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Chapter 8: Princess Vanellope

^Corona Castle^

The kids gathered in the library at their usual seats as Rapunzel stood before them.

"Alright, everyone. I don't mean to upset you or anything but today we're finishing the story so that means we won't be hearing this story again for a while."

The kids gasped.

As they looked at each other, Katrina started to smile. "I can't wait to hear the ending. Everything has to get better now right?"

Gregory shrugged. "I don't know. I never heard this story before."

"Me neither." The boy next to Gregory said.

Rapunzel sat in her chair and picked up the book. "Well, then let's wrap this up."

^Sugar Rush^

Vanellope watched as everyone around her roared in cheers and congratulations on her win. Deciding to claim her victory, she got out of her kart and started waving her arms in gratitude. While she waved, Ralph ran across the finish line to her.

"Kid, you did it! You won!"

"I know," she exclaimed, "Not bad for a first time racer!"

From the area where the soldiers stood, Calhoun nodded in respect. "Not bad, you little princess." She turned to her troops. "Listen up ladies, we have a psycho king to apprehend." The sergeant directed their attention to Turbo, who was still underneath Felix.

Wordlessly, the soldiers went over to them and arrested Turbo, relieving Felix of keeping him planted.

"Let go of me! I'm your king! You can't arrest me!" Turbo demanded of them.

"We can if the king decides to go full blown psycho. You're in for quite the punishment, pal." Calhoun sneered at him.

Felix coughed to get Calhoun's attention. "We should probably go congratulate Vanellope now, Ma'am."

"Right, Fix-It. Men, come along and keep that maniac under control." The pair, followed by the soldiers and their most recent arrest, went over to the growing crowd around Vanellope.

One of the Nicelanders eagerly congratulated Vanellope with a handshake.

"Congratulations Sarah Vanilla! For your first time racing, you won Sugar Rush."

Vanellope smiled. "Thanks." The princess looked around the crowd praising her, her eyes making contact with her three friends and her past kidnapper. After she looked at the four of them, she knew that there was something she had to do. "Um, actually, I have a confession to make."

"A confession?" Deanna asked.

Don looked at her crossly. "Did you cheat?"

"No," Vanellope shook her head with a glance at the spectators, "My confession is… my name isn't Sarah Vanilla. My name is actually Vanellope von Schweetz."

"Vanellope von Schweetz?" Mary inquired confusingly. "Isn't that the name of the lost princess? Why would you share your name with her?"

"Because I am her." The nine year old stated bluntly.

Gasps around the crowd emerged and were followed by hushed muttering and whispering to each other. A scoff broke the nervous silence.

"You, the princess? Yeah right." Gene walked up to Vanellope.

Vanellope recognized the short man and glared at him. "Hello Gene."

Gene raised an eyebrow at her response. "You know my name?"

She bobbed her head in confirmation. "I've heard it. From Ralph." She gestured to her large friend, who waved awkwardly to everyone when the attention shifted to him momentarily. "He's told me stories about you and how you turn everyone against him and let me tell you something. He's more of a good guy than you are and will ever be."

The short man scoffed again. "Yeah, that's a bunch of baloney. When will Ralph ever be that good of a person?"

"He already is." Vanellope answered sharply. "Listen up everyone!" The princess hollered around the crowd. "I've got a story for you. I'm nine years old, as old as the princess would be. Nine years ago, the princess went missing because she was kidnapped by Turbo, who had faked his death so no one would ever suspect him." As she told about Turbo, she turned everyone's attention to him. "After a few years since her kidnapping, the king and queen were murdered by the same man who kidnapped the princess. After that, he rose to power because he was the next closest thing to the king and queen with the princess absent. At the same time of those nine years, he was secretly raising me in a tower out in the forest. For nine years, I was never let out of the tower, until a few days ago. Ralph found me there and I had wanted to see Sugar Rush so while Turbo was busy setting up Sugar Rush, Ralph escorted me here and helped me not only see a real race but also participate in one. Ralph helped me build my kart, he helped me get back here in time to race after Turbo got his henchmen, Wynchel and Duncan, to capture me and take me back to the tower. There, Turbo confessed to kidnapping the princess and poisoning the king and queen. He left to come back here to oversee the race and after that he was going to find a way to get rid of me. If I wasn't the princess, why would he want to get rid of me? Why do you think he tried to kill me on the track just now? It's because I'm the princess, he told me so. I've seen portraits of the lost princess around town and they look very similar to me. I don't think that's a coincidence. So tell me Gene, if Ralph is a bad guy, then why did he help a little girl achieve the dream she always wanted, let alone help you guys get your lost princess back? Anything to say to that Gene?" She pointed a look at the man opposing her. Everyone else simply stared, stunned at what Vanellope had just done. In one speech, she explained what Ralph was doing with her, explained who Turbo was and how he was still alive, and explained why their king had tried to attack her.

