_-===***REVIEWS***===-_

IF IT'S NOT TOO MUCH TO ASK, CAN I GET SOME REVIEWS OVER THE WHOLE STORY SO FAR? THOSE WHO ALREADY DO, YOUR REVIEWS HELP ENCOURAGE ME TO GO ON, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR MORE OPINIONS. PLUS I'VE NOTICED NOW THAT I HAVE SPELLED CALHOUN'S NAME WRONG. SO BARE WITH ME AND KNOW THAT I WILL CORRECT IT THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE STORY FROM HERE ON OUT.

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

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Alpha made his way into Sonic's game through the tunnel. He didn't bother to change his character image to Wolffang and made his way to Eggman's base. He was suppose to be concerned with what he has been feeling after Vanellope kissed his cheek, but this new turn of events pushed all other matters out the window. If he could not deal with this problem with the Arisen's Bond ring, things could get real ugly, and not just for him and Vanellope, but everyone in the arcade.

As he took the lift to Eggman's main lab, his mind was already thinking of ways to try and destroy the ring or at least delete it's code. Just as long as it was only Eggman that knew that… "Ralph is here," Alpha deadpanned.

Sure enough, after the doors to the lift opened, "Well, hello to you too," Ralph said, slightly offended.

Ralph was with Eggman, talking more about Alpha's existence and many charts on the wall of experiments to test Alpha on.

Alpha gulped as he saw the plans on the charts, "You're not going to dissect me, are you?" Alpha asked, nervously covering his stomach.

Eggman gave a full laugh, "Foolish boy, I wouldn't do that," Alpha sighed in relief, "Now, if we were sure you could respawn, then I would dissect you."

Alpha's relaxed expression dropped to a frown, "Gee, thanks for the caring nature," he said sarcastically.

Ralph patted Alpha lightly on the back, "Don't worry, kid, he was just trying to come up with plans to help your game over problem."

"That's right," Eggman assured, "I have been studying your code for some time. I was hoping I could find a way to give everyone a way to respawn outside their own game, but mostly me, of course."

"Of course," Ralph and Alpha agreed in unison.

"I found out that your code cannot mix with anyone's code except your own." Eggman informed.

Then, Alpha remembered again why he was hear in the first place. He would rather have Ralph not hear this, but this was too urgent to wait. "Eggman! I came with some troubling news."

Eggman was one to always take bad news for good news as he grinned, "Oh, splendid! What kind of news?" he asked, sitting back in his chair, pressing his finger tips together in thought.

Ralph grew concerned, on the other hand. He knew Alpha was one who liked to get into trouble and if there was something that he called trouble with a serious face on, then it must be bad. "What kind of trouble is it?"

Alpha hesitantly brought out the ring. Eggman and Ralph sat there, confused at the big deal over a simple ring, "You call this bad news?" Eggman asked disappointedly.

"It's from the game I was from back home," Alpha began to give out bits of information. Eggman's grin came back as Ralph's face turned to shock and worry that his game was showing up back with him somehow, "It's called the Arisen's Bond. Every arisen, like myself, finds one of these rings to give to one person only."

Ralph still didn't get the meaning of all this. At first, he thought it was a wedding ring of some type that he could only give when he grew up. Not for when he was still young, "So what? It's just a stupid ring."

"Shush, Ralph. There may be more to it." Eggman silenced Ralph.

"There is, actually," Alpha took a deep breath, " It's not important, but who ever I give it to, as the Arisen, the person and I will be forever bound to each other."

"What, like a BFF ring or something?" Ralph speculated.

"No, it's like giving it to someone, in my case, a… girl that I would call my…" Alpha paused as he searched for the strength to force out the last sufferable word, "B-b-beloved."

While Ralph sat frozen in shock, Eggman was laughing long and loud. Alpha glared at the fat doctor, laughing at his expense. Ralph was then planning to try and encourage Alpha, "Hey! Leave him alone, Eggman!"

Eggman soon calmed himself, "It was just a joke," he tried to justify.

"It could be a good thing that Alpha has this ring now," said Ralph trying to encourage the idea.

"WHAT!?" Alpha exclaimed, "Whose side are you on!? This thing might cause nothing but trouble!"

Ralph smirked, "What? There are some pretty young girls around the arcade around your age."

"NO! You fat dolt! Sorry for the insult," Alpha quickly apologized, "Why are you so interested in me getting a, a…" Alpha waved his hands trying to think of a word to use.

"Well, why not? What's wrong with getting a girlfriend? A lot of people get one in their games, so why not you?" Ralph continued to press the matter on Alpha.

Alpha began to count down reasons, "One, I don't have a game I belong to! Two, I would have to tell that girl all of my secrets and I can't expect her to keep them! Three, they are kids and giving this ring to them is like an instant marriage that doofy grown ups do! Four, everything that comes with such an intimate act like all that deep kissing, crossing the line touching, and…" Alpha paused to shutter, "that… that thing grown ups do in…bed."

