"WHAT?! What do you mean Bubblina was kidnapped?!" Jerry yelled in shock at Barry. Right after the blue OC had broken into his sister's room and seen the prayer slip on the floor, he had immediately called her boyfriend. Jerry had come right over to the Bubblegum sibling's home at the mention of his girlfriend getting kidnapped by a psychopath.

Barry was pacing back and forth around the room while Jerry stood next to him. They were waiting for President Vanellope to show up and help them figure out how to find her. "I have no clue where she could have taken Bubblina to." Barry said to Jerry as they waited.

Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. They both went to see who it was and Jerry opened it, revealing a half awake and somewhat annoyed, Vanellope. "Why did you two wake me from my sleep again?" The president asked in a groggy voice while rubbing her eyes.

"My sister has been kidnapped, Vanellope; I believe I know who the culprit is." Barry explained, holding up the prayer slip for her to see.

She snapped awake right away upon seeing the Japanese card of the fearsome fighter. Vanellope had had an unfortunately close encounter with the Japanese girl that she rather she didn't relive. "Show me where it happened." Vanellope instructed them, now knowing how serious this was. Both boys led the president to where Sakura had captured the pink sibling.

The room Bubblina had been sleeping in was a little cluttered from her earlier struggles to escape Sakura. The rug had been messed up a bit from where she had been thrown to the floor and some of her bed sheets were pulled off. "I woke to her screaming and tried to get in, but Sakura jammed the door somehow." Barry explained as they entered to look for more evidence.

"And when you came in here, she was gone?" Vanellope finished what the blue sibling had started explaining. The president gazed out the now open window, in hopes that she could see any kind of evidence nearby, but she didn't.

Jerry, however, spotted something on Bubblina's bed. He walked over to the half destroyed bed and saw that it was a plain, white, letter, folded in half. Upon picking it up, a small strand of blonde hair fell out. Jerry let out a gasp that got the attention of the other two avatars. Barry recognized the hair as fast as Jerry did. Bubbles' brother took the note and gave it a read over before lowering his head in anger.

Both of Barry's fists were clenched up and he started to tremble. "No…" Was all he could say. "NOOO!" Barry suddenly punched his fist through the bedroom wall and seethed in fury. When he removed his fist, it had made a giant hole. Jerry grabbed the note from the older brother and looked it over with Vanellope.

Bubblestein:

"Meet me in Mortal Kombat 2's Dead Pool. Bring your A-game, you will be tested. Fail to show up ten minutes before the arcade opens, and she dies."

Jerry's eyes widened with horror at what he had just read. "No no no, this isn't happening right now. This is NOT happening right now." Jerry tried to calm himself down. Inside however, he was just as furious as Barry was.

"We have to get to Mortal Kombat 2 before it's too late." Barry turned to his friend. However, all he saw was Jerry looking at the floor in anger, trying to keep from completely losing it and attacking someone.

Jerry looked up at Barry and the older brother saw the fire that was in his eyes. "Where is it?" He asked quietly, full of rage. "She's gone too far." That she had. If kidnapping Bubblina was enough to make a pacifist snap and fight back, then she had completely stepped over the line according to Jerry.

"Barry, you and Jerry go to Mortal Kombat 2. I'll stay here and make an announcement in case they didn't leave Sugar Rush after all." Vanellope instructed the two boys. They nodded and ran out of the house for the exit of Sugar Rush.

At the castle, all the racers were gathered in the courtyard to hear what Vanellope had to say. Some of them were still half asleep, some were annoyed to be woken at such an hour, while others, were concerned with what the issue might be. "Why did you wake me up, president?" Candlehead asked in a tired tone, rubbing her eyes.

Vanellope stood before the group and spoke into the microphone, causing everyone who was half asleep to jolt awake and cover their ears from the booming voice of the teal leader. "I have urgent and unfortunate news." She began as the racers got use to the loud voice. "Bubblina Gumdrop, Barry Bubblestein's sister, has been kidnapped."

All the avatars gasped in shock at the news. "Do you know who it was?" Jubileena, who was still in her night gown, asked. Vanellope just held up the prayer slip, and that was enough to make everyone's eyes widen with fear. They knew who Minty Sakura was and what she did for a living.

