Wreck It Ralph: Static Frequency ch. 6

Ralph buried his head in his hands, "Where could she have gone…?" he currently sat on Felix's bed.
"I don't know…" Felix responded, his own mood soured by the thought.
Calhoun slammed her fist into the doorway, "I'll permanently delete the person who took her…"
None of it helped. They'd started a search party and nothing had turned up. Everyone in Sugar Rush was panicking. Especially since their queen was missing.
"Agh!" Ralph yelled before running outside.
"Where's he going…?" Calhoun looked towards the window.
There was a loud crunching sound heard. Both Felix and Calhoun quickly ran over to the window to see Ralph had jumped out it and was now beating on some left over bricks from the last game.
After turning the bricks to dust he fell to his knees, hunched over, making sure to hide his face. Tears trickled down his cheeks onto the powdered ground.
"She's just a kid…. Who'd… who'd take her…?" he choked back a wet sob.
"Ralph?" a familiar voice called out.
Quickly he wiped away his tears, making a loud sniffle before turning around, "Wha? Oh… it's you…" he gave another sniff, seeing Lucky. It was bad enough he'd lost Vanellope, now he'd been caught crying.
"Is everything okay…?" she asked, wanting to bring up the next subject calmly.
"Yeah, Fine," he turned back around.
"Hey… Ralph… I've got something important to tell you," she decided to cut to the chase.
"Can it wait Lucky? I- I've got something more important to take care of at the moment," he began to feel that Cy-bug feeling again.
"No, really Ralph it's important!" she pleaded.
"Later," he replied, a little more sharp this time.
Lucky felt a slight anger boil inside her, "No! Now!" she growled, "Listen! I know you don't like me but it's important!"
"Who said anything about me not liking you!?" he snapped back.
"Well you sure as hack don't act like you like me! That's for sure!" she rebutted.
He felt his stomach get sick, "Well that's not true! I-," he couldn't finish it.
"Listen, whatever it is… it's gotta wait! I just saw someone carry Vanellope somewhere! I can't get in but you just might be able to!" she finally managed to get out.
"I-! Wait… did you say Vanellope!?" he asked, a small smile crossing his face.
"Yes! Now hurry! We've gotta hurry now!" she grabbed his big hand pulling him towards the Wire Way.
Felix and Calhoun followed close behind. Once at the Wire Way however, they came to a dilemma.
"There's only room for two to go at a time, and that's pushin' it with Ralph," scoffed Calhoun.
"I think Ralph and I should go ahead first," Felix stated holding his hammer close.
"Negitory, any other time because of space, I'd say yes, but Ralph's the only one who can bust into things… and Lucky's the one who knows where Vanellope's being held," Calhoun crossed her arms.
"Right, so Lucky and I'll go on ahead, you guys come after us as soon as you can got it?" Ralph pointed to Felix and Calhoun.
"You got it pal," Felix nodded a determined look on his face.
"Alright Ralph, get in the cart and I'll get on your lap," Lucky nodded.
Ralph agreed getting in and having Lucky sit on his lap. The space was a tight squeeze, but they managed. After giving a nod to Calhoun and Felix, the Wire Way cart sped off into the direction of GCS.
Ralph braced Lucky, making sure she wouldn't fall out since he'd taken up much of the cart. Lucky noticed this and felt her eyes wander back to him. He looked so determined, and for a moment, their eyes locked.
Lucky's face flushed, and Ralph could feel his go just as red if not more due to the limited color from being 8-bit. Lucky scoffed and turned her head back towards the entrance as the flashing spark lights lit up the railway around them.
"S-so, you and that little girl… you must go back right?" asked Lucky.
"Yeah, you could say that," Ralph replied, his eyes trying to look at anything but her.
"How?" she was curious.
Ralph was quiet for a moment, "You know how I tried to explain the good guy bad guy thing to you…?"
"Yeah, what about it?" she kept her eyes forward.
"Well… everyone seemed to either hate me…. Or be absolutely afraid of me…. But that little girl… she looked at me…" he took a deep breath, "She looked at me and told me I was her hero,"
Lucky turned around, looking at Ralph and noticing the hurt in his eyes. He was really guilty about not being able to be her hero in her time of need… She could see the disappointment in himself.
She reached back, putting a comforting hand on his shoulder, "Hey… Ralph…" she smiled.
"Yeah?" he looked at her and then back down at the railway again.
"You know what really makes a hero?" she smiled, "When the someone needs saving… the hero comes to their rescue,"
Ralph looked back to Lucky and gave a small toothy smile, "Yeah…. I guess you're right,"
Soon after the railway stopped at GCS.
Ralph helped Lucky out of the cart before stumbling out himself, almost landing on his face. Lucky turned around to see Ralph trying not to fall over. This cause Ralph to smile awkwardly and cough. She laughed.
"Um… anyway, this way," she pointed.
"Near Tapper's?" asked Ralph.
"Not exactly… it's more like… it's in the wall across from Tapper's…" she explained.
"Oh across… Wait… what were you doing at Tapper's?" he was confused.
"Girls wanna have fun too ya know," she gave a playful look before knocking on the wall she saw the two disappear into.
Ralph gave a surprised look, "Oh gotcha',"
With one more knock she pointed to the wall, "Think you can wreck it in this spot?"
