Ok guys, here's where things get fun.

I've planned to do this ever since Gratitude, and I'm so happy to get to this point despite my horrible updating schedule and fickle Muse. Save all "WTF that's not how the arcade works you hack!" for the end please, and hold on to your hats, because it just keeps going on from here.

Disclaimer: Disney owns Sugar Rush, SEGA owns Sonic the Fighters, Activision owns DJ Hero 2, and Mojang owns Minecraft

Choko's POV

Choko Pockystix allowed herself to be prideful of a few things. She was a high tier racer and penultimate boss, she was the best candy-based ikebana enthusiast in her class, and she was devoted to her job as a Codebuster.

So when her Action Replay, tucked safely in the lapel of her racing kimono, began to buzz during the day, she didn't react beyond wondering why the Surge Protector was calling her during arcade hours.

That feature was added during the creation of the Action Replays; to grant the Codebusters the clearance to use special skeleton key game modifiers, the Surge had the right to summon them at any time in case a really big glitch occurred. Seeing how the video game characters from the affected games like to call on the code busting business themselves, Choko felt a slow trickle of apprehension make its way down her spine.

Luckily, she wasn't on today's roster, and once their player finished his free-play race, she jumped out of her cart to the reigning racer's side. "Vanellope-heika, the Surge Protector is calling!"

"Oh pixy sticks." Vanellope-heika removed her helmet as she jumped out of her cart. "Call up the other two and get your butt in gear. We can skip you in story mode if need be, but I'll make you do laps in Diet Cola Mountain if you don't hurry back!"

Choko, unsure if her Queen was serious, jumped back into her cart and made her way home for the Codemobile. Double checking that there were no road cops to catch her, she started tapping away on her Action Replay. Skrillex-kun asserted that if Surge could reach them through their cartridges, they should be able to text each other as well. "Choko here. What is everyone's status?"

"In mid of fight. Can has text l8r."

"on standby club. lol thought we didnt do this during day"

"Well, it must be important if I had to be called out of a race. Speaking of which, can you guys leave work early?"

"i can remove myself from roster if needed. lame as hell tho"

"K back. I can get mirror to do fights."

"Well, I'm on my way out of Sugar Rush."

"telling suri i'm bailing. meet u guys there"

"Omw too."

Choko quickly changed into her uniform and headed out in her Codemobile, staying clear of the racers tearing up her level. While it royally sucked to subvert her original purpose, she had a job to do and the Surge Protector was getting antsy with the buzzing. Kicking up static in her titanium-cookie alloy wheels, she braked in the exit port to avoid murdering the Surge Protector's avatar. "What's the problem, sir? Is my team here yet?"

Skrillex-kun and Honey-chan bounded into the loading station, uniforms slightly askew. "Let's get this guys, I have a returning fan coming in today at 5."

The Surge nodded gravely and led them to the base of GCS. "Approximately ten minutes ago, a large group of unknown creatures piled into the main station and tried to game jump during arcade hours. I locked them out of the other ports to keep them from disrupting normal game play, but then they started getting...rowdy."

"Rowdy, what kind of row—"

A large group of strange green block monsters began spilling out of the containment space Surge had been corralling them in. They were eerily silent in the brightly lit station, and Choko backed up towards her cart. "I've never seen people like them before."

Honey-chan cocked her head and poked one in the chest. "They feel like...dry grass? And those faces are super creepy. Sonny, you know any games that would have these for enemies?"

Skrillex-kun didn't answer. He was staring at one with a blank expression, his fingers twitching as if he was elbow deep in code. "Sonny-kun, are you..."

"They're not from an arcade game."

There was a moment of silence

"What?!"

But before Honey-chan could beat the answers out of somebody, one of the monsters exploded. The shockwave knocked Choko into the air over her cart, the Surge enacting a station-wide alarm that cut off the plugs from access. Now they were trapped with the monsters, who were quickly swarming over a still shock-still Skrillex-kun. Honey-chan grabbed his arm before one could detonate in his face, and the two were blasted into an information kiosk.

One of the...the creepers jumped into the Codemobile and Choko dragged herself out of a crater. "Get out of my cart! You are NOT authorized to drive a pocky stick shift!"