"… That's a lot to take in. I still think the whole story is sketchy though." Gene admitted after Vanellope's long-winded speech.

Vanellope groaned. "Oh come on! I have witnesses and Turbo's attack is enough evidence alone to prove my story. Felix, Calhoun, Q*Bert, Eggman, Bowser, heck even Sour Bill and the donut cops can verify the story for you. Hey, wait a minute, where's that green little sidekick?" She looked around, searching for the green gumball creature.

Around the corner of the kart entrance to the raceway, Sour Bill peeked out to see if anybody would notice his exit. He turned around to leave and was met with a surprise that he did not expect. Standing behind him were the three boys that ran off from the sweets shop, eyeing him with temptation and hunger. Gulping, Sour Bill grimaced while figuring out what was going to happen next.

The group surrounding Vanellope looked around themselves for any sign of Sour Bill and immediately directed their attention to the kart entrance when they started hearing someone scream. Out of the kart entrance, Sour Bill ran away from the boys that were chasing after him. They chased him towards the group where Ralph used a couple of his large fingers to pick the gumball man off the ground and hold him effortlessly in the air.

The girl with pink, poufy hair giggled. "There you are, Sour Bill! We're celebrating Sarah Vanilla-who-claims-to-be-Princess-Vanellope's victory!"

"Listen here, gumball, tell everyone here that Vanellope's telling the truth about King Candy." Ralph ordered his captive.

"Um, uh, I can't. I'm sworn to secrecy." Sour Bill looked away uncomfortably.

Turbo chuckled. "You hear that? He's sworn to secrecy, which means you won't find out!"

"Sour Bill," Ralph glared at him, "if you don't tell the truth, I'll lick you."

"I'll take this to my grave." Sour Bill replied, not entirely convincing everyone that he was still solid with his decision.

"Okay…" Ralph eyed the gumball man with a sinister look before sticking out his tongue and inching it towards Sour Bill.

Looking at the dry tongue, the gumball cringed, knowing the experience would be unpleasant. Ralph inched his tongue closer and closer to him, giving him a chance to think about his decision and giving him one last chance to speak up. The dry tongue was even closer than before and still getting nearer. Ralph's tongue was about to lick him when Sour Bill quickly held up his hands.

"Alright! Alright! It's true! She is the princess and Turbo did fake his death so he could kill the royal family and take their place!" Sour Bill exclaimed, spilling out the truth at a mile a minute.

The congregation of people gasped sharply while Turbo glared at the gumball man, yelling out "Sour Bill!" Vanellope smiled victoriously at the two of them while Ralph seemed proud of himself, putting his tongue back in his mouth.

"It's all true! He swore me to secrecy so I'd never tell anyone and said if I did then he would execute me! I'm sorry I kept this secret so long just please don't lock me up in the same cell as him!" The green gumball begged, on the verge of crying.

Turbo growled, "You little traitor!"

"Well then, I guess I know what my first act as princess will be." Vanellope said, interrupting Turbo's anger.

Gene rolled his eyes. "Technically, you're not on the throne anymore. You'll have to go through formal proceedings to get your title back."

Vanellope pinched her fingers shut towards him. "Shush up, I'm talking." Turning to Turbo and his sidekick, she straightened up. "As rightful princess of Niceland and since I'm not really one for killing people, I decree that Turbo is sentenced to life in jail and Sour Bill is also in there indefinitely."

"Indefinitely?!" The gumball man questioned indignantly.

Meanwhile, Vanellope turned to Wynchel and Duncan, who were apprehended by some of the troops upon hearing their involvement. "For you two, I decree five years in jail at least. I'll have to think long and hard about your punishment later." The donut cops looked downcast in shame. "Gene, I decree you owe Ralph a formal apology for everything you've said about him and your cruel acts against him out of prejudice." She announced as she looked at Gene.

"What?" He replied, shocked that he was getting a command like such.

The Sugar Rush racers all gathered in one spot of the lot and stared at her, afraid she might get them in trouble for their actions towards her earlier.

Seeing their panicked faces, Vanellope decided to address them next. "As for you guys, since you didn't know I was the princess at the time of wrecking my kart and allowing me to make an even better one, I'll let you all off the hook this one time." Smiles and relief came to their faces upon learning her judgment.

"And I have a lot more decisions to make later. Right now, let's have a party for the fact that I'm home and I won Sugar Rush!" Vanellope cheered, prompting her people to cheer along with her. "And most importantly," she looked towards Ralph, who made eye contact with her, and jumped into his arms, "Thank you Ralph for everything." She hugged his neck.

