A/N: I started this story about a week ago somewhere else. I decided I wanted to put it here too. Real interesting A/N huh? -_-. Anyway, enjoy.
Spongebob wheezed. He was in his cramped, dusty little basement that he hadn't been it for ages. Boxes of knickknacks and old furniture filled the entire room. He was using a feather duster to clear all the dust and cobwebs from the basement. He heard his doorbell. "It's open!" Spongebob shouted, still working. Danny came down the stairs to visit Spongebob, and accidently ran into a cobweb, which he quickly threw off his face, wipping his face off to ensure no spiders got on it. "Geez Spongebob, I didn't even know you had a basement!" he said.
"Yeah, it's been a while. I came down here to look for some old photos and I thought I'd spruce up a bit. Where are Timmy and that nerd Jimmy?"
Everybody hated Jimmy. They always mocked and tried to hurt him. They never knew where they got that from. "They'll be here soon." Danny said. "So, where are those pictures you're looking for?"
"Uh…I think it's this box." Spongebob said. He blew off the dust from the top of the box, which got into Danny's lung, making him cough and wheeze. He opened the lid of the box and seemed stunned. "How weird…" He picked up a picture of the four Nicktoons wearing tannish cloaks with stitches all over it in what appears to be a lab. "When did we take this picture?"
Danny leaned over Spongebob's shoulder and gazed in awe at the picture. "I don't know…that doesn't look like Jimmy's lab, and I don't even remember wearing a tan cloak…Wait, I think there's something written on the back…"
~Nicktoons: Ties of the Heart~
This story doesn't start here. It starts a few years before the events of the destruction of the Evil Syndicate. Our story starts off with Spongebob on his way to work at the Krusty Krab. He bursted through the door and shouted. "GOOD MORNING KRUSTY CREW!"
Squidward covered his ears. "Spongebob!" he shouted. "Can't you enter work like a normal human being? Dull and bored."
"Silly Squidward! It's impossible to be bored when you have such a fantastic job at the Krusty Krab!" Spongebob skipped into his workplace, and Squidward gave a heavy sigh. Just then, a tall man wearing a tannish cloak covered in stitches, hood up, approached the register. Squidward go his notepad and pencil and said "What'll it be?"
"…The connections have been corrupt…" the man in the cloak said in a very faint voice. "…The collapse of Nick…it is approaching…at an alarming rate…we must join together…"
Squidward wasn't amused. "Look, sir. Order something or get out! You're holding up the line!" The man was silent for a while. He looked through the little window and saw Spongebob peering through it. The man just turned around and started to walk away, and a few steps in he faded away. Squidward raised his eyebrow. "Weirdo…"
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"Hey guys! Wait up!"
Danny was running to his friends, Sam and Tucker, who had gotten ahead of him on their way to school. He stopped in front of them, panting. "You can't expect us to wait THAT long for you." Sam said when Danny caught up.
"Yeah, I know…I overslept. You wouldn't believe how many ghost I had to fight last night. Well, enough of that. Come on, school starts soon." Danny said, then walking with his friends to school. When they got to the next block, Danny stopped for a second, and stared down a long, dark ally. In that ally was the same man that was at the Krusty Krab.
"…The connections have been corrupted…" the man said again. Danny quickly went in his ghost form and started to use his energy blasts on the man, but they were just reflected by an invisible force field. "…The collapse of Nick…it is approaching…at an alarming rate…we must join together…" The man started to walk toward Danny, and as he was about to ram into him, the man faded away. Danny looked very confused. "What was that all about…?" Danny said to himself.
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Timmy poofed to the front of his school thanks to Cosmo and Wanda. He walked up the stairs to his school, when he looked to his right and saw the same man. "…The connections have been corrupted...the collapse of Nick…it is approaching…at an alarming rate…we must join togeth – HEY!" Timmy barely paid attention to the man, and just kept walking up the stairs. The man sighed. "Attention span of a rodent…" The man walked and faded away.
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"I think I almost got it…"
Jimmy was tweaking his new invention a little. Godard was next to him, whimpering. "Aw, don't worry Godard!" Jimmy assured. "I've got everything under control!" A few moments after he said that, his last tweak made the invention explode, making Jimmy fly onto the ceiling, and then fall on the ground, burnt and near fainting. Godard stood next to him, but ran away when he saw the man. He hovered over Jimmy. "…The connections have been corrupted…"
"Huh…?"
"…The collapse of Nick…it is approaching…at an alarming rate…we must join together…" with that the man stopped hovering over Jimmy. When Jimmy sprang up, he looks around and the man was gone. "What was that all about…?"
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"It was the weirdest thing…" Danny said after school, walking home with Sam and tucker, trying to explain the thing that happened before school.
"Are you sure it WASN'T a ghost?" Tucker asked.
"Positive. If it was a ghost that weird ghost breathe thing would have come out of my mouth…It's just….URF-" Danny suddenly collapsed onto the floor, being very dizzy He could barely hear the voice of his friends. "Da…y!" "He….Som....!" The only thing he could make out was someone else. "Ximian requests you come…" Suddenly, Danny fainted and then faded away.
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Timmy plopped his backpack on the floor of his room. He had just gotten home from a long day at school. He didn't show it, but he was still curious who that guy was earlier. He was about to plop onto his bed when his eyes bulged. There, on his bed, was Danny. He sighed. "DAD!" Timmy screamed "THERE'S A HOBO IN MY BED!" No answer. He sighed. He grabbed a bat from the corner of his room and started whacking Danny with it. "OW!" Danny screamed. He grabbed the bat from Timmy. "Stop swinging that bat at me you little twerp!"
Timmy rolled his eyes. "Please, I get called that all the time! I'm not gonna be bothered by it when some hobo says it."
"Huh? I'm not a hobo you little idiot! Do I LOOK like a hobo. Wait, where…" Danny looked around the room. "Oh no…" Danny jumped off the bed. "Hey, kid, where am I?"
"This is MY room in Dimmsdale! How could you not know that!?"
"Well –"
"HEY, TWERP!" Vicky shouted from downstairs.
"Oh no!" Timmy said. "Vicky's here! You, out!"
"What-" Danny said, but was interrupted when Timmy pushed him out the window. "OW! Little twerp…"
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"What is Danny doing in DIMMSDALE!?" the man yelled, slamming his fists on the keyboard.
The man was in a very dark room. The only thing visible was a huge computer, where there was one, spinning seat in front of the computer. Sitting in the seat was someone, about boy size, was sitting the seat, shaking, wearing the same cloak as the man, hood up. His shoes were visible: they were a white on the bottom and red on the top, with white stripes on the red part. "I – I'm sorry, Master Ximian! I'm not familiar with all this teleport stuff! I – I'll get him here! Along with Timmy, Spongebob and Danny too!" The boy spun the chair to face the computer and started typing. Just then, a very small creature, also wearing the cloak, hood up, holding a tiny umbrella, jumped onto Ximian's shoulder.
"Geez, Ximian." The creature said. "You don't have to be so hard on the little guy."
"He is ignorant. He needs a little straightening out." Ximian said, as he left with the creature on his shoulder. The boys head drooped down. Ximian still went on. "You two are the only ones who were willing to help these four's worlds. I suggest that if you want to help, you give it your all. Or else!"
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I'll post Chapter 2 now and we'll be all caught up.