Finally done with this part of the stand woooh! Sorry once again for the delay, I got school and I'm still gonna try and finish this whole thing before the season finale hits.
I hope u guys enjoy it.
"Yo Cunningham!" Howard said from the bottom of the stairs. "We going to school or what? Please say or what"
"Alright I'm done!" He called back as he descended the stairs. "Almost forgot to pack my nomicon"
"Your what-acon?" Howard asked incredulously.
"Uh, the ninja-nomicon? " Randy said raising an eyebrow at Howard, he held out his book to show Howard.
"Ummm, that's your mathbook "Howard pointed out, looking at Randy as if he had grown a second head.
"Oh…yeah" Randy said looking extremely puzzled at his mathbook.
"Are you okay? What even is a ninja nerdicon anyway?" Howard asked curious to his biffers odd behaviour.
"I….I don't know" Randy replied, he felt like he should know what that is but for whatever reason he couldn't. It's that weird sensation you have, like when you open the internet then forget what you were going to do on it. "Weird, my brain must have wonked out for a second"
"Must have been all that studying we did…" Howard noted with a serious face, both Randy and Howard burst out laughing.
"Studying! Oh my cheese! That is hilarious" Randy said between laughs.
"I know!" Howard said wiping a tear from his eye. "Well guess it's time to get going, we're almost late for being fashionably late for school"
"Lead the way big H" Randy said as he followed Howard out the door. "Still that noma-thing I was talking about, where the juice have I heard it before"
"Ehhh, probably just a brain fart" Howard replied.
It still lingered in the back of Randy's head. It occupied his mind to the point that he didn't notice a hand print suddenly appear on the mirror on the wall. A face emerged still trapped behind the glass, more than a reflection, it was Henry desperately calling out to Randy but to no avail.
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" .JUICE?!" Henry said aloud in frustration, no matter what he said or how loudly he called out, Randy could not hear him. "RANDY! RANDY YOU SHOOB LISTEN TO ME!"
He surveyed the room he was in, well room would be incorrect more like he was inside a shadow, and there wasn't any floor, walls or ceiling. The only light came from windows scattered around the pitch black room. These windows seemed to be connected to all reflected surfaces Randy passed by. Henry noticed he was unable to stay on one reflective surface for very long, once randy had passed it its window vanished. This presented a problem to Henry as he would only have a split second for Randy to notice him and even if he did get Randy's attention he couldn't speak. It also seemed like Randy had no memory of why he was here, Henry had no choice but to hope that Randy seeing him would jog his memory and remind him of his mission.
Henry sighed and began floating to the next window hoping that he could get Randy back, he had too.
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"Hey RC my man what is up brah?"
"Randy! Howard! How's it going?"
"Yo Cunningham and Weinerman in the house"
Every free moment Randy had seemed to be filled with people calling him and Howard's name. It felt unusual apparently he was extremely popular and has been since he entered high school, but this was honestly the first time he had ever felt it. It definitely felt weird and something felt wrong like with the ninja-somethingacon the lingering thought of 'this isn't right' hung at the back of his mind. But he had to admit he was loving the attention, he felt as if this was what he and Howard had been working towards since their first day of freshmen year, which was weird because again it seemed as if they had already been popular since day 1 at least that's what Howard said.
It was now currently lunch period and Randy and Howard table was filled with people, all of which trying to hold or initiate conversation with the two popular boys. Howard was loving the attention, again it was a new sensation to Randy but one he welcomed. A few girls attempted to hit on him, laughing at his jokes and telling him how cute he was, naturally he blushed at their small crushes on him but unfortunately for them he already had a crush on a girl in their school. The cafeteria door opened revealing the very girl he was thinking about, Theresa Fowler the apple of his eye, the object of his affection, the other uhh whatever sappy romantic thing. He had wanted to date Theresa for a long time now, but he had always blamed his job as the ninja as the reason he couldn't date anyone, definitely not because he lacked the nerve, nope definitely not because of that. She spotted him and beamed, she began walking in his direction.
Suddenly the windows shattered as something crashed into the cafeteria naturally causing all out panic. A giant mismatched robot/human/Ape/octopus? Hybrid emerged roaring a fearsome battle cry. The cafeteria was in panic, so naturally Randy grabbed the legendary mask from his pocket, he nodded at the red and black tool of heroes. There were too many people near him he needed some privacy, he leaned close to Howard.
"I am Krakenstein!" It bellowed as if challenging anyone to take it down.
"Bro cover for me looks like its ninja –O'clo—"
"BRO! What are you doing?! Go ninja out and waste that thing!" Howard scolded loudly, enough for the entire cafeteria to hear.
"Yeah Cunningham, take that thing out!"
"I think it's time for ninja O'clock!"
"Woooh! Kick its butt Randy!"
