Welcome fans and non fans of Randy Cunningham and welcome to another wonderful and action pack chapter of Randy Cunningham: Secrets behind the Nomicon. Sorry for updating late, but I'm being busy with one of my country's necessary exams. Honestly, I had this finished a week ago but the laptop I used to type this chapter screwed up and only saved half the chapter, but luckily I was able to write every part.
Now I just want to clear some things up. For those who have read Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: The Kunoichi, you'll find the ninja costume that will be revealed in this chapter will have some resemblance to it. But don't think I stole it. I asked the author, KindHeartedJenny if I could use it and she agreed. Special thanks to her.
Now that gone, enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 11: Kimiko Yamamoto: 9th Grade Kunoichi
Howard ran for his life, trying to put distance away from him and the loud footsteps getting louder from behind him. Despite how fast he ran, it seems to be getting closer. Already he could feel the panting breathing of the monster from behind, increasing his fear and causing him to screen.
Unfortunately, the streets were deserted of people; the only living things were Minion chasing Howard. The chase continued and Howard feared more for his life. He couldn't think of anything else, other than running and getting far away from Minion. Eventually, he saw an ally nearby and without thinking ran into it.
When he entered it, Minion followed right behind him. He looked back, saw Minion and continued running, paying no attention to where he was going. Soon, he met contact with a wall.
"Ow!" He cried out and fell to the ground. He groaned from the pain, rubbing his forehead which made contact with the brick wall, "Who the juice sets up a brick wall in an ally, didn't they know that…?"
"GGGRRRR."
"Uh oh." Howard's eyes flew open in fear. Instantly, he got off the ground and turned around to find Minion. The giant mouse was in a pouncing stance, mouth wide open and revealing his big sharp teeth. Howard gulped in fear, nervously stepping backwards from the monster and keeping a fearful face, "Nice, giant mouse thing. I-I-I-I go-oo-t some cheese."
But his words fell on deaf ears as Minion kept coming closer. To make matters worse, as he kept walking backwards, his back met a brick wall. He quivered silently, mentally cursing the guy who set up the brick wall. Because of the brick wall, he couldn't escape from the giant rat.
He watched as Minion came closer and pressed his back against the wall while the rest of his body shook in fear, "I'm too beautiful to die."
"Seriously? Who's been telling you that you big tube of lard."
"What?" He blinked, looking at the giant rat, "Did you just talk?"
The voice sighed, "Not the rat, idiot. Over here."
Howard, though offended, looked up at the top of a fire escape near him and so did Minion. To their utmost shock and surprise, standing at the top was… a ninja? But the Ninja looked different. Unlike the Norrisville Ninja, the ninja looked more feminine with curves to show it. Her Ninja suit looked exactly like the Ninja, except the red stripes were slightly wider than the Ninja, she wore a skirt that went well with her costume, her red scarf blew nicely with the air and her black hair was tied in a pony tail.
"Yamamoto?" Howard stared at the mystery ninja with a confused look.
"Correct, big oaf." She replied, smirking underneath her mask.
Minion growled furiously at her. The same scent he got earlier was coming from Kimiko as well, though in small amounts. He knew about the Ninja, except the Ninja identity and the gender, all he knew is that he found his prey, or that's what he thought.
That instant, Kim felt familiar adrenaline rushing through her. She looked at the giant mouse specifically as he glared at her harshly. When he gave her a monstrously roar, her nose sniffed the bad breath of the monster.
"Ew. That's just schnasty." She gagged through the stink and held back her lunch. Despite that, she leapt off the top and began heading straight down…at Minion's open mouth!
However, she wiped out some purple ball, "If you love stink then you're going to love this. Smoke bombs!" With that said, she threw the balls straight into Minion's open mouth. The moment it entered, Minion began to gag as he felt it enter into his throat. Not long, he felt the bombs exploding, releasing its stink into him and through his closed mouth. It was bad enough that it smelt bad, but it smelt like rotten eyes and he didn't like it! He was a mouse!
