From a Danny Phantom episode, we now find ourselves in a Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja episode where we see what happens in Randy's point of view of things as the ninja of the team and see if he can manage being the Ninja, a high school student, and an Infinity Legion member all at once. Since this is only season 1 of my series, I'm trying to give each IL member some manner of focus which is why I decided to make all these episodes where they encounter a problem based on each of their individual series, so that they could have a better understanding of each other's problems. I can tell you right now that eventually, there will be more intense stuff later on which would make things all the more great, I guarantee that, readers. Again, idea suggestions are always welcome and if they can fit in well with the series, I'll try it out.
Summary: Randy believes that he can manage pretty well in his superhero life since the Sorcerer was defeated and not too long ago, but McFist has Viceroy deploy an extremely dangerous and resourceful robot that may be too much for event he Ninja to beat, good thing the Legion went to his hometown, but can it be enough?
Also, I will say this once: I will NOT add anymore member, I have enough already, there will be team-ups with other characters from multiple shows and they can be considered honorary members but that's about it.
To reiterate: Sam Manson having Ghost powers along with other elements from the Danny Phantom episode last chapter that you don't recognize come straightly from Aaron12's fics so if you're curious, the goes double for Kim Possible in this series, check out Aaron12's Danny Phantom and Kim Possible, search for him in TV Tropes.
Members who inhabit the same Earth:
Danny Phantom
Randy Cunningham
Jake Long
Cat Noir
Ladybug
Max Steel
Kim Possible
Ron Stoppable
El Tigre
Jenny Wakeman
Other:
Earth-Evo: Rex
Earth-Omni: Ben 10, Zak Saturday
Earth-Titan: Lance, Ilana, Octus
Earth-Star: Star Butterfly, Marco Diaz
Earth-Samurai: Jack, Ashi
Earth-Zero: Penn, Sashi, Octus
And yes, Max and Steel are included in the Secret Trio universe, it was short noticed and I apologize., if it helps I retconned it in chapters 1 and 3.
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Norrisville-9:54 P.M.
It was dead at night in the town of Norrisville, most of the denizens were either at home or at their night jobs, it was the sort of night that makes you wonder why someone would want to go out. But for a select few, the night can be used for their purposes, they can be free to do whatever pleases them without fear of getting caught, especially if it's taking place at the docks which is where an occurrence it taking place, for a horde of SUVs drove to there and once they stopped, fancy looking cars also arrived. On the SUVs were logos of an M being formed by fists and the drivers, surprisingly, were all robotic apes who were carrying briefcases while the ones in the cars were all tattooed men with leather jackets. "We got your boss the goods, you got our cut?" one of them said to a robo ape.
The metal primate nodded to another ape to show them the case and once it was opened, there were huge stacks of money as a reward for the gang's generous services. "Mr. McFist sends his regards." the robo-ape said as he and the rest went to collect their end of the deal which was concealed in a large truck.
However...
"Smoke bomb!" red smoke exploded making them cough and once it cleared, the Ninja of Norrisvile was revealed but he wasn't alone. With him were Penn Zero, Kim Possible, Max Steel, and Ben 10 as Spidermonkey. "This a private party? Ninja rings!" he threw sharp rings that struck one robo ape in the face, deactivating it.
The gang was surprised by the Infinity Legion's sudden appearance so they tried to escape to their vehicles but Kim jumped in front of them while crouching down and swept her leg under them, making them fall. "Aw, don't leave just yet, boys." they had crowbars, pipes, and chains and tried to overcome the teen super spy, but she wasn't one to be easily taken down she grabbed the wrist of one thug and twisted him around to throw him at his allies she grabbed another's shoulders to jump over and kick more of them before punching him in the gut. "Party's just getting started." she teased playfully with a smirk on her face.
A Robo-Ape turned to another. "What's Kim Possible doing here?"
"I'll do you one better, who are the others that are with her and the Ninja?"
"Where are my manners?" Spidermonkey spun a web at its optics, obscuring the view. The Arachnachimp jumped punched both of them with his upper right arm and lower left arm. "While like this, just call me Spidermonkey, and one primate to robot ones, this isn't your night." he screeched happily as he dodged a metal fist and jumped about energetically.
"Turbo Lash!" an object with a handle appeared in Max Steel's hand and when Steel connected with it, a whip made out of pure T.U.R.B.O energy shot out and he swung it around where it completely sliced one robot ape completely in half, he repeated the same process with multiple others with ease, he didn't even have to use one of his turbo modes for this, at least not until it was necessary. "Robot gorillas." he chuckled as he kicked one severed robot head like a soccer ball."
"I know, Max." Penn agreed as he used his sword to block a laser blast from a robot ape before slicing it from below the waist while firing one of his own lasers straight through the head of another. "I've been to like dozens of worlds, and this may be the single silliest thing I've ever seen and I once went to a cop clown dimension."
The Ninja punched a robo ape straight through the chest and pulled his ninja kamas out and used them climb up to the top of one and then proceeded to force feed him some hot balls down his throat. "Ninja hot ball explosion special!" he jumped once the balls detonated and blew up the ape in a fiery inferno blaze. "That's what makes it fun to tear these scrap-heads apart, Penn!" he took out his ninja sword as about 5 of them started charging at the sworn enemy of their boss, and in a blinding speed of slashing his sword, each one fell to pieces not long after. With their combined might, each gang member were all tied up and all the robot apes were nothing but useless scrap metal to throw away at the junkyard. "See guys? What'd I tell ya? One night of patrol in my city and we were bound to find some action."
"Who owns these things anyway, Randy?" Penn asked, pointing to the robo ape pieces.
"They were built by a dude named Viceroy, but the guy that they technically belong to is Hannibal McFist."
Kim's eyes perked up in recognition. "The super rich tycoon that practically invests a lot of money into this city." she noted. "He's been under Global Justice's radar for a while, being under suspicion of illegal activity."
"Which looks to be the case." Max gestured to the shady dealing that was taking place, he then moved to the truck's trailer. "Now let's see what's behind door number one." he easily tore the back entrance off as if it were tissue paper and inside were assortments of robotic parts that looked like it could only be afforded with vast amounts of money.
Steel inspected the shipment with an impressed whistle. "This is some high end stuff, this McFist must really be as loaded as you say, good thing I tipped off the local law enforcements."
"Got any idea what he wanted these parts for, Randy?" Penn asked.
The freshman shrugged. "Probably to make more killer robots to try and destroy me with. Lately, the big man's been having lots of metal-heads gunning for me, especially during school."
"You know Randy, you could just try and expose the jerk for what he really is." Max suggested.
"Kinda hard when he's adored by practically everyone in Norrisville, Max." Randy crossed his arms, sourly. "I actually managed to expose him once but that didn't work out too well, so now he's still doing some illegal stuff with no one but me and my best friend being the wise, now including you guys."
Spidermonkey shook his head as the watch timed out. "Nothing's more annoying than bad guys with deep pockets. Trust me Randy, I know what I'm talking about."
"You too, huh Ben." Randy patted the famous hero's shoulder.
"If you want Randy, I could have Wade do some digging, no one can find enough dirt like him." Kim offered.
The Ninja put his arm up to politely decline. "Appreciate the offer, Kim, but McFist is my problem, plus, I don't feel right lumping my problems to my friends. Besides, I've gotten used to it at this point." that's what he wanted to believe but in truth, he would welcome any help in causing some misfortune for one of his worst enemies, but he still felt the likes of McFist was the responsibility of the Ninja. He checked his watch and completely freaked out when he saw what time it was. "Oh crud, I better get home, got school tomorrow and If I'm late again, there go my video game privileges for a month. See you guys at the tower." he threw a smoke bomb down and disappeared while the others used their dimensional portal devices to go back to their respective homes.
But there was something neither of them knew, the robo apes that they did battle with were installed with cameras that recorded all that they have seen tonight and before they were destroyed, they sent the footage to one specific location.
McFist Industries
Hannibal McFist.
To almost everyone in Norrisville, he is a shining example of being a good Samaritan that spends all his hard earned wealth on improving life to the citizens while also providing trendy objects to the younger generation, it was the reputation that its CEO had managed to uphold for a long time that seemed to have convinced everyone. But it was all a façade, underneath his seemingly kindhearted and generous actions, McFist is a corrupt businessman who has steadily ran a criminal empire on the sly. Alongside him was Willem Viceroy III, genius inventor and mad scientist, he's produced various weapons of mass destruction all with no one outside his family knowing.
Not too long ago, he was under the employment of the evil Sorcerer, a mystic weaver that sought to plunge the whole world into chaos but couldn't do so with the interference of his sworn enemy, the Ninja, as long as he was left running about and de-stanking his monsters, the Sorcerer could never achieve his ambitions. So he recruited McFist to destroy the Ninja and help free him from his prison and in return, he would grant McFist a unique superpower of his choosing but the Ninja stopped that when he finally defeated the sorcerer. This left McFist angered as he thought the Ninja had stripped him of his one chance at ultimate power.
It was for that reason, that he kept having Viceroy send out various machines with destructive capabilities to at least feel the victory of being rid of the Ninja once and for all.
As always, that had mixed results...
"Drat!" the bearded man slammed his metal arm's fist on his disk, making the organism inside get dizzy from spinning. "All that hard work in organizing a deal, only to be thwarted by the Ninja and his new band of freaks!" it looked like steam was beginning to emit from his ears as he got red in the face. "Since when does he roll with a crew before?!"
"Since Amity Park, apparently." Viceroy spoke up from nearby as he was fining his fingernails. "It's all over the web and the news and they are trending, even more than the McAwesomes." he referred to how the Infinity Legion were seen defending the city of Amity Park from a ghost assault.
"Bad enough that he has that Danny Phantom and dragon-monster thing as backup, but now we have to deal with him apparently part of some sort of super team?!" if it weren't for the fact that this was his office, McFist would just tear apart it in a second to show just how angry he is but he remembered what Marcy always tells him and took deep breaths. "Honestly, why is it so hard to just destroy that king-fu nuisance."
"Ninjas train in ninjitsu, sir." Viceroy corrected.
"Did I ask for your opinion, Viceroy?!" McFist demanded with a scowl.
Putting his hands on his hips, the inventor turned away with a huff. "That was more of a fact, mind you, and if you're gonna act that way to me, then I'll just put that project of mine on hold."
McFist's initial fury was replaced with curiosity. "Project? What project are you talking about?"
"Nope, I'm not gonna tell you." his right hand man refused.
"Why not?!"
"Because you keep yelling at me, you know I hate it when you yell at me. So, the least you could do is apologize."
Pinching the bridge of his nose, McFist nonetheless complied knowing full well how Viceroy would always get like this. "Fine, I'm sorry. Now would you tell me what this project of yours is and why you didn't tell me about it before?!" he demanded.
Rolling his eyes, Viceroy motioned McFist to follow him into the laboratory, otherwise known as his own workshop where he constructs and utilizes various robotic inventions for the sole purpose of destroying the Ninja once and for all. "I've been hard at work at this for quite a while, Hannibal. The reason why I never exactly told you about was due to the fact that it needed tons of parts before it could be fully operational. But now, I've managed to work out all the bugs and now, it's ready to roll." both men stopped at the center. "Oh, Otto!" Viceroy's beloved drone companion, Otto, hovered in at the call of his owner. "Be a dear and bring in your big brother."
Otto whistled to the robo-ape sentries who went to fetch their masters the secret project by pressing the buttons to a large steel door which automatically opened, revealing what was behind it. McFist's eyes slowly widened as loud metal steps were heard and out came a towering figure, it was made purely out of a shifting metal alloy that was unrecognizable and it physically resembled a humanoid, only there was no face on the head, it was an orb-shaped object that was surrounded by blue circles. The metal that coated it started shifting once its creator turned it on and the orb startled glowing blue, and it stood at attention with its masters present. "Viceroy..." McFist breathed, finally finding his voice. "...what is this thing?"
"I present to you, the Amazing Adapt-tron Mark 5!" Viceroy proudly declared with Otto shooting out confetti.
"Hmm...wait, mark 5?" McFist questioned. "What happened to the last four?"
Viceroy winced and sheepishly explained. "Yeah...I had to go through some extensive trial and error before settling on this perfectly functioning android model, kind of the reason why I asked for overtime."
"That actually makes sense." McFist noted. "You hate working overtime. So, what happened?"
