A/N: I OWN NOTHING BUT MY CHARACTERS!
~Riley's P.O.V~
~Sigh~
Nothing beats chasing a robotic lizard around the roofs of school with your Ninja partner during the last 30 minutes of school.
Note sarcasm.
I was already mentally exhausted from the school day so this situation was NOT helping my mood.
Ninja and I jumped over a large gap and landed with a roll, neither of us taking our eyes off of McFist's robot lizard as it continued to crawl away.
"Where do you think your going?" Ninja asked.
It climbed up a wall.
Ninja looked a little surprise. "Oh, up a wall? Yeah okay. Guess we'll Ninja sprint!"
The two of us went around the wall and raced after it.
Seeing an upcoming gap, Ninja grabbed his scarf and threw it like a lasso to snag the robot.
"I don't think so!"
With a good tug, Ninja sent the robo-lizard crashing down till it rolled against a wall upside down.
"Not bad red." I praised, giving him a fist-bump as we walked over to stand in front of the robot as it began to hiss and claw the air.
Before either of us could even begin to finish it off, Ninja's phone rang indicating he had a call.
I was giving him a look that screamed 'Really?'. He sheepishly shrugged his shoulders before looking back at the robo-lizard.
"Just on second, I'm so sorry." I rolled my eyes deciding to ignore his conversation and focused on the hissing robot.
I see it charging towards my occupied partner and quickly kicked it away.
"Sorry buddy, but your fight is with me." I said putting my fists out in front of me.
Growling, it pounced at me but I dodged in time. This continued for a bit until I managed to punch it away in the gut.
Before it hit the ground, its mouth opened to show another mouth which sprayed smoke in my face.
"Kuno!"
I barely noticed Ninja come to my side as I was too focused on the burning itch on my nose.
"A-achoo!" I sneezed out a booger that the robot, to my disgust, ate.
"Gazuntite."
Giving it a weird look, I looked towards Ninja at my side to see if he was ready to take this thing down only to see him stare at me with wide eyes and hands on his cheeks.
"...What?"
"You sneeze like a kitten..." He gushed out, eyes sparkling.
I felt my face get hot. "Sh-shut up!"
Before he can retort, the robo-lizard jumped in between us trying to take a bite.
Snapping out of his gushing, Ninja jumped and tackled it to the ground, pinning it.
I watched as he brought back his fist while turning on the knuckle spikes.
Before he could bring his fist down, the robot sprayed smoke in his face as well causing him to flinch back in surprise.
"Ninja!" I called out worried.
"Ninja sneeze!" He shouted. "Achoo!"
He sneezed out a booger that the robot once again ate.
"Gazuntite!"
I closed my eyes and shuddered in disgust. "Dude why?"
"Ah, shnasty!" Ninja said repulsed.
When I opened my eyes, the robo-lizard was gone.
"What the juice? Its gone." Ninja pointed out while looking around.
"It couldn't have gotten far." I said also looking around to try and catch a glimpse of the snot eating lizard.
I glanced at Ninja to see if he had any ideas, only to see him listening to his comm.
When he was done, I could hear him mumble. "Lizard, Bash Splash, Lizard, Bash Splash. What to do? What to do...?"
I looked at him in disbelief. "Seriously?! Your honestly debating on finding the robot or going to a party?"
"Buts its the Bash Splash! And beside, how are we gonna catch that thing if don't even know where it is?"
Opening my mouth to retort with a finger raised... I deflated with sigh knowing he was right.
"Fine, but I have the right for an 'I told you so' when this comes back and bites us in the behind."
"It just ate some boogers. There's no way that'll come back to haunt us. I'll see you later Kuno."
"Whatever, Later Ninja."
And with that, we jumped away in different directions.
"Riley! There you are, where were you?"
"Sorry Rachel, got held up by a teacher." I said as I walked up to her as she dug through her locker.
We chatted for a bit until the sound of yelps and owes drew our attention to the end of the hall.
