Blank Flank Part 2

Randy as the Ninja stood with the Cutie Mark Crusaders and The mane six as well as Spike in the center of Whoopee World. The fillies were jumping around them in excitement, babbling about what they should do first. Randy had flattened his ears against his head to block them out as much as possible, which Rarity noticed.

"Give them until noon and they'll be out like a light and use these" she offered him a packet of disposable earplugs.

Randy took them, opened the packet and moved to put them in his ears when he realized his mask was blocking the way, looking down at the foam pieces he heard a few of the others snickering.

" I should probably keep them out anyway" He said "need to be ready to fight at any second"

"Yeah that would be a good idea" Twilight said.

After a while the girls choose their first ride, sadly for Rarity it was the barf-a-tron. Randy and Rainbow Dash were the first to recover, Rarity followed shortly after forgetting her nausea for fretting about her now messed up mane. Randy pulled a brush and mirror from his sash and offered them to her.

"Why I didn't know you were such a gentleman Ninja… Wait, Why do you have a brush and mirror on you?"

Randy shrugged "you pick up some tricks after 800 years, you'll not believe what you can do with a hand mirror besides look at your reflection" He decided to keep the fact that the suit could produce what he wanted a secret, Twilight already was baffled by the wings and Ninja rage, best not add to the list.

"And the brush?"

"I don't know, I just have it"

As Rarity restyled her mane Randy gaze settled on two familiar mares from his school. "Hey, I'll be right back" He said to Rainbow Dash who nodded and trotted over to Theresa And Debbie. He waited for them to finish their game and when the pony working the stall handed them their prize he peaked into their peripheral vision.

"Boo"

Theresa jumped and let out a surprised squeak while Debbie just jumped. "Ninja!"

Randy laughed while apologizing to them taking a deep breath to compose himself he let out a few shaky last laughs. "Sorry"

"What are you doing here, talking to us no less?" Debbie asked looking suspicious.

"For talking to you, I wanted to see if you guys were okay since I forgot to after that attack yesterday"

"I don't blame you" Theresa said "You looked like you were going to pass out while talking to Princess Celestia"

Randy laughed nervously his gaze focused on one of her wings which was in a cast "Is your wing okay?"

"Yeah just broken, but it isn't interfering with my twirl routine so It's okay"

"So what are you doing here?" Debbie interjected.

Randy pointed to the group of ponies he had come from "I'm with them, long story short my Mentor knows Princess Celestia and she is Twilight's Mentor, and they decided to have us meet and asked us to hang out for the day. Twilight already had plans to come here with her friends so I'm obliged to tag along" He said then leaned in a bit "but the only one who knows that is Twilight, the others think I'm here for the fillies"

"And why is that?"

Randy sensed Debbie's journalist side coming out and decided to leave "something I will not tell you, I think their ready to go so I'll see you guys Friday I hope" He sent a wink towards Theresa and trotted back to his group.

Debbie resisted the urge to follow him and looked at Theresa, "was it just me or did he wink at you?"

Theresa forced herself to stop watching the ninja and his group leave "what?"

"When he asked if we were alright he focused more on you, Going as far as to ask about your wing, and when he left he winked at you, I think he likes you"

"Me? He's a 800 year old Ninja who protects our city, I think he can do a lot better than me"

"You like her don't you?" Rainbow Dash smirked causing Randy to look at her with surprise on his face

"Is it that obvious?"

"Bout as obvious as a fox in a chicken coop" AppleJack said oblivious to Randy's involuntary shiver at the word chicken.

"Why don't you just ask her out?" Pinkie Pie chirped "In fact why don't you ask her and her friend to join us" she opened her mouth to shout to the Lilac Pegasus and the soft blue earth pony, only to have the Ninja's scarf wrap around her muzzle.

"Please don't" Randy said in a panicked voice "Look, all I can really say is that it's complicated"

"It's like like in the comics" Spike spoke up "The hero watches their love from afar to prevent their enemy from finding out about them and therefore protecting them"

"Yeah, that" Randy agreed

"Whats up Norrisville High?" Heidi chirped to her camera "Today we have a very special guest, The Ninja"

The crowd watching the interview clapped, Randy waved,forcing himself to keep a confident face despite his internal panic.