"Enough proof?" Vanellope asked the cherry racer. Jubileena shook her head yes and allowed her to continue on. "According to a letter she left, Sakura has taken Bubblina to Mortal Kombat 2." Vanellope carried on with her explanation.

"What's the big deal, anyway?" Taffyta's obviously annoyed voice was heard among the rest of the racers. That's when everyone stopped and turned to deliver the platinum blonde an unhappy glare. Taffyta shrunk down when she saw a dozen or so angry eyes telling her she said the wrong thing. "He he…I-I mean, what's the big deal because we're all going to pitch in and get Bubbles back in no time." She recovered; nervously laughing as everyone slowly stopped glaring poison at her and turned back to Vanellope.

The president decided to ignore what Taffyta had said first and move on. Now wasn't the time for arguing with her, despite how difficult Taffyta could be at times to deal with. "Anyway, we'll divide ourselves into two groups of five. One group will go and ask the Surge Protector if Sakura entered any other game in an attempt to trick up Barry and Jerry; while the other will group will stay here in Sugar Rush with me in case they are still here."

The ten subjects that stood before Vanellope all nodded and ran to do their jobs. As the groups broke apart and went on their ways, the teal leader looked to the entrance of Sugar Rush. "Please bring her back guys." She quietly said to herself, wishing Jerry and Barry good luck.

The two boys, along with five of the other racers, entered Game Central Station after hopping off of the train that connected it to Sugar Rush. The group of five went around to various gateways to games and started questioning each Surge Protector that appeared if they had seen a girl come into the game with a girl tied up over her shoulder. "They're wasting their time." Barry said out loud as he watched them.

"Give me a weapon."

The blue OC turned to see Jerry, still as angry as he was when he had read the note. Barry had cooled down a little bit and regained enough sense to think clearly. Jerry however, was still looking like he was about to explode if he didn't find Sakura soon. Barry was shocked that Jerry, a pacifist of all things, wanted a weapon from him. "You offered me one earlier. I said give me A WEAPON!" The gummy racer screamed, his anger starting to leak out.

Barry quickly got the message and used his wrist band to spawn him a Phosphora Bow from Kid Icarus: Uprising. He had offered Jerry a weapon back in chapter one of the fic, it just took getting his girlfriend kidnapped to make him want one. Jerry took the bow and nodded; with that, the two of them headed to where Mortal Kombat 2 was located.

The gory fighting game was located as far from Sugar Rush as possible for good reasons. Mortal Kombat was one of the most violent bloodbaths of a game to hit Litwak's Arcade; certainly a far cry from the child friendly kart racer that Sugar Rush was. The two boys eventually found their way to the fighting game and hopped on the train. "How long until…Sakura's deadline?" Jerry asked, choking up a bit on the last part. He didn't want to think of all the torturous ways Bubblina could meet her end in this game.

Barry looked at the time on his wristband. With his sister having Insomnia, it was handy to always have how long it was until the arcade opened. "We have thirty minutes before the arcade opens, meaning we have twenty until Sakura's deadline." The older sibling explained as the train sped to its destination.

"Barry, what is the Dead Pool?" Jerry asked, part of him not wanting to know the answer.

The second boy hesitated before deciding to tell Jerry what it was. "The stage is a strip of solid ground on a pool of acid." He told Bubblina's boyfriend. Barry decided to leave out the part where the victims of that place would be chain to a meat hook and lowered in slowly. Jerry went a little pale and calmed down a bit at the thought of Bubblina being thrown into acid. The two of them were fairly silent the remaining trip to the game.

Once the train had pulled in to the game's terminal, Barry and Jerry got off right away and started to head for the Dead Pool. Unfortunately for them, it was located on the other side of the game. The two of them had to go through the game's other stages to reach their destination. They were walking through the Living Forest when Jerry decided to test out the bow Barry had given him. Jerry held it up and fired it at one of the trees; the bow fired off a short stream of fast, lightning arrows.

"Just remember, bows can be used for ranged fighting or split into blades for close combat." Barry explained to Jerry how the bow worked. Jerry nodded and the continued towards where Sakura, and hopefully Bubblina, would be.