Shouts of encouragement came from all around him from almost every student in the cafeteria, which confused Randy for some reason.
"Wait you all know I'm the ninja?!" Randy questioned, flabbergasted.
"Um, Yeah! Everyone's known since school started Cunningham. You are out of it today." Howard replied. "Now take that thing down to shoobville!"
"Randy! Randy! Randy!" He heard his name being chanted by the entire student body, it felt…amazing. He felt his heart well up with courage and determination as they all called his name, he expected them to call out the ninja, but no they were calling out his name, and that fired him up. He stood up with conviction and raised the mask over his head, he pulled it down over his face and did a flip as the ancient fabric covered his body, and the entire crowd lost it, they whooped and hollered and exploded in cheers.
"Looks like it is ninja O'clock!"
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Henry could see and hear everything that was happening, clearly this dream had modelled a reality that was meant to please Randy, and judging by the way Randy was acting, it was working. Randy was moving extremely fast in his battle against the krakenstein meaning he never lingered near a reflective surface long enough for Henry to either get his attention or keep the window open for very long. Henry moved from window to window desperately trying to get Randy's attention, when it hit him, there was one reflective surface that Randy's eyes would definitely be on.
He flew in the darkness towards on window that was constantly moving, he was able to grab on to it and press his face onto it. He was directly looking at Randy now. The reason for this was because he was using Krakenstein's shiny metallic jaw piece.
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Randy dashed towards the monster but time seemed to slow down as he squinted noticing something on Krakenstein's jaw. His brow scrunched up in confusion as he saw a brown haired boy staring right at him, this boy looked so, so…familiar. Unfortunately on the battlefield you cannot afford to lose focus even for a second, a lesson Randy would have to learn the hard way. Krakenstein took advantage of Randy's distraction and delivered a deadly uppercut sending the ninja flying and crashing at the opposite side of the room.
Henry cringed and silently apologized to Randy. But he couldn't let up now, he flew to the next reflective surface.
Randy got up and shook his head. 'What the juice was that?' he thought to himself. Must have been his mind messing with him like it has been the whole morning, at least that's what he told himself. He got up and stuck his hand in his scarf pulling out his ninja sword from his suit's hammer space. But his eyes widened in fear as he saw the brown haired boy on his sword's blade. The boy mouthed the words "Wake up" which seriously freaked Randy out, to the point he threw his sword in fear. Amazingly the sword hit Krakenstein square in the chest lodging itself there causing him to stagger back. After being amazed at this stroke of luck Randy decided to take advantage of it and dashed towards krakenstein. And engaged in combat with the monster once again.
"Time for a ninja pummelling!"
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As Randy and the chimera of a monster did hand to hand combat. Henry realized he couldn't keep this up forever. He needed to find a way to get Randy's attention and just appearing in front of him didn't seem to reawaken Randy's memories. Henry bit his lip in frustration.
Suddenly a window extremely far away disappeared. Henry stared in confusion as the window disappeared, that window was still near Randy so it had no reason to disappear. Without warning another went by, and then another, then another, and another. They were disappearing and this sent Henry into a panic, what would happen if they all disappeared while he was still here in the darkness? He really did not want to find out.
He flew as fast as he could as windows disappeared all around him. Henry was extremely scared at this point, he wasn't done here he still needed to bring Randy back.
"I need more time!" He said aloud to himself.
He willed himself to fly faster moving far ahead of the rate at which the windows were shattering. He reached the end of the darkness and the last window with still a few 20 or more windows behind him, but that wasn't going to last long as they continued shattering. 'Now what?!" Henry thought to himself. He looked to the one window in front of him, 'bah!' he cursed under his breath as he realized this was the window at the far end of the cafeteria, far away from Randy. He watched as he continued to battle the monster with the people of NHS chanting his name, he was honestly a little envious of Randy at this moment, but he couldn't let that be his last thought. There were still people that needed Randy, real people that needed him and Henry had to make Randy remember that. He balled up his fist and began punching the window, it was stupid he knew, but he didn't know what else to do. Suddenly progress, a crack appeared, Henry smiled with hope, but the rate at which the windows behind him were shattering increased. He began punching desperately with all his might making the crack bigger and bigger.
"I HAVE to make it!" He yelled as he reeled his hand back for another blow.
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"Ninja slice, slice, and slice!"
Randy had finally brought out his ninja swords, glad there were no weird brown haired boys on them. And they had been extremely useful, he had already severed three of the Krakenstein's Arms.
"Guess you could say these baby's really gave me the upper hand huh?" Randy quipped which brought on laughs from every student around him.
"Upper hand he says!" Even Howard was amused, which also felt weird to Randy. But whatever, take what you can get he reasoned.
