Randy and the Tomboy Part 1: Howard's Friend Falls in Love
Summary: Randy Cunningham, 9th grade ninja falls in love with the new girl in school, Cindy Buttowski, which caused Howard to feel jealous and excluded.
The NinjaNomicon glows and floats inside the large tube, located in McFist's office. How the book got here in the first place remains a mystery. The ninja, hero of Norrisville, quietly sneaks inside McFist's office, without setting off the alarm or making a loud ruckus along the way and approaches the tube that locks the Nomicon inside.
This is totally wonk. The ninja thought as he punches some keys to get the tube to open up. Why McFist keeping the Nomicon for himself is beyond me.
Fortunately for the ninja, the tube opens up and the ninja quickly swipes the Nomicon away from the tube. He was about to get out of here when McFist appears behind him. He was growling in anger, like a wrestler on TV. He wore only a brown night robe.
"Why you little ..." McFist was about to scream out of fury when the ninja makes his escape through McFist's building.
The ninja, with the Nomicon in tow, runs through the long hallways, avoiding shooting arrows in the process, with McFist chasing after him. He got to the stairs and makes his way down the stairs, but McFist trips over Bash's skateboard and came rolling down the stairs like a boulder. The ninja ran faster to avoid getting caught by McFist and by the time he reached the end of the stairs, he got out of McFist's way and continued running to another long hallway, only this time, he had to avoid getting shot by robo-apes and getting killed by Krackenstein who got knocked out by a rolling McFist.
The ninja saw his escape through the garage door, but McFist activates the closing button. The ninja saw the garage door slowly coming down so he ran to it as fast as possible. He made it outside alive, but the Nomicon got fallen behind and is inside the building. The garage door is almost at the bottom and the ninja grabbed the Nomicon quicker than McFist slamming into the now closed garage door.
The ninja made a run for it and hops on top of the school bus and waves McFist goodbye as McFist runs outside to the end of the sidewalk and shouts incoherently.
"So long, McFist!" the ninja cried. "It's been nice knowing ya!"
"I'll get you ninja!" McFist shouted as the bus drives away. "You'll see!"
"Just get inside, sir." Viceroy said to McFist while standing beside him. "You'll catch a cold this way and you'll be too sick to get revenge on the ninja."
"Fine." McFist replied as he and Viceroy walked back into the building while the ninja was out of their sight.
The ninja however took off his mask, transforms back into Randy Cunningham and gets inside the bus through the window. He sat next to his best bud, Howard while placing the Nomicon inside his bag.
"Look what I got, Cunningham!" Howard cried happily as he shows Randy a large 8 Ball. "My dad brought me this cool Magic 8 Ball yesterday which can predict the future."
"Sweet." Randy replied. "How does it work?"
"You shake it up and it tells the future."
"Really?"
"Yeah? Isn't this the cheese?"
"Let me try." Randy picks up the 8 Ball and shakes it. "Will there be any monster attacks today?"
The ball reads,
It is certain.
"So bruce." Randy said after reading the 8 Ball. "It does work."
"I want a turn!" Howard cried as he takes the ball from Randy. "Will I pass my English test?"
The ball reads,
Outlook not so good.
"Typical."
"I got a good one," Randy said as he shakes the 8 Ball. "Will Bucky get beat up today?"
The ball reads,
All signs point to yes.
At the far end of the school bus, Bash punches Bucky in the face, causing him to fall out of his seat and get laughed at by everyone on the bus.
"That ball knows everything." Howard said as he gets a turn at shaking the 8 Ball. "Will Cunningham and I be friends till the day we die?"
The ball reads,
Don't count on it.
"Will Cunningham and I be friends till we graduate from high school?"
Looks doubtful.
"Uh..." Howard asked nervously. "Will Cunningham and I be friends at the end of the day?"
No.
"NO!?" Randy and Howard cried.
"What could come between two best buds like us?" Randy asked.
