*throws computer out my window*
Writer's block is the bane of my existence. Trying to find glitches/excuses for a chapter is also the bane of my existence.
Luckily, I have friends who kick my butt into writing shape whenever I go on these mini updating crises. And I figured I'd change up the pace of this chapter, since I'm sitting on a lot of content and it's my story I do what I want.
EPIC FAIL GO!
Disclaimer: I don't own a lot of things, namely Disney (Choko), SEGA (Honey), Activision (Skrillex), Square Enix (Sora), Atari (Leia), Mojang (Bob) OR Guitar Hero Arcade which is also owned by Activision.
Honey's POV
Honey sighed as the sun warmed her back, stretching an arm out to grab her coconut milk. She was finally using her intended model in a beach environment, and she and Leia were going to enjoy this holiday to the fullest extent of sun bathing splendor.
Mr. Litwak was out of town for his nephew George's wedding and had closed the arcade for the week, so the Codebusters cores managed to catch up on all the backlogged requests that got pushed to the side whenever a game decided to self destruct. Honey though it was therapeutic, recalibrating the game engine in Pong instead of being sent to Dr. Mario. But in defense of being beaten to a pulp every other Wednesday, their skills had progressed enough that one day into their seven day free week, they were done and left to their own devices.
The best part was that since they were finally free to actually hang out and be semi-normal civilians, all six code masters had packed up and went to Super Mario Sunshine for an extended team building trip/much needed vacation. Day 4 of said trip was shaping up to be another lazy day in the sun, and Honey idly watched Choko and Sora roll giant watermelons to the smoothie shack. Skrillex was sleeping in the shade after spending hours skateboarding along the natural ramps of Gelato Beach, Bob was flirting with some giggling pianta girls, and Leia shared a smirk with her fellow lady friend; how long would it take for someone to come barreling in and cut their vacation time short?
To the party crasher's credit, they at least had four days of nonstop relaxation. So when a red haired rocker with bright pink leather clothes—by the emeralds, she must've been burning in the hot tropical air—glomped Skrillex and woke him up with a girly scream, Honey finished off her coconut. "If all six of us work together, we might be able to make our reservations at Hotel Delfino."
Leia grinned, bouncing off of her recliner. "Ooh, we've never worked together since tutorials, this will be fun. Bobby, Sora, wanna go Codebusting with the other guys?"
"Woo!" Sora launched himself and Choko into the air, somehow managing to keep their watermelon smoothies in their cups even as they back flipped to Leia's side. "Beach time and a mission? Best vacation ever!"
Choko laughed at the kid's excitement, blushing slightly as Sora hefted her onto his shoulders, and looked towards the redhead currently tormenting Skrillex. "Sonny-kun, who is your friend?"
The redhead giggled, holding a tomato red Skrillex in a choke hold. "I'm Judy Nails, me and Skrilly go way back to when he was just a baby program getting a feel for music rhythms in my own game." She let Skrillex go since he was turning purple, and adjusted the goggles keeping her wild hair in place. "My game, Guitar Hero Arcade, is acting up again, so I was wondering if I could borrow the short order for a while."
Honey shrugged lightly, violet eyes watching Skrillex return back to normal. "You mind if we tag along too? We're doing team building stuff, and a shared mission will both save your game faster and get us to work together better."
"Sure!" Judy smiled and tugged Skrillex to her side again, smothering the side of his face against her impressive bust. "Let's get going, I haven't seen my darling Sonny for a while and I need me some catch up time."
Judy led the way out of the beach towards the exit of the game, more or less drowning Skrillex in her attention, and Honey looked over her fellow friends. Sora and Choko were in their happy bubble of watermelon joy, Bob was still making passes at passing girls, and Leia was meeting Honey's glance with a knowing smirk. Neither of them knew what was ahead, but they were certainly ready to find out.