Randy did a flip in the air and brought his sword crashing down on Krakenstein's head. He then removed the sword and began chopping it to pieces, after a second it seemed as if nothing happened, then one by one Krakenstein fell to pieces.
"Hmmmm, that easy huh?" Randy mumbled to himself, he felt like this fight was missing something. Like it was resolved far too easily.
"That was the cheese Cunningham!" Howard said praising Randy.
"It's never this easy…" Randy replied his face one of confusion.
"What?" Howard questioned. "Of course it is"
"No I, I usually mess up or-or I need some umm something, an instruction manual or something…." HE replied clumsily holding his head.
Howard looked at Randy in concern. "No you don't? You always do it like this, and I don't think I've ever seen you mess up. Are you okay dude? Do you need to go to the nurse's office?"
"No I…..I'm fine, just a brain fart probably haha" Randy replied, a momentary look of concern flashed his face.
People began to swarm him with praises and pats on the back. But like the red see they all made a path for a Theresa Fowler who came frantically running to Randy. She embraced him in a tight hug one that left Randy in a state of shock.
"Are you hurt? You're OK right?" Theresa asked extremely concerned, checking all over Randy's body she yanked the ninja mask of his face and examined him looking for any injuries.
"I-I'm fine" Randy stuttered out, she looked so concerned. "I'm OK I swear"
Theresa sighed and bowed her head a little. She looked up at him and smiled softly, a look of deep relief on her face. "Good…"
Randy blushed at the way she looked at him. If this were anything like Heidi's sappy romance novels he accidentally found, this would be the perfect moment for a kiss. But unfortunately that was only reserved for people in a relationsh—
His train of thought was derailed as Theresa gave him a long and loving kiss. When they parted for air Randy's brain had officially shut down.
"I-uh, who? The uhhh-you-ki-ki-ki, I'm so—waah?" He stuttered and stammered unable to form words. Theresa just giggled at his goofy reaction.
"You'd think after 3 months of dating you'd be used to that by now" She said in a flirty voice.
"3-3 monthss I-uh hooo boy…" Randy said, still unable to put his jumble thoughts together.
"UGH, can we end this puke fest already" Howard said fake gagging at the couples PDA.
"Grow up Howard" Theresa said rolling her eyes at him.
"Whatever Math class is next and I don't want to miss a second of my precious nap time" Howard replied walking off.
"Well I've got Chemistry next, so…I'll see you later" Theresa said as she pulled away her fingers lingering on Randy's hand just a few more seconds before she let go.
Randy just smiled, that feeling of things being…wrong, it was fading simply because all of this just felt so right. Suddenly behind him a window shattered, making him jump in fear, he looked curiously at the shattered glass. Weird, he thought. He turned to leave for his next class, had he stayed a few minutes more he would have noticed something odd happen to someone who just happened to pass by the area where the window had shattered.
As the boy passed his eyes suddenly rolled back into his head and his body convulsed for a second. Then it stopped and he began moving as if he was continuing a speech he never even started.
"—H great! I'm out of there but now I'm basically a ghost who that shoob can't even hear! Now wha—wait a minute" The boy said stopping his rant midway. "Am I?—"
Suddenly the boy shook as Henry in his spirit form was ejected from the boy's body. The boy looked around confused for a minute then shrugged and continued walking.
Henry put his hand on his chin and began coming up with a plan, he would have to use the short amount of time he was able to possess someone to get Randy back. He began floating to the direction Randy left in, he was given a second chance and he'd be damned if he wasted it.
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Meanwhile at the real norrisville…..
First ninja looked up from his mediation outside the schools entrance. He opened his eyes to see Evil Randy walking towards the school. First ninja stood ready to engage the enemy, but something was different about him.
Each step Evil Randy took felt heavy and sad, his eyes were dead and he barely even registered first ninja. This confused first ninja, why not fly? Why not his super speed? Something was clearly wrong with him. First ninja softened his stance.
"Out of my way…." Evil Randy, no force in his voice.
"What happened to you?" First ninja inquired, more out of curiosity rather than concern.
"Get out of my way…" Was Evil Randy's reply. Walking past First ninja, completely ignoring him.
First ninja however didn't have the same idea. He grabbed Evil Randy with the speed and stealth crow. Naturally Evil Randy tried to retaliate but First ninja used that to his advantage and was able to change Evil Randy's direction, completely sending him back stumbling the direction he initially walked from.
"You're slipping" First ninja said, calm like a pond. "Unhinged, your senses clouded. Which mean I can take you now"
Evil Randy was naturally confused at this, but once he looked passed it he realized that First ninja was not wearing his suit for whatever reason, meaning he was all bark no bite. Evil Randy huffed in irritation. "Take me? You? Without you suit? You're serious?"