While airborne, Kimiko used the distraction and sent a roundhouse kick at his face. The kick was powerful and he was sent through wall, leaving a large hole as his upper side was inside.
"That was awesome!" Howard shouted, throwing his hands to the air. It soon dawned on him what he said as Kim turned to him with her hands on her hips and a smirk underneath her mask. Quickly, he put up an irritated look, "Nah, seen tons of that before."
"Yeah right." She rolled her visible blue eyes at him.
Suddenly, the wall exploded and bricks flew the air. Luckily, Kim and Howard weren't hit, but that didn't stop them from staring at Minion coming out of the building. The giant mouse once again sniffed the air and it led him back to the duo. At first glanced, he growled through his teeth, getting into a pounce to attack.
Quickly, Kimiko got into a defensive stance, "Howard, get out of here I'll…" she looked behind her, to where Howard once stood and found him gone. Then she heard running and looked forward to see him running out of the ally, "Why that son of…"
However, before she could complete her sentence, Minion charged at her and swung its large tail at her. Instantly, all anger at the boy was subsided as she leapt off the ground, forward and avoiding the tail before sending a kick to the eye. As a result, Minion cried out in pain, just enough for Kim land safely on the ground and held three blue balls between her fingers.
"Ninja Cold balls!" she cried out and shot the balls at him. Immediately, he was incased in a block of ice before he could react. Kimiko stood proudly, a proud smirk underneath her mask as she observed her frozen opponent, "Way too easy. Though, I'm curious about something." She walked to the front of the frozen mouse, keeping a skeptic look on her face, "You're a bit different than those the Sorcerer controls, what's the juice is different about you?"
Though her question was rhetorical, her response was cracks breaking through the ice. Wide eyed, she watched as the cracks spread all over the ice within seconds. Soon, the ice burst into tiny pieces, releasing an angry Minion as he roared like a wild beast.
He shifted his sight at Kim and growled directly at her. Knowing the fight was about to continue, she got into a fighting stance, fists ready and feet slightly apart from each other. Immediately, he pounced towards her without any sign of warning. Kim expected this action, but kept herself warning.
Before Minion could come done her, she leapt forward towards him. Her intention was to flip over him, pressing her fingers on his forehead to do this. But when her fingers landed on his forehead as planned, she gasped as images suddenly flooded her mind.
Within each of the images, the Sorcerer was there, showing different emotions of different event. In each of them, he was angry, sad, depressed and mad at something. She could easily guess it was because of the Ninja (Randy) during his duty by stopping his schemes. But what surprised her was the small creature standing next to him, listening to most of plan and other things.
It didn't take a rocket scientist to know the creature. It was a small mouse and from the appearance, she knew the giant rat and the small one were the same. Everything fell into place, but the memory rushed more into her mind. Quickly, she shook them out, feeling a headache creeping in.
Finally out of the trance, she regains herself and did the flip she intended for. She landed across the open side of the alley and turned back to Minion, "So you're the Sorcerer's only friend in the dark and lonely prison? Wow that's just depressing,"
Angered by the comment, Minion shook his head to rid the affect of the trance Kim did by accident. He narrowed his yellow eyes at her, snarling through his teeth and took a deep breathe through his nose. Through his nostrils, an air blast rushed at Kim, before she could react fast, and sent her flying out of the alley. Due to the force, she hit a fire hydrant, which caused it to fly off and water to rush upwards.
Kim let out a soft moan, rubbing the back of her head as she sat up, "Well that was unexpected. Men I've got to stop being so cocky."
A shadow then suddenly covered her. Her eyes went wide as she looked up and saw Minion standing on two legs with a frightening look. Before her mind could clear due to the impact, Minion dive his open mouth at her. Kim found herself frozen to do anything, her eyes looking horrified as he came fast.
