Chapter 9: The Hotel Transylvanian Race

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA OR WRECK-IT RALPH. WRECK-IT RALPH BELONGS TO DISNEY. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA BELONGS TO SONY PICTURES ANiMATION.

A/N: This is the last chapter for this part of The Glitch Effect series. I won't be writing anymore chapters because I'll be at school in a few days. I only write during school holidays and weekends.

Vanellope's POV

As we wait at the starting line I thought 'I'll show them my power. They'll be surprised when they see it.'

"Ready. Set. GO!" A suit of armor yelled and we raced off. In the lead was Dracula, followed by Mavis, followed by me and behind me I saw Jonny, Murray, Wayne and the suits of armor. What did they expect? Driving big chunks of metal. I kept my eyes on the road and I veered around some tombstones. I looked ahead and I saw Dracula disappear. 'Hmm, now where's he going?' I managed to race past Mavis and I followed Dracula into the hole. It looked like a ramp into underneath the castle. I looked behind me and I saw everyone following me. 'This must be where the race starts to get interesting.' I grinned and I raced into the opening.

I saw fires streaming out of holes in the walls on either side of me but they came out at varying intervals, whenever a flame came near me I glitched. I managed to glitch onto the ceiling and rode it all the way but I didn't see a trap. The ceiling had spikes on it. I gasped and glitched back down onto the floor but it cost me some time. I'm now behind the suits of armor, dead last. I fumed and I randomly started to glitch (A/N: Don't you love it?) all around the place.

I glitched onto the back of a suit of armor, nearly on top of Murray, nearly on top of Wayne, almost headlong into Frank and I nearly toppled Mavis's kart over. I glitched to the front of the race but Dracula was nowhere in sight. 'Where did he go?' I checked behind and I saw a lot of destruction but thankfully everyone was okay. 'Oops.' I grinned and raced ahead looking for Dracula.

"Surprise!" I glanced up and I saw King Turbug.

"What are you doing here?"

"Why to kill you of course. I've already killed old Dracula but that was easy. I just had to intercept him as he was getting your candy. I pushed him out into the sun and kept him there. He burned to death. It was beautiful."

"You MONSTER!" I raced away, tears in my eyes. I didn't know where I was going and I hit a dead end. I looked around and it was the end of the corridor. 'Now where are we going to go?' The floor opened beneath me and I fell through directly into the lobby! I have no idea how the track ended up here but maybe it twirled up, around and through the hotel except maybe we hadn't noticed it. Heh. I shrugged and kept on racing. I went around some shocked-looking customers and everyone else followed behind me. I checked behind and I saw Jonny gear up his kart and he shot forward, went past me and out through the front doors. I shook my head and followed him. As I'm about to go through the front doors my engine stalled. I checked the fuel gauge and I found out that it was empty. I ran around to the back compartment and pulled out my five left-over buckets of candy.

I chucked them into the tank and hopped back into my kart. By this time everyone has gone past me. I revved it up and shot off the mark. Thanks to the extra bucket of candy I found my kart sped up. It got so much speed that I broke the sound barrier and the candy barrier. By breaking the candy barrier I got a glimpse of Game Central Station and saw everyone from Hero's Duty, Sugar Rush and Fix-It Felix Jr. standing around the station. I looked on in despair but then it was gone. I also caught a glimpse of Ralph. It looked like he was in a building somewhere. But before I could get a better look My vision started to blur and I raced forward. I couldn't even turn my head.

I shot past Mavis, Jonny, Murray, Frank, Wayne, the suits of armor and King Turbug. He didn't see me flash past as his eyes were glued to the road. I got far and I mean far. I think I went around the hotel at least twice before my kart slowed down back to its normal speed. I shook my head, trying to decipher the images I saw. I knew that I Sugar Rush had been unplugged but I didn't know about the others getting unplugged. Where was Ralph? That building looked like it was in New York. But I could sift through the images later. I have a race to win.

I checked the scoreboard they had placed out for the race and it looked like I was in front. I had one more lap to go while the others had two laps to go. I confidently went through the track once more when I saw something unusual in the lobby. There was no-one in sight. Not even Quasimodo and his infernal rat Esmeralda. But there was one person in the lobby. In fact it wasn't even a person; it was a cross between a Cy-Bug and him. King Turbug. He watched me go by but he didn't do anything. He just watched me go by. I looked weirdly back at him and I went off to finish the race. I got the finish line and I won! But I had to go back to see King Turbug.

I turned my kart around and headed off back to the lobby. When I got inside though King Turbug wasn't there, everyone was back. I got back to my kart, had one more glance at the lobby just to be sure, and I went back to the finish line to welcome everyone on a fantastic race. When everyone got thre Dracula was nowhere to be seen. I pulled Mavis aside and told her all about King Turbug and what he had done to Dracula. She started to break down in tears and while everyone was trying to comfort her I broke the candy barrier again and headed off to where Ralph was.

So … this Glitch Effect story is finally done. The next story will take place in New York but who has found Ralph? We'll find out in the next story till then. Reviews are welcome.