"Mark 1 didn't exactly learn to follow its directives, I guess you could've called it the rebellious child and I had to put it in storage." Viceroy shook his head. "Mark 2 took things a little too literal, like say if you told him to get out of town, by which I mean the figure of speech, that one certainly did, and I'm not really sure where it went to be honest. I thought Mark 3 would've been a winner because you know, third time's the charm and all that, but it's main processor had a few bugs and it sort of blew its body up, the head's still operational and I use it as a paperweight. Now Mark 4 actually seemed like an improvement compared to the last three and I would've stopped there, but that troublesome stepson of yours played with it and completely fried all of his functioning systems so that was a full 24 hours I'll never get back."
"Ugh, typical." McFist shook his head at hearing Bash's antics while grumbling.
"And so I started working on the Mark 5, which thankfully, doesn't have any problems whatsoever." the mad scientist stated.
McFist inspected the robot with a thoughtful expression. "Hmm, so what does it do exactly? I don't see any weapons on it."
"Why tell you when I can show you?" Viceroy typed in a few keys and flamethrowers from above were deployed and they engulfed the robot in fire, but it didn't melt down nor was it burned at all, once it stopped, it was revealed to be coated in sub-zero ice temperatures, cold enough to withstand even the most dangerous forest fires. After turning back into it's liquid metal state, a laser cannon was then activated but it raised its right arm which then became an exact copy of the weapon and fired relentlessly until it asserted the damage was done and the arm turned normal.
"Okay, that was actually pretty impressive." McFist admitted with a rare smile to show for it.
"Don't sound too surprised." Viceroy rolled his eyes then started to explain to him the basic info of his invention. "The Adapt-tron is made out of a very rare liquid metal alloy that I call Adaptium, clever I know, it's made up of microscopic nanobots that can adapt to any form of environment and I've programmed it to assess each problem it finds itself in by countering the problem with an exact same attack or a means to protect itself, making him a very formidable match for any enemy."
McFist raised a skeptic brow. "Including the Ninja?"
Viceroy called in a robotic duplicate replica of the Norrisville Ninja fit with a sword and it jumped to attack the Adapt-tron but its arm shifted into a sword and in one swift motion, it sliced the replica in half. "That answer your question?" he sarcastically asked in a smug manner.
Seeing that display of power was enough for McFist to give off an evil grin as he couldn't wait to unleash this new weapon of destruction onto his hated enemy and with any luck, finally be rid of him...
(Intro Sequence: See chapter 1)
Norrisville High School
It was an ordinary day for Randy Cunningham, he got up, ate breakfast, got dressed and went to school, otherwise known as the most boring aspect of his daily life, he lumped in his seat with his best friend, Howard Weinerman sat right next to him. "Alright class, please settle down." Mrs. Driscoll, the school's science teacher, said to the students who were in the middle of some of their conversations, texting, and whatnot who complied, she walked around holding a stack of paper on her right hand while also rolling along the skeletal remains of her husband, Jerry. "Now some of you performed well on the quiz, but most of you didn't." she shrugged. "But don't let that discourage you in anyway, in fact, you can do what everyone does and learn from your failure."
She then spoke through the skeleton like a puppet. "Translation: quit while you're ahead, it'll save you the shame of disappointing your parents."
"Oh Jerry, stop it." the science teacher giggled as she handed Randy his quiz.
His initial boredom was replaced with excitement. "Howard, check it out." the purple haired teenager held his quiz close to the portly boy's face. "I got an B-! That is a huge improvement from my regular Ds and Fs, mom will be so stoked!"
"Why do you care, Cunningham?" Howard asked. "You never really complained when you got those other grades."
"That was before she started to really get on my case for all the poor grades I kept getting, she said if I managed to at least get an B or an A on a science test, I get some more privileges for some downtime." he then looked around to make sure no one was listening and leaned in closer. "Which means I get some more Infinity Legion time."
Howard instantly grew bitter. "Oh right, you mean your new club." he looked aside with a sour expression.
Randy shook his head. "Dude, please don't start."
"I don't know what your talking about, Randall." Howard feigned being ignorant.
"Okay first, the full name thing is just making you be petty. Second, you know exactly what I'm talking about, you had a problem with me, Danny, and Jake frequently having some team-ups and now you have a problem with me being a part of a team of superheroes, most of which are pretty cool people, I mean there are guys that should stuff, transform, cool suits of armors, robots with feelings, basically a whole team of awesome players, man." Randy told him. "Along with a super ninja as a member."
Sighing, Howard turned to him. "That's just it, Randy, you seem to care more about fighting bad guys with them than hanging out with your best bro; me. I mean, when was the last time we went to Greg's Game Hole together?"
Randy hated to admit it, but his oldest buddy made a great point there, he knew that Howard never liked it when he pushed his responsibilities as the Ninja ahead of being a reliable friend, and him being on a new team has made things a little hard to find the right time. "Okay, you make a good point, but you don't have to worry." he said, putting a reassuring hand on the redheaded teen's shoulder. "You're still my best friend, nothing will ever change that." the hidden ninja hero promised.
Fortunately, this made Howard sport a grateful smile to his face and before more could be exchanged between the two, the sound of the school bell rang signifying the end of the school day and thus, the students got up from their seats and proceeded to walk out of the classroom and moved to their lockers where their stuff was inside, as the two boys opened them up, a melody was heard and they looked up at the TV monitors placed on the top of the wall. "Hey there, peeps!" an enthusiastic sounding voice called as the image of a redheaded teenage girl appeared on the screen. "It's your girl, Heidi, giving some up to date deets on out very own Ninja!" a slide image of said ninja was shown and with him were a familiar hlafa and dragon. Now, we all know that he formed his own crew with world-famous hero Danny Phantom, and an actual dragon, forming the Secret Trio."
"I don't care what Danny and Jake say, that is still a cool name." Randy adamantly said.
"But word from Amity Park got out and it looked like the Ninja's part of an even bigger group." images from photos taken in Amity during the citywide ghost assault were then viewed which depicted not just the Ninja, but also the rest of the members of the Infinity Legion. "Not only were Phantom and the dragon there, but Kim Possible herself with her boyfriend, Ron!" she excitedly squealed. "In addition, there was El Tigre, young hero of Miracle City, and XJ-9, the robot girl from Temorton, and Max Steel from Copper Canyon. But there is like no info on the other heroes that were on the scene. Hopefully, they'll make another appearance and I'll fill you in, until next time, this is Heidi at school, signing off."
"Can't believe how much mileage you're giving my sister." Howard shook his head. "I mean, she was practically up past curfew trying to dig stuff up about your new friends."
"Hey, we're a newly formed superhero team." Randy pointed out. "Of course would want to know about us. Though not all of us are sold on the whole publicity angle-woah!" he shouted a she accidentally bumped into someone, causing both to fall down, with the other person dropping her books. "Oh man, sorry about..." his eyes widened once he saw that it was Theresa Fowler whom he bumped into, his cheeks took on a hint of pink and stumbled in his words. "T-Theresa!" he began helping her pick up her stuff. "I am so very sorry, I didn't where I was l-looking, and-"
"It's alright, Randy. I was kinda lost in my own world, too." she assured him with a gentle smile and before they knew it, their hands touched when they moved to grab her baton, both looked at teach other with wide eyes.
"U-Uh, here you go." he handed her it and they both quickly got up.
Rubbing her arm while blushing furiously, she replied. "Thanks, I uh, I'll be going now." she hurriedly left before more awkwardness would ensue.
Howard rolled his eyes as he gave his buddy a slow head shake.
"What?" Randy asked as they went out and he mounted on his bicycle. "Later, Howard." he waved as the teen rode off into out of the school and into the neighborhood where his house was waiting, once he made it to the driveway, he got off the bike and ran inside. As he ran, Randy laid his test paper on the kitchen table for his mom to see and off he went to his dwelling room. A beeping sound was heard from under his bed and he got down and pulled out his dimensional transport device and got a message.
Almost everyone is here. Waiting on you.-Danny F.
Grinning, Randy locked the door and picked up his handbag with the ninja mask and Ninjanomicon were stored and he set the coordinates, he pressed the button which caused a white portal to open and without hesitating, he immediately jumped in to the Earth of his Galalunian friends.
Infinity Legion Tower
The headquarters of the Infinity Legion stood in its place as the sun shined its glow on both it and the island where it was located in, said light reflected from the logo which was now a combined I and L inside a shield that was placed on the top of it, from its main entrance, a portal was opened up and out came Randy Cunningham, one of the tower's many residents. "Ah." he sighed in content once he got a whiff of that fresh air and gazed upon his home away from home. "No matter how many times I see this, it never gets old." wasting no time, he immediately ran close to the tower and it's nearby locations where off the corner of his eye, he saw the parking lot near the building where the Quantum was placed in. There was Ben, Lance, Max, Steel, Ron, and Rex and the former four were working on vehicles, while the EVO was drinking a soda. "Hey, guys!"
"Hey, Randy." Rex hi-fived him. "Good to see ya, pal."
"What's with the sweet rides?" he motioned to the vehicles.
Ben leaned on his car, the DX Mark 10. "Well, if this is gonna be our little getaway from our home dimensions, it's kinda obvious we should keep most of our gear here, including our rides."
"Took a lot of convincing Uncle Ferrus and Berto to let me bring the Turbo Car and Cycle along for the ride." Max said, parking his vehicles in place.
"Especially Berto." Steel added. "Good thing we didn't ask to bring CYTRO along."
Randy turned to the mystic monkey power holder. "Though this was your girl's car, Ron." he recalled.
"What about you, Rex?" Randy asked.
The EVO teen shrugged. "No one was around to play some basketballs with, thought I'd check out the rides here." he then snorted once he looked to Lance's car. "Of course, it's no question on which is the junker. For real, Lance, where did you pick out that beater, some junkyard?" he teased.
Lance didn't want to entertain him, but Rex has that level of annoying that he just couldn't ignore. "For your information, Rex, Octus and I outfitted this car with Galalunian tech, it can easily outrun any standard vehicle, especially an obsolete motor machine, plus his ride."
"Oooh." Ben covered his mouth in shock and murmured to Rex. "He just called you out, buddy."
"Shots fired." Steel announced.
Randy started backing away. "And that's my cue to leave." he knew better than to be close to those two whenever they make everything into a warzone no matter what happens, he quickly sped into the tower where the main lobby was and he saw a certain Mewman princess playing around with some weird eyepieces that resembled binoculars with her best friend and Zak with her. "Since when does Star need glasses?" he asked, walking to them.
"Oh, hey Randy." Zak greeted. "These aren't glasses. They're a new scope that Steel, Octus, and I developed in the lab, we got most of the designs and functions from Rex who lent us his goggles. Like his own, they can switch between all kinds of the electromagnetic spectrum to allow us a perfect view of all fields of vision."
Randy looked to Marco, but he shrugged. "Zak, pretend for a minute that I had no idea what you just said."
"You can see through any kind of vision, we already have plans to mass produce them for the team."
"And you asked Star to test them out?"
Marco chimed in. "Actually, she volunteered and I think she's having way too much fun with them."
Proving his point, the princess started switching the settings. "Wow, Zak, these goggles are awesome! Now I'm jealous that Rex gets to use these like all the time!" she turned around where she saw Marco and she sort of zoned out for a moment as the goggles focused on his face and she subconsciously moved her gaze down to his stomach and remembered how he looked in Hekapoo's dimension. 'Abs...' she inwardly moaned in delight.
"Star? Hey, Star."
Her musings were cut short when she heard her name being called and she looked to the person doing so. "Oh, hi Randy, when did you get here?"
"Just now." he tapped the lenses. "Those goggles working for you?"
"You have no idea! I can totally see your skeleton, with all the bones, now you're all sort of colors!"
Randy backed away. "Right, I'll see you guys later." he made his way to the elevator and it brought him all the way up to the top level, AKA his favorite part of the tower. He walked over to the couch and jumped over to sit down and he sighed in content as he let the soft cushions take him away to comfy land, man he loved this life, it was then that he noticed three other teammates besides him, them being Cat Noir in his disguise clothes, Boone eating some chips, and Jenny Wakeman who was sipping on motor oil. "Cat. Jenny. Boone" he nodded.
"Hey Randy." Adrien greeted back as his Kwami, Plagg was next to him, munching on a cheese wheel.
"What's up?" the robot girl.
