Leave No Evidence part 2

Act 1 Scene 10.5: The McQueen Manor's living room, 3 minutes until 4:45 am. Eric grabs a sharp piece of glass.

Eric (to Justin and Sasuke): "So, which one of you wants to go next?" Sasuke and Justin get into their defensive stance.

Sasuke (whispers): "Justin, I'll distract him. You grab Steve and the both of you get out of here. Lose the ninja garbs on your way back to your homes."

Justin (whispers): "What?! No." Then, Mrs. McQueen's alarm clock rings. It is 4:45 am.

Eric: "Hmm... good timing." Eric bolts to the staircase and goes upstairs to watch his mother drink the poisoned water. Both Sasuke and Justin then chase after Eric.

Justin: "New plan: We tackle Eric and stop his mother from drinking her water."

Sasuke: "Good idea." Sasuke leaps over Eric and he lands on his feet. Eric screeches to a halt. Justin tackles Eric and starts to punch Eric.

Sasuke: "Excellent." He runs and opens the door to Mrs. McQueen's bedroom. Mrs. McQueen throws her glass of water at Sasuke.

Mrs. McQueen (angrily): "Who the hell are you?! Where is my son?!" At the hallway, Justin grabs the piece of glass and throws to the other side of the hallway.

Justin (angrily): "Do you surrender?!"

Eric (laughing): "No." Eric kicks Justin in the face. He then grabs a vase. Just when he smashes it in Justin's head, it breaks. Steve got back inside the house and threw a kunai knife at the vase.

Justin: "Holy s-t!" Steve charges at Eric. Eric was ready to kick Steve, but Steve dodges and grabs Eric's neck and slams him into the ground. Steve gets to Justin.

Steve (whispers): "Where's Sasuke?"

Justin: "In Mrs. McQueen's bedroom."

Act 1 Scene 11: McQueen master bedroom.

Sasuke: "Ma'am, your son is trying to kill you."

Mrs. McQueen: "Really? I had a feeling that was going to happen. Why are you here, then?"

Sasuke: "Uh..." Justin and Steve enter the bedroom.

Mrs. McQueen: "There's three of you. That's it. I'm calling the police."

Sasuke: "I'm afraid we can't let you do that." In a blink of an eye, Sasuke throws a smoke bomb and all 3 ninjas disappear. Eric is tied up and gagged.

Act 1 Scene 12: A wooded area near the McQueen Manor. Police Sirens are going off in the distance.

Sasuke: "Whew. That was close."

Justin: "Uh, Sasuke... was this a test?"

Sasuke (confused): "What do you mean?"

Steve: "Oh, come on, Sasuke. You know. The bulletproof vests we have inside this outfit, Eric's motive, the late wake-up call... that's absolutely a test."

Sasuke: "Okay... listen. I'm sorry. I thought you guys couldn't handle it. I guess I was wrong. I'm impressed that you two defeated Eric without killing him. Very impressive."

Steve: "Oh, man! It's 5:15 am."

Justin: "We got to hurry and get back home." Both Justin and Steve left.

Sasuke: "Make sure you apply first-aid to any injuries."

Both Justin and Steve: "Got it."

The End... for now.

Leave No Evidence

Act 1 Scene 7: February 16, the middle of the night, Justin' s bedroom. Justin is asleep until his cellphone starts to ring. The caller ID says "Unknown". Justin answers anyway.

Justin: "Hello? Who is this?"

Sasuke: "It's me, Sasuke."

Justin: "Sasuke?" He looks at his alarm clock. "It's 2 am. There had better be a reason to calling me so late."

Sasuke: "Are you done? Call Steve and meet at the safehouse."

Act 1 Scene 8: February 16, 2:30 am at Sasuke's safehouse. Justin and Steve made it there.

Steve: "Sasuke, it's late. You're lucky that my parents are heavy sleepers." Sasuke slams a picture of a man.

Sasuke: "Do you know who this is?"

Justin: "Yeah, that's Eric McQueen. He's the ex-heir to his mother's fortune, The Butterfly Corporation. Whoa..."

Steve: "We're killing him?!"

Sasuke: "No, but we are going to hurt him."

Justin and Steve: "Why?" Sasuke turns on his computer and shows Eric's criminal record.

Justin: "Oh."

Sasuke: "I've been spying on him while you guys were at school. Eric has been getting in a lot of trouble with the law since he was 14. Assault, petty theft, selling illegal drugs and the list goes on to his early 30s. Do you want to know why he isn't in jail?"

Justin: "I don't know."

Steve: "Neither do I."

