I now bring the next chapter of Future Shock 2. Last time, SpongeBob found out DarkEvil is back and has captured his good future self, and now he must help his future kids rescue him.
Please enjoy…
Chapter 7: No Help Necessary
SpongeBob held Junior's hand as they walked out of the alley in order to find help in rescuing Junior's father from DarkEvil LaserPants. "Which way to your house from here?" SpongeBob asked Junior.
Junior tried to think. "Uh…um…uh…" he stammered, obviously not knowing the answer.
"You…don't know where to go, do you?" SpongeBob assumed.
Shrugging, Junior responded, "Usually Crash and Twitchy lead the way home and I follow them."
SpongeBob sighed sadly as he said, "I guess my future is as doomed here as it was before."
But then, something landed in front of them, nearly hitting them. It was Crash, who was riding a hoverboard.
"Well, there y'all are." Crash cheerfully said as he stepped on the ground. "Ma went out lookin' for ya."
"Crash," SpongeBob said in relief to see his other future son was still safe from DarkEvil. "I need you take us to your house. Your dad's in huge trouble- your other dad anyway."
"Holy krabby patties!" Crash shouted as held his head. "We better head on home and come up with a strategy."
"Hooray! A strategy!" Junior cheered until he turned to SpongeBob. "What's a strategy?"
SpongeBob then asked Crash, "You think you can show us the way to your house?"
"Ya darn tootin' I can!" Crash replied as he pulled SpongeBob and Junior onto his hoverboard.
"Wait a minute!" SpongeBob shouted. "Couldn't we just walk there?"
"Walk?!" Crash questioned as he laughed. "Walkin' is for safe people!"
He pushed a button on the hoverboard with his foot, and the board began to fly in the air. SpongeBob shrieked a bit as he held onto Junior and Crash.
"Extreme!" Crash called out as he pushed another button with his foot and the hoverboard took off at fast speed with SpongeBob and Junior screaming and holding on to Crash for dear life.
Meanwhile, Sandy, Rocky, Squidward, and Patrick were still walking down the sidewalk, looking for SpongeBob.
"We're wasting time." Squidward groaned. "We haven't seen sight of that yellow nit-wit anywhere."
"We just need to keep searchin'." Sandy encouraged. "He's bound to show up anywhere."
Just then, the hoverboard with Crash, Junior, and SpongeBob zoomed right passed them with SpongeBob screaming in fear, and Crash cheering.
"What the barnacle was that?" Squidward wondered.
Patrick squinted his eyes as he pondered, "It looked like a futuristic skateboard."
"Hmm…" Sandy pondered as well. "I coulda sworn I saw SpongeBob on that thing."
"We better follow it, Sandy." Rocky suggested. "There's a chance it might lead to him."
"Great idea, partner." Sandy said as she began to run ahead. "Let's hurry and catch up to it."
As Sandy, Rocky, and Patrick run ahead, Squidward comments, "Makes sense he would ruin everyone's lives in this timeline." He then runs off to join the others.
Crash drove the hoverboard through Bikini Bottom over the street with SpongeBob screaming, "Do you know how to ride this thing?!"
"Sure do!" Crash excitedly shouts back. "I do this every Monday!"
"Look!" Junior pointed as the two look to see they were about to crash into a hovertruck.
The three screamed loudly as Crash pulls up the hoverboard, having them safely fly over the truck. While SpongeBob and Junior looked horrified, Crash just smiles and cheers, "Whoo! We were almost road scrap back there!"
SpongeBob just gulped and muttered, "This sponge is trying to kill me."
As they flew high in the air, they were over Conch Street and spotted what normally would look like SpongeBob's pineapple house, only it now look expanded with extra rooms attached to it.
"I see our house from up here!" Junior gleefully pointed out.
SpongeBob stared at it as well, taking a few seconds to actually recognize it as such. "Hey, that is my house! Although…there's something different about it that I just can't put my finger on."
"Come on, y'all!" Crash yelled as he lifted up his foot. "Let's head in!"
"No wait, Crash!" SpongeBob tried to warn. "I don't think that's such a good-"
But Crash had already pressed down on a button with his foot and the hoverboard went flying toward the house with SpongeBob screaming in panic. While Junior just buried his face in Crash's back so he won't have to look, Crash just grin, not realizing how terrified his passengers are.
"I'm havin' fun too!" Crash shouted over SpongeBob's screaming.
They then crash through the top floor of the house and both land through the ceiling of a room. SpongeBob coughed from all the dust while he was stuck in the wall with Junior and the hoverboard.
"Uh oh," Junior said with the bottom half of his body sticking out from the wall, "We broke the house."
Crash had his head stuck in the pink wall as he tried pulling himself out. When he did, he landed on a small round white table where a bunch of tea stuff was placed.
Crash looked up to see three seven-year-old squirrels that were sitting around the table. The first squirrel had brown fur, wore a light blue shirt and dark blue dress with blue shoes, and her hair tied in a blue flower. The second squirrel had blonde fur, wore a pink shirt with a red plaid dress and red shoes, and had her hair tied in a pink heart clip. The third squirrel had brown fur with her hair and tail blonde, a light purple shirt and dark purple dress and shoes, and a purple bow tied in her hair.
The first squirrel stood up and yelled, "Crash!"
"We're tellin' Mom…" the second squirrel shouted in a southern accent.
"You crashed through the ceiling again!" the third squirrel finished.
Crash stood up on the table and enthusiastically replied, "I know! Wasn't it awesome, Sally? I know you're thinkin' that, Dolly! Don't pretend you don't think so, Ally!"
Then, SpongeBob managed to get himself out of the wall and he landed in a small pink chair in front of the table. Seeing the older sponge surprised the three young squirrels, but they smile and surround him with curiosity.
