A/N: Alright, general question for the readers. Would you like longer chapters? Or fast updates? Longer chapters means that you'd get more content per chapter, but you might not get a chapter for a couple of days. Fast updates means I'll definitely update once a day, but the chapters will only be 700-1k words.
Think about it and let me know in reviews?
Chapter 2: DDR
Ralph... didn't like DDR very much. He was a peaceful sort of guy who didn't care much for loud pop songs that encouraged the type of dancing they did in Dance Dance Revolution. He rather fancied himself as the type of guy who liked Blues, or maybe Smooth Jazz. Not that he listened to music all that often, unless the jukebox that provided background noise at Tapper's counted.
"I should start listening to music more." Ralph resolved mentally. It might be difficult to find anything he'd like to listen to in an arcade, being that most of the music for the games were supposed to be annoying and attention getting, but he meant to attempt it... Whenever he found the time.
The inside of DDR was a very loud dance club. The tiled floor lit up with various blinking colors, there were raised platforms that had even more dancers on them and in the very back there seemed to be a bar of some sort. This was the kind that played songs that had a definite beat to them to encourage the movement of feet. Ralph had to wonder if anyone else had trouble hearing themselves think in there.
It took some effort to get past the self appointed 'bouncer' at the tunnel.
"ExCUSE me! Don't you know who I AM?" Vanellope asked, sounding highly offended.
"Uh..." The bouncer hesitated.
"Only THE Vanellope Von Shweetz, princess of the number one racing game Sugar Rush." Ralph offered helpfully.
"And if we're not let in immediately then I shall be very cross with you sir." Vanellope declared. "And I might have to have my associate get... unpleasant."
Ralph tried to look menacing instead of gormless. By the look on the bouncers face he wasn't really doing a good job.
The bouncer didn't look convinced, but let them through anyway. Probably just so they'd stop bothering him.
They wandered around the game for a bit, or more correctly Ralph stumbled around through people while Vanellope bounced and danced and 'grooved' in a wide circle around him. Finally Ralph spotted Yuni near the back at a table discussing something with a blue haired girl. He carefully made his way over there.
As Ralph made his way over to the back table the two occupants turned their attention to him. He was hard to miss in this crowd.
"He~ey, Wreck-It Ralph." Yuni said cheerfully. Ralph paused at that. He wasn't expecting her to actually know who he was.
"Uhh... Hey there Yuni." He said.
"What brings you all the way over here?" You had to cross three wires to get to Dance Dance Revolution from where Wreck-It Ralph was on the grid. So this was a completely legitimate question.
"Well, actually I had a favor to ask you." Ralph admitted.
Yuni just stared at him for a bit while he fidgeted under the confused stare.
"Me?" Yuni asked finally.
"Well, if you're busy then just anyone from DDR would do it. I just thought..." Ralph trailed off.
Yuni nodded in understanding. She was the delegate for her game. The one character that everyone knew from exposure. A 'main character' as it were. The one that people knew the disposition of and talked to if they wanted to know something that that game cabinet might know.
"I'm not too busy I guess. What did you need?" Yuni asked.
"Well this friend of mine..." Ralph started to gesture to Vanellope. He looked down around his feet and realized Vanellope wasn't within a certain radius. "Where'd she go?"
"Who?" Yuni gave him a puzzled look.
"Vanell-" Ralph stopped as he spotted her on one of the higher dancing platforms. He smacked his face as he saw some of the ridiculous moves she was making.
"Hold that thought." Ralph said to Yuni as he held his palms out. He rushed off towards the platform.
Vanellope was bouncing around with as much energy one could expect from a sugar-buzzing 9 year old. Ralph waved his arms about, making them just about eye level for her, trying to get her attention. He hopped around under the platform trying to keep up with the movements of her head.
After a minute of this he was getting fed up.
"Vanellope!" Ralph shouted.
"Ralph!" Vanellope answered in sing-song as she continued to bounce around.
Ralph growled and put his hands down. He turned around and nearly ran into Yuni, who had apparently followed him.
"So whose this?" She asked Ralph as she pointed to Vanellope.
"She's a friend of mine. She's from Sugar Rush." Ralph explained.
Yuni just nodded as if that explained everything. Ralph grunted when Vanellope, realizing that Ralph was no longer paying attention to her, jumped onto his shoulders. Yuni led them back to the table again.
"Sugar Rush is going through an upgrade soon," Ralph explained.
"I heard about that. Congratulations." Yuni said.
"Yeah. The thing is, it's their first one." Ralph went on. "And some of them were getting kind of nervous about it."
"Ooooh. So you want a run down of what's going on?" Yuni asked Vanellope.
"Well, since I'm the president of Sugar Rush we really thought that it was my responsibility to get the low down on this whole thing. I heard you were the gal to talk to." Vanellope said wisely.
"Well. I can't think of another game that gets updated as much as this one." Yuni agreed.
"Have a seat and I'll tell you all I can."
A/N: Alright, explanations are next.
Review Response:
MiniMoose: Expectations? Nooooooooo! Ah well, I can only hope that I don't disappoint them so badly that you stop reading.
BoredParanoia: Y'know... I don't think I know anyone who doesn't feel ridiculous on a DDR. Even the people I know who are pretty good at it are like "I feel ridiculous when I'm doing that."
