A/N: Things are getting sugar high in the Arcade, huh? Get it? Sugar high? Ha, ha, ha. Ah well, but seriously, something strange is going on in Sugar Rush. Not only that, but it's doomsday for the candy-coated go-kart game for it's about to be invaded by Cybugs.
World: The Arcade
Ralph, Felix Jr. and I hurried back to Sugar Rush. We figured King Candy is at his castle as usual. However, once we arrived, the Heartless are appearing all around.
Me and Ralph strike down the Heartless while Felix Jr. stays behind at a safe distance. He is meant for fixing, not for fighting. I have a strange feeling King Candy has something to do with the Heartless, he knows what we're up too and he's trying to hold us back.
We finally make it to the castle. I banging on the chocolate door like mad. "Open up King Candy! We know you're in there!" I shout. Just then, the door opens. Only it's not King Candy who answers, it's Sour Bill. "Where's King Candy?"
"At the track. The race's about to begin." Sour Bill says.
"Then explain something to us." I say. "If Vanellope was never meant to exist, then why is her picture on the side of the game console?"
"Uh..." That's all Sour Bill says for a while, then he bolts, making a run for it.
At maximum range, Ralph grabs him and holds Sour Bill close to his face, giving him an interrogation look. "What's going on in this candy-coated heart of darkness?" Ralph says.
"I don't know." Sour Bill says.
"Talk!" I bark at Sour Bill.
"No!" Sour Bill says with pride.
"We'll lick you." I threaten him.
"You wouldn't." Sour bill says.
"Ralph?" Ralph gives Sour Bill a big lick in his face.
"Ugh! Oh that's like sandpaper." Sour Bill says.
"Hmm...I wonder how many licks it'll take to get to your center." Ralph says in a threatening tone.
"I'll take it to my grave!" Sour Bill says.
I shrug my shoulders. "You heard him."
Ralph puts Sour Bill in his mouth. Sour Bill muffles and shouts inside Ralphs mouth. Ralph swirls Sour Bill around in his mouth, then he gets a shock like something attacked him. "Whoa! They call you 'Sour Bill' for a reason." He says muffled.
This goes on for the next five minutes.
"Spit him out." I say, and that's what Ralph does. Spits Sour Bill into his hand. "Had enough?"
"Okay! Okay! I'll talk." Sour Bill says scared. "Vanellope was a racer until King Candy tried to delete her code."
We're all completely shocked to hear that. "He tried to delete her code?" Felix Jr. says.
"So that's why she's a glitch." Ralph says. "Why is he doing this?"
"I don't know." Sour Bill says.
"Suit yourself. Ralph?" I say.
Ralph starts to put Sour Bill back in his mouth, then stops as Sour Bill speaks. "No, no, no! No! I swear I really don't know! He literally locked our memories as well. I can't remember anything, no one can. But I do know this: He'll do anything to prevent Vanellope from racing. Because once she crosses that finish line, the game will reset and she'll no longer be a glitch. I swear, that's all I know." he's now begging like crazy. "Now please don't put me back in your filthy mouth!"
This is the first time I've ever seen this cough drop. Ralph sticks Sour Bill to the wall of the castle. "Stick around." He says.
"I will. Oh I'll most certainly well." Sour Bill says with relief.
We gather together. "We need to find Vanellope and get to that race." I say.
We hurry to Diet Cola Mountain for Vanellope. The Heartless are the only things that are standing in our way. We don't have time for this. I start using my powerful abilities to help speed up the process: Shadow Dash, Ars Arcanum, Ragnarok. And for AOE attacks, Magnega then Explosion, Mega Flare or Gaia-Explosion.
We finally reach Diet Cola Mountain. There, we see Vanellope outside, with her go-kart being smashed by the Hammer Frame Heartless.
"Stop it!" Vanellope demands.
I rush right in with my Keyblade held out and slash the Heartless in one single blow.
We all look at Vanellope's go-kart, it's damaged, beyond repair. Vanellope walks to it and sinks onto her knees. "My...go-kart."
"Oh kid." Ralph looks at Felix. "Felix. Can you fix it?"
Felix Jr. takes out his golden hammer. "I can fix it!"
Felix Jr. bangs the go-kart all around with his magic hammer. What I expect it to damage it even more, instead it repairs the parts he hits with his hammer. In a minute, the go-kart is instantly repaired.
Vanellope is pretty amazed. "Wow! It's good as new!"
I cross my arms, slightly smiling. "I'll admit, that's impressive."
Just then, trumpets starts playing. We all turn to the direction to see the race from a far distance. King Candy's announcement goes on. It's fainted, but we can tell it's about the race.
