Viceroy ran, he ran as hard as he could. He was both anxious and excited, this was it, the moment where they'd see all their hard work and time preparing pay off. He shoved a few employees and roboapes to get to Mcfists office.
"Sir!" Viceroy practically screamed as he burst into the room.
"Gah!" screamed a startled Mcfist who nearly fell off his chair. He got back up the irritation clear on his face. "Yell into the intercom why don't you! Jeez Viceroy!"
"Sir, just as I'd predicted a monster is attacking the school right now, at the last day of summer and the first day of school!" Viceroy replied giddily, which faded when he saw Mcfist's bored expression.
"So?" Mcfist said dryly.
"So now we can finally test the thing, sir" Viceroy said rubbing his brow in frustration.
"The thing?" Mcfist said confused.
"The thing we've been working on for 8 years sir!" Viceroy said, losing his cool. "It's finally ready for a field test and now we have a monster to test it on!"
"Bah!" Mcfist said waving viceroy off. Then suddenly he got it. "Viceroy! Do you know what this mean?!"
"That we can finally test the thing like I've been trying to tell y—"
"THAT WE CAN FINALLY TEST THE THING!"
Viceroy just let out a frustrated growl. Mcfist grabbed him and basically dragged him down the building.
Heidi Weinerman whistled a tune while she put her books away in her locker, while she enjoyed summer, she loved being back in school. Not for the education, for her popularity, her friends, her webshow and her other job and not to mention….Howard?
"Oh, that's right" Heidi said realizing why Howard was here and walking up to her, while it was already her second year of high school it was his freshmen year.
"Yo, what's up Heidi, my big sister!" Howard said, rather loudly.
Heidi rolled her eyes, it was clear Howard was trying to establish his social status in the eyes of his peers by letting everyone know he was Heidi's brother. "Nice try Howard, but you're going to have to get your own popularity, and not ride off mine"
"But that takes work!" Howard whined. "C'mon Heidi!"
"Nope, no can do Howard" Heidi reaffirmed. "Now stop talking to me, I have to get ready for my me cast"
Suddenly a monster crashed through the school halls, as it goes.
No no no! Heidi started shaking her head and hands in frustration. Howard bounced from one heel to the other and looked at Heidi confused. Heidi sighed and pulled out from her back pack, the ninja mask, the mask worn by the guardian of norrisville for over 800 years. She hesitated putting it on.
"Isn't it like, ninja time or something" Howard said, wondering why Heidi wasn't ninjaing out, as she had been doing for a year. Howard had found out by accident by the end of his last middle school year, naturally he wanted to scream it to the world, but Heidi had been very persuasive, and by persuasive he meant scary.
"This can't be happening now" Heidi said, the irritation in her voice reaching a boiling point. "I had to cancel half my shows last year! My rating took a big cut because of these stupid monster attacks!"
It's not that she didn't like being the ninja, she loved it, who wouldn't? It's just that she had other commitments in her life, being the ninja didn't take up all of her life, most sure, but the rest she had to protect.
Howards face lit up with a genius idea, his face twisted into a smug grin. "I'll cover on the show for you"
"No" she replied with anger.
"Yes"
"No!"
"C'mon Heidi, it's the only way. Either let your status go down the shoob hole, or let me cover for you" Howard argued, which to Heidi's dismay was a very good argument. She reluctantly gave him the keys to her studio/office.
"I hate you" Were her last words as she ducked into the girls' bathroom and let the masks ancient fabric cover her. Transforming her into the ninja of norrissville!
She dashed and flipped out of the school noticing that the monster has made its way towards the city. She used her ninja scarf to swing from building to building, when she arrived at where the monster had stopped, it seemed that some other people had already engaged the monster in combat.
"Ugh, Mcforcers" Heidi said aloud in disgust. The McForcers were trained soldiers who were sent by Mcfist to fight and detain the monsters, at least that what the public believed, what they actually were to Heidi was a bunch of no goods who did nothing until Heidi beat the monster and they pretended they were vital to its defeat.