Ralph's eyes widened that Alpha knew what grown ups did in bed as a couple, "Wait, how do you know that?"

Alpha blushed, "I… sort of uh… saw a bit of it here and there." he said ashamed.

"You peeped in on people doing that!?" Ralph accused.

Alpha waved his arms in front of him in denial, "NO! no! I just happened to walk in on it in games that I was exploring. I was in Grand Theft Auto and I was looking for a car that I could steal and happened to pick the worst one of all," Alpha paused to shutter at the memory, "It was some guy and girl that were uh… well you know."

Ralph then felt a great amount of sympathy for Alpha, "Wow. I'm sorry you had to see that, kid. That's rough."

"So, any girls you want to try and throw at me now?" Alpha asked expecting to get his point across.

Ralph decided to ask straight out. Alpha was too clever to see through anything he would try to scheme, "How about Vanellope?" Alpha's eyes widened and he stared at Ralph as if he had turned into a Cy-bug and then he started to laugh. Ralph was surprised by Alpha's change of expressions, "What? What did I say?" he asked confused.

"Ahhh, good one Ralph. And here we say you have no sense of humor," Alpha assumed Ralph was joking. But, Ralph only gave Alpha a stern and serious look. Alpha's expression changed from humor to a nervous grin, "You are joking, right?" Ralph placed his hands at his hips, giving the impression he wasn't joking at all. Alpha's face turned from nervous to pale, "Oh crap, you are serious."

"Oh, come on Alpha, why is it such a bad idea? If everyone knew the way you two were, they would all agree that you two are meant for each other." Ralph tried to reason.

Alpha was at a loss of what to say and started to stutter out reasons, "It's cuz we… I don't think she would… we can't just…Ugh! What do you know about this? We are kids and kids don't do stuff that this ring intends us to do!" he said turning around and crossed his arms.

Ralph sighed, "I know that she really likes you kid," Alpha relaxed a bit from his angry outburst at hearing this, "She is always thinking of you and can't wait for the next day to be around you to have fun. Vanellope always talks about you when we both hang out somewhere," Alpha sighed, not knowing what to do from here, "And if I suspect anything after she kissed your cheek, it's that she is beginning to love you."

Alpha turned to Ralph, "What do you want me to do, huh?!" Alpha asked Ralph for a good answer, "Do you expect me to give her this ring and everything will be just fine? Do you think I could protect her from anything that might happen?!"

Ralph gave alpha a confused look, "What could possibly go wrong?"

Alpha raised the ring to his face, "THIS is what could go wrong!" Ralph still looked confused at what Alpha was getting at.

Eggman wasn't so slow to get the point, "He means that some things from his game are starting to appear out of his own code."

Ralph now understood, "Wait, you mean you never had this with you?"

"No! That's the point. If things like this start to pop up from my game, this entire arcade is in danger! Creatures will be linked to me and will just respawn no matter how you kill them!" Alpha shouted, with fear evident on the possibilities of what next would come from his code, "That's why I came here not only to try to destroy this ring that doesn't belong in this arcade, but to try to find a way to block my code from unleashing something more horrible than a goblin from my game!"

Eggman once again pressed his fingers together and thought about this, "This is indeed a problem for the arcade and a real challenge to create something that will help block your code from bringing content from your game," Eggman stood up and placed a hand on Alpha's shoulder, "But I will find a way to help you. Just be careful if something you did or felt brought this ring of yours here."

"What do you mean?" Alpha asked not getting the advice given to him.

"If you had a strong emotion that happened to bring that ring into the arcade, your actions and emotions may be the key to bring forth more content from your game," Eggman clarified. Ralph nudged Alpha, hinting about the 'strong feelings' part. Alpha kicked his shin as hard as he could. It barely sent a pain in Ralph's leg, but he cringed playfully at the strike. "So, watch what you do and feel."

"Alright," Alpha said, annoyed that Ralph was probably grinning at him.

They both started to leave for the door, "Wait a moment! Where do you think you're going?" Eggman demanded.

"Uh, out?" Alpha answered.

Eggman shook his head, "Ralph, you can go. Alpha needs to stay and run some tests if he wants to fix this problem."

Alpha gave a suspicious stare, "Why do I have the feeling you want more than just the info to stop my problem?"

"I'm a scientist, can you blame me?" Eggman said shrugging.

"Well, I guess Flannery will just have to wait for closing time," thought Alpha. "Well, lets get this over with."

"Alright, Alpha, I gotta go back to my game," Ralph said to him as he was leaving.

"Wait, Ralph, I need you to take a quick message for me to someone," Alpha requested.

Ralph raised a brow, "Ah, and who may that be, lover boy?" Ralph mocked.

Alpha glared at him, "Not that kind of message and not to her! It's to someone named Flannery who's waiting for me in Sugar Rush. It's the upgrade that wanted to thank me for unlocking the time challenge."

"Okay, fine, but remember what I said about Vanellope," Ralph told him.

"Yes, yes, dump it Ralph." Alpha acknowledged rolling his eyes.

