Randy won't be using the mask improperly but he is going to show Howard what would happen when he uses his friend to his advantage.

It was just another day at Norrisville High. Principal Slimovitz was giving his normal morning announcements. "So the music class is canceled until further notice. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you send... a note!" Principal Slimovitz brought out a pink sixteenth note once he finished his sentence.

"School announcement, zing!" Bucky said as he played his triangle.

"And finally, quicksand has been found in the creepy swamp behind the school. So, don't go in the creepy swamp. There's quicksand!"

Howard smirk at the thought of that. He looked over at Randy, who wasn't paying any attention to the announcements. He did want to make sure that he wasn't paying attention. "Cunningham, did you hear what he said?"

Randy shook his head. "Not really just something about the creepy swamp."

'Randy has probably seen a ton of quicksand in his life but I haven't. This is perfect! Time to show Randy what it means to be a rebellious teenager.'

Later that day, after school, Howard asked Randy to bring a cinder block. "Howard, why do I even need this stupid cinder block?"

"Uhh... I want to see if you can break it."

"But why here? Why not at Susan's house, in my room?"

"Yeah, but I always see you do it there so I can't tell if it's fake or not. However, if I see you do it outside your house, then I'll believe it." Randy fought the need to roll his eyes. He didn't see the point of Howard needing him to come to this swamp instead of his house or in his backyard. "We're here and there's a sign."

Randy set down the cinder block and told him, "And a fence. Which means we aren't allowed to enter."

"Cunningham, we're teenagers..."

"Correction, you are a teenager, I'm over 800 years old."

"Yeah, but you look like a teenager so to other people, you're a teenager." Randy was about to counter but decided to drop it. "Anyway, teenagers are supposed to be rebellious. We didn't drag that cinder block for nothing."

"Correction, I dragged the cinder block here for nothing and you didn't even tell me why we came here instead of somewhere else."

"And you shouldn't let it be for nothing. Why don't you PJ up and get us past that fence?"

"Howard, I'm not using the ninja suit for personal gain."

"Technically, you wouldn't be using it for yourself, you'd be using it for me. So, what do you say, pal?" Howard asked.

Randy was about to counter but decided against it. 'Fine, if Howard thinks he can use my suit to his advantage, then I'm going to teach him what happens when you do.' Randy thought to himself. Randy handed Howard his bag which got him excited. "Okay, I won't let this be for nothing. You want to see me destroy a cinder block in a swamp? Let's do it." Randy put on his mask and took out his sword.

"Yeah! Let's do it, Cunningham! Chop it down! Chop it down!" The Nomicon glowed which made Randy's performance all the more believable. Randy just hoped that his master wouldn't get too mad at him and could tell that he was faking it.

"No! That book always ruins everything!"

"Not this time! Nomicon don't own me! We came to swamp, we gonna swamp!"

"Yeah! In your face, Nomicon!"

The Nomicon moved slightly and Randy noticed this. He really hoped that he wouldn't get in too much trouble for his actions. "Ninja slice!" Randy sliced the fence and made a gap big enough for them to go through.

Howard gasped in shock. "I can not believe you did that! Now, you starting to act like a teenager of the 21st century."

"Now, let's get the cinder block and..."

"Actually, let's do a tree or a dead log. I bet that will be way harder than a cinder block."

Randy didn't question Howard and told him, "All right, let's go." Randy put the Nomicon back in his back. 'Sorry, Master. I need to teach Howard a lesson. I hope you understand.'

The two ran into the swamp not noticing the red beam that they passed through. A human skull that had a camera in its eye socket, watched them as they ran through the swamp.

From a small house, three TV screens glowed red and all of them showed Randy and Howard running through the swamp. 'Well, well, well, time to catch me some live bait.'

Randy and Howard soon came to a dual path. Randy noticed the signs said quicksand. However, he didn't think much of it. Quicksand was very common in swamps. He and Howard would just need to be very careful.

"You check left."

"How about you check left and I'll take right? Just be careful of quicksand."

Howard nodded then left. 'Good thing Cunningham didn't question me on the quicksand here. Now to find some quicksand!'

Randy took the right path searching for a dead log for him to cut. He looked around and soon he was caught in a trap. A rope pulled him upside down in a trap. "Great, I've been snared like a possum. Or is it a opossum? An opossum? A opossum? An opossum is right. Grammar aside, I need to get out of this trap, traps here could mean bad news for me and Howard. I need to get us both out of here, I don't care about using a dead log to cut or whatever." Randy put on the mask and to his surprise, nothing happened. "Master Master?! I wasn't using my suit for personal gain, I'm trying to teach Howard a lesson about using me for personal gain." Randy then realized that maybe his Master caught onto what he was doing to in order to play along, Randy's reactions would need to be real. "Great, I need my weapons or something to get me down, Howard and I could be in serious danger!" Leaves rustling startled Randy into putting his mask away. People can't know that he's the ninja. He looked around and saw a man with a purple hat, red beard, and hair with no shirt, a purple camo sleeveless jacket, blueish-green overalls, boots with bandages on them, and around his neck was a small gree bag. He was also wearing fingerless gloves, buttoned bracelets. 'Oh, boy.' Randy thought to himself once he saw the man's eyes glow an eerie purple. He even had a scar over his right eye.