()()()()()
At Norrisville High, more specifically at the principal's office, Principal Slimovitz is at his desk, looking at two teenage girls. Both seemed to be new at this school. The first one is around 17 years old who is tall and has long, straight hair that is red and natural. She wore a pink sweater over a white-buttoned collar shirt, a large black skirt, white stockings and a pair of black Mary Jane shoes. Her eyes are brown and her face is tanned.
The second girl looked younger than the first, possibly 14 years old. She is short who has pale skin, icy aqua eyes and short, reddish-brown hair with blue highlights on her bangs. She wore a purple headband, a lilac sleeveless hoodie, black leggings, a pair of white 80s slouch socks, a pair of lilac sneakers, a black wristband and lilac kneepads.
"Lina, Cinnamon," Principal Slimovitz said to the girls - Lina and Cinnamon. "I've always been a little suspicious of transfer students. Other principals try to unload problem cases that way."
"But we're good students, Principal Slimovitz." Lina, the 17-year old girl replied. "Well, I am anyway. Cindy's needs some guidance, that's all."
"No I don't." Cindy, the 14-year old girl shouted. "I have a life y'know."
"Hmm ... well let's see your student permanent records shall we?" Principal Slimovitz said as he reads Lina and Cindy's permanent records. He reads Lina's first.
"Hmm ... no detention, excellent grades, perfect attendance ... you seemed good. Now let's see your sister's." Principal Slimovitz said to Lina before he began to read Cindy's permanent record. "Uh-huh ... five detentions, fairly good grades, and good attendance. And it seems you've beat your bedwetting problem in 3rd grade."
"That's in there?" Cindy asked.
"Oops." Principal Slimovitz replied. "I'm sure they'll forget about that in a few months of time. Well, let's introduce you girls to your classes."
()()()()()
In English class, Mr. Bannister hands out the results of yesterday's English test to the class.
"I'm sure you kids are bummed to see the results of yesterday's test." Mr. Bannister said to the class. "WELL SO AM I! A LOT OF YOU DID POORLY ON YOUR TESTS! STUDY HARD NEXT TIME! The rest of you did good. Keep up the good work."
When Mr. Bannister gives Howard his test back, Howard smiles and looks at Randy, despite the fact that he got an F on his test.
"Well, Cunningham, the Magic 8 Ball's predicament came true." Howard gloated at Randy, then stands on top of the desk and shows his test to the class. "BEHOLD! The Magic 8 Ball's predicament of me failing this test!"
Howard then looks at Randy.
"What did you get, Cunningham?"
"I got a B." Randy replied. "All those monster attacks have really paid off."
"Once again you have brought jealousy onto me."
Just then, Principal Slimovitz comes in with Cindy.
"Attention students," Principal Slimovitz spoke to the class. "We have a new student who'll be joining us. Please give Cinnamon Buttowski aka. Cindy a warm welcome and make her feel like home."
"Thanks," Cindy replied, not seemly interested.
"I'll be at my office if you need me." Principal Slimovitz told Mr. Bannister before leaving the class.
"Well, I'm sure you're bummed to be here, Cindy." Mr. Bannister said to Cindy. "This may seem a little scary for you."
"Uh-huh." Cindy replied.
"Why don't you stand up the front of the class and tell us about yourself. I'll be grading you on grammar and poise."
Cindy eyed the class. This was her first day of school, so it's best not to make a fool of herself and have a bad start.
"My name's Cinnamon Omega Wilson Buttowski, but everyone calls me Cindy." Cindy explained. "My dad's a police officer from Chicago, but we moved here because this town has a bit lower crime rate than Chicago has. My family is big, but we don't always stay in one spot. Most of my friends are back in Chicago. And I'm sure you guys are used to this weird smell by now, but I'm not."
"I'm sure you'll get used to it after eight weeks of time." Mr. Bannister told Cindy. "Why don't you take a seat next to Randy Cunningham over there?"
