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"It all started on a beautiful morning," SpongeBob began, "I was getting ready to apply for the greatest job in the world. I was totally ready and totally calm."

SpongeBob marched from his house down the road while yelling, "I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready…"

While standing outside viewing the Krusty Krab, he practiced what he was gonna do. "I'm gonna go in there, march straight to the manager, look him straight in the eye, lay it on the line, and I CAN'T DO THIS!"

"For years I've dreamed of this moment," SpongeBob said. "I studied fifteen different types of fry cooking ever since I was a wee boy."

A baby SpongeBob laughed as he cooked a patty on a small grill, and he finished perfectly.

"Isn't there only one real type of fry cooking?" Danny asked confused.

"Danny," SpongeBob said annoyed. "My big moment is coming up."

"Geez, sorry." Danny apologized.

"With the memories out of my head, I was eager, determined, diligent, and dang it, I was a big yellow cube with holes. I went inside to see the manager and his loyal employee awaiting my arrival. I strutted in…"

SpongeBob flopped around the Krusty Krab instead.

"…And I asked for the job."

"And you got it, right?" Timmy guessed.

"Nope." SpongeBob answered as he crossed his arms and smiled.

Timmy seemed confused. "No?"

"You didn't get the job when you asked?" Danny asked.

"You see, Daniel," SpongeBob said in a mocking teacherly tone. "In order for me to acquire the job of a fry cook, I had to complete a task. I was to acquire a hydro-dynamic spatula with port and starboard attachments and a turbo drive."

Jimmy looked in disbelief. "It sounds to me like they were trying to get rid of you. There's no device like that in the world."

"Then, how come I found it?" SpongeBob said smirking.

"Really?" Jimmy asked amazed. "How?"

SpongeBob explained, "I was shopping at the Barg n Mart looking for the prize when I spotted the hydro-dynamic spatula on the shelf, the only one there. I held it in my hand seeing the task completed, until a faint noise rang in my ear."

"Do sponges even have ears?" Timmy asked.

"Quiet, this is the best part." SpongeBob ordered as he continued. "I heard the screaming of Mr. Krabs and Squidward as they were about to be buried by a sea of hungry anchovies. So, I flipped into action."

After SpongeBob paid for the spatula, he used it like a helicopter to fly out of the store.

"With my spatula in hand, I made my way to the kitchen and fried up millions of patties until all the customers were filled up."

SpongeBob cooked and cooked as he flipped the patties into the anchovies' mouth.

"And I was rewarded with the badge of official fry cook."

Mr. Krabs put SpongeBob's name tag on his shirt.

"You seriously went through all that just to get a job as a fry cook?" Timmy said amazed.

"Yeah," SpongeBob replied. "But, all of it was so fun and making a krabby patty is always an honor."

"One krabby patty, extra onions." Squidward said, handing him the customer's order.

"One Crying Johnny coming up!" SpongeBob shouted as he prepared to make a krabby patty. "Bun down, then patty, followed by ketchup, mustard, pickles, EXTRA onions, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, and bun, in that order." He rang the bell when he gave the patty to Squidward. "One Crying Johnny up!"

"Being a legendary fry cook was a great honor." SpongeBob explained. "But, it was no day at Goo Lagoon. I also had a job of keeping the krabby patty from Mr. Krabs's arch enemy…"

"Plankton." Jimmy finished.

"Right!" SpongeBob said as he continued, "Oh yeah, Plankton has tried to trick me into taking the formula…"

"Are you SpongeBob SquarePants?" A robot fish asked in Plankon's voice.

"Why, yes." SpongeBob answered while looking at his reflection in his spatula. "Yes I am."

"Then you just won one million dollars!" The fish exclaimed while holding a large check.

Then, Plankton in SpongeBob's hand asked, "Do you know what I'd love more than anything in the whole wide world?"

SpongeBob guessed, "A booster seat?"

"A booster seat, hot dog- I mean, no. What I'd really like is one of those…" As Plankton spoke, his mouth began to water, "Tender…delicious…krabby patties."

Another time, SpongeBob was in Squidward's house in front of a busted up wall, looking confused.

"Something must be wrong with my brain." SpongeBob wondered as he rolled his eyeballs back and looked inside his head, spotting Plankton in front of a control plugged into SpongeBob's brain. "Plankton! What kind of friend are you?"

Plankton spoke into a microphone to SpongeBob, "Nonsense, SpongeBob, you never liked me anyway. You wouldn't even come to my birthday party."

"Get out of my head! Leave my brain alone!" SpongeBob pleaded.

Plankton's voice came out of SpongeBob as he had an evil grin. "Never! Never! Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!"

"…But all have failed."

SpongeBob held out a ketchup and mustard bottle.

"Don't forget your condiments, Plankton!" SpongeBob shouted as he shot ketchup and mustard out of the bottles.

Plankton in a helicopter cake got shot with the condiments and started falling out of the sky.

"Wow," Danny said amazed as he laid his elbows on the table. "What Plankton won't do to get a krabby patty."

