Title: Double Stripes

Summary: Vanellope crashes her kart and appears to have broken her leg.

Genre: Adventure/Family

Romantic pairings: None

It was a work-free night in Litwak's arcade. The skies in all of the games had switched from light to dark, the lights in the arcade were off, and everyone was asleep. Inside one of our favorite games, however, two well known characters were wide awake.

"You sure?" Ralph looked skeptically at his nine year old friend.

"Of course I'm sure!" Vanellope smiled, jumping up and down excitedly.

"Sure you're sure? You're already up way passed your bedtime." Ralph looked at the tiny girl. She was even already in her pajamas at that point in the night; a light pink long sleeved pajama top with the same color long pajama pants.

"SURE I'M SURE!" Vanellope now screamed. "Now, let's do this before next year! I wanna practice driving at night, ya know, so if I have to be anywhere I can get there okay without running into anything."

"Fine. Let's get it over with." Ralph sighed, sitting back on a small gumdrop. Vanellope squealed with excitement, scampering into her kart and starting it up. At first, her eyes not adjusted to the darkness, she ran into a few things, but nothing serious happened. After letting her eyes adjust properly, she flew off down the track, turning the corner rapidly. Her kart began to tip, and she swiftly tilted it upright again. The next corner, though, she wasn't so lucky. She rounded it, her kart tipping as it had done just moments before. This time, it tipped completely. It sent her and itself barreling down the slope on the edge of the course.

From the beginning of the course, Ralph heard a blood curdling scream. Immediately he jumped up.

Could that be Vanellope? Had to be. He began to panic. What had happened? Was she hurt? He began rushing towards the source of the screech.

"VANELLOPE!" He shouted. After rounding two corners, he spotted the overturned kart and heard loud sobbing from a small bit down the slope. He ran to Vanellope quickly.

"Are you okay?!" He questioned frantically. He looked at the crying girl. Her face was pale, her breathing heavy, and her double-striped leg was bent at an odd direction.

"Ow, Ralph…" She managed to say faintly between sobs. She tried to move, but it looked as though it caused her much pain. "I-It hurts….I think….It's broken…" Ralph looked to where she was gesturing. He kneeled beside her and removed her left shoe.

"Try and move your toes." He instructed. The girl did so, to no avail. Her foot remained still, and she began crying harder, shrieking with every effort.

"I-I can't." Vanellope whispered through tears.

"C'mon." Ralph carefully scooped the girl up off of the ground, careful not to move her left leg more than necessary. He hurriedly made his way to Game Central Station. Very few characters were there at that late hour. In fact, there were only seven. Ralph began to make his way to his game, Fix it Felix Jr. He was sure Felix could help. He boarded the old rickety train to Fix it Felix Jr.

"Ralph…" Vanellope moaned. Obviously she was tired, it was passed her bedtime anyways, and she must have been in tons of pain. "It hurts…." She winced as fresh tears came into her eyes.

"Shhh, I know it does." Ralph tried to speak soothingly. "We'll find a way to make it stop soon…" He exhaled slowly. What if they couldn't find a way? He pushed that thought out of his mind as soon as it entered his mind. Nothing was going to happen. The train finally reached their destination. Ralph slowly eased himself out of the vehicle, careful not to change Vanellope's position at all in fear of causing her more pain than what she was going through. He carefully rushed her up to the ninth floor of the Nicelander's apartment building and knocked on the hero's door.

"…Ralph?" Felix yawned, finally coming to the door. "What are you doing here at this hour?" He glanced at Ralph's arms. It took him a moment to noticed Vanellope. "Oh my goodness, is she alright?!"

"Her kart flipped while she was racing and now we think her leg is broken." Ralph was speaking rapidly, fear showing on his face. "Is there anything you can do?"

"Uhm….Well, maybe. Give her to me, and I'll see if they're anything I can do to help." Ralph quickly and cautiously put Vanellope into Felix's open arms. Vanellope gasped in pain as Felix got a hold of her.

"OWOWOWOWOWOW!" She sobbed, tears pouring from her eyes once more. Felix quickly laid the girl on the couch. After a moment, he pushed her pants' leg up and examined her leg. It looked pretty beat up; it was covered in bruises and was swollen. He took his hammer and lightly wacked Vanellope's leg. The bruises and everything immediately disappeared.

"It still feels the same…"Vanellope sobbed.

"Hm. I guess I can't fix that….Well hold on a second. One of my neighbors is programmed to be a doctor! I'll go fetch her, see what she can do. Stay right here." Felix left the room quickly, and soon returned with a Nicelander.

"Ralph, Vanellope, this is Dr. Rachel, and Jeremy, this is Ralph, you probably know him, and the little girl on the couch is Vanellope von Schweetz. Vanellope here has taken a little tumble and Ralph and I are a bit worried about her. She says her leg is hurting, and I couldn't fix the problem." Ralph stood back, trying not to show the worried look on his face.

"I see…" Rachel moved over next to Vanellope. "If you two would go out in ze hallway, zen zat would be fantastic." Both Ralph and Felix exited the room.

They waited. And waited. And waited. Finally, the door opened.

"Her leg iz definitely broken." Rachel said loudly. "She haz a cast, and will bez having to take zese pain medicationz daily. Here iz her prescription and everyzing you need to know." Ralph peered around Rachel to look at Vanellope. She was asleep, and somehow, someway, Rachel had gotten her leg in a cast. How that was even possible, is still unknown. And why the girl did not need to stay in a hospital is unknown as well.

"Thank you for all your help." Ralph said to the short woman.

"No problemz, just don't bozer me again." Rachel made her way back to her apartment. Ralph went and lifted Vanellope off of the couch.

"You sure you don't need anything else?" Felix said kindly.

"I'm sure. Thank you for everything, I don't know how I could repay you." Ralph said quietly, careful not to speak to loudly and wake Vanellope.

"Oh, don't mention it. I was happy to help. Glad she was okay. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get some shut eye. You two take care, okay? Get me if anything goes wrong or comes untwisted. Goodnight!"

"Thank you again, Felix." Ralph walked out of the apartment, closing the door behind him.

~Magical time skip of doom. YAY, DOOM! :D~

After arriving back at the Sugar Rush castle and putting Vanellope to bed, Ralph decided to stay the night in case Vanellope woke up and needed anything. And tomorrow there was no work, anyways.

"Ralph?" Vanellope's weak voice said, "Are you staying?"

"Yup. You're hurt pretty bad." Ralph spoke softly, "I didn't think it was a good idea to leave you here alone."

"Thanks…For everything." Vanellope mumbled, drifting back to sleep. "Goodnight…dad …" Her voice was soft and you could tell that she had drifted to sleep when she said it, but it melted Ralph's heart right away.

"Goodnight, my little feather brained nutcase." He smiled. He could've sworn he heard a light giggle.

So, there we are!

As for future chapters, I will try to post at least one chapter every two days.

Except for this upcoming weekend. I won't be able to use the internet, so no chapters from Friday to Sunday. Sorry, guys!

Anyways, please comment!