Cindy said nothing, but eventually took a seat next to Randy, who then feels nervous. Never in his life has there been a girl sitting next to him, except Flute Girl, but that's a different story. He tries hard not to get Cindy's attention, despite thinking just how cute she looks when sitting down. He just hopes he doesn't screw up within the next few days.
()()()()()
At the cafeteria at lunch, Randy is as usual eating his lunch when Howard walks by.
"Hey bro!" Howard spoke to Randy. "May I introduce you to a whooper?"
"Sure." Randy relied.
Before he knew it, Howard lets out a fart. Randy is disgusted by this.
"Not cool, Howard." Randy said as he covers his nose. "Not cool."
"Victim number 4." Howard said with pleasure as he eyed another target. "Hey Bucky! May I introduce you to a whooper?"
"Sure." Bucky replied, only for Howard to fart on him. "Ewww."
Randy sighs as he eats his lunch away. As he does so, he didn't notice Cindy approaching him.
"Hey, you're that Randy Cunningham kid from English class." Cindy said to Randy.
"Hey, Cindy." Randy replied.
"You mind if I sit with you? All the other seats are taken."
"I don't mind."
Cindy sat down in front of Randy and eats her lunch with him. It seemed quiet between the two at first.
"Y'know," Cindy spoke for once. "You seemed cute when you're nervous."
"Nervous?" Randy asked, feeling a little panicked.
""Don't tell me you've forgotten. I saw you blushing when I sat next to you at English class, but in a good way."
"So ... how did you get the blue hair part?"
"I was born with it. It's a unique birthmark that my dad's side of the family gets at birth. Do you have a unique birthmark?"
"No. But I have a normal birthmark in the shape of a star on my left arm." Randy replied as he takes off his hoodie. "Wanna see it?"
"Sure." Cindy answered as Randy shows her his star-shaped birthmark. "Wow, that's even better than mom's beauty mark on her cheek."
"Your mom has a beauty mark?" Randy asked.
"Yeah. She was once a high school class president and cheerleader back in Chicago. Now she's a housewife living in this new town that seems a bit uncomfortable for me at that time."
"You'll get used to it. Norrisville's not that bad, unlike Quahog."
"Quahog? I hate that town. It's got nothing but drugs, violence, a lot of crimes and sex."
"It sure does and I don't want to know why."
At the other side of the cafeteria, Howard was just about finished farting on his victims when he noticed Randy sitting with the new girl, Cindy. He gasped. He had not noticed that Randy is talking to a girl. The new girl. He felt his heart shattered a little, but he didn't cry or feel vulnerable enough to get stanked by the sorcerer.
Not yet.
Howard then wonders that as long as Randy isn't spending too much time with Cindy after this day, everything will be alright.
()()()()()
Sometimes later in Mrs. Driscoll's science class, Cindy is sitting next to Randy at the back of the room. She and Randy exchanged friendly looks as Mrs. Driscoll brings out a television and a video cassette.
"Now class," Mrs. Driscoll spoke. "In order to explain why puberty will soon make you an easy target for every smooth-talking stranger with a cool car and tight jeans, I will now show a short sex-education film."
"Bucky and Flute Girl," Jerry spoke through Mrs. Driscoll's lip reading skills. "In accordance to your parents' wishes, you may go to Study Hall and study for future tests."
Bucky and Flute Girl got up from their desks and left the room as Mrs. Driscoll puts the video cassette in the VCR, thus starting the film.
"Hello, I'm Brock Octane." spoke Brock Octane who is wearing a 70s suit and is in the doctor's room on TV. "You might've remembered me from such educational films like "Playing with Fire", "The Stone Age" and many more. I'm here to provide the facts about sex in a calm and straight-forward manner."
"This'll be fun." Cindy spoke in an uninterested tone.
"And now," Brock Octane continues. "Here's a little animated short I'd like to call ... "Fuzzy Cat's Guide to You-Know-What.""
