In response to a guest review, I want to mention that I do know all of the racers' names (and pretty much every detail of the movie thanks to the Internet and multiple viewings). I'm just writing the story from Turbo's perspective, where he doesn't know a lot about the game yet. Hope that clears things up.

Chapter 5: The Turbo-tastic Race

Upon arriving at the main track for yet a third time, Turbo saw the racers boredly waiting in front of his popcorn box. He rushed up to the top of the stand and spoke up cheerfully, "So sorry for the delay, my dear subjects! But thank you so much for your patience. Here, have some candy!" He took a handful of candy that he had stuffed into his pocket and tossed it down at the racers. Turbo mused to himself, "Hmm, I like the sound of that…" He threw out more candy to the spectators and told them, "You too! Have some candy!"

The audience cheered at his generous gift, not repulsed at all that they were sentient candy eating non-sentient candy.

"Good news, everyone! I have taken an extra step to make sure the glitch cannot enter a race!" He held up a large gold coin that he had discovered in his pocket on the way over. "Everyone pays one of these coins to participate in the Random Roster Race. The winner receives all the coins, and everyone does it again the following day, and the day after and so forth."

Before he could go on, Rancis asked, "But how can we pay the fee when we've never raced yet and we don't have any coins?"

"…Have some money!" Turbo dropped a shower of coins from hammerspace to the kids, who had to shield their faces from getting hit by solid metal. Once everyone had scooped up all the coins, Turbo started off by tossing his coin into the giant cup above the starting line.

"King Candy!" declared the announcer, displaying Turbo's new persona and name on the board. Good thing he had recorded his own voice clip, even though it didn't sound like the announcer, but he figured no one would notice.

And no one did, because each racer deposited their coins and waved to the audience without hesitation. After the announcer finished calling everyone's names on the board, Turbo slipped on some brown racing gloves he'd made for himself and declared excitedly, "Now get ready to start your engines!"

The young racers eagerly hopped into their karts and revved them up as the spectators cheered in anticipation.

After he quickly put on his new helmet (and snickered at the kids' silly goggles), Turbo announced, "Let the Random Roster Race commence!" He pulled on the cord again and slid down the slide. "Woo-hoo!" This time, he landed perfectly in the seat of his kart, which he had moved into position beforehand. He gripped the steering wheel tightly and focused his eyes on the stretch of road ahead, adrenalin pulsing through his code. This is it! I'm finally gonna race again!

A weird marshmallow thing floated in front of the racers and started counting down: 3… 2… 1…

"GO!" the announcer exclaimed.

Turbo immediately floored the gas pedal… only to see everyone else speed past him while he remained stationary. "Argh! You gotta be kidding!" He furiously put his car in gear and tore after the others. The car sped up and Turbo was barely tailing one of the palette swap cars. Also, the engine started whining. "No! Come on, don't fail me already!" Turbo placed one hand on his head and groaned, "Sour Bill said something while I was learning how to drive stick. What was it?"

In the back of his mind, a flashback started playing what happened a few hours prior…

Turbo was struggling to go faster in the car, and Sour Bill sighed, "Okay, I will spare you the technical details and just give you one straight tip. Each gear is used for a range of speeds. For a higher speed, you use a higher gear."

The flashback ended, and Turbo wondered if what he said was true. He pressed the clutch pedal and shifted to second gear. Already the car's engine calmed and Turbo sped ahead of the teal Minty Zaki recolour. "You should try being more original!" he taunted before mentally adding, But you can't because recolours suck!

Turbo looked ahead and noticed all the racers seemed to be driving off a ramp. Across the ramp was a valley lined with giant gumball machines…that were releasing massive gumballs to crush the other racers. Before he could stop himself, Turbo went over the ramp and he desperately swerved away from the gumballs. "I thought this was just going to be a long oval track!" he cried as he dodged the obstacles.

In front of him, Candlehead drove into a floating cube and an announcer on the loudspeaker yelled, "Sticky Slick!" Candlehead released a red puddle within Turbo's path. Before he could see what happened, his car got stuck and it was tougher to accelerate.

"How dare you do this to your king!" growled Turbo as he reluctantly put his car back in first gear to recover. He eyed the upcoming cubes and figured, "So those are what they use to make this game more exciting, hmm?" Turbo drove into one cube and his car suddenly had a missile launcher.

"Sweet Seekers!" crowed the announcer.

"All right!" Turbo grinned devilishly and decided to aim all three rockets at Candlehead. "Revenge!"

BOOM-BOOM-BOOM! Candlehead's kart went up in three consecutive explosions. "Sorryyyyy!" her apologetic cry faded in the sky.

Turbo passed under her and hooted, "Turbo-ta—I mean, you got bombed! Hoo-hoo!" He finally got away from the gumball machines and drove over accelerating arrows that launched him to the next part of the track. Turbo kept his car in high gear and overtook the next racers as they were scaling a spiraling chocolate cake. Passing all the cars within a thin route caused a lot of chocolate dust to get into his face. "Ack-hack! I can't see! Why did I refuse to make goggles for myself?" he moaned as he blindly drove around the curve.

