Angel: If there are people out there that didn't read my author's note from my Panther story, here it is again (if you know already, just ignore this). My laptop broke apart at the worst time, because I just got a new job and I am in class on Monday, which means I'm stuck hand-writing notes. So I had to send the laptop in to HP so that they can repair it, and at most, that'll take at least 2 weeks before I get that back. Mail is slow because of COVID-19 and this is Fed-Ex, they like to take their sweet time. Take it from me, I ordered a textbook with FedEx handling the delivery on the 17th of August, and I didn't get that thing until just last Saturday. The good news is, because I am a fast writer and I don't want this setback to affect you guys, I have season one for this show done, so I will still be updating Tuesday and Thursday. You guys have been awesome with supporting me through my life, so I wanna make sure that you get what you came for. The laptop is also still under warranty, since I've only had it for under a year, so I don't have to pay jack. The bad news: This is gonna leave me behind a little bit, since I only have one option to do anything, which is a slow-behind desktop because it's the only computer I can use for who knows how long. And I mean ANYTHING: I gotta do homework, my job, and writing on this thing.
Oh, and if I take too long to update anything, it's because this desktop is downstairs, and I do have to keep up with other stuff. So that's why my Tangled One-Shots story hasn't been updated yet. But I will try to get at least one or two more in there before my laptop gets back to me.
And if all else fails, I can just buy another laptop and sync in all my stuff...
Deep inside the Nomicon, Amy and Randy have been tasked with climbing a waterfall. Both of them are soaking wet as they climb up further. A few minutes later, they reach a small ledge. Randy turns around and helps Amy up. She wipes off some sweat from her forehead, panting slightly.
"Hey, Nomicons," Randy calls out as Amy squeezes her shirt dry. "Guess whose ridiculous waterfall challenge is about to get got! Boom! Yours!"
"I wouldn't be so confident so soon. We still have that to climb," Amy points upwards as they're about halfway up. He catches a fish with a smug smile, only for another to smack him in the face. He falls off the ledge, Amy looking over the edge in concern. "Ran!"
He continues to fall and a fish hits her in the back, causing her to fall as well. Randy hits multiple rocks while he falls. "What?" He shouts and falls into the water below. A slab of rock lifts him out of the water and he spits some out.
Amy screams before she falls nearby. Randy gasps, turning to her. She resurfaces a few seconds later, hair dripping wet over her face. There's also a fish over her head and Randy bites back a laugh. Amy spits out some water from her mouth. She parts her hair so that she can see, putting her glasses back on.
"I'm glad you think my failure is funny," She deadpans as he wipes away a tear, failing to see the girl blushing in embarrassment. She crosses her arms at him with a pout as he's still laughing. Upon seeing her look, he stops.
"Okay, I'm sorry," Randy holds out a hand as she swims over to him, and he pulls her up onto the rock.
"Thanks."
"What does climbing a waterfall have to do with kicking butt anyway?" Randy asks in annoyance, fists to his cheeks. Not only did he fail at the most lamest task ever, he also embarrassed himself in front of Amy. "We should be learning awesome fighting moves like ultimate punches and ultimate kicks, and ultimate kick-punches."
Water falls onto him from above, and he gives a deadpan look. Amy giggles behind him, squeezing her hair dry.
"Really?" Randy grumbles to the air and in return, a group of fish fall on him. Amy laughs, holding her stomach.
"Not so funny when it's you now, is it?" She teases, stepping over fish to stand next to him. "But we already know how to fight. Learning new moves is gonna take time, Ran. It doesn't just fall into our laps, we've got 4 years to learn new stuff."
Randy takes a fish off his head. "How are we gonna be Master Ninjas together if we spend all our time getting fish-slapped?" He stands up angrily.
"Well, not so much me since you're the one complaining," Amy points out.
A path of water is cleared so that they can see writing. "The tiger who refuses to get his paws wet catches no fish," They read at the same time.
"I don't want to catch fish, I want to punch them," Randy elaborates, Amy sighing at him wearily.
"Are you really gonna hurt the fish while not realizing the point?"
"Not punch fish, I wanna punch bad guys. So to you I say, a cannonball," He cannonballs into the water and leaves the Nomicon willingly. The advice flashes in front of Amy and she sighs, waving a hand.
"Yeah, yeah, I'll work on him..."
Randy shakes the drool off him in the boys' stall from the school bathroom. He glares at the book. "I'm so sick of not getting straight answers from the Nomicon."
