CHAPTAH STARTO!

Quick Note: Ray knows exactly what's going to happen because he was told in Chapter 2 and Ralph filled in the blanks when they started dating.

Chapter 10

Future Shocks

Ray sat on the pile contemplating where the piece was.

"It's where you left it... inside of Ralph." Gabrielle's voice rang through his mind.

"Only Ralph can see you here so... yeah... have fun with that." She left as quickly as she came.

"All righty then... To Bad-Anon!" Ray threw his codeboard down and streaked towards Pac-Man.

Ray walked in just as Ralph was asked why he came to Bad-Anon.

"I don't want to be the bad guy anymore." Ralph stated as he put his hands on his sides.

To say that the villains freaked out would be an understatement.

Bowser threw up fire, Satine fell out of his chair and Clyde turned blue for a few seconds.

"Are you going turbo, Ralph?" Clyde inquired as he went back to his normal orange palette.

"What?! NO! Is it turbo to want something more from life?"

Ray froze when he heard that sentence and flashed back to the first day of his senior year.

Ray walked down an empty hall to his first period when he sees his boyfriend Dimitri picking on Chad.

"What's your problem? He didn't do anything to you!"

"Well he did correct me in class, so now I'm correcting his face." Ray pulled him to the side and whispered in his ear.

"What's with picking on my best friend?! I thought you promised to stop that?!"

"Well you didn't have that problem with all the other nerds I picked on?"

"Well I should've! Ever since we started dating I've let you get away with a lot of shit and that stops here. We're done!"

Ray shoved Dimitri into the lockers and walked towards Chad.

"You okay?"

"I've been better. What was that all about?"

"Nothing. I'm going to class." Ray shuffled past the two and kept on walking.

"What was that?!" Ray heard someone shout from inside of Bad Anon.

"I just had a weird vision. It looked like a kid's love life falling apart."

"Weird... He saw that?" Ray thought to himself as he rode his codeboard to Tapper's.

He sat in the corner and waited for Ralph to enter knowing he frequented Tapper's a lot before they dated.

About an hour later, Ralph strolled in with a look of desperation on his face and headed straight for Tapper.

"I know you have to know something about winning a medal." Ralph pleaded to Tapper as he cleaned a glass.

"Check the lost and found. Maybe someone left a medal."

Ralph dashed for the box and Ray followed close behind.

After finding a mushroom, an exclamation point and Zangief's unmentionables *shudders* It seemed as if Ralph was out of options.

But a soldier from Hero's Duty brought forward one last-ditch effort.

"Hey, you could always try Hero's Duty."

"You again?! Look I... did you say medal?"

"Yeah! There's a big, shiny one!"

"Thanks, kid!"

"It's Raiden! But you can call me Ray."

"Ray..."

As if from nowhere, Ray was pushed forward in time by about 5 hours.

He was in Sugar Rush, and Ralph was holding up Sour Bill and threatening him with being eaten.

"And that's all I know. I swear. Now please don't put me back in your filthy mouth again!"

"It's not that bad..." Ray thought as he flashed back to his first kiss with Ralph.

"Thank you, now stick around!" Ralph barked as he stuck Sour Bill to a lollipop tree.

"Better break her highness out!" Ray hopped on his codeboard and dashed towards the castle.

Ray slipped through the bars and broke one of Vanellope's restraints.

"What are you doing?! Who are you?!"

"I'm Ray and Ralph will be here any minute to break you out so you can reset the game."

"He didn't want me to race and he was just using me!" Vanellope barked back as she pouted.

"He only did what he did because King Candy warped his mind. And you are a part of the game, your memories are just locked until you cross the finish line."

"Whoa..."

"Now I've gotta go!" Ray shot out of the room as Ralph bursted in with her cart.

Again, Ray was swallowed up by time and placed back in the middle of the Cybug invasion.

"How do I get my piece again?" Ray asked the sky hoping Gabriel was listening.

"You need to kiss Ralph for the transfer to occur, but first you must save him from Turbo! It's your duty as a Codemaster!"

"He might not like that... but ok!" Ray hopped on his codeboard and spotted Ralph on Calhoun's hoverboard aiming for Diet Cola Mountain.

"The beacon! Codemaster! I'm gonna wreck it!" Ray donned his armor as he bolted towards Ralph.

"Code Card! Thunder Blasters!" Ray barked as he spawned the blasters to his hands.

He shot down all cybugs that got to close to Ralph with high-speed precision.

Ralph started to wreck the Mentos on top of the mountain before he was knocked away by a mutated Turbo.

"Get away from him!" Ray shouted as he shot at Turbo causing him to fall back.

Ray checked his gauntlet for his stats.