The creeper circled around the craters, picking up its buddies as they tried to escape. But the Surge Protector killed the ports to the games, they were trapped and doomed to suffer Honey-chan's wrath. That was, if Choko didn't get there first. "私の車から出て行け！野郎！"(Watashi no karuma kara deteike! Yarou!)

Honey-chan managed to trip up the from wheel of the cart, allowing Choko to jump into the backseat. One of the creepers began to detonate so she kicked it out of her cart, inadvertently destroying the info kiosk in the resulting explosion. "Guys, I need some help here!"

Honey-chan dragged Skrillex-kun in front of the cart, jumping on to the hood when the driving creeper tried to run them over into a fine paste. Punching and scratching for control, the Codebusters didn't notice the Surge screaming at them to stop. A large flash of light blinded them for a moment, allowing the driver to drive off down a dark tunnel towards the unknown.

"Honey-chan! Get the wheel!" Choko was being crushed under the unrelenting creeper swarm, which was pathetic considering they didn't have any arms.

The battle mistress of their group threw a creeper out of the cart, the entire tunnel shaking with its detonation. "Which game are we going into?"

"Hopefully one that's not busy!" Neon lights flashed by in a symphony of color and static, and Choko lost her train of thought. Where were they, it was...it was so beautiful here. Electricity brushed by her face, and it felt like the sugar silk curtains draping her windows back home. "Honey-chan...where are we?"

Her friend stopped fighting to breathe in the static, eyes blown wide as light poured through her mouth to expel golden static out her finger tips. "This isn't any game I've ever been in."

Skrillex-kun was still in shock, hair blowing around his face as the cart surged towards a large white portal. Choko pinched his hand, trying to wake him up, but then there was that bright light and she couldn't see. They were back in GCS, heading towards the first outlet on the left, and Choko weakly punched the driver's seat. "No don't...that's not a game...it's a ski-ball."

They surged up the cord and Honey-chan blinked the static out of her eyes. "Where the hell are you taking us, ugly! Get the hell out of our cart!"

Honey-chan attacked the creepers and they swarmed her, vicious cursed muffled under the sea of crunch green blocks. Choko squeezed her eyes shut—the ski-ball computer was a very cramped place, it was going to get painful—and braced for impact. She frowned when they didn't crash but entered a strange blue place, the cart blasting through a portal before she could figure out where in marzipan-coasted madness they were.

The cart finally entered a large grassy plain, running into a tree and expelling all of its occupants. The creepers jumped around in anger before re-flipping the cart and gunning the engine. Choko screamed in outrage, picking up a block of...wood? it was wood, and throwing it after them. It hit a creeper on the head but they drove off into the distance.

Sighing—they could always make another cart, but she missed her baby—she turned towards Honey-chan and Skrillex-kun, and did a double take. "何ですか？" (Nandesuka).

They were made out of blocks. Looking down, she saw that she had stubby block arms and stubby block legs, her Action Replay missing from her chest. Whirling around in fear, she opened up a submenu to check her inventory, and that was weird, she didn't have a submenu outside of her palette switch costume menu. But that could wait, because her Action Replay was gone. "Honey-chan, they took my Action Replay!"

"Great, just perfect. Come on Princess, Choko's down a cartridge and we have a job to do." Honey-chan tried pinching his cheek but ended up punching him in the face, depleting one of his...hearts? They had hearts. "What the hell is going on. Is this some freaky imported Nintendo console?"

Skrillex-kun sat up. "Beta 1.5_01 (30 fps, 30 chunk updates). C: 451/5408. F: 1063, 0: 0, E:3894. E: 3/219, B: 0, I: 216. P: 0, T: All: 291. ChunkCache: 1024. x: 81.40779807329609. y: 67.00986 z: 1.009084710. Used Memory: 20% (190MB) of 910MB. Allocated memory: 52% (478MB)."

"...what."

Honey's POV

Honey's eye twitched as Skillex fizzled on the ground, code data pouring out of his mouth like verbal diarrhea. Choko was quietly giving into Chaos on the side, picking up blocks and adding them to her inventory to make up for the loss of her Action Replay. They had inventory screens and hearts and they were made of blocks along with the rest of the world and Honey wanted to go home and rant to Sonic about how crappy her day has been. Speaking of which.."Skillex, if you do not start talking like a person, I will hit you."

"Single Player Commands accessed. Damage now off. /search Codemobile."

