p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;" align="center"Leg 5, Part 2: I learned that move from Spider-man himself!/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThe bubbles in Bikini Bottom, as Tai Lee soon found from jumping on one, were surprisingly solid. The tops of the jellyfish were bouncy, but the water and her suit let her float down gradually, so she had time to plan her descent./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;""The Roadblock was really fun!" Tai Lee remarked. "It felt like being in the circus again with all of these underwater trampolines! The only thing I didn't like was that the suit felt kind of bulky at times, and there wasn't a crowd of people cheering for me. Even Mai just stood there. She didn't call out to me once!"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;""I didn't want to distract her," Mai explained./em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"By the time Tai Lee was nearly at the end, a second taxi arrived./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Crap, the little girls got here before we did!" Arachne groaned./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I still get the money, right?" Mr. Krabs asked Slim as her teammate went off to start the challenge. Slim sighed and paid him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Thank ye, lass," Mr. Krabs said. "I s'pose I'll be seein' ye later on in the leg. Make some money out there!" Slim wanted to ask what Mr. Krabs meant by seeing them later, but he just gave a wink and drove off./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Hi," she said to Mai nervously. They watched as Arachne shot out some webbing from her abdomen to use to tether herself to a bubble that just floated in one spot./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Which world do you think has been the weirdest so far?" Mai asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I…I don't know," Slim said. "I can't really think about it right now. All the water everywhere…"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Can't you teleport?" Mai pointed out. "This would be easy for you."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Oh…right. Crap!" Slim cursed herself for being such a coward. "Maybe Arachne won't realize it…?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Just don't bring it up and let her do all the work," Mai said. "That's how I handle Tai Lee."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Thanks."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"As they talked, Arachne missed a jump, but thanks to her webbing she was able to pull herself back up./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I'll catch up to you, girly!" Arachne yelled at Tai Lee. Tai Lee simply laughed as she jumped out and grabbed a hook suspended above the cliff on the other side of the canyon. She was immediately reeled upwards to the surface of the water./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I guess that's supposed to happen," Mai remarked. As Tai Lee went up another taxi arrived./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Oh my God, this looks scary," Peggy said, taking a deep breath. "Is it too late to switch?" Slim and Arachne nodded./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Fire nation girls: currently in First/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"MC Mobs: currently in Second/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Texans: currently in Third/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;" align="center".span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" style="mso-tab-count: 1;" style="mso-tab-count: 1;" style="mso-tab-count: 1;" style="mso-tab-count: 1;" style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"On the way to Jellyfish Fields, Plankton took the time to explain his evil plan to Chris and Elise. She had heard it all before, of course./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""And once I get the secret Krabby Patty formula, I can run Krabs out of business!" Plankton told Chris and Elise with a cackle./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""That seems so…unambitious," Chris pointed out./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""What?! Unambitious?!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I mean, it's not a bad idea or anything," Chris went on. "But, well, I have this friend, and he had all kinds of crazy schemes. All because he wanted to get revenge on somebody or something. Usually it was about his car, but his motives are all over the place. But he never stuck to one. How long have you been sticking to this one, Plankton?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Don't encourage him," Elise warned./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""A good twenty-five years or so, give or take," Plankton admitted. "But I'll get that formula eventually! I've come pretty close, but something or other stops me. Usually it's that yellow fry cook of his."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""That's a good idea! Focus your energy on him instead," Chris said. "My friend would always say that revenge is a dish best served immediately. So go get your revenge on whoever this SpongeBob guy is."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Chris, no! You don't know what you're doing!" Elise cautioned./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Silence, woman! Hmm…it sounds like a good idea," Plankton thought. "How about this: when the race is over and if you don't win, how about coming to work for me at the Chum Bucket? I can engineer a suit that's even better than Sandy's, on a smaller budget, so you wouldn't have to worry about drowning. Considering that Karen isn't interested in helping out my plans all the time, it would be useful to have someone around to motivate me."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""No thanks," Chris answered. "I don't think I can move down here for a job. I like living in California. But I'll definitely consider it if Dan ends up destroying it for some reason. That's the friend I was talking about."