I look around my environment, there's really nothing much. It looks just like Viceroy's lab just a little smaller. I look over at the view window, someone was driving the craft. But who? I hear a voice come from the driver seat. "I'm sorry I had to do this. If I don't, I'll lose my job." Viceroy? Was it really him? I thought that after McFist kidnapped me the first time he was scared off.
"If you feel so guilty about doing this to me, then why don't you just let me go?" I ask Viceroy.
"I just can't. Now please stop talking. I don't want to feel even guiltier for what I'm doing. Once I hand you over to McFist, it'll all be over." I stop talking for the rest of the ride, before I leave the craft I say something to Viceroy.
"Viceroy, I'll forgive you after all of this. If I survive, I'll forgive you." I see his head lift up only slightly. And I am taken from out of the craft and am now in McFist industries. The robo-apes walk me down the stair well and into the basement. In the basement, there are a bunch of cells all around the room. The robo-apes put me in them one that is all the way in the back of the basement. They push me in the cell and lock the door. I grab onto the bars and stand there watching the robo-apes walk up the stairs. "It's over. It's all over. I failed Norrisville. I failed Howard and Katy. I failed the Nomicon. What have I done?" I walk over in a dark corner, sit down and put my head in my arms. It was only a matter of time Norrisville would be swarming with monsters. And it's all my fault. The Sorcerer would come for me, and keep me as his prisoner. Soon he would come to get his revenge.
Kaitlin's POV
"Howard, we have to save Randy." I look over at Howard who was in shock of seeing his best friend getting kidnapped.
"Follow me, we can't face McFist without being armed." I follow Howard; he leads me to Randy's house. We run into the backyard and up into a tree house. "Here, you're definitely going to need this." He hands me a long sword, I take it and look around the tree house. There was a wall of nun-chucks and chain sickles. I grab the nun-chucks. I look over at Howard to see if he is ready. He gives me the okay and we both begin to walk down the tree house, and head to McFist Industries.
Howard's POV
I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to try and help Randy. I mean, he's gotten out of situations like this all the time. But then again, McFist does know who the ninja is now. So he can look up on Randy's weakness's and use the against him. I look at Katy to see that she has a worried look on her face. I say to her, "Katy, he's going to be okay. We're going to get Randy back. You don't need to worry."
"I know, it's just. This is all my fault. If I hadn't agreed to work with McFist, none of this would have happened. None of it. I just hope that Randy hangs in there."
"We better get going, McFist industries is right around the corner." We begin to run to the industry. When we get there, I try to think of a way to get inside. OW! My brain hurts, is this what it feels like when you think?
"Howard, over here. It's another one of those tunnels that lead into the basement." I walk over to Katy and we go inside the tunnel. We're crawling through for ten minutes, when finally we come to the basement. When we look stand up in the hole, I see Randy sitting in a cell sitting down with his head in his arms.
"Cunningham!"
Randy's POV
"Howard? Kaitlin? Oh man am I glad to see you guys. You guys got to get me out of here."
"What the juice do you think we came here for, hot dogs?" Says Howard. I look and see Katy with a sword in her hand, and nun-chucks attached to her belt. I guess Howard showed Katy our tree house of weaponry.
"Sorry, look you guys better hurry up and help me out of this cell. McFist or one of the robo-apes will be back down here soon." The two of my friends run over to my cell and Katy tries to pick to the lock.
"I almost got it." The three of us hear footsteps coming down the stairs. "Quick hide, behind the heater over there." I point to the heater over at the far side of the room. Howard and Katy both run to the heater and hid behind it. I run back into my corner and in the same position I was in when I was first put into the cell. I put my head in my arms again and wait. The steps get louder and closer. A voice is finally heard.
"Well, well, well, looks like you're back where we last left off. You defenseless, none of your friends to save you. It's perfect. And let's just say that today is the last day the ninja will ever walk the Earth. The Sorcerer is already beginning to possess the vulnerable. The city will be over run with monsters within an hour. You failed Randy Cunningham. You failed all of Norrisville."
"You think I don't already know that? I was supposed to protect everyone, make sure the Sorcerer stayed in his place. It was the ninja's duty to do so," I hear Howard giggle after I say duty. McFist didn't hear him. "But I have failed this duty. I wasn't the right person to be the ninja, I never was. And now it's because of me that all of Norrisville is doomed." I lift up my head and look at McFist in the eye's. "So now what are you going to do with me?" I see that there are two robo-apes standing behind McFist.
