WELL HERE GOES NOTHING. MY SECOND ATTEMPT AT ROMANCE. PLEASE REVIEW ON MY PROGRESS.

I do not own Wreck It Ralph or any of the video games mentioned.

PUTTING A CODE TO GOOD USE

(Earlier that night)

Vanellope couldn't sleep at all. The thoughts still plagued her mind of never seeing her friend again. Never hearing his jokes, never competing in races against him, never seeing him smile and make her smile as well.

Why did he make her smile while he was here and why did he make her sad when he was gone? She did not understand any of these thoughts and feeling. Ever since that moment when he held her hand to follow him, she had all new feeling she never really felt before. She had no idea what it was and it was driving her crazy.

"That's it!" she thought, "I'm going to go find him. He's probably staying in Ralph's game somewhere out of sight," She took the sheets of her bed and prepared to use it as a parachute. She then opened the window to her room and looked down at the massive drop. The wind blew heavily at such a high place and She began to breath heavily at the fear of how high she was and what she was about to do. She began having second thoughts about the whole thing, until she remember Alpha. He always jumped head first into danger not caring about the consequences. "If he could do it, so can I," she told herself, "Okay, okay here we go just take one step and… WHOA!"

Suddenly an air current took her parachute and forced her off the window sill. She creamed in surprise, but later turned to screams of joy and excitement. This was exhilarating and blood pumping. Being so high, it seemed like flying. She saw the lands of Sugar Rush in a whole new perspective. She never knew what the land looked from above and now she was floating over it, it all seemed more awe inspiring. She wondered is Alpha knew about this, most likely yes. He seemed to know about more than he should as an upgrade. She somehow wished he was.

But now she had to figure out two important things, how to steer this thing and how to land.

She noticed that she was riding the wind current and made a slow descent to the ground. Luckily the wind was heading to the race track, but the time she got to the ground she would miss the track by miles, plus her weight didn't help much. If another gust of wind came by, it would surely take her higher than before and dropping wasn't really an option.

But then she suddenly realizing she could just glitch her way down. If she wasn't holding on for dear life she would have smacked her face.

She began her descent down by glitching a bit at a time before she let go of the sheets and landed softly on the starting line. She then made her way out of Sugar Rush and right towards Fix It Felix Jr.

FIX IT FELIX JR.

Vanellope was hopping for joy knowing she was that much closer to seeing Alpha again. She then began to think the best spot to look for that he would hide from the others. For a moment she thought he would most likely hide in an underwater cave he dug but then knew he would need to bring his bike. So that thought was scratched. She then thought deep in the woods, but then again, the woods didn't have much to help conceal a hide out with the Nicelanders seeing everything.

But then she noticed the large brick mountain. No one could really see over it due to there size except for Ralph and no one would bother to walk all the way around it for no reason. It was the perfect place.

She then ran as fast as she could around the mountain until she reach a spot where there was a heavy clutter of trees. She knew that was the spot he would hide out in. she began to squeeze through the trees without making a sound. If she tried to glitch, it would make too much noise for him to hear.

She then came in front of a simple, but nicely made small house near a pond. She admired the rustic look it had and it's simplicity. It gave off a feeling of relaxation and coziness. She then noticed the motorcycle parked near the house and her heart jumped for joy knowing she had found him. She hopped up to grab on the window sill to peek in and was shocked to see some other boy resting in the place as if it was his. She saw him look at all the trophies that Alpha had won in the race and was given a shocking fact of knowledge.

This guy took Alpha's stuff and most likely did something to him. She noticed him turn towards the window, but she was able to hop off before being seen. She was furious, she would beat the crap out of this asshole to find out what happened to Alpha. She then stood in front of the door and started to kick it with all her might. She heard footsteps coming closer until it opened the door.

She immediately attacked him and doing all she could to cause him pain.

"WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HIM!?" she growled.

The boy just laid against the floor shocked, "Whoa, what?"

"WHERE IS ALPHA, A.K.A. ROXUS!?" she roared at him.