A smile crossed his face, "Ya don't have ta tell me twice," he exclaimed reaching back and thrusting a few punched into the wall.
Sure enough, there was an opening in the wall.
"Wow… where's this lead too?" she questioned.
"Dunno, didn't even know it was here," Ralph shrugged.
"It's another Wire Way!" exclaimed Lucky.
"Hopefully the cart's a bit bigger…" he sighed, before a determined face replaced it, "Don't worry Vanellope…. We're coming for ya,"
The cart was quite a bit bigger, but Lucky still had to squeeze herself onto Ralph's lap. The guy was about nine feet tall… she was about five feet so it was fine.
Once they'd gotten to the other side of the game's Wire Way, it didn't take long to see the overclouded darkness. It was eerie and foreboding, a soft fog overcoming the ground,
"What kinda game is this…?" Lucky shivered.
"I dunno… ," he shrugged.
"Anyway, we should try to find Vanellope…. But where do we start?" asked Lucky.
Ralph looked around the place, seeing a huge building off in the distance, "Well, if we can make it through this war zone of city… we might be able to see if anything interesting is in that tower…" he pointed.
Lucky tried to tip toe and see what he saw but failed, "Umm…. Ralph…?"
"Oh," he gave an awkward smile before picking up the woman and perching her on his shoulder, "There! See?"
"Gotcha," she nodded, "Whew… well…. I'm officially scared…"
"Why?" Ralph adjusted the other and began walking.
"Well…. If I die… I won't come back ya know?" she chuckled awkwardly.
"I won't let that happen," he smirked, the blush falling back to his cheeks.
"Oh?" she replied.
"I'm a hero remember?" Ralph gave an awkward smile, the gap in his teeth visible this time.
She could only chuckle, "I'll hold you to it!"
**
Felix and Calhoun made their way into GCS. Hoping into the open and stopped by the Surge Protector.
"Sorry, but you can't cross… this is a crime scene," the S. Protector stated.
"What!?" Calhoun groaned, "Listen we've gotta-," she stopped in mid-sentence, seeing the destruction in the area by Tapper's.
"We could just come back later…" whispered Felix.
Calhoun pointed to the hole in the wall, "We're just here to clean up the mess… after all who could do it better than Fix-It Felix himself?" she smirked.
The S. Protector looked back and forth between the two, "Ah, I see…. Well," he let them through, "No funny stuff understand…?" he barked before going to the other side of the arcade.
Felix followed Calhoun to the wall, "I thought we were supposed to find Ralph and Lucky!?" he whispered.
Calhoun nodded, "Exactly,"
She pointed to the hole in the wall, revealing what she'd seen from the other side of the room. A cart, some parts of it looked like it'd been gripped by strong hands. Felix made an 'Oh' formation with his mouth before Calhoun and himself jumped into the cart and sped off.
"WAIT!" the S. Protector called after them, failing, "That space is quarantined!"
**
"Yuck… this place is full of muck and stuff…" Lucky made a face looking at the ground they were walking in in the forest around the city.
"Don't see why you're complaining… I'm the one walkin' in the stuff…" he trudged through, looking towards the building.
"I dunno maybe it's just the smell… smells like… I dunno… someone let some eggs go bad…!" she wrinkled her nose.
Ralph curious for a moment, breathed into his hand making a face. He felt his face go red at the fact she could smell his morning breath. He covered his mouth.
"Yeah! Have no idea what that could be!" he laughed.
"it's alright, not your fault," she smiled at him.
He kept his eyes straight walking forward, "Eheh… yeah,"
Lucky breathed into her own hand smelling it, "Oh my Mod! My breath smells like onions!" she stated, pulling out a piece of mint gum from her dress and chewing it, "There… should smell better now… want a piece?" she held out a stick of gum.
Ralph took a couple pieces shoving them into his mouth and chewing.
"So sorry you had to bear with that awful smell!" she grimaced.
"Uh… yeah, but it's okay… I mean, I used to live in a garbage dump so I didn't really noticed," he instantly regretted telling her that.
"You used to live in a dump!?" she was shocked, "Why!?"
"Well, I had nowhere else ta' go," he stated, "Nicelanders didn't want me in the building,"
She was quiet for a long time. Ralph began to feel nervous. He tried to find words but the Cy-bug feeling had officially eaten through his stomach and was now eating his voice box.
"You know how you told me about the good guy, bad guy thing…?" she gave a saddened face, "Looks to me like the Nicelanders were the bad guys… I mean… I can understand when the players are playing why they'd HAVE to be mean to you… but… if you're off work…" she shook her head.
"I-it's not like that anymore!" he defended.
"Good," she made a more satisfied face, "Cause' I may just have to play the villain if it was the same!" she was obviously joking… at least Ralph hoped she was.
"Nah, you're too sweet to be a villain," he raised an eyebrow, "You don't have it in ya,"
"I'd rather just be me than anything else I guess… isn't that the best thing?" she laughed.
That laugh rang through Ralph like a bell. He felt his heart throb. Maybe…
Maybe he was…
Nah, no way…
Right?
He couldn't… he couldn't have… he wouldn't admit it.
"There's the tower," Lucky pointed.
Ralph snapped back to reality, "Well, let's go then," he gave a stern look, as the two headed for the tower.