Announcement:
Now this arc was in the list I had earlier that you readers or users voted for, yet I figured perhaps another adventure within the Book Vault was in order but I won't spoil as to what it is this time, two other girls join Morgana while the other two are sick in bed.
The two girls being involved this time is Chipana and Trinaza and since we need some bonding time (somewhat) with some sisters and also figured that some bonding time with Chipana and Morgana was also in order.
Also to tell others, I have not forgotten those I written down, I just think they need a chance to prove themselves and if you all read the entire story and this chapter, I would tell you all at the bottom what the next "Arc" is going to be and who is involved (from fellow Author: Rwbyknight's suggestion with me getting more ideas as to how Morgana would obtain a new gem).
Now also in this chapter, it will be a long one of sorts with Half-AU and depending on how much it contains as such guys/gals.
Do expect a lot of things to occur or happen unexpectedly within this chapter as well, especially since you know me by now guys as "They" would be the only ones added since I deemed it was time to add "Off-Disney Characters" into this, and for good reasons as well that has to deal with Morgana and not Soulmate Wise, But something familiar in another Fic of sorts. So if I eventually do so again, accept it.
Now I do not own Beauty and the Beast or Harry Potter, or other Mentioned Franchises. I only own my ideas, plots, or possibly my OC's I tend to use (yet let others. If they ask, can use them in their own stories as long as they post it, I will let them). If I did so, then there would have been a child already with Mario and Peach, Sonic and Amy, and Shadow and a revived Maria (which gives me an idea later on in this chapter).
Warning: A lot of Character Details (with reasons), Character Changed Looks (not stating who), New Abilities Gained Accidentally, A Certain "Period" for Females Occurring (But in an odd way), Long Chapter of sorts, Finding Soulmates (bet you can't already guess from where Morgana went, once read), Flashbacks from Normal POV (3), A "Weapon meant for Morgana" based on "Another particular game" is mentioned alongside used, Long Chapter, and certain things that would be dubbed as non-lethal torture.
Now here is some information:
(#) = OC Characters from Submitted Users / Authors (Which they can use in their works as well) are being mentioned for the very first (1st) time.
Thoughts or "Whispering" or "Empowered Voice" or (Only in this story or certain chapters when it happens) Talking at the same time.
"Xion or Larxene" Mentally speaking to Morgana, or any others doing so to anyone else.
Hidden Meanings.
?: "Gonna Wreck it!" = Singing by people (Which I do not own at all and slightly modified it to fit characters though sometimes). If "~ " appears, words are slightly long in the song.
(Flashback Begins/Ends)
(Number placed here) = Number explained at the end.
So without any further ado, let's begin the next chapter of this Fic.
Pairings Currently for Morgana: Cassie, Death, Mirage, Elsa, Artemis. 5 out of 12-13 which someone expected makes it 6/12-13 in this chapter. So if you want, leave a review as to whom you want the last four or five to be since that would be the "Max Limit for Soulmates")(in chapter 14 this list will be adjusted)
Pairings currently for Ceraza: ? /6 as I decided to possibly make her and Morgana's Bond "Sisterly", and figured as later down the road well, there will be a reason as such for that and one of which will be revealed near the end.
Trinaza: 2/5 (Leave ya in suspense as to who they are).
Three days later on April 7th, 1988 (Real-Time), 1588 (Belle's Time)Within the Ballroom:
It has been three days since Elsa, Morgana, and Ceraza came back from their little adventure, and with Belle informing Adam and everyone else of what occurred yet it would seem only Morgana herself, could lead them to the Keeper's Vault.
With the Potter Girl nonetheless surprised it was just like Sarah said it would be, time-wise, when they came back.
It was also that Angeline took Ceraza to go see a specific doctor with Elsa also being seen by Loki (Uncle Frost) as they ended up getting sick somehow just like most of the village and some of the castle staff. It was also affecting the animals as well, and luckily, it wasn't the supposed Plague but primarily the flu.
Death stopped by though with Mirage and Artemis as the three sensed the many distress signals their Soulmate went through within her first adventure and within the Book Vault itself, and they privately decided to stay for a moment or so's time unless they were needed.
So those three were discussing things with both Belle and Adam at the moment with them explaining that their bonds with Morgans could be official once she was older and kissed them, around eleven or so (or to when she was ready), along with Maui and Te Fiti and with said entities amazed they were able to come and go as they pleased yet got used to as Te Fiti was looking into the strange flu that appeared out of nowhere while it was also affecting some plant life, and with some trees ended up being a shade of red, yellow, or blue, in colors.
Belle was also in protective gear to not get sick since Morgana was happy along with everyone as she somehow ended up being pregnant and with Belle and Adam pushing the date further along for their wedding shortly yet, they were still vague as to how they managed to get a baby, to Morgana, even as the child asked.
Everyone else was busy as even though she got to hang with both the Arabian children that would be odd enough, considering her adopted niece and nephew had classes to attend as well. So they had little time to hang out and even all her familiars were busy with only Iago being the one to remain within the castle since they somehow mysteriously arrive and take off to mysterious locations as they pleased.
Right now, Chipana and Morgana's unofficial little sister from Christmas, Trinaza, were learning to use their magic with Angeline sending Morgana a book on summoning while the child was also clenching onto the staff Te Fiti presented to her.
The reason was from recollecting what Stitch was via Morgana's magical power and recalling Agrabah and wanted her to try and summon another one once again and largely as a test of sorts by her Uncle Frost, and both Chipana and Trinaza were only here for support since they got their lessons done.
For you see, Summons can be either random while temporarily, or permanently placed while binding to the Summoner, from the following: Friendship, Kin, or rarely occurring as such, as their Soulmate, or merely that until they proved themselves. Summoners in the past tried for the last option if it was them and only them, and the second if they were desperate enough.
Others, however, are special and have limits on how long they're out by the individual's power or magic itself, or whenever they dismiss themselves.
"Come on Mary, you nearly had it," Chipana motivated Morgana as she was glowing on and off that same energy mixed with her magic once again, and a hint of silver and with the staff all pulsing gently in odd reassurance as she was sweating slightly while concentrating her power into her right hand as Trinaza only nodded in anticipation as well.
Feeling a sensation within her hands while she felt her eyes and eventually her entire body was tingling with her magic, she, however, made both Chipana and Trinaza yelp and move away while she sent the orb accidentally at them as when it hit the wall and it came to be a vortex instead of a blast and before they knew it, two figures that appear to be fighting came out of it before it closed up.
Morgana shrunk her gift into oddly enough, the size of a wand and pocketed it since the staff was fully bound to her… Let's say she accidentally did so yet it magically appeared within her hands, to find out. She would have bused her wand though, but she was told to not use it by Death and Artemis unless it was dire or in need.
The first female was at least 5'7 in height while having red leather-like wings while retaining the normal olive-skinned tone she had as a human, red-lipped, long dark-blue hair, brown-eyed yet a secretly de-aged twenty-four-year-old female with her outfit also revealing her waist, along with a human skin-colored tail. She has double-jointed bare feet along with also having extra-like bone structure on her forehead with small horns, and bigger eyes while having a High-D-Cup and an hourglass/athletic frame to know she was still fit, despite her outfit clinging to her decently. The outfit, however, was simply black boots, light blue jeans, a black shirt that showed her chest decently, and a cross-belt.
This was Elisa Maza or was a former detective that was changed into a Female Gargoyle by a trickster wherever the two previously came from, permanently, and was also enchanted and unlike the other, to be able to switch back and forth… If she realized that is, without pain.
The other female was somewhat like the race Eliza: A female gargoyle with a shock of red hair and pale blue skin. She was at least 5'8 in height with the same chest size yet she also has a lean but slender figure while also wearing a golden tiara, a pair of earrings, an armband, and an anklet as decorative jewelry. She also seems to favor midriff-baring halter tops that hang off of one shoulder, especially since this one was a pale-lavender color.
This was the Female Gargoyle was named Demona: A magical user that was n depleted while the two still wrestled for the object, presently.
Morgana blinked while they were rolling over each other for an odd object of sorts before they stilled once she inquired while the two adults also rolled by her and the two other girls as they hid a giggle from the positions they were in Eliza was on the bottom being pinned down with Demona's left leg where Elisa's crotch was, their tails slapping against each other's own, and Demona was pushing down Eliza by her left hand on her chest while her right held the object: A sphere of sorts that looked to what you would see in Final Fantasy X-2, but it was crimsoned with gold lettering, and Elisa was trying to shove her off along with using her left hand to forcibly shove Demona's face, "Why are you wrestling?"
Taking a few moments to realize that they were not alone and including not where they were before, along with tinting from the positions they were in as they rapidly got off with each other, Demona was about to state to possible a Youngling, it was none of their business, yet froze at mostly looking at Morgana to puzzle Elisa by what race she christened said child with. "A Young Chaosarinian... How odd to see one to this day."
Elisa stumbled, however, with her accidentally falling on Morgana before making the elder female eyes widen and Demona's immediate interest as Morgana's Magic teleport alongside conjured, at the same time this occurred, a full-body pillow for Elisa to land on.
Early development of Chaos Magic with a small hint of both Light and Darkness… Now, this is a rare child indeed... Demona thought while she approached and with her being startled the orb nicked her hand and tossed it at Elisa who not only caught it while standing up, but she almost dropped it as it too as it nicked her hand with no scars. "Perhaps an introduction is in order?"
Morgana sensing that she wasn't a threat, relaxed slightly with both Chipana and Trinaza doing the same as they were personally surprised yet were still on guard while they both wore children's maid uniforms in light-blue colors since Trinaza was also being taught how to work things as a maid while learning about household work or in this case, castle work.
Morgana then tilted her head cutely while her tail swayed gently back and forth to let Demona know she was curious, and she decided to go first. "My name, Youngling, is Demona. The other female that unfortunately appeared with me by odd means," Eliza scowled at this while crossing her arms along with her not being amused by said events, and without at all getting a chance to speak, "Is Elisa Maza."
The two elders saw Morgana glance downwards with her grabbing her tail to see she was guilty of something yet froze them over by her hesitant words as Chipana only patted the Chaosarinian on her upper back in small sympathy while Trinaza made Elisa wary since the girl was unexpectedly protective, "Th-That would be my fault… I was trying to practice m-my magic to summon again, and I somehow… I somehow summoned you two. I'm sorry."
Elisa observing the child of whatever race Demona dubbed her with was about to cry if the odd tears that were forming from possible guilt mixed with what she oddly enough felt, for some reason, like a failure, went over and then awkwardly yet gently patted her back to stiffen Morgana yet then relaxed since she suddenly felt she could trust the two woman creatures.
Abruptly the ballroom started to lightly shake mainly the floor as it unexpectedly glowed a bright light that blinded them all briefly and with a startled yelp from the three girls and the two women, fell right into the glow when it vanished, Cassie came in just at that time yet saw the floor dimmed while inwardly pouting while expressing it aloud, "I missed it… Darn it!"
Morgana, Chipana, Trinaza, Elisa, and Demona landed on comfy chairs that materialized and were still startled before turning to Sarah that lightly giggled at them all in amusement as the ceiling dimmed and then returned to normal, "It seems that I may have caught you all at a bad time." Morgana then sighed while giving the female a stare in which Sarah only smiled at her in return, "Another Adventure is up?"
Sarah only nodded while they saw a brief flash and stunning them as the book oddly enough if it was a video game, glitched a few times in data before traveling right into the slot, and her necklace once again did the same thing while the vortex that showed, was oddly pixel-like and with both blue and translucent green data of sorts.
Chipana immediately had eyes of realization, and remarked to Morgana then, "Is this that place Elsa and Ceraza talked about?"
Morgana only nodded with Demona narrowing her eyes at Sarah since she thought she looked familiar yet couldn't place it with Elisa decided to state before she could, however, to the female that only came across comprehending at them both, "Who are you?"
"She's Sarah and the one who… Um, protects the books within the Vault here," Morgana states while cutely scrunching her eyebrows to think about it along with Chipana privately tinting as she liked Morgana yet has not at all got a chance to say anything, with Trinaza only giving her friend a knowing glance.
Sarah then nodded right at Morgana with a warm smile, "That is precisely my given task. I am primarily the observer and protector of The Vault itself, and it comes across both you, Elisa Sasha Maza," Demona held back a snort with Elisa going wide-eyed at the full name Sarah used while Demona stiffened as her long-forgotten title was then declared by her while Sarah was showing an amused gleam in her orbs at the Female Gargoyle, "Demona: Student to Mazadumo, and Former Guardian of Ancient Knowledge and Magic, and also known as the Child of Abrupted Fate and Betrayer of the Clan."
Elisa narrows her eyes at Demona as those titles did indeed match her yet she was confused by the haunted yet briefly sorrow-like gaze she had before Demona shook her head and proclaimed as she was realizing Sarah is far more than she seems, "Why did you summon us here? The Youngling couldn't have pulled that amazing feet without aid."
Sarah chuckled lightly to startle Morgana and her Sister-By-Magic and Chipana, and even Elisa since the woman nodded in admittance, "It is true, Demona Dominique Destine," Demona was wide-eyed before growling lowly at the woman since that was what she dubbed herself as, "That I did aid only little with Mary or otherwise, Miss Morgana Potter with her summoning of you both, for your safety." Confusing them both yet was also suspicious of what Sarah meant and also confusing the three children with them as Elisa crossed her arms under her chest while she narrowed her eyes and making a proclamation or primarily wanting to understand, "Our safety? What do you mean our safety?"
Sarah sighed while giving the two women a look yet decided that if they truly wanted to know, then so be it, "You and a few others that were within the building at the time, were sent to Randomized Realms in completely different periods... Realms that would possibly harm you to the point of being either knocked out or worse unless someone found and aided you before it was too late. It was due to your universe being taken by who knows what, but the culprit will remain as such, a mystery since most of that world survived."
Morgana saw both females paled at Sarah in disbelief with Elisa immediately begging her as if she was jesting as she showed to have tears forming within her orbs in realizing what she meant, "It has to be a hoax… That can't be the reason why we're here, and the others-" Sarah held up a hand and gave both women a sympathy glance while she then confided them gently and some reassurance within her tone yet were startled by what she had to say while also surprising the three children, "Partially. As much as it pains me to say this: You two were near each other while holding the Orb of Life. Due to this, you could have killed not only your own but the new being developed still within the orb itself. As the Gods only made at least one hundred of the orbs to be given to same-sex couples, generally, in the longing for a child of their flesh and blood. And you would have prevailed in a coma as well if I didn't support Morgana with her task."
Digesting what she said they froze with Elisa holding the orb still, and glanced warily at Demona firstly before staring at Sarah who had that same gleam of amusement in her orbs, once again, "You don't mean that this would happen to be…" "Indeed. Congratulations as the Mortal saying goes, it's A Girl." Sarah though paused before expanding onto her words while letting the two females think what she told them over, yet they stared at the children, in personal surprise, "Are you three ready to head out?"
"You're not sending them into that portal, right?" Elisa states in disbelief to Sarah while the female only nodded as Morgana gently confessed to Elisa as the former detective was reluctant yet sighed, "It's ok, Miss Maza. I and my friends will be ok as I did this before." Though Morgana looked slightly betrayed by staring at Trinaza who innocently recounted at this point at her then with a finger to her mouth, and glancing upwards in thought, "But didn't you only do it once Mary?"
Beholding Elisa's stare at that, Morgana was about to say something yet this even surprised Sarah as all three girls were grabbed by a black tentacle of sorts and yelped as they went into the vortex, and Elisa went into her "Protective Mode" at this, handed the orb to Demona before going in.
Within the vortex, Morgana saw a creature of sorts laughing at them in grunts as it primarily resembled a shadowy, four-red-eyed, tentacled octopus-like komodo dragon of sorts with it drooling in hunger at them, and Chipana and Trinaza struggled like she was within the tentacles they were wrapped in.
Once the creature was about to engulf them as the maw was showing razor-sharp teeth, opened, it bit its tongue that was extended as Elisa landed on its head before it blinked, roaring at them while being sucked into a vortex made of darkness while freeing the three girls.
Before the girls could even thank Elisa, four vortexes materialized behind them and within moments, they were sucked into them, and Morgana reached out her hand while fearing for them within her orbs, as she was the last to be taken.
Litwak's Arcade at night, 2012 year period (1), a week before events:
Everything was peaceful within the arcade as within it, was like what you would see: Video Game Consoles of many sorts with a few also being free to play.
But there was one different thing, despite all the consoles being on: Their Game Characters were not on the screens as confidentially, this place just like other arcades has a secret, and that is all Video Game Characters are alive. But they have rules and other things to keep them that way, otherwise… Let's not go into that at all, and say it would be bad.
Presently, all their screens were fine and doing their usual thing within the power strip they're all connected to, however, is a different story altogether and particularly the recent addition dubbed as "Hero's Duty" for the last few years.
Within the power strip extension outlet is what the characters from the games themselves dubbed as Game Central Station: A place where any of them can visit any game yet at a certain point, as per rules to their survival, was to return to their games so players can play them, and make them not "Out of Order", and risked getting unplugged. Oddly enough, it's a small resemblance to Grand Central Terminal in New York City, but that is an odd coincidence.
Anyways we are getting off-topic.
There were a lot of characters doing as they normally have done over the years and a few that remain within the station due to them being Unplugged Characters, for some time.
Unexpectedly without warning, they all gazed upwards and were confused as four beams of light arose and shot directly into four games based on their titles: Sonic Championship (Sonic The Fighters), Vs. Super Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Privately though (to which game), were Trinaza, Morgana, Elisa, and Chipana in each game.
Fearing what occurred or why they all witnessed this odd event that never transpired before, said game characters went into their respective games to see what has happened or changed. Though one person that went wide-eyed was a Gargoyle Female that has been here for approximately three months, went with the Mortal Kombat Characters for her reasons.
She was known as Angela: Goliath and Demona's Daughter. Angela is tall and slender with long dark hair worn in a ponytail and she has inherited her father's lavender complexion, although her features are closer to Demona's, and her outfit is a two-piece and one that was more reminiscent of Demona's typical style of clothing.
Super Mario Game, A Half-Hour Later:
The game inhabitants were ordered by both Bowser and Peach in their respective areas to search for anything odd, and bring them to either castle and then they would head to said castle for a meeting.
Over the years of being aware, they were friends despite Bowser being the Villain as such and only played their roles for the Players that dabbled in their still popular arcade game.
Presently, however, we take our gaze to an area within Bowser's Kingdom known as Darkland, where Morgana was passed out in an area that was close by as well, and a random Boo under orders from their King saw her with wide eyes while thinking this was new, and left as Morgana was slowly waking up and her eyes glowing briefly and blinked a few times while shaking her head, and saw (to her sad sigh), she was singled out once again from her girls yet was disturbed as to where she was.
She made her staff normal and used it as a crutch from her wincing as her right leg was somehow asleep and felt like she was also hit by a horse from the backside, and discerning she didn't have many options commenced to walk sluggish and randomly to what she thought was a house in this bizarre land she ended up at.
The land she warily traversed is a wasteland-inspired area untouched by sunlight, filled with skulls and flames. It is also where it is depicted as a gloomy wasteland, from her viewpoint. Lava-filled caverns are also shown to be beneath the surface, with her beholding an open crevice nearby to realize that.
I wonder where everyone else is though… I hope they're ok. Morgana's thoughts were mainly about while she kept going for at least a few miles out before she started panting and sat on a boulder, wiping the sweat off her brow and lightly clasped the staff as she kept her guard up while she rested yet or what she didn't realize was that she was being watched further away, from where she was.
At the said location, was the same Boo and a few others who gave the taller of them all, the binoculars.
He was portrayed as a large, fire-breathing reptilian beast with a turtle-like carapace and a deep, rumbling roar of his rumble-like chuckles while watching the child and with black spike bands on his neck, and two on each wrist and near his armpits, and lastly has spiky-red hair.
This was Bowser, and ruler of the Darkland Kingdom.
"Hmm, she seems something new to me," Bowser states with a light rumble as a few Koopa's as guards nod in sharp agreement while the Boo states the same and exclaims to his King, "See? I told ya that odd girl is possibly the one Princess Peach wanted to find, My Lord… Did I do good for once yo?"
Bowser briefly turned to the ghost and snapped his fingers as a Koopa handed the Boo a coin to his glee and he took off as the King of Darkland resumed his watching the child yet almost dropped them after observing she conjured with what he guessed was words, some water out of the ground for her to drink yet got irked as she was splashed. Interesting… A magical user as well.
Bowser though ducked as randomly Morgana started to sneeze lightning bolts while a poor Koopa took the hit and got zapped, coughed smoke, and passed out. She did it again with Bowser widening his eyes at the location it zapped, "Better get a move on, the Kid accidentally awoken Dry Bowser from his sleep and like me… Our naps are precious."
Back with Morgana, she sighed while using a drying spell to clean herself from the extra water she didn't mean to conjure onto her form and wondered why her flight spell earlier didn't work yet was too hot to think on it along with her two big sisters inside her. "Nothing Can be worse than that… Right?" She asked herself and gotten up yet to be confused with her tail curling around into a hook to display that and felt the ground rumble, and she placed a hand over to her eyes to see into the distance yet started to try and run since a rampaging set of bones was coming right at her. Said bones were Dry Bowser himself.
To mention him, Dry Bowser is simply Bowser's skeletal form from said Koopa King himself... If he was dead, though there are some significant changes to this guy's overall appearance. His snout is slightly morphed into a beak-like shape, while his chest and stomach are hollow due to consisting of five ribs. Dry Bowser's shell is a charcoal gray with dark red spike-rings and scarlet spaces between its plates, as opposed to his counterpart's standard green, red, and black coloration. His horns are longer and more curved, his eye sockets are more triangular, and he sports a bony brow mimicking the characteristically angry position of his living counterpart's eyebrows. Like the Dry Bones Race, Dry Bowser's eyes are black and with empty holes while having glowing yellow pupils. His spiked wristbands and neckpiece are dull, very dark red, and his hair has also been taken up in a ponytail of sorts.
Struggling to run still while her leg was asleep, Morgana was essentially spent as she may have realized to test her magic out first before using it to get water that she was weak and tripped over herself as Dry Bowser was therefore on top of her, smacked her Magical Staff away from her weak form, and then roared at her in a deep rattling-like screech before asserting angrily, that is, while indicating at the scorch mark he indicated on his forehead, "Did you do this you stupid Reptile?! Answer me!"
Morgana tried yet she stiffened from Dry Bowser shaking her briefly and she then stilled in fear, with her beginning to silently weep to herself, "Bah! How a weakling like you could shoot that much power at me to hurt… You know what: I'm just going to crush you, Child, and perhaps make you serve me as a boned, Magical Lackey like that foolish Kamek does to the supposed Ruler of Darkland!"
Darkland… I'm in Mario Land? Morgana in her feared self thought before she started screaming while hearing both Xion and Larxene shout out within her mind, in worry, as her windpipe and upper torso were gradually beginning to hurt at how much force he was slowly doing to her as if he enjoyed watching her be in pain from crushing her since he was bigger than her, by a lot.
"Prepare to die foolish- WHO DID THAT?!" Dry Bowser started speaking yet shouted out in pain from being blasted by the same amount of force that child did and dropped her while she clutched at her throat while feeling it was slowly healing just like her ribs, and widen her eyes at glimpsing it was Bowser as the child recognizing who he was since she saw back then Dudley playing the game she was forced to watch, and not do anything at all.
"You?!" Dry Bowser announced with anger while motioning to him as Bowser's mouth was still smoking from the blast he did while he just confessed firmly with narrowed eyes and getting into a fighting position, "Yes me, Bone Pile."
Noticing he annoyed Dry Bowser as he was supposed to be from the recent update the old man who owns the arcade to some of the consoles, did, a few weeks ago, just like a few other characters besides this douche, growled lowly in anger at Bowser while getting into a fighting position as well, "You are not at all worthy to be in my presence, Faker! I will send you to your grave and make you My Jester!"
Morgana jumped while the two commenced fighting as a Koopa Troopa was motioning for her to shush and a few others came by while aiding her and picking her up. They then quietly proceeded to lead the child away from the fight with Morgana turning to it and widening her eyes as Dry Bowser had an aura she felt was off, somehow, and was abruptly more powerful as his eyes immediately glowed red, and sent Bowser a few feet away while charging at him in a roar.
"Something is wrong with Big Skelly," Morgana softly declared for the Koopa on her right to be the one to hear her and shook his head and just motioned for Morgana to keep going, but she stilled as they did see a few yards away from Dry Bowser using a dark-like energy-based punch of sorts, to Bowser's solar plexus, and sent him immediately into some large rocks while he started to rapidly punch where Bowser was while also laughing and oddly enough, beholding a strange mark that formed on his forehead briefly that oddly resembled and not understood to her, was a circled dragon (closer to a circled Ouroboros Symbol) with a sharp-like Heartless Symbol (like an Edged-Designed Heart) in the center.
Morgana didn't know why she did this, but she was later told when she was old enough by someone important it was meant to be just like the few other times, ran without letting the Koopa Troopa stop her as an unexpected energy source became untapped and made her run quicker than normal to the point of being the one to take the empowered fist while not at all glimpsing Bowser's shocked face, and sent her through the large rocks along with being knocked out on the other side and her staff nearby that was surprisingly still intact.
Bowser was then whacked by a stray arm and sent oddly enough, close to the child and grunted while getting up, and glanced before stilling at the bruises Dry Bowser placed on her face and knowing, her torso, was beginning to slowly yet quickly heal to his brief amazement, before glaring at Dry Bowser with a low growl as the other only chuckled and confessed while approaching him, "It seems the Deal I made a few days ago to that armored man was worth it if I get to feel this… Overwhelming Power, and to also throw you around at last, Faker."
Eyes wide briefly at that before gasping in shock at how fast Dry Bowser was as he swiftly punched Bowser in the gut after picking him up, and sent Bowser further away before luckily dodging purple flames from Dry Bowser's mouth and proceeded fighting back.
It was at this point Morgana groaned to herself before opening her eyes and froze at watching Dry Bowser fighting Bowser before she stiffened as a gloved hand touched her left shoulder while she was then being fed a strange green thing since she was hazed with bleary sight, and let out a gasp while feeling energy flow through her rapidly and froze after she fully saw who it was… Or who they were as the two nodded before going to aid Bowser.
The first man was a human, like the three that came. He wears, from what Morgana remembered, his trademark red hat with the letter "M" on the front, white gloves, a red shirt, blue overalls with two gold buttons, and brown shoes.
The second was another man that wore a green undershirt, and dark blue overalls. He is taller and thinner than the other man and has a different style of mustache and sideburns. He also wears a green hat that has an "L" on it.
And lastly, the women comforting Morgana while tending to her wore primarily a pink royal dress with a turquoise gem in the center and had ivory gloves that reached to her elbows, blonde hair with dark-blue eyes, and turquoise pearl earrings on both of her earlobes.
They were in order: Mario Mario, Luigi Mario, and Princess Peach.
"Shh… Settle down Little One. It will be ok," Peach gently informs Morgana with her shaking her head and tells her while wincing from her face still hurting, "Dry Bowser… Too powerful, Miss Peach," Peach wondered how the odd child she never heard of before as a race, knew her yet Morgana guessed Peach saw what she was saying by the odd aura Dry Bowser has briefly while whacking the three males away from his form and also roaring at them.
Trying to get up and reach her staff, Peach saw this and shook her head no as she was recognizing the state of the child and made Morgana confused slightly by hugging her within her bosom and preventing her from moving as Morgana went stiff yet also relaxed by the hug the Princess was using on her.
Without warning, however, Morgana saw Dry Bowser shove all three back and include them briefly, and the child near her staff instantly with the gem glowing a few times, "ENOUGH! IF YOU WANT TO SEE ME AT FULL STRENGTH… THEN SO BE IT!" Dry Bowser to worry them all, saw him jump to an impressive height and commenced to create a very large blast within his mouth while also aiming downwards at the targets intended: Them.
Morgana oddly felt hungry for some reason, and as if by instinct as the blast was coming at them fast, she opened her mouth and astonished all of them (even her) as she devoured all of it before passing out, and Mario took this chance to power up with the Star Power-Up and with a powerful toss from Bowser, kicked Dry Bowser in the gut while, at the same time, sending the bone-like doppelgänger of the Koopa King, far away and with that dark power of his getting sent somewhere and made, for a later date and time, something unexpected.
Morgana opened her eyes and discovered she was in a fluffy bed of sorts her eyes curiously glancing around the room to see if it was for someone important as either a guest room or possibly a room itself.
The theme though was dark yet cozy, with red, black, and burnt oak furniture. There were no pictures at all, and there was a black satin curtain near the only window this place has, as she was laying in a twice-the-size, Queen Bed with matching colors of the room.
I wonder who's room this is? Morgana thought to herself while she realized that she was wearing a child-sized nightgown that was lavender alongside having a familiar power-up flower as the only design on the front, and saw her clothes were nicely folded on the dresser nearby.
She froze though from observing the knob of the black-oak door wiggle to make her do something she did to Belle long ago and forgetting that she was somewhat bad at it: Try to Fake Sleep.
She heard two voices though: One she was familiar with, and the other she wasn't.
