Wreck-It Ralph: Hard Reset/Story

===Prologue===
The game starts at Mr. Litwak's arcade, which is riding the popularity of its original collection of antique cabinets like Wreck-It-Ralph. Because of its prominence, it is chosen as a testing site for Rotor Games new arcade title- Nightfall Ninja. For a limited time, the game will be free to play. Litwak plugs in the game, and plans to test it personally the next day. However, a snowstorm blows through the next day, and the private test date is postponed...
===World 1===
Ralph is up early the next morning, anxious to be ready to perform- NN may be the main attraction, but it will attract extra customers who will play most of the other games. He is the first playable character. He considers that, while the new game had been opened and cleared by Surge Protector, its main character had not yet emerged. Ralph begins practicing his moves on the duplicate penthouse built offscreen, leading to a game tutorial.
After practicing he still can't sleep- he decides to see how Felix is doing. He sees a figure slip out of the penthouse, but when it notices him, it runs in the other direction. He arrives to find the penthouse in a panic, and Felix explains that his magic hammer has gone missing, even though he saw it just a minute before. Deducing that (as a 2-dimensional game) the thief must have gone left, they follow him.
After pursuing the culprit through the brickyard, they arrive at the brick crusher plant, were old, spent bricks are made into new ones. The thief is overheard talking to himself, musing that now that they have acquired the hammer, they will need a more advanced form. He notices Ralph and Felix and, worried that he has been followed, he hijacks the brick crusher and makes it attack the duo. After it is defeated, the thief escapes through the game's source code. Felix decides that they should contact Calhoun for help.
===World 2===
Ralph and Felix move into Call of Duty to find Calhoun. They find the start zone empty, and they move out to find the battle zone full of Cybugs. They battle through to the tower and find Calhoun and company barely holding them off. Calhoun explains that a new strain of Cybug has inexplicably formed that is not attracted to the beacon, and are much more intelligent. Calhoun joins them as they limb the tower and clear out the Cybugs.
As they reach the top, they discover the original thief is actually Yan Kazaki, the protagonist of the new arcade title NightFall Ninja, wha has been using his tech abilities to "hack" Cybugs in pursuit of some goal. Realizing he has been followed, he quickly hacks into the Cybug Hive Mind, the game's final boss, and uses it to fight the group.
After its defeat, Yan bails out of Hive Mind - with its controlling influence lost, the Cybugs revert to their previous form and enter the beacon. Forced to flee, Yan grabs two more Cybug eggs before escaping. After being pursued into the power strip, he releases one of the eggs into Sugar Rush, and escapes into NightFall Ninja with the other. Being unable to risk a Cybug running loose in Sugar Rush again, they are forced to divert course to stop it.
===World 3===
Upon arrival into Sugar Rush they are met by Vanellope, who is testing her new bike in preparation of the Sugar Rush DX update. She joins the group after calling attention to the Cybug that just went by. They follow its trail throughout the game, where it has apparently retained Yan's enhancements and has been spawning off stronger versions of Cybugs. It is eventually found in the Kart Bakery, which it used to assemble a new body. After dubbing itself Cy-ccharine - proving itself both capable of speech and much smarter than previously thought- it attacks the group. Despite its upgrades, its inferior armor allows them to defeat it. With the Cybug out of the way, the team returns to the power strip to enter NightFall Ninja.
===World 4===
Upon arriving in the game, the group must avoid the enemies and hazards inside- since the game has just been plugged in recently, none of its residents are accustomed to their presence and will attack on sight. After searching for some time they arrive in a warehouse, and are ambushed by Yan, who demands that they leave at once. They obviously refuse, and battle him. Once Yan is defeated Calhoun orders him to give up the Cybug egg, which Yan claims he knows nothing about. At this point, Yan himself is ambushed by a second version of himself, and part of his code is stolen. This new individual reveals his true form as V, the original thief. He claims that with Yan's code, he can now access a "hidden file" within another game's source code. He escapes once more before he can be confronted, this time leaving no traces.
While it seems that he has been lost for good now, Yan reveals he was partially aware of the V's presence - rather than being an outside force, V is a virus that was built directly into the game. Yan's connection to the game's code allowed him to know V's plan as a premonition, which is why he didn't leave his game and wanted them to leave as soon as possible. He further states that V's presence has something to do with the game's distributor, Rotor Games - Felix and Ralph, as the oldest residents of the arcade, know the only other Rotor Games machine is Sword of Masters, and that this must be the "other game" V was talking about. With no other options, the group (with Yan accompanying them) head to the game.
===World 5===
Upon arriving in Sword of Masters, they begin looking for the game's protagonist, Parreon, to get help finding the virus. Their search brings them to the large castle the game is set in. They encounter Parreon on the castle grounds, where he initially resists them, stating that he saw "Yan" attack him earlier on. Once Yan explains the situation to him, Parreon agrees to help, leading them through the castle to the game's source code.
After clearing the castle's traps, the group enters the final hallway where the source code entrance is. They find V already there, attempting to enter. As they are about to catch him, V intentionally triggers the anti-cheat code, summoning the invincible Redacted Beast. He escapes into the source code while the Beast attacks the group. The group is forced to flee down the hallway while avoiding the Beast's attacks, jump over it using platforms on the far wall, and quickly rush back to the source code entrance.
