~🏅~

Back in Hero's Duty, Ralph had taken off all his armor and was now climbing up the building with (Name) holding onto his back. She made sure her arms were around him tightly so she wouldn't fall. And Ralph was prepared to catch her if she ever slipped.

Ralph and (Name) then finally reached the top ledge, Ralph looked through the window and saw a golden medal floating in the air

"Oooh! Shiny!" Ralph marveled.

(Name) gasped at the medal. "Pretty!" She whispered.

~🏅~

"Attention! The arcade is now closed!"

Calhoun and a couple of soldiers were walking to the front of the game.

"Did you get a load of Markowski?" One soldier snickered. The other soldier laughed, thinking about the Soldier's hilarious freak-out.

Calhoun suddenly stops, squints, sniffs. She raised her hand, quieting her troops. "SHUT YOUR CHEW HOLES!" She yelled before pulling out her gun. "Cy-Bug."

The other soldiers got their guns out, ready to attack as they hear an odd bouncing noise coming from behind them.

Felix then hopped out of the shadows at the front entrance.

"TASTE IT!" Calhoun shouted, whipping around and firing her gun.

Felix screamed, bouncing around and dodging bullets from Calhoun and the Soldiers. He jumped next to Calhoun, a traumatized look on his face.

Calhoun swiftly kicked him away, tackling him to the ground. She pinned him down with her gun, aiming it at him.

"Slick tiddlywinking, pint size." Calhoun smirked.

Felix raised his hands up in defense, shutting his eyes closed in fear. "I'm Fix-It Felix Jr, ma'am! From the game, Fix-It Felix Jr!"

He then peaked an eye open, a twinkle came in his eyes when he saw Calhoun's beauty. "Jiminey jaminey! Look at that high definition. Your face! It's amazing!" He sighed dreamily, resting his hands on Calhoun's gun, a dopey smile on his face.

"Flattery don't charge these batteries, civilian." Calhoun scoffed, pulling her gun back." Now, state your business!"

"Oh," Felix rose to his feet, snapping out of his lovestruck trance. He took his hat off humbly. "I'm looking for my colleague, Wreck-It Ralph? I'm also looking for a girl, (Name)?"

"Never heard of them." Calhoun responded.

"Well, Q*Bert saw them come in here." Felix stated.

"Impossible, nothing gets past me." Calhoun growled, holding her gun to her chest.

A clanking was heard in the distance.

"That came from the tower." Kohut informed.

~🪲~

From the top of the tower, Ralph punched the window, causing it to shatter. (Name) and Ralph stepped inside.

The medal floats above a stage circled by airborne slabs of armor. Scattered all across the floor were Cy-Bug eggs.

Ralph and (Name) walked around the eggs, trying their best not to step on any of them.

"Nice eggs, nice eggs!" Ralph exclaimed as he climbed over them.

"Ew, ew, ew." (Name) whispered as she avoided each egg, holding back her gags.

"That was easy." Ralph chuckled when they reached the steps.

"For you it was." (Name) shivered.

Ralph then climbed up the steps to the chamber, (Name) standing aside so Ralph could claim his medal.

A giant hologram of a General appeared.

"Congratulations, soldier. It is my honor to bestow upon you the Medal of Heroes."

The medal slowly began to fall down towards Ralph.

"Wow." Ralph whispered, he closed his eyes and imagined what life would be like with his medal.

~🏅~

Ralph imagined himself bursting through Niceland triumphantly, with his medal around his neck. All of the Nicelanders and Characters would cheer for him and praise him.

They'd make a cake for him, and Ralph would dance on the dance floor.

And best of all, Gene would watch from the pile of bricks, crying like the loser he was.

~🏅~

Ralph opened his eyes, smiling as the medal gently landed around his neck.

"No way!" He gasped, he couldn't believe this was real.

"Ten-hunt!"

Holograms of space Colonels and Generals surrounded him, (Name) clapped excitedly for Ralph.

"Wow!" Ralph exclaimed.

All of the holograms salut, so does the general.

"History will long revere your courage and sacrifice."

"Well, thank you!" Ralph laughed as he walked down the stairs.

"WOO! YEAH RALPH!" (Name) cheered, clapping her hands and jumping up and down excitedly as she followed the large man.

Ralph laughed and ruffled her (hair color) hair.

"You have etched in the rock of virtue a legacy beyond compare."

"Thanks guys!" Ralph saluted and blew a kiss to the soldiers. "At ease!"

"You are the universe's greatest hero."

"Oops." Ralph winced when he heard a crunch, he lifted his large foot to see a glowing green Cy-Bug egg.

