SpongeBob hopped over in the driver's seat, his hand gripped the wheel. "Wait! You don't even have a license! How are you going to drive?" Squidward pointed out with as much snark in his voice that he could fit. SpongeBob smirked confidently, "You don't need a license to drive a sandwich," he said. Squidward snarled, "Not an excuse," he hissed. Squidward opened the door on the driver's side and pushed SpongeBob off to the passenger's seat. Patrick got in the back.
Alright, so... who has the key?" Squidward asked, fiddling about the many compartments the Patty Wagon had. SpongeBob then waved a spatula in his face. "Of course..." Squidward snatched it out of SpongeBob's hand and placed it in the ignition.
Outside the barricades had finally been pierced, a horde of zombies poured into the dining room, then the kitchen, and then the garage, just in time to see their three targets drive off at lighting speed, going up a ramp and out through a hatch that led outside.
"Woo hoo!" Patrick exclaimed as Squidward maneuvered about the army of zombies and buildings, which seemed to be getting torn down by construction crews, most likely to be replaced by monuments and statues in Plankton's honor. They hadn't noticed it before, but the sky had taken on a red and black hue. The color of death loomed over the soon to be forsaken town.
Squidward swerved the boat, just barley avoiding a wrecking ball missing a building, whether it was on purpose or the cause of the driver's lack of will was unknown.
Suddenly, something slammed into the boat, causing it to spin out of control for a few seconds before Squidward managed to get it back under control. It was another boat being driven by a zombie. In fact, the entire road was being flooded by drivers. Plankton's mercenaries had been given wheels, not just boats even, some were on bicycles, and even roller skates, though they were having an understandingly hard time catching up.
"Hold on!" Squidward declared, making a sharp turn to the right and going on to the freeway. The road then escalated and went over a deep pit.
*SMASH* the bridge behind them disappeared with the swing of a wrecking ball. The three looked around wildly for its source but were unable to locate it.
Squidward drove faster, approaching the other end of the bridge as quickly as possible.
*SMASH* another portion of bridge behind them was destroyed by the same wrecking ball. "Impossible! Unless..." it was only then that SpongeBob along with the other two heard it, and looked up.
Above them was a plane being flown by a zombie. A plane that had a long cable. A plane that had a long cable that had a wrecking ball attached to it. "One of Plankton's new inventions, I presume," Squidward mumbled, his gaze shifting back to the bridge.
The end of the bridge was approaching, Squidward was now on full throttle and coming in fast.
But he wasn't fast enough.
In a second, the bridge in front of them was torn away by the wrecking ball. The trio screamed at the top of their lungs as the Patty Wagon flew over the jagged edge of the bridge, time seemed to slow to a halt as the three pictured their horrid demises, their lives flashing before their eyes and the moment lasted an eternity.
And then, fate spared them, and the Patty Wagon just barley made it all the way on the other side. Looking back at the gap they just cleared, all of them began letting out torrents of relieved laughter. "We made it!" Patrick declared. They truly had. And in fact, for a brief second they gained a beautiful feeling of freedom. The freeway was devoid of boats being driven by crazed bloodthirsty zombies, for now at least, and with a lack of police officers of to the side with radar guns, they could go as fast as they pleased. And then a building came crashing down in their path.
Instantly all of them remembered what was happening as Squidward swerved out of the way. He drove further from the freeway in an attempt to make space in between them and the buildings.
In fact, he was now aiming for a new target. Squidward was aiming for the park.
The Wagon drove right into the grass and over the tiny bridge. And then, a crash erupted from nearby.
A boulder that had been perched atop a cliff overlooking the entire park had been smashed off by the wrecking ball and was now plummeting toward them.
Quickly, Squidward began swerving about wildly in an attempt to escape the boulders destructive path. However, it was no use. Wherever the Patty Wagon went, the boulder seemed to follow right behind, almost as if the boulder itself had an invisible bucket helmet clinging on to it for dear life and was at Plankton's mercy, or lack there of.
There was only two possibilities at this point, either outrun the boulder and pray that it would eventually come to a halt, or to find a place where the boulder couldn't follow. Squidward attempted the former.
Quickly, he looked about for a mechanism that could allow them to go faster, but quickly realized how dumb that idea was and stopped. Then it hit him, the Patty Wagon wasn't built to go at extremely high speeds. In fact, the Patty Wagon couldn't even go at the top speed of a regular boat!
And at the speed they were going, the boulder was easily catching up. Patrick could practically feel it tapping against the license plate before falling back to repeat the process.
The boulder was nearing them, it would be only a matter of time before the Patty Wagon was destroyed by a rock, a large rock. Squidward's eyes darted around, looking for something, anything to get them away from the boulder, and then he saw it.
To the right, there was a large, open path that lead to the edge of a gorge, fifteen feet in width. The only thing separating onlookers and the two hundred feet drop on to the jagged rocks below being a weak wooden railing that spanned across the edge of the cliff. On the other side of the gorge was a clearing that was nine feet lower than that of the observation deck.
The idea that lingered in Squidward's mind was crazy, but it just might work...
Author's Note: I forgot to mention this in the last chapter, Credit for giving me the idea to have Squidward come along on the adventure goes to Pieguyrulz, go check his channel out on YouTube. channel/UCr030Gq7lJ30za5ReYuUaLg
