OHMYGOSHIMSOSORRY! I just realized that I skipped a chapter! Please, please forgive me, and I hope this makes more sense! T.T
~POV change to Sam~
What are they doing? Samantha Manson's eyes narrowed as she watched the three boys from the back corner of the table.
"And you are?" the orange-haired companion caught Sam's eye as he tried to be suave.
"Sam. Ultra Recyclo Vegetarian. Goth." Sam returned to her observation of the boys. Danny seemed nervous, Jake seemed overconfident, and the newbie was even more confident than Jake seemed, which was a feat in itself.
"...Ultra recyclo vegetarian...?" Howard repeated under his breath.
"It means she won't eat anything that had a face on it." Tuck explained for Sam. He continued when Howard began to look terrified. "Don't worry, it's not contagious. I'm a meat connoisseur."
Howard sighed in relief.
Sam had seen the routine before. Howard was trying to warm up to the friend group of the "popular" kids so that worst case scenario he'd be tight with the friends of the popular kid. Sam drowned out the rest of the introductions, noting that Jake was beginning to falter in his facade. He must be out of questions. The dragon opened his mouth to ask another "question" when suddenly a robot crashed through the wall of the lunch room. The room froze and silence overcame the normally obnoxious room.
Instantly both Danny and the new kid, Randy, jumped up stating that they had to go to the restroom. At the same time, the lunch room stood and started to panic, moving towards the kitchen (which was opposite of the robot). Not only did those two things happen, but Sam caught a glimpse of Jake grab Danny and Randy's arms. To this, Sam stood up rapidly.
"What is that idiot doing!" She hissed. She looked back to the robot. It was small in size and looked remarkably like Phantom. The appearance of the robot contradicted the power it displayed: practically the entire wall was gone.
The robot took a few steps forward and glanced around the room. Then it began to shoot what looked like a missile guided by a laser pointer randomly about. The room crumbled from the various impacts. People continued to flee, but the table around her seemed to stay seated. Even Howard. Though, Howard was slowly standing up, as if he was taking his time to run away.
Sam looked back towards the boys, the two were now struggling fiercely but Jake kept an iron grip. For a moment she was impressed by Jake's strength. She didn't know he could hold back a furious ghost. She took a moment to question why Danny doesn't just phase out of Jake's grip then remembered that Randy was there. A civilian couldn't find out Phantom's secret.
Even from this distance Sam could make out Danny's protests. After what seemed like forever, Jake let Danny go. The ghost boy gritted his teeth and Sam's eyes widened as he simply ducked under the table to change into Phantom. He phased through the table and pointed his index and middle finger from his eyes to Jake's.
~POV change to Danny~
At this moment, Danny Phantom was seething with anger. His hunch was correct. Jake wasn't willing to keep his secret. On top of that, this robot was a carbon copy of himself. Well, not really. He floated above the head of the Danny-clone, not even in the mood to give it a clever quip. He shot his ghost beam at its face, melting the head. The robot made a bzzt sound as it powered down and Danny floated back to Jake. He looked into Jake's dark brown eyes, slowly shook his head, and dashed through the roof.
~POV change to Jake~
Jake Long was determined. He didn't mean for the idea to blow up like that but it wouldn't stop him. The fight ended too quickly to make Randy go into his ninja mode. He was going to have Randy join the fight when Danny was struggling - whether he was winning or not. He also felt a pang of regret as Danny gave him a glare before leaving. He felt Randy squirm once more and he realized that his grip was even tighter. He let go of the ninja's arm before it broke.
Randy retreated his arm, more calm than Jake had initially calculated. It just furthered his suspicions about Randy's identity. "You have a strong grip." He commented as his voice cracked.
Maybe he wasn't as composed as Jake assumed.
"Okay well... You're the ninja right?" Jake asked straight up.
As Randy paused people began filing back into the lunchroom, the broken robot ignored. "Y-" He stopped again as he spotted Howard coming towards him.
The beginning of the word was enough to convince Jake. "Let's go then." He grabbed Randy once more and dragged the lanky boy out the hole in the wall.
"But-"
"Danny's first." Jake stopped Randy's protest. "The fate of the universe is in the balance."
Randy blinked a few times, following Jake after the comment finished.
Jake turned around the corner of the school, finding an abandoned courtyard. He was slightly surprised at the absence of people but remembered that school was going on. The ring of a bell confirmed that people were in class now. The students were pretty calm when creatures attacked. They recovered quickly and always went back to class. It was rare for class to get canceled due to attacks nowadays.
