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Randy ran towards Howard who was eating lunch.
"Howard, we've got a problem." He said, pulling his shoulder back.
"Huh, what's that?" He asked.
"The nomicon's locked me out! It never locks me out, well, at least for a reason."
"What?! Has your ninja mask stopped working?" Howard asked.
"I don't think so." He said. Howard looked at him boredly.
"Then I fail to see what the problem is." He took a bite out of his lunch. Randy facepalmed, and slid it down with a bored look.
"Thanks... so much." He said sarcastically, moving away.
"You're welcome." Howard called after him, adding to Randy's irritation. He walked through the halls, anxious and irritated about what was happening with the nomicon. He tried to think about the last thing the nomicon told him.
"Um, it was... something about... the real enemy... Mcfist, right? Or, wait, there was a picture of the sorcerror right...?" He stressed to remember. "Ugh! This is so frustrating!" He groaned out, knowing he could even get into the nomicon to find out what it was. He continued down the hall, glaring at the floor, oblivious to Bash who was around the corner.
"What? Bash should be the only person making anyone frustrated." He stated, getting amped up to pummel some nerd butt. He stalked after Randy in long strides.
"Hey!" He called out after him. "Nerd! I'm here to make all your problems go away, and turn to me!" Randy rolled his eyes, his irritation reaching a peak, on the brink of anger. He turned around smoothly to face the approaching person. A crowd that was dismissed from lunch naturally surrounded to impending fight. Howard was in the midst of that, finishing off a sandwich.
"Whoa, whoa, is that Cunningham?!" He exclaimed, pressing past some passer byers. Randy irritably looked up at Bash as he towered over him. Bash only became angrier as he approached.
"Hey, why isn't this kid scared of me? Am I not scary? Did my mom do my hair or something?" He asked his following friends even though he kept his steely gaze with Randy's eye, matching his glare.
"Why should I be scared of a bully? Can I not stand up for myself? Geez, why are you even bothering me, really? Can't think of anything better to do? Do you think at all?" Randy shot with bullet speed. Bash opened and closed his mouth trying to insert a response somewhere, but soon became flustered in trying to keep up with the questions and all his comebacks. The crowd soon 'oooh-ed' in the space of silence Bash took to think. His glare deepened.
"You say too many things at once. No more talking, now for fighting!" He growled out, swinging his fist back. Randy's eyes darkened, flashing a green before becoming blue again.
"Fine by me." He let out under his breath, as the fist came hurtling towards him. He swiftly side stepped, never removing his stare from Bash. Bash was shocked to have punched air and quickly went to punch with his other hand. Randy bent backwards, as it swung over head. He furiously launched punch after punch, with Randy fluidly dodging them all. He threw one sloppy one and nearly fell over, placing his hands on his knees to catch his breath. Randy bent by his ear.
"My turn." He whispered dangerously. He back up slightly just to allow himself some kicking space, and he roundhouse kicked Bash in the back, before he could even react to the threat, causing Bash to fall forward onto his hands.
"Woah, this nerd is freaky!" Bash yelled out, being helped up by his friends, then ran away from Randy who was still in a fighting stance. He relaxed as he saw his back.
"Aw, no fun. I didn't even get to fight." He pouted. The crowed cheered for him for sticking up to Bash, as Howard ran forward to him. He slapped the pout off his face.
"What, you think you're cute? That fight could have given everyone here the idea that you were the ninja!" Howard scolded. Randy, who kept his head turned in the direction it was slapped, slowly turned it back as Howard stopped talking. His rubbed his cheek slightly then sharply glared at Howard, and Howard dutifully shrunk under his gaze.
"Did you just slap me?" He asked dangerously, his eyes darkening. Howard sweat-dropped.
"uuuh..." Randy leaned over to Howard slightly, and Howard backed up, ready to receive some sort of blow that could possibly kill him or put him out of commission for a while. But a scream from the front of the school stopped whatever twisted idea that was forming in his head. Both their heads turned towards the direction, and Randy's faced to a determined one.
"Someone's in trouble, this looks like a job for the ninja." He smirked. He ran off towards the direction everyone was running from. Howard let out a sigh of relief.
"Something is wrong with Cunningham! He's starting to act really cool!" He ran off to see the fight. Randy made his way to the front of the school, then dove behind a bush to transform into his ninja alter-ego. He jumped out and saw it was a McFist humanoid giant robot, with McFist and Viceroy manning it on the inside of a dome where the head should be.
"McFist, I should have known." He said angrily.
"Really, you really should have. The slave should know when their Master is coming!" McFist yelled back smugly. Viceroy started making some calculations on his Mcfist Pad.