However, a tin can flew from the opposite direction and hit Minion's head, just as he was centimeters from consuming Kim's head. The can didn't hurt him, but got his attention as he turned away from Kim. He looked to direction of where it hit him and sniffed a familiar strong scent and growled when his eyes landed on the person.
Across the road, his sight fell on Howard, smiling nervously at him, "Uh…hi."
Minion growled at him and ran towards him.
"Not again!" Howard shouted and ran off, with Minion chasing him from behind.
While they were gone, Kim got off the ground, a bit dumbstruck about the recent incident. Her eyes couldn't believe what she saw or thought it was even possible.
"Howard, saved me?" it was still hard for her to believe. When he left she believed he left her for dead and thought about kicking his butt after dealing with the mouse. Ever
However, a loud familiar scream snapped her back to reality. That instant determination took over as she stood straight. She shot her hand slightly higher to a ledge of a building. Suddenly, a metal chain shot out and with it she swung off the ground, shooting another chain in the air while doing the same thing.
Not long, she came to the sight of the Sorcerer's friend catching up with Howard. She increased her speed, swinging through the air as she got closer. When she was close enough, the chain shot back into her suit as her intention. From above, she landed specifically on Minion's. The giant rat yelped from shock and surprise, halting from chasing Howard.
His attention was drawn to the cause of the sudden pain as he saw Kim and growled at her.
However, Kim didn't show fear as she gave him a daring glare, "You don't frighten me." She suddenly said out of the open, surprising Minion as his eyes flew wide out of confusion.
While the going was good, she held firmly the tip of his tail, mustering of her strength to her hands. Despite her size, she lifted Minion, from his tail and swung across the street, causing him to crash into a store.
"Wow." Howard muttered, staring at Kimiko and the hole in the store, "Did you just do that?"
"Yeah, I'm a lot stronger than I look." She said, her voice clearly sounding confident.
"But isn't Randy the only Ninja, I mean you look like one."
She explained, "There's a lot you don't know about the Ninja, not even Randy. First off, as far as I know, he's the only Ninja in Norrisville and second I'm a Kunoichi, a girl ninja."
Howard paused, a blank look on his face until he just shrugged, "Whatever."
Suddenly, a loud roar came up, catching the attention of the two. They looked to the direction of the roar, which was coming from the direction of the store Minion was thrown into. To Howard's fear and Kim's expectation, Minion was back on his feet, angrier than before.
"Oh c'mon!" he whined and prepared to run again. However, Kim held his back collar, holding him back as she stood with a stern look, "Let me go, Yamamoto!"
"Don't tell me you're scared." She said with a teasing voice.
Howard scoffed as a response, "What? No way." But that changed when Minion began charging towards them. He shrieked in fear, "Okay, I'm scared! Not let go of me!"
"Good." She smirked and turned towards Minion, heading towards them, "Time to disappear. Smoke bomb!" Immediately, almost out of nowhere, she threw her signature violet balls, clouding her and Howard out of sight. By then, Minion leapt and slammed down on where they once stood, but they were already gone.
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From the top of a building, not far from Minion, Kim and Howard peeked through the edge and watched the giant mouse below. Minion seems to be furiously, rapidly looking around him with a snarling look. The two didn't make a sound and carefully move away from the edge.
"Men that was close." Howard muttered and wipes sweat off his fore head, "So how are we going to get Randy? You're obviously not doing any better."
Kim shot a glare at him, "Look I can handle the giant mouse, I'm just thinking ahead. When a Ninja can't beat a formidable foe, he recaps his mistakes in battle and learns from them, both mistakes and the enemy weakness."
"You know what I just head, something about Ninja and learning stuff."
Kim groaned slightly, mentally giving herself a face palm. As much as she wanted to smack him in the head, she needed to keep him safe. Something about the mouse gave her a familiar vibe, but she couldn't put a finger on it.
"Anyway, we shouldn't call Randy, you were right back earlier. Sometimes, I can be ignorant to think over things." She said with a low tone.
"You mean like Randy having a friend?" Howard gave a smirk, perking up his eyebrow.
