Chapter 3: Catching Up
While Billy and Hoss' team were quite ahead from the team led by Granny Grim and Mandy, Granny Grim and the other cooks were still bickering about what sort of dish to out dish the other team.
"So what sort of dish are you two prepared to promote?" asked Granny Grim to Plankton and Ms. Endive.
"I suggest we try to create Marzipan City's most desired dish" replied Ms. Endive.
"Sorry, but something like that is going to take too long even with all of is combined" said Mandy.
"Well, I never" replied Ms. Endive with quite a huff toward Mandy.
"What do you have to suggest?" asked Granny Grim to Plankton.
"Well" replied Plankton, "we can always create a very large Chubby Joe."
"Sorry" said Granny Grim as she noticed the other team making a very large Krabby Patty, "but I think that would be copying the other team. We need to come up with something even bigger than a Monster Krabby Patty. Hmm, how about the Underworld's famous fondue?"
"Hmm, that might actually work to defeat the other team that is making the Monster Krabby Patty" replied Ms. Endive as she looked at a photo of the dish in a cook that Granny Grim had provided everybody with.
"I can certainly see myself cleaning Krabs dry with that sort of dish, then it's agreed!" laughed Plankton with joy.
"Excellent" said Granny Grim, "I say we use the Underworld Fondue as our dish to beat the Monster Krabby Patty for good. So let's get going team!"
As Granny Grim began to instruct her team on what to do, she instructed the Spongebob Bot to make the fondue sauce, while Plankton along with Panini began to make the other ingredients for the fondue.
"Come on Panini, we have to catch up with the other team" said Ms. Endive.
"I'm going as fast as I can" replied Panini, "but I would like more help since Plankton is quite small for the job."
"Small, you're calling me small?!" cried Plankton as he shook his fist at her to which he then got out his remote controller, "Don't you worry these ingredients will be chopped up post hast."
Plankton then pressed the remote control button to which summoned the Spongebob Bot to finish up making the sauce and began to help chopping the ingredients up. While the Spongebob Bot was doing that, Granny Grim and Ms. Endive were getting the large fondue pot ready to place the sauce right into it. They were just about finishing up stirring the fondue for their dish.
"Is everything just about ready?" asked Granny Grim to which Mandy placed her finger in the sauce.
"Almost ready" replied Mandy, "this sauce could use some sort of spice."
"Hmm, I think you're right" said Granny Grim as she then got out an ingredient, "this sauce needs cinnamon, Underworld special."
"Ha, you think that's going to improve the sort of sauce?" laughed Ms. Endive as she got out her own brand of special ingredients, "This is Marzipan version of cinnamon and can work ten times better than your Underworld version."
"Don't go around and trying to mess with my recipe" scolded Granny Grim, "I have more experience to which even you can't dish out."
"Why not just put both of them in?" asked Mandy as she wanted to hurry things up as she noticed the other team was baking the large bread buns for the Monster Krabby Patty, "What harm could it do?"
"See, your apprentice has the right idea" replied Ms. Endive as she began to poor in the Marzipan version of cinnamon into the sauce.
"Fine" said Granny Grim as she took out another sort of spice as she poured the spice into the sauce, "but this spice here from the Underworld would counter to prevent those who taste this sauce from shrinking."
"I hope everything is ready" said Judge Spleen as he came into the scene.
"Don't worry" said Granny Grim as she turned up the heat on the oven as she and Ms. Endive placed the sauce on it, "we just need another hour or so."
"I'll get the test tasters to come here" said Judge Spleen as he left the scene, "I wonder how the other team is handling their dish."
Meanwhile on the other side of the room, the team led by Hoss and Billy were having some trouble trying to find a way to use the grill to flip the large patty that was on it.
"I can't lift that large thing" said Spongebob, "last time I did something like that, it broke my spatula."
"Yea, and he had to get a French model that ran away" added Mr. Krabs.
"This certainly calls for drastic measures" replied Hoss as he removed his metal hand and replaced it with a very large spatula, "now this patty weighs about 50 pounds and since I have been weight lifting, I say I am the only one who is able to lift such a heavy patty."
"Hmm, seems fair to me" said Mung as he began to observe Hoss struggling to lift the large patty to which he managed to succeed in doing so.
"Now all we just have to do is wait for another hour" said Hoss, "a patty this large needs all the time it needs to be heated to perfection."
"Say, look the other team is ahead of us" said Chowder as he notice the other team already finishing up the sauce and also the ingredients for the fondue.
"This is very, very bad" said Mung.
"I know what you mean" added Billy, "I just can't let Mandy win. She needs to be shown that you need love and happiness as an ingredient to have a very good tasting dish!"
"What do you suppose we should do to stop them from succeeding?" asked Mr. Krabs, "I just can't loose to that Plankton."
"Nor I can loose to Ms. Endive" added Mung.
While Billy's team was scrabbling on how to deal with sabotaging the team led by Granny Grim and Mandy, Grim who was having the time of his life not to have to deal with Billy or Mandy couldn't help to over hear Billy's complaints.
"Say, I couldn't help to over hear that you people were trying to figure out a way to sabotage Mandy's team" said Grim as he came over to their side of the room.
"Yea, so what do you want Reaper?" asked Mr. Krabs.
"I got the sort of ingredient to which will make your Monster Krabby Patty to be the pure winner of this Cooking Olympics" replied Grim as he then used his scythe and spawned some ingredients, "these spices will help you enhance the taste of the Monster Krabby Patty. I know you Mr. Krabs don't want to meddle with the recipe but I think this might call for it."
"Well, it's unorthodox" thought Mr. Krabs, "okay, we'll do it."
"Ha, ha, ha" laughed Grim as he gave an evil grin as he handed Billy's team the ingredients and began to walk over to where Mandy's team was located, "I knew you would say it. Now I just need to spice things up on Mandy's side and things can really get quite cooking."