Chapter 2 : Plankton's Ghost

It is 10:30 PM, the party is continuing to go smoothly, Patrick Star is having an arm wrestling contest with Bubble Bass, Gary The Snail is in a hop scotch competition with Mermaidman and Barnacleboy, Squidward is in the crows nest to be away from people and reading his green book, is charging other party goers, notably Old Man Jenkins, $5, to see Krabs chug pickles. Spongebob exits the Kitchen with a fresh load of 50 Krabby Patties. He sets them down which many kids including Patrick Star, who won the wrestling, begin devouring. Larry Lobster comes up and whispers something funny to Spongebob which makes the young sponge emit his loudest and most irritating laugh ever. This catches Squidward by surprise which makes the book jump out of his hands, he tries to grab it but ends up falling out of the crows nest landing into Bubble Bass's butt. "I hate New Years." Exclaims, Squidward. Bubble Bass grabs Squidward and throws him into the salad stand. Old Man Jenkins breaks the fourth wall, "But I don't like Squidward torture writer." Sorry, if I offended you , hopefully that's all. Spongebob comes up and helps Squidward out. Squidward gets angry at Spongebob. "Your regular laugh is annoying enough, WE DON'T NEED A NEW ONE!" Yells, Squidward.

"Sorry, Squid but Larry is so funny." Spongebob gives a thumbs up to Larry who returns the favor while lifting weights with Don the Whale and having Carl the manager tickle Don with a pink feather to make Larry win. "I know we are to be in a brand new year soon Spongebob, but that better be the last laugh for now, COMPESH?!" Spongebob pauses before laughing again thinking compesh is a funny word. "I'm going to the bathroom!" States, an aggravated Squidward. Squidward does just that. Spongebob goes back into the Kitchen to begin cooking another batch of 50 Patties noticing Patrick and those kids have already eaten the previous batch.

Elsewhere, Plankton continues driving along as his tiny boatmobile appears to be driving on its own until it breaks down. Plankton coughs before finally exiting. "Blasted contraption! When I get that formula and my riches, you will be REPLACED!" Plankton kicks the boatmobile causing it to explode,for anyone else, it sounded like a spark but for Plankton, it sounded like a nuclear explosion. Plankton is knocked right against The Krusty Krab. finishes a pickle and hears a thump. He exits outside. "Hello? Hello?" Asks, . "Huh, must've been a coral branch." An invisible Plankton tries to run into the doors but unknowingly shuts them just in time squishing Plankton in between. "THIS IS NOT PLEASANT!" Plankton shouts in a voice very similar to high helium. Plankton struggles several times to squeeze himself out of the big glass doors but eventually succeeds. "Ughhhh, the nerve of the crab!" Plankton, exclaims. Plankton continues running along, thanks to his invisibility, nobody can see him and the Plankton alarm can not detect his presence. Plankton is almost at Mr.K's office, "Almost there!" The tiny Copepod adds on. Suddenly, Plankton notices Karen leading a conga line. Plankton tries to run out of the way but gets squished by the wheels of his own computer wife. He is wheeled around as he screams until finally breaking himself loose. Plankton gets up very injured. "Blasted New Years!" He yells. He runs fast and finally shimmies underneath the tiny opening at the bottom of ' office door.

Meanwhile at the tree dome, Sandy is hastily working away. She is building another invisibility ray but considering it took her 3 weeks to build the first one, she is in more of a rush and has to be done in 1 or 2 minutes or else Plankton might win. She finally finishes and the prototype looks and will probably act nothing like the original but it is her best possible option right now. She then scurries to her boatmobile and tries to get it started but it won't start. Sandy goes to check what's wrong and realizes the battery has been stolen as well as all the gas. Plankton did it to fuel his boat. Sandy is now even more angry.