Guitar Hero was a far cry from Super Mario, various punks shooting the grimy breeze against warehouse walls, and Honey felt better when Sora tightened his grip on Choko. Her older sister feels were only getting worse the longer she spent around the candy brat, and the large amount of sneering hipsters with giant piercings were making her antsy. "I'm guessing this is a game play issue?"
"You bet." Judy led them to a practice studio, flipping her hair into Skrillex's face. "Let's get you guys set up here, you can't fail the game with these settings."
"Is it that bad?" Bob frowned at his lack of arms, bowing out of actively testing the game mechanics. "Does it threaten the safety of those playing?"
Judy fixed them up with guitars, lingering on Skrillex's diminutive shoulder strap. "Nothing terrible like that; I heard about what happened in Street Fighter II and Joust. Wicked stuff, but this is only a problem for real gamers. If they see this...well, you'll see." She fiddled with the start up booth, before giving them a thumbs up. "No worries, just see what you can do!"
Honey tensed as the song began. All five active Codebusters were on their own song ribbon but the beginning notes were synced with each other. It was similar to DDR in a way, using her fingers instead of her feet, and Honey wondered what was the big deal.
"This isn't so bad, where's the OH MY GOD."
Suddenly glitching notes piled out of nowhere to destroy them, the scratches of missing guitar hits grating with the garbled music until Skrillex ragequit and threw his guitar at his ribbon. Honey froze up because there was no way she could begin to stop the madness, and abandoned her own ribbon to watch the others.
Choko was unfortunate enough to have tiny hands even with her miniature guitar, and gave when her fingers began to cramp. Leia pounded on her guitar and yelled something about hit detection and overloads before following Skrillex's lead and throwing her guitar. Sora held on the longest before a surge of notes overtook him and he threw his hands up in the air. "Can we start over? This is way too much."
Judy nodded and took the tempo down from normal to snail trailing. They reset their guitars—Judy personally helps Skrillex, tucking his hair behind his ear and adjusting his glasses—and were overtaken by the glitch again. And again. And again. Honey turned towards a visibly flustered Leia, who looked ready to eat her giant buns. "You holding up, princess?"
"Never better." Leia stuck her tongue out at Honey, smacking Sora upside the head when he laughed at his teammate. At least the girl had her strategy of keeping her boys in line down; if only they could smack the glitch into submission as well. "But practice makes perfect, right? Play the song again please."
Bob's POV
Leia was mistaken; practice makes permanent and they were going to be stuck playing this glitchy notefest for the rest of their lives.
Ok, maybe not the rest of their lives, but Guitar Hero was doomed at this rate. Bob glumly watched Sora electrocute his game ribbon and shock himself in the process; normally he would be laughing at the spiky haired kid, but he felt too useless to be so peppy at the moment. It prolly had to do with him not having arms and being a load on the rest of the teams.
Frowning, he glared at his feet. The one time both Codebusting cores got to go on a mission together, and he was benched. Judy kept giving him these pity looks, like it was his fault for not having arms, and he was sick of watching her make googly eyes at Skrillex.
A swarm of glitching notes knocked Leia onto her rear and Bob stood up. He needed to do something to minimize the glitch's OP properties, and if all else failed, he could always explode and relive some of his friend's growing tension. Explosions made everyone relax after all, unless you were Steve?, and that guy was a jerk anyway.
Shaking his head—it was Sora's job to go on crazy tangents, he needed to keep focus!—he hopped up to Judy's sound booth. "So all of your songs are like this?"
"Yep. I can't even break through, and I'm...well, pretty good at my job." Judy flicked a lollipop at Skrillex's head, grinning when he backhandedly caught it and launched it back at her face. "I admit though, I didn't think that even Sonny would have problems. The guy's a pro at this."
Bob eyed Skrillex's laptop, before remembering the tutorial the senior Codebudtsers gave his team. Most of it was focused on the how-to's of an Action Replay/Game Genie, but their individual strenghts were touched upon. Leia was the queen of blasting code, Sora had his epic Majestic Thunder swords, and Bob was handy in blowing glitches to bits; the trick was to trigger their default settings by vaporizing the glitch. But with the way the glitch was forming here, he didn't think that was going to fly.
