Chapter 10: Plankton's wrath
The next morning, Sandy was just fumbling with a new invention she just created outside on the picnic table until Spongebob came outside.
"Howdy, Spencer," Sandy said.
"Good morning, Sandy," Spongebob said. "Whatcha got there?"
"Oh, this is my new invention," Sandy said. "I've been working on it for the past week. I didn't tell you because I wanted to keep it a surprise. Wanna see a demonstration?"
"Sure," Spongebob said.
Sandy stood up. "Stand back," she said. Spongebob got close to her. Sandy held up her invention, looking like a gun. Then she pressed the button below the nozzle, and unexpectedly a long rope shot out of it, going around her treedome very fast, and back again.
"Wow!" Spongebob exclaimed.
"Neat, huh?" Sandy said. "But that's not all it can do."
"It's not?"
"Nope," Sandy said. "It can shoot much farther than that if I was outside my treedome, and it can knock things over and wrap up things up tightly, even people. Let me demonstrate." She shot the button again, and it shot far across the dome to the birdbath, and knocks it over, and the rope came back. Sandy pressed the button again, and grabbed the birdbath, and lifted it back up.
"That's great, Sandy," Spongebob said. "You know what that could be used for?"
"No, what?"
"To catch bad guys," Spongebob said.
Sandy giggled. "Yeah, I guess it could," she said. "So, are you getting ready for work?"
"Actually," Spongebob said, "Work's closed today. Mr. Krabs is getting the place cleaned from the dance last night."
"Great," Sandy said. "We have more time to spend together. What would you like to do today?"
Meanwhile, in the chum bucket, Plankton was making some plans using Karen's computer screen. He planned to break up Spongebob and Sandy. "Hmmm…" he mumbled.
"Operation, Spongebob and Sandy, relationship termination. How am I going to do this?"
"Why don't you see what they're up to, first?" asked Karen. "How would you know what to do if you don't even know what they're doing?"
"Hmm… good point," Plankton said. "Turn on your screen, and search for them." Karen did, and positioned her screen to the treedome, showing Spongebob and Sandy coming out. Sandy was holding a little machine and a remote control.
"I've been dying to test this," Sandy said. "Now I have someone to hold the machine for me while I control it with this remote. Come one."
As Plankton watched, a smile crept across his face, meaning that he was coming up with a plan. "I think I know exactly what to do," he said. "Gotta go, Karen. I'll be back." He left the chum bucket.
On the large hilltop, Spongebob and Sandy were getting ready to activate the machine. "Okay, Spencer," Sandy said, "hold this for me right here. I'll be back over her," she said, backing down a little ways. From a rock, Plankton was watching them. He tried to figure out a way to get Spongebob to set the machine down. Then he saw a jellyfish buzzing by. He had an idea. He grabbed one of his miniature machines, and pressed a button, making it bigger, and caught the jelly fish with it, then made a buzzing noise, trying to get Spongebob's attention.
"Huh?" Spongebob said. He set the machine down, and looked around. "Hang on, Sandy," he said. "I thought I heard something."
"You heard something?" Sandy said. "Let me see." She ran up to him, and they looked around. While they did, Plankton sneaked up the the machine and pulled out a screwdriver, and unscrewed it, and started fumbling with the wires.
Spongebob and Sandy kept looking. Then Spongebob found the little machine Plankton left the jelly fish in. It made buzzing noises. Spongebob picked it up. "Did you find it?" Sandy asked.
"Yeah, I think there's something in here," Spongebob said. Sandy ran up to him. Spongebob opened it. The jelly fish flew out.
"Hey, how did that little critter get in there?" Sandy wondered.
"I wonder if someone went jelly fishing and forgot about it," Spongebob guessed.
Plankton was just screwing up the machine back together. When he saw Spongebob and Sandy returning to their positions, he ran off back behind the rock. Spongebob picked up the little machine, and Sandy re-activated it. Spongebob held it up. It started to power up. "It's working..." Sandy said. Plankton evilly laughed silently to himself. Suddenly, to Spongebob and Sandy's surprise and in shock, the machine started to short-circuit. "What in tar-nation," Sandy said, and tried reversing her machine, but instead, the remote fused up, and cracked, leaving bits of smoke. The machine Spongebob held started to lift him in the air, and tossed him over the hill. He hit the ground, and let go of the machine, breaking it into pieces. Sandy ran up to him. She looked horrified at him.
"Sandy, I'm so sorry," Spongebob said. "I don't know how this happened. Now your invention is broken."
"Forget about my invention," Sandy said. "Are you all right? You're not hurt, are you?" She asked helping him up.
"I'm fine, Sandy," Spongebob said. "But what about your invention?"
"Aww…, forget about it, it's just a little invention, I can always make another," Sandy said. They walked away, smiling. Plankton made a fist.
"Well, this stinks," Plankton said. "It can't get any worse." Right behind him, the jelly fish he captured earlier came close, looking at him angrily, making a fist at him. He turned around. Plankton got nervous. "Uh, hi," he said, grinning nervously. The jelly fish stuck out its stinger at him, and shocked him, leaving him burnt crisp, and flew away. "Ouch."