Seeing this, Kim gave a minor mean glare, "Don't count on it. I have my reasons for that rule." As she continued her voice became lower and saddened "I will admit you were right about the risk I put the past and current Ninja through. It's just that I have faith that they'll be capable to do the right thing. But apparently I was wrong about the Ninja of 1985."
Howard stared at her, really surprise about her. She just confessed some things he never cared about knowing, besides the part that he was right. He very well knew about the ninja she was talking about, considering he nearly killed him some months back. But Howard couldn't help to think that maybe he was wrong about Kim. Maybe.
"Kim, I…" Howard was cut off A the ground they stood on shook violently, "What the juice was that?"
Kim didn't answer as she ran to the edge and so did Howard. They looked down from their view and saw Minion standing close to the building, preparing to shoot an air blast. Already, they could hear people screaming within the building, meaning lives were in danger.
Kim wasted no time and leapt off the top, leaving Howard and dived straight at Minion. She did a flip just as Minion was about to fire and sent a powerful roundhouse kick at his snot. Due to Kim's timely intervention, he fired indirectly at Principal Slimovitz car. At that moment, the principal walked out of a nearby store, holding a bag of groceries and humming a song with a smile on his face. It wasn't long as he walked to his car and that smile disappeared as he came to the sight of his destroyed car.
"No! My poor baby!" he fell to his knees and cried to the heavens, "Whhhhyyyy!"
"Uh, sorry." Kim apologizes sheepishly before she ducked from a claw that swung at her. She somersaulted out of Minion's tail heading towards her and got into a fighting stance, "Alright let's dance."
Immediately, she charged at him and leapt off from the ground, commencing a spinning kick. However, Minion saw it coming and swats his hand at her, knocking her to the ground. She groaned from the impact but got back to her feet. Her first action was cat wheel to the right as Minion tried to snap at her with his huge teeth.
She stood at his side, waiting for him to turn as she had something prepared. Soon enough, he turned and charged her. But with the close space between them, Kim leapt backwards and threw some steel balls, "Kunoichi tripping balls!"
As the balls landed on the ground, Minion stepped on them, unaware of their effect until it was too late. He found it hard to walk, stumbling back and forth as he tried gaining balance. Unfortunately for him, he could and fell stomach-flat to the ground. While he was down, Kim threw a blue ball and it froze his head entirely. However, it was short lived as the ice broke into pieces and Minion roared furiously to the air.
Out of rage, he stood on two legs, like a bear and stumped his front hands down on the ground. The result was a shockwave as it sent rocks towards Kim. Seeing the wave, she quickly jumped high off the ground, avoiding the wave and did a front flip while airborne.
However, this time, Minion was ready and shot a powerful air ball from his mouth and directly at Kim. She was caught off guard, while airborne and was sent flying into an alley.
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Across the street, Howard watched as Kim was blown away. It worried him, which was odd because he hated her. But that didn't stop him from running to her aid. He failed to notice that as he left, a bunch of people formed around, but hiding in places they thought was safe.
"Yamamoto!" he cried out and ran deeper into the alley, "Where the juice are you!"
"Over here!" a muffled voice shouted.
Howard followed the direction the voice and tried to hold back laughter within him at what he saw. He found Kim stuck upper part of her stuck in a trash can while her legs could be seen visibly as it wiggled around to gain freedom.
"Not funny!" Her voice sounded angrier, "Now help me out of here!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, keep your pants on." He walked to her and held her ankles. He let out a small grunt as he pulled hard before he was successful as he held her upside down. Before Kim could say anything, he let go of her ankles, causing her to fall on her butt.
"Thanks." She groaned through her teeth, shooting a glare at Howard.
However, Howard didn't seem to notice, "Yeah, you're welcome. Now how are you going to be the rat…"
Unknown to Howard, Kim wasn't listening to him. Her only thoughts were on the giant rat and the strange vibe she felt from him. It felt so familiar but she couldn't figure out what it was. Howard's words were only muffled, something she never paid any attention to from the boy. But that didn't mean she didn't hear muffled word and a specific one that caught her attention.