"That's Wreck-It Ralph!" Ralph called back.

"Whatever, bud!" Alpha replied.

"Now, here is a list of what you have to do for the tests while I'm gone," Eggman instructed.

"Aren't you afraid to leave me here to explore your lab?" Alpha smirked mischievously.

Eggman frowned, "Not if you want that help later on."

"Okay, okay, easy. I was only kidding. Go ahead and fight little fluffy animals again," Alpha mocked.

"They are more troublesome then you think!" Eggman said in his defense.

Alpha chuckled, remembering what he and Vanellope did to the silly hedgehog as a prank, "You'd like to think so."

After, Alpha soon began his tests that Eggman instructed him to do. If he had more time to spare afterwards, he would go explore Eggman's lab later. Alpha thanked the creator of crossed fingers.

SUGAR RUSH

The roster selected racers were lining up to race for the day until they heard someone calling out a name.

Flannery was skipping smarties across the chocolate lake, waiting for Roxus. She began to wonder if Wolffang even came through with his promise. Then, she perked up when she heard a engine roaring towards her and hoped it was Roxus driving up. No such luck.

Rancis drove over a hill and stopped in front of the lake and saw Flannery.

He then saw that she was indeed a girl that he had never seen before and decided to lay the old charm on her. Rancis approached her with a strut up to the new girl, "Hey there, sweets. You lost?" he asked, with a suave smirk.

Flannery looked behind her, hearing the sound of his voice and saw Rancis. She then rolled her eyes and said, "Nope. I know exactly where I am, thank you very much. And you are?"

Rancis brushed back his hair, "Name's Rancis, sweets. The most good-looking and sweet racing character in the game," he boasted, puffing out his chest.

Flannery rolled her eyes again. "You can stop boasting about yourself and being generally overconfident. Your kart is most certainly in need of a tune-up, for starters. Plus, you're not the sweetest; you're the most vain."

Rancis was struck with shock at how she nailed him dead-on without knowing him. He stumbled on, "Wha, I just... my kart is... I'm not... err."

Flannery smirked. "Being stuck inside a game's code for fifteen years has its advantages. For one thing, you know how everyone is programmed to be... Like you, for example."

"Oh, what does that prove?" Rancis said, offended, "If you really get to know me, you wouldn't want me to leave."

Flannery shrugs. "Who said I wanted you to leave? Bring your Kart over here so I can fix it up."

Rancis walked back to his kart, "Sure, whatever. But, you'll be surprised that nothing is wrong with it," He said confidently. Rancis then drove his kart over for Flannery.

Flannery nodded, opening up the hood. She cringed. "How long have you had this Kart for, anyways?"

Rancis looked confused, "What? I had it for over fifteen years and it still runs like chocolate milk."

Flannery raised an eyebrow. "Well, true. But, your kart is only mediocre as is. For starters, there's a small leak in the engine wall."

Rancis looked in to see the leak, "Well that could have happened on the way over," he tried to make an excuse.

Flannery raised a brow, "Has this happened before?"

"Uh, no," Rancis said obviously a lie. He decided to change the subject, "I just remembered, Roxus was going to be a little late in meeting you."

Just then, the rest of the Sugar Rush racers drove up on the two. Looks of confusion and surprise of seeing a new character was on everyone's faces. Vanellope was more satisfied to know that the new upgrade that Alpha unlocked was revealed.

After looking around in Rancis' Kart for a bit, she smirked at the sight of the other racers. "May I assume you guys are my competition?"

"Uh... who is this" Taffyta asked not impressed with what she saw.

Vanellope on the other hand gave a more warm welcome, "Welcome to my lands of Sugar Rush, uh, Flannery. I am President Vanellope Von Schweetz."

Flannery smirked. "It's nice to meet you, President Vanellope, and most of you as well. Well, except for Taffyta, who apparently disrespects everyone at first sight."

Taffyta just crossed her arms and turned away, sticking her nose up, "Well you have to earn my approval if you want my respect."

Vanellope rolled her eyes, "Like I did before you knew I was the princess?" Taffyta faltered from her snotty pose, remembering that moment, "I thought so. Anyways, I'm guessing Rancis told you about Roxus?" Vanellope asked.

Flannery nodded. "Indeed. Another thing; don't be too harsh on her; King Candy duped us all like the Trojan Horse he was."

"Wait, how did you know that?" Candlehead asked surprised.

Flannery shrugged. "I've been a part of this game's code since it was plugged in, so I've seen all the manipulations that King Candy's done to our code, including something to me. Originally, I was supposed to appear on the tenth anniversary of the game... However, Turbo edited that so it would be practically impossible. I guess he didn't want a new racer on the tracks."

Vanellope grew nervous that Flannery might know about Alpha, "Uh, what other things do you know?"

Flannery shrugged. "Only that an upgrade named Roxus Cinnamus appeared a few days ago and unlocked me."

