Angel: To those who read everything and who have not kept up with Rise of the TMNT recently, I just found out some new information, especially about most of what was cut from season 2. Look up Leonardo 2003's youtube channel, and watch his recent video. I didn't get a chance to see it until yesterday since I've been busy with school and finishing this story. But...
Only 4 turtles were able to be saved when they were created. And only 4. So there was gonna be a 5th turtle introduced!
But I'll dive into my feelings for how the show was cancelled when I write the movie, because it was really, really, really, stupid for how they handled it.
Kat, Debbie, and Amy are doing a group project together in history class on a historical person. They're all wearing berets on their head while they're giving their presentation. It could be either individual work or group work, and Amy decided to do this with the girls. She did help Randy and Howard though, otherwise they would've been a lost cause...
"To stop the corrupt principal's ban on plumed hats, folk hero Le Beret fought back with feathers," Debbie holds up a feather and everyone gasps in awe.
"It was his legacy before he passed, and was known as one of the most successful activists in all of Norrisville," Amy smiles, gesturing to the picture.
"And he'd be a part of Norrisville history forever," Kat grins at the group of students as Amy turns the lights back on.
"Le Beret was so Bruce!" Randy places a hand on his cheek in awe. And he was also staring at Amy while doing so, smiling.
"Why isn't anybody fancy anymore?" Howard shrugs curiously.
"Well, times have changed, and Le Beret unfortunately passed away a few years later in the early 1800s. He was deadly allergic to feathers, believe it or not," Amy replies back to him.
"Thus, the Feather Rebellion of 1793, reestablished the...status quill," Debbie chuckles at her joke, tossing her feather into her beret. The other two girls do the same.
"Viva Le Beret!" They all shout in unison and the crowd erupts into cheers.
"Hooray! Viva Le Beret!" Howard pumps his fists as Randy claps for them.
"Huzzah!"
Amy grins at her boyfriend's support and the three girls join hands, taking a bow.
"Oh, that was such a fun presentation!" Amy states while placing her hat into her locker. Randy is a few lockers down, talking to both of them. Howard seems to be in another world, however.
"If it wasn't for Le Beret, we'd be living in a world of featherless hats!" He puts his satchel over himself.
"Wait, that's what he was fighting for?" Howard asks in confusion. "Huh, I was just really diggin' his steez."
"I'm surprised, Howard. You're not usually into history," Amy closes her locker nearby.
"Well, yeah, but still! He sounds so Bruce!"
"We feel so honored to be in your presence," Randy gestures to himself as he looks at her straight in the eyes. She blinks and then giggles, blushing bashfully.
"Well, gosh, thank you..."
"Is that all you know about Le Beret? Tell us more!" Randy holds her shoulders gently and she laughs. The last time they were this into learning about anything, it was when they had to study The Prophecy of Hat Sword.
Then she rubs her arm awkwardly, since something is coming up and she dreads it...
"Baking news, Weenstagrams!" Heidi speaks up from the hall televisions, getting everyone's attention. "It's your flavorite anchor H-Grubz here with an NHS snackclusive! Cake fries are going bye-byes!"
Principal Slimovitz laughs nearby since obviously it was big news, and Heidi was on top of it. "Ha ha! You said it, Heidi...I think. As of tomorrow, cake fries are off the menu."
"Awww," Everyone groans in the hall, shocked and saddened.
"This is a travesty!"
Amy bites her lip nervously. "Hold on, hold on," Principal Slimovitz corrects himself. "Before you start shoobin' off half wonked, just read the pamphlets taped to your lockers," He holds up a purple pamphlet.
"They're banning cake fries?!" Randy slams the locker door shut to see the pamphlet.
"Did he say banning?" Howard asks him slowly.
"He didn't have to! This cake fry clip-art has a slash through it!" He turns around to his girlfriend. Amy cringes awkwardly, squeezing her eyes shut as he gasps sharply. "You knew about this all along, didn't you?"
"How dare you betray us?" Howard points at her.