"I was a ninja long before I got my suit" First ninja said, preparing his stance once again. "That and I can still use my ninja powers"
Evil Randy did recall he was able to use earth attack, art of disguise and super senses outside of the suit, it stands to reason that perhaps he could have used the other powers as well, but the nomicon never mentioned it so he never considered it something worth practicing.
"Still, you're at a big disadvantage if you're going to rely on your own energy and not your suits" Evil Randy noted. "But me, I have all the power in the world!"
As if to illustrate his point his wings burst out of his back and his eyes crackled with red energy. First ninja just rolled his eyes.
"But…" Evil Randy said, retracting his wings and bringing his eyes back to their natural blue color. "I'll take it easy on you….old man"
First ninja smirked. "How generous, and I suppose this has nothing to do with the fact you can't kill me"
"Don't push it, I can still break every bone in your body and heal you later and you'd be surprised at what you can live through"
"Let's find out then"
Evil Randy and First ninja charged at each other.
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"Okay for real this is weird" Henry said aloud, no concern for the volume of his voice as no one seemed to be able to hear him as he was basically a ghost, but that was not what he was referring to as weird. What he was referring to was the fact that he was following Randy and suddenly the whole scenery changed, drastically at that. How drastic? Well Randy was now a senior, taller, body more defined and stronger jaw. It seemed that out of nowhere a time skip had happened in this fantasy world, and what scared Henry was that Randy was only mildly confused. He was accepting and getting used to this world to quickly, Henry might lose his only chance of waking Randy up at this point so he had to hurry.
Randy was walking down the hall holding hands with Theresa at his right while Howard walked with them to Randy's left, all three of them seeming to be in a light conversation. Henry nodded and decided now was as good as any chance to wake Randy up. Henry flew up to a person walking in Randy's direction…
"Woah there!" Randy said as he bumped into someone, catching them before they fell. "Careful buddy"
"Wake up…" Was all they said before walking off, acting like nothing had happened at all.
"What the juice?" Randy said, he looked to his friends. "Why'd they just say 'wake up' to me?"
"Randy, what are you talking about?" Theresa said concerned. "All I heard was a 'thanks'"
"Yeah bro" Howard confirmed. "Are you OK?"
"NO, I'm sure he said—Oghf!" Randy was cut off as someone else bumped into him. "Oh uh sorry I—"
"This isn't real…" The person said before taking off just as the last one had.
"You guys heard that, right?" Randy asked somewhat frightened at his friends.
"All they said was sorry" Howard told Randy with a look of confusion. "What's so weird about that?"
"No! That's not what they said!" Randy said panicking. "Theresa back me up here"
Theresa stayed silent for a few minutes, then opened her mouth. "This is a dream, we still need you….wake up!"
Randy freaked out and let go of Theresa's hand, he backed up tripping in his desperate attempt to get away from her. He breathed heavily and quickly, all the air in his lungs disappearing. He slammed his back to the lockers behind him, as if trying to back up as much as possible.
"C-calm down dude…" Howard said his hands in front of him to show that he wasn't a threat, Theresa did the same, and her eyes were scared and concerned. "Theresa just asked if you were sure you were okay"
"I-no, that's n-not what she—I don't" Randy couldn't piece together what was happening, an overwhelming feeling of something being wrong was taking over his mind, he slumped down unsure of what to think.
"Randy?" Theresa said kneeling down, she slowly raised her hand, Randy flinched momentarily and Theresa withdrew, but after a minute she tried again and he let her. She placed her fingers on his cheek. "It's okay, it's all okay I promise, nothing is here to hurt you Randy you're safe"
I-I'm safe?..." Randy said, slowing his breathing. "I'm safe…"
He put his hand on Theresa's, and let them help him back up. That must have been his mind wonking out from studying for the big test in a week was what he reasoned, he was safe and that was all that mattered. He walked of apologizing to his friends for his behaviour and they forgave and forgot.
Henry on the other hand was currently chewing on his thumbs nail, something he did as he got more frustrated. He wasn't able to wake Randy up, but he was getting close and he figured he was on the right track.
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First ninja did a couple of backwards somersaults to gain some distance and dodge Evil Randy's vicious claws. Evil Randy's stomach began glowing as if a bright hot heat was underneath his skin, it travelled up his belly, to his chest then flowed out his mouth in a stream of hot red fire.
"StayGroundedDoNotWaverTheDirtItselfShallPayYouAFavorToStopYourFoesAndHoldThemBackHarnessTheSoilForAnEarthAttack ToDefeatThisFoeWhosePowerStandsTallProtectMeEarthAndBuildAWall!"First ninja said incredibly fast and in one breath. Suddenly a wall of earth emerged from the ground blocking the stream of fire from reaching First Ninja. It may have stopped the flames but it did not stop Evil Randy who barrelled through the wall, crashing through it only to be met with nothing but empty earth in front of him. Suddenly First ninja fell from the wall where he had been hiding and delivered a powerful kick to Evil Randy's back causing him to stumble.