"Aye-yai-yai." Ralph muttered as the Cy-Bug hatched to reveal a small baby Cy-Bug.

"The living embodiment of all this corps represents..."

"Aw, it's actually kinda cute!" (Name) smiled at the little bug.

Ralph smiled in agreement before the Baby Cy-Bug attacked his face making (Name) gasp and cover her mouth.

"Bravery. Integrity. Grace under pressure. And above all, dignity."

"NOPE! NOT CUTE AT ALL!" (Name) yelled as she tried to pull the Baby Cy-Bug off Ralph. As Ralph and (Name) fumbled around, they didn't realize they were stepping on some more eggs.

Eventually, Ralph and (Name) stumbled into the back of one of the double space pods. (Name) and Ralph were strapped onto their own separate harnesses and locking them into place, the door slammed shut.

"Escape pod activated."

"Wait, WHAT? NO-" (Name) screamed as she fumbled around with buttons on the console to get them out of the pod.

But Ralph's muffled screaming caught her attention, she turned her head and realized the Cy-Bug was still attached to Ralph's face.

"Oh, for the love of Donkey Kong!" She exasperated as she tried to get the Cy-Bug off Ralph again, but it still wouldn't budge.

~🪲~

"INCOMING!" Kohut shouted as a space ship flew down towards everyone. Kohut and the Soldiers ducked from the ship as it speeded past Felix and Calhoun.

As it passed by, Felix and Calhoun could see (Name) trying to pull off a baby Cy-Bug off Ralph's face before it zoomed off to the tunnel to Game Central Station.

"Ralph! (Name)!" Felix exclaimed.

"Cy-Bug." Calhoun said with wide eyes as she gripped her blonde hair.

~🪲~

(Name) and Ralph's pod blasted into the terminal, spiralling like an out-of-control bottle rocket off the floor and walls.

The pod launched into the tunnel of another game before bumping into Sonic, causing him to drop all the scattered rings.

Finally, (Name) managed to pull the dumb bug off of Ralph's face. "HAH!" (Name) smiled triumphantly.

Her smile quickly faltered when the Cy-Bug grew bigger.

"HOLY SHI-"

(Name) was cut off when the pod slipped out of a giant chocolate-dipped cone with sprinkles and flew through cotton candy clouds. Some of the candy is sucked through the vent, shorting out an engine. The pod flew through more cotton candy, getting some wrapper stuck on it.

"AHHHH!" Ralph and (Name) screamed together as the pod began crashing down.

The pod dived under a layer of brown liquid candy, and crashed through a forest of peppermint stick trees.

It comes to a halt at the edge of a cliff, and Ralph, (Name), and the Cy-Bug slam against the dash.

Ralph shook his head while (Name) groaned in pain.

"Huh?" Ralph and (Name) then heard something beeping, they looked at the screen which showed an image of a person being ejected.

"Oh no..." (Name) fretted.

Ralph, (Name), and the Cy-Bug were then catapulted out of the ship. Ralph and (Name) were flung onto a peppermint tree.

The now even bigger Cy-Bug continued on and slammed into a nearby peppermint tree. It fell into a taffy pool and sinks as if dead.

"SAYONARA, SUCKER!" Ralph shouted with a smug grin, hanging onto the tree. He then noticed (Name) hanging on for dear life below him.

"Hey, you good, kid?" He asked her.

"NO!" (Name) yelled, shaken up from the crash.

"Good!" Ralph smiled.

(Name) rolled her eyes. She then realized something. "Wait, where are we?"

Before Ralph could respond, he heard cheerful pop music. He turned around and climbed up a little higher in the tree.

Hearing the music as well, (Name) climbed up from the other side of the tree. She grabbed onto one of the branches above her, and held onto the tree with her other hand, giving her a clear view of this world.

In the distance, a huge shiny green logo that read 'Sugar Rush' was in the middle of the land.

"Sugar Rush?" Ralph read with furrowed eyebrows while (Name) tilted her head.

🎶 "S-U-G-A-R, jump into your racing car," 🎶
🎶 "Say Sugar Rush! Sugar Rush!" 🎶

Ralph and (Name) looked around, they noticed there was a tall glimmering white castle in the distance.

On the other side, teenage racers rode in their dessert racing karts through the Gumball Trench.

Ralph cringed in disgust as he looked around the land. "Oh, no. This is that candy go-kart game over by the Whac-A-Mole!"

"Wait, this is a racing game?" (Name) shrieked. "We've gotta get out of here, now!"

"You said it, kid. Now-" Ralph wiped some of the stickiness off on his shirt and realized that his medal was gone.

"Oh no! My medal!" Ralph began to stutter as he searched all over to find his precious medal.

