First Steel on the Ninja

First Steel on the Ninja is the first episode of the first season of Toby and Rochelle: 9th Grade Ninja Twins. It first aired on August 18, 2021 as a preview and received 0.59 million viewers. It officially premiered on September 4, 2021.

Synopsis
Freshman Toby Brooks discovers the "NinjaNomicon," which reveals that he has been chosen to be California's newest Ninja. Armed with his power-packed Ninja Suit, he faces his first battle with McFist's monster Krakenstein, while juggling his new secret identity and being there for his twin sister Rochelle and his best friend,  Howard.

Part I
On the first day of school while driving that old cart from school, Rochelle sneaks over to Toby and asks him if she can copy his work. Rochelle claims that they had the exact same summer and goes back to his desk after Mr. Bannister throws a shoe at him. Toby goes into a flashback of the summer...

The last summer did start out the same; at its beginning, Toby and his best friend Howard Cunningham, finished the video game Grave Puncher in seven days. They then finished the video game Grave Puncher II. At last they finished Grave Puncher III.

The day after, however, The Creep leaves a box, so Toby finds a box in his room. He opens the box and sees the NinjaNomicon which he throws to the side. He then finds a note in the box that reads, "You are the Ninja," and finds the Ninja Mask and puts it on. He is ready to run over to Howard's house and tell him, but then he finds another note that says, "You can't tell anyone."

Back from the flashback, they're at Ca Frost Science Academy High (or CFSA for short). However, Rochelle doesn't like the idea of transferring to a new school where she would rather meet her team.

While at the classroom, the overbearing English teacher, Mr. Grouse, orders his students to write a five-hundred-word paper about their summer break. Toby realizes he just wrote that he was the Ninja all over his essay as Mr. Bannister starts collecting the papers. Toby quickly rips up his paper and hands the fragments to Mr. Bannister. As an excuse, he says that it represents the fleeting nature of summer; Bannister buys this and gives him a B.

Later, Rochelle starts talking about how the Ninja hadn't shown up for the past two days. Toby comments that it doesn't really matter, but Rochelle states that they are his number one fans. Toby protests that it's not like the Ninja can just smoke-bomb on by for a "Meet-n-Greet," but then comes up with the idea to do just that. During lunch Toby goes to the bathroom and Rochelle notices the other 4 new girls in school: Kara Prince, Karen Boonchuy, Zoe Danvers, and Vikki Tisdale. Rochelle then yells to Toby that he will eat his tater tots if Toby doesn't get out. Toby then smoke-bombs in as the Ninja. He shows off his sweet ninja moves to everybody. He is about to leave when Rochelle holds on to him and tells him to wait until Toby gets out of the bathroom. Olivia McFist is at school with her husband in Principal Jinkins' office, because her stepson Bash Johnson has been bullying people (including Bucky Hensletter) since the school year started. Hearing students running outside who are saying that the Ninja is in the cafeteria, Jinkins runs out, and Bash takes the opportunity to escape. McFist runs out, calling on King to release the Krakenstein.

The Krakenstein attacks the Ninja, who locks it in the bathroon after hearing the bell. Returning to class as Toby Brooks, he suddenly remembers the NinjaNomicon. Using the excuse of having to go to the bathroom, he quickly returns home, directly to his room, to find the NinjaNomicon, and when opened, his mind is absorbed by the book, which tells him

"Believe in the weapon that is in the suit"

Toby takes this to mean that he himself is the "weapon" and that he simply needs to believe in himself.

Afterwards at CFSA High, Rachel feels threatened by Rochelle and so hears Karen sings Telephone by Lady Gaga with her to express her jealous. This ends up encouraging Karen further, as she thinks it's fun and so wants to join Glee Club. Karen says she'll think about it for her answer on that and storms off nervously and almost angrily.

