Hey there! I know it's been a while since I've been on here, and I'm sorry. I'm just really busy at this point in my life. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this first chapter of this new story! Oh, and by the way, I don't own Wreck-It-Ralph, but Lemona is my OC. I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 1

The first time President Vanellope Van Schweetz heard the rumours about a creature living in the Black Liquorice Forest, she assumed it was something that wouldn't cause a problem, so long as it didn't leave the forest. The solution to the chaos seemed simple at the time. She decreed that nobody was to enter the forest under any circumstances. It seemed like the perfect solution. The Black Liquorice Forest was the only part of Sugar Rush that didn't have a race track, apart from the Diet Cola Mountain, so there was really no point in anybody going there anyway. She knew her friend Fix-it Felix from one of the other games in the arcade would have been proud of her ability to fix the problem before it got bigger.

Time passed, and the solution seemed to work. The rumours slowly faded away, and with it, the fear that had swept over her subjects. But no sooner had it disappeared than it came back even worse then it had been in the first place. One of her subjects, a troublesome trickster named Gloyd Orangeboar, had decided to disobey her command and visit the forest. He had come back with tears streaming down his face screaming, "Cybug, Cybug! There's a Cybug in the forest!" Because of Sugar Rush's first experience with Cybugs, Vanellope decided that she couldn't take any chances. Being the president, it was her responsibility to protect her subjects, no matter how badly they had treated her before she'd become their ruler. Besides, if any of the gamers in the arcade had noticed a Cybug in her game, Vanellope knew they would be unplugged, and there was no way she was letting that happen. She'd just started ruling the place, and she didn't want to lose it. So as soon as she'd heard Gloyd's cries, she had dashed over to the home of the first person she'd thought of: Wreck it Ralph.

Now she, Ralph, Fix it Felix, who was the hero in Ralph's game, and Felix's wife Sergeant Calhoun were all creeping through the dark forest, looking for any indication of the presence of a Cybug. The only one of them who held what would be considered a weapon was Calhoun, gripping a heavy duty machine gun from her own game, a science fiction adventure game by the name of Hero's Duty. At any other time, thinking of the name of her game would have made Vanellope snicker, but the seriousness of what the group was doing kept her from doing so. She may have been able to think up other meanings for the word 'duty,' but Cybugs were no laughing matter. The last time they had been in Sugar Rush, they had almost destroyed the entire game.

"Are you sure Gloyd saw a Cybug, Vanellope?" Ralph finally asked. They had been walking for a half an hour straight and seen no sign of a horrifying bug in the area. "He could have just been pulling a prank on you guys. He does like doing that."

Vanellope shook her head. "I don't know. Gloyd may like tricking us, but he's never done something so severe that he would pretend to cry. Besides, he was here when the Cybugs attacked. So he should know that they're no joking matter."

"Maybe he just saw a shadow of something, got spooked, and assumed it was a Cybug," Felix suggested. His golden hammer was clutched firmly in his grasp, even though it would be no help if he had to fight. Ironically, his hammer would not destroy what it hit. Instead, it magically repaired anything, except for the codes of gamers.

Just as Vanellope was about to speak again, there was a crack coming some distance ahead of them. At the sound, everybody tensed up, and Calhoun loaded her gun. "Alright, everyone get behind me. If it's a Cybug, I'm gonna teach it my definition of the word 'pain.'

The noise continued and as the team crept up towards the source of the sound, it only seemed to get louder, only now it sounded like crunching. As they got closer, they began to see something in front of them. Covered entirely in black, it was on its knees and it looked like it was eating something. Immediately, Calhoun held out her gun and hollered, "Freeze, SCUM!"

The creature turned its head towards the group. When it saw the gun pointed in its direction, it screamed and threw its arms up, hands towards the sky, dropping whatever candy from the forest that it had been eating. It stayed on the ground, too scared to move. The group was too far away to see the creature's face, but they could tell that it wasn't a Cybug by the way it screamed. Instead of a horrible mechanical shriek of a monster, it sounded like a nine year old girl who thought she'd seen a monster underneath her closet. However, they still had to figure out what had caused all of the commotion.