"A good afternoon to you." Boone muffled through the many bits in his mouth,
"Is that motor oil you're drinking."
Jenny stopped slurping and knocked herself on the head. "Oh, how rude of me, would you like some, Randy?"
He puts his hand up. "No thanks, I'm good. So where are the others?"
Adrien answered. "You probably saw the guys working on their cars and Zak testing new goggles out on Star. As for the rest, Jack, Ashi, Penn, Ladybug, Sashi, Manny, and Jake are in the training room while Danny, Ilana, Octus, and Kim are in the sub-level discussing something about S.A.R.S, last I heard."
"Well, all I'll be doing is kicking back for a bit, had a long day at school and luckily, I managed to ace an important test which is a good thing because otherwise I wouldn't be allowed to leave the house." Randy said, turning the TV on where he watched a hilarious cartoon about a bunny and duck living in the suburbs. "Of course, now that I think about, she might have problems about it not being an A, but can you blame me? I had to do some late night patrol so of course I sleep in class."
Both Adrien and Jenny nodded in sympathy. "Oh, you are preaching to the choir, my friend." the Parisian said. "I won't give out too much, but sometimes, I feel like a prisoner of some supervillain or something."
"You want to know the worst thing about having your mom being the one who built you? She has access to my shutdown codes, so yeah, I can prattle on about how unfair she's being but all she has to do is type a few keys and bam! I'm basically a mannequin." she sprang her arms up in annoyance. "One of the downsides of being made of nuts and bolts."
"Good thing we have this tower to relax, nothing but sitting back and-"
"Randy."
All four jumped in surprise once they noticed a familiar samurai prince standing over the couch. "Jack? Dude, sneaking up on a person is so not cool." Randy told him.
Raising a brow, Jack pointed out a certain aspect of the youngster. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you who fancies himself as a ninja, a warrior who uses the shadows to surprise others." he recalled, displaying his expert knowledge on all manner of warriors, especially that of the shinobi, he's even had experiencing with them.
Plagg floated next to Randy with cheese in his mouth. "You know, he's got a point." he was met with an annoyed glare. "What? I'm just saying."
Boone nodded in agreement. "It's like ninja-ing 101."
"Thought you were at the training room, Jack." Jenny said.
He nodded in response. "Indeed I was, Jenny. But in the middle of a sparring match with Jake, I had just recalled a certain training session that was scheduled last week with young Randall here." Jack gestured to the purple haired teen. "However, he failed to make himself punctual, so I decided that perhaps now would be an appropriate time to make up for your previous absence."
"Um..." as much he thinks the training room is awesome, he wasn't really in the mood for some physical activities. "Sounds tempting, but now's not a really good time." Randy tried coming up with a valid excuse. "See, I'm...busy."
"And that would be?"
"You know...stuff." the teenager shrugged.
An awkward silence filled the room as it was obvious that Jack wasn't convinced in the slightest, and the samurai would not tolerate any procrastination from any of the members as it is a sign of weakness. "Follow me, Randy." he told him, heading towards the elevator. "We will begin shortly, I trust you to not waste any time."
Randy's head bowed down. "There's no way out of this, is there?"
"Nope." Plagg chirped.
Knowing that Jack would just ask again and again until he accepted, Randy got up and followed him. 'So much for vegging out all day.' Randy thought miserably to himself.
Penn's blade collided with Sashi's energy blades as they sparred with each other inside the training room, Sashi was curious if her boyfriend was slacking off so she asked him to have a little go with each other, of which he happily accepted, now normally, he wouldn't be so bold to fight with Sashi of all people but he didn't want to disappoint her. The Zero boy tried swiping his sword, but she skillfully jumped and landed to face his back but he then blocked a strike meant for it, the Japanese girl jumped and did a spinning kick but he uses his shield to put up a strong defense, and used his sword once more, but she dodged them all. "Are you going easy on me?" she asked. "I know when it comes to combat, I'm way stronger, but I thought you'd put in some more effort, PZ."
Chuckling, Penn wiped off some sweat. "Heh, sorry Sash, but I don't want to mess up that pretty face of yours too much. After all, we do have that date next week."
Sashi found herself having a good laugh as well while being flirtatious. "Appreciate it, handsome, but don't let us dating get in the way." she dashed and struck multiple times and he was barely able to block all of them. In fact, she managed to land a solid kick to the gut while flipping him over, but then she saw that he was holding his stomach with a groan and was washed with concern. "Oh my gosh!" she kneeled down. "Penn, I-I didn't mean-" she was blindsided when she was grabbed by the wrists and flung over.
"Psych!" he grinned.
"You used my weaknesses for you against me!" she realized with a glare but then softened in a softened expression. "Dang it, I love you so much."
Ashi was surrounded by Jake in his dragon form, El Tigre, and Ladybug, she had asked them if they could show her what they're made of in a 3-on-1 sparring match. Now at first, they were hesitant since in their eyes, the odds were unfair in her position, but she reassured them she could handle anything that was thrown at her. The first to strike was Jake who breathed out a fire stream but she froze it solid with an ice breath, he set his feet on the floor and tried landing some punches but the extremely nimble half-demon managed to block his blows with ease and with her inhuman strength managed to carry him up and slam him down. "You use too much force in your attacks, Jake, and yet you held back because you're fighting me, don't let that get in the way." she told him and caught a Yo-Yo from Ladybug who tried going for a sneak attack, she pulled it back to yank the masked teenage girl into the other side, making her rub her head. "Clever tactic, but try other options, Ladybug." El Tigre suddenly attacked from above that surprised Ashi, but she managed to hold off the boy's attack well and clashed his claws with her own, he fired the chains but then she used them to conduct electricity that sent a shock at him.
The result was him laying down on the floor and pulled his mask back. "Kinda wish Jack didn't leave. Can't you go a little easy on us, Ashi?" the Rivera boy groaned, Ashi kneeled down and tousled his hair.
"Sorry Manny, but all of you can't ever expect your enemies to show you any sign of mercy, if so, then they'll use it against you." Ashi advised them.
"We know that, it's just, would it hurt you to maybe hold back just the teeniest bit." Jake said, reverting back to human. "Seriously though, why did Jack have to leave in the middle of our spar?"
Just as he said that, the doors opened to reveal the samurai being followed by a ninja teen hero. "Hey guys." said the teen, unenthusiastically.
"Randy?" Ashi questioned. "What are you doing here?"
He jerked his thumb at Jack as a response. "Ask your husband, Ashi."
She turned to Jack to get some sort of explanation. "It is fine, my love." he reassured his wife, placing a hand on her cheek with a smile. "I merely wish to make up a previous training session that our young friend avoided."
"Told ya, you shouldn't have flaked out." Jake said to Randy.
"You didn't say squat."
"Everyone." Jack addressed, silencing any further talk. "Choose to remain here if you wish it so, but I only ask for you to watch from the observation deck and that's all."
Exchanging curious glances, they nonetheless complied with his request and walked up the stairs to the observation deck where Legion members could observe other members duke it out in the training room to see how a match up between Jack, highly skilled samurai warrior and the skilled, yet young ninjitsu trained boy would fair. Looking up to the window, Jack nodded towards Ashi who nodded back as she had an idea which environment he wished to use for this spar. Typing in the code for the training program, the room's holographic feature made it appear to be a traditional dojo, fit with Japanese kanjis plastered around and s Ying-Yang symbol as well. "Huh, a little old school, but I can work with it." Randy said as he put on his ninja mask. "Let's see if that magic sword is as tough as it seems."
"Wait." Jack raised his hand. "We will not be using our blades."
Either there was some wax in his ears, or did Jack really just say that? "Um...come again?"
Jack removed the sheath from his waist and placed it gently on the ground. "This sword was forged to only strike down the evil and wicked who prey on the innocent. You are the opposite, not to mention an ally to me, my friend, I do not feel comfortable using such a weapon against you." he walked over the mat where wooden training swords were placed, he picked up two and threw one over to Randy. "So for today, I believe these will suffice, I hope they are to your liking."
Randy just stared at the training weapon oddly. "Okay, I don't wanna be that guy, but I kinda prefer the real thing. You're talking to a 9th grade ninja, not a kindergarten ninja, I can deal with real swords."
"Perhaps, but Randy, you are inherently known to be rather...flashy when you are in the field of battle." Jack told him. "You continuously call out your attacks, rather unorthodox in your fighting style and you are kind of over confident in your abilities. While that can be a good thing at certain times, it can also lead to one's own downfall." he readies himself with the training weapon.
Rolling his eyes, Randy decided to humor him a little but still assumed that this was a monumental waste of his time, since he's had tons of experience battling stanked monsters and killer robots in the past. But he just doesn't realize one thing, he never fought against the likes of Samurai Jack before and maybe he'll learn a thing or two. The prince stood still with his eyes calmly closed until the Ninja dashed ahead and tried striking at his head, but Jack used his weapon to block and forced the teen back, Ninja tried more basic strikes but he couldn't land any hits on the more seasoned warrior but each blow was easily blocked. Thinking fast, Randy threw down a smoke bomb that enveloped them both, good thing he's gotten used to the horrid stench of those things because now he could land a solid hit, but when he swung it at where Jack was, he saw that the samurai had just vanished. "What the juice?" he looked around but still couldn't find him.
"While the stench is effective, it provided me a way to escape from your view." he heard Jack say, somewhere hidden within the dojo. "That was your first mistake."
As Randy continued to search for Jack, he failed to notice that the samurai had appeared right behind him and before he knew it, the teen was met with a back-handed strike that knocked him down. "Ugh!" he grunted and groggily stood back up. "Okay, that was just a pure lucky shot, now the gloves are off!" he jumped high. "Ninja attack from above!" but as he swung down, Jack effortlessly caught it with his free left hand threw it behind him, making him drop the weapon. Jack then proceeded to jab his own weapon at several critical points all over Randy's body, making him slowly get tired and with a hand thrust to the chest, was flung backwards to the ground.
From, the observation desk, the Legion members were observing with both interest and entertainment for some. "Oh man." Manny chuckled. "Randy's getting his butt handed to him, suddenly I think we got off easy when Jack left."
Sashi crossed her arms with an unimpressed expression. "What'd you expect, Manny? Jack's a trained samurai while Randy's, well he's good and all, but I wouldn't say he's at the same level as him." Jake looked on in concern for his friend as they continued to watch this spar unfold.
Back with the aforementioned contenders, Randy seemed a little winded but he managed to recover a little and got into a battle stance. "Does calling your attacks out really bring you an assurance of victory?" Jack rhetorically asked. "You do realize that it'll give your opponent a chance to counteract it them, right?"
"It's never let me down before." Randy tried getting back up, but that last hit left him holding his stomach.
Seeing this, Jack called out. "End the program, Ashi." once the room returned to it's standard environment of an empty spacious room, he walked over and offered a helping hand to Randy, but he refused it and got up on his own. "Do you know why you lost?"
"Because you were a bit too rough." Randy remarked.
Shaking his head, Jack clarified. "No, it was because you were too relaxed, too nonchalant in your attacks, you seemed positive that you had enough skill and power to win, and you let that arrogance cloud your judgment. There was no clear plan as well, you just went too free with yourself and lacked any sign of taking this fight seriously."
Randy looked away with a light glare as he never liked it when others tend to be critical with his performance as both a person and as the Ninja and didn't want to hear anymore as he turned around. "Forget this, I'm outta here." before he could leave in a huff, Jack laid a hand on his shoulder.
"Do not look at this as a failure, but rather, as a lesson." Jack advised. "Overconfidence and a too relaxed nature are not a good mix, it leads to suffering for you or to others and if you truly wish to be recognized as a ninja, you must learn to set aside your own arrogance and learn that not everything can be solved by you." Randy seemed to consider these words for a moment but was still a little sore about his loss and abruptly left all the same leaving behind Jack who looked on in thouht. 'He still has much to learn.'
Greg's Game Hole
Shortly after getting home from school, Howard scrunched up any change he's saved up in the past few weeks so that he could play as many games down at the game hole where he went to soon after and was playing a Grave Punchers arcade game all by himself, his best friend would usually be playing side by side with him right now but he was too busy with his new friends. Just thinking about it was enough for the Weinerman boy to nearly get a game over, he could tolerate Randy hanging out with the American Dragon and Danny Phantom along with other superheroes from around the world like Max Steel, El Tigre, XG-9, and those 2 costumed geeks from France and of course KP and RS, except now he travels to different dimensions which makes him feel a little lonely. Too bad there was no on else to...