"Well, I'm not going to kill you, that's for sure. I'm simply going to leave you here for the Sorcerer to deal with. You're his problem after he escapes. You'll be out of my skin, and I won't have to see your worthless face ever again." I hear a medal dropping sound over by the heater. The two robo-apes grab Howard and Katy and show them to McFist. "Well it seems the Sorcerer has two more prisoners to torment. Put them in separate cells and un-arm them." The robo-apes take Howard and Katy's weapons and toss them in there own cells. "Enjoy your last hour of being in that cell buy, because once the Sorcerer escapes, you'll wish you'd be back in it." McFist and the two robo-apes walk up the stairs and leave.
"I'm sorry you guys. This is all my fault." I say out loud.
"Don't blame yourself bro. You couldn't do anything; they took the mask from you. You had no way to defend yourself."
"Yeah Randy, if anyone's to blame, it's me. I agreed to work with McFist when I knew it was wrong. If I hadn't agreed to it, we all wouldn't be here."
"Both of you stop blaming yourselves. There was nothing we could do. This all would have happened either way. Some how it would have. Now we need to think of a way to get out of here and save Norrisville." Said Howard as he yelled at Katy and me. Howard was right we needed to get out of the cells and save Norrisville. We sat there for 15 minutes thinking, I saw Howard grab his head a few times like it hurt to think. But we were too late to think of a plan. The ground started to rumble, pieces of small dirt began to fall from the ceiling. How the honk was that possible? A green smoke began to circle around the room. It was the Sorcerer, he was here for me. The Sorcerer's full body was in front of my cell. Look down at me with a big grin.
"Ah, so you're the ninja? The one that I have been trying to destroy for 800 years now. It can't be, I guess that a new ninja is chosen every four years I'm guessing. Well, you're still the ninja, and the first thing I've wanted to do was when I escape was to make the ninja my prisoner, show him how it feels to be locked up for eternity." The Sorcerer turns around to see Katy and Howard standing in their cells in horror. "I see that Hannibal has left me two more prisoners for my pleasure."
"Leave them alone!" I yell at the Sorcerer.
"Or what, you don't have the suit. You're nothing without that suit."
"I'll make you a deal."
"Hm, I do love making deals with. What are you barging for?"
"If you let them go, I'll let you keep me as your prisoner. You can abuse me, do what ever you want with me."
"Randy! No!" My two friends yell. I'd rather never see them again and not get hurt along with me. Than have them become prisoners of the Sorcerer.
"Well well, it seems you are the ninja. Only the ninja would be willing to sacrifice himself for the defenseless. You have your self a deal…Randy." He says my name in a pleased type of tone.
"Just let me say good bye to them real fast and then you can do what ever you want with me. Please." The Sorcerer gives me a disgusted look, but then snaps his fingers and Howard and Katy are now in my cell.
"Make it quick." Katy and Howard run over to me. They both give me a look that I will never forget. Their faces were filled with sorrow and betrayal, with a pinch of something like 'why does it have to end now?' I say good bye to Howard first. He walks up to me with his head down. I put a hand on his shoulder. He looks up at me.
He says to me, "This can't end like this Cunningham. It just can't. How am I going to survive bro? I won't last a second without you."
"Howard, you're going to be okay. Trust me. Just be careful with your emotions and you won't get stanked. And just remember," I lean toward Howard's ear, "The ninja will rise again. Maybe not today, but someday. The ninja will rise again." I move away from Howard's ear. "And Howard, promise me one more thing."
"Yeah Cunningham?"
"Please take care of Katy for me." Howard smiles at me.
"I promise that I'll protect Katy for you Cunningham. Only if you promise me this," I ask him what I promise. "Promise that if we do make out of this alive, you'll play Grave Puncher with me." I nod. We do out signature handshake one last time before it's Katy's turn. Howard walks away to where Katy was standing. Kaitlin walks over to me slowly, when she finally gets to me she stands there for a few seconds and then finally clings onto my body.
"I don't want this to be the end Randy."
"You know that I need to do this. I'd rather you be free then be a prisoner with me."
She giggles while she says, "You're so crazy Randy. That's what I love most about you. You do the craziest of things to protect people."
"Well, that's one of the duties of being the ninja. Besides, you mean too much to me Kaitlin. If you were a prisoner for the Sorcerer for the rest of your life. I wouldn't be able to live with myself." We were both looking into each other's eyes. I tried to take a memory picture of her blue ocean eyes, because I knew that would be the last time I'd see them in person. We give each other one last kiss good-bye. I never wanted that kiss to end. But it had to end at one point. So I pulled Kaitlin away and told her the same thing I told Howard. "You both need each other in order to survive. Don't let your emotions get to you and please take care of Howard for me." Kaitlin nods her head and walks toward Howard. "Oh and Kaitlin, one more thing." She turns around and looks at me, "I love you." She smiles and walks back to Howard. They both wave bye to me and I wish them good luck. The Sorcerer snaps his fingers, and a cloud of green smoke surrounds Howard and Katy. And then they are gone. My friends are now on their own. And now I am on my own as well.