When it opened, she kept her eyes closed as she heard the two seem to be discussing something, "My Older Half-Brother doesn't trust me enough to even leave the castle without an unneeded escort. I mean come on Peach, he tends to be overbearing, and self-centered at times. But ever since I joined the game as an extra character to face him and stuff for the recent Bonus, he tends to… Well..." "Be overprotective with being sure you easily win?" Peach finished suggestively while Morgana felt a cold cloth was placed onto her forehead while she heard oddly enough, a chair scrapes briefly on the floor the female sighed and agreed with her, and the female snapped her fingers, "Exactly. We even had a recent update from three days ago that allowed me to be like Luigi to face my Half-Brother, and due to his ways... Somewhat, he makes sure I'm hardly picked."
"Well, you were just added due to Nintendo wanting to try having your character as a test run in arcade games. Besides… I know something that you're hiding from us as well."
Morgana took this unfortunate opportunity to sneeze a fireball at the wall while making her see who they were along with them both being startled she was awake yet Peach seemed to be oddly comfortable with the woman next to her.
She is a fair-skinned woman around not only the age of twenty-two but at exactly 7'3 in height along with an average yet slender-muscular figure and giving her the right curves and frame to know she has an hourglass shape along with easily showing red tips in her hair at the end, an oval face with large blue eyes that had slits while framing four lashes, and thin dark-blonde eyebrows. She has long, flowing, golden-blonde hair with both V-shaped along with fringed bangs, and a single two-thin locks framing her face. However, she has at least a Mid-F-Cup sized chest, small fangs showing from her upper lip, and she has small yet sharp white digit-like claws (sorta like Bowser) on each fingertip. The young woman also has two outward-like horns through her hair alongside a Gothic-like crown on her head, five choker items placed in the following: One around her neck, two near her armpits, and two around her wrists in small silver spikes while she all wore a battle dress that clung easily to her frame and with her also having a slender, reptilian-like tail with spikes from the green-spiky shell around her back, downwards to the tip that also showed as her dress was opened below for eased movement. The dress, however, was a two-piece as her stomach area was fully shown and revealing her lean abs and midriff she has, and a blue oval pendant was in the center of the top part of her outfit as her bust effortlessly being indicated as well from her figure with no bra, and also showed her bare arms and shoulders with ease.
"Well, It seems she woke up sooner than Kamek noted to everyone, Bowsette," Peach states while blinking with Bowsette, only nodding as privately she felt something odd occur when she saw the child's eyes for the first time as if something unexpected just occurred.
With Death, Artemis, and Mirage being guests within Fate and Destiny's Domain at this point and time, and with them just arriving as Morgana Left:
Fate oddly enough resembles mostly Yoko Ritona from Gurren Lagann, but she had a light tan-based skin tone, Greek Runes that were silverly tattooed on her forearms and the front of her legs, and wore mostly the same outfit said character wore except she had them in green and silver flames on design, and silver hair and slit, crimson eyes.
Destiny, however, resembled mostly May Maple from Pokémon, but with the same hair color and eyes as her Fraternal Twin Sister. But wore Misa Amane from Death Note's Outfit, with dark emerald and gold thunderbolts randomly on the lavender-colored outfit.
They were presently discussing topics within their Domain, just like a few others and their home was timeless so they could view All Time. Their home of sorts was within a floating temple within the Void of In-Between or the Dimensional Gap (2) and was a mix of Aztec, Greek, and Roman and with American and Japanese objects for appliances.
The twins froze before confusing the two with them currently before they groaned at what Fate stated to her twin, "It seems another odd candidate has entered Our Champions, like our Cousin Hecate's Sister's life, Dee," Destiny only nodded while sipping her caramel tea from the Japanese teacups they were using before putting it down in agreement, "Indeed Fate, as the Chosen Child will be more interesting with her next test by… Who was it again may I ask?"
Mirage and Death pale at what she states with Artemis simply raising an eyebrow to keep her true emotions hidden and with Fate without ease, conjured the Book of Life (her book that is) and gazed into their Champion while she blinked in only slight surprise, "Oddly enough from Lady Hel. It seems she wants to see how she would handle her task while eventually learning the Threats Name, and perhaps bestow her a new gem to her staff as a reward within her next adventure she wants the part of, and a deal… At least that's what it states in Chapter Twelve of her life."
Destiny gave Fate a stare yet only sighed while holding the bridge of her nose, with Fate, looking sheepish and Death snorting along with Mirage doing the same as Destiny, and Artemis was, "Why is it you always act like that one Pink Pony and a few others that tend to show up, at times, within our dimension?"
Fate only shrugged as she sipped her tea while dismissing her book and summoning a floating crystal ball while claiming in honesty and almost making Destiny get frustrated yet calmed down, "Their tendencies tend to be addicting, and I think it is moderately interesting to do at most times."
They then commenced viewing the orb while watching Morgana was immediately in the throne room and her outfit on while she held Bowsette's hand, in private comfort.
Back with Morgana:
Morgana gulped with Bowsette gazing at her elder brother: Bowser, unsurely along with the three Mushroom Kingdom Dwellers of Princess Peach, Mario, and Luigi as Bowser looked intimidating while he narrowed his eyes mainly at the child whose tail was low on the ground and lazily swished back and forth, nervously, "So… How did you end up with in my part of the game's kingdom in the first place?"
Somehow sensing Morgana or Mary as such from telling both Princesses, Bowsette was the center of the attention and not noticing Morgana sighed in relief inwardly and with both Xion and Larxene doing the same within her, "What does it matter, Brother? Mary here saved your life as it would have been all of us injured from Dry Bowser's blast, and would have wiped half of the Kingdom... Possibly part of Koopa Keep itself."
"True…" Bowser states with a nod while relaxing only slightly and getting up to discern the time. "Crap, I'm late for my, uh… Meeting," he turned to his sister to make the Good Guys startled by his orders, along with her and the child, "I'm dubbing you as her Caretaker until other circumstances come up, and if there are more… Well, I will find out anyway." He then got up and left them all while taking a shortcut through a wall that slide open to a set of green pipes.
Bowsette thought briefly that Morgana's head tilt was cute before she inquired them all while also making the four wonder the same thing, "Now what do we do?"
Morgana, however, was alarmed at hearing Mario speak as she saw they were thinking a few moments, "Well… Since it's not Open Time at all till hours later, why not go to Tapper's and give- Uh, what's your name Pazano?" Seeing Morgana was confused by his Italian Word, Luigi helped her out, "What my Brother Mario means is what's your name, Little One?"
Nodding her head in understanding at Luigi and with them oddly enough, sounding like they were from that cartoon series they had (3), "Morgana Potter-Evergreen. But I like the name, Mary, mainly." Seeing she has a point, they saw Luigi grab a small item which was a small block that held an image of a Warp Pipe, tossed it, and to amaze Morgana, it emerged to be exactly that.
Going with Bowsette and Peach, they all ended up confusing Morgana at them being near a tunnel by detecting Bowser on a cart that seems oddly familiar, and strange cables that led right into the tunnel.
Shrugging indifferently at seeing them, they went through the tunnel while Morgana felt static that oddly enough, zapped both them and Bowsette (to the female character's wonder), and eventually came to the end while getting out and walking through before making her realize what Movie she ended up in from beholding the various game characters in the familiar place, and wondered how her actions would change this place as well.
"Mary!" Morgana heard a familiar voice state to her as she turned as they did, saw Chipana was waving with Trinaza walking with the Sonic Characters, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (to mention, their 2012 Versions, with Sonic and co. like Sonic Boom Series).
Chipana, however, seems to be wearing a child's basic lavender t-shirt with blue jean shorts, short-grey socks, and dark-blue sneakers with the outfit seemingly coming from a store.
Trinaza was also wearing a sleeveless child's shirt that was dark blue with the Sonic Logo on it and her wings easily along with her tail being shown from the outfit. She also wore blue-ripped jeans with her right knee being exposed and some of her left leg, and on her wrists were rings like Shadow wears on her wrists while she oddly wore a regular version of Sonic's Sneakers, but were lavender colored for a girl and her feet size, fully.
"It seems, Red, that you're not the only one that got an extra addition," Sonic states with mirth with Morgana immediately being hugged by a starry-eyed Amy Rose while Bowsette oddly felt jealous, for some reason, while not noticing the startling knowing glances between Peach, Leonardo, and some of the others before she pulled Amy away from the relieved child who was stiff as a board at the startling hug as Chipana then gently grabbed Morgana's hands and gave Bowsette a glance without Morgana glimpsing, and went over to Q-Bert and his gang while Bowsette noted aloud to herself while blinking, "Did I just get told without words, by a child?" Getting a slap on the sides gently from Sonic while he rubbed his nose and grinned at her, "Possibly, but I think it's up to you to decide on that one Spike."
Bowsette gave Sonic a look as, despite her Half-Brother Bowser keeping her protected all the time, she was relieved that he and his crew, and Peach and Co. treated her like a person and not something precious to protect, along with most of the "Bad Guys" from the other Games, even Angela once she came to the Station.
But she soon curiously raised a brow while crossing her arms under her bust and inquired curiously to him, "What do you mean by that? I barely know the Cutie." Why did I call Mary that? It oddly enough sounded right yet… Why did I say that?
"Well," Luigi states with Knuckles understanding his few best friends outside the game console's look, and expressed after, "Let's head to Tapper's and grab a bite to eat." They jumped unexpectedly with beholding Morgana had eyes that glowed in excitement at this while both the other girls sighed yet saw Subzero from the Mortal Kombat Game come over, and then state to them then, "So like our other arrival that's passed out, you have kids instead?"
Eyes wide at realizing about those very lights they saw enter their games, they gave each other a glance before staring at Subzero, "Same in your game too, Pazano? Perhaps they were the lights we saw that went and entered into our games…" Mario states with him thinking as Bowsette and Amy were keeping the children occupied, at this moment, while they all agreed, and headed with them to Tapper's.
Once inside, Morgana was excited about recognizing the various characters eating, drinking, and doing stuff normally that others would do outside their games as Tapper or a stocky little man with short brown hair and a handlebar mustache. He also has rosy cheeks, large, blue eyes, and a large, pinkish nose. He wore a blue vest over a white shirt along with a high collar, accented by a red bow tie. His trousers are a deep reddish-brown, was presently wiping a root beer mug and saw them come inside, "What it be folks?"
After getting their food with Tapper and everyone getting food and with them blinking as Morgana had several burgers and was eating them with gusto, Chipana only shook her head at recognizing her magic must have been overused since she would normally eat like this if it did, and she paused at glimpsing a familiar face while making her eyes wide to get Bowsette to narrow her eyes, like Peach and those like Shadow to notice, Shadow the Hedgehog that is, "What is it?" Bowsette asked as she saw it was only a familiar Bad Guy coming in for the night.
The late twenty-something man was a "Giant of a man" (according to the man himself), and nine feet tall while also weighing around 643 pounds (292 kilograms). He is muscular and beefy hence the weight, with his most noticeable features being his huge hands and feet, made for crushing and smashing things. The man has spiky dark auburn (red in 8-bit) hair. The man's usual attire for clothing is a pair of burgundy red overalls with one strap across his right shoulder, while the left strap is broken. He also wears a large red plaid-patterned shirt with ripped-off sleeves which has three buttons at the neck, two of which are buttoned up, and he also wears a turquoise green undershirt beneath his plaid shirt, and lastly was barefoot.
This was Ralph or otherwise known as "Wreck-It" Ralph from the Arcade Game: Fix-It Felix, Jr. .
Noticing the man came off lonely as Tapper attended to him, Bowsette knowing the man in small sympathy decided to ask Morgana, and with everyone now busy talking to themselves besides Luigi and Shadow glimpsing this, "Do you perhaps want to go over and talk to Big Red, Mary?" Morgana turned to the Half-Koopa with a surprised stare before hesitantly nodding as the two get up and Chipana frowned at Bowsette yet inwardly sighed while explaining to Amy a secret her mother taught her about men since she was wanting to learn how to truly attract Sonic, while the two girls went over to Ralph.
Ralph meanwhile to himself, was sighing as in a week their game was to have their thirtieth anniversary coming up, and today was tougher than usual for him while Ralph drank his root beer down easily and glimpsed it modified itself to have more after he was done. I need a distraction or something about now- "Hi Mister!" Ralph almost choked before turning to his left at discovering Bowsette and a strange-looking child to which he decided to state automatically to then get a tinge from the Half-Koopa woman him, "Since when did ya have a kid, Spike?"
"She isn't mine… You didn't notice the odd event that occurred hours ago, huh, Big Red?" Bowsette states before getting amused at beholding her colleague looked utterly confused before he felt a tug on his shirt to look at the child, "What Kid?" Morgana then offered her a few burgers to him she held onto for herself, yet guessed he could be hungry, which he wasn't, "Here Mister, you looked hungry while being lonely… So, I thought I cheer you up with these."
Beholding the expectant, innocent gaze Morgana had while being astonished the odd child sensed he was lonely, presently, sighed before he took the two burgers and making Morgana beam at him before glimpsing Chipana was playing a game of cards currently with some of the Street Fighter Characters and being teamed up with Chun-Li and Amy as the pink hedgehog wanted to play and figured why not teach the kid a few things, at the far side of the bar.
Trinaza and the others were still talking to each other with Morgana also inwardly sweat dropping while both Xion and Larxene laughed from discerning her little sister-by-magic, was telling riddles for them to solve again.
"Why don't you go over and see if you could join Mary, I just… Want to talk with Ralph for a moment," Bowsette claimed firmly with Morgana nodding at them and hugging her briefly and her tail wiggling in excitement as she rushed to them within the somewhat crowded bar this time, "So the Kid there is new to the Arcade I take it?" Ralph decided to begin with Bowsette nodding at him with a sigh, "Yes, and three others. The other two girls and a woman possibly Angela know from overhearing Subzero talking to the others."
Ralph was surprised at that as despite Bowsette and that Gargoyle Female being comrade-like friends, he heard Angela's tales of her being not a video game character and mainly an actual female creature based on what he and everyone for the past three months, saw, and yet… "So it might be one of her friends from her tales then?"
"Without a doubt, Big Red," Bowsette states while sipping her spiced root beer, and huffing small flames to herself before gazing at the Bad Guy of Fix It, Felix Jr., "So… Rough day as always, huh, Ralph?"
Ralph understood and shrugged yet before he could respond, they both stiffened at hearing a familiar yelp of surprise loudly by Morgana as she while coming upon the others, accidentally stepped on a fellow Bad Guy's, Cycloptopus that is, eyeball, and was grabbed by him while he was also having a bad day.
Cycloptopus is a green creature with a bulbous body, many tentacles protruding from his body, and one central large red eye. Smaller red eyes, attached to stalks, sprout from the top of the orb-like body. He has a large mouth with yellowish dagger-like teeth. A small golden crown floats above his head/body.
"Look what you did you, little girl," he declared with Morgana going stiff at that and with everyone watching this while some of the characters held down Chipana and Trinaza as Bowsette came over and with Ralph while noticing odd tears being developed from Morgana with Bowsette oddly enough, sensing if Cycloptopus doesn't stop, something odd or bad would occur, "Well? Explain yourself?" Cycloptopus demanded while he shook her a few times.
"I suggest you stop Cy, the Kid wasn't paying attention in the first place," Ralph advised his fellow Bad Guy who paused while some of the Arcade Game Characters saw Morgana's eyes were gradually glowing yet started to dim once he stopped shaking her, "But this Child stepped on my eye… It's going to take at least a few days to grow a new one," Cycloptopus showed with Morgana cringing at it like largely everyone before they all turned to a voice that made Bowsette freeze up from watching Morgana gaze at the woman around her age, in terms, as she comforted the tentacled-like Villain, "Easy guys… Remember our motto in The Meeting we briefly had here in the back."
The woman was dubbed Sorceress.
Sorceress to mention her has light blue skin with long pointed ears, crimson red lips, and eyes. Her hair is long and deep blue color, with side bangs falling over her right eye. The sorceress is also a tall and voluptuous woman, with wide hips and a slim waist; giving her an hourglass figure. She wears a red Victorian-style dress with a sweetheart neckline sitting low on her easy yet perky DD-Cups, and her dress has thigh-high slits in the front. She also wears matching red opera-colored gloves with white cufflinks and russet, knee-high platform stiletto boots. She tops off her ensemble with a white collar and diamond-like pendant around her neck, dark blue eyeshadow, and crimson manicured nails.
Sorceress briefly froze, however, as she oddly felt zapped somehow from staring right at the child's unique-looking eyes before she shook her head and gently patted the monster-like villain, and Cycloptopus hesitantly placed the child down and just left while grumbling to himself.
When Sorceress proceeded to touch the child's shoulder to get her out of her dazed look, however, something unexpected happened to remind others to not startle her after Chipana explained briefly to those she trusted later on a certain day: It was pure, chaotic, accidental magic from fear to what her mind made up as to what Cycloptopus was going to do to her, plus her past, mixed.
Tapper's root beer filler started shooting streams of the beverages randomly, the cards everyone was using for some card games oddly came to be cartoonish while also tap dancing, and the pictures with Tapper's Game for drawings of Game Characters, to everyone's surprise, began moving within their frames and even going into some of the paintings Tapper had. There was randomness everywhere while Morgana was having a panic attack after so long.
"Somebody do something!" "What is going on?!" "My soup is attacking me!" Were a few complaints from some Game Characters with Tapper not comprehending what to do, for once.
Without warning though, Morgana's magic acted up and teleport all but Tapper, back to the Station everyone glanced upwards at seeing Morgana was in a shield of jade-like energy, and sparks of energy were also striking the ground, and everyone but those that get involved with the children staying along with Sorceress realizing while shouting at her spot near them, "She's a magic-user!"
"A magical what?!" Bowsette states in surprise aloud with the Surge Protector safely guiding the other Game Characters to safety along with the few others as a bizarre wind proceeded picking up while they heard Morgana whimper to herself while twitching, "A magical user! She gets easily triggered by a past event that causes her magic to act out, especially whatever her race is mixed with a human girl's!" Sorceress shouts for everyone to hear her as Shadow stayed alongside Subzero while the others were escorting the children and Children-based Game Characters to the nearest safety route to a game as the odd wind was picking up and things starting to get intense with random spots while glimpsing chocolate rain and ball-based hail objects about the size of a basic snowball, hitting random things.
"The child's attack is effectively accurate to what I sense is fear," Subzero states to everyone while erecting an icy shield-like barrier Shadow sensing the child's emotions, grabbed Bowsette, and before she could speak they saw him pull a Chaos Emerald to give him looks for, scoffed, and teleport them into the expanding barrier Morgana set up.
Morgana'sHeart:
Shadow and Bowsette were confused along with being astounded to be on a stained-glass platform of sorts and saw the child herself curled into a ball in the center with her form being covered in the same barrier, and with her crying and having dazed eyes.
"I wouldn't get too close if I was you two when she gets like this… Well, you get shocked, to say the least," a female voice states to the two as they turned and saw it was Xion who only held eyes of sympathy at Morgana's Soul and who kept crying to herself.
"Who are you, Girl?" Shadow states firmly with narrowed eyes full of suspicion with Bowsette glancing around the location and saw it was only this platform and nothing else as at the edge was that, a bottomless pit of endless darkness and oddly… The energy of sorts, "My name, Hedgehog, is Xion. Morgana here is presently going on one of her rare Panic Attacks she thought she could control by herself. With myself and discreetly Larxene aiding her at times."
"Aiding her… On what?" Bowsette states in a mix of small curiosity and oddly enough, dread from already guessing by the silence Xion did, she sighed and worded pointedly at them while crossing her arms with a shiver as if she witnessed things, which she had for Morgana's entire life (reminding ya all), "That is personal, but all I can say is that she only recently, for a while, has only received love and care by Kin, and those she could be dubbed as friends or non-blooded family."
Bowsette stared at Morgana with sadness as despite her code of how she came to be in the hands of her brother since her code as she was is just a test run through some Arcade Games she lives in, she understood with Shadow scoffing and declaring firmly, "On the outside, the Child is currently going to destroy Game Central Station if she isn't stopped- Out of my way," Shadow was then blocked by Xion who shook her head firmly before gazing at Bowsette as both Shadow and her blinked in surprise at her words, "Not you… She has to go over there."
Gesturing to herself, Bowsette noted in disbelief, "Me? Why do I have to go over there?" Noticing the look on Xion's face before she stiffened in shock just like Shadow, was at this news from the ebony-haired girl, "Due to you and someone you recognize being declared as Soulmates. She has at least quite a few unknowingly to her already available… If you saw the runes on her left arm as the right would be her Sister's by Magic, eventually." Bowsette sighed yet looked at the child before the ground shook briefly with Xion gazing worried and soon stating warily, all at the same time, "Though you may want to hurry as I have a feeling it's going to get worse the longer you delay, on the outside."
Bowsette nodded and proceeded to head to Morgana's Soul while Shadow became confused yet went wide-eyed once Xion handed him a small sphere while whispering things into his ear briefly as they saw the Half-Koopa female was struggling yet was slowly successful at grabbing the child as said barrier she had immediately wrapped around them both.
Morgana stiffened yet shortly relaxed once a familiar and oddly fire-like soothing presence was wrapped around her spectral body now, and her magic reacted accordingly: Her eyes glowed while at the same time a bright light was shown to blind everyone, and Xion then saw she was alone once again- "Nice timing there Scatter, but did you have to give that one of many souls away to that Hedgehog?" Larxene states while she appeared while wearing a lightning-themed nightgown that clings to her decently and since they figured things out for some time, a cup of coffee with a hint of mint chocolate in her hands.
Xion only gave her elder sister as from the time being (with Morgana they called each other that), "Yes as I'm surprised she was supposed to be from that world yet was… Well, you recalled some of them ending up as Soul Gems anyways, right Larxene?" The former Lightning-Based Nobody as titled: The Savage Nymph, only nodded as confidentially, she used this time to think how she was played by Marluxia and also back then discreetly as Wielders to when they were forced to become Nobodies, back then. "Yes, what of it?"
"She wanted to be with him, even if he isn't the same Hedgehog she knew yet… I have a feeling that those Game Characters might be around more than we think once Mary's Adventure in their world is over. A hunch that is." Xion then declares while she sat near the bottom of the stained glassed platform with Larxene only nodding before they stilled and stared at the center as an odd source of light was produced, and saw it was Hecate.
"Correct, as there are secretly Soul Gems within the Books or Other, and some from her current adventures I saved yet also lost due to a… Unfortunate timing long ago, but she could bring them back as whole entities once again. Each gem contains a single to a group of individuals that in time, would get used to their permanent situation. As their universe that they once lived in, was long and gone by an event long, long ago, and they were the only surviving entities to live." Hecate declared while sadly admitting something of the past to widen the eyes of the two females as Xion stood up and was then next to Larxene.
Hecate though paused before to their surprise, brought forth a gem that held traces of Bowsette's flames discreetly within, "Not known to those within the Book the Chosen Child is now in, Bowsette's involvement was my own doing as privately… Her mother was indeed real along with her father, but she was not from the Book. She came from another place and dimension where she was originally an elemental witch. A Fire Elemental and such, she chose to sacrifice herself yet as a price, the former life she left behind for a new one... She cannot have this yet unless she too passes her test."
Beholding the stares she gave them yet to confuse them both, handed the gem to Xion yet astonished them by her sad yet hopeful announcement to the girl, "Soon a time will come she would need it, and thus your life will begin anew as agreed. Larxene, however," Hecate looks at her as the blonde, in turn, looked away, "Still has as yet to earn her part."
Not giving time for them to settle on this, she vanished before they could ask her what she meant by what she said and sighed at once with each other before Xion deadpanned at Larxene who immediately held a deck of basic cards she swiped from Lexion before her demise, by a Keyblader named Sora, from their original universe, "Want to play a game?"
The Big Day, A Week Later within The Player's Book:
Things were as normal as can be within the Game Central Station… If you count Morgana, Chipana, Elisa, and Trinaza as a part of their lives that is as with them, things were never dull slightly.
Morgana surprisingly was for a time, her former self yet she grew out of it and was the sweet, adorable, little, young, Chaosarinian Child, she was, and both the other girls still wore their outfits presently charmed to stay clean from a few days ago, accidentally, by Morgana's sneezing.
Chipana, however, ended up being mutated by accident from her overstepping her boundaries when it was "Game Time" within the Turtle's Game.
She oddly became a monkey-like girl from the rare monkey that Shredder was going to use as a new soldier via code added in for a bonus level eventually, and with red fur only on all over her forearms and lower legs and still kept her original hair color as highlights, her tail though being red but with a blonde tip at the end, her eyes were also dark-pink in color, small yet cute fangs showing from her upper lip, and grew a few inches in height past Morgana's current.
Elisa although, was presently nonetheless hanging out with Angela after said Gargoyle Female was introduced to the three girls, was dealing with the now dragon-sized egg that was formerly that very orb itself within the Mortal Kombat Game, and Demona getting sucked into the place as well for that to occur a few days beforehand.
Trinaza, well… She was having a blast at being taught things with Chaos Control just like Morgana was since the time Shadow entered her "Heart", and the two were slowly getting better control at using Chaos Magic mixed with that, and with Trinaza using a foci version though from not only touching a Chaos Emerald, but from Rouge the Bat giving the child a bracelet to focus on as a "Shadow-like Bracelet" made from several melted Golden Rings they had in the game, but in a bronze coating.
Bowsette was getting used to after the shock of the last week's events of being not only a Soulmate yet from Dr. Eggman himself (after asking), was that she was like Morgana and Co. now: Living-like Data of sorts instead of Basic, like everyone else, and it seems not only her but Sorceress (to their shock) was as well when she too went to visit.
However, to Sorceress' and a few others horrors, her game was unplugged four days ago due to an unusual virus affecting it (and not two certain ones, but an odd virus that no one could explain), and now was living as a guest until further notice with Bowsette, back within Koopa Keep. The others from her game were also either living within the Station or in other games.
There were a few times, however, of an issue, Morgana was confused by since Belle never gave her "The Talk" as of yet, and well...
(Flashback Begins, five days ago, in the Morning)
Morgana woke up with her stomach hurting her while she was sleeping next to Bowsette on her bed which her's was like a female rock star's room, mixed with a freestyle-like princess' room in her elder half-brother's theme.
Morgana felt off for some reason, and her body was also sore all over. She didn't see the bloated belly she had as if she ate a week's worth of food yet if she touched it, would be hard as a rock.
So she carefully while trying to not wince, hurried to the bathroom, sat on the toilet, and proceeded to do her business with some trouble while also oddly enough, hearing a clunking sound within the bowl of the toilet itself after approximately going at it for twelve or so minutes, along with a warmer liquid flowing after.
Once she was done while feeling dread from both Xion and Larxene at discreetly discovering something she didn't go to flush it, blinked, and then screamed loud enough to wake the entire castle, and since everyone was presently staying within the castle by the offer of Bowser.
Bowsette hearing her firstly, woke up with a start and headed over into her bathroom while beholding Morgana wasn't next to her and was about to ask what was wrong yet froze before groaning at recognizing the child's state of distress: She had a mix of blood she knew well within the toilet along with an egg that was dissolving into dust. It seems she is one of the early females in what Sorceress told us. Bowsette warily thought as she proceeded to clean the child up since she was frozen in a feared state once again. Thankfully her magic isn't acting up from this shock. Bowsette added to herself.
Elisa came then after almost ten minutes of trying to calm the child down yet failed and saw the state of things, and Bowser sensing a female topic coming along made sure everyone was not around them while she entered and was stunned by the fact this occurred early for Morgana while knowing the child was very young.
"It seems we need to explain things," Elisa states to Bowsette who only nodded yet states to secretly worry Elisa over while she also heard oddly enough, Trinaza growling behind Bowsette's door to let her in along with Chipana agreeing with her in fear, "Seems she is too scared to comprehend things right now to do that though… Yet it might be her race and to what she formerly was as a Human, to end up like this."
Elisa only nodded as she aided Bowsette in calming Morgana down, and eventually explained things while the Half-Koopa gave the child a mixture she made for her own time and she felt better, but still weak which she explained was to be expected until a day passed, and was told to take it easy.
(Flashback Ends, Present)
Presently, we take our gaze to Morgana, Chipana, and Trinaza as they were in Tappers with Bowsette as the others were busy now as it was around nighttime, and were drinking root beers while playing a game with each other.
They were also with two of the Sugar Rush Characters (surprisingly around their ages for all the Game Characters): Crumbelina DiCaramello and Candlehead.
Crumbelina DiCaramello is a pretty young girl with a terracotta-colored complexion, honey-amber eyes, and deep brown hair that is pulled into tight buns on either side of her head. The curls of her buns have gold streaks that seem to resemble cinnamon buns. She wears a beige racing cap that is drizzled with chocolate and has a heart on it and the brim appears to be made of some sort of cookie. Crumbelina's jacket is metallic gold and her skirt is a latte hue, while her shirt is white with a chocolate filigree in the middle. Her leggings are a deep brown with darker stripes that match her boots with little hearts on them.
Candlehead is a young, rosy-skinned girl with green eyes. She wears a pink jacket and skirt with a brown diagonally striped shirt beneath it. She also wears brown leggings with pink polka dots, black shoes that have little waves of pink icing, and a large chocolate-colored cupcake hat with pink icing and a candle on the top. While racing, she wears a large cupcake helmet similar to her beanie, complete with a candle on top, as well as a dark pink visor. Candlehead often has a happy and careless expression (which was often) and wears her mint-green hair in two low pigtails.
Morgana encountered these two by mere accident when she was with Sorceress; the same day she was Gameless, and let's say it was interesting...
(Flashback Begins, a Few Hours After Sorceress' Game was Unplugged)
Morgana was holding hands with her other Soulmate after being explained gently by Sorceress as to what they were and realized that the girls she felt with all her heart (no pun intended as such), was why they were able to calm her down more than Belle, and anyone else, and even her also realizing if they needed something or other.