The animation plays as Fuzzy Cat is shown walking down the streets.
"This is Fuzzy Cat." Brock narrated. "About a year ago, he noticed his voice was changing, he had terrible acne and has fur where there was no fur before."
Fuzzy cat is then seen stopping and looking at a female cat.
"Then he meets Fluffy Kitty." Bock narrated.
"Boring." Howard muttered as he placed his head down. Randy and Cindy however continued to exchange friendly looks.
"Fuzzy and Fluffy went to the park, the ice-cream soda, and other places where they never ruined their fun by getting in to their throbbing biological urges." Brock continues narrating. "Then comes the big day. Fuzzy and Fluffy got married. That night came the honeymoon."
When the video came to the honeymoon scene, almost all of the students (Howard included) were disgusted and horrified at the scene. Several of them covered their eyes.
"She's faking it." Mrs. Driscoll noted.
"The most beautiful part of that night is that they've waited." Brock continued. "Nine months later, Fluffy gave birth to 18 cute and cuddly kittens. None of them died."
The animation ends as the video cues back to Brock Octane in the doctor's room.
"And now that you know how it's done," Brock concluded. "Don't do it."
"Any questions?" Mrs. Driscoll asked as the video ends.
"Mrs. Driscoll, how come you don't live with Mr. Driscoll?" Bash asked.
"I'm right here if you must know." Jerry answered Bash's question through Mrs. Driscoll's lip reading skills. "Just because I'm all bones doesn't mean that I can't be Mr. Driscoll."
"How do we know when we fall love?" Randy asked.
"Oh, don't you worry, Randy." Mrs. Driscoll replied happily. "Most of you will never fall in love and marry out of fear of dying alone."
"How would I go about creating a half-man, half-wolf-type creature?" Cindy asked.
"I'm sorry Cindy, but that would be playing God." Mrs. Driscoll told Cindy with a serious tone.
"God shmod!" Cindy cursed. "I want my wolf-man!"
()()()()()
Later at break-time, Cindy was getting her books for the next class when a familiar shadow is seen on her locker door. It was a feminine shadow. It couldn't be Lina's, she was taller than the shadow alone.
Frustrated at what was going on, but out of curiosity, Cindy turns around and was face to face with a red-haired girl who might be in 11th grade. She is tall and beautiful with medium-length orange hair and blue eyes. She wore a beige blouse with a red collar and cuffs and wore a red skirt and white stockings with red shoes. She also wore a red hair lip on her right side. She's no other than Heidi Weinerman.
Great. Cindy thought bitterly. An optimistic, cheerful girl to make my day. Way to make female friends in this town.
"What's up, new girl?" Heidi asked cheerfully while holding onto her personal camera that was shoved into Cindy's face.
"Hey." Cindy replied.
Heidi then faced her camera to herself and smiled pretty.
"What's up Norrisville High, this is gossip queen Heidi Weinerman here having a live interview with the second new girl in our school!"
Second new girl? Cindy thought. She must've interviewed Lina already.
"So, new girl." Heidi spoke cheerfully to Cindy. "Have you got a name for the interview of the day?"
"It's Cindy." Cindy replied. "Cindy Buttowski."
"Buttowski, huh? Do you happen to be the sister of Lina Buttowski, or maybe cousin of hers?"
"I'll take the first choice if you don't mind." Cindy replied with a smirk on her face. She wasn't trying to be rude to Heidi or anything for all that matter. All it'll take for Heidi to quit bugging her is to play nice - that's what her father once told her when she was little. "So what's the scoop?"
"For starters, I'll be asking you a few questions." Heidi replied to Cindy. "Do you happen to have already been in a relationship with a cute guy, after just being enrolled to Norrisville High?"
"Relationship?" Cindy got confused. "What relationship?"
"Don't tell me you've already forgotten, honey. I know you have a relationship with my brother's best friend, Andy."