The toilet next to him flushes, which was from Howard. "Sounds like you've got a McQuestion."
"A McWhat?" Randy asks in confusion.
"Allow me to McSplain," Howard grins and pulls out a tablet. "Thanks to my new McFist Pad, I have the entire internet in my pocket. Ask anything, anything at all. McFist Pad, go!" He holds it out to Randy and he puts down the Nomicon. While he is skeptical about asking this from a product that was made from his enemy...he figured to give it a shot.
"What does becoming a master ninja have to do with wet tiger paws?" He presses an app.
"Searching. Master Ninja Tiger Paw."
A video plays from McToob, with funky music. Brock Octane is in it, faced with a bunch of street thugs in an alley. "When you facing down a bunch of thugs from the hood, you show 'em what's up with your Tiger Paw!"
He growls like a cat, waving around his clawed hands. This gets all of the thugs to back off and he yells at the camera.
"Brock Octane's Tiger Paw...is exactly the kind of straightforward super Bruce move the Nomicon should be teaching me and Ames. I don't know why she doesn't get it." The two boys flush, opening up the stalls. "The McFist Pad is way less confusing than our Nomicons."
"Don't forget to wash your hands," The McFist Pad reminds him.
"And it's hilarious," Howard chuckles as they leave the bathroom, leaving a certain book behind. But just in case, Randy comes back in and washes his hands. Just...for precaution.
Bash comes into the same stall Randy was using. "Alright, Mr. Grumpy, it's me against you. One of us is getting flushed. And this time it's not gonna be me!" He starts to read his comic book while starting to let out Mr. Grumpy. The Ninja Nomicon flashes nearby. "That ain't the funny sound I'm used to hearing."
He looks down and sees the book. "Upside down six? Hey, I got that same number on the back of my football jersey."
"You have arrived at your destination," The McFist Pad announces as Randy walks up to Amy.
"How did we ever find our lockers before McFist Pad?" Randy asks Howard. Amy opens up her bag while turning her lock. Because their backs are turned, neither of them notice an orange-sleeved hand grabbing the Kunoichi Nomicon.
"I don't know and I don't wanna know," Howard states to him.
"Hey guys," Amy greets them, glancing at Randy. "You know, that was kind of rude blowing off the Nomicons like that."
"You did what? Oh, I wish I could've seen the looks on their stupid faces!" Howard laughs, holding his stomach.
"It's not funny, Howard. The Nomicons are supposed to help us when we need it fighting monsters or robots," Amy opens her locker. "Anyway, just be patient, Ran. I'm sure you'll get those moves you're looking for in time."
"Yeah well, guess who's gonna be surprised when they find out I've already mastered the Ninja Tiger Paw?"
"The Ninja what?" Amy asks in confusion, raising a brow as she reaches into her bag.
"Here's a hint. It's square with a little ninja in the middle," He takes off his backpack and reaches into it. "...And it's not in my backpack!"
"Wait," The brunette starts to panic, looking inside her bag. Then she takes it off her shoulder. She shakes out the contents, but doesn't find her book. "Mine's not in here either! It was just in my bag!"
"It's in here, it's gotta be in here. Oh, man, it's not in here! I gotta find it!" Randy starts panicking too. "And wait, somebody stole your Nomicon? Who would do such a thing?!"
"I don't know!" Amy holds her hair, some of it already messed up as she's freaking out.
"Why? We have the McFist Pad now," Howard points at the device.
"They're 800-year-old books of secret Ninja wisdom. We don't have 800 years of secret wisdom, do you?" Randy questions his friend quickly. "We have to get them back! To the bathroom!"
"Uh, technically, my Nomicon doesn't have 800 years of Ninja wisdom. I'm missing at least 200 years of advice."
"Oh yeah," Randy blinks in realization. "Then they're 800-year-old and...however old books of secret Ninja wisdom, which neither of us have!"
"To the Lost and Found!" Amy and Randy run off in different directions. Howard stares after the two.
"I'll be here," He goes back to the McFist Pad.
Randy skids to a stop and runs down a hallway. Then he stops again, seeing Bash exit the bathroom with the book underneath his arm.
"Seriously? My arch-enemy's stepson, are you kidding me?!"
The bell rings and a bunch of students step into the hallway. Randy manages to get past all of them, and reaches Bash. "Bash! Bash, what up, bro? Hey, that book you found in the bathroom? It's actually mine, and, um-"
Bash whips around to him. "What book?"