"Whoa, whoa, slow your roll," Amy waves her hands rapidly in protest. "I did not find out until this morning. I wasn't allowed to tell people about it until after the announcement, my hands were tied."
"I have to do something," Randy takes the pamphlet off the locker, glaring at Amy. "Not that you will."
"Ran..." She looks down sadly as he storms off. It's not like she wanted any part of this, but she was school president, she was obligated to do it. She hated every single second of it, though, and she did try to convince Slimovitz. That attempt was unsuccessful, and she left his office before finding out why he banned them.
Howard notices the look on her face, glancing between the brunette and his best friend.
Randy shakes Sundown's ladder to stand on it. "Fellow students! Slimovitz can't take our cake fries. We have to send him a message, by not reading his message," He then rips up the pamphlet, and Amy's eyes twitch a little. She actually helped make all those pamphlets, and it was hard work...well, she didn't outright make them from scratch, all she really did was cut them out while Slimovitz did the rest about a week ago. She didn't really know what they were for until he summoned her into his office to task her with putting them up.
Another student rips them up, followed by the others.
"Yes! Yes!" Randy cheers at this. "Rip the pamphlets to shreds! Now throw it on the floor!"
"Hey, man!" Sundown protests to him. "I just swept that floor!"
"Yes, you did! Which is why we are going to throw Slimovitz's pamphlets in the nearest recycling bin!" Randy corrects himself.
"You ruined all my hard work! It took me all morning to place all those pamphlets!" Amy calls out, gasping and covering her mouth. The crowd gasps sharply at her.
"You knew about this all along?!"
"And she didn't bother to tell us!"
"She's siding with him!"
The students start to boo her and she rubs a temple. "No! This is not the time for booing!" Randy gets their attention back. "Say it with me. Cake fries! Cake fries!"
"Cake fries! Cake fries! Cake fries!" Everyone except Amy starts chanting. She frowns as she crosses her arms, unsure how to feel. One second they're booing her, and now Randy's got them cheering. She was just as a victim to this as they were, as she got blindsided by Slimovitz...
Randy smiles proudly as he walks off. Amy stares after him, feeling a bit guilty for not saying anything to them. "There...something...did."
"Yeah, if we were fighting pamphlets. You have to Ninja out and save cake fries!" Howard protests angrily.
"I can't!" Randy groans, sagging his shoulders. "Remember what happened last time Ninja and Kunoichi tried to change snack policy?"
A soup-filled Howard burst out of the Soupsicle machine, growling angrily. He let out a few belches.
Howard just stares at him as he doesn't seem to recall what Randy is talking about. He just shrugs cluelessly.
"Soupsicles? You became a monster? Ames and I fought you at McFist Industries?"
"You sure that was me?" Howard asks in confusion as he does not remember that for some reason.
"Ames and I swore after it was over that we wouldn't do something like that again. Trust me, this is not a Ninja thing or a Kunoichi thing. What we need is a folk hero, someone to stand up against the tyranny of Slimovitz!" Randy grabs his satchel from his open locker. "But not the Ninja or the Kunoichi."
"Would it also get you to stop being mad at Smith?" Howard raises a brow. "Because you seem pretty cheesed off towards her."
"She didn't try to stop cake fries!" Randy frowns at him. "She didn't say anything about it, of course I'm cheesed off. But..." He sighs a bit. "Maybe I'll calm down and try to talk to her later."
Before Howard could argue back, the Ninja Nomicon rings. He winces awkwardly as he takes the book out of the bag.
"Uh, sorry, I really have to take this..." He opens up the book and then falls into his locker. Howard just stares down at him.
"This is the kind of injustice Le Beret fought against!" Debbie speaks up to the crowd. "If he were here, he would fight for us! Unlike the school president!"
Amy rolls her eyes and walks off. "You know what, I'm not listening to this..." She was just gonna mind her own business until all of this died down.
Howard stares at the crowd as Bucky rips up another pamphlet.
