Well hello there :D
After the disaster that was my little sister's 12th birthday party (I had to babysit for a pool party and a Six Flags trip; that's like 24 hours of indentured servitude) I didn't have the writing juices to pump out a new chapter. Then a reviewer from AoC, baroness/reindeerhorns from tumblr drew the most MARVELOUS fan art, and I was just so inspired. So thank her for preventing another hiatus.
Also, the Round Robin POV from DDR is making a return. You'll see why once I get some needed exposition and plot elements out of the way.
Disclaimer: I don't own shi—I mean I don't own Sugar Rush/Disney, Sonic the Fighters/SEGA, DJ Hero 2/Activision, or Dragon's Lair/Cinematronics, who went down a couple decades ago. Shame.
Skrillex's POV
Skrillex narrowed his eyes as he concentrated on the piece of paper laid before him. This single sheet would make or break his reputation—no, his life in the arcade. He needed absolute concentration, conviction, whatever other c-words that sounded important, to complete this task. Raising a hand, he brought it down firmly with a manic grin.
"Ooh, interesting color choice. But aren't leaves supposed to be green?"
Ruffling the fur on Tails' head, Skrillex smirked, "Not when you have a 16,777,216 pack of colored pencils, young grasshopper."
He and the casts of Sugar Rush, Sonic the Fighters and his own game were in one of the larger meeting halls in Queen Van's castle. Apparently Bob from Minecraft had intercepted an email that had their games in the details, so Vanellope rounded them up after hours. Suri brought up the idea of blowing off steam that didn't involve obscene acts around small children, and so began the Great Coloring.
He watched Sour Apple and Minty fight over which shade of green suited a green apple-mint chocolate chip ice cream cake, and shook his head; those Sugar Rush kids took flavors too seriously.
Take Choko for instance. The brat had eight different kinds of dipped pocky to choose from in her arsenal, but because her name was derived from chocolate, she'd beat your face in if you even suggested that no, chocolate probably didn't go well with pepto bismol after drinking too much of Tapper's multigrain root beer during one of their free nights off. That didn't go so well; Honey just laughed at him until he deleted the stomach cramps from his data.
Honey could honestly stand to be a bit sweeter, but she probably used up all her nice points on C. Sonic. The two were probably making out somewhere that wasn't crawling with twelve year olds, so Skrillex stole from Honey's pile of colored pencils. Served her right for extreme PDA, even if he was very much approving of the couple.
Queen Van showed up, wearing a white hoodie and purple striped leggings instead of her normal racing suit, and he noticed how her hands were shaking in her pockets. "Listen up losers, I have info on the statuses of our games." She scanned the crowd with large hazel eyes, then snorted. "Someone go get the lovebirds, I don't want to scar my child brain for life."
Nack cheerfully volunteered and came back a few moments later, Honey and C. Sonic held her his arms like footballs made of irate street brawlers. Dumping them on their butts, he motioned for Vanellope to continue and shared a knowing smirk with Skrillex.
"So it turns out that Mr. Litwak's nephew Toby is coming down from Washington with his friends to check out the games in our arcade. The thing that concerns us is that we're due for upgrades to our games, and he was just checking to see when a good date for code overhauls was."
Everyone started to talk at once, ranging from "Yay graphical updates!" to "Didn't we just get a tune-up in 2010?" to "Oh god what if we get our memories wiped?!". Skrillex noticed that Honey's hand was gripping her boyfriend's very tightly, and patted the Action Replay in his pocket.
Van shared his sentiment, waving down all their opinions. "I've talked to Clyde from Pac-Man, and I'm pretty sure our memories won't get wiped. Mr. Litwak wouldn't want to lose years of high scores just for a shinier game, right? So stop your blubbering Taffyta, you're making us look bad."
Waiting graciously for her blonde friend to halt her water works, Vanellope half shrugged. "Since summers are prime time for arcades, there's not really a good time for us to get upgraded. Mr. Toby and his gang are coming down in three weeks once their internships with Nintendo goes on break, but he won't be fiddling with our code until the kids taper off. That's all we know for now, Bob'll keep us updated in case things go sour."
With that everyone was free to go bother themselves. Skrillex had half a mind to finish his psychedelic tree guardian, but decided to shelve the project for later; C. Sonic and Tails were packing up their colored pencils, and he needed specific shades of pink-red-yellow before attempting the hellfire flames of awesome in the pic's background.