"Hey there," the brown squirrel, Sally, greeted.
"Who are you?" the blonde squirrel, Dolly, asked.
The mixed squirrel, Ally, observes SpongeBob as she asks, "And why do you look so familiar?"
SpongeBob looked a little uncomfortable as he rose from the small chair, but politely answered their questions, "Well…In order: my name is SpongeBob, and I'm here to save Junior and Crash's dad from a terrible fate. As for why I look familiar, well…I'm not entirely sure. I don't think we've ever met."
However, Ally just glared. "Well, whoever you are…"
Crossing her arms, Dolly added, "You, Crash, and Junior just ruined…"
Sally concludes, "Our tea party!"
"Gee, we sure are sorry, girls." SpongeBob apologized.
Junior finally pushes himself out of the wall and lands safely in SpongeBob's arm. He smiles and apologizes to the girls like SpongeBob did. "Uh huh." He added with a smile
Crash just hopped off the table and carelessly shrugged while saying, "Nah…"
"Come on, Crash," SpongeBob urged as he pushed him forward. "Be nice and apologize."
Crash gave a relenting sigh and apologized, "I'm sorry." Then he scowled while shifting his eyes away and whispered to SpongeBob, "You're just like Pa."
Smiling at the sponge's apologizing, Sally states, "That's okay."
"At least you didn't wreck this." Ally mentioned as she held a small bottle with glowing blue liquid inside.
"Hmm…" SpongeBob said as he stared at it. "That's some strange futuristic tea."
Dolly giggled in amusement and pointed out, "That ain't the tea, silly."
"Yeah, it's our latest invention." Sally explained.
"The High Inducing Energy Potion." Ally finished.
"We all just call it the Energy Potion for short." Dolly added.
Junior smiled in interest. "Ooh, what does it do? Can I try it first?"
Sally held it out of his reach and explained, "If anyone were to drink this, it would give them the energy to do anything."
"Even if that person don't have any energy at all." Dolly added.
SpongeBob stared at the drink in just as much excitement as Junior. "Sounds like my kind of energy drink of the future. Mind if I have a bottle? Maybe I can use it while working out."
"Sure. We need a test subject anyway." Sally replied as she gave SpongeBob the bottle. "If it works on you, we can make a whole bunch."
"Thank you." SpongeBob smiled, stuffing the potion into his pocket.
As he walked out of the room with the two sponge kids, the three squirrels watched the sponges leave as Sally mentions, "You know…"
Dolly holds her chin as he ponders, "He does kinda look like…"
"Dad…" Ally finished with a confused look.
As SpongeBob walks down the hall with the kids, he asks, "Who were those three adorable girls anyway?"
Walking away, Crash nonchalantly answered, "Oh, they're just our sisters."
"Your sisters?" SpongeBob asked with his eyes widened, wondering how in the heck the two sponges could be related to three squirrels.
"Uh huh!" Junior agreed as he gleefully skipped away to where Crash went.
SpongeBob just stood there with a confused look on his face by everything he just learned. "Hmm…there are some things in this future that are just so confusing." The he noticed Crash and Junior no longer with him. "Whoops, better go find Crash and Junior, and maybe even see what future improvements have come upon SquarePants Manor."
But when SpongeBob took a step forward, a door slammed open in his face and knocked him down to the ground. SpongeBob groaned in pain as he saw Buster poke his head from behind the door.
"Oh, hey, Buster." SpongeBob weakly greeted as he sat up. "Didn't see ya there."
Buster just narrowed his eyes and stood there silently. As SpongeBob stared at the teenage sponge, he realizes that he hasn't heard Buster say a word since he met him.
SpongeBob just stood there awkwardly until he tries to make conversation with him, "So…I guess since I'm Junior and Crash's dad in this future and you're their brother, I guess that makes me your dad too. Ha ah ah ah!" he laughed until Buster slammed the door closed in his face.
SpongeBob had a concerned look on his face, having not expected Buster to be unexcited by meeting a past version of his father. SpongeBob knocked on the door and called, "Okay! But, I think I should tell you that your dad has been captured by DarkEvil LaserPants! He's my…evil future self, you know. But not to worry; I'm not anything like him!"
Buster then opens his door and continues to stand there, still not saying anything.
"You don't have to be afraid, Buster." SpongeBob gently assured him. "I promised Junior that I'd fix everything, and I promise I'll help you too."
Buster then glared at SpongeBob, and finally SAYS in a quiet voice, "I don't need your help."
SpongeBob had a look of surprise at hearing Buster finally speak until he chuckled, "Ha, ah ah ah! So that's what you sound like."
But, Buster slammed the door in SpongeBob's face again, only this time SpongeBob held it open.
"Wait, Buster!" SpongeBob called to him as he struggled to keep the door open. "I really wanna help you too!"
Buster just continued to try and close the door as he replied, "I told you…I'll handle this myself."
"But, if you really can handle this by yourself, then why did you bring me here?" SpongeBob asked until Buster opened the door, causing SpongeBob to fall to the ground in Buster's room, yelping until he lied at Buster's feet.
"I just need you to watch Crash, Junior, and the others." Buster answered as he crossed his arms while scowling. "I'll defeat DarkEvil on my own."
"But, I've beaten DarkEvil before." SpongeBob pointed out. "And I can do it again."
"Yeah, right." Buster dismissed as he walked out of his room. "You don't even understand what's going on."
SpongeBob stood up with a confused and saddened expression on his face as he watched his oldest future son disappear and reject his offer of help. "Gee…he's nothing like Crash and Junior."
It looks like SpongeBob got denied by his oldest future son. Hopefully, SpongeBob can find a way to defeat DarkEvil and find a way to earn Buster's help. Well, please review and stay tuned for the next chapter.
