I was wondering if you could do something about Theresa Meeting the Nomicon?

-Guest

Heyyy. Halfway through with this shot, I was thinking that this may not have been what you have wanted. You probably meant human!Nomicon, right? Well... he's not here. Book!Nomicon is, though... I'm not so hot about writing human!Nomicon... I feel weird, idk how his traits are. So, sorry :(

Anyways, this is still a good oneshot, so I hope you all enjoy!

Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja © Disney XD, Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas

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Theresa scanned the bookshelves with her eyes as she walked by. She wasn't looking for anything specific, but really looking for something that might catch her eye.

She found one and pulled it off the shelf, scanning the cover. 'The Expeditioners,' it read. It looked interesting, with a cover four teenaged characters looking lost in lake or something, as the illustration showed water reaching up to their knees and above.

Opening the book, she turned and made her way to a table in the library, without looking up from the words. Theresa used her foot to push the chair out, seeing as her hands were full. She sat down and placed the book on the table, and her eyes easily reached the end of the half page. Her eyes moved to the top of the next, but she looked down again at something odd. She looked under the bottom of the book's cover, where it left a shadow on the table. Shadows were only seen on the table if there was space to see it. Cautiously, she held the book from the sides and lifted to see what was sitting under her book.

It was just another book. But she didn't recognize anything about it. It was a mostly black book, with some strange looking spirals all around, and it had a bright green face on it that kind of looked like a mask.

Theresa thought it was a personalized journal or diary, or something. She lifted the cover, to see if she could find a name to whom it belongs.

She didn't know what happened, though. All of a sudden she saw a flash of light, then she felt like she was falling. Okay, so she was falling. From the sky. But she didn't know where she was. One second sitting in the library, the next falling. Wait, she was falling. She started screaming as soon as she fully realized it.

She watched the grass under her zoom closer, and squeezed her eyes shut. She waited for a painful impact, but nothing hit her. Instead, she felt as is something pushed her upright, and it gently landed her on her bottom.

Theresa opened one of her shut eyes, then the other, thoroughly confused. Okay, something odd was going on here. She shook it off the weirdness, then stood up and brushed her uniform.

She looked around and found that she landed nearby a small village. She walked into it, and onto the main dirt road. Theresa noticed that the people on the street were wearing a different style of clothing, and that the buildings looked built with wood like little cabins, unlike the high skyscrapers they had in Norrisville.

She had to ask someone where she was. She spotted a few people beside a fruit stand. "Excuse me!" She called out.

They seemed to not notice her, so she went closer. "Hello?"

The people turned to her and stared.

"Um, sorry to bother you," Theresa started awkwardly, "But where is this place?"

The people looked at each other confused, then one stepped forward, and waved her to follow.

Theresa quirked an eyebrow, and followed. Did these people not talk? She could swear that she hears chatter all around. Maybe they don't like strangers?

The woman leading her had black hair tied into a bun with two sticks holding it up, and wore a long sleeve light blue dress type thing with a purple border and a gold ribbon around her that tied into bow in the back.

She was led to what seemed to be the center of the village, with people and wagons all around, and stopped. The woman was gazing up at something, and Theresa looked up too. It was a statue of a stone fish, and it had a gold stone as the eye.

"Hey..." Theresa commented, "That stone looks... familiar."

She frowned in thought, not catching where she recognized it from. But then, it clicked.

"I'm in Norrisville!?" She shouted.

The commotion around her stopped and stared at her outburst, but she didn't care. That strange book in the library sent her back in time! She was still in Norrisville, just early Norrisville.

She felt dizzy and lightheaded, like she was going to faint, or puke. How was she going to get out of here? How was she going to survive? How long would she be here? Where would she stay? No one here would talk to her!

She shook her head and concentrated. She had to pull herself together and find a way back. Only a group of people hadn't spoken to her. Maybe they were all having a bad day, or something. There might be someone who could talk to her.

Flooded with determination, she started walking around, calling out to people to see if anyone responded. No one did. She sighed. So no one here talked to strangers. Great. Didn't they have a mayor or sheriff or something of the likes?

She wandered around, thinking of something she could do to leave this place. Then a thought hit her, why didn't she go check out the place she landed? The place she started from would be a good place to look.

Theresa tried to locate the familiar fruit stand, and the buildings she emerged between. She soon found the stand, and carefully looked down the road for familiarities. She let out a relieved sigh as she found it, and moved through it to the grassy ground she was dropped on.

She began looking around, but there wasn't anything of interest. Theresa sighed and plopped down, crossing her legs. She rested her chin in her hands, her elbows on her knees.

Now she was stumped. She didn't know what to do after checking the area. Though she should seriously get up and look around the village for someone who could talk to her, she relaxed into the soft grass, laying back and staring up at the sky. Theresa sighed and watched the clouds, which looked awfully strange.

Suddenly, she heard a strange and faint sound. It sounded like a scream. She saw it soon after; a dark speck in the sky, slowly becoming larger.

Theresa sat up alarmed, and started scooting back all while staring at the figure. She was afraid it was going to land on her, and so she moved away.

All she saw was a blur of purple and blue, before the yelling stopped with a thud in the ground.