Vanellope sighed in relief in the inside, "Okay then, flan head. Well, it will be a while 'til Roxus comes back, so in the meantime, how about I give you the tour of the place?"

Flannery shrugged once more. "Thank you for your kindness, but it would be useless. My time in the code means that I already know the layout back to front."

"Well, doy, how about we do it just to hang out until Roxus gets back?" Vanellope playfully said, "Let's say, starting at Starburst Trek?"

Flannery's eyes opened wide. "Starburst Trek? Now you're talking!"

Vanellope and the rest of the racers, with Flannery raced off to the cannon to lead them to Starburst Trek to start a friendly race, waiting for Roxus to come back.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

Eggman flew back home after another defeat by small, furry animals. That thought was starting to nag him after Alpha mentioned it. What kind of great genius was he if he couldn't outwit a bunch of animals? He blamed Sega for this. Well, it could be worse; for all he knew, Sonic could end up kissing some human princess in a fairy-tale ending, but that was just stupid. Who, in their right mind, would come up with a plot like that?

At last, Eggman returned to his base and entered into his lab and boy, was he shocked to see what happened. The lab lights were off and loud, booming music was playing that sent throbs into his head. In different parts of the lab, strobe lights were rapidly flashing and different-colored searchlights flashed and moved in every direction. Security laser lights were also shooting out in different directions and alarms were going off to the rhythm of the music. The worst, by far, was that all his robots were dancing to the music and threw TP's everywhere. To Eggman, this was anarchy and chaos in a very bad way to him.

He tried to make his way across the lab, avoiding the TP's and blinding lights. There were even robots that were launching themselves through the air. Finally, Eggman reached the heart of the trouble. There, at the main control console of the lab, was Alpha, in front of a big screen that displayed many images of bright colors spazzing out; he was acting like the DJ of a rave concert.

That was enough. Eggman flew down and hit the main reboot switch to the entire lab and everything went dark before the lights turned on and everything was close to being back to normal. All the party bots then sagged in disappointment and groaned.

"Aw, man, talk about a PHD to party poopers," Alpha said, upset of the intrusion on the party.

Eggman glared at Alpha with his hands balled into fists on his hips, "I thought I told you not to mess with my lab!?"

"You did, but I had my fingers crossed when I said I wouldn't," Alpha replied, as if he did nothing wrong, "Besides, grandpa, it's not like there was any major damage."

"You call that no major damage!?" Eggman pointed to his vandalized lab.

Alpha took in the view, "Well, it didn't look that bad in the dark." Eggman stepped forward to choke Alpha until he spoke again, "Uh, but I finished all the testing!" he said quickly.

Eggman froze in place for a bit before retracting his hands and rubbed the bridge of his nose, "Rrgh, fine, then leave now, before I change my mind."

Alpha left in a flash to avoid any more trouble. Now, he made his way to Sugar Rush to try to find Flannery and see what she wanted.

SUGAR RUSH

After Alpha set foot in Sugar Rush, a realization popped up. He had no idea where to look for her. His best guess would be to check at the candy palace and see if Sour Bill had heard of her being about. He then used his coding to summon his racer, rode off to the castle, and arrived in no time flat.

Alpha was at the front door and knocked. Then, it opened and he heard a low monotone voice, "Yes?"

Alpha looked inside then down, "Oh, right, I keep forgetting how small you are, Tic Tac."

Sour Bill frowned a bit, "Well, it's nice to see you too," Sour Bill said sarcastically. If anyone could annoy him enough to use sarcastic remarks, it was this boy. "What do you want here?"

"I was wondering if you or Vanellope have heard of a new racer by the name of Flannery?" asked Alpha.

"The president is out for now and no, I haven't heard of this Flannery racer," Sour Bill answered, hoping it would make this kid leave. However, it did the complete opposite.

"Not here, you say!? Well then, someone should look after this place," Alpha said as he pushed his way into the castle.

Sour Bill tried to stop him by pulling on his jacket, "Wait a minute! You are not allowed in here without the president's permission and…WHOA!"

Alpha picked up Sour Bill like a bowling ball and aimed him towards an approaching Oreo squad, "Hey, Bill, ever know what a bowling ball feels like?"

"A... what?" Sour Bill asked, unsure of what Alpha was talking about.

Then, Alpha rolled a screaming Sour Bill down the hall and successfully tripping, more than knocking down, the squad of cookies, "YES! STRIKE, COOKIE BRAINS!" Alpha then took off down the halls to the Castle.

Sour Bill managed to scramble out of the cookie pile. "Get him!" He ordered. Soon, the chase was on to capture Alpha and stop his mischief spree.

STARBURST TREK

The three top racers came to a finish with Vanellope in first, Flannery in second, and Taffyta in third. Vanellope had a advantage from knowing the course, Flannery was a fast learner and got the hang of it after a while, but Taffyta had a hard time keeping up with all the new track perks and obstacles. They each took their place on the stands while the other racers cheered them on.

"Oh yeah! that was definitely better with all the racers!" Vanellope said excited.