She punched him in the nose with all the grace her blocky arm had, and he flashed red briefly before falling on a pig. The pig was wall-eyed and adorable, but it was made of blocks and she hated blocks. "EARTH TO SONNY. What in the name of Chaos Control is going on here?"

He blinked before shrieking, running around in circles. "Oh my god oh my god oh my god we are so screwed the antiviruses are going to find us we need to get—"

She shook him like a rag doll. "WHERE. ARE WE."

"We're in a computer game!" Honey let him fall in shock as he babbled on in hysteria, "I can see all the code, it's in my brain and it's all I can think! They're driving off in a northeast direction, approx. 50,000 blocks away from us, and they're cheating because the person playing Steve? modded the game and I can see everything happening there's a creeper approaching from the cave approx. 200 blocks to our right creeper explosion disable and I think I'm losing it because I can't...I can't..."

Honey hugged him close, blocks sliding together as she tried to keep him from completely going insane. She watched her best friend lose his mind over eleven years, and she'd be damned to a life in slow motion if she let Skrillex fall apart. True to his word, another creeper showed up, but at least this one didn't try blowing them up on contact. "Speak or I'll rebuild you."

"Oh snap, you guys aren't the player, aren't you." His expression didn't change, but his voice spoke volumes of embarrassment. "Ah jeez, you don't even look like him. You should've warned us before the day started if you were game jumping from The Sims..."

Honey froze. The Sims? The creeper shuffled a little closer. "You guys are from The Sims, right?"

Choko pocketed a dandelion. "I'm from Sugar Rush, my yellow-furred friend is from Sonic the Fighters, and my black-haired friend is from DJ Hero 2. This is assuming we're still in Litwak's Arcade, of course."

The creeper jumped in the air, before exclaiming, "You're arcade game people! I didn't—where did—no where's still in—how did you guys get here?!"

"A group of your creepy friends broke into Game Central Station, stole our cart, drove us through electro-Narnia to here, where my friend is having a breakdown because he was created on a computer and is having a massive overload of CPU information." Skrillex was calmer now, mumbling cheat commands into her shoulder, and Honey patted his blocky head.

"Creepers did this? But who..." He began to shake. "JOE!"

"Please don't explode, it's bad for your eardrums." Now Choko was collecting sand.

The creeper calmed down and sighed, shaking his head. "Oh Herobrine, I am SO sorry about this. Joe and his gang are real bad eggs, they love stealing stuff and throwing it into the Far Lands...hey computer guy? Think you can teleport us to the edge of the world? I'll help you get your stuff back, I know where these guys like to creep."

Skrillex lifted his head, the blank expression back on his face. Everyone instinctively held on to his blocky frame, and as he teleported them out of the plain, Honey wondered when her life got so complicated.

Blocks rained from the sky as they landed on the ground, and Honey could feel static creeping up her spine to raise non-existent hairs. The land was...broken was the best word. Chunks of earth floated in the sky and she could see through the ground to the sea below. By the power of Chaos, the glitch void she was frozen in didn't look this busted. "Do you see the creeps anywhere, Choko?"

Choko was standing in the opposite direction, eyes wide and unseeing. Honey turned around and NO NO NO NO WRONG IT WAS WRONG IT WAS BROKEN AND CORRUPTED. Honey gasped for air as a swelling sickness froze her stomach, and NO NO DON'T LOOK IT'S FORBIDDEN IT'S WRONG DON'T TOUCH. Skrillex was still in Data-mode, but how could he not see the WRONG IT'S WRONG BROKEN CORRUPTED GLITCH.

Grabbing Choko close—she was only up to her waist now, Skrillex to her shoulder—she turned towards the creeper. "What is...that?"

"Those are the Far Lands, the end of the world." The Creeper managed to shrug without shoulders. "It's disgusting to look at, but players think it's cool and Joe comes here because no one else will. The name's Horatio, by the way. Horatio Ignatius Robert P. Creeper...I just kinda go by Bob."

"Well, Bob, I'm sad we didn't meet under better circumstances." Honey gently shook Choko before leading her towards a ground of pigs on a relatively functioning plot of sand. "Choko's out; last year a virus broke her game and turned it into its own brand of Far Lands. You think she'll be safe here?"