Her eyes flew wide in realization as her ears caught something he said, "What did you say?"
"I said Cunningham would…"
She shook her head, "No, almost to the last part."
"Oh, you mean about if it was a stanked dude."
"That's it!" she shrieked and out of excitement, held Howard by the shoulder and looked straight at him, showing her excitement, "This mouse is stanked. I don't know why I didn't figure it out while it was right in my face."
Howard intervened, feeling awkward about their position, "Um, Yamamoto, you're coming too close."
She blushed and smiled sheepishly, "Oh, sorry about that." Swiftly, she removed her hands from his shoulder, took a step back and made a fake cough to get over awkwardness, "Anyway, I've figured out why the mouse is suddenly strong. The Sorcerer gave him what you would call yellow stank. This stank is very different from the ones the ninja has faced because the person or animal allowed this by will or has an inner desire to become one. It also has a side effect of enhancing the person's or animal's temper."
"Then why didn't you know this sooner?! You're the freaking Nomicon!"
Kim blinked, a bit taken back by his anger. She immediately snapped back to normal and yelled back, "I'm no longer that book, okay!" she breathed out her anger, relaxing her nerves, "Anyway, the Sorcerer used this around the time I was ten years old. It's a long story and I won't go over the details."
"Yeah, whatever." Howard shrugged, showing no interest in it.
Suddenly, a loud crash was heard, attracting the two attentions to the entry side of the alley. They saw a big truck thrown over the air along with the sounds of loud sound footsteps getting louder, most likely coming their way.
"Time to end this." With a determined look, Kim brought out two katana from her suit. She wasted no time and ran off, leaving Howard behind, not that he mind anyway.
She came to the open road and came to the sight of devastation. Cars were upside down, some of them already burnt to a crisp. The street lights were thrown off the ground and lay either on the ground or stuck into a wall. But that didn't take her attention, it was Minion, the one that stood before her that took her attention.
Taking a few deep breathes, she shot Minion her determined eyes, "Let's do this, thrash picker." Suddenly mist of sand began to circle around her, "Stay on the ground, do not waver. The dirt itself will pay you a favor. To stop your foes and hold them back, harness the soil for the earth attack."
Once she finished, the sand mist spread to her side, forming almost perfect duplicates of her. The only difference was that they looked like living sand Kunoichi.
The swirling sand mist cleared completely, revealing the Kunjays standing next to Kim. Once this was done, Kim drew her sword forward.
"Attack!" she commanded.
The Kunjays obeyed and ran into action. Minion saw them coming and got on two legs, a better way to show strength. He looked down on them and began to fire air blasts, but with minimum success. The Kunjays, still running, were able to avoid being hit.
The front Kunjays ran faster than the other, a plan already formed. Minion tried blasting them with his air blasts, but with no success. The two Kunjays came closer and swiftly slides between his legs, confusing the giant mouse.
Confused, Minion looked down between his legs, unaware of the next attack. It wasn't until he heard fast footsteps and looked forward to find the two remaining Kunjays coming. Before he could react fast, the two jumped forward and sent a powerful kick at his stomach.
Due to the combined attack, Minion stumbled but still kept his stand. He went back to all fours, more furious than before and began sending shooting at the Kunjays. But it was futile as they were too quick to be hit. When one stood close, he would pounce of it, only for it to have avoided the attack.
The longer the fight continued, the more Minion grew frustrated. The Kunjays were too quick to hit and it was beginning to annoy him. During the battle, the Kunjays were able to separate themselves around him. Minion noticed this and soon began to shoot at them, but as the Kunjays avoided the attacks, his air blasts destroyed anything that remained including Principal Slimovitz car.
"NOOO!" cried the principal for his beloved car.