Randy falls through a hole before landing on the ground. He sees a doodle Ninja and Kunoichi approaching a statue.
"He who attacks without cause has no cause to attack." The rock holding the advice falls on the doodle Ninja. "Slimovitz attacked our cause which gave us cause to attack his cause..." The doodle Ninja rolls the rock towards him. "Cause cake fries!"
He yelps when he gets flattened.
He sits up, seeing the whole hall empty. "Hmm? Where'd everybody go?"
Sundown scats as he walks up to him. "Oooo, ahh, I dunno...They went to go look at something...Wait a minute, I wanna go look at something! Whoo!"
He runs off and Randy follows, but not before cleaning up around his locker. Sundown ends up outside. "What the honk is everyone staring—oh, the clock tower's a cake fry!"
Amy is in a classroom alone, since no one else is in class. She looks outside the window to see that the clock tower has been replaced with a cake fry. She drops her pencil in shock.
"Looks like time fries when you're having fun!" Bucky nudges Randy. "Le Beret is back zing!"
"But that's impossible, Ames said so herself that he's dead. He'd be like...a zombie!"
"The Ninja and Kunoichi are both 800 years old, and they're not zombies," Bucky points out.
"Yeah, but there's more than one of ehhh—Look what Debbie found!" If Amy were there right now, she'd smack him for almost telling Bucky a Ninja secret.
"Look everybody!" Debbie holds up a feather similar to the one she had from the presentation. She's sitting on the shoulders of Buttermaker and Mick. "It was Le Beret!"
"Ooh-yeah," Sundown adds in and Kat gasps sharply.
"He's here to fight for cake fries!" Her eyes shine happily. She was all about activism, and she was actually the one who suggested doing the presentation about him to the other girls.
The crowd cheers and then Slimovitz steps in, holding pamphlet scraps. "Alright, whose bright idea was it to tear up all of my pamphlets?" He then gasps, dropping them as he sees the cake fry.
"Le Beret lives!" Debbie declares to him. "And he or she will taste sweet salty justice!" She hands him a beret, the trio leaving.
"Cake fries! Cake fries! Cake fries!" The students cheer as they step back inside to go to class.
Randy, Amy, and Howard are in French class. Luckily it's one of her favorite subjects, and it's distracting her from the dirty looks she's been getting. It spread pretty quickly about her knowledge of banning cake fries, so she's not well-liked today. She usually didn't care since Mr. Smith is her grandfather, but it was starting to hurt a little. Especially since she wasn't aware of the banning until earlier...
"Man, you should have seen it," Randy tells Howard. "Slimovitz was all, waaah! And everyone was like, blaaah! It was amazing."
"Oh, sorry, I missed it, but uh...duty called."
"Ha ha, duty, classic," Randy laughs at the joke.
Amy sticks out her tongue in disgust before she's hit with a spitball to the back of her head. She groans a bit, taking it out and then sticking it underneath her desk. There's at least a dozen other spitballs underneath her desk that she's stuck underneath there just from this class.
"It's not a joke, Cunningham," Howard crosses his arms. "Not this time."
"Well, even though Ninja or Kunoichi can't do it, it's pretty schweet that someone's fighting for cake fries. My gut says it could be Bucky," He glances behind him to see Bucky...stuffing napkins into his nose and ears. "But my brain says Really? Bucky?"
"Could be Smith," Howard shrugs casually and Randy scoffs, crossing his arms.
"Doubtful. Why would she keep it a secret to then pose as Le Beret?"
"Whether she is or not, you can't just ignore her," Howard points out. "She said so herself she wasn't allowed to tell anyone. That's not her fault."
Randy looks away a bit guiltily. He could agree that he didn't react well when he found out...and he does miss her.
"Attencion, classe. Make your books with page 138, s'il vous plait," The French teacher instructs them and everyone places their books down. "Ooh, oh, oh!" She opens up the book, about to teach when she sees something on the pages. "Zut alors!"