The strengths of the others were talked about. Honey was just freaking awesome, beating up anything in her way—Joe Spunk hadn't dared to show his face after she was through with him and able to directly modify code by herself, Choko was a racing prodigy and had the interesting knack of figuring out problems through pure gumption, and Skrillex... "You figure custom content would glitch out too?"
Judy blinked as Bob poked at his friend's laptop. "Sonny is gifted in rhythm games and problems, got him the job in the first place, and he is also synced with any game's soundtrack as far as I can tell. Put that with his computing skills, and we might find a way around this glitch."
"I like the way you think, weed whacker." Judy vaulted over the sound booth to drape herself over Skrillex's shoulder, relaying Bob's hypothesis with a lot more flirty innuendos. Seriously, the girl was worse than Sora's friend Kairi—was it a redhead thing? Skrillex looked embarrassed, but Bob couldn't tell if it was because Judy is trying to eat his face or because he forgot that oh yeah, I have epic powers. Poor kid, vacationing must've scrambled his brains.
"Bob, can you help me out here?" The rest of the Codebusters battled the waves of musical glitch as Skrillex showed Bob how to connect the game's soundtrack to his laptop. Bob may not be to the level of his friend, or have hands for the cute little keyboard and touch pad, but he got the gist of altering Guitar Hero's song selection. "The game will generate new layouts for each new song, and hopefully the glitch with be easier to manage on a new playing field."
Hah, puns are punny. Bob picked a play list at random because it wasn't like he was the one going to play them, and smirked as the music synched perfectly, releasing the Codebusters from playing the same tired songs over and over. Judy smushed Skrillex into her bust for his help, Honey and Leia were self destructing in a corner, and Bob shrugged at a confused Sora and Choko. It wasn't like he was getting involved with that mess either.
Choko's POV
"Ok...jeez Sonny, what kinda songs you got on this play list?"
"I don't even know, Sora." Skrillex-kun watched a song called "Happy Happy Joy Joy" flick by as Leia-hime scrolled through the selection, a vaguely unsettled expression on his face. "There's no point, just pick a song and we'll see what happens." Leia-hime settled on something called "Good Galaxy Mash Up", and Skrillex-kun smiled. "Well isn't that a song to start with."
Choko was confused until a fanfare jump started her ribbon, and she almost missed the beginning notes. Strings and winds flowed through her ears like wisps of electricity, and the swell of music was just so...so adventurous! Sighing dreamily, Choko idly made a perfect streak of notes, too wrapped up in the romance of the song; as a result, she saw the growing glitch as not an annoyance, but a threat to proper society. "Incoming!"
The song morphed from wide-eyed optimism into refined intensity, the Codebusters picking off notes to the war drums thrumming under their fingertips. In a crash of trumpets the glitch attacked, and Choko could hardly make out the natural song underneath the festering data. Leia-hime shrieked as a glitch popped like hot cola under her boot, and Choko narrowed her eyes. "This means war!"
She tilted her guitar and her ribbon exploded in blue, giving her the star power needed to cut through the glitch blocking her. Her points suffered as it was pretty much impossible to hit all the notes with her tiny four fingers, but by the time her power ended Sora-kun was cheering her name. "Keep it up princess!"
Choko smiled at Sora-kun; like Skrillex-kun he was much like an older brother who liked to go on merry adventures with her, albeit a cute one. Which was kinda weird, since it wasn't good form to find an older brother figure attractive, but between him and Megaman-sama and Leia-hime's dreamy brother Luke-san, Choko was having a rough time with this whole love thing. She decided to work off her petty frustrations and button mashed her guitar to beat back the glitches corrupting the song.
Said song dipped low into what her second party developed brain recognized as a variation on a legendary theme. The glitches caused the winds to screech and the drums to beat wildly out of tempo, but unlike the previous mess ups that made Choko irritated, this only fueled the flame in her gut. Molten, twisting and out of control, the song was everything she hated about the word "glitch". An error, a mistake, and something that touched on the lives of everyone present.