Sasuke: "Because his mother's money and the crooked cops get him acquittals. Currently, he bought some things to get his mother's money all to himself."

Steve: "Like weapons?"

Sasuke: "Sort of... more like an undetectable poison in his mother's glass of water next to her bed."

Justin: "You were stalking Mrs. McQueen also? Dude, that's f-ed up."

Sasuke: "We've wasted too much time. Get in your ninja garb."

Steve: "Wait... ninja garb?"

Sasuke: "Surprise."

Act 1 Scene 9: February 15, The McQueen Manor 10 hours earlier...

Eric McQueen: "Mother, I am your only child and it is tradition that I take over the estate once you pass away."

Mrs. Sondra McQueen: "Eric, I wasn't supposed to tell you this. When your father was on his deathbed,he told me that you were unworthy to take over. That's final!"

Eric throws a glass at the wall and said, "You witch! I will get the estate and the fortune no matter what." He walks out the door and slams it.

Act 1 Scene 10: February 16, Outside the McQueen Manor. The ninjas wait for the clock to reach 4:30 am.

Sasuke turns off the security system and says, "You guys ready?"

Justin and Steve: "Yes."

As all 3 ninjas run through the front yard, Eric McQueen is slowly poisoning his mother's drinking water.

Eric: "That should do the trick. Oh yeah, one more thing." He then changes his mother's alarm clock to sound at 4:45 am.

The ninjas are now inside the house and so far kept themselves very quiet.

Steve (whispers): "You got to admit, this house doesn't creak." Justin trips and a candy dish falls off and lands on the floor.

Eric: "What was that?" Eric quickly rushs to the security room and notices the cameras and alarms aren't working. He enters the living room. "Who's in here?"

The ninjas are outside a doorway and being very quiet. Both Justin and Steve are very nervous. Sasuke prepares to throw something. Eric turns on the lights.

Eric: "You're pretty good at turning off the alarm system. What do you want? Leave now and I won't call the cops." Sasuke throws a wood shuriken at Eric. Eric dodges until Sasuke charges in and trips Eric mid-air.

Justin: "Holy s-t!" On the ground, Eric sees all 3 ninjas and laughs.

Eric: "Is this some of joke?" Eric charges at Steve and smashes Steve into the window.

Sasuke and Justin: "Oh crap!"

Eric: "I got nothing to lose in 3 minutes. Going make this count."

To be continued...

Always Be Silent part 2

Act 1 Scene 3: February 13, A wooded area outside of Oceanview. Sasuke is taking Justin and Steve to a safehouse in the middle of the forest.

Steve: "Where are you taking us?"

Sasuke: "There is supposed to be a safehouse around here somewhere."

Justin: "Well, wherever it is. It's pretty well hidden." Justin put his hand on a strange looking bush. A trap started to activate.

Sasuke: "Guys, get down!" All three drop to the ground and they stay there until it was over.

Steve: "Whoa! What the f-k was that?"

Sasuke: "A booby trap just in case someone got suspicious. We're close to the safehouse."

Steve: "Hold on. You're a real ninja?"

Sasuke: "Yes. I came from Japan because my village was under attack by a yakuza group."

Justin: "Seriously."

Sasuke: "Yes. I should not have brought you here. You should just leave and forget about me."

Justin and Steve: "No."

Sasuke: "What? Why?"

Steve: "Because to the truth is we can't stand injustice, bullying, intolerance and everything else that is negative."

Justin: "Our town looks like a wonderland, but it is really a dark and gloomy hellhole driven by greed and hidden evil on every gated community."

Steve: "The cops are corrupt, the wealthy can buy their way out of a situation and the wealthy are teaching kids our age the wrong things."

Justin: "My dad is a good man and Steve's family are also nice; everyone else are bunch of jerks."

Sasuke: "That's all I need to know." He finds the safehouse. "Ah, there it is. What do you think, guys?" Justin and Steve are speechless.

Act1 Scene 4: February 13, Justin and his father's apartment. Justin opens the door to see that his father was waiting for you.

Justin's father: "Where were you?!"

Justin: "Sorry, Dad. We were playing a lot of basketball."

Justin's father: "It's 10:35 pm. I was about to go out there and drag you by the ears!"

Justin: "Okay, okay. Sorry, Dad. It won't happen again."

Justin's father: "I really hope not. Go to bed; you got school tomorrow."

Act 1 scene 5: February 14, Justin and Steve are walking to their high school.

Steve: "Dude, my parents freaked out because I was 40 minutes late. I swear my little brother was listening in on their yelling at me."

Justin: "We probably should have called them in advanced to tell them that we were going to be late."

A football lands on Steve's head. He lands on his side.