Evil Randy roared as he turned to face the ninja prime once more. He drew his blade from his hand and First ninja drew his from the sheath on his back. The two swordsmen clashed in flashes as their blades collided, First ninja had an advantage considering Evil Randy could not kill him in fear of totally messing up the future that First ninja was vital too, but overall Evil Randy had more power and speed. But the one thing First ninja did have over Evil Randy was experience, training and focus. That and he knew Evil Randy was unstable right now.
"Your moves are distracted, clumsy" First ninja said, as he parried another swing. "Something is distracting your mind, making your strikes half-hearted"
"Raaargh!" Evil Randy said swinging and missing once more. First ninja was easily outmanoeuvring Evil Randy and that got on his nerves.
"Every strike, every swing gets weaker" First ninja said continuing his mental games while simultaneously besting Evil Randy in sword play.
"Shut up!" Evil Randy roared trying to tune First ninja out. He clumsily made a powerful swing downwards that First ninja easily side stepped and placed his foot on the blade.
"Your weakness is caused by your doubt" First ninja said. "And your doubt is caused by you realizing your mission is wrong"
First ninja struck at Evil Randy's blade, shattering it. Everything moved in slow motion as First ninjas words coursed through his mind, and how they angered him so. He was in the right, what he was doing was for the good of everyone but they all refused to see that. He snatched a piece of his shattered blade from mid-air and attempted to stab first ninja with it. Unfortunately First ninja saw that from a mile away and caught Evil Randy's arm and flipped him quite a distance away.
Evil Randy grunted as he got up. He threw the blade shard away and raised his arms in a martial arts stance.
"Oh? Getting serious are we?" First ninja said mockingly, playing on Evil Randy unstable emotions. He threw down his sword as well and adopted a stance of his own. "Finally"
Evil Randy roared a battle cry as their fists met.
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Henry was left disoriented by yet another timeskip, he was outside looking through the window to someone's house, that someone being Randy. Randy looked to be in his 30's, He was bigger, broader and sporting a small beard. Around him were all of his friends, including his wife Theresa and his best friend Howard. They were there celebrating his birthday, the decorations and cake gave that away. 'Alright time to wake him up from this fantasy' Henry thought as he tried to phase through the wall, key word being tried, as he was unable.
"No!" Henry said, as he desperately tried to phase through the window, walls and even roof. Suddenly he felt a large earthquake that no one else seemed to notice but him, from behind him the world was literally ending. The streets and houses were being swallowed up by a growing darkness that again no one else seemed to notice, he backed up until he was pressed against the window, the darkness did not seem to affect the house.
"It seems he is growing content…" Henry's head snapped in the direction of the new voice. It was one of those old men with the norisu symbol on their clothing, the ones whose faces constantly shifted from one person to another, this one's seemed to shift through wise old men, and if Henry remembered correctly he was at the head of the other members. "He seems to have accepted this world as his own"
Henry was about to say something when he heard new voices enter the room where Randy's party was being held. Two kids had entered, a boy who looked 14 or older and a little girl who looked 5, they each gave Randy a big hug and told him a happy birthday. Henry stopped and scrunched up his eyebrows.
"Dad!" The little girl said. "Something coooool happened to me n' Kyle today!"
"Oh really?" Randy said in a hearty laugh. "Kyle, did you and Rylee get into trouble today?"
The young Kyle Cunningham rolled his eyes. "No dad, it was something that happened when 'lee and I were going home"
"Yeah! A monster attacked us!" Rylee stated proudly.
"What?!" Randy said in a frightened voice. "How is that cool?! Are you okay?!"
"Dad chill" Kyle said. "She means it was cool because the ninja came and saved us"
Randy sighed and wiped the sweat of his temple. "You kids are going to give you old man a heart attack"
"Seriously Cunningham, you have nothing to worry about" Howard said, seeming to have already dug into the cake despite the fact that they had not even sang 'happy birthday' yet. "The ninja has always kept the town and everyone safe"
"Yeah" Theresa joined in placing a hand on Randy's shoulder. "Every ninja" She said as she winked.
Randy rolled his eyes at his friends and family. "Are we gonna eat some cake or-or Howards already started okay, just amazing, really buddy. So let's get singing!"
Everyone gathered around and began singing happy birthday to Randy. Leaving Randy happy as a clam and Henry as distraught as whatever the opposite of the clam was.
Henry watched as they sand and congratulated Randy. He watched Randy enjoy every moment of it, he watched Randy live a good life. A life not even Henry would leave he could, so now what? Norrisville was doomed that was it, it was over. He failed.
