Hey my followers and fellow readers! Thank you for the lovely comments, and for those of you who asked here's part 3!
I made this chapter extra-long for ya!
But keep in mind that Part 4 will come up sometime next week or two. Anyway enjoy!
Fifteen years ago part 3
King Candy swallowed nervously, this position of being hugged like a stuffed bear was quite unpleasant if one were to describe it, plus when you have your life hanging by threads it even more awkward. King Candy stayed as calm as his mind would allow him but when your pressed against something warm and you could barely breath for the fact that you might freak out, that was a hard thing to do.
Just when he thought he'd stay in that position forever, the stranger released him and dove straight for his code box.
"NO!" that was the word that escaped the monarchs lips as he lunged forward. Grabbing ahold of the strangers white jumpsuit Candy shoved the ex-racer aside, but only to be backhanded a second later. Shaking the pain aside, Candy lunged again and punched with all the strength he could muster into the strangers face.
" GAA! WHY YOU SON OF A…THAT'S IT!" The ex-racer grabbed the king by the arms and the forcefully kicked him in the stomach, sending him backwards.
"AHH!" King Candy doubled over and groaned painfully, tears welled up and he fought not to lose his insides. But before he could recover, his code started to pixelate, it buzzed, jumped and separated. The pain was terrible; the king screamed out in agony and clutched his form, but that only made it worse.
Tears spilled over and he could hear the ex-racer laughing gleefully, prying his eyes open Candy saw the most gruesome sight. Stings of codes were swirling up and over the stranger's body covering him head to toe in a blinding light. Candy covered his face as the light became brighter, but when it resided Candy could not believe his eyes. There in front of him was he, or what looked like him. Candy's thoughts started to swirl of their own accord and it felt like he very skull was being pulled apart; he looked straight at his imposter and found in horror that he was jumbling through his programed memories. But suddenly the imposter stopped and stared at a certain memory.
' NO… NO, NO, NO! Please not that one! Anything but that one!', Candy screamed silently,' please spare me! Don't take that one!'
But he was too late; with a swift movement the memory was plucked and shoved in the imposter's tail coat pocket.
King Candy's head felt numb and he was on the verge of passing out. But then to his relief he could slightly remember only bits and parts of his memory, but not all of it and it pained him so.
But now was not the time for sorrow, because no sooner had his memory been plucked the imposter had moved to Vanellopes code.
Vanellope…VANELLOPE! King Candy jumped forth and promptly dislodged the imposter from his daughter's code. You could punch him and threaten him or even tear his very code to threads, but NO ONE messed with his daughter.
Candy stood snarling infront of his daughter's code, but a sudden impact to his side forced him away. The imposter he started to rip codes away, but before he could pull the life line King Candy kicked and punched the hell out of him.
Sour Bill was pulled out of his spacing thoughts as Vanellope started screaming. To Sour Bills horror the princess started to glitch, her code sputtered and separated and her screams became louder and distorted. Suddenly she collapsed to the floor in a screaming fit, she kicked and screamed and wailed. Then she just halted and became quite, not moving and Sour Bill feared she wasn't even breathing.
Sour Bills attention snapped back to the abyss as he heard curses and his king screaming. He could see to figures jolting around. But suddenly one was kicked away in a painful manner.
Sour Bill cringed, what was happening?!
King Candy knew he had the upper hand in this fight, but it was quite disturbing to be beating someone who looked like him.
When he threw another punch his arm was suddenly twisted, Candy cried out in pain and tried to regain the upper hand. But that was useless, he found himself straddled by the other look-a-like. His imposter clamped a hand down on his throat to stop any further attempts of a fight.
" Justh what do you think you're doing?" the imposter demanded," I'm king now tho you listhen to me and I order you to sthop!"
Candy clawed at the grip and managed to slip a few fingers underneath and hoarsely replied," you're not king unlesth you wear the crown!"
The imposter smiled, " Well in that casthe I justh do thisth!"
A hand whipped out and snatched the floating crown off of King Candy's head.
'Nice one you dumbass, did that do anything?' Candy scolded himself for his foolishness, this was not going to help him live. But he thought for a moment, that imposter was going to do anything to become king right? Maybe there was a chance of saving his self and Vanellope!