Meanwhile, Toby cycles back to CFSA High, only to be tripped in the hallway by Rochelle. Rochelle, ignoring him, tells Toby that he is not leaving until she admits to Toby about the school news that she already signed up for the glee club and will starts in Wednesday.

The next day during lunch, she recorded the Live video about the ninja (also known as Toby) yesterday, which Howard's laughing annoys her and angrily throws spaghetti at him. So in order to get their attention, she starts a food fight with them and the entire school, until it got into a big mess and Rochelle slam dunks Meatball-like dodge ball into Howard. This hurls him blasts him out of the school, smashed into the cafeteria window, also blasting him through six more houses before slamming face-first into a metal telephone pole and landing in a trash basket. Howard and Toby enjoy a laugh over the match that just transpired. Toby tells Rochelle that Howard used to be his BFF since kindergarten and she didn't even notice, which makes her both almost jealous and surprised of Howard. After a moment, the pair scream in panic as they realize that they have busted a window that looked like Howard.

When they hiding and ditching the school from getting so much trouble (when they headed to California Lanes), Toby laments his decision to play-wrestle instead of going outside to school. He worries that the pair will get expelled. When Howard asks how the two will fix the window, Rochelle reminds him that they can't fix it, and can't afford to pay for it. Rochelle suggests that they convince Slimovitz to give them raises so they can cover the cost of repairs.

Howard agrees that getting raises is the perfect solution, and tells Toby, Rochelle, and Karen that they should ask Slimovitz, and use Hamboning to convince him. When Karen suggests just explaining the situation, Howard mocks him and again suggests Hamboning, that Hamboning will save his life someday. Rochelle insists that they are not going to use Hamboning, and Toby pulls out a red keyboard. Impressed, Rochelle asks him where he got it from, and Toby replies, "I have my methods".

In a flashback, a Wizard leaves the keyboard on a park bench while he relieves himself behind a bush. Toby sneaks up and takes it.

Back in the present, Rochelle asks how the keyboard will get them raises. Toby responds by playing a few notes. Impressed, Karen asks if Rochelle has named the keyboard. Rochelle allows Toby to choose the name, and Toby chooses "The Power" because he has always wanted to date a girl by that name. Howard announces that he likes the name, and "The Power" magically appears on the keyboard.

Part II
Toby and Howard use the keyboard to practice a short choreographed song, ending with them saying, in unison, "Give us a raise, loser!" Rochelle doesn't get it and soon head off to the storage room. In the room, they find several old arcade games, and they both proceed to play them. After trying all the games at the front of the room, they see one at the back behind a Dance Dance Rebellion machine. Rochelle proves Toby that she is a "pro" of dancing since elementary in dancing class. She dancing on the dance machine and sings Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera which Toby and Howard shocks at her and Karen impressed her while recording her in a dancing machine. Finally it was Karen's turn, to spin the Spin N' Win machine and wins a $100,000. Rochelle finally declares that they can cover the cost of repairs and Howard lately declares that they can do everything they've ever wanted.

A montage follows in which the pair use the Power to, among other things create a bouncy castle, blast off into space and drive a classic Dodge Challenger. Their fun is so much blast and they go to one last place before calling it a day: Sweet Justice, owned by Barry Allen. Howard tries eating ice cream, and he suddenly likes it so much she ate the other desserts from the others.

The next morning before class, Howard suddenly tells Toby, Rochelle, and Karen about good and bad news about what happened until the ninja gets here, says the good news is he found a missing retainer on the floor and there was some perfectly good gum stuck to it and then admits to them about the bad news that he let the Krakenstein out of the bathroom stall so that the Ninja would show up. However, Toby manages to ditch them while they watch the Krakenstein causing chaos, which angers Rochelle.