Randy then notices that Bash is no longer holding the book anywhere. He jumps onto the bully. "What did you do with it?!"
"Get off of me!" Bash pushes him off. "I gave all my books to the homework-doing kid. The one that does everybody's homework."
"Homework-doing kid?" Randy rubs his chin as he gets back up. "Homework-doing kid! Bucky! To the library." He runs off right past Howard playing on his McFist Pad.
"Ooh, that's nice," He mutters with a smile.
Amy slides to a stop in front of the Lost and Found. "Excuse me, have you seen a black book, pink markings on it? It's really important that I get it back!"
The student shakes his head no and she groans. "Great..." She walks off, frowning deeply. "Who'd hate me enough to want to steal my Kunoichi Nomi-"
"Looking for this?"
Amy flinches at the voice, turning around to see Theresa standing there, holding the Kunoichi Nomicon. "Theresa?!"
"You know, stealing your diary was easier than I thought," She holds up the book, getting in closer to Amy.
"My...diary?" The brunette asks slowly, blinking. Then she deduces that Theresa hasn't thankfully actually opened up the book, and decides to go along with it. "Yes, my diary! Thanks for—wait, you stole it?! Why?"
"Why? You wanna know why?" Theresa chuckles darkly and Amy opens her mouth in shock at this side of her. "Because of the way you and Randy are so close! You're always hanging out together when he belongs to me! Randy is mine! I should be the one hanging around him all the time! You're not good enough for him, you should've just left him alone!"
"He doesn't belong to anyone, he's not someone to possess. He's a person just like the rest of us," Amy narrows her eyes at Theresa, reaching out to her Nomicon. "So just give me back my book-"
"No," Theresa pulls the book away from her grasp.
"Theresa, that book is really important, and this is no time to argue. Give me the book!" Amy grits her teeth, holding out her hand.
"Oh, I will...on one condition," Theresa grins evilly.
"What makes you think I'll just-"
"I'll give it back...if you promise not to see Randy anymore."
Amy's mouth opens wide, eyes sad.
Randy reaches the library, out of breath as he's facing Bucky. "Oh, that book looked like it had non-school board approved ideas in it, so I gave it to the principal."
"To the principal's office!" Randy runs off yet again, past Howard playing on the McFist Pad.
Principal Slimovitz is shredding books in his office, which makes Randy nervous. "Oh, that book was too big for my Word Gobbler."
The tall boy sighs in relief. "So, I gave it to Coach Green for flamethrower practice."
Randy facepalms himself. Why would anyone do that instead of the normal method of giving it to the Lost and Found?
"To the gym!"
Randy races past Howard again. At this point, he'd be running track for all the times he's run around today.
He bursts into the gym, seeing a shot of fire. He falls to his knees. "NOOOOOO!" He cries out until the Ninja Nomicon is held in front of him. "Nomicon. Is it really you?" He takes the book, hugging it close and cradling it like a child.
"McFist Pad suggested I check the Lost and Found," Howard speaks up next to him. "And look who I found?"
Randy chuckles as he stands up. "How awesome is McFist Pad?"
"You...you want me to not see Randy anymore?" Amy murmurs slowly at Theresa's demands. She and Randy have already been through so much together...she can't just stop being his best friend...They already just got over the whole 'almost kiss and then Jacques' thing. But then again, she also really needs the Kunoichi Nomicon back. But that means she has to stop being friends with someone who was nice to her immediately on her first day at school.
"That's my terms. Say you'll stop being friends with him, and I'll gladly give this back to you right now." Theresa waves the book teasingly. "But if you don't, I'll read it to him and everyone else at school."
She definitely didn't want that. Theresa and the whole school will find out that she's the Kunoichi before Theresa would even get shloomped in! She can't have other people know, she won't even be able to be the Kunoichi anymore after that.
Amy closes her eyes in defeat, feeling heartbroken. She had to do it...even though she really will regret it. "I...I won't be friends with Randy anymore."
"Good," Theresa gives her the book cheerfully, walking off. "Oh, and don't worry, I'll be watching. Because if you break your promise, I'll tell Randy about your crush on him!"
Amy's heart sinks as she watches Theresa leave.
"Naughty book," Coach Green takes the Ninja Nomicon from Randy. "I put you in the Lost and Found."
