It was a Friday morning and Randy Cunningham and Howard Weinerman were making their way to school. The night before it had snowed and was mother nature was still giving the town of Norrisville some white snow. It was so cold Randy was actually wearing a long sleeved shirt, that was much like his usual one, a coat also much like his normal jacket, and a red scarf that flapped in the wind behind him as he walked onto main street. Randy shivered. He felt cold inside and out. He was still a little worked up from last week's incident with Bash and Heidi. Half the school had seen that, and if they didn't them and so many others did on Heidi's blog. He was worried, that kind of attention could get mixed up with his Ninja duties, and if someone were to find out...Randy started to feel claustrophobic in his coat and unzipped as he ducked into an alley. He started to hyperventilate. He was having an anxiety attack, and he was only 14! He sprawled out across the floor trying to calm down. Calm down Randy...just calm down...

His breathing slowed down and he stood up. He walked to school again but stopped when he heard something behind him. He turned around to see Howard trying to sneak up on him. "Aw, c'mon Cunningham, can't you just pretend to let me scare you?" he said throwing his hands in the air. Randy laughed. "But its fun seeing you fail," said Randy, laughing. Howard fumed at Randy then looked down at his scarf. "Oh...dude...you need to put that away.." he said his eyes widening at the scarf. Randy raised an eyebrow. "Why? I like this scarf," a gust of wind blew, and he shivered. "And its cold" he said motioning to the air. Howard rolled his eyes and began to walk with Randy to school. "Yeah well, your scarf is a lot like the one the Ninja wears so, don't come crying to me when people start considering you to be the Ninja," he said not noticing the Randy was no longer walking with him. When he said that Randy had stopped dead in his tracks. He stared wide eyed at the ground, unaware to the world around him. What if that actually happened? He thought. He then remembered how yesterday people still remembered him. He started breathing faster again. What if, what if, what if-

"RANDY!" yelled Howard. Randy snapped to reality and plastered a fake smile on his face. "Yeah?" he said. Howard grew a little worried. "I asked if you were ready for today's science test. You're the only one who studied it in 6th grade and you seemed like you were going to study for it so..." he looked to the ground. Randy remembered about the test and smiled. "Yes," The two freshman then made their way to the school, the snow crunching under their feet. As soon as the went were inside Randy made a B-line to his locker. He opened it up and shoved his scarf in there, right between his math and history textbooks. He slammed the door shut and pressed his back to the locker. "Whew," he sighed. Just then the bell rang and he caught up with Howard as they made their way to science. Mrs. Driscol then started handing out the papers to the test. "You have until the end of class to finish this test" said Mr. Driscol's skeleton. "NOW GO!" Randy looked down at his paper.

What are the first five planets from theSun?

Randy read it over again. Did he actually know this one? He looked around the room and saw most of the other kids having some trouble with it. I may actually have a chance at this after all!

Deep Under Norrisville High...

The Sorcerer was siting on his stool, moping when green fumes of stank wafted in through the pipes. "Oooh..." he said feeling the urge to stank a kid. He sniffed at the air, "fear, anxiety, frustration" he said tasting the air. He smiled. "I smell a big test today!" he said smiling. He frowned. But no... he thought. Earlier he sensed the huge boatload of pure anxiety. This also seemed to be the first time he ever got a whiff of this kid's misery. "I'll save up for you my boy..." he said smiling. "Time for you to properly be a student at Norrisville..." he said smiling.

Randy stared down at his test score. He couldn't believe it. Howard looked down at it. "No way..." Randy jumped onto the cafeteria table. "I GOT 100 PERCENT!" he exclaimed at the top of his lungs. It was written right there, at the top of his paper. 100% Randy had never been so happy at school. Mrs. Driscol had sent an email to his parents informing them that he was actually the only kid in the whole school to get a 100 on the test. He hugged the test paper to his test and pumped his fist in the air. "This is so honkin BRUCE!" he said, his voice full of happiness. After lunch Randy then made his way to his locker to put his test away. He opened his locker when one of the things he hoped that would never happen, did. He opened the door and the Nomicon spilled out onto the floor. Kids were switching for next period and Randy quickly grabbed The Nomicon and shoved into his locker. He then slammed the door shut. Hard. On his knuckles. He moved his hand away and finally closed his locker.

