Chapter 7: Ninja-0-clock
Viceroy felt old. He was dragging the cube with the slumbering ghost girl up to a hill overlooking the con, and despite weekly aerobics and yoga sessions, his back was KILLING him.
"Let's hope you're worth this!" he mumbled, slowly typing in the release code on the cube's controls panel. He set everything up until all that was left to be done was to push enter, and the ghost would be released. Viceroy grinned. Now for the fun part.
That plan was to get the ninja out and then release Agatha. That way she wouldn't be fooled by their story. Viceroy had packed for such an occasion. He pulled out a remote from one of his numerous lab coat pockets and hit a devious looking red button. A quiet whirring sound could be heard. Viceroy looked up and watched as the sound got louder and a small falling speck got larger.
The robot landed Iron man style in the middle of the clearing. It was three times the size of a human, and was gleaming in dark silver metal. Two cold, calculating orbs were already scanning for a small black figure with a red scarf. Viceroy began silently fan-girling over his work. This machine had the intelligence of a genius, the strength of a stampede of rhinos, and the speed of a hummingbird. (Legit though, those things are FREAKIN FAST!) Agatha was looking more and more like a backup plan.
The Robot stood tall and turned to face Viceroy, awaiting orders.
Viceroy assumed his usual position. Weight on his back leg, arms crossed, stroking his beautiful beard. "Find and destroy the ninja of Norrisville. Cause as much havoc and chaos as you like." The robot nodded, then turned, crashed down the hill, and began terrorizing the village people.
"60 seconds left!" cried Sam. She was standing in front of Howard and Tucker, video camera in hand. Howard and Tucker were bites away from finishing a turkey leg. Randy stood nearby holding a stopwatch, cheering along with Dipper and Mabel. Well Mabel. Dipper was watching idiocy, and while it was entertaining, he thought hanging with teenagers would be more that who can eat faster.
"So, this is what you guys do for fun?" he asked. Sam nodded. "Usually we just hang out and goof off, watch movies, whatever. Sometimes Ghosts attack so we help Danny's family deal with them. Why, what do you do for fun?" Sam asked. Dipper shied away from the question. Mabel piped up, "he reads, like a nerd." Dipper playfully punched her in the arm.
"C'mon Howard! You eat my food all the time! You can out eat this kid!"
"I don't know," said Sam. "Tucker once gulped down a whole basket of blood blossoms. Has the stomach of steal."
Randy glanced down at the watch. "10 seconds…9…8…"
Tucker Viciously gnawed at his last few strands of meat.
"..6…5…4…" Howard furiously chewed his last mouthful.
"…3…2…1-" the teens watched as Howard swallowed and fist pumped in Victory. He and Tucker shook hands and the group continued on the way through the con. Randy turned back to Dipper and Sam.
"Hey, where's Danny?" Sam and Dipper glanced at each other.
"He...uh…went to talk to his parents." Sam supplied. Randy nodded and turned back, but Dipper was watching her with his "suspicious eyes". Sam shrugged.
"Danny does go around publicizing his condition." This kid was starting to get on her nerves a bit.
Just then, a huge metal foot slammed into the walk way, sending everyone nearby to the ground. Randy look up at the robot it was connected to, and grinned. He glanced at Howard who was looking at the robot with a mixture of Awe and confusion. He saw Randy expression and nodded. Randy used the sudden widespread panic to his advantage. He melded into the flood of screaming people and darted into the cover of trees.
Dipper and Mabel stood side by side, mouths agape at the mechanical giant.
"Not again…" Dipper muttered. Mabel started 'ah-ah-ah-ah' ing.
Tucker and Sam, veterans in handling attacks such as these, grabbed the pines twins' hands and dragged them and Howard to the edge of the woods. Sam immediately pulled out the Fenton speakers and put one in her ear.
"Danny! We have a SITUATION! Danny? DANNY!" she looked at tucker with a fearful expression. Mabel began looking around frantically.
"Where's Norman?!"
Meanwhile, Randy had gone full ninja. He swung from tree to tree using his scarf and landed in the middle of the desolated Con. Several Norrisville fans screamed when he landed, but then saw what he was looking at and fled to safety. The robot turned and locked its sight on the ninja. Quick file recognition confirmed it: this was his target. The robot man let out a deep roar that shook the trees. Randy coughed as pine needles began to cover his suit.
"AW that's wonk! I just had this thing dry cleaned!" he joked. Randy then drew his Ninja Sword, hoping the robot was made of stupid.