"The dark corners here spawn a lot of mobs, but they'll leave her alone once they see she's not the player." Choko dimly patted one of the pigs. "She'll be fine."

Honey gulped and turned back towards the WRONG BAD BROKEN GLITCH wall of earth, and gripped on to Skrillex's arm. "Let's go get the car back before I start losing it."

With that they walked into an opening and Honey let go of her friend to flail her arms. Bob thankfully let her self soothe in peace, and kept up a merry commentary as they walked through a STOP WHAT ARE YOU DOING GO BACK IT'S BAD WRONG canyon. "This is actually a relatively old version of Minecraft, since the 1.8 update got rid of these...well, these unique geographic features. I think Mr. Litwak's nephew is coming next week to finally bring us up to date—yes, we are still in Litwak's Arcade! We're in the computer, where storage used to be before Mr. Litwak got that storage place a few years back. Joe must've gone through the mainframe to get to your power strip..."

Gravel rained down and Honey wanted to cry. "I've never met an arcade game person before. There's five computers on our strip and five on the other, and we make short jumps between those two, but never out of the actual room. What was it like in the electrical system?"

The memory of the lights took the edge off Honey's mental breakdown. "Beautiful. I've never seen anything like it before. It was right, not WRONG WRONG WRONG—"

"Do you like coffee? Terminal 3 has all the Tycoon games, and Mall Tycoon has coffee shops. Once we get your cart back, we'll go get a cup and calm your nerves before you self destruct. There's lots of games here, I'm surprised neither of the game rooms know about each other, but that's what happens when Surge Protectors don't let inter-electrical travel. Granted, Joe demonstrated why, and...JOE!"

Honey saw the creepers who took the Codemobile and snapped. Before Bob could hope to catch up, she was in the middle of a fight, beating them flashing red until they tried to detonate on her. "Na na na, that's not gonna WORK, butt munchers! Damage is off and you TOOK our car and it's WRONG WRONG WRONG and now you're gonna DIE!"

The leader creeper, Joe, took off into a hole in the wall of the NO DON'T GO IN THERE IT'S BAD AND NO NO NO canyon, his buddies exploding with glee around her. By the time the smoke cleared Joe was gone with the car and Choko's Action Replay again. "Now where is he going?"

"In the Corner Far Lands." Bob calmly waited for Honey to stop twitching. "It's a place where lands are stacked on top of each other, so there's lots of dark places for creepers to creep over there. Luckily, nobody likes Joe because he's a jerk, so let's go smoke him out."

"Light now turned on." Everything was suddenly free of shadow, and Honey patted Skrillex on the shoulder in thanks.

They walked through the hole into a more "normal" looking area even though the roof of Honey's mouth was crawling with disgust, and Bob called out to the large mob of creepers, zombies and skeletons, "Has anyone seen Joe? He stole stuff from outside game people."

"Freaking Joe Spunk!" One of the zombies groaned and tripped as he lagged over a gravel block. "Bastard stole my sister's earrings last week!"

"He blew up my corner of the cave!" A skeleton shot an arrow at a large hole in a wall.

"Joe Spunk glitched a cloud into fogging up the waterhole."

"Joe Spunk steals diamonds from the children's charity."

"Joe Spunk keeps people from respawning by their homes."

"Joe Spunk is a bad baaad man."

Honey screamed and ran into the hole, frothing with rage because Joe Spunk was MEAN and EVIL and WRONG in this WRONG BROKEN CORRUPTED place. She was going to rip his head off and deprogram him with her Action Replay because he was WRONG and needed to be CORRECTED just like she was because she used to be WRONG, she was a GLITCH and for eleven years she was WRONG FROZEN GLITCHED CORRUPTED and the Far Lands and Joe and everything was so WRONG here...

Skrillex tapped her shoulder and she realized that she had Joe in a choke hold, the creeper flashing red and terrified. Mumbling under her breath, she dragged him and the Codemobile—he scratched the paint, that unbelievable bastard!—out of the hole, past the cheering mob and out of the Corner Far Lands.

Choko was seated upon a throne of diamond, feet resting on a pig as various pigs and zombie...pig men tended to her dim-witted needs. She waved with a distant smile, and Skrillex turned towards Joe. "Superpunch 10000.00," and he tapped Joe on his creepy expression.

Joe flew up into the air and above the Edge Far Lands, exploding far in the distance.