"Now shall we get started?" Heidi said looking at the paper that held her questions "Since your battle on Wednesday it's been the talk around town that you in fact a Blank Flank, do you think you can tell our viewers why?"

"Starting with the hard ones are we?" Randy quipped "To tell the truth I stopped caring about it years ago, I was happy without it and trying to get one just stressed me out" Randy took a breath, now that he had to mix in the fact that he was supposed to be a 800 year old ninja "And this was actually while I was protecting you guys about 200 years ago or so, Before that in the 13th century, when I was born Cutie Marks were rare and almost unheard of, if you had one good for you, if you didn't who cared? No one"

"Then why did you care so much 200 years ago?" Heidi asked.

"As you may have noticed, I do keep up with current time slang and ideas, When Cutie Marks became popular I was curious about what my special talent may be, so I decided to try to get one" Randy mentally patted himself on the back for coming up with that on the spot "Looking back at it, it wasn't the best idea because even if I got my Cutie Mark, I had already pledged to protect Norrisville"

Heidi nodded "So protecting us is keeping you from your destiny?" She felt a little bit of guilt wash over her.

"Randy picked up on the mood change among her and the crowd "don't be upset, we all make our choices and I made mine 800 years ago and now I live with it, and I'm quite happy with it" Randy laughed in a nervous way trying to lighten the mood "Why don't we move on to the next question"

Heidi nodded once again "So you've seemed to have picked up a sidekick, and we all would like to get to know him"

"He's not my sidekick, he's my mentor" Randy said "He checks in on me every now and then like a worried overprotective parent"

The crowd laughed and Randy perked up a bit.

"Never thought you would have a mentor" Heidi said "But I guess it makes more sense than sidekick"

"As Nomicon would say, 'Even the best start from nothing'" Randy said sitting up straighter when he quoted Nomicon.

"Oh...So what do you do when you're not protecting us?"

"Train and try to work on my sorry excuse for a social life"

A few ponies snickered, taking the comment as a joke.

Heidi open her mouth to ask about the last part, only to have Randy cut her off

"Long story short, being The Ninja takes up quite a bit of my time"

Mcfist watched the interview on his computer, and he was ready to throw said computer across the room. The interview wasn't giving him any useful information. The sound of a door swishing open alerted him to someone entering the room, the stout unicorn turned to see Viceroy.

"Is it done?" Mcfist asked

Viceroy smirked and pressed a button "it's been sent"

Mcfist started laughing maniacally until Marcy walked in holding a tray of cookies.

"Hannibal sweetie, I made cookies do you want some?"

"OOOOOOH, yes!"

Viceroy rolled his eyes and went back to his lab.

Meanwhile back with Heidi and Randy the interview was going without a hitch, it went like that until A red light started flashing from Randy's sash.

"What's that?" Heidi asked leaning a bit to get a better look

"My book of knowledge" Randy sighed taking out Nomicon and tapping the mask symbol on his cover twice, signaling Nomicon to stop. "It does this every now and then"

Heidi had to stop herself from staring at the book, She could have sworn she had seen her brother's friend Andy? with that book. But Debbie had already crossed him off since he was not hurt when the ninja was, glancing at Ninja she noticed that he was sitting in a way that would be painful with the injury he had sustained two days ago, It was like he was never hurt to begin with.

'Okay , is Sandy? In the crowd?" she thought. She took advantage of the moment when The Ninja moved to put his book only for it to growl at him, to look over the crowd, She kept a 'are you seeing this?' look on her face as She did so. She saw Howard, but no Rudy? And she knew the two were inseparable.

Usually this would be enough evidence for her, but this was the Identity of The Norrisville Ninja and She wanted to be 100% sure before saying anything.