"Hey, my blinky buzzy book," Bash takes it from the coach, walking off. Randy gasps and chases after him. By the time he gets outside, McFist's limo leaves the school.
"Ah!" Howard joins his side. "The sacred book of Ninja just got into McFist's limo," Randy shakes in worry. He watches it drive away in the distance towards McFist's lair.
"You know what you gotta do now, right?" Howard looks up at the taller boy.
"Go get the Nomicon!/Go get some ice cream!"
Randy looks at his friend blankly. "Right. You Nomicon, and me ice cream. Want me to get you and Smith something?" Randy just stares at him and he chuckles. "Oh, right, right. It'll melt. You go. Go. I'll figure out this ice cream thing."
"Ah! I gotta call Ames," Randy pulls out his phone.
Amy is standing in the hallway sadly when her phone rings. She picks it up without looking at the caller ID. "Ames, meet me at McFist's lair. Bash took my Nomicon and went there in his limo. Did you find your Nomicon?"
She remembers what she has to do to keep it, sighing slowly. "Yeah...it was in the Lost and Found after all. I just found it, actually."
"Great! See ya there! You know, I'm really glad you stuck by me."
She takes a deep breath. "Yeah..."
Randy raises a brow, slightly concerned by her tone. "Hey, you okay? Something wrong?"
"No...no," Amy shakes her head slowly, closing her eyes. It hurts her to hear his voice since Theresa… "I'll be there. I just...gotta find a place to do the whole...you know, thing." She can't really say transform out loud since people are still around. Then she hangs up the phone and Randy looks at his device in confusion.
"What's up with her?" He snaps out of it. "Good news, Ames found her Nomicon from the Lost and Found just now."
"Uh, no," Howard raises a brow. "I didn't see her Nomicon in the Lost and Found. I would've seen it."
"What?" Randy murmurs to himself, shaking his head. "Why would she lie about that?" He decides to question it later and pulls out his mask.
He runs across rooftops to follow after the limo. He throws his scarf and catches a streetlight, swinging and landing underneath the limo. The limo goes through the entrance, Ninja undetected. Kunoichi comes out of hiding from behind the gates, looking up towards the building.
Ninja is crawling on the ceiling, following after Bash in the halls. Kunoichi pushes open a vent in front of him, peeking her head out.
"Down there," Ninja whispers, pointing to the bully. He walks past a robo-ape.
"Hey, monkey."
"My name's Frank," He corrects the boy.
"No. Your name's..." Bash makes monkey sounds, walking up to another robot holding a stack of papers. "What you got there, papers?" He knocks them out of its hands, to the robo-ape's shock. "Not anymore." He laughs as he walks down the hall, seeing a robo-ape with hair. "Yo, Baldy! Your sock's untied."
He looks down at his feet, the wig falling off. Bash laughs at this. "You ain't even wearing socks."
Ninja rolls his eyes. "What a shoob."
"He's just as bad as his father," Kunoichi gives an annoyed look. Luckily, Theresa's demands don't apply to the Ninja since she doesn't know that Amy is the Kunoichi. But she's still gonna have to avoid him while he's Randy...
Viceroy flips some switches, turning a knob as pressure goes up. The machine comes to life and he giggles. "Perfect." He holds up a cup of coffee, humming.
"Hey," Bash walks into the break room. "Guy who works for McFist. I been looking for you," He places down the Ninja Nomicon.
The Ninjas open up the vent and peek inside the break room. "So you want me to cover this beautiful antique book with blinkers and buzzers? Why?" Viceroy asks, puzzled by the request.
"I'm gonna use it as a doorstop," Bash jerks a thumb to himself, walking away. "I like the door open when I poop."
"Ugh, leave it to Bash to use a book of 800 years for something so dumb," Kunoichi rolls her eyes. "And also, eww."
"I'm gonna grab it. Hold my scarf," Ninja holds out his scarf to her and she holds it.
"TMI, Bash. Too much ickiness," Kunoichi slowly lowers her partner into the room. "And I won't stand for it." Just before Ninja could get it, Viceroy snatches it and walks away. Kunoichi makes a small shocked sound. "That boy can't tell me what to do. I'm a world-class evil genius. I could atomize him. I could protonize him." He stands in the elevator. "I could tell his step-daddy. Yep, evil genius."