"Hey, Howard."
Pausing the game, the ginger-haired teen looked and saw someone from his school, a girl his age with dark blue hair of Asian decent. "Debbie Kang?" he questioned. "What do you want?"
"Theresa dragged me here." she pointed to the baton twirler who was hanging back at the entrance. "She'll deny it, but she wanted to see Randy here, where is he, by the way? You two always go here after school."
Scowling a little, Howard turned back to the game. "Eh, don't worry about it. Good old Cunningham is busy right now, so sorry to Fowler, but she won't be seeing that much of him." he muttered one last part. "I sure as heck won't." he figured of that guy wanted to kick back with his new costumed/superpowered besties, than this might as well be the only option for him.
Debbie Kang was a smart girl, so she knew that something was bothering the portly boy and though they weren't exactly close friends, that didn't mean she was incapable of lifting someone's spirts up when they're down. "You know, this game can be played by two people, right? And it just so happens that I have some cash on me."
He raised an eyebrow at what she was implying. "You, Debbie Kang, want to play Grave Punchers? With me? What happened to all that talk about it being a game designed by nenderthals or something."
"Neanderthals." she corrected with an eye roll. "Besides, I'm already done with my homework and I got nothing better to do, so why the juice not? And let's face it, you don't want to seem like a lonely loser, do you?"
Howard muttered in a bitter tone, annoyed that she always has to be right all the time but before he could give her a straight answer, a loud crashing sound coming from outside was heard. Curious, Howard, Debbie Kang, and Theresa ran outside and saw that a large containment unit had crash landed in the middle of the street. Car alarms were blaring, people who ere going about their business stopped to look at the strange object and a tense silence filled the air. Just then, the containment unit slowly opened up and large footsteps were heard which were powerful enough to make a few civilians jump, they all eventually saw the contents which was the towering Adapt-tron and it observed the area around it, taking note of the humans who stood in both shock and fear. They were hardly of any consequence, what really mattered o it was the target its creator informed it was supposed to be its primary objective to search and destroy.
NINJA: NOT IDENTIFIED
SUGGESTED TACTIC: DRAW HIM OUT
COURSE OF ACTION: ATTACK ALL CIVILIANS
The Amazing Adapt-tron's orb face started glowing and a powerful destructive blue blast fired from it which struck the buildings nearby causing a mass panic among the populace, causing all of them to run away from the area and the robot continued to fire all around, knowing full well that the Ninja could never run away from saving innocent lives from danger.
Infinity Legion Tower
Speaking of the Ninja, he was in his civilian identity and was presently inside his assigned bedroom that was located inside the tower, he laid on his bed deep in thought, gazing up at the ceiling and thinking over his defeat at the hands of Samurai Jack. Humiliating feeling aside, Randy couldn't help but think about Jack's words to him, about his overconfidence can be a weakness if not taken care of, so he'll admit, he does have the tendency to always think he can prevail against any kind of threat. But can you blame him? After all, he has been progressing quite well ever since being chosen to bear the mantle of the Norrisville Ninja, not only did he manage to make the threat of the Sorcerer disappear once and for all, a feat many of his predecessors haven't done, but he so far has had little trouble dealing with any other threats.
He thought by going along with this Infinity Legion thing, he not only got the chance to fight with other superheroes which include two great friends of him but maybe he could get a good challenge, it gets boring having to deal with nothing but McFist's killer robots and given the face that he helped stop a dimensional invasion, why shouldn't he feel proud? Jack may be right about the whole over-confident thing, but it's the kind of way that Randy's always used and it's hardly ever failed him before. Even though there were times where he realized he sometimes cause more problems instead of preventing him, he still manages to win at the end of the day.
Not like it matters though, he gazes at his satchel where the Ninjanomicon and bitterly remembered a certain aspect of being the Ninja that never really sit in well with him. It was customary for the mantle to be passed down once 4 years have gone by, but when that time comes, the person who's been carrying that responsibility not only turns in the mask and book but as one final lesson, he or she has to allow their memories of being the Ninja become erased, which means all that they've experienced will forever be forgotten. For Randy, that meant forgetting all the exciting adventures he's been in, which includes meeting the Legion, he'd have to forget Danny, Jake, and everything else so maybe he doesn't really pull that much of an effort because he figures what would be the point if he ends up forgetting it all? And he knows his track record, the possibility of him being known as a responsible ninja is very low, he's quite aware of his many faults and wonders if there was a mistake in giving him the mask, can't be a bigger mistake than Mac Antfee but still...
His musings were cut off as the Nomicon started glowing which only meant one thing...
It was time for another lesson, he pulled it out and once he opened it's pages, his entire consciousness was absorbed into the pages and he yelled as he fell deep inside and landed in a forest. "Alright Nomicon, this better be good, because I'm not really in the mood for some wise lesson you got."
As always, words appeared before him.
The true essence of a great hero, is their capacity for humility and to accept the wisdom of those around him. Coupled with their maturity and capacity to be patient will make them worthy of the Important Lesson.
"Important Lesson?" Randy scratched his nape in confusion. "You talking about the Ultimate Lesson? Yeah, I get it, my memories of being the ninja will be wiped." he grumpily recalled. "It's not exactly news to me."
"There are more lessons to be learned than just the ultimate one." a sage-like voice said. Jumping in surprise, Randy turned around and saw another ninja, only this one's was more old-fashioned and seemed like the kind the shadow warriors of old would wear and he knew exactly who this person was.
"First Ninja?" the purple haired teen asked in surprise, not expecting to meet his first predecessor inside the pages of the Nomicon, he knew that his very soul was within the book but it was still quite a shock.
"Hello, young ninja." the last of the Norisu Nine bowed his head in a greeting.
"W-What do you want?"
Gesturing him to follow, the First Ninja led Randy through the forest where there many drawings of various ninjas throughout history doing battle against many foes, along with many lessons they've passed down onto the chosen successors. "I sensed the inner turmoil that has been progressing within you, is there something troubling you?"
Randy considered how he should answer and did the best way that he could. "Everything, I guess. I thought things would be kind of easy with the Sorcerer gone and now I'm part of a new team, so that's also a plus. Just don't know why they think I need to improve myself, I'm doing fine the way I am, thank you very much."
"True, you have exhibited undeniable progress since being chosen to bear the mantle." First Ninja admitted. "And yet, you still let other factors hold you back from realizing your true potential. To be a true ninja, a true hero, you must not let every victory inflate your ego, and most importantly, do not let fear cloud your thoughts."
"Fear? Who ever said anything about fear?"
"Young ninja, it is as clear as day." First Ninja responded. "You are not the only one to exhibit such insecurities, I know you have inner worry over the Ultimate Lesson, many have tried to avoid that fate only to fail, but you must not let that along with any other fear you may have affect your efficiency as both a ninja and a hero."
"But what's the point?!" he threw his arms up. "Will it really matter if I'm just gonna forget everything in the end, all the lessons I've learned, the good memories I've had, it'll just be for nothing. Sure, there'll be some new kid on the block handling it all, but it'll be hard to accept it when I won't even know how to because to me, it'll never happen."
First Ninja had to admit, the youngling was more aware than he realized, and as much as he wished to tell Randy of what the most important lesson is, he can't do so since the boy has yet to show if he's ready to handle it, but that remains to be seen. He still has much anger and frustration in him, and it'll only matter if he overcomes it in the long run. "The Important Lesson has more value than the Ultimate Lesson, you can only learn it by first learning the newest lesson the Nomicon has displayed to you, by then you may have a solution to your problem. Until that happens, I wish you the best of luck."
Randy was now confused. "Luck with wha-AHH!" he was then hurled out of the Nomicon and back into his physical body with a little more force this tiem around, causing him to be knocked back on his bed. "Uh...why can't I get a straight answer?" Just then, an alarm sound blared all over the tower and the door was opened by Penn.
"Danny's calling us to the meeting room, Randy!" the red haired teen urgently said.
A majority of the Infinity Legion members have assembled to the meeting room which was located in the sub-level after getting a wide-call from their team leader who was there with Kim Possible and Octus. In the beginning, the three were discussing the status of their ongoing search for S.A.R.S after the last mission involving the group of alien technology-using arms dealers/mercenaries from whatever intel Solomon was willing to share with them and hopefully they could determine their hiding spot, but then the alert system which lets them know of any emergency happening in any of their Earths activated. From there, Danny called for all Legionnaire to respond to, the last to arrive were Randy and Penn. "What's going on?" Randy questioned as both took their seats and looked to Danny.
"There's trouble in your home, Randy." the halfa gravely informed his friend as he brought up news the News coverage downtown.
Randy's eyes widened as he witnessed a new kind of killer robot attacking the city that he was sworn to protect, it had already done substantial damage all around, judging from all the wrecked cars and building debris littered across the streets, and of course the mass hysteria that overcame every pedestrian in sight. "Live footage from downtown Norrisville showcases a mysterious robot that appeared out of nowhere and immediately began to attack the town, SWAT units have failed to repel it and most are asking where the Ninja is."
If this wasn't horrible enough for the young ninja, then seeing a glimpse of Howard, Theresa, and even Debbie Kang trying to get to safety certainly did the trick as he gritted his teeth as he knew exactly the one responsible for this unfortunate situation. "McFist." he distastefully said with a heated glare. "Can't think of anyone else responsible."
"This looks way more intense than robot gorillas." Max observed with a serious tone as everyone prepared themselves..
Danny addressed the whole team. "Get to the ship, I want everyone prepped for a fight and I want it done yesterday." he ordered of which everyone complied with no complaints.
None of them were more ready than Randy Cunningham who's suit manifested around his being and walked forward with the legion in order to head for the Quantum and dimension travel to Norrisville and stop it. "Randy." Jack said, making him turn. "I know that look in your eyes." he said, for he knew that look all too well. "Are you okay?"
"I will be when we send that thing to the scrap heap." Randy punched his open palm with his fist and gave a smirk. "That thing will know what happens when you mess with the Ninja and his crew."
"Do not look for victory so soon before a battle, there are many things the enemy is capable of." the prince told him.
"Hey, I've taken down robots before, this won't be any different." the confident ninja declared as they all went but Jack still looked in in absolute concern for him, there he goes again. acting as if he can handle this easily.
That does not bode well at all.
Back in Norrisville, the Adapt-tron continued its attack on the city, knowing full well that seeing the innocents being in danger would be enough to draw its target out and would proceed with the prime directive, as it continued firing optic blasts, most of the citizens have either cleared out or had resorted to using hiding places. Such was the case for Howard, Theresa, and Debbie Kang were ducking underneath what's left of a car and were careful to stay out of sight from the robot as it fired to the area where the car was located and it was by pure luck that they haven't been hit yet. "It's chaos here!" Howard whispered as he peaked through a hole and observed the ongoing damage to their home. "We need to make like Bruce and get the cheese out of here!"
Theresa shivered in fear. "B-But that thing might hit us while we're running!" she pointed out, clutching her baton tightly to the chest. "It's too dangerous fot just about anyone..."
"What about the Ninja?" Debbie Kang inquired. "Shouldn't he be here by now?"
Howard once again had to admit that she had a good point, wherever Randy was, he had to come back some time and take care of this threat and then they all spotted something in the air, it was a brief lightning charge and suddenly, before their very eyes, a large portal opened up and something flew right from it which made their eyes widened in astonishment. The Quantum ship emerged and it hovered over the streets and the android, which had momentarily halted in its attack to observe.
OBSERVATION: UNKNOWN VESSEL SPOTTED
COURSE OF ACTION: DETERMINE IF THREAT IS PRESENT
From the ship, Danny Phantom flew out. "Infinity Legion, Unite!" he announced, the Quantum descended close to the streets and the hangar door in the back opened up, revealing the entirety of the legion who landed down on the ground as they faced the android in all its glory. "Psst, Randy." Ladybug whispered to the Ninja. "Ever had to fight a robot like this?"
"Not really." Ninja admitted. "But it'll be a pile of scrap all the same."
"Do we even have a plan of attack?" Marco asked.