She sees that one page has a picture of cake fries, and the other a picture of Le Beret. Everyone gasps once they see the pages. Randy gasps at his book, Howard smiling. "Le Beret! He or she struck again!"
"Viva les cake-frites!" Debbie shouts loudly from her chair. The students start chanting 'cake fries'.
"Maybe it's Debbie Kang..." Randy says in thought.
"Cake fries! Cake fries! Cake fries!" The students cheer as they leave class, Amy just staring after them. She picks up her things and leaves the class room. Debbie leads the way down the hall. Slimovitz slides to a stop in front of the crowd before they could reach the doors.
"Now, I know there have been rumors that someone is trying to save cake fries..."
"It's Le Beret!" Debbie pumps a fist and he groans.
"There is no Le Beret! And anyone caught engaging in Le Beret-like activities or wearing a beret..." A student wearing one takes his off. "Will be suspended!"
"Viva les cake-frites!" Debbie chants again and the chanting continues.
"Cake fries! Cake fries!"
"Cake-frites-" The principal groans in frustration. "Cake fries are gone and they're not coming back. Just read the pamphlet!"
He accidentally opens the door to the cafeteria, where a domino stack of cake fries falls. People just watch and Amy sees the crowd, gently pushing past others to see what's going on. The principal gasps and then a message appears once the cake fries stop falling.
"Viva les cake-frites?" Randy asks in surprise.
"It is Le Beret!" Slimovitz realizes in shock.
"In your face, Slimovitz!" Howard shouts at him, but some cake fries are still falling from above the principal's head. They touch a beaver, who chews through a rope to release a bucket of cake batter.
"Oh no..."
It hits him on the head and he falls, covered in the stuff. "Ah! I have cake batter all over me!" He cries out, Howard with a huge smile on his face.
"We should help him up," Randy runs forward, but Debbie grabs his arm.
"No! Let him stew in it for a while. That'll change his tune."
"But he's covered in cake batter," Randy protests to her. "Even then, that's not like you."
"This is for cake fries!" She argues back and Amy walks past them.
"I'll help you."
Randy blinks at her in surprise, wondering where she came from, but shrugs it off. They grab the principal by his arms and help him up.
"Thank you...Thank you!" He then licks the batter off his fingers.
After he's cleaned up, he has another interview with Heidi. "With cake fry fever on the rise, all of NHS is question marking: Will P-swizzle flop flip his p'stance?"
"Mm," He puts down his cup of coffee, wearing a robe around him. "Yes. Yes, I will, Heidi."
"Viva les cake-frites!" Debbie cheers as her and her newly-formed protest group wave their flags. Randy glances at Debbie skeptically, wondering whether or not she actually is Le Beret. It just seems really obvious given her recent behavior.
"We were going to remove cake fries from the school tomorrow,, but instead we're removing them immediately!" He takes out his phone to make a call.
"Gene Levine, the Disco Machine," Gene is dressed from the 80s, wearing an afro and tacky sunglasses.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I was trying to call Gene Levine, the Disposal Machine."
"Please hold," Gene changes everything back to his normal job. "Gene Levine, the Disposal Machine."
"Hi Gene, Irving Slimovitz. I have a school full of cake fry batter and I need to dispose of it," He responds with a small smirk.
"Wouldn't ya know it, all my batter disposal trucks is out right now," He looks out his window to see a flying blimp going past. "But how does a blimp sound?"
"Unnecessarily dramatic! I'll take it!"
Upon hearing this, Debbie throws down her flag in anger, storming off. "O-M-Juice!" Randy exclaims after seeing her leave. "If Debbie Kang was willing to humiliate Slimovitz, how far will she go to stop that blimp? I gotta find Ames!"
Amy is in the library, bopping her head to the beat from her headphones. Coincidentally, Debbie Kang is having a meeting there.
"The oppression of Principal Slimovitz will not stand!" Debbie exclaims to her cause, Heidi walking up to Amy. As she's going on, Heidi takes a seat in front of her biffer.
"You doing okay, Amy?"