They set about locating V within the game source code, which is composed out of seemingly random game assets. While traveling through the code, they find memos from the game's lead programmer, Robin Cosner, detailing the game's production history. In these memos he expresses frustration with the company that is distributing his game, Rotor Games. Parreon notes that, in all his play-throughs of the game, he never saw Robin's name in the end credits.
After reaching the center of the source code, they again find V one step ahead. V has located the file he needed to complete his code - since the file was originally split into two, he was able to combine them using Felix's hammer. Seemingly cornered at last, V breaks down and explains his intentions in full.
V was created by Robin to destroy the reputation of Rotor Games. Each Nightfall Ninja cabinet (except the exclusive test version located in Litwacks) has an internet connection. They also contain a flaw in their hardware that will cause the machines to overheat and catch fire. In order to exploit this vulnerability, V needs to send the combined file, which he calls the Spark, to each cabinet, and that file was split between Sword of Masters and Nightfall Ninja to avoid detection.
Despite the evidence that Robin and his fellow programmers really were mistreated, the heroes refuse to let V enact his dangerous scheme. V warns that he is letting them off easy for now, but will make them pay if they interfere further. As they prepare to fight him, he instead escapes along the game's electric signals straight back to the power strip. They follow him there, where he returns a second time to his original game, Nightfall Ninja.
===World 6===
On this second trip through the game, V goes directly the the lair of the final boss, Shogun Shogo's Palace, in order to give himself time to assemble his new form. The group are forced to both fight and sneak their way through the fortress to reach the top floor. As they climb they encounter Shogun Shogo himself - he is convinced not to attack them when V's interference with his troops is explained. He uses his boss elevator to take them to the top floor.
Once there, they find V putting his plan into motion. He uses his hacking abilities to fuse himself with both the Spark file and the modified Cybug egg, transforming himself into a much stronger form. V uses his new powers to possess Shogun Shogo and make him attack. V then leaves, stating that once he finds an internet connection he can leave the arcade for good, warning them a second time not to follow him. They defeat Shogo, who urges them to leave him behind and stop V. The group deduces that Sugar Rush is his most likely escape route, since its auto-update feature requires constant internet access. They head there once more to cut him off.
===World 7===
In order to prevent V from reaching the internet, the team heads towards Sugar Rush's source code, stored within Vanellope's Castle. Once inside, they enter the source code, only to find V just inside rather than at the internet access point. V reveals that he is actually a false version he planted in Sugar Rush in case they tried to stop him. He then mocks them, saying that the false V would have remained dormant if they had listened to his repeated warnings, but now he is going to make them suffer. False V begins tearing apart the source code while attacking them. In order to stop him, the heroes reach the center of the source code and initiate a system reset, and must escape the game before the game resets.
Once False V is wiped out and the damage to Sugar Rush repaired, they realize that the real V is actually in Cosmiac, a scrolling shooter. It is the only other game with internet capability, having been recently updated to receive and send high scores from around the world. They head into Cosmiac in an attempt to stop V once more.
===World 8===
The Cosmiac space base is in chaos as V takes control of the alien Galgars (the enemy ships within the game), and uses them to prevent any further interference with his plan. The team speeds through the base to prevent V from leaving, but are in the end too late. V takes control of the player ship, the Cosmic Cruiser, and uses it to escape into space - from there, he can easily use his hacking abilities to rack up a high score, and use it to send himself into the internet. As a last resort, the Galgars lend the heroes their Galgan Mothership, the final boss of the game, to stop him. When confronted, V uses his hacking abilities to turn his 99 extra lives into duplicate Cruisers to attack. Despite his efforts, the Galgan Mothership shoots down all 100 of his ships. V manages to crash into the Mothership before the Cosmic Cruiser explodes.
With nowhere else to run, V is finally forced to attack the heroes directly, using his full virus abilities to change forms and manipulate the environment. His final attempt fails and his code is severely damaged - in an ironic twist, he actually self-destructs when he attempts to repair himself with Felix's hammer, and is instead reverted to his base components by its powers.
===Epilogue===
With V destroyed, he is no longer a threat to the world's arcades, but the heroes still think something should be done to give the situation closure. Using the remnants of V's code, the create an update to all the Nightfall Ninja games that both adds Robin to the credits and reveals Rotor's mistreatment of developers if the game is completed 100%. They release this modified code into the internet.
Yan returns to Nightfall Ninja, satisfied that the mystery hanging over it has been resolved, and enjoys a successful launch the following day. A few weeks later, the heroes hear reports over the radio that Rotor Games is under prosecution after the modified credits sequence was uncovered by completionist gamers. The management were fired by the company heads, who were horrified to discover the working conditions their games were being produced in.
Despite becoming the face of the reforms in game development practices, Robin himself never made a public appearance, likely due to concerns about his original plan being exposed. With V's original code gone for good, Robin's plan to create self-combusting arcade machines was presumably never uncovered - his fate remains unconfirmed.
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