Chapter 6: Fixing Candace's Code
Turbo led Candace to the castle. Once they were there, they went inside.
"Do you know what a Code Room is?" Turbo asked.
Candace shook her head.
"No. What exactly is a Code Room?" Candace asked.
"It's a room where all of the codes of the game are kept, such as the codes to the characters, the maps, the items, and so on. Every game has one." Turbo replied.
Turbo brought Candace into the throne room and led her to the Code Room. He opened the door for them by inputting the Konami Code and tied a licorice rope around his waist before he grabbed another licorice rope and turned to Candace.
"Are you ready, Candace?" Turbo asked, handing Candace the licorice rope.
Candace nodded.
"I'm ready." Candace replied.
Candace tied the licorice rope around her waist, and the two of them made their way into the Code Room. It took a little help from Turbo for Candace to get used to floating, but she slowly worked her way towards the mass of lights. Candace floated past boxes and wires, reading off some of the names of the various characters, tracks, features, and karts, and then she turned to Turbo.
"Why did you bring me here?" Candace asked in confusion.
"Candace, you are a glitch, right?" Turbo asked.
Candace nodded.
"Yeah." Candace replied.
"Well, like I said before, I'm going to fix you so your not a glitch anymore. I know code better then anyone, and I can definitely repair your code." Turbo replied.
"You can?" Candace asked.
Turbo nodded.
"I can do better then that. I'll make you complete. It should be really easy for me to do that because I'm an expert in hacking codes." Turbo replied.
Candace smiled.
"Thank you." Candace said.
Turbo smiled.
"No problem, Candace. Now let's find your code box." Turbo said.
Turbo and Candace then started looking for Candace's code box. They paid no attention to the main connection because they looked for anything that was separated from the rest of the codes. Turbo knew that Candace's code box wouldn't be part of the main complex because she was a glitch, and he told Candace about that. So they started to look in the blank space that surrounded the different codes. After two minutes, Turbo and Candace she saw one speck of color in the darkness. The two of them propelled themselves to move towards it, and when they got close to it, they saw that it was Candace's code box, and they could clearly see how it was her code box.
Candace's code box was crackling with electricity, and the name on the code box was scrambled, the letters being replaced with numbers and different symbols. It was like watching Q*bert rant. Turbo reached a hand out and tapped twice on the code box, but before the code box opened, there was a surge, and Turbo felt his hand getting shocked, and the pixels in his arm glitched red for a few seconds before returning to normal. Turbo hissed at the pain in his arm, grabbing it with his other hand. He looked back at the open code box and noticed that there wasn't much inside of it. Several parts of the code box were missing and everything looked poorly held together with the pixels constantly disrupting before reconfiguring. Turbo got a determined look before getting to work on fixing Candace's code box. However, ten minutes later, Turbo was still working. Candace was starting to get impatient, and she spoke up.
"I thought you said that this would be a piece of cake!" Candace said.
"Well, I might have lied! Your code box is incomplete and missing some parts, so I have to create new parts to put in their place. There are also some corrupted codes that I've never dealt with before. It may take me a while to figure them out, but it's not that bad. I just have to separate the corrupted files from the regular data. After that, it should be easy." Turbo replied.
Candace nodded and continued to wait while Turbo continued fixing her code box. After another ten minutes, Turbo pressed a button that closed the code box.
"Done!" Turbo announced.
Candace's code box gave off a bright light for a moment. When the light faded, the code box seemed normal. The letters were fine, and the code box wasn't crackling with electricity. Candace noticed that, but she didn't feel any different.
"Did it work?" Candace asked in confusion.
"Well, I think I have the answer to that." Turbo replied.
Turbo reached his hand out towards Candace's arm. However, when he placed his hand on her shoulder, it didn't go through her, and she didn't glitch.
"Yes, it worked. Your not a glitch anymore." Turbo replied.
Candace smiled.
"That's great. Anyway, we should get going and find the others." Candace said.
Turbo nodded.
"Right." Turbo said.
Turbo then led Candace out of the Code Room and closed the door.
Meanwhile, outside of Sugar Rush, Candi was making her way through Game Central Station. After breaking out of the fungeon, she had decided to leave Sugar Rush and find a game that would have something that could help her take over Sugar Rush. And since none of the game characters knew about Anton possessing Candi and making her attack Vanellope, Taffyta, Rancis, and Crumbelina during the Random Roster Race, they didn't mind her as she walked through Game Central Station. As she walked, Candi thought about what things she could use from the other games in order to take over Sugar Rush.
"Let's see. What could I use from another game to take over Sugar Rush?" Candi wondered.
Eventually, Candi came across Hero's Duty. She got an idea.
"Hey, those are where those Cy-Bugs are. If I can reprogram some of them to obey me, then I can have them multiply and take over Sugar Rush." Candi thought.
Candi then entered the Hero's Duty game portal.