Kate's POV

Marc walks over to me, "Do you have anything to say to the weakling my dear?"

"No, I'd rather not even look at him. I'll be on the side of the stage to watch the execution." He grabs my arm before I can walk away.

"Are you sure you don't want to say anything to the runt before he is gone forever? I mean, you were his prisoner Kate." I just stare at Marc, then I look over at Randy still in the chair with the pillowcase over his head.

I finally say to Marc, "Actually, I would like to say something to him. But I would like to say it alone. Could I please have some privacy?" Marc thinks for a while. Then he says that I could talk to Randy alone. Marc walks backstage and now it was just Randy and I. I walk over to Randy and whisper to him, "Hey, are you okay?" He flinches; he was probably surprised that I was still alive.

"Kate how did you-" I tell him he needs to be quiet and that I would explain later. "If there is a later; Marcs about to kill me in front everyone in Norrisville. I'm sure that I won't be able to survive this one."

"Don't worry; I have a plan. I'm going to get us out of here. Just hang tight." I wrap things up with Randy and walk backstage. I run into Howard who was being walked around by a guard. I was going to tell him the plan, but I was afraid that the guard would have heard me. I look all over the place to find Marc, but he was nowhere to be found. He must be getting ready on stage. I walk to the side of the stage, and sure enough he was there. I give him a menacing grin and thumbs up. And the curtains begin to open.

Randy's POV

I hear people cheering and yelling, "Who is it? Take the sack off his head!" The curtains must have opened; I hope that Kate knows what she's doing. Whatever plan she's got, it better work; because if not then Kate and I will both be executed tonight. I hear Mac's voice now, "Hello fellow followers, as you know; we have finally captured the ninja. And that he will soon be paid for what he has caused us. Pain! Sorrow! Suffering! Ladies and gentlemen, here is the ninja!" The sack over my head is ripped off, I find myself looking at all of Norrisville. The room was silent; everyone had their mouths open in shock. Then, I hear people whisper among themselves saying stuff like, "Isn't that Randy from high school? He's the ninja? This must be some mistake." I look to my left to see Mac looking out to the crowd with delight in his face. I look to my right to see Marc with a knife in his right hand with a smirk on his face. I look to my left again to see Kate on the side of the stage. I try to mouth something to her, but she walked away before I could tell her. "Does anyone know who this young boy is? Please raise your hand if you do." Thousands raise their hands, "Well, as you can see, this boy was not what he seemed to be. He was keeping a secret from all of you, probably the biggest one. Now, before we end the ninja's life, would anyone like to say anything to him?" Nothing. No one bothers to say anything to me. "Very well." Mac turns and looks to Marc and backs away.

Marc turns the chair so that I am facing him. He mutters to me, "I'm going to enjoy sucking the life out of you!" I feel I sharp pain in my gut. I ache in pain; I try not to scream and try not to show mercy. I hear some of the people in the crowd gasp in horror. Before Marc can stab me again, I see the NINJA come out of nowhere.

The crowd is now confused and angry, "Hey, he's not the ninja. The ninja is right there. You were about to kill an innocent boy!"

Marc tries to explain to the crowd while the ninja cuts off my handcuffs. Howard comes running on the stage to help me get up. "Just hang tight bro; the ninja's going to get us out of here." The ninja kicks off every guard that tries to come up to Howard and me. When we finally get outside, the ninja picks me up and carries me. The ninja runs all the way to my house. I'm feeling week, I feel like I'm going to die at any moment now. The ninja lays me down on the couch, I see Howard right behind the ninja looking down at me.

"What-what's going on? Where's Katy?" The ninja heals me by wrapping my wound up in bandages.

"Randy, it's going to be okay." The ninja takes the mask off. "I'm right here." It was Katy. We all made it out alive. We're still alive.

I smile at Katy, "Thank you Katy. You saved us." I black ot.

Howard's POV

"Katy, is he going to be okay?" I can't believe that we went from meeting the new girl who my best bro fell in love with; to trying to survive while we're wanted by all of Norrisville. And now Randy's hurt.

"He's going to be okay. He may need to stay in bed for a while." She pauses, "You know Howard, things are going to change for us."

"What do you mean Katy?" She looks at me.

"Before Marcus left us and told Mac about Randy, I asked Randy if he could keep a promise for me."

"Yeah and?"

"And, well today Howard. We can't let Randy know that the ninja who saved him was me. I don't want him to think that I put the mask on just to feel the intensity of it. Please Howard, promise you won't tell Randy about this. If he thinks that it was me, just say that the ninja saved us, got us out of there, and left the mask behind before we could see who it was."

I don't think that Randy would mind that Katy saved him. He just saw Katy take the mask off. I guess I could just say that he thought he saw Katy take the mask off. I'll come up with something. "I promise Katy." She smile at me, boy she really does have blue eyes. Randy always talked about her before they started dating. He always told me about her eyes, how that if you look right into them you feel the urge to just do whatever she said. Like you were under a spell or something. That's just wonk. It's not true. I'm looking right into them, and I don't feel the urge to do whatever she says to do.

I think that maybe I should tell Katy about her mom. I've been keeping it from her for so long. She deserves to know about it. "Um, Katy. I need to tell you something, it's about your mom." Her bright smile turns into a depressing frown. I tell her about her mom and all about how I knew McFist did it. She looks at the ground when I finish telling her the whole story. Tears drip from her face and onto the floor. I put my hand on her shoulder, "I'm really sorry Katy, I wanted to tell you before. I just didn't know when the right time was to. The last thing I want to do is hurt you or Randy." She hugs me real tight. Youch! I feel like I'm being suffocated. This must be how Randy feels when Katy hugs him.

"Thank you Howard for telling me how my mother died."

"You're not mad or anything?"

She pulls away from me with tears of joy in her face, "Mad! I'm happy! Howard, because of you, my mother can rest in peace. I don't have to worry about who my mother's killers are anymore. You helped me Howard. Thank you." She gives me another hug; this time I hug her back. I guess she was right; I kind of did bring peace to her mother.

"Katy, do you think that Randy is ever going to want to put the mask on after all this?"

"I hope so. Things are starting to get out of hand, so he's going to need to take the Sorcerer down soon so we can all go back to the way things are." We both look down at Randy. Then I remember about when he goes into the book. I wonder what it looks like in there. Like what does he do when he goes in there? Well, I'm sure that whatever it is that goes on in there, is for the ninja's eye's only. Not mine.