Randy and Howard collected their mystery meatloaf on their trays and came to see Mike as she ate. She had a photograph out, sighing sadly and she put it back in her jacket pocket as she ate.
"Hey, you're by yourself, huh?" Randy asked.
Mike didn't look at him, but just kept eating. "I like to eat alone."
"Sounds fine by me, come on, Cunningham!" Howard tried to ditch her.
Randy grabbed his collar and pulled him back. "I thought I could ask you a few questions. Mike, do you know anything about the Sorcerer?"
"Yeah." Mike admitted.
"I knew it!" Randy beamed.
"You told me he's been underground the school for 800 years and the Ninja keeps him down there and keeps the world safe from his chaotic powers." Mike continued her answer explanation.
"Oh, yeah, right," Randy shrugged as Howard didn't say anything, but ate. He then looked over his shoulder and saw Stephanie with Morgan, Theresa, Debbie, and Flute Girl. "Well, she seems to be adjusting okay..."
"Okay, what do you want from me?" Mike slammed her sandwich down and put her hands on her hips, glaring at the boys. "I wanna be alone, okay? I've had a stressful few days lately!"
"No need to get mad, Mike..." Randy tried to settle her.
Mike snorted and looked away, eating her sandwich. She took a nasty big bite and some juice squeezed out, splattering on the table. Mike caught some on her fingertips and she licked it off as she continued to wolf down her meal.
"Uhh... What kind of sandwich is that?" Howard asked, noticing the crimson liquid.
"Meat," Mike swallowed and licked her lips. "I'm a meatarian."
"A what now?" Randy raised an eyebrow.
"Meatarian, I eat only meat and no vegetables." Mike explained.
"Wait, you can actually be one of those? That's so Bruce!" Howard sounded wild and excited. "I'm gonna tell my mom to not give me broccoli ever again, I'm a meatarian from now on!" he laughed, then whispered to his sister, passing by. "Heidi, can I use your phone and text Mom that I'm a meatarian now?"
Heidi scoffed and rolled her eyes. "Howard, there's no such thing!" she then looked at Mike. "Girl, I don't know who you are, but you have to eat vegetables, you're being a bad influence on my brother!"
"Whatever..." Mike rolled her eyes and wiped her mouth.
Something fell out of Mike's jacket pocket. Bash came by and it fell onto his foot. It was a secret photograph. Bash picked it up to see a photograph of a young woman with black hair dressed in lavender and a man next to her with ginger hair matching Mike and wearing rust red clothes like her too.
"Hey, what's this?" Bash taunted. "Your Mommy and Daddy...?"
"Hey, put that down!" Mike demanded.
Bash laughed as he kept it out of her reach. "Aww, the little new girl in school keeps a picture of her Mommy and Daddy!"
Randy stood up, not amused with the bullying. "Knock it off, Bash."
"Uh-oh, Bath is fighthing with the other new girl!" Flute Girl gasped, spitting as she talked, due to her braces.
"What," Morgan started, putting her hand under her cheek, not impressed or interested. "Ever..."
"Oh, that's not good... Violence is very wrong..." Stephanie said, shallowly.
"Give it back before I give you a bad bash, Johnson!" Mike retorted with the eleventh grader, playing with his name.
"Hey, stop making clever remarks!" Bash yelled at her. "What're ya gonna do 'bout it? I don't care if you're a girl or not, you look like a boy, so I'm gonna pound you one!"
"Big mistake..." Mike hissed with her eyes turning glowing red.
Randy noticed this. "Uh-oh, even if Bash deserves this, I can't let him get beaten." he said to himself, then dashed away.
Out from a pillar there came the Ninja as Mike slowly turned into a wolf and started to lift Bash up higher than his height and threw him against the cafeteria lunch line. Everyone was really shocked at the impact.
"That must be one nasty stank the Sorcerer put on Mike," the Ninja said to himself, then leaped into the air and slammed down on the table. "Hey, wolf girl!"