He goes up the elevator, Ninja and Kunoichi hanging on underneath it. "Why were you acting weird earlier?" Ninja turns to his partner and she shushes him. "Don't shush me, is there something going on that I don't know about?"
"No, I mean, shh!" She shushes him again, pointing upwards. He looks up and sees that they're arriving at McFist's office.
The elevator reaches the floor. "Hannibal. A word?" He steps inside, the two Ninjas crawling onto the ceiling again. They look downwards to see McFist with the Sorcerer.
"Viceroy, I'm kind of in a meeting right now," He notices the Nomicon underneath Viceroy's arm. "Ooh, that's a nice-looking doorstop you've got there."
"Silence, you fools!" The Sorcerer snaps at them. "There are Ninjas to be destroyed."
Both Kunoichi and the Ninja gasp at the sight of him. "The Sorcerer," They whisper in unison.
"No honkin' way!" Ninja adds in.
"That glass tube must be how he communicates with McFist and Viceroy," Kunoichi whispers to him.
"Yeah, Viceroy, focus on that," McFist scolds Viceroy.
"I'm just here about the doorstop," Viceroy holds up the book for him to see. The Sorcerer zooms in on the book.
"That's no doorstop."
"Oh, boy," Ninja glances at his partner as Kunoichi cringes.
The Sorcerer gets a better look at the object before he realizes what it is. "That's the Ninja Nomicon!"
"And there it is," Ninja finishes as Kunoichi facepalms.
Both Viceroy and McFist are confused, since they've never heard of it. "What's he talking about?" Viceroy just shrugs at him.
"It is the Ninja's book of ancient knowledge. The Kunoichi has one similar to his, the Kunoichi Nomicon. We can learn the secrets of the Ninja's powers. And his weaknesses."
"This is shoobtastic, this is so shoobtastic!" Kunoichi rubs a temple.
"Like I don't know that," Ninja retorts to her.
"Give me that!" McFist snatches the Nomicon from Viceroy. He tries to open the book with all of his might, but the book doesn't budge.
"Oh thank goodness," Kunoichi sighs in relief. At least she knows that Theresa wouldn't have been able to open it anyway if she had tried.
"Sir, let me take a whack at it," Viceroy suggests, his boss holding out the book to him. He places it on the table and pulls out a tiny device. He places it between the two covers of the book, pressing a button. The device tries to open the book on its own, but the Ninja Nomicon doesn't open.
"Hang in there, Nomicon," Ninja urges and then the device explodes into pieces. McFist and Viceroy both duck.
"Enough of this!" The Sorcerer exclaims. "I'll do it myself." He says some kind of chant, red stank appearing in his lair. The rat squeaks in alarm and runs off. The stank reaches the Sorcerer's hands and he directs it into McFist's office. The businessman hides behind Viceroy, hugging him in fear.
"Is that stank? What the juice?" Ninja's eyes go wide in shock.
"It must be a different type that doesn't turn vulnerable people into monsters," Kunoichi murmurs as she eyes the red stank. It reaches the book, lifting it up into the air. The book shakes as everyone watches this.
"Oh, he's stanking up the pages! Enough of that." The two glance at each other and nod, letting go at the same time.
"It's Ninja time!" The two declare, landing in front of the Sorcerer.
"Ninja? Kunoichi?" The Sorcerer asks once he sees them.
"Sorcerer," The two glare up at him.
"Ninja and Kunoichi?" McFist screeches in shock behind them.
"McFist," They whip around to him and Viceroy waves nervously.
"Hello."
"You've got something that belongs to me," Ninja threatens, Kunoichi grabbing her braid.
"And we're here to get it back!"
Viceroy and McFist take a few steps back as she spins her hair above her head. She throws the braid and snatches the book.
"Kuno Snatch!"
"I thought we talked about doing that," Kunoichi gives her partner a look. "In that you shouldn't do it."
"What? It's kinda growing on me," He shrugs and she throws the book over to him.
"Destroy them!" Sorcerer orders the two and McFist presses a button to summon all the robo-apes.
"Get ready to taste Ninja Tiger Paw," Ninja declares, throwing around his tiger hands.
"...Wait, what?" Kunoichi turns to him in confusion. He leaps forward, landing in the center of the robo-apes. He does the move, but it doesn't knock away the robo-apes like in the video. "Oh no..." Kunoichi groans, dragging a hand down her face. This is the most embarrassing moment of her life.