"How're you doin' over there, partner?" He asked kindly. "My name's Catfish."

"Hello, Catfish. My name's Ran... ginald Bagel. Ranginald Bagel, that's me," Randy told him nervously. "It seems I've been mistakenly caught in your trap."

"Oh, there's no mistake 'bout it, Mr. Bagel. I'm the best trapper in these here parts. Or any parts." Catfish chuckled. "You danglin' 'cause you criss-crossin' on my popaty."

"Oh no, sir. I would never criss-cross on your "popaty." This is all a big misunderstanding."

Catfish walked over to the rope trap that Randy was in and told him before cutting the rope, "Boy, it don't matter." Randy fell to the ground with a thud and Catfish told him, "Now, you my popaty." He tied Randy up and threw him in front of the hood.

Randy's phone started to ring and he picked it up, hoping that it wasn't Susan. "Howard?"

"Cunningham? I may have found some quicksand, first off, it is the cheese and I'm dangling over it!" Howard told his distressed. "I need the ninja! Hurry!"

"Ok, ok. Don't panic. I'll be right there. Actually, not right there, 'cause I'm sort of, kinda tied to the grill of a psychopath's pickup truck and my Ninja suit doesn't work."

"Get off of speakerphone. It sounded like you said your suit doesn't work."

"Yeah, it doesn't. So just hang in there."

"Wordplay? At a time like this?" Howard groaned in frustration once the call had been dropped. 'How can Cunningham's suit not work? He's been working that thing for hundreds of years.'

Catfish parked his car in front of a shed and he brought Randy inside his house. He threw him into a cage with no hesitation. "Oh, boy." Randy watched as several animals with glowing purple eyes were serving Catfish. A bear was his seat, an alligator was his footstool, and a turtle brought him drinks.

"Get yourself some cozy. This here is your new home."

Randy looked around and saw even more animals from lizards, snakes, and even boars all with glowing purple eyes. "What the juice?"

"I'm the boss of this here swamp. Me. All these critters?" He gestured to all the animals in his home. "They do what I say." He stood up from his bear seat and asked the animals, "Ain't that right?" The animals did nothing. "I said, ain't that right?!" He picked up a turtle who just nodded his head. He looked at Randy and told him, "Ooh, a skinny mullet like you gonna make me a nice coat rack yet. I just gotta fit you with a collar. So, what size collar are you? I'm gonna say about a 15, 15 and a half..."

"Why would I know that, you psycho?!"

An alarm started to ring and from a monitor, he saw Howard hanging from another trap above some quicksand. "It looks like someone else been criss-crossing on my popaty!" He opened the small bag around his neck, took out some purple dust, and threw it on the bear. "Now you keep an eye on Mr. Bagel. He act like a couyon, you have yourself a skinny mullet po'boy!" He threw more purple dust at the other animals and told them, "Y'all rest, follow me." The other animals left with Catfish leaving Randy alone in the age and the bear as his guard.

Randy tried his ninja mask again but again it didn't work. Randy pulled out the Nomicon and told it, "Master, please, I know I was trying to teach Howard a lesson but the two of us are in real danger. He was using me to break some dumb... log." Randy then remembered Howard getting really excited about finding quicksand. "Okay, so he was using me to find quicksand but that doesn't matter now, I've been trapped in a cage by some kind of swamp wizard, which oddly enough isn't the weirdest thing I've seen in the past 800 years. Why isn't my Ninja suit work?" He opened the Nomicon and his consciousness was sucked inside.

Randy watched as a King of Clubs holding a teddy bear lost his crown and the Jack of Clubs lost his sword because of the money he had.

"If you abuse the power, you lose the power."

"But I didn't abuse my ninja powers, I would never do that. I wanted to teach Howard what would happen when you use me just to find some stupid quicksand."

The Nomicon then showed Howard using Randy for his personal gain with the quicksand. "Okay, so we are teaching Howard a lesson... which means he needs to see my real reaction to losing my powers since he can tell when I'm lying, but right now the two of us are in danger, and I really need your help."