"Vanellope don't you remember me?" The boy asked surprised .

"WHY WOULD I RECOGNIZE YOU AND HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME YOU THIEF!? She continued to shout. This angered her more hearing him try to think he could fool her this easily.

"It's me Roxus or Alpha, which ever you pick. Remember we raided Colhoun's room and took her panties to hide in Jean's penthouse?" The boy explained.

And right on cue, they heard the familiar angry voice of Colhoun in the building, "YOU SICK DISGUSTING SHORT FAT PERVERT!" they then heard a shout of pain meaning Colhoun gave Gene a nice punch to the face.

They both started to laugh until Vanellope froze and quickly had a look of absolute shock and confusion, "Alpha? Is that… you?"

"Of course it's me who else would I…" Alpha soon remembered he changed his image to a Fix It Felix Jr. image and knew now he blew it, "ah crap."

"Alpha?" she asked, "What are you?"

Alpha sighed in defeat. There was no way to tell except truthfully, "Okay, okay, sit down Schweetz, this is going to be a long story."

Alpha told her all about when he was first created and his life in a home entertainment system. His game programming, purpose, and daily life. Then came the tragic event where he was cut off from his home and brought here with nothing. Then came the part with meeting with Eggman and explaining his condition. Then all the events that lead to the present.

Alpha then waited for Vanellope to respond after finishing. She sat there with an expression of shock. Alpha knew this was a lot to take in all at once. But he just did lie to her and everyone else besides Ralph and Eggman about who he really was. He wouldn't blame her if she hated him forever. Then again he couldn't really tell everyone who he was to begin with. They would call him a virus and try to delete him and Alpha was not one the go down without a fight.

"Look V, I'm sorry that I lied about who I am. I just tried to fit in like everyone else now that I really don't have a real purpose in this arcade," Alpha looked up to she her still staring at him debating in her mind what to make of this, "I won't blame you for whatever you decide. I am technically a virus you know and who wants to be friends with that like Turbo?" Alpha tried to lighten the mood.

Vanellope began showing different moods of emotions as she began asking Alpha questions. The first one she asked with shock, "You… lied to me?"

Alpha nodded.

Next was a look of pain, "You were never apart of the arcade or Sugar Rush?"

Alpha nodded guilty as she started to list the things he did.

Next she gave a stern look, "You were never a part of Sugar Rush or the arcade?"

Alpha began to grow worried at the end reaction of all this.

Then she grew an expression of anger, "You got us into the worst kind of trouble because you could easily change you're appearance to get out of it?"

Now he knew he had done it and it was not going to end on a good note, "Look Vanellope, I'm sorry okay? There is nothing I can do but say it over again. I didn't want you to come in the first place cuz I knew you could get into real trouble while I could easily get out of it. I don't care what happens to me if I get caught or get killed because sooner or later I will die and that will be it for me. My life in this arcade doesn't have a real purpose to live on. So I will have the most fun I can have before I reach my final game over because no matter what game I go in I will die and I will never come back!" he finished breathing heavily after laying it out flat.

They both frowned at each other for a moment. Then Vanellope's expression started to break into one that seemed to look as if she would cry. Alpha then felt real guilty that he said something offending her and felt the need to try and take back what ever he might have said, but he had no idea what that might have been. Before he could get a chance to speak, she hugged him tightly. Alpha was frozen with confusion.

She spoke in a scolding, but sobbing voice, "You idiot! You are one of my closest friends and the same age appearance. How can you say you don't matter in this arcade?" Alpha could not think of what to say as he still believed he still had no purpose. Vanellope looked up at him, "You have a purpose. Your purpose is to stay here with… us."

"But I can still die anywhere I go and I…" Alpha began but Vanellope cut him off.

"No! You are going to be more careful from now on young man, even if we have to put you in a time out in the fungeon." She ordered.

Alpha became once again annoyed by others trying to restrict him like a child, "Oh and pray tell who in this entire entertainment system is going to make me?" he challenged.

