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Ch. 8: Hide and Secrets

It didn't take long for Sandy to get the ship up and running. Donald was even a bit jealous at how fast she got it running. As Sandy got used to steering the ship, Spongebob began to stare out the window. He gazed in awe at the wonders at the Lanes Between and began to feel like an astronaut going into space.

"Wow, its sooooooo pretty." Spongebob said as he gazed at the window.

"That's for sure," Sandy agreed, "I ain't seen nothing like this before."

"It is pretty cool." Said Sora. He walked into the control room with Donald and Goofy in their original forms.

"Wow Sora, this is what you really look like?" Spongebob asked in amazement.

"I gotta say, it's nice to finally be around some people who can breathe air. No offense Spongebob." Sandy said.

"None taken." Spongebob said as he returned to staring out the window like a kid on a car trip.

"So have you figured out the controls yet?" Sora asked.

"You betcha. This is some fine technology you got here boys. I haven't seen anything like it before." Sandy replied.

"So how does it work?"

"Well this is to steer, in case you didn't know, world display, GPS, map of the ship, smoothie maker, and your security system."

"Security system?" Donald asked.

"Yeah, it's supposed to keep people from sneaking onto the ship. It wasn't up and running, but I managed to make sure that it doesn't interpret us as intruders. Care to do the honors Spongebob?"

Spongebob turned and said, "Sure."

Spongebob stood next to Sandy, and with his index finger pressed the button to activate the security.

BEEEP BEEP BEEP BEPP BEEEP BEEEP!

"Intruder alert! Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!" announced a siren.

"What in blazes?" Sandy yelled as everyone covered their ears. She looked at the map and noticed two red dots located in a room near the control room. Sandy turned the alarm off and said, "Looks like we got some stowaways." Sandy said.

"You think a heartless got on board?" Goofy asked.

"Or Maleficent?" Sora wondered.

"Or Plankton?" Spongebob added.

"Whoever they are, we're going to teach them a lesson." Sandy said.

Sandy lead everyone as they walked down the hallway to one of the bedrooms reserved for the other Keyblade wielders. They waited a second before entering the room cautiously. Spongebob pointed to one of the beds that had an unusual lump underneath one of the covers. Sandy gestured to attack on the count of three.

"Three….two…one…." She mouthed.

FWOOSH!

She lifted the covers and revealed the stowaway, surprising everyone.

"PATRICK?" Spongebob and Sandy exclaimed.

Lying in the bed asleep was the chubby starfish.

"Patrick wake up!" Sandy yelled.

"Hold on I got this," said Spongebob as he cleared his throat, "Breakfast!"

Patrick woke up quickly and said, "Breakfast?"

Patrick looked around him and was confused about where he was until he saw Spongebob.

"Spongebob? Why are you in my bedroom? Wait, this isn't my bedroom. Why aren't I in my bedroom?"

"Patrick why were you hiding in the ship?" Spongebob asked.

"Well, I wanted to say good bye to you, so I went to the place you told me to go to but you weren't there. I saw the ship was open so I went in to find you and I guess I got sleepy and fell asleep." Patrick explained.

"How did you even manage to get in here?" Donald asked.

Goofy embarrassingly admitted, "Um actually, after we saved the town and came back to the ship to get some shut eye, I kinda left the door open. I didn't mean to, I just didn't know how to close the door. Sorry."

"Wait, I didn't say to come at 6:09." Spongebob said.

"Yeah you did. It's on this notecard." Patrick said. He pulled out a card that said '6:09' on it. Spongebob started to giggle before saying, "Silly Patrick, you had the card upside down. You were supposed to be here at 9:06. Ba ha ha ha ha ha."

"Ohhhh." Realized Patrick slowly. "So what does that mean?"

Seeing as they couldn't go back or else they'd waste time getting to the next world and since Patrick was Spongebob's best friend, Sora said, "I guess we're taking three people with us."

"Make that four."

Everyone looked at the bed Patrick slept in and noticed that someone was laying squished deep into the bed.

"Squidward!" cheered Spongebob. Sora helped Squidward out of the bed as Squidward tried to straighten out his back. Unfortunately, Spongebob gave him a hug and made his back worse. "You came to join us on our adventure."

"No I didn't, I've been waiting almost five hours for Patrick to get off of me." He said crankily. "The only reason I'm here is because to hide from Mr. Krabs."

"Mr. Krabs! What did you do?" Spongebob asked. "Did you steal from the cash register?"

"No, Mr. Krabs apparently is out to get me just for eating one of those Chum Patties. While I was asleep, he started throwing rocks at my window and was ready to beat me up. I luckily managed to sneak away and stumbled upon this place. I hid here and tried to get some sleep, but I was painfully woken up by Patrick as he used me as A MATRESS!" Squidward explained.

"Sorry." Said Patrick.

"*sigh* I'm guessing you want us to take you back to Bikini Bottom?" Sora guessed.

Squidward answered, "Hardly; I going with you-"

"Yay!" cheered Patrick and Spongebob.

"-but only so that I might find a world that will appreciate my music and become my new home. One that won't tolerate Spongebob."

"Oooh, you're getting a second home?" Spongebob said. "Wow, I didn't think you had that much money."

Squidward lied and said, "Riiiiiight, a 'second home'."