The glitching notes built upon themselves until Choko could hardly breathe, she was working her guitar so quickly. For a moment she thought she would drown in the angry noise, be lost to the inner turmoil, but then she heard Sora-kun whistling cheerfully along to the melody. Then Leia-hime and Honey-chan began to hum melodramatically, Bob-kun shuffling beat of the drums, and Skrillex-kun was grinning in her direction. "What do you think babydoll, think we got a chance?"
Choko exhaled, stress melting out of her frame like liquid taffy, and laughed in between making up nonsense lyrics with Skrillex-kun over the din of the racket she and her friends were making. They were going to fail miserably at this song, and the glitch was going to take more than one try to beat, but as long as they kept having fun, there was no way they were going to lose.
Leia's POV
Leia was no coward—she let the Stormtroopers have that dubious honor—but she felt a twinge of dread in her gut when she picked a song at random.
So far they had crawled through five songs, all worse than the last, and the glitch was putting up a terrific fight. The Force was very much strong in the mess that Guitar Hero spawned, and she was developing a phobia of light clusters. Which was a problem, because her game was more or less just light clusters blowing each other up.
Shaking that existential thought out of her head, Leia readjusted her guitar strap and hoped that whatever "HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA" was, it didn't involve insane emo screaming like the last one. At least Skrillex had the self awareness to blush at his...younger self's musical talents.
The song started with a cutesy synth drum lead up, but Leia dropped her guitar as the song properly began. "I am not prepared for this level of anarchy."
Notes fizzled in a rainbow of fabulous colors beneath her, but she couldn't bring herself to play. Bob was shaking by the sound booth while Judy was frozen with her mouth wide open, and the Codebusters were fumbling madly with the controls as they decided to not be responsive. Honey's left eye twitched, fifteen blue moons rose over the Death Stars back home, and Skrillex burst into laughter.
"And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed, just to get it all out," Sora gave up any pretense of being serious, hip thrusting with his guitar and flipping his hair with a flash of sparkles. "What's in my head, and IIIIHHH IIIIIIIIIHHHH...I feel a little peculiar~"
Choko fell to her knees in hysterics, beating on the notes with her guitar. Sora blew Leia a giant rainbow kiss, his Majestic Thunder glowing fabulously in a corner, and he screeched over the glitching song, "And so I wake in the morning and I step outside, and I take a deep breath and I get real high~"
"Not too high Sky Boy," Honey was choking on giggles stuck in her throat, "there's kids around!"
Sora threw out his hips and played his guitar behind his head, "And I scream from the top of my lungs, 'what's going on?'~" Leia watched as the song began to swell upwards, Skrillex yelling at a person named Joel for adding the song to his computer, and Leia braced herself. "And I say:"
"HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA~" Leia fell back as wave upon wave of music crashed into her ribbon, and she sputtered because the glitches tasted like Skittles and they had no reason to be so spectacular when they were trying to kill her.
"HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA~" Leia narrowed her eyes and strummed for her life, using every bit of Force training Luke and Darth Vader to keep herself grounded in the game. She couldn't be swept away by the madness, she was a girl on a mission and Guitar Hero was counting on her!
"I said HEY! WHAT'S GOING ON?~" Sora bowed towards Leia with a flourish, and she kinda wanted to smack him because this was serious, darn it! But then she saw how the glitches split down the middle with his motions, clearing enough regular notes for them to clear the song without failing miserably, and Leia shook her head. Leave it to the kid to figure out how to play the game.
Choko got the idea too, and the high pitched addition to the already off key duet vaporized both the glitches and the eardrums of everyone present. But Leia clashed through the mess with an acceptable score, and as Judy held up a breathlessly laughing Skrillex, Leia let herself chuckle, just a little. The song was pretty funny.