Randy smiled as his wife asked him to make a wish, as he was about to blow out the candles he noticed the reflection on the glass of one of his family framed photos. It was a boy, with brown hair and pleading eyes, he looked so scared, so trapped in despair. Suddenly Randy remembered feeling like that, seeing himself in that boy, being so scared all the time, he looked around at his family and friends, and he knew that that feeling he has been pushing to the back of his head all these years were right, that none of this was right. He let that feeling take over and suddenly all his memories of came crashing back, all his fear and doubt, but he accepted them, he took them in and remembered everything.
"I can't do this…" He said stunning all his guests.
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Thunder exploded in the sky as rain draped the bodies of the two ninjas. They battled in a furry of fists, each blow powerful, each evasion graceful and every strike held the weight of their mission.
First ninja dodged another blow aimed at his head, he knew he was playing with fire by stirring up Evil Randy's emotions, but it was his best shot at defeating him.
"Does your guilt weigh you down?" First ninja said flipping to evade a powerful kick. "Sloppy. Makes me question whether you were a ninja to begin with"
"Shut your damn mouth!" Evil Randy said, his foot igniting in hot flames. He delivered a wave of fire by swinging his foot vertically. First ninja rolled out of the way the heat nearly burning his arm off, but he had to keep going.
"I've noticed you have quite the anger issues" First ninja taunted fainting a hit that Evil Randy fell for allowing first ninja to deliver a solid kick to his ribs.
Evil Randy grit his teeth losing his patience with this man. He swung wildly at him, with moves easily read by First ninja.
"The thing about rage is, let it be your guide…." With a flash of lightning First ninja had disappeared, stunning and confusing Evil Randy, until he spun around to see First ninja standing there. "…And it will guide you on a blinded path"
First ninja spun and slammed a deadly kick onto Evil Randy's chest, had this been a normal human the impact would have stopped his heart cold, but Evil Randy was not human. Evil Randy fell and slid on the wet earth, he stood up enraged. He raised his fist and shot one of his powerful red airfist's, to which First ninja dodged gracefully as if he were a leaf in a hurricane, Evil Randy continued his onslaught of Air fist's and First ninja continued to dodge with ease. Until finally Evil Randy had enough and blasted a wave of fire to wide to dodge, First ninja gathered the water around him and with a "ninja hydro-hand!" he jumped and placed his water covered hands together in a spear formation causing the flames to divide at where he was standing.
"Is that all you have got?!" First ninja taunted aggressively returning to a stance.
"Hardly!" Evil Randy roared as a mass of black feather released themselves from his body and formed a giant fist the size of a building, suddenly Evil Randy activated his ninja rage and the fist set on fire, he threw his on fist forward causing the giant flaming fist to go on in First ninja's direction.
"Heeeoooooooo booy…"First ninja said his eyes bulging out of his sockets, clearly he had angered his opponent too much, to the point Evil Randy forgot he was supposed to keep his past self alive, if he let that thing pass him it could destroy the school and his allies in it. He shook his head to snap out of it and focused his ninja energy into his fist, the familiar dragon shaped energy appeared as he readied himself. With a loud 'HAAA!' he struck the fist with his own, it pushed him back but he held his ground, he put everything he had and destroyed the giant flaming fist. HE panted as Evil Randy only stood there his face scrunched up in anger.
"Your emotions betray you" First ninja said as he walked towards Evil Randy. Evil Randy was about to retort when realization hit him.
"You're right…" Evil Randy said as he slumped down. This caught First ninja by surprise, perhaps it was not too late for him. First ninja reached out to Evil Randy and Evil Randy let him. First ninja rested his hand on Evil Randy's shoulder, a look of sympathy on his face. Evil Randy's face was that of guilt, which quickly morphed into one of malice. "You are so very right!"
Evil Randy's eyes flashed red for a moment as First ninja felt his head throb with pain for a moment, he staggered backwards clutching his head, the pain faded as he looked upon Evil Randy's grinning face. "What did you do?"
"Art of telepathy, just took a peek at your memories. See I agree with you, emotions do betray us" Evil Randy said as black feathers covered him whole and he emerged from them looking completely different, First ninja was shocked, not at the fact that Evil Randy used art of disguise, but at who he disguised himself as, it was a form too familiar to First ninja. Evil Randy opened his mouth to speak, his eyes shifting to ones of pain. "Brother? Why didn't you save us?"
First ninja eyes looked on in horror as he saw the face of his oldest brother. He had thought he made peace with their demise, but the burning anger in his stomach proved otherwise.
"How dare you!" First ninja said as he angrily charged at Evil Randy. He attacked fury in his eyes, but Evil Randy just laughed maniacally, dodging every move, and with every dodge he transformed into a different brother. "Stop it!"
"All that gloating about your training and it still wasn't enough to save them was it?" Evil Randy continued, dodging one of First ninja's swings and delivering a sharp backhand. First ninja staggered as Evil Randy continued to shift forms. "You are so smug you know that? Despite all your lecturing you can't seem to see how alike we are"
"I am nothing like you!" First ninja sneered.