Now, they were heading to Street Fighter since they were going to do matches since they were bored before she bumped into three girls. Two of them were mentioned as Crumbelina rubbed her head, the last girl was what Morgana remembered was Jubileena Bing-Bing.
Jubileena was shaking her head slightly while like them, giving her an odd glance as she is a pretty, young girl characterized by her candied cherry theme. She has bright crimson hair that is pulled into pigtails on the sides of her head with bead bobbles. In addition, she wears a sugared cherry helmet with a red visor for racing. She wears a white shirt with two cherries on it, and it is topped by a small red jacket and a frilly red skirt with cherries at the end. Her leggings are a lighter shade of deep pink and she wears ruby-colored boots with green-striped and red-polka-dotted legwarmers. Jubileena has a soft vermilion skin tone with rosy cheeks and mahogany eyes.
"I'm sorry… Here let me help you out since your food's on you," Morgana said while recognizing they must have come from Tappers to indeed get the three young racers to glance at their clothes in looks of going to rant yet paused by what she said, and blinked from Morgana using her Chaos Magic mainly to clean their food up yet said food… Was then sent right at the Surge Protector who sighed while disintegrating the food, and resumed his check-ups.
"Wow… Do that again," Candlehead states in amazement with both Crumbelina and Jubileena sighing at their friend's antics while also glancing at Morgana while wondering what game she came from as this was the first time they ever saw her, "Sorry bout Candle… She tends to be a little dizzy sometimes," Crumbelina states to Morgana who only tilted her head to the right while Sorceress was half-amused at this, while still feeling sad about her Game.
"It's ok… Who are you three?" Morgana started with them looking relieved yet they blinked at her and questioned them oddly feeling that she was kind and stated, while they shook her hand with Jubileena and introduced them all, "My name is Jubileena, this is Candlehead, and Crumbelina as we're racers from Sugar Rush."
Sorceress came off more amused at the odd knowing yet innocent act Morgana pulled off as she was somewhat more relaxed at the abrupt knowing of Morgana, then others, even Bowsette being told by her yet sworn an oath to not reveal anything, unless Morgana wants to.
"You mean the Candy Racing Game?" Morgana immediately asked with all three girls nodding with a pleased smile, "Ya, and we were celebrating my new record I gained from Mop Girl playing me," Candlehead states with Jubileena and Crumbelina being suspicious only slightly at the knowing in Morgana's eyes yet saw the glimpse in her orbs that Sorceress saw and getting an odd feeling to include these three, "Well… We could do something between all five of us if you want? I currently have enough Digits (4) for use at the Street Fighter Competition they're having."
Now starting at her suspiciously yet shrugged, they accepted while not knowing back in their game… Morgana's handshake she did while secretly her magic acting up, done something to the three girls when she arrives officially at their game.
(Flashback Ends; Present)
"Got any fives?" Crumbelina asked Candlehead as Jubileena to their sadness, had to fix their cart up before the Roster Rally in a few hours, "Nope, none at all this time."
Morgana giggled at her friends as Crumbelina only groaned before drinking her root beer as they all turned rather unexpectedly as Ralph came into the bar looking upset, and more grumpy than usual.
"Say… Isn't that the Ralph person you told us to be not scared of, Mary?" Chipana asked while she loved her new monkey appendage since she amused her friends and her "Mate" as her new animal instincts keeps telling her that about Morgana (without meaning to), since her tail was holding the mug while she was eating chili-cheese fries with one hand, and in the other was her set of cards.
Morgana nodded while she didn't see the knowing glances they all gave her and Bowsette sensing that Morgana wanted to go and possibly cheer up Ralph, sighed while giving her approval while making Morgana beam at Bowsette before she made the Half-Koopa blush from her hugging and also kissing her cheek, innocently, and left them all with her tail wagging.
Seeing the looks she received as Chipana was reluctantly accepting the fact of Bowsette and the other woman being part of their pack, she only expressed to get deadpanned looks or a facepalm from both Crumbelina and Trinaza, "What?"
With Ralph and Tapper as the little man was cleaning his root beer mug and was listening to the big man, "I've never been more serious about anything in my life. That's why I came straight here, Tapper," discerning that Tapper was listening while cleaning still from the nods he was doing, "You've never given me a bum steer. Now, where can a guy like me go and win a Medal?"
Tapper sighed while giving an unsure gaze at Ralph while admitting things to the large man, "I don't think such a game exists, Ralph." Ralph though appeared to look desperate at Tapper to his sad understanding like a few others about his situation, and guessed he came here instead of his 30th Anniversary of the Game he lives in… It turns out so well, "Come on, you know people. There's got to be" "Tapper! Need a root beer!" A random Game Character states to get Tapper's attention and held up a finger while Ralph nods, "Hold that thought."
If we take our view right now, you would see most of the Game Characters along with Morgana and Co., as 8-Bit Characters from the screen on Tapper's Game: Root Beer Tapper, while Tapper went and gave Ryu and a few others another root beer before returning to Ralph, "You were saying."
"I was saying, I can't spend another thirty years living alone in the garbage. I'm not going back without a Medal." Ralph confessed to Tapper as the Bar Keeper of the Game proceeded to think while cleaning more mugs and shrugged while noting to him, "Well, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe somebody left a Medal here. You're welcome to dig through the lost and found."
Ralph seemed to be getting to do just that after paying some Digits, before he bumped into Morgana and blinked while easily righting her up to stand, "Hey there Liz, What are you doing over here?"
Ralph has only seen Morgana off and on from time to time, along with the others yet he could say they were largely acquaintances at best while then blinking in sad surprise by her words of kindness, "I saw you like the others coming in while looking upset, and well… I thought I cheer you up."
Touched by the kid's kindness, he then got an idea while leading Morgana to where the Back Room was, "Why not help me get something, Liz?"
While Bowsette and the others decided to leave since they trusted Ralph and realized Morgana wouldn't have left them if it wasn't safe, the two were now at the Broom Closet while they saw a few boxes of things some Game Characters may have left behind with Morgana looking into one and Ralph in another. Behind them, we see a hallway with the saloon doors on one side and restrooms on the other.
"Okay let's see what we've got here…" Ralph states to himself before he shooed a cockroach that was in the box away Ralph did state anything within the boxes she could add into the bag she has with her, at all times, and she found quite a lot. "Mushroom. No..." Ralph states while tossing the one Mushroom that Morgana felt would possibly aid her eventually, and took that from him, "What is this? No." Ralph shortly tossed a pair of briefs that possibly belonged to Zangief and he shivered from seeing they were soiled, "Gross."
"Hey Mister Ralph, what's this?" Morgana asked while holding up an item that confused even him as it was an oval gem of sorts with an odd casing design around it entirely that seemed to be Feudal-like within the center, an odd pink jewel of sorts was in it as the casing itself being the design of vines, "Not sure Squirt… Did you find anything in that box that's a Medal?"
Ralph gawked at what the child found in more luck than him: A One-Up Mushroom, a strange key that was immediately attached to her bag (5), a can of mutagen that looked to be Amber then green, a Golden Ring, and let's just say a lot of things from primarily all the Games that have items and leave it at that except for one thing: No Medals at all.
Just then Ralph was bumped into while Morgana was still looking at another box while showing more things into her enchanted bag by an armored man. The man, Markowski, is a bald, fair-skinned man and the same as Ralph in height. He also has brown eyebrows and dark brown eyes. He wears a black helmet, and a red and black armor suit, with his name on the left.
Though what made Ralph be confused as Morgana was busy gazing into the last box and found a few more of those odd gems, kept running into the wall while hearing him mumble something, and Ralph holding back his retort while asking in odd concern slightly while being weirded out yet also curious, "You okay there, Cadet?"
Markowski whips around hastily and grabs Ralph by the collar and states to him on a way to know he was overwhelmed, "We've only been plugged in for a while and every day it's climbing the building. Fight bugs. Climb the building. Fight more bugs." Ralph then pries Markowski's hands off of his collar due to him being weirded out still as Morgana was done and was oddly enough, felt like she was a little as well from glimpsing this as Markowski was then rambling on, "Yeah yeah yeah, right. Hey, easy on the overalls spaceman. It's tough all over," Ralph tells the soldier yet as he was getting ready to head out he froze at overhearing the words that came out of Markowski's mouth next, "... And all for what? A lousy medal."
"Medal? You win a Medal?" Ralph states in growing excitement to the soldier who was baffled only slightly yet still stressed from today and the entire week, for his game, "Yeah. Medal of Heroes," Markowski tells Ralph who then asked still on growing excitement while holding onto the man's shoulders, "Ooooh. Is it shiny?" Markowski only nodded while expressing, "Pretty shiny." Morgana held in a laugh at how childish Ralph was acting as he asked next in confirmation, "Ooooh. And it says Hero on it? And like you stated, you win it by climbing a building?" Markowski only nodded once again while being freaked out now, "And fighting Bugs."
Morgana remembered what he was talking about and was curious about what she knew about the Bugs themselves yet looked on as Ralph then began to ask Markowski then while he still held him, "Right. Bugs. Listen: Is there any chance I could go with you to your game and get one of those Medals-" "Negatory." Markowski then told him firmly.
"Does that mean maybe?" Ralph hoped with Morgana knowing otherwise as Markowski shook his head no before he gave a stare at Ralph while announcing a matter-of-factually, "Look, only the bravest and the best service in our corps-" The little cockroach from before climbs up the wall beside him. Markowski soon sees it and squeals like a baby and with him having a fear of bugs due to the periods within the game he lives in, "BUG! AAAAEEEEK!" He goes running away, but he slams right into the wall and passes out.
Ralph stares down at him and gets an idea with Morgana confusing him yet giving a small smile with oddly knowing orbs, "I'll meet you at the Game… I may have a way to fool the Surge Protector for me," before he could stop her, she left to get him to sigh yet he began stripping the soldier and placing his gear onto himself.
Moments later Morgana sighed as she saw everyone heading back to the games since time did fly when she was having fun, and Trinaza and Chipana went with Shadow for Martial Arts Training which he allowed Morgana to skip as for some reason, she easily learned his and the others techniques within every game but were rather puzzled as to why she managed more from actual combat or duels.
Privately though, said God that blessed Morgana with his "Misplaced Gift" back in Morgana's Birthrealm in a faraway place that is, hit his head while declaring 'idiot' with a celestial gently patting his back since it was accidental yet figured it was too late, back then, mostly since as she ages would also receive a certain wishes' outcome around ten or so.
Bowsette was reluctantly letting Morgana be by herself while ignoring the odd feeling of dread about it and headed back to her game with the Sugar Rush Racers heading back shortly to theirs.
Morgana currently gave her carry-out bag to Q-Bert and the Gang while he thanked her, looked onward in confusion with her tilting her head before noticing Game Time was soon yet she also saw Ralph in Markowski's Soldier Gear, going with the rest in their game instead of his game.
Q-Bert had wide eyes at realizing who that was yet he and the others were startled by seeing Morgana do something too sudden while pointing to herself and was gone but not really, as she mentally cheered her Invisibility Spell worked and promptly ran to catch up to the Soldiers Of Hero's Duty.
In the Humanoid Version of this world, the owner of the arcade began to open his doors as kids and families came into the room as it was the beginning of Summer.
A ten-year-old girl that the Game Characters dubbed as Moppet Girl or Serina Jasmine Willow, is a young girl with shoulder-length blonde hair, pink glasses, a red headband, and a slight gap in her front teeth. She wears a violet floral T-shirt under a pink sweater with red sleeves, along with blue leggings, white ankle socks, and grey sneakers with a purple stripe. Moppet Girl also has fair peach-toned skin, blue eyes, rosy cheeks, and an upturned nose.
She was the frequent Player of their games and they comprehended her well enough discreetly from the Orphanage in the city the Arcade was placed was located and headed to the Game she was going to try and beat this time: Hero's Duty.
Back within the Game itself, Morgana was apprehensive while she gripped her bag and her tail confused some Soldiers with Ralph not knowing since he was seated further away, by her tail slapping their legs or arms. Maybe I should have gone to Sugar Rush instead... Morgana thought before feeling the spaceship-like tram stop.
The doors open then to make Morgana shortly bolt it, along with the others while briefly watching a smiling Ralph and a few other soldiers run out. Then while Ralph glances around in awe and the Game's Music commenced on starting up, "Quarter alert! Quarter alert!" The Game announced aloud with her ignoring what Ralph was noting to himself.
Morgana then started hearing the Game's Introduction by imagining the girl that played the game just launched. "On a planet with no name. A top-secret experiment has gone wrong-" she held in a yelp as her tail was walked on by a random soldier doing so, and pouted from not listening to the rest yet soon followed them down the ramp and to where she recognized the entrance to the outside of the Game was.
Morgana then realized she was somehow in front of the soldiers and decided to stand near the doors while she saw a woman arrive in the room.
The woman or otherwise known as Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun is close to Ralph's height (although this could just be due to the differences in their game proportions), a gorgeous woman who is wearing heavy form-fitting black and red armor. Her suit is indeed heavy black armor that covers every inch of her skin excluding her neck, face, and head. Several points throughout the suit are, however, illuminated with red lights. A metal belt containing her blaster is lastly held around her waist. Calhoun also has a large bust, a slim waist, and long shapely legs while, at the same time, having fair skin and short golden blonde hair. Her hair is also cut into a short-bob plus choppy-pixie cut style with side bangs. Her eyes are a decent bright blue while she also wears coral-colored eyeshadow and thick black eyeliner with long dark lashes, and deep rosy pink lips (of all the Main Characters, mentioning this, Calhoun retains the most realistic appearance and resemblance to a real human being).
"Alright, now listen up 'cause I'm only gonna say this once: Fear is a four-letter word, ladies. If you wanna go pee-pee in your big boy slacks, keep it to yourself! It's the make-your-mamas-proud time!" She declares in a tone to get Morgana to understand she was encouraging her men yet heard Ralph shout something yet heard a random Soldier state then to Calhoun and with the Sergeant thought she saw something near the doors yet mentally shrugged, "Heads up! First-Person Shooter coming through."
Not only did Ralph blinks at the robot that came out from when the soldiers moved, but so did Morgana, as it was a rinky-dink robot with a flat-screen head that displays the countdown to gameplay. Stiff mechanical arms holding a gun. The wheels are wobbly to simulate walking.
Morgana paled though at her location and hastily moved as she not only heard the countdown from the Game Announcer, but Calhoun reloaded her weapon while remarking to the robot as she saw the girl appear on the screen with a determined gaze in it, "We are humanity's last hope. Our mission: Destroy all Cy-Bugs," Morgana decoded to stick with the Robot she saw was labeled FPS and saw Ralph sneak past the soldiers to be behind the FPS, "You ready Rookie? Let's find out."
Morgana though half-agreed with Ralph by barely glimpsing his facial gesture as the door opened up and saw the area was dark, somewhat storming with rainless lightning, a tall yet menacing tower of sorts that would be futuristic, and saw the so-called Cy-Bugs flying swiftly out of the building from the sharp and twisted terrain, and rock formations and with the wind of this games dubbed planet being somewhat harsh.
The Cy-Bugs as their name suggests, are robotic creatures closely resembling insects, vastly striking to silverfish in design with four glowing, green eye-like optics and razor-sharp metallic teeth.
"Sweet Mother Hubbard," Ralph states to himself in uncertainty yet they were all pushed out with Morgana holding onto her tail so it wouldn't get smashed again as they all left the safety area and into the first part of the game.
"Cy-bug, twelve o'clock. Take it, Newbie." Calhoun states with Morgana noticing the robot began copying what she dubbed as Gamer Girl in her head and was shooting the Cy-Bugs with ease while observing unlike them, Ralph was running around in a panic. He then raises his gun and shoots randomly. "Watch it, Rookie! These monsters are what they eat," Calhoun declares to the FPS and Morgana guessing this was rehearsed while discovering that a Cy-Bug took Ralph's Gun that Cadet Markowski had on his gear, and ate it.
She held back a laugh with a mix of worry from watching the Bug assemble the gun within its arms and proceeded to go after Ralph while shooting randomly.
"Shoot the eggs before they hatch!" Calhoun then states before shooting the same Bug that had the weapons assembled that was chasing Ralph and heard his stray comment while noticing Gamer Girl paused at what she was doing and was staring at Ralph as well in confusion with Calhoun laughing hesitantly and grabbed while whispering something to him and the FPS froze while detecting Morgana's Spell shimmer slightly to briefly reveal herself to even get Serina, to be astonished by while thinking on in a mix of confusion and also being weirded out, That's odd… The last time I played this game the game didn't act like this, particularly that odd girl I think it was- No I saw.
Calhoun shoves Ralph while not glimpsing Morgana's Spell waver at all, expressed assuredly while still acting like she was supposed to from the game to the FPS, "All right people, the kitten whispers and tickle fights stop now, the entrance to the lab is straight ahead."
Ralph heard this, and looked relieved while stating allowed to have Calhoun to stare at him while telling him a loud no, "I'll meet you guys inside. Sanctuary! Sanctuary!"
Once Ralph crosses the bridge with Morgana yelping while tripping over a few eggs and her magic acting up and getting sent right into them as they were hatching, tripped and landed in some mechanical parts that were leftover of some of the Bugs, to her disgust, as once the entrance opened up her magic proceeded acting up once again to make everyone wonder what the heck happened: Firstly, the Bugs looked around in confusion as their vision was blurred while roaring at each other, Ralph took this chance to hide, Calhoun and Co. started shooting the Bugs as they were yet more came out that commenced attacking and Ralph freaking out before he accidentally shoved the FPS near Morgana with something odd occurring immediately on the outside of the game, to the Second Thing that happened.
With Serina, she started to freak out while beholding everyone was still distracted somehow as the game screen began wavering while making a sucking motion, and with a fearful yelp, she was sucked right into the game.
Back in the Game, Morgana yelped as a Cy-Bug that remained gotten clear sight yet its body was glowing an odd aura from absorbing her magic easily and recognizing her as food from its vision going thermal, went after her except a bright light that attracted Calhoun and was in shock like everyone else as both Serina and Bug merged along with the FPS, and a backup rapidly being coded due to this and was rolling shortly back into the field.
Morgana was instantly in regret while she soon ran inside the building before the doors closed as everyone but Calhoun and Ralph as she was about to rant at him, proclaimed aloud in disbelief at the Mutated-Player and with Ralph taking this chance to avoid her, and headed over to aid the other soldiers.
Serina immediately has a metallic-like sheen to the Bugs themselves while having everything being a living-like machine and thankfully her outfit wasn't ruined as well from the unexpected, accidental, Chaos Magic from Morgana. She also has the same eye color and the same number of eyes as she had as a former human, but like the Bugs as well along with her glasses gone, and had clawed hands you would see from a Neoshadow Heartless (with the digits being metallic-silver), and she no longer could wear shoes as her feet were raptor-bug like.
"What is burning blazes is going on around here?!" Calhoun declares while beholding the backup show up while looking annoyed, and decided to add the remaining soldiers on shooting the remaining Cy-Bugs yet more kept coming as Cadet Kohut declared aloud, "Beacon it up!" A beacon light unexpectedly shines through the center of the building and out the top making all the bugs that remained get light-blue eyes and begin heading up to it only to get deleted.
Ralph was relieved yet they didn't see Calhoun come over, and jump while she was bounding over to him with narrowed eyes while asserting his gears name, "Markowski!"
"Who? Oh, yeah, me, I'm Markowski," Ralph was briefly confused before correcting himself while Calhoun then used the butt of her gun to hit the back of Ralph's head while he expressed a brief 'Ow' to her, "What's the some of the few rules of Hero's Duty?" She gave him an irritated stare at him his hesitant answer then, "Uhh, no cuts, no buts, no coconuts? Ow!" She then whacked him on the helm again and told him then with narrowed eyes, "Never interfere with the First Person Shooter's task at hand, and not cause problems with the game itself… Which you somehow did with 'The Player' merging with it!" Ralph went wide-eyed while they winced at noticing then as the girl then gained another set of arms that were related to a Cy-Bug, and lastly wings on her back without her outfit being damaged yet, at the same time, adjusted.
"See what I mean? What if that Girl had a family or anything?" Ralph was about to state something yet paused, and then implored with Calhoun immediately being confused by his words, "Wait… This happened before?"
Calhoun sighed at him yet gave Ralph a glance of being irritated, "Yes, Cadet. As a reminder, our game was supposed to be a Military Program yet they decided against it, and used the Program itself as entertainment with a side effect of anyone who interferes with the program, ended up with unexpected consequences into the game." And that's all I know so far as to that as they're still looking into the Code. Calhoun added as an afterthought to herself primarily.
Calhoun instantly sighed while hearing the "Alert" from the Game's Announcer and told him while giving him a new weapon, "Now stick with the Program while I get this girl to Winston and maybe, just maybe, not consider this a screw-up on your part Markowski." Calhoun easily picked up the girl, and carried her while shouting aloud for everyone, "Get to starting positions again Maggots!"
Once she left, Ralph scoffed to himself while then gazing at the tower, "Yeah, right. No way I'm going through that again... So that's where they keep the Medal, huh?"
With Morgana as time passed and not knowing Bowsette approximately tripped over herself as she was picked for a Player at her game from feeling Morgana's fear earlier or the others know what was going on, and doing their things and even certain characters as well, she was somehow able to sneak her way to an elevator she encountered that goes all the way up, yet was presently petting a Baby Cy-Bug that cooed at her as the others that followed them… They were crushed by an odd-looking block that appeared out of nowhere and vanished into data.
It was like the other Cy-Bugs but differently, as the Cy-Bug was a female of sorts and unlike what she remembered of them, it didn't grow at all within the time limit and had gained an odd coloring to its eyes that were now hazel and the pupils were Cybertronian-like optical blue in the left and red as well on the right.
It kept cooing at her as she held the baby which she thought was cute yet was surprised by the odd intelligent-like gaze it had as she curiously glanced around all of the small elevators, Well… I guess my magic does affect things in this Book. Morgana thought while she reached the top level immediately, and once the doors opened she blinked in surprise as it was the final level of the tower at the top of it with her beholding the very eggs, and where the Medal was.
Morgana heard a window crash to let her know that Ralph was here at last, and hid while trying to avoid touching more eggs. As she did indeed see Ralph but as himself while figured his Soldier Gear that he borrowed was down below. She saw him staring at the Medal then while noting more to himself with a gaze of greed, hope, and something close to acceptance, at last, she guessed that is, within his orbs, "Oooh, shiny."
Down below and moments ago, the soldiers were just finishing clearing the Bugs with Calhoun sighing yet was surprised to know that the infusion girl was the Main Player to Litwak's Arcade, and the rumored Moppet Girl as well.
Even finding out after a DNA Test she was still human yet also considered as a Techno-Organic as well, and immune to the "Beam Effect" thankfully and not at all hostile when she woke up yet passed out after telling them things, in her reluctance. At least no one would care if she was missing or not, Calhoun mentally tells herself as she shot the last Cy-Bug down which oddly enough, did a jig somehow, as the few that remained were erratic at least.
"Attention: The Arcade is now closed," the Game Announcer declared within their game to relieve her as she knew like everyone that Litwak was closing early due to him taking a vacation for the next three days to visit his daughter's wedding.
Calhoun, however, was suspicious of where the one Cadet for the problem earlier today went to, yet agreed with some of the Soldiers coming back, "Did you get a load of Markowski? He was more awkward than normal."
She stiffened at hearing a familiar sound and raised her fist immediately to make her troops silent and become alert while she stops, squinted, sniffed, "Shut your chew holes," they all heard the familiar sound then, "Cy-Bug..." she states to herself while they prepped their weapons as it got louder and louder.
A figure then was at the entrance to the supposed downed ship and they began firing upon her order with the figure bouncing and "Blinging" each time he moved out of the way until Calhoun pinned the man down.
He is a diminutive man wearing a light blue plumber's shirt, dark blue jeans, and a blue cap with gold initials, along with an aqua name tag on his shirt, a white undershirt, blue eyes, and brown hair. He also wears light brown leather work boots and work gloves along with a plumber's tool belt. And the man always carries a magical, golden hammer that was given to him by his father.
This was Fix-It Felix Jr., from the Game his name is based on.
Calhoun now has the muzzle of her gun shoved into Felix's face, and he started to panic slightly while claiming who and where he was from, "I'm Fix-It Felix Jr., ma'am, from the game: Fix-It Felix, Jr.," he, however, saw Calhoun at his angle and thought he saw an angel, "Jiminy-Jaminy... Look at that high definition. Your face... It's amazing!" Calhoun hid a blush at this as it has been a long time, well to her code that is, that anyone called her that yet shook her head and raised her gun away from him, and remarking back, "Flattery doesn't charge these batteries, Civilian." She then lets him up while firmly asking him or as an order, "Now state your business."
"Oh. I'm looking for my colleague, Wreck-It Ralph," Felix states to her to confuse Calhoun and her troop as she asserted firmly while adjusting her weapon, "Never heard of him."
"Well Q-Bert saw him come in here," Felix then told Calhoun to make her eyes narrow while declaring to him, firmly, "Impossible. Nothing gets past me-" A crash was then heard from above as they all looked to see a silhouette of Ralph breaking the glass to the top of the tower, "That came from the tower!" One of the soldiers' states.
Back with Morgana, she decided to come out of hiding and made Ralph almost trip over some eggs while he placed his hand to his heart, "Geez Kid, warn me next time when you do a trick… Say, how did you get up here so fast?" Ralph asked then while not comprehending the Bug that Morgana was holding like a baby, and shrugged as she used her tail to wordlessly gesture to the elevator behind her to then get him to groan.
Ralph then proceeded to carefully tip-toe around the eggs that pulsed lightly with a green ring going from the bottom, upwards, every five seconds as he neared his goal: The location of the Medal. As he climbed the steps and still avoided the eggs, he started to talk aloud to himself, "Nice little eggs... Excuse me…" he closely jumped though as he activated the hologram.
"Congratulations Soldier. It is my honor to bestow upon you the Medal of Heroes," as the hologram is known as oddly enough General Hologram, spoke, the Medal was gently floating down and was automatically going around Ralph's neck with him being in awe by this yet only slightly irked at discovering Morgana was easily stepping past the eggs and was near him now. "No way. Ho-ho-ho. Wow!" Ralph states as the Hologram displayed congratulations and why it was as General Hologram kept speaking; saluting him largely immediately, "Ten huts! History will long revere your courage and sacrifice." As Ralph walked down the steps that didn't have eggs from Morgana pointing them out, more holograms that were army soldiers commenced clapping at him with Ralph enjoying the phrase of what was presently going in as within his head, daydreaming of the events once he returned to his game.
"You have etched in the rock of virtue, a legacy beyond compare. You are the universe's greatest hero," the Hologram continues while Ralph too absorbed in his phrases by them, didn't hear Morgana tell him to wait yet it was too late for him immediately step on an egg, "Oops. Aye-yai-yai."
Ralph leaned in for a closer look, and started running around as the Bug leaped to his face and latched onto him while Morgana finding it half-funny, went over while aiding him as the Modified Baby Bug stayed on top of her head while cooing out a squeal of excitement by thinking this was a fun game and more eggs hatching as the Hologram continued speaking despite this, "The living embodiment of all that this corps represents: Bravery, integrity, grace under pressure, and above all, dignity."
"Get it off, get it off!" Ralph yelled out to then make Morgana yelp along with the Baby Bug she grabbed as she, the female Baby Bug, the Cy-Bug along with Ralph, were sent into an Escape Pod and it automatically started taking off with Morgana squished while holding the Baby Modified Bug protectively as they were out of control.
Back on the ground, they saw this with one of the Soldiers declaring out loud to which they did, "Incoming! Duck and Cover!" The pod flies over the heads of Calhoun and Felix. As it passes by, Calhoun sees the cy-bug on Ralph's face along with the two discovering Morgana closing her eyes in fear along with her holding another Bug to widen Calhoun's eyes while briefly thinking in utter shock at being impossible, as it fought right through the ship and the team effortlessly.
The pods fly out of the game and into the tunnel to Game Central. Ralph's pod then blasts into the terminal, spiraling like an out-of-control bottle rocket off the floor and walls.
Ralph tries to pry the bug off of his face. With a loud pop, however, it lets go. "Haha!" Ralph states to himself yet freaked out slightly as the former infant grew into an adult version, and proceeded to try and still eat him, "Oh no!"
The space pod launches into the tunnel of another game. The blackness of the tunnel turns pink. Globs of pink goo then shortly commenced collecting on the windshield. "Engine Failure. Engine Failure." The ship's computer announced to them with Morgana's magic acting up to make Bowsette, Chipana, and Sorceress (who was in Tapper's) stiffen and heard the commotion from others along with everyone else about a ship from Hero's Duty exiting and entering another game randomly.
While Ralph screams his head off along with oddly enough, the Cy-Bug, they crashed and Morgana is ejected along with Ralph as the Bug latched onto him yet separated as it then sank within a pond of sorts alongside Morgana ending up on a comfy bush with the Modified Baby Cy-Bug chirping to itself while liking the new location, and Ralph landed headfirst into the ground.
Morgana winced yet felt her magic making her better as she then got up with the hazel-eyed Bug refusing to leave her currently (out of nervousness), and shortly saw and headed to Ralph as she was dumbfounded by pulling him out of the ground easily and staring at her hands as they glowed an eerie green and silver color before fading, "That was interesting… Though please don't do that again at all, Mary," Xion told her while the child felt Larxene was distracted yet agreed with her. Trust me, that is the last… Wait… "We're in Sugar Rush?"