Ralph smiled and gently hugged her back. "It's the least I could do for the coolest friend in the world."

Everyone around them watched them with adoration and awe, seeing a giant like Ralph interact with their newly found lost princess.

Seizing the moment, Felix jumped up and pecked a kiss on Calhoun's cheek. Surprised by the act of affection, Calhoun stared down at him. "Just my way of complimenting you on how amazing you've been." He answered her unspoken question.

Smirking in deviousness, Calhoun grabbed his shirt collar and pulled him up to eye level. Before Felix could figure out what she was going to do with him, she forced her lips onto his and they shared a tender kiss. Surprised that their leader was kissing another man after losing her fiancé years back, the troops whistled lowly.

^Some time later^

Turbo sat in his cell, kicking his legs in the air lazily. He heard footsteps and watched through the bars of his cell as Calhoun walked through the area, inspecting everybody in their cells and calling them out, especially Turbo, to his distaste. As she moved along, he looked down the jail hall, he saw Sour Bill glumly standing near the bars and Wynchel, along with Duncan, arguing in their cell.

Turbo and his accomplices in the great royal takeover were given appropriate punishments based on how active their roles were in the thing. Turbo was in for life, no doubt about it. Sour Bill was let off a little easier, getting nine years of jail because that's how long he had been part of the plan. Wynchel and Duncan played minor roles so they received a couple years but not as many as Sour Bill or Turbo.

The three triplets ran out of Gene's house as he chased after them for pulling a prank on him.

Gene made a formal apology to Ralph, and the other outcasts of the kingdom since he was the worst offender of everybody. His friends still respected him, just a little less than they did before. As for those who weren't his friends, they teased and pranked him mercilessly for being mean to all those he deemed different.

Eggman, Bowser, and the other scary looking guys in the kingdom happily attended a party thrown in their honor by Sonic, Felix, and a lot of the neighborhood favorites.

The other outcasts were finally accepted by their neighbors and became more respected members of the kingdom of Niceland.

Felix and Calhoun stood in front of everyone, dressed in wedding attire at an altar. The priest ended the wedding ceremony and Felix swept Calhoun into his arms, giving her a passionate kiss which was the first of their marriage.

Felix and Calhoun courted for nine months after the return of Princess Vanellope before deciding to tie the knot. They were an odd couple to lots of people but most saw their connection. Calhoun's heart was unfrozen and Felix found the girl of his dreams that he didn't even realize he had up until meeting her.

Tossing a big, pink dress into the back of her wardrobe, Vanellope gladly put on a teal green dress that suited her personality more. Donning her tiara and the scepter that went with it, she stood on the balcony of her castle in front of everyone, showing them that she was back in power, much to their joy.

Vanellope was rightfully returned to the throne as Niceland's princess and, without her parents, primary ruler. Though young, she led her kingdom well. As she grew, she worked hard on making her monarchy into a democracy. When she wasn't leading the kingdom, she was racing with her fellow racers. As for Ralph…

Vanellope drove her kart down the final leg of the race track, passing the finish line and heading into the final lap with a huge lead on the others. From the stands, Ralph cheered for her alongside the Fix-It couple who had recently returned from their honeymoon. Once no one was looking at him, he reached into his shirt and withdrew a handmade necklace. It was a heart shaped homemade medal that had messy writing that scribbled out 'You're my hero'.

Ralph was finally given the reputation he wanted as a good guy and became a pretty popular guy with everyone, except Gene that is. However, what he got most of all, was a best friend.

^Corona Castle^

"Aw, that was so sweet." Katrina gushed as Rapunzel closed the storybook.

Rapunzel chuckled as Pascal stretched his legs and hopped down onto the little table next to Rapunzel's chair. "I'm glad you liked it Katrina."

Gregory rolled his shoulders. "It was alright. The ending was a little mushy but the whole story was pretty good."

A little boy raised his hand. "What are we going to read next Princess?"

"I don't know. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what we can find." Walking over to one of the many bookshelves, the princess slid the book into an opening between some stories. After sliding it in, she turned to face the children. "Now, how about we go play outside since we have a little bit of time left before it's time for you to go home?"

"Yay!" The children cheered as one.

The princess opened the library doors and gestured to the guards. "Could you take the children to the courtyard for some fresh air, we're done reading for today." Without question, the guards led the young children outside. Rapunzel retreated back to her chair and the table next to it, extending her arm out for Pascal to climb up. As soon as Pascal took his usual spot on Rapunzel's shoulder, Rapunzel left the library and closed the doors behind her.

And that's the end to a fairy tale version of Wreck-It Ralph told by Rapunzel, Pascal, and Eugene. If you're interested, read some of my other stories. Read and Review! Reviews are awesome!