Dammit... he thought. He ran into the bathroom and shut the door, and slid the trashcan in front of the door to keep anyone from getting in. He walked over the wall and slid down. He looked at his hand. It was bleeding. "Gaaaah..." he said. Suddenly he remembered how he got that injury. The Nomicon! He thought. He closed his eyes. What if someone saw? What if they told? What would happen if his identity was revealed? His breathing started to quicken, and deep from underneath the school, the Sorcerer was getting ready to stank a new victim. Randy was started to have another attack. What if they all find out? *pant* What if McFist hurts the people around me? *pant* What if I'm captured? *pant* and,

Randy looked up at himself in the mirror, his hand covered in blood, tears on his face, and stank surrounding him. He said out loud.

"What if I fail as the Ninja?"

The Stank took over him

Howard was walking through the halls of Norrisville High looking his best buddy, Randy Cunningham. People moved for him as he called for his best friend. "Randy? Where are you?" he still didn't see him. Howard huffed. "Randy, where are-"

"AAAAAAAAA!" a scream ripped through the air. Howard turned to see someone running through the halls. "MONSTER!" they screamed. The whole school tore past Howard, trying to get outside. Howard on the other hand made his way to where the monster was supposed to be. "Randy!" he exclaimed. Howard to the sounds of crashing and destruction. Geez, dude, pull it together, this thing sounds like it is DESTROYING the school! he thought running the monster. He turned the corner and froze in his tracks. Woah he thought. It was unlike any monster he had ever seen. It didn't like a normal stanked kid either. This monster was a full on, huge, dragon.

"Well Sorcerer you have finally given a monster that might actually be a challenge for the Ninja..." he said with a mixture of terror and respect. The monster in front of him was maybe the scariest thing he had ever seen. It was a red dragon in front of him, it had big, menacing yellow eyes, and purple spikes going down its spine. Its teeth were probably each the length of Howard's arm and they were sharp. Same thing went for its claws, yet they looked even longer. They looked like they were made of steel and could slice through anything. The dragon took a step forward. "Uhhh...Ninja?" the dragon took another step forward, this time actually extending its claws. Great, they're even longer thought Howard. He then looked at the dragon again. "Ninja...it time for you to come out now..." he said getting nervous. Then to make things worse. The Dragon revealed another thing it could do. It extended its wings. They were red on the outside and black on the inside and at the ends were the claws Howard had seen earlier. Turns out those 'arms' were wings. The dragon extended its wings even further and broke the two walls they hit. They were destroyed with a loud crash and Howard shielded his head when he realized three very important details. First, the ninja was nowhere in sight; second, the dragon didn't have anything with it to be its prized possession; and thirdly, the worst of all, the dragon was Randy.

Randy striked at Howard. He rolled away to keep from getting torn to shreds. "As terrifying as this is I still want to say, you are a honkin BRUCE monster!" he exclaimed. "Never get stanked again!" he said. Randy snarled and took off into the skies with a giant leap. Howard ran over the hole Randy made in the ceiling and looked up. His face paled. Dammit If it wasn't bad enough Randy was an unstoppable dragon, their was no ninja to save them, and Randy didn't have a material "prized possession" the damn guy could now breath fire! Deep underground the Sorcerer was watching what was going to with his rat, Minion. They both had blank expressions on their face. "I should stank this kid more often..." he said

Randy was doing the most damage any other monster had ever done. Half the school was destroyed and the rest was on fire. Heidi was outside with the rest of the school filming while also screaming "Has anybody seen Howard?!"