(Name) searched around for the medal as well, she then turned her head around and gasped when she saw the medal dangling from the highest branch of another peppermint tree.

"There it is!" She pointed a finger at the medal.

Ralph whipped his head around and saw where she was pointing. "No, no, no, no, my medal!" He cried before climbing down the tree with (Name).

"No, no, my medal!" Ralph panicked as he ran to the tree. Before he could make another step, (Name) grabbed him by the arm.

"Ralph, wait!" She warned.

Ralph realized she was gesturing to the bubbling taffy pool that surrounded the tree. Ralph teeters across some wobbly gum drops floating in the pool. (Name) jumped after him, wobbling a little on each gumdrop.

Ralph grabbed the tree and climbed, eyes on the medal.(Name) followed suit, trying to catch up with him as fast as she could.

"Hi, mister!"

Ralph screamed, startled at the voice, making him fall back a few feet, thankfully he was able to catch himself.

On the other side of the tree, (Name) looked up to see what could've possibly startled Ralph. Her (eye color) eyes lit up when she saw a handsome teenage boy who looked her age sitting on a branch above them.

He had raven colored hair with candy pieces sprinkled all over it and big hazel eyes. He wore a mint-green hoodie with the edge of the hoodie that resembled a peanut butter cup wrapper. He wore mint-green and white striped leggings, shiny black boots, and had a red licorice sash around his body.

"Hello!" He smiled, his smile growing bigger when he saw (Name).

"Man! You scared me, kid!" Ralph chuckled. "Ah, I nearly soiled myself."

"What's your name?" The Boy asked.

"Uh, Ralph. Wreck it Ralph." Ralph answered, he looked up at his medal.

The Boy then looked at (Name) with a smirk. "What about you, sweetheart? Got a name?"

"Oh! Uh, (Name)." The girl answered, a small pink tint on her face at the nickname the boy had called her.

The Raven boy nodded. "Names Vanello. So, you're not from here, are you?" Vanello inquired, resting his cheek on his fist.

"No-well, yeah. I mean, not from right in this area." Ralph answered. "We're just doing some work here."

Vanello nodded as he listened to the larger man. "What kind of work?"

"Some routine candy tree trimming. You probably want to stand back. In fact, this whole area is technically closed while we're trimming." Ralph explained. "The candy tree department, that is."

"Oh." Vanello looked left and right. "Where's everybody else?"

"Oh, it's just us today." (Name) answered, climbing up the tree some more. "Everyone else is uh, sick today! So, we're handling it."

"Yup! That's right!" Ralph nodded, his eyes not leaving his medal.

"Hey," Vanello sprung up to a branch nearby Ralph and hung upside-down by his knees. "Are you a hobo?"

Ralph sent the teen an offended look. "No. I'm not a hobo. But my friend and I here are busy, so you just go-go home."

Vanello put a hand to his ear. "What's that? Didn't hear you! Your breath is so bad it made my ears numb!"

"Excuse you?" (Name) fumed, but Vanello was too caught up with making fun of Ralph that he didn't notice the glare the (hair color) girl was sending him.

Ralph was beginning to get fed up with the teen boy. "Listen, I tried to be nice-"

"I tRiEd tO bE NiCE!" Vanello mimicked in a rougher voice, crossing his arms to his chest.

"...you're mimicking me-"

"yOu'Re mImIcKiNg mE!"

Ralph sent a small glare towards (Name) when he noticed she was trying not to snicker. "Okay," he sighed, Vanello mocked him in an obnoxious voice.

"That is rude, and this conversation is over." Ralph climbed higher up the tree. (Name) sent a small smile to Vanello before she continued climbing, who returned it.

Vanello then flipped back upright, he smirked up at Ralph. "I wouldn't grab that branch if I were you."

Ralph just shook his head as he grabbed ahold of said branch. "I'm from the candy tree department, so I know what..."

"It's a double stripe."

(Name) gasped when the branch blinked and disappeared into thin air, causing Ralph to nearly fall off the tree. Thankfully, he managed to grab onto a different branch to keep himself from falling. (Name) let out a sigh of relief. She made a mental note to avoid any sticks with double stripes.

"Double stripes break, guh-doy!" Vanello said smugly, chewing on his hoodie string. "Hey, why are your hands so freakishly big?" He asked, swinging his legs back and forth.

"Uh, I don't know! Why are you so freakishly annoying?" Ralph sassed.

"That's a very good question, Ralph." (Name) agreed, sending a scowl towards Vanello.

Vanello rolled his eyes to the sky. "Well, why are you so freakishly-" Before he could come back with another sassy comment, his hazel eyes noticed the shiny medal dangling from the top of the tree.

