Here's the next chapter of The Yellow Avenger. Las time The Masked Sponge thought he should get help to defeat Plankton, and who is he gonna get? Find out in this chapter right now…

Chapter 10: A Real Hero Rises

"Oh, Masked Sponge!" Plankton called as he lifted up a building and looked under it. "Come out, come out, where ever you are!" he tossed the building away and yelled, "Come out so I can crush you with my own foot!"

But unknowingly, the Masked Sponge was hiding on top of a building as he peeked over to see Plankton still wandering around, looking for him. Then he turned around to Sandy, who is on the building with him, working on something. "Is it finished yet, Sandy?" he asked his friend.

Sandy took the wrench away from Plankton's Largifying Ray. "It is now." She smiled. "But I need the right angle on Plankton if I'm gonna be able to shrink that yellowbelly back down to size."

"Hmm…" SpongeBob thought until he spotted the Sea Needle far ahead of him. "Don't worry, Sandy. I can help you with that." But then he turned back to her, "And…if I somehow don't make it back. I just want you to know… I kinda li…"

But before he could finish, Sandy pulled his cape collar closed. "No time to chat now, Masked Sponge. Y'all have to hurry and get Plankton in angle of the ray."

The Masked Sponge smiled in confidence and saluted. "I'm on it!"

Then, SpongeBob jumped down the smoke pipe and he slid down until he came out of a duct that landed him safely in an alleyway. "Now all I need to do is get Plankton to follow me to the Sea Needle." SpongeBob told himself.

The Masked Sponge started running as fast as he could until he heard a familiar scream, "AAAAHHHH!"

He turned around and spotted Squidward driving his boatmobile while he screamed in panic, trying to get far away from Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob smirked as he said, "This gives me an idea."

While Squidward was still driving, the Masked Sponge suddenly jumped on the hood of the boat with his hand out. "Halt!"

Squidward screamed again as he slammed on the brake. Then SpongeBob jumped off the boat and walked over to the driver's door.

"SpongeBob, what do you think you're doing?" Squidward asked the Masked Sponge. "Can't you see I'm trying to get out of here?"

"You won't need to, Squidward." SpongeBob told him as he got in the driver's seat of the boat, pushing Squidward into the passenger seat. "The Masked Sponge will have this taken care of."

"Well, go take care of it somewhere else."

SpongeBob lifted up his foot as he shouted, "Sure thing, Squidward!"

He slammed his foot on the gas petal, and Squidward screamed as the boat sped off through the city. Squidward held on for his life as SpongeBob drove the boat, but the Masked Sponge just happily drove while singing a little heroic theme song he came up with on the spot.

When Plankton stomped through the city, he smirked and said, "Now I can totally crush the Krusty Krab and make off with the secret formula. And best of all…no masked buffoon to get in my way."

"WHOOO!" the Masked Sponge hollered as he and Squidward drove past Plankton's feet.

"What?!" Plankton wondered as he saw the boat carrying the Masked Sponge speed by. "Okay, you've bugged me for the last time!"

While SpongeBob was driving, Plankton kept tossing cars, buildings, and any other junk that could stop the Masked Sponge. But SpongeBob just swerved the boat left and right as Squidward screamed in sheer panic.

"You know, Squidward." SpongeBob casually said while he drove, despite what was going on. "I was thinking, when this is all over and I've defeated Plankton. You could team up with me and be my sidekick. Just think about it, we can fight crime together and protect the innocent."

"Yeah…that's a great idea." Squidward sarcastically responded. "And maybe I can knit myself a ridiculous outfit like yours."

SpongeBob turned to Squidward with big eyes and a smile. "You'd really do that?!" he asked excitedly, not understanding Squidward's sarcasm. "Oh, it'd be perfect!"

"No way, you masked idiot!" Squidward yelled in anger. "I'd rather be crushed to death!"

"That could be arranged!" Plankton's voice suddenly called out as a large bus was falling toward them.

The two screamed in terror as the bus started falling toward them. While the Masked Sponge was still screaming, Squidward quickly turned the steering wheel, and the boat swerved to the left, having the bus miss them. But the boat had crashed into a wall, thankfully leaving the two unharmed.

The Masked Sponge jumped out of the seat and saluted to Squidward. "Thanks, future sidekick. I can take it from here. You just get yourself to safety."

"Oh, no problem." Squidward groaned as he hung out the side of the boat and watched SpongeBob run off.

The Masked Sponge ran up ahead, and stopped when he spotted the Sea Needle up ahead. "I'm almost- Aah!" he screamed when Plankton's giant foot stomped on him.

"You're not going anywhere, Masked Sponge." Plankton stated as he bent down and picked SpongeBob up in his fist.

SpongeBob shook himself back to consciousness, and noticed himself in the giant Plankton's fist and was unable to pull himself free. "Plankton, you have to stop now!" he begged. "You're breaking everything and hurting everyone!"