Markings! Dandy? Had markings. Casting a glance at The Ninja She saw he was now having an argument with his sentient book, grabbing a piece of paper she started to write what she remembered about her brother's friends markings. He had three of them, all a shade of purple lighter than his mane and tail, with a splatter one that went from the back of his neck down his back stopping at his tail being the most noticeable. The other two were the tips of his ears and a small dot on the tip of his muzzle.

'I can remember all this but not his name?' Heidi thought. His muzzle marking would be the easiest the confirm, The Ninja would most likely pull up his mask to eat or drink something, exposing his muzzle.

"You know what, be that way!" The Ninja Huffed "We can continue this later" He reached for the water bottle on the table next to him, causing Heidi to perk up. He opened the water bottle and started to lift his mask, only to stop when his book growled.

"I said We'll continue this lat-" He was cut off by the unmistakable sound of a robot landing.

The crowd scattered and The Ninja didn't waste a second to spring out of his seat and charge the Bot.

The bot merely swatted him to the side and reached for The Ninja's book, still sitting on the char The Ninja was in just a moment ago.

Heidi panicked and grabbed the book using her magic, she screamed as she jumped off the stage and ran to where the Ninja was, the robot following her.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" The Ninja shouted, his voice cracking at the end.

"I DON'T KNOW!" Heidi shouted back, taking a chance she opened her eyes, colorful doodles danced across her vision telling her to throw the book. "Are the doodles normal!?"

"Yeah, why do you ask?"

That was all Heidi needed to know, She used all her might to throw the book in the direction of a clump of bushes, just as the robot grabbed her.

Ninja used his wings to fly up to her and freed her using his sword to cut off the robot's hand. When they reached the ground The Ninja's mentor, Nomicon stood there looking irate.

"Oh hey Sensei Nomicon" The Ninja laughed nervously like he knew why Nomicon was so irate.

Nomicon simply stood straighter and glared at the Ninja.

"Okay… so… I have a fifty foot robot to deal with so… we'll continue this later" Ninja said, slowly backing away before jumping back into the robot fight.

For the entire fight the robot seemed to ignore The Ninja and tried to reach Nomicon. Ninja eventually finished it off with a Air Fist attack. He moved to smoke bomb away only to stop when Nomicon cleared his throat.

Randy's entire world was swimming and swirling around him, he may have hit his head a couple times to many. He just wanted to Smoke bomb away and lay down, but Nomicon clearing his throat reminded him he had a lecture coming his way. He made his way over to Nomicon trying to not faceplant. He was aware of Nomicon lecturing him but he could not tell what it was about, most likely about leaving him on the chair earlier, putting Heidi in danger when she decided to keep Nomicon from the bot.

"Ninja?"

Randy became aware of somepony calling his name, but he felt to tired and dizzy to do anything.

"Ninja?!"

"Ninja?!" Nomicon spoke loudly, waving his hoof in front of his students face. He felt his anger disappear when Randy didn't respond, if he had just zoned out like he usually did during his lectures he would have snapped back to reality by now. Everything was replaced with panic when Randy's eyes rolled back into his head and he pitched forward, Nomicon caught him before he hit the ground.

"Ninja!" Nomicon had to stop Himself from saying Randy's name as He shook Randy gently in an attempt to wake him, he continued this for a couple minutes not sure what to do.

"May I help?"

Nomicon looked up to see Mrs. Driscoll the science teacher. The elderly unicorn had a first aid kit and a water bottle she most likely grabbed from the stage. Nomicon looked around and saw the other teachers were either helping the students that had got hurt in the chaos or were preventing the students from crowding around him and his unconscious student. He gently laid Randy on the ground and took a few steps back, which Mrs. Driscoll saw as a go ahead.

She used her magic to chill the water and then promptly dumped it on Randy's face, the shock caused by the cold water was enough to wake him up. He gasped and shot up a bit before he swayed on the spot and slowly laid down, his eyes half open like he was fighting to stay awake.

"Ninja?" Mrs. Driscoll said softly waiting for him to turn to her before continuing "I'm going to check your head for injuries, let me know if it hurts, okay"

Randy took a few seconds to process what she had said then nodded, he laid his head down on his legs and let Mrs. Driscoll gently feel around his head.