Justin: "Whoa, what the hell?" It is the quaterback of the Oceanview football team, Johnny Andrews.

Johnny: "Oops! I should've said, "Heads Up"." Johnny rushes to get to school.

Justin: "Steve, are you alright?"

Steve: "Yeah. One of these days I will going to hit him."

Justin: "Alright, relax. So no one wants to be your Valentine."

Steve: "No."

Justin: "Yeah, me neither."

Act 1 scene 6: February 14, Sasuke, at his safehouse.

Sasuke: "Teaching my new friends the art of the ninja is going to be very hard especially if they have school and family life. I showed them this nice place; I need to show the dangers and then I will ask them again if they really want to be ninjas."

The End... for now.

Pilot Episode aka Always Be Silent

Act 1: Scene 1: The date is February 14. Forest in the Middle of Nowhere Japan, Shadow Village on the brink of collapse.
Dead bodies, people screaming while others try to fight off their intruders One ninja searching his master under all the debris.

The ninja (shouting): "Master! Master! Master, where are you?" He opens his master's door and spots his master dead. "Oh, no." He runs to his master only to be shot at by one of the intruders.

Enter Kohta Sanada, Leader of the yakuza group known as the Headless Dragon Clan.

Kohta: "Look what we got here. A man sobbing for his fallen master. How sad."

The ninja: "What do you want with us? We did nothing wrong to you."

Kohta: "That's where you're wrong. Now, if I'm mistaken, there is a child you are training to take over your clan."

The ninja: "I have no idea what you're talking about. Kohta then orders one of his goons to snap the ninja's arm."

The ninja screams in pain. The ninja tries to speak: "You think that will make me talk. If so, you have already lost."

Kohta gets angry and shoots the ninja in the skull killing him instantly.

One of Kohta's goons: "The kid couldn't have gotten far."

Kohta (annoyed): "It's already too late. He's gone. Who knows how long it will take to find him? Leave no fingerprints and burn all of this down to the ground."

As the little village burns down. our hero, Sasuke (17), is currently in a plane flying to his destination.

The pilot of the plane: "Attention passengers. This is your captain speaking. We are arriving at the Orange County Airport in Sunny California. Please buckle your seatbelts so we can land."

Sasuke: "So this is my new home." A tear falls down his cheek. "Goodbye, Father."

Act1 Scene 2: February 13, outskirts of the Oceanview, CA in a dark alley. A man is punching two individuals named Justin Myers (17) and Steve Brandywine (also 17).

The angry man: "This is your last warning, you bastards. Get the money in an hour or I'll really mess you up." He then leaves in a huff while Justin and Steve try to stand up.

Justin: "Steve, you alright?"

Steve: "I'll manage."

Justin: "This is a big problem. How are we going to $400 to that mentalcase?"

Steve: "I really wish I knew."

At the same time, our hero overhears the dilemma. After an hour of failing to obtain $400, Justin and Steve try to run from the man. The angry man spots them. They flee.

The angry man: "Hey! Get back here!"

Justin (while running with Steve): Do you think we can outrun him?

Steve (replies): "As long as he doesn't a weapon or is a track star, we'll manage."

 Justin and Steve find themselves at a dead end. The man catches up with them.

The man (with an evil look): "That was fun. You got my money?" The boys nod no. "Oh, that's... too. damn... bad. Close your eyes, you little..." Sasuke suddenly appears wearing a ninja outfit.

The man: "What the f-k is this? Halloween? You better get out of the way or I'll..." Before he could finish his sentence, Sasuke punches the man in the stomach very hard.

Steve: "No way. Justin, look at this."

Justin: "I see it; I just don't believe it."

The man tries to speak: "What the f-k was that?" Sasuke winds up and give the man a swift uppercut to the jaw, knocking him unconscious.

Justin: "That was incredible. Who are you?"

Steve: "Uh... do you speak English?" Luckily, Sasuke is biligual.

Sasuke (without revealing his face): "Yes. I couldn't watch you guys die"

Justin: "You're a true friend. I just wish we could learn to depend ourselves."

Sasuke (turns to them): "Today is lucky day, boys."

To be continued...

Welcome

Hello and Welcome to Andrew Rizzo's blog called "Orange County Ninja". I have always loved comics, cartoons and great stories. There is only one problem that stands in my way... I can't draw. I can write an excellent paper, but that's pretty much it. This blog is not a food or fashion blog; it is more of a story telling blog. A blog like this could open a door that lead me to bigger and better things. We'll just have to see how far it will take me. "Pilot Episode" will hopefully be posted next week. Hope it goes well.