Vanellope called out over the din, "Oh, and the Codebusters have a new mission tonight. Dragon's Lair stopped working earlier today and we're not sure if it's a glitch or a problem with the Laserdisc."
While Choko said her goodbyes to her friends/former palette swaps and Honey dragged her blushing blue hedgehog into a corner, Skrillex froze. Crap, there wasn't a real computer in Dragon's Lair so his god mode hacking wouldn't work. That wasn't the issue—he was fine by himself, thank you very much—but he was set up right next to that game. Said game was a coin sinker because every five seconds the poor knight would drop dead from bad player reflexes.
Absently waving at Joel as he left, Skrillex hoped that his reflexes were up to the challenge, because he really didn't want to die because of something so weak as a foking lizard king.
Choko hovered outside the port to Dragon's Lair, wringing her hands together. "Is it true that we're going into a CD?"
"It's a Laserdisc, but the same rules apply."
"I've heard of games like these. Sega CDs for the home console market back in the 90s. But will the game even accept outside data?"
Skrillex paused at Honey's question. "I guess we'll find out. As long as we don't screw up the disc and cause it to skip uncontrollably we should be fine..."
Honey bit down on her thumb, eyes flashing with data. "...it's an interactive movie, right? That's the game play, just activate the right triggers at the right time."
"So we press X to not die and we'll be ok?" Choko nuzzled Mr. Waddles and Skrillex noticed the growing sense of adventure in her eyes. "If things go sour we can always have Honey to punch the bad guys to death. We have three players to our advantage, after all."
Skrillex grinned and ruffled her hair, taking care not to disrupt the pocky chopsticks she unlocked for her character sprite. "I like the way you think. Let's show them how computer-based characters are!"
They drove into the cord connecting the console, Skrillex bracing himself for the limitations of a Laserdisc. Once they cleared the port's threshold they repixelated into 2D animation, the sensation of chalk filling his limbs as he was cut off from true computer processing/the Force.
Choko parked neatly outside a creepy looking castle surrounded by thorn bushes from hell, and Skrillex had to admit she looked really pretty as a drawing. Her magenta hair was braided around her hair and bangs curled delicately around her face, and her gray jumpsuit turned into a layered pink dress and ballet flats. She looked like a princess that should be saved from a tower, if she wasn't so giddy with the thought of kicking so much enemy butt.
Honey...Skrillex readjusted his jaw as the girl in question did a double take. Apparently Don Bluth like his girl cats as cat girls, and she was transformed into a violet eyed Asian girl dressed in a white leotard with long black hair, giant boobs and a slinky cat tail with cute little cat ears. Ignoring the blatant racism and sexism, Honey rocked the cat girl look, especially in bright red high heeled boots that had no place outside of a dominatrix's fashion show.
He looked at himself and ok, he wasn't half bad. In fact, he was taller than Honey! Keeping down his grin in case she decided to murder him—judging from the tense energy coiled in her hips and shoulders, she was prepared to stab anyone in the face is they even breathed "hot"—he readjusted his heroic black armor and faced his companions. "Ok, so from what I know, there's some odd levels we have to go through until we get to save Princess Daphne, and probably Dirk the Daring too. Stick to normal game play, but if someone screws up a reaction don't hesitate to help a bro out. This game is notorious for the good ol' trial and death game play, and we don't want any funerals. So let's go kick some code, Codebuster style!"
They high fived and charged the castle. Sure, maybe it was considered cheating to have three characters playing at once, but what the heck did anyone expect from code masters wielding heavy duty cheat cartidges?
Round Robin POV
A woman wailed in the far distance as they approached the castle. Carefully crossing the rickety old bridge, Skrillex unsheathed a sword. "Let's get this over—"
He fell through the floor, slimy purple tentacle monsters rising from the moat. Choko squealed and jumped down onto one of their heads, throttling the evil one-eyed monster before it could do horrible things to her friends.
Honey managed to pull Skrillex out of the hole, slipping onto her knees because crap, the equilibrium of a human was just so strange! Choko grabbed onto her tail pulled herself away from the monster, kicking one to death for good measure.
They ran into the castle, an iron gate closing behind them, and the CD successfully skipped to the next scene.
They entered a room with three doors, and Honey took the time to tug on her leotard. "I don't think I like spandex very much."
The earth crumbled beneath them and Skrillex caught her around the waist before she could tumble to a very anti-climatic death. "I think you'd like making splat in an endless pit even more!"