However, no one paid attention to him. The duplicate Kunjays continued their tactic, avoiding the attack and in during so making Minion to fight without thinking. All the Kunjays were linked to the original that summoned them and shared the same mind. Any order they were given, they were simply to obey since they couldn't think for themselves.
The battle continued as Minion, out of frustration, turned at one Kunjay at his right and shot an air blast. But as expected, it leapt out of the blast way. Minion was so frustrated on which one to hit that he was unaware of something until it was too late.
The moment he turned to the right, he came face a sharp sword directly at his nose. His eyes flew wide in shock and narrowed to who the sword belong to.
"Hi." Kim gave a small wave with her other hand and pierced the katana into his snot.
That instant, like a geyser erupting, the yellow stank flew out. Minion cried out and pulled his head up as the flow of stank continued. It didn't hurt, but he felt the power within him leaving. He tried plugging it but it flowed out anyway. It wasn't long until his size began to decrease until he was back to his original small animal self.
He squeaked in sad defeat, but then notices a large shadow over him. In fear, he gulped, already knowing who it was before he looked up. A hand wrapped around him tightly and pulled him off the ground and directly to a victorious Kim.
"Well, look who's the small one now." Kim glared straight at the frightened mouse.
He squeaked in further fear as his body shivered. There were a lot of things Kim could do to him that would be worse than death. Unfortunately, he couldn't do anything but hope she'll be merciful with the torture she would give him. As the grip on him tightened he closed his eyes.
But the next thing he knew, he fell to the ground on his butt. Startled that he was still in one piece, he looked up at Kim with a confused look.
Kim could see his curiosity and gave him as much as a stern look she could give from her mask, "I have no reason to hold you or kill you, considering I'm a lover of animals. But I do have something to tell you." To look him in the face, she crouched down, "Tell the Sorcerer that no matter how much he tries, he will lose like the pathetic old man he is, got that?"
Minion squeaked in response and nodded.
"Now leave!" she shot her hand at the opposite road, a direction that leads to the school. Minion quickly complied, satisfied that he was alive to live another day and never face the Kunoichi. Kim watched him leave, standing back up straight with a sigh of relief that released her stress.
She was suddenly startled when she heard clapping. Already people were forming around her, clapping and cheering towards her. Her mask hid her startled face, except her eyes, but yet something she was glad no one could see. She had never been praised like this before, at least not for centuries.
"Smoke bomb! Smoke bomb." The crowd began to chant, pumping their fists above them,
She felt embarrassed to do their request, since she had been against it when she was the Ninja Nomicon. She wanted to reject it and walk away, but the daring and excited faces of the crowd, made her to think otherwise.
A proud grin crept underneath her mask as she made up her mind
"Smoke bomb!" as she shouted, she threw the red balls before her, covering her in a purple cloud. The crowd was silent, especially waiting for the cloud to clear. When it did, they all let out a huge cheer. Another ninja was in town and it's a Kunoichi.
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However, underneath the Norrisville High school and deep within the earth, a lone evil wasn't happy. His rage could be heard, even in the school which was thankfully deserted at the time.
In his prison, the Sorcerer paced as much as he could with the chains restraining him. The least thing that annoyed him was the clinging sounds that they made every time he moved. Minion stood a few meters away from him, waiting for Sorcerer's next response.
After his battle with the Kunoichi, he did as ordered and told Sorcerer everything. The news of his defeat didn't upset him, since he counted on Minion to lose, but it was who that beat him. Instantly, he cried out in rage again, this time eyes beaming and panting furiously.
Finally, he came to a stop and looked down at Minion, "Everything was going wonderful until she gained freedom once more. She was already a pest in the past and now she's become a thorn at my side. Why couldn't she have stayed as that stupid book? But I guess I should blame myself. No matter…" he crouched down at Minion and gave a grinned with his yellow eyes giving a flash, "I'm just one step closer. Thank you, Minion."