The Red monster roared in anger, and the Mcforcers backed away like cowards, having barely harmed it. Leaving the giant red beast to Heidi, as usual. Heidi sighed and struck a fight pose.
"Hey ugly" That got its attention. "Let's dance!"
A McHover craft sailed through the air. It's was cruising towards the monster fight. The pilot turned on the intercom.
"We're 2 minutes till the destination" He announced. A tall rugged man with bronze skin and a stubble nodded. He made his way down the aircraft making sure to keep his gun pointed towards the ground with the safety on, as any trained soldier knows. His sweat was visible on his brow, his nervousness making his custom Mcfsit industries armour feel heavier with every step, but he wasn't nervous for himself, no he was nervous for someone else.
A panel on the hovercrafts floor opened, revealing how high they were, at the edge of the opening was a boy holding onto a ring attached to the roof, so he wouldn't fall off.
"Here to wish me luck, Scott?" The boy said to the man, apparently named Scott.
"Thought you might be nervous" Scott replied, smiling at the boy.
The boy placed one of his hand on his chin, pretending to look deep in thought. "Hmmmm, not really"
Scott gave off a hearty laugh. "Figured you wouldn't be" he dug something out of his pocket. "Catch" He threw a small object at the boy.
The boy caught it and looked at the object with his eyebrows raised. "Scott, these are your dog tags. I can't keep these"
Scott held up his hands and shook his head. "They're yours now, a good luck charm. Check the back ones, they're new"
The boy never noticed the new tags that were added, he looked up and smiled at Scott after reading them. On the old tags were Scott's name and info, on the new ones were the boys. He read his name again. Randy Cunningham.
"You're the cheese Scott"
Scott nodded happily, they were interrupted when the light on the wall turned from red to green, signalling it was go time.
"You ready?" Scott asked.
"To see norrisville again after 8 years?" Randy replied. "You bet"
Scott grinned at the boy. "Show time?"
"Show time!" Randy yelled at the top of his lungs as he jumped out of hover craft, letting gravity draw him towards the ground at extreme speeds.
Heidi was huffing and panting, this didn't make sense, she was a seasoned ninja who had been doing this for a year now, okay so maybe she did get distracted a couple of times thinking about what Howard might be doing on her show, but still this monster was way more vicious than the usual breed of monster, bigger too.
More McForcers started entering the area, Heidi rolled her eyes in annoyance. 'More people who aren't going to do anything', by letting her thoughts distract her she was blinded when the red monster punched her, sending her flying.
"OOF!" She grunted as she got back up, she huffed in anger. Her suit suddenly ignited, the suits colors of black and red switching. "You just earned yourself a big helping of ninja rage!"
She fired a giant fireball, which would have taken the beast out in a snap. That is, if it wasn't for some thing crashing into the beast a million miles an hour from above, effectively knocking the monster out of the fireballs path.
"WHAT THE JUICE?!" Heidi screamed, as the thing which wasn't a thing at all and was a person, jumped backwards away from the downed monster. The Mcforcers huddling around him.
Heidi huffed her way towards the boy and the Mcforcers intent on giving the boy a piece of her mind. As she drew closer she could hear what he was telling, no, ordering the Mcforcers to do.
"I want a perimeter set up. That shoob does not leave this block" The boy said. "Alpha team, check the buildings for any people still inside, evacuate them. Beta team, take care of traffic, make sure no one comes this way, redirect them and I don't give a honk if they're going to miss the whoopee on ice show. As for me I'll take on the big guy"
There was a resounding 'sir, yes sir!' that the group of Mcforcers gave off as they dispersed to handle their assigned duties (hehe duty). As Heidi drew closer she noticed now that the boy was wearing a black and dark blue jumpsuit with the Mcfist logo on the center of his chest, on his head he was wearing a blue helmet that covered his entire head with a black screen/visor covering his face.
"What the juice is your damage?!" Heidi said throwing her hand in the air in exasperation. "I could have taken that thing out, until you wonked it up!"
"Excuse m—"The boy stopped talking when he saw who was yelling at him "You-you're the ninja"
"I am aware of that"
"The ninja? The ninja?!" The boy said an edge of excitement in his voice, and excitement that eventually exploded. "YOU'RE THE NINJA! THIS IS THE HONKING CHEESE! Can I have your autograph? Not for me, for a friend, okay that was a lie it is totally for me. But you're the ninja!"
