Felix had returned from the bathroom. Everyone was shocked.
"Oh, my land.".
"Is that.. your dad?", Ralph asked.
"Yeah". "And he's evil.".
Felix Jr. couldn't believe his eyes.
"Felix, you take out...", Turbug stopped. "Ith that.. Thtan?".
"Stanley Lawrence Litwak, the one & only.".
Turbug thought for a moment. He switched to Turbo.
"You almost had me there. But I didn't learn coding for one decade to be called stupid. The Glitch disappears & you appear. You're using my idea against me. Nice try. Felix, kill whoever you want, but leave Ralph to me.".
Ralph felt like he could take on Turbug. He had fought him in his previous form, so he wasn't afraid. Felix Sr. was having trouble deciding which of the nine characters he wanted to kill first. Turbug started lashing out at Ralph. Ralph returned fire with fists. Their fight was on the move & they paid no mind to anything around them. Vanellope glitched back, followed by a restored Banannaby. They looked around.
"Whoa. What did we miss?", asked Vanellope.
Felix Sr. decided to go for Vanellope. Not knowing who Stan was, he wasn't concerned with Turbug being wrong. Vanellope didn't have time to be surprised about anything. She ran from Felix Sr., leading him to Candy Cane Forest. Luckily, she was faster.
"Felix, why are you.. Hey, you're not Felix.".
"Oh, yes I am.".
Everyone else focused on fighting Turbug.
"I know what to do.", Banannaby said.
She glitched away somewhere. Felix Sr. now had Vanellope up against a candy cane tree, with a screwdriver in hand & a twisted grin on face.
"What are you going to do, fix me?".
"Oh, no. This is an ordinary screwdriver.", he said as a mad man.
Terrified, Vanellope glitched up the candy cane tree, followed by the mischievous Felix Sr.. Suddenly, her terror dissipated. His evil grin faded.
"What?".
"Double stripe.".
The branch dematerialized & he fell into the taffy swamp. She laughed at him as she glitched down.
"Double stripes break. Doy!".
"You'd better check all sides of you. Because when I get out, I'll make sure you never respawn.", he said.
Though lt was chilling, she ignored & walked right past him. He would have to be dealt with later.
"I'll get you.", was his last words before submerging under the taffy.
It wasn't a shout. It was a promise, one character to another. She went back to help the others, who weren't faring so well. Turbug was taking them all on at once, a full confidence blatantly showing. Everybody shot determinedly at him. Some grenades were tossed as well, but with no effect. He used his secret weapon. His mouth opened, to reveal a bright orange liquid inside. He spat out the burning hot stuff at them, causing them to duck & roll. The candy ground easily melted from the intense heat. But then, something caught his eye.
"Glitch? ...Stan?", he asked, with liquid still pouring out of his mouth.
Terror escaped him as lt dawned on him that he was face to face with the real Stan Litwak.
"As I told you before.", said Stan.
"You ARE the real Stan.", he staggerred.
"I thought I'd seen the last of you in 1987.", Stan said, taking on a cool guy persona.
Minty saw an opportunity to get some information.
"Ask him how he survived the volcano.".
"How did you?".
"Cybugs become what they eat.".
He showed the hot liquid in his mouth.
"That's hot diet cola.", Ralph discoverred.
"Why did you come here, Stan?".
"To tell you to stop this.", he lied.
"Impossible", he said, full of regret. "I'm sorry, but the cybug code overrides my own.".
Then he smiled a despicable one as he flickerred back to King Candy.
"You're going to have to kill me.", he said.
"I can live with that.", Ralph said.
Turbug switched his attention to Vanellope, standing in the background.
"GLITCH!", he screamed at Vanellope.
He went into a wheel form & rolled over to her location.
"Whoa!".
She ran away glitching, with him quickly trailing. The others followed behind.
"Get away from her, daddy long legs!", Calhoun shouted. "Come after me instead!".
He ignored her & continued after Vanellope. Lockload opened fire on him, but Calhoun held him back.
"Hold your fire, Lockload! That hide is bulletproof. We need to penetrate lt somehow.".
The General spoke.
"We can modify our bullets to penetrate their armor. I have the tools & the material. What we need is time.".
Ralph leapt up & pounded into Turbug's back. Turbug simply shoved him off. Six upgraded adult cybugs showed up.
"Keep them buthy!", King Turbug orderred them.
Ralph tried to go after Turbug to save Vanellope, but three of the bugs pinned him down. Calhoun could not shoot them or else she would hit Ralph. Also, they had their own share. And these cybugs were also bulletproof.
"Stan, do something.", Don said.
Luckily, Stan came prepared. He unsheathed his sword & put lt into the nearest bug, killing lt.
"Need some help, bromigo?".
Bobby pulled a bug off of Ralph & killed lt by stomping lts head. Ralph finally broke free of the cybugs & went straight for Vanellope. The others were left to kill the remaining four bugs. Vanellope made lt into Game Central Station. The gate alarm sounded, but the Surge was nowhere to be found. Before she knew lt, King Turbug V2 stabbed her with his talons through the stomache. He retracted & she looked down to see a large hole in her gut. Code leaked out onto the floor. She tried to speak, but only a squeak escaped her mouth. The President of Sugar Rush collapsed to the ground & shut her eyes.
"The wath dying to get away.", Turbug laughed at his own joke.
Ralph caught up, panting. His anger crumpled into demoralization when he saw his best friend on the cold floor, a diabolical fiend of a character looming above her innocent body.
"Vanellope!". "You... you killed her.", Ralph said defeatedly.
He was her protector; & he failed. All of his purpose, his drive, escaped him in that instant.
"Oh, did I hog all of the villainy?".