"NINJA
RUNNING ATTACK SLIIICE!" he yelled, and sliced off one of the robots hands. The robot steamed and kicked Randy into a nearby tree. "Oof" he muttered.
Randy climbed to his feet and glared.
"Ninja Electro Balls, I SUMMON THEE!" Randy threw five electro balls at the giant, all of which nailed him in the face. The Robot responded by firing at randy with a machine gun from its chest. Randy ran at him again, nimbly dodging and deflecting the bullets. Nearby tents were not so lucky. They caught fire, needless to say.
"Aw, wonk, now the con's on fire. So Not BRUCE!" Randy ran at the giant and brandished his sword. He leapt into the air, sword poised over his head, yelling, "YA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!" before slicing the robot down its chest plate. Gears whirred, limbs spazzed, and then the whole robot combust, sending randy flying backward with the force. He "NINJA FLIP LAND!"ed a crouch position and watch as people slowly crawled out from their various hiding places. He grinned.
"You are safe now, citizens and visitors. You can all-" just then randy felt the coldest chill he'd ever felt. Something was forcing its way inside him. His normally blue eyes shone red, and he struggled to push out whatever it was, but the invading force was too powerful. Soon randy was pushed aside and forced to watch, horrified and helpless, and something else controlled his body.
" –run for your lives," Randy heard his mouth saying. "Because I am not done yet." And with that, Not/Randy drew the ninja sword and sliced down the two nearest tent poles, collapsing the structure onto several surprised people. Not/Randy laughed manically.
Lightning illuminated the scene. Mabel and Dipper exchanged knowing glances, while Tucker and Sam paused from desperately trying to contact Danny. Howard was staring at his best friend in Horror. But because Howard is Howard, he didn't notice the pulsating, crackling, electrifying yellow silhouette atop the hill that the other teens had.
"Where. Is. NORMAN!" the figure bellowed, sending bolts of lightning everywhere.
Tucker and Sam instantly recognized her as a ghost, but she was the most powerful ghost they'd ever seen. Dipper and Mabel held on to each other as the wind picked up and the sky Darkened. The group of teens watched, baffled, as the ninja sauntered over to the base of the hill and called up to the stormy child.
"Gone. Done away with. I sent him out of your reach, child!" snarled Not/Randy. Agatha blazed with anger, and several trees were set a flame from rogue lightning bolts. She flew over until she was right on top of the ninja, hovering menacingly over him.
"Dude, knock it out and get out of there!" called Howard helplessly. The ninja remained where he was, arms folded, weight shifted to one leg, watching Agatha with an amused expression.
"Afraid of being alone now that your obsession is gone." He sneered. Agatha was seething at this point. She raised both her hands over her head, Toxic electricity arching between them. Agatha let out a mighty roar and threw the lightning down on the ninja. Randy's body was jerked into the air, held there by the thousands of volts of electricity coursing through it. Randy screamed from the white hot pain, and realized it was his voice again. The spirit or force had left him. To DIE!
Said force was currently flying to meet McFist, invisible even with the dark atmosphere. It arrived to find two boys chained to separate trees, one of whom it recognized. Two birds and only one stone, the spirit chuckled to himself. He grinned as a blue wisp left the older boy's mouth and he struggled against the metal chains. McFist was watching, uncomfortable, from a nearby tree. The Spirit materialized into view.
Both boys' eyes widened in recognition, one with fear, the other hate. McFist looked relived.
"Finally, you're here. I found them talking and wasn't sure who you meant, so I took em both and I just got them to shut-" but McFist was rudely interrupted by the older boy, who was positively livid.
"VLAD! WHAT THE HECK HAVE YOU DONE, YOU SICK FREAK! AND WHAT IS CAUSING ALL THAT LIGHTNIG!" Danny roared. Vlad Plasmius gave a small tsk tsk. "Better not get involved Danny, although it seems you already have. Norman here knows the source of the lightning.
Norman had never felt so small or utterly helpless. He had also never felt this much anger, anger at what this fruit loop had done.
"You upset Aggie." He said through gritted teeth.
WOAH. Dark stuff. I wasn't planning on it happening that way but that's what it decided to be. Hope you guys like it. Poor Randy. Poor Danny. Poor Norman. Poor Soos, he was in a KIDDY POOL! With LIGHTNING! Anyway, next chap might take a bit, but stay tuned.