Howard was in the building and the whole school was on fire. He knew he had to get out. Headed his way to front door when he remembered something. The Nomicon! He went back to Randy's locker and put opened. I have never been so happy to know Randy's locker combo He grabbed the book and mask and everything else in there. He then ran out of the building as more of it crumbled down. He ran outside and tripped in the grass. He fell and all of Randy's locker's contents spilled out from under him. He grabbed Randy's scarf and covered the ninja mask and Nomicon. Heidi then pushed through the crowd towards her brother. "Oh Howard I was so worried about you! Are you okay? Do you need any-' Howard then pushed her off of him. "Heidi! That's Randy!" he said pointing at him flying in the sky. She looked up with a look of shock. "That's Sandy?! But he's so sweet so dorky-" Howard face palmed. Then he and the rest of the school looked up to when the heard Randy let out a shriek. It was horrible. Everyone covered their ears as his ear splitting sheik sounded all throughout Norrisville and to the next town over. The shriek broke windows, and made people scream.

Randy was definitely the worst kid to ever be stanked and be turned into a monster. Randy then dive-bombed and landed on top of the school finally completely destroying it. Despite their being snow on the ground the heat from the burning school made everyone more than warm. It was silent as Randy got up and just sat there, staring at them, getting ready to burn them to a crisp. Heidi looked at the Dragon in shock. No one, not even her, heard or realized it when she said "That's Randy Cunningham..." Randy extended his wings and flew a bit into the sky he was about to burn them alive when Howard looked down. There, in the grass was Randy's perfect science test. Everything seemed to be in slow motion as Howard grabbed it and ripped it in half right as the fire came out of Randy's mouth. The Stank left his body as soon as the page was in two. The Dragon turned back into Randy and Howard was filled with joy as his best friends started hurtling...to...the ground...

Shit thought Howard. Randy fell to the ground and landed in a huge snow pile. Howard surged forward. "CUNNINGHAM!" he said pushing through.

Days Randy was stuck in the ER. There were no monster attacks because Randy had somehow drained the stank out of the Sorcerer. There were also no robot attacks because McFist didn't have the time to send a robot out because McFist industries was the one rebuilding the school. Randy woke up with an extreme headache and no idea what had happened. When Randy woke up he asked. "What happened?" Howard sighed and showed him Heidi's video on his laptop. "This happened..." Randy watched in horror at what happened. "I did that?" he said. Howard nodded. He looked at Randy, he was dying to ask what happened but he knew not to ask. That's just how best friends work. Randy looked at the ceiling then bolted up right and grabbed Howard by the shoulders. Big mistake. "Aaaaaa!..." said Rand .He had a throbbing pain in his left and right arms and he just felt as if he had been punched in the stomach.

Howard winced. "Here man, just lay down" he said helping ran lay back down. "Howard" Randy started to ask again. "I need the Nomicon..." Howard's face fell. "What for?" Randy looked up at the ceiling. "I don't think its going to want me to be the Ninja anymore..." he said not taking his eyes off the ceiling. Howard looked taken aback. "O-okay..." he said as he reached into his backpack and fished out the ancient book. Randy took a deep breath as he opened the book and was sucked in.

Randy was standing in a room in front of a Samurai. Randy was dressed in the ninja clothes but he lacked the mask. Randy got down a knee and spoke. "I'm sorry Nomicon, for causing all of that destruction, and I know you may not want me as the ninja anymore, and I will step down immediately"

The Samurai Nomicon before him smiled at Randy and surprised him with these confident words.

You proved me wrong when I said the Ninja can have no friends, and you have been the greatest Ninja, to ever put on that mask.

Randy looked at the Nomicon in disbelief, "but I..."

Randy Cunningham, the moment you threw me onto the floor like I was nothing I knew things would be hard...

Randy blushed..."Heh, yeah..."

But did you know that during your first battle, you were the first ever Ninja to pull out a sword on his first try?

Randy looked up at the Nomicon.

From that moment on, you have showed determination, bravery, skills, wisdom, honesty, selflessness, and true character...

Randy looked at the Nomicon with disbelief.

Randy Cunningham, you are Norrisville Ninja, the best one ever,

The Nomicon got down on one knee and slid the mask onto Randy's face

and I am proud to be your teacher.

Randy woke up and looked at Howard. "So how'd it go?" he asked looking at his friend with concern. Randy smiled, "Just great"