I swear I'm not dead guys, I'm just drowning in piles and piles of WORK that I must do :( But spring break is coming, and since I just bought Wreck It Ralph, my creative juices shall be running better now :D

Disclaimer: Disney owns Sugar Rush, SEGA owns Sonic the Fighters, Activision owns DJ Hero 2, and Capcom owns Mega Man: Power Battle. I just contributed to the plot, characters, etc.

Skrillex's POV

Skrillex groaned as he thumped the back of his head against the gingerbread wall, trying to force the cacophony of noise out of his brain. Today had seen a birthday party of 7-13 year olds, and each one had the mixing skills of a broken blender pulverizing his childhood dreams. And people said his dubstep was horrible; obviously none of them had seen a pixy stick-covered baby try and play on expert.

Honey was next to him, massaging out the charley horse in her leg. The parents that brought their Sonic-obsessed tween should be taken out back and rammed through the head with a power chord; between songs Skrillex could see this pimply little twerp absolutely wrecking Sonic the Fighters. He even knocked his soda all over the cord, and Skrillex swore he saw Honey and one of the Sonics screaming such terribly adult language behind the static. Luckily Mr. Litwak came in and saved the game from taking a trip out to pasture.

Now all cleaned up and recovering from the madhouse, they were waiting for Choko to get out of her meeting with Queen Van. Sugar Rush was swamped like no one's business, all the characters switching costumes and burning flour and playing that damn theme song over and over. He weakly dropped his hand onto his poor abused Mac, making sure it was still there. The room was spinning a bit too much...

Choko made her way over, her hair flashing between green and yellow and blue as she looked for her natural shade of pink-red. "You guys look like you could use some sugar."

"Ugh, anything sticky sweet is too much like soda..." Honey did a cool stretching thing where she popped all the joints in her back. "Let's just go to...where are we going?"

"Mega Man started glitching out a few hours into kiddie hell." Skrillex put his Mac in his backpack and stood up. "It looked pretty bad where I could see."

"Ooh, I've never been around that part of the arcade." Choko finally fixed her coloring and helped Honey to her feet. "The car's out front, let's get going."

Skrillex waved at some of the passing candy castle staff as they stumbled towards the Codemobile, Honey leaning hard on Choko. He felt bad for her; once he sprained his wrist mid-game and it was a foking nightmare. Still, as he slid into the back seat, it was hekka awesome to have people want to play as him, play his songs, so he could deal with snot nosed munchkin devils getting his game's equipment all sticky. He just liked to complain a bit.

Skrillex whistled at the large expanse below the out-of-reach platform they stood on. All sorts of worlds and battle arena stretched out like planets around the sun, all with tiny little melodies he was mentally composing into one. He snorted—even after hours he was still bringing music into everything—and turned towards Honey. "Is this what your game's overhead map looks like?

"Pretty much; my level's hidden since it's not formatted correctly, but I'd put it by that one...one of the group 7 levels? This game is weird." Honey somehow managed to hook her leg behind her head as easily as flipping her hair. "And I heard that it's not even supposed to be played outside of Asia. You figure we have another pirated game?"

"If that's the problem it'd be a localization issue instead of like the Angel Kids mess." Skrillex played with the delicate cartridge around his neck. "But let's figure out the extent of the damage first, kay?"

"Sure thing." Honey gingerly unhooked her leg and adjusted her weight. "Choko, where's Megaman?"

"Over here!"

The three Codebusters turned and Skrillex was witness to a most enchanting moment. Megaman spawned himself in their little overhead, and Choko's bright brown eyes widened with the first taste of young love. Immediately she sighed and nearly melted into a puddle of chocolate and adolescent goo. Skrillex tugged on Honey's ponytail to keep her from laughing, and he memorized the exact shade of cherry blossom pink Choko flushed. This was too perfect. "Nice to meet you, Megaman."

"Pleasure's all mine." He grinned and completely missed the little giggle Choko fought to hold back. "Anyway, let me show you where the glitch is; Dr. Light checked and it's not a localization error like we thought."

