Wooh done with this chapter at last, haha sorry for the late update, i was kind of having a block, i knew what i wanted to happen i just had trouble getting it from one point to the next
any way this chapter has a big thing happening in it haha
"NINJA DODGE! NINJA BLOCK! NINJA DODGE! ANND A NINJA BLOCK!"
"Oh my cheese, shut up, you are literally telling the bad guys what you're next move is gonna be"
Randy and Future ninja were currently fending off a large number of Oni's, and truthfully they weren't holding up so well. Randy had to cover for Future ninja several times, the ninja of tomorrow was clearly all spent on a previous fight he had to go through earlier in the day. All while Randy's evil self watched, safely from a distance smiling his evil smile.
Future ninja grunted throwing a ninja ring at another Oni ineffectively. This was all he could do, provide support from a distance while Randy blocked, dodged and battled all of their foes. He had to admit it was cool that Randy was holding his own so well against all these monsters, the nomicon had said that before he turned he was in the running to be one of the best ninjas in history, battle-wise not intelligence wise obviously. He supposed all the incredible battles Randy had gone through in his freshmen year alone is what gave him all this useful experience, Randy was used to fighting opponents that outclassed him and holding his own even for a while (heck! He fought the sorcerer once in the alongside the first ninja). But it couldn't go like this forever Randy was clearly getting slower and sloppier, exhaustion was going to overtake him at some point and adrenaline couldn't keep both alive forever.
Howard watched helplessly from the side lines as the Oni's began to corner Randy and future ninja. He saw one trying to sneak up on Randy, Howard grabbed a rock and chucked it at the Oni. It did no damage, but it certainly got its attention.
"Oh juice" Howard said, running for his life as the Oni began chasing him.
"Howard!" Randy yelled, he desperately wanted to help his bro, but the beasts weren't giving him an opportunity to. He and future ninja had their backs against the wall. Randy dug into his belt and pulled out a white orb.
"Cover your eyes" Randy told future ninja, who recognized the ball Randy was holding and did what he was told. "Ninja flash ball!"
The bright white light blinded everyone except Randy and future ninja. Randy grabbed future ninja and made a dash through the stunned monsters, he picked Howard up by the collar and made a dash for the cave exit. 'So close!' Randy thought, the exit was within arm's reach, when a red and more powerful version of air fist hit the exit causing the entire cave to shudder, Randy dropped his friends and fell to his hands and knees as the violent shaking caused him to lose his balance. Randy looked towards the exit which was now destroyed and covered in fallen rock, they were buried in with no way out. He glared at the person who fired the air fist.
"Tsk tsk tsk" Evil Randy said, clicking his tongue and waving his finger. "We're not done yet"
The Oni's were getting over their temporary blindness and stalked towards Randy, Howard and future ninja, all while Evil Randy grinned at them. The Oni's now surrounded them, and were awaiting Evil Randy's command.
"Now what to do, what to do?" Evil Randy said, asking himself out loud. "I can't kill you, I'd doom myself to the same fate"
Randy let out a sigh of relief.
"But" Evil Randy said, a wicked grin spreading across his face. "You'd be surprised what you can live through. Rough them up"
The Oni's pounced, ready to bring the boys to the brink of death and enjoy every second of it. The Oni surrounded Randy and his friends. Seeing they're gruesome faces up close, all advancing on them with that twisted sadistic look on them suddenly brought flashbacks of Randy's vision of the twisted future Evil Randy showed him. Randy began to panic as the Oni's were now on top of them, he felt like he was hyperventilating.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" He yelled, panic in his voice. He launched an airfist upwards blowing all the monsters off him and his friends. He panted and breathed hurriedly, he looked around and spotted future ninja and what was around future ninjas' waist. An idea came to him, it was sloppy and extremely risky, but right now it was the only chance they had. He reached into his belt and pulled out a smokebomb then detonated it on the floor, filling the cavern with a smoke screen.