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Plankton's cab was the next to arrive at Jellyfish Fields. Once they were out of the car Elise pulled Chris aside and told him the truth./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""You can't encourage Plankton's behavior!" she warned him. "That's the kind of thing that led me to, uh…"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""How come you never told me about him?" Chris asked. Elise ordered the production crew to turn off their cameras before she revealed the truth to him, but of course they didn't listen./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Plankton's not really my ex," she explained. "I ended up having to work with him in…a job I had to do."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""What kind of job brought you down here?" Chris asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Just some business stuff," Elise insisted./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""That's kind of vague, don't you think?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Yeah, well, it's time I do this Roadblock, so see you in a bit," Elise said, rushing off to the cliffside and leaving a trail of bubbles behind her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"At this point, the other three teams that had already made it to Jellyfish Fields were jumping across the tops of the jellyfish and hooks to try and get to the other side. Tai Lee was furthest ahead, with Arachne trailing behind. The spider couldn't jump as far as a former circus performer, of course, but Arachne at least had the ability to use her webs like a grappling hook./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"I learned that move from Spider-man himself!"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"She's lying," Slim insisted./em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"No I'm not!"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Oh, yeah? Which one?"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Uh…you know, the real one!"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Which set of movies?"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Uh…"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Or one of his comic incarnations?"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Uh…just believe me, okay?!"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"No. What's Spider-man's real name?"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"…Peter Griffin?"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Nope."/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Tai Lee glanced back behind her and thought of a plan to get Arachne off her tail. She landed on a hook which had a few seconds of delay before going upward. She jumped off before the hook could go up. Arachne quickly wrapped her silk around it in order to follow her, but suddenly the hook started rapidly rising up to the surface with the spider still tethered to it./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""What a horrible trick!" Arachne said to herself. "It's so underhanded of her to use the mechanics of these hooks to trick me into getting launched up here!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"I was just playing the game," Tai Lee later insisted./em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"I have to wonder, how many times in the Amazing Race has a team gotten mad at another team for doing something that's within the game rules?" Slim asked aloud. The production crew told her that many, many times something like that had happened, and the hypocrisy and silliness of it all was lost on everyone but the viewers./em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"It wasn't long before Tai Lee reached the opposite edge of the canyon once again, this time making sure not to stay too long on that last hook. With perfect timing she jumped off and landed on the other side right before the hook could rise up too high./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Great job!" said a random, generic fish with no name. He handed her the next clue. On the other side, Mai was escorted to meet up with her teammate viaspan style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"shore cut"./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Teams must now make their way to the Krusty Krab, where they will receive their next clue," Tai Lee read aloud as Mai approached her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Must be where that Detour SpongeBob mentioned is taking place," Mai surmised. They got off in their taxi with Mr. Krabs, who, as it turns out, had driven around to the other side. It was also very convenient for them that Mr. Krabs was the owner and founder of the Krusty Krab!/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I suppose ye have the luck of sailors! Argargargargargargarg!" Mr. Krabs laughed loudly as he drove the team to their destination./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Fire Nation Girls: currently in First/p
p class="MsoNormal"Just as one team was leaving the Roadblock, three other teams were arriving. The Saiyans arrived with Larry the Lobster, the teachers arrived with Squidward, and Peach and Toadsworth arrived with a generic fish at the wheel, seeing as how there are so few SpongeBob characters and not enough to be distinct taxi drivers. Mrs. Puff could have been one of them, but she was already on a team herself./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hopefully this won't be too hard for me," Peach declared. "I've got my floaty dress on outside my suit!" Sure enough, peach had attached her princess' dress to the outside of her underwater suit's legs in a feat of stitching. As she was showing it off she heard a scream from Peggy as she was falling all the way down to the bottom of the canyon./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""It may be harder than you think," Toadsworth warned her. "Be careful, Princess!