Prologue

Fifteen years ago:

King Candy held his daughter close; he could hear her crying his name over and over again. But he could not comfort her without tearing his eyes away from the monster that he stood face to face with.

"Why are you doing thisth?" Candy asked, clearly fearful, "why can't you leave usth alone?"

"You don't understand; I need your game and the only to have it is to become king." The creature answered.

King Candy's insides were ice, if that creature wanted to be king then who would care for his precious sugarplum Vanellope? He didn't have time to answer that when the monster lunged forward and snatched at the girl. King candy instinctively pulled Vanellope behind him and threw a leg in the creature's direction, causing it to fall back.

"STHAY AWAY FROM MY DAUGTHER!" Candy roared, "OR ELESTH!"

The monster only chuckled, and glared at Candy with a smirk that made his face go chalk white.

"So I see that she means a lot to you." The pale maniac slurred, " Hand her over."

Candy's blood was boiling, what kind of question was that? Of course she meant a lot to him, much as his own life code! And who the hell would ask him to hand over his daughter without question? That was not going to happen!

"Never." Candy snarled. He wrapped an arm over Vanellope's shaking form, practically daring anyone to come at her.

The creatures grinning face suddenly darkened, " Come on you old man, hand her over! I don't have all day!"

Candy didn't respond, he only backed away with vanellope behind him. The creature sighed and glared at the king before making his decision. Candy on the other hand didn't know what the monster was doing till a pale hand whipped out and grabbed him by the shirt collar, pulling him forward.

Candy was roughly yanked away from his six year olds form and was nose to nose with this maniac.

"The Hell! Let Me Go!" Candy spat.

"Not till I get what I want, which is your code vault and your daughter." the creature growled.

"Don't even dream about I…." Candy was suddenly cut off as his collar suddenly tightened. His eyes shot up to the pale face of his captor. The pale man was grinning ear to ear.

" What were you going to say?" the monster asked with a fake smile, "I believe it was a threat. But before you try to say anything snarky let me show you what the consequences are."

Candy's throat was even more constricted as the pale hands pulled the collar of his shirt tighter around his throat. Candy tried clawing at the grip but it was of no avail, it only caused his collar to become tighter. With red and black spots dancing at the edge of his vision candy replied.

"Y-you…k-know." , Candy sputtered, " That I-if I…. die…I w-will…justh..R-regener…rate."

But his words seemed to cause no worry to his captor; it only caused him to smile.

"Yeah I know you'll regenerate, but you won't regenerate here now will you?"

Candy's face went even paler, where was he going with this?

The pale man's face lit up with glee as he saw the king's red, worried face and provoked him even more.

"You won't regenerate here will you? With you gone who's going to protect her?" the man threw a quick glance at a shaking Vanellope, "and the bonus is that if you do regenerate you won't get here fast enough! And it will be game over for both of you even sooner."

The grip of Candy's collar was suffocating him, his lungs were starving and tears pricked his eyes.

"F-fine….I'll…take…Y-you." Candy whispered as those spots started dominating his vision. Just as he thought he was going to die he was roughly thrown to the ground. As he hit the candy tile the king sucked in much needed air; when the monarch regained control of his vision he was hit with a small warm object to the side. Tiny arms wrapped around his neck and a sobbing face pressed against his chest, it was his darling sugarplum Vanellope.

"Daddy, oh daddy!" she sobbed," I'm scared!"

The king pulled his daughter into a tight embrace, gently petting her head and whispering it was ok. But his eyes never left the sneering man infront of him.

The monster sneered in disgust at this little display of fatherly affection, what did that little brat disserve?

"Enough with this show me that vault!" the maniac growled.

King candy scooped up his daughter and hugged her close to his chest, clearly determined not to be separated from her again. Lifting himself and his daughter off the ground, Candy just stood there clearly not going to move.

This sent confusion to the pale man infront of them.

"What the hell are you doing!" he snarled, "show me that damn vault!"

"Not till you answer my question" the monarch replied.

" Get on with it." The creature hissed through his teeth, this was taking so damn long!

"Why do you want my daughter so badly?" the monarch asked.

The pale man's face crossed with confusion, "what?"

"You heard me, why do you want my daughter so badly?"

The yellow eyed man only smiled, "well let's take this into thought, since I can't put the two of you into the same space because that would be just plain merciful, in which I'm not.I also can't kill you because that would ruin my entire plan. Last of all is that you're not the only one who can reset the game, so I have to get rid of her….. For good."

Candy clutched his daughter even more tightly causing her to squeak. "No! y-you can't do that!" screamed the king.

" I already have control over you, now come on!" stabbing a finger in the direction of the hallway the man was clearly saying ' Get a move on'

Swallowing painfully, the king led the way to the vault. When they reached it candy was surprised to find SourBill waiting there. The candy's eyes widen at the sight of his ruler.

The sugary monarch narrowed his eyes instantly," thour Bill I thswear to mod if you had a hand in thisth I'll…"

The servant held his hands up in defense, "No my king, I would never betray you. I was forced to come n see if he had made it here, I-I feared for you sire."

There was no time to thank anyone because there was the sound of approaching footsteps. Coming into view, the pale demon shoved his way past them to the vault door. Reaching into his jumpsuit the ex-racer pulled out a piece of paper and proceeded to punch in a code.

With wide eyes the king stared in disbelief, only he knew that code.

"How did you learn our code? Only I know it!" screeched the king.

Turning his head the man simply replied, "It's a universal code, it can open any vault. Now I suggest you tie that rope around you because you're coming with me."

Candy could only obey for the safety of his kingdom and daughter, tying the licorice rope around himself he handed the other end to his trusted friend. With a quick glance at his crying daughter, Candy jumped into the black abyss with this crazy man at his heels.

R&R please! the next chapter will be up sometime next week!