Chapter 3: The New Characters

"Location: Litwak's Arcade, The World Of Disney, November 24th 2108"

The upgrade took a few hours to install into Sugar Rush. As of a result, when the arcade opened the day after the party, Sugar Rush was unavailable to be played.

After the upgrade finished, the bright light faded from the game, revealing the sugary landscape, which still looked the same. The Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, Creamy, Captain Kaiser, and the other Sugar Rush characters were still asleep in their homes, still unconscious from the effects of the upgrade.

Down at the starting line at the racetrack, sixteen new characters, twelve males and four females, laid in the driver seats of their vehicles.

The first new male character looked like a male version of Taffyta, but there were some differences. He had pale skin, brown hair, and brown eyes, and he wore a pink racing jacket, white pants, and white shoes. He had a kart that was called the White Lightning, which looked like the Pink Lightning, except the kart was all white in color.

The second male character looked like a male version of Candlehead. He had pale green skin, green hair, and brown eyes, and he wore a green jacket, a white t-shirt, white pants, and green shoes. He had a kart that was called the Birthday Cake, which looked like the Ice Screamer, except the kart was all green in color.

The third male character had pale skin, short blonde hair, and blue eyes, and he wore a lemon hat, a yellow jacket, a white shirt, brown pants, and black shoes. He had a kart that was called the Lemonade, which was a yellow kart that had the same kart type as the Kernel.

The fourth male character had pale skin, blonde hair, and brown eyes, and he wore a suit and tie. He had a kart that was called the Chocolate Overdose, which was a brown kart that had the same kart type as the Kit Kart.

The fifth male character had pale skin, blonde hair with bangs, and brown eyes, and he wore a yellow lacoste polo shirt, yellow shorts that had a golden belt and suspenders, long yellow socks (polka dots were on the left while stripes were on the right), and black sneakers that had blue shoelaces. He had a kart that was called the CM'12, which was a white and light blue colored kart.

The sixth male character had chocolate brown hair, tan skin, and dark brown eyes, and he wore a tinfoil hat, a brown and silver striped jacket, a white t-shirt, silvery grey jeans, and brown and silver sneakers. He had a kart that was called the Silver Lining, which was a wide kart like the RV1, but it was made out of a Hershey's kiss, it had a devil dog seat, the wheels were Oreos, and the steering wheel and gearstick were dark chocolate.

The seventh male character had slightly tan skin, dark brown hair, and dark brown eyes, and he wore a black fedora that had an almond ribbon, silver sunglasses, a black shirt under a white polo (which was open but the collar was closed with a white tie), dark brown fingerless that had almonds on the knuckles, black pants that had chocolate on the edges, and dark brown shoes that had almonds as buckles. He had a kart that was called the Cloud 9, which consisted of a small snickers bar that had the shape of a camaro, an almond hood scoop, almond shaped headlights, and chocomallow wheels with almond hubcaps, and the number 14 was printed on the doors.

The eighth male character looked like Gloyd, except there were some differences. He had very pale skin, brilliant raspberry blue eyes, hair that was stark white with dyed blue ends, and his cheeks and nose had a blue blush. As for his outfit, he wore a white army helmet that had a crossing dum dum 'X' on the front, a white leather racing jacket that had two blue lightning designs on the side, a white shirt that had a blue camouflage design, white gloves, white pants that had blue stripes that ran down the side, and white combat boots. He had a kart that was called the Sucker Punch, which looked like the Pink Lightning, except there were some differences. The Sucker Punch was dark blue in color and had white flame designs on the sides, it was slightly bulkier, and the wheels were slightly larger and were more shaped like the head of dum dums, which gave it great offroading and great turns.

The ninth male character had peach colored skin, dark purple hair, and dark purple eyes, and he wore a grape Bottle Cap as a hat, a yellow shirt with polka dots that resembled the five main flavors of Bottle Caps, dark purple pants, yellow socks, and black shoes. He had a kart that was called the Soda Fizzer, which consisted of a yellow soda bottle that had orange Bottle Caps for wheels, a circular cherry colored Bottle Caps candy piece for the steering wheel, and cola boosters in the back of the kart that were used for racing emergencies.

The tenth male character had fair skin, short medium length red hair that was flipped to the side, and sky blue eyes, and he wore a red jawbreaker cap that had the front towards the back of his head, a red sleeveless hoodie, a black t-shirt, white pants that had multicolored speckles to match his hat, and black, white, and grey high tops. He had a kart that was called the Track Breaker, which looked like the Blender, the Tiramissle, and the Tiramissle II, except there were some differences. The Track Breaker was red with yellow and white speckles on it, and the wheels were jawbreakers that were connected to the kart by strong magnets, which allowed him to turn backwards faster and flip around other racers.

The eleventh male character had pale skin, messy brown hair, and black eyes, and he wore a white t-shirt that had an Oreo on it, flight goggles, black pants, and white shoes. He had a kart that was called the Chocomancer, which consisted of a chocolate cake that had chocolate icing, Oreo wheels, and bendy straw exhaust pipes.

And the twelfth male character was small and skinny, had very light skin, bright orange hair that was short and spikey, and dark purple eyes, and he wore a white shirt that had yellow and orange stripes at the bottom, black pants, and black sneakers. He had a kart that was called the Candycorn, which was orange and purple in color and was lined with candycorn spikes.

