Stairs and exploring and capes, oh my!

[glitchinprincess]

Characters: Vanellope & Tohko, and Vanellope & you on other floors!
Setting: Floor 15, Floor 08 and Floor 21
Format: Any! I'll follow what you do~
Summary: Following Tohko's success at making Vanellope eat her oatmeal, she offers to make her a cape and the two of them go exploring. After that, Vanellope takes off on her own and is, well, herself.
Warnings: Wreck-It Ralph spoilers by virtue of Vanellope being herself, general childishness that may grate on one's nerves

Floor 15 - Vanellope and Tohko.
[Vanellope had been chattering Tohko's ear off the whole way there - every floor they passed through prompted more and more questions - What's that? and Can I go over there? and How long has this been here? and so on. When they're just one floor away, she grins impishly and darts on ahead of her.]

Race you to the workshop!

Floor 08.
[Vanellope's explorations have landed her smack-dab into a maze, and not realizing that the safest way through is to keep one hand on the wall, she's already taken a few turns. She's starting to feel a little turned-around and mixed-up, but she figures with enough time she should be able to figure this one out.]

Okay, so I just took a left, which means now I want to take a right...

Floor 21.
[She has quite literally had enough of stairs. The spiral staircase makes her dizzy and her feet are starting to hurt - she's used to driving, not walking. She'd made it down to the first floor from the maze and had immediately taken the elevator up - whatever, she'll just explore one of those floors. When she steps out of it on the twenty-first floor, her eyes light up.

The mouthwatering smells of food that is not oatmeal or nutrition bars wafts towards her, and a small little smile works its way onto her face. Now this is more like it.

She wanders into the restaurant.

Moments later, she makes her way back to the elevator and plops down, pouting.]

What is this, some kind of fetch quest?!

[Why yes, that's exactly what it is, Vanellope.]

Comments

[glitchinprincess]

Weeeeell, back home, we go to the kart bakery...

Is there something like that here? Or are we gonna have to make molds in the workshop and take them back down to the cafeteria?

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko looked at Vanellope for a moment, puzzled.]

Kart bakery? Molds? Don't you make carts out of wood?

[glitchinprincess]

Uuuuh, no? No one I know has ever driven something made of wood before.

[Even the trees where she's from are made of candy...]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko sighed and scratched her head.]

Then we're going to have a small problem. I don't think you can make carts out of candy or food here-just ones made out of metal or wood. That's what they were made out of back in my world.

[glitchinprincess]

Whaaaat?

But how would they even run?

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko grinned as she replied.]

Footpower. With our carts back home, there were small pedals you would press or have your feet move on to get them to move.

[glitchinprincess]

I made one that had pedals once!

But then I got a real kart from the bakery, and it had an engine.

[tohko_amano]

Well, that's pretty cool! However, if you can still remember how to make the cart that had the pedals, I think that would help us a lot more.

[glitchinprincess]

I made that one out of parts from the kart bakery that weren't good enough and ended up in the dump... but I can remember the shapes, so maybe we can bake them!

[tohko_amano]

Or hammer them out of wood or something..unless you want carts made out of nutrition bars. I'm not even sure molds for carts exist here, to be honest.

[glitchinprincess]

...but would a wood kart even work?

[She's skeptical. Though to be fair, she's never seen a wooden kart before.]

[tohko_amano]

Well, they worked back home, so they should work here too. I have a friend who's really good at metalworking, if we need to do that. She'll help us out, if we need her help.

[glitchinprincess]

...okay, I guess.

[She's going to have to take Tohko's word for it, as skeptical as she is about this. A strange wood or metal kart is better than no kart at all.]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko smiled and patted Vanellope on the head.]

However, there could be some molds in the workshop. If you want, we can go back and look.

[glitchinprincess]

You think maybe we could make a mold if there isn't one?

[tohko_amano]

Well, since there's metal in the workshop, I don't see why not..

[glitchinprincess]

Cool!

[That perks her right up, and immediately she races for the staircase]

Race ya there!

[tohko_amano]

Ah, no fair! You're supposed to do a countdown before a race!

[Tohko yelled as she ran after Vanellope, but thankfully, she was able to speed ahead of the girl fairly easily.]

[glitchinprincess]

..just wait til we get our karts! I'll beat you every time!

[SOBBING ok not really]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko chuckled as she ran, gaining speed.]

Probably! After all, you've had more practice with them than I have!

[glitchinprincess]

How much practice running races have you had?!

[tohko_amano]

A little bit, since we ran races back at school! Plus..here, if you don't get used to running, you're going to end up injured at some point!

[After all, running had saved her from Edward, who had just been one step away from killing her.]

[glitchinprincess]

...wow, this place really doesn't sound like fun!

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko chuckled.]

Trust me, you can have fun here! It's just that it's also pretty dangerous.

[glitchinprincess]

...so it's like a violent video game or something. I get it.