She takes off her headphones. "Well, I'm not exactly popular right now, but I'll get over it."
"You know I don't blame you for the cake fries," Heidi assures her. "You didn't know anything until it was too late."
"Thanks," Amy smiles at her. "At least you and Kat have been supportive."
"She hasn't spoken to you about it?"
"Eh, I don't need to hear that from her to know that she's in the same boat as you. Let her do the Le Beret stuff, she's very dedicated to it," Amy waves it off.
"So..." Heidi glances around to make sure no one's listening, leaning in. "Are the Ninja and Kunoichi getting involved? Because if yes, I so want a me-clusive!"
"Nope, no way," The brunette shakes her head rapidly. "I'd rather not have another soupsicle incident. That's why we both swore afterwards to never try to change food policy again."
Randy suddenly comes in, sliding to a stop at their table. "Ames, we need to change food policy again!"
Their eyes widen at him and Heidi stands up. "I'll leave you to it." She waves goodbye to her friend, who returns the wave. She then turns back to the panting Randy, crossing her arms.
"You here to boo me for not trying to save cake fries too?" She glances up at him.
"No..." He sits down next to her and she sits up. "I just...you know, don't want them banned. But you should've told me!"
"You can't be mad at me for knowing about the cake fries before everyone else. Trust me, I was itching to use that intercom to tell everyone beforehand, but I wasn't allowed to disclose it," She narrows her eyes in annoyance. "If I could do things differently about the whole thing, I would've."
"So wait...you couldn't tell us because Slimovitz told you to?" Randy asks slowly.
"If I had told you, and he found out, I would've gotten detention and then be suspended. Apparently there's some rule about it in the rule book, and it states that school presidents aren't allowed to tell people stuff before it's broadcast. Not sure if he made it up recently or it's an obscure one, because I never heard of it until today," She scoffs in irritation.
"Wait, so then why haven't you been involved with things?" He couldn't help but ask.
"If I had, it still wouldn't put me in everyone's good graces considering that they see me as a non-supporter," She shrugs at him. "So I just ignore it. Whatever. Wish I had told someone or else I wouldn't be public enemy number one right about now. And my boyfriend wouldn't hate me..."
She goes back to her book and his eyes soften. It wasn't entirely her fault cake fries were getting banned, her position as school president was at risk—again. And he knows how much she actually loves it. It was a part of her, and if that was taken away, she would've felt a bit empty.
"Ames," He places his hand on top of hers, causing the girl to look up. "I wasn't mad because you knew about it first. I was mad because you kept it a secret. But after hearing that you didn't have a choice, I forgive you."
"Thanks..." She murmurs quietly and he hugs her.
"And besides, it'll take more than that to make me hate you. I lo-" He coughs awkwardly as he quickly pulls away from her and she stares at him. "I loathe Slimovitz. Yup! That's my final answer," He answers quickly. She blushes a bit, rubbing her arm nervously. She feels just as weird as he did right now...she knew what he was going to say, but decides not to comment. That was a conversation for another day. "So, what do you think about the whole thing?"
"Don't get me wrong, I love cake fries. They're my favorite thing on the menu," She speaks up after a few seconds. "But the person posing as Le Beret is going a bit too far. I just feel like there should be a more peaceful way to protest for cake fries."
"Oh! That's why I had to find you. We have to Ninja/Kuno out, before Le Beret does something wonktastic!" He waves his arms rapidly.
"I thought we agreed we wouldn't do that anymore," She raises a brow at him. "Howard already turned into a monster, what do you think is gonna happen if we intervene?"
"I know, I know, but our job is to protect the school, remember? And stopping Le Beret is a part of that. I've got a feeling that it's Debbie Kang!"
"Debbie? Well, she did seem pretty emotional about the whole thing, but it's too obvious. Anyone else could've guessed she's Le Beret at this point. That's like saying Kat is Le Beret, and she's only involved because of the activism. Not to mention you have no other evidence," She gives him a blank look.
