Khaldum escorts the ninja closer to the sacrificial table as members of the Sutekh Brotherhood come closer to them, surrounding them in a circle. Upon doing so, Khaldum could felt the eclipse coming fast as the ninja could only stand beside the table, hesitated to move.
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True to Khaldum's prediction, a moon, despite the daytime, slowly blocks the sun over Aziza, scaring most of Mrs. Driscoll's students as the sky fades to darkness, forming an eclipse.
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"The time is near, ninja." Khaldum noted as he pulls out the Book of the Dead from under his robes. "It's best we get this show on the road."
Both Khaldum and the ninja eyed the opening in the ceiling where a light near engulfed the pool. Khaldum knew that the timing to enhance a spell needs to be in perfect order for the ritual to work flawlessly. The ninja then gets onto the sacrificial table and lies down on his back, if that's what he thinks he's doing in a normal sacrificial ceremony. Khaldum snaps his fingers as one of the members kept the ninja pinned down as the other one grabs a roll of bandages and mummify him fully.
"Was this really necessary?" the ninja asked Khaldum, just before his head is now fully wrapped, making him look like a mummy.
"It's to keep you strapped and secure." Khaldum replied.
Then, Khaldum points his elderly finger at the ninja and touched his forehead. For some reason, the ninja starts to feel sleepy as his eyes fluttered and then, loses his consciousness as Khaldum eyed him with an evil smirk formed on his elderly face. The light now then engulfed the ninja's mummified body as Khaldum opens the Book of the Dead. The ritual had just begun.
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"I can't see anything in the dark, Viceroy!" McFist shouted as he and Viceroy tried to follow the tracking device with the ninja's blood used to find the ninja.
"Nobody told us that the eclipse is going to happen today at some point." Viceroy replied as he and McFist enter the pyramid, and saw the dim lights of fire for the first time.
"AAAHH!" McFist screamed for almost no reason.
"What's wrong?" Viceroy asked. "Was it something I just said?"
"The eclipse! The Sutekh Brotherhood are about to do their ritual right now! We have to find the ninja and get him to safety!"
"Except we have to find him before the Sutekh Brotherhood got to him first. We'll follow the tracking device and find the ninja no problem!"
"Hurry! I'm about to fear for his own life! The fate of the world is within his life as we know it!"
McFist and Viceroy followed the ninja's trail in a hurry until they came to a halt upon witnessing a staircase that would lead them to pyramid's bottom.
"The ninja's down there!" Viceroy cried as he and McFist run down the stairs. "I hope we're not too late."
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Meanwhile, Howard had begun to formulate a plan of escape, in order to save the ninja from the ritual. If he has the brains of a genius, he would find a way to get out of his prison. But he's just not cut off to be a genius. As he sat on the corner, thinking of a way to get out of here, he noticed a stone brick sitting beside him. He looks at the brick, and then lets his eyes look at the door, which turns out to be wooden after all.
Looks like Howard has found a way to escape after all.
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The staircase seems endless for McFist and Viceroy, despite running down the steps and by the time they're reached the bottom, they found themselves inside a burial chamber as they witness the members of the Sutekh Brotherhood circling around the sacrificial table, the ninja's mummified body resting on top of its stoned surface.
"Viceroy," McFist told Viceroy. "Call out the robots. This is going to be a very short fight."
Attention all McFist robots! Viceroy ordered through his walkie-talkie. Get your metal gears over here, and take down the enemies, all of them wearing dark, hooded robes! That is all.
But as soon as Viceroy finished giving his orders, out of nowhere, several linens of bandages wrapped around McFist and Viceroy together, trapping them to a pillar near the pool. From a distance, Astarte chuckles at McFist and Viceroy darkly.
"Do you men really think that we are deaf?"
It was the first time in history that McFist and Viceroy had heard Astarte's voice, and it was like snakes slithering all over their spines – an eerie shiver racing through them.
"We must perform the ritual now!" Khaldum barked at Astarte, before looking at McFist and Viceroy. "Let those incompetent fools witness the destruction."
"Who are you calling us incompetent fools?" McFist yelled at Khaldum. "Viceroy's robots are nothing but incompetent robots doing a competent robot's job anyway!"
"I heard that!" Viceroy cried. "And I don't like it one bit."
"SILENCE!" Khaldum yelled. "I WON'T HAVE ANYONE, INCOMPETENT OR NOT, RUIN THIS RITUAL!"
No noise was made after Khaldum's tantrum. Khaldum eyed the ninja's mummified body again as the Sapphire Ankh glowed a nightly sapphire.
"Let's see now," Khaldum's eyes were locked on the pages in the Book of the Dead as he looks for a certain spell to complete the ritual and begins to chant, his eyes locked on the ninja's mummified body:
Transfer my soul into this vessel Let me not have to wrestle Make it easy, make it fine Let his body become mine.
Everyone watched as Khaldum felt his soul escaping from his own body and fly into the ninja's. Khaldum's body fell down as the ninja's body glow a fiery red, dissolving his bounds into nothing. Once Khaldum's soul entered the ninja's body, the Sapphire Ankh glow a nightly sapphire, but instead of its usual calmness, the ankh glowed angrily like a raging monster.
It's ironic that no one noticed a wooden door getting smashed by a simple brick. A pudgy hand went through the hole and twisted the doorknob to let the door open to reveal Howard who had escaped from his prison.
"Don't worry ninja." Howard cried as he ran towards the sacrificial table. "I'm coming!"
But Howard was too late. Khaldum had already taken over the ninja's body as the possessed ninja opens his eyes, both glowing red with evil inside.
"Aw man that's wonk!" Howard cried.
"Yes, yes!" Khaldum roared in victorious while possessing the ninja's body. "NOW I'VE GAIN POSSESSION OF THE SAPPHIRE ANKH! NOTHNG SHALL STAND IN MY WAY! NOTHING!"
"I always thought that the sorcerer would act like this, once we help him free from his prison." McFist said to Viceroy.
"But I never thought that we see that kind of action on the ninja." Viceroy replied. "Out of all people, did it have to be the ninja?"
"Ninja," Howard cried upon witnessing what just happened. "Why did you have to do this, you numbskull? Why?"