Randy was kicked out of the Nomicon. "Guess, I'm on my own, I've don't things without the suit before. Sure, it's been about 400-500 years or so, but I can do it. First, I need to get out of this cage." Randy put his mask and the Nomicon back in his bag. He looked at the bear and got an idea, "Psst. You help me, I'll help you stop being a sofa." The roared at him causing Randy to push himself to the back of the cage. The bear scratched at the cage hard but soon he stopped. Randy noticed a loose bar and he got an idea. You hungry? How'd you like a bite of couyon leg?" He asked the angry bear as he stuck out his bare leg.

The bear destroyed the cage and Randy managed to escape without a scratch on his body. Randy jumped out of the window and landed in the grass. He heard Howard scream in fear. "I'm comin', Big H!"

Randy was about to run through the forest to Howard but he found an empty fanboat. "Good thing I know how to work one of these." Randy got in it and began his trek to save Howard. His phone rang and he immediately knew who it was. "Howard? I'm coming to save you."

"What?!" Howard shouted.

"I'm coming to save you!"

"I can't hear you! It sounds like you're on a fanboat!"

"I am on a fanboat! I learned how to ride one about 100 years ago or so!"

"Oh man, I miss everything. Also, help!" Howard shouted as he waved his arms. The animals continued to get closer and closer to him. Howard watched the rustling bushes, hoping it was Randy but it was Catfish riding alligators. Howard screamed in fear and told Randy, "If I don't live through this..."

"Howard, you're going to make it! I promise!"

"No, let me say this. I brought you here to help me find quicksand. I wanted to see how fast it would since stuff, mainly the cinder block," Howard told him as the turtles put a boiling pot under Howard.

"I figured that out a while ago and we're going to talk about it when I save you."

"Adios, bromosabe." Howard hung up the phone.

Randy would talk to Howard later about this whole trip once he saved him. "Howard?!" Randy groaned. The swamp was huge and it would take him hours to search the whole area. Randy looked up and saw smoke in the distance. "Fire! Where there is fire, there are people." Randy started to go faster. 'Don't worry, Howard. I'm coming.'

"Ooh, now we gonna make gumbo," Catfish shouted with glee.

Randy screamed as he crashed onto land. He got up and ran over to Catfish. "Don't even think about it, Booray!"

"You's supposed to be in your cage, boy!"

"You're not eating my friend."

"I ain't gonna eat your friend. They gonna eat your friend." Catfish Booray gestured to his army of animals. "Then they gonna eat you."

Randy gulped. He couldn't die so once Catfish Booray knew what he was, then he could use him for his personal gain.

"Would you PJ up already?!"

"I can't! The mask is freezin' me out because I abused my power!"

"How?! You don't abuse your powers!"

Maybe if someone didn't drag me out here and use me to use them, we wouldn't be in this mess!"

"Okay! I'm sorry, I made you use your powers to bring us here! Now, please save us!"

Randy jumped to dodge an oncoming boar and ducked to dodge a snake. A panther growled and looked at Howard hungrily. The panther jumped. "No!" Randy grabbed the panther and both he and the panther fell into the quicksand.

"Whoa," Howard said shocked.

"I second that whoa two times. Whoa, whoa!"

The quicksand bubbled but no one came up. Howard gasped. "NO!"

Catfish Booray gasped and said, "Mr. Bagel just sacrificed himself for you. That was very noble... and stupid." Catfish used his animals to get closer to the rope Howard was tied to and started to slowly cut it with his knife. Howard covered his eyes and screamed in fear.

Suddenly, Randy, with his ninja suit on, jumped out of the quicksand. "Power now unabused!"

"Ninja! Yes!" Howard said happily.

"Ninja? What are you doin' down there?" Catfish asked shocked.

The panther jumped out of the quicksand and tried to attack Randy but he kicked the panther away with ease. The panther didn't give up though. Randy dodged all the attacks from the panther. "Stupid swamp panther!"

Eventually, the panther got the best of Randy and held him down. "Oh, his name is Shaun."

"Shaun? Really? You named a panther Shaun."

"Get him, Shaun!"

The panther roared loudly as he readied his attack. 'Abuse the power, lose the power. Catfish has amazing abilities and he's not using them in the way he should, so he should lose his power.' Randy looked at the panther and knew what he had to do. "The collar! That's it!" Randy ripped off the collar. "You're free, Shaun." The panther's eyes turned yellow and he got off Randy. Randy stood up and looked at Catfish. "You were totally abusing power, Booray. Wild animals should not be controlled by magic collars. And that furniture thing was way wrong. Didn't even look comfortable. What's up with having uncomfortable furniture? Is it something people of the 21st century do? I know I preferred having comfortable furniture rather than uncomfortable furniture."

Catfish snapped his fingers and pointed his finger at Randy. The animals walked to Randy. "Multiple Collar Slicing Ninja Rings!" Randy threw his ninja rings at all the animals, cutting all their collars off, returning them back to normal.