The chains holding him were rusted more than the last time Minion left. The golden color on it was also beginning to fade, though not too much. The battle between Kim and Minion had caused so much destruction that the Sorcerer scents it from his lonely prison. The funny part is that Kim is unaware.
He felt overjoyed and got off from the ground. The urge to let out an evil laugh couldn't be held and soon he began to laugh evilly.
"C'mon laugh with me." Sorcerer said and continued to laugh.
Minion stared at him, confused. He shrugged it off and began to laugh with his squeaky animal voice. They both continued, their voices echoing through the prison and also into the school.
"Okay that's enough!" He yelled as Minion opposed his evil laugh.
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Meanwhile, across the town, Theresa and Randy stepped out of the Cinema and were talking about the movie they saw. Theresa was more interested in the romance while Randy loved the action and the butt whooping from the ghost halfa. The small talk about the movie soon turned to a friendly debate about which genre in the movie was better, romance or action.
"Admit it, Randy. When Sam and Danny kissed before he flew off into the time field was a lot better." Theresa sighed with dreamy eyes as she stared at Randy.
Randy chuckled, "Yeah, right." He said sarcastically as he continued, "Clearly you missed the part that he used his ghostly wail against that time villain –what was his name, Clockwork?"
"No, that wasn't him. That's Danny's ally. The guy you're thinking about is Eon." Theresa corrected him, "But I'll admit the final fight was…" She was interrupted as both of them caught a sight of a small crowd gathering around a TV store, watching through the multiple screens at the display.
"What's going on?" Randy asked, confused.
Theresa merely shrugged before walking into the small crowd, with Randy following from behind. The crowd wasn't too much, though both of them had to squeeze through before standing before the display. On the multiple TVs, an anchor was reporting a recent event. Usually, this would bore Randy and Theresa to death, but the reported news was important.
"In recent news, Manistry Street was attacked by a monster mouse. According to a witness, the entire block was sent into panic and the area was left in devastation, luckily no life was harm. But believe it or not we have a female ninja to the rescue. She was seen battling…"
As the news continued, Theresa was surprised at the news and turned to Randy, "Wow, Randy can you…Randy?" When she looked to her right, she was expecting Randy to be there with the same expression as her. But he was gone, like he wasn't even there.
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"Smoke bomb!" In a cloud of red dust, the Norrisville Ninja appeared in a fighting stance as he held his katana firmly, "Alright, giant rat thing prepare to face…" He stopped in his track of words as he finally observed the destroyed area, "Okay, what the juice just happened?"
When Randy heard the news with Theresa he was frozen in shock that he didn't hear the news. As soon as he regained himself, he ran out of the crowd, though regretting leaving Theresa behind without telling. But he had Ninja duties and those duties come before anything else. He hid behind a trashcan and from there wore the mask, allowing the suit and power form around him. With that he smoke bomb out of there.
He stared at the devastion, wide eyed and shocked about it. Was he too late?
"Hey, Ninja. There you are." said a familiar voice. Randy turned to source and saw Howard running towards him.
"Howard, what happened here?"
Howard came to a halt, an excited grin on his face, "I'll tell you what happened! Yamamoto kicked butt!"
"Wait, what?" Randy shook his head, startled by the sudden news.
Before Howard could continue, a familiar female voice intervened, "You heard him. I kicked butt."
Both boys stared at each other, confused, before turning to the source of the voice. Walking towards them, Kimiko approached them, as her normal Japanese self.
"Um…hi." Randy smiled sheepishly, knowing would be furious about earlier. But strangely she didn't look angry. Randy didn't know if she was masking it or wasn't bothered.
"Howard, can you leave me alone with Randy?" Kim asked.
Despite their bonding earlier, Howard didn't find any reason to trust her next to Randy. If this was a plan to yell at Randy he wasn't going to allow that to happen.
"Now why would I do that?" Howard folded his hands as he stared at her stubbornly.
"Because a candy store just a block away from here and is giving free candy."