A bit later, Spongebob and Sandy were taking a walk through the park. Someone came by, fixing up an ice cream stand. Inside the fish's head sat Plankton steering a wheel, revealing that the fish was a robot. Inside were different flavors of ice cream, with every kind you could imagine. Plankton added poison to all of the flavors and then tried to entice Spongebob and Sandy to buy some. The poison he used was not lethal, however it would make them unconscious long enough until he could decide what to do with them. As they walked by, he stuck out a sign, 'buy one get one free'.
"Look Sandy! We could buy some ice cream if you would like", Spongebob exclaimed. "It looks like this stand is running a special deal."
"OK, that sounds delicious" Sandy said. "I want chocolate with nuts!"
"And I want Cookie Dough," Spongebob said. "Lets go." They walked up to the stand. Plankton talked through the microphone from inside the robot, with a different voice.
"Hello there," he said. "What can I get you two?" Sandy eyed him suspiciously.
"You look like metal," she said. "Are you a robot?"
"A robot?" Plankton said, nervously. He knew that Sandy was a smart one, who could figure things out right away, and if Spongebob knew, his plans would be ruined. He thought quickly. "Why, yes," he said. "It's a new thing. We robots help out around here. What would you like?"
"Cookie dough," Spongebob said.
"Chocolate with nuts for me," Said Sandy. Plankton gave them their ice cream.
"There you go," he said. "Enjoy."
Spongebob and Sandy walked away, eating their ice cream. Plankton silently laughed evilly. But as Spongebob and Sandy continued to eat ice cream. Nothing happened. They didn't fall down unconsciously.
"Huh?" Plankton went. "What!? They were supposed to fall down, unconscious. What went wrong?" Suddenly, Spongebob and Sandy started to gain energy. Soon, they were bouncing around.
"Funny, I suddenly feel extra energy," Sandy said.
"Huh? What?" Plankton asked himself, confused.
"Me too," Spongebob said to Sandy. "Must be a sugar rush from the ice cream."
"Even that much sugar couldn't do this," Sandy said. "But I guess it's just our lucky day. Spongebob was suddenly reminded of the time he and Patrick were at the Goofy Goobers ice cream place, and they both felt sick after staying up all night, and eating so much ice cream, they had bad sugar crash. He learned to never do that again.
"Come on, let's go play some sports," Sandy said.
"Yeah," Spongebob said. They ran off.
Plankton looked at the bottle of stuff he put in the ice cream. When he read it, he slapped himself. "Oh, no wonder," he said. This isn't knock out juice, its energy juice! Stupid, stupid, stupid!" He sighed. Oh, well," he said. As long as things are like this, I might as well give myself a boost. He started to drink some of the juice, but realized it was empty. He threw it away, and reached for another bottle, not realizing this one was the knock out juice. He drank it up. He started to feel woozy. "Funny," he said. "I feel rather tired all of a sudd"-he fell down before he could finish his sentence, and fell asleep, and started snoring.
A bit later, when he woke up, he spied on them at the treedom, thinking up another plan. "I'm not going to fail this time," he told himself. Spongebob and Sandy were doing an experiment, mixing chemicals together. Plankton was inside, hiding behind some books, wearing a water helmet. Spongebob was helping Sandy put in the chemicals. "Okay, Spencer, I need some Latex T," Sandy said. Spongebob handed it to her. As she poured some in, Plankton looked at the labels on the chemical bottles. "Hmmm," he went, "lets see… slow liquefier, object coloring… oh, what do we have here?" He read a bottle saying "caution, very explosive, be very careful!" "Ahhh… this ought to do the trick."
"Spencer, could you get me the object coloring?" Sandy said. Object coloring-Plankton just passed it. That second, the phone rang. "Oh, the phone. Spencer, could you put that in for me?"
Sure, Sandy," Spongebob said. Sandy left. Plankton had just switched the labels. He quickly went back into hiding. Spongebob looked around for the object coloring. He found it, not realizing it was the explosive chemical. In the treehouse, Patrick was on the phone.
"Spongebob?" Sandy said. "Patrick, Spongebob hasn't been around for almost a week."
"No, he's here, I've talked to him," Patrick said.
"Uh, yeah," Sandy said. She thought that he was just being stupid again. "Are you looking for Spencer? He's right here with me. I'll go get him." She turned to the window toward Spongebob. "Spencer!" She called, as right before Spongebob was just about to pour the chemical in. He stopped. "Patrick's on the phone," she said.
"Coming," he said, and set the bottle down, and ran into the tree house.
"Crud," plankton said. He started walking away, but suddenly, tripped on one of the inventions, bouncing upward to the explosive bottle. He looked down, seeing himself in the bottle. "Uh, oh," he said, and exploded up into the air, flying behind the exercise wheel. He got up, burn up into a crisp again. "Ow," he said. Spongebob and Sandy ran outside.