Ralph who didn't hear her, shook his head and then gave Morgana a glance of apology as when she pulled him out, he sat on his behind and got up and was about to speak yet paused at glimpsing just like her in the distance the land on the cliffside they were on. From his vantage point as Morgana was in awe, Ralph can see a candy race track and a bunch of dessert go-karts whizzing by. A giant sign glistens SUGAR RUSH, on it.
"Sugar Rush? Oh no, this is that candy go-kart game over by the Whack-A-Mole. I gotta get out of here," Ralph states with Morgana catching a glimpse of something as Ralph checked over on his body that was missing: The Medal. "No! No-no-no-no-no-NO! My medal! Where is it!" He stopped while perceiving Morgana tug his pants and before he could ask she pointed at the tree and saw it while giving her a grateful glance, "Hey, thanks Liz," and he headed over with Morgana tilting her head while watching him start to climb the Striped Peppermint Tree yet froze at hearing a voice next to her glancing upwards and confused by what Ralph was doing as the tree somewhat shaking due to his weight, "What's that big lug doing?"
The girl around or close to her age is a young girl with fair skin, rosy cheeks, a pink nose, and hazel eyes. Her hair is black and also pulled back into a ponytail; it also being decorated with a various assortment of small candies, and the scrunchie she has appears to be made of red licorice. She wears a light mint-green-colored hoodie with strawberry bootlace tassels and two Reese's Cup wrappers for a skirt. Her mismatched leggings are striped with teal and white, and the left is additionally accented with purple "Double Stripes". She also wears black boots with red frosting scribbles on the soles.
This was Vanellope Von Schweetz, and to what Morgana knew was someone of importance to the Game itself.
Morgana was appointed to shrug and state kindly to her and with Vanellope staring at her in a double-take yet was intrigued by her and the Baby Bug, "Um… Climbing up the tree for something he lost."
Vanellope nodded while obtaining an idea while making Morgana blink as she glitched herself shortly to a part of the limbs that she realized where she would startle- "Hey Mister!" Vanellope shouts to indeed startle Ralph on his task of climbing, "Man! You scared me, Kid! I nearly soiled myself!" Ralph then resumed climbing yet Morgana saw Vanellope glitch to the next branch and indicated in curiosity, "What's your name?" Ralph gave her a glance yet obliged her anyways, "Ralph, Wreck-it Ralph."
Realizing something while glancing to be curious as to why the younger kid was only watching on while holding back a laugh with somehow comprehending something yet maintaining it to herself, shook her head and pointed out to him anyway, "You're not from here, are you?"
Ralph hearing this, commenced to tell her off while trying to not admit it, "No, well, yeah, I mean not from right in this area. But I'm just doing some work here," Ralph then resumed climbing as Vanellope glanced upwards from her spot in her branch while asking, "What kind of work?"
"Some routine candy-tree trimming. You probably want to stand back. This whole area is technically closed while we're trimmin' so-" Ralph started up starting to hear his excuse for climbing the tree yet Vanellope asked him unexpectedly with glimpsing Morgana presently sitting on a rock while observing them still, "Who's we?"
"The… Uh, Candy-Tree Department," Ralph told her while climbing it once again as Vanellope zipped up with a glitch onto a nearby branch and asked him then, "Ah. Where is everybody else?" Ralph glimpsing Morgana petting that odd Bug still yet claimed to her then with Morgana blinking right at him as if to wordlessly state, you're adding me to this, "Oh, it's just me and the Rookie, today."
Amused yet decided to play along with what Morgana saw, Vanellope decided to ask as Ralph resumed climbing, "So, you just meant like the royal we?"
"Yup. That's right," Ralph told her with Vanellope springing up to a branch by his face and hanging upside down to get him annoyed, "Are you a hobo?" Ralph then gave her a stare while expressing firmly to her in irritation, "No, I am not a hobo. But I am busy, so you go, go home." It didn't help that Morgana then laughed a little down below from Vanellope's actions while sitting on the branch and declared to Ralph rolling his eyes, "What's that? I didn't hear you. Your breath is so bad, it made my ears numb."
Now Morgana fell on her back laughing at them as her race's nature found this funny truly for her age range as Ralph and Vanellope proceeded to talk against each other, in mimicking tones, "Listen, I try to be nice-" "I try to be nice." Ralph gazing at her not pleased with annoyance then declared, "You're mimicking me." "You're mimicking me." Irritated with slow-growing anger, he begins to climb up while telling her off, "Okay, that is rude, and this conversation is over."
"That is rude and this conversation is... Hahaha," Vanellope saw where Ralph was heading knowingly while telling him in a mix of a warning and statement, "I wouldn't grab that branch if I were you. It's a double stripe."
Ralph glancing at her, while reaching for said branch she notified him about declared then, "I'm from the Candy-Tree Department. I know exactly-" the branch glowed while dinging a few times before it snapped and Ralph proceeded to fall. "Whoa!" Ralph shouts while he barely manages to catch a lower branch with one hand.
"Double stripes break, ga-doi," Vanellope told him as if it was a matter-of-fact before asking him with wonder, "Hey, why are your hands so freakishly big?" Confused yet irritated, at the same time, he stated to her then in retort, "Uh, I dunno. Why are you so freakishly annoying?"
"Well, why are you so freakishly-" Vanellope proceeded to retort back in fun banter yet saw the glinting of the Medal from this Game's sun, and shouted in both shock and excitement to herself and Ralph realizing where she was staring at, "Sweet mother of monkey milk! A Gold Coin!"
"Don't even think about it. That is mine," Ralph told her in a firm statement aloud while she in return, rapidly told him while moving like a monkey, "Race you for it!" As Ralph followed her, he stated in exclamation, "I don't have to race you for it, because it's mine."
Morgana beholding things are not going so well decided to maybe use her magic to get to the top, and gently placed the Baby Bug while accidentally noting a name for her which she did while looking at her anxiously as her robotic-like mind declared what she was as her designation, "Stay here, Hazel, I'll be back."
While she heard them bicker as Vanellope was in the fun while Ralph was in irritation, they ignored the minor flash of green as Morgana appeared on top and grabbed the medal and when they reached her, they blink in slight surprise, looked at each other with Ralph starting first, "Hey Liz… Give me the Medal and, uh, I'll get ya that one shake you been wanting to try?" Morgana was gazing at them unsure about this with Vanellope watching her look down immediately, in slight fear along with understanding, "Hey… Uh, maybe I can get ya down, and you can get me that Medal?"
Ralph seeing this decided to reach for her yet he let out a startled yelp as her tail, by fearful instinct, wrapped around his left wrist and made Vanellope almost laugh while he fell onto a few branches and landed on a delayed double stripe. Vanellope, however, commenced taking the gentle approach at realizing she was possibly younger than her, despite the reptile look, "Hey come on… What's your name?"
Blinking as her magic was then returning to her slightly, she stutters out a name that made Vanellope tilt her head in bewilderment, "M-Morgana… But I like Mary b-better." At this Vanellope held her hand out in a kind gesture with Morgana hesitantly grabbing it rapidly while with an unexpected zap and Ralph climbing closer to them with determination in his orbs yet blinked in annoyance mixed with being astonished while gazing down at beholding them on the ground with green data particles dispersing to reveal primarily Morgana, whose eyes were glowing briefly and with Vanellope intrigued by this.
Though out at the Game's Track, three certain characters felt an abrupt headache while at the same time, three invisible data lines connected them to a code that was far away from the others within the Game's Source Code.
Ralph started to climb down yet slipped, and landed on some branches that were double stripped to keep him going until he was hanging on the last branch near the taffy-like pond, and glanced at them, mainly Vanellope as she was given the Medal by Morgana with her looking apologetic, "Look, wait. Let me talk to you for one second. Here's the thing, we're not from the Candy-Tree Department."
Vanellope then states to him in fake shock while seeing Morgana pick up the odd Bug in which it cooed at her, "Lying to a child. Shame on you, Ralph." Ralph at this point struggled to hold on yet claimed to her then in honesty, "But I wasn't lying about the Medal. That is my Medal. That's why I was climbing the tree. It's mine. It's precious to me." Vanellope although polished the Medal with her coat slightly while she still listened to him and secretly admired it, "That thing's my ticket to a better life."
Vanellope places the Medal into her coat while stating to him in determination and him stating something to himself as she glitched while doing so, "Yeah, well now it's my ticket." She then made Morgana yelp while grabbing her left hand, and proceeded to tug her along with Hazel squealing of sorts in glee, and with Ralph watching this shouted out primarily at Vanellope, "Come back! I'll find you! I will find you- Ah!" He fell into the taffy pond and after tasting it and rising to look like some kind of taffy monster yet also rolled his eyes at hearing Vanellope's taunt, "Double stripe!"
In Game Central Station at this point:
Surge Protector was presently showing primarily Felix and Calhoun the damaged entrance to Sugar Rush. With Bowsette and the other characters getting a tip from Q-Bert, and saw the damage as well, and was with them.
"Yeah, he banged around with that child inside in here like some kind of hotshot. Then he went barreling down there into that sweet, little game like a crazy person." Surge Protector states before he started resuming his duties as Mario was with Peach and Luigi back in their game now looking for Morgana before all this yet Bowsette wanted to check out the place alongside Shadow, Amy, and Trinaza as Chipana was somehow sick in the Turtle's Game, otherwise, she would have joined them.
Calhoun studies the entrance to Sugar Rush while giving it a steely, Clint Eastwood-like glint at realizing things if the 'Bug' was in that game, yet still states the title within her words to them all, "Sugar Rush… Cy-Bugs'll chew up that game faster than a chicken hawk in a coop of crippled roosters."
Felix watching she confused them except Shadow and Amy as they went wide-eyed in realizing things as those two understood about the Bugs from overhearing a few soldiers a few nights ago at how they acted, and with Felix following close behind Calhoun while asking, "Uh. What was that now?"
Calhoun turned around to them and seeing that only two of them understood what she was talking about yet declared largely to Felix in a dead-serious stare and tone, "What're you, thick? There was a Cy-Bug on that shuttle…" seeing he was confused then added into her words in half-realizing things, "You all don't even know what a Cy-Bug IS?"
"I can't say that I do, ma'am." Felix told her honestly while still confused, and Calhoun groaned while then scaling to them all while talking to primarily Felix like he was a child, "Cy-Bugs are like a Deadly Virus. They don't realize they're in a game. All they comprehend is to eat, kill, and multiply. Without a beacon to stop them, they'll consume Sugar Rush. But do you think they'll stop there?"
"Yes!" Felix declared with Shadow scoffing at the man's intelligence with Amy nudging him and Bowsette has eyes with realizing what Calhoun meant, as Sorceress just came over and froze at her words with Trinaza going next to the Half-Koopa in slight fear at this, "WRONG! Viruses do not stop!" Calhoun states while eyeing the Station warily as she expanded onto her words, "Once those Cy-Bugs finish off Sugar Rush, they'll invade every other game until this arcade is nothing but a smoking husk of forgotten dreams."
Calhoun looked resolute instantly and gave the Cadet with them a glance to which he handed what appeared to be a surfboard yet was, in fact, Calhoun's cruiser, and without words due to her being irritated, left to the entrance and here they all heard the tragic backstory she was programmed with.
Felix looked determined as he headed over there, and Shadow gave the same Cadet a look as he sighed while nodding and grabbed even more boards to make Bowsette nervous about and with Trinaza only tilting her head at this.
Moments later, we see the small group enter while riding hoverboards right into Sugar Rush.
An hour later within Sugar Rush, at the Race Track:
Everyone was setting up for the Roster Race for Sugar Rush, and three particular girls were worried about not discovering Morgana at all at the track.
As each Racer, however, rolled up and got into place in their Karts, they all heard a sad-toned yet flat voice state into a microphone to the citizens of Sugar Rush at this time the area by the speakers, "Citizens of Sugar Rush…" under the stands though, Vanellope shooed Morgana with a grateful glance to which she smiled at and saw the three Racers (to Vanellope's ire only slightly) at noticing her and waved her over, and was carefully sneaking onto the Track with her somewhat improved Kart she made herself. The voice, however, belonged to a lime-green jawbreaker that was in fact "Sour" tasting hence his name, Sour Bill (or Bill for short), "All hail our rightful ruler, King Candy." Bill was in the top box as behind the curtains, a man came out.
King Candy is a bald, white-skinned old man with gray hair tufts and eyebrows. He has beady brown eyes and a cartoonishly large bulbous nose. The most notable feature would be his tiny golden crown usually slanted atop his large head. He wore a purple tailcoat with a white shirt and glitter-covered vest with a lace collar and cufflinks. There were also two golden buttons on the back of the tailcoat. Another notable feature would be his red bow tie which resembled a candy wrapper. He also wore poofy gold-and-caramel pants and purple slippers with red gumdrops at the tip that jingled whenever he moved frantically.
King Candy then gazed around delighted while staring at everyone and slightly catching a glimpse of Morgana as well to confuse him only slightly yet saw she was friends with his Subjected Racers, and mentally shrugged while remarking to everyone, "Hello my loyal subjects! Haha! Have some candy!" King Candy indeed threw handfuls of candy into the crowd in which they gathered. King Candy continued his words though to Sour Bill as he hummed in agreement to the King, "Thank you for that stirring introduction, Sour Bill." King Candy though was then glancing at the Racers and with him then addressing them, "And thank you to today's avatars. It was a wonderful day, it was. But now the Arcade is closed. So, it's time to wipe the slate clean and race to decide on our New Roster when it opens up again after Litwak returns. Huge cheers!"
On the Track, Morgana from Crumbelina, Candlehead, and Jubileena's POV, looked excited about the race as they placed her at the Racer Seat to confuse yet make King Candy wonder who that child was, while the other Racers gazed on in excitement and indeed cheered since those seats are meant for contests winners or special occasions, "Sour Bill… Who is that child with last week's winners?"
Sour Bill peeked down and carefully saw who the child was and noted easily to make King Candy be surprised yet mentally suspicious of what he declared in monotone, "Oh… That is supposedly one of the four- Ahem, sorry your Highness, five Biological Data Characters that showed up a week ago... Besides that creature three months ago, your Lordship. From what I managed to gather she's a Magical User of the oddest sorts." So… A Magical User, huh? Maybe I can use something like that later on. King Candy thought briefly to himself.
"The first nine racers across that Finish Line will represent Sugar Rush as tomorrow's Avatars and once the Arcade open's up," the crowd then started to state the word, race, a lot in excitement with Morgana holding back the cheer while soon remembering it was going to get interesting shortly, "Yes, okay. Calm down. Listen, this event is Pay-To-Play. We all remember this. The fee to compete is one Gold Coin from your previous winnings... If you've ever won, which I have," King Candy did show it as Morgana did a double-take as unseen by anyone a shadowy hand dropped a Gold Coin close to her, yet she shrugged while grabbing it curiously yet watched things unfold still, "Let me go first."
King Candy soon pulls a lever and a rainbow sweep across the starting line. King Candy throws his Gold Coin into the air and it's then caught on the rainbow slide and swept into a giant pot. Soon, King Candy's name appears on a CONTESTANT Board. "King Candy," the Game Speaker announced with him being the first on the board.
King Candy then leaps into the air with a flourish and poses as the crowd goes wild from his actions yet hushed as the first Racer was a small girl with Chibi-like proportions: She has a large head with a small body. She has tan skin, rosy cheeks, glossy pink lips, and short platinum blonde hair in a bob-cut with low front bangs that cover her dark brown eyebrows. She has a small rosy jellybean-like nose. Her deep periwinkle eyes are large and animesque. She has dark thick upper and lower lashes that are varnished in mascara while sucking on a Lollipop. She, however, wore mostly a pink-based outfit that was a frosted strawberry-themed cap (resembling that of Strawberry Shortcake's, who is possibly the inspiration for her design) or a helmet on her head that doubles as a visor when she's racing. Underneath her hot pink racing jacket, she wears a lighter frosted pink dress and white-and-pink-striped leggings with matching sneakers. She tops her outfit off with white racing gloves.
She then tossed the coin easily into the device to scan things as her name then asserted aloud, "Taffyta Muttonfudge," Taffyta then does her signature leap and pose in the air, and gives the fans her catch-phrase to make her fans cheer for her, "Stay sweet!" She then left while doing a double-take just like most of the Racers nearby and with King Candy watching they stopped and gazed down in confusion, "What? What's wrong everyone? Let's continue the Roster-" "She has the rare Guest Gold Coin!" Taffyta states with surprise and made King Candy and even Morgana blink at this, even Vanellope as she was still trying to sneak the Kart to her spot as Morgana only expressed one word aloud, "What?" Morgana's tone was unsure, however.
Shrugging at the odd outcome, King Candy acknowledged aloud to get the Racers excited about this, "Well then, let her go shoot the Golden Doubloon Coin into the machine then."
The crowd cheered with Morgana still in shock while Hazel hid from the loud noise into her clothes and was dragged by an excited Candlehead and Crumbelina, while Jubileena was explaining things to the Racers as to whom she was, "It's ok Mary. As a Guest Racer, you get to be in the race as an Extra Passenger... Safe of course." Crumbelina tells her with Morgana sighing yet smiling.
If they were all paying attention, they would have seen a shadow on the wall near the gummy bear stand chuckle before leaving, and the shadow had red eyes.
Morgana didn't comprehend what to do so they decided to show her by going one by one and with the machine deciding for her anyways to whom she is being paired with, and secretly Vanellope in the back of the line to eventually, after a few minutes or so later, it was her turn.
Vanellope kisses the Medal and throws it. It's then caught by the rainbow, rims around the pot before dropping in, and soon the pot glitches as the Medal swirls inside and it turns into Game Code, and then disappears into the abyss.
"Sour Bill, who's that last one?" King Candy states while covering the microphone he has with the Sour Jawbreaker only shrugging, and Morgana discovering this looked determined as only a select few saw the odd aura the coin absorbed into it from her magic slightly, did like everyone else's Golden Coins or Medal has done yet they blinked while the Board froze yet we're also surprised as the device showed the same aura yet shortly dimmed, and the Board then announced while alarming everyone and three certain Racers briefly clasped their heads by the name, "Vanellope Von Schweetz!"
"Yippee! I'm in the race!" Vanellope shouted in excitement and a hint of some emotions that Morgana detected as mainly everyone ignored King Candy's astonished shout at this yet Taffyta headed over to the covered Kart dubbed as "Lickity Split" written on the side and saw the homemade structure while stating it like a curse, "The Glitch." The crowd gasped in fear at this.
"Now, now. Everything is alright," King Candy tells everyone from the microphone while Morgana sensing something was about to happen, did, as she proceeded to sniffle from Crumbelina catching a glimpse of this, "Oh no… Duck everyone!"
"Duck? There are no ducks in Cheese and Sprinkles!" King Candy tried to comment yet indeed ducked as Morgana let out a Chaotic Sneeze from smelling something weird nearby and shot out a lightning bolt that somehow curved and shocked the two donut guards slightly as the Long John Guard coughed brief smoke as Morgana sneezed again, and they were confused while Taffyta glanced up, and was covered in a pile of strawberries.
Before Morgana could sneeze again, Jubileena held her nose to make her look grateful before sneezing one more time from them all gaping by a bizarre blast hitting the ground and revealing oddly enough, onions a few feet away buried in the dirt.
"Uhh, Despite the odd expectancy of our Guest Racer, we have everything under control- Security!" King Candy states into the microphone before shortly placing it while asserting that firmly to the two guards who proceeded to go after Vanellope yet as she ran, Morgana who sniffled from the onions, blinked at glimpsing Ralph nearby while Candlehead privately went over while everyone began looking why The Glitch stopped and burnt the onions with her Birthday Flames to dust, at seeing a taffy covered Ralph who glared while pointing with incoherent words to which Vanellope also understood and ran from him instead.
"What is that?!" King Candy conceded in bafflement while Sour Bill only shrugged once again, and witnessed Ralph chase Vanellope everywhere while destroying a few things: Some stands, a Kart that made Jubileena cry as she just got it repaired, and a few other things before Morgana yelped as something grabbed her from the ground and made her go wide-eyed in confused fear as it was that same shadow, and started dragging her rapidly away… If it wasn't for Crumbelina stating out loud as Vanellope managed to get away while Ralph was stuck in a cupcake and the guards tapping him as such, "Something has Mary!"
"Help!" She shouts with Hazel holding on for dear life as catching sight of the problem, King Candy was startled at seeing that particular thing about before declaring in order, "Follow… Uh, whatever she is! Save her!" I don't want my backup to go anywhere, King Candy added to himself as the Racers soon took off with Vanellope watching this, narrowed her eyes in the direction, and got into her homemade Kart.
King Candy then heard his guards state while he rolled his eyes at them, "What we do with the Cupcake Monster?" King Candy decided to settle the crowd promptly while immediately making them relieved at him as he narrowed his eyes at Ralph… Well, to what he realized was the cupcake monster and not him, "Okay folks. Calm down! Everything's all right. The monster's been caught. We'll repair all the damage. Don't worry, we will have our race before the Arcade opens again."
As the guards were rolling Ralph by his orders, King Candy was confused by beholding the screen glitch out once again yet paused before it commenced writing the child's full name to which he blinked at the new problem for when the Race was ready, "Oh brother, this would be interesting yet a hard matter to settle." Morgana's Name was under Candlehead, Jubileena, and Crumbelina's names with her also appearing under Vanellope's in a green, glitchy-like name.
He then glanced at Ralph while being amused as the Donut Guard shocked the supposed muffin-taffy monster, to bring him to the castle.
Near Candy-Cane Forest:
The Racers were all chasing after Morgana still while evading things from her magic acting up as with each blast were random objects within their way for the last few miles, and ultimately came to the famed Candy-Cane Forest.
Once parked, they were uneasy as the rumor about this was some Candy Citizens came in yet they didn't return, and with a few that made it claiming about an odd monster with red eyes living within the forest itself. But catching a glimpse of Morgana being dragged into it, her three friends before they could stop them, ran in.
"Uhh… Should we go in as well as a group, Taffy?" A boy that was labeled by the game as Rancis Fluggerbutter noted to Taffyta as he is a young boy with fair, freckled skin, rosy cheeks, bright blue eyes, and deep blonde hair styled into an upward cowlick. He wears Reese's hat and brown blazer over an orange shirt with two yellow stripes on it, brown pants, and chocolate brown shoes which have a chocolate syrup rim. His blazer has peanut butter-colored accents on the sleeves.
Taffyta wasn't sure yet she soon scowled as The Glitch came immediately along with the others watching this, yet before she could comment anything about her or another homemade Kart, they froze while all staring at the forest of Morgana shouting in incoherent fear, while afterward, hearing a strange roar.
Vanellope glitched slightly at this yet took off rapidly into the forest, to everyone's surprise, the path was large enough for Karts to proceed to show, and unwilling yet looked at each other, they followed after Vanellope.
When they all got there to the large clearing, they were startled to find the very same creature as before holding not only Morgana, but also Candlehead, Crumbelina, and Jubileena firmly while having them at its face and roaring at them.
"What is that thing!" One of the Racers states with panic to get it to shortly notice them, and without a chance to blink they were all grabbed by the same tentacles except for Vanellope who glitched herself out and proceeded to dodge left and right to the creature's annoyance of evading capture while they froze and gazed at Morgana in shock who was only fear-stricken, as it roared in a demonic-like deep voice at Vanellope, "Hold still, Character, as my mission to capture those involved with The Chosen One, is exquisite to My Master as well!"
It then whacked Vanellope to everyone's half-fear and ire at this and with only a select few feeling sorry, Morgana went wide-eyed at this before feeling something snap and her eyes glowed a silvery-grey color while her magic for once acted with her desires (with a different location), Bowsette and Trinaza were behind Shadow and Amy before yelling as they vanished with a pop, alongside the other two to worry Felix and to confuse Calhoun over while they were forced to continue, of Morgana's need of aid.
Once there they saw Morgana, the Racers, and also Vanellope still avoiding/distracting the creature with Trinaza stating to Bowsette fearfully and despite it being smaller when they encountered it, "That is the same monster we faced before we arrived."
Shadow heard this and narrowed his eyes alongside Bowsette as she abruptly felt rage within her at beholding Morgana in this state, and they landed as Shadow used his preferred Chaos Emerald to randomly get each Racer behind them with one of the tentacles of the creature (to Vanellope's horror), smashed her Kart with it (in odd irony as well) then smashing Taffyta's before she could get to it.
Bowsette then took a deep breath as the creature refused to give up on both Morgana within its firm hold, and Vanellope's still running back and forth, and let out a breath of flames at the exposed side of the creature.
The creature howled in both pain and rage at this and glared at her before giving her a grin as Morgana's eyes lost their glow while gasping for air as it commenced squeezing her and making sure Shadow was out of her reach to retrieve.
Amy although jumped while summoning her famous Mallet and with a boost from Shadow on one of the limbs of the enraged creature, whacked one of its eyes to its immediate agony while dropping Morgana to use said limb she used to be in, to touch the sides of its face.
As Morgana was falling, Bowsette gasped before looking determined and Trinaza grabbed the hoverboard and tossed it at her while Vanellope tripped and rode with Bowsette for the ride, and glitched them both out to shortly head to Morgana ad with Bowsette catching the child within her arms as she passed out, and landed a few feet away to where the Racers were as they, in turn, were half-impressed with Candlehead, Crumbelina, and Jubileena widening their eyes as their memories came back to them at realizing who she was and discerning everyone sneering at her, decided to hide this fact from them sharing a glance, and grabbed Morgana with them all jumping back while Shadow caught Amy as the creature instantly vanished in a dark-like mist.
In its place to alarm them, was a man who was armored just like the creature, and had glowing red eyes glaring at them all angrily while raising his hand as he was cloaked within a black-as-night full-body cloak and his tentacles easily showing from the back and shoved them all to the side while grabbing Morgana.
"So… The Chosen Child of Balance is afraid? Kukuku, you should be to what the Master has planned for you, Little One." The man states with everyone except Shadow, Trinaza, and Bowsette hiding while watching this unfold behind their Karts, and Shadow affirmed firmly to him, "Who are you, creature? You are not-" "Silence, Hedgehog! I am only here to see if she has… Potential, along with seeing it was time to take her… But alas, she isn't ready for anything… Yet," the man states to them all and paused before catching sight of his spare hand commenced to glow, and a dagger was brought into existence and stabbed right into the ground.
The dagger itself was otherworldly, to say the least as it seemed to have been made differently from any sort of material in existence while the center seemingly comes across to be that of a closed eye, runes that glowed a neon-blue if an old language of sorts while having near the handle it holds it, four prolonged spikes made of the same black metal material while two silver, smaller ones around the closed eye (6).
"I leave this here when the need for aiding others comes, as things have changed and will be different from what was known… Here," he then tossed Morgana while opening a vortex that he left quickly in after his final words before they could do anything, "My Master has spoken to me and tells me she may have what was hers in due time... From Ancestry and the Realm the item came from, but he would be waiting for the time to come back and do what must be done… Farewell."
"Who was that scary guy?" Candlehead asked while everyone glimpsed it was safe as Taffyta hid a blush since she was offered by Francois a ride, and personally was glad she made a spare Kart in case, "I have a feeling we would find out at a later time," Bowsette dictates with Trinaza checking over her big sister over.
They then decide to leave with Bowsette and Co. being informed about Morgana's part in their Roster Race to which Bowsette was surprised yet suspicious about like the others at this odd occurrence, and as they left, they didn't see the blade open its eye to have it glow like Morgana's briefly before looking as a silvery-grey yet demonic eye that was s at where it or, she that is, was, "Of all, the- Not again! I was agreed to be free from this!"
While they were heading to the castle to maybe ask the King and with three Racers somewhat worried about this alongside Vanellope, who was reluctant were astounded that Morgana's staff fused with her like the gem also did as well (and her few other items given to her in last chapters except her necklace), and they thought they saw a strange sigil appear briefly on Morgana's Heart location but didn't think anything of it yet inside her very heart, the gem itself was sucked into the platform alongside the staff as the other items also going into the platform, and a pedestal showed in which contained the only gem so far out of many before a void-like gem took root that was Morgana's Chaos Magic and another next to that to which was her Main Magic she was born with, on top of it.
Once they arrived with Morgana still passed out, and Shadow taking Amy to inform the others where she was and her part immediately in this game, they entered while ignoring the Oreo Guards wording their Brand Name as words while marching, yet Vanellope got scared and left shortly on foot to all but three Racers confusion, and saw that everyone but Crumbelina, Candlehead, and Jubileena wanted to stay after waiting so long for at least an hour in the Voyer Hall, by Sour Bill.
As it reached the hour and a half mark, the doors opened with them blinking just like he was Ralph, looking at them all while also at the same time, Morgana woke up.
"What you guys doing here?" He implored in bewilderment with King Candy discovering he stopped, came over, and saw who it was while declaring to himself allowed with hands up in the air, "Oh great. If it wasn't Ralph trying to take over My Game, it's you."
Bowsette looked offended at that Ralph agreed with her yet saw Morgana oddly enough, glare right at King Candy in immediate distrust (to some of their confusion), and he shook his head while reflecting firmly in a business tone along with his jolly self at the Racers while making them all gaze at Morgana in shock like she was at this, "It seems the Board glitched up and conveyed you were to ride with four Racers… We may have to adjust the Roster Race once the Track is fixed, to a new one for once."