Evil Randy's eyes snapped wide when he realized he could not sense his past self anymore. He rushed into the smokescreen as a blur, picking up the closest person in the smokescreen, which just so happened to be future ninja. He held future ninja by the throat, nearly crushing the boys' windpipe. Future ninja gasped and tried in vain to inhale any air, but that proved extremely difficult when a psychopath is holding your throat with an iron grip.
"Where is he?!" Evil Randy asked angrily. "Where are you hiding him?!"
"Who?" Future ninja squeaked out.
"Me! I mean past me!" Evil Randy dropped future ninja.
"I-I don't…I don't know" Future ninja replied, feeling genuine fear. He stared at where his time machine had once been, he felt betrayed. Why would Randy steal it from him?
Evil Randy heightened his hearing and listened to future ninja's heartbeat, he couldn't hear it speeding up, that means he must be telling the truth.
"Looks like he abandoned you" Evil Randy said, fury in his eyes.
"Yeah…" Future ninja said. He still couldn't believe that Randy would ditch them to save his own skin. That made him angry, his face scrunched into a scowl, he stared defiantly at Evil Randy. "Guess you started out bad too, eh?"
Evil Randy stared down on future ninja, anger boiling beneath the surface. He raised his fist to strike. Future ninja closed his eyes, preparing for the blow.
Suddenly a portal appeared between them, and a fist came out to sock Evil Randy right in his mug. Evil Randy held his ground, Randy's fist still connected to Evil Randy's face. Evil Randy gave Randy the evil eye.
"It's going to take more than one punch to take me out, boy" Evil Randy said.
Then suddenly out of the portal three more fist crashed into Evil Randy's face with a sickening 'Krak'. The force of the fists pushed him back a few meters from where he was standing. He stared on in startled anger.
"Then I suppose that's why we are here" Said none other than First ninja standing at the front of the pack. Behind him were two other ninjas, Randy joined their ranks, and all four got into a battle stance.
"No honkin way!" Howard exclaimed.
"I know…" future ninja said. "The first ninja, I heard stories, but I nev—"
"Who cares about him?" Howard replied, pointing to one of the other ones. "I'm talking about the other one!"
Howard was pointing at a heavier set ninja, whose hairdo could still be obviously made out and had hazel eyes. The ninja noticed Howard pointing at him, a look of excitement went through both their faces.
"YOOOOOOOOO" Both said.
"It's ninja me!" Howard said, excited like a puppy. Future ninja just looked at them both with a dry look.
"Man, I looked good in the ninja suit" Howard continued.
"Right back at ya" Ninja Howard said.
Future ninja, Randy and the other ninja just rolled their eyes at this display.
"If you two wads are done complimenting each other, may I remind you that we have a bad guy whose butt needs kicking" The other ninja said wryly.
"Wads?" Howard said, recognizing that voice and speech pattern. He gasped when he realized who it was under there. "Mac Antfee!"
"How does everyone know my secret identity?!" Mac questioned exasperatedly.
"Why did you pick Mac Antfee?!" Howard said grabbing Randy by the scarf and pulling him to eye level.
"Look" Randy said. "These were the only ninjas whose secret identities I knew, so they were the only ninjas I could get, okay?"
"ENOUGH!" Evil Randy bellowed angrily, clearly annoyed. "I'll admit you all got me by surprise with this 'plan' of yours, if you can even call it that. But so what? It doesn't matter, I still hold all the cards, you are surrounded and you have no way out. It's my win"
"I expected more of an open mind from you ninj-former ninja" First ninja said. "When the door has been closed, you simply need to make a window"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Evil Randy said impatiently.
"It means, that I simply need to make my own exit" First ninja replied with a smirk. He turned to his team of ninjas behind him. "Brace yourselves"
First ninja held up his fist then clenched, energy poured into it and formed the shape of a Japanese dragon. Just seeing the techniques sent waves of pure rage to Evil Randy, it was the very skill the nomicon had denied him, the skill he was not 'worthy' enough to obtain.
"And what are you going to do with that?" Evil Randy sneered at first ninja.
"I'm going to show, just how powerful it really is…."
"So you're gonna hit me?! THEN HIT ME!"
