A/N: Just a little what if story I've had in my head for a while. Hope you enjoy.

Sonic hastily ran through the sugar coated hill of Sugar Rush. "Gotta find Ralph and fast." He said to himself. It had been one hectic day in the arcade for the Hedgehog.

Earlier, Sonic had been minding his own business walking through Game Central Station when a ship from Hero's Duty came crashing by him, knocking away all of his rings. When he had recovered, the Surge Protector told him that Wreck-It Ralph was most likely inside of it, and that his game's hero, Fix-It Felix Jr. and Sargent Calhoun from Hero's Duty, had gone in to the candy racing game after him.

Sonic, being the hero that he was, decided to go in after him as well. He didn't like the thought of Felix's or anyone's game getting unplugged. Felix was a real nice guy too. The game was full of candy as far as the eye could see. Had the sign not said Sugar Rush, Sonic would have sworn he was back in Sweet Mountain. About 5 minutes of searching later, Sonic found the wrecker trying to get a medal he had won in Hero's Duty out of a candy cane tree. However it was stolen by a little girl with black hair and a teal hoodie. Ralph explained to the blue hero that his medal was going to get him a better life, one filled with more respect from his fellow game characters, the Nicelanders. Eventually he got Sonic to reluctantly agree to help him get the medal back if he returned to his game quietly afterwards.

Unfortunately for the duo, things got a bit chaotic down at the race track when all the racers started running and screaming in terror at the sight of a taffy covered Ralph. It didn't help that during his chase of the kid, a giant cupcake had immobilized Ralph, only for the police to start beating him moments later. Sonic could tell that this game didn't take very kindly to strangers and was forced to leave Ralph.

Now that he had put enough distance between himself and the track, he was looking for any signs of the wrecker or that girl. His ears perked up when he heard the faint sound of karts in the distance. "Maybe one of them is that kid." Sonic thought out loud as he ran, passing a sign that indicated he was entering the Junkyard.

"Hello fellow racers!" Came the cheerful voice from over the hill that sounded a bit familiar to Sonic. He peeked over to see the medal thief surrounded by the racers from the track. She skipped over to a junkie looking kart that was behind her.

"Yeesh, looks like she built it herself." Sonic looked at it in disgust.

"Built it myself! Fastest pedal power west of the Wack-A-Mole, check 'er out." She told the others as she started pedaling it and honking the horn, much to their disgust. Sonic just face palmed when he heard this.

"Oh Vanellope, It's so…You." One of them in pink told the candy haired girl. She seemed to be the leader of the little posse.

"Oh no, you see I paid my fee, and I'm on the board so, yeah. I'm defiantly racing." Vanellope, Sonic thought she said it was, hopped out of the kart and smirked at the pink girl.

"Wait, so she spent that medal she stole? Ralph's not going to like this." Sonic thought to himself.

"Yeah well, King Candy says glitches can't race." The other girl said, flicking her lollipop and crossing her arms. Her two friends behind her gave her stern looks, backing up their leader. One had a birthday candle on her hat and the other was decked out in a peanut butter cup styled suit and hat.

"I'm not a glitch, Taffyta; I just got pixlexia, k?" Vanellope retorted at her. Sonic seemed to understand now. If this girl was a glitch, then that would mean she only took the medal to try and pay to race like her fellow avatars. He had had past experiences with game characters with pixlexia. His friend Mighty the Armadillo had been diagnosed with pixlexia and couldn't appear in any games because of it. But that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. If the character was popular enough, like Mighty was, then there glitch wouldn't matter.

Then that would mean that these racers were trying to bully Vanellope out of the race just because she was different.

Sonic had been so lost in his thought process that when he spied back down on the group, the next thing he knew, the racers were tearing apart the little homemade kart. "Stop! You're B-breaking it!" Vanellope glitched out as she tried desperately to pull them off. "Please, I just want to race like you guys!" She only succeeded in pulling off Taffyta, causing her to erupt in glitchyness too. Sonic decided to put a stop to this and stand up for the little glitch. He ran down the hill as a furious Taffyta was backing Vanellope toward a mud puddle.

"You will NEVER be a racer, because you're a glitch, and that's all you'll ever-"

"Hey! Stop right there you little cavity!" The hedgehog yelled out to them. They all stopped wrecking the kart to see who was calling for them to stop.

"Uuughh, Taffyta, We got company." Candlehead called to her friend in a worried tone. The platinum blonde was one shove away from giving Vanellope the mud puddle treatment again.

Taffyta just turned her head slightly to see a blue creature slide down the hill and run up to her. "Oh great, first that taffy monster and now this." She rolled her eyes, walking up to Sonic. But not before turning back to Vanellope once more. "You got lucky glitch." She sneered at her before leaving her be for now.

Candlehead and Rancis join Taffyta in their usual positions. They were close enough to back her up, but back enough to make sure Vanellope didn't run off. "What do you want?" Taffyta asked Sonic, crossing her arms.

