Randy sighed. He didn't know how long it had been, but occasionally he checked Theresa's pulse and temperature.
Randy sipped some water from his hands to relieve himself. He wondered what he could do while he waited for Theresa to wake up. Should he go on ahead and look for a way out? No, he shouldn't leave Theresa. But maybe he could quickly go and take a look around… if he left a glow ball for her if she woke up while he was away, not that he suspected it, though.
He made up his mind, he'd go look around. Pulling out another glow ball, he left it on the ground next to Theresa.
Randy got up and headed down the tunnel.
He speed walked down and kept an ear out for any suspicious sounds. Randy made it down several tunnels peacefully before he heard some pitter patter ahead of him.
He felt like he heard it before, but didn't know from where. To be cautious, Randy held his glow ball up to see better.
What he didn't expect to see was hundreds of spider eyes looking at him.
"Oh… that's where I heard it from" Randy whispered.
Randy pulled out his mask and pulled it on, "Well, how about we go for round two spiders?"
He reached back to grab his sword, but the spiders took off behind him. It looked like they were retreating.
Confused, Randy dropped his arm. "Huh, well ok, another time then"
Randy continued strolling down the tunnel, feeling like he forgot something.
A light bulb went off in his head and struck Randy with a thought. "Theresa!"
Randy quickly jumped back and ran as fast as he could to catch up to the spiders. He saw the back of the pack up ahead, so he knew he was getting close.
"Ninja Ice Balls!" He shouted, throwing the blue balls onto the ground, then jumping on them to slide across it and ahead of the spiders.
Running again, Randy pulled another ball out of his belt. "Ninja Boom Ball!"
He threw it up in front of the spiders, causing them fall down. Randy pulled out his sword again and faced them.
"Let's go spiders"
It seemed that all at once the spiders jumped to attack him. Randy swung his sword, slashing off heads and cutting their guts open.
"Ugh, this is so schnasty" Randy shuddered in disgust.
Randy killed about 60 or so of them, and faced the last few left, who were staring at him. Before Randy was able to jump at them, they scurried away, towards the gem cave.
Randy launched himself forwards, urging him to go faster. "Ninja Rings!" He shouted, and threw four of them at two spiders. They fell to their side and Randy ran past it. Randy spotted the cave's opening, and noticed the spiders seem to go faster than they were already.
"Ninja Chain Sickle!" He shouted, and threw the chain, slamming two more spiders against each other and into the wall. Randy threw his arms up as a huge blast of spider guts came towards him. He stopped and tried to shake it off his arms. "Oh this is so gross!"
Flinging the last of the goop off his arms, Randy remembered what he was doing, and took off running again. He caught up to two of the hairy-legged creatures, and sliced them through their middles with his sword. Wasting no time to grimace, Randy glanced up and saw the last spider crawling closer to Theresa's unmoving body.
Randy took a breath and switched the swords blade to point down. He lifted his arm and threw the sword ahead with great power. Randy held his pose and watched as the sword went straight ahead; piercing the surprised arthropods' body and pulling it back to hit the wall of the cave along with the sword.
Randy straightened himself and took some time to regain a normal breathing pattern. He made his way next to Theresa and checked to see if she got hurt in any way. No, it didn't look like the last spider got to touch her. He had arrived just in time.
Pulling his mask off, Randy reverted to his normal clothes and lied down on his back. Suddenly he felt really tired. He didn't fight it when his eyes slowly closed and he drifted to sleep.
~0~
Randy woke up remembering that he was still in the cave. He sat up and stared, trying to get rid of his sleep. Randy glanced at Theresa, who hadn't moved an inch from… last night… He sighed and suddenly felt a pain in his stomach. He put his hands over his stomach and felt it begin to rumble non stop. Shoot. He forgot to eat anything yesterday, so of course he would be starving right now.
Randy stood up and kneeled down next to the water. He greedily slurped water into his body, trying to fill it with its much needed nutrients. But what happened to the snacks they had with them? They were with Theresa in her bag, weren't they? Though, glancing at Theresa, he didn't see her bag. She must have had dropped it somewhere in the cave. He'd better go look for it, or he might as well starve.
He wondered if it would be okay to go find it, leaving Theresa where she was alone. Randy shrugged to himself, he'd just rush back if he heard or saw anything strange.
Randy grabbed one of his glow balls and led himself down the tunnel ahead. After savaging around for a long time, Randy finally noticed the bag around the mouth of the cave's entrance.
"Oh finally" Randy sighed, growing bored of looking. "Woah. This is heavier than it looks," Randy said as he tugged the strap up, surprised by its weight.