"Why his head first?" Nomicon asked observing Randy finally give up his fight to stay awake and closed his eyes.

Mrs. Driscoll Stomped her hoof down about an inch from Randy's muzzle causing him to jolt awake "cause he is displaying the symptoms of a concussion" She said pulling her hooves back from the Ninja's head when he hissed. She dug out a icepack from her first aid kit and placed it on the injured area "I'm surprised you don't know that"

Nomicon huffed "I know when my student is hurt and when to make him stop, I just didn't know what a concussion was"

Mrs. Driscoll let go of the icepack when The Ninja moved to hold it in place by himself "I didn't mean it like that, but I've done all I can here, take him home and don't let him sleep until he can hold a conversation and doesn't display any other symptoms, then and only then can you let him sleep and wake him every hour or so just to be safe"

Nomicon nodded "What are the symptoms so I can know when they're gone?"

Mrs. Driscoll pulled out a notepad and pen from her lab coat "I'm putting arrows next to the ones he's already displaying cause I'm going to write some he might exhibit later"

Nomicon read the list, nodded and started to push Randy onto his feet which Randy let out an exaggerated whine.

"Come on Ninja let's get you home, I'll make you that chocolate drink you like"

He had managed to get Randy to stand in the time it took Randy to process what he said "It's called hot chocolate" he slurred.

"Whatever" Nomicon huffed pushing Randy, encouraging him to walk forward before move to his side and supporting him so he wouldn't fall over. He could hear the sigh of relief coming from the crowd of students when they saw their hero walk on his own. They were almost halfway across the parking lot when Mrs. Driscoll ran up

"You forgot this" She handed them the list of symptoms "And I forgot to tell you to keep him from doing any type of activity that could risk another head injury for the next 24 to 48 hours to give him time to recover"

Nomicon took the list "thank you"

"Your welcome, but this is nothing compared to what Ninja does for us on a daily bases"

Nomicon looked down at Randy, who looked like he was about to pass out again. WIth a sigh he used his magic to pick him up and place him on his back.

Randy let out a whine of protest when his brain processed what was happening.

Nomicon ignored him and proceed to trot back to Randy's house.

It had been a few hours since Nomicon had gotten Randy home, Howard had somehow managed to beat them there and was now helping keep Randy awake by playing Grave Punchers with him. Though Nomicon started to think it was so he could beat him for once after watching them play the first few games.

It took four hours for all of Randy's symptoms to disappear and he pretty much fell asleep on the spot when he was given the okay. Howard had gotten bored and left so it was just Randy and Nomicon, Nomicon moved Randy to his bed and laid down next to him. He couldn't stop a smile from crossing his face when Randy subconsciously snuggled into him in his sleep.

Feeling the toll from being in his kirin form for to long he had no choice but to transform back to his book form, but before he rested himself he needed to make sure somepony would wake Randy. He wandered around the makeshift world he had made till he found the First Ninja also known as Satoru, the coral red colored pegasi was bathing in the sun on top of a rock formation. Nomicon approached him and explained the situation, asking him to keep an eye on Randy while he regains his strength.

Satoru nodded and jumped down from the rock formation so Nomicon could let him out of the book.

Nomicon watched Satoru settle down next to Randy before trudging to his own bed, days like this one were the ones that made him despise the spell that had been cast upon him.

"More like curse" he muttered to himself, curling up in his bed. He never blamed Celestia, he never did. He blamed himself for offering to be the test dummy in the first place. He glanced up at the scroll displaying what was happening outside and sighed when he saw Satoru enjoying real sunlight and Randy sleeping peacefully next to him. He waved the scroll away turned so his back was to the door of his room and let sleep take him over.

Author's notes

This chapter had a few headcannons like cutie marks in the early days

and the First Ninja does reside in Nomicon's Book form, I have this idea that it's kinda like a complicated shloop, It doesn't take any of Nomicon's energy for him to be out of the book and he even has his own physical body.

Also Randy and Theresa, I ship it

But that and the other things will be covered in later chapters thank you for reading and have a nice day.