Vanellope smirked and spat in her hand and held it out, "Promise me as a friend, a close friend. That you will keep safe so we could be friends forever."

Alpha found himself stuck once more in a promise that he found hard to refuse, especially to one of his closest friends. Alpha once again fell for Vanellope's trap, "Alright, I promise by my honor as a close friend to not endanger myself to having a final game over." Alpha deadpanned and sealed the deal with a spit shot to his hand and shaking hers."

And after the wiped their hands after the shake, things became strangely quiet in the house. Both kids looked around thinking of what to say first.

Then Alpha came with the first question he should have asked in the first place, "What are you doing here? I thought they said you were supposed to stay in Sugar Rush and not see me again?"

Vanellope completely forgot why she was there in the first place after finding out Alpha's true identity. So she came up with the first thing that came to mind, "I'm the president. You think I'm going to let a handyman and a soldier tell me what to do like a child?"

Alpha rethought the question, "Heh, yeah that's obvious. But how did you get out?"

Vanellope sort of blushed remembering that she had thought of him when she performed her stunt, but decided to leave that part out, "I used my sheets as a parachute to float my way down from the castle to the exit."

Alpha took a look of surprised amazement, "Wow miss president, how undiplomatic of you."

Vanellope rolled her eyes, "I blame you and your code for rubbing off on mine."

Alpha then remembered Ralph's and his promise, "But Ralph doesn't want me to hang out with you unless I don't involve you in anymore mischief."

Vanellope sighed in defeat knowing Alpha would do what Ralph said and ending anymore mischief. But then brightened up at an idea, "I'll go get him and we'll tell him you will keep your promise."

She was about to dash right off until Alpha grabbed her hand, "Vanellope wait!" Vanellope stopped to listen, "You can't just tell him to just turn over the deal and I can't demand anymore request since I've already used mine," Vanellope then dropped her head and sighed disappointed, "But that doesn't mean you can't make a compromise with him and make a bargain with those schweet innocent puppy eyes of yours."

Vanellope giggled at the little joking compliment, "Okay ya mush-mallow, I'll use my special cuteness powers to try to bend the deal. So we can hang out again." she said while standing stall and proud with a hand across her chest.

Later Vanellope explained that she knew Alpha's secret and promised to keep it and brought him back to Alpha's house, explaining along the way of how she got out in the first place.

"Wait a minute, we already made a deal and we won't change it." Ralph said firmly.

Vanellope went with the plan and displayed the largest and cutest set of begging puppy eyes and folding her hands close to her mouth pleadingly to try and change this mind, "Please Ralphie, we really, really promise we will behave from now on and won't cause any real trouble. Pleeeeeeeeease!" a few bats of the eyes never hurt.

Ralph was overpowered by her display of cuteness and succumbed to her plea, "Aauugh, alright you cute little rotten cheater. As long as you both behave and not cause anymore real trouble, because if I find out, the deal is off and you'll both be in a really big time out from each other. Got it?"

Both saluted him, "Yes sir stinkbrain!"

Ralph Rolled his eyes at their silliness, "And I'll also tell Felix and Colhoun about this so they don't filp out about the new deal.

As soon as Ralph left the area Alpha sighed in relief that he got more freedom once again, "Well I guess that's that."

Vanellope threw herself on Alpha and wrapped her arms around his neck while and squealed causing them to spin around a bit before alpha regained his balance.

"Woo-Hoo! We can hang out again! I'm so happy!" she cheered while rubbing against his cheek with hers.

Alpha was in complete shock and blushing mad on how close they were and in each others arms, "Is this how you hug all your friends?" Alpha honestly asked a little nervous.

Vanellope realized how close they were and quickly glitches away from him and they both turned in opposite directions completely avoiding each others eye contact.

Vanellope shyly brushed a strand of hair behind her ear, "Uh, I better go… they will probably look for me in my room if I'm not back in time."

"Yeah heh, don't want them sending a whole search party for you and I don't want to be accused of kidnapping the all powerful president of Sugar Rush." Alpha shyly tried to point out a valid reason.