Coughing, Candy managed to sputter," I….Thin-Think I…tshould.. uh.. Mention…t-that…there is… a-a spe-special…. Oath you…s-should ….recite to …become… a …true king."
The imposter was baffled at this, there was an oath? But he could not tell that King Candy was lying. A smile crept over the strangers face and he squeezed harder, causing Candy to jolt.
"Well you better tell thisth king that oath or elesth!"
King Candy pulled on the hand that clasped his throat signaling that he could not tell without air. The imposter saw this and released him, once the hand disappeared Candy sucked in air harshly. He knew he had to get this right, or his life and his daughters would end forever.
"Asth I wasth thaying, there is a special oath you need to recite. And it goes like thisth, 'I the king of Sugar Rush will be a loyal king, an honorable king and will not kill anyone or less my code disintegrate."
The imposter was hesitant at this, but then recited the oath that nearly fake. Candy smiled,' now he can't kill us', he thought, 'justh give it a second and –'
"WHAT THE HELL ISTH HAPPENING TO ME?!" the imposter roared.
The fake king snapped his head toward Candy and narrowed his eyes as an invisible force tied a knot in his oath slash promise.
King Candy couldn't stop smiling, but when the imposter lunged forward and smacked him was enough to jolt him back to being angry.
Candy dodged this way and that, but he couldn't escape all the punches that were thrown his way. Suddenly, his back hit the wall near the door Candy arched in pain. The fake king lunged again and this time didn't miss. King Candy's head slammed against the metal wall causing him to see red and black thoughts again, then before he had a chance to move, a hand wrapped itself around his throat again and it kept on tightening.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!" the imposter demanded," AND YOU BETTER TELL ME OR ELTHSE!"
Candy choked and sputtered uselessly as he tried to answer, but no avail. He was lightheaded and was fighting to remain conscious, but with no air his chances of survival were dwindling and would soon crease to exist.
The hand on him slackened a little allowing him to breathe and answer, but every good thing didn't come without some pain.
"You'd better ansthwer me old man, because if you don't there will be nothing left of you when I'm through. So if you want to live, talk."
Fighting the desire to do something violent, Candy whispered his answer, " I tricked you into thaying an oath that would keep us from dying, thsince you made yourself king, the game sealed your promise and if you were to kill us, you would die a horrible death. And mind me when I thay horrible, I mean you will feel your code break apart and you will justh vanisth ."
Candy could tell his opponent was scared, but the moment of worry vanished and was replaced by a mocking grin.
" tho you Thay I will die no? Even if I can't kill you I can still separate you from your oh so precious daughter." The imposter replied. He could see Candy growing angrier by the minute.
But what the imposter didn't see was the well-aimed punch coming his way before it was too late.
Candy kept on punching this son of a b**** till he thought his arms would quit on him. But then a sudden impact sent him flying into the chamber that held his daughter and Sour Bill. With his head reeling and a black eye, Candy tried to stand but was denied as his legs gave out sending him crashing to the ground.
Stifling any sounds of pain Candy tried once more but was stopped as he heard Sour Bill gasp, and at once knew that he was here as well.
Then a pair of hands snatched him from the ground and slammed him into the nearest wall, but then the wall began to shock them both but Candy got the brunt of its fury. They both screamed in agony and shook as large currents of electricity flowed through them both. At last with one huger wave, the wall sent them flying straight into the other one.
But this time King Candy was able to switch roles with his partner in mid-flight so that his look-a-like got what he experienced. Again that wall threw them but Candy was able to weigh them down so that neither of them hit those merciless walls but crashed onto the floor.
Sour Bill could only watch as two King Candy's fought, then cringed as both were horribly shocked by the electric flowing walls. But then as they were thrown one of the kings brought them down to the cold ground and both lay in a smoking heap one atop the other, neither seemed to be moving from Sour Bills observation.
Sour Bill tore his eyes from the kings and hurried over to where princess Vanellope lay, Sour Bill was grateful that she was breathing but seemed to be in some sort of a comma. He shook her lightly; no response. Then he tried again, and again then he roughly shook her and that brought her back to the living world.
When she opened her eyes Sour Bill regretted shaking her so hard, the poor dear was clearly tired and scared. But then Sour Bill made the mistake of letting the heap of the two monarchs into to her view. Vanellope screamed and tried to crawl towards them, "DADDY, DADDY!" she wailed but she was pulled back by Sour Bill.
