Pollution in Bikini Bottom

Pollution in Bikini Bottom

"Time to wake up Gary!" SpongeBob said, after his alarm went off. The snail was sound asleep. SpongeBob stretched his arms. The snail didn't wake up.

"Gary, didn't you hear me?" Spongebob asked the sleeping snail. "Its morning, time to wake up. The snail was still fast asleep. Then SpongeBob snapped his fingers.

"Maybe you're wake up once you smell your breakfast." Then SpongeBob got to work filling Gary's food bowl up with Snail Nip.

"Ok Gary, come and get it!" SpongeBob shouted. SpongeBob went to his room when Gary didn't come a few minutes later. He gasped when he got to his room, Gary was still sleeping!

"What's wrong with you buddy?" SpongeBob asked. "Didn't you smell breakfast? You didn't stay up past your bedtime, did you? Time to wake up!" He poked his snail's eyestalks. The snail open his eyes part way.

"Gary, are you OK?

"Meow." Gary replied weakly.

"What's wrong with your voice? Are you sick? You don't sound like yourself."

"Meow." He said weakly.

"Here let me take your temperature." SpongeBob ran to get a thmoneter, when he had one, he quickly raced back upstairs to his room and took the snail's temperature.

"101 degrees?" Said SpongeBob when he took the thermomer out of the snail's mouth, and read the thermometer. "Oh my gosh Gary no wonder you stayed asleep, you caught a fever!"

"Meow." Said Gary stiffly.

"What do you mean the outside air made you sick?"

"Meow."

"Well that's silly talk; the outside air doesn't make you sick."

"Meow."

"No it doesn't. And to prove my point, lets go outside and smell the fresh air." SpongeBob began to walk toward the door.

"Meow!" Gary tried to stop him but it was too late. His owner already was outside, smelling the air.

"See Gary?" he replied. "Nothing wrong here, just fresh…" Suddenly he smelled something awful. He tightly plugged his nose.

"What is that awful smell?" he asked himself. "It smells like dead skunk fish and Chili dog breath combined." He quickly went to get a clothespin, put it around his nose, and went back outside.

"Is this what you smelled Gary?" he asked his pet.

"Meow." the snail said, nodding.

"No wonder you're so sick, this smell reeks."

"Meow." Gary agreed. If he wasn't so sick, he would've meowed "I told you so I told you so" but instead he slithered back to his bed to sleep some more.

"Horrible smell or not, I must make it to work!" SpongeBob told himself. He shut the door, locked it, and started down the walk to the Krusty Krab.

"Hey Squidward." SpongeBob said when he passed the Easter island head shaped house. The house remained silent.

"Wow Squidward must already be at the Krusty Krab." SpongeBob told himself. He walked pass Patrick's house.

"Hey Patrick!" said SpongeBob. Again, absolute silence.

"Must be sleeping." Spongebob said. "He'll sleep through anything, except to go to get free doughnuts if he had the opportunity."

When he got to the Krusty Krab, the door was locked. He waited outside, when no one answered. He fond the keys on the ground, picked it up, unlocked the door, and went inside.

"Hey Mr. Krabs," SpongeBob replied. "The door was locked, so I opened it for you." he looked around. There was no one there.

"Mr Krabs?" SpongeBob asked. Absolute silence.

"That's odd," SpongeBob told himself. "I wonder why no one can hear me." He went to Mr. Krab's office door and looked through the window. Mr. Krabs wasn't there.

"Hmmm, I wonder where everyone went." SpongeBob thought to himself. Then he snapped his fingers again.

"I know! I'll surprise Mr. Krabs and pay him a visit!" he went out the door and headed toward his boss's house.

He ringed the doorbell when he got there. No one answered; He tried again, still no answer.

"Oh well, I guess I'll have to go solo today." SpongeBob said. He was about to leave when Mr. Krabs ansewred the door. He had curlers on his head, and wearing his night cap and pajamas.

"SpongeBob?" he answered weakly. "What are you doing here?"

"Hey Mr. Krabs!" said SpongeBob. Then he looked at Mr. Krab's jamies.

"Aren't you going to work? It's not Sunday." He told his boss.

"Can't." He replied. "I'm sick."

"Then I can run the Krusty Krab for you."

"You won't get any customers."

"Why not?"

"Perch Perkins said everyone is in bed sick today."

"Wait a minute, how does he know?"

"There's a large darkness covering the sea, making everyone sick."

"Was Perch sick too?"

"Yup. That's why he did the news on his bed. Now go home boy, before you catch the sickness too." With that Mr. Krabs went back inside his house, and closed the door.

"Maybe Sandy knows what's going on." SpongeBob said, and went to Sandy's tree dome.

When he got there he put on his water helmet, opened the door, opened the second door, and went into the dome. Sandy has having launch by herself on her picnic table. When she saw SpongeBob, she stopped eating and looked at him.

"What do you want SpongeBob?" She asked him.

"Sandy it's terrible!" He said. "Perch Perkins said that everyone is sick."

"Oh no, it's must be the pollution!" she replied.

"What's pollution?"

"It's when humans cover the ocean with black stuff, killing all the innocent sea creatures."

"That's horrible!"

"I know."

"We should go up there and stop them?" Sandy got off the table.

"You mean go on land and persuade them ourselves?"

"That's exactly what I mean."

"I don't know SpongeBob." She started putting her lunch away.

"Why not? He asked. "We've been on land before."

"But you were closer to home then, and besides no one will listen to a talking kitchen sponge like yourself, plus it'll be too dangerous."

"No it won't if you come along."

"Forget it SpongeBob! There's no way I'm going to convince the whole world to stop polluting the oceans!" She sounded mad.

"Oh please Sandy!" SpongeBob got on his knees and begged. "Please Sandy, Bikini Bottom is our home, and it shouldn't be destroyed!"

"But how can we convince them? We'll just a land critter and a sea critter, they won't believe us!"

"Please Sandy! Just let us try! I don't want us to parish!"

"Ok!" Sandy finely agreed. "We can go if it'll make you happy."

"Yahoo!" SpongeBob cheered getting up. "I knew you wouldn't let us down!"

"Now let's go before it gets dark." Sandy told him.

"Don't worry we will," SpongeBob told her. So they left the tree dome after Sandy put on her space suit, and headed upwards to the surface.

"You know SpongeBob," Sandy sad as they were walking. "It's great we're doing this, espially on Earth Day."

"What's Earth Day?" SpongeBob asked.

"It's a holiday where we celebrate mother earth." She explained.

"Earth is our mother?"

"Mother of life like plants, trees, animals, and water."

"Then they should already know not to pollute the oceans, shouldn't they?"

"Some people do. But some people are greedy and do it anyways."

"Then let's go and teach those meanies not to kill sea life."

So off they went to say what's right for sea creatures everywhere.