Vanellope turned a bit slightly enough to see Alpha, "Um, when can I see you again?"

Alpha thought for a moment, "Did you enter yourself for the Random Roster Race?"

"No not today," She said happily.

"Then I'll meet you in the Game Central Station" said Alpha.

"Then we can begin pranks on everyone?" she asked excitedly.

"I thought we promised not to get into trouble?" Alpha pointed out.

"Pfft, Ralph said as long as he doesn't find out. So we make sure no one finds us out when we play our pranks on them." Vanellope said mischievously.

"Ah, good point." Alpha admitted.

"Don't be late." she said before heading back to the castle.

GAME JUMPING: STREET FIGHTER

M. Bison was about to come out of his room to check over the other bad guys Sagat, Zangief, and Vega . As he opened the door and they bowed to him. A spill of pink paint splattered right over him. Sagat and Vega gasped while Zangief busted out laughing at the now pink dictator. Bison looked up and saw some remnants off pink paint drip from a closed air duct. Inside Alpha and Vanellope quickly crawled out to safety laughing and onto the next game.

PAC MAN

Clyde and Binky were helping out Pac Man warm up for opening time. Pac Man started eating his dots while Clyde and Binky gave chase. That is until Pac Man ate some weird tasting white dots and stopped in wonder what it was Clyde and Binky saw the unusual behavior and got curious.

"Uh, hey Pac Man? Are you okay." Clyde asked.

Pac Man turned around and tried to speak, but all that was coming out was was gurgles and massive foam.

Clyde and Binky freaked out and fled in fear. Pac Man was left unsure what had gotten into them. Meanwhile the two kids laughed up a storm while holding a couple of mentos and left to the next game.

PAPER BOY

Paper boy was practicing his throws on a challenging route to perfect his aim even more. It was the daily routine he did after closing time and went as it did every time, until now. As he was riding up to his last mail box to make a perfect streak, but then he heard barking from behind. He turned around to see a swarm of charging loose dogs after him and made him miss the last mail box and ride away for his life.

Meanwhile the two kids came out from behind a house and laughed out after the fleeing paper boy.

DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION

Yuni Verse was just dancing on the tile dance board to a selected song, but later noticed that the arrows weren't lighting up when she stepped on them. She stepped on them a few more times to see if they would come back on. On the third step, it turned out to be a light thin cloth and a powerful fan underneath it. The wind was strong enough to blow up her denim skirt to see her white tight under garments. Then the arcade began an uproar of woots and howls by saw games who were still on their screens and able to see her. Yuni Verse began cursing and blushing a deep red as she pulled her skirt back down and stepped off the fan.

Vanellope and Alpha had a remote to the fan that had an Eggman symbol on it. When Yuni Verse saw the Eggman symbol on the fan, she yelled out one infamous name, "EGGMAN!"

The kids held their laughter until they were out of ear shot and rushed out in time before the arcade would open.

Alpha had to get back to either Tappers or Tetris before Ralph would suspect anything and linking him and possibly Vanellope to the crime scene of the prank.

"So when can we do this again?" Vanellope asked.

Alpha thought for a moment, "Burger Time. Don't be late slugger."

And surely enough they met once again at the appointed place.

BURGER TIME

The Chef was walking over ingredients to make his burgers to serve to the customers. After running over a patty he thought he smelled something foul, but paid no attention to it. Later he was giving out his burgers to other game programs until he gave the last one to one of the Soldiers of Hero's Duty. He took a quick bite out of it absent mindedly and then was hit with a stomach turning taste. He threw it up and smelled his breath and recognized the smell.

"CHEF!" he barked.

The chef came back with a wide grin, "yes sir how may I help yo… eep!"

The soldeir stuffed the burger into the chef's mouth and left the game pissed off. The Chef started barfing and gagging at the horrid taste of the burger.

Vanellope and Alpha were in the crowd watching the whole thing.

"Good thing I ate all those burritos for lunch," Alpha whispered to Vanellope.