Flannery laughed. "Oh yeah! That was amazing! Props to whoever created this track."

Vanellope snickered at the thought that she was the only one who knew, besides Ralph, about who made the track, "Come on everyone. Let's have a candy feast party at the Castle to celebrate a new track to use!" Vanellope hopped in her kart and lead the way to the exit.

The racers made their way onto the castle grounds and was surprised to see Ralph there heading up to the castle door.

"Ralph, ya big stinkbrain! What are you doing here?" Vanellope asked after glitching out of her kart.

"I thought Alph... Roxus was in Sonic's game, but Eggman said he was here, and I was going inside to find you if you had seen him." Ralph explained, nearly giving away Alpha's name.

"Wait, Roxus is here?" Vanellope asked excited and happily. She now knew what feelings she had for Roxus and wasn't going to let Roxus go not knowing them.

Ralph then looked to Flannery, "You must be Flannery."

Flannery nodded, jumping out of her Kart. "Well, we probably raced around the entire track on the way here, and I haven't seen him anywhere."

Ralph blinked, looking at the group. "Wait a minute. If you're all here, then who just went inside?" He said, pointing to the castle gates, which were left ajar.

Flannery sighed. "I guess we should all know the answer to that question by now." She quickly ran inside,

If anyone could put Vanellope into a panic for being mischievous, it was Roxus. She quickly ran inside to see things knocked over and heard the faint sound of Sour Bill shouting orders. She admired and hated that Roxus was able to get into so much trouble in so little time. "ROXUS!" She shouted after running into the castle to try and stop Roxus from causing anymore trouble.

"Alright, everyone; spread out in the castle and stop Roxus at any cost!" Ralph ordered and ran another direction in the castle to find Roxus.

Flannery ran inside right after her, and her eyes widened. "Wow... I'm impressed that a racer has such a destructive personality. Oh, well." She shrugged and ran off in a different direction along with Rancis, Candlehead, and Taffyta.

Around the castle, Oreo guards ran this way and that to find and capture Roxus, with Ralph and the racers also in pursuit.

As the four ran to find Roxus, Rancis tried again to flirt with Flannery. "You know my little Flan, some say I am just as great as Roxus is."

Taffyta grunted, "Really, Rancis? You have to do this now?"

"No one ever said that, did they?" Candlehead asked confused.

Flannery rolled her eyes. "First, you're not as great a racer as you say you are. I was at least two places above you in the race. Secondly, there's a small leak in the engine wall of your kart and your brakes need to be oiled. Third, Roxus was the one who unlocked me, not you. Q.E.D."

"Well I, uh... meant personality-wise," Rancis tried a different approach.

"Will you just stop it, Rancis? You're making me sick," Taffyta scolded annoyed.

"Maybe we should get you home, then," Candlehead suggested in concern.

"Not that kind of sick, Candlehead!" Taffyta shouted.

Flannery rolled her eyes. "Rancis, you're most likely the vainest racer in the game. Your logic is flawed."

"You know you like me." Rancis persisted.

Flannery sighed. "Just quit while you're ahead, Rancis."

"Not likely," Rancis continued with a wink.

"Flannery, I promise to stop picking on you if you can shut him up!" Taffyta offered.

Flannery shrugged. "What do you want me to do... Knock him out?"

"I don't care if you shove five candy warheads down his mouth." Taffyta clarified.

Flannery sighed. "So much for the sweet, lovable world of Sugar Rush."

"Spend a couple days with this boy and say that," Taffyta deadpanned.

"That would actually be a good thing," Rancis said smugly.

Flannery face palmed. "Well, this is not how I wanted to spend my first few days in Sugar Rush," Flannery sighed and looked at Rancis. "Listen... will you be quiet for a while if I fix up your racer after all this nonsense is over?"

"Will do for you," Rancis said as suave as he could.

"Can you fix mine, too?" Candlehead asked hopefully.

Flannery nodded. "Sure... I'll check it out right after I finish with Rancis'."

Just then, they ran into Roxus from across a hallway. Roxus was holding a golden wrapped chocolate vase and stopped to observe his situation. He looked back to see Oreos closing in from behind and looked ahead to see three racers and Flannery. He had to put on the ruse that he didn't recognize her and, with a smirk, planned to evade the group, "You'll never take me alive!" Roxus declared defiantly and ran towards the racers with the Oreos hot in pursuit right behind him.

"Let's get him," Taffyta commanded and charged towards Roxus.

Flannery face palmed and grabbed a nearby hexagonal sprinkle from the wall, throwing it at Roxus.

Roxus saw the sprinkle and threw the vase at it. After it collided, Roxus used that as a distraction as the racers and Oreo were caught completely off-guard as Roxus was high above their heads and started swinging on the licorice chandeliers and away from the group down the hall, where the four racers had come from.

"Not today, dum dums!" Roxus jeered as he got away.

Taffyta, Rancis, and Candlehead collided into the Oreo guards after not looking where they were going. That only left Flannery as the only one able to pursue Roxus and wonder how he was able to reach the licorice chandeliers at that height.