"Randy. It's Randy!" Howard yelled at Heidi. "You've known him for your entire life, sis."
"Whatever, Howard." Heidi yelled back at Howard before turning back to Cindy. "So, any details on your relationship with Sandy?"
"Okay first of all, it's Randy, explained by your brother over there." Cindy explained while pointing at Howard. "And second, we're not in a relationship right now. We're just friends."
"Touché." Heidi replied. "But I still think you have a crush on him."
"We're just friends, okay?" Cindy tried to reason with Heidi, only for the bell to ring.
"Well Norrisville High, your gossip queen Heidi Weinerman will return tomorrow for more info on the new kids." Heidi said happily to her camera. "Stay tuned for more gossips and info at Heidi School."
"Double Dip!" Howard cried happily behind Heidi.
"Howard!" Heidi yelled at Howard as Cindy heads off to her next class.
But as Cindy walks to her next class, she stopped just in time to witness a fight that is going on in the hallways. It seems that the Norrisville Ninja is busy fighting against one of McFist's robots which resembles a monstrous gorilla. The robo-gorilla tries to attack the ninja with his fists...
"Ninja slice!"
... Only for the ninja to slice his hands off with ease, as if he was a skilled fighter despite being three times smaller than the robo-gorilla. The ninja had thought that the robo-gorilla would taste defeat, but boy is he wrong. The robo-gorilla had one last trick up on his robotic sleeves, assuming that he has sleeves.
In place of the decapitated hands, a knife appears on each hand, sharper than a pencil point and sharp enough to slice the victim's head off within seconds.
"That can't be good." the ninja said, just seconds away before the robo-gorilla sliced the ninja in the stomach.
To be honest, this was the second time the ninja had a stomach wound. The first time was back in Egypt when faced with a mighty enemy and must counter with a mightier force. He could've used the Sapphire Ankh, the mystical weapon he had often used back in Egypt, to finish off the robo-gorilla, but he knew better than that. The Sapphire Ankh has taken a lot of energy from him since his ultimate battle against the undead monster and there's no way he's going to experience that again for a while.
Cindy saw what had happened between the ninja and the robo-gorilla. The ninja is wounded. The robo-gorilla is causing mayhem in the school. Students are running and screaming in fear. Some hid in lockers, some in trash cans, some in other rooms, and some outside the school.
Cindy is all alone in the hallway with no one but the wounded ninja and the robo-gorilla. What can she do? She can't be a helpless damsel, let alone not defend herself from the robo-gorilla. She has to help the ninja. She knew that with the stomach wound, the ninja would not be able to last for like 10 minutes while he's up against the robotic monster.
Then, an idea popped into her head. She had remembered her father telling her, Lina and their younger brother Bobby about inheriting something from any side of the family. He had told them that they have inherited some sort of superpowers known as ghost powers. They could use those powers to help others from dire situations, but their mother who is just a normal being forbids the children from using their powers in public, for fear that society will view them as freaks or monsters.
But Cindy knew that the ninja needed help. Despite the stomach wound, the ninja is still kicking metal butt, but not as good as he was before. He barely dodged the robo-gorilla's attacks and he's moving slower than usual. Then, the stomach wound got the best of the ninja who fell to his knees, weaken from his wound, the robo-gorilla prepared to finish him off. Just as the ninja thought that this would be the end of him, he noticed something happening to his opponent and he will admit that this was a miracle.
Cindy got into battle mode and blasted some energy blasts from the palm of her hands at the robo-gorilla directly. An energy blast destroyed the robo-gorilla's head and his body dissembles and became a pile of scrap.
The ninja couldn't believe his eyes. Never in the history of Norrisville High had he witnessed a student taking down one of McFist's robotic henchmen all on her own.
What the juice? The ninja thought surprisingly. How can Cindy do that sort of thing?
But then, the ninja blacked out.
To be continued ...