"True, but still."
She sighs in defeat, knowing that he's right that Le Beret could put the school in danger. "Okay," She stands up, taking out her mask. He takes out his own.
"Give us cake fries or give us-" Ninja and Kunoichi smokebomb right behind Debbie. "Ninja?! Kunoichi?! You here to join the cause?! We're having a sit-in after school."
"Join the cause? No! We're here to stop you before someone gets hurt!"
"Me?" Debbie gestures to herself in confusion.
"Yes, you! You're Le Beret!" Ninja accuses her, earning gasps from the whole crowd.
"I'm flattered, but I'm not Le Beret," Debbie explains to him. Kunoichi blinks and then glances up at her partner, crossing her arms.
"But you're always—with the Viva the this! And the cake fries the that!" He stammers in protest.
"I like what he or she stands for but it's not me," Debbie denies again.
"Oh, exactly what someone who was Le Beret but didn't want us to think they're Le Beret would say!"
"If she says it's not her, it's not her," Kunoichi tells him. "So their identity is still a mystery, N-"
"I am Le Beret!" The real Le Beret appears on a television screen in the library, speaking with a deep voice and slight French accent.
"Or...you're not Le Beret and he is! Nailed it!"
"Ugh," Kunoichi facepalms at her partner. "Well, at least we know it's a he." But that just puts every single boy in the entire school as a suspect...
Le Beret chuckles boastfully. "Principal Slimovitz, you have ignored my message. You have left me no choice. Cake fries will never leave NHS. Viva les cake-frites!"
Kat gasps from the crowd, feeling really happy that she got to see him from a screen. "Wow..." She murmurs in fascination.
"Viva les cake-frites!"
"How's he gonna stop cake fries from leaving? It's not like you can just attack a blimp-" Ninja gasps as Kunoichi's eyes widen. "He's gonna attack a blimp! Smokebomb!"
They both leave and the cake batter is just about to leave the school. "Wouldn't ya know it! I got clamps."
Ninja and Kunoichi run up to the blimp that's flying away, only to find Gene not in the blimp. "Gene! What the juice happened?"
He's trapped to the wall with metal clamps. "I just finished pumpin' that blimp full'a batter, when some weirdo shot me with a clamp gun."
"But if you're down here, who's flying that blimp?" Ninja turns around as Kunoichi pulls out her fans.
"Ah, that weirdo with the clamp gun, I assume."
"We gotta get up there!" Ninja declares as Kunoichi throws her fans, setting Gene free.
"Thanks Kunoichi!"
"No problem," She salutes to him as she runs after her partner.
They use the giant cake fry to get to the ceiling, eyeing the blimp. Ninja throws his scarf, hugging her waist with one arm. He tugs on it, getting them onto the blimp. They reach one of the windows, only to find no pilots.
"Huh? Nobody's flying this blimp!" He goes over to the door, about to open it.
"What are you doing here, Ninja and Kunoichi? This doesn't concern you!" Le Beret comes in on a flying glider.
"It became our concern when you decided to risk the lives of all the students with this blimp!" Kunoichi calls out to him.
"Doesn't concern us?! We have to stop you from...what...ever it is you're doing. What are you doing?"
"I'm dumping all the batter back into the school where it belongs!" Le Beret declares and Kunoichi turns to Ninja.
"Duh!" She exclaims while rolling her eyes.
"We can't let you do that, Le Beret."
"I cannot let you not let me do that, Ninja. This is what the people want! Les clamp!" He pulls out his clamp gun and fires it. Kunoichi pulls Ninja out of the way as it grips the door. They grab hold as the door flies out of the hinges, and they flip to land on the glider.
"Would you get off!" He knocks them off, but they grip one side each, all of them flying back towards the blimp. Kunoichi releases her hair to grip a side of the blimp, Ninja grabbing hold of her foot as she grips her hair. The two dangle from the outside and she sighs in relief.
Le Beret ends up rolling to a stop inside. He sits up and sees a timer. He chuckles and takes it.