Flannery blinked. "This guy has unique abilities I've never really seen before. Interesting," She began to dash after him, avoiding several of the chandeliers that had fallen to the ground.

Just as Roxus thought he was in the clear, he found himself across from Vanellope, "Oh, this day keeps getting better and better."

"Roxus, stop this right now! I have something to tell you!" she demanded.

Roxus wasn't the type to easily give up without a fight, "Tell you what, if you can get me, I'll stop. I will only make one move to try to avoid you."

Vanellope took the chance and started to glitch towards Roxus, just as he planned.

Right when she was about to take Roxus, he stomped against the wall with his foot, which sent him skidding to the side and causing Vanellope to tackle right into Flannery when he moved. the two tumbled in a tangle of limbs.

"Thank goodness for Pop Rock soles!" Roxus continued down the hall until he started to make his way up the stairs.

Flannery sighed and stood up, offering a hand to Vanellope.

"I guess we're really going to get him now?"

With her other hand, she grabbed another hexagonal sprinkle.

Vanellope grabbed her hand, "Don't underestimate that boy. He will most likely have the upper hand." She pulled herself up and dusted herself off, "Got a plan to catch him?" she asked.

Flannery shrugged and held up the sprinkle. "Well, I can throw these pretty well; like throwing stars, I guess," She threw the sprinkle at a candy cane spike on one of the walls which broke off the tip, causing it to fall right into Flannery's other hand, "Will that help?"

Vanellope thought for a moment, "I think I got something. We just need to corner him again. Let's go," she ran up after Roxus up the stairs.

Flannery shrugged and ran after her, muttering, "I can't really argue, now can I?"

Roxus kept up his mischievous rampage throughout the castle evading guards, dodging racers, and from time to time using Sour Bill as a soccer ball and even making the guards forget about chasing Roxus and trying to steal the Sour Bill ball away from Roxus until he slipped away and the guards remembered what they were doing in the first place after Sour Bill shouted at them. Then, Roxus began swinging from the chandeliers again, while the racers and Ralph ran after him... Not because they were trying to catch him, but because they were running from the chandeliers falling down behind them. Ahead, he saw Vanellope swinging on the chandeliers towards him, "Alright, cupcake, you want to play chicken? Then, let's play." The two were swinging towards each other both determined to try and swing straight. Just before Roxus was about to let go of the Chandelier he was swinging on to leap for another, Vanellope yelled, "NOW, FLANNERY!"

Flannery threw two sprinkles, which severed the two chandeliers in front of Roxus and caused them to fall to the ground.

"Try and fly now, buddy."

Roxus was unprepared and fell with the chandeliers with a crash. Everyone stood around and waited for Roxus to climb out. "Alright, Roxus, we caught you, now come out," Vanellope called out. Still, everything was silent. "Come on, Roxus, we know you're in there. We saw you fall with the crash," Ralph said, in case Roxus was acting like he escaped, somehow. Things were strangely silent and still. "Roxus?" Vanellope called out, worried.

Flannery frowned. "Oh, dear... he should respawn, right?"

Vanellope darted forward and tried to remove the clutter covering Roxus, "Roxus! Say something, you idiot!" Ralph came in to help with the mess as well, "Don't you die on us now kid!" Ralph shouted to Roxus.

Flannery steps back in shock. "I... I... what?!"

They finally removed the wreckage from Roxus and saw him limp on the ground. Vanellope covered her mouth in shock as Ralph froze in fear of what this was.

Flannery took a few more steps back, collapsing to the ground. "I... I... No..."

"HA! gotcha didn't I?" Roxus sprang up smiling. Ralph fell back over in surprise, the racers jump back startled and Vanellope went from shock to furious. Roxus then cringed under her glare, "Uh... not cool?" he asked sheepishly.

Vanellope pointed a finger deadly at him, "You! YOU! YOOUUU!"

Flannery grabbed two more sprinkles from the surrounding walls, enraged as well.

Ralph was able to grab Roxus in one grip before anything happened, "What in this candy-created world do you think you were doing!" he scolded, shaking Roxus in his grip.

"Hey, it was just a small joke. It's not like it's the end of the power cord," Roxus defended.

Flannery walked up alongside Vanellope, putting a hand on her shoulder. With the other hand, she offered a sprinkle to Vanellope, "Want one? Target practice is fun," She threw the remaining sprinkle so that it ricocheted off of one of the walls and knocked off Roxus' hat.

"Hey, watch the hat! It's the only one of its kind." Roxus said, concerned about his hat, "You're worried about your hat!?" Vanellope asked, outraged and taking the sprinkle, threatening to throw it right at Roxus, "You almost died, scared us to death and you are worried about your HAT?!" Well, of course it sounds bad if you say it like that." Roxus said jokingly.

Flannery glared at Roxus as well, "You not only made us think you were dead, but you made me think I had killed you. I would rather have deleted my own code then have that kind of guilt on my conscience!" She grabbed another sprinkle from the walls. "What were you even thinking? You're taking Carpe Diem WAY too far."