At the top of the cake, Turbo went into a wafer straw tunnel, and ahead he could recognize Taffyta's car. He managed to drive up beside her and shouted, "You may be a pro, but you cannot beat a master!" Turbo floored the pedal and shot himself out of the straw and into the air. "Whoa. I did not expect this."

His car soared hundreds of feet above the ground towards the track. Turbo let out a cry as he felt his stomach drop before landing shakily on the road.

Taffyta landed in front of him expertly, and as she glanced back at him she teased, "What was that about being a master?"

Turbo narrowed his eyes and grumbled, "Show-off." However, he couldn't help but be impressed by how well she was handling her kart, especially at such a young age. Let's see just how good you are, he mused. Turbo nudged the back of Taffyta's car, causing it to veer off to the side.

Taffyta grunted and quickly regained control. She casted Turbo a playful glare before proceeding to push her kart into his as he came alongside her.

Turbo fought to shove Taffyta's car out of the way, but both racers stayed in the center of the road. Finally, Turbo changed gears and went ahead. "You'll have to do better than that, my dear!" he called over his shoulder. All of a sudden, he was aware of snow falling. Except it wasn't snow, but rather powdered sugar.

The two of them had come to a mountainous region made of ice cream and other frozen treats. Turbo struggled to keep his car from skidding on the slippery track, but it was difficult. "A snow level," he muttered. "Why did there have to be a snow level?" Bumping into the wall caused him to slow down and gave Taffyta the opportunity to zip past him.

The pink racer looked back and joked, "Careful, old man! You could get hurt on the ice!"

"Me? Hurt? Ha!" Turbo laughed to cover his uneasiness. What would happen if he did get seriously injured? True, he had integrated his code into the game, but there was no guarantee he would regenerate if he died, and he wasn't crazy about testing out that theory. As he came up to a curve, his car skidded out of control. In a panic, he tried braking and downshifting into first gear, but the kart wouldn't stop. Even worse, he was heading right for a blocked part of the track that was unfinished. "No! Nonononono—" Turbo crashed through the "Road Closed" sign and plummeted. "AAAAAAHHHHHH!"

Then everything went black. I'm dead. I'm dead, I'm dead, I died, I'm dead. When he realized he was still moving, Turbo opened his eyes and saw he was on a different path that was leading up to a cave. "…Oh. Nevermind." Relieved that he was still alive, the racer drove up the rainbow road and into the dark mine.

The road curved to the left so that the original path was on the right side. Turbo sped up to overcome the upward slope and got himself ready for the jump to the main track. He drove off the end of the shortcut and landed a few feet in front of Taffyta. "Miss me?" Turbo said cheekily before accelerating out of the cave. For a split second, he saw Taffyta give him an admiring smirk. Aww, I feel accepted… But now I need the feeling of victory! thought Turbo as he upshifted and dashed for the final stretch.

With the finish line in sight, Turbo decided to finish in style. Just as his car crossed the line, he hit the brake and turned his car in a semi-circle to face the rest of the racers as they crossed. Or, at least he tried, but since he was out of practice the trick ended up looking a little choppy. But that didn't matter because…

"First place: King Candy!" yelled the announcer as the candy spectators went wild and confetti fell from nondescript places.

"Huzzah! Thank you! Have some candy!" cheered Turbo as he got out of his car and waved to the crowd. "Yes, bow for your king!" The nostalgic feeling of winning and being loved overwhelmed him to the point where he thought he would cry of happiness. No, don't cry. It wouldn't look very kingly. Just then, Sour Bill crawled over to Turbo, having spent the last half hour trying to get to the track. "Ah, Sour Bill! Wasn't I amazing?"

"I can only imagine," grumbled Sour Bill as he plopped to the ground.

"Come on, you must be with me at the speech stand!" said Turbo as he ran off while the announcer finished listing the rankings. The candy ball sighed and dragged himself after the king once again.

On top of the popcorn box, Turbo received the winning cup of several golden coins, which he put back in his magic pockets. When the kid racers had assembled below him, he announced, "What a way to start off our game! I can see you're all skilled individuals!" He winked at Taffyta as he added, "Well, some more than others," and the girl smiled with pride. Turbo continued to address, "Now that we have our first nine avatars for the roster, we can rest until tomorrow morning when the arcade opens!"

Sour Bill spoke up, "Uh, sir? Aren't you forgetting about the Grand Opening?"

Turbo covered the mic and responded, "Hmm? Yes, what about it?"

"It's supposed to start in two hours."

"What?! I thought you said it would be tomorrow!"

Sour Bill pointed to the game's clock. "Uh, technically, it will be tomorrow."

Turbo looked at the time and saw it was a little after 10 pm. If the Grand Opening was at midnight, he only had a couple hours to come up with a way to get visitors to not arrive. He wasn't gonna take a chance and risk someone finding out about Vanellope. "Right, of course," he said, adjusting his bowtie. "Well, we're just going to have to, ahem, take care of that."

…Ok, I'm actually not sure how the items work, like if certain ones only appear for certain racers, and the online version only had a few to go by. If anyone knows, please tell me. And don't forget to let me know what you think of this chapter!