He opened the bag and was glad to find the two apples and the pack of crackers still there. There was also her math book and another book, and her phone with some pencils and such. Randy glanced at her phone, and noticed it was crushed. "That's not good." He dumped the broken pieces of glass out of the bag and put the safe phone in her bag again.
Randy swung the strap over his shoulder and returned to the cave, and rested himself next to Theresa. He pulled out the crackers and devoured a few of them.
Randy ran his eyes over Theresa's limp form. His jacket now had dried blood crumbling around her wound, and from what he could tell, the wound had stopped bleeding. Her hair was sticking out everywhere and dirt caked her face.
He sighed. Well what could he do now? With nothing to do, he would probably die of boredom if nothing else.
As Randy lay on his back next to Theresa, he suddenly felt a rumbling in the ground.
He shot up and looked around. What could that be? Before he could blink, something shot up into the cave, and chunks of rock flew around. Randy uncovered his eyes and saw the giant robo-worm.
"Oh geez. I knew I jinxed myself before." Randy sighed, and tugged on his mask.
"Looking for me?!" He shouted, getting the worms attention.
It snapped it's head to him, let out a wail, and zoomed at him.
Taken by surprise, Randy got caught onto the worm's head as it began tunneling away from the cave with him, using Randy as its guard.
The worm shot up into another large cave, somewhere above where Theresa laid.
Randy flipped off the worm, and landed on his feet. He swung his sword out of his suit, and pointed it at the worm. "Come at me worm!"
Randy charged at the worm and slashed it all over. He jumped away to catch his breath, and looked at the damage he had done. His eyes widened. "W-what?" The worm was scratch-free, and looked smug.
"What the juice!? How come nothing worked on you?!"
The worm let of another loud wail, and swung his tail at Randy. Randy jumped over it, but something caught his attention. As Randy landed on his feet again, he noticed a large pointy rock (more like boulder) stuck in his tail.
"Oh, so that's what's wrong. Hey! Worm! Calm down! I won't hurt you!" Randy shouted to the worm, and put his sword away.
The worm looked at him questioningly and stopped breaking rocks.
"I can help you. Just calm down, please" Randy soothed the giant creature. "I just need to see your tail."
The worm slowly pushed it's tail to him, and Randy inched forwards.
"That's it. I'm gonna take this out for you, okay buddy? It might hurt for a sec, though." Randy said, and placed his hands on the rock.
"Alright, on three. One, two, three!" Randy heaved the rock out of the worm's skin.
He threw the rock away, and inspected the tail. It didn't look like it had gone in that deep into its tail. Randy put his hand on the worm's tail and pet it. "There, all better. Now, can you tell me why you're down here, anyways?"
The worm started making sounds in response and Randy nodded.
"You mean to say that McFist built you, let you loose, but you ran away?" Randy restated.
The worm confirmed.
"McFist…" Randy growled. That guy had a problem with animal cruelty. Before Randy continued, the worm started saying more.
"My friend and I got stuck under here after you attacked the school. We're trying to get out. We didn't mean to intrude your home." Randy told it.
The worm gurgled an answer.
"Hey, that gives me an idea. Do you think you could just shoot us up into Norrisville"
The worm gave him a look and answered.
"Yea, I guess that's not the best idea. So instead, could you take me back to my friend?" Randy asked.
The worm agreed and with Randy riding on his back, tunneled down back into the gem cave.
Randy took his mask off and patted the worm. "Thanks wormy."
The worm tilted its head at him and then left the cave.
"Wow" Randy said, and then went to check on Theresa. After doing that, Randy decided to go drink water.
Sitting back, Randy relaxed. Well he got rid of his boredom momentarily, but what about now? He tried drawing on the ground, among other things, to get rid of his boredom that had come to him again.
As hard as he tried though, he eventually fell into a deep slumber.
~0~
The next day after school, Debbie and Howard met up outside again.
"We're going to the trash site today" Debbie said, pulling her map out of her bag.
"Can we take a taxi there?" Howard asked, and Debbie gave him a skeptical look.
"No. But we can walk there, since we've got plenty of time." She responded.
"Fine" Howard agreed, and pulled out a tray of nachos to eat.
Debbie grimaced at it, but didn't say anything about it as the two began to walk from school.
The two arrived at the trash site, and Debbie led Howard to the area which she found that was the lowest land level.
"Okay, we may find something around here, so get looking."
They looked around the stinky dump, before deciding nothing was there.