As for the new female characters, the first female character had fair skin, waist length golden blonde hair that had pink highlights on her fringe, orange eyes that looked almost as if they were glowing, and a small build, and she wore a pink hair bow that looked similar to Minty's hair bow, a red racing jacket that had white piping, a horizontally green and orange striped crop top, a matching skirt, red leggings, and white boots. She had a kart that was called the Magic Bean, which consisted of a red jellybean, a hot pink seat, a hot pink boiled-sweet windshield, a wheel that was made out of red vines, a red vine gearstick that had a small red jellybean on it's end, and blackberry sweets as wheels.

The second female character had pale skin, a brown pixie styled hair, and brown eyes, and she wore a grey hoodie sweater, a sky blue shirt, and mismatched leggings. Unlike the other new characters, she didn't have a kart. Instead, she had a green motorcycle.

The third female character had vanilla white skin, long lime green hair that had yellow and light orange streaks, and green eyes, and she wore a a metallic green racing jacket, a green shirt that had yellow, orange, and light green polka dots on it, a green skirt that had a lime green stripe across the bottom, white leggings that had lime green and yellow stripes, and green shoes that had yellow and lime green striped laces. She had a kart that was called the Key Lime Chariot, which consisted of a key lime pie, lemon meringue cookie wheels that had lime green stripes, and Sprite boosters.

And the fourth female character had tan skin, dark brown hair that was rearranged into a braid and had a marshmallow shaped hairclip, and brown eyes, and she wore a white shirt that had colorful polkadots, brown pants, and white sneakers. She had a kart that was called the Chocomallow, and it was a chocolate colored kart that had colorful sprinkles and whipped cream boosters.

The Gloyd look-alike woke up first.

"Ugg." the Gloyd look-alike muttered with a grunt as he opened his eyes.

He opened his eyes and looked out across the Sugar Rush landscape. As he did, he gasped.

"I-I'm back? I'm still alive?" the Gloyd look-alike wondered.

The Gloyd look-alike was a boy by the name of Damon Dumstruck, but unlike the other new characters, he wasn't part of the upgrade. He was actually part of the originally programmed Sugar Rush racers in order to add more male choices to the game. He was programmed to be the outcast, the one that was different then the rest of them, and he was actually a pretty popular racer in the first few months that Sugar Rush was plugged in back in 1997. He and Taffyta had a very big rivalry because both of them were sucker/lollipop themed, but he got along well with everyone else and things were great. However, Turbo eventually entered Sugar Rush, broke into the Code Room, and used Damon's code to make the King Candy avatar for himself so that he could rule Sugar Rush, and then he threw Damon's code out in the process. The reason that no one noticed was because when Turbo locked up their memories, he also made them forget about Damon and that he never existed. When Turbo perished in the Diet Cola Mountain explosion in 2012, his code, along with Damon's, was deleted, and since Turbo altered the code, the game didn't recognize Damon's code when Vanellope reset the game, and he died. Even though the reset restored everything in Sugar Rush after Vanellope had crossed the finish line, everyone continued to not remember Damon and he was never brought back. However, when Sugar Rush got upgraded, it brought Damon's original code back, but unfortunately, it didn't bring back everyone's memories of Damon, which he didn't know about, but he still had his memories of them.

"I wonder if everyone will still remember me. Hopefully they will. I need to get caught up on everything that I missed out on." Damon thought.

Damon then noticed the other new characters, still asleep.

"I guess I should wake them up too." Damon thought.

Damon then exited the Sucker Punch and made his way over to the other new characters.

"Hey, wake up!" Damon shouted.

The other new characters started to wake up.

"What?" the first female character asked tiredly.

Everyone opened their eyes and saw Damon standing in front of them.

"Who are you?" the third female character asked.

"My name is Damon Dumstruck. I was one of the original characters, but I had died. However, because of an upgrade, I'm alive again." Damon replied.

The fourth female character smiled and shook Damon's hand.

"Nice to meet you, Damon. I'm Marcy Choco-Mellow." the fourth female character introduced.

The other characters introduced themselves as well. The first male character was named Taffyel Fudgehead, and he had a Taffy theme. The second male character was named Kandle, and he had a Birthday Cake theme. The third male character was named Lemone Twist, and he had a Lemon theme. The fourth male character was named Simon Pelt, and he had a Chocolate theme. The fifth male character was named Ian Custard, and he had a Custard theme. The sixth male character was named Harry Silverfoil, and he had a Hershey's Chocolate theme. The seventh male character was named Alden Monde, and he had an Almond Candies and Confectionery theme. The ninth male character was named Charlie Fizzypop, and he had a Bottle Caps theme. The tenth male character was named Fury Flame, and he had a Jawbreaker theme. The eleventh male character was named Chip Chocolatte, and he had and Oreo and Chocolate Chip Cookie theme. And the twelfth male character was named Chase Corn, and he had a Candycorn theme. As for the female characters, the first female character was named Jellysha Butterfudge, and she had a Jellybean theme. The second female character was named Skyler, and she had an Animal theme. The third female character was named Keisha Key-Lime, and she had a Key Lime Pie and Lemons & Limes theme. And since Marcy had already introduced herself to Damon and everyone else had heard her name, she didn't introduce herself, but she did announce that she had a Chocolate-Coated Marshmallow Treats theme. Once the characters were done introducing themselves, Chip looked around.

"So, do you know where we are?" Chip asked.

"We're in Sugar Rush, which we are all in because of an upgrade." Damon replied.

Jellysha then spotted Sugar Town down a ways from the racetrack and pointed at it.

"Hey, look. That looks like some sort of social spot." Jellysha said.

"Maybe we can find the other racers." Harry suggested.

Damon recognized Sugar Town and nodded.

"Alright, that's a good idea. Let's go." Damon ordered.

Everyone got into their vehicles and then drove towards Sugar Town.