"Oh great, a fanboy" Heidi said holding her head in her palm. "Look I—"
She was cut off as the monster awakened and reared its ugly head once again. Without wasting a single moment the boy and the ninja got into a battle stance. The air was tense, until the boy started giggling.
Heidi just stared pointedly at the boy.
"I'm sorry" He said still unable to contain his glee. "It's just, my first mission and my first team up is with the honking ninja!"
The monster swung it giant arm downwards, luckily both the boy and the ninja were able to avoid it. Both readied themselves for a counter attack.
"Here I come!"
"I got this!"
Unfortunately when the ninja pulled out her ninja sword, the boy accidentally stepped on her scarf choking her and making her throw her ninja sword in the air.
"OMJ I am so sorry!" He said, but he had no time to focus on that as the monster came charging at him. He extended his hands cyan energy forming around them, he fired a blast of cyan energy at the beast, the blast however was interrupted when the ninjas sword came falling down right in front of him. The energy blast exploded far too closely to the boy and the ninja after coming in contact with the sword that blocked his shot, sending both flying.
"What the juice is your problem?!" Heidi screamed at the boy, both crashing and being in a tangled mess of limbs.
"Okay, first that was your sword that got in my way, so I think you're to blame, just saying" came the boys retort.
The monster came running again, the ninja and the boy looked at each other then nodded, silently agreeing that now wasn't the time to be arguing. They didn't have to work together but they didn't have to get in each other's way either.
"I'm going left" Said the ninja.
"Then I'm going up" replied the boy. The ninja cocked an eyebrow at this, but her confusion was soon answered when the boy began levitating, he could fly. Through the black visor she could see him wink at her, she rolled her eyes at him.
The ninja began a mad sprint, while the monster was big, it was also slow. And of course the boy had the beasts full attention, he circled the beast and blasted energy bolts at it, he threw cheesy one liners and puns, making sure the beast full focus was on him. While the boy did that Heidi searched the creature looking for the stanked item, she found it high on the beast's neck, a necklace. She dashed up the monsters tail up its spine towards its necklace. Unfortunately the monster seemed to know her intent and shook violently, sending Heidi falling. The boy blasted the monsters eyes, temporarily blinding it, he then flew as fast as he could, he pushed himself, he caught the ninja right before she splattered on the ground, but he was moving too fast to slow down gracefully and crashed, making sure to guard the ninja with his body.
As the duo got up shaking off their brutal crash landing. Heidi looked towards the boy who had saved her, and who was only looking at his hand for some reason?
"Thanks" She thanked the boy, but saw there was confusion in his body language.
"You're a girl….." Was the boys reply, still looking at his palm.
Heidi brow scrunched in confusion, till she realized why he was staring at his palm, when he saved her he must have grabbed something that led him to believe the statement he was making now. Her face turned from confusion to disgust and anger, she covered her chest with her arms and kicked the boy.
"EW! Creep!" She yelled at him.
"I'm sorry!" Said the boy embarrassed and thanking Viceroy for making his helmet cover his entire face, allowing his blush to be hidden. "But I didn't know you were a girl, were you a girl this whole time? Like 800 years?"
"How could you not tell I was a girl?" She asked, annoyed. "Shouldn't my voice have given it away?"
"Well, this helmet kinda makes sounds kinda muffled" Randy replied. "That and I have only ever heard you screaming in my ear since we first met, soooo….."
The monster roared, ending the teenagers little spat. Heidi still had to find a way to get to that necklace, but she had to do it fast. She looked at the boy again, her mind formulating a plan.
"Hey" She said getting the boys attention. "You crashed into that thing earlier right? Does that mean you're strong too?"
"Not to toot my own horn" The boy said, totally tooting his own horn. "But yes, I have super strength, like I amaze myself sometimes"
"Ugh, I don't have time for your testosterone" Heidi said, cutting his ego off. "Can you throw me?"