"This way!" Choko ran through an open door, hiking up her skirts before rubble could come crashing down and turn their brains to roadkill. Honey tied her hair out of her face with a strip of Skrillex's under cloth, muttering as they went into the next scene about long hair being worse than leotards.
Skrillex flung his sword at a creepy ceiling tentacle as the girls took on creepy floor tentacles and cursed the day slimy extremities were ever considered for game enemies.
Jumping onto a stairwell as the floor more or less exploded with crawling green feelers, he noticed how the enemies were invincible during the pre-programmed cut scenes. Gripping onto his sword, he considered the tentacles sprouting from a trapdoor up the stairs, and shrugged. It wasn't cheating to kill evil squid arms when you had to protect two Japanese girls.
Somersaulting onto a table, he switched out his sword for the light saber Luke had graciously given him, and made short work of the calamari fodder.
Grinning at Choko, he handed her the sword; Honey loved hand to claw combat, and little princesses always needed a pick-me-up.
Choko squealed as a snake popped out of the ceiling, chopping off its head before it could bite her and infect her perfectly sugar balanced blood with evil snake cooties.
Another appeared out of nowhere in the fog filled dungeon and she sliced it in half down the belly, turning away because eww, snake guts were gross and why did Pollipop-chan love snakes so much they were just so gross!
She squeaked as yet another long, coily demon snake rose from the fog and she tackled it, tying it into a pretzel knot and screaming impure things about its heritage.
Someone, probably the more level headed Skrillex-kun, triggered a rope falling from the ceiling and Honey-chan grabbed onto Choko's bodice, hoisting her up before the longest snake she'd ever seen in her life could swallow her whole. "SNAKE!"
"Don't worry babychild, we're in the next—"
"Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes!"
Honey nearly fell into a pit of flames, trying to catch herself in her stupid super-heroine boots. Trumpets blared because the only way across were flaming rope swings and oh yeah, life was just fan-freaking-tastic at the moment.
"Ladies first!" Skrillex backed away like the wimp he was, and Honey wrung her distractingly delicate hands. Nope, fire was dumb, she was not going across.
"Banzai!" Never say that Choko couldn't bounce back from a newly discovered phobia. She swung effortlessly across the ropes, her small weight barely straining the ropes. The little princess landed on the other side and smiled brightly. "Come on guys, it's not that hard! Just don't look down!"
Honey nodded grimly and looked up—she looked up! Since when did he get to be taller than her!—at her knight in hipster armor. "Don't turn this into a habit, four eyes."
"I'd never dream of it, battle brat."
He grabbed onto her waist and jumped onto the burning rope, swinging low to the flames. Honey let out a very high pitched yell as the rope snapped, Skrillex quickly snagging onto the next rope before they turned to an ash pile.
Landing roughly on safe ground, Honey panted against his chest. "Never...again..!"
"Trust me Honey...I'd rather burn in those flames...than tell C. Sonic I stole his cat-turned-cat girl girlfriend."
Choko nodded sagely. "The fire will kill you in a single cut scene. The depression from such an evil act will probably destroy the entire arcade."
The ground fell out beneath his feet and how big was this foking castle anyway? Sidestepping the incoming doom, he motioned for Choko and Honey to wait. He carefully stepped on the cobblestone pathway, and was rewarded with daggers flying at his head. Honey tackled him and Choko into the pool of green water he really didn't want to go into.
Surprisingly enough the water wasn't made of acid or Kool-Aid colored lava, but it was filled with an armada of water snakes. Choko lost her cool and murdered all of them with her sword, half-drowning because screaming underwater wasn't the best choice of action.
Pulling a panting and coughing Choko out of the mess, he watched the rest of the room crumble around him. Now where was that stupid door...Skrillex tumbled across a growing ravine to Honey's side, triggering the next room before some other improbable death could ax them. As Choko caught her breath and Honey dealt with embarrassing stretches in her leotard, the newly minted knight groaned; barely six levels in and he wanted to throw his lot in with the snakes.
Choko stared into the bubbling cauldron as Honey-chan and Skrillex-kun tried to bring out the next death trap. It roiled so cheerfully in the gloomy dungeon, so much like Diet Cola Mountain's cola hot springs that she relaxed by the comforting sound.
The cauldron then proceeded to boil over and drench half the room in an evil green potion demon, Skrillex-kun knocking over bottles that added to the chaos. But of course.