"I guess he doesn't like second helpings," She added in her part of the joke.

Both ran out laughing to head on to the next game.

PONG

Ping and pong were going through a short game to pass the time and as a competition to see who was better. As they hit the dot back and forth, pong noticed something strange. As he hit the dot after a couple of seconds ago, he saw another dot come into play.

"Hey I thought we were using one dot Ping!?" pong shouted accusingly.

"What are you talking about? I didn't… WHOA!" Ping exclaimed as he saw another dot coming towards him as he hit the other away.

Now there were three dots in play as ping and pong quickly moved back and forth to keep from getting scored on.

"Where are they coming from!?" Ping panicked.

"I don't know if I can… OH CRAP!" Pong then saw three more dots come in.

Ping and Pong were flying back and forth at high speeds to keep the dots from passing them. After a while ten more dots came out and intensified the game.

"I… can't… keep… up!" Pong said between breaths.

"I'm… going… to… faint!" Ping said losing his breath.

After ten seconds of blurring lines moving up and down, the two collapsed on the bottom of the screen as the dots past by and oddly tied the game.

Alpha and Vanellope were snickering from the top of the screen with a bag of dots ready to be used. They quickly ran out and onto the next game.

MARIO KART

The race was about to begin as the racers came stood by their karts and waved to everyone before jumping in their karts. But when they did, a series of loud farting noises sounded off when they landed on their seats.

The crowds became quickly quiet, but not as quickly as they roared out laughing, even at Bowser. Wario had no embarrassment of that sudden act due to his natural ability to fart at will.

Vanellope and Alpha openly joined in the crowds laughter as most of the racers started to turn red.

Then when the green light flashed the all slammed on the gas pedals and even more fart noises were heard coming out of the exhaust pipes.

Some of the characters refused to ride their karts to prevent the noises, others tried to lightly press on the pedals so not to make much of a farting sound, but it was Wario who took the head start for finding no trouble to making loud farting sounds come out of his kart as well as his own rear.

Vanellope and Alpha laughed even harder at this. Vanellope took it a step further by making jokes at Peach and Daisy about being un-ladylike and putting in too much gas in their engines. Alpha had to soon pull her out with him before the infuriated princesses spotted them.

Once again they broke their now daily routine of mischief to lay low to avoid suspicion.

Before Vanellope could ask, Alpha guessed her question and answered it, "When can you see my awesomeness again? It will be at Sonic's game."

She would have retorted with a sassy comeback, but hearing him mention a prank on her speeding rival sent a shiver of excitement to wonder what kind of prank would be involved for the blue show off. She couldn't wait till then.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

The next day, in Sonic's game, Sonic was running through green hill zone to run wildly through the land. That is until he saw a nice hot and juicy chili dog on a plate. He quickly came to a halt in front of it, "Well today must be my lucky day as always." Sonic said excitedly. He tried to grab the chili dog, but it moved away out of reach. "Huh? What the…" He ran for a dive at the food, but it quickly evaded him again.

He looked around to see if there was anyone playing a prank on him, but saw no one. He thought it was Eggman but remembered he headed off to that Bad-Anon meeting. So he decided to slowly reach for the food, but as he did, so did the food. Sonic got fed up and tried to run around after it and grabbed just out of reach every time, "Alright chili dog, my stomach is hungry and you're getting inside."

Just like that the chili dog sped off and sonic ran after it in a comical chase.