"My swamp army!"

"Getting a little light-headed here," Howard told him.

"Oops, my bad. Ninja Slice!" Randy grabbed Howard, cut the rope off his leg, and told him after landing on the ground, "Let's go!"

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Ninja."

"What are you going to do, Booray? Your animals abandoned you."

"Oh, I still got a little somethin'-somethin', yeah." He grabbed the small bag around his neck, "This here my gris-gris. I got the power of the swamp!"

Oh, how Bruce for you. I got the power of SMOKE BOMB!" Randy threw a smoke bomb on the ground. He and Howard were gone, and the pot of gumbo was tipped over.

"You spilled my gumbos! Oh, mighty spirit of the swamp... conjure! Bewitch! Voodoo!" Purple magic went up to the sky. Yellow and purple lightning came down, causing a change in Catfish Booray.

Randy and Howard ran as fast as they could to escape the swamp. Howard was nearly caught by a few traps but Randy cut any rope that he saw. "He booby-trapped the whole swamp!" Howard shouted.

He jumped on Randy's back and Randy continued to run. Any trap that he tripped, he cut the rope with his sword. "Ninja Slice! Ninja Slice!" He tripped a crushing log trap, a mace, even a spiked hole trap, but Randy dodged all of them. 'Good thing, I've encountered all of these traps before. Why can't bad guys be more original with their traps?'

"The fence! We made it!" Howard shouted once they found the fence.

Rustling took them out of their thoughts as Catfish Booray jumped out completely transformed. "It's a chimera!"

"Don't you mean a pythanthigator?!" Howard asked. Catfish roared loudly as spit got on both of them.

"It doesn't matter! Quick, through the hole!" Randy told him.

"I'm not leaving without you!" Howard told him after getting the spit off himself. Catfish slammed his fist down between the two. "I'll see you on the other side." Howard rushed off to safety.

Randy dodged a stomp from Catfish, he did a few flips then Catfish did a tail swipe but Randy dodged that as well. Randy punched him hard. He dodged another attack then pulled out his sword. He jumped to Catfish but he punched Randy to the ground then threw him around with his tail. Randy slid to the fence and Catfish was about to kill him but he was thrown to the ground. Randy looked and saw the cinder block from earlier. He looked at Howard who said excitedly, "Did you see that? I hit him from over here. Me! You know how hard it is to throw a cinder block?"

Catfish woke up as Randy was dusting himself off. "Uh-oh!" Randy tried to jump away but Catfish caught him by his scarf. He pulled Randy to his face and wrapped his neck around him like a python. Randy was struggling to breathe. "How do I stop this thing?" Randy saw the bag of gris-gris and ripped it off his neck. He threw it causing Catfish to release him. He tried to get it but Randy beat him to it. "NINJA POUCH SLASH!" Randy destroyed the pouch, returning Catfish back to his human self. "See you later, Pythanthigator!"

Randy laughed at his joke but Howard just rolled his eyes and shouted, "Boo!"

"You killed my gris-gris!" Catfish told him once his empty pouch landed next to him.

"And now that you lost your power, the animals want back they popaty!"

The sounds of growling and hissing sent fear down Catfish's spine. The animals he once controlled surrounded him. "Hold on now, Y'all! Ain't no reason to get ornery." More animals started to get closer to him as Catfish backed away in fear then he ran away.

Once Randy was satisfied with his mission, he left the swamp, then he and Howard fixed the fence and made a new sign.

"Cunningham, the swamp has taught us a lesson today."

"Yeah, it did." Randy looked at Howard and told him, "Don't make me use my ninja powers just because you want to see quicksand."

"That, and the secret ingredient in the delish gumbo is a pinch of me." It was silent between the two for a few moments. "I am sorry, Cunningham. You're my friend and I shouldn't abuse that friendship for my selfish ambitions."

Howard moved some bushes and to his surprise, Principal Slimovitz was there. Randy hid behind the bushes. "Mr. Weinerman, what part of keep out of the creepy swamp did you not understand?"

"Uh, the keep out part," He told him.

"You just earned yourself detention."

"SMOKE BOMB!" Randy appeared in front of the duo in his ninja suit and told Principal Slimovitz, "It's ok, Principal Slimovitz. This young man was just helping me fix that fence. Which is something I do as the Ninja. Fixing fences."

"Oh, in that case, detention waved." Principal Slimovitz left them alone and Howard just stared at his friend. "Hey, my master said, sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes, it's okay to be a little selfish."

Fun Fact, Catfish Booray was voiced by the amazing Jim Cummings. Y'all should know who he is since he's an amazing Voice actor. He is one of my favorite voice actors ever! Anyway, don't forget to fav, follow, and review, please! Bye! :)

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