Chapter 30: The Sugar Rush Racers Vs Evil Steven
Vanellope turned to Tamora, the Hero's Duty soldiers, and the Cy-Bugs.
"Everyone, you have to get out of here. We'll take care of Steven ourselves. Just get to safety." Vanellope ordered.
Tamora, the Hero's Duty soldiers and the Cy-Bugs nodded, and they left. Once they were gone, the Sugar Rush racers and Cinndon faced off against Steven. While they did, Licortwist headed away with the last piece for the portal.
Steven flew at full speed towards the Sugar Rush racers and Cinndon, who started to fight back against him. Minty brought her fist down on his head and successfully made contact, but Steven was completely unfazed by the attack. He punched Minty in the chest, and she was thrown next to to Cinndon.
Candlehead surrounded her body in fire, flew into the air, and then flew down towards Steven. However, Steven moved to the side, and Candlehead hit the ground. She jumped up and started shooting fire at Steven. The fire hit him, but it did no damage and just brushed past him. Steven slowly advanced through the flames, closing the distance, and then grabbed Candlehead by her throat before slamming her around and throwing her back over to the other Sugar Rush racers and Cinndon.
"His body is fireproof." Candlehead said weakly.
"No kidding." Taffyta said.
Adorabeezle jumped in and started slashing and cutting towards Steven with her claws. Steven was able to evade and dodge every single slice.
"You wouldn't be dodging if these weren't dangerous!" Adorabeezle said.
Steven blocked one slice, and Adorabeezle's claws didn't go through or even cut Steven's skin.
"Uh oh." Adorabeezle muttered.
Steven forced the claws away and slammed his hand into Adorabeezle's stomach, sending her flying back.
"My turn." Taffyta said.
Taffyta stretched her feet into wheels and she started skating forward, sliding past Steven. She rolled up the wall of a tank and stretched her arm out towards Steven's head. He dodged her fist, grabbed her arm, and threw her away.
Sticky shot a blast of marshmallow whip, entrapping Steven in a gooey marshmallow mess. However, he quickly broke free. Gloyd generated a smoke bomb and threw it to the ground, blinding Steven. Gloyd and Sticky then jumped at Steven from behind, but he quickly knocked them back and sent them back to the group.
Steven turned his attention to Minty, who transformed into her Sakura form and then transformed her hands into blades. She then attacked him multiple times with her blades, but Steven blocked every attack with only his finger. He then grabbed the blades and brought them down to the ground, and then he flicked Minty in the head, sending her to the others.
Rancis spat out sprays of toxic sugar waste at Steven. However, Steven warped at insane speeds to dodge the sprays before he closed the distance. He hit Rancis in the stomach, teleported to strike him in the back, teleported again to hit his knee, and then teleported again to karate chop his neck, knocking him out.
Jubileena generated a couple of cherry bombs and threw them at Steven from behind, but Steven dodged the cherry bombs and turned to Jubileena. He raised his hand up and flicked Jubileena in the head, sending her to the floor.
He then transformed his right hand into a chain whip. He swung the chain whip and knocked the Sugar Rush racers and Cinndon into the wall of one of the tanks. Vanellope took the time to speak up.
"Steven, what's the point of all this?" Vanellope asked.
"I'm glad you asked." Steven replied.
Steven projected a hologram from his head, showing his memories.
"Many years ago, in my game's backstory, I was a defender of humanity. I bravely fought alongside magical defenders known as the Crystal Gems. But I never could help with my lack of powers. One day, I came across the Marker. It's power is beyond anything that you could've ever seen. When I tried to destroy it, it gave me incredible ablities, and that's when I understood. All of the universe's problems stem from one thing: humanity. War, violence, pollution, hunger, poverty, and death are all because of humanity. So, using the same power of the Marker, once Licortwist has succeeded in his plan, I will free this arcade from the threat of humanity." Steven explained.
"You are sick!" Crumbelina said angrily.
Steven frowned.
"No, DiCaramello, I'm not sick. I'm a savior." Steven said.
Steven then built up a yellow blast of energy and shot it at the Sugar Rush racers and Cinndon. However, they dodged the blast by running out of the way, and then they charged at Steven.
