Randy was so nervous about going to McFist's Industries with Kaitlin today after school. Apparently when she said weekend, she meant Friday. It was the last period of the day and Randy was just now explaining to Howard why he can't play Grave Puncher with him today after school. "I know it sounds really risky and all but I couldn't say no! If I can get close enough for her to trust me, then I can get her to remember."
"Cunningham, I know you like Katy and all, but you're going to McFist Industries! It's way too risky! You could get yourself killed!" Howard yells to Randy.
Randy leans toward Howard, "Relax, I'll bring the mask." Howard just shoves him away.
"Okay, you just made it suicidal." Howard tells Randy folding his arms.
"I'll be fine bro, trust me." Randy assures Howard. The dismissal bell rings and Randy waves bye to Howard as they both walk in opposite directions. When Randy gets to his locker seeing Kaitlin sneaking up on him suddenly surprises him.
"Sorry, didn't mean for the little scare." Kaitlin apologizes.
"That's alright. I've been frightened way worse." Randy jokes.
"So are you ready?" Kaitlin asks excitedly as she tugs on his right arm.
"Yeah."
"Great, c'mon!" She pulls him as they head outside to the limo but she lets go when they get inside. "Sorry, I'm just so happy that I don't have to go on this boring trip alone." Kaitlin explains to Randy.
"It's alright, I understand. So hey, I was wondering, well you know who about the ninja right?" Randy asked stupidly.
"Of course I do. He fights robots and monsters like everyday."
"Well, I was wondering if you might actually have a good idea on who it might?" He asks sheepishly.
Kaitlin was surprised by this question, "I really don't have a good idea on who the ninja might be. Could be anyone though. Could be me, could be you." Randy flinches but Kaitlin doesn't notice. "But it's definitely not me and I'm pretty sure it's not you."
"Uh, yeah. You're right it could be anyone. I guess we'll never know." Randy shrugs nervously.
Kaitlin looks out the window when the limo stops, "Ugh! Well, it looks like we're here. Prepare to be amazed by some of the lamest things in here." Kaitlin says sarcastically. They both get out of the limo to be greeted by a very tall McFist standing at the entrance waiting for them. McFist was trying to force a huge smile. He couldn't stand the fact that the ninja was going to be right there in his grasps, but wouldn't be able to do anything to him.
The two finally get to McFist, "Kate, so glad you came. And you really did bring a friend. The same friend who you said was flunking science." He grinned when he said the last sentence. Randy just narrowed his eyes at McFist.
Randy suddenly gets a really dumb idea. I'll just kill him with kindness; he'll think that I'm up to something when I'm really not Randy thought to himself. Randy shakes McFist's hand, "Well I'm not failing anymore, now that I've got the best tutor in school. Who also has a rather successful uncle I'm guessing." Randy says as he continues to shake McFist's hand. McFist pulls his hand away.
"Yeah sure, well let's head inside to see where the real magic happens." McFist gestures his arms to the entrance doors. He stops Randy from going in and gets in his face. "I know what you're up to boy, and it's not going to work."
Randy acts dumb while holding his hands on his chest. "I don't know what you're talking about Mr. McFist, Katy just invited me to come with her. And I couldn't just say no." Randy finishes with a wide smirk. McFist just darts his eyes at the teen.
"I've got my eyes on you kid!" He turns back around to get in front of Kaitlin who was already looking through stuff she wasn't suppose to be putting her head in. "Now let me show where we…" Kaitlin cuts him off.
"Let's go see the scientist guy, he's crazy smart!" Randy was now next to her.
"Viceroy?" Randy says to her.
"Yeah! Let's go see what he's working on; please, please, please!" Kaitlin begs McFist.
McFist groans, "Fine, follow me." He leads the kids toward the elevator that opens and they walk inside of it. They finally get to the right floor and walk into Viceroy's lab. "Viceroy, I brought my daughter in with me today and she brought a friend. I need them to stay here with you until I get back from a certain meeting." Viceroy turns around to face the tall man. He didn't see the children yet because they were behind him.
"Fine, but they better not touch anything!" McFist rolls his eyes and leaves the room. Viceroy jumps when he sees Randy! Randy acts like he is confused but then walks up to Viceroy and gives him a handshake.
"Why Mr. V, I had no idea you worked for McFist, you must get paid millions." Viceroy didn't know what to say or do. He thought it was all just a trap. Randy lets go of his hand and Viceroy suddenly puts all his attention to Kaitlin who was messing around with some chemicals.
