Chapter 9: Frostbite Candi
The Sugar Rush racers continued making their way down the tunnel while Candlehead provided light. Eventually, they reached the room that had the ice reflections. The Sugar Rush racers remembered the room because they had helped lock up the Frostbites back in 2013, along with the Santa's Sled characters. However, Candi hadn't seen the room before because she hadn't existed yet in 2013.
"Wow, this place is amazing." Candi said in astonishment as she looked around.
The other Sugar Rush racers nodded.
"Yeah, that is true. But, remember, we're only here to stop Licortwist and Creamy, and prevent them from freeing the Frostbites or spawning more Frostbites." Vanellope said.
The Sugar Rush racers nodded, and they started making their way through the room of ice reflections, but they made sure to not look at their reflections while they did. However, as they got halfway through the room, Candi glanced at all of the ice reflections.
"You know, I never was told exactly how the Frostbites are spawned. How are they created?" Candi asked.
"It's actually very simple, Candi. If you look at your reflection in Frosty Massif, then a Frostbite of yourself is spawned." Snowanna replied.
However, Candi didn't hear her. Instead, she started walking over to one of the ice reflections. The Sugar Rush racers noticed that Candi had disappeared, and they turned around to notice that she was walking towards one of the ice reflections. They gasped in shock and horror.
"Candi, NO!" Candlehead shouted.
However, it was too late. Candi walked up to the ice reflection, which showed her reflection, staring at her. Intrigued, Candi took a step forward to the reflection. Oddly enough, the reflection did not move forward, but just stood there with its arms folded. Candi was mystified, but she continued to approach the reflection. Soon enough, she was right in front of the reflection. She stared hard at the reflection, and something struck her as odd.
The reflection was smirking at her.
Candi knew very well that she herself was not smirking, but frowning. It was like the reflection had a mind of its own. And then, the reflection opened its mouth.
"Candi." the reflection growled.
Candi yelped in surprise and stumbled backwards, tripping on an on icicle that had broken off and fallen on the ground. The Sugar Rush racers groaned in annoyance and ran over to Candi, pulling her away a safe distance, before they stood together to form a shield to protect Candi. The reflection reached forward and its hand burst out of the reflection, which turned to ice upon doing so. Candi and the other Sugar Rush racers could do nothing but look on in horror as the reflection smashed its way out of the wall and fell to the ground.
Like Frostbite Willow, the reflection looked like an ice statue version of Candi. She was made of silver colored ice, she had platinum blonde hair that was styled like Candi's hair, her eyes glowed blue, and her teeth were jagged icicles that looked like fangs, and she was wearing Candi's same exact outfit, except it was made out of ice.
Frostbite Candi looked unconscious, so Candi took the time to walk over and stare at her for a moment. When Frostbite Candi did nothing, Candi reached forward and poked her icy head. However, just at that moment, Frostbite Candi's head rose off the ground and stared at Candi and the other Sugar Rush racers. Candi screamed in terror and jumped backwards. Frostbite Candi slowly got to her feet and advanced towards Candi, her arm stretched out to grab her. However, before Frostbite Candi could grab Candi, a blast of pixels pushed her back in full blast. The force of the blast of pixels knocked Frostbite Candi and sent her tumbling down onto the ground. Frostbite Candi got up from the ground and glared at Vanellope, who's arm was glitching.
"Don't you dare hurt her!" Vanellope snarled.
Frostbite Candi smirked.
"Yeah, like I'm going to listen to you." Frostbite Candi said sarcastically.
Frostbite Candi's right hand transformed into a giant ice blade, and she aimed it at Vanellope, who stood her ground. Frostbite Candi then charged at Vanellope and swung the ice blade at the black haired girl, trying to stab her. However, Vanellope glitched out of harms way, and the ice blade impaled the wall, leaving a large hole. As Frostbite Candi struggled to remove her arm, which was wedged into the wall, Vanellope kicked her square in the gut. However, the kick sent Vanellope flying backwards, and her shoe turned to ice. Vanellope tumbled into Candlehead, who fell to the ground.
Frostbite Candi eventually freed her arm, and faced the Sugar Rush racers again. Jubileena generated a couple of cherry bombs and threw them at Frostbite Candi. However, Frostbite Candi dodged the cherry bombs before punching Jubileena in the face, sending her flying into Swizzle. However, Swizzle just used his telekinesis to grab her in mid-air and set her on the ground, unfazed.
Frostbite Candi cackled and swatted Candi across the room, causing her to crash into the wall.
"Keep your hands off of my best friend!" Snowanna shouted.
Snowanna immediately fired a huge sound wave from her guitar that hit Frostbite Candi in the chest, causing her to be thrown back from the force of the sound wave. Snowanna then raced over to a dazed Candi and pulled her to her feet.
"Are you okay?" Snowanna asked.