Sora's POV
Sora had no idea why Leia was being all uptight. This game was awesome!
Sure, the glitches were kinda annoying and they hurt when they dog piled you into submission, but what was cooler than playing guitars and saving a game at the same time? Choko knew how it was, she sang with him in the last 3 songs and even got Honey to join in in the last one. It was a Disney song, it was built into his programming to spread the love of Disney, and they became men in the face of the typhoon of glitching notes.
And little by little, they were defeating the broken programming with the power of rock. And friendship, laughter, love, all that mushy stuff that Kairi and Riku loved to wax poetic about. Heck, they're the reason why he could use "wax poetic" in a sentence, for crying out loud!
Sora blinked as Bob kicked a can of soda at his head. His hair deflected it because his hair was awesome, but what was he supposed to be doing...? Oh yeah, Bob was asking if he needed the girls from Vocaloid to give him singing lessons. Psh, as if! Roxas from their sequel game taught him how to both be a freaking rock star and be sucky on purpose, and Sora was of the firm opinion that if it could be so terrible it wrapped around to hilarious, it was better suited for the battle against the forces of heartless and stuff. So he was pretty sure it applied to here too.
Leia smacked him upside the head and oww. Choko was giggling into her hands, and she really needed to meet Namine cuz they would get along great; tapping his chin, Sora wondered how Namine was doing. Since Mr. Litwak added Kingdom Hearts II to the console room before he left, Sora sorta kinda morphed into the data for the Sora II and was both at the same time? It meant that he was the guy running around and kicking heartless butt during game play, and since there was only one PS2 he wasn't splitting his code to be in two places at once, which was a good thing.
Still, it showed the differences between console game data and regular arcade stuff; Honey said that her friend Classic Sonic was from a previous game and morphed into his current form but he was stuck to one game. Or was Sora just stuck to one console? They were releasing a new Kingdom Hearts for the PS3 and he was pretty sure that OWW.
"Sora, get your head out of your butt and into the game!" Sora rubbed his head as Leia primly stepped back into her own ribbon, and shook his head. He needed to focus, be all zen and whatever King Mickey told him would help keep him on track, and he was violently ignoring the looks that Skrillex and Bob were giving each other. "And the song is..."Sweet Victory" by some guy."
Gentle, epic piano spawned simple notes to pound with the guitar, and Sora appreciated the overblown lyrical style. Without his prompting Choko began to sing in the deepest voice her soprano range could manage, "The winner takes all..." Rain began to fall around them, and he could see the notes beginning to fall apart in the distance. "It's the thrill of one more kill, the last one to fall!"
Sora exhaled as his mind became crystal clear, and the only thing he could do was prepare himself for the chorus. He was hyper aware of Leia relaxing from her matronly stance, Honey grinning as she held her guitar like a sword, Bob leaning in with Judy, and Skrillex quietly singing along with Choko, "Will never sacrifice their will..."
The drums heralded the explosion, and Sora rode the waves of song with his friends. "Don't ever look back, on the world closing in! Be on the attack, with your wings on the wind!" Color blazed around them as the glitch was confronted with their synched power, and Sora yelled over the noise, "Oh the games will begin!"
Bob and Judy cheered as an audience spawned around them, and Sora could only throw his head back and face the glitch head on with his humble guitar. "And it's SWEET, SWEET...SWEET VICTORY, YEAH!"
Their voices melded into the music, surging forward to sublimate the false notes. The lyrics were cleansing the playing field, and speaking the truths of the Codebusters. It was theirs for the taking, it was theirs for the fight, and they were the last to fall in the face of program errors and corruption that would dare to try and destroy a game from the inside out.
Sora was a winner, he knew that in his code and his heart, and they were going to take it all!
His guitar morphed with his Majestic Thunder, blue code sweeping outwards to transform the other controllers into weapons of mass musical salvation. They all jumped in the air to tackle the final surge of glitching notes, and they crashed with drums pounding life into the crackling code of Guitar Hero. He spared a glance towards Leia, who was looking at him with eyes filled with pure awe and joy, and he grinned; she finally got it.
