4, Ralph/Turbo; 14, Raven and Starfire
Dark (AU In which King Candybug/Turbo wins and Felix and Calhoun escape by blowing up Sugar Rush's entry to the rest of the arcade, leaving Vanellope and Ralph trapped in the game. Also, I can't do Turbo's lisp, sorry. ;w;
Shouldn't have been a surprise, when had he ever gotten anything but wrecking right? Bad Guys couldn't be good. Bad Guys couldn't do good things and trying had only made everything worse.
Because Turbo was angry. Because Sugar Rush was a candy-coasted apocalypse and the last the Wrecker had seen of Vanellope a pair of Cybugs were keeping her huddled in a corner, fighting to see which of them would eat her first.
Not that they would. They couldn't.
They wouldn't because Candy - Turbo was having too much fun.
"You should have stayed out of this Ralph," the name is drawled by a teasing, cruel voice and it's creepy, coming from the corner of the room.
Turbo is too big, it's not fair that he can sneak around like this.
"But you didn't and I have to say..." His voice trails off and Ralph scowls and twitches, but it's useless - his hands are chained above his head, his legs chained down so he can't fight back, can't crush Candy like the bug he is and save Vanellope himself.
"You're doing it again Ralph, I can tell. Thinking you could be a hero, thinking about saving that little glitch. You know you can't, don't you? You can't stop me Ralph, you're just not smart enough. You're the Bad Guy Ralph and Bad Guy's lose."
His tone is sadistically pleased, amused, but more importantly - honest. Ralph can't find a single sense that he's lying and it - hurts. A lot.
Because it's true, isn't it? Heroes save people and Ralph... isn't a hero. Faint hopes start to fade but Ralph can't give up.
"What, you think you're a Hero? You're nothing but a chocolate-munching monster Turbo!"
Turbo growls, fangs flashing in his mouth before he gets control of his code again.
"I am a King! The King of Sugar Rush and you are nothing but my prisoner! You're mine Ralph, you were then and you are now because no one else will ever want you and no one else will ever rescue you!"
Smile {Post the episode in Teen Titans Go where Raven's dad came. I do not think I wrote this well.}
The room was quiet and empty, casually messy in the way she wanted it, not the artificial cleanliness her father had tried to impose. Raven closed her eyes, deliberately drawing in a slow, deep breath. Trigon was gone, her friends - idiotic as they had been - were back to normal, and everything was ... good.
So why wouldn't calm come? Why couldn't she hold her emotions within her?
Why was half of her furniture floating around her head?
Pursed lips were the only sign of her aggravation to touch her features as she tried to breathe, to retreat into the familiar pattern of meditation, but - nothing. It just wasn't happening.
Starfire's voice is a little subdued, more so than usual, a shade below her usual volume.
"I am... troubled. And I wish to meditate with you, if such a thing is acceptable?"
It's first instinct to say no, to want to hide while she's so vulnerable, but her mouth says "Come in," without her permission.
The door is opened and shut in an instant and a bright presence is beside her.
It should be distracting, Starfire's presence. Her bright red hair and orange skin and bright, bright green eyes and her aura is as bright as her body is.
But instead, something tense inside of her loosens, when she hadn't even been aware it was so harshly coiled.
It takes Raven nearly an hour to realize she's smiling.
