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Chapter 2: Failure
[Location: Bikini Bottom]
As the sun rises from the east on a clear morning over the island with three palm trees, we turn our attention down below in the sea. There we find a sign that says 'Bikini Bottom'. But my introduction doesn't capture the mood at the moment so I will turn the introduction to the French narrator.
French Narrator: Ah, Bikini Bottom, so beautiful, majestic, and well, wet. It is here that we find my favorite creature in all the 7 seas: SpongeBob Squarepants.
We join one of the best sea creatures in all of history in his pineapple house. Going through the upstairs window, the sight of a snail with a pink shell sleeping with his eyes in the opening of the shell can be seen on a pad of used newspapers. To the left of this snail, a triple bunk bed resides with a purple blanket with flowers sown into it. Resting underneath those covers is the owner of this pineapple: the one called SpongeBob Squarepants. All was quiet in the household but this silence will be broken soon enough by the notice of the horn-mounted alarm clock which reads 6:59.
Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, sprung.
[The clock hits 7:00]
HONK! HONK! HONK!
A ship's horn is blaring out from the alarm clock waking anybody in the immediate area, including the two occupants in the room. After a few seconds of the loud horn, SpongeBob reaches his hand out from the covers and presses the red button that turns off the horn. After a second or two, the covers are sprung from the bed and the young spongy hero arises from his slumber.
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDD DD MORNING BIKINI BOTTOM!" SpongeBob screams out. Then he looks down at his pet snail, who has just woken up from the alarm and SpongeBob's screaming. "Good morning, Gary."
"Meow, Meow." Gary meows as he slithers away.
"Today is going to be a great day!" SpongeBob said as he jumps off the bed and walks to the bathroom.
After a good shower along with brushing his teeth and grabbing a pair of his signature brown pants with a white shirt and a red tie with a pair of white socks with a red and blue stripe on each sock and his black shiny shoes, he walks down the stairs from his bedroom and opens the door to the living room. From there, he walks into the kitchen to get some breakfast. First he walks to the cupboard and grabs a cereal bowl. Next, he reaches down to the utensils drawer and grabs a spoon. Then he takes the bowl and the spoon over to the table and sets them down. Next he goes over to the food pantry and takes a box of Kelpos back to the table. Then he walks over to the refrigerator and opens the door. He grabs the carton of seahorse milk and closes the door. Then he walks back to the table and fills the bowl with Kelpos and milk. After that, he picks up the spoon and starts eating the Kelpo. While he is eating, he hears a meow from behind him. He turns around and sees Gary looking at his empty food bowl.
"Oh, Gary." SpongeBob said. "I haven't gotten your breakfast ready yet. Well, hang on buddy; I will get you some right now."
After running over to the bag of snail food and filling Gary's food bowl, he gets back to eating his Kelpo while Gary eats his breakfast.
Shortly after eating his Kelpo, he walks into the living room and walks right to the hat rack. The hat rack had only one hat on it: his Krusty Krab uniform hat. His hat was just a tall skinny hat with an anchor in it. He reaches his hand up and grabs the hat off the rack. Then he puts it on his head and walks towards the door.
"I'm going to work, Gar-Bear. Don't have too much fun without me." SpongeBob said as he gave out his trademark laugh and opens his unique door. After SpongeBob leaves, Gary quickly slithers to the chair and starts watching "Walker, Texas Ranger".
When SpongeBob makes it outside his pineapple house, he cries out, "I'm Ready!" He runs down his path onto the street and starts to run towards town. He passes Squidward's monument house, who has already ran to work to get an hour without SpongeBob. Then he passes his best friend in the world's rock, which opens up when SpongeBob is directly in front of it. The rock opens up and reveals a sea star wearing his traditional green shorts with purple flowers on it laying on the bottom surface of the rock.
"Hey, SpongeBob!" Patrick said as he jumps from his rock and the rock closes.
"Hi ya Patrick." SpongeBob said. "So what are you going to do today?"
"Well, I was going to just stand right in that very spot and attempt to break my standing record." Patrick said. "Then maybe later I will take a nap."
"Sounds like a busy day for you." SpongeBob said. Then he looks down at his watch that says 7:54. "Oh, No! I'm going to be late for work. I better get going." Then he starts to run towards downtown. "I'll talk to you later buddy."
"Okay, SpongeBob, bye!" Patrick said as he starts to break his standing record.
SpongeBob runs as fast as he can through the streets of Bikini Bottom, dodging boats and people, hoping not to be late. After a few tense minutes, SpongeBob reaches his destination: The Krusty Krab. He opens the glass doors and run towards the kitchen when a voice stops him.