"I don't see anything." Howard said.
"You're right. Maybe we'll have more luck near the lake."
"Hmm. Then we'll come back tomorrow"
"Yea… oh wait. I can't, I have to run errands with my mom. So day after that?" Debbie offered.
Howard groaned. "Errgh fine."
Debbie nodded, "Let's go back now. I've got to start my homework soon."
Two days later, Howard and Debbie met up with each outside of school on the front lawn.
"Ugh yesterday was so boring. I almost started talking to myself while I played Grave Puncher." Howard complained to Debbie, as they began trekking.
Debbie looked at him questioning, "Couldn't you have just called Randy?"
"Uh…yea but, uh, his mom didn't want him to talk to anyone. Yea" Howard made up.
"Oh, well okay." Debbie said.
Howard changed the topic, "So where are we going today?"
"The lake. There's an area around the side that's really low." Debbie explained.
The duo made their way to the lake side. The side was very steep, like a mini cliff.
"Wow, I've never seen this before." Debbie commented.
"Me neither." Howard agreed.
Debbie and Howard started kicked around the loose rubble, and large rocks, trying to find something under them.
Debbie looked up at the wall of dirt and rocks, and spotted a large rock, the size of a computer. She grabbed a stick off of the ground, and started prodding the dirt around it that held it in. She pushed some of the surrounding rocks, and was surprised to see that it crumbled in.
"What the juice? Howard, look at this" She called out, and showed Howard that the rocks fell in.
"So what?" Howard asked, clearly confused.
Debbie rolled her eyes, "So, didn't you hear the low thump? That means that there's something down their, like a cave or something. Help me push this big rock out of the way."
The two managed to push the rock out of the way, clear away surrounding ones, and gaze through it.
"Do you see anything?" Debbie asked Howard.
"No, it's too dark." He replied.
"I guess we could try calling for them." Debbie suggested, and shouted down the hole. "THERESA!"
~0~
Randy woke up the same as the previous three days. He rolled onto his back and stayed staring at the high ceiling for a long time. Why not? He had nothing else to do.
Finally, he sat up, and grabbed the more-than-half eaten apple and began eating it.
After finishing it, Randy sat and stared at the gems sticking out of the walls of the cave. Maybe he could take some. It's not like anyone knew it was here, right? And if he kept it for personal value, then it'd be okay, right?
Randy decided that he was getting really bored of this place, and was determined to find a way out.
He had probably spent half of the day doing nothing but circling the cave many times. He was getting a crick in his neck from looking up too long.
Randy sighed and sat down next to the water. Before he could decide what to do next, he heard a groan and some movement. He snapped his head to the right, to see nothing there... but Theresa. Randy's eyes widened. Theresa was waking up. He was at her side in an instant. Randy reached down to touch her, but saw his uncovered hand. Theresa didn't know Randy was the ninja, so did he want her to wake up and see Randy? He only had an instant before she would open her eyes, and had to decide.
~0~
Theresa slowly opened her eyes. Oh, why was her bedroom so dimly lit? And why did her whole body hurt? Time for a new mattress, she thought.
Theresa's eyes fully cleared and she realized where she was. Her memories rushed at her all at once. She quickly sat up, but winced and fell back.
"Woah, careful" She heard. Looking up, she saw the ninja.
Her eyes widened, and she tried to scoot away, against the protest of her body.
"Wait, it's me. I'm the nice guy. Please don't be scared." He tried to clam her.
Theresa slowly calmed down, but still stayed cautious.
"So are you feeling okay?" Ninja asked her.
Theresa tried to speak, "Y-yea." She paused to clear her throat. "I think so. My body still hurts though."
The ninja rubbed the back of his head, "Yea, you've got a large wound on your side."
"Could I have some water?" Theresa asked.
"Sure" Randy replied, and helped her sit up next to the water. "You alright?"
She nodded and bent down a bit and downed a large amount of water.
Theresa slowly turned herself to face the ninja. He held out the pack of crackers.
"Hungry?"
Theresa smiled and started devouring them.
"Thanks ninja."
Randy shook his head. "Don't thank me yet. We still have to get out of here."
"Do you think we'll find a way out soon?" Theresa asked hopefully.
He looked away, unable to answer. "I don't know" He quietly said.
Theresa looked away and around the cave.
"It would be nice if we could take some of the gems. They're so pretty." She said softly.
Randy nodded absent mindlessly. After a moment, he spoke again. "Do you think you're okay to move? I think we should start walking down the tunnels again."
