~🏅~

Ralph and (Name) smiled when they saw Vanello driving up ahead. They had cleared the path for him, no Cy-Bugs were in sight.

"Bring it home, kid! The finish line's wide open!" Ralph grinned.

"You got it, Vanello!" (Name) cheered.

Vanello smiled at his friends, but then, Cy-bugs started to burst out of the ground on the track.

Vanello screamed and swerved around them, aiming for the finish line. But a Cy-Bug geyser bursted out right in front of him. sending him flying into a field of lollipops.

"NO!"

Ralph, (Name), and Felix ran towards Vanello.

"Kid! Kid, are you okay?" Ralph asked in concern.

"Vanello, are you hurt?" (Name) gently asked as she pushed some lollipops off of the kart.

"Don't worry, sweetheart. I'm fine, I'm fine! Let's finish this race!" Vanello assured as he shoved more lollipops away.

The group heard a screech, they turned to the finish line and saw the Cy-Bugs completely running over the Finish Line.

"Oh my land." Felix gasped.

Ralph pulled Vanello out of the kart. "Alright, come on, we gotta get out of here."

"But I didn't cross the finish line!" Vanello fretted as (Name) wrapped one of his arms around her shoulder.

"There is no finish line." (Name) shook her head as she wrapped her right hand around Vanello's waist, helping him run more since he was weak from the crash.

As the group ran off, the Cy-Bugs caused the finish line to collapse to the ground.

"Move it or lose it, people!" Calhoun yelled to the fleeing citizens at the entrance of Sugar Rush. "Come on! Everybody out, now!" She fired her gun at some more Cy-Bugs.

"Guys, it's not going to work!" Vanello fretted as they ran up the rainbow bridge to the exit.

"We got to try!" Ralph answered desperately.

(Name) ran to the exit with Vanello around her, but he was ripped back to the game when she made it through.

Ralph looked back at Vanello. "Kid!"

"Vanello!" (Name) ran back to Vanello's side.

"Guys, I told you! I can't leave the game!" Vanello reminded as he placed his hands on the invisible barrier.

Ralph grabbed Vanello. "Come on! Get through!" He tried to push him through, but the barrier wouldn't budge.

(Name) helped as well, trying to pull Vanello through on the other side by his arm. "Please, work!"

"It's gotta work!" Ralph grunted as he kept pushing Vanello through.

"Ouch! Stop, it's no use!" Vanello cried, he broke through of both of their grasps.

Ralph leaned down to Vanello, panting and gasping, on the verge of tears. (Name) looked at Vanello with pleading eyes, looking like she was about to cry at any moment.

"It's okay, guys." Vanello softly assured.

"No. If you're staying, I'm staying." (Name) firmly decided, grabbing Vanello's hands.

"(Name), no! Just leave without me!" Vanello begged.

"I'm not going anywhere."

"Alright, Fix-It." Calhoun jumped off her cruiser with Felix as the last of the citizens left. "Now we've got to blow up the exit."

"Just go." Vanello whispered.

"I can't." (Name) whispered, touching foreheads with him.

"But what about this game?" Felix asked sadly as he looked at the destructed land.

"Nothing we can do it out." Calhoun answered as she prepared a bomb. "Without a beacon, there's no way to stop these monsters."

Ralph eyes widened at Calhoun's statement, he stood up and looked over at Diet Cola Mountain. He remembered the hot springs and mentos.

"Beacon." He whispered. He turned to the two teenagers with a firm look on his face. "Stay with Felix!"

Ralph jumped onto Calhoun's cruiser, he wobbled and steadied himself. "Let me borrow that thing, lady!"

"Ralph! Where are you going?" Vanello asked frantically.

"I got some wrecking to do!" Ralph answered before flying off, a little ungracefully. "I'll meet you both at the finish line!"

"No, wait!" Felix cried out.

"Ralph!" (Name) yelled out for him.

"Fix-It! Girly! Get behind me!" Calhoun stepped ahead of the three and shot at the advancing bugs.

Felix took (Name) and Vanello's hands and gently pushed them away from the danger.

~🪲~

Ralph reached the top of Diet Cola Mountain and jumped off the hover board. The crater's center is like petrified Mentos.

"ARRRGH!" Ralph rained to the center and punched it with all of his might.

Small pieces break off the giant stalactite and land in the hot cola beneath. Bright glowing geysers shoot up all around.

"COME ON!" Ralph punched the center a couple of more times, the center cracked all around and more mentos fell into the hot springs.

"One more!" Before Ralph could make the final punch, he was knocked beside by a giant tail. He slammed hard into the rim of the mountain, he shook it off, and heard a familiar sinister laugh.

"Welcome to the boss level!"

"Turbo..." Ralph's eyes widened as he realized he was face-to face with a giant, monstrous, King Candy Turbo Cy-Bug mash up.

(When I was a kid, this thing scared me SO BAD).

Turbo laughed manically, he continued to glitch into King Candy's face as he rose up, revealing his tall figure.

"Because of you, Ralph, I'm now the most powerful virus in the arcade! I can take over any game I want!" Turbo laughed manically

"I should thank you, but it'd be more fun to kill you."

Turbo lunged towards Ralph, making him scream and roll away.

"Get back here, little guy!" The monster mocked.

Turbo diverted Ralph with his claws as he tried to slam the mentos.

"Have some candy!" Turbo swiped Ralph with his tail, knocking him away.

Ralph grunted and ran back towards the center.

"Where do you think you're going?" Turbo asked. Ralph slid under Turbo and tossed him aside.

But Turbo rolled towards Ralph and caught him by his feet.

"I'm not through with you yet!" Turbo smirked. "Up we go!"