"Here's a suggestion; attack!" Ben was the first to make his move, transforming into Four Arms, the Tetramand was ready to collide a powerful fist to the android but it caught the fist without any trouble, surprising the Omnitrix bearer, even more so when the liquid metal around it started to morph to look like some body builder, almost like the Tetramand. The Adapt-tron lifted him up as if her were as light as a tissue paper and threw straight through the upper part of a building.
"Ben!" Rex shouted in alarm.
Danny had to raise a shield to defend the legion against an optic blast aimed at them. "Boone, go get Ben! Marco, El Tigre, Ladybug, Star, and Cat Noir, you got crowd control, open up portals to get the people to safety!"
"Right, Danny." Boone hovered to the building where Four Arms crashed into.
"You got it, Danny." Marco ran over to the people who cowering in terror and promptly cuts open a portal to a nearby hospital that was big enough for all of them to enter. "Okay single file, people, don't go stampeding like bunch of-HEY NOW!" he jumped out of the way as the people did exactly just that, nearly running him over in the process. "Or just go ahead and storm in, it's not like the guy who just gave you a way out of this mess minds all of you nearly turning him into street pizza."
Theresa and Debbie Kang ran through, but Howard lingered a bit as he looked to his best friend among the group. "Huh, okay I admit it, they do look pretty cool."
Star created multiple Cloudys for the ones that were on the roof, one included a little girl. "It's okay, everything's gonna be fine." Star soothed with a kindhearted smile which made the kid trust her enough to get on the clouds with her parents and other people.
Stray blasts blasted a building, causing the debris that soon fell nearly land on the two people below, but Ladybug swung in and carried them to safety. "Head to the nearest portal, it'll take you to safety." she advised, she was so busy tending to them that she was ignorant of the android aiming a blast at her, but Cat Noir saved his partner just in time by tackling her to the ground, resulting in her being on top of him.
"This is the part where you kiss the hero." he smirked, with his hands behind his head.
"Well, there are a lot of heroes present, so you have to be specific." she smirked, flicking his bell.
"Gross, get a room, you two." El Tigre gagged, seeing the flirty exchange as he launched chain claws to take a hold of two toddlers and made a run for Marco's portal. "There you go, little hermanos." he turned to the creator of the portal. "Was that the last of them, Marco?"
"Hopefully."
Now was the time to attack the android.
Ron charged up and ripped out a lamp post and tried hitting it but the android grabbed and in an admittedly impressive show of strength, bent it without trouble, the lamp post was then snatched away from the blonde and was discarded. "So, you wanna do this the old fashioned way, huh?" he cracked his knuckles. "Then let's go!" Ron jumped high onto the android's face and tried to pull the orb out but it charged up and fired with him at close range, resulting in Ron being fired straight at the ground. His aura was able to protect him, but it still extremely hurt, groggily standing back up, Ron tried to punch him and tis time, the android met it with its own punch. Both repeatedly traded blows at super-paced speed until Ron was starting to get a little exhausted, something that the android noticed and shifted its body into a stone-like body and pinned him to the floor with one finger. "Uh, guys, you're welcome to cut in any day now!"
"Hang on Ron, I got ya!" Rex formed the Boogie Pack and flew, the BFS was then used to slice its hand, but before the EVO's eyes, it grew back and the android fired another optic blast that made Rex try to avoid its line of fire by flying freely in the air while using the sword's buzz saw mode to slice more of it, but it still regenerated. Before his eyes, his right arm shifted into an almost exact replica of the BFS, if not a little cheaper, it flew up to the sky and swept it at Rex who blocked with his own sword. "What? Too cheap to use your own moves, so you just copy other? Talk about lame. Even more when I get my hands on you." he discarded his machines and landed right on the android's shoulders. To Rex, the fact that this thing's a machine makes it easy pickings for his nanites to control, a blue grifd-like pattern appeared around it as the tiny little machines tried to override its systems.
WARNING: INTERNAL THREAT DETECTED
INITIATING COUNTERMEASURE
This was a special feature Viceroy installed, in the event that the Adapt-tron is suffering an attack from inside, the nanobots that drives its every movement would work to purge this threat like the human body's red blood cells. In this instance, they combated Rex's nanites and forced them back to their point of origin, which was Rex himself. The EVO teen grunted in pain as this affected him greatly and the android dropped him where he began his plunging to the ground. If it weren't for Lance catching him in his armor with Ilana and Octus flying besides him, they landed on the ground as Rex rubbed his temple and groaned. "Rex, what did it do?" Ilana asked in worry.
"Not sure, Ilana." he responded. "I tried making it go haywire with my nanites, but it somehow forced them back. That's...never happened before."
Penn and Sashi attacked the thing together, they flew around it while blasting it repeatedly, though they were more of an inconvenience to the android rather than a threat and it tried to hit them away like common houseflies, the couple then used their handheld weapons to try and slice it apart, but incredibly, it was made out of sturdy stuff. Another face blast nearly touched them but then its hands turned into pincers and grabbed both of them, shocking them in the process and once they had enough, it released them from its grip and to the ground. The Adapt-tron hovered over them and prepared to fire, but then was blasted repeatedly by lasers, the source being Boone who carried Four Arms in a gravitational field that levitated him. "Land me right here Boone, it's time for some payback!"
"Not to tell you what to do, Ben, but you should go with another guy." Boone told him, while helping his friends up.
"Be careful, Ben." Penn told him. "Thing's on a whole new level.
Four Arms smirked. "Don't worry about me, Penn." slapping the Omnitrix dial, he was now Lodestar. "Next time, your creators shouldn't make something made out of a rare form of metal." a magnetic wave was sent to the android and it seemed like the main body was beginning to falter, but then it shifted into an ice-based body. "Okay, didn't see that coming." the Biosovortian lamented.
"Ninja raining hot balls!" A series of hot balls were thrown at it, making its ice coating melt a little, the Ninja swung in by the scarf and stood beside the alien hero. "Let me guess, you want a piece of me, don't you? Well, here I am!" taking out two swords, he bravely charged ahead and tried to slice it to pieces like all of McFist's robots, but this one was more durable than the ones he's faced in the past. Each time he swung his blade, the liquid-metal was barely scratched.
NINJA IDENTIFIED: PROCEEDING WITH PRIME DIRECTIVE
The android picked the Ninja up and a shoulder laser appeared and took aim, but Danny Phantom came to his friend's recue by sending ecto-disks that sliced the weapon and the arms off but like before, they regenerated. Luckily, Ninja was let go and Jake flew in and grabbed him by the arms. "I had that!" Randy said to him.
"Sure you did, buddy." the American Dragon rolled his eyes.
The halfa team leader fired multiple ghost rays at the android to provide his friends with some cover. "Randy, this robot isn't like the others you've faced, you can't go about it like you always do."
"Just give me one more minute with it." Ninja implored.
"Don't worry." Max Steel and Jenny ran past them. "Let's see it try and copy this. Go Turbo! Spike!" his spiked whips lashed around and tried going for the android's head but it formed its own spiked whips and tangled them with Max Steel's and pulled him forward due to being the one with the greater strength and tossed him around like a ragdoll.
Two blasters appeared from Jenny's arms and started firing it repeatedly, but it returned fire with its similarly designed blasters, only these packed more firepower as the robot girl was blasted into a building. "Hey, that's my trick!" she flew up and her chest opened up to reveal a charging cannon hole that fired a blue energy beam that was met with the face blast, but this was meant to be a distraction as a similar chest cannon formed and hits Jenny before she could even react, but was caught by Ilana.
"Well, there you go." Steel spoke. "He can copy that, hope you're happy now."
"Shut up, Steel." Max groaned.
The Adapt-tron was then trapped by multiple iron bars, curtesy of Lodestar which gave Jake the chance to unleash a fire stream that enveloped the android but it was already prepared for this and turned its body to ice, cold enough to withstand the flames of a dragon. An iron tendril sprouted and grabbed hold of Jake while the android held Max by the whips and threw them across but Octus formed around them into a bubble field to give them a softer landing. "Max, Steel, Jake, are you injured?"
"It's cool, robot bro." Steel reassured him. "It goes without saying that this android has adaptable abilities, though. Everything we throw at it is either copied or is countered."
Octus considered one possible solution. "Perhaps a combined assault would be adequate enough." he along with Manus and Corus surrounded the Adapt-tron and attacked together, Ilana fired from her headpiece laser, Octus sent an electric sphere, and Lance deployed a spear weapon and went in for the kill, but the android's optic blast met with the princess's laser that cancelled it out, its body turned into a non-conductible alloy that made the spheres have no effect and its arm shifted into a spear to clash against Lance's. Both engaged in a standoff, the corporal then noticed the married couple of Jack and Ashi nearby who nodded towards him to keep the android busy as Ashi shape-shifted into a thin creature with black scythes for hands and the black mass covering her face, she carried her husband and he motioned her to throw her and landed on its back. The samurai tried plunging his katana through the back which momentarily got the android to back away from Lance and try to pry off whatever's on it, Ashi took the chance to used her scythe hands to stab through the shoulders.
But suddenly, the shifting metal formed around her appendages and extended to her body. "Ashi!" Kim took out a white sphere and with one tight squeeze, her battle suit formed around her body. "Zak, let's help her out!" both she and the secret scientist went forward with her jumping high enough and him using the Claw as a pole vault. Kim used the suit's strength functions to pry Ashi off the android, saving her from being consumed. Zak moved over to Jack who was still on the back of the android, they both used their weapons to stab its body, but it grew extra arms to grab them and throw them aside. But Zak secretly smirked as he looked to his weapon.
Danny flew past them and created an ecto-chain to keep it trapped with it wrapped around. "Ghost stinger!" he charged an electrified shock that traveled to the chain and throughout the android, making it take a knee. "Just a little more power..." he sent more shocks to weaken it enough to be destroyed but it looked straight at Danny and fired straight at him. The halfa had to stop his attack and go intangible to let it pass through him. Glaring, Danny flew at him and blasting sounds could be heard from all around.
Back on the ground, the others looked on while trying to regain their bearings. "Zak!" Penn and Sashi helped both him and Jack up. "How do we beat something like this?"
"At the moment, not really sure."
"Guys!" they turned to see the members who were dealing with crowd control running towards them. "All the people are gone, how are things on your end?" El Tigre asked but got his answer when Danny landed right near them with a grunt.
"Not so good." the team leader answered, standing up. "We might just have to retreat, we're wasting our time just attacking it blindly."
"A sound suggestion." Jack agreed.
"What? Just run away like a bunch of shoobs? There's no way I'm letting McFist have a win over me!" the Ninja adamantly proclaimed not willing to allow this robot to best him in combat. He's the honkin' Ninja, sclicing up robots is what he's best at, besides owning his best friend at Grave Punchers, but that's a whole different thing. Looking around, the Ninja tried to find a way to take the android down once and for all, he remembered two attacks of his that might just do the trick and without warning ran off, despite the protests of the others. "Ninja Tengu Fireball!" entering into Ninja Rage, he the fire sphere and then the suit turned back to its normal colors and used another technique. "Ninja Air Fist!" a force of wind shaped like a fist also shot out and the combined force blasted it to a construction site where he then slashed around each support beam and the whole thing came crashing down on the Adapt-tron, keeping it trapped. "Now to finish this!" climbing up, the Ninja stood over the android's orb and raised his sword to bring it down.
"Randy, no!"
But it was too late, he had already plunged his sword at the orb and energy started to discharge from the orb, the Ninja backed away warily at this, thinking that maybe that wasn't such a brilliant move on his part, he shielded his eyes once the rob sent a massive out of control blast wave that enveloped the area causing some to shield their eyes from the intensity. When the dust settled, the Ninja slowly opened his eyes and saw the fallout of the blast, damaged building debris and other damage that was too severe but a groaning was heard and he looked to see a familiar ginger on the ground with his clothes torn. "H-Howard..." Randy breathed in disbelief, in an instant, horror filled him and most of all, guilt. His musings were cut off when he heard a metal sound, he saw the android began to free itself from the wreckage and stomped over to its target, completely unscathed. Randy was still too winded from the blast to get up and was powerless as it charged the orb.
Fortunately, Rex and Star rode in with the Rex Ride and engaged its ramming function with knocked the android back, and the Mewman princess casted a spell. "Narwhal Blast!" a torrent of narwhals were shot out which overcame the android.
