Chapter 1- Playtime with SpongeBob

A set of cardboard boxes are seen lying on the floor of a bedroom. They're drawn up in crayon to make it look like buildings. The walls are lined with cloud wallpaper to give an impression of the blue sky. One building has a wanted poster of a green monster with a trashcan top and trashcan bottom around his body. The name of the wanted character is Oscar the Grouch, who is offering a $1,0000,000 reward. A boy's hand holds out the same toy monster with a gun taped to its hand.

"All right, everyone! This is a stick-up! So nobody moves!" The child's voice said. A set of dolls and action figures have their hands up as if they are Oscar's slaves. "Now empty out that vault!"

The boy gets out a ceramic piggy bank of a Rockhopper penguin with a necklace made with a shell and has a Z on it. His name is Cody Maverick. The boy shakes out a few coins. "Ooh hoo hoo! Money money money!" He made the Grouch toy kiss the coins greedily.

"Stop it, stop it, you mean old Grouch!" The boy made an Abby Cadabby porcelain figure say.

"Can it, Abby, or say goodbye to your frog prince!"

A small green crowned frog sits on a Hot Wheels track right in the path of danger. "Help! Ribbit! Help me!"

"Oh, no! Not my prince! Somebody do something!" Abby cried.

The boy gets out a floppy pull string doll of based off a yellow young sea sponge with wide blue eyes. His outfit consists of a plain white shirt, a red necktie, brown shorts with a black leather belt, knee-high white socks with red and blue stripes, and black leather shoes. On his head, he wears a blue mask with a bubble wand on top. He brings the sponge boy doll over to the scene, facing the inanimate Grouch, and the boy's finger pulls at the small white ring on the back of the sponge's white shirt, followed by a string. "Stop this madness! Stop it right now!"

"Oh no! SpongeBob SquarePants!" The boy said as Oscar, as if he recognized the hero of the story.

"I'm here to stop you, One-Eyed Grouch!" he said as SpongeBob. The boy popped out one of Oscar's eyes. "D'OOOH! How do you know my identity!"

"Are you gonna come quietly or not?" The boy made the sponge toy ask.

"You can't touch me, SpongeBob! I brought my attack dog!" He sets down a red toy dog with a red slinky for a mid-section named Clifford in front of Oscar. "He's got a built in energy force field!"

"Well, I brought my lion!" The boy gets out a figure of a brown lion with a mane shaped like an upside down pentagon. His name is Alex the Lion. "He eats up force field dogs!"

The boy made Alex roar and attack Clifford. He then drags him away while saying, "Yipe yipe yipe yipe!"

"You're going to jail, Grouch!" 'SpongeBob' said as the boy picked up his Oscar doll and dropped him in a crib. A piece of paper is hung on the bars with the word JAIL scrawled in red crayon. "Say goodbye to the wife and baby Grouches!"

The boy's baby sister, Nina, finds the Oscar toy and picks him up and drools on the toy's face, then as a result, she starts pounding him on the railing of his crib. The defeated villain's arm falls near SpongeBob. The sponge toy's owner is Michael "Mike" Wilson. He has fair skin, black hair, and green eyes. He wears a blue mask like SpongeBob's himself. It turns out Mike was playing with his toys and creates adventures and his own stories using his imagination. From dolls to action figures, Spongebob is the most favorite. He picks up SpongeBob from the floor and cheered, "You saved the day again, SpongeBob!"

He pulled his string again, and SpongeBob's voice box replied, "You're the best pal ever!"

You got a friend in me
You got a friend in me

Mike begins to do various activities with his SpongeBob doll. He turns around some boxes with scallops drawn on the other side.

"Come on, let's wrangle up those scallops." Mike said. He uses a jump rope lasso to 'catch' the scallops.

When the road looks rough ahead
And you're miles and miles from your nice warm bed
Just remember what your old pal said, boy, you got a friend in me

He then places SpongeBob on a Lightning McQueen toy car. He uses a remote control to steer him into another box. He picks up SpongeBob again and slaps him high five.

Yeah, you got a friend in me

"Hey, Spongie!"

Out in the hallway, he gives SpongeBob a piggy back ride, making him look like he's swimming through a beautiful underwater environment picture.

Some other folks might be a little bit smarter than I am

They reach the stairs and Mike puts him on the banister. "Come on SpongeBob!" Mike clamored down the stairs and SpongeBob kept on sliding until he fell off and he was caught in his hands.

Maybe, but none of them will ever love you the way I do

He hugs his favorite toy affectionately, then heads into the living room. Mike jumps into a recliner, along with SpongeBob and they spin around and around.

It's me and you, boy
And as the years go by, our friendship will never die
You're going to see it's our destiny

After spinning, they come to a complete stop. Laughing playfully, he sets down SpongeBob onto the floor, and pulls a lever on the recliner's side. The footrest pops up, and SpongeBob is sent flying through the air.

You got a friend in me

"All right!" Mike cheered. SpongeBob flipped in the air, then landed on a sofa's arm, and he is propped up for a second.

Yeah, you got a friend in me

"Score!" Mike cheered.

You got a friend in me

As SpongeBob lay limp on his side, Mike walked into the kitchen. It is Mike's birthday party. The family is having an impending move to a new house. There were colorful helium balloons bobbing on their strings, and streamers decorated the ceiling and walls. He was turning 6 years old the following week, but his father decided to have the birthday party today. A banner hung across the archway read HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIKE!

"What do you think?" Mike's dad, Larry asked.

"Oh, this looks great, Dad!" Mike said.

"You really are excited, huh, Mike?"

"You betcha. We saw all of this at the store and I have asked you for it!" Mike said. He is just as excited as ever about the party. The inanimate SpongeBob's face stared in the direction of Mike's party. "Can we leave this up until we move?"

"Well sure! Anything for you, buddy!" Larry said.

"Yeah!" Mike cheered, his energetic attitude never leaving him.

"Now go get Nina, your friends will be here any minute." Larry suggested.

"Okay." Mike picks up SpongeBob from the couch's arm and said, "It's party time, SpongeBob! WHOO-HOO!" He ran back up the stairs, then he opened the door to his room, where Nina is still pulverizing Oscar. Even Mike is amused by his sister's antics. He makes SpongeBob wave to Nina. "Hello, little lady!" Shrieking and giggling, Nina tosses down the remnants of the evil Oscar to the floor. Over at the bed, he pulls on SpongeBob's string one more time and sets him down on his bed. "You poisoned all these people!"

Mike hoists Nina from her crib and takes her downstairs to the party. "Come on Nina! Oh, you're getting heavy already. See you later, SpongeBob!"

The door closes, and the room falls into silence. Suddenly, the pull-string sponge boy's eyes blink, and he starts moving. He comes alive! His smile changes to a look of concern.

He sits up, and said to himself, his mouth moving, "Pull my string! The birthday party's today?" He thinks for a minute and called out to the room, "OK, everybody, the coast is clear!"