Plankton just laughed as he started walking away with SpongeBob. "Of course I am, you masked dim-wit! That's the point!"

Then Plankton started climbing up the Sea Needle in a sort of King Kong fashion with SpongeBob still in his fist.

"Oh, Plankton, has the ray turned you into a monster?" SpongeBob asked, looking saddened by everything. "Can't you see all the damage you caused? I don't wanna have to fight you anymore."

"Are you kidding, SpongeBob?" Plankton asked as he climbed. "I asked you to join me, and you refused. But now, I have the second thing I've always wanted: to be ruler of the world! Mwahahaha!"

He laughed evilly when he was now at the top of the Sea Needle with helicopters flying around him.

Then he looked at SpongeBob, who he tightly gripped in his fist. "Now all I have to do is get rid of you and the world will see I'm the rightful ruler."

"I don't think you can do that, Plankton." SpongeBob simply told him.

"And why is that?"

The Masked Sponge smiled in triumph as he answered, "Because you're about to shrink back down to size."

Sandy spotted the Masked Sponge through a pair of binoculars, and smiled as she lowered a pair of goggles around her helmet and pushed a button on a remote that turned on the Largifying Ray. The ray shot a long beam that went across Bikini Bottom and hit Plankton, who was still on top of the Sea Needle.

"What?!" Plankton yelled in shock as the ray hit him.

SpongeBob was still in Plankton's fist when more of Mermaid Man's advice rang in his head. "Always crush the enemy by the fingers that way he can't grab or punch you."

SpongeBob smiled as he opened his mouth widely and bit his buckteeth into Plankton's fingers as he cried in pain and let go of SpongeBob.

The Masked Sponge jumped onto Plankton and quickly ran over to his other hand that was hanging onto the Sea Needle. Then he jumped into the air and stomped onto his fingers, having him cry in pain again.

"OW!" Plankton yelled until he noticed he wasn't hanging onto anything, and then the ray suddenly shrunk him back down to his original size.

Plankton started screaming as he and the Masked Sponge were plummeting to the ground. But SpongeBob just calmly reached into his utility belt and pulled out his grappling hook. Then he quickly grabbed Plankton in his fist and shot his grappling hook at a building and they both swung away to safety.

Then the Masked Sponge landed on the ground in front of Patrick and Sandy. "Hey, guys!" he greeted.

"Masked Sponge, you did it!" Patrick shouted.

"That was the most high-flyinest thing I ever done seen!" Sandy said as she gave a friendly punch at the Masked Sponge's right shoulder.

SpongeBob laughed. "Oh, guys. I also couldn't have done it without you, Sandy."

"Wow…" Patrick said in awe. "If only SpongeBob could see this. Why does he always leave whenever you come?"

But Plankton growled as he got out of SpongeBob's grip. "Just you wait, Masked Boob!" he shouted as he pointed at SpongeBob. "I'll have my revenge against you if it's the last thing I do!"

But then, he was suddenly surrounded by police cops that put him in handcuffs and carried him away into a police car.

"Sorry, Plankton!" SpongeBob called. "Hopefully time in jail will teach you a valuable lesson!"

Sandy turned to SpongeBob and put an arm around him. "Well, Masked Sponge. I guess you truly are a hero."

"Yeah…" SpongeBob said as his eyes light up. "I really am a hero." But then, he eyed Sandy. "Uh… Sandy? There's something you should know."

Sandy got a puzzled expression as she looked at the Masked Sponge. "What is it?"

"You see…" SpongeBob began as he pulled his cape collar down and put his other hand on his mask. "Underneath this mask…I'm actually…"

But before he could finish, he was interrupted by a bunch of news cameras that were flashing pictures of him and airing him on the news.

"You did it once again, Masked Sponge." Perch Perkins told SpongeBob as he held a microphone at him. "How do you feel?"

SpongeBob looked past the crowd and saw Sandy and Patrick. He smiled and sighed happily, "Like a real hero." He answered Perch.

Then he walked out of the crowd and stopped at Sandy. "So…I was thinking. Now that I'm a REAL hero, how would you like to do something tonight? Maybe hit a movie or go to the Krusty Krab."

"Gee…that sounds temptin'." Sandy said, thinking it over. "But no thanks." She answered, surprising SpongeBob. "You got your duties to attend to. Besides, I already have plans with SpongeBob to go choppin'. Come to think of it, ya look a little like him."

When Sandy walked away, SpongeBob chuckled sheepishly and gave a weak smile as he waved. "Okay…see you around."

Then Patrick went up to the Masked Sponge. "I'll go to the movies with you." He told him. "It can be you, me, and SpongeBob…if I ever find him."

Looks like The Masked Sponge saved the day and became a real hero in his friends' eyes. Please review and the next and final chapter of The Yellow Avenger will be up soon.