This is the next and last chapter. This was originally a one-shot, but it turned into a two-shot. Hope you enjoy.

Once they reached the Taffy Swamp, they split up into teams. Candlehead and Swizzle, Gene and Taffyta, and Rancis and Gloyd. Taffyta led Gene through the swamp, avoiding the taffy pools around the candy cane trees.

"So, 8-bit. Any idea where Vanellope could be?"

"Well, if she's this hard to find, she's somewhere she doesn't want to be found."

"Well, she's going to have to be found. She has important duties as our president." She then spotted a pink bush with purple flowers. "Ooh. Taffidils! These flowers are so pretty."

"Young lady, we don't have time for flowers. I thought you wanted to..." Without warning, a herd of candy deer ran toward them and trampled over Gene. Taffyta was too "distracted" by the flowers to notice. Gene yelled and called for help. When the herd passed, it was then Taffyta turned and saw the 8-bit man almost flattened on the ground.

"Oh my gosh! Are you okay? What happened?" She pulled him out of the ground and to his feet. He wobbled around still dazed and dizzy. He wobbled backwards and fell into a taffy pool. Swizzle ran up to Taffyta.

"Taffyta! Did you see that stampede? It was awesome!" Candlehead ran up behind him.

"Yeah. Rancis scared the gumdrops out of them and they just took off." Rancis walked up behind them.

"Great work, if I do say so myself."

"Guys, Gene fell into a taffy pool. We have to get him out." Gene surfaced and sank a few times, gasping for air.

"Help *gasp* Help me!" Taffyta had an idea.

"Swizzle! Your hat!" Swizzle uncoiled his hat into a taffy rope. Taffyta tied it into a lasso. She twirled it and threw it in the pool. It wrapped around Gene and Taffyta pulled him out. The small man was covered in the green goo.

"Get this stuff off of me!" Taffyta gave Swizzle back his hat and she examined the taffy covered man.

"That's melted taffy. Once it gets a hold of something, it's almost impossible to get off while it's still a liquid. We need to harden it first."

"Well, how do we harden it?" Officers Wynchel and Duncan rode up on their motorcycles. Officer Duncan addressed Taffyta.

"Ms. Muttonfudge, there's still no sign of..." They both then noticed the taffy covered Gene. "Taffy monster!"

Before Gene could defend himself, they tazed him. They stopped after a few minutes when Gene stopped moving. Taffyta saw that the taffy was hardened.

"That's one way. Now, we just need to break the taffy. Don't worry, officers. We got this. Keep looking for Vanellope." They nodded and rode away. Candlehead approached Gene and tapped the taffy.

"How do we break this? It's hard as a rock." Swizzle thought they should toss him in Diet Cola Mountain. Candlehead thought she should burn it with her candle. Rancis thought they should run him over with their karts. Gloyd thought he should get trampled by the candy deer again. Taffyta decided what they should do.

"We should take him to Sarge. She'll know how to break him out of it." They all agreed that was the best way. They rolled him back to their karts at the Rainbow Bridge. Swizzle used his rope hat to tie Gene to his kart. They headed out of Sugar Rush and headed over to Hero's Duty. They parked their karts outside the outlet and got on the tram. Once it stopped, they got off and walked into the dark, doomsday-looking game. Candlehead grabbed Taffyta's arm.

"I don't like this place, Taffyta. It's dark and scary looking."

"Calm down, Candlehead. The arcade's closed, so nothing's gonna be activated and nothing will happen." Just then, three guns wre pointed in their faces. Candlehead screamed, then passed out. They saw the guns belonged to Calhoun and two of her men. Calhoun saw it was the kids and told her men to put their weapons away.

"What are you doing here, ankle biters? We were two seconds away from blowing your heads off." Taffyta answered for them.

"We were looking for Vanellope, which we still haven't found, and we had a bit of an incident happen." Gloyd and Rancis rolled Gene in front of her and stood him up. "Mr. 8-bit here fell into some taffy and we can't get him out."

"I see. I know just how to handle this. Kohut! Markowski! Take care of this." The two large men picked up the candy-coated man and threw him high into the air. Everyone saw him go so high, they couldn't see him anymore. Felix then happily bounced into the game.

"Hello, everyone." Candlehead, who had finally regained consciousness, looked at Felix, then back into the sky.

"Hey, Mr. Fix-It." He looked up along with everyone else, but saw nothing.