Citrusella shot blasts of electricity at Steven, who warped to avoid the blasts of electricity. He prepared to shoot a blast of yellow energy at Citrusella, but Swizzle used telekinesis to lift Steven into the air before throwing him to the ground. Steven got up, but just as soon as he got up, Torvald had four butter clones attack Steven, who became busy by using his powers in order to try and destroy the butter clones. However, it wasn't working, because if he destroyed a butter clone, it would just reform and continue attacking him. Eventually, Steven couldn't keep it up, and the butter clones beat him up before disappearing. Steven got up and faced Nougetsia. Nougetsia shot a beam of ice at Steven, who dodged the ice beam before warping over to Nougetsia and punching her in the stomach, sending her flying back.
Candi and Crumbelina shot caramel whip at Steven, which struck his torso, and they hardened the caramel whip so that it restrained him. However, Steven warped out of the hardened caramel, went over to Candi and Crumbelina, and then kicked them in the chest, sending them flying back.
Steven then faced Vanellope and fired blasts of yellow energy at her. Vanellope glitched out of the way before firing a blast of pixels that hit Steven and stunned him. Vanellope glitched behind Steven and shot him again with another blast of pixels. Steven growled angrily, turned around, and then used his powers to wrap a black colored root around Vanellope's neck, and it began to tighten.
"You are only digging your own grave, Vanellope von Schweetz. Once I'm done with you and the other racers and Licortwist has his revenge, there will be nothing in the way of my goals. I'll truly be a ruler and this arcade will finally have the leader that it needs." Steven said as he tightened the root, which began to choke Vanellope.
Something inside of Vanellope sparked. Her eyes widened.
"Stay away from my friends!" Vanellope said in a dangerous tone.
The root that was wrapping around Vanellope became covered in blue pixels that destroyed them. Steven now looked scared, which was unusual for him. He then used his powers to make a large spike. Vanellope looked at the spike and then back at Steven.
"You really think that's going to kill me if I use my powers?" Vanellope asked.
Steven breathed heavily, his eyes showing nothing but insanity.
"No. That's why it's not for you!" Steven replied.
Steven suddenly turned the direction of the spike and launched it. It headed towards the Sugar Rush racers, specifically towards Taffyta. Vanellope wanted to do something, but because of the speed that it was going, combined with the distance that it was covering, she wouldn't be able to do anything in time. Instead, Vanellope yelled in rage and shot a large amount of pixels at Steven.
Taffyta wanted to move out of the way, but she was frozen in fear. She heard Vanellope yell, and then there was a green and pink flash before something blocked her vision. She wasn't sure was happened because all she could hear was the sound of Vanellope's blast of pixels and what she thought was the sound of fire shattering something. Taffyta got a better look at what happened and was shocked.
Vanellope ended the blast of pixels and looked at her handiwork. Steven was gone because the blast of pixels had been enough to kill him. The spike, you looked over hoping they were alright, and were shocked yourself. The spike had been knocked to the side and had a large singed and splintered crater in the side of it. But what could have made that? Vanellope turned her attention to Taffyta, but she couldn't really see her.
Candlehead was standing in front of her. Her right arm was on fire, and Vanellope realized that Candlehead had blocked the spike with her fire powers before it could hit Taffyta.
Vanellope ran over to Taffyta and Candlehead.
"Taffyta, are you alright?" Vanellope asked.
Taffyta nodded.
"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks to Candlehead." Taffyta replied. She then turned to Candlehead and said "Thank you, Candles.".
Candlehead smiled.
"No problem, Taffy. I couldn't just let you die. You are my best friend." Candlehead said.
Vanellope, Taffyta, and Candlehead then ran back over to the other Sugar Rush racers and Cinndon.
"Alright, now that Steven has been taken care of, we need to find Licortwist and end this." Vanellope said.
"Where could he have gone?" Snowanna asked.
"Licortwist is probably going back to Sugar Rush. He had that piece for his ring structure, and he said that he was going to use it to harm Sugar Rush. It looks like that it's complete if he has that piece, so we need to track him down before he causes any damage." Vanellope replied.
The Sugar Rush racers and Cinndon nodded, and they headed out of Hero's Duty.