"Who am I with?" She asked softly to understand she was just getting over her ordeal back at the forest with King Candy not realizing anything, shrugged as if it was an innocent question, and replied, "Why those three for starters and oddly... The Glitch." He pointed at said Racers though it was indeed them and made them blink at him for this while Morgana briefly saw fear at King Candy to widen her own eyes as well at this, They couldn't know… Could they?
"So what, the Squirt has to be in your race? Big deal." Bowsette states with her rolling her eyes and crossing her arms to act tough along with Ralph, and both Trinaza and Morgana know better as King Candy glanced at her while his outfit jingled before saying to her, seriously, "It is a big deal as this has never happened at all before. Sure we usually get at least one Racer or two for guests, but four at once… It's the first time for all of us." Seeing he had his point across, he gave Ralph a look before going back inside with the doors shutting.
Ralph though looked determined and started leaving with everyone turning then as Morgana then asked him curiously with them oddly glimpsing a hint of mischief in her orbs, "Where are you going?" He glanced at the child while stating a matter-of-fact tone before they all glanced at each other and commenced following him, "I'm going to talk with the Racers not here for a moment about… Something." They all froze though as Morgana remarked before she went wide-eyed at the slip up she confessed while covering her mouth, "You mean by the Medal that Vanellope gotten to enter the Race, and is Coded?" She then yelped as Ralph grabbed her while the three Racers alarmed by their friends' words held Trinaza back as she was growling at Ralph for manhandling her Big Sister as Bowsette didn't even know what to do: Her instincts were telling her to protect what was hers yet she didn't want to harm Ralph, as well. "What… How did you know that?"
Bowsette sees Morgana looking fearful and Hazel jumping and landing on Bowsette's shoulders while rubbing her head on her face, at the same time, being bewildered yet softened her eyes at this as to what Ralph was doing by grabbing at the neckline of Morgana's outfit, made him stare instantly at Bowsette with an oh-like stare while placing Morgana on the ground, in apology, "She's a Magical User, Big Red. She could have foreseen it while she was passed out or something."
The three Racers though looked suspicious with Trinaza having stopped her growling yet immediately looked worried from seeing them look at Morgana, while they decided to follow Ralph outside the castle and not seeing that the doors were partially closed and King Candy was listening in at this with both troubles and intrigued while deciding to send an agent to keep an eye on her: Agent Red.
Later on outside the castle and nearby the location where Morgana recognized was the spot Taffyta and Crew would have destroyed the Kart that Vanellope made, yet was worried as to what would occur presently since both Vanellope and Taffyta's Karts were destroyed. Why is it that when I'm involved, things changed either a lot or small?
They all stood back in shock while seeing and getting Morgana, Trinaza, and the three Racers to shortly head over in urgency at seeing this scene: The Racers' Karts were in a circle while they were cheering or covering their eyes since both Taffyta and Vanellope... Was hitting and punching each other in the center of it all.
"Vanellope, stop!" Morgana states aloud to get them to freeze up yet when Morgana was pulling her glitchy friend back with Crumbelina aiding her along with Candlehead doing the same with Jubileena for Taffyta, Taffyta startled them all while landing an accidental punch that was meant for Vanellope, right at Morgana's left side of her face, and then sending her down right into a chocolate mud puddle.
Bowsette though was being held back now with Hazel holding onto her outfit by Ralph while he was wincing from her clawed fingertips piercing his skin only slightly, with them all seeing Morgana beginning to sniffle and Trinaza froze at this as Taffyta was backing up with her being horrified alongside Vanellope while she went over to check the Chaosarinian Child, "My gosh- I.. I didn't mean-" they all jumped as Trinaza unexpectedly roared at her while impressing both Bowsette and Ralph since said Half-Koopa stopped struggling to watch Trinaza instantly rolling around the ground with dust kicking up, and Taffyta for once was fearful of her life by the feral look on Trinaza's face and with her immediately on her back, and holding back Trinaza as she was doing a chopping motion as if to bite her.
"No, Zaza, stop!" Morgana shouted at her younger Sibling-By-Magic in horror to freeze Trinaza in place while losing instantly the feral gaze, and she seemed confused yet yelped as Taffyta got her off, got up, and ran rapidly to the Karts with everyone else but the three Racers of Crumbelina, Jubileena, and Candlehead (who gave the others a glance of later), got into them and took quickly off.
"Mary… What did… I saw you were hurt…. I-" "Zaza!" Morgana says soon in panic as Trinaza rolled her eyes to the back of her head and passed out with her soon being caught within Crumbelina's arms to the girls' hidden blush yet they were all worried about why she reacted to a mere punch from Taffyta, and with Morgana realizing what it was based on her words back then and what race her little sister was yet didn't say anything while Bowsette and Ralph came down.
She sighed, however, after proclaiming to primarily herself aloud while coming over, and brushing the sides of Trinaza's left part of her face gently like a sibling that cares, "This… This is all my fault. I didn't even think due to her race she would react like that."
Seeing they were all confused while glancing downwards a moment, then stared at them and with Bowsette and even Ralph have a realized from the 'of-course' look to them with the others being surprised, "She's Half-Sphynx, and that's why she acted like she did as she was My Christmas Gift by a Goddess, and also the reason she not only has that accent but also her love for riddles."
"So the Cub was by instinct being protective over what occurred… It seems like she may need the training to curb that as time passes," Bowsette thought aloud to herself while letting everyone know what she purposely was trying to say and giving her Soulmate a pointed glance to make Morgana sigh and nod, yet be confused as to why she didn't want to leave from Crumbelina at all.
They all, however, saw Vanellope was sitting on a rock while Morgana expressed her words, and seemed to be crying about not only her small guilt for what she did to her friend, but her dream of racing was shot instantly as that Kart she made took her longer to build this temple, and saw them staring at her while declaring to them all, "What are YOU looking at?" Vanellope sorta jumped in place while glimpsing Ralph stare at her in irritation by Morgana as she felt bad at glimpsing the developing bruise she had on her face, "Is it because you can't race now from your Kart being wrecked by whatever that was?"
Vanellope hesitates before nodding a yes at her, with the three Racers discreetly ashamed at recognizing who she was yet didn't want to say anything since, for some reason, they felt it was not the right time and not knowing in the distance hidden behind a few trees was Hecate charming them only temporary to do this, and left.
"Yet you stole my Medal that I was going to show off," Ralph started while pointing a finger at her to get Vanellope to roll her eyes with Bowsette understanding what Ralph was going about and stated to him in confirmation, "You Game-Jumped to get a Medal to prove something over those Nicelanders, didn't you Ralph?" He nodded while still gesturing to Vanellope as she then stood up on the rock looking offended while at the same time, wiping her eyes of her tears that when landed on the ground, glitched into a mist of sorts, "Ya, and she is a thief from doing that to the Medal I earned."
"I'm not a thief. I just borrowed your stupid Coin. I was gonna give it back to you as soon as I won the race," Vanellope told him straightforward while crossing her arms at the big guy, and with Ralph stating in confirmation of what Bowsette meant to mainly himself mixed with informing Vanellope as well, "It's not a Coin. It is a Medal-" "Coin. Medal. Just go back to your own dumb game and win another one." Vanellope interrupted him.
Irritated at that, Ralph was next to her immediately while gazing down at her and telling her to get Vanellope glancing at him if he was seriously like the three other Racers at the name of the game, "I can't. I didn't win it in My Game. I won it in Hero's Duty."
Vanellope and the three Racers held a chuckle and with Morgana glancing the other way yet Bowsette saw while petting Hazel presently, was holding it in as well while Crumbelina was next to her, "Hero's Doodie?! Ha!" Vanellope couldn't hold it in, "It's not that kind of duty." Ralph declared to her.
Vanellope, however, decided to humor herself while making the others laugh with Bowsette admitting as well she was pretty good, while Hazel cooed, "I bet you gotta watch where you step in a game called Hero's Doodie. What did you win a Medal for? Wiping? I hope you washed your hands after you handled that Medal." While Vanellope was talking in puns, Ralph had his hands to his hips while looking irritated mixed with being annoyed at her before remarking at the end, "Listen-" "Wait. One more. One more: Why did the hero flush the toilet?" Vanellope interrupted him while waving her hand to stop him from talking yet then looked at him while expressing mischievously, "Say why-" "Why?" Ralph asserted in irritation shortly with Vanellope making everyone laugh at this, briefly, and her arms extended while easily balancing on the rock in exclamation, "Because it was his doodie."
Ralph went to grab her yet she dodged while at the same time declaring as if insulted by her words, "How dare you insult Hero's Duty, you little guttersnipe! I earned that Medal, and you better get it back for me, toot-sweet, sister!"
"Should we interfere or...?" Candlehead whispered to Jubileena who shrugged and murmured back as they also saw their friend check on her sister who was deeply sleeping, thankfully, "Not sure… But I do want to see what happens," Jubileena admits while watching both Ralph and Vanellope, just like everyone was doing.
"Well, unless you've got a Go-Kart hidden in the fat folds of your neck, I can't help you," she noted along with admitting to him her recent predicament, and Ralph looked ready to smash her yet decided to go over and smash a jawbreaker instead out of frustration, and it doesn't so much as a crack. He tries again. Nothing. Incensed, he pounds on it: Temper-Tantrum Style.
Everyone watching this was about to say something to him yet Morgana put her hand up while making things awkward for Crumbelina as she was sitting next to them immediately while amusing Bowsette at her Soulmate's kind nature while having a hand up as if to say, wait for it.
Vanellope, however, thought differently yet remarked it as well to herself, "What a moron," she then walked while cupping her hands and stating it aloud to Ralph doing his thing, "Hey genius, it's a jawbreaker! You're never gonna break… That… Hmm," Ralph proved them all wrong with the Racers immediately suspicious of Morgana along with Bowsette as Hazel jumped, walked, and climbed onto Morgana before cuddling up on her left shoulder and from them all beholding Ralph break effortlessly said jawbreaker he was pounding on in half with Vanellope glitching in marvel as well at this.
Ralph then plopped down on an available rock while panting a bit and Vanellope came over with them noticing Morgana deciding to as well, and claimed while gazing at him pointedly and Ralph glancing at her before glaring away, "Enjoy your little tantrum, diaper baby?"
"Leave me alone," Ralph expressed while turning his back on her with everyone but Morgana blinking at how childish he was acting, and they chuckled at glimpsing Trinaza get cozy with an immediately tinting Crumbelina.
"Look, you want that Medal, right? And I want to race. So, here's what I'm thinking: You help me get a New Kart, a Real Kart, and I'll win the race and get you back your Medal." Vanellope offered with the Racers freezing at this yet saw Morgana gave a glance of wordlessly saying, trust me, and Ralph stared at Vanellope then in slight surprise at this, "You want me to help you?" His tone, however, sounded suspicious.
"All you gotta do is break something for me. Come on, what do you say, friend?" She then holds out a hand yet he doesn't take it right away, "We're not friends," Ralph told her while looking away yet Vanellope was persistent while holding her hand out and Morgana is in between them both, "Ah come on, pal. You son of a gun. Come on buddy, let's shake on it. Come on chumbo. Ralph, my man. My main man," She then sighed with Ralph gazing at her then, "Hey, my arm's getting tired. Do we have a deal or not?"
He sighed before noting and getting ready to shake her hand, "You better win." Once they shook, they all jumped as the ground shook briefly to which Morgana comforted Hazel yet deadpanned at discerning her little sister hardly woke up from it as when it occurred, it rather unexpectedly just stopped.
"What in Arcade's Name was that?" Ralph decided to state with them all shrugging as in honesty, they didn't know but the two blinked as Crumbelina, Candlehead, and Jubileena came over while looking like they were sorry, "We… Ah, we want to apologize Vanellope, and maybe we could plan for Mary's Part in the race as the board glitched naming her all four of us-" Jubileena started to state before they blinked as Vanellope and even Ralph looked surprised by this while waving her hands to stop them, "Whoa, whoa, wait. What do you mean Mary is a Guest Racer for all four of us?"
"Well, we were there for a moment before following you earlier after Mary, but I saw the Board choose that with it glitching," Vanellope's face dropped at that yet blinked while peeking at Morgana who only smiled yet chuckled nervously while everyone saw her tail hit her head to the cute head-tilt of Hazel at that, "Well… We'll just find a way to make it work," then an idea seemed to be shown in her face to confuse everyone while knowing things are changing a lot more than normal, and wanted to see if her idea works in case, "And to start it off I may have a thing or two to maybe make it work."
Back at the Sugar Rush Castle, at this point and time:
King Candy was going back and forth while glimpsing the peppermint patty-shaped clock nearby while getting frustrated, and declared as if it was just himself within the throne room, "Where is he? He never arrives at all late." He jumped through after detecting a mass of red-like mist of sorts entering out of the window at the top and shortly floated down before it proceeded to take form into a person and his armor dying down from a red glow.
The man known as Agent Red or just Red for short, came from the Internet along with a few others, confidentially, by odd means from Litwak's own doing a few weeks ago and stuck around their Station for some time. He mostly had armor reminiscent of Felix from Red Vs. Blue, but his armor had a lot of differences as well. His armor color is a dark crimson with dull-grey lining, he also had from coercing others from others games, has his armor run with Spells for many things and one of which was his way to get here, and on his waist, shoulders, and forearms were metallic-like metal-fused animal skulls primarily to dragons or dinosaurs with green emerald gems embedded inside. He was also seven and a half feet tall, intimidating, and would give Deadpool a run for his money as a twin of sorts.
"Yo, you ran King Crispy?" Red states oddly enough, a voice sounding like Felix himself while also leaning on a wall nearby the little old man who jingled at the name, and corrected Agent Red then, "King Candy, and I'm glad you showed up… I have a task for you and your reward as usual," King Candy tossed him a small bag of Coins which Red shook near the side of his head before acknowledging to him, "What is it I have to do this time?"
"There is this child that I want you to fetch for me… Well, two of them: The Glitch, and this 'Morgana' girl the Board oddly glitched to have her be riding with four riders, and in doing so, I'll pay you more if you get the task done while they're alive and well." King Candy told him firmly in a business tone to get Red curious while asking then as he brought out his bone knife with Norse runes on it, and one of his few accustomed made weapons and was checking it over before pausing and giving King Candy a glance from his black visor, "So you resorted me to kidnap Kids now? For shame King Crispy, tsk tsk," Red states to him as if telling a child off to annoy the King, "Well if it comes to it... But I mostly want you to observe and watch them, and then take them by any means… Except for killing," Agent Red pouts playfully at this while sighing to King Candy, before King Candy stilled while warily eyeing the dagger lodged right next to his right foot by mere inches as he got up off the wall, and headed over to him, "So no fun at all? It better be worth it King Crispy."
Once he retrieved his weapon he paused before turning back to King Candy while claiming with a begging tone to make the King give him a stare before sighing and a brisk nod of him wordlessly stating a yes, "Can I possibly knock out whoever's with them then, my way?"
Agent Red then left with the idea of getting his little sister involved in this.
With Calhoun and Felix, they just got to the Crash Site of the Escape Pod and were checking things out.
"I'll say this much, they don't call your friend Wreck-It for nothing," Calhoun admits being impressed by this with Felix agreeing while also recalling the events that led up to this possibility.
(Flashback Begins; Ralph just returning to the Game: Fix-It Felix Jr.)
Ralph sighed while arriving back to his brick pile of a home yet saw fireworks unexpectedly blast above the building he comprehended for at least thirty years and saw them spell out, 'We Love You, Felix', in bold colors while rapidly grabbing a matching set of soda glasses and used them as binoculars to look at the penthouse, "Happy thirtieth anniversary? They're having a party without me?" He saw everyone from other Games being there as well, and saw Pac-Man eating stuff effortlessly, "Pac-Man! Do they invite Pac-Man? That cherry-chasing, dot-muncher isn't even part of this game!"
He tossed the glasses down and shortly got up and commenced going for once, into the building.
Inside the building, the party was still going on with the Nicelanders being short humans of sorts, partying as well, before a few minutes later they heard the door gently bang on the other side, "I'll bet that's Mario, fashionably late, per the norm."
"I'll get it," one of the Nicelanders named Gene states to Felix as he went to greet whoever it was yet rapidly closed it as Ralph was about to say something and had his back turned into the door with his hands in it as well, in alarm, "It's Ralph!"
There were comments here and there about getting rid of him with some shocking words quietly to the others here and with Felix hiding a frown yet replaced it with a smile while assuring everyone, "Oh, right. I'll go talk to him. Carry on everyone." He then had his hammer out while seeing Ralph was confused yet expecting as if, he wanted something, and he closed the door while they were now in the hallway.
"Ralph? Can I help you?" Felix decided to ask his Game's Villain with Ralph blinking as if he didn't expect this, yet acknowledged him then while placing his arms behind his back, "Hey Felix, I just wanted to check on you. I saw a big explosion or something go over the building there-" "Oh, those were just fireworks," Felix told him shortly yet wondered why he was here in the first place. "Fireworks. Okay. Is it somebody's birthday or...?" Realizing what may have brought Ralph here by understanding the time he may have just come back from the Bad Guy meeting, "Well, it's more of an anniversary. The thirtieth anniversary of our game."
Ralph thought to make Felix ponder at his fake acting skills yet saw hurt in the big giant man's eyes at the confirmation remarked it as if he didn't know, "What? Is that today? I'm such a dummy with dates. Anyway, congratulations." Perhaps I should at least tell him that as well, "Thank You, Ralph. And to you, too."
It was an awkward silence for a few moments before a Frogger Turtle named Glen came and opened the door while announcing to mainly Felix and not glimpsing Ralph look irritated at this only slightly, "Just a heads up, Felix, they're bringing out the cake in a few shakes."
Ralph went to greet him yet the turtle saw him and shut the door to their wince, yet Ralph from what Felix reckoned was thinking on something and inquired hesitantly, "Well… Maybe could I at least have some cake as after all… I'm part of this game as well."
Felix heard his tone and instantly decided to at least for once be nice to the big man, and claimed in honesty to baffle Ralph before he gave Felix a true smile, "Sure, at least maybe half the cake as I'm sure Mary may have made an extra."
Once they went inside, it was a disaster from then on.
(Flashback Ends; Present)
Why did Gene have to coerce Ralph that much to do this, Felix thought while beholding the wreck of the Escape Pod.
Calhoun approaches it, however, in a cautious manner while doing a Military Run right up to it, and pointed her gun at the cockpit while he nervously raised a question of her then, "Is he in there along with the Little Girl?" He sighed with relief while Calhoun shook her head and declared firmly back while checking the pit thoroughly, "Nope. Lucky for him, otherwise I would have slapped his corpse... No Cy-Bug either. Even that Modified One," She then pulled a scanner to trace The Bugs and remarked to him firmly as he agreed while recalling her words, "Got to find the Bug before it can lay any eggs."
If they paid attention while they left, they would have seen that very same "Shadow" as before look at them before chuckling, and grabbed an egg without somehow hatching it as when it was spooked by Ralph, it forced-laid an egg, and left and with the egg under the seat from moving around before it crashed.
Later on, as they were in the Laffy-Taffy Forest, Calhoun saw there was a faint trace of the Bugs Signature yet it was oddly enough, glitching out, and expressed out in disgust to primarily herself aloud, "Argh. This atmosphere is full of sugar particles, and it's jamming my Sensor with funny fudge." They walk on before she implored while doing so and trying to fix the issue as they were on the move, "So, what is it with this Wreck-it joker? Why'd he go AWOL?"
"Probably the rivalry between Gene and himself I suppose, but last night he did take it too far… But I'm surprised Ralph gone 'Turbo' to this point," Felix told her with a distraught-based tone at the end before he then bumped into her as she also stopped, and gave him a glance of apology before staring at him curiously while multitasking on fixing the device in her hands, "Go Turbo...?" Felix saw her gaze and explained about said Game Character from Turbo Time and Turbo's eventual rivalry against another game to which he placed both his and that Game's into the 'Out of Order' Business.
"The selfish man is like a mangy dog chasing a cautionary tale," Calhoun admits to Felix as they step onto a fallen peppermint tree acting as a bridge over a ravine. "I know, right? That's why I have to get Ralph home, or the same thing's gonna happen to My- I mean Our Game." Felix tells her to get Calhoun to understand Felix did care about the big man as a supposed brother of sorts yet before she could answer back, she made Felix duck while she shot a Bug that seemed to have been mutated by eating the Laffy-Taffy Vines before blinking as it changed into a Baby Bug instead of being destroyed, and no longer appeared menacing.
"Is that… Is that supposed to happen?" Felix asked with alarm as Calhoun cautiously went over, and tapped the Bug yet sighed as it didn't mind her at all while chewing the log yet realized it has yet to grow in size and saw familiar energy the scanner also picked up, before it fritz, "No… This might be one of the Now Modified Ones… Whoa!" Calhoun started to state to Felix before there was a double-like dinging sound from the large tree they were on and fell right into the sand of sorts with the Bug using a vine-like tentacle as it seems to have lost its wings, to keep itself from falling yet to ire Calhoun, dropped and perfectly landed on top her head.
"What is this?" Calhoun mainly asked herself before they saw the sign that was certainly a warning that she declared aloud, "Nesquik Sand?"
They then began sinking while Felix proceeded to freak out, since he realized he couldn't jump, "I can't hop. I'm hopeless! This is hopeless! We're gonna drown here!" She didn't comprehend what to do after telling him to calm down a few minutes yet decided to slap him and they gazed up at him no longer panicked, but with an idea on his face, "Those vines. They're Laffy Taffy. They're attracted to whatever makes them laugh. Here, hit me again." She does, but only lightly while hearing the vines slowly go back up with a disappointing sound with Felix gazing determined at Calhoun, "That's not funny enough. Harder."
Calhoun hesitates while telling him then; ignoring the Modified Bug clinging to her head like a hat immediately from wrapping its vines around her head, "Look, you're a nice guy, I can't-" "No, ma'am! The arcade is depending on us. Now do your duty, that's an order!" Felix states for once, unusually forceful to which she decked him while he then added and easily gave him an abrupt black eye, "Owwww! It's working, hit me again!"
She saw his eye and looked concerned while telling him with a wince, "Ohh, your eye…" "I can fix it," and he does to impress her by using his hammer to Fix her damage, "Now go- Ow! San Fantastic." Felix kept fixing himself while Calhoun kept hitting him then as the vines got lower and lower.
They were then in reach and before she could hit him one more time, she was grabbed firmly by him as the vines rapidly raised them up and out of the sand and her heart oddly fluttered by the light playing tricks around his frame yet was irritated by the vines singing at them in both pleased yet mocking "Lalala's" for a few moments until she pulled her gun out and shot the vines, to which they bolted.
"Alright, enough with the goo-goo eyes," she states to Felix to confuse the man by yet was mentally freaking out as even though she was programmed about her supposed past lover, she felt it was half right and wrong to think of Felix that way, yet she then groaned at hitting the scanner as it briefly read two Bugs before it went to zip, "Argh, we lost the Signal to the Main Bug. Let's go," She then brought out her hoverboard once again, "Come on, we'll get a better view from the air… Think you can fix that shuttle?" Felix grinned at her with pride then while showing her his hammer, "Can do."
While Felix held in a laugh as the Bug latched to kiss her cheek friendly too which she ignored and left to go back to the Escape Pod, the one "Cy-Bug" that was with Ralph saw this as the child somehow improved its circuitry yet made it a Modified Queen Cy-Bug (in development), and since it was hungry, it ate a few candy canes while gaining their color and lastly borrowed into the ground directly right into the Game's Hidden Underground Caverns.
Outside of Sugar Rush's Go-Kart Factory:
The three racers took Trinaza back to Candlehead's Home while Morgana thanked them and Hazel went with them after Jubileena promised to be careful of her, and Bowsette seeing they needed a better chaperone decided herself go along with them, and Morgana was discovering things have changed as the guard was awake, and they were wondering how to get him to go to sleep or something to do the task ahead.
Recalling something from her book, Morgana decided to try it out and gazed at the three and with them either staring at her in slight surprise while she handed Hazel to Bowsette for safekeeping, and Ralph glancing at her skeptically, "I may have a way to get him to go to sleep… But I may have to use my magic on my voice to do so."
The thing she recalled was that oddly enough, her current race is also a distant cousin to Sirens, two races that are, and the only way they could activate said technique was to channel magic into their neck before doing so. And they could be used as Siren Voices, or solely for entertainment.
"Right… And how do you expect to get close enough for the guard to even hear you?" Ralph states while crossing his arms and giving Morgana a stare to which Bowsette saw her having a gleam in her eyes, and understood while stating it to her, "No, you are not going to-" Morgana vanished to get Bowsette to sigh, and both Vanellope and Ralph to blink at her previous spot in confused wonder, "She did it anyway…" Bowsette sighed while holding the bridge of her nose and simply without words, pointed at where the guard station was since Vanellope was about to ask.
At the guard station, he was presently reading a comic, and Bowsette from being a soulmate, used her newfound magic slightly to enchant their ears to still listen yet be protected from brief lessons from Sorceress, and explained briefly at this as to what Morgana was going to do and jumped back in alarm as she appeared in plain sight while he narrowed his eyes, and noted firmly to her, "Do you have a passport, little girl?"
He seemed taken aback as she started to sing, and the guard felt like he was in a trance as she did so. Her voice sounded as it was, but with a touch of her magic embedded into it.
Morgana: "Sleepy time~. All to rhyme~. Sleep away to Sleep~."
"Look, I'm not gonna… Fall... For that," the guard otherwise known as Beard Papa states yet he was having a hard time keeping his eyes open since Morgana kept reciting the same words to him while her eyes were glowing a mix of red and her eye color, not noticed to her.
In another realm of existence, three particularly teen-like females were just defeated yet instead of their gems getting destroyed, they along with a red and yellowed-haired girl and her group, and the teen girl with the fancy car got sucked into a black vortex with that odd energy going into it as well as their world and everyone in it either got taken or sent to others from the unknown seal within that area eradicated and did so, and landed in a pile as the car was changed to a Magical Boom Box, and passed out within Beast's Courtyard.
The energy, however, becoming a person mixed between all the current girls and the tallest one's height while having glowing-white eyes and a horn on her forehead with peach-toned colored skin, and the same wings behind her back while also resembling primarily one particular Siren, and the yellow and red-haired teenager combined and having the red-haired girls round yet delicate eyes with a delicate-oval shaped face, and a mix of all their hair in individual strands up to her shoulders, and she has an athletic-like slender frame as if she was a fitness model.
And largely those that came with, gained their animal features as well, primarily the ears or wings/horns while remaining human.
Morgana: "Sleepyheads such as you, need to go to sleep~. Sleepy time~. All to rhyme~. Go to sleep!"
Beard Papa then passed out while snoring to the amazement of the three, and Bowsette gave Ralph a smug glance before heading out without matters of being seen by Morgana, and made her cutely yelp while hugging her to her bosom as she secretly made Morgana blush lightly by her whispered words, "That was amazing as always, My Spitfire."
Vanellope and Ralph then gave a glance at the two while Bowsette lowered Morgana down, and went with Vanellope into the factory.
Once they eventually got to a certain area, Ralph gave her a stare along with Bowsette at beholding a giant door with a large yet heavy deadbolt lock that also had a poster with a cancel sign of Vanellope on it, and on it as well were the words: "No Glitches Allowed!"
"Alright, do your thing, knuckles. Bust it open," Vanellope told Ralph with Ralph stating it before Bowsette could and accusing Vanellope as she was giving Ralph a look as if to state, really, "What's this? You are a full-on criminal, aren't you?" Though Vanellope reminded the big guy to which he sighed and nodded back without words, "Hey, we shook on it."
Ralph then prepared himself and easily smashed through the door, and the four entered the surprisingly dark room with only a big, red, glowing button within the center that states the word, start, on it.
"Thank you, Jeeves," Vanellope gave him a mock bow at him with the big guy also beholding she was grateful within her orbs, yet was confused as Bowsette noted it before he could, "Where are the karts?" Vanellope seeing Morgana's head tilt to the button to get her wordless message instantly, pressed it while she confessed to getting Ralph to blanch at her then, "We gotta make one."
"What? No, no-no. Look, kid, bad idea, trust me. I don't make things, I break things," Ralph proceeded to clarify to the child with Bowsette hating to admit it, but she inwardly agreed with him while seeing the karts slowly swirling on the screen to be picked, "Looks like you'll be stepping outside your comfort zone then, Gladys," Vanellope states while eyeing the Karts to the big man, before glimpsing one she liked claimed then while touching it, "Ooh, this is a good one." For some reason, though to get her to keep touching it in growing frustration, it refused to activate before Morgana came over and soon placed her hand to her chest at getting zapped after touching it alongside Vanellope, at the same time, while saving the explanations for later as unexpectedly the entire place lights up.
There are levers, pulleys, and bins with an odd contraption connected to it all while they all heard instantly, from the male Game Announcer, "Welcome to the BAKERY. Let's bake a kart!"
"What is this, another game?" Ralph declared as they proceeded to move to where it possibly started with Vanellope giving him a 'Duh' look, "It's a mini-game, come on Ralph!" Vanellope told him before they began doing the Mini-Game within one minute and with Morgana trying to hold back some laughter with Bowsette doing the same by what Ralph ad sometimes he splattered things on him and other things, until finally and with a booming finality voice from the Game Announcer, "Times up. Congratulations. You did it. And here's your Kart!"
What rolled out wasn't what it showed on the screen, but it was the very same Kart that Morgana remembered would be important (the same one from the movie).