"The race is starting! Let's go! Move it!" I demand.
Ralph gets on Vanellopes Go-kart and Felix Jr. hitches a ride on my Hoverbike, and we all took off at high speed. We didn't run into any Heartless on the way, even if we did, I would have taken them out.
At the race, King Candy and the other racers, the Heartless, are lining up. The countdown lights light up, all in red, until the last one, which is in green, turns on and all of the racers bolts into the tracks. We arrived on track, meters from the starting line.
"We're too late!" Felix Jr. says.
"We can still catch up." I say.
"Okay, remember. You don't have to win. Just cross that finish line and you'll be a racer." Ralph says.
"Oh, I'm already a racer!" Vanellope says. We all stop right in front of the starting line, Felix Jr. and Ralph hops off. "And I'm gonna win!"
Ralph and Felix Jr. smiles at Vanellopes convince. "I'm going with Vanellope incase of any Heartless." I say. "Let's do this!" Vanellope and I takes off, starting our race. "Just stay close to me, kid!"
"Only if you can keep up." Vanellope says, accelerating.
We race with all of our speed, we start catching up to the other racers. Once we cross the Heartless, they start attacking Vanellope. I drive near her, summon my Keyblade while driving with my other hand, and I strike at the Heartless. I destroy the Speed Demon's as we arrive at Gumball Canyon, the first deadly track where massive gumballs are rolling in the curves, trying to crush us.
Vanellope and I take evasive actions. Avoiding the Gumballs. We reach the end, which is a long range cliff. We use the speed boost and it bolts us right through the cliff onto the next track, the dessert swirl. We drive upwards on the spinning track. Just then, lasers are being fired on us.
Vanellope and I are surprised, we look back to see more Speed Demon's chasing after us. "What the? They're on our tails!" Vanellope says.
I look at the cherry bombs on the edge of the tracks. "Not anymore!"
I drive close to the cherry bombs, lighting the fuses with the thrusters of my Hoverbike. We're getting close to the tunnel on top, that's when the cherry bombs explodes, from bottom to top. We drive up the tunnel until we we ride over the ramp, flying to the skies and landing on the other ramp, by the very edge.
That was a close call.
Ralph and Felix Jr. are watching everything from the big screen back at the starting line.
"You got this kid, now let's finish this without any surprises." Ralph says.
Just then, Ralph gets punched right in the face, knocking him down. He was surprised, then looks up to see its Sergeant Calhoun from Heroes Duty, and she is not happy.
"Hope your happy, junk-pile! This game is going down and it's all your fault!" She yells at him. "That Cybug you brought here multiplied!"
Ralph stands up. "No! It died in the taffy swamp, believe me-"
Ralph gets cut up by hundreds of Cybugs suddenly bursting out of the ground. All of the candy people in the audience starts panicking and fleeing in terror.
"Bullroar!" Sergeant Calhoun says to Ralph. She takes out her gun and starts shooting at the Cybugs coming close. "Listen up, people! Head to game central station! Now!"
Felix Jr. and Ralph helps the citizens flee. But Ralph stops to look up the screen, he can see we're about to catch up to King Candy in Ice Crean Mountain.
King Candy is enjoying his sweet victory. Vanellope and I are right on his tail. "Hey, King Crazy!" King Candy looks back, and is surprised to see me and Vanellope. "Have some candy!" I use his own line against him as I bump right to his side, knocking him into the closed road that's going downwards.
"Sweet attack." Vanellope says.
We drive right into the cavern. We drive up the road, slowing down as we get close to the top, then we drive downwards at high speed like a roller coaster. Vanellope screams with delight, I can tell she's enjoying this. As we drive, King Candy arrives on the upper tracks, then his drives off of it, leaping towards Vanellope. Vanellope was caught by surprise as King Candy rams into her, causing her go-kart to be driving backwards with the front of it on King Candys kart.
"Get off of my track!" King Candy shouts in irritation!
"Vanellope!" I was about to help her out, but then Speed Demon's appears to attack me. "Out of the way!" I start shooting lasers from the front of my Hoverbike at them.
"What are you crazy?" Vanellope tells Candy King.
"I forbid you!" King Candy grabs his pole horn from his go-kart. "To cross! That finish line!" He starts attacking Vanellope.
I fight off the Speed Demon's until I shake them off. Once that was done, I see Vanellope in trouble. She eventally grabs King Candy's weapon, pulling it against him while glitching. Vanellope's glitching travels through the stick horn and into King Candy, causing him to glitch...and transform.
Ralph and Felix Jr. are seeing this and they are paying close attention to King Candy, for they are looking curious at what's happening to him. "Is that..."