After approaching the creature, they all saw that whatever it was was wearing a black cloak that concealed its entire body, the reason why they hadn't been able to tell what the thing was. Calhoun kept her gun aimed at the creature while Ralph grabbed a hold of the hood on the cloak. Pulling so hard that the thing was forced to stand, he pulled back the hood of the cloak and revealed exactly what it had sounded like: a nine year old girl so petrified that she was about to have an accident.

"Back off, guys!" Vanellope demanded after seeing what all the fuss was about. Seeing the terror in the girl's green eyes and the tears streaming down her rosy cheeks made her feel terrible about what had just happened. After Ralph had released her, the girl stood frozen in front of them all, too scared to run away. Vanellope approached her and tried speaking in a calm and soothing manner that she usually adapted when another racer got too upset about losing or not being able to race. "Hey, hey, relax. Take it easy. It's going to be okay."

The girl sniffed and made eye contact with Vanellope, who couldn't help noticing what a deep shade of green they were, like the peel of a lime. Before Vanellope tried speaking again, those eyes narrowed into little slits, and before Vanellope knew it, the girl was ranting! "'Relax,' you say. 'Take it easy,' you say. Well that's easy for YOU to say! You weren't just held at gunpoint for no good reason, now were you? So now I say that no, no, it is definitely NOT going to be okay! It is not going to be okay at ALL!"

Startled by the furious outburst, Vanellope stumbled back and tripped over her feet. As she fell, Felix, who was now behind her, caught her before any damage could be done. Vanellope smiled up at him gratefully, then spoke to her team. "Well, I don't think she's scared anymore."

Realizing what she had just said, the girl paled, and then smacked herself in the face, groaning, "Oh sour lemonade. Now I sound like a twit," to herself. She remained with her head in her hand for a little while longer, and then looked up again. "I'm so sorry."

"Now don't feel sorry kiddo," Felix said, giving her his sweet hero's smile. "We all understand. If anything, we should be sorry for giving you such a fright. Allow me to introduce myself."

"Ah, ah ah!" Vanellope interrupted him, putting her hands on her hips. This was her game, and she wanted to do the introductions in it. "I'm the ruler of this place, let me do it!" Turning back to the mysterious girl, Vanellope pointed to each person she named. "Gorilla Hands over there is Ralph. Hammer Boy's name is Felix, and Commander Chaos' name is Sergeant Calhoun. As for me, I'm President Vanellope Van Schweetz, leader of the land of Sugar Rush. What's your name? And how come I've never seen you in Sugar Rush before?"

"Um, well," the mystery girl began, slightly stuttering through her words, "My name is Lemona Lime, and I…I…I…"

Suddenly the little girl pixelated and her blue pixels that made up her code were quickly revealed for the group to see. The child seemed unable to speak or move at all as the twitching and rearranging went on. A good minute passed before it finally stopped and the girl looked normal again. She appeared to be slightly dazed, but seemed to realize what she'd just done because after it was over, she buried her head in her hands again and moaned, "Oh, not again."

"Sweet mother of monkey milk!" exclaimed Vanellope, her mouth agape along with everybody else's. "Lemona, you just glitched!"

The little girl's eyes rose up to meet Vanellope's hazel ones again, and she removed her hands to reveal a face freshly tear-stained. It seemed Lemona was feeling quite ashamed about what had just happened. "Is that what you call it? I wish I could get it to stop. It hurts so much."

"This is all way too cuckoo to be dealing with in the middle of this code-forsaken forest," Calhoun spoke up, saying what the males in the group had been thinking. "Let's get out of here and bring this kid to the castle. There we can find out all the details we need."

Vanellope nodded, agreeing with the sergeant, but she didn't look at her. Instead, she held out her hand, ready to rest it on Lemona's shoulder. "Come on Lemona. It's going to be okay." But as her hand stretched out, Lemona backed up, her face paling once again and her green eyes widening. She looked terrified again, though Vanellope wasn't sure why. "Don't touch me. Please, don't touch me."

Unfortunately for her, Vanellope wasn't a good listener. "Hey, it's okay. Come on." She continued to advance until Lemona was pinned with her back against a tree, still pleading, "Please, please don't." It wasn't until Vanellope's hand was resting on her cloak covered shoulder that she realized why.

