Norrisville, 2013.

People were walking out of their homes with such hurry, bringing along their belongings and loaded them into their vehicles, sometimes glancing worriedly at the sky, which was strangely red-greenish in colour. Howls of sirens made by the Robo-Apes were blaring everywhere, making the whole situation even chaotic.

'Everyone must leave this town as soon as possible,' they repeated over and over again in their robotic voices. The town's residents started quickening their steps but a bright flash of green light accompanied with a loud boom suddenly entered the air, causing all of them to stop dead in their tracks, their eyes were full of terror.

'You heard the sound; move on!' the bots continued after a while and everyone was back to their business.

In downtown Norrisville, ruins of collapsed buildings filled the scene and a black figure with a red scarf tied at his neck dodged the deadly green ray that was aimed for him with his long sword before hiding in one of the buildings that were still stood upright. He panted heavily and slid down against the wall, his sapphire blue eyes met a chubby kid with orange hair's, who was giving him an anxious look. 'How's out there?' he started.

'Not good,' spoke the well-known Norrisville Ninja (a.k.a Randy Cunningham) to him, shaking his head. 'He's stronger than I thought.' 'No cheese, Cunningham! That's wonk!' said Howard Weinerman, moaning.

'Is everyone out yet?' asked Randy. 'Are you KIDDING ME?! McFist already got his bots to speed up the whole thing! Well, he doesn't know we're still here, though,' explained the ginger.

'We have to find a way to defeat him!' said the masked one with a sigh. An unknown shoob had set loose of his arch-enemy, the 800-years-old Sorcerer from his prison and he was DEFINITELY NOT THAT SHOOB. 'How about using that Eye again?' suggested Howard.

'No, we can't, that Stone was too damaged,' replied Randy faintly. It was true, the golden stone that once locked the Sorcerer from escaping his prison was totally destroyed by the anonymous. However, the bird spirit inside it, the evil Tengu was still intact; Randy didn't have time to think how could that happened.

'Then get the Nomicon!' Howard shouted. 'It MUST KNOW SOMETHING!'

'I thought you always said Nomicon's such a jerk,' said Randy with a chuckle, putting his sword aside and began searching for the black-and-red Ninja-Nomicon inside his Ninja suit.

Howard snorted and voiced, 'It is. And it will ALWAYS be.' 'Books give us knowledge, Howard,' the masked one replied and pulled out the book from his suit. Seeing it, the orange-haired rolled his eyes when a roar suddenly broke into the scene, causing both of them to cover their ears.

'You cannot hide from me forever, Ninja!' a deep, croaked voice boomed around the building. 'I've been WAITING for this for 800 years! Now is the time for ME TO RULE THE WORLD!'

'Wonk,' muttered Randy behind his mask. 'Come out of your hiding place, Norisu! A ninja is not a coward!' the Sorcerer kept taunting.

Howard looked at his biffer and shook his head signing to him to not hearing the old wizard's words. The Ninja nodded and opened the Ninja-Nomicon, which immediately glowed in bright red and the usual 'oof' made by him and his slumped body marked the 'Nomicon-o'-clock', where his soul is sucked into the magical book for a while. (At least that was what Howard thought.) Howard folded his arms and whistled absent-mindedly, sometimes glancing at his McFist Watch, waiting for Randy to wake up again and kick the Sorcerer's butt back into his prison once and for all.

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Randy was back into reality with a loud gasp, startling Howard. 'So, uh, what does the Nomicon say?' the chubby one asked.

The former looked at him and silently gulped; he didn't want to do it. But he have to. For Howard's sake.

'Howard, you have to leave,' said Randy.

'WHAT?!' Howard replied in return. 'No! I'm not going without YOU! NOT WITHOUT MY BEST FRIEND!' 'Howard, please – ' 'No!'

'Howard, listen to me.' Randy went towards his bro and grabbed his shirt and stared into his brown eyes. Howard blinked furiously at him; he didn't know what the stupid Nomicon had told the blue-eyed but he did know it was something not good.

'Take this.' The Ninja thrusted the Ninja-Nomicon into the ginger's dainty hands. 'W-what does this mean?' the kid in blue asked, confused.

'Go. Leave this place. Go to your parents, Howard. And Heidi; she must be HONKIN' worried about you,' the scarfed one said.

'What about you?' Howard said a bit shrilly, trying to protest. 'Don't worry about me; I will follow suit. Take this. Run, Howard. And don't look back.'

'But – ' 'You hear me, Big H.'

Howard choked a bit; since when Cunningham became all serious?

'If...if you didn't come, I – I'm gonna punch you in the face when we meet again!' Of all the things he thought to stall the Ninja from kept pledging him to leave, that sentence blurted out of his mouth.

'Yes Howard, I will let you punch my face when we meet again,' Randy assured with a nod. 'You can do as much as you want.' His eyes narrowed slightly; Howard could tell he was trying to stop himself from breaking into tears.

The ginger hold his biffer's hands for the last time and they held each other's gaze before he slowly taking steps backwards, leaving the Ninja. Leaving his childhood friend alone in the wrecked city.

'Don't forget that promise, Cunningham! Don't you dare!' shouted Howard as he spun around and started running out of the building with tears filled the corner of his eyes and he hugged the Ninja-Nomicon as tight as he could.

'I won't, Howard,' whispered Randy, watching his best mate gradually turned into a tiny dot ahead him. 'I won't...'