It Felix Jr sir. And this is Wreck-It Ralph, Vanellope Von Schweets, and"
"Sergeant Tamora Calhoun." Calhoun introduced herself.
"And those 2?" Paul nodded towards them.
"Hello." The Doctor waved. "I'm the Doctor. This is Aggie."
That was when the Doctor noticed someone had his sleeve, the one he hadn't been waving with. He looked down. It took him a moment to actually see the person, and by the time he did she was looking up at him. "Well the jacket's okay." She drawled, letting go of his sleeve, "But I'm not so sure about the rest of the outfit."
"What's wrong with my clothes?" The Doctor wanted to know. Aggie looked point fully away.
"Well for one, why are your pants so freakishly short?" Vanellope pointed at the end of his pants.
"I suppose I should start dressing like you then."
That just made Vanellope start laughing. "I-if you dressed like me you'd be wearing a skirt!" She giggled. The woman who'd been grabbing the Doctor's sleeve made a face and turned briefly into static, no one seemed to notice though.
"That's not what I meant!"
Vanellope wasn't done yet. She glitched into her princess dress. "'Ello everyone, I'm the Doctor."
"That's not what I sound like."
"That's not what I sound like." Vanellope badly imitated.
The Doctor just stared, jaw hanging open a bit, at a loss for words. Ralph put a huge hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, she does that to everyone, it's probably a good thing actually."
"Thanks Ralph." The Doctor nodded.
Vanellope meanwhile had laughed so hard she'd tipped right over and was stuck on her back thanks to how outrageously poofy her dress was. The woman walked over and grabbed her hands. Then the red static came back up and her hands fell out of Vanellope's grip.
Vanellope glitched herself, coming out of the dress and landing back on her feet. "You're a glitch?"
The woman crossed her arms and glared. "Yes." She replied coolly.
"Ah don't feel bad," Vanellope swung her hand dismissively. "I was a glitch too. And I can still use the power." She seemed to realize then that she'd just used it twice in front of all of them. "Well, ga-doi."
"Everyone. . ." Paul started, attempting to get a bit more order back into things. "This is my twin, Pollybia."
"Pleasure." Pollybia held her hand out, although it didn't look like she found it a pleasure. Felix shook her hand.
"So . . . you guys hungry?" Paul asked.
Vanellope gave him a look. "I life in a world full of candy, I'm never hungry."
"World of candy? Why didn't we go there?" The Doctor questioned. He turned to Paul. "I personally am always hungry."
"Well then, this way. We have a dining hall." Paul led them off.
Virro grabbed his shoulder. "Uh, this is the ground. I know my way around better than you." Then he took the lead.
Paul looked around. Everyone was busy talking, eating, and comparing games. He leaned in towards Pollybia. "Well?" He breathed.
"I didn't get to read all of them, but I've got a plan." She told him. "You hypnotize Ralph. That will keep his other 3 friends busy. Then I'll take the Doctor, all we need is Virro to get Aggie out of the way."
"Okay . . . and we need a way to separate them." Paul put in.
Pollybia raised an eyebrow. "Ralph."
Her plan clicked in his brain. "Oh." He turned towards them and started hypnotizing Ralph.
The Doctor and Felix were having a conversation about just what Felix's hammer could and couldn't fix. Felix started laughing, only to stop. "Uh, Ralph, why are you looking at me like that?"
Ralph was giving him a glare of death. "Well, you're the good guy, and I'm the bad guy."
"Come on Ralph, we all know that's only in the game." Vanellope said, waving it off. But even with her indifferent voice, there was clear worry in her eyes.
"No. I'm the bad guy!" Ralph swung towards her. "You tried to make me something else. And now . . . I'm gonna wreck it!" And with that, he started pounding the table.
The Doctor chair, which was on wheel, was flung back from the impact. He hit the back wall and fell off the chair. Someone else had landed next to him. "Ugh." Pollybia grunted. She lifted herself up. "You alright?" She asked the Doctor.
"Fine." He said. "If anything you had a worse fall than me."
Pollybia shrugged. "True, but this is my game. I'll just come back if I die. Now we should get out of here."
The Doctor looked at the room. It was complete and utter chaos. Ralph was still wrecking things, but now he seemed to have a target, namely his 3 friends. Vanellope was actually trying to get close to him, so Calhoun had grabbed her and had to keep readjusting every time she glitched.
Then the Doctor got up and headed towards the chaos. Pollybia grabbed his arm. "What are you doing?" She demanded.
"I'm going to find Aggie. I can't leave her in this room."
"You can't go further into this room either." Pollybia argued. A huge chunk of rock came flying towards them as she said it. They both ducked. "Look, Virro has Aggie." She nodded her head towards the 2. "We can go out the back entrance and meet them."
The Doctor seemed skeptical, but another rock like thing rolling towards them got him moving.