We looked to see Bash giving his Bash mark to students in the hallway.
I made my expression a flat one as I looked on. "He is aware that paper or media invitations are a thing, right?"
Rachel shrugged though her smile was a bit strained, "Well you know Bash, he's a bit of a..."
"Idiot." I finished with a sly smile. Rachel said nothing but raised a sly brow causing us both to giggle.
Distracted by our giggling, we didn't see a large shadow loom over us until it was to late.
"OUCH!"
"OWIE!"
We both grabbed our arms in pain and looked up to see Bash.
"Show your Bash marks at the door." He then walked off further down the hallway to 'invite' more students.
I shot a glare at his back before checking on Rachel, who was rubbing her Bash mark.
"You okay Rach?" I asked in concern.
"Yeah I'm okay."
Looking around, I see a majority of the student body that I could see bearing a Bash mark.
"Geez, it looks like Bash is inviting everyone."
"Not everyone."
Looking at her confused, she pointed down the hall in the direction Bash went and I see Randy and Howard talking to him.
I watched as Randy and Howard faces went from excited and hopfull to slowly disappointed when Bash shook his head and walked away. Leaving the two with no Bash marks.
I couldn't help but frown in sympathy. "Ouch, that sucks."
Rachel nodded in agreement before driving the conversation to what we would wear at the party.
After school Rachel and I went our separate ways to our homes.
And after informing my parents, I made my way to my room to change into my swimsuit, a blue and white stripped sports bikkini.
As I was putting my bag together, I glanced at the Kunoichi Nomicon.
'I should probably ask what to do about the robot from earlier.' Thinking to myself as I picked up the book.
Sitting down and opening it, I was immediately shloomped into the book.
"Arwoooh!"
~Inside the Kunoichi Nomicon~
Once inside, words appeared in front of me.
-A Kunoichi must master the art of stealth-
A chameleon suddenly appeared. -Reveal-
It then jumped trough a wall disappearing. -Conceal-
An image of my eyes surround by darkness the appeared. -Conceal-
The rest of my body appeared. -Reveal-
"Huh, Camouflage. Basically, fight fire with fire."
And with a flash of light, I was pulled out.
~Back outside~
Sitting back up, I put the Nomicon and Kunoichi mask in a hidden pocket of my bag.
"Guess I just have to keep an eye out for that robot now." I said before leaving my house.
Rachel and I meet back up and were now getting scanned by a Robo-ape.
And it was very hard not to tense around it.
After a minute, the Robo-ape let us through and Rachel was bouncing with excitement.
"Oh. my. squee! Look at this place!"
I nodded in agreement while looking around. This part was definitely impressive.
I was brought out my musing when Rachel began tugging me towards the pool.
Laughing, I set my stuff down on a lawn chair and jumped in with her.
We stayed in there for a bit, giggling and splashing each other when I told her I was going to grab something from the snack bar.
She nodded as she spotted one of her bandmates and went over to talk to them.
Made my way over to the snack bar and got myself some popcorn.
After getting it, I began to mindlessly people watch trying to see if I knew anyone else here, when my ears picked up on a pair of familiar voices.
"Dude is it me, or are we totally pulling this off?!"
Following the voice, I go around a corner to see Randy and Howard with their backs to me next to some wet sumo outfits.
Smiling mischievously, I quietly made my way over to them.
"So you boys snuck in, huh?"
I laughed as the two jumped in the air startled before whipping around to face me.
"Davis!? Don't. Do.That!" Howard said while putting a hand to his chest trying to calm down.
Still laughing. "Sorry, couldn't resist."
I then looked at Randy to find him just staring. "Uh... Randy you okay there?"
Nothing. He just stayed silent, staring at me that was starting to make me uncomfortable.
Howard seemed to notice this as he then elbowed his friend in the side, snapping him out of his staring.
"W-what?"
I looked at him confused. "Uh.. I just asked if you were okay?"