ERROR: NARWHALS SHOOTING OUT OF TEENAGE GIRL'S WAND
DOES NOT COMPUTE
NO LOGIC BEHIND IT AT ALL
COURSE OF ACTION: UNDETERMINED
Unable to find a suitable countermeasure for this, the Adapt-tron halted in its movements allowing Lodestar to trap it again using the metal beams, it may not be able to hold it for long, but it can give the team enough time to make their escape once Marco cut open portal for them and Howard, who was being carried by Randy. Once the android broke free, it scanned for the Ninja and his allies but they were all gone, he then got a signal from his creator, ordering to report back, it took off into the sky and initiated its own stealth mode, leaving the battlezone behind in his wake.
McFist Industries
McFist and Viceroy stood in the lab as they waited for the Adapt-tron to make it back to McFist Industries, they were observing the entire battle on a screen to see how the android would perform against the Ninja and his new allies and for a while, both men were pleased by how short work it was making of the team, it brought Viceroy pride and his employer glee over watching his hated foe not being able to beat such an opponent. Then the disappointment came when it could do nothing against that blonde girl's unexpected intrusion, the android was basically standing like a statue until the whole group managed to give it the slip. With no way of knowing where they went, Viceroy had to call it back and discuss their options in the fallout of these turn of events, the android finally arrived through an opening on the ceiling and reappeared. "Way to go, Viceroy." the criminal businessman dryly said sarcastically, fit with an eye roll. "Once again, one of your useless experiments failed in getting rid of the Ninja."
"Oh Hannibal, you're being too negative." Viceroy waved his disappointment off as he walked over to his brilliant creation and patted its leg. "Poor thing's processor was designed to asses logical situations, that whole thing with the narwhals was just plain random and didn't make sense in the slightest and it couldn't think of a suitable countermeasure or adaptable response, now don't tell me you weren't thrown off too." he smirked, seeing his boss grumble a little. "Besides, you're not looking at the bigger picture."
"And what would that be? The Ninja still being alive? Another failed attempt in killing him? That'll it'll no doubt be a short time before he manages to win again?!"
Sighing, Viceroy decided to spell it out for him before his blood pressure gets too high. "No, sir. Did you notice what the Ninja did right after the blast? How his team had to save his neck from total extermination from my brilliant android? He ran away, sir, since when does the brave Ninja ever run away from a fight? The answer; never. Don't you see, the Adapt-tron may not have killed him, but it did something that's just as good, it made him turn tail out of there, because he knew that he couldn't take it on." Viceroy surmised.
Now, McFist may not have been the brightest man in the world, but when it come to his personal business he knew when he was getting a good thing and realized where his right hand was going with this. "And that made him give up instead of staying to fight!" he finally realized, grinning with glee. "This was a fight that we technically won for once!"
"Got it in one."
Rubbing his hands in a sinister excited manner, McFist expressed how delighted he was. "This is perfect! With this loss, the Ninja has gotta be sulking over like a little crybaby. Haha! And it's all thanks to you!" he happily hugged the android. "Oh, I may not be getting my own superpower, but the next time the Ninja shows his masked mug, it will be the last time!"
"Precisely, sir." Viceroy nodded and wryly smirked. "And why stop there? Given the extreme damages done to the city, don't you think this is the perfect opportunity for a certain philanthropist to intervene and maybe try and gain some support from the public?"
Once again. MacFist knew what the scientist was implying and grinned in a conniving manner.
Randy's House
The fallout of the battle with the android left the team a little demoralized, for lack of a better word, and after dropping off Howard at his house, Randy suggested that they stop at his house for the time being, his mother was working the late shift at her job so it was okay for the group to stay at his dwelling until they figure out their next move. They were all present in the living room as they observed a television News coverage of the events that took place in downtown. "It is still unknown where the android came from or who built it, what is known is that it dealt heavy damages to the city and some claim to have seen it fly away to an unknown location and seemed to have disappeared in the sky. This implies that despite his best efforts, not even the Ninja, or this group he's become associated with couldn't beat it."
"I don't know." Ben shrugged, sitting on the couch. "I think we did a bang up job."
"That better not be sarcasm in your voice, Ben." Lance warned him.
Star shushed them. "Shut it, guys, take a look there." she pointed to the TV.
"This just in, we have word that beloved millionaire, Hannibal McFist has sent out his robotic apes to help deal with the damages, here's a live footage."
True to the reporter's word, there were indeed various robo-apes with construction gear on, helping with the repairs on the city and the man who was overlooking was none other than their own boss. "What happened here was just terrible." McFist said, sounding as if he was sympathetic to all who were forced to bear witness. "I for one, will not stand and allow this great town to stay broken after that horrid attack, I figured it's the least I can do, all things considered. As for the Ninja, I know he probably did his best to help, but apparently, it just wasn't good enough."
Randy gritted his teeth and had to hold back a snarl as he and the others could see the obvious deceit behind the businessman's words, he could tell that McFist was enjoying the fact that the Ninja just ran away from one of his robots instead of defeating it like he always did, if that weren't enough, there was also that risky move he did. He thought that by destroying the android's orb, it may have been enough to defeat it, but instead, he inadvertently caused more harm than good, especially for his own best friend. Not wanting to hear anymore of this garbage, Randy got up and went out to the porch to clear his thoughts.
"Turn it off, Jake." Lance said, of which the dragon complied. "Alright, it goes without saying that we're dealing with a very adaptive enemy, it was able to copy all of our attacks or adapt to ensure its survival."
"Yeah, no kidding." Rex said, rubbing his hands tenderly. "Normally, my nanites to override any machine, they let me talk to them, but somehow, I think there was something inside it. I don't know what it was, it just rejected the nanites, so I can't say I can go up against it a second time, even if I were up for it."
Max rubbed his chin in thought. "Not to mention how it was able to adapt to survive each of our blows, the metal that it was made out of could shift into anything. Whoever built that android must be some kind of evil genius or something."
As the team continued to discuss the android, Jack couldn't help but gaze at the doorway where Randy continued to sulk, natural compassion getting the best of him, the samurai decided to see if he could provide some wisdom for the youngster who looked like he needed it. "Mind if I sit?" he politely asked, and though the teen was still silent, Jack did so anyway. "We may have lost a fight, but that hardly means the battle is over, that machine is still out there and it is our responsibility to make sure it doesn't cause more harm."
Giving off a huff, Randy finally spoke. "That must include me, huh?"
Adopting a sympathetic look, Jack tried to appease to him. "Randy, while your action may not have been very wise, I hardly believe it was your intention to do more damage."
"Doesn't change the fact that it still happened, it's a miracle no one got killed." Randy retorted, sourly. "I'm starting to think that might be my problem, ever since I became the newest Ninja, instead of being the responsible hero that this city deserved, I just played it off like it was one big game. All those lessons I took from the Nomicon, I just kept thinking they were freebies for me to do whatever I want with all this power." he shook his head with a disappointed scowl. "Some hero I turned out to be, huh? As this city's protector, I'm supposed to prevent any danger to it, and I often cause that danger. You were right, Jack, I can be overconfident and that isn't a good thing. I probably don't even belong on this team."
Jack stayed silent as he allowed Randy to vent, the boy was hard on himself but in a way that was helpful, because it made him realize something that was blind to him for so long. "No one's perfect, my friend. Even in my time, I encountered those that despite being all knowing and powerful, even they had their faults. In fact, I myself am someone with their own insecurities, for there were times where even I found myself at low points in my life. But what really mattered is that they were mature enough to admit to their own vices, just like you did right now." he smiled to him. "You are brash, that much is true. But you are a gentle and kindhearted soul and the fact you're willing to admit to your faults shows great character. Beyond that, I can see why you were chosen and what made me stand back up whenever I was down, was my faith for hope."
Though Randy felt his spirits being lifted by Jack, he still felt some reservations, it was true that he always managed to fix the problems he's made, but that still doesn't change the fact that he still made them in the first place...but maybe that can change, if he thinks the way he is isn't adequate enough, then perhaps there can be room for some improvement and this time it'll finally stick for once. And he remembered the lesson that the Nomicon gave to him, it rang true for Jack's words were the ones that he needed to listen to, and take it to heart as well. "Randy, Jack." both looked to the latter's wife who came to them. "You should get inside, Zak has something to share."
As the three of them walked inside, they saw the scientist holding up his signature weapon. "Good, now I can show you." the Claw opened up revealing a mass small objects shaped into a puddle.
"What's that?" Ladybug asked.
"I managed to snag this sample from the android, to see what kind of stuff it's comprised of." Zak explained. "But it completely broke apart once it was far away from the body."
The three robots of the team scanned the mass and were intrigued by what they found. "Woah, check it out guys." Steel, said fascination clear in his tone. "Are you seeing what I'm seeing?"
"Affirmative." Octus replied.
"It's pretty high-grade." Jenny said as well, impressed.
"Uh, mind sharing with the rest of the class?" Ron suggested.
"Apologies, Ron but the three of us can't help but be astounded by the kind of composition that the android is comprised of." Octus said, before turning to Steel. "Perhaps visual aid is needed."
Nodding, the Ultra-Link understood. "Got it." Steel brought up a visual of the mass when zoomed in and it showed a multitude of odd machines grouped together like cells. "Ladies and gentleman, may I present to you, nanobots."
Jake raised an eyebrow. "You mean like Rex's nanites?"
Said teen shook his head. "Nah, Jake, the little machines in my body work in a whole different level, but these tiny little things, how can they pack that much power?"
"It's their basic programming, Rex." Octus replied. "We've managed to break through to their central cores and accessed their processors in order to determine the exact nature of their purpose. It appears that these nanobots are made out of a very rare alloy, quite possibly a newly developed element of some kind, the element seems to able to adapt to any sort of environment and the nanobots can join together in order create let's say a body and can shift the appendages of it as well."
"Okay, that explains how it was able to copy all of our moves and counteract them." Max surmised. "But what about when Star attacked it with one of her spells, it just froze up like it was at a complete loss on what to do." he recalled, looking to the young blonde princess.
Zak instantly realized the answer just like that. "Max, that's it, Star's the answer!"
"I am?" she questioned.
"She is?" everyone asked as well.
"Yeah, think about it." Zak implored them. "The android's designed to come up with the most logical countermeasure to any attack that it's met with, but when it comes to Star, it's almost impossible to figure out how she works. No offense."
Star shrugged with a smile. "None taken. I'm actually quite proud of it."
The incarnation of Kur continued. "So of course, its primary directives couldn't be able to comprehend how completely random her attack was, I mean, being attacked by bees, it's almost genius in some odd way."
"Oh stop." Star waved off with a flattered grin.
"Zak's right." Marco said, making Star looking directly at him, surprising and for a brief moment, her cheek marks glowed pink. "Star, you might be the only one who can save the day."
Normally, Randy would argue with this, declaring that the one who had the authority of taking care of one of McFist's robots was him and him alone but now he knew that not everything has to revolve around the Norrisville Ninja, and if this meant putting a stop to that android menace than he might as well go with it. "In that case Star, you'll need to be the one to actively fight this thing, you're just about the only that can, not just for us, but for the people of this city, can we count on you?" he asked, laying a hand on her shoulder.
It was a big job but that gave her all the more reason for Star to show her stuff to that monster that hurt her friends. "Don't worry Randy, I can handle this, but I might need some help."
"No shame in that." Randy smiled with a pat on the shoulder.
"Hate to break the moment, but there is one problem." Steel spoke up. "While it's true that Star's magic is the only thing the android can't adapt to, that doesn't guarantee its complete destruction, that alloy is made from regenerative stuff, if we only had more info."
A bulb lit up in Randy's mind. "Then I know the perfect place. If I'm right, then I bet it was Viceroy who built that thing, he practically makes every killer robot for McFist and anything we can find that can help us destroy that thing is only one place, McFsit Industries."
"Hmm." Kim mused with an impressed smirk. "Not a bad plan, Randy."
"I agree." Danny nodded towards his friend. "In that case, let's give that android a fight while also sneaking into McFist industries."
"So, what's the call, boss?" Sashi asked.
Their leader smirked and proceeded to tell them the plan...
Soon after, the Amazing Adapt-tron flew across the sky, it was once again deployed by McFist and Viceroy to search for the Ninja and kill him once and for all, along with any of those friends of him should they interfere, and so far, there hasn't been any sign of his targets but suddenly, a strange beam shout at from near the man-made Mount Chuck, it then exploded into butterflies. It was momentarily frozen, at a complete loss at what to do, but decided that the most logical course of action was to perhaps investigate. The android flew towards the outskirts of Norriville where the mountain was located and it spotted something right below him, it landed down on the ground and observed the welcoming committee that greeted him who were a group of the same individuals it previously fought against.