Sonic was right on it's tail and reached out to grab it until it sped right up the face of a cliff and leaving sonic image hole in the wall. Later sonic chased it inside a loop-de-loop and sped faster and faster around and around until Sonic stopped suddenly dizzy, "Oof, bad idea! BLARG" Sonic threw up after so many spins around the loop. After he hid in a bush as he saw the chili dog coming down the road, but soon disappeared before coming up the last hill. Sonic got up in confusion about where it went, "What the… where did it go?" But then from behind him, the food on the plate crept up from behind him and then ran itself into Sonic's tail and caused him to jump ten feet in the air screaming in surprise and losing all his rings. Then Sonic saw it across a great gap separating him and the chili dog, "That's it! No more Mr. Nice Guy!" Sonic then used the chaos emeralds to go super and fly straight across to the other side. When he did, he noticed the chili dog was gone and then turned around to see it right back where he came from, "How did…" He sped off after it until it was gone again and back to where he first saw it, "this is really starting to tick me off!" Sonic flew back and forth as it kept changing it's location until Sonic set a trap up and caught it in a cage, "Ha! Caught you now smarty pants!" He made one last flight back towards it and ran out of time in his super form, "Oh come on," he then fell into the water below. Finally, Sonic reached the shore and saw the chili dog waiting for him on the beach. Sonic lost his appetite for the chili dog and waved it off, "Oh I just don't care anymore." and just like that, the chili dog jumped into his face and covering it in chili beans and cheese with the hot dog over his mouth making him look like he's smiling when he was frowning in irritation.

Across the sonic game inside another game, Alpha and Vanellope were rolling and hitting the ground in uncontrollable laughter with a remote control that controlled the chili dog next to them. It took them about five minutes to control their laughter as they still saw the hedgehog fuming over the incident from across the arcade room.

TAPPERS

Vanellope had brought contained vanilla ice cream from Sugar Rush as Alpha ordered two of the biggest glasses of root beer he could get. They soon had made themselves root beer floats that made them the center of attention to be asked about where to get some by the other patrons. Vanellope was about to answer until Alpha beat her to it.

"Well this here Ice Cream is high quality vanilla from the highest point of Vanilla Top Snow Mountain. But you will need to get permission from the great and powerful President Vanellope Von Schweetz here for a certain price." Alpha announced.

Soon the patrons of Tappers started making generous offers to have Tapper get a shipment of the ice cream from Sugar Rush. Offers ranged from secret codes, tips on winning their games, and awards from their games such as coin, medals, trophies, high titles, and highest score records.

Vanellope, being her, accepted each offer as if it seemed like it would have to do as a low bargain to make for her high quality vanilla ice cream. She then gave permission for Tapper to receive a shipment of ice cream from Sugar Rush.

After the patrons cheered and went back to there drinks, Alpha and Vanellope snorted and giggled at the scam they just pulled off.

"And to think, I would have given it for free," she giggled.

"We are so evil," Alpha chuckled.

After they calmed down, they took a long chug of their root beer floats almost all the way to an empty glass before ending up with data freezes. Both grabbed their heads to try to hold the trauma until it subsided and had a short laugh at the stupid thing they just did.

Then Vanellope shifted a bit from a nagging question she had been wanting to ask, "Hey uh Alpha?"

"Yes?" he said while finishing the last of his root beer float.

Vanellope turned so she wouldn't be seen so clearly with her growing blush, "Do you want to uh…" she prolonged her question. "Great milk duds! Why was it so hard to ask him a simple question? And why in the milky way am I blushing? It's just my friend Alpha!" she thought debasingly to herself.

Alpha gestured her to go on, "Do I want to what?"

"Uh… if… you wanted to uh…" she hesitated. "Come on stupid. It's just asking him out on a day in Sugar Rush… okay asking him out doesn't sound like the right thing to say." She debated to herself even more, "If you wanted to just go relax in Sugar Rush after closing time tomorrow!" she said in one loud breath.

Alpha looked awkwardly at her, "Ookaay. Seems to me that you need a day off. Fine we'll go fine something to do in candy land tomorrow."

Vanellope began to breathe easier now that it was over and the date… or trip was set. She figured that she could learn more of his ability as a lost customized program. But first she had to find out what was making her feel like this with Alpha because it was annoying the living cream filling out of her.

She would go talk to Ralph after this.

SECOND ATTEMPT IS COMPLETE. REVIEW THIS CHAPTER AND TELL ME HOW I DID THIS TIME CUZ LIKE I SAID BEFORE, I AM NEW TO THIS TYPE OF CATEGORY AND WISH TO KNOW MY PROGRESS.