Hey, thanks for waiting even though this was late... ^-^;

NinjaCookieEater: Yea, Puff Power! Thanks, I really liked the concept of Howard and Nomi having to work together because they both have the common denominator of Randy! .

Nomi Norisu: Thanks! I like writing fighting scenes, but mine normally come out horrible or boring to read, so I was really pleased it came out so nicely...

iLeenOnTheWall: *HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF* Thank you, I was totally worried my characters were too... not canon enough and that I was making just a fanfiction of how I wished the characters were. I will continue to try to do my best on these characters/story.

Guest: Yes, I realized as the letter were being typed out, it sounded a lot like Sonic, lol, but I regret nothing.

DarkFox: Wow, that is a big compliment and some big pants to wear! I thank you that you love my story so much, but don't die! XD I need people like you to help me be motivated with your ego boosting reviews! I hope I don't disappoint. :s really hope.

On with the story! Again, sorry it's late!

The Sorcerer laughed gleefully at the swirling green orbs around him.

"Yes! This is perfect. Soon I'll be free from this-" He stopped speaking as one of the orbs fell out of orbit. "Wh-what? Someone was freed from my magic?" Another fell beside him and he flinched away from it startled, the picked it up. He shook it like a broken lightbulb. "This is impossible! I have the ninja under my magic, who else could be doing this?" He asked angrily. He turned to his side, and wiped his clothing, and straightened out his head wear, then waved a hand in front of him to summon his allies.

"MCFIST!" He yelled out to the screen where McFist was standing in his office with the Ninja and Viceroy. They both jumped, and faced the screen.

"Yes, your sorcererness?" Hannible answered, clasping his hands together.

"Why are people being released from my magic?" He asked. McFist and Viceroy gained a confused look on their faces.

"How? The ninja is here." Viceroy asked.

"I don't know, but if this continues, I won't be able to be freed! And if I'm not freed, IT'S YOUR HEAD, McFIST!" He yelled out. "Find it, and stop it!" He concluded before leaving the screen. McFist gave a whimper then turned to Viceroy.

"FIX IT!" He shouted. Viceroy rolled his eyes.

"Yea, yea." Viceroy said moving to a computer. "Got it. I found the coordinates of the anomalies. We'll send the ninja and he'll solve it." He turned to the ninja and told him where to go, and the Ninja just stared back with a blank face and green eyes. Viceroy rolled his eyes.

"I forgot. Hannible, you tell him."

"Oh. Right." He said.

"What are you doing?!" Howard gripped as he waited ahead of the Nomicon. The Nomicon drew back his sword from slashing a monster's coffee cup, as the stanked magic fell out, and he became a disoriented man.

"Well, friend of Randy, if we just make a beeline for McFist, the sorcerer's power would grow exponentially, setting him free, and negating the reason we need to save Randy in the first place." He said, turning back to face him before running to catch up to Howard, and quickly overtaking him in speed.

"wait up!" He panted after a while. "Let's take a break."

"I can keep going." Nomi said, placing a cocky hand on his hip. "But, we can stop if you want to." He smirked down at Howard who was panting with his hands on his knees.

"You... shut up!" Howard said, catching his breath. "You wouldn't understand why I want to save Randy first anyway. The whole world can go to cheese and I wouldn't care as long as Randy was with me. You're not really his friend. You just need to save the ninja, not the person." Howard scolded. Nomi was taken aback.

"That's not true. We just have to consider what's best for-"

"Whatever, we need to get to Randy already!" He said, starting to run ahead of Nomi. He rolled his eyes at the action. Taking all the time to say what he wanted but not letting him say his piece. The most infuriating type of people. How can Randy be friends with this shoob?

Nomi stopped in his place for a second placing a hand over his mouth as if he said that out loud. Did he just think and use the word shoob? Man, he's got to stop letting Randy influence him whenever he enters the Nomicon. He ran ahead again of Howard again.

Soon after they made a little more leeway to Hannible's tower, they saw something coming for them out of the corner of their eyes. The nomicon soon stopped and drew his sword, facing the direction of the incoming object while Howard dove behind a car. The ninja soon landed in front of the nomicon and didn't hesitate to launch into an attack.

"Ninja! Please! I know you're -erg- in there!" Nomi tried as he blocked and dodged his attacks. "You can fight it, you did it before!" Nomi tried again through his attacks. Randy hefted his sword above his head to get ready to swing down in an attack, and Nomi spun kicked Randy away from him to defend himself.

"Don't hurt him!" Howard shouted from behind. The cape clad ninja spun around to face him.

"I'm not trying to, I'm defending myself!" He shouted. "Why don't you tell him not to hurt me!"

"You know he can't help himself! Don't hurt him!" He shouted again. Nomi was about to retort when he noticed stank rising up from the sewers and stanking some civilians who were near-by, watching the fight. He let out a soft growl and jumped up in the air towards them to try and de-stank them when he was kicked out of the air. He landed with a cough from the impact, and looked up to see the ninja back on his feet and ready for fighting.

"Ninja, remember those people! It's your duty to protect them! Remember and you can break free, Ninja!" Nomi tried, as it worked last time. The ninja just reared his sword for an attack instead. Nomi rolled backwards in a reverse summersault before springing off his hands away from the ninja and started sprinting towards the stanked people. But before he knew it, Randy jumped down in his way in front of the stanked people and swung his sword around almost haphazardly.

Nomi's eyes narrowed in realization. 'He's trying to keep me from de-stanking the citizens. He's gathering more power for the Sorcerer to be released!' He blocked another choppy attack. He had trouble blocking these unpredictable moves. 'But I can't let that happen. If he gets released all hope is lost!'