In front of it stood Star Butterfly, Marco, Ron Stoppable, Sashi, Ashi, Lance in his armor, Jenny, and Max Steel. "Guess it got your message, Star." the redheaded boy remarked.
"Remember the plan, everyone." Ashi said to the team. "We don't have to destroy it, only to keep it occupied until the others do their part. Until the, don't hold anything back." to give an example, the half-demoness grew in size as the black mass made her look like a bipedal bear-like creature with her face obscured by it and her arms becoming giant claws.
"Guess that's just Ashi telling us to get our game faces on. Go Turbo! Strength!" Max shouted, getting into a battle stance followed by Kim powering up her battle suit, Ron putting his fists up, Jenny rising up in the air, Lance gripped his giant spear, and Penn readied his sword. Marco stood beside Star with his daggers and gave him an encouraging look of which she accepted with her wand glowing. Max went headfirst as he collided his fist with the android's torso, but it hardly moved. More hits were dealt but it easily grabbed Max's hand. "Aw CRUUUUUUUD...!" he shouted as he was flung over to the mountain volcano.
"You and Steel alright, Max?" Jenny asked.
Her answer was a deep groan. "Peachy, go ahead and tag in, guys."
Flying straight up at it, a gatling cannon formed from her right hand and fired multiple rounds of metal blue spheres that exploded upon impact but he shifted into shiny silver metal to withstand the assault. It grabbed her by the waist and pinned her to the ground where it was prepared to fire an orb blast to make her into metal bits but Ashu skidded next to the robot girl where she proceeded to open fire straight at the robot, resulting in it freeing Jenny. As it recollected itself from the blast, Ron jumped with a mighty yell and delivered a powerful kick that brought it down, and did various punches and chops to the body before it could process a countermeasure. "Star, you're up!" he shouted to the younger blonde.
Taking a deep breath, she raised her powerful wand at the android. "Warnicorn Stampede!" her legion of warrior unicorns charged forwards at it, this was completely unexpected to the Adapt-tron as unicorns are said to only be the work of pure fiction and nothing more so there was no way for it to come up with an appropriate response. Seeing it stop for a brief second gave Marco the chance to cut open a portal for him and Penn to enter through where it led to it head where they plunged their blades into the back and travelled down its body. Seeing this gave Ashi the go ahead to ram it with horns she grew on her head, she slashed her claws at it too but it sent them all flying when the body became stone. Lance flew at it and broke part of the stone with his spear and fired projectiles at that made it crumble, but it regenerated. "Go Turbo! Combo! Speed Spike Mode!" a white and blue blur ran around him and blasted spikes that made it take a step back, Max Steel stopped it in his tracks, revealing a slim variation of his base mode with spikes sticking out of him.
"Hey Max, you think the others will do their part?" Steel asked.
"Let's hope so." Max answered, readying himself once the android stood back up. "For all our sakes."
The rest of the team which now consisted of Danny, Jake, Randy, Manny, Ilana, Jack, Kim Possible, Penn, Boone, Rex, Zak, Ben, Octus, Ilana, Ladubyg, and Cat Noir were selected to be the team who would go directly into McFist Industries where they will attempt to search for any key to defeating the Adapt-tron and since its creator is somewhere inside, he or something he possessed could have the answer they so desperately needed. The team hid themselves to avoid being detected by security cameras. "Randy, have you ever snuck in before?" Ilana asked, warily looking at the robo-apes that acted as guard sentries at the main entrance with staff weapons in hand, with them were lizard-inspired robots that moved all over the building to act as spies since their stealth functions makes them undetectable.
"A few times, Ilana." the Ninja replied. "Sometimes to rescue my best friend and other times on school field trips. Now stay still, I've spied on this place a few times and every hour or so, a few robots come through the exit to take out some trash and trust me, it's nothing but tons of sliced up parts, courtesy of yours truly, and here we go." he gestured to the front doors opening where a hovering trash bin went out. The sentries guided it to where it could dump the remains giving the Legion a chance to sneak inside before the robots could come back.
Inside, they looked around the ominous insides of McFist Industries which had little lighting and dark green colors. "Aw man, what is it with bad guys and their creepy evil lairs?" Ben complained
Rex nodded in agreement. "Seriously." he then spotted something, some sort of wall mounted console. "Hey Zak, check it out." he led him to the device and inspected it, the EVO placed his hand and used the nanites to override and "speak" to it. "Looks like some sort of guide to thus guy's evil lair, all its in and outs and maybe where he could be. Think you could hack it?"
"I'm sorry, what?" Zak questioned, having been preoccupied doing just that and finishing it quite quickly as well.
"Never mind."
"Okay." the scientist turned to the rest. "Says here that we just have to follow this path to the elevator and it'll take a while until we make it to the main laboratory where the android was most likely built, but if we tough through it, then perhaps we'll find blueprints or schematics of its design."
"A very reasonable hypothesis." Octus agreed.
Kim turned to the leader. "You know we'll most likely run into some trouble, right Danny?"
"You kidding me? Of course we'll run into trouble, it'd be weird if we didn't." Danny took charge and floated to the elevator and saw that it was beginning to come down to their level and motioned the team to get into hiding positions of which they complied. When the doors open, three robo apes walked out and before they knew it, the halfa blasted a hole through one, then Jack unsheathed his sword and sliced another in half while Penn took care of the last one by blasting it repeatedly with his lasers. "Going up." Danny remarked, gesturing to the elevator.
The team waited patiently as the elevator went straight up, mostly ignoring the music playing as they stood silent, well save for one which was Boone who was humming along with the tune. "Hmmm...Hm Hm Hm Hm...Hmmmm..." he stopped when everyone stared at him. "It's catchy." Boone defended just as they made it to their intended floor. It was a dark room so they stuck together to prevent anyone from getting lost, but Boone felt something on his leg. "Hey Ilana, do you mind moving your leg?"
"What? Boone, that isn't me."
"Oh, then it must be Rex."
"Boone, I'm near Ben and Zak."
"Well someone is definitely touching my legs and I want it to stop, it's kind of embarrassing." Boone adamantly declared.
"Please, be silent." Jack politely told him. "We do not know what to expect."
"I'm sorry Jack, but I don't like it when someone's feeling's my legs, it's a matter of principle."
"Even so Boone, your unnecessary chattering may cause us complications in the long run." Octus told him.
"Si, amigo, the last thing we want are a bunch of more killer robots on us." Manny told him.
"You sure you're not just itchy, pal?" Penn suggested.
His best friend thought for a second before answering. "Huh, that may be it."
"Great, now can you be quiet a little? Surprised no one's heard you yet." Cat Noir commented. "The one last thing I want is to be blasted because of your itchy feet."
"Now who's the chatty catty?" Ladybug countered.
The Ninja rolled his eyes. 'And people say I'm the shoob at stealth.' his enhanced senses then picked up at something metal clanking on the floor and various noises that weren't human. "Hang up." he raised a fist to stop them. "We're not alone." The moment he said those words, the lights turned on revealing multiple anthropomorphic wolves with fused with robotic parts, most notably chainsaws being used as arms. "Chainsaw Werewolves, that is so Viceroy and McFist." Randy deadpanned, taking out his sais.
"Coming from a girl who's faced ninja monkeys, this is a new one." Kim admitted.
"Here they come!" Danny shielded himself from a chainsaw coming straight at him and blasted the werewolf away and threw a small ecto-ball at a horde of them which exploded once it touched down, he fired multiple rays that struck many of them while also freezing them in blocks of ace which were then balsted to ice rubble. Kim carefully bent over backwards to dodge a chainsaw swung at her and used her hands to stand upside down where she trapped the wolf's face between her legs and threw it to the wall, thanks to the strength enhancements from her battle suit, the impact was more powerful than normal. Rex shot at a whole lot of them with the Slam Cannon and was actually careful not to get cut but he still had a heck of ball flinging them around like ragdolls, something that was shared with Ben. He had transformed into Wildmutt and roared ferociously as the Vulpimancer lunged at one tore off its chainsaw arm and punched it to the ground and he continued to do so with each one. Zak's Claw was strong enough to stand against a saw and he pushed the wold back before butting its head with his weapon, more of them ran at him but then he threw an object to the sky and it broke apart, releasing tiny devices that once dropping on the wolves, it sent mini-EMP waves that messed with their robotic component and rendered them useless, Octus protected him inside his bubble form as more began to attack the both of them, the robot concentrated hard and sent an electric wave that shocked them all, freeing his companion, Octus accepted a hi-five from Zak. Ilana and Jake became terrors from above, with the latter firing her lasers that they weren't prepared for and the former swooping in and tackling and punching them and of course, a little fire to roast them all. Penn's sword could cut their saw hands off and Boone acted as defense with a shield while also providing cover fire for his friend and shrieked just as a wolf nearly took him by surprise but was saved by Jack. For the samurai, a feeling of nostalgia filled him, it's been a while since he's sliced and diced robotic monstrosities and none of their weapons were enough to damage his sword, he grunted once one was able to cut his gi, leaving a wound but he returned the favor by slicing it from the waist down. El Tigre unleashed a roar that blew them away, his claws ripped apart the chainsaw parts and swung around with hi chain claw, attacking them without warning. Ladybug spun her yo-yo around to make a shield that also shredded the cyborgs apart, while her partner used his Cataclysm power to destroy the ground a group was standing on and they immediately fell down.
Ninja held one's saw at bat with his sais and pushed it back before jumping up and threw them at his chest before coming down on it with a powerful kick to the face. He picked the weapons back up and observed as his friends continued fighting, he was never one to stop the fun of breaking Viceroy's toys, but there wasn't time for any fun as he watched the door at the end of the hall begin to close. "Guys, we're wasting time battling these mutts! We have to get through that door or else we'll be trapped here with them!"
Wildmutt heard this and ran straight through them all and made it to the doors, with his strength, he was able to pry them open and turned back into Ben. "Randy, everyone!" he shouted, getting their attention. "We got our opening, let's move while we still can!" they all ignored the chainsaw werewolves and ran forward. All but the Omnitrix bearer, Rex, and Zak made it through and it was then that there were still plenty of werewolves left to make chase to them, evident by their growling, sharing a collective understanding look, the three stood in their path.
"Guys, what are you waiting for?!" the Ninja questioned.
"You all go on ahead." Zak told them. "Ben, Rex, and I can hold them off, that way you won't have to worry about these crazy dogs following after you, it'd make your way to the office less , take this." he handed her his device. "It'll take you straight to the lab."
"But that a idea's crazy!"
Ilana shared the same sentiment as Randy. "You can't expect us to just leave you here!"
"This isn't up for debate." Rex boldly stated. "We came here to stop the android and we won't let some crazy scientist's freaky experiments get in the way of that."
"Don't worry about us, we can take care of ourselves." Ben reassured them. "You just need to focus on finishing the job, we'll catch up with you."
Danny and Jack could tell that nothing could be done to dissuade them so they pulled the two of them back, despite their protests. "Watch each other's backs!" the halfa ordered them as the door closed.
The trio of brave teenage heroes faced the chainsaw werewolves who were ready to cut them all up but they were hardly frightened by them, in fact they looked a little eager. "You guys ready?" the EVO asked, forming the Bad Axes.
Ben transformed into Heatblast. "Born ready, dude."
Zak held his Claw in its staff mode. "Let's make this count, the only things standing in the way of them and the others are us."
Rex smirked. "Then let's go to work, boys."
With a unified yell, they all charged ahead ready to make short work of all of these fools and hoped for the best for everyone else.
The others went ahead and made their way through the hallway, from what Kim could tell from the device that Zak let her, Viceroy's laboratory should be straight ahead, as they ran or flew in the case of Ilana and Jake, the Galalunian female couldn't help but think about how the guys stayed behind to deal with the werewolves. "This is wrong." she stated, stopping at mid-air. "We shouldn't have left Ben, Rex, and Zak behind, they're our teammates and we should've done more to take them with us, we have to go back for them!"
"Hey, I don't like it any better than you do, Ilana, but remember the one's that're fighting the android?" Penn reminded her. "If we don't complete the mission, then this would all have been for nothing."
"But still..."