Honey-chan punched the offending demon in the face hard enough to blast him against the wall, the green froth evaporating with a sad gurgle. Choko wanted to feel bad for it had the cauldron not spawned an evil ether witch who grabbed the smallest Codebuster.
Choko gasped as she felt the game trigger a death scene, but then Skrillex-kun's eyes flashed and he beheaded the witch in a move that would make any Jedi proud. She hit the ground with a thud as triumphant trumpets played, and she accepted the helping hands offered. "How did you..."
"I said earlier that CD skipping was bad...but then again, when have we ever followed conventional game rules?"
Honey propped open the trap door. "I don't see any obvious threats yet, come on up." She regretted that statement once a weird purple monster with a sword came barreling at her, howling like a monkey in the madhouse that had become her existence.
Skrillex sliced it in half, spawning two more from a door that conveniently appeared. Sizing up the hopping baboon beasts, the trio decided to abscond from the ludicrous situation, and sprinted up the curving staircase. Two more greeted them halfway, snarling and waving swords too close to Choko's face, and Honey straightened her sleeves.
Flipping over Skrillex's head, she kicked the two down the pit to their left, their monkey screams fading away as she turned to face the groupies that wanted desperately to trigger their death scenes. Oh, they wanted to play? Honey may have been turned into a flimsy little cat girl but she was always ready to play!
Choko had to drag her up the stairs after she pulverized the enemies, calling at their purple poofs of disintegration, "And the next smart guy who only stares at my chest during battle is getting my foot up his animated arse!"
The three tumbled down the suddenly smooth hill, Skrillex catching them on the stairs before they could die in the pit waiting below. More foking tentacle beasts appeared and Skrillex let Choko and Honey deal with the offenders, because this was still the beginning of a very long game and he was sick of tentacle monsters!
Stalking up the stairs he fell on his face as the surface turned into a curve. Choko saved him from death, small hands clamped around his ponytail. Honey pushed them through the exit hole and Skrillex solemnly swore never to tug on her pigtails ever again, because that was a kind of pain on par with screwing up an easy song in front of all your friends.
They groaned as possessed weapons tried to murder them, because the thrill of being 2D had worn very thin. Choko batted the flying hunks of death out of their faces with her sword, and yelled over the din of clashing metal, "Can you skip us to the end, Sonny-kun?"
Skrillex-kun froze, fingers flashing white ever so briefly. "Theoretically I can, but think of the danger!" He dodged a flying anvil, wheezing, "I could crash the entire system!"
Honey-chan punched an evil blacksmith in the face, snarling in righteous cat girl fury, "Don't care, skip as far as you can! Doesn't this game mirror half of the levels anyway?!"
His eye twitched before the entire scene froze, Choko feeling something akin to a meat hook pulling on her navel. Before she could blink they landed roughly in a twisted hallway, a nasal-voiced evil lizard king swinging a scepter at their heads. "This is the end level?"
"Close but not quite. I folded the game scenes on themselves, so we're close to saving Princess Daphne and getting the hell out of this animated animal house."
"Glory to that!" Honey-chan gasped as the lizard king oogled her body and turned bright red before tackling him. "YOU WANT CHAOS, BIG BOY?! I'LL GIVE YOU CHAOS!"
Choko watched Honey-chan regain her honor through turning a drawing inside out, eyes wide with awe. She was so cool, no wonder her love life was going so well!
They entered a large hall, much like the nightmare version of Queen Vanellope's meeting hall, and they caught a glimpse of a blonde clenched in a large green fist flying through a door way. She cried out, "Save me!" before the door crashed shut.
"It's Daphne-hime! Let's get out of here!"
But before they could follow Choko's sound advice and bail, a knight in an evil version of Skrillex's armor appeared. He stabbed the ground with his sword and electricity flashed through the tiles. Choko squeaked and jumped onto Honey's back, causing Honey to jump onto Skrillex's back and he resisted the urge to sink into the floor and die.
Forcing carefree memories of playing hopscotch in Guitar Hero into the forefront of his brain, Skrillex hopped across the ground. It was easy, he just had to not touch the glowing blue lava and keep his friends from falling over and dying in this cursed game, he didn't know why he was freaking out so hard, he promised!
Tripping, he crashed onto the knight and crushed him under the combined Codebuster weight. That triggered the next level cut scene, and Skrillex shrugged; it was rude to ask about a lady's weight, much less two ladies, so he was just going to accept the win before Honey killed someone important.
