Chapter 14: New Betrayal
Plankton was lying on the floor after being mysteriously blown up, but managed to stand back up, yet looking angry. "All right, who did that?" Plankton demanded to know.
But to his surprise, it was DarkEvil LaserPants who stood in front of him, clenching his fists. It all soon became clear to him and everyone what was going on.
"DarkSabor WeaselPants!" Plankton asked in shock and hurt. "Why?"
"I'm no longer taking orders from you!" DarkEvil shouted in anger. "You haven't remembered my name for twenty years and everything we've done together has been concocted by me!" he bent down and swatted Plankton away before adding, "I'm through ruling Bikini Bottom with you, I'm going back to the past and I'm gonna take over Bikini Bottom alone this time!"
The group all watched in shock as DarkEvil turned on the one he had been serving all these years, but the evil sponge wasn't finished. "And the only one standing in the way of that…is you." DarkEvil pointed at the confused SpongeBob.
A hint of nervousness took over SpongeBob's face. "Who? Me?" he asked in a small voice.
DarkEvil began approaching SpongeBob with malicious intent, but SpongeBob backed away in fright until he stepped onto a jet sled that was lying on the ground. He accidentally stepped on a button on the jet sled, and went flying through the ceiling, screaming as he hung onto the sled. DarkEvil grabbed the next jet sled and followed him.
SpongeBob was flying through the sky screaming and holding on for his life. But he looked behind and saw DarkEvil following him, riding the jet sled perfectly as he chased after his inexperienced past self.
"Oh no." SpongeBob muttered to himself, he looked forward and saw he was gonna crash into the Krusty Krab sign. "OH NO!"
SpongeBob quickly used all his strength to pull the jet sled upward and he managed to miss the sign. Except DarkEvil didn't have time to dodge and he ended up crashing into the sign, causing it to fall to the ground on top of him.
SpongeBob managed to fly right back in the Chum Bucket, but due to not knowing how to stop, he crashed on the floor face first. His friends rushed over to him in concern.
Sandy picked him up. "SpongeBob! You okay?"
His friends held SpongeBob up as the sponge looked dazed and felt like he was going to faint. "Yeah…never better." he said in a dazed voice before fainting on the ground.
Squidward quickly picked him back up as SpongeBob regained consciousness. "SpongeBob, you've got to get to the past and fix this mess."
"That's just what I plan to do." SpongeBob said heroically.
"My time machine is hidden deep in Jellyfish Fields." Sandy said, instructing him where to go. She then whispered, "I've kept it in a cave all these years so DarkEvil or anyone else would never be able to find it."
SpongeBob nodded, "Got it!"
"And one more thing!" Mr. Krabs suddenly said in his bitter voice.
SpongeBob looked a bit nervous at what Mr. Krabs was gonna do or say this time. But for the first time since they reunited, Mr. Krabs spoke in a warm calming voice, "Be careful…SpongeBob."
SpongeBob got a little happy look on his face, but the moment was spoiled when DarkEvil blew another hole in the wall, standing back on his jet sled, wanting to destroy SpongeBob even more.
"Get going! Now!" Gary shouted to SpongeBob.
SpongeBob obeyed and stood on the jet sled, he pushed a button with his foot and the jet sled took off like a rocket, almost leaving SpongeBob behind, but he grabbed it with his hands and held on like last time.
When he left, Plankton had just woken up from his state of shock. He saw DarkEvil getting ready to follow SpongeBob, but the one-eyed overlord quickly ran over to him.
"Wait, I can make it up to you!" Plankton told DarkEvil in a desperate tone. "I'll write your name on my hand."
But DarkEvil wasn't listening or acknowledging him, and the evil sponge took off on his jet sled and flew past Squidward, spinning him around. Once Squidward recovered, he reached for his side pockets. "My beamsword!" Squidward exclaimed, noticing it was now gone.
Plankton coughed from the smoke trail the sled left behind and made one last futile attempt to get on his former apprentice's good side by shouting, "I'll put post-its on the walls!"
Once it was clear that DarkEvil was not coming back, Mr. Krabs walked up to Plankton. "Well, Plankton, it looks like you trained your apprentice a little too well." He said in smug satisfaction, pointing his cane at Plankton.
"And now you have no one to protect you anymore." Gary pointed out, slithering over to Plankton with a smirk.
Squidward, Sandy, and Patrick walked up to Plankton as well with smug grins on their faces.
"Uh, hey guys," Plankton nervously greeted with a weak smile. "No hard feelings about the past twenty years, right?" his smile quickly disappears to a look of panic, "Right?"
"I'm gonna enjoy this." Mr. Krabs said with a smirk, cracking his knuckles before taking what would be retribution for the past twenty years.
Meanwhile, DarkEvil was chasing SpongeBob through the skies of Jellyfish Fields on jet sleds. SpongeBob was screaming in terror as he held onto the jet sled; screaming that DarkEvil was going to kill him or that falling off the jet sled will. Down below, SpongeBob saw a cave that he hoped contained Sandy's time machine just like she said it would.
"Sandy's time machine must be there!" SpongeBob smiled, but frowned when he realized he couldn't get to it. "Oh, how do I land this thing?"
SpongeBob pushed a random button and the jet sled immediately slowed down. He gave a sigh of relief until his eyes widen in realization to what was going on.
DarkEvil, still going fast to chase him, crashed into SpongeBob, and both jet sleds exploded in the sky. Flames and pieces flew everywhere in Jellyfish Fields, raining down onto the ground. SpongeBob was lying face down, scratched but still alive. He groaned in pain and when he lifted his head up. But suddenly, his eyes widen and he was shocked to see the mask of DarkEvil LaserPants lying right in front of him.
Wow, what an awesome cliffhanger that was, remember to review.