"Kate, I said that you better not touch anything." Viceroy says to Kaitlin as he takes the chemicals away from her.
"Oh you were talking about both of us? I thought that you meant for Randy, you know since you've let me mess around with the chemicals before." Viceroy just gives her a nasty glare, "Or because I know that you take longer breaks when McFist isn't around." She says with a wide grin. Viceroy puts his head down and hands the chemicals to Kaitlin. "Thank you!" She says when she snatches the chemicals.
Viceroy turns to face Randy and then takes him to the other side of the room. "What are you doing here?" He asks furiously.
"Kaitlin invited me. She insisted I come." Randy says confidently.
"You do realize where you are right?" Viceroy asks with his arms folded.
"Yeah, I know where I'm at." Viceroy pulls out a remote out of his pocket.
"I don't think you do Randy. With one press of this button, I can have you trapped in a human sized glass vase. Or something even worse!" Viceroy explains to Randy.
"No, no, no, no Viceroy. You're not going to push that there button, you know why? Because right over there is an innocent teenage girl who looks like she wants to be a scientist when she grows up. But if she finds out that you're trying to destroy me, I don't think she'll ever want to see your face ever again. She might even give up on wanting to be a scientist just like you." Randy says to Viceroy with a wide smirk across his face.
Viceroy places the remote back in his pocket angrily. "You won this one kid!" Viceroy walks away and goes over to help Kaitlin with her chemical work. This was Randy's chance to snoop around and check out what McFist's got cooking. He was about to leave the room when Kaitlin suddenly notices him leaving.
She runs up to him. "Hey, where the juice are you going?" She asks.
"Look, I know that this guy seems pretty cool and all, but there's an entire building that needs to be searched around. I'm going to go check it out." Randy says acting like he's some kind of bad boy. Viceroy is on the phone the whole time trying to order some new parts for a robot he's creating. Kaitlin turns to look at Viceroy who had his back facing them, and then she looks back at Randy.
"I'm in!" They both leave the room and start going to the highest room of the building. "Follow me, I know the perfect place to look around." She leads them to a hallway that Randy didn't like the look of.
"Wait, where are we headed?" Randy asks nervously as they continue to run through the building.
"McFist's office of course." She says bluntly.
"Shweet!" Randy says when they are almost there. They finally get to his office. Kaitlin peeks her head through the door to make sure that nobody is in the room.
"It's clear. C'mon this place is awesome!" They both walk into the office and Kaitlin starts to look through filing cabinets. While Randy just looks around the room. Kaitlin stumbles upon a file labeled, 'Ninja'. "Hey Randy, come over here. You'll never believe what I found." Randy walks over to Kaitlin and looks down at the file.
His eyes widen and he snatches the file without thinking. "Let's just put this away, there's nothing important in here that we should know about." Kaitlin is shocked.
"What! Randy, the ninja's identity could be in there. Don't you want to find out who the ninja really is?" She asks him.
"No not really." Randy replies.
Kaitlin snatches the file back from Randy. "Well I do." She starts opening and looking through the file.
Randy panics. "Uh, I just remembered I had something to do! Uh sorry got to go!"
"Randy wait I…" He was already out the door and out the building. She sighs and looks back down at the file when a corner piece of a picture captures her attention. It looked purple; she pulls the picture out and is so shocked she gasps. It was a picture of Randy. Words underneath it said, 'Ninja's Identity: Randy Cunningham'.
"Kate! What are you doing here, you and the kid were supposed to be in the lab with Viceroy…" He suddenly notices the picture Kaitlin was holding. Her eyes began to fill with tears as she looked up at McFist.
"I-is he really…" She didn't have to finish the sentence. McFist nods with a disappointed face. "But why would he? I thought that." Her tears were now flowing down her cheeks. "I can't believe he would keep this from me!"
"I know it's a lot to take in right now but…" She cuts him off.
"Wait a second, why do you have an entire file based on the ninja? Are you hiding something from me too? What's next, Viceroy turns out to actually be some kind of evil scientist?" McFist didn't know what to say.
"Well actually uh he kind of is." McFist says.
She suddenly burst, "Okay, I need to get out of here. I'm leaving; don't come looking for me. If you do I wont come back home tonight!" She storms out with her red jacket over her black shirt. And just walks to where ever her feet takes her.
Poor, poor Kaitlin. She doesn't know who to trust anymore. But she still trusts Randy. She knows that he didn't want to hide this from her. How would you feel if you were in Kaitlin's situation?