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// Chapter 9: Great Escape 
// Story: Little Ninja 
// by DanishDash 
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Button made his way behind the school as soon as the last lesson ended. He tossed his saddlebag on the ground, and watched as the little ninja sat lifeless, and stared ahead with its dark button eyes. Its right foreleg hung limply out of the bag, gently rocking back and forth.

Button gave the bag a careful kick. Nothing happened, and so Button kicked it a little harder. "S-say something," he stammered, but the ninja still didn't say anything. "Hello?" Button tried a bit more loudly. "Say something."

"What do you want me to say?" A voice suddenly said from behind Button Mash. 

Button jumped, and even before he turned around he knew it was Bulky Brawn. Bulky made a snarl, then spat on the ground. "I hear you were going to rip me apart?" He began to trot towards Button.

Button Mash in the meantime stepped back, his chest was burning, and his mouth felt dry. He tried to act surprised. "Wha? Hah, no, that doesn't sound like me..."

Bulky came closer and closer. "Oh? But that is what the others are saying." Bulky took his time, he clearly enjoyed the situation. 

"Uhm, no, it wasn't me who said it, it was..." Button quickly pulled the ninja up from his bag and held it out. "It was the ninja..."

Bulky laughed, but still had that evil look about him. "Your plushie called me a brain dead idiot?"

Button could feel himself going out into the deep end. "Yeah, well, it sounds weird when you put it like that..." Bulky came to a stop in front of Button, pointing at his chest with his hoof. 

"Sounds to me like you're a coward, and a loser."

Button nodded. "Yup, that's me... A total coward..." He smiled nervously, hoping to appease the big bully.

Bulky took a hold of Button's throat, pinning him against the wall of the school. "If you say something like that again I will break your teeth." He hissed angrily. 

Button could barely get any air, but he did manage to stammer out. "Yesh, yes, I mean, no... Sorry..."

Bulky shook him. "Do you get me?"

"Yes!" Button gasped..

Bulky looked him over, then snorted. "Then piss off, chicken shit." He said, and let go of him. 

Button let out a relieved sigh, glad he was to keep his teeth this time around. Bulky spat on the ground, turned around and trotted away. Button in the meantime picked up the ninja, put it in his saddlebag, and put it on. He had to get out of here before Bulky changed his mind. He looked back at the little ninja sticking out of his saddle bag.

It blinked, but before Button had a chance to be startled about it, the little ninja sat up straight, and yelled out in a voice that sounded like Button's own. "Yeah you better run, you stupid, slimy, dickhead!" Button gasped in horror. The little ninja was alive, and it was yelling curse words at the school bully with Button's voice!  

Bulky turned around, and Button was ready to swear he saw flames of anger in his eyes. "YOU'RE DONE!!"

Button took off running, he would have left the little ninja behind, but he had no time to think about ditching him. Bulky took off into the air, doing his best to follow Button from above. Thankfully he was still a novice at flying, so Button had a little head start.

Button's heart was galloping faster than it ever had before. He knew even before he left the grounds that Bulky was gaining on him. The little ninja held its plush hooves up to its muzzle and yelled in Button's voice. "Come get me, Bulky Pig, I'll kick your ass into next week!"

"No, stop!" Button yelled back at the little ninja, and then even louder at Bulky. "I'm sorry! It isn't-"

"YOU'RE DEAD!"

"And you're ugly!" Came the reply from the plushie.

Button yelled in horror. "No you're no- well... It wasn't me!" Then he yelled at the doll. "And you shouldn't be able to talk!"

"I'll decide that for myself, chicken shit." Replied the little ninja, not with Button's voice, but with this tiny tough voice. It sounded like a midget that had inhaled a helium balloon. 

Button desperately shook his head. "What the hell is going on?!"

The ninja blinked, and came with a suggestion. "Well what is going on is that fat bully is going to kill you, unless we work together."

"What?"

"Yeah, I'll help you, and you help me."

Button considered that all of this could be a dream, and perhaps princess Luna would come and put an end to this nightmare. "You're not even alive!"

"Alright," the little ninja said. "So you don't want my help?"

Bulky flew closer and closer. "I got you now!" 

Button didn't even think before he answered. "No no! Please help me!"

"Then you help me?"

Button yelled back at him. "Yes! Yes!"

But that wasn't good enough for the little ninja. "Promise that you'll help me!"

Bulky was only a meter from touching Button now. Button panicked and yelled. "I promise I'll help you!!" The little ninja nodded satisfied. It dove back into the saddlebag, and started to work. "What are you doing!?"

"Just run!" 

The ninja replied. He ripped a page out of one of Button's books, and then folded it into a long pipe. He then took one of Button's pencils, and took off the small pink eraser at the end of it. The little ninja placed the eraser inside the tube, stuck it out of the bag, aimed, and then gave one single powerful blow.

Button didn't see what happened, but he heard Bulky let out a scream. "OW!" Looking back, he saw how Bulky held a hoof to his left eye, and plunged into one of the small ponds lining the path. Button didn't stop, he kept running to the sound of Bulky yelling after him. "I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS, BUTTON MASH!!"

Button felt a flood of relief wash over him, but it passed quickly as he heard his own voice yell from the saddlebag. "HA! Better luck next time, you sad sack of shit!"