"Wow, we've only known each other for 5 minutes, and you're already asking me to throw you. I think this relationship needs to slow down"
"…"
"And yes I can throw you" He promptly picked the ninja up, making sure to be careful of where he grabs this time.
"Throw me at that things neck, at the necklace" She said pulling out her ninja sword form her scarf.
"Okay" Randy said, aiming the ninja. He drew his hands back, getting ready to throw. "I should probably warn you, I have terrible aim"
"WHAT?!"
"AND AWAY YOU GO!"
Heidi shot like a jet through the air, she flew straight and true, thank goodness his aim wasn't as bad as he said. She readied her sword, but just as she was about to slice the chain of the beasts necklace, it moved just enough for her to sail past it, missing her chance.
But Heidi Weinerman wasn't the ninja for nothing! She threw her sword, the world moved in slow motion as the sword cut through the link in the beast's necklace. The monster roared as stank left its body.
Heidi shut her eyes, waiting for her to crash into something, but she never did. When she peeked through her eye lids, she saw that helmet, the boy had caught her again, this time without crashing.
"Looks like I've caught myself a ninja for a second time today" He said playfully.
"Just watch your hands" said back, a grin behind her mask.
"You're not gonna let that go are you?"
"Nope"
As they descended they saw a news team already waiting for them at the bottom.
The boy sighed. "Mcfist must have sent them here…"
When they reached the ground, they boy put the ninja down. They stood side by side as the cameras filmed them and the new lady pushed to get a word out of the heroes.
"Ninja who is your new sidekick?" The news anchor asked.
"Hey!" Randy said offended. "I'm no sidekick! I'm my own hero! Well….mostly my own hero"
"Mostly?" Both the anchor and the ninja questioned.
"Well, I work for…" He posed putting both his hands on his hips, pushing out his chest to show the big Mcfist logo. "Mcfist industries! The global industry that brings all sorts of fantastic wonders to the world! Including me"
Heidi just rolled her eyes, Mcfist had to go and make his own superhero. Well, she had no beef with the guy, his Mcforcers were annoying but it's not like he ever tried to attack her himself, his robots looked menacing but they never did anyone harm.
"So what do we call this new hero?" The anchor asked.
"Well, my official title is McSuperMegaDestructorLightning O'Fist" Said Randy pronouncing the entire thing without a sweat.
"But…" He continued. "A friend of mine said my job was to be a soldier, but not in a war, Like a soldier whose job is to guard one place, watch out for it, and that's Norrisville. So I prefer Sentinel"
As the anchor prodded Sentinel for more info about himself, Heidi turned her eyes elsewhere bored with the news fussing over him, she'd totally answer their questions, but there was a whole thing last year, where the nomicon had to teach her about fame or whatever. Her eyes went to the destanked student, except something was wrong. The stank left the female students body but now the stank was just circling her violently, and her body morphed and grew, like she was stuck transforming temporarily back into a monster then back to human, in a loop. Heidi had to help, she whistled loudly to get Sentinels attention, despite his helmet, his body language gave off confusion and fear.
"What's happening to her?" He asked.
"I don't know" The ninja answered. "I've never seen this happen before"
"Hold the cheese!" Said Mcfist as he came barging in, Viceory and Scott right behind him.
"I'm picking up huge amounts of energy building up in her" Viceroy said. "It's going to take out at least 3 blocks of the city"
"There is no way we can evacuate all those people before she goes off" Scott said.
"Then what do we do?" asked the ninja.
"I could fly her above the city and let her detonate there" Sentinel suggested.
"No" viceroy said. "She could go off, just by you touching her body"
"Boy" Viceroy said. "Use your energy absorption"
Sentinel was shocked at this, as he moved his body back. "But you said I wasn't ready to train that po—"
"I know what I said" Interrupted Viceroy. "But it's the only chance we have"
"And we have complete faith in you!" Added Mcfist. "But just in case, we'll be waiting in the Hovercraft"
The two retreated back to the hovercraft. "Scott, let's move it!" Ordered Mcfist.
"Sorry sir" answered Scott. "But I need to stay with the boy, with all due respect"
"Fine fine" Mcfist replied as he got aboard the Mchover craft.