Everyone except Kunoichi starts laughing at him. "Okay, so maybe the McFist Pad isn't the best place to learn Ninja moves," He glances at all the robots.
"Gee, what made you think that?" Kunoichi calls out and he cringes in embarrassment.
"Ha! What you don't know is that Viceroy designed my office for exactly this kind of confrontation!" McFist brags to them.
"Well, now they know," Viceroy tells him. McFist says nothing and presses a different button from his desk. The middle of the floor opens up.
Kunoichi gasps as the two fall through. Kunoichi releases all of her hair as a robo-ape is crushed between some gears. She cringes as Ninja is holding onto her waist, her hair around the end of a gear. They both look up as they're heading towards the middle point.
"Okay, no. No, we can do this. It's just like climbing the old waterfall."
"Well, except I didn't have my hair," Kunoichi points out.
"Solid point, but we can still do it!" He jumps off and lands on a pole, his feet trying to stay balanced. "This is nothing like climbing the waterfall!" He slips, but grabs another gear with his scarf. Kunoichi lets go of the one she's holding, throwing her hair in mid-air. She grabs the same gear and she vaults all the way to his side. They crawl onto the gear, falling onto another one. Kunoichi stands up, helping up her partner. He chuckles and dodges a swinging hammer.
"Ninja Dodge! You're gonna have to do better than that-"
A hammer hits him from behind, causing him to bump into Kunoichi. She screams as they both end up falling, landing hard on a gear.
"I take it back. That was pretty good. You knocked us down with a big hammer," Ninja says in a daze as they're lifting up to the villains.
"Get 'em!" McFist declares and the robo-apes tackle the two into a heap. They bring over the two to Viceroy and McFist. "I present to you...the Ninjas!" He lifts up their chins. "Now, about my reward," He turns to the Sorcerer eagerly.
"After centuries entombed in this filthy hole, I will be free, and chaos will reign," The Sorcerer declares. McFist turns around to him.
"And my reward?"
The Sorcerer waves his arms to release the red stank. The rat has a gas mask on. The red stank is about to be released from the tube. Ninja kicks away the robots holding him and his partner. Then the red stank forms into large hands that grab the two in their hands.
"Our Nomicons did not prepare us for this," Ninja wheezes as the two struggle. The Sorcerer stares at Kunoichi.
"Hmm, I can smell the distraught from the Kunoichi. A nice taste of heartbreak and regret."
"Wait, what?" Ninja turns to Kunoichi before green stank approaches her. Her eyes widen in horror. "Why can't you teach me something useful!"
The books from the two glow and Ninja gasps, seeing a previous lesson appear. "A Ninja must master the art of stealth. Believe in the weapon that is in the suit. Everything you've taught me is useful!" He looks up ahead at the Sorcerer, the stank about to turn Kunoichi into a monster. "Sorcerer, the Ninja's been kicking your butt for 800, and he'll be kicking it for 800 more. And I'm gonna do it with my partner!" He gathers some air behind him as a Ninja Air Fist breaks them free.
Kunoichi starts to fall as Ninja does another one. "Ninja Air Fist!" He hits the Sorcerer through the tube. He snatches Kunoichi with his scarf, pulling her into his arms. "You okay, Kuno?" He gently caresses her head.
"Yeah," She murmurs, resting her head on his shoulder. "Thanks..."
"What are you standing around for?!" McFist shouts at the robots, pointing at the two. "Attack! They're over there!"
"Conceal," Ninja says as the two disappear into the shadows together.
"Uh, where'd they go?" McFist asks in confusion.
"Reveal!" The two appear behind everyone, startling them. Kunoichi is standing next to Ninja, her hair still out of the braid since she didn't have time to fix it.
"Ah, now they're over there!"
"Believe in the weapon that is in the suit," They say in unison. Ninja takes out his swords, Kunoichi spinning around and pulling out her tessens. She throws it at some robo apes, cutting them in half. Ninja leaps forward and cuts a few. The two jump over McFist and Viceroy. They land in front of the robo-apes. Ninja and Kunoichi run side-by-side as they approach the army. Viceroy and McFist both cringe as they watch the duo get rid of all the robo-apes.
"Feel my wrath!" The Sorcerer sends out red stank in the form of the Sorcerer's head.
"Ninja Sprint!" Ninja grabs Kunoichi in his arms, running out into the hallway. She scoops up her hair into her hands. A few robo mantises surround them.