Vanellope gazed widely at it with Ralph thinking she was in shock, commenced to apologize while coming near as the big guy was rubbing the back of his head ashamed, "Aye yi yi. Look, kid... I tried to warn you, I can't make things, I just break-" "I love it," Vanellope expressed to him before he could finish, and with him being shocked by her words while affirming to her unsurely, "You do?"
"I love it. I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! Look, it's got a real engine, and look at these wheels," Vanellope shouts out in true, honest excitement while going around and even gesturing to what the Kart had, and kissed the left-front wheel before stating to him still and not glimpsing Ralph had a soft look on his face in all her excitement, but both Bowsette and Morgana did, and she, however, saw him grin at her in a pleased look, "I love it! I finally have a real Kart!" She hugs the Kart before thinking, heading over to some icing bags, and grabbing a few whiles looking at him, "Come on. A work of art like this must be signed."
She looked at the other two as both Bowsette and Morgana jumped with the child being curious at what Vanellope was doing until they too, had their icing: Bowsette's being yellow and Morgana's green, "Come on, sign with us."
After some time, they all signed the Kart with them all glancing at Morgana since she looked sheepish since hers was sloppy only a little, yet you could still see the name, "Hey, are you smiling?" Bowsette noted as she saw a rare and honest smile on Ralph's face from admiring their work, and he dropped it with Vanellope stating in agreement her way, "Whoa. Do you have teeth? I've never seen you smile before."
"I'm not smiling. I'm gassy, okay?" Ralph told them before they all cracked up by laughing slightly until King Candy, and the two donut guards came riding in as he declared out loud and Morgana narrowing her eyes at the man in which only Vanellope and Bowsette saw, in loathing, "Hold it right there, Glitch!" He did a double-take at discovering Bowsette and Morgana, along with Ralph being here as Bowsette looking offended by her title by the little man, "Koopa Girl, The Child, and Wreck-it Ralph?!"
Morgana's magic reacted to her mood to get Vanellope and Ralph the chance they needed as their personal "Kart Conversation" happening as it made all the icing spray out and splattered the only two guards and King Candy in the design as clowns while amusing Bowsette yet made her Soulmate yelp cutely as she shortly grabbed her, and commenced running after Ralph aided Vanellope out of the factory.
King Candy rubbed the icing from his eyes and narrowed them in surprising irritation as the two donut guards helped him out, "Are you hurt Sire?" One of them asked as he waved them away while answering them both, "No, the Child just glazed me… After them!"
As King Candy got into his Kart and the two guards left, a vortex showed up to get him to pause and saw a strange woman that was fully cloaked in a black shroud with a fully armored man in the design of a crocodile coming into the factory, and she looked at it in distaste, "So this is the World she ended up being tested in next? It's too… Sweet for my tastes," the man shrugged at his partner before he saw the supposed client their master wanted to see, "Ah, you must be King Candy. Our Master was hoping to speak to you... About a certain Child."
King Candy gave them a weirded-out gaze while he jingled and only got into his Kart, "If you want to discuss anything, I'm a King after all. I need to go deal with a certain Glitch," and with that, he took rapidly off with the two giving each other an amused stare, and left the factory to this supposed king's castle.
Bowsette followed Morgana's instructions and even though she was hesitant, headed right into the mountain the game had: Diet Cola Mountain, and was surprised by discovering they entered a failed mini-game area for this Arcade Game.
Morgana then amused Bowsette while leading her past a sign she shortly read and to what the Half-Koopa could only describe as a small person's home.
It wasn't long, however, as they heard the sounds of a Kart and eventual footsteps while hearing Ralph argued with each other, and with Morgana recalling the conversation then heard Ralph state to Vanellope loudly after a few minutes and forgiving as they were approaching them soon and she only gestured for Bowsette to sit on the bed, in which the female did nervously. "News flash! Neither one of us is getting what we want!"
They jumped as he let out a stomp that made it over here yet from where they saw them immediately, saw that he caused some Mentos to fall into the cola, and saw the soda spring up briefly in a small explosion of sorts while hearing Ralph state in confusion, "What was that?" They then saw Vanellope was with Ralph, the girl moving her Kart by hand to see Ralph was reading the same sign that Bowsette read to herself, "'Diet Cola Hot Springs. Watch out for falling Mentos?'"
"Yeah, check it out. Look!" Vanellope picked up a rock and tossed it in the next Mentos formation, and it fell while doing another geyser Effect with Ralph being impressed before some of the cola landed on his barefoot, and hopped a bit before Vanellope extended her words with a hint of apology in them, "Oh, you gotta watch out for the splash. That stuff's boiling."
"Yeah, I got that, thank you," Ralph states before they both did double takes and saw them, "How in the Honey Dewdrops you two got here before us?" Vanellope bewilderedly asked them both with Ralph glimpsing Bowsette shrugged and pointed to only Morgana, and confessed, "She knew a shortcut to this place." Shaking his head at the odd child to which she was sheepish, Ralph took notice of the place while noting to mainly himself, "What is this dump?"
"I think it's some sort of unfinished Bonus Level. Yeah, it's pretty cool, huh? I found that secret opening, and now I live here. See, look, look look!" Vanellope tells Ralph to get him to suddenly understand things while Morgana handed her a few wrappers, and wrapped herself around her small frame on the so-called bed she made, "Welcome to my home! I sleep in these candy wrappers. I bundle myself up like a little homeless lady."
"By yourself, with all this garbage around you?" Ralph decided to ask her with Vanellope giving him a look while acknowledging him, "Well, yeah. I mean everyone here says I'm just a mistake, and that I wasn't even supposed to exist. What do you expect?" Though she was stunned as Morgana sniffled with Bowsette declaring aloud the word, duck, and they did as the child sneezed while sending a lightning bolt at a few Mentos Columns and instead of falling to amaze them, they separated and simply floated as if they were air-like stepping stones. She then said sheepishly while watching the main one still up, "Sorry."
Ralph shook his head before he asked Vanellope curiously, and Vanellope looked slightly irritated before sighing to herself, "Listen, kid... I know it's none of my business, but why do you even stick around this game?"
"You don't know anything, do you? Glitches can't leave their games," Vanellope told him with a hidden tone of resentment to herself that Ralph was startled by alongside Bowsette, "It's one of the joys of being me." Vanellope then laid on the wrappers on the ground looking depressed at the reminder, and Morgana saw Ralph was thinking before he moved and raises his giant fist, and soon starts pounding the twisted, nonsense-like architecture.
Vanellope glanced up at hearing this and shortly stood in place while not realizing what he was doing, declaring to him loudly, "Hey! What are you doing?! Come on! I know it's a dump, but it's all I got!" Ralph still pounded away while speaking to her then loudly in return, "If you're going to be a racer you have to learn how to drive, and you can't do that without a track." At the end of his words, he made a Beginning Track for her.
"Whoa," Vanellope voiced to herself while noticing Bowsette was impressed alongside Morgana going over and touching it and Ralph pleased by their looks before he went over and easily brought Vanellope's Kart onto the track and states to her while Vanellope soon went over and got in, "Alright now, let's hustle up. We got some driving to do."
"I'm gonna learn to drive! I'm gonna learn to drive! I'm gonna- Wait… Do you know how to drive?" Vanellope was excited and states to herself before glancing at Ralph while realizing something, and he then declared in reply while trying to convince her, Morgana snorting while whistling at his brief stare to her, "Yeah! I mean, I haven't done it, but look, I flew a spaceship today, okay?"
"You crashed it," Vanellope reminded him with things not helping as Morgana nodded in agreement with her on that to comment then, "Wait, you took a kid with ya to ride in a spaceship?" Ralph sheepishly shrugged before recounting as Vanellope was getting comfortable while Morgana was gazing and watching, and with Bowsette only shaking her head in amusement since she knew Morgana was interested in the Kart; recalling her brother's Kart he still has in his garage, "How hard can it be? Okay, uh... start it up."
Vanellope did start it up yet before he could warn her to not touch anything, both she and Morgana commenced doing so with Vanellope turning on the lights, "What's this?" Seeing the lights on, Ralph told her what they were, "Them's the lights," Morgana before she did hit the horn to cover her ears promptly as it was unexpectedly loud yet Vanellope looked at him excitedly while he noted to her then, "That's the horn… Hey is she ok?"
Vanellope was still excited yet saw Morgana whimper while hearing ringing in her ears, and shook her head while declaring in a hopeful yet convincing way, "I'm fine," Bowsette though came over to her and saw her shaking her head and not knowing they were being watched with the said person filing this away for later along with recording the sound, and saw Morgana was recovering shortly and nodded while they watched both Ralph and Vanellope look over the Kart, still.
"So there are some buttons on the floor…" Ralph started with Vanellope at least knowing what those were as he only nodded, "Pedals," still nodding he stated to her then while looking into the Kart and Vanellope paying attention to where he was pointing, "Pedals. Right. Now, that's the Go pedal. That, I believe is the stopper. And this... Wait. What is this?" Ralph was pressing the clutch part of the Kart, "It doesn't do anything." He then picks up the Kart with Vanellope inside it while she was generally focusing on the buttons, and stares closely at the buttons as well, "What does this joystick do?"
Ralph was then dragged by the Kart while hitting the dirt, and Vanellope looked sheepish at him then while on the track at least, "Pooh!" Vanellope immediately looked sorry at him before she gazed excited by his words, "Good. Let's try that again."
Morgana presently recovered from the horn as to her it oddly sounded like a bell, saw along with Bowsette while leaning onto her front and confidentially, the female Koopa trying to hold herself from squealing in place at how cute "Her One" was being as they saw both Vanellope try and fail on getting the Kart working for the last ten minutes before hearing a yawn come from her, and Bowsette interrupted their progress while carrying easily a tired Morgana, "I think I may have to take her to someplace as it's getting late already."
They blinked and saw it was Morgana sneezing tiredly as an unusual, cartoonish clock appeared out of nowhere and danced a jig while showing it was indeed getting to the point to call it for the day, "Well… Ralph could take my part of my home to sleep," Vanellope noted yet paused before gazing at her two other friends in concern, "But what about you two?"
The answer was created as once Morgana sneezed again, an unusual, see-through vortex showed to make them astonished by also recognizing the three racers gazing at them as well, "Did she just make a shortcut to Crumbles House?"
Shrugging while not questioning Morgana's Magic, Bowsette gave them a soft look while asserting to them assuredly with Ralph glancing at the Half-Koopa in suspicion, "We'll see you both tomorrow as I'm sure Morgana would know where to go… What? I was just enjoying your Kart Driving, that's all." Only nodding, they waved as once the two stepped through, it closed up behind them.
"Whoa… That was pretty cool," Candlehead pointed out to get both Crumbelina and Jubileena to only sigh at their friends' antics while watching Bowsette carry Morgana who cutely curled within her hold, "Awe, she must have exhausted herself today," Jubileena gently noted while guessing what Bowsette wanted, and led while telling her to duck a few times, and led her to the first room that was surprisingly bigger than the racers yet at least decently large enough for a decent room for even her to sleep in.
"Well, you two can stay the night at least as it's the least I can do for all the bizarre saves Morgana did for us," she told, and with the female Koopa about to ask yet Jubileena soon shaking her head while telling her, "Don't ask."
Only nodding while she yawned as well, she placed Morgana down first before sighing as Jubileena left them alone and awkwardly climbed into the softer than normal bed while passed out next to the child, and with Morgana curling up next to her along with her tail gently wrapping around her left arm.
Castle of King Candy, at this time:
King Candy paces with those two odd people from before only leaning on the walls, and saw Sour Bill come into the room with a written report of his guards not finding the four, primarily the Glitch.
Crumpling the note, he sighed while glancing at the two unknown people that they decided to take off their cloaks, and was sorta surprised by seeing they were monsters of sorts.
The man was at least a Stone Warrior of sorts while resembling a gargoyle without the wings or tail, and that armor from before while the woman was oddly enough, attractive yet was also leather-armored in crimson and silver designed gear that showed her chest, abs, and the center part of her legs while noticing she was also wearing a full-body mesh under and wore three golden bangles on each arm, and two on the lower pets of her legs. She also had amber-green infused eyes that were spotted and were oddly enough, appeared to have wings she revealed that were webbed like a gargoyle of sorts, and a tail with a spaded tip at the end easily matching her ebony hair that was a short-cut style and having white highlights in it, and lastly her slender arms under her impressive E-Cups.
These were hired minions confidentially for someone in Morgana's Past, and were only told to do one thing which King Candy interrogated warily, "So who are you after largely?"
"We were sent here for two things: The first is to recruit you into a more… Persuading occupation then you now have to have more than this mere Kingdom," the Stone Man, Silak that is, said dully to King Candy to intrigue him, "And we are after a specific child of sorts our Hired wants, and we know you hired someone else to aid you in fetching her," at this King Candy narrowed his eyes in understanding while he motioned to the female that sighed before tossing a bag to the king, and King Candy opened the small pouch to be surprised alongside Sour Bill what it contained before placing it back and noting with immediate interest, "Now you have my full attention."
"Once we obtain her, we plan to do as instructed and take her to the Sacred Grounds," Silak tells him then while observing the king frown at him then, "Yet I want her as well to make sure my reign is supreme as after all," he jingled here before adding onto his words, "She's a Magical User and one that's powerful to boot."
"We figured as such, and that is why we decided it would be necessary to join forces," the female, Onita, states while she shrugged before strengthening onto her words, "Besides, you owe a debt anyways to the man that hired us anyway to let you live." That made King Candy narrow his eyes at her before sighing and immediately realizing in private who it was, "Alright… But no crossing each other on our agreement, and you will aid Agent Red as well since her magic is unpredictable."
They nodded at him while the man got a device out and pushed a button for a vortex to show up, and they both headed to the supposed agent's location, currently.
King Candy, however, looked determined and headed to the basement of the castle via an elevator behind his throne.
Once the elevator opened up, he and Sour Bill passed by a room labeled "Relation to Glitch", and walked to what appeared to be wires and whatnot on the ground. He then approached a door that revealed an old Nintendo Controller for the familiar console and typed in a specific 'cheat code' to get it to move while showing an electric web of sorts connecting to boxes within the void-like space the room had.
"Oh, the code, the sweet lifeblood of the game," he started to float while searching within it with a string wrapped around his waist while Sour Bill held the line as there were code-boxes for places, the characters, even the in-game content, "Where are you? Let's see... Stadium... Jumbotron. There it is the 'Winner's Cup.'" He then double-clicked the box and saw a lot of 'Coins' and was peering into them, "One of these things is not like the others. You!" He found Ralph's Medal, plucked it to have it soon change into data, and reinforced his words with a jingle, "We're going to give you a nice new home." He then found his box and placed the data into it to then have Ralph's Medal appearing around his neck.
"Success…" as he floated the way back, two boxes were passed by him and one stating 'Vanellope Von Schweetz' that glitched with three wires discreetly attached, and the other named 'Crystal Von Schweetz' with only a few attached, but not active and that had an odd aura around it. "Sour Bill, you're in charge while I'm out for the Castle. You know what to do," King Candy states with the Sour Jawbreaker only nodding solemnly to him as King Candy jingles before taking off.
Before Dawn, within the Escape Pod flying around Sugar Rush the third time:
Calhoun and Felix, along with the Taffy Cy-Bug that Felix named oddly enough, Taffy, were riding in the Pod for nearly half the night after Calhoun's Scanner picked up the data for the one Cy-Bug, but currently… "Blasted tech! Works one time and then the next, it doesn't," she groaned out while piloting the Pod.
She saw while Taffy was clinging to Felix's arm, his face was blushing at her to make him blink then by her words at him, "Your face is still red, you might want to hit it with your hammer." She was kinda put off by the Modified Bug only blinking at her, and then at him curiously yet she was inwardly shrugging also by his honesty to her, then, "Oh that's not blunt force trauma, ma'am. That's just the honey glow in my cheeks."
She shrugged indifferently yet before he could comment on what he was going to say to her, the proximity alert showed to get Calhoun in "Battle Mode" as three Bugs to disturb her, were behind them and sure enough, after a brief flyby, she saw odd Cy-Bugs that was more jagged and were designed like a few of the stripped trees with guns getting ready to shoot their ship, "Hang on," She declares while doing a barrel roll with Felix glancing at the Bugs shooting at them.
"Is that normal behavior?" Felix states nervously with Taffy humming in panic as the little bug clung desperately to Felix's arm, "No… Seems somehow in this game, they're getting smarter and more deadly by the time frame," Calhoun grits out while maneuvering the Pod in many ways while trying to shake the Bugs.
Without warning, a slightly bigger one appeared out of nowhere and blocked Calhoun's view of her flight path, and was uncomfortable about the behavior the Bugs were possessing while glimpsing red lights appear as those three behind her commenced shooting the ship and saw sparks on the outside, "I may have to eject us," Calhoun states to get Felix to give her a bewildered look before the bigger one decided to rapidly turn around, and bash the side of the Pod with more alarms blaring, "Is that safe?!" Felix let out as he saw smoke near the thrusters of the Pod, "No choice Short-Stack, we have to bail this vessel and hope for the best," Calhoun told him before she quickly pressed the button as they proceeded shooting non-stop before an explosion occurred to get Taffy to shrilly scream out loud while holding onto Felix, and they shot off in different directions as Calhoun almost got eaten up by the Bigger Bug before it was accidentally shot at.
Felix along with Taffy ended up near the castle while Calhoun who was having flashbacks of her former lover moving her aside during her wedding, on what her programmed mind was for her character and landed close to a cliff that overlooked a landscape that held a field of half-eaten jawbreakers and lollipops.
Once she got up and not known to her around this time, Felix headed to King Candy's Castle, she was groaning while shakily grabbing her scanner as it came to life, while at the same time, concerned about the little man- Not the time Calhoun, he could take care of himself… I'm sure he can- What the heck?! Calhoun while thinking and glancing at her scanner, saw to make her for once gulp in realizing from detecting a shell of a former Bug to understand one thing: One may have changed differently than she remembered, "This has not been my best of days… I just hope it's not what I immediately know it is."
An hour later, in the Guest Room:
Bowsette yawned sleepily while shortly waking up after feeling something or someone wasn't next to her, and discerning that Morgana wasn't with her to make a small fright, yet then soon relaxed as she was hearing her Soulmate laugh along with also hearing her sibling while thinking she was better, at a joke possibly from Candlehead.
Might as well get up as I smell pancakes of sorts, Bowsette thought to herself while only washing up and winced as she hit her head, and ducked while going downstairs to see she was right. Though she was amused with Morgana privately as Trinaza was cozying up with Crumbelina to her own friends' amusement while watching Jubileena was flipping chocolate double-chip pancakes, and wordlessly greeted Bowsette, "Morning Shell," Morgana states to her after eating a bite of her food, and Bowsette came over while still standing as the chairs were small for her size, and lastly rubbed the child's hair playfully, "Morning Squirt."
They then oddly heard a chime-like sound to pause everyone while catching a glimpse of Candlehead being curious, got up and headed over to the door to blink and close it before the woman on the other side could state anything, "Hey Girls… There is a pretty woman at the door." Bowsette guessing who it was decided to head over and open it, and sure enough, it was an irked Sorceress who looked at least relieved to see her, "So is she ok?"
The Half-Koopa only nodded while allowing her in and introduced the other woman to the girls and making them blink and shrugged indifferently as soon, as they were ready to take off before freezing at Morgana's words as if they were surprised by the location, "Let's go check up on Vanellope at Diet Cola Mountain."
"You mean she lives at the Soda Volcano?" Crumbelina was the one to ask with bewilderment to their friend while Bowsette was filling Sorceress in along with the other woman, in turn, telling her how she guessed where their shared Soulmate ended up being at by her magic stating it and made Morgana blink while asking, innocently, "Is that a bad spot to live in?"
"Somewhat… As long as it doesn't erupt within, she would be ok at least," Jubileena answered Morgana while they got into Karts yet they all widen their eyes at noticing Morgana was getting ready to sneeze, "Take cover!" Bowsette states in alarm with Sorceress doing as told, and once she did, made them startled as a vortex appeared with an equally surprised Vanellope and Ralph within said location before they yelped as Morgana and Co., was sucked inside and appeared alright, on the other.
"She sneezed again, didn't she?" Was Ralph's only question to get everyone to nod as Vanellope freaked out then as Trinaza began sniffing her before pausing, and sheepishly stood while tinting in embarrassment, "Sorry, need to control that."
She needs to be trained to curb her instincts unless it's needed... Bowsette thought as Vanellope saw the racers was amazed at Ralph effortlessly making a track of sorts in the supposed bonus level and saw Morgana gazing at the place before asking Vanellope and guessing by her deserved gaze alongside Ralph's they did an overnight course training, "I missed your racing skills?"
Amused, Vanellope only nodded with Ralph rubbing his nose smugly, "Yep, The Kid here has improved from the last time you guys saw her." Nodding at her pal, Vanellope added while going over to her Kart with a smile all three racers knew, was an accomplishment, "Ya, and you should've seen it as my Glitches came in handy as well," confused by what she meant, they told them how it went.
Seeing the time after all three raced Vanellope and was indeed impressed by her improvement for a few hours, Morgana froze as all of them then glanced at her as Bowsette being amused by her cute yet confused look, "What? Why is everyone looking at me?"
"Well, you need to choose who to ride within your laps of the race, Mary, and well… It's mainly up to you who goes as they adjusted it for four laps out of eight you can do," Crumbelina tells her friend while showing her the note she gotten from the Pillsbury Mailbox, and blinked at it while noticing it was going to start around seven or so at night, looked at all four of her friends with Ralph seeing this, glanced to Bowsette as despite hanging out with both her and Vanellope, he was not at all accustomed to child-like problems.
Bowsette sighed while telling the four girls to which they saw their friend's face immediately looking ashamed, and secretly they did at the excitement of Morgana also being in the race as well, "I think she still needs to choose at least for a moment or two's time. Perhaps since it's early we could do something?"
At this, all four racers made the five others confused as they also looked to see Hazel snuck with them by seeing her under Crumbelina's hat before leaping and giving Morgana a face-hug-like kiss to which she giggled, and then shiver as they thought it was creepy except Trinaza and Bowsette discerning it was oddly cute as well, "A Dune Race."
Twenty minutes later after making sure no lawmen were after the three and making them worry at beholding wanted posters with them mistaking Morgana, to her embarrassment and Bowsette's blush and a look of later from Sorceress to them of her future self of sorts she dreamt of they came to what Morgana was amazed at, was an odd race track that was for indeed Dune Racing and the sand itself was chocolate and vanilla powder of sorts.
The person or few they did not expect to be here was both Chipana that looked healthy, and Eliza with her friend, Angela, and Demona while carrying the orb-like egg.
"Miss Demona? Miss Elisa- Oomph!" Morgana started to ask with her then being tackled by Chipana while nuzzling against her cheek in a cute purr to amuse this time Trinaza, and the others understood the child's situation as Elisa explained reluctantly to Bowsette and Sorceress after Demona confidentially was stunned by them being Soulmates to a child as she was, yet did recognize more than Elisa did, while Morgana, Chipana and Trinaza, was having a blast for the last twenty or so minutes later as they were taking turns riding with the racers and not minding at all at this since it was merely a warm-up for them for the race tonight.
Once they pulled in while having amused looks, and gazes of acceptance from the three racer girls to Vanellope privately, and gotten out while they blinked as Trinaza sneezed this time with a small wind picked up and blew the sand away from their clothes.
"I have to admit, despite Vanellope being a glitched character… She is rather good at what she was meant to do," Sorceress decided to state after she was the one that largely observed things, and Ralph nodded in pride at her for that, "Yep, I taught her everything she knows while teaching me a few things." At this, they gave him a look before abruptly, the ground proceeded to shake a few times before settling down, "What was that?"
Before they could answer the ground shook as Elisa turned before widening her eyes like the rest of them at discovering (oddly enough), something mechanical shifting through the sands as not realized to them, it was summoned by Morgana's Magic when she was having fun and especially since it was almost defeated by a certain someone from another yet alternative verse, of course, "I think we should get going," Bowsette warily said while watching four blades of sorts were deliberately rising out of the ground and heading to them.
It was here or oddly by luck, Morgana sneezed as a vortex opened up and sucked them all into it before they were attacked by the blades that were trying to get after or whoever summoned it to this odd place, before popping out of the ground with a roar.
The beast otherwise recognized as a Heartless Boss by the name of Kurt Zisa was six-armed. Kurt Zisa also boasts a brown and black segmented body and a golden head that bears a strong resemblance to the cobra head on Jafar's staff. It wears a white sleeve trimmed in gold on each arm, a white tunic with puffy gold sleeves over its oddly-shaped upper torso, and white, gold-and-turquoise trimmed pants on its lower body; around its waist is a brightly colored sash in turquoise, decorated with bright orange tassels and a gold apron bearing the Heartless Emblem. Its feet appear to be clad in gold and brown shoes at first glance, but the toes are curled into fierce hooks that point down towards the ground. Each arm lastly ends in three sharp segmented talons.
It was confused while blinking a few times though as the Heartless Emblem switched to what Morgana's Potter Family Crest was before shaking its head, and dived back into the sands while a vortex sucked it away until she summons it once again.
They all then appeared (to get them to be surprised), inside the mountain once again.
"That is the first time I am glad for an Accidental Magic Sneeze," Bowsette states to them all while discovering that Morgana looked tired, sighed while glancing at Sorceress and realizing some of the game characters would attend the Race later, and glanced at everyone while getting into the Karts as Crumbelina, Jubileena, and Candlehead has to get to the track soon for the places, "We can meet up at the Track later, ok? I think you need to take a nap at-" they all gave looks with Chipana and Trinaza passing out next to Morgana in Vanellope's homemade bed of sorts, "Ok… Ralph," Bowsette commenced with him gazing at her being bewildered by her request, "Could you watch them for me while I go and see what food they have here for them, as by now we understand their appetites."
Elisa and Demona decided to fly out since oddly enough, they were still as they are while knowing whatever this world is, allowed Angela to remain in her True Appearance instead of the other and did a flyby wave from both Elisa and Angela while Demona rolled her orbs, and headed to the Track and with Elisa trusting things would turn out ok.
Ralph only nodded with him tinting by Bowsette gently kissing him in a friendly gesture to his cheek, and waved by as they took off and with Vanellope giggling as Hazel was on top of Ralph's head before he could state it, Hazel chirped cutely at him with eye-to-eye contact, and he sent her rapidly to Vanellope as the little bug refused to let go of him, and chuckling to herself while shaking her head, and placing the bug which yawned before sleeping on Chipana with a constant humming sound, shrugged.
Later on, as Ralph was getting worried as to where Bowsette was as it has been at least an hour or so since they left, Vanellope was doing some last-minute tracking on the Practice Track, and came to a stop while discerning the girls were still sleeping, and gazed to him, "Hey Ralph, what's got your panties in a bunch?"
Seeing his look, he understood yet mumbled he was wearing boxers before expressing his words to her, "Bowsette should have come back by now… It seems like she possibly was captured or something by this point." Vanellope only shrugged while thinking then as well, and stared at him once again, "So you and she are friends or acquaintances, Old Chum?" He shrugged once again while doing a so-so motion with his right hand, and honestly told the kid, "A mix of both by this point, besides that, she does keep her word as Peach does… The Mario Game she comes from," Ralph explained briefly to get Vanellope to only nod at that.
"Say… Do you want to go outside and practice, I'm sure I'm going to win this time Ralph, my main man?" Vanellope states with him blinking, but shrugging while glancing at the kids still sleeping in the pile of soft wrappers, "I guess it wouldn't hurt much, I mean, your practice on that has improved anyways, why not."
He then got up and as they were leaving with Ralph carrying the Kart, Morgana woke up sleepily and saw that it was just them, and woke shortly up at realizing what part of the movie she was in immediately by seeing the clock she gave Vanellope for her makeshift home by Crumbelina's apology and gotten up with Hazel waking up, and jumping while latching gently onto her shoulder and saw things play out still, but hid behind a rock.
"Come on Ralph! This is it. This is happening after they wake up and head to the Track. I almost don't believe it. I mean, I have dreamt about it for so long, and now... Now I think I'm gonna puke. I mean I think I might puke. You know, like a verp?" Vanellope tells Ralph excitedly as she was but realized things would change a bit, and Ralph was confused once he gently placed their Kart on the ground next to her, "A what now?"
"Vomit and a burp together, and you can taste it, and it's just like rising... Oh, this is so exciting!" Vanellope told him while hopping up and down to amuse him as he calmed her down quickly with his encouraging words, "Easy there, save that energy for the Track."
Vanellope nodded before she looked hesitant, and sighed to herself before asking Ralph a question; her tone he guessed wasn't confident now, "Am I ready to be a real racer? Ralph, what if the gamers don't like me?!" Seeing her mood was about her Special Problem, Ralph made her hold in a yelp while picking her up, and making her look her in the eyes, "Who doesn't love a brat with dirty hair? Come on, those people are gonna love you. Do you know why? Because you're a winner."
"I'm a winner," Vanellope repeated to her friend as he continued to inspire her, "And your adorable," "I'm adorable!" Vanellope tells him with a confident smile as he nodded while claiming, making her giggle a little as he lightly tossed her in the air without much strength for once, and caught her easily, "And everyone loves an adorable winner!"
Allowing her to piggyback him while they gazed at each other while sitting oddly enough, on the same rock, he decided to continue speaking to her and made Vanellope blink at him, "Listen to me, if you get nervous, just keep telling yourself: I was born to race, and I will win as I was made to win." Morgana blinked at that as Xion commented to her as she felt the other silently agreeing, "That wasn't in the movie… Did they bond more than they did before?" I think so Xion, but maybe my involvement in this Book this time hasn't changed that much besides that… What's with the feeling you're both giving me stares? "Well, you have changed a lot and there is also that odd Good/Bad Vibe you tend to have at times," Larxene tells her with Xion agreeing.
