3 days earlier...

It was a normal day in Norisville High; The Sun was shining, the students were screaming and hiding, and the Ninja was busy fighting a rampaging robot.

"Seriously; you take out the Biggest Shoob in town, and you're left with the 2nd Biggest Shoob in town who still wants to destroy even after everything you did for him." The Ninja complained as he dodged another attack.

"That reward was suppose to be mine!" McFist cried, literally as he and Viceroy watched the scene, "You could atleast let me have my moment!"

"As if that's ever going to happen." Viceroy muttered under his breathe.

"I heard that!"

The Spider-Monkey Robot, which was literally a cross between a monkey and a spider, kept attacking the Ninja, whipping one of its tentacles at him or shooting spider webs. Noticing a fusebox next to him, the Ninja quickly catches the robot's attention. The Robot immediately whipped a tentacle at the Ninja, but its intended target swung out of the way, causing its tentacle to collide with the fusebox instead.

The impact caused a surge of electricity to flow from the fusebox into the Robot, causing it to explode in a pile of metallic debris. Everyone came out of their hiding places and cheered for their hero. With another day saved, the Ninja dissappeared in a puff of red smoke.

"And once more, the day is saved. Thanks to The Ninja." Heidi announce as she replayed yesterday's event in her Me-Cast, "What will we ever do without him?"

"Man. McFist never gives up, does he?" Howard remarked.

"Uh huh." Randy replied half-heartedly.

"Seriously; you'd think your worst enemy would give you Ninja-off after defeating the biggest shoob in town." He went on as they passed some of their classmates.

"Ninja rules!" Bash cried.

"Do you think the Ninja will love this song I made for him as much as the last one?" Bucky asked Flute Girl.

"I swear he winked at me." Theresa sighed.

"I've seen better robot fights." Morgan remarked.

"It was like yesterday when a mysterious box mysteriously appeared in your room and made you a hero and never told me about." Howard reminisces.

"Yeah. Yesterday." Randy sighed indifferently.

"Alright. What's with the Glum Fesst?" Howard asked as they got out of school.

"It's just...Well... I..." Randy sighed, "I'm sick of being the Ninja!"

This made Howard spit out the soda he was drinking, "WHAT?!"

"It was bruce at first," He went on, "but then it started taking over my life. It's great that I got to save people, but I wish they know how to save themselves. Last week, I had to save the entire School from burning."

Everyone screamed in terror as the shadows of flames danced in the Cafeteria. The Ninja appeared, only to glare in annoyance.

Turns out, the Cafeteria Lady overcooked some weiners. The Ninja sighed as he put out the fire with his Cold Balls. Everyone cheered as he smoke-bombed.

"And then there was Principal Slimovitz..."

The Principal screamed as he was being chased by a monster. It cornered him on the wall only for the Ninja to appear. He unsheathed his sword, ready to face the monster... a normal harmless floor polisher.

Rolling his eyes, the Ninja pressed a button, turning off the machine. The Principal hugged him in gratitude before he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"And don't get me started on Bucky..."

"Somebody save me!"

The Ninja appeared in front of Bucky.

"Ninja, thank goodness." Bucky hugged the Ninja's legs, "I lost my triangle."

The Ninja sighed and gave Bucky back his triangle. Turns out, it was on his hat the whole time.

"And if adding all that up wasn't bad enough, McFist still wants to destroy me after I clearly saved his life!" Randy finished before sighing, "Sometimes I wish I could open the door to the Ultimate Lesson and forget the fact I was ever the Ninja."

"You know what? I've been meaning to say 'Hey Cunningham, it's bruce you're giving up. Hey you think I got what it takes to be the next Ninja?'." Howard remarked, "But since I already tried the mask... ARE YOU NUTS?! Give up being the Ninja? What about the glory, the attention you're getting? Think about those dissappointed fans. 'Where's the Ninja?' 'All is lost without the Ninja.' 'We want the Ninja!'"

"That's just it." Randy replied, "Everyone wants the Ninja. It was bruce at first, but then after I defeated the Sorcerer, people have been making crazy excuses just to be saved by the Ninja."

"Ninja!"

Upon hearing an old woman's voice, Randy slipped on the mask and leaped towards the dangered civillian. Moments later, he returned with an annoyed expression on his face as he took off the mask, "I just saved a cat and her owner from falling off a tree. A TREE."

"Well atleast it was a life-threatening emergency." Howard remarked.

"It was 7ft tall." Randy emphasized. Just then, a car stopped in front of the boys.

"There you are!" Heidi pulled Howard into the car, "We're late for Grandma's Birthday. Say good-bye to your friend, Patty,"

"Randy."

"And let's go." With that last statement, Heidi drove off, leaving Randy alone.

At McFist industries, the one-armed gazillionaire was throwing a fit in his office, literally.

"How hard is it to destroy a Ninja?!" McFist bellowed.

Viceroy remained silent in place as his boss threw a chair at the wall only for it to bounce back at him. A beeping suddenly caught his attention, "It's back."

McFist suddenly forgot his rage and began sqealing like a little girl as a robot dressend in hunter clothing appeared in the room holding a sack.

"Ha! We got you now," McFist cried in glee as he took the sack and took out its content... only for his smile to fall into confusion, "Ninja?"