Kunoichi and Ninja shimmy up the white hair, only to see Le Beret. "Le Beret, no!"
He sets off the timer. "Batter Dump in 30 seconds. 29..."
"You're too late!" Le Beret shouts as they get back into the blimp. "The cake fries have come home to roost! You should have stayed out of this! Remember the last time Ninja and Kunoichi tried to change snack policy?"
The last sentence, his voice changes to the point where they know who he is. Or at least Kunoichi as she gasps in shock. "Yeah, but...wait a honkin' second," Ninja gets onto his feet, helping up the white-haired girl. "I said that to-"
Le Beret removes his mask to reveal that it's Howard behind the mask. "Howard?! You're Le Beret? But how?"
"Every time I said I was going to the bathroom, I was actually being Le Beret," Howard explains to him. "Well, except after lunch, that time I did go to the bathroom. Then I went to McFist Industries with my dad's ID badge and got this glider and a clamp gun."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, this is just crazy. You did all of that by yourself with no suspicion, and yet you can't even keep a secret, Howard."
"Hey, yeah. Like the time you said I thought she looked hot without her glasses on to the whole school," Ninja narrows his eyes a bit as he remembers that. "So why'd you do all this?"
"You said it yourself: we needed a folk hero, someone to stand up against the tyranny of Slimovitz! ...By the way, how Bruce are these boots? I think I'm gonna start dressing like this."
"But we didn't mean to actually be Le Beret and dump the school in batter," Kunoichi points out. "...Hey, wait a minute, you were gonna let us fall to our doom just a few seconds ago!" She accuses him with narrowed eyes.
"I was trying to stop you from stopping me! Besides, I also did it because I couldn't stand you guys fighting. It makes me uncomfortable," He shudders a bit. "You guys fighting is weird, I was only trying to fix it."
"Well, it worked, but at what cost?" Kunoichi rubs a temple.
Ninja looks at the pamphlet and then finally reads it. "Slimovitz isn't getting rid of cake fries," He takes the pamphlet. "They're being discontinued, and replaced with...pudding tots!"
"Ooh!" Howard beams at this. "Pudding tots! How good do those sound?"
"Now that part I also didn't know. I love pudding as much as cake, seems like a good trade-off...that no one else but us knew about, oh," She cringes at the last part.
Words lift up to the ceiling and Ninja sees the advice from the Nomicon. "He who attacks without cause has no cause to attack. It wasn't Slimovitz who attacked without cause, it was me!" He groans, squeezing the paper out of frustration. "Should'a read the pamphlet!"
"You were too upset about the cake fries, I didn't read it either," Kunoichi tries to cheer him up.
"Batter Dump in five, four..."
"We have to stop that dump!" Ninja rushes over to the timer, but it's too late.
"Batter dumped. Look out below." The blimp drops the batter onto the school.
"Oh boy," Ninja runs over to the window. "There are kids in there!"
"School's over! What kind of kid stays in school after 3 pm?" Howard points out.
"Uh, rude!" Kunoichi protests at this, crossing her arms. "And it's not just me."
"There are kids you inspired to hold a peaceful sit-in demonstration!" Ninja informs their friend.
"I have followers...? We need to save my followers!"
He grabs his glider and the two jump on behind him. He flies over to the front entrance, speeding inside. They zip down a hallway.
"Take a right!" Ninja directs him.
"I'm going left!" Howard turns left, only for them to be met with a wave of cake batter. All of them yell and he turns in the other direction. "Right it is!"
Ninja and Kunoichi nod at each other, both of them slapping one arm from Howard each. "Ow!"
"This is why boys need to listen to directions," Kunoichi points at him. He goes in the right direction as another wave appears behind them.
"There!" Ninja points to the right as they've arrived at the library, gliding inside. Ninja slams the door shut behind him, looking at the cake batter threatening to drown them should the doors burst open. He tries to hold it back and Kunoichi runs over. The students all scream as Howard lands on the second floor.