The moment her hand touched Lemona's body, Lemona stiffened, and her body began to pixelate again, but this time it was much more violent. It was so bad, that electric shocks began radiating off of her body, one of them hitting Vanellope's hand. "Ow!" she cried, immediately taking it off of her new friend. As soon as her hand left Lemona's shoulder, the pixelating stopped again, but Lemona was frozen in place.

"Lemona? Lemona, are you okay?" Instantly, everybody was crowding around her again, this time with faces filled with concern and not fear of her. Timidly, Vanellope took a step towards her. "Lemona?" There was no movement. Vanellope started waving her left hand in front of Lemona's face, and was about to call out "Hello?" when suddenly Lemona's left hand started moving in synch with Vanellope's. "Huh?" Vanellope stopped, and watched as Lemona stopped moving too. She took a couple of steps back to give Lemona some space, then started to jump in a circle waving her hands crazily up and down. Sure enough, Lemona copied her actions exactly up until Vanellope stopped.

"Okay, what the heck is going on?" Sergeant Calhoun demanded, her face getting even more serious by the second.

Vanellope grinned in response. "I don't know, but it's kinda cool!"

"No!" Frozen in place again, Lemona was finally able to speak and get the others to notice. Unfortunately, because she was frozen, it was very difficult for her to form her words, as her mouth was frozen as well. "It's not cool. Because you touched me, now YOU'RE in control of my actions!"

"WHAT?" Ralph, Felix, and Sergeant Calhoun all exclaimed, completely missing Vanellope's wide and fascinated smile.

"Oh goodness gracious golly!" gasped Felix. "How do we stop it?"

"You've got to feed me a chunk of a black liquorice tree," Lemona instructed through her frozen mouth. "And that means Vanellope's gotta eat it too."

Now it was Vanellope's turn to say, "WHAT?" The smile vanished in a flash, and a disgusted grimace took its place. "But black liquorice is so NASTY! I don't even know why an entire forest full of it was programmed into my game! No kid in their right mind would eat this stuff."

"Come on kid, you owe the girl. After all, she told you not to touch her," Acting like the big brother that Vanellope had come to see him as, Ralph broke off a strip of black liquorice from the nearest tree and handed it to her. Vanellope reached out and took it subconsciously, not even realizing until it was too late that Lemona was doing what she was doing again. Looking at the vile treat with her lips curled in disgust, Vanellope sighed. "Alright, fine. I'll do it." Suddenly an idea seemed to hit her, and she looked back at Lemona, who was now looking at her. "But can I do one more thing? Come on, PLEASE?" She clasped her hands together and gave one of her famous begging faces, mentally smiling when Lemona returned it perfectly. As she copied Vanellope, Lemona sighed. "Fine. But hurry it up! I'd prefer to choose my own actions, thank you very much."

"Okay," Vanellope rubbed her hands together with glee, and then did what she'd planned. There was a jump with a half turn in the air first. Then, when the two girls landed on their feet, they both bent over and started shaking their booties left to right, while rolling their hands around and around each other like a bunch of barrels. As she danced, Vanellope couldn't help singing a bit too. "Oh yeah. Uh huh. Oh yeah. Uh huh." After approximately three minutes had passed, she stopped and gave a smile. "Okay. I'm good." Then with a grimace, she put half of the black liquorice stick in her mouth and bit it off. Together, the girls chewed the liquorice with scrunched up faces, and finally with great difficulty, they swallowed. Once the liquorice hit their stomachs, Lemona began jerking and writhing like she was having a seizure. No pixelation occurred, but a million little lightning bolts coursed in and out of her body, creating a terrible crackling sound. When it was finally over, she shakily held out a hand, turning it from side to side as though checking to make sure it was working. Once she was sure that she was back in control, Lemona let out a sigh of relief. "Whew."

No sooner had she let out the sigh when Sergeant Calhoun grabbed her by the scruff of her cloak and Vanellope by the back of her hoodie. Scowling at them both, she uttered two words that let them know she meant business:

"Castle. NOW."

As they turned and walked out towards the forest's exit, all felt better knowing that the thing Gloyd had seen was really no danger to Vanellope's home. But none of them considered the fact that there may have still been an evil presence hiding in the forest.

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