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The red and black ninja appeared and removed his mask. It was Randy.

"Randy?" I said as I got up. My leg seemed stable for the moment. "Is that you?" Randy spun around.

"Oh, hey, Sky. What's up?" Randy said, nervously.

"You're the red and black ninja, aren't you?"

"No." He let out a nervous laugh.

"You are. I saw you pull off that mask." I grabbed mine. "It looks like this." I showed him mine. He grabbed it.

"I don't a have a mask like that. Ha ha." Randy held something behind him.

"Well, you already know I'm the green and gray ninja, so I guess I thought you would tell me about the red and black ninja." I shrugged my shoulders. I ripped my mask out of his hands. I stared at it for a moment before slipping it on. The grayish hue glowed. The suit appeared. Another feather fell. I picked it up and handed it to Randy. "If you are the other ninja, give this to me someday." I smiled and jumped off the roof.

I sat down in my seat at lunch. I put my bagged lunch on the table. I reached in and pulled out a feather. That's the fifth today, I thought. I sighed, knowing that more and more feathers would be found. Randy dropped his tray down across from me. "What do you want?" I twirled the feather in my fingers.

"Oh, just wanting to seat near the most Bruce girl ever." Randy sat. I looked good and hard at him, studying his motives.

"Why me?" I looked back down at the feather.

Randy dropped his voice to a whisper. "Because the ninja wanted to give this to you." He pulled a gray feather out of his back pocket and placed it between us.

"You are," I dropped my voice to a whisper as well. "The ninja." I smiled. For once, I had a friend that wasn't after something else. Randy became my friend because of our similarities, not our differences. "Randy, I just want to tell you..." Another of Viceroy's animal robots smashed the roof of the cafeteria. "Are you ready?" I pulled my mask out of my bag, not entirely, just enough to recognize it.

"As ready as we'll ever be." He smiled. "Use the bathroom, it's the best place." I nodded and we both ran into our separate bathrooms. I went into an empty stall and pulled on the mask. My wings thumped against the walls of the stall. I ran out as soon as I could. Randy came out two seconds later. We nodded and moved to get on two different sides of the robotic dragon looking thing. I produced a katana as Randy produced throwing stars. I charged at the robot, my feet barely touching the floor, teasing it. I sliced through the robot's midsection as Randy shouted, "NINJA THROWING STARS!" He threw a few stars that got lodged in the robot's head. I heard talking in the head, as if it had a phone in it.

"Hey, stop." I held out my hand. I flew to the head. Out of speakers, or something, came, "Another ninja?! That's just great. And this one can fly to boot." Another voice cut in, "Well make one that can fly."

The first voice cut in, "I'll try, but making a robot that can fly is harder than it looks."

"Well, start on it, then." I plunged my hand into the robots head. I ripped out wires and other technical equipment. A small receptor can be tracked, I thought.

"Hey, ninja. I got something good." I smiled under my mask.

I placed the receptor on Randy's science table. "This is what I found."

"What is it?" Randy picked it up to exam.

"THe answer to who's sending the robots."

"Well, who is sending them?"

"That, I do not know." I paused. "But someone can track the signal. Mainly, me. I don't want anyone knowing about this." I grabbed it and put it into my hoodie pocket as Howard sat down next to Randy.

"Knowing about what?" Howard asked innocent enough.

"Oh, nothing, just, you know, the biggest thing in Norrisville High history." I smiled, tempting the beast.

"What?"

"Um, Sky, don't you have your own seat?" Randy asked.

"Yeah, but we still have two minutes before class." I slid myself on table. "Oh, okay. I wasn't going to tell him. I was just teasing. I mean, get real Cunningham. You know as well as I do that telling anyone would basically mean the death of both of us." I smiled. "Seriously, get real." As the bell rang, a metallic bird bust through the window.

"You're on your own, Sky." Randy said as he left the class.