"Howard! Get to those stanked citizens!" Nomi shouted, continually blocking and dodging, and barely ducked under a fast head-aimed swipe. "De-stank them!"

"What?! How do I do that?!" He shouted back, not bothering even budging from his safe spot.

"Find out! Erg!" He shouted just as Randy got a slash on his arm. Howard gasped realizing the Nomicon couldn't do it this time. Howard cautiously made his way over to the group of monsters. Randy's head snapped in his direction and Nomi quickly followed his gaze. He was looking straight at Howard who was making his way to the citizens. Nomi sprinted forward without even sparing another glance in Randy's direction, knowing he would take off for Howard, and he did exactly that. Nomi barely jumped in front of Howard on time.

"Nu-uh, keep your eyes on me." Nomi taunted, and started his own series of haphazard slashes toward the Ninja and away from the Howard. Ninja became frustrated as he was brought away from his target, and he gave a staggering blow to one of Nomi's strikes, providing a pause in the onslaught, and dashed to the right and around to try and get to Howard. Nomi back flipped, using the momentum from the blow and cut off the Ninja's path and once again showered him with attacks, driving him backwards and away from Howard. And it went on like that, Nomi keeping Randy away from Howard and the Ninja trying to make a break towards him.

Howard in the mean time carefully made his way over to the monsters who were roaring about. He carefully observed them for anything to de-stank from his shelter behind a car.

"Hey, guys, I know you have your own things going on, but do you mind un-monstering for me?" He asked with his 'charm.' The monsters stopped for a moment to look at him, but then turned around and moved on, ignoring him.

"Hey! You guys have to listen to me! Ninja said!" Howard whined while chasing after them, convinced they wouldn't hurt him. He followed one monster that threw a tree into a building, creating a hole in the face, causing people to flee, but they were soon hit by the falling stars of stank and consumed into monsters.

"Oooooooh, that's not good." He followed another monster who unearthed a car and shook the people out of it, who scrambled around for a few monents, but then got hit by more stank bombs.

"Eeeeeeh, Nomi won't like that." Then Howard spotted a monter with a hat atop his head that seemed to ooze stank.

"Yes!" Howard cheered at finally having a clue as to how to stop one of the monsters. He ran over and hopped on top his tail, and the monster just kept going, as though he didn't notice Howard and didn't see him as a threat. Howard climbed on up, heading for the monster's head.

He reached the head just as the monsters reached a building. The monster pulled his arm back to smash open the face of the building as Howard stretched out for the hat. He snatched it off just before he could.

"YES! I took your item, now you de-stank! OH YA, I'm so BRUCE!" Howard cheered at what he had done. But then he had to hold on to the monster to keep from falling off as he proceeded to punch a hole in the building, revealing the people to be attacked by the stank bombs flying about in the air.

"What? But I de-stanked you, I-" Howard started, confused. "Oh, right, I have to destroy it." He then proceeded to try and rip up the hat, but only succeeded in tiring himself out.

"HOWARD!" Nomi yelled out after sparing him a glance in his on-going battle. This shocked Howard enough that when the monster reared to keep moving, he tumbled off his back. "you're suppose to be stopping them!" He shouted desperately. Howard huffed from his position on the ground.

"I'm trying! I'm no Ninja!" He shouted out just as desperately, throwing his hands in the air for emphasis. Nomi blocked another attack that threw his hands into the air and then jumped in front of the ninja again.

"You have to try! And hurry! At this rate, the sorcerer will have enough chaos and power to-" A rumbling in the ground interrupted his speech. Howard got up on wobbly feet.

"Nomi...?" He said warningly, hands out at his sides for balance.

"Yes... Yes...!" An ominous voice rang out beneath the sounds of the rumbles. "My reign... begins... now!"

A castle sprung from below, looking like it was created with magma cooled too quickly, and in it's path the asphalt creating dangerous daggers sprouting from the ground as the castle raised up.

"Nomi!" Howard called out as he fearfully clung to a rising and shaking piece of ground. Nomi turned back to glance at Howard's position before turning back to the ninja was who balancing as he himself was on the rising ground.

"Randy, please..." He tried with a more personal plea. But he just charged at him, flipping to get over the chasm separating the two of them. Nomi prepared himself for the offense but a sharply rising piece of ground came and cut off Randy's path, and he had to land on the strip of land and ride up with it. Nomi took this chance for retreat and he flipped and made his way to Howard, who pouted with a sobbing face.

"Don't ever leave me again...!" He cried pitifully. Nomi rolled his eyes and lifted him from the rocks and jumped down to make it safely to lower ground away from the castle. They both looked back at the sinister looking castle with the green clouds circulating at the pinnacle, and the Sorcerer's voice rung out ominously with finality.

"I've won! The world will soon fall to my chaos and I will be all powerful! I... am... free!" His evil laugh echoed throughout all of Norrisville.

"No..." Nomi murmured.

Man, I feel super bad this took me so long to get out (and it's not even that good...no grammar or spelling check... ORZ) and I apologize I have to say... Hiatus. To tell you, I totally have to re-plan this whole thing. I kind of started it without any planning and now... I'm a little lost. Stuff I had planned might not work out anymore, and this story will probably come out a lot better and faster with more planning!

Sorry, thanks everyone for reading thus far, I don't want this story on hiatus too long (IT'S BAD ENOUGH SEASON 3 ISN'T CONFIRMED! .) and when it comes back, it'll totally be awesome! (hopefully) Thanks for liking my sucky story.

R and R! (and go read my other stories~)