Theresa looked up at him and nodded. "Yea. But I'm not sure if I can walk or not. I'll probably have to lean on-" She stopped short when the ninja came up beside her and started picking her up. "Y-you?"
"Don't worry about it. I'll carry you." He told her.
"Oh. Thank you." She said.
Ninja pulled her bag up and gave it to her, before straightening up. "No problem, now lets get going."
They didn't know how long they were walking, but Randy thought it was for about an hour. He set Theresa on the ground again to take a break and rest his tired arms.
"Are you alright?" She asked him, concerned.
He nodded. "Yea, just taking another break."
They sat in silence and stayed lost in their thoughts. While he was in his mind, Theresa interrupted.
"Did you hear that?"
Randy looked at her. "Hear what?"
"It sounded like a... like someone shouting" Theresa paused and waited to hear something again.
They both heard it this time. It was a low echo that vibrated through the walls. It wasn't clear because they were so far.
Randy jumped up and picked up Theresa fast.
"We have to get closer" He explained, and started sprinting down the tunnel.
As Randy ran down faster, they began to hear the echos clearer.
"-Sa! -Ja!"
"-Esa! -Nja!"
"-Eresa! -Nja!"
Theresa concentrated on the voices. "It sounds kinda like... Debbie. And Howard."
Randy was surprised. Debbie and Howard? That was not who he was expecting. But hey, he wasn't one to complain.
They were really close, and they could tell because their voices were loud and clear.
"Debbie!" Theresa shouted, and Randy spotted them just after. They were high up in a small cave peaking out of a gap on the surface.
"Theresa!" Debbie shouted, but this time in surprise. "Oh thank goodness your here! Are you okay?"
"Ninja!" Howard shouted as he saw him.
Randy put Theresa down and stood up to look at them.
"We're fine. I got a little hurt, but I'm okay." Theresa told Debbie.
"What?! How hurt? I'm going to call the ambulance!" She shouted.
"No wait Debbie! We've gotta get out first." Ninja told her.
"Right. I'll call the fire department then." Debbie pulled out her phone, but was stopped.
"No need Debbie Kang. I'll swing us out." Ninja told her, then turned to Theresa. "I'm gonna need you to stand, okay?"
Theresa nodded and stood with the help of the ninja.
"Alright, clear the way up there guys." Randy grabbed his scarf and threw it upwards. "Ninja Swing Outta Here!" He shouted.
Randy swung them up and cleanly through the gap, and into the light of day.
"Ah!" Randy cried as he sat down and closed his eyes to get used to the light.
"Ninja, are you okay?" Howard asked him.
"Yea, thanks." Randy said, and looked up at him, spotting his snack. "Howard, give me you sandwich!"
Howard looked shocked. "What? Why?"
"Because I'm hungry!" He cried, and stretched an arm out to grab it.
"No way!" Howard shouted and pulled away.
"Howard! Give the Ninja your sandwich! They haven't eaten anything for days!" Debbie scolded Howard.
"Ok, fine. Here" Howard gave in, and handed Randy the sub.
"Thanks buddy" Randy said smiling. He pulled the sandwich in half and handed one to Theresa and started eating his half greedily.
"Thank you, Howard" Theresa said, and started eating the sandwich as well.
Debbie spoke up, "I called the ambulance, and they'll be coming soon. Because Theresa, you look awful. And why is that jacket wrapped around you?" She reached down and untied it.
"Oh my juice! Theresa! How did you get this? This is huge. Oh no, it'll get infected soon. They better get here fast!" As Debbie kept mothering Theresa, the ambulance sirens were heard, and they were spotted near the water.
Before they came out, Ninja spoke up. "Thanks for finding us Debbie, Howard. But I'm going to go now."
"Are you sure you don't want to-" Debbie started asking but Ninja cut her off.
"I'm fine Debbie. Thanks again. Stay healthy, Theresa. Smokebomb!"
Right after the smoke cleared the paramedics came with a gurney for Theresa, and rushed her to the hospital.
All was well now, right?
~0~
Here's what the worm said; "Someone named Viceroy created me, and they let me out to test things, but instead of going back to them, I left."
"Why are you and that other person down here?"
"Sorry I attacked. That thorn was making me crazy"
"Do you really want to destroy the city?"
Alright... sorry everyone for not uploading last Wednesday -_- I got busy and couldn't find time to type... Well, here's this chapter! Thought it was short but it's 4 pages long~~
(Also I hope I'm uploading the correct chapter :/ )
Yea... I'm too tired to be writing some stuff...But im actually stuck with the next chapter. Momentary writers block.
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