"Ow..." It was a voice, a male voice, Theresa observed.

She slowly stepped up to the slight crater in the Earth, peering into it.

The figure was now sitting up, pushing himself up to stand.

"Randy?!" Theresa shouted, in surprise and slight happiness of being rescued. She jumped over to him and hugged him tight to express her joy.

"T-Theresa! What- ah, what are you doing here?" Randy asked, and he sounded a little nervous.

Theresa pulled away from him and stood away. "I-I don't know! I was in the library, when I found a strange book, and I opened it to see who it belonged to. But then something happened, and I came here!" She explained. "Wait, how did you get here? Do you know a way out?!"

Randy raised his hands in a way to calm her. "I uh, don't know how I got here, either. But, we should be able to find a way out..." He trailed off, and started looking around the sky, as if searching for something.

"Uhh?" Theresa followed him and stared into the sky. But she didn't see anything. "What are you looking for?"

Randy snapped out of it. "Me? Oh, nothing! I was just-"

They both stopped and stared when the clouds started moving all of a sudden. Not just moving slowly in the sky, but the clouds started forming... letters.

"A secret that cannot remain a secret, is no longer a secret," It read.

Theresa frowned. "What does that mean?" She turned to Randy. "Do you get it?"

Randy gave a nervous laugh, "Not at all! Who knows what it could mean?! It just popped out of nowhere!" He was moving his head everywhere, looking for something urgently.

She heard him mutter something, but didn't hear it properly. "What was that?" She asked.

"Nothing, just talking to myself" Randy told her quickly.

Theresa shrugged and turned around, only to see a large dust cloud coming toward them rather quickly. She stepped back, "Randy... what is that?"

Randy turned to look at what she saw and his eyes widened. He opened it mouth to say something, but it was too late.

The heard of running bulls had already run into them.

Theresa gasped as she sat up. She wiped the side of her mouth with her sleeve, because she felt some drool there. Looking around, she found herself in the library exactly where she was before she got to early Norrisville. She turned and saw Randy sitting up beside her, as well. He closed the dark book, and she stared at him questioningly.

"Was all of that... inside that book?" She asked quietly, since they were now in the library.

Randy glanced around nervously. He gaze turned to the window, and he seemed to sigh in defeat. "Uh, yea. Kinda." He finally answered her.

Theresa frowned slightly. "Do you know what happened? How did I get to... where ever it was?"

Randy nodded, then looked around them. After Theresa checked with him to see that no one around, he turned back to her.

"Listen, Theresa, what I am about to tell you is very important and a huge secret. You can't tell anyone."

Theresa paused to absorb his words, then nodded. "I promise."

"Okay, here I go. That book is called the Ninja Nomicon, it's an 800 year old guide for the Ninja of Norrisville." Randy explained.

"Oh..." She said. "But wait, how did it get to the school library then? I mean, I know Ninja's at school a lot, but he wouldn't just leave it somewhere, would he?"

Randy rubbed the back of his neck and laughed nervously. "Well, that's the other thing." He reached into his jacket. "I'm the Ninja"

He held out a dark cloth, and Theresa took it, gaping. She moved the silky cloth around, and found that it was a mask; the Ninja's mask.

"What-, you-, but-," Theresa stuttered. "But the Ninja's 800 years old! You can't be that old!" She finally got out.

Randy laughed. "Yea, that's because a new Ninja is chosen every few years."

She still gaped. "W-wow. I mean, that's... brucetastic." She looked at him, "I'll keep your secret, I promise." She gulped and added, "Even from Debbie"

Randy stiffened suddenly, and turned his gaze away from her. Theresa raised an eyebrow. Did mentioning her best friend make him act so weird? Theresa was aware that Debbie was trying to find out who the Ninja was, but he couldn't possibly be that paranoid.

"About that..." Randy started, and Theresa listened. "She kind of, already... knows."

Theresa's eyes widened, speechless. "What, how?! Since when?!"

"Well, since the day she was supposed to tell everyone on Heidi's me cast." Randy explained.

She gaped, but stopped; she remembered that day. Ah, Theresa had a feeling that Debbie had known who the Ninja really was. She sighed. "She's such a good secret keeper; I couldn't even tell that she knew!"

She laughed lightly at her foolishness, then stood up, glancing at the clock. Her free period was almost over. "I have to go to my locker, but I'll see you around. Right, Ninja?" She lowered her voice on the last word.

Randy just nodded as he stared at her.

Theresa giggled and waved before leaving the table. "Bye"

As she walked the empty hall, she smiled. Sure, she had a new secret to keep, but she was glad that she was trusted.

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See me using semi colons? Haha, yep. That's me paying attention in Writing class! xP

You know, idk how the Nomicon actually works; in the series, you do see Ninja/Randy sometimes leaf through it without getting shloomped in. So the question is if every time you open it shloomps you in.

And I was going for a short one shot! ^^" The ideas just kept coming, and I was like, "What the hey! Why not? My readers deserve a kinda long one!"

While writing, I guess I thought of "Memento" by "Peter Syntie" when I was writing this, found in the early pages of the fanfic archive!

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