His face suddenly went red for some reason. "Oh I'm f-fine! I'm fine, not as fine as yo- great! Pretty girl- pretty GREAT! Hahha...what?"
I stared at him for a sec, confused. "OoooKay, Anyway how did you two sneak in?"
They tensed as Howard answered. "Sneak in? For your information, we were invited."
I rose a brow at the lie. "Nice try Weinerman. But me and Rachel saw you both earlier NOT getting a Bash mark."
The two looked at each other, then around, before leaning closer as if not to be overheard.
"Okay, we faked some Bash marks in order to get in. Please don't tell Bash we're here." Randy begged
"Yeah! He'll kick us out and we haven't even tried out everything yet. Or the food, speaking of which, are you gonna finish that?" Howard asked pointing at my half eaten bag of popcorn.
I wordlessly gave it to him. "Guys don't worry, I wont say anything. I'm aware of how much you two wanted to come. And beside, with you two here this party might get more entertaining."
Howard paused in his eating to look at Randy. "Cunningham, I know I've said this before, but I approve."
I looked at him weird. "Approve of what?"
Randy suddenly started waving his hands around, sputtering. "NOTHING! Nothing! Howard is just uh... approving the...uh... POPCORN!"
He then began to walk backwards a bit laughing nervously before he bumped into someone.
That someone being McFist.
McFist turned around to look at the us sinisterly. "Well, who do we have here?"
"McFist!" I couldn't help but mumble staring at my enemy with wide eyes.
Randy broke me out of my tense state when reached over to shake McFist's hand. "Hello. Nice to meet you, Mr. McFist, as you and I have never met in the past, ever. We're Bashford's school chums. Here we are."
Randy then draped a hand around Howard and placed his other hand on my shoulder.
"By the way, Bash is not an idiot." Howard added as all of us looked towards Bash, who was in the pool splashing another kid chanting 'Bash Splash!'.
We all watched blankly.
McFist frowned. "Yeah. He's a delight."
I watch as his wife, Marci McFist, walk over and placed her hands on her husband's shoulders. "Hiya, kids. Hope you're enjoying Bashy's Splashy. Oh, have you blown your nose yet?"
The three of us looked at her confused before turning to McFist with a, "Huh?"
McFist cleared his throat. "McFist Industries is proud to announce the revolution in nostril clearing technology. McFissues. For your blow and go lifestyle."
"Sneeze into Atchoo D2." I watched as a kid blew into a tissue offered by robotic arm that then gave him a prize as his picture was taken.
"Play Schnoz Sniper, or just try your hand at Pick It and Flick It. Ah, it's a hoot!" Mrs. McFist said showing off the different attractions.
I don't know what the boys were thinking, but I was trying not to look grossed out and bewildered.
"...Boogers?" I hear Randy ask.
"...What?" Was all I could say.
"Just make sure you take a picture so we can ID your icky." McFist said.
Howard seemed to get over the... oddness of it all and ran over to the Schnoz Sniper booth and began playing.
"Don't have any bats in the cave..." Randy said still looking weirded out.
"Yeah... I took care of that before I came here." I said also weirded out.
Mrs. McFist just smiled as she walked over to her husband. "Boogie shy, huh. No problem."
McFist snapped his fingers.
I felt my eyes widen in shock as the Robo-Lizard from before suddenly appeared before the two of us.
Randy says something that I didn't hear as I never let my focus waver from the robot.
The thing suddenly sprayed smoke in our faces.
Immediately, I felt my nose burn with that familiar itch as I tried to hold it in.
"Not. Gonna. Sneeze." I hear Randy say. "I'm gonna sneeze! Achooo!"
I hear the robot eat the booger and see a flash that I assume was the robot taking Randy's picture.
I felt myself begin to tear up as I tried to hold in the sneeze, but it was fruitless.
"Achoo!"
I saw a flash behind my eyelids before I opened them in time to see the robot eat my booger ang hearing Mrs. McFist aweing at something.
"Gazuntite." The robot said before crawling away.