King Candy's glitching grows stronger, until it causes them to turn into a gray racer in a white jumpsuit with a white helmet that has a big red 'T' on it. Ralph and Felix Jr. are completely caught by surprise.
"No! Way!" Ralph says.
Vanellope and I are surprised as well. "What the? Who are you?" Vanellope asks.
King Candy constantly glitches, turning from King Candy to Turbo. "I'm Turbo! The greatest racer ever!" King Candy says. So that's Turbo...King Candy is getting into Vanellope angrily. "And I did not reprogram this world to let you, that Halitosis-Riddled Warthog, or even that meddlesome boneheaded Keybearer TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME!" Okay, now that hurts. "End of the line, Glitch!"
"Not on my watch!" I slam my Hoverbike onto King Candy's go-kart. Vanellope breaks free from her situation, turns her Go-kart around and continues driving down the track. I follow Vanellope from behind.
"No!" King Candy starts up his go-kart and chases after us. Vanellope and I leaves the tunnels. King Candy is just about to do the same, until a Cybug lands at the exit and shallows King Candy whole.
The path to the finish line is straight on. Maybe not so straight anymore. Cybugs starts bursting out of the ground. Vanellope is pretty shocked. I'm surprised as well. I'm guessing Sergeant Calhoun had no luck with taking care of that Cybug Ralph brought.
"Cybugs!" Few Cybugs land on the track, screeching at Vanellope. I drive right in front of her, shooting at them. "Out of the way, Parasites!"
I destroy each of the Cybugs that gets in the way. We're getting close to the finish line. However, our luck ran out. A ton of Cybugs swarm up on the finish line, causing it to collapse and fall apart. Vanellope and I hit the breaks, stopping in front of the blockade.
"Damn it! We're too late!" I say.
Ralph grabs Vanellope. "Come on, kid! We need to go!"
"But I didn't cross the finish line." Vanellope says.
"There is no finish line! We have to go!" Ralph says.
"But! Ralph! Wait!" We don't hesitate, we make a run for it.
The last of the citizens are fleeing up on the rainbow bridge to the exit. Sergeant Calhoun rides her cruiser while shooting any Cybugs coming in. I ride my Hoverbike close to the exit, shouting at everyone to hurry up.
Ralph, Felix Jr. and Vanellope are now arriving. "Ralph! Stop!" Ralph was about to cross the exit, only some barrier appears and it bounces Vanellope out.
Ralph and I are surprised to see this. "Kid, what are you doing?" Ralph asks.
"I tried to tell you. Glitches can't leave the game. There's no way for me to escape." Vanellope says.
Ralph is sadden to hear that. I'm not too happy to hear that as well. We can't just leave this girl here to die. There must be something we can do...
"All right, Felix, that's everybody." Sergeant Calhoun says. "Now we gotta blow this exit."
"What about the game?" Felix Jr. asks.
"Nothing we can do about it. Without a beacon, there's no way to stop these monsters." Hearing that gave me an idea.
"Beacon?" I turn looking at the tiny view of Diet Cola Mountain, remembering the hot springs and the mentos that falls in them. "That's it! Beacon!" I grab Ralph. "Ralph, you're coming with me!" I hop on my Hoverbike with Ralph sitting from behind. "Sergeant! Whatever you do, do not let any Cybug's leave the game!"
"What are you doing?" Felix Jr. asks.
"We've got some wrecking to do!" I start up the Hoverbike and we take off. "We'll meet you all at the finish line!"
Felix Jr. tries to stop us, but Sergeant Calhoun pulls him and Vanellope behind her was she takes out her gun. "Fix it! Get behind me!"
She starts shooting at the Cybugs that are crawling up on the bridge.
I explain Ralph my plan on the way. All we need to do is cause all of those mentos to break off and fall into the springs. Hopefully, that'll create an alternative beacon to save the game.
We reach to the top of Diet Cola Mountain. Ralph and I hops off and we start charging to the center. Ralph shouts and I roar as I activate my D-linking with Beast. Once in the center, we give a single powerful strike, causing a powerful quake on the mento ground.
As we strike hard on the mentos, some of them from the tips inside the mountain breaks and falls into the springs. pressure starts to break to the surface as we keep attacking with all of our strength.
"Keep going! Come on!" I shout. We give hard heavy strikes, up until the mentos seeps in, we're getting close. Exhausted, we stand in place panting. "Together...one more together." Ralph nods in agreements. We hold our fists and Keyblades back. "One..." Then something swipes at us and we get knocked against the mentos wall at the edge of the mountain.
"Welcome to the boss level!" A voice says.
Me and Ralph looks to see who is it, and we can't believe what we're seeing. "Turbo..." We say in unison.