"You guys are picking on this little girl just because she's different." Sonic was surprised they were treating it like it was no big deal. "Just because she's a little glitchy, doesn't mean she should be treated differently. You'd better apologize and leave her alone or you'll pay." He demanded poking Taffyta.

Taffyta just shoved his hand away and scoffed. "Apologize to her? Vanellope is just a mistake who doesn't deserve to race." She retorted back. "Anyway, why should we listen to some…whatever you are."

"That's another good question. Who are you anyway?" Rancis suddenly spoke up.

Sonic was a bit shocked at the fact that someone didn't know who he was. "Who am I? I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog; Kind of a big deal." He said doing his signature pose and wagging his finger. "And I take it you Strawberry Shortcake rejects are the racers of this game?" He asked them.

"That's right. We don't leave here too often. So sorry if we don't care how famous you are." Taffyta tells him. "You know, our ruler King Candy doesn't take too kindly to us leaving our game, or outsiders. So I don't see why we should listen to some stranger who thinks he can just waltz into our game." She informs him as Candlehead snickers and nods to Rancis who nods back.

"You tell 'em, Taffyta." Candlehead smirked, nudging the pink racer's shoulder.

Sonic didn't know what it was going to take to get through to these kids. "Wait. These little brats are racers. I'll just do this the old fashion way." He mentally slapped himself. "Okay then, how about this. I'll race you, and if I win, you leave Vanellope alone. How does that sound?" Sonic asked them. He figured he'd win easy if they agreed.

After a brief silence, Rancis and Candlehead broke out laughing. Taffyta tried to contain her snickering but failed. "Oh that's just adorable. He thinks he can keep up with me." Taffyta told the others after she recovered. "Now I'll tell you what, why don't you just go back to whatever game you came from and let us have our fun." She turned her attention to the glitch. Vanellope tried to back away, but Rancis and Candlehead cut off her escape route.

Taffyta pulled out a lollipop and unwrapped it. She was about to stick it in her mouth, when something blew by her. The next thing she knew her lollipop was gone. "Hmmm, strawberry eh? Not exactly my favorite, but still good." The platinum blonde turned around to see Sonic now holding her candy.

"Hey! Those are mine!" Taffyta cried in annoyance.

"You're right, I'm sorry. Here, take it." He apologized and held it out for her to take back. Taffyta went to grab her candy back, but Sonic moved his hand quickly at the last second. She tried to grab it again. He did the same thing. "Come on take it." The hedgehog insisted, with a smile on his face. This got a giggle from Vanellope. But one glare from Taffyta shut her up. She tried several more times to take her lollipop back, but each time, Sonic would move it away swiftly to tease her more. "Oh come on, it's right in front of you. All you have to do is grab it. No? Alright I guess you don't want it after all." Sonic taunted, sticking the candy in his mouth.

Taffyta clenched her fist and made one last grab for it. Sonic just quickly stepped aside and tripped her, making her fall to the ground. She lifted her head out of the chocolate dirt, now losing her patience. "GET HIIIIM!" She shrieked to the other racers.

The other nine racers ran at Sonic, hoping to teach him a lesson for embarrassing their group leader. However, he just hopped onto the remains of the Lickety Split and leaped into the air. As he came down, he started to homing attack off all the racers. One by one, they were knocked down by the blue hedgehog. Taffyta could only watch as her fellow racers were being taken out by this stranger. Sonic landed behind Taffyta and tapped her on the shoulder. She turned to see him use the tip of his foot to push her. She stumbled and landed on her back. Sonic then placed a foot on her chest and knelt in, giving her a cocky grin. "Listen, Taffyta right?" He began, making sure he remembered what Candlehead had said earlier. "I kind of get the feeling I'm not wanted here. So I'll cut you a deal. You leave that little candy haired girl alone and let her race, and I'll leave this game for good, Capisce?" He asked her.

There was a pause before Taffyta shoved him off of her. She clenched her teeth and let out an angry growl as she got up. "Okay that's it you blue pain in the jawbreaker! You want a race, you got one! But don't say I didn't warn you." She yelled at him as Rancis and Candlehead, who had finished recovering from Sonic's attack, came and helped dust her off. "You verses me, Rancis and Candlehead. Three of the fastest racers in the game, two laps. The course will be from the starting line, down the road, and over the rainbow taffy bridge. If any of us three win and you get out of Sugar Rush." Taffyta explained the stakes of the challenge.

"And if I win, you leave Vanellope alone. Deal?" Sonic extended out his hand to shake on it. After a moment of consideration, Taffyta reluctantly shook his hand, rolling her eyes. Sonic could tell by the way she did that she wasn't really going to listen it if he won. But at least he'd get to show off to them how fast he really was.

All the racers went back to their karts, but not before Taffyta grabbed Vanellope and leaned in close to her. "Enjoy this while you can Vanellope. We'll give an extra fun dose of play time with us when we cream this obnoxious pincushion." She threatened the glitch, pushing her.

And with that, she hopped into her Pink Lightning and they all drove away, leaving Vanellope to walk to the racing destination.

A/N: Who will win? Fine out next chapter!
I know someone is going to hate me for that Mighty reference.