"SpongeBob!" the voice said, "You're late again, boy."
SpongeBob turns around to see his boss, Mr. Krabs looking at him. He was in his regular attire which consists of a light blue shirt and dark blue pants with a big buckle holding them up.
"Ahoy Mr. Krabs." SpongeBob said nervously as he puts his right hand over his face. "I'm sorry I'm late; please don't fire me, PLEASE!"
"I won't fire ya, this time at least." Mr. Krabs said. "Now get into the kitchen or else I will dock you of a mouth's pay." [A whole 5 cents]
SpongeBob stammers and says, "Yes Mr. Krabs, Sir!" Then he rushes to his workstation in a puff while Mr. Krabs walks by Squidward who was sleeping though most of this incident and walks into his office to count his money.
[2 hours later]
The Krusty Krab wasn't very pack at the current moment, (probably because it's only 10:00 and the lunch rush hasn't come in yet). There were a few customers enjoying the deliciousness of the best burger in all the 7 seas: The Krabby Patty. Squidward, who was in his traditional tan shirt and Krusty Crew uniform, was sitting around reading the latest issue of "House Fancy". SpongeBob was in the kitchen flipping Krabby Patties on the grill. Mr. Krabs was in his office counting all the money in his possession and hugging it like it's a long lost friend. All was peaceful in the Krusty Krab. But, someone was going to visit the Krusty Krab and that person is up to no good.
Crawling along the wall was to most people an ordinary spider (didn't know spiders could live underwater) heading towards Mr. Krab's office. The spider crawls to the top of the top of the door and waits for about 5 minutes. Then, the door opens and Mr. Krabs comes walking out heading towards the men's room. Before the door closes, the spider crawls though the open door and enters the office with the door closing behind. The spider quickly crawls to the top of the desk and stops. Then the spider stands up onto two legs and starts to shed. But this spider wasn't an ordinary spider, this spider is none other than Plankton, owner of The Chum Bucket and Mr. Krab's rival. When he sheds his spider disguise, he looks towards the safe on the back wall where the Krabby Patty Secret Formula, the one thing that could bring business to the Chum Bucket, was stored. Then he laughs in an evil way.
(Laugh) "Soon Krabs, the secret formula will belong to me!" Plankton said.
He jumps up to the combination lock and puts in the combo while running on the tumbler. When the combo is put in, the safe opens up and the formula, in a glass bottle, is revealed. Plankton's eye opens wide and he takes the bottle out of the safe. Then he jumps down to the floor and starts to run as fast as he could to the door.
"I got it baby!" Plankton cries out as he runs to the door with the formula in hand. Then the door opens revealing a ticked Mr. Krabs with toilet paper on his left leg.
"KRABS!" Plankton yells. "I thought you had to answer nature's call."
"Well, looks like she is still on hold, Plankton." Mr. Krabs said as he picks the bottle up along with the small intruder. Then he holds Plankton in his claw tightly. "You will NEVER steal this formular as long as I live."
"Curse you Krabs!" Plankton said. "I will get that formula even if it takes forever."
"Yea, yea, yea." Mr. Krabs said as he walks to the front of the Krusty Krab. "But now it's launching time for you, you little one-eye bug." Then, he threw the bug back towards the Chum Bucket.
"I will get you for this!" Plankton yells as he goes through the double doors of the Chum Bucket. As he lands in the Chum Bucket, he says, "Ouch."
"When will the bug ever learn that he won't get my formular? Oh well, back to me money!" Mr. Krabs said to himself as he goes back into the Krusty Krab and walks back to his office.
Shortly after Plankton scraps himself off of the dirty floor in his restaurant, he sits up and his eye starts to fill with tears of sadness.
[Crying]
"This is hopeless!" he cried out, "I'll never going to get the Krabby Patty Formula. I have tried for years and years and yet I still can't find a way to steal it for good."
He walks into his laboratory still feeling blue when Karen, his computer wife, notices him coming tough the double doors from her wall monitor.
"So, how bad was it this time?" Karen said.
"I don't want to talk about it, Karen; it's too painful to talk about." Plankton answers to his wife.
"That bad, huh?" She asked.
"Yes, that bad." He answered. [Starts to get angry] "I'm sick of being launched by that stingy Krab. I want to have that formula and I will do anything to get it even if I have to …" Just then, a buzzing sound could be heard. "Karen, is that you making that noise?"
"It's not me, my husband." Karen said.
"Then where is that buzzing coming from?" he asked.
He didn't have to wait too long for an answer as a small metal ball came flying though the double doors into the laboratory. The ball stops in front of Plankton and a beam come flying out of the bottom of it. This beam materializes and reveals an old 'friend'. This 'friend' is none other than Vlad Plasmius.