Skrillex logged that in the back of his mind and made sure to listen for any irregularities in the soundtrack. It was pretty amazing how much the music of a game could show what kind of error was screwing up the code, half the time he just wanted to remix and unmix and dig into the heart of the chords—

Something knocked him into the air and FOK he was tired of being a cosmic chew toy! Before he hit the edge of the stage's scenery and blacked out, he heard something go amiss in the mix of yelling and shock and hit detection.

'We're certainly going to have fun tonight.'

Honey's POV

Honey caught Skrillex's body and cursed when the sudden movement made pain twist deep in her thigh. By Chaos, she was going to chase down that fanboy who thought it a grand idea to use her all freaking day and wring his little neck! She set down the slight statured music master and turned towards Megaman. "Was that the glitch?"

"Sometimes we get attacked by invisible...whatever the heck that thing was. It got to the point that the final boss is unbeatable!" Megaman whipped around and fired his cannon at the air, hitting something before it could smash into Choko. "Be careful, Little Miss, these things are two-hit killers."

Choko squeaked and hid behind Megaman, making Honey bite down hard on her tongue. Oh, this was worse than Tails' crush on Princess Peach! She mentally shook herself; now was not the time for shipping. "We gotta beat the circuit we're on before we can access the code well and fix the damage. How unbeatable was that boss?"

"Even with two players we couldn't destroy all the invisible attackers."

"Well, we have two more." Honey cracked her knuckles. "I've been having a bad day, I need to let loose a little steam."

Megaman flashed a thumbs up and scooped a blushing Choko onto his back. "I'll lead us through a tunnel we built for moving between stages during active game play. Let's get going!"

Honey scooped Skrillex up like the Disney Princess he should've been, and chased after Megaman. The air around them whipped harshly as invisible daggers and disks aimed for their throats, but they were no match against Megaman's bionic legs and her hard earned muscle. Sonic would be proud, she was sure of it, and she leapt over a low-ranged attack. "So how tough are these things?"

"It depends. Sometimes it only takes one charged blast, sometimes it can take up to ten." Megaman shifted to allow Choko a better grip. "The size changes too; the biggest ones take the most damage."

"It just keeps getting better and better, huh?" One disk about the size of a Chaos Emerald nicked her side and Honey hissed. "Too bad this isn't my game, otherwise I'd smash them all in with my bare hands."

Skrillex jolted as something hit him upside the head and blurted out "Coordination!" before going limp. Honey smirked. "The princess has spoken, Megaman. This is Mega Man: Power Battle, no?"

They arrived at the second half of the final stage, where an unwilling Dr. Wily was being backed by an unseen number of ghost blocks. Choko leapt down from Megaman's back and pulled out a bunch of pocky sticks as if they were daggers. Honey went into her battle pose, Skrillex was blinking back into consciousness, and Megaman gave them all a huge white grin. "Then let's battle!"

Honey jumped onto what felt like a spinning platform and punched an incoming brick headed towards her head. Flipping backwards, she slammed her heels into the scenery wall and propelled herself forward, the wings on her dress folding outwards. Copying Knuckles, she span like a drill and decimated the platform, Chaos thrumming in her veins. "How you guys all doing?"

"Never better!" Choko was some sort of kunoichi with her pocky daggers. She had changed her outfit to include peanut brittle geta, and by the looks of it, they were sharper than steel and twice as hardy. She took down a series of invisible disks and Megaman praised her, making her blush as deeply as her hair. Ah, battlefield love, it was as sweet as any candypunk based attack.

"Aim for Dr. Wily! The extra attacks seem to be coming from his center of gravity!" Skrillex was a flash of black darting through the chaos, using his Action Replay to make the sound effects of the invisible attacks more prominent. "Megaman, can you blast away some of the robot please?"

"No problem!" Megaman charged up a blast and Honey blinked as it took out countless flying bricks as well as pieces of Dr. Wily's machine. Suddenly she could see why Choko was so smitten; as a power-orientated girl, that was most impressive. "Dr. Wily, can you move towards a corner?"