"Oh really?" Evil Randy said changing back to his original form. "We're both soldiers. We're both the only people who knew that sacrifice was needed to make a better world"
"Those lives were not yours to sacrifice!" First ninja spat angrily, referring to Howard, the future nomicon and the people lost in Evil Randy's battle with the sorcerer.
"And plop-plop was yours?" Evil Randy shot back, transforming into plop-plop.
"W-what?" First ninja questioned, frightened.
"You sentenced him to an eternity of watching that ball" Evil Randy said. "Sounds like a sacrifice to me"
"N-no I, I never meant, I thought—"First ninja could barely finish his sentence. Before Plop-plops face twisted to one of evil intent. Suddenly still in the form of First ninjas squire he shot an airfist directly at Frist ninja.
First ninja's eyes bulged as he realized what was happening, the air fist nearly hit him straight in the gut. But surprisingly he caught it, he held the wild energy in his palms, fighting to keep it controlled. He yelled in exertion as he was able to hold it in his palms, he moved his hands to redirect the wild air energy back at Evil Randy. Just as he was about to release, he hesitated as he looked at the sad and frightened eyes of his once trusty squire, he bit his lip and fired the airfist away to his right. Evil Randy took advantage of the opportunity and used his commit sprint to ram into First ninja with his shoulder sending Frist ninja flying.
"Pathetic" Evil Randy said as he transformed back into his original form. "I guess there is one main difference between you and me…"
He stepped on First ninjas arm. "I'm willing to do what has to be done"
With a crack and a howl of pain, Evil Randy broke First ninjas arm. Evil Randy only starred at ninja prime with contempt, he walked away towards the school.
"You used to be a hero…" First ninja said lying on the ground, still in pain. "What happened to that?"
As the rain stopped, Evil randy did not turn back. "I realized the world didn't need a hero…It needed something else"
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"…I can't do this" Randy repeated, his guests and Henry staring at him in confusion. "I can't keep this up…"
"Bro? What are you talking about?" Howard questioned.
"You're not…" Randy bit his lip. "…Real. Any of you, any of this"
"Randy what are you talking about?" Theresa asked.
Randy stood and walked over to Howard, his wife and kids. He stared at them, making sure his eyes met with each of theirs.
"This is all I ever wanted, all of this…" Randy said looking around him then settling back on them. "All of you"
"Dad you're scarring me" Rylee said hiding behind her mom.
"No no no. I would never want to scare you" Randy said patting her head. "But, I have another family, another norrisville, and…You're not real"
Randy began to break down and cry. "All I wanted to do was make it this far. To reach this far in my life and still be safe, but if I do that I'm trading in Norrisville for what I want, and I can't do that I'm sorry"
He hugged Howard, Theresa and his kids tight. "I'm so sorry"
"Are you sure?" Randy turned his head to see a man wearing Japanese clothes with the norisu symbol on them. The man's face constantly changed, and accompanying him was Henry. "This could be your only chance at peace, at safety…..Are you willing to give that up?"
"If…"Randy said, seeming to have changed back to his 14 year old self once again. "If I did that, I'd just be trading in norissville's safety so I could have mine"
The man smiled and nodded. The world turned to blackness, Henry, Randy and the old man floating in the darkness. "You passed. Give me your hand"
Randy di as he was told, the old man gripped it and Randy felt something burn into his palm, but for whatever reason it did not hurt. Randy looked at his palm, the norisu symbol burned on to it.
"Perhaps, this new generation of ninja is worthy of the title norisu after all" The old man said. "You best be going"
The man disappeared, scaring both Randy and Henry. But that left Randy and Henry with a problem, how the juice were they supposed to get home?
"Great how the heck do we get out of this place?" Randy said. "On a different note how'd it feel to be a ghost? Did you have snow white hair and glowing green eyes?"
"Wait…" Henry said, looking at the distance. "I can see a light"
Randy stared at the same direction, but saw nothing. "Um, Are you sure your one good eye isn't going blind too? There's nothing there"
"No, I'm sure of it" Henry said, perhaps, this is what it meant for him to "guide" Randy back. He took Randy's hand. "C'mon"
They sped their way towards the light, knowing they were running out of time.
"Wait not so fast!" Randy complained. "My hand is slipping!"
"Almost there!" Henry said, ignoring him. Randy's hand slipped out of Henry's as he was moving too fast to stop himself from going into the light.
"Oh c'mon!" Henry said angrily.
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Evil Randy stomped into Smith's Metal work shop. Smith tried to do an ambush him with his hammer, but to no avail. Evil Randy slapped smith, sending him flying into the wall and knocking him out.