There was silence, before Choko sighed dreamily, "Pomegranates and lavender, a fresh way to start your day; how can the Queen suit your creeper-punching needs?"

Skrillex's POV

Tele 1 70 1. They landed softly at the center of the map and lights off. Shadows returned to their natural places and system check running smoothly FOREIGN PRESENCE DETECTED overridden. Honey turned towards him and IP Address: World: AwesomeWorld555 Minecraft Beta 1.5_01. Blocky hands settled on his shoulders and 0001 100 0101 1101 0101 1101 1010 0011. Bob was talking with Choko about whether she could take her pigs home with her and FOREIGN PRESENCE DETECTED overridden run simulation of entity: Pig in environment: SugarRushSpeedwayArcade with regards to code adaption 037A?_0.

They were moving him into the Codemobile and /search Joe Spunk the creeper was dead and not set to respawn until the next day cycle. The seats were heaven against his aching simulation complete entity: Pig compatible with environment: SugarRushSpeedwayArcade with requirement of code tweaking with Action Replay.

Choko was driving faster as they approached the port leading out of Minecraft and FOREIGN PRESENCE DETECTED overridden and Bobby joked that CONNECTION TERMINATED—

Skrillex jolted as someone placed a sponge on his forehead. Groaning, he resisted the urge to throw up all over the people leaning over him. "Did we get the stupid cart back?"

"Hai, Sonny-kun!" Choko didn't look like a ketamine-head anymore, thank the Muses, and Skrillex relaxed back on to the bench. "In case you were wondering, we're in the power strip outside Terminal 1, where Minecraft is. Computer games are so interesting, with so many games per port instead of one per plug..."

Skrillex let his eyes drift to the left and blinked. Nope, he didn't dream any of that; various Sims and mine sweepers and roller coaster tycoons were milling through the power strip, and his train of thought wasn't interrupted by any computer code. Sighing with relief, he looked up at Honey, who was carding her fingers through his hair. It felt nice. "So how are we getting home again?"

"Bob's looking up a map of the building's electrical system; we don't want to get lost in the hyper-Narnia, now do we?" Honey massaged his aching head and Skrillex reveled in being free of simulations and overriding antiviruses and checking clock cycles. He just wasn't built for computers on that level, despite being born in one...and then he glared because now the free space in his head was bothering him. "What's wrong, Princess? Cat got your tongue?"

"Ooh, don't tell Sonic that." He laughed as she blushed and pulled out his headphones. "By the way Choko, I ran some simulation; as long as you plug in the pigs' codes into Sugar Rush through your Action Replay, they'll repsawn there. Wonderfully adaptive things, those Minecraft pigs..."

Choko squealed and ran around her motley group of pigs, promising to love them and cherish them and only attempt to take over the world on every other Thursday... "Crap! Honey, what time is it?"

"The arcade's closing in three hours, so we can either go back to work or take the day off. You kinda went into robot-mode back there..."

Run simulation of telling Honey that yes, he went into 80% full immersion and yes, it was fun in a horrible-in-hindsight sort of way. Simulation complete. Fok. "Well...you see..."

"I'm back!" Bob held a holo-map and showed them a rather complicated web of tunnels and cords and electrical currents. "Good thing this power strip is closest to the door, otherwise you'd might have gotten lost around this here curve."

"Fabulous. Can we get a coffee to go?" Skrillex wanted a cigarette (/delete nicotine craving) wanted a freaking drink because playing Toby Litwak with his code was giving him a complex. Circling his hands in the air, he imagined ones and zeroes at his fingertips, creating sound and color with the whim of mental code...

"Sonny, I know that you're prolly having an epiphany due to reconnecting to a computer for the first time in over two years. So if you could stop manipulating my avatar, that would be great."

Skrillex blinked; he had changed Honey into her blonde, pink furred version wearing a TRON Siren suit. "Sorry." A flick of his wrist and she was fine again.

"It's all cool, I know the feeling of power that comes from knowledge." She smirked and snapped her fingers, turning his glasses purple. "You should see me in Sonic the Fighters, me and Sonic know the code front and back like nothing else." A crash startled them, and they looked up to see Choko riding a pig out of a port, Bob running behind her with a tray of coffee balanced on his head. "Between us and Choko's magic driving skills, we'll probably reformat the way this arcade runs by next year."