The giant robot cracked open as Dr. Wily flew out and hovered by the edge of the stage. Megaman made loop de loops on spinning platforms as Skrillex and Choko doubled back away from a barrage of flying invisible spikes, and Honey slammed onto the ground. "Sonny! What the hell are we up against!"

"We need to destroy Dr. Wily! These things have the same sound effects as his attacks—they're spawning off him and all the other enemies in the game!" Skrillex hit the floor as more spike wheels skimmed over his body, dragging Choko down before invisible hands could smack her face off. "If we don't eliminate the source, we'll be stuck here until we're unplugged!"

"Screw this noise!" Honey leapt onto Dr. Wily's head and started pounding on his robot's arms. "I did not deal with the birthday party from hell to die because of another enemy spawn error!"

"Honey look out!"

Honey was suddenly flying high in the air, being combo crushed by a flurry of attacks. She could feel her health deplete and hit the ground hard on her Chaos-damned leg before everything went black.

Choko's POV

Skrillex-kun screamed and nearly teleported himself to her side, pressing his hands around the bone jutting out of Honey-chan's thigh. "We need to finish this NOW!"

Megaman-sama charged into the fray, blasting everything in sight with no regard to his health. Choko made sure to shadow his moves, moving her arms as gracefully as his, matching his strong steps towards the enemy robot. Dr. Wily-sensei forced himself to stay still as Megaman blasted away at his armor, yelling out where his weak spots where. Choko flipped backwards onto a flying platform, her geta scratching into the surface and causing it to falter. Pulling out more pocky, she threw them towards the angry noises below, closing her eyes to focus on the sound effects.

She could hear the whirl of her platform, the whooshing followed by blips that signaled the invisible attacks, the creaking of the metal robot, Megaman-sama's powerful bursts of energy that made her hands sweat and her stomach jolt...she could hear Honey-chan's blood pump slower as Skrillex-kun forced his Action Replay to buzz and fizzle around her leg.

Choko opened her eyes and jumped.

She slammed down hard in a somersault onto Dr. Wily-sensei's compartment, the whole robot exploding into a thousand candy colored bursts. Megaman-sama quickly did away with the rest of the invisible enemies, the angry glitches phasing away into nothing. They all stood still for one quiet moment before rushing to Honey-chan, Skrillex-kun throwing Honey-chan's Action Replay at their faces. "Just take it and get to the code!"

Megaman-sama caught the cartridge before it could shatter on the ground, and led her to the game's code well before they could be savaged by any more enemies or daggers or platforms or whatever. Choko fought down a giddy sigh as his powerful arms heaved up the monstrous plate hiding the NES controller. A quick Konami code and they were in the darkness, Choko grabbing onto his hand to keep herself from floating away, of course. "Tell me what we have to do."

"ええと (Eeto)...we need to find the e-enemy code..." Choko cursed herself. Of all the times to speak like a tongue twisting sour patch brat, it had to be right now! "Just follow me..."

She quietly marveled at how helpful and polite Megaman-sama was; instead of charging forward into his own code he respectfully followed her lead, his bright blue eyes illuminated by the code, detangling any reaching cords that snagged onto her obi...why oh why did she have to be programmed to be too young for real love but old enough to feel this rush?!

"This is the code, right?"

They floated in front of a madly fizzing and crackling series of boxes, the enemy code swelling with invisible clones. Choko directed Megaman-sama to connect the Action Replay into one of the code boxes, the menu already directing them to reset the values on the generation data. "Wow, this is powerful. Why do you think it's glitching now, Little Miss?"

Choko was proud of herself for not squealing. "Today was a very traffic i-intensive rush, and sometimes with games w-with established problems—you said you're game h-had localization issues?—too much gameplay can upset t-the code." Choko fiddled with her modifier, tracking down an error in the game's graphics engine; that explained why they were invisible. "It's not t-too much of an issue..."

"Well, I wouldn't say that, Little Miss. I hope your friend Honey is going to be alright." Oh, he was so cute when he was concerned over the well being of her maimed ally! Choko wondered if her game's code could be altered to boost up the Sugar Rush racers' ages, just a little. Surely Swizz-kun and Lemonetta-chan could understand her plight!