Toby, as the Ninja, smoke-bombs into the chaos to fight the Krakenstein, as the other students cheer him on. Toby then fights the Krakenstein for a while, and manages to temporarily subdue the Krakenstein, only for the Krakenstein to reveal a secret arm, which easily overpowers Toby. Howard, Rochelle, and Karen, with the Power, to rescue Toby. The creature has Toby in secret arm as Howard puts the Power on the ground, trying to come up with the words to use to save him. He starts to play a song on the keyboard, but the audio quickly fades and dies, Howard announces that he thinks the batteries have died.

Recalling his earlier declaration that Hamboning would save his life, Rochelle gives an idea; Howard gives the keyboard to her and runs toward the Krakenstein while she and Karen write a song she was singing with Karen in the bathroom. As Krakenstein begins to hurt the ninja, Howard begins Hamboning on its leg, distracting it enough a confused Toby looks through his suit, and discovers his sword; he realizes that the Nomicon meant for him to believe in the literal weapon that was actually inside the suit, admitting that "that makes way more sense." Toby runs by, grabbing Howard moments before the Krakenstein smashes a fist to the ground where he was standing. Karen punches through the dash of the Cart, pulling out some wires and connecting them to the Power and then she and Rochelle attempts to use the Power to persuade the Krakenstein to "go away" with a Telephone again song while Toby then easily defeats the Krakenstein via dismembering it.

Later, Toby returns to Howard to tell him that he's figured out Toby's secret. While Rochelle and Karen headed back to class, Toby tells them that he's so glad and that he was dying to tell them, and changes into the ninja in front of them. However, Howard actually thought that Toby was sneaking off to have the bathrooms all to himself. When Howard realize that Toby is actually the Ninja, Howard is overjoyed. Toby then tells them that they can't tell anyone, which disappoints Howard.

Toby then smoke-bombs them both away, causing Howard to say that the smoke-bomb smells like farts. Toby says that they'll get used to it.

Songs Featured

 * Telephone
 * Moves Like Jaggers

Major characters

 * Ben Schwartz as Toby Brooks / Red Ninja (debut)
 * Heather Arney as Rochelle Brooks (debut)
 * William Salyers as Howard Cunningham (debut)
 * Kimberly Brooks as Karen Boonchuy (debut)
 * Olivia Colman as Olivia McFist (debut)
 * Tom Kenny as Professor King (debut)
 * N/A as Krakenstein

Supporting characters

 * Chiwetel Ejiofor as Robin Kang (debut)
 * Steve Oedekerk as Bash Johnson (debut)
 * Scott Menville as Bucky Hensletter (debut)
 * April Stewart as Eliza Prince (debut)
 * Keith Ferguson as Jeremiah Prince (debut)
 * Phil LaMarr as Mr. Danvers and Barry Allen/Flash (debut)
 * Jason Spisak as Hal Jordan (debut)
 * Nicole Sullivan as Kara Prince (debut)
 * Ashley Tisdale as Vikki Tisdale (debut)
 * Kari Wahlgren as Zoe Danvers (debut)
 * Lea Michele as Rachel Michele (debut)
 * Jordan Peele as Roger McFist (debut)
 * Jim Rash as Principal Jinkins (debut)
 * Neil Flynn as Mr. Grouse (debut)
 * John DiMaggio as Mr. Bannister (debut)
 * The Creep (debut)

Background characters

 * Cass Simonson
 * Cynthia
 * Doug Jaminski
 * Doug
 * Mike Moe
 * S. Renisewn
 * Nameless Blond Boy with White Shirt
 * Nameless Boy with Black Shirt
 * Nameless Boy with Blue-Green Shirt
 * Nameless Boy with Glasses and Blue Shirt
 * Nameless Boy with Red Hoodie
 * Nameless Boy with Red Shirt
 * Nameless Girl with Big Eyelashes
 * Nameless Girl with Blue Sweater
 * Nameless Girl with Dark Red Hair
 * Nameless Girl with Green Shirt
 * Nameless Girl with Lavender Hair
 * Nameless Girl with Mauve Dress
 * Nameless Girl with Red Shirt

Trivia

 * Coming up.

Quotes
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