"Looks like he's a Big 4 member of the past... Nice!"

"Who dares to stop the great Turbo from taking Sugar Rush for himself?" He bellowed, unable to see Ray.

"Cut the crap! I know the League gave you this power! Prepare to die!" Ray charged Turbo guns blazing, but was thrown back by his claws.

"Nngh... Ralph! I need you!"

"Why?"

"You have something I need!" Ray dashed over to Ralph, pulled down his visor and planted a kiss right on his lips.

Ralph was startled, but melted into the kiss anyways.

As he pulled away, Ray began to glow.

"X Mode... I'm complete again!" Ray crushed the card and the generic-looking X's graced his armor.

"Let's go for a lift!" Ray grabbed Ralph and Turbo and jumped into the air.

"Ralph! Wreck the ceiling and stop this madness. I'll see you in a bit."

"OK, Ray!" Ralph dropped down as Ray got ready to end Turbo.

"X-Drive! Thunder Essence!" He charged Turbo and dealt a punch to his face.

"Never touch my boyfriend again!" Ray uppercutted Turbo as the beacon activated.

"Have a nice game over!" Ray shouted as he threw him into the light ending his game.

"All is well..." Ray floated down to the track and his armor disappeared. At this point, Ralph was saying goodbye to Vanellope.

"Ralph!" Ray shouted as he ran over to him.

"Look... about the thing on the mountain. I..." Ray was cut off by a pair of soft lips.

"It's ok." Ralph whispered as he pulled him into a hug.

"Come here." Ray pulled Ralph behind the rafters.

"Well here's the thing. I'm kind of from the future, and I have to go back, but we'll see each other again. Just so you know, in the future, we end up dating. Something to look forward to." Ray took a step back and waved Ralph off.

"See you in 2 years!" Ray disappeared, not leaving a trace.

"Ralph? What was that? You were just talking to thin air." Vanellope stated from behind him.

"No I wasn't... Or was I?"

Ray woke up in Ralph's bed but Ralph was nowhere in sight.

"Ralph! Where are you?!" He ran outside to find no one in the game at all.

"GCS!" Ray teleported to the station to find everyone staring into a hole in the wall.

"RAY!" Sarah shouted as she ran up to Ray.

"Ashton broke a hole in the station and is launching an attack on Litwak!"

"What?! He must've done it while I was out! Let's go! Codemaster! I'm gonna wreck it!"

"Codemaster! Kick it up!" They donned their armor and hopped out of the hole.

They came out right in the middle of the arcade.

"Where's Litwak?!" They got their answer as a cry was heard from outside.

"Let's go!" They ran out to find Shadow Wrecker attacking Litwak in golden armor.

"Let's see if this works out here. X Mode Activate!" His card morphed the armor and he charged S. Wrecker.

"Get back!" Ray bashed him into a building and took a stance to protect Litwak.

"Ray... Where'd you go?"

"I had to find myself. Where's Justin?"

"He's patching the hole in the teleporter room."

"Let's send him back where he came from!"

Ray grabbed the unconscious wrecker and threw him back into the hole.

Just as they did, the hole closed and their armor disappeared.

"What? Why'd our armor go away?" Sarah queried as she walked into the teleporter room.

"Allow me to explain." Justin butted in from behind them.

"When Ashton tore a hole into our reality, he enabled the codes of the game characters to exist here, and when we closed the portal, your armor disappeared because it's code as well."

"Makes sense." Ray rebutted as he walked over to Justin.

"Is it possible to take game characters out without making a hole?"

"Well yeah... but why would you want to... ooooooh!"

"Yeah."

"I'll get to work on that right away."

"Ray..." Sarah threatened as Ray teleported into Fix-it Felix.

"Ralph!" Ray yelled as he walked into the hut.

"Babe! What'd I say about you yelling every time you come in the house?!" Ralph barked as he entered the living room from his bedroom.

"Sorry. I was worried about you." Ray replied as he ran up to Ralph and hugged him tight.

"It's okay."

"Now... Where are my Cheetos?" Ray inquired as he walked into the kitchen.

"Same old Ray... Thinking with his stomach." Ralph thought to himself as he followed his love to the pantry.

Whew... that was a lot. Next Chapter is my Christmas Chapter!

R.E.V.I.E.W.- Responsive Enlightenment of Views Importantly Expressed to the Writer

Preview: Christmas is 2 weeks away and Ray wants to spend it with Ralph, but his family is getting together at his aunt's house and he's expected to be there. Even if Justin's invention works, he still has to come out to his family. Will he be able to do it, or will this be a very scary Christmas due to an attack by Ashton? STAY TUNED!