"Scott, I don't know…" Sentinel said, the nervousness creeping into his voice.
"You can do this kid. I know you can" Assured Scott.
Randy smiled beneath his helmet.
"Show time?" Scott said.
"Show time" Randy said, with new strength in his heart.
He took a deep breath, and walked towards the girl. The stank acted violently when he walked near it, it was like a form of energy trying to push him away, but he pushed forward with all his might. He stuck out his hand, he used his other hand to cover his head as the force of the stank was cracking his helmet's screen.
"H-help me…please" The girl wailed, in a broken desperate voice.
"I-I will!" Randy said as he got closer, his fingers tip made contact with her shoulder.
Suddenly the entire area was basked in green light, the ninja had feared that he failed and set her off. But when the light dimmed she saw Sentinel standing there holding a ball of green pulsating energy, even though he wasn't physically touching the energy, his stance was rigged his body tensed and stressed, he stood there with the large ball of energy between his hands above his head, as if he were holding an extremely heavy green mini-sun between his hands. Through his screams of exertion, she saw, it was getting smaller!
She could see the ball of energy being syphoned into the boys hands, but his suit has starting to burn up, allowing her to see his skin, it was turning red, and not pinkish red, but actually red, as if a red light were shinning underneath. He yelled out even more now.
Scott, placed a hand on the ninjas shoulder. Heidi looked up at him to see a face full of worry.
"Something's wrong" He said, his voice shaky. Suddenly the communication device in his ear came online, with Viceroy on the other side. Scott nodded gravely after hearing what Viceroy had to say.
"The energy" Scott said. "It's burning him up from the inside"
The ninjas eyes widened in surprise, she just met the guy and he was already going to die. "Is there anything we can do?"
Scott nodded and raised his gun and aimed it at Randy's head. Heidi acted on instinct and kicked Scott's gun making him misfire.
"WTJ ARE YOU DOING!" She braked at him.
"Viceroy says that his body won't be able to contain that much energy" He replied, shaking his head. "His mind will be in too much pain and he'll release it all again, so the detonation will happen, unless I kill him and let the energy burn up in his body"
"B-But you can't—"
"I don't want to do this either!" Scott yelled in desperation. "But, those are my orders"
"What if he doesn't release the energy?" Heidi asked. "Like what if he doesn't let it out and he fights through the pain?"
"I-well I guess the energy would burn up and I wouldn't have to shoot him" Scott said, unsure. His mind a mess right now. "But I'm not sure if he can—"
"You said you believed in him" Heidi told him. "Was that the truth?"
Scott looked away in pain. He got another call from Viceroy. He paused before answering. "That is a negative sir, I have not shot him yet…I'm going to give him more time" He turned the device off before he heard any angry yelling from Mcfist.
Heidi nodded at Scott and he nodded right back. Then they waited and watched.
The ball of energy was now roughly the size of a basketball. The torso of Sentinels suit had all but burned away now, showing his skin burning and glowing. His Helmet had broken and fallen off, but Heidi still couldn't see the boy's face as his back was turned to them, his hair had also burned up apparently, so she had no idea what his hair color was.
After what felt like hours but was actually a few minutes the boys pressed his hands together, having absorbed all of the energy. He crumpled to the ground. Scott and the ninja waited to see if he could handle the energy and if he would release it. The boy jolted and the ninja and Scott braced for an explosion, but instead Sentinel held up a shaky hand and gave them a thumbs up. The ninja and Scott breathed a sigh of relief the rushed over to sentinels side.
Heidi's brows deepened in worry as she saw that his body was now covered in burn scars and all his hair had been burned off, he also seemed to be in pain. She looked at Scott who also gave her a sad look, they both walked closer to console the boy, but they both backed away when they saw something happening to Sentinels body.
His skin began changing and healing. The burns began to turn into little more than faded red spots, Heidi wanted to see his face without the burns, but Scott intervened and covered the boys head with a spare shirt he had. Randy folded the shirt around his head, so it resembled that pretend ninja mask kids would do.