Turbo is now a Cybug, in the form of a silverfish. "Because of you two! I am now the most powerful virus in the Arcade!" He chuckles with delight. "I can take over any game I want! I should thank you...but it'll be more fun to kill yea."
Turbo comes for us, but we rush out of the way before he strikes us. "We've got to blow this sucker!" I say as we run to the center.
Turbo laughs evilly. He grabs me by the feet and pulls me back, then he rushes to in front of Ralph. "Have some candy!" He smacks Ralph back saying that. Turbo summons some Heartless. Irritated, I charge in and attack them with Bestial Swipe, doing a cross strike with both Keyblades, and the slashes on the Heartless are three scratch marks together, like I swiped them with claws.
"Where do you think you're going?" Turbo attacks Ralph, but Ralph tosses Turbo over him, still running to the center. Turbo rolls into a ball, rolling towards Ralph, then grabs him by the feet. "I'm not through with you, yet!" Turbo spreads his wings and takes flight. "Up we go!"
I finish off the Heartless, but notice Ralph is in trouble. "Ralph!"
"Finish the job!" He yells at me. I look down at the mentos behind me then back at Ralph, trying to make a choice of what to do: Save Ralph or set off the beacon.
Sergeant Calhoun is struggling to hold back the Cybugs. She's been reduced to shooting with her pistol gun, and it's hardly doing much damage to the creatures. She's now out of ammo and throws her gun away.
"Fall back!" They start stepping back, until the glitch barrier bounces Vanellope back in.
Ralph can see the situation Vanellope's in. "Kid!"
"Oh! Look at that! It's your little friend." Turbo says with joy. "It's game over for both of you."
"GUESS AGAIN!" Turbo and Ralph looks down to see me ramming into Turbo with my Hoverbike. He gets knocked higher in the air. I get on Turbo and start attacking him, then I bite him with my fangs, causing him to yell in pain and release Ralph. "Go Ralph!"
Ralph starts falling, directly into the Diet Cola Mountain. Ralph positions himself, diving head on with a fist in front. He says his bad guy affirmation as he falls. "I'm bad and that's good! I'll never be good and that's not bad! There's no one I rather be...then me!"
Ralph dives closer and closer to the mountain then...
BAM!
Seeing the impact, I push Turbo away and fall down. My D-linking with Beast ends as I land on my Hoverbike. I dive straight into the the Diet Cola Mountain. I travel as fast as the Hoverbike can. I dive into the mountain, and I can see Ralph falling above the mentos as the massive amount now enters into the hot cola.
"Ralph!" Ralph looks up. Once I'm close, he gets on the back seat, and I instantly switch the engines to flip in reverse, and the Hoverbike starts flying backwards. I can see the explosion about to start. "Hang on! We're gonna blast out of here!"
I slam my hand on the red button Felix Jr. attempted to push before, and the engines blasts massive nuclear pulsefires. Nitro Boost. The hot spring does a burst explosion, it's so massive that the entire inside of the mountain explodes. The blast is right in front us, and we made it out just as the diet cola bursts out of the mountain.
All of the Cybugs eyes turn blue staring at the light of the soda-coated beacon and they start flying towards it. Turbo is the only one who isn't being subdued to the light.
"You fools! Why are you going into the li-" Spoke too soon. His eyes turn blue. He starts flying towards the light then constantly fighting the ultimate urge. "No! Yes! No! No-ye-no! No!" He's now right in front of the beacon. "Whoo-hoo! Go into the ligh..." At the last second, he comes to his senses and screams as he flies into his demise.
Ralph and I starts falling down and we crash land into a chocolate puddle. My Hoverbike end up being ruined from the crash landing, I was not too pleased.
So a lot of things have happened after we saved Sugar Rush. Nothing major, but Vanellope crossed the recently-fixed finish line. Her code and the game become restored and she turns out to be the rightful ruler of Sugar Rush. How charming, another princess for me to protect.
Felix Jr. was able to repair my Hoverbike. It's impressive how he can fix anything. I guess they don't call him 'Fix-it' for nothing.
"Well, I should get going." I say.
"You mean return to your game?" Sergeant Calhoun asks.
"Yeah. That." I say.
"That reminds me, we should get back to ours and try to save it." Felix Jr. says.
"Yeah." Ralph walks up to me, handing me a Ralph Charm. "Here. I found this at...well, at my place. I do'nt have use for it, but I want you to have it."
"Thanks. You're not such a bad guy, are yea?" I ask.
"I get that a lot." Ralph says.
I get on my Hoverbike and take off. This is quite an interesting world, but I know I have to find Aqua and Rasputin.