"No my Lady! You mustn't touch them!" he replied in a strained voice as he tried to keep her at bay, " One of them is that monster! Please, I forbid you to go near them!"
But Vanellope was not going to give up because she ordered to do so; kicking away Sour Bill she crawled forth as Sour Bill did a belly dive for her. But being a nimble child, she easily avoided his attack and poor Sour Bill landed on the ground empty handed.
Vanellope cautiously approached the Kings and came to stand near the one who lay atop.
"daddy?" she whispered and she poked him, but suddenly the kings eyes shot open and he roughly grasped her causing her to scream and pull away. But in an instant the fake monarch snatched her up harshly making her cry.
"YOUR NOT DADDY!" she screamed, "LET ME GO!"
Vanellope pounded her little fists on his back and then wacked his head forcefully, causing him to snarl.
"Why you little brat! You're gonna get it now!" the imposter responded and slapped her so hard that a mark of his hand was left.
Vanellope wailed as she tried to get away but couldn't, Sour Bill came flying out of nowhere and attacked the fake king. The imposter didn't see him coming and dropped Vanellope as he went down.
Vanellope wasted no time getting to the other man who she knew was her father. She tapped him, shook him and shouted his name countless times but he did not stir. Nearly thinking that her father was dead Vanellope tried again and this time he awoke.
King Candy heard his daughter calling his name and could feel her trying to shake him awake, he tried to come to the conscious world but he was just too weak. Every time he tried to resurface a huge wave of darkness descended upon him, pulling him back down. But then he heard his daughter cry his name and that was enough to send him back roaring at the unknown darkness and suppress it long enough to finally reach the living world.
Candy awoke coughing for air; everything was a daze for him, his head pounded and he felt groggily. Then the events came rushing back to him as if he'd been punched with a jawbreaker, Candy shook the last traces of sleep from himself and took the moment to look at his daughter. Vanellope was still glitching and so was he, but that's not what caught his attention. A clearly visible red mark could be seen on his daughters left cheek, Candy's vision started to become RED and only four words were running through his head at that very moment…..HE…HIT….MY….DAUGHTER!
Candy was MAD AS HELL, no one and I mean NO ONE should have even laid a finger on Vanellope. Candy stood up, adrenaline pounding through every part of his code, he was madder than he could ever be. He spotted the imposter trying to dislodge Sour Bill who was fighting with the strength a little candy ball could muster.
Marching over there Candy grabbed the imposter by the shirt collar and twisted it; the false king stared up in surprise and instantly regretted his decision of doing so. King Candy's face was red with anger, his eyes were narrowed and he was a frightening sight. The fake king clawed at the grip and crouched down in fear he didn't even know he had.
"I told you no one touches vanellope" candy growled, " and you had better pray I still have enough kindness in me to spare you from the mere brunt of my fury."
" Th-thorry I-I-I didn't mean t-to ha-rm her, really if you-"
" STHUT UP!" Candy snarled, "YOU'ER NOT SORRY! SOMEONE AS COLD AS YOU CAN"T FEEL STHORRY!"
The false king shrunk back in fear the best he could, but it was clear that the true king was not done with him yet. Suddenly without warning, the false king was knocked on the head and fell to the floor unconscious. Candy did the only thing he could at the moment, he snatched up his daughter and fled the castle with Sour Bill at his side, King or not Candy had to get his daughter somewhere safe. He could only pray that the imposter would remain unconscious till he returned to deal with him.
Starting up his cart and pulled Sour Bill in, as they sped past the doors of the castle Vanellope asked, "Daddy where are we going?"
Candy stole a quick look at the castle before answering, " We're going for a drive and vanellope."
"Yes daddy."
"If I ever tell you to run or leave or fight you must do it immediately understood?"
"Yes daddy I understand." Snuggling up to her father, Vanellope fell asleep and Candy placed a protective arm around her. They had to get somewhere safe, they had too.
The false king awoke with a mother-of-all headaches, then he remembered what had happened to him. A second later a smile crept over his face, "Well", he murmured, " If he wanted to play hard all he had to do was ask."
With that the false king tied the end of the licorice rope to something then himself, jumping in the black abyss he headed straight for King Candy's code.
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