At The Krusty Krab, Plankton walks up to the safe and begins to be in major glee since he thinks he is finally going to get the formula. He begins to climb up and is ready to crack the safe with his stethoscope until he sees that is not needed and a fingerprint access has been installed to open the safe with any fingerprints. "Krabs is such an idiot! He has it set to any fingerprint, not just his! I should feel bad for him but this is the guy that stepped on me at that homecoming football game many years back Senior Year so… my answer is between no and no barnacle way! If that makes sense!" Plankton puts his hand on the pad to get the Safe open but nothing happens. He tries again and again and again. "Why won't it access?" Plankton looks at the side and the switch is flipped to The on position. "It's on, but it ain't working?!" Plankton however then realizes he is invisible and the pad can not detect his fingerprints. He screams in anger so loudly it scares migrating scallops outside, due to the louder Party, nobody heard him out in the dining area.

In the dining area, Spongebob is refilling the punch when walks up. "Ahoy Mr.K! What do you need?" "Lad, can you go into the back room and get those carpets so that way I can decorate my office, I would like to start 2017 in style, be coral!" states. Pearl has overheard this and says, "Dad, stop embarrassing me!" Pearl then runs off crying. "Well I got to go and calm her down, now scurry away Spongebob!" Spongebob does this task with no hesitation. Sandy finally arrives at The Krusty Krab, very tired out of all that walking. She enters and puts on green goggles.

Spongebob enters the back room and grabs four carpets in the colors of red, yellow, green and magenta and then cuts through The Kitchen and enters ' office. He sets them down and Plankton hears him. Plankton whispers : "Drat! Spongecake's here, I need to keep it down." Spongebob however hears him but doesn't assume it is Plankton. "Uhh, who said that?" "I did." Said, Plankton who quickly shuts his mouth realizing he had to be quiet. "AAAAAAAHHHHHH! IT IS THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE! COMING A WEEK LATE! I HAVE TO RUN FOR MY LIFE!" Spongebob runs out and Plankton giggles a bit. "That went easier than I thought it would!" Plankton then takes out his smoke bomb and tries to open the Safe that way, no success. Plankton gets annoyed, he then takes out a piece of paper and tries to shimmie it in through the bottom but just crumbles the paper, now aggravated, Plankton begins thinking unclearly and tries to kick it open hurting his recovering leg even more. "YELP!" Shouts, Plankton!" Plankton finally loses it and does his stupidest attempt yet, he begins spitting spitballs at the Safe hoping to ruin the fingerprint code and use the old fashioned techniques. He then hears a noise and stops spitting.

Spongebob enters with . " , THERE, THERE, THERE IS A GHOST IN HERE!" "Boy, calm down, now where is this ghost, if it even exists." then notices the spitballs all over his Safe. "SPONGEBOB! WHAT IS THAT?!" "DID YOU SEE THE GHOST?!" "NO! I DID NOT SEE NO GHOST! BUT I DO SEE SPITBALLS, WHY DID YOU SPITBALL MY SAFE?!" "But?! But?! But?!" "NO BUTS! NOW CLEAN YOUR ACT UP OR START THE NEW YEAR OFF WITH ONE LESS GOLDEN STAR!" Spongebob rushes out and returns in a milesecond with his cleaning supplies. leaves. Sandy has been eavesdropping and smiles getting a lead on and believing Spongebob, she just has to figure out how to get inside the office without Krabs noticing. However, she notices pots and pans and gets an idea.

Spongebob continues picking off the spitballs when he hears a groan. Spongebob shakes his legs and teeth. "SPONNNNGEEEEEEBOOOOOB!" Groans, Plankton, pretending to be a ghost. "WHAT DO YOU WANT ?! WHAT DO YOU WANT?!" "Iiiiiiii wantttttttttt oneeeeeeeeeeee thingggggggggg, a pieceeeeeeeee of paperrrrrrrrr innnnnnnnnn a bottlllllllllleeeeeeee." Plankton then notices that Spongebob has peed his pants being so terrified. "Anddddddd afterwardddddssss, getttttt a newwwwwww pair offffffffffff pants!"