Turbo flew Ralph up into the sky.

"NO!" Ralph screamed as he was pulled away from the mountain.

~🪲~

Calhoun struggled to fight off the cy-bugs as they swarm the exit.

"RALPH!" Vanello and (Name) shouted when they saw Turbo drag Ralph into the sky.

Felix pushed the two teenagers behind him protectively.

Calhoun's gun then ran out of ammunition. She grunted and threw her gun at the bugs, but they began to close in.

"Fall back!" Calhoun took (Name)'s hand and backed her, Felix, and Vanello away from the bugs.

~🪲~

As Ralph struggled in the air, he saw his friends getting closed in by the bugs. "Kids!"

Calhoun, Felix, and (Name) backed up into the tunnel. But due to the barrier, Vanello was left outside.

"Vanello!" (Name) cried as she rushed to Vanello's side.

"(Name), no! Get out of here!" Vanello yelled.

"I told you, I'm not going anywhere." (Name) took Vanello's hand.

"Vanello! (Name)!" Ralph cried out.

"Aw, look at that! It's your little friend and my little friend." Turbo mocked, he grabbed Ralph and positioned his head down to where the teens were.

"Let's watch them die together, shall we?"

"NO!" Ralph screamed as he looked down to the teens, then looked to his goal, the volcano was now far enough below him to slam down all the Mentos.

"It's game over for all of you!" Turbo cackled.

"No. Just for me." Ralph broke free from Turbo's grasp and fell towards the mountain.

Vanello and (Name) saw Ralph falling from such a great height and gasped. "RALPH!" The two teenagers ran forward.

"Vanello! (Name)!" Felix reached out for them.

Vanello took (Name)'s hand, they glitched together and landed on top of the Cy-Bugs. They glitched again and again, bouncing off towards the mountains.

~🪲~

Ralph extended his fist downward to the Mentos, but was unable to keep steady, knowing full well that the cola will kill him.

He clutched Vanello's medal to his heart, and began to recite the Bad Guy affirmation.

"I'm bad, and that's good! I will never be good and that's not bad!" He shouted.

Ralph took one last look at Vanello's medal, he grabbed onto it and hugged it to his heart.

"There's no one I'd rather be...than me."

The medal gave him strength as he slams his fists down on the volcano's Mentos crater.

The top of the mountain exploded, and the stalactites fall towards the broiling hot diet cola. Ralph fell with them gracefully, never letting go of his medal.

This is it.

He's gonna die a hero.

Suddenly, Vanello and (Name) rode up the side ramp in Crumbelina's kart.

Vanello made the big jump and catches Ralph on the hood of his kart.

Ralph opened his eyes, and smiled when he saw the two teenagers. "Kids!"

"Don't worry! We got it under control!" Vanello saluted.

"We got you, big guy!" (Name) grinned.

Vanello glitched through the side of the mountain just as the hot springs erupt and shoot upwards in a shining geyser.

~🪲~

The Cy-Bugs instinctively stop fighting. They turn and fly towards the geyser's bright light.

In the air, Turbo looked at them in confusion.

"You fools! Why are you going into the ligh..."

Turbo looked at the light and his eyes suddenly bulge like an entranced Cy-Bug. He flew towards the light.

"NO! No, no, no!" Turbo kept glitching from his King Candy face to his true face.

"Yes...NO! Yes...NO! Go into the light..."

Turbo changed to his true form and went towards the light with a scream, he got zapped. Never to be seen again.

~🪲~

"WHOAAAA!"

Ralph, Vanello, and (Name) crash landed into the chocolate river while the kart landed somewhere else.

The three emerged their heads up, covered in chocolate. Ralph spit some chocolate out of his mouth.

"Chocolate?" Ralph raised an eyebrow at the chocolate in disgust, before laughing. "It's chocolate! I LOVE CHOCOLATE!" He declared, making (Name) giggle.

"WHOO-HOO!" Vanello whooped as he began to splash around the chocolate.

"Oh, beautiful chocolate!" Ralph beamed as he splashed around in the chocolate.

"Yeah!" (Name) cheered as she splashed around.

Vanello then smirked and got an idea, he swam underneath the chocolate.

(Name) yelped when Vanello lifted her onto his shoulders, she then laughed at his silliness.

"Whoa!" Vanello then accidentally tumbled down in the chocolate, bringing (Name) down with him.

The two emerged from the chocolate and laughed. (Name) wrapped her arms around Vanello.

"I love you!" She laughed, but she then turned red when she realized what she had said.

Vanello just smiled at her. "I love you too, sweetheart."

The two smiled at each other and touched foreheads, before their lips could meet, (Name) remembered Ralph was behind them.

She turned to Ralph, who was smiling at them softly.
"Uh...Ralph? Do you mind...?"

"Huh? Oh! Yeah, yeah, sorry!" Ralph apologized, knowing what she meant. He turned his back to the two teens and avoided looking at them. "Just...do your thing."

"Thank you." (Name) smiled, she then turned to Vanello and smirked. "Now, where were we?"

She pulled Vanello down by the hoodie strings and brought his lips to her's. Vanello happily accepted her love and kissed her back with great passion.

~🍫~

Back at the rainbow bridge, Felix was laughing and cheering for Ralph.

"You did it, Ralph! Oh, way to go, brother!" Felix laughed.

Calhoun had an impressed smile on her face as she looked over the land.

Then, Felix jumped up and kissed Calhoun on the cheek, making her gasp.

Calhoun grabbed Felix by his shirt and brought him up to her face.

"I...excuse..." Felix stammered.

Calhoun just smirked and slammed his lips onto her's. Felix immediately melted into the kiss, red hearts surrounded the couple.

~🏅~