"What happened?" Asked Sandy, looking at the explosive bottle.
"I don't know," said Spongebob. "I was just about to put in the object coloring, but then put it down when you called me.
Sandy sighed. "It's okay," she said. "Whatever happened, accidents do happen." Plankton watched them from the exercise wheel, sitting up, then fell back.
Later, Spongebob and Sandy took a two-wheeled bike for a stroll. Plankton was at a large cliff, fixing up his next plan. He put up a platform picture at the edge of the cliff, looking like the road continued (That same old trick). When he finished, Spongebob and Sandy were coming. He quickly ran behind a rock. Plankton evilly laughed again as they got closer. As soon as they goy close, Sandy unexpectedly pulled a trigger on the side of her, and the bike let out 2 large wings on the side. "What th…," Plankton said. The bike lifted off the ground, and Spongebob and Sandy went high into the air, way over the platform picture, and flew until they were out of sight. Plankton growled and threw the paint brush on the ground passed the rock, and stomped on it. Meanwhile, a big red fish driving a green boat was coming. He saw the platform, and thought it was real. He drove near Plankton. Plankton turned around right when it was by him, and it crashed into him. Plankton and the driver ran into the platform, and they drove off the cliff. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! They screamed until they hit the ground. From a distance, an ow, was heard.
A bit later, Spongebob and Sandy were lying on the ground, looking at clouds/flowers in the sky. Plankton was on a little cliff, next to them. He had an electric eel tied to a rope, and started lowering it down towards them. But before he only had the eel half way through, the eel stopped, and just sat on a branch, refusing to move. "What?" plankton said, trying to push the eel further down. "Keep going you stupid eel! Why aren't you moving?" This angered the eel, and it flew back up to Plankton, and glared at him. "Uh, oh," Plankton said quietly. Next thing you know, the eel was chasing him in the distance, electrocuting him. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Plankton screamed, running from the eel, and kept getting electrocuted.
Throughout the rest of the day, Plankton kept pulling schemes to break them up. But nothing worked. Instead, they all kept backfiring on him.
That evening, Plankton came home a complete wreak. He had cuts and bruises all over him, and a broken arm, and as he was coming in, he was crawling, struggling to go any further, until he couldn't, and collapse on the floor beside Karen.
"So, how did it go?" Karen asked. Plankton looked at her.
"How did go!?" He yelled. "How did it go!? Look at me! How do you think it went!?
"I take it didn't go too well," Karen said. Plankton glared at her.
"You think!?" He yelled. "All day, I've been pulling schemes on them, which I took all the heat for, which lead me to where I am now, while those two are inside the giant glass ball, practically cuddling!" He panted. "I can't take it any more," he said. "There's no way through this. I give up!"
"Give up?" Karen said. "You're thinking too small, that's the problem. You need to think bigger."
"Bigger?" Plankton said. "What else is there?" He said, walking up to the box with the crystal in it. "I've tried everything I could think of, and nothing!" He kicked the box, tipping it over, and the crystal came out. This caught his attention. He looked at it, and walked up to it, picking it up. "You're right, Karen," he said. "I am thinking too small. I've been trying to break them up physically. What I need to do is break them up in a differently way."
"And what way is that?" Karen asked.
"By tricking them, of course," Plankton said. "And I know exactly what to do. He rubbed the crystal. "I wish…" said, and thought hard. In the shadow, you can see him transforming. He started to change shape and got bigger and turning square. He laughed evilly, as he was finishing transforming.
Meanwhile, at the treedom, Spongebob and Sandy were telling each other good night before going to bed. "Good night, Spencer," Sandy said.
"Good night, Sandy," Spongebob said, and went to the couch. Sandy went up into her room. As she was putting her pajamas on, she eyed a picture of Spongebob sitting on her dresser. She walked over to it, picking it up, and looked at it. She frowned, with a teardrop falling from one of her eyes. She put the picture back down. "He's been gone for almost a week," she thought. "It's not like he could've left with no explanation, for that long." A thought struck her. "I can't take this anymore. I'm going to look for him. She climbed back down from her bedroom. Back on the first floor of her tree house, she spotted Spencer lying on the couch. She thought of waking him, but seeing that he was already fast asleep, she decided not to. Instead, she quietly walked up to him. He lightly snored. She smiled. He looked cute when he was sleeping. She gave him a quick kiss, and walked away. Outside on the picnic table, she wrote a quick note to him. "I won't be gone for too long," she thought. She left the note on the table, and quickly grabbed her suit, and put it on. Then she went out the treedom. She looked around. "Spongebob!" she called. Then she heard a familiar laugh. She turned around. In a distance, she saw a square figure walking around. She couldn't believe her eyes. "Spongebob?" She said. She couldn't believe it. "Spongebob!" she called running up to him. Wait-that can't be Spongebob. Spongebob's still a squirrel, fast asleep in Sandy's treedom. Uh-oh.
Sorry it's taking me longer to get these chapters done. A lot of homework's been really piling up. But I'll try to get done sooner in the future. Next Chapter: Revealed!