"Sonny-kun won't let anything b-bad happen to her." There; the code was now patched and functioning normally.

"Ah, are they..."

Choko giggled. "No, but they're good friends, like brother and sister. They just like to fight a lot."

Megaman-sama grinned. "I know people like that. Sometimes my sister Roll and I get into such stupid arguments." He stretched and あら (ara), he was so strong... "I wish that I could have someone though, you know? Not that anyone's interested in a regular guy like me."

Choko blamed her frustrated scream on getting her hair bun caught into her Action Replay.

Vanellope's POV

Vanellope swung her legs under her throne as King Candy wrapped up the meeting with the heads of candy. Their design of Parliament was coming along smoothly, almost ready for general elections by the people, and Vanellope smirked to herself. She had the democracy of a President and the grace of a Queen, all wrapped up in a fun size portion; Mirror-Vanellope would be proud. Nodding to King Candy, she left the main discussion room to sneak back towards her own reception hall. King Candy was pretty much her grandfather, all ready to spoil her and cater to her every whim, such as bailing out of the meeting early to check on her Codebusters.

Honey had broken the leg she was messing with earlier, and according to Dr. Mario was out until the next Codebusting round. When she had left, Vanellope's ears were ringing from Honey's very angry and very unchild-friendly swearing; the girl may have been named for Honey but she could be as sour as Sour Apple from time to time.

She slipped through the door to find Honey pouting on a marshmallow recliner, Skrillex braiding her long black hair into a very intricate Dutch crown with various accents and dangling braids. Choko was helping him weave ribbons and bows into the mix, and Vanellope laughed. "Having fun, my number 1 Codebusters?"

"Honey's trying too hard to be upset for having a few days off even though she knows it'll be good for her." Skrillex grinned even as she made a swipe for his plugs. "Besides, now she has more time to gossip and daydream about boys, like all girls do."

"Hey, not all girls are so coquettish, Sonny-kun."

Skrillex and Honey exchanged a glance, and Vanellope knew Choko was in for it.

"Oh Megaman-sama, your biceps are so strong!"

"Oh Megaman-sama, it's so wonderful watching you blow up all these enemies!"

"How old are you again, Megaman-sama? Surely a robot such as yourself can appreciate the love from a young girl's heart!"

"I'm the oldest out of the racers Megaman-sama, I'm 12 and eight months!"

"Marry me!~"

King Candy glanced towards the gold glazed doors and chuckled to himself. It did his heart good to hear his little Queen Vanny laugh so hard after all these years, especially when she was laughing with her friends.

kunoichi: a female ninja

geta: Japanese wooden clogs. They kinda look like flip flops on little stilts.

sensei: how you address teachers, doctors, and people with mastery in some art or skill. As Dr. Wily is a scientist, polite Choko is polite.

ええと (Eeto): another way of saying "Uhh..."

あら (ara): supposedly "oh my goodness". I hate using Google Translate instead of my own knowledge, so I'll have to get back to you on this.

Poor Choko! That awkward stage between childhood and full-blown adolescence is killer when you have a crush on someone older XD

The glitch here is adapted from a glitch I once saw on a video. There, spinning spike platforms were flying out towards Megaman, and the player was supposed to jump on these platforms to get to the enemy. However, they were invisible and attacked like crazy; the person playing apparently took hours to beat the boss. I turned that into pieces of enemy attacks (daggers, platforms, ambiguous blocks) being invisible and spawned like crazy until the enemy that they're being spawned from is destroyed, as seen with Dr. Wily.

Mega Man: The Power Battle was only released in Japan as Rockman: The Power Battle, but since Mr. Litwak has a knack for getting imported games in his arcade, he has an illegally localized cabinet. And because his age in the game is ambiguous, Megaman here is based off of his Megaman X sprite, in which his age is in his late teens to early twenties. Sorry Choko, but you're a little too young for him.

Leg injuries are no laughing matter. Keep yourself healthy!

And I hope you enjoyed this chapter; it was pretty hard to focus on the battle as I suck at those. So feel free to review and tell me how I did :D