Mike turned to him, growling.
"Come have a taste of Ninja!" the hero of the school challenged.
Mike growled and charged for him like a charging wolf.
"Whoa!" the Ninja started to run from her and ran up the walls which caused Mike to crash against the wall and break Principal Slimovitz's car.
"WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO ME!?" Slimovitz cried, then broke down crying in the school parking lot.
Mike growled and turned to the Ninja. She snorted aggressively and rushed to charge against him. The Ninja used his scarf as a grappling hook onto an overhead light in the cafeteria and had it pull down and the light came crashing down on Mike's head. Parts of the ceiling and roof fell down on Mike too. Stevens played his trombone in a sad way comically like he usually did. Everyone looked surprised and the Ninja looked around anxiously. The Ninja remembered that the items that the evil force held most dear had to be destroyed in order to get them back to normal.
"Sorry, Mike, I hate to do this, but it's part of the job..." the Ninja sighed and ripped apart the photograph of who he assumed to be Mike's parents. The Ninja left in a smoke bomb instantly.
"Does anyone know if she's okay?" Julian, the Goth boy wondered.
"Someone should check on her..." Theresa suggested.
Debbie looked around and kicked Bucky over.
Bucky wailed and grunted in pain as he landed. He then crawled forward and removed some of the roof and debris to see Mike was knocked out. "Jeepers, she's bleeding!" he hid behind Debbie, shivering.
"Oh, my, someone should take her to the nurse." Stephanie suggested.
The students nodded. Bucky took Mike and dragged her out of the cafeteria as she was in human form. "Poor girl, on her first day in a new school too..."
Randy came back and stood with Howard. "What happened? What'd I miss?"
Howard looked at him, looking agape. "I don't know about you, but I think the Ninja just killed that girl."
"Killed?" Randy's eyes widened.
"Bucky took her to the nurse, that was really extreme, especially for you, Cunningham."
"I think I should visit her and say I'm sorry."
The other students parted and went about their business.
"I just hadn't seen Stank used so badly." Randy said, walking with Howard out of the cafeteria with the others.
Stephanie stayed behind. She had an innocent smile which turned into a malicious grin and her eyes flashed green.
Mike's eye slowly opened. She looked around herself and saw she was in a bed. She had a cast on her arm and an eye patch over her left eye. "W-What happened?"
Randy and Howard came over.
"You two!" Mike snapped.
"Hey, you were messed up pretty bad, happens a lot around here with teens' mood swings," Randy said, casually. "Don't worry, the Ninja saved you. Plus, here..." he handed the photograph, now taped up for her.
Mike's eye widened and she snatched the photograph with her good arm. "Don't touch this! Don't EVER touch this!" she growled.
Randy's eyes widened. "S-Sorry... Are those your parents?"
"I don't wanna talk about them right now." Mike put the photograph in her shirt for safekeeping.
"Drama Queen..." Howard teased to Randy, rolling his eyes.
Randy nudged him aggressively, then looked at Mike gently. "The nurse said you should rest up at home. I'm sorry the Ninja had to attack you like that."
"How would you know what the Ninja did?" Mike looked at him. "You weren't there!"
Randy and Howard's eyes widened. A normal Stank victim would have not remembered any attacking or damage they were causing.
"Uhh... I think you should rest, okay, Mike? You can still come over after school for Grave Puncher if you want." Randy walked away with Howard, waving out of the nurse's office.
Mike looked at them, then hummed as she lay back down in the bed.
"That was close!" Randy sounded relieved. "I thought she was gonna find out my secret."
"If she wasn't Stank'd, then how did she turn into a wolf?" Howard asked.
"I don't know, Howard, maybe that's why the Sorcerer got her to work for him, she already has scary powers to defend herself, so it'll be harder to take them down and save Norrisville!"
"I don't know this dude, but he's sick!"
"Tell me about it, Howard."