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Yeah, yeah, I've done things like this before," Peach insisted./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""You be careful, too, Vegeta!" Nappa warned, but Vegeta just ignored him as he didn't feel like he needed any warnings./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Only three seconds of flight, huh?" Vegeta said. "I can pull this off." He took out a timer that had been given to him by Goku himself for this exact task and activated it. Vegeta shot at breakneck speed across the canyon, only to find that after exactly three seconds he was just inches away from the other side./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""What the fuck?! Are you serious?!" Vegeta roared in Saiyan fury. "Now what do I do?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""You have to go back!" Goku ordered him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Fine, fine," Vegeta said. "But if I see a spot to land can I land on it if I can fall down to it before the three seconds end?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Sure!" Goku said. "But you'd have to be patient and observant for that!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I can be patient, dammit!" Vegeta insisted./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Who does Kakarot think he is? First he has the nerve to be stronger than me, then he tells me I need certain…virtues?! Ech! Sometimes, it's lonely being number two…well, ok, maybe I'm further down the list, what with that tournament and all…still, I'm the most powerful racer here! That has to count for something, right?"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Vegeta kept trying to race out again, hoping to make it to the other side of the canyon in time, but to no avail. He kept trying this repeatedly as Peach floated across the gaps, only to automatically fall due to trying to sustain flight for more than three seconds./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""How strange," Toadsworth mused. "It seems as if those who should have an easy time getting across will have a harder time, thanks to the rule about flight."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Ms. Bitters, meanwhile, was no skilled jumper and couldn't fly, but she did her best with what she could do, which was be calm and patient. As she was about a quarter of the way through the course, she could see Arachne make it to the other side, way off in the distance./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Great job!" Slim called out from the other side as she was escorted to her teammate./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"MC Mobs: currently in Second/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Although things were challenging for Elise, due to being just an ordinary human, she still managed to make it across, joining Chris just minutes behind the Mobs./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Oh, the Krusty Krab…" Plankton groaned. "One day I'll destroy you."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Regular Couple: currently in Third/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Meanwhile, Patrick was being an idiot and slowing down the Hocotatians during the race. His antics were so mind-numbingly stupid that they were edited out of the episode./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Hocotatians: currently in last/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThe bubbles in Bikini Bottom, as Tai Lee soon found from jumping on one, were surprisingly solid. The tops of the jellyfish were bouncy, but the water and her suit let her float down gradually, so she had time to plan her descent./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;""The Roadblock was really fun!" Tai Lee remarked. "It felt like being in the circus again with all of these underwater trampolines! The only thing I didn't like was that the suit felt kind of bulky at times, and there wasn't a crowd of people cheering for me. Even Mai just stood there. She didn't call out to me once!"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;""I didn't want to distract her," Mai explained./em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"By the time Tai Lee was nearly at the end, a second taxi arrived./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Crap, the little girls got here before we did!" Arachne groaned./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I still get the money, right?" Mr. Krabs asked Slim as her teammate went off to start the challenge. Slim sighed and paid him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Thank ye, lass," Mr. Krabs said. "I s'pose I'll be seein' ye later on in the leg. Make some money out there!" Slim wanted to ask what Mr. Krabs meant by seeing them later, but he just gave a wink and drove off./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Hi," she said to Mai nervously. They watched as Arachne shot out some webbing from her abdomen to use to tether herself to a bubble that just floated in one spot./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Which world do you think has been the weirdest so far?" Mai asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I…I don't know," Slim said. "I can't really think about it right now. All the water everywhere…"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Can't you teleport?" Mai pointed out. "This would be easy for you."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Oh…right. Crap!" Slim cursed herself for being such a coward. "Maybe Arachne won't realize it…?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Just don't bring it up and let her do all the work," Mai said. "That's how I handle Tai Lee."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Thanks."