"So, SpongeBob," Jimmy asked. "What else do you do at the Krusty Krab besides fry cooking?"

"Why, I do a lot of things." SpongeBob replied. "I mop, wipe the tables, scrub the latrines, wash the dishes, and take out the trash. But most of the time, I just hang out with my best friend, Squidward."

"Best friend?"

They all turn to see Squidward at the cash register, and he said, "The only thing he does around here is annoy me all day."

"Come on, Squidward." Danny said. "I'm sure it's not all that bad."

When Squidward walked in, SpongeBob asked, "Hey, hey Squidward, did you see me?"

Squidward just walked past him, but SpongeBob still smiled and said, "Okay, see you later Squidinator."

SpongeBob jumped onto the register and shouted, "Are you ready to rock, Squidward?"

"No." Squidward dourly replied.

"Good, cause we got customers!"

Squidward grabbed onto SpongeBob. "That's great, SpongeBob, now why don't you work on this little problem back in the kitchen!"

He tossed SpongeBob through the kitchen window and he laughed until SpongeBob came back from below him and said, "I'm serious Squidward, Mr. Krabs is a robot and I can prove it too."

Squidward wondered how he did that trick. "How did you…"

While SpongeBob was mopping he happily shouted, "Another day another nickel!" He laughed.

Squidward, annoyed slammed the tray of food on the customer's table. "It's not that funny! Please make it stop!" He shouted as he covered his ears.

After Squidward put on the sweater SpongeBob made for him, SpongeBob asked, "Do you love it?"

Squidward scratched himself. "It's a little itchy, what's this thing made of?"

SpongeBob answered, "Eyelashes!" Squidward tossed the sweater in SpongeBob's face.

"And that's what it's like working with SpongeBob every single day of my life." Squidward finished.

"Squidward!" SpongeBob shouted in annoyed. "I know you want to share all of the fun experiences we've had in the past, but have some manners; it's my turn to tell stories." SpongeBob continued, "As I was saying, working at the Krusty Krab has always been a huge blast, I have been awarded Employee of the Month a million and six times and I have always worked and worked and worked serving krabby patties to all the wonderful customers."

SpongeBob looked at his reflection in his spatula as he smiled.

"Of course people are always saying how easy it is," SpongeBob said. "But they're totally wrong."

SpongeBob rapidly flipped krabby patties until it overfilled the krusty Krab and exploded.
"And if it weren't for me, the entire Krusty Krab would fall apart."

SpongeBob chopped vegetables with his spatula at fast speed until he spilt apart, danced on ketchup and mustard bottles as he put the condiments on the patties, he threw a bunch of patties on the grill while the customers watched, he chopped the lettuce and tomato and used his spatulas to throw them onto the patties, he carefully moved the patty onto the bun with his spatula, he threw a bunch of patties in the air and a bunch of his arms that were holding plates came out of his as they landed on the patty buns, and he draws a heart with ketchup on the patty before he puts the bun on top finishing it.

"Yup, that's me." SpongeBob pointed to himself.

Timmy looked impressed. "You must get paid a lot for all the work that you do."

SpongeBob shook his head. "Timmy, Timmy, Timmy, I'm not in it for the money. I'm in it for the love of fry cooking."

Danny chuckled, "SpongeBob, what would the Krusty Krab do without you?"

"I'll give you three reasons." Squidward said.

"You know, guys," Timmy said. "I've learned something from all this today."

Jimmy looked like he knew the answer, "That we have all grown remarkably through all of our experiences we've had in the past from when we first started out?"

"Nope," Timmy answered. "That we need to do more training, if we were that suckish back then compared to the way we are now, think about how much better we'll be later on in the future."

"That reminds me," SpongeBob said. "Does anybody remember how we all met?"

Timmy replied, "That's easy, it all started when…uh, when we…no, that's not it…"

"I can't believe you don't remember when we met, Timmy." Danny said disappointed. "It happened when Jimmy built this invention, and then…um, Calamitous…no…there was a…"

Jimmy looked at them as they tried to remember how they met. "I can't believe any of you can't remember how we met."

They all stared at Jimmy like they were expecting him to tell them the story of how they met.

"…of course that's what my new invention the Memory Scanner is for!" Jimmy said as he jumped up from his seat.

"You have a Memory Scanner?" Danny asked in disbelief.

"Of course I do." Jimmy replied. "For times like this, we can dig deep inside our cerebral cortex and find the memories of that exact day."

"Sounds good to me," Danny said as he got up from his seat. "Let's go."

They all got out of their seats and ran outside the Krusty Krab.

"Does anybody even remember why we even started remembering all this stuff?" SpongeBob asked his friends.

The End

If you can't remember how the Nicktoons met, then you can plug in your Nicktoons Unite game and you can see for yourself. I really had fun writing this and I hope you had fun reading it, maybe it might've brought back some memories of what you first thought of the show before you liked it, but it's just a thought. Don't forget to please review.