"Dragon up!" Jake was surrounded by his holographic fire as he transformed. He fell to all fours and glanced at Randy. "What?"
Randy's mouth was wide open. "You're the dragon?"
"Yeah."
"Seriously?"
"Yeah."
"Like, seriously seriously?"
Jake rolled his eyes. "Just get on."
"So bruce." Randy commented before waiting. "Okay well, since you both revealed your secrets, here goes nothing."
Randy Cunningham took out a black and red mask, shouting a "It's Ninja 'o clock!" Before putting the mask on. It was Jake's turn to gape at Randy as the mask exploded into ribbons. A half a minute passed and the ninja appeared where Randy once was.
"Ha, I was right." Jake gave a smug grin, which looked awkward in his dragon form. "So... In this form you gotta call me Am Drag in public. Danny's alternate name is Phantom." Jake knew that they already had exchanged these names before, but he wanted to see if Randy had an actual name. He highly doubted that he called himself 'The Ninja'.
"Oh, mine's The Ninja."
"Seriously?"
"Yeah."
"That's kinda lame name."
"Hey! It's not 'lame' it's bruce!" Randy held up hand quotes as he said 'lame'.
Jake once more rolled his eyes and gestured for Randy to climb aboard, which The Ninja did.
Jake took off from the ground, surprised for a second by the weight of a person on his back. He quickly recovered, however, and shouted at Randy to tell him to hold on tight. "I'm going to be going as fast as I can. Danny can reach over 100 miles per hour."
"What!" Randy exclaimed, "what! Over 100 miles per hour?! He could make a fortune in races!"
"Yeah, he could but he doesn't." Jake replied. "Anyways, just hold on okay?"
~POV change to Danny~
Danny stopped his dashing around. He was still in Amity Park. He landed on the top of the OP center. The ghost took a second to admire the closeness of the three towns. It was only about a 10 minute fly from school to his house. Of course, this was at about half of his full speed, but it still was impressive. Danny had calmed down quite a bit from his earlier anger.
Of course, he was still mad at Jake. The ghost boy wasn't sure whether or not to forgive him. At this point he mainly wanted Jake's hunch to be correct. Else he'd be in the morning papers. Danny could care less about his enemies finding out his secret (since they all knew), but if his parents found out...
"Argh!" Danny shouted as loud as he could. "I'm going to kill Jake if my parents find out!"
"Well, they won't." Danny glanced up as Jake appeared in full dragon form.
"Oh but they will. A civilian knows my secret! I'll be in the news."
"No you won't!" A familiar voice shouted in what seemed like a 'heroic' tone.
Danny took flight once more and rounded around Jake. "Wah! Ninja?"
"The one and only!" The black-clad male triumphantly replied.
"Why are yo- why is he here?" Danny looked from the ninja to Jake.
"He's here to join us."
"What? But we don't even know who he is!"
"Randy Cunningham."
"What? Why are you bringing up him?"
"At your service, sir Phantom." The ninja joined in on the two's conversation. "Should I call you sir...? Maybe just Phantom is okay. Hmm... I'm actually thinking I'll just call you Danny."
"Erm..." Danny looked baffled, "what's exactly going on here?"
"Dude, Randy is The Ninja." Jake rolled his eyes, lowered his elevation and landed on the Fenton's roof, turning back into his human form.
"But wait..." Danny landed as well. "You shouldn't show the ninja your real form Jake."
The ninja rolled his eyes. "I'm Randy Cunningham. I'm The Ninja." The ninja lifted his hands to his head and pulled off the mask.
Danny's mouth fell open as he watched the ninja burst into ribbons and the purple-haired teen known as Randy stood where the ninja once was.
"We totally had the same reaction!" Jake laughed as he walked over to Danny. "I told you my hunch was correct."
"Eh? But-" Danny scratched his head, "You don't look ninja-capable."
"It's all in the suit." Randy nodded, putting the mask into his jacket.
"Besides, do I look like a dragon?" Jake shrugged.
"Fair point." Danny replied and switched to his human form. "So..."
A moment of silence passed.
"Are you really called 'The Ninja'?" Danny asked.
"Yeah." Randy replied.
"That's a lame name."
"That's what I said!" Jake threw his hands up into the air.
"It's not 'lame'! It's bruce!" Randy shouted, giving a quick sigh afterwards.