At the mention of candy, Howard's eyes flew wide, "Bye, Randy." He said in a rush tone and ran off, leaving a dust cloud in his place.
Randy coughed from the dust cloud, slightly offended that Howard picked candy over him. Well, he couldn't blame him, candy was the fat kid's weakness and despite Kim only being in existence in her human form for weeks; she already knew that weakness.
The streets were deserted of people, leaving only Kim and the Ninja standing. After the fight, people were relocated to different homes until reconstruction could be made by the town's beloved 'hero', Hannibal Mcfist.
As the silence between the two continued, Kim sighed, breaking the silence, "Look, Randy, I know you expect that I'm going to yell at you about skipping training, but I won't."
"Wait, why?" Randy asked, then shook his head, "Not that I don't appreciate it."
Kim remained quiet to respond until she stood five feet from Randy. The frown on her face made Randy know that she was going to say something that might be bad, "I understand that you went on your date with Theresa but you should have had the guts of telling me. Yeah, I would be mad but at least you could have showed boldness and defended yourself, instead of relying on Howard to lock me in a closet."
"Howard locked you in a closet?"
"Yeah." She nodded, "For a second I thought I saw a yellow sponge in square pants offering friendship." She shook her head to get rid of the bad memory, she blamed the TV for this, "Anyway, the point is that I would have to punish you."
At the mention of punish, Randy bit in lower lip in nervousness as his eyes dropped to the ground, "I guess I deserve that… so what will it be."
"No training for the rest of this week."
"Say what?" Randy perked his face back at Kim, in the mixture of confusion and excitement, "That likely doesn't sound like a punishment." The sooner he said this, he realized what he said and mentally face palmed himself.
Kim noticed and fought the urge to smirk and explained, "The purpose of training is to make us stronger to face our foes, both in the past and future's plan. Even the littlest of training is required for the Ninja; you can't always rely on the suit. It gives you the skills to fight, but it's the wearer who must convert this ability to greater heights."
"I understand, but can I ask you something?" Randy asked, something in his mind he recently discovered to being bothering him.
"Yeah."
"Why did you choose me as the ninja?"
Kim remained silent as she shifted her eyes from making contact with Randy, "Time will tell." With that said, she began to walk away, leaving a confused and slightly depressed Randy behind.
As she left, Howard approached Randy while carrying large bag of candy in both his hand, "Hey, Ninja look what I got."
Randy wanted to say something, anything at least to clear his mind on the subject. But the truth was that he couldn't find what to say. Now he found himself troubled by the question he had forgotten a long time ago until no.
"Maybe another time, Howard." He sighed to himself, too confused to think about anything. He didn't even bother shouting his usual trademark as he threw it on the ground, causing a cloud of red mist to cover.
As the smoke bomb cleared, Howard stared at it, confused by Randy's behavior. It then dawned on him why and growled through his teeth, since he couldn't give himself a face palm as he held his bag of candy. Either way he knew Kim was the cause and was going to fix it.
Howard sniffed his candy and smiled at the sweet aroma, "That is right after I'm done with this."
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Finally, I'm done with this chapter. I'm sorry if the part between Randy and Kim might not be the best, I have a slight cold when I typed the scene down, but I'll be fine soon.
Anyway, you got it right if you are thinking the same thing, the next chapter will contain a depressed Randy. Also, I would like to apologize for making or offending any Minion fans by Minion's act. I also like the mouse and that's why I had him in this chapter. Along with that can you guess the three Nickelodeon shows (which I don't own) that were referenced?
The next chapter will contain something special that will have to do with one of the previous Ninja Kim talked about. Can you guess who it is?
Also, if by any chance you're wondering how this story will go with the show showing some secrets of its own, like the Sorceress, then keep reading. This story will make reference to them until the extent that I'll have to alter some things that might be revealed in the show itself and I can't find a way. But I promise it will be awesome or should I say THE CHEESE!
Until the next chapter, please send you comments and if you have any questions PM me and I'll be happy to answer them as much as I can.