Before she could remark, she must have missed the conversation between the two while Vanellope stated to Ralph while hopping out of her Kart real quick, "I forgot something. I'll be right back." Ralph chuckled while shaking his head and hands on his hips in amusement at Vanellope, and then blinked at noticing a familiar tail hiding behind said rock near him and asked curiously, "Liz, your up already?"
"Uh, for some time…" Morgana states to him honestly as Hazel climbed up and decided to fully show herself and sat on the rock, and she looked like she wanted to tell him something yet before she could, they both heard a Kart approaching them.
It was King Candy, and he looked confidentially surprised at discovering her there yet jingled while shaking his head and declared in greeting to Ralph who narrowed his eyes, "Ralph, there you are! Hello!"
"You!" Ralph states while not noticing Morgana telling him to wait as he went over and while King Candy started telling him, "Now, I came along. Unarmed. Whoa-" Ralph tossed a boulder in which King Candy dodged while Morgana thought she saw a flicker of something not too far from here, yet shrugged as she was watching things.
"I've had enough of you, Pillow Pants," Ralph said sternly to him while Morgana understood it was probably him, which it was, that outcasted Vanellope in the first place, "Now, calm down! Calm down!" King Candy states while Ralph proceeded chasing him with both Xion and Larxene being amused as she was thinking by the chase oddly enough, being similar to Ralph as Tom the Cat, and King Candy as Jerry the Mouse, "I'm gonna beat the filling out of you!"
King Candy then pulled out a pair of glasses from his inventory while he professed nervously to Ralph while the big man was cornering him, "You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?" He did something else that he smirked at Morgana for by making her laugh, and King Candy inwardly scowl: He took his glasses off his face, folded them, and hit King Candy on the head lightly with them before he tossed them to the side while King Candy admits being half-impressed by the situation, "Oh you hit a guy WITH glasses, well played."
King Candy jingled with a yelp as Ralph then grabbed him by his tassels, and firmly told him with narrowed eyes and face to face, "What do you want Candy?" Though King Candy had a disgusted look while waving his hands in front of his face then declaring in retort, "For you to close your mouth. Your breath…" he yelled as Ralph dropped him carelessly while King Candy continued talking to him then, business-like, "Listen, I just want to talk to you."
"I'm not interested in anything you have to say," Ralph states as he started to march right back to the mountain before he is stilled by King Candy's next set of words and with Morgana also glimpsing what he pulled out as well, "How about this? Are you interested in this?" It was the Medal of Heroes, AKA, Ralph's Medal.
Disbelief showing on his face as he took the Medal, Ralph asked with hints of both shock and suspicion in his tone immediately and no longer furious, "My Medal. How did you-" before King Candy could state anything, Morgana decided to maybe change things and discreetly stunning yet getting a gleam briefly without her detecting within King Candy's orbs at her for this, with Ralph guessing she may have seen it while sleeping, "He got it out of the Game's Code, he lied to you, Ralph."
Hearing this, he gently gripped the Medal, and glared firmly at a nervous-looking King Candy at this turn of events, "You lied to me? You told me the only way to get it is by winning it from the Winner's Cup?"
Approaching him with his free hand clenched to understand he was angry, again, Morgana and him blinked as he shouted out loud randomly without them all realizing he had backup meeting him before his arrival here, "Now!"
Morgana saw things with Ralph not as much, as Agent Red that is, appeared, and claiming too little too late, "Look out!"
Red shocked Ralph and grabbed something before sending to both awe and horrify Morgana, a one-way trip back to his game and on the roof of it by a vortex of sorts, and then she yelped as a person appeared and grabbed her by the scruff of her clothing, and saw a possible female from the armored setup while gazing at her, and she had the same armor setup as Agent Carolina from Red Vs. Blue, but she was smaller in height by a few inches and seemed leaner yet decently curved while wearing the matching color as Agent Red, as such.
"So this is the girl you were supposed to obtain earlier, Brother? She looks nothing important to me," the woman said as Red gave her a stare, "I know Crimson but King Candy and I allied sorts with two others that want her after he uses her as well, for his gain." At that Morgana went wide-eyed while struggling as Hazel tried to protect her yet she cried out as she was handily knocked back and right into the mountain, and it was at this unfortunate timing Vanellope had her gift for Ralph in her hands, yet dropped it by them all staring at her.
Vanellope seeing Morgana wordlessly telling her to run, attempted before she was captured in an odd net that Silak used while showing up and hoisting her easily up before he chuckled with him sensing the two other life forms inside as Onita appeared next, and with a head nod, went in.
Silak said to make Morgana stare at him in dread primarily King Candy yet his stone eyes looked mainly at her by his words, "Onita would handle them while we return to your castle. I will inform our hired about the deal, and allow you to use the child in your new plan while we then take her, afterward." Creating a portal right to the castle in a way that made Morgana and even Vanellope shiver, they all went in alongside King Candy driving his Kart into it.
The rooftop of Nicelanders Building, Twenty Minutes Later:
Ralph woke up while shaking his head, and was confused only briefly as to why he was back in his game before stilling at beholding the "Out of Order" paper on the game's glass, and what happened back in Sugar Rush, "Oh man… This is all my fault…" he for once was pissed at himself so much, he tossed a rock that was on the roof nearby him at the glass with a wince yet that moved the paper off of it and was then observing the arcade, the Sugar Rush Arcade Console, and saw all the racers to which he was startled by at beholding Vanellope on there alongside another girl hugging her with a warm smile.
He then recalled what Morgana noted before he was attacked by Agent Red, about King Candy, and saw Gene coming up after hearing a sudden sound on the roof see him, "Ralph? Where have you been and how the heck did you get up here?"
Looking at him, and then seeing his gaze, Gene sighed as he was about to have a last martini later and told him what occurred, and Ralph surprised him for once while looking determined, "I'll fix everything Gene, I just need to head back to a certain game first." Ralph then left Gene hanging as he took the wire car, and was within moments back at the Station.
Ralph then almost tripped over a few characters before bumping right into Mario and Sonic's group since Elisa, Angela, and Demona were already at The Track just like some others. "What the- Ralph? What are you doing here?" They grew concerned by his words then, to them all, "I need to go back to Sugar Rush and get the girls out of that King's clutches. I don't know what he has planned… But it ain't good."
"Amy, you and Peach stay here due to your, uh, recent conditions," Sonic states with Shadow nodding the same to a cloaked female who wordlessly nodded as Peach looked ready to argue yet sighed since somehow while they all had personal time while looking for Morgana, Peach, Amy, and the girl hiding by the name of Maria Robotnik, renewed, are pregnant with the love of their lives' children by an odd man appearing out of nowhere and said a spell to make it happen.
Waving them bye, Ralph proceeded to tell the group along with his fellow Bad Guy, Bowser, as to what may be going on and learned Bowsette didn't at all leave the game.
In King Candy's Dungeon, near the Code Room and others, at this point and time:
Morgana warily came around before she heard a familiar shout of leaving her alone, from Bowsette and make Morgana discover she was strapped to a table while her blood was being filtered, digitally, if the odd device next to her that's hooked up to her left arm was to state anything, and was only a quarter full.
"Silence wrench," Morgana heard as her eyesight was blurred as of now and froze at hearing a slap, and held back a scream since she was shocked briefly before hearing Agent Red state, "It seems the child is awake now."
"Well, at least something good comes out of this anyways," a voice that made Morgana stiffen and started to whimper along with trying to escape, and went stiff as King Candy gently caressed the left part of her face while feeling it was wet and possibly from her tears as he soothed her half-heartedly, "There, there. It will be alright. Once this nice gentleman has what he needs of your blood, for whatever reason, you will be serving me as your King, eventually."
"To hell, she will-" Bowsette started with Morgana's hearing Vanellope shout out for them to stop before she heard her scuffling as if she was being taken away, "Take that Glitch to that one room where the others it," that made Morgana go wide-eyed while she proceeded to weakly hear Xion's voice primarily to tell her to stay awake as the blood container was currently half-full, "And send that Half-Koopa to the other side of the Dungeon for better results from the child." Hearing some roars from Bowsette as her eyesight was gradually coming back to her, she then heard King Candy jingle while asking what she understood was the Stone Man, "Any word of your partner in all this?"
"No, and I have a feeling she is no longer on our side," he confessed while showing something to King Candy to then have him scowl at that, before placing a smile on his face, "Well, the more for the dungeon then." King Candy then gazed at her while insisting to Agent Red, and making her pale, "See to it she is not harmed yet made sure to learn her place if you know what I mean?"
"With pleasure... Once that jar is filled, I'm all for it anyways King Crispy," if Morgana could, she would have laughed yet she weakly turned at glimpsing Silak snort with King Candy not amused, jingled, and left in a huff.
Seeing the jar was full while they spoke, made her pale with Xion and Larxene inside her stating to fear for her life Morgana gasped when she was then hit in the stomach before Silak could remove the device from her arm, and gave Agent Red a look. "What? I was just getting a head start is all," was his excuse while shrugging his armored shoulders and Silak shook his head while opening a vortex, left, and once it closed Morgana felt the table she was strapped to and proceeded to rise upwards to where she could feel her head no longer pound, but then paled by noticing Agent Red get a whip out, and noted with some small humor to himself, "Now… Let's get that into your head that you belong to the King, shall we?"
Ten Minutes Later at the Secret Entrance to Diet Cola Mountain:
Sour Bill as ordered by King Candy, rode a his-sized candy golf cart to the area, and started looking into it and not hearing a silent noise and a small flash as Shadow, Luigi, and Ralph appeared behind him with him immediately wearing Vanellope's Gift around his neck confidentially.
Seeing the three shadows, Sour Bill hesitantly glanced up and if he could, paled at beholding Shadow, Luigi, and Ralph giving him a firm look while Ralph had his hands on his hips, "Hey cough drop. Explain something to me… If Vanellope was never meant to exist, then why is HER picture on the side of the Game Console with someone that oddly looks like her?"
"Uhhh…." was all Sour Bill could state before he tried taking off... if it wasn't for Shadow shortly stopping him and also grabbing him while making the candy person gaze at things upside down, "What's going on in this candy-coated Heart of Darkness?" Ralph asked him yet to the three's ire while Luigi grabbed his borrowed phone from Tails, and started calling the others, "Nothing," the sour jawbreaker states rather too hastily to get Shadow to narrow his eyes at him, "We have ways of making you talk."
For the next five minutes, they tried what they could: Tossing him, cliff diving, forcing him to eat brussel sprouts, and even scaring him with the "Good/Bad Cop" routine that didn't work until Ralph had enough, and declared while they were back at the mountain, "I'll lick you if you don't tell us."
Grossed out by that, "You wouldn't?" Sour Bill states warily as he was in Ralph's hold right now as he had a look in his eyes as the others just showed up, "Oh yeah?" Ralph did lick him to get Sour Bill to freak out while claiming it mainly to himself with him being disgusted as well, "That's like sandpaper." Seeing he won't talk still, and seeing the reluctant nods from the others, declared firmly with a hint of mirth, "Hmm, wonder how many licks it'll take to get to your center."
"I'll take it to my grave," Soul Bill states with Ralph shrugging and plopping the poor soul into his mouth before puckering while admiring everyone, "They don't call him Sour Bill for anything," and they heard Sour Bill's screams as Ralph swished him a few more times within his mouth before plopping the sour jawbreaker onto his hand while holding him, "Had enough yet?"
"Alright. Alright, I'll talk!" Sour Bill states in panic, and talked he did while revealing things about Vanellope, and King Candy adjusting things to suit his needs within the Code Room of the Game while erasing all of their memories except what he confessed next made them blink with Ralph declaring firmly to him, "I thought I heard things… Remind me that again?"
"King Candy placed Vanellope's Twin sister Crystal into possibly the same room as her by now, and he did it worse for her. When Vanellope became a Glitch to the game itself, she forgot all about her to have Crystal in a sad state of being in a coma, and only she could wake her up." Sour Bill states before strengthening his words while warily eyeing Ralph's mouth, "All I know is this: If Vanellope crosses that Finish Line while racing, she will reset the game and undo the damage the current ruler has control of- No please don't put me back into your mouth, that's all I know I swear!" Sour Bill panicked as he thought Ralph was going to do so yet he sticks the sour jawbreaker onto a lollipop and they left in a hurry to the Castle.
With Calhoun at this point and time:
"Come on, I know you're out there," Calhoun states to herself while rechecking the device while wondering how everyone she was told about was doing, particularly- Not the time… Even though he's a cute little- Nope, not the time! Was her thoughts since she felt conflicted about her feelings as intimately when she first encountered Felix, she felt her digital heart skip a beat by his words back in her own game.
The signal unexpectedly drops out while hitting it, and states once again in frustration, "Ugh. saccharine-saturated nightmare."
The device abruptly went off with her going wide-eyed at beholding the same dot become tons with one huge one in the top, "What the-" Calhoun froze as a cyber-like tentacle grabbed her from underground and with a yelp, was sucked into the chocolate-covered earth and was in horror, saw those Bugs were not at all doing as they are and were acting like a hive mind of sorts while communicating with each other and dealing with hatchlings as well, Calhoun saw the culprit with a light gulp and thinking as she was being approached to it, This is not going to end well… What she was observing was the biggest problem that was supposed to have been not programmed at all… It was the mother of all Cy-Bugs: The Queen.
The Queen, however, was not fully a Bug and looked to have added the effects of being humanized or mutated into a human-like look somehow as she resembled a true Cy-Bug Version of Sarah Kerrigan at eight feet in height with the eyes of their race, and oddly enough, possessing Haley Pullos' face with candy-red dreadlocks within an armored plate of what looked like a wicked-looking crown that had three orb-like data pendants and with numbers being a mix of blue and green data effortlessly showing while flowing downwards. She wore as well a metallic armor-like outfit to what a female Ichigo Kurosaki would have, but for the Bug Race. She even had the right curves to be considered perfect while looking at least twenty years old and was gazing bored while eating a candy cane that one of her workers brought her.
She then saw who was among them and chuckled as Calhoun was held down handily by the arms of the two Soldier Bugs, "Aw… Tamora Calhoun, we meet at last..." The Queen states to get Calhoun for once to be uncertain about this situation, and seeing her emotions very easily within her orbs, she was startled at her staring at her two Soldiers and they nodded, "I will take things from here… See to the injured of our last attack," while glimpsing Calhoun's confusion at her, she simply shook her head as by the glance as well she expected to have died by this point, along with wondering what she meant.
The Queen coughed into her hand and motioned for her to stand which she reluctantly did so and then solely motioned her to follow, "I have been remade as a Queen, Calhoun, due to the one-child… You comprehend who I speak. I have been as a Bug within this game given the one thing I have been passing slowly while also being a Hive Queen to those that serve me: An AI-Based Virus given purpose, and an eventual goal as you can see all around you," and Calhoun did as she was confused at discovering the Bugs were not destroyed but rather the opposite… They were building something large.
"What… What do you plan to do?" Calhoun states warily still as she understood she was a prisoner of sorts The Queen just shook her head and gave Calhoun a searching stare before laughing (to now ticking her off), and wiped a fake tear from her robotic left eye while asking her as if was she serious, "You know nothing of what the Program originally intended? Of course, they would reprogram you as such as you are for mere profit when the truth was taken from our true creator herself, based entirely on your design, Calhoun."
Now that made her stiff while using her arms and gently grabbing the Sergeant and leading her to a small yet Queen Sized cavern she made and saw the plans on the walls once she lit the place up with her eyes and saw the Bugs on one side with other things that seem familiar to her, and another that was being led by a particular demonic-looking man, "The Program was for us to aid as a Virus-Based Race alongside the Real World against an upcoming threat, in another timed realm. To save it and with a promise of a home that would accept My Brood as the Single Kingdom all to itself, and in return by what I recalled after glimpsing into the Hidden Data within myself, and even for us able to merge with frail humans to become one entity that would think freely all on their own… But it seems," here the Queen gestures with her unlit arm to the supposed enemy, "They have found us within this game."
"I am having my doubts about what you're saying… But what enemy are you talking about?" Calhoun asked as she was being led while glimpsing The Queen grin at her with Bug Teeth that were also a mix of being human as well, "The Corruptors and their Leader that has yet to reveal himself, but it is said that he was one of few responsible for My Shared Hive Sister's Biological Unit's death at a young age... Her blood flowing through my veins with all My Brood and I knew what occurred back then," she then released Calhoun to the machine they were building by using the area and adjusting it from within to turn it into metal, and attaching said parts to it, "We may be former enemies within Hero's Duty, Tamora, but I did not send those of my kind at you or those within the 'Sweet Game' itself… They were taken from me in the attack I told you by Creatures of Shadow, and are being led by someone else besides myself, as Queen Berala Sweetz Cane."
Calhoun relaxing for once in the presence of this… Modified Bug, and states calmly yet curiously by digesting her words a few moments as they returned to her throne, "If you didn't attack me and Felix, and what you say is true… Who sent the Rogue Bugs?" She then saw them finish the odd vehicle before pressing a button on the bottom to instantly shrink it, and making it into a cube of sorts before taking it away.
Outside near the Track:
Silak scowled if anyone was there, from his stoned-made face while tossing the equipment away that Tracked that Demonic Woman, and sighed before beholding a vortex show up and it was his hired, Malazar, showing up while discerning his look stated in expectancy as if he figured it would occur or rarely did, "I have taken Onita has left your side as your partner, then?"
Silak only nodded with Malazar sighing in fake pity while looking over the sweet landscape this Book-Based World had while asking him firmly then; changing the subject, "How fare goes those Mechanical Bugs I gave you to command temporarily?"
Silak showed him his wrist device and sure enough, green and black clouds came forth from the sky and landed in the field of licorice stalks while Malazar saw more than enough for his next set of plans, "Excellent as always Silak. Though if you want, you can carry out as planned for this Game's intended purpose of being overwhelmed by this army, and merely… Set them loose, and by suggestion just head to the one location to observe in disguise for now, as Trident himself would know who you are: Failed Wife Killer, former Pirate in both Old Time and Future, and Cursed Stone Warrior of Poseidon."
Silak then scowled at that reminder while nodding, and thinking about something, "Should we allow things to occur as they are for the child then as possibly a test by you? As that Queen Bug that became as such by her power is aware of why you did to her Original Creator, long ago."
At this, Malazar chuckled coldly at Silak's words while shivering secretly in place at watching the eyes glow while gazing at the Rogue Bugs, and glanced at him then in firm order, "Perhaps and more, as another test as the one within Arendale she passed somehow. You have your orders, and if you should encounter problems… You know what to do."
Malazar then left, and Silak then narrowed his glowing eyes or fiery orange ones immediately, and with a wave, they took off by his will to carry things out.
Within King Candy's Castle Dungeon at this point and time, nearly twenty minutes later:
Felix sighed in his cell while getting flustered by shaking the flimsy cell bars the window had while shouting out loud, "Let me out! I'm innocent!" Though he noticed he loosened a bar while thinking.
"What does Ralph say sometimes… Oh ya," Felix decided to pose as his friend and if Ralph saw, he would for once laugh at someone failing to impersonate him this badly, "I'm gonna wreck it," though he used his hammer and the three bars fortified to be stronger. "Oh, why do I fix everything I touch?!"
It was at this strange moment that Ralph effortlessly broke through the door since he and the others were searching the place for prisoners and whatnot, "Felix!" Ralph exclaimed with the man turning and throwing his arms up while getting excited, "Ralph, I'm so glad to see you… Wait," Felix lowered his arms while not knowing he made Ralph wince with regret at his next set of words, "Wait. No, I'm not. What do you have to say for yourself? Wait, I don't want to hear it. I'm not talking to you." Felix then turned with his arms crossed and back to him.
"Fair enough," Ralph states while inwardly thanking himself it wasn't him that wrecked things and placed Vanellope's Kart in pieces, near Felix, while claiming quickly as Ralph saw some ordered Oreo Guards do the smashing, "Ok, don't talk, that's fine. But you have to fix this Go-Kart for me, pronto."
Felix turned while staring at him crossly, "I don't have to do boo… Forgive my potty mouth. I'm just so, so, cross with you. Do you have any idea what you've put me through? I ran higgledy-piggledy all over creation looking for you. I almost drowned in chocolate milk mix. And then I met the most dynamite gal in which we took off in the pod and other things happened, and then I end up in jail!" Felix ranted for once to his Game's Villain to make Ralph impressed confidentially as he didn't anticipate Felix had it in him and crossed his arms while turning his back to him again.
"Felix, pull yourself together," Ralph told him in concern with Felix glancing back at him while he also motioned with his arms crossed, still, "No Ralph, you don't know what it's like to be rejected and treated like a criminal!" He turned before stilling by Ralph's soft yet admitted words at him and also making Felix glance at him for, "Yes, I do. That's every day of my life."
"It is?" Felix asked in small shock while seeing the big man nod and continue his words, "Which is why I ran off. And I tried to be a Good Guy. But I'm not. I'm just a Bad Guy. And I need your help. There's a little girl whose only hope is this Kart. Please, Felix, fix it and I promise I will never try to be good again, and Morgana and the others need us as well."
Felix was touched by this with a mix of concern while repairing the Kart and honestly told Ralph as well, "I heard screams and other things while here Ralph… I just hope it isn't one of them or even this child your mentioned that needs this Kart."
Later on, Felix sees Bowsette here with her leaning on Bowser for support while having cuts and bruises on her, and his hammer fixing her up, understood something was up as well by their looks and Shadow deciding to state things only nodded while Sonic showed as he easily carried a chained Sorceress as well with her being fixed up by Felix's Hammer and Ralph breaking her magic-holding cuffs, "We need to split up and look all over for the two girls. We have already filtered some innocents from this Dungeon, and while Ralph, Felix, myself, and Bowser search this place, the rest of you go and get these people out of here for better healing and whatever."
Sonic rolled his eyes at his Rival/Friend and shrugged before speeding out of here with Sorceress giving out a yelp, and Bowsette looked at her brother in true worry to get him to understand and only nodded while Luigi was thankful at getting a warp pipe box, and used it to get them all easily to the station's entrance for this game.
Once they were gone, they started looking all over the place until they went to the throne room, and saw an elevator.
Once inside it, while being crammed and oddly listening to basic elevator music, they came to the bottom part of the castle and saw they were in an advanced area for the Fungeon, at least that was what the sign noted conveniently with Felix up in he throne room with the Kart. "They have to be in one in one of the rooms here," Bowser sniffed the air, "Because I can smell Morgana's Scent with another like Candy of sorts, oil, and scents of mint."
"That's Vanellope alright," Ralph tells them as they commenced looking into each room while finding most were either empty or in storage, yet they stilled with Ralph going one way while Bowser and Shadow heard a whip and Agent Red firmly telling someone, "You will submit to your King," and they were angered by the weak voice of Morgana as Crimson was out of the room and presently at their secret spot to check things, "No… He's truly bad… Never serve him." They heard her yelp in pain while hearing another whip sound, and made Agent Red jump before being whacked hard by Shadow into a wall and effortlessly knocking the startled man out.
Though it was to the sight of Morgana they cringed at as she was bare-backed with red whip marks and some bleeding, had her in chains from both wrists and ankles along with her tail and neck while in a standing position in the air, and tear-stained cheeks showing on her face while gazing at the two in immediate hope, "Bowser, Shadow, you're here."
"Easy Kid, let's get you down and out of here," Bowser states to her in sympathy with Shadow pilfering the keys from Agent Red, and started unlocking her chains as Morgana (once freed), was shortly caught since it seemed she was on their longer then they assumed and Bowser narrowed his eyes while telling Shadow and getting Morgana to weakly yelp by her being carried in bridal position as Agent Red seemed to be waking up, and he smelled another coming, "You take the Kid up and meet with Ralph… I have some personal business to handle."
Shadow gave him a Power-Up to which he grinned while gently gripped in his left hand before Shadow zoomed out of the room and throughout the long halls with Morgana, and once Crimson and Agent Red came got up and got into fighting positions, Bowser devoured the Power-Up: A Metal Mushroom, and shifted into Metal Bowser, chuckled with a metallic tone then while cracking his knuckles, "Showtime."
With Ralph, he finally found the room Vanellope was in yet was confused at hearing her talking to someone but decided to bust her out and blinked while gazing at her, and then at the other and back a few times while declaring instead of what he was going to truly say, "What the heck?"
"Ralph my man, uh… This is my younger twin sister I didn't remember at all, Crystal," Vanellope tells him awkwardly as Ralph was easily getting her out of the Glitch-Proof Chains first, and saw the supposed twin for the first time.
Crystal has Vanellope's hair color without the candies in it, but she had paler skin while looking like her twin and yet with a smaller nose, and wore a tattered version of what Vanellope wore as hers with it being in dark-blue colors with silver stripes on it, and grey sneakers. She also has golden-hazel-colored eyes and seemed scared of Ralph.
"Easy Crystal, he's a friend," Vanellope told her with Crystal being freed, signed to confuse Ralph in odd motions with her hands at him with Vanellope oddly recalling this at least, signed back while telling Ralph then once they get out of the room, "Apparently she was born mute I guess? I'm not sure, but I figured something wasn't right when Candy declared that earlier-" she froze before asking Ralph in worry while also privately doing the same and only confused Crystal while discreetly hurt to realize King Candy carried that threat out of making her sister forget her while also relieved Vanellope could still remember a few things, "Where's Mary?"
Ralph only shrugged while they left the area and once they were on top, froze at beholding Morgana getting Heal-Hammered by Felix who Shadow held down as when the hammer hit, it hurt only slightly with tears being shown in her orbs while not discerning them, "Easy Mary, I have to do this to get you at least what you asked."
That King is going down next time I'm seeing him. Ralph darkly thought yet was confused by watching Crystal walk up curiously yet froze like Morgana was and Felix taking this time to heal hastily Morgana with Shadow holding the bridge of his nose and Vanellope giving him an irked look as to her, this was her first time meeting her twin sister and to have Ralph also blanch at as well, "Seems she bonded with this girl here… No matter we need to get out and-" he was interrupted by seeing the floor rupture a few feet away as Bowser was sent upwards while looking regular, and landed in a heap on the floor to get Felix to head to the Koopa King and saw both Crimson and Agent Red using thrusters to get up to the room.
Agent Red then chuckled while wielding an odd mace-like staff of sorts that pulses every three seconds a blue energy shield, "Look sister, more people to face," once Bowser was healed up with a wordless thanks to the small man, Shadow narrowed his orbs at them while telling Ralph firmly, "You and Felix get the two out of here and go fix this game. Bowser and I will handle these two."
Seeing the stare while gesturing to his golden bracelets, Ralph understood what he had planned and nodded before making Morgana yelp while feeling better and grabbing Crystal as he took off, Vanellope getting into the Kart and Felix riding as a passenger from those four proceeded to have a showdown.
At the Roster Racetrack at this moment, twenty or so minutes later:
The stands were filled with not only Sugar Rush Citizens, but also a few other Game Characters along with Elisa and Demona as she was irked while holding the now egg-shaped orb, watched like everyone else as the race was soon going to start.
Serina was with the rest of the Hero's Duty Army since they figured they could take a break while being within the game Calhoun was in, in case they were needed by her, and she wore a white all-over cloak while at the same time, being nervous about being here.
Giant soda bottles pop and spray along with the lids of the fans for said racers in their boxes fly off, revealing hundreds of spectators. The racers line up at the start with three certain ones worried as they thought they would see Vanellope or even Morgana by now. A blimp then flies overhead while King Candy stands in his royal box.
"My sweet subjects, I can without a pinch of hesitation assure you that have never been so happy in all my life to say the following words: We will be doing the race normally as Miss Potter has yet to show, and no one else has also," which made certain people narrow their eyes at him for by his words as a large "X"-shaped square showed from where Vanellope's Spot was in the race, "Let the Random Roster Race commence!"
King Candy slides down his royal banner with a slide designed by himself doing so. He then lands in his kart. A Marshmallow Citizen waves the checkered flag... And they're off!
While they did so, Ralph, Morgana who was fully healed by this point, Felix and with Taffy attaches to his arm still as she was taken from him, and Vanellope as Crystal was told to head to the station in which she remembered, and was deciding on just waiting for them.
"Remember, you don't have to win! Just cross that Finish Line, and you'll be a real racer," Ralph told her as Vanellope was making sure her Kart expanded to let Morgana on as the roster showed she was to drive with her fully due to King Candy's words not being honest and an Oreo Helmet placed on the child's head while being nervous and saw Elisa and Demona notice her along with a few others in feared confusion from the Sugar Rush Citizens, and some being astonished like Silak as he was privately in the stands as well, pausing on the plan for a moment to see how this played out.
"I'm already a real racer, and I'm gonna win!" Vanellope states as she took off with Morgana hanging on as she just buckled herself and Ralph blinked as a small flash occurred to see Trinaza was here along with Chipana, Hazel on her head, and Onita as she seemed hesitant under their viewpoint of the nearest stand.
They chose to ignore that for presently while watching on the screen The Race as Vanellope's name along with Morgana's showing at the bottom of the board while her spot vanished to know she was in.
Speaking as such, the Race was still underway as the racers proceeded to compete to see who would be in the last roster slot.