"Just how big is this castle anyway?"
"I started wondering that a couple stages back, before I made the Laserdisc skip ahEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAA—"
They plummeted as the circular platform they stood on decided that being an elevator was more productive. Honey pinwheeled her arms, tail latching onto Choko's waist. "What are we supposed to do now?!"
The platform paused briefly at a rickety plank, but Choko pulled on Skrillex's hair before he could jump ship. "It's a trap! Ride it out!"
They fell like that for half an eternity, picking up speed as Choko grounded her heels into the platform. Honey and Skrillex held onto each other and wailed into the chaos, the music growing louder and louder as they approached their doom. Finally Choko licked her finger and held it up before yelling, "JUMP FOR YOUR LIFE!"
They dove onto the landing as the elevator platform continued on its merry way, quickly running into the doorway. Honey panted for breath, ears twitching with relief. "How did...you know?"
Choko brushed off her skirts and smiled too prettily for their situation. "Double stripes will do that to a girl. Now let's continue with this lovely game?"
The pathway was dark and lead up to a waterfall and Honey pouted, which was a sight way too cute for Skrillex's continued survival. "I don't wanna."
"Come on, we're almost to the boss level."
"But it's so obvious, only an idiot would keep walking forward!"
Skrillex sighed and grabbed onto her elbow, pulling her forward. "Truth be told, the hero of this game is pretty dumb for a knight's standard. If he can do it, we can to."
She clutched onto his arm and too cute, she was too attractive as a cat girl and he really needed a girlfriend before he got his face beaten in by the angry cast of Sonic the Fighters. That cheerful train of thought was derailed as they fell through the floor, landing in a barrel in a river of glowing purple water. "Is this more Kool-Aid?"
"It's Chemical Plant Zone come to haunt a SEGA girl's grave, that's what!"
They approached a cave with "Ye Boulders" printed on a sign and Skrillex really didn't want to go. He let Choko maneuver her way in front, the small girl narrowing her eyes. "Take the oars and I'll guide you through. Something tells me boulders are bad for codebusting duty."
And really, it should've been easy to avoid these giant boulders, but the game gave them about two seconds to react, and they didn't have the game avatar's immunity to fatigue. With much yelping and complaining about leg room, they traveled into the "Ye Rapids" cavern and Skrillex became convinced that if there was a god, he hated the Codebusters.
Shrieking like three four year old girls discovering that Minnie Mouse was a child murderess, they sailed down the orange waves with the grace of a dead pigeon. Honey looked ready to hurl over the edge of their barrel, but held it in because the orange water was gross as it was. "I wanna get off..."
"Just hold on hon, we're almost to the final dungeon..." They entered "Ye Whirlpools" and thank goodness for boring whirlpools instead of giant underwater tornadoes. Choko gently guided them through the green water into a swift tunnel, the barrel crashing against a tower. Quick reflexes saved them from drowning, and they climbed up the chain into the doorway. Skrillex valiantly held Honey's hair out of the way as her stomach regulated itself, muttering to Choko's worried expression, "This princess better be the greatest princess of all time, because none of us are living today down."
They finally appeared in the dragon's lair, which was a vast cavern filled with enough gold and riches to turn the most straitlaced of code masters into frantic kleptomaniacs. Biting their hands and pulling their hair in order to keep focus, they noticed the dragon sleeping on a pile of gold, Dirk the missing knight frozen in a battle stance off to the side, and Princess Daphne, dressed in a glorified bathing suit, in a sphere.
Skrillex stumbled into an awkward tower of treasure as his blood pressure spiked, unable to think beyond the smoldering blonde luxuriating in her sphere. She was hella worth it, so foking worth it because she was hotter than a thousand Honeys put together!
Choko dove to stop the falling tower from awakening the dragon and Honey smacked Skrillex with her tail, whispering harshly, "You choose now to be a feather-weight toddler with no motor skills? Snap out of it!"
"But hot hot hot hot hot!"
The dragon awoke with a plume of fire, Honey knocking them down behind a dune of golden coins. The princess moaned and the dragon went back to sleep, leaving Honey to strangle Skrillex. "No, not hot hot hot hot hot! Keep using your upstairs brain!" She glared at the sleeping princess, mumbling so Choko wouldn't hear, "And what the heck did they use for her character model, magazine girls?"