"He'll still have some consciousness left, but you should be able to give him orders at this point, and we'll take the ninja!" Viceroy relayed to Hannible.
"Right, now, the sorcerror needs chaos to become free, let's give him chaos! First, let's show the student body that their beloved ninja is now the enemy!" McFist pressed a button inside the robot that allowed his voice to be amplified to the outside world.
"Ninja!" He shouted in a commanding voice. The ninja stiffened.
'What... What the juice? I can't... move!' He thought while struggling to gain control of his body. McFist sneered at the control he was gaining over the ninja. Howard just made his way to the front of the school, panting and out of breath when he saw the scene.
"Ninja, what are you doing!? Attack him!" Howard wheezed out. Mcfist pointed towards the school.
"Attack!" Randy felt a wave of nausea wash over him, and he found himself losing control of his conciousness and movments. He slowly turned around, all the while struggling to stop the green haze from taking over his vision. Howard gasped as he saw the Ninja's eyes flashing from green to the blue eyes he recognized. The ninja made eye contact with a glare and Howard gasped at the obvious murderous look in his eyes.
"Howard..." He croaked out, as his eyes became fully green. "Run!" He pulled out his sword. Howard gasped, half because his friend was going wonk in the brain, and also because he had to run again! It's too tiring to run! But if Howard valued his life he'd have to run.
Howard ran back inside as the Ninja flipped in through the doors. He ricocheted off the ceiling and landed in front of Howard, brandishing his sword above his head, ready to strike, and Howard, way too tired to do anything else, gave out a short cry of distress and held his hands up in defense. The ninja's face obviously became contorted with concern, and he squeezed his eyes shut and swung. It flew clear over the head of Howard, but without opening his eyes, he turned around with a scarf flourish and bounded down the hall.
Howard peaked his eyes open before collapsing onto the floor from the near death experience.
"This is horrible!" He stated, out of breath, hearing the scared screams of the student body further in the school. "What could have caused this?" Howard thought back to the conversations he's had with Randy all day.
"The Nomicon!" He hissed like the name was a curse. He ran off to find Randy's book bag.
Inside the Nomicon, the figure felt the disturbance that was going on in the Ninja, and he knew he had to get this spell ready quick to help him. He was practically pulling out his hair, when he finally found it.
"Yes! The materialization spell. The Ninja must use the energies to create what is needed..." He read the quick and old notes in an ancient Asian language. He quickly read through what he needed to do to go through with it.
Above the school, the humanoid robot was flying and blasting the school, making more chaos and fear in the school. Through the holes in the ceiling, the two could see the sorcerer at work stanking some students up, and they could see the ninja scare other students as well.
"Alright, soon we'll need to move on and spread the chaos to the rest of Norrisville, and soon the Sorcerer will be set free to reign supreme and give me my reward *under breathe* a well deserve vacation." Viceroy said.
"Alright, let's collect *snicker* our Ninja!" McFist shouted excited. He pressed the same button from before. "Ninja!" The greened-eyed ninja looked up to the voice.
"Let's go." The ninja flipped off the lockers and through the hole in the ceiling, before spinning off the flag pole and vaulting onto the shoulder of the robot. He flew away.
Howard found his way to Randy's locker, and began trying to enter the combination.
"Oh man, I forgot it!" He groaned. He looked around and saw a dislodged pipe laying not too far away. He grabbed it and began beating away at the locker hinges and lock. The door soon fell off.
"Aw, yes!" Howard cheered, before gasping as a person fell out with the door, collapsing on Howard. "Ow, what the heck kid, how'd you get in my friend's locker? Do you even go to this school?" He asked, pushing the lean person off him. As the red head rubbed his head, Howard took in his attire. He had black ninja looking clothes with a cape and a lot of symbols that looked like spiraling squares similar on the nomicon. The insides of his cape had scribbled writing that couldn't really be read, and the front of his shirt had red rings as a design like the front of the nomicon, and just generally red on black clothing.
"Whatever, I don't have time." He said, getting up to rummage through his friend's locker, the kid's strange clothing reminding him of the task at hand.
"Wait, I know you, you're the ninja's friend!" He seemed to seethe. Howard got a shock, and turned around. No one suppose to know that unless they knew Randy was the ninja.
"No, I'm not."
"Yes, you are."
"How do you know that?" He asked, trying to keep the panic off his face.
"Because you're the one that's always telling him not to listen to me." He said, crossing his arms. Howard widened his eyes connecting 2 with two.
"You're... the Nomicon?"
Wow, I'm really late. Sorry! I guess I'll be asking for my 2 weeks notice now! XD
Review! Even though it's late, I worked hard to make the chapter good for you.