They slid forward on their knees in the throes of rocking out, the guitar solos ripping through the glitches and buckling the ribbons. Everything erupted in blue star power, everything was wonderful music, and the full might of Guitar Hero was unleashed onto the glitching error. Code opened up like flowers around them, Bob not needing to access the code well because everything was laid bare. The world healed around them as they did what they were programmed to do: fix games. The glitch was destroyed, power surged through their veins, and all six Codebusters bellowed the final lingering note of the song. "AND THE WINNER TAKES ALL..."
There was silence as the raging thunderstorm—when did that show up?—evaporated and they were allowed to catch their breaths. Silence...until the audience burst into cheers, screaming their names and making Sora blush. Judy planted a big wet kiss on Skrillex and Sora helped block the sight from Choko's impressionable eyes. Honestly, these people were taking this too seriously, they were just doing their job, no need for all this gross PDA!
Vanellope's POV
Vanellope sighed as the candy canes massaged her aching shoulders, lolling her head towards the Codebusters. Hey, she was on vacation too, and if they went off and had a mission without telling her first, then they were holding the debriefing in her relaxation room. "And—a little higher—you fixed the game completely?"
"Judy said that we actually made the game better, and told us that we were welcome any time." Skrillex and Choko were standing casually, as opposed to the other four who were giving the dark haired music maker significant looks. Suspicious...but Vanellope let it slide because massages were more important at the moment. Being a queen was tough, and she deserved all the royal perks that came with it.
Vanellope thunked her head on the table because she was getting off topic just like Marzipanne and while she loved Marzi, she couldn't afford to be a cloudcuckoolander when she was supposed to be doing her job. "Awesome. Thanks for fixing a game yadda yadda yadda you're a great asset to this arcade yadda yadda yadda now go away. Weren't you guys in Super Mario Sunshine?" Vanellope closed the curtains and relaxed back into the table.
"That's right!' Leia's voice bled through the sheer material. "If we leave now we can make our reservations at the hotel. Fruit parfait here I come." The Codebusters appeared to all leave, until Leia called out, "You coming Sonny?"
"I'll meet you there, I gotta do something first." Vanellope heard the others leave and listened to Skrillex pace quietly in the room. Vanellope pretended to snore—it wasn't hard to pretend, her candy cane men were really good at their jobs—and he waited for a few moments. "...ok Judy, you can come out now."
Judy? Vanellope heard someone with a larger mass than Skrillex collide with him, a punish yet girlish voice replying, "Was I that obvious?"
"Your dress and hair match the décor, I'll give you that, but I'd know you from anywhere." He sounded...not sad, but Vanellope struggled to pin the tone down.
She laughed in the same weird tone as him, and...Vanellope clamped her hand over her mouth to stop her squeak. She wasn't a girly girl like Choko or Marzi or Taffyta, but she knew that noise from anywhere. And for the love of vanilla ice cream, did they have to do...do that in her castle?!
They made a gross wet noise and eww, but then Skrillex was laughing a really sad laugh, and Vanellope motioned for the candy cane masseurs to slow down. "We can't do this anymore Jude, you told me so."
"I know..." She sighed really unhappy-like, and that wasn't what they were supposed to do. When you kissed someone you got married and were insufferably adorable like the Fix-Its, that was how love was supposed to work! Vanellope frowned as Judy continued, "This isn't fair to you or Johnny, I'm sorry."
"Don't be...it's fine." He paused, "It's not like I'm all that innocent either. But my friends kinda saw what you did after we fixed the game."
"Ah crap, and Honey's a gossiper, isn't she?"
"I think we're safe as long as...as long as this ends." Vanellope gasped, turning it into a snore because she wasn't going to blow her cover for anything! "You picked Johnny and I'm ok with that, and I don't know if you guys are getting back together next week or not or whatever it is that you two do, but...no more."