They sneaked up to the sphere, where Daphne was waiting for them with an expression that thankfully went over Choko's head. Between Honey's cat girl body and Skrillex falling hard for this strumpet, Honey was ready to shove her fist into the next inappropriate joke made around Choko's immediate area.
"Please save me!" Daphne struck a pose and oriented herself in her magic sphere. "The cage is locked, with the key! The dragon keeps it around his neck!" She began motioning with her entire body, voice breathless and so princess-like it put Princess Toadstool to shame. "To slay the dragon, use the magic sword!"
Skrillex flushed so darkly that Choko wondered if his brain had been replaced with a sweet seeker. Honey rolled her eyes and motioned at the sword. "Go save the playmate, Casanova."
"Hot hot hot..." The dragon woke up and flames erupted around them. "HOT!"
Honey grabbed Choko and pulled her behind Daphne's sphere, rolling her eyes as the princess gasped like a 40s film actress. "Choko, Skrill is distracted by the blonde. If we want out of this chaos, we gotta have a plan of attack..."
"Leave it to me, Honey-chan!" Choko skipped off as the dragon began chasing Skrillex around the lair, feet glowing as she teleported through cut scenes. It was out of turn to grab the magic sword before the game activated that sequence from the Laserdisc, it was totally unfair...she skidded under the dragon's legs and threw the sword into its heart, killing the beast in a flash of green as it landed on Skrillex. "Oh, I hope I didn't kill him..."
Dirk awoke from his frozen stance, eyes flashing as he sank to his knees. "Ah jeez, who defeated the dragon?"
He looked up and grinned at Choko. "And what's this? Another fair princess?" Honey coughed beside the sphere and Dirk's eyes popped out of his head. "And a smokin' hot cat girl!"
"Trust me buddy, you don't want any of this." Skrillex dug himself out of the gold and patted Choko's head, cracking his back. Blushing fiercely as Princess Daphne gave him a come-hither look, he let Dirk save the girl and send the game back to the title screen. "But if you could be so kind as to tell me what's wrong with your game, I won't tell her you said that."
Vanellope's POV
Vanellope watched Marzipanne braid Choko's hair into a Dutch crown, Crumbelina fashioning medieval-inspired dresses for all the Sugar Rush racers. Once the youngest Codebuster admitted that she liked the fashion from Dragon's Lair—with the very specific exception of Honey's appearance, for some reason—the fashionista from their roster had demanded a fashion tea party. Vanellope looked down at her beautifully tiered dress and smirked; she wasn't going to complain if she got free clothes out of the deal.
Skrillex had explained how the Laserdisc skipped over Dirk completing an animation, trapping the poor knight until they managed to save him and his questionable love interest. Now the DJ was drawing on a gingerbread table, adding what looked like cat girls and princesses and knights to the already impressive battle scene. Vanellope didn't want to ask, as Honey looked murderous when King Candy had mentioned wanting to adopt a cat.
Said Honey had left a while ago, ranting about female objectification and something called BST and Vanellope had the feeling that there was a blue hedgehog out there about to go on the date of his life. Snorting, she let her idiot Codebusters be and headed towards the bakery; if she was bringing medieval style to Sugar Rush, she needed a cart with at least three battering rams attached.
HOLY CRAP THAT WAS LONG. Seriously, I wanted to do every scene from Dragon's Lair but I got so tired, and the story was dragging so much...
Dragon's Lair is famous for being a game based on a Laserdisc, the giant predecessor of the modern DVD. It relied on quick time reactions, triggering cut scenes depending if you succeeded in the story or died a hilarious death. They were notorious for malfunctioning due to having to skip around the disc so much during game play, which is why Skrillex was reluctant to cheat earlier in the adventure. This style of game play came back in the 90s with the SEGA CD add-on for the SEGA Genesis, so Honey knew a bit about that style of game.
Don Bluth was the head animator, and you need to see Princess Daphne in action. According to an interview, her model was based off the girls in Playboy magazines, and it shows.
As Honey was the eldest girl, she was reformatted into a sexualized cat girl, which is a dig at the Sonic OVA which featured Sera the Cat Girl/Love Interest Extraordinaire. Choko got turned into a figure similar to Princess Eilonwy from The Black Cauldron, the black sheep of the Disney canon. Skrillex got turned into a knight because just imagine that little bastard in a suit of black armor, it's adorable.
Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter! Especially the boring crap at the beginning, because I have lots planned for our darling Codebusters :D