Skrillex grinned, ran a routine to rejuvenate his code, and toasted his Codebusters with his latte. "Then to complete and utter chaos."

Vanellope's POV

Vanellope wrung her hands as she paced in front of her cart, her three red pigtails brushing against her face. Choko never came back from whatever the Surge Protector wanted, and the girl was never late to anything; she'd show up to her own execution on time! Pulling at the white fabric of her racing suit, Vanellope debated bailing out to go track down her long-lost racing friend.

The Codebusters then proceeded to blast through on to the race track, way too cheerful for dropping off the grid for half the day. "Losers! Where in this gobstopper earth have you BEEN?!"

Choko laughed and jumped out, leading a large swarm of adorable pigs with her. "Oh Vanellope-heika, the story we have for you!"

"So if we establish a mailing system between the arcade room and the computer room, we can update each other on gamer trends and possible birthday parties." Vanellope folded her hands daintily on the giant table; she had opened a tea party for all the arcade game heads to meet in, and was doing her part to be a perfectly democratic sovereign.

"Excellent proposal, Queen Vanellope. Clyde, would you be willing to open your Bad-Anon to villains from the computer room?"

"Of course, anyone who is willing is welcome." Clyde did a cycle around his chair. "As the Codebusters were the ones to discover the computer room, they should have the opportunity to take part in the ambassador program..."

The various heads all grunted in agreement, Zangief very enthusiastic about an analogy with sparrow's eggs.

"I'll be sure to tell them once they meet up again for the next arcade crisis. Although, I do know that Skrillex has already taken a friend to the Minecraft game..."

"Kay Joel, I got us on to a multiplayer server..."

"Wow, this is actually really awesome. Hey, do you think we can get a pig into one of those carts?"

"Anything's possible here, trust me."

"..."

"Hey, your avatar has mouse ears. How neat."

"..."

"Those guys are looking at us funny. Must be jealous... /search deadmau5..."

"..."

"...ok, there's another deadmau5 here Do you think that's the guy you're based on. He's actually coming this way."

"...!"

"Ooooookay, open the chat window. Omg its deadmau5!"

"Get in the FREAKING cart, pig!"

"Where have I heard that before..."

"I know those feels, bro."

"Fn pig."

私の車から出て行け！野郎！(Watashi no karuma kara deteike! Yarou!): Get out of my car! Bastard!

何ですか (Nandesuka) What?

Oh yes, Litwak's Arcade has a computer room with Minecraft on it, just like the long-lost arcade from my childhood.

And now the barrier between arcade and computer consoles for this story has been broken; we're going to both!

As for the "Edge/Corner Far Lands", go look it up and imagine three video games characters with traumatic experiences looking at that cluster of corrupted data. Heck, I even get creeped out looking at them due to my strange phobia of ruptured and damaged materials. Accoridng to the Minecraft wiki: "The hard limit where chunks are overwritten is at X/Z of +/-34,359,738,368, which is about 23% of the distance from the Earth to the Sun. At X/Z of +/-2,147,483,648 (crashes at 2,147,483,439), item positions, mob pathfinding and other things using 32-bit integers will overflow and act strangely, usually resulting in Minecraft crashing. At X/Z of +/-1.798*108^308, the position of the player, represented by a double-precision floating point number, would overflow to 'infinity', causing a complete breakdown of arithmetic." In layman's terms, after a certain point CRAZY STUFF HAPPENS.

Skrillex goes into Data mode because he was created by Toby Litwak/Mr. Litwak's super amazing nephew (he finally has a name!) on a computer before being downloaded on to DJ Hero 2. As such, he makes a connected from deep within his code, and finds out that he likes going into god mode. Then again, who wouldn't.

The deadmau5 joke at the end is from a) the real deadmau5 often goes on Minecraft (and griefs people a lot), and b) he made a song, Get in the Cart, Pig/Fn Pig based off of the game after he couldn't get one of the adorable yet retarded pigs into a mine cart.

I love those pigs, they're all dumb and wall-eyed and pink and adorable :D

ANYWAY, I hope I didn't turn you off with this chapter. Action Replay is exploring more than just ordinary arcade games, because nothing in the Wreck It Ralph universe is merely "ordinary". So review and tell me how you feel.