"I think so." Candi replied, rubbing her sore head. She then glanced over and shouted "Look out!".
Candi had a caramel wave push Snowanna out of the way just as Frostbite Candi fired her fingers at the two. Her fingers transformed into ice picks that impaled the wall a few feet away from Candi's face. Candi's gasped at just how close she had been to getting her face torn off.
"You think that you can defeat me?" Frostbite Candi asked furiously.
Frostbite Candi swung her right fist, which transformed into giant ice clubs. However, Citrusella ducked under Frostbite Candi's ice clubs before forming five electrical bolts. And before Frostbite Candi could react, Citrusella shot the electrical bolts at Frostbite Candi. One bolt shot into her arm, causing Frostbite Candi to shriek in pain from the electric. The second bolt struck her other arm, and the third bolt sliced her right ice club right off of her arm. The fourth bolt shot into her leg, causing her to throw back her head and scream in a mixture of pain and anger. However, the final bolt struck her in the back of her head, and she crashed to the floor, dazed.
"Yeah, don't mess with Citrusella Flugpucker!" Citrusella gloated.
However, Frostbite Candi still had her left ice club, which she swung at Citrusella. However, Nougetsia shoved Citrusella out of the way of Frostbite Candi's ice club. Nougetsia then formed a large icicle, which she slammed over Frostbite Candi's head. However, to her shock, Frostbite Candi barely flinched and the icicle broke into a million pieces. Nougetsia dropped the edge of the icicle to the floor in shock, and glanced down at it for a moment before looking up to see Frostbite Candi, who was grinning maliciously. Nougetsia took a step backwards and, even though she had ice powers, slipped on the ice, crashing to the ground. Nougetsia laid on the floor, dazed, as Frostbite Candi walked towards her. Nougetsia could only look up in horror as Frostbite Candi opened her mouth, revealing rows of sharp fangs. Frostbite Candi bent down, but Nougetsia grabbed a sharp of the broken icicle and stabbed Frostbite Candi in the mouth. Frostbite Candi jumped back in shock, the sharp of ice still lodged in her mouth. Nougetsia sprung to her feet and noticed that the shard of ice was sticking out of the back of Frostbite Candi's head, and she shivered in horror before getting to safety with the others.
Frostbite Candi pulled the shard of ice out of her mouth before crushing it, and her mouth injury immediately healed once she did. She then turned back to the Sugar Rush racers and her index finger transformed into a dagger, which she jabbed in Swizzle's direction. He ducked as the dagger finger smashed into the wall. Frostbite Candi then transformed her hand into a scythe and swung it at Swizzle, but he narrowly dodged. Swizzle then kicked Frostbite Candi in the leg as a reflex, but his shoe turned to ice upon contact. Frostbite Candi swung the scythe at Swizzle again, and this time, she scratched his sleeve. Swizzle groaned in pain and Frostbite Candi transformed her hand into an ice mallet and slammed it into his side, sending him flying several feet into a wall.
"Swizzle!" Jubileena cried.
Taffyta scowled and had her feet stretch out into wheels, and she started skating towards Frostbite Candi. Frostbite Candi noticed her and transformed her fingers into ice picks that she shot at Taffyta. However, Taffyta dodged the ice picks, skated up to Frostbite Candi, and punched her in the chest. Frostbite Candi groaned in pain, but then she transformed her hand into an ice fist. Just as Taffyta skated towards her again, Frostbite Candi shot the ice fist at Taffyta, which sent her flying into a wall. Frostbite Candi smirked and slowly advanced towards Taffyta, her hand turning into icicles. Taffyta struggled to get to her feet as Frostbite Candi slowly reached towards her, a large grin on her face.
"Say goodbye, Taffyta Muttonfudge." Frostbite Candi whispered as she was inches from Taffyta.
But before Frostbite Candi could do anything to Taffyta, Candlehead spoke up.
"Hey, ice girl!" Candlehead called out.
Frostbite Candi spun around in annoyance. Standing a few feet away from Frostbite Candi, an innocent smile on her face and a cap with a candle on her head, was Candlehead. Frostbite Candi glanced up at the flaring candle on her head for one moment, and instantly, she let out a scream of horror. She tried to run away, but Candlehead released a huge blast of fire that incinerated Frostbite Candi.
"What was that about?" Candi asked as Vanellope and Crumbelina helped her to her feet.
"When you had looked at your reflection, you had spawned a Frostbite of yourself. That's why I told you to not look at your reflection!" Vanellope replied.
Candi frowned.
"Well, I'm sorry that happened." Candi said.
Vanellope sighed.
"It's okay, Candi. You didn't know. I should have told you how the Frostbites are created." Vanellope said. She then said "Anyway, let's find Licortwist and Creamy.".
The other Sugar Rush racers nodded, and they left the room of ice reflections.