First ninja shook his head chuckling. "I wasn't going to hit you"
First ninja jumped and rammed his fist into the cave ceiling. When Randy and Howard first saw this move used, they only saw a portion of its true power. Now they were getting it all, an explosion of energy rocked the entire street they were under and blew a hole through the old club building that was above the caves they were currently in, luckily no one owned said building anymore leaving it deserted.
"Holy cheese…" Randy said, finally being able to see the clear blue open sky.
"You can say that again" Howard replied.
First ninja glared at all the Oni's around them, a deadly glare in his eyes. "It would be wise to return to where you came from"
The Oni's didn't need to be told twice and all rushed back into the portal, running for their lives.
"You stupid beasts!" Evil Randy snapped at them. "Stay and fight!"
They paid no head to his commands, too scared for their lives. When all the Oni's had escaped evil Randy glared at the team of ninjas and Howard.
"It's over" First ninja said. "You can't win"
"Seems that way doesn't it?" Evil Randy said trying to calm himself down. "A voice has been screaming at me to kill you all since we started, and I am seriously starting to consider it"
"But you can't!" Howard said with a smug smile. "You'll risk changing the past or killing yourself if you kill any of these guys"
"Good job me" Ninja Howard said.
"Thanks me" Howard replied.
"Hmm, true" Evil Randy said, scratching his chin. His eyes snapped wide and he used ninja comet sprint. As a blur he snatched up future ninja and held him above the land of shadows portal. "But I can kill this guy"
He was right of course, killing someone from a future he was trying to change would do little to affect him. Randy, Mac and ninja Howard went into a battle stance, but first ninja held up his hand signalling them to stop, knowing they wouldn't be fast enough.
"We seem to be at an impasse" First ninja said.
"Not necessarily" Evil Randy replied. "You let me go and I let the kid go, not into the portal I mean"
"And what we just let you go?! So you can recover all your power?!" Randy snapped. He couldn't let this guy regain all his power, he'd be nearly unstoppable.
"That's exactly what you're gonna do" Evil Randy said with a wicked grin.
First ninja looked away and closed his eyes contemplating his choices. A ninja's first priority should always be to preserve the lives of the innocent. "Very well, we accept your conditions"
"First ninja!" Randy yelled, shocked at first ninja's decision.
"That's lame, I say we just whoop his butt" Mac Antfee remarked.
For once Randy agreed with Mac Antfee. His future evil self was too dangerous to let go now, when they were so close.
"No" First ninja said to them sternly. "It is decided, I give you my word that we will let you go for now, but next we meet….. We will stop you"
"You can try" Evil Randy said throwing future ninja to them who landed in a grunt.
Giant black wings sprouted from Evil Randy's back and he launched into the air. He turned still hovering to look at them with a scowl.
"You know this is and will always be your biggest weakness, you could never make the hard choices. You could never make the sacrifices necessary, and that will always be your greatest failure"
He looked like he was addressing all of them. But Randy had a sinking feeling that he was talking to him and only him. With that he flew away out of sight.
Randy clenched his fist, angry that evil him got away. "First ninja, I don't want to sound like a shoob but, why didn't you stop him? Couldn't you just hit him with another of those dragons' fists? You would have ended him just like that"
"First off ninja, I swore an oath to my clan that I would not take a life, and by putting on that mask you have too" First ninja scolded Randy. "Second, If I had missed we would have all lost, using that much power took a considerable amount of my energy, I could have done only maybe one more of those, I took a gamble using that much power, hoping to scare him away, it seems to have worked"
Randy understood where first ninja was coming from, and bowed his head in apology. "Sorry"
"It is alright, ninja. You are young you still have a lot to learn" First ninja said putting his hand on Randy's shoulder. "Now we must prepare and strategize for our next confrontation. He will probably know where you and Howard live, so we need a base of operation, one he would never expect, perhaps at a place you two would hate?"
Randy looked at Howard with downcast eyes, without even saying a word Howard understood and pouted.
Howard sighed and opened his phone and called a number. "SHUT IT DOU-I mean hey Doug…"
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'WHY DID YOU LET THEM GO?!' The second voice in Evil Randy's head yelled.