"Plankton, my old acquaintance." Vlad said.
"Vlad Plasmius?" Plankton said. "What do you want this time?"
"I was hoping that you would consider rejoining the Syndicate."
"No chance! Last time I was squash by the menacing SpongeBob and his friends, and I'm not going to risk that again."
"Come now Plankton. Last time you weren't ready for these accuses heroes and this time, we have a new plan that includes you getting the 'Krabby Patty Formula'."
"Well, I have been wanting to get my revenge on them and I do really want the formula." He thought for a few moments of having the Krabby Patty at the Chum Bucket and ruling the world. "Okay, Vlad, I'll join only if I can get the formula and to rule all the 7 seas."
"Deal. We will bring you to our new base in one hour. Have your things ready and we will fill you in on our plans. Vlad out." The beam disappeared and the ball left the room.
[Evil laugh]
"There will not be anybody that can stop me NOW!" Plankton said.
[More evil laughter]
[Location: Tremorton, USA]
[Quick note: Sorry to interrupt this chapter but I would like to give you an insight for all of you that aren't familiar with this part. Tremorton is a town where the style is the early 1970's but the year that this event is happening is the year 2072. Thank you and you may continue with reading this part]
It is a quiet morning in the town of Tremorton. The streets had a few cars and trucks going to their destinations. The sight of people walking up and down the sidewalks with their robotic pets and hover skateboards could be seen. Everything was peaceful, at least for the current moment. But the peacefulness was all but gone just a few blocks away.
The sight of downtown looks more like a battle zone especially for this battle. The citizens were running for their lives hoping to find shelter. Flying over their heads were strange alien creatures, wreaking havoc over the city by blasting anything that is worth blasting. Then, a squad of these creatures flew down to the ground and landed. These creatures resemble beetles in a certain way but were much larger and menacing. These 'beetles' were all the same except that half of them were burnt orange while the other half were lime green. They were soldiers of the group called the 'Cluster'. The Cluster were once intelligent robots with the intention of conquering all machines in the universe but since the reform of Cluster Prime [home world of the Cluster], they were at peace.
But, there was a group of rebel Cluster soldiers that didn't want peace. These rebels are led by the former military commander of the Cluster: Smythus. Smythus was almost like the other Cluster soldiers except he was bigger and stronger plus he has the appearance of a beetle version of a samurai. He gathered a few of the Cluster that were still loyal to his cause and went across the universe to continue their plans of ruling all machines and to enslave the human race as a bonus. The Cluster were blasting cars and buildings with their blaster rifles while Smythus was waiting overhead on his hover platform watching his army destroying everything in sight. The sound of people screaming in terror puts a big creepy smile on his robotic face.
"Ah." Smythus said. "There is nothing I like more than the sight of humans in terror especially in the morning." He gave a small evil laugh. "Hear me, my soldiers, cause more destruction to this world, for this world is OURS!"
Just as the fun was getting started for the Cluster, there was a sound coming overhead. This sound was a whooshing noise, like the sound of a jet engine. Before they could look up, five of them were hit by missiles and blew up on contact. The ones that were still up face behind them and see who was firing upon them. Landing down onto the street was the protector of the town: the robot known as XJ9 [aka Jenny Wakeman]. As she landed on the street, her blue rocket thrusters on her head changed back to look like pigtails. She was wearing her usual light blue tank top and miniskirt. The soldiers all turn to each other, wondering what they should do now. Smythus flew over them, wondering why they stopped attacking the town.
"Why have you stopped?" Smythus asked them. "I order you to…." As he was going to give the order, he notices the very thing that was stopping them. "…you!"
"The only order that you are going to give is the order of surrender, Smythus." Jenny said.
[Small evil laugh]
"That is what you think, Ms. XJ9." Smythus said. "When this world falls, the universe will see the glorious return of the Cluster." He turns back to his soldiers. "Get her!"
The soldiers aim their blaster right at Jenny and fire a red laser beam from their blasters. As they were firing, Jenny shifted her arms together to make a deflecting shield. The laser blasts bounce right off her and a few of the blast bounce back right at a few of the soldiers. The remaining soldiers charge right at her and start firing more laser shots. Thinking on her feet, Jenny shift her arms back to normal and her pig tails turn into her thrusters. She took flight and hover right over the incoming soldiers. Then, both her hands shifted into lasers while a blast monocle covers her right eye which locked onto her target. When the targets were set, she starts to fire upon the soldiers with small blue energy blasts and with each shot, each solider flew down and deactivated. After a few intense minutes of blasting, every one of Smythus's army were either deactivated or destroyed, leaving only the leader left for himself.