"Finally!" Evil Randy said as he walked up to the pool where his younger self lay. He bore his fangs as he transformed into a black mass of energy vaguely resembling a human's body. Henry woke up just to see Evil Randy loom over Randy, Henry charged, unfortunately he simply phased through Evil Randy. Evil Randy laughed sharply. "You're too late"
As his body began phasing into Randy, in Evil Randy's mind's eye he saw His younger self, a look of determination and a smug smile. Suddenly Evil Randy was shot back out of Randy's body and reverted back to his tangible form, a lightning fast grip grabbed his neck, and from the pool Randy shot his eyes open, having no pupils his eyes simply glowed a bright white as a mass of black and red energy covered his entire body.
Outside the school First ninja was getting up slowly when the roof to the school broke and something came flying out. With a startled jump First ninja jumped out of the way as Evil Randy landed right next to him, Evil Randy groaned and gripped his jaw. Suddenly First ninja was as if teleported, a football field away from Evil Randy, he turned to see someone holding him and had apparently moved him incredibly fast from right next to Evil Randy to a field away.
"Sorry, It's better if you stay away from that psycho" The ninja said, but he was unlike any other ninja he had ever seen. He seemed to be made of black flowing energy, as if it were black fire, the red lines of the normal suit were there but they crackled with red electricity sparking around his body, his eyes had no pupils and were glowing a warm white light.
"Randy?" First ninja asked, already knowing the answer.
"In the..whatever this uh black energy stuff is that is all over my skin" Randy said beaming, despite not having a visible mouth. He looked at First ninja's broken arm. "Let me get that for you. Ninja art of heal!"
First ninjas arm was good as new as First ninja nodded at Randy and Randy nodded back. Randy stared at Evil Randy then he walked closer, to face his opponent, to end all of this.
"So you got another power up, big deal" Evil Randy said. "It'll still all be for nothing when I posses—"
"The do it" Randy interrupted.
"What?"
"Do it. Possess me "
"Are-are you for real"
"Yes" The black energy covering Randy's head seemed to dissolve into the air, revealing his head and blue eyes. "Try and possess me"
Evil Randy wasted no time turning attempting to possess Randy, but the second he made contact he was shot back out just like that.
"NO!" Evil Randy said losing it, as he tried again and again. "NO!NO!NO! I WAS SO CLOSE!NO!"
"I realized what you were trying to do" Randy explained. "You knew, I could beat possession, you knew my mind was strong enough, after all you beat the tengu's possession, so why couldn't I beat yours? So you tried to drive my fear, you tried to make me give into the fear, to give up. But I'm not going to do that, I'm not the same as you"
The intense anger on Evil Randy's face confirmed Randy's hypothesis. To Randy this was sad, his future self had fallen so far that he thought he knew his past self would give up and lose all hope. But in a lot of ways it was also Evil Randy's arrival that reminded Randy of why he should never give up.
"I could have saved the world…" Evil Randy said slumping down to his knees. "I could have…"
"You didn't want to save the world" Randy said softly. "You wanted to create a new world…"
Evil Randy stared at Randy his eyes unable to settle on either anger or sadness.
"You keep saying you're doing this for the world, but that isn't true" Randy continued. "You wanted a world where you were safe, a world where you would never be vulnerable again, and you were willing to force the world into becoming that. But it doesn't work that way, it can't work that way, because you turn into the very thing you wanted to be safe from in the first place"
Evil Randy just kneeled there in silence for a moment, then he stared at Randy defiance in his eyes.
"I came so far, I sacrificed so much for this" His voice steadily growing in intensity. "And you made that all in vain…"
Randy squinted unsure at him, the black mass of energy covered Randy's face once again as if it was sensing danger.
"YOU TOOK THAT FROM ME!" Evil Randy roared as he moved faster than lightning, he slammed into Randy with his shoulder sending Randy flying and skipping a couple of times on the ground, each skip created a mini crater.
"Maybe you're right, maybe I do want that world! "Evil Randy spat as he marched forward. "And if I don't get my world then no one can have theirs!"
Randy shook his head, trying to snap out of the disorientation. He noticed the small pebbles levitating around him 'huh? Maybe…' he thought to himself.
"Just so we're clear…" Evil Randy said his face and forearms adopting their black feathers, his face being covered once again in paint that resembled the tengu's mask. His wings emerged from his back and his eyes glowed blood red. "I'm going to kill them and then…I'm going to kill you!"
Randy stared at him in shock. "But won't you?-"
"I DON'T CARE!" Evil Randy roared.
Randy put on his game face, he stood and amazingly he began to levitate a few feet of the ground. "You're a monster, and I'm going to stop you"
"You're going to try"
Both Randy's charged at each other, they clashed creating an explosion of force and air that blew them both away from each other. The final battle had begun.
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