"The best way to avoid an attack is to avoid an attack." He slides underneath one, Kunoichi's hair flying past. They slide underneath two of the robots, which crash into each other. The red cloud of the Sorcerer is still flying after them.
They look up ahead and see Bash arriving into the hallway, eating chocolate chip cookies. "What you got there, plate of cookies?" They pass him and knock the cookies out of his hands. Kunoichi snatches two with her hair, tugging it back and catching them.
"Hey!" Bash calls out.
"Not anymore."
"My eating circles!" The robo-apes laugh at Bash.
"Sucker!" Kunoichi laughs at him. She holds out a cookie to Ninja and he takes it.
"Hey, thanks."
"No problem," They both lift up their masks up to their mouths and eat one. They're about to reach the exit, but a wall blocks their path. They both gasp before getting an idea. Kunoichi jumps out of his arms as they both power up.
"Ninja Tengu Fire Ball!"
"Kunoichi Lightning Strike!"
Kunoichi breaks the window with an electric bolt as the fire blast breaks through the wall. The red stank disappeared into the sky.
"And then we sliced through the grate, jumped out a window, caught the 2:30 cross-town bus, and here I am," Randy tells Howard as his friend is playing Grave Punchers in Randy's room.
"Wow! You guys are hardcore, Cunningham. I would never take the bus. You guys weren't the only one who had an epic afternoon." He takes his McFist Pad into his hands. "McFist Pad and I took my grave punchin' to the next level, yo. Check out these moves."
Randy doesn't really pay much mind as he glances to the Ninja Nomicon. He gets onto his feet. "What are you doing?" Howard asks incredibly.
"I've gotta get my paws wet," He picks up his book and leans against the wall, smiling. He opens up the book and is shloomped inside. He ends up sitting on the slab of rock again. "Nomicon, whatever you say. No matter how confusing or stupid or ridiculous, I am in." He stands up. "I'm all about getting my Master Ninja on."
Arrows point to the water nearby. "Aw, the waterfall? Really? Again?" A flash of lightning occurs, causing his eyes to go wide. "I'm going...huh, wonder why Ames isn't here. Come to think of it, she's been acting weird ever since she got her Nomicon back. Howard said her book wasn't at the Lost and Found, so how'd she get it back...? And what was the Sorcerer talking about earlier?"
He shakes it off and decides to focus at the task at hand, not noticing something behind him. A clip of what happened with Amy and Theresa is played, but his back is turned, so he doesn't see it. He climbs up to the ledge.
"I so got this."
A fish hits his face. "Come on, Nomicon. That all you got?" Then a pile of fish land on him. He lifts up his head with an annoyed look on his face. He stands back up again, shaking fish off his body.
The same clip is shown in front of him, this time with audio.
"You know, stealing your diary was easier than I thought," Theresa waves the book in front of Amy's face, and realization hits Randy's face.
"Theresa stole her Nomicon?! What the juice?"
"Theresa, that book is really important, and this is no time to argue. Give me the book!" Amy demands, holding out her hand.
"Oh, I will...on one condition," Theresa grins evilly, surprising Randy. He's never seen this side of her before. "I'll give it back...if you promise not to see Randy anymore."
Randy gasps at this as it continues to play.
"You...you want me to not see Randy anymore?" Amy murmurs quietly.
"That's my terms. Say you'll stop being friends with him, and I'll gladly give this back to you right now. But if you don't, I'll read it to him and everyone else at school."
He glances between the girls, wondering what happened next.
Amy closes her eyes, and he could see a single tear run down her face. "I...I won't be friends with Randy anymore."
The clip ends there and Randy kneels onto the floor with an upset look on his face. "Theresa blackmailed Ames?! No wonder why she's avoiding me..."
Now that he knows the truth, he's definitely going over to her place the second he's out of here.
Randy runs up to Amy's house, banging on the door. The lights from her windows are all out. "Ames! Open up, it's me! I need to talk to you!" He gets no answer, panting. "Ames, please. It's really important that we talk. Ames?"
He bangs on the door again, but she still doesn't respond. He pulls out his phone and calls her, but she's blocked him.
He stares at his phone sadly, looking at the door. "Ames..." Once he realizes that she's not going to open up the door, he presses his forehead sadly against the wood. Little does he know that she's doing the same thing, having heard his pleas. She blinks back tears, silently crying as she slides onto the ground. She really wants to explain herself...but she can't.
How was she going to do this from now on...?