"Princess Ilana." Jack began. "I understand your reluctance to abandon your allies, but Penn is correct, the success of our mission hinges on our success, we cannot afford to fail, otherwise their noble actions would've been in vain."
Randy could understand, he felt bad as well, McFist was his foe and it didn't sit in well with him that they have to deal with what the maniac can throw at them, but then remembered that he's part of a team and he needs to rely on all members, most of all, have faith in them. He looked up to the armored princess and added. "The best we can do is to make sure that all that they're doing is worthwhile, we have a job to do and it's our responsibility to see it through."
Ilana remained silent until answering. "Alright, let's go."
They once again moved forward and were met with the entrance their destination. "This is the spot." Kim confirmed, looking to the device. "Who wants to knock first?"
Jake punched his open palm with his dragon fist. "At your service, girl." rearing his fist back, the American Dragon busts open the door with ease and the team entered in, ready for another fight...but were instead met with McFist and Viceroy sitting on lounge chairs, eating a whole bowl of popcorn as they watched the Adapt-tron fight the others. Both parties stayed silent as they observed robo-apes fanning their two bosses while another held a tray of drinks for them. "Okay, now this is just awkward." the dragon stated what basically everyone was thinking as they sort of expected a more sinister setting in the laboratory.
"The Ninja?!" McFist bellowed in surprised anger.
"Hey there, McFist." Randy greeted, giving a two-fingered salute. "Hope you don't mind my friends and I dropping by, just thought I'd introduce my new team to my mortal enemy."
"Sorry about the door." Cat Noir jokingly apologized. "But I'm sure you have enough money to replace it, hopefully before 5 minutes are up."
Viceroy needed to know one thing. "How were you able to make it through my army of chainsaw werewolves?" he brought up a screen that showed him the three boys who chose to stay behind and deal with the wolves themselves and they were making short work of them too, which greatly shocked the mad scientist. "Impossible! My creations are designed to kill anything that comes at them!"
"Your toys have never messed with the Infinity Legion, idiot." Jake countered with his arms crossed.
Ilana flew near him. "You're the one who created that android, right?" she inquired, gesturing towards the screen with said machine. "We don't have to end this violently, you can choose to deactivate it and this can all end in a civilized manner."
"Tempting, dear girl. But here's my counter-offer." pressing a button, more robo-apes were deployed and surrounded the team.
"Octus." Penn nodded towards the robot who understood, he charged up and sent a mass-EMP wave that deactivated the apes with ease.
"Huh, I'll be honest, I didn't see that coming." Viceroy admitted, both shocked and fascinated by Octus.
"Enough games, you two." Danny's hands glowed with ecto energy. "We were going to search for some blueprints that could give us a way to beat that android of yours but since its maker is here, we could try getting answers out of him instead."
McFist let out a hearty laugh. "Ha! You're all idiots of you think Viceroy's just gonna turn it over just like that, right Viceroy?" his confidence turned into confusion when the scientist didn't answer. "Viceroy, what are you doing?" he asked, looking as his number two who was looking through his cabinet and took out a set of blueprints.
"Just giving the good guys what they want."
This left not just McFist's jaw dropping but the Legion as well. "What?!"
"Oh come now, Hannibal, we both know how this'll end." Viceroy began listing off all the most likely end results. "The team of brave heroes end up beating us and you'll throw a hissy fit, at least until Marci calms you down. The fact that they've got this far proves what'll happen so please, let's just save ourselves the embarrassment and get this over with."
Penn whispered to the others. "Okay, this is just weird, I was about to say the exact same thing, Anybody else smell a trap?"
"But this is a good thing." Ilana argued. "Now we can find a way to beat that monstrosity."
"Admire the optimism, Ilana, but if bad guys were so willing to give up this easily, then the Darkentors would've given up way before they decided to invade our dimensions." Kim pointed out.
"His actions do seem highly illogical, but at the same time, his reasoning is logical." Octus contemplated. "Quite a conundrum indeed."
"Randy, what do you think?" El Tigre asked, knowing the teen had more experience in dealing with these two.
Usually, the Ninja would welcome such a lucky break but then again, these were known criminals they were dealing with and he knows full that Viceroy always had a trick up his sleeve. "Danny, Jack, we should be on guard nevertheless."
"Right."
"Wise option."
In case this was some ruse to catch them all by surprise, they readied their weapons at the sight of any trouble but amazingly, none ever come as Viceroy gave them the blueprints without hesitation. "Now, off you go, my program will be showing any minute and I'm a little behind." he waved them off as he walked back to his chair.
Staying still for a moment, the team carefully walked out of the lab, leaving them alone. "Viceroy..." McFist slowly growled as he stood over his employee with growing rage. "You better have a good reason why you just gave the Ninja and his friends a way to destroy our robot, otherwise you'll be looking for a new job!"
Unfazed by this threat, Viceroy merely smirked under his gaze. "Just sit back and watch the show, Hannibal."
Back with the team, they walked out with Kim holding the blueprints and headed back to the room where the chainsaw werewolves were and looking inside they saw the trio of an alien-transforming teen, the machine EVO, and the young secret scientist who were completely fine as all the cyborgs laid on the floors as a result of the three making short work of them. "Ben, Rex, Zak, you're both okay!" Ilana smiled, hugging the three of them out of happiness and relief.
"Aw come on, princess." Rex chuckled. "As if cyborg monsters could get the better of us."
"They never stood a chance." Ben agreed, exchanging a fist bump with the EVO. "Though, it's kind of surprising to see you so soon, I though we'd have to jump in save you guys from the madman or something."
"Like we couldn't have handled it way before you arrived, Ben." Kim wryly smirked. "And Zak, I think you'll need this." she threw him the blueprints to the android. "Courtesy of Viceroy."
"He just gave it to you?" Zak inquired and when she nodded, he turned thoughtful for a moment. "That's basically a poor move, he may build robots for the sole purpose of killing, but even he would know that it was a poor move."
Cat Noir shrugged. "He did say that we'd win either way
Boone shrugged. "Yeah, but at least we got the goods, now we should definitely go ahead and get to the others."
"And soon." Cat looked to his ring and noticed two paws missing.
"That's why I save my battery." Ladybug smirked.
Danny proceeded to contact someone from the team who were fighting the android. "Lance, the mission's complete, we'll be joining you soon so get that thing at the landing zone." he turned to the window and blasted a giant whole through it where Octus surrounded them in a bubble and flew off to join the others.
So far, the team was doing alright against the Adapt-tron save for a few hits that were taken, but for the most part, they were faring considerably well all things considered but despite Star's spells being able to confuse long enough to put in a lot of damage to it, the android was still durable enough to take their hits and regenerate. Fortunately, Lance had been notified by Danny Phantom on their success at obtaining the plans to the Adapt-tron, which meant now was the time to go all out, Danny told them that once the plans were obtained, they would endlessly attack the android until it was backed into a corner of which they did so. Missiles, lasers, and eye beams were shot at it to force it to back up until it reached the artificial volcano as its face blast tried in vain to destroy them. "We got it in the ropes now!" Ron shouted, throwing a giant boulder at it.
"Lance, when did Danny say he and the others would arrive?" Max asked
"Right about..."
"HEY! WATCH YOUR CABESAS, AMIGOS!" a young voice belonging to El Tigre shouted and Octus landed down with the other Legion members inside him, he released them and they all faced the android.
"Tell me you guys got something for us." Marco begged.
Zak held the blueprints up. "Don't worry, Marco, we might have a chance." the black and white haired teen checked them over and he was able to find one certain weak spot. "Here it is. Guys, this android won't be able to adapt once it's processors tries to find the perfect countermeasure, so Star has to use one more spell and in the moment that it's frozen in place, give a full on attack all at once. It'll be too busy processing that it won't be able to counteract you!"
Marco shouted to Star. "You heard him, Star."
Knowing what she needs to do, the Mewman princess focused her magic potential for one spell that would decide it all. "Spider with a Top Hat Blast!" she summoned a tiny spider wearing a hat.
"War cry!" a laser gun spouted and fired directly at the android and an arachnid shooting from his headwear, there was no logic behind it at all!
ERROR
CANNOT COMPUTE
ADAPTABLE RESPONSE: NOT FOUND
"Now's our chance! Go!" Danny shot an intense ecto ray that was mixed with an electrical blast from Ben, who had turned into Shocksquatch, along with Ilana's head laser and a concentrated blast from the Turbo Blaster, all this sheer force was too much for the android to handle and in instance, it's body began to crumble, until the nanobots were completely broke apart as a result and they spilled all over the floor, with the orb dropping down and rolling into a cave, it's glow having flickered off. The Legion stayed silent for a moment before the many of them cheered loudly at their victory, none more so than Randy who realized this may not have happened without help from his friends.
A while later, the Legion collected the nanobots, they may be deactivated but one can never be too sure. "So, what do we do with them?" Adrien asked, having de-transformed after his time was up.
"Keep them in a secure place, Cat." Kim answered. "I've called ahead and told Doctor Director to keep them in their confiscation room, no one will use these to kill anyone ever again."
Randy approached Jack. "Hey, thanks for that pick-me-up back at my house, I really needed and sorry for giving a little attitude, especially after that training thing. You really know a thing or two about being a real warrior, and do have a lot to learn, despite all that I've accomplished, probably should've realized that a long time ago."
"It is alright." Jack reassured him. "I am happy that you managed to have learned a valuable lesson, you should be proud of yourself."
"I am, but not too much. And hey, maybe next time, I'll actually show up for training." Randy chuckled. "And maybe also listen to you, if that's okay with you, Jack."
The samurai bowed in acceptance. "Whenever you need me."
"Hey guys." they both turned to Marinette who had opened a portal back to their HQ. "We're heading back to the tower, you coming or what?" Jack walked towards the portal but Randy lingered.
"You guys go on ahead, I need to take care of something." with nothing more said, the rest of the team went into the portal, leaving Randy all by his lonesome, he took out the Ninjanomicon and entered inside one final time for the day, and in front of him stood the First Ninja. "I get what the Nomicon was trying to teach me and sorry to say, but it took me a while."
"Yet, you learned it anyway with support from those around you." he wasn't sure, but it seemed like his predecessor was smiling behind the mask. "With this, you are ready to understand the Important Lesson." the ancient warrior began showing the teen various pages that detailed many people, these were the previous ninjas. "As you know, once a Ninja's time is done, they are to relinquish not just the mask and the book but their memories as well, however..." circles were drawn around a few of them. "...throughout the ages, there have been those that proved themselves to be great noble warriors, that they were allowed to keep their memories."
Randy's eyes lit up. "Really?!"
"Indeed, it shows their growth not just as ninjas, but as human beings. But this lesson cannot be granted so easily, one prove themselves worthy of being granted of such an honor, you must prove yourself worthy. So what say you, young Cunningham? Are you willing to show me that you are capable of such a feat?"
Looking down and took all this information in, he could actually be able to retain all that he's experienced as the Ninja of Norrisville, it wouldn't all be for nothing but just as the First Ninja said, he needed to prove himself worthy and despite of hid victory today, he knew that he still had a long way to go. "I'll...I'll try my best."
"Your best is good enough."
Randy bowed respectfully. "Thank you." with that, his mind went back to his body and stood up with fiery new determination as he now had a goal of which he'll go through all lengths to accomplish this task, and if he fails then so be it. But he might as well see if he really can be worthy, it will be a long road but if he's fortunate enough, his hard work might pay off in the end. But first, he pulled up his phone and called someone who deserved his attention. "Hey, Howard? Is it cool if I come over? Some Grave Punchers is long overdue. Cool, I'll be right there, wait what? Theresa was looking for me...?" the teen walked off.
But had he stayed, he would've noticed an eerie blue glow from the cave, the orb that was placed on the android somehow reactivated and it was hovering in the air, it travelled across the skies of Norrisville where it eventually made it to a nearby street and waiting for it was Viceroy himself with Hannibal next to him. Both saw as the orb showed them various data on the Legion, what Viceroy also installed in the Mark 5 was that the orb could scan all things around it, including organics. He grinned evilly as he congratulated himself on giving them the plans for the Mark 4 instead, they both had the same weakness but that was all worth it. "See, Hannibal?"
"If it could do that, then what was the point of sicking it on the Ninja?"
"Mostly to see how it performed in battle and with the new information that's been recorded, I can work on the new project..."