Judy sniffled and oh crud oh crud Vanellope was not having some random girl start crying in her castle because her weird love triangle didn't pan out. Vanellope was about to pretend to wake up and throw them out before Judy snorted in a much happier tone, "It wouldn't have worked out anyway, short order. You need a girl who can give you the time of day."
"And you need a guy who's smarter than a Minecraft pig." They both laughed in normal happy tones, and Vanellope silently exhaled in relief. "I gotta get back to Sunshine since you ruined my vacation, you punk. I'll see you later?"
"You bet, Sonny brat." They left the room talking about cheerful not awkward love stuff, and Vanellope stared at the cinnamon swirls in the marble beneath her.
She was glad she was too young to really understand this love business; Choko could deal with that mess on her own time. But still...she made a mental note to have Nilla gift the DJ Hero 2 cast with fresh pastries once the arcade opened again. Ralph said that pies always made those with love problems feel better—she wondered who, since Felix and Calhoun were soul mates and Ralph didn't know much other women that Vanellope knew of—and what kind of queen would let her number one Codebusters suffer from icky romance problems?
"Sirena Beach is so lovely, so worth the reservations."
"Wait, what's that in the water?"
"Sonny-kun, did the music just change?"
"Mantra rays!"
"Foking electric mantra rays on my foking vacation..."
"Sora! Bust out the boombox, our mission ain't over yet!"
IT'S DONE! IT'S FINALLY DONE! *dies of happiness*
Ok, onto the glitch. Guitar Hero Arcade is based off of Guitar Hero 3, and there is a song from that game that is impossible. Literally, there are so many notes that I think the guitar controller won't let you hit them all because there's too much input going in. I figured that one day, those insane notes got jumbled up in the song matrix of the game, and suddenly everywhere there were terrible, terrible glitching notes...I get flashbacks of it.
"Good Galaxy Mash Up" comes from Super Mario Galaxy, and is Good Egg Galaxy, Battlerock Galaxy, and Bower's Road strung together. "HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA" is...well, look that one up and imagine Sora singing to it. The last song featured is "Sweet Victory", and if you've seen Spongebob before, it's the ending song from Band Geeks. Look it up, it's hilariously 80s epic.
I brought in the other Codebusters! You like them? I tried to give them their own voices (Bob=only sane man, Leia=defrosting ice princess, Sora=...Sora) and I'd like feedback on how they did. If you liked them, maybe I could add them in again whenever I have a really tough time making a chapter.
Sora brings up my theory on console game characters. As anyone who has ever shared a game or has a used game knows, data is carried on the consoles, not the games themselves. Therefore, they live in the consoles and power strip, and whenever a sequel game on the same console shows up, identical characters morph together. Since they can't suffer from priority conflict (you can't play Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II on the same console at the same time), they more or less are perfectly fine. Different consoles have different people (if there are two PS2s with the same two KH games, it results in two different Soras), and sequels on different platforms don't have character morphing (the characters of the Super Smash Bros series don't morph together as each game is on its own console). It's a simple idea that takes a long time to explain XD
Skrillex's failed relationship with Judy Nails is a reference to his relationship with Ellie Goulding; both were wonderful together but it just didn't work out. Poor Vanellope had to listen to them, but don't worry: this is the last time that Judy plays such a big part in the story. Not that romance isn't going to be a part of this story of course (Honey and C. Sonic, anyone?).
Mr. Litwak's other nephew is George from a modern telling of Paperman. In the family tree I have, Stan Litwak has two brothers; one has two kids named George, an accountant who marries a nice girl named Meg, and, Sam who is a bartender. The other has three kids: housewife Theresa, game extraordinaire Toby, and little high schooler Tiffany. None of these people are gonna be big players like Toby Litwak, but George and Meg are nice excuse for this plot to happen. I also adore Paperman to death, so sue me.
...I don't have much to say other than that THANK JEEBUZ IT'S FINNALY OVER, so I hope you liked it? I didn't :(