"Howard Weinerman is Le Beret?!" Debbie exclaims in shock.
"Hey! Why's that surprising?" Howard sounds slightly offended. Kat's eyes go wide as they shine again, her cheeks turning slightly pink. He winks at her and she squeals, fainting on the spot.
"It's just...I-I never thought of you as a rebel hero before. It's kinda Bruce."
"Ohh, it's the boots, right?" Howard looks at his boots as Kat stands up, growling at Debbie a little. He then directs his attention to the doors as the cake batter is threatening to break them down. Kunoichi unravels her hair and uses that as rope to barricade the door. She then cuts it off with her fan, but it's still not enough. The two get pushed backwards as the doors open, letting in all the cake batter. The two land safely as everyone screams.
The two stand up to see a wave of cake batter in front of them.
"Did you do this?!" Debbie screams at Howard.
"Technically, yes. Also, actually, yes. So, yes."
"How are we supposed to stop an ocean of cake batter?" Ninja asks him and his partner.
"What do you usually do with cake batter?" Kunoichi questions in response as her hair grows back behind her.
"I dunno, bake it?" Howard suggests casually.
"Bake it! Howard, that's it!" Kunoichi elbows him in the arm. "I-I mean, kid we've never met before and don't know the name of! You're a genius! Tengu Fireball!" He fires some flames, baking the batter and stopping it.
The students start eating it in glee. "Is everybody okay?"
"Frankly, Ninja, I've had batter days. Almost caked my pants zing!"
"That's...more than we needed to know," Kunoichi glances away awkwardly while Ninja just stares at the kids.
"Um...I don't know if you guys should eat the..."
"No, Ninja," Howard calls out from the second floor. "Let them eat cake...fries."
"Howard!" Kat squeals as she reaches him. "I still can't believe you're Le Beret! That's so Bruce!"
"Really?" He grins at her and she nods rapidly.
"Can I get your autograph, please please please?"
Ninja and Kunoichi chuckle at the two from the ground. "Looks like Kat's living a dream come true."
"And Howard's just eating it up," Kunoichi giggles, leaning against Ninja as they watch Howard sign Kat's notebook.
"Cake frizzles may be off the mizzle," Heidi announces while the trio are cleaning up baked cake. "But shanks to Le Beret, pudding tots drop on Monday!"
"Wonder how she feels about Le Beret being her brother, then," Amy smirks a bit.
"Aaah!" Slimovitz shouts from the TV. "We were always getting pudding tots! Didn't anybody read my pamphlets?!"
"Oh, real nice. The guy who gave them pudding tots has to shovel burnt batter!" Howard complains to them.
"Uhh, you're also the guy who battered the school, sooo," Randy glances away while Howard gives them a tiny glare. Amy whistles as she hides her hands behind her back, looking away from him.
"I'm just sayin', that this is no way to treat a hero."
"Real heroes don't complain about the consequences of something they did. Just pointing that out," Amy rolls her eyes a bit.
"Anyway, thanks for helping us patch things up, Howard," Randy wraps an arm around Amy and she smiles. "Even if you went a little overboard. Sorry I got so mad over cake fries, Ames."
"That's okay, I kinda deserved it for being obligated to not saying anything. I forgive you."
He kisses her forehead gently. "Not true. I realize now that you didn't have a choice. And I'm sure everyone else will realize that too."
"Come on, guys! Le Beret and our school president were there for us! We need to be here for them!" Debbie runs in with other students carrying shovels, and they start helping out. Amy smiles softly at them. It wouldn't take too long for people to start warming up to her again.
"Hey, you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?" Randy whispers to the two.
"Just back away slowly, guys."
They do so, only to be pulled back by Amy. "Nope," She simply states, pointing to the baked cake. They groan and help the students out.
Angel: I decided to edit out the part where Randy saves the 'drowning' Slimovitz from cake batter. I just found it unrealistic since it's cake batter and not water! Cake batter is wet, sure, but it does not give off the same effect as water.