Roxus crossed his arms and pouted. "Maybe you guys should try to have a bit of fun," he muttered.

Ralph glared at Roxus, "We need to talk outside, kid."

Soon, the four of them were outside in the Laffy Taffy woods and away from the others. Roxus was feeling like he was about to be placed in a long time out by grown ups.

"So, what are we talking about?" Roxus asked.

Vanellope looked at Roxus in anger and something that Roxus couldn't place. Ralph was giving a look that said that he should know what the subject was, but Roxus disregarded it.

"Do you really think that you are not that important so that you would to kill yourself over some stupid thrills?" Ralph asked Roxus in a stern voice.

Roxus grumbled, "It's not like I would cause the arcade to end."

"Why do you act like you don't matter, Roxus?" Vanellope asked in a hurt voice.

"Why do you guys act like the world will fall apart if I'm gone?" Roxus shot back.

Flannery raised an eyebrow, seeing the two. "Perhaps someone's will. And mine almost did, anyways, from that little stunt you pulled!"

Roxus rolled his eyes, "Okay, look, I'm sorry I scared you guys to make you wet your candy wrappers. Can we just forget this whole thing ever happened as a way of forgiving me?"

Ralph couldn't help but chuckle at Roxus' way of apologizing, "Only if you promise, with no crossed fingers, that you won't fake a death again."

Flannery shrugged. "I might, but I think miss Vanellope might have a harder time."

Vanellope stood there with crossed arms and a stern look. Roxus made his best puppy dog face with a smile, "Will you pwetty pwease fowgive me, Vanewwope?"

Vanellope struggled with herself to stay mad, but the absolute silly way Roxus apologized was quickly breaking her resolve. In the end, she broke into a giggle and hugged Roxus, "Okay, ya big dum dum."

Flannery chuckled. "Typical manipulator, that one."

Roxus then began to bounce around with enthusiasm, "So, Flannery, word on the circuit said you wanted to see me for something?"

Flannery nodded. "I just wanted to thank you for officially unlocking me. It feels like heaven on earth to not be trapped in the code anymore."

"Well, it's good to know that Wolffang didn't send me to someone out for my head," Roxus joked.

"Who's Wolffang?" Vanellope asked confused.

Flannery shrugged. "The Sonic character that told me he would find Roxus for me."

Ralph looked at Roxus, knowing he had a part in that deception. Roxus then gave a shrug, "Hey, I have roots you don't know about."

Ralph decided it was time to hang out somewhere. "Hey, guys, let's go to Tapper's for a root beer float."

All three kids perked up at the mention of the idea.

"Hold on, let me go get some cherries and sprinkles!" And like that, Roxus was off in a flash.

Flannery face palmed. "And just like that, he's gone again."

Vanellope stared at Roxus running off in a daydream and a big smile on her face. Ralph caught sight of this, "I guess some of us don't mind," he said, giving Vanellope the hint.

Vanellope quickly shook the expression off, "Yeah, well, Roxus is Roxus," She quickly stated.

Flannery chuckled. "Evidently more to some people than others."

TAPPERS

The three headed for Tapper's and waited for Roxus to get back. Since the castle was too messy for a celebration, they decided Tapper's was the next best thing. But, Roxus was gone for a long time and Vanellope was getting on edge.

"Man, where is he?" Ralph wondered

"He better get here if he knows what's good for him," Vanellope grumbled while shaking the remaining contents of her float.

Flannery raised her eyebrows. "Anyone want to go look for him?"

"That won't be necessary!" They heard Roxus say from across the bar. They looked over and were disappointingly surprised to see that Roxus had brought the whole gang of Sugar Rush over with him. Ralph gave a scolding look at him, "What? The more the merrier, right?" Roxus asked, shrugging with a fake innocent look.

"So, where do we ask for the root beer floats?" Taffyta asked.

"Right over there where the nice fat man is," Roxus directed.

Flannery sighed, thinking to herself, Oh, great... More of Rancis' futile attempts at flirting.

As if on cue, "Why hello, my Flan pudding," Rancis greeted Flannery in his suave way.

"Oh, so you two have met before. Well, this will be interesting," Roxus said, amused.

Flannery glared at Roxus, holding up a sprinkle, which she had taken with her from Sugar Rush. "Don't make me use this, both of you."

Rancis took a step back. However, Roxus just chuckled and used the point of his finger to steer it away, "Please, Flanny, you do not want to pull a weapon on me." Ralph nodded to take Roxus' advice.

Flannery rolled her eyes, putting the sprinkle on the table. "Just try not to embarrass me. My temper is very short after that Surge Protector nearly confiscated this."

"Oh, you met ol' short circuit face. Well, next time stick with me and he won't cause you grief," Roxus patted Flannery's shoulder.

Ralph was surprised to hear this. "Seriously? And here I was walking around getting harassed by him every time I went in and out of the station," he said, aggravated, dropping his hands on the counter and shaking the whole thing, "You could have told me about the stress-free pass of yours."