"Sweet mother of monkey milk, a gold coin!" He exclaimed.

"Don't even think about it, that is mine!" Ralph warned, frantically climbing up the tree.

"Race you for it!" Vanello sped away, jumping quickly from branch to branch.

"Hey! We don't have to race for it, because that is mine!" Ralph chided as he climbed up the tree as fast as he could.

"I swear to Donkey Kong if you touch that medal..." (Name) growled as she struggled to keep up with the two men.

Vanello grabbed onto a branch and used it as a swing with his hands, jumping to another branch. As Ralph tried to read out for the branch he had swung on, Vanello shouted: "Double stripe!" And the branch disappeared into thin air.

"Come back here!"

Vanello reached the top and snatched the medal, his other hand was holding the tree to keep him from falling.

"The winner!" He declared, holding the medal proudly.

"GIVE IT BACK! GIVE IT!" Ralph yelled, grabbing the branch Vanello was standing on and flung him off.

"Whoa!" Vanello yelled as he flew in the air, making him drops the medal.

"Hah!" Ralph smirked as he caught the medal in his large hand.

Vanello jumped on Ralph's head, causing the larger man to fall and making the medal go flying.

As the two men fought for the medal, (Name) struggled to hang onto the tree since their jumping was making it shake a little.

"Will you guys be careful?!" She shouted, worried she might fall into the taffy swamp.

(Name) grabbed another branch, but her eyes were too focused on Ralph and Vanello that she didn't notice she had grabbed onto a double stripe.

Vanello smirked at the girl. "Double-"

"Don't say it." (Name) growled before she fell off the branch, she managed to catch another branch that was dangling over the taffy swamp.

Meanwhile, Ralph hung onto a branch with the medal in his other hand.

"Double stripe." Vanello smirked, leaning against the tree as he stood on a thick branch.

The branch Ralph was hanging onto disappeared, making Ralph go falling with a scream, causing him to let go of the medal.

Ralph grabbed the bottom branch, hanging inches above the taffy swamp. "NO!" He screamed when the medal went flying into the air.

Sitting on a higher branch, Vanello took one of his hands out of his pockets and swiftly caught the medal in his right hand with a smug look.

"Thank you!" He smirked before he hopped down the branches and jumped on the gumdrops, getting safely to land.

(Name) glared deeply at Vanello. She wished she could've helped Ralph, but unfortunately she wasn't as fast as Vanello or as strong as Ralph.

She would've jumped off to tackle Vanello, but she was so close over taffy swamp and was worried she would fall in if she jumped off.

"Look, wait! Let me talk to you for one second!" Ralph begged as he hanged onto the edge of the branch. He lowered his head. "Here's the thing, we're not from the candy tree department."

"Lying to a child." Vanello gave Ralph and (Name) doe eyes as he clutched the medal to his chest. "Shame on you both."

"But I wasn't lying about the medal! That is my medal! That's why I was climbing the tree! It's mine!" Ralph whined like a child. "It's precious to me!"

Vanello spat on the medal and polished it with his sleeve.

"And that thing is my ticket to a better life!"

"He's right! Just give it back! Please?" (Name) begged.

"Sorry, sweetheart." Vanello shrugged. "Now it's my-" All of a sudden, Vanello's body went into a glitchy state. "t̷̲̄͝i̸̠͓͂͒c̶͔̱̾k̶̹̞̑e̶̝̊͌t̷͖̎̚!"

Ralph and (Name) cringed at his glitchy state.

"What the..."

"The hell?"

"See ya, chump! See ya, sweetheart!" Vanello waved, sending a flirty wink towards (Name) before skipping away with the medal.

"COME BACK! WE'LL FIND YOU! WE WILL FIND YOU!" Ralph declared.

Just then, the branch Ralph was holding onto blinked.

"Double stripe!" Vanello called.

Ralph screamed when the branch disappeared and he fell into taffy swamp. "No where to hide!" He yelled before he sunk into the swamp.

(Name) sighed. "I'm coming, Ralph!" She yelled before she jumped onto one of the gumdrops and onto land.

She cursed herself for not trying this when Vanello got away, but for some reason, a part of her felt like Vanello needed the medal.

That was probably just the part of her that thought Vanello was cute speaking though.

"I mean, he was kinda cute..." (Name) thought to herself. She then shook her head and proceeded to help Ralph out of the stuff.

This was going to be a sticky situation.

~🍬~

As Vanello pranced off to the race track, a part of him felt a little bad for leaving (Name). He thought she was pretty.

But he didn't regret stealing the coin, he needed it to enter in the race.

Yet Vanello still hoped he would see (Name) again.

~🏅~