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"As they talked, Arachne missed a jump, but thanks to her webbing she was able to pull herself back up./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I'll catch up to you, girly!" Arachne yelled at Tai Lee. Tai Lee simply laughed as she jumped out and grabbed a hook suspended above the cliff on the other side of the canyon. She was immediately reeled upwards to the surface of the water./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I guess that's supposed to happen," Mai remarked. As Tai Lee went up another taxi arrived./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Oh my God, this looks scary," Peggy said, taking a deep breath. "Is it too late to switch?" Slim and Arachne nodded./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Fire nation girls: currently in First/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"MC Mobs: currently in Second/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Texans: currently in Third/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;" align="center".span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" style="mso-tab-count: 1;" style="mso-tab-count: 1;" style="mso-tab-count: 1;" style="mso-tab-count: 1;" style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"On the way to Jellyfish Fields, Plankton took the time to explain his evil plan to Chris and Elise. She had heard it all before, of course./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""And once I get the secret Krabby Patty formula, I can run Krabs out of business!" Plankton told Chris and Elise with a cackle./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""That seems so…unambitious," Chris pointed out./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""What?! Unambitious?!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I mean, it's not a bad idea or anything," Chris went on. "But, well, I have this friend, and he had all kinds of crazy schemes. All because he wanted to get revenge on somebody or something. Usually it was about his car, but his motives are all over the place. But he never stuck to one. How long have you been sticking to this one, Plankton?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Don't encourage him," Elise warned./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""A good twenty-five years or so, give or take," Plankton admitted. "But I'll get that formula eventually! I've come pretty close, but something or other stops me. Usually it's that yellow fry cook of his."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""That's a good idea! Focus your energy on him instead," Chris said. "My friend would always say that revenge is a dish best served immediately. So go get your revenge on whoever this SpongeBob guy is."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Chris, no! You don't know what you're doing!" Elise cautioned./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Silence, woman! Hmm…it sounds like a good idea," Plankton thought. "How about this: when the race is over and if you don't win, how about coming to work for me at the Chum Bucket? I can engineer a suit that's even better than Sandy's, on a smaller budget, so you wouldn't have to worry about drowning. Considering that Karen isn't interested in helping out my plans all the time, it would be useful to have someone around to motivate me."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""No thanks," Chris answered. "I don't think I can move down here for a job. I like living in California. But I'll definitely consider it if Dan ends up destroying it for some reason. That's the friend I was talking about."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Plankton's cab was the next to arrive at Jellyfish Fields. Once they were out of the car Elise pulled Chris aside and told him the truth./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""You can't encourage Plankton's behavior!" she warned him. "That's the kind of thing that led me to, uh…"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""How come you never told me about him?" Chris asked. Elise ordered the production crew to turn off their cameras before she revealed the truth to him, but of course they didn't listen./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Plankton's not really my ex," she explained. "I ended up having to work with him in…a job I had to do."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""What kind of job brought you down here?" Chris asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Just some business stuff," Elise insisted./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""That's kind of vague, don't you think?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Yeah, well, it's time I do this Roadblock, so see you in a bit," Elise said, rushing off to the cliffside and leaving a trail of bubbles behind her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"At this point, the other three teams that had already made it to Jellyfish Fields were jumping across the tops of the jellyfish and hooks to try and get to the other side. Tai Lee was furthest ahead, with Arachne trailing behind. The spider couldn't jump as far as a former circus performer, of course, but Arachne at least had the ability to use her webs like a grappling hook./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"I learned that move from Spider-man himself!"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"She's lying," Slim insisted./em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"No I'm not!"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Oh, yeah? Which one?"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Uh…you know, the real one!"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Which set of movies?"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Uh…"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Or one of his comic incarnations?"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Uh…just believe me, okay?!"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"No. What's Spider-man's real name?"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"…Peter Griffin?"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Nope."/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Tai Lee glanced back behind her and thought of a plan to get Arachne off her tail. She landed on a hook which had a few seconds of delay before going upward. She jumped off before the hook could go up. Arachne quickly wrapped her silk around it in order to follow her, but suddenly the hook started rapidly rising up to the surface with the spider still tethered to it./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""What a horrible trick!" Arachne said to herself. "It's so underhanded of her to use the mechanics of these hooks to trick me into getting launched up here!