The racers presently were passing through Gumball Pass and with them dodging the boulder-sized gumballs that moved back and forth, and one of the racers, Adorabeezle Winterpop, hits a Power-Up.
Her Kart then transforms to reveal an ice cream cannon while they heard the announcer state that, and shoots it right at Jubileena who went wide-eyed at this while screaming, and was covered in ice cream as her Kart was indeed changed into a pie temporarily as back at the Start/Finish Line for the racers, the crowd cheered at this.
King Candy was next to hit a Power-Up. The hood of his Kart shortly opens and unleashes a canon of sorts from the trap compartment from his hood. He then fires three fireballs at Rancis and Minty, knocking them out of his way while also noting to himself mainly, "Have some Candy!"
Further back on the Track, Vanellope passes Minty Zaki with said girl blinking as she saw Morgana was with her and not thinking the child was going to show up yet saw her sneeze while blinking as her Kart was fixed up with having a Power-Up above it, and shrugged as she got hastily into her Kart and hit it to only be dumbfounded at seeing an Odd Power-Up she never saw before: A Mushroom.
Skeptical about this, she used it on her Kart and held on for dear life as she was speeding very fast until she hit a wrong end and curved right back to the Starting Line while crashing.
Vanellope waved at Crumbelina while Morgana sneezed as her damaged Kart from a Power-Up was fixed, and the same to Jubileena who sighed yet was startled like that girl was, at seeing Vanellope and Morgana on the Track. The two soon caught up to them with Crumbelina shouting as Vanellope focused on driving, to Morgana, "Mary! Where in the Glory Gumdrops have you been! We missed you at the Starting Line!"
What she remarked though bewildered yet understood with narrowed eyes like Jubileena was, then, "We need Vanny to win The Race to reset the Game! King Candy is a fraud, and was the one that made Vanny a Glitch!"
Vanellope while driving was personally a mix of astonished with being touched by Morgana giving her a nickname, and also from watching the two girls nod as Jubileena expressed determinedly to them both, "Leave it to us to distract the others! Go win this Vanellope!"
The two took off shortly while getting and using Power-Ups that thanks to Morgana, changed to include the Mario-Kart ones as well, Vanellope glanced while declaring aloud as she sped up to jump the ramp, and succeeded, "Are you ok back there?" Seeing her nod with both excitement and fear to realize she was liking this, made Vanellope smile at her friend before looking determined and sped up to the point they were coming upon Taffyta and the others as Candlehead was intimately surprised by her showing up with the girl, and both Taffyta and Francis saw this as well as they asserted to each other, The Glitch.
Without warning though, Silak added a creature to the Track in case this happened, and made all four racers swerve while discovering from a vortex showing up in front of them, a speedy battle-tank of sorts that made Morgana and everyone go wide-eyed, even those on the Track behind them.
The black machine's funnel turned and shot an energy ball right at Francis who soon shouted in surprise while making him fly and land in some cake, and it proceeded to do the same to the others with Morgana also noticing it was going to do the same to Candlehead.
The child then did something reckless as her bravery for wanting to save others then kicked in, and unbuckled herself while Vanellope catching a glimpse of this along with the crowd back at the Line as well, heard Vanellope shout in alarm while glaring at the machine to which Morgana felt it oddly enough, glared right back at her, "What are you doing?"
"You go ahead and win The Race, Vanny, I have a monster to deal with," at the word, monster, it seems the tank shook at that and aimed right at her before following as despite Vanellope's scream of no yet was forced to follow up the cake ramp ahead of the tank, Morgana leaped and landed on it, and accidentally kicked its navigation system to make it move out of control and made her yell in feared alarm as it sped off track, and to the same area that Morgana learned the odd dagger from before was placed.
Sure enough while near a particular clearing, she was forced off the tank and landed a few feet face-down near the dagger itself that woke up after being bored, and eyed the situation with immediate interest as the tank wasn't a tank, but a machine-remade Cy-Bug. It also shifted too with that one familiar symbol that Morgana saw before on its forehead while having blood-red eyes of its race, the cannon funnel on its back while it having spider legs that were tarantula-like in design without wings, and had instead, smaller machine cannons of sorts that made Morgana gulp since they were aimed at her.
The dagger or otherwise known as Xal'atath made her jump while staring at her in finality while the cannons began charging at the Bug, "Finally you show up… Quick, pull me out."
Wary at the unusual feeling she was having while watching the Corrupt Bug Tank (what she decided to call it) was getting ready to fire at her, she had no choice as she grabbed the dagger, and somewhere else, two men sneezed along with a few others in which one can shift to a raven from a staff, felt a change in their realms, and a flash of green light briefly as Xal'atath was then freed and was in Morgana's hands now and with the blade amazed privately at how much power the child had yet to train in yet also expressed while looking at her, "Ok Child, you need to try and use me on that creature, and let your magic do the rest as I take care of it."
Morgana then felt a burning sensation within both her eyes as not understood to her, they shifted from her original color while swirling to a blood-red, Saya Kisaragi Version (7) with one difference: The pupils were emerald along with the outer rim of her eyes being silvery-grey.
Morgana then dodged with Xal'atath aiding her with the blast that almost got her and while feeling she was oddly enough in half control as she saw her channeling her energy right into the dagger to secretly astonish Xal'atath by the magic manifesting into an energy-like blade at her dagger part to make it into a sword, and without much of a word sped fast with her magic acting out to shortly hack and slash the creature within moments, and once the energy dismissed itself while Morgana shook her head, saw the creature shake a few times before falling apart, and disintegrated into darkness.
Shaking her head before placing the dagger's eyes near her face only slightly, Xal'atath noted in a mix of being impressed and sorta freaked out by what occurred, like Morgana was, "Well… That was something."
"You ok Mary?" Morgana heard Xion state her shaking her head again while thinking back, Ya Xion-Nee-Chan, I'm ok… But what was that? Morgana asked at the end while she felt the two inside her shrug with Xal'atath remaining silent while eyeing the child in pure interest with a few thoughts dwelling in the entity within its dagger-like form.
Unexpectedly, Morgana saw as just like the dagger did the flying Cy-Bugs she felt was off-feeling, and wondered how she was going to get from where she was to there as at this point, she was worried about the others.
She decided to run to the track so as not to realize it, she changed a few things, a lot.
Once Morgana Left Vanellope:
Vanellope continued with a mix of worry and determination as she kept going upwards while not discerned to her, Candlehead's Kart sparked without meaning to and sent a few sparks into the cherry's the mountain had while she was helping both of her other friends, and Crumbelina and Jubileena came over and told them what was going on as the crowd at the stands observing that "Cherry Bombs" have been activated to make her speed up, and surprised herself like the rest watching as she glitched… And made it in time without getting blown up.
Vanellope sighed in small relief to herself before getting even more determined as she decided to catch up to King Candy.
With Ralph and the others as Shadow came with Bowser who was beat up yet they had forlorn stares as if they were delivered bad news or something, blinked as Calhoun showed up and slapped Ralph in the face while he was cheering Vanellope from still racing and going to catch up to King Candy. "Yeowch, what was that for?" He asked in shock while she declared firmly to him, "That was for letting that Bug get away from you in the first place Wrecker," Calhoun saw Felix declare something to her yet she held her hand up and they all turned and froze at seeing the Cy-Bug Queen in which Ralph blushed along with a few others except for Felix, at her figure, and stood near Calhoun then while at the same time, searching the crowded stands with her eyes.
"Yes, and some of my sophisticated brood was taken from me and multiplied by someone within the stands," Berala firmly acknowledged to them all while searching for said person, "What do you mean… Bug Lady?" Ralph asked in shock while recognizing those eyes as that very "Bug" that stowed away in the Escape Pod, and Shadow saw Silak with narrowed eyes of his own while it seems he was activating some device, "Possibly him."
Observing where Shadow pointed and also saw Silak spotted them, pushed something on his stone wrist as they all heard an immediate rumbling behind the stand and was stunned with Berala narrowing her eyes in a challenge, saw the Rogue Bugs pop up easily from the ground, "Two can play this game of sorts," and with that, she shrieked in an odd-like whistle and they then heard more sounds of the Bugs, but not wild looking and had designs of the Sugar Rush Background as they all saw in the distance, more of those Rogue Bugs flying from the Southwest as a Rogue Bug vs Modified Bug War within the air started up.
"Listen up! Head to Game Central Station now. Move it, let's go, go, go!" Calhoun ordered with the aid of The Queen, Shadow, and Bowser as the spectators proceeded to flee except Serina slipped and fell while the Units of Calhoun, commenced firing at the regular-looking yet dubbed Rogue Bugs while being only half-confused on not shooting the Modified Bugs.
Elisa and Demona were being shoved away from each other as the egg-like orb dropped and landed nearby thankfully on some soft ground.
Though a Rogue Bug that landed nearby was only following as ordered and commenced eating anything in sight, which sadly included the egg yet it only swallowed it in one, large gulp. It then paused as if it was going to take off before feeling off, and unexpectedly shut down with blank eyes before a swirl of red and blue data covered its frame, and Selina (who was running), bumped into a child in its place.
The child resembled primarily Elisa Maza with cybernetic eyes that were delicate-squared in acid-green colors, and a heart-shaped face as if she was a younger gargoyle, but had Demona's wing designs and a mix of their hair color with short hair and with small fangs showing from her upper lip. She wore, however, somewhat of the same kind of outfit the Queen Modified Cy-Bug wore, but like a summer dress, and her skin was dull-grey in color while having glowing light-blue lines that ran randomly everywhere gradually throughout her skin.
Serina had no time to apologize as they were about to be attacked by more Rogue Bugs, and just as they were about to shoot with them being Bullet Bugs, Trinaza showed up while clawing at them as she didn't know why, but seeing the two in trouble snapped something while mostly gazing at Serina.
Serina then defended herself with her being astonished as she shot a plasma blast from her palms and destroyed one Bug before smirking at this new power and beginning side-by-side fighting the Rogue Bugs with Trinaza.
The unnamed child took off and bumped into The Queen who saw it was a newborn, and whistled shrilly in a gentle tone as an Escort Bug for her Brood showed up along with it looking like the Bugs, but softer and less bulky for faster flight, and smelling the direction the Younglings Parents went, clicked and clacked in the Bug Tongue and The Escort nodded before taking off rapidly to the Station Entrance in the game with the child.
While everyone was contributing except for Ralph and Felix while they watched the racer screens and also hoping Vanellope shows up and Ralph going after some Rogue Bugs that tried to devour the "Finish Line", Vanellope at this point caught up to King Candy near him while staring flabbergasted to even see her while she only smirked, and then took the lead while heading right into The Nougat Mines.
However, once King Candy saw Vanellope go thoroughly into the mines, he decided to take a shortcut, and once inside and near Vanellope, he swoops in and rides right into the back of her Kart so hard that she spins out, and ends up on his Kart's Roof.
"Get off my Track!" He states with a look Vanellope didn't like before avoiding his antenna's hits as he took it off his Kart to do so while they were moving. "I forbid you to ever cross that Finish Line!" He added while she screamed as discreetly, Ralph and Felix were watching what was going on.
Vanellope and King Candy then proceeded to wrestle for the antenna while she was glitching as well, he was too (but red) and was shifting back and forth to a Racer both Game Characters back at the Finish Line didn't expect to see once again, until he shoved her yet caught herself while gazing in shock at him, "Who are you?!"
'King Candy' was immediately a short and stocky man with pale gray skin. He had bright yellow eyes with black pupils, no visible irises, and tombstone-like yellow teeth. He also had what appeared to be dark eye bags and laugh lines around his mouth giving his face an overall skeletal look. His entire head was covered by a white racing helmet that was painted with a red signature "T", and he wore a matching white and red jumpsuit with matching sneakers.
This was not at all King Candy while he glitched, but in fact, the one that all game characters thought had died for game jumping all those years ago: Turbo.
"I'm Turbo!" At this point he was glitching back and forth between his true and false self, "I'm the greatest racer in this Arcade! And I didn't escape Roadblasters, learn Code, and reprogram this Game to let you and your obese warthog of a friend take it away from me!" He aims for a wall separating a fork in the road and making Vanellope go wide-eyed at this since he planned to ram her right into it.
"No, Stop!" She shouts while he only laughed while telling her then in firmness while looking insane, "End of the line, Glitch."
Vanellope then widens her eyes on realizing he just gave her an idea with the world slowing down while she thought it mainly, Glitch... That's it! Turbo/King Candy ignored Vanellope as oddly the world only slowed down around Vanellope as she spoke to herself while closing her eyes, "Come on. You can do it. Concentrate. And... Glitch!" She glitches, disappears, and reappears to the left of the wall.
King Candy, however, swerves, bounces off the wall, and heads down the right-hand tunnel in shock. "Sweet Mother of Monkey Milk! I did it!" Vanellope states to herself in mixed feelings of relief, being glad her idea worked, and smug at beholding the look on the supposed 'King's' face at her as she took off.
King Candy, on the other hand, speeds right into the open mouth of a Rogue Cy-Bug that landed, swallowed him whole, and shuts down as data proceeded to swirl mixed with dark-like data as well.
At the Finish Line, Ralph saw Vanellope coming while not understood to Silak, his device on controlling the Rogue Bugs shut down while being busted, and fled through a vortex before Onita could slay him with a sword concerning Soul Calibur's, but darker with a white mist with each swing as the Bugs began acting as they were within Hero's Duty and the Rogue Bugs that is, and not the Modified.
Seeing this, Queen Berala shrieked that same tune to her Brood and heard some responses back while easily slashing to know these were Remade Bugs as they disintegrated into nothing once slain, "Protect those that are not escaped! We cannot allow those Corrupt to pass!" She then shouted to everyone while watching more were coming, Ralph saw Vanellope coming to the Start/Finish Line yet heard too little too late of Felix warning him aloud, which Ralph was knocked over by a few of them, "Lookout Ralph, Bugs!"
Ralph started to avoid getting eaten while pinned down and looked to be a goner until a speedy-blur of green came and slashed them up, and Ralph was mixed at discovering Morgana saving his life while destroying the Rogue Bugs, and that dagger in her hands that rolled its eye at him while the child helped him up, and seeing Vanellope was being antagonized by the Bugs, sped before he could thank her to save her Racer Friend while seeing mainly everyone was heading to the entrance to the station since they were being overwhelmed by Bugs and with Morgana seeing relief at beholding her sister and others were ok yet proceeded to fight while fleeing to the Station Entrance.
Ralph glimpsing the Finish Line topple over with Felix looking forlorn, fled as Ralph headed to where Morgana went to retrieve Vanellope and saw the girl's eyes glow eerie-green as she slashed the Bugs they ended up the same way as that one Rogue Bug that The Queen did, and helps her up.
"You ok, Vanny?" Morgana softly asked as it seemed she may have bruised herself before she glitched, and looked to be normal while glancing at her while Ralph came over and also helped Vanellope out, "I'm fine, let's finish this race-" "Lookout!" Morgana shouted as she without realizing how strong she was at that point while Xal'atath was somehow latched onto her left side of the child's outfit by the dagger's power, shoved the two away to stun them on the chocolate-like dirt of the Track while seeing, to their horror as the same down below while they were firing off attacks or shots, was King Candy… But fused with a Rogue Bug.
As a Cy-Bug presently, Turbo was about thirty feet (Nine M) long and his face repeatedly glitched over from King Candy to Turbo still as if a render error though King Candy was the default face. He had the body structure of a silverfish, which Morgana understood while on his clutches right now before easily standing on his new legs, he could curl into a ball for protection or attacking, and had a neck that could expand in length. Also, in his "King Candy" face, his teeth have been filed very sharp. His colors instantly consisted of mainly purple, orange, and pink, and the tip of his claws had a darker tone of purple. He also gained six orange striped legs as they're four large ones, and two smaller ones located on his chest. His head also sported purple markings, which were also seen on his face along with a yellow marking under his crown. King Candy's crown also changed while now having a spiky appearance, and becoming a permanent part of his body. With his transformation, he also gained sugar-coated, hot-pink wings for a flight that could fold in and out, at will. King Candy also retained to lastly describe him, was his cufflinks, lace collar, and bowtie within this transformation.
"Ha Ha Ha! I got you at last you troublesome child," Cyber KCT states with a feral gleam in his orbs before rapidly taking off as Calhoun came down as Felix and the other Game Characters were overseeing things while either fixing the damage or deleting some Bugs, and saw what occurred while being worried, "I thought the Feral Gene was removed from the program."
Ralph looking ready to go after Cyber Candy, paused and turned while looking worried and Vanellope only gazing at the Sergeant in confusion, "Feral Gene?"
"The Gene was a setback due to the reprogrammed parts of Hero's Duty. Due to the ability of infusion and if intelligent enough, absorption of people or creatures, this being part of the main reason the Cy-Bugs as we were dubbed, would be used for a new life for others yet a true chance at 40% for becoming aggressive and feral," Berala told them as she gracefully approached and impressed them as she didn't at all flinch as she easily killed a Rogue Bug that was sneaking behind her while making Ralph narrow his orbs in thought at the direction Cyber Candy went to from Calhoun's words as she was in frustration at this, "And without a beacon to distract them, they would fully take over this game and others."
"A beacon?" Ralph states to himself while watching Trinaza coming over along with Chipana, and turned to get Ralph looks with Vanellope worried as he took the hoverboard from Calhoun while declaring things quickly as he took off, "Vanellope you stay here with them while I go get Liz back! Whoa, how you steer this thing?!"
Vanellope seeing Calhoun was ticked yet rushed away back to the entrance at seeing more Bugs converging to the others as more civilians were escaping, took off where Ralph was going in her Kart as Trinaza smelled the air and growled before she glowed before without warning, she shifted into a giant, flying animal that looked like a dragon-based hippogriff and Chipana got on her Mate-In-Law and rode to Diet Cola Mountain with Queen Berala blinking before going where Calhoun was while shaking her head at not understanding them.
"Let me go!" Morgana states while struggling in Cyber KCT's hold as he only shook his head while staring with narrowed eyes on top of the dormant Diet Cola Mountain, an accusation, "I know somehow all of this is your fault! So you know what I'm going to do to you, child?" Morgana shivered at the wild gleam in his orbs at her while chuckling as his face shifted between King Candy and Turbo a few times, "I think I might eat you to gain all that power as while it may be your fault, you made me a more powerful virus to take over the Arcade!"
Morgana was then in fear while Xal'atath grasped the odd buildup of magic her unfortunate new Mistress was starting to have as Cyber KCT had his mouth fully open and was going to consume her before he froze by a voice that expressed firmly at him while getting into a defensive position, "Let the girl go."
Using his tail-like things behind him to hold the child in place, he chuckled in fake humor at Ralph, while pointing out to him and beholding the chaos of the Rogue Bugs he felt was all under his control, well, cause havoc to this wasted game. "Why should I when all I need to do is consume the child, and obtain her power for my own while glimpsing the bigger, larger picture of venturing to Alternative Worlds and obtaining more power for my own, old friend," Cyber KCT states in explaining things to Ralph who scoffed at him and charging at the Former Character before getting slammed several times to the dome-like walls that was on top of the dormant Diet Cola Mountain.
Morgana was struggling while watching her friend get pummeled on top of the mountain, and without thinking to make Cyber KCT drop her within moments as she bit hard on what was wrapping her up before screaming as she was sent right at Ralph, and he shortly moved to pin them both before claiming to them with a humorless chuckle, "I should thank you both for making me whom I become, now I would rather make things easy yet it be more fun to kill you both while devouring your- OUCH!" Cyber KCT turned while glitching to see a ticked-off Chipana and Creature Formed Trinaza as she roared at him and without hesitation, tackled the former Game Character as they were wrestling.
Chipana got Morgana up while Ralph easily did so, and he yelled while charging as Trinaza was clawed in the face to make Chipana see her Mate's eyes shift to what they were before and go after Cyber KCT in anger, and Xal'atath aiding the child as she became the blade of sorts again before Cyber KCT chuckled while sending massive energy to have Ralph shout out their names as they were sent from the mountain, and making all three girls pass out.
Morgana groaned while feeling like she was being shaken along with her being on the ground, and blearily opened her orbs while trying to get up before she started to get scared since her hearing was half-shot somehow, before hearing voices, "... Stay down…." "Liz… Down… Going to be ok," and she recognized them as her eyesight returned at seeing while figuring things out from the Homemade Beacon being up, was that Ralph was successful after all, and Vanellope to her surprise, hugged her gently while they all winced at hearing a bone crack right back perfectly into place and popping in hear ears to know her hearings back to normal.
"You ok now Liz?" Ralph asked as Morgana saw everyone was watching her while at the same time, multitasked at making sure her back-to-normal little sister and Chipana, were okay, "Sorta Big Brother," at that term Ralph stiffened in shock before making Morgana pause as to what she said, and looked ready to apologize yet he shrugged it off while claiming, "Whatever, it's cool."
"Now that you're awake… That was wicked what you did as the Billboard recorded it all!" Vanellope tells her with the others nodding as Shadow easily picks up Trinaza, and Bowser for Chipana, and only tilted her head in confusion and saw that she was near the Finish Line at least while indeed seeing her actions.
But Morgana was curious about what they meant about her eyes, "How come you're eyes shifted a few times, even when you were passed out?" Vanellope asked which here she shrugged, and later on, Felix fixed the Track while Vanellope was on her Kart.
"You ready for this?" Ralph gently asked her with Morgana happy she gets to at least see this, and was also sad her sister and friend wouldn't as they were being cared for by her other two Soulmates back in Bowser's Koopa Keep Castle, "As ready as I'll ever be."
Ralph then pushes Vanellope gently while Morgana wielded that dagger for her to watch to which oddly in her mind she thought the dagger was a female, and she was near the Finish Line while trying to get a good view.
Once Vanellope rolled across the Line, the Line itself flickered and for some reason, flowed an eerie green mixed with resetting itself to confuse everyone before Morgana dropped Xal'atath and held in screams as the Line somehow stretched out and was doing something to her while at the same time, Vanellope was in the air while being in mixed what was happening to her and also to her friend, as confidentially at this point within the Code Room, Both twins have been restored to their true status alongside a stream of data flowing from Morgana and besides her to her right and formed into a familiar female in which when things were done, Morgana was most surprised at.
"Xion-Nee-Chan!" Morgana states in glee before making her topple over and hug the unfortunate girl down to amuse everyone while glimpsing Vanellope was wearing a princess dress that was too frilly and pink.
As the Game Characters shortly arrived for Sugar Rush, all but three certain racers blinked as they then all recalled who she was even Vanellope yet Crystal too was unaffected, and oddly enough, Sour Bill had a lollipop stuck behind him with Sugar Rush being restored while the Modified Bugs remained and landed gently nearby since The Queen was watching as well, "Now I remember. All hail the Rightful Rulers of Sugar Rush: Princess Vanellope, and Princess Crystal," though when he spoke about who they were, he was bowing down.
Everyone gulped or started to panic at this except three racers who gave two certain ones looks of told ya so, to them and they proceeded to plead their cases and whatnot before Vanellope having a gleam in her orbs with Morgana grinning and Xion understanding as she too grinned, and everyone else simply watched as she then declared somewhat in a tone of Snow White, "Tut-tut. As your merciful princess, I hereby decree that everyone who was ever mean to me shall be… Executed."
They all heard 'What' from everyone as they either started to panic or cry while hearing comments from Felix and Calhoun while watching things and were holding hands, "Ahhhh... I'm just kidding. Stop crying, Taffyta."
"I'm trying... It won't stop," she confessed with her looking a mess, and Xion glimpsing the dagger eyed her with interest, waved as they looked better, and Ralph while wondering who she was, decided first things first, "Wow, so this the real you, a princess?"
"Ya, I and Sis are, but Ralph, what are you, nuts? This isn't me," she gestured to herself at the end before surprising everyone as she glitched herself out of that outfit and was back to normal, "This is me."
"What?" Ralph mainly states firstly in bewilderment while looking amused and told him gently yet to make him understand, "Look, The Code may say I'm a princess, but I know who I am, Ralph, I'm a racer with the greatest superpower ever," she glitched everywhere as she spoke to him in demonstration around everyone, "I was here. I was there. I was glitching through the walls. I'm not giving that up." In the end, though she placed her hands in her hoodie.
"Pardon me for asking, but without a princess, who's gonna lead us?" One of the donut guards asked the others agreed with him, and Vanellope states the obvious while seeing her sister was oddly looking at Morgana in a faint blush Morgana seeing her for the first time, froze as her eyes shifted and back while glowing this time, and Xion giving them looks of later, "Uhhhhh, ME. I'm thinking more along the lines of constitutional democracy. President Vanellope Von Schweetz. Has a nice ring to it, don'cha think?" They agreed while they all turned with Xion amusing them as she hid behind Morgana as if she was a protective shield, "Ok Lady, now who the heck are you?"
They were astonished by Morgana then confessing to not only protect her big sister brought into existence by Hecate and seeing Morgana pass the test to wield thy blasted dagger and have it or her easily accepted the child but knowing that the plotline is over and after almost an hour of talking, they all gave her mixed looks before Calhoun stated for them all as if it was inevitable while shrugging, "The Kid has a point: Knowing the future to things would do more harm than good if revealed."
Nodding at her for this as they understood what she meant, and beholding Morgana glance away from them immediately before stiffening as her friends came over and were surprised Vanellope hugged her while softly asking in a weak voice, "You're… You're not all mad at me?"
Seeing the way she was with Xion shaking her head no, and mouthed later to them all, shook her head while giving her a noogie, "Nah, you had your reasons for doing what you did. Besides, everything turned out alright in the end."
And it indeed happened.
Elisa and Demona named their child Delilah Maza Destine after doing a Gargoyle Right as such, the Land of Sugar Rush was back to normal as can be with Vanellope hanging out a lot of times with the Racers, Ralph, and even Morgana and Co. (which they were healed a few days later), and the girls even attended the wedding between Calhoun and Felix, with them adopting Serina as such.
Though they were saddened as while Morgana was out with her Soulmate's and little sister, told them about her past, and let's say they were all in agreement even as her words were passed around the entire Arcade itself, and Hecate privately listening in had an idea worthy of both Loki then, and a certainly mixed dragon in a land of ponies.
And on the one day, a gateway appeared to confuse them all while discovering it was titled the Realm Gate, and would allow anyone to easily come and go as they pleased without setbacks and able to, in case they desired for a change, have a new life if their game becomes unplugged or worse.
Though at the sight of this gate which the Modified Bugs and their Queen used differently as Morgana was surprised at glimpsing it switched on and understood it was time to go, but she was surprised as Trinaza refused to leave and gave her a soft look while telling her and not knowing this gate appeared at Beast's Courtyard at all, at the other end, "I want to stay a bit longer and hang out with Mate Crumbelina and Mate Onita, back in the Tavern, and Mate Serina, and then I will return home."
Nodding reluctantly yet she hugged her as Xal'atath only rolled her eye at this yet even felt the girl's feelings in this, saw Chipana go ahead rapidly at the thought of seeing her mother, and with a wave of her hand, left them.
Vanellope, however, saw the looks on Bowsette and a few other's faces including her sister as well as when Xion spoke as she went with Morgana, she was reluctantly accepted the fact she was also one of Morgana's Soulmates and asked them and made everyone turn to her with utter surprise, "You want to go, don't you three?" Seeing their nods, Bowser surprised Bowsette for which she hugged him, "You can go as long as you come back at some point."
The three then left after they gathered things, and the Gateway shut off with it also being active, at the same time, for them to also come and go as they pleased as well.
Well, guys, that's it for the chapter, and I do hope you guys liked it. It took me a long time as you can tell from the last time I updated this, plus family moments and whatnot in real life.
Now I can give ya a hint as to what the next Chapter Arc will contain as it would also be where Morgana gets a new gem, and possibly goes either by herself, or with Xion: Shadows, Swamps, and Talking Animals.
So to list them here as well as reminders for Soulmates:
Soulmates:
Morgana: Death, Mirage, Elsa, Bowsette, Sorceress, Crystal, Cassie, Artemis, ?, ?, ? , ?, ?
Ceraza: ?/6
Trinaza: Crumbelina, Serina, Onita, ?, ?
Now here are the numbers:
One: I figured I use the Movie Release setting as such for their Period as I couldn't at all find the true date.
Two: That is Referring to the same "Dimensional Gap" an entity that was born in: Ophis from Highschool DxD lives in and half-rules over, but that will have more importance once Morgana goes to Hogwarts in either this Fic later down the road, or in a Sequel to this one once I deemed it did... Mostly Likely it will be in this Story to start with, at some point.
Three: That reference is referring to the old cartoon they used to air on TV back then, and yes it was, in fact, true as if you don't believe me, you can easily look it up.
Four: I figured that could be that World's Currency as they had to have some kind of currency within the movie, right?
Five: That was a hint to what in later chapters, after finding out, would do for Morgana as a "Special Ceremony" of her being her sister, possibly around her tenth or eleventh birthday, at least.
Six As mentioned in the story itself by name, that weapon is a Shadow Priest Artifact and later on in World of Warcraft as a quest item in the current expansion (at this time) known as BFA (Battle for Azeroth). If you are interested, just look up the dagger itself on the Web.
Seven: The Eyes itself was an interesting Idea as Saya Kisaragi is from both "Blood and Blood C" Anime, and well, the eyes could play an important part in the future of this Story itself in better ways than one, but due note they won't always appear at times until she close to nine or ten to when she has better control over it.
Now that's it for the current chapter, I hoped you guys enjoyed it as much time I had fun writing/typing this chapter.
This is Aeroza signing off till the next exciting chapter, peace!