'This can not be good.' I thought as McFist patted Randy and I on the backs.
"Enjoy the party." He said before walking away.
There was and awkward silence between us.
"....I'm gonna go find Rachel." I said while backing away slowly. "She's probably wondering where I am..."
Randy began to stepping away as well. "Uh.. yeah. I'm gonna go meet back up with Howard. ..I'll see you later..?"
"Sure, bye."
"Bye."
I quickly walked over to where I left my bag and discreetly dug out my mask before ducking behind a empty booth.
"McFist is up to something. And I'm gonna find out."
After getting into my suit and crawling through an open window, I began to sneak around trying to catch sight of the Robo-Lizard or anything suspicious when I heard a faint voice coming down a hallway.
Coming to a doorway, I quickly ducked behind a shelf when I spotted Viceroy.
I then see the Robo-lizard enter and began spitting boogers on to different petri dishes before moving to Viceroy, who knelled down to give it a pat.
"Excellent work Stew. Now we simply wait for one of these nose nuggets to match the Ninja and Kunoichi."
I felt my eyes widen in dread as I took a better look of my surrounding and saw nothing but boogers everywhere.
"So that's why they took all that snot! They're trying to find out our identities!"
Suddenly feeling a presence, I glance behind me to see Ninja appearing in the doorway.
"Psst! Ninja."
He looks towards me and hid behind me. "Kunoichi? What are you doing here?"
"Hello to you too Red. And forget why I'm here and look." I gestured around.
He look and his widen in horror. "So many boogers..."
I nodded. "Yup and McFist is trying to use them in order to find out who we are. And I would like to take the time now to say, I told you so.."
He gives me a look that said 'really' while I gave one straight back. I then see his flicker to something behind me before he jumped forward and grabbed a moving panel.
Shocked, I quickly followed him from the ground while hiding every few seconds to stay out of sight.
I then see McFist walk in and quickly hid behind some petri dishes and keeping an eye on Ninja.
"This is it, Viceroy. The Ninja and Kunoichi is toast!" McFist shouted just as Ninja came down and joined me.
"Gotta get my booger back..." I hear him say making me look at him.
"Wait, that one you grabbed was yours?"
Ninja tensed up before nodding.
I gave him a determined look while putting a hand on his shoulder. "Then we better move fast."
He returned my look while nodding. "The art of stealth. Conceal and reveal. Conceal ain't doing jack..."
"So lets switch to reveal."
We then jumped out of our hiding place. "You boys looking for us!?"
"Ninja! Kunoichi!" McFist shouted before looking smugly at Viceroy. "Ha, told they'd be at the Splash."
Viceroy rolled his eyes. "Did it again sir..."
"Sorry to break up your little phlegm fiesta.." Ninja started as I finished.
"But you got some green nuggets that belong to us!"
"Ninja Found" The machine announced.
"We've got a match for one of them!" Viceroy cheered making me tense.
"Oh boy..." Ninja mumbled worryingly.
"Crud..." Was all I could say.
"You're too late, Ninja and Kunoichi." McFist said smugly.
Not even thinking, I quickly closed my eyes and covered my ears.
Which was a bad idea as I heard the Robo-Lizard pounce at us making me open my eyes again just to see Ninja redirect it towards Viceroy as it sprayed more smoke.
McFist started walking towards the machine. "Or should I call you..."
"Achoo!" Viceroy sneezed and I watched in disgust and disbelief as his booger landed into the machine.
"Viceroy match."
'Huh? Funny how things turn out.' I thought as I uncovered my ears.
"Viceroy! Viceroy?" McFist looked at the scientist in shock."Viceroy?!"
"Seriously?" Viceroy said giving him a deadpan look. "How can I be the Ninja? He standin' right there!"
Ninja and I then took the distraction to knock over the machine with a double, "Ninja Kick!"
Ninja dusted his hand. "Well, We pretty much adios'd your booger machine, so..."
"SMOKE BOMB!"
