A Beautiful Intruder

Thumbnail image for Episode 3

*Utsukushiki Shinnyūsha*

**A Beautiful Intruder** is the third episode of the Ninjala 2D Cartoon Anime, with Jane as the main character. The episode focuses on Jane as she investigates a conspiracy within the World Ninja Association. It was released on September 1, 2020.

## Overview

Jane is given an assignment from her boss, Bob, to infiltrate the WNA HQ to obtain top-secret data for the WNA Intelligence Division. While hacking into the database, she learns of the secret project and that its researchers has gone missing, including her acquaintance Ron. Arriving at the laboratory, she investigates further and discovers the leftover Ninja-Gum. While researching, she accidentally chews on it.

Bob and a partner follow her to the lab and attempt to kill her for learning sensitive data. While Jane puts up a decent fight, she is ultimately outmatched. Jane turns into a child as Bob attempts a finishing blow, with Ron intervening to knock him out. Ron declares that he must finish his mission and eats the Ninja-Gum to turn into a child himself. He and Jane then decide to enter Ninjala to find more answers.

## Synopsis

Jane, a WNA employee and hacker, is walking down the street when she gets a phone call from her boss, Bob. Nearby, a man comes up behind an old woman and steals her purse. Hearing the commotion, Jane teleports behind the thief and kicks him in the back, knocking him unconscious as she ends the call and goes to the WNA Headquarters.

Once at her office, Bob pleads with her to get some data for a special request from the Intelligence Division. Though Jane is hesitant at first, she agrees and hacks into the database while eating a jar of candy. The data turns out to be from WNA HQ, on the Ninja Gum Lab and the top-secret Ninja-Gum project. Photos of the three researchers pop up, of whom she recognizes Ron, and learns that they have been reported missing.

Suspicious and curious, she visits the research lab to investigate herself and comes across the ravaged laboratory, with puddles of gum on the ground and walls from Burton's fight with Ron. As she begins hacking and looking through the research files, she comes across the data on the gum and sees some of it lying nearby. She examines a piece and continues her work. Distracted, she instinctively throws the gum in her mouth, chewing it by mistake. Suddenly, she is ambushed by Bob, who has come to kill Jane for learning too much. He attacks her with a kunai, but is defeated. Another masked ninja attacks her, but Jane steps in some of the gum on the ground and is incapacitated.

Jane is tied up against the wall, and Bob's partner leaves with Jane's laptop. Bob attempts to finally execute Jane, but the side effects of the Ninja Gum begin to take effect at just the right moment, and she shrinks into a child, shocking them both but also freeing Jane of the ropes. As Bob is about to try killing her again, Ron leaps from above and knocks him out.

Ron reveals that he failed his mission to infiltrate the Research Institute and obtain data on the Ninja-Gum project, and the WNA attempted to kill him for his failure. He takes one of the Ninja-Gum and eats it, taking advantage of the child transformation to go undercover so he can finish his mission. He tells Jane that he's going to find out what's behind it all, and why the Intelligence Division is trying to steal info from HQ. Jane joins him, upset that Bob lied to her and gave her a dirty job and wanting to get her laptop back.

Ron says that they must enter Ninjala as they exit the building and head off. Later, a shadow looms over Bob, who is just gaining unconsciousness. An unknown figure claims that Bob has failed his mission, and kills him as punishment.

## Characters in order of appearance

1. Jane
2. Bob
3. Ron
4. Burton (cameo)
5. Berecca (cameo)

## Video

```

```

## Trivia

* Similar events are retold in the anime episode Infiltrating WNA HQ.