Roxus shrugged, "You didn't ask."

Flannery nodded, "I'll keep that in mind," she sipped her float patiently.

Rancis made one last attempt and scooted next to Flannery, "Sure you don't want to share?"

Roxus then shot out his fist and punched Rancis a good few feet away. Everyone stopped what they were doing for a moment and then resumed when nothing big broke out into a fight. Roxus slapped his hands together to ease the tension that was building, "You're welcome."

Flannery sighed, "Thanks... I needed that."

Roxus then took a seat between Flannery and Vanellope, "Hey, Taps! give me the king-sized float mug!"

Ralph almost choked on his drink, "Roxus, don't you think that's a little too big for you?"

"Don't you think you should take a bath for the stench?" Roxus shot back.

Ralph frowned, "Fair enough."

Flannery chuckled. "Well, this should be interesting."

A huge mug of a root beer float came sliding down the bar counter. Roxus had to get on the counter and use all his weight to stop the mug. Then, he had trouble trying to pick it up by the handle and then trying to lift it by wrapping his arms around it as much as he could. Sadly, that didn't work either, no matter how hard he tried.

"Come on, big boy, can't you even pick up a little root beer float," Vanellope playfully mocked.

Roxus frowned, "Hey, Donkey Kong, come give a kid a hand," Roxus demanded.

Ralph came over to help lift the mug slowly for Roxus as he began to drink as much as he could put in his mouth. Ralph was surprised that Roxus was still chugging the whole thing. Vanellope sat back amused as he continued to gulp it down.

Roxus then got half way to his drink until he pushed back the mug and clung to his forehead in a brain freeze, "URGH! Yeah a new world record for someone who isn't programmed to be immune to brain freezes! ARGH! that hurts!"

Flannery crossed her arms. "Well, you didn't have to rub it in..."

"Well, if it makes you feel better, I gave myself a massive brain freeze that hurts like a Jawbreaker to the head," Roxus tried to make a joke of the moment.

Flannery laughed. "Bit off more than you could chew, huh?"

"More like sipped up more than he could drink," Vanellope said and then laughed hysterically.

Ralph chuckled, "You can also say that you are not too hot a thinker right now."

Roxus glared at them while he still clung to his head, "Oh, nice, I'm glad to see my pain is turning this place into a stand-up comedy joint."

After Roxus' brain freeze was over, he climb up his mug and got a straw to sip it with.

"Good idea, Roxus, I think you should take it easy for a while." Ralph advised.

"Think that much and you'll have a pain in the head worse than a brain freeze." Vanellope joked.

Ralph frowned offended, "Why do I need a pain in the head when I got you?"

Flannery chuckled. "I believe the term for this is, 'An eye for an eye'?"

Roxus just chuckled and began to sip from his straw. right when he was in the middle of sipping his float, another straw entered in. Roxus turned to see Jubileena Bing-Bing sipping right nest to him. Roxus stopped his sipping from the shock of seeing her right next to him sipping from the same mug.

"This mug taken?" Jubileena asked, with a bit of flirt in her words.

Vanellope then turned from her laughing to see what was happening. Her laugh instantly halted and her face turned from shock to enraged. Ralph looked to what made Vanellope stop laughing and his face fell as well to see what was about to happen.

Roxus tried to scoot away nervously, but then the unexpected happened. Vanellope tackled Jubileena and a fight began as the two girls rolled around, slapping and scratching each other.

"Kitten Fight!" Rancis shouted out. However, hat only ended up with a slap to the face from Taffyta.

Ralph and Roxus stood by, trying to decide to break up the fight or not.

"What is your problem, Vanellope!?" Jubillena asked, irritated by Vanellope's sudden behavior.

"You're the problem!" Vanellope shouted back.

"I was only taking a sip with Roxus! Why should you care?" Jubillena protested.

"I CARE BECAUSE HE"S MY BOYFRIEND!" Vanellope screamed.

Gasps were heard throughout the bar and everyone froze in shock. Vanellope and Jubileena froze in mid-fight at what was just said. Ralph was surprised that she said that in a situation like this. Roxus was the one most shocked and surprised.

"W-w-what?" Roxus stuttered nervously.

"Oh, sweet Mother Hubbard," Ralph said uneasily.

Flannery sighed. "No... Comment."

YEAH, IT GETS A LITTLE DRAMATIC, BUT GOOD THING I PLACED HUMOR IN IT TO SORT OF BALANCE IT OUT RIGHT? AGAIN THANKS TO THE FAN WHO ASSISTED ME IN THIS. (Name will not be mentioned... yet). JUST A SIDE NOTE, I HAVE JOINED A FANON WIKI FOR WRECK-IT RALPH AND MADE SIX CHARACTERS INCLUDING ROXUS BUT ALTERED A BIT FROM THIS FAN FIC. JUST IF YOU WANT TO CHECK IT OUT OR NOT.

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