Instead of The Ninja, as he hoped for, he was holding a worn-out owl plushie.

"Well that could have been the Ninja if someone had been patient while I made the necessary adjustments to the Hunter-bot." Viceroy remarked, "Now instead of hunting down the Ninja, it only tracks down objects that are related to the Ninja."

McFist pulled more objects from the sack; a worn-out red hat, a Grave Punchers video game, and a drawing that seems to be made by a kid. It depicted two kids right under the words "R& H: BEST BROS BROEVER!".

"How are these related to the Ninja?!" McFist bellowed, angrily throwing the sack and the objects on the wall. But when he got to the stuffed owl, he gasped, "No honkin' way!"

"You found a vital clue to the Ninja's identity?" Viceroy eagerly asked.

"No!" McFist happily replied, hugging the plushie while showing a picture of his younger self with a shelf full of plush toys, "It's Odd Ozzy! The only Awesome Animals I never found until today! I had every member of the Awesome Animals in my hands, except him. And now he's mine. All mine!"

"Well lucky you." Viceroy remarked sarcastically, "Now if you'll excuse me, I have an intelligent and useful robot to finish."

Randy sighed as he wandered around, not caring where he was going. He was still troubled by his "duties" as The Ninja. Eventually, he stopped near the woods and took out the Ninjanomicon.

"Nomicon, you know I don't always ask for advice, right?" He asked before opening the book and getting shloomped in the process.

Randy screamed as he fell into the Nomican. Finally, he landed and rolled into a flower bed. The feeling was pleasant... until he rolled into a rocky terrain. He finally stopped in front of the First Ninja who was busy meditating. He decided to join him and wait until he could speak. Fortunately, he didn't have to wait long.

"Underestimating your duties will lead to your doom." First Ninja still retained his meditating position as he spoke.

"Yeah. I heard something like that before." Randy rolled his eyes, "Bet you never got tired of the job."

"I didn't." First Ninja replied, "But after that one mistake, we..."

Randy was surprised when the First Ninja opened his eyes like he didn't know how to finish the sentence. He could tell he was in deep thought.

Suddenly, the First Ninja stood up and walked away, prompting Randy to follow him. The scene around them suddenly changed. The meadow of flowers were replaced with walls filled with murals of previous Ninjas in battle with various of enemies and monsters. Randy suddenly bumped into the First Ninja who stopped to stare at the painting in the middle.

"I thought there were 9 of you guys." Randy took a closer look at the mural; black smoke with red eyes were closing in on the center where 9 Ninjas formed a circle. In the center of the circle was one extra Ninja. Unlike the other Ninjas who had colored marks on their suits, this one was wearing a suit as black as the night.

Randy glanced back at the First Ninja who looked at the Ninja at the center with a look of forlornness. To his surprise, a single tear appeared in the corner of his eyes.

"Sometimes, a Ninja must remember the reason why he became the Ninja in the first place." First Ninja wiped the tear away.

Suddenly, the eyes in the mural glowed before the smoke came alive and surrounded Randy and First Ninja. Randy coughed while First Ninja remained firm, as the smoke formed into words;

EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, BUT THE GREATEST MISTAKE IS NOT ADMITTING YOU HAVE MISTAKES

"Okay that's a little deep, Nomicon." Randy remarked upon reading, "And how is that suppose to help with my Ninja dilemma?"

The words just remained in place.

"I'm the Ninja." Randy said after giving it some thought, "I protect people even if they make mistakes. Even little mistakes. Sure they get stanked because they never get what they wanted, but can you blame them? Plus, some of them get stanked because of me. Now that I think about it, I'm worse than the Sorceror and McFist in one cheesy mix. That's why as the Ninja, I have to protect them no matter what. Wow. That's really deep thinking."

Randy once again glanced at the sentence before glancing around, "What? No slap? No hit? No hammer? Great. Just bruce."

Randy sighed sadly. His expression remained like that even as he fell in a hole that suddenly appeared in the ground.

First Ninja watch as his current successor disappeared, leaving him to look at the mural once more with longing eyes.

Randy awoke and found himself on the exact same spot where he shloomped. It took him a second to finally realize how far he walked and where he was; the forest of Norisville.

Frustrated, he kicked the trunk of a tree. That proved to be a mistake because he soon held his sour foot in agony. However, what puzzled him was the sound the wood and his foot made. It was almost as if the wood was made of metal.

He looked up, only to see a symbol engraved on the tree. It looked like a Ninja symbol. Curious, he touched the symbol. Upon contact with his hand, the symbol began to glow. When it did, a human-sized hole appeared on the tree.

Surprised and curious at the same time, Randy entered the hole. Using his Ninja glow balls, he could see a flight of stairs going downward. He decided to follow the path, and it wasn't long until he reached the end. As he peered into the darkness, he could see a coffin in the middle, surrounded by 9 stones. Curiousity got the better of him as he opened the coffin. To his surprise, there was another Ninja in the inside.

The Ninja looked familiar to Randy. It dawned on him that this was the same Ninja on the mural, the extra Ninja on the center. And given the fact that First Ninja knew him and that he was in a 800 year old mural in a 800 year old book, something tells him he wasn't sleeping...

He didn't know what happened next, but after touching the other Ninja, a faint red glow surrounded the entire room and the other Ninja opened its eyes... and slashed a sword at Randy!