We threw down our smoke bombs, but before we left I heard McFist say "Ha! Idiots!" so I grabbed Ninja by the arm so we could listen.
"We can rebuild the machine. The important thing is we've still got all the samples."
The smoke cleared to show the villains that we didn't actually leave.
"Huh, did have not thought of that..." Ninja said tapping his chin.
"I think we were just too caught up in the excitement." I said while pulling out my tessens. "Oh well, lesson learned."
I then threw both my tessens at some dishes, breaking them as Ninja took out some dual swords and joined me.
After finishing quickly, we both jumped on to the chandelier just as Viceroy pulled down a leaver that opened a hatch on the wall, that then released more Robo-Lizards.
Ninja and I looked down as the robots revealed themselves and their mass number.
"Wow, that's a lot of robo-lizards..." Ninja said with wide eyes.
"No kidding..." I said with my eyes also wide.
We jumped down to stand in font of them.
One lizard I noticed began to scrape the ground like a bull ready to charge.
I felt Ninja nudge me, and look to see him gain a sly look as he reached for his scarf.
Seeing this, I had to fight a smile at his little joke.
Ninja held up his scarf as if it were a muleta when the lizard charged.
"Ole!" He moved his scarf in time, making the lizard crash into the dishes that caused a domino effect to the rest.
"Boom!" We doubled high-fived each other.
"OK, I admit. This is a setback." McFist began. "But we still have the boogers. We put 'em on new slides, rebuild the machine, and ha! Back in business."
"Come on, McFist. Don't you think it's time to throw in the tissue?" Ninja said making me face palm at the lame pun. Seriously? where did he come up with this stuff?
The ground suddenly began to shake, causing everyone to stumble around in order to regain their balance.
Looking towards the window, I gaped at the amount of water that was now surrounding the building.
"Kuno, do you know how to swim?" Ninja asked me while grabbing my hand.
"Yes."
"Do you also trust me?"
"Of course, why?"
"Cause Ninja Ring!" He then threw one at the window.
The next thing I know, the room began to flood with water and Ninja was holding me bridle style while surfing the water with a unbroken petri dish.
"Ninja surf!"
The two of us rode down the hall until the water began to lessen enough to where we can get back on the ground near the exit.
"Whooo! That was a rush!" I said throwing my hands up.
"It was definitely BRUCE!" Ninja said in agreement.
We both the settled down to a silence.
"Hey Ninja.."
"Yeah?"
"Mind putting me down?"
"Oh cheese! Sorry!" He placed me down while rubbing the back of his head.
I chuckled. "Well this has been an exciting day, Till next time?"
"Wouldn't miss it."
I smiled at him before smoke bombing away.
When I got back outside and took off my mask, I found Rachel and we both agreed it was a good time to head home.
"...and the water was like whoosh! And Howard and everyone was like yeah! Though I think he hurt his tummy?" Rachel told me as we headed towards the gate.
"I knew Howard and Randy would make this party more interesting," I said as we then see Bash kicking said bros out and slamming the gate closed before walking away.
Making our way through said gate, we walked up to the boys.
"So you guys ended up getting caught?" I asked.
They shrugged as Howard said."Yeah, guess Bash cant appreciate the awesomeness that is known as the Weinerman whoop."
"Rachel was just telling me about that. Very impressive." Howard puffed out his chest with pride while Randy rolled his eyes in good nature.
A loud boom drew our attention upwards to see fireworks going off in the sky.
"Shweet, fireworks!" Randy cheered.
"Not bad." I said smiling.
"So bruce!" Rachel cheered as well, beaming the whole time.
Bits of candy then started to rain.
Howard caught a few smiling. "Fireworks filled with McSquiddles!"
The boys cheered began to catch the candy with their mouths.
Only to fan them right after.
"Hot! Super hot!" Randy fanned his mouth.
"But so good!" Howard said.
Rachel and I started laughing at the boys actions as grabbed some candy for ourselves.
