When Howard and I get back to the hideout, I notice that Marcus is no longer there. Shweet, now I don't have to worry about Marcus figuring out I'm the ninja. But I don't see Kate anywhere. I look around the house and I finally find her in my room crying in a corner. I run over to her, "Kate, what's wrong? Did he hurt you?"
"No, he's gone Randy. He's a Mac follower. He wanted me to become one, I told him I didn't want to and he just broke out. He thought that I liked him and that I wanted to be with him. I think he's going to kill you Randy. I think he's going to kill you first, and then me." I hold her tight trying to calm her down. "I'm so sorry Randy. I'm just so stupid."
"Hey, don't say that. He fooled all of us; none of this is your fault. Just settle down."
She starts to calm down. "You don't understand Randy, he knows who the ninja is. He plans on taking the mask, give the mask to Mac, and kill you. He left his journal." She hands me a brown leather covered small journal. I take it and start to look through it. He had some crazy stuff in here about him, Kate, and me! Saying that he was going to kill me tonight, and ways he would do so. Not only that, but on the last page it said, 'prepare to meet your fate Randy Cunningham 9th grade ninja'! He left that last page for me to read. He knew that I would find it. We need to get out of here as soon as possible. Who knows if Marc even told Mac of our location yet? I'm not taking any risks; I'm getting my friends and I out of here. NOW!
"Kate, pack everything you got. We need to get out of here now!" She jumps up and starts to grab anything that we may need.
I ran down stairs to tell Howard that we needed to get out of here and to pack everything that might be useful. I run in the kitchen to pack our food supply. Chips, pretzels, caned food. Anything. When I am done packing the food, I check on Howard to see if he was okay. He gives me the thumbs up and I give one right back at him. Then I go upstairs to check on Kate. "I'm ready, lets get out of here." We all put our red hooded sweatshirts on and put the hoods over our heads. We walked down the street looking for any place that could be used as a hideout. I couldn't think of any other place but the Game Hole. I tell them that we should stay in the Game Hole. They both agree with me and we head down to Game Hole. When we finally get there, we unpack and head to the junkyard for some mattresses, and just like last time; no charge. We carry the thousand pound mattresses all the way back to Game Hole. "So this is our new home now huh? It's going to be a lot tougher now that Mac knows who we are. We just need to be careful from now on. That means that when we need some more supplies, we go together. We can't leave one another alone for a second. Got it?" Howard and I both nod our heads at Kate. Things are going to change now for the ninja; now when Mac followers are talking about destroying the ninja, they're talking about me.
Howard looks at me, "Cunningham, I think that the ninja needs to retire for a while. A long while." I look at Howard in shock that he would say such a thing.
"But Howard, what if the Nomicon wants to teach me something new that can help me defeat the Sorcerer? I need to be there when it needs to teach me. Please you guys, you know I can't give them up." Howard and Kate look at each other, they both nod to each other. I don't like the look of this.
Kate walks over to me, "Randy, please. We can't risk anyone getting their hands on the mask and book. Who knows what will happen if Mac gets his hand's on them? It's the only way Randy, please; I don't want to make this hard." She looks at me with a sorrow filled face. She was begging me to give up being the ninja and holding the book. "Randy, it's only for a while. You can get them back when we know it's safe."
"No! It's never going to be safe here, look around you. If I don't do something soon, then this is going to be our life from now on. I need to settle things. I just need to hold onto the mask and book for just a little bit longer. Okay?"
They stayed quiet for a while but then they finally say with a surrendered look on their faces, "Okay." Just then, a bunch of people come barging in. Two men grab Howard and hold him by his arms; two other men do the same to me. I look over at Kate to see two other men hand cuffing her hands behind her back.
"What's going on here? Who are you people?" I look forward to see someone coming out from the crowd. It was Mac! "Mac? What are you doing here?"
He looks at me and observes me, "I remember now. You're that nice wad from my campsplosion. Boy oh boy, are you in a pickle now. I hope that you remember that just because you're the ninja now, doesn't mean that you're the right one."
"I am the right one, the Nomicon even said so. The only person that wasn't the right person to be the ninja was you Mac. You're just a shoob!"
"I am too the right person to be the ninja! I suggest you be careful with what you say. Don't forget that I now have your friends." He looks over at Kate. "Is this the girl Marc?" Marcus emerges from the crowd. Howard, Kate, and I all gasp.
Marcus walks over to Kate, "Yes, it is her. Thank you sir. Hello there Kate, I bet you missed me. Don't worry, soon you wont be a prisoner of the ninja."
"Marcus, you and I are never going to have a thing. And I'm not a prisoner of the ninja, you need to let me and my friends go." Kate says to Marcus.
"I would love to let you go Kate, but it seems that I have made a deal with Mac. The deal was that if I lead him to you three, then I could kill the ninja in front of you. And after your precious Randy is dead, you will come running to me." This cant be happening right now. It just can't.
"If you're going to kill Randy, then you're going to have to kill me first Marcus. I'm never letting you lay a hand on my family!" Marcus slaps Kate in the face.
"You shut your mouth missy! You can't do anything as long as you're handcuffed!"
I yell at Marcus to leave Kate alone, "Hey, just leave Kate alone you shoob." He puts all of his attention toward me.
"Ah, and Randy Cunningham. You think that you're so tuff just because you're the ninja. Well look at where you are now. I hope that you're ready to be killed in front of millions. Because I know that I'm going to enjoy it. And it will be the end of your duty of being the ninja!" Howard giggles at hearing Marcus say 'duty' so loudly. Marcus gives Howard an evil glance and Howard shuts up. Marcus walks away and says to Mac, "I'm done chatting with them."
"Take them away." I watch as Howard, and Kate are put in their own sacks. I am finally stuffed into one as well. I blacked out once I heard Mac say; "Today you captured the ninja, tomorrow you shall kill him in front of Norrisville Marcus."
What will happen to Randy and his friends? Will Kate end up getting killed from trying to save Randy? And also, will any of you just speak the truth of what you think of my stories?!