'What if they're plotting our demise right now!?' The first voice said in a panicked voice.
"Quiet both of you" Randy said. "What was I supposed to do? I could not kill any of them except the future brat"
'But you still had enough power to defeat all of them!' The second voice mocked. 'You could have at least captured your past self!'
"No, letting them all go and looking weak was part of my plan" Evil Randy replied.
'How is that a plan?!' The second voice said stressed.
"I need him to believe he has a chance of winning" Evil Randy said. "So that it will be all the more devastating when I crush it right in front of him. And I assure everything is going according to plan, for it has been planted in him…"
'I-It?' The first voice squeaked. 'Y-you planted something in him'
"Not a physical thing, a thought, something that will gnaw at him and break him little by little" Evil Randy said, an evil grin spreading across his face. "…..Fear"
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Later that night everyone was sleeping in Doug's garage with some spare sleeping bags first ninja had covered the house in some 'ancient norisu talismans' that would hide them from Evil Randy's senses, all worn out and too tired to deal with Doug's ranting. He kept asking valid but annoying questions, he even said Howard's 'cousin' looked way too much like Howard, till suddenly everyone snapped and told him to shut it, effectively silencing him.
Randy was sitting on a window sill looking up at the stars, first ninja advised against it saying they needed to keep a low profile, however Randy had too much on his mind to simply sleep it off. Future ninja walked over to Randy, Randy was still surprised seeing all of them without their masks, but future ninja was the only one whose face he did not recognize. Future ninja held out one hand and placed the other on his hip, looking like he expected Randy to give him something.
"What?" Randy said curiously.
"The belt" Future ninja said with no emotion.
"Oh right!" Randy said. He completely forgot about that. "Thanks for letting me borrow it"
"I never let you borrow it!" Future ninja snapped snatching it from Randy's hand. "You stole it off me and used it without my permission"
"Woah cool your cheese, I saved our lives"
"Yeah but did you ever think to what kind of damage you might have caused by bringing these guys here?! What if the universe exploded when Howard touched his future self. You're lucky this thing will be able to erase their memories when I put them back in their original time, that'll at least stop you from wonking up the future any more than you already might have"
"Again, cool your cheese" Randy said trying to calm the kid down. "I'm sorry okay? But I didn't have a choice, we need all the help we can get"
"I know that" Future ninja said. He sighed and looked Randy in the eyes. "Look you need to tell me-no tell us when you're gonna do something like this, whether I like it or not we are a team now and we have to work together, so it'd be nice if I could trust you"
"Okay, okay" Randy said dodging the seriousness of future ninjas words. "But you know, since we are a team, I'm going to have to at least know my teammates name"
Future ninja sighed. "It's Henry"
"Henry got a last name in there?"
"You don't need to know that"
"C'moooon, now I gotta know"
"*sigh*….Hensletter"
Randy nearly fell out of the window sill. "Hensletter? As in Bucky Hensletter?"
"Yes" Henry said with a disgruntled look.
Randy began snickering. "As in Bucky 'Zing-meister' Hensletter?"
"You promised not to laugh"
"Okay, okay, okaaay. Let's start again. Nice to meet you Henry Hensle—pffffft"
"Okay that's it, I'm going to sleep" Henry said leaving.
"No Heeeennryy, pffft, I'm sorry, c'mon don't' be that way"
As Randy watched Henry leave, he decided that maybe it was time for him to go to bed too. Unfortunately that small moment of laughter and happiness would not last, for that night Randy Cunningham would be plagued with nightmares.
Dats right team ninja is a go!*laughs* (and this is definetly cuz i just watched Avengers: AoU yesterday and wanted to do a team up thing noopppe...okay but seriously i had planned for this to happen from the beginning just trust me okay). Plus u know what they say, when you're juggling 4 characters add 3 more!(well i guess its more like add 2 and another howard?)
there are gonna be some lighter chapters up next i guess?(i'm not sure yet, still working out the kinks) they will be more idk lighter cuz they will have less fight scenes
Anyway thanks for reviewing and rating thats really what pushes me to keep going:)
And dont worry there r more surprises on the way ;)