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"I was just playing the game," Tai Lee later insisted./em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"I have to wonder, how many times in the Amazing Race has a team gotten mad at another team for doing something that's within the game rules?" Slim asked aloud. The production crew told her that many, many times something like that had happened, and the hypocrisy and silliness of it all was lost on everyone but the viewers./em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"It wasn't long before Tai Lee reached the opposite edge of the canyon once again, this time making sure not to stay too long on that last hook. With perfect timing she jumped off and landed on the other side right before the hook could rise up too high./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Great job!" said a random, generic fish with no name. He handed her the next clue. On the other side, Mai was escorted to meet up with her teammate viaspan style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"shore cut"./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Teams must now make their way to the Krusty Krab, where they will receive their next clue," Tai Lee read aloud as Mai approached her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Must be where that Detour SpongeBob mentioned is taking place," Mai surmised. They got off in their taxi with Mr. Krabs, who, as it turns out, had driven around to the other side. It was also very convenient for them that Mr. Krabs was the owner and founder of the Krusty Krab!/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I suppose ye have the luck of sailors! Argargargargargargarg!" Mr. Krabs laughed loudly as he drove the team to their destination./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Fire Nation Girls: currently in First/p
p class="MsoNormal"Just as one team was leaving the Roadblock, three other teams were arriving. The Saiyans arrived with Larry the Lobster, the teachers arrived with Squidward, and Peach and Toadsworth arrived with a generic fish at the wheel, seeing as how there are so few SpongeBob characters and not enough to be distinct taxi drivers. Mrs. Puff could have been one of them, but she was already on a team herself./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hopefully this won't be too hard for me," Peach declared. "I've got my floaty dress on outside my suit!" Sure enough, peach had attached her princess' dress to the outside of her underwater suit's legs in a feat of stitching. As she was showing it off she heard a scream from Peggy as she was falling all the way down to the bottom of the canyon./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""It may be harder than you think," Toadsworth warned her. "Be careful, Princess!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Yeah, yeah, I've done things like this before," Peach insisted./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""You be careful, too, Vegeta!" Nappa warned, but Vegeta just ignored him as he didn't feel like he needed any warnings./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Only three seconds of flight, huh?" Vegeta said. "I can pull this off." He took out a timer that had been given to him by Goku himself for this exact task and activated it. Vegeta shot at breakneck speed across the canyon, only to find that after exactly three seconds he was just inches away from the other side./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""What the fuck?! Are you serious?!" Vegeta roared in Saiyan fury. "Now what do I do?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""You have to go back!" Goku ordered him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Fine, fine," Vegeta said. "But if I see a spot to land can I land on it if I can fall down to it before the three seconds end?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Sure!" Goku said. "But you'd have to be patient and observant for that!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""I can be patient, dammit!" Vegeta insisted./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"em"Who does Kakarot think he is? First he has the nerve to be stronger than me, then he tells me I need certain…virtues?! Ech! Sometimes, it's lonely being number two…well, ok, maybe I'm further down the list, what with that tournament and all…still, I'm the most powerful racer here! That has to count for something, right?"/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Vegeta kept trying to race out again, hoping to make it to the other side of the canyon in time, but to no avail. He kept trying this repeatedly as Peach floated across the gaps, only to automatically fall due to trying to sustain flight for more than three seconds./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""How strange," Toadsworth mused. "It seems as if those who should have an easy time getting across will have a harder time, thanks to the rule about flight."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Ms. Bitters, meanwhile, was no skilled jumper and couldn't fly, but she did her best with what she could do, which was be calm and patient. As she was about a quarter of the way through the course, she could see Arachne make it to the other side, way off in the distance./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Great job!" Slim called out from the other side as she was escorted to her teammate./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"MC Mobs: currently in Second/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Although things were challenging for Elise, due to being just an ordinary human, she still managed to make it across, joining Chris just minutes behind the Mobs./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;""Oh, the Krusty Krab…" Plankton groaned. "One day I'll destroy you."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Regular Couple: currently in Third/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Meanwhile, Patrick was being an idiot and slowing down the Hocotatians during the race. His antics were so mind-numbingly stupid that they were edited out of the episode./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"Hocotatians: currently in last/p