(AUTHOR'S REPORT: A little note about this one, I didn't really write it. It was actually someone on Tumblr who tended to write Sugar Rush Fanfics, one who I can't seem to find these days...)
So, where to start….
My name's Randall, but you can call me Randy, you probably know me from those Pixar films Monsters Inc and Monsters University! Well uh, truth is I'm not exactly that Randall. It's kinda difficult to explain but I'm actually a crystaline alien robot called a Plotwork in this quickly growing universe bound to the human world by that Disney Infinity game. I was actually a little daunted to meet so many other people and creatures from other movies but I decided to muster up the courage to greet at least the starter pack trio on day one of being activated.
Yeah um, about that, we Plotworks are divided into three races, Toys, Generics and Identities. Generics are comprised of generic and interchangeable extras like those lego minifigs, whereas Identities are born as a wholy unique persona, Those Born from the mother of legacy, such as Sekai are doomed to erode away into nothingness… Toys (such as myself) are born from memories of her creator's legacy and memories might get forgotten, but not lost. In fact, some of us Toys reside in mass produced figures until we're activated and ingraved in the console's figmentary code, the connection between the Console's Savefile of Infinity and the Imagination of whatever Lifeform is Playing it all the down to the boundaries of saith imagination, then we go into the game console to meet whoever else the gamer has purchased and played. Up until that point we just know that there's other figures out there and a general idea of our character.
From what I heard my particular gamer say I'm the Randall from Monsters University before he got all jerky, I guess that's true, 'cause Sulley and Mike seemed happy to see me. It still felt a little surreal that we were all sitting around in the castle hub of Disney Infinity talking like nothing would ever happen between us. This feeling of knowing who your character was going to turn out actually kinda made me not want to hang out with them whenever the game was turned on. Whenever the gamer played she usually picked me and her friend chose someone like Jack Sparrow, so it's not like I would have to try and explain my feelings about not wanting to see my friends. Especially when the gamers were having me and whoever else running through crazy obstacles and riding around on Light Cycles trying to overthrow a mechanical Scar or a giant cobra, but could you really blame me?
But every time I met anyone from my own "world", it felt like things hadn't changed, especially Mike, he kept wanting to invite me over when the system was in sleep mode to train with Sulley and the other Pixar people for whatever new add on content. A few times I decided to join and humor them all and well, things were fine! Mike even let me use the TP launcher to blast the MCP from Tron a few times, it was pretty funny! …. Until Sark came after us, but that's another story for another time.
No, this is a small little story about a friend I made outside of the world of Pixar. It happened one day when the game started up in the wee hours of the morning, and the castle hub world was changed. Instead of the usual blue sky and natural setting the whole place was now excessively colorful and had a distinct assault on a monster's nose; sugar and sugar and even more sugar! I swear I hadn't smelled this much sugar since, like, ever! Not even after that cupcake disaster I had making my signature treat with the Parr family and Dash thought it was a good idea to add baking soda to the pastry mix.
Rubbing my eyes I slowly stepped out into the hub and took in the sight with my limited vision; everything was made of candy! The land, the clouds, even the castle and tracks our vehicles would run on were all made of bright confections and baked goods. There was commotion as Woody tried to keep Bullseye from eating the ground, Sekai was making snow angels in what seemed to be vanilla Ice Cream and Barbossa wondered what kind of witchcraft had fallen onto our world.
"um…" I spoke up to the others "let me go on ahead, maybe there's some kind of event going on or something… like someone unlocking. If I get into trouble I can turn invisible too!" I put my two sets of hands together and smiled weakly; hopefully it didn't look like I was trying to hog the spotlight for whatever this new formatted place had in store for us. But looking around it seemed everyone was unsure of what to do.
"Well whatever happens lad, we got your back… tail… back… whichever of those is your back" Jack Sparrow answered in his usual drunken manner. I rolled my eyes and tried to put on a smile for all the other avatars of the game; Randall Boggs wasn't going to get scared off, especially from candy!
After waving off to the others and getting a quick good luck from Mike, I marched off with my head held high and a determined look upon my face. I wasn't sure how intimidating I looked but I hoped I looked somewhat impressive… just in case.
Walking out into the center in the hub I looked around, there was the castle, and the tunnels to every world the gamer had made. I tried to spot any movement, anything that stood out amongst the candy land I found myself in.
That's when I heard it.
It sounded like a fuse going out. Like electricity. I yelped and went invisible on impulse, turning around in place I tried to see what had caused the noise. But whatever it was it was already out of my field of vision. But what I didn't see, I heard, and I heard the sound of someone snickering.
"You can dissapper? That's cool! Are you still there?" the voice asked me as I realized I was still invisible. It was the voice of a… a kid! I gulped, they were so scary! Even in a video game they were scary, even if they weren't toxic. I stayed hidden in the open and tried to think of how to get the child to show herself.
"Sure can! Let's um, play a game, if I show myself can you also come outta hiding?" I still looked for the kid despite the promise I made.
"Eh, I guess, not going to meet anyone here if I keep hiding around. Here you go lizard boy" there was another static noise and the mystery girl showed herself. She appeared in the air and landed down upon her black shoes. She put her hands on her hips and looked up in my general direction. She wore a green sweater and a brown skirt, her black hair was peppered with little bits of candy. Her eyes were so big! She looked so precious. "Well I showed myself, keep your end of the promise !"
"O-oh! Right…" I dropped my disguise and relaxed. The little girl didn't seem so bad, from what the game had mentioned, this must be the kid from Wreck it Ralph, although her name escaped me, I could easily solve that though. "What's your name ?" I put my front paws together and tried to smile sweetly.
"Vanellope," she brushed her sleeve, "And yours?"
"Randall," I answered matter of factly and kept my smile, "Randall Boggs, but you can call me Randy!" I offered a paw to the child. "Did you get plugged in today? I can bring you back to the others who are already in the game and introduce you to everyone!"
"Yeah… I'd like that actually…" to my surprise the girl frowned and grabbed my paw tightly, "I heard the gamer mention that she was gonna get Ralph soon, so I don't know anyone else here really." She took a few steps closer to me and stayed oddly silent. My head crests drooped a little, I wasn't up to date on the story she came from, why did this Ralph guy mean so much to her? Maybe he was a really good friend? That had to be it.
"Well Vanellope, you're going to have a lot of fun here, and make a lot of new friends." I found my smile becoming more natural as I started to lead her back to where the others were , "I have a lot of friends, and you can be friends with them too!"
"You have friends?" I didn't see her cheeky look " You look kinda… scary… with your eyes all squinty like that." Vanellope smirked as she walked alongside me.
"Eh, I lost my glasses," I chuckled as we walked together. A faint cheery tune started to play overhead in a language I didn't understand, I figured it had to do with how the central world now looked like. "So uh, Vanellope, does this hub world have anything to do with where you come from?"
"Yup! I come from a game called Sugar Rush, everything there is made outta candy, cool right?" the girl boasted with a lot of gusto.
"That's really cool!" I found myself beaming like an idiot, "You should tell me all about it after the gamer's done today okay?" I noticed the others were waiting for us; Mr. Incredible gave us a wave and I returned a small wave back. "Ah, there's the others! Come on Vanellope, let's go!"
"I'll race you!" and not even a second later the child ran off ahead leaving little blue pixels wherever she stepped. I folded my arms and smirked as she rushed up to the others and introduced herself.
Looked like kids weren't all that bad after all.
(AUTHOR'S REPORT: Clearly some time and effort went into this one... just not my time and effort. Read and review and if you like what you see, tell me what kind of story you'd like out of these guys and gals and I'll get on it. THNX!)