"Wait, where are we going?" Patrick asked. "and why?"

Donald sighed as he said, "Don't tell me we have to explain this to everyone we meet."

Sora realized that too, and that eventually it would get boring and exhausting.

"Uh guys, why don't we just play them the message Clockwork sent?" Goofy asked.

Sora and Donald looked at each other and wondered why they didn't already think of that before. Sora rushed off to get the amulet with Clockwork's message and hopefully Spongebob and his friends wouldn't have too many questions afterwords.


"And good riddance." Said Mr. Krabs. He held a gigantic Krabby Patty as he stood behind the Krusty Krab with the dumpsters. He threw the giant 8 ft. tall Spongebob Patty into the dumpster and walked back into the restaurant to count his money.

The reason he threw it out was although he had no problem with it, some people were complaining that it smelled 'icky' and 'moved' and they 'threatened to call the health inspector'. He blamed it on Food Friend, who up until then was doing a great job as Spongebob's replacement. He even considered letting him replace Squidward. Mr. Krabs just hoped that Food Friend wouldn't mess up again.

Unfortunately, Mr. Krabs wasn't aware that this huge Spongebob Patty was different. As it moved in the dumpster, it's most evil ingredient burst out: Dennis.

Dennis angrily tore apart the Spongebob Patty and crawled out of the dumpster. The assassin was beaten, covered in trash, and filled with rage. Not only did he miss his chance at killing Spongebob again, but he was beaten and outsmarted by him. He swore that he would make Spongebob pay one day.

"You're going to pay; one way or anoth- huh?"

Suddenly, a dark portal opened underneath and slowly he began to sink. Dennis tried to fight it but he was too weak. He sank into the darkness struggling to escape. Suddenly, he found himself in a dark room. He felt a hand on his back lift him up and straighten him up.

"There you go." Pete said.

Dennis looked around him and saw his boss standing on Karen with Maleficent across from him.

"Where the heck am I?" Dennis asked angrily.

"This is basically our off-world lair. Basically, you're not in Bikini Bottom." Plankton explained.

"Where the heck were you two?" he yelled. "I spent eight hours in your monster's stomach!"

"Don't look at me, Spongebob made it soft and I lost control. Maleficent was….. come to think of it where were you?" Plankton said.

"Unlike you, I managed to make progress. While you failed miserably, I managed to contact a powerful being that will be able to help us." She explained.

"That's gotta be some cell phone." Plankton said.

"You idiot, she means through sorcery and what not." Pete said.

"It seems my source will be more than happy to join us in our quest, provided we do something in return." Maleficent said

"Oh great, what does he want? If its Karen forget about, she's one of a kind." Plankton said.

"Ohhh thank you honey." Karen said,

"I mean unless I can find a replacement."

Karen leaned forward and let Plankton fall off. "Ooops." She lied.

"No, it would appear that he is currently imprisoned in his realm. If we can free him, he will join us." Maleficent said.

"A good ol' fashion jail break huh? That sounds easy enough." Said Pete.

"On the contrary, it will be quite difficult. For it seems that Clockwork resides in the same world."

"Oh." Pete said, his hopes dashed. "So much for that plan."

"Not necessarily. Our source has informed of some of the world's inhabitants, including its most dangerous beings. I've been able to reach two of them and soon I will provide them the power they need to help us." Maleficent.

"Hang on, what's the catch?" Plankton asked. "I doubt these two people will just believe to work with a voice in their heads."

"I've agreed to help them take out a common enemy: Danny Phantom."


"Good luck Sora. We are all counting on you." Clockwork said before his message ended.

The hologram ended leaving the four Bikini Bottomites in awe.

"So that's basically what we're trying to do." Sora said.

"Wow, those Heartless looked pretty scary." Said Patrick.

"It's okay Patrick, with all of us working together, we can beat Maleficent." Spongebob said encouragingly.

"I just have one question: where exactly are we going to?" Squidward asked.

"To be honest, we usually just wonder around and hope to find worlds as we go along." Goofy said.

"Darn." Patrick said. "It's too bad we can't just ask this Clockhead guy where we have to go to." Patrick complained.

"Maybe we can." Sandy said as she picked up the amulet. Everyone was eagerly listening to what Sandy had to say.

"Well, here's my theory: I might be able to track your Clockwork guy for you with this." Sandy said.

"How?" Donald asked.

"Well, if this guy really is a ghost, I could probably build a device that could trace his ectoplasmic signature from this amulet back to his world."

"Really?" Spongebob said excitedly. "That's great. Maybe he could tell us where the other heroes are or which worlds we could go to."

Sora was a little nervous about actually meeting Clockwork, but if it meant finding out some important information, than they had no other choice.

"Then I guess we're going to go see Clockwork." Said Sora.

Everyone let out a cheer as Sandy ran off to find some parts for her machine. However, at that moment Clockwork was watching them as they cheered and he wasn't happy to hear the news. If anything, he dreaded it because if they came to his world, then horrible, disastrous things would occur.

End of Ch. 8

Sorry if this chapter was short, but most of the chapter where the characters are in between worlds will be shorter. I guess you can already tell which world is next, so be ready for Ch. 9: A Hero's Busy Schedule. Also, please review and since it's my birthday, Happy Birthday to me!