"My army!" He said, "Gone." Then he looked at Jenny, he landed back onto the ground. "You will pay for this, XJ9."
He reaches down to his left hip and pulls out his blade. He put the blade in front of him, ready to fight.
"And you shall pay with your robotic body." He said as he jumps down from his hovering platform and lands on the ground.
"We will see about that." Jenny said as she turns both her arms into sharp sabers.
Smythus ran straight at Jenny with his blade firm in hand. Then he jumps into the air over Jenny and tries to attack her from her back side but Jenny was ready for that trick and counterattacks with a flurry of slashes. Smythus puts his blade in front of him vertically so he could guard himself from Jenny's sabers. After a few minutes, Jenny stopped because she was tired and needed a quick rest, which gave Smythus the opportunity he was waiting for. He jumps up into the air and places his blade in his hands with the blade facing towards the ground. Then, he fell towards the earth, ready to end this battle. Jenny quickly looks up and sees the attacking Smythus. She moves to the right away from the blade. As Smythus's blade landed on the ground, a cloud of dust fills the air.
"Ha, ha!" Smythus said though the dust. "I have you now." When the dust clears, he finds out that jenny wasn't beneath his blade.
"Where… where did she go?" he asked himself.
Before he could answer his own question, he fells a tap on his shoulder. He turns his head around and spots Jenny with his left hand now a big fist with spikes on the knuckles.
"I'm right here Smythus." Jenny said. "But you won't be here for that long."
She pulls her arm back and brings it forward with the strength of a million and 70 men. She hit Smythus right in the gut which made him go flying towards the woods surrounding the town.
"Time to make sure that he will surrender." Jenny said as she power up her pig tail thrusters. As she was ready to blast off, she heard the sound of the bell. She turns towards the direction of the high school and sees that the clock on the school says '8:15'.
"Oh my Gosh! I'm going to be late." She said as she faces and flies towards the high school in a streak of blue and white light. "Looks like Smythus gets off easy today."
Meanwhile, on the outskirt of town, Smythus was falling down from the massive punch courtesy of Jenny and her big knuckle. After a few moments, he lands on the ground with a big 'thud' while his blade lands about 25 feet from his landing zone. He slowly gets up and brushes off the dirt from his armor. Then he faces Tremorton in disgrace.
"She will pay for what she did to me and my army." He said to himself. "Mark my words, she will…" Just then, his right wrist starts to blink with a red light. He puts his arm up so he can see who is contacting him. Then, a hologram appears on his wrist. This hologram reveals a strange figure. This figure had the appearance of a queen bee except in a robotic form.
"Smythus! Report." The hologram said in a sinister seductive voice.
"My queen," he said, "The attack didn't go as plan. All of my forces are gone because of the accursed XJ9."
"I see." She said, "So your incompetence cost up more of our warriors."
"No, my queen, it's just…"
"Silence! You have failed me for the last time, Smythus. As of right now, you are relieved of your duties."
"But I…"
"Enough! You are on our own now Smythus. Good-bye!" Then the hologram faded away.
Smythus took a deep breath and walks slowly to his blade. When he reaches the blade, his wrist starts blinking again. He picks up his blade and puts it back to his side. Then he picks up the transmission hoping it was his queen giving him his job back but instead, a mysterious figure was being shown.
"Who are you?" Smythus asked the mysterious man.
"The name is Vlad Plasmius and I have a deal for you Smythus." The figure said.
"A deal? What makes you think that you can give me what I want?"
"Because I have a plan that will make you ruler of the universe that should belong to the likes of the Cluster. Also, you will be able to have a grander army that will crush all of you enemies, including the one called 'XJ9'."
"Okay Plasmius, if you let me conquer the universe including this worthless planet then I will join your cause. But if you are lying to me, then I will take it all for myself."
"Don't you worry about that. You will get all that you deserve. I will have a portal ready for you in about 30 minutes. We will inform you of the plan and assemble your new army."
"I'll be waiting."
"Excellent. Vlad out." Then the hologram of Vlad disappears, leaving Smythus alone. He turns towards the town again, only with determination and anger in his expression.
"This world, no, ALL worlds will belong to the Cluster and everyone will be loyal only to ME!" He said as he grips his hand. "I will rule over all! So says me, Emperor Smytus!"
What is Vlad planning?
Will Plankton take over Bikini Bottom?
Will the Cluster take the world?
Stay tuned and find out.
Author's notes: Hello all my readers. I hope you have enjoyed Ch. 2 for the most part. On to Ch. 3!