Chapter 11 – SpongeBob's Arm Falls Off

"Happy's coming!" Farquaad gasped. SpongeBob gasped in concern. The other Roundup toys have to jump into a box filled with packing peanuts. "Go, go on Cindy!"

Cindy is a bit scared to jump into the box on the floor. "Cindy, look at me! I promise you'll come out of the box! Now, go. Go!"

Cindy obediently jumped into the box. Spirit helped Farquaad in and the horse jumped in as well. Sandy hastily said to SpongeBob, "Quick, SpongeBob! Head back to your case!" The sponge nodded as Sandy jumped into the box to join the others. SpongeBob dashes back to his case. Happy came back into his apartment, carrying a camera. The man had just finished his commercial at his job, and can at least get down to his important task. SpongeBob gets inside his case, and goes into toy position just in time.

"It's showtime!" Happy excitedly announced. Humming whimsically, Happy sets down Farquaad, Spirit, Sandy, and Cindy down onto the countertop in front of a set of cardboard western town buildings. He congratulated himself on all of the money he is going to make. "Ooh-hoo-hoo, money, baby. Money, money, money." Happy chuckledAnd now…the main attraction!" Happy said, walking over to SpongeBob.

Happy opened the case, and took out SpongeBob as he continued to hum. Unfortunately, a string of thread on SpongeBob's torn arm caught on the stand. SpongeBob's arm gets looser as the string stretched out farther. The string unravels as the arm pops off, and Happy was oblivious of it. Happy went back to the counter and he sets him on the table, draping SpongeBob's arm around Spirit the horse's back. Happy gasped in complete horror to see that SpongeBob's arm is gone!

"NOOOOOO! His arm! Where's his arm?" Happy cried. He finds SpongeBob's disembodied arm on the floor. He picks it up and desperately tried to put it back on, expecting it to instantly reattach, but it's no use. "Oh, no! No, no, no, no, no! What am I gonna do? Oh, I know. I know." He sets down the one-armed SpongeBob on the table and he frantically dials a number on his phone for a source of assistance. "Come on, come on, come on, pick up the phone!" he complained.

"Hello?" A man asked on the other end.

"It's me, it's Mr. Chapman! I got an emergency here!" Happy said worried.

"I'm busy."

"Yes, we're all busy, but look, it has to be tonight!" He puts the arm in his shirt pocket for safekeeping as the man complained on the other end"OK, OK, but first thing in the morning!"

He leaves, and SpongeBob sprang up. He's already beginning to freak out. SpongeBob screamed in horror and the pull-string sponge gets back up, fearing hysterically. "IT'S GONE! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! MY ARM IS COMPLETELY GONE!"

"All right, come here. Let me see it." Farquaad said calmly. SpongeBob shows him the spot where the arm fell off. A puff of cotton is what remains. He is shaking in complete fear. "Oh, it's just a popped seam, easily repaired. You should consider yourself lucky." Farquaad assured.

"LUCKY?! ARE YOU SHRINK-WRAPPED?! I AM MISSING MY ARM!" SpongeBob yelled in frustration.

"SpongeBob, calm down. It's only an arm." Sandy said.

The sponge's anger grew even more bigger. "JUST AN ARM?! HOW AM I GOING TO GO HOME LIKE THIS?!"

"Big deal." Cindy Vortex sat at the end of the counter with a toy pistol. She aimed the trigger and a plunger dart shot out of it, and it hits the forehead of the cardboard standee of SpongeBob's likeness. "Let him go. I'm sure his precious 'Michael' is dying to play with a one-armed sponge boy doll." she said, glaring at SpongeBob.

"Now, you listen here, Cindy. You were calm for a minute, and now you're like this because SpongeBob wanted to go home.

"Well, what could I say? If he didn't make that decision, I would never be this way!" Cindy retorted.

"Sandy's right. And Cindy, you know he wouldn't last a consecutive hour on the streets in his condition. It's a dangerous world out there. For a toy." Farquaad said.

SpongeBob couldn't believe his arm was gone. This was his big problem besides getting kidnapped by a greedy toy collector who would want to entice his rich debate to Japan. All of this had changed from a dream to a very catostrophic nightmare, SpongeBob highly doubted if he ever were to see his owner again.