"Whatcha looking for?"

"Mr. Gene."

"What?!" He went over to his wife. "Why is Gene in the air?"

"I had Kohut and Markowski toss him in the air 'cause he was covered in taffy."

"You couldn't have just broken it with your gun?" She looked down at him, then back to the sky.

"I guess that could've worked, what's done is done. Here he comes. Kohut!"

"On it, Sarge." As Gene came closer to the ground, Kohut prepared to catch him. He finally came down and Kohut caught him. The taffy was no longer attached to him. HIs hair stood straight up on his head. His eyes, including the swollen one, were wide open. He was shaking and shivering. Kohut put the tiny man down. Felix slowly approached the shaking man and tapped his shoulder.

"Gene?" He screamed and jumped. He saw who it was that touched him. He saw it was Felix and stood behind him.

"Oh thank Mod, Felix! These people are trying to kill me!"

"No, they aren't, Gene. They're just trying to help. They just went about it the wrong way."

"I don't care! I almost died three times today! Looking for that little glitching girl!"

"Vanellope? She's been in our game all day." Gene narrowed his eyes at Felix.

"What?!"

"Yeah. She's been with me, Mary and Deana baking." Gene's eye twitched in irritation.

"You know what? I'm going home! And I'm going to forget today ever happened! Good day to you all!" He stormed out of Hero's Duty and hopped on the tram. Once he was gone, Calhoun looked down at the cnady racers.

"Nice job today, you little cavities." Taffyta smirked.

"All in a day's work. I just can't wait to see what happens when he gets back to his apartment."

Gene made it back to the safe haven of Fix-It Felix Jr. He went into the building, took the elevator up to his apartment, and headed down the hall.

"Oh, what a day. At least nothing else could possibly happen today." He opened the door to his apartment and was immediately covered in a sticky and smelly substance. He screamed in frustration and surprise. "WHY? WHY ME? WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS?"

"Good question." He knew that voice all too well. A lamp clicked on and revealed Ralph sitting on the sofa. "What did you do to deserve this?"

"Ralph! What are you doing in my apartment?" Another lamp clicked on to reveal Vanellope in an armchair.

"Well, it's not to give you a pie, that's for sure."

"You! You little gutter rat!" Another lamp clicked on to reveal Calhoun on the loveseat.

"That's no way to talk to a child, 8-bit." He noticed Felix sitting beside her.

"Felix? What's going on here?" Vanellope jumped off the chair and approached him.

"I'll explain it, moustache. You messed with my buddy Ralph and caused him to 'Go Turbo' as you say. Ralph was trying to be nice, but you wouldn't have it. You're the main reason both your game and my game almost got destroyed and unplugged. To make you pay, we set up this elaborate plan. The racers did great and the big guys put the icing on the cake." Gene looked to Felix.

"Felix? You were apart of this?"

"I was against it at first, but after some thought, I agreed that you needed to be taught a lesson."

"I can't believe this! This is ridiculous!" Ralph stood from the sofa.

"No, Gene. This is payback. Come on, guys. We're done here. Let's go to Tapper's. My treat." Vanellope glitched to Ralph's shoulder.

"I'm in." Calhoun and Felix followed them out. Gene was left in his apartment. He groaned in frustration.

"I need a drink." He went into his kitchen and opened the fridge. He saw there was a cake on the shelf that said "Hope You Learned Your Lesson." All four of them signed their names. He groaned and reached for it to throw it out. Before he could lift it, it exploded in his face. Completely done with the day, he just took a shower and went to bed.

At Tapper's, the Core Four were celebrating their success.

"I bet that big nosed moustache man won't bother you anymore, Body Oder."

"I bet he won't, Big-Mouth."

"I can't wait to see when he wakes up tomorrow with no hair. That'll be hilarious."

"I still feel bad about what we did. Gene could've been seriously hurt. I feel horrible." Calhoun leaned down and whispered something in his ear that made his face burn with honeyglows. "And now I don't."

"What's she say to him?" Ralph felt a little uncomfortable.

"That's a conversation for when you're older."

"But I don't get older."

"Good. I won't have to explain it to you."

"But..." Calhoun raised her glass.

"To Ralph. May you never again be bothered by that 8-bit drunk.

"To Ralph."

"Ralphy!" They all toasted their glasses and celebrated through the night.

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