The Last Space Ninja

"Captain Verr, we found one!" Finally. Two years of searching. But... the space ninja broke free. "Damn it!"

"Captain Verr, we found one!" Finally. Two years of searching. But... the space ninja broke free. "Damn it!"

"Captain Verr, we found one!" Finally. Three years of searching. But... the space ninja broke free. "Damn it!"

"Captain Verr, we found one!" Finally. Five years of searching. But... the space ninja broke free. "Damn it!"

Were they getting rarer? He couldn't tell - it was mission after mission, but... it felt like that.

"Captain Verr, we found one!" Finally. Verr felt lightheaded. This planet was not quite there. Still... Eight years of searching. And... Snared! When the Twin Kings expressed their gratitude in a brief message after the subspace capsule arrived, Verr felt like he could've died that very instant, and died happy. Thanks to space ninja genetic infusion, his race would survive!

"Why are you still messing with the old Space Ninja codebase? We just finished migrating all the accounts to the sequel, don't waste time with bug fixes." "Yeah, had to wrap one thing up. OK to archive it for good."