Randy stood and stared at the sky breathing heavily as the McForcers came to escort the girl, who was almost a bomb, away to an ambulance. The news team returned to get all this.
All the while Heidi stared at this boy, who was either an extremely powerful hero or a dangerous weapon that could destroy everything, if he turned evil. And Heidi wasn't sure she could stop him if he did.
Back at Mcfist Industries.
"He survived sir" Viceroy reported. "And he seems to have unlocked a new power, regeneration sir"
"Holy Cheese Viceroy!" MCfist said. "Those Cunninghams really went all out, didn't they?"
"As much as it hurts my pride to say this, those Cunninghams truly were marvels of the scientific world" Viceroy said, with a bit of envy and a bit of admiration for the married scientists.
Mcfists face darkened, as his expression turned serious. "Let's just hope the boy never finds out what really happened to them"
Viceroy too thought of what Randy could do to them if he ever found out the truth.
"Welp, no use in thinking about it now" Mcfist said, completely changing the mood. "Viceroy start trying to find a way to copy the boy's powers and give them to me!"
"Sir it's not that simple" Viceroy said, annoyed at the fact that once again his boss was asking far too much of him. "I need to run tests and—"
"Viceroy" Mcfist said, grabbing the scientist by his shoulders. "Do you remember what I told that weird green guy when he offered me superpowers in return for me destroying the ninja all those years ago?"
"You said…" Viceroy scrunched up his face doing his best possible impression of Mcfist. "'I have a million billion dollars, I don't need you to get me super powers! I can do it myself!' then you proceeded to order me to find a way to do that"
"So get to it!"
Meanwhile in some dark dank unground area, there lied equipment making the place almost resemble a laboratory, an extremely dirty laboratory located underground, but still.
There stood a person in all black hunched over a table fiddling with tools and beakers, his face covered by a black mask, no eye holes or mouth slits, just a black mask that had no features on it, he also wore a black turtleneck and blacks pants with black leather boots, and over it all he wore a black lab coat. But on his chest was a mechanical box that sort of looked like a radio.
On the table was a petri dish, on the dish was a chunk of red flesh, red flesh that came from the very monster that had attacked the city. The black clad figure dropped a mixture of chemicals on it, and he stared intently.
The flesh began to wriggle and squirm, then the figure cut a deep slit into it. Suddenly the flesh began to heal itself, the man shook in anticipation, but then the healing reversed and the entire piece of flesh turned black and rotten, green smoke expelling out of it and escaping into the vents near him. The man stared at the rotten flesh for a solid 30 seconds then, angrily shoved everything off the table and flipped it. He was shaking with rage, before he could start destroying anything else in his lab, something playing on the small TV he kept in there caught his eye.
It was of the news, the monster from which he had taken the flesh from had been stopped, this surprised him but what surprised him even more was the footage of a boy hunched over and covered in burn scars, the black clad figure shook and shivered when he saw the boys burned skin begin to heal, he slowly reached out and touch the screen as if the boy were right there in front of him, he pulled out a chair and replayed the image of the boy regenerating over and over. He had found what he was looking for.
Heyooooo my peeps, I apologize for not been around lately haha, work has been killer(Also been too busy lately to do any of my hobbies haha)
But I finally have some time to make this haha, I've been cooking this up for a while now.
Tho don't be surprised if I end up abandoning this like the debt au hahahahaha…im sorry, I just wanted to put this out there and see if this was an interesting enough concept and if other people wanted to see more of it.
Okay, u may have noticed I made Heidi younger for this, I wanted her to be experienced enough that she knows her stuff and has roughly the same amount of powers as randy did in the canonverse, but I also didn't want her to be too experienced so that it would still be believable that she messed up a lot, but also I still wanted her to be older than randy so I compromised and made her a sophomore hehe.
Now I should warn u now tho, the sorcerre won't be the main big bad
Also I doubt my world building is good enough to provide all of the changes this au has made, soooo u r allowed to ask questions and I'll answer them in the next chapter…if I ever continue this. Unless they're plot relevant then u know im gonna be koi about them :3
Anyway tell me what u think in the revieeewws!