Chapter 24 – SpongeBob Vs Farquaad
The plan Sherman came up with was carried out. A stray pet carrier with Jimmy's feet comes skittering to the inside of the airport, up to the back claim. "How close are we to the baggage claim?" Agnes asked.
"We're almost there, Agnes." Jimmy replied.
"Someone's coming!" Alex alarmed. Everyone dropped to the ground at Alex's signal. A little girl walked up to the pet carrier, squealing excitedly, "Ooh, a puppy!"
Thinking quickly, Clifford barks like mad at the girl. The girl screams and runs away. Clifford finishes barking, and Jimmy gives him a thumbs up.
"Quick thinking, Clifford!" Sherman congratulated. "Now, onward, Jimmy!"
"Right behind you, Sherman." Jimmy winked. Jimmy lifts the pet carrier and they continue their trek. Happy is now speaking with the baggage handler. The toys pass the man as they get onto the conveyor belt unnoticed.
"Listen here, flyboy!" Happy bargained indignantly. "The expensive contents of that case are worth more than you make in a year! You got that, sport?!"
"I understand sir." The baggage handler said. "Careful with that! Do you have a fragile sticker or something? I know what goes on back there. I had a box of cookies once that came back as crumbs!"
The baggage claim puts the green case on the conveyor belt, which is moving forward as the pet carrier, whom Jimmy managed to gets on it. As the green case goes through long black flaps, Kyle said, "It seems that there is the mystic portal!"
Jimmy replied, "Sherman, give the lowdown to the others."
Sherman issued, "Once we go through, we just need to find that case." No sooner that Sherman said that, they go through an opening through. On the other side, conveyor belts carry luggage in different directions. Oscar couldn't help but gasp as they reach a ramp like a roller coaster.
"EVERYBODY HOLD ON!" Agnes yelled.
The toys all screamed, as they braced for impact as they went rolling all the way down the ramp and land hard on the bottom belt. They all came tumbling out of the pet carrier. They all barely recovered from the ordeal, they all hoped that saving SpongeBob would we worth the mess. Clifford removes a luggage tag off his head and pointed to Happy's green case. "There's the case!" Clifford pointed.
"No, there's the case!" Cody said, motioning down to another identical green case on a rolling lower belt.
"You take that one, we'll take this one!" Jimmy urged. He started running after the first case, with Clifford behind him.
The rest of the toys, including Sherman and Agnes, jump down to run toward the case on the lower belt Cody had spotted.
As for Jimmy and Clifford, they manage to race through the belt, on pursuit of the selected green case. But when the Space Boy action figure jumped over the handle of one case, Clifford got his hind legs get caught on a handle. The bag moved to another conveyor belt, changing direction on another belt. The spring started getting longer and longer until it's all out of wack.
"Jimmy! Jimmy, my back end's going to Baton Rouge!" Clifford cried. He gets yanked out of view.
"Clifford!" Jimmy yelled, holding a hand out to the disappearing red dog.
At the same time, Alex, Cody, Oscar, the South Park trio, Sherman and Agnes run closer to the case they found. "Here we come, SpongeBob! SpongeBob! SpongeBob!" They open this case, in hopes of finding SpongeBob and his new friends, but all they found was...camera equipment. The group all groaned.
"Eh, nice flash, though." Cody said.
"Wait, I think I know how we can use these." Sherman studies the camera equipment.
Back with Jimmy, he continues running through the luggage. Sprinting up a guitar case, he finds the green case. He jumps on the next belt, and he finally runs up with it. The boy genius unlocks the latches and as he opens it, he urged, "OK, SpongeBob, let's go!"
Jimmy expected SpongeBob to appear, but Farquaad popped up instead and angrily punches Jimmy in the face, sending him tumbling off the belt. "Take that, Neutron toy!"
An angry SpongeBob pops up from his foam insulation and grabs him from behind. "HEY! NO ONE DOES THAT TO MY FRIEND!" SpongeBob yelled. He tackles him and they fight briefly. Farquaad kicks him off his chest, and SpongeBob lands on his back. Farquaad loomed above the pull-string sponge, and with a diabolical face, he uses his sword to make a fresh new rip, exactly like the old one, the same laceration when Mike ripped it by accident before leaving for camp. SpongeBob clung onto his arm with a horrified yell, having understood the meaning of the game.
"Your choice, SpongeBob..." The pull-string sponge began to whimper as Farquaad went on, his dark expression festering, "...you can go to Japan together or in pieces. And if he fixed you once, he can fix you again!" The man pointed to the open case behind him and demanded, "NOW, GET IN THE BOX!"
"NEVER!" SpongeBob yelled right back.
Farquaad had changed from his gentle personality to a personality of abuse. With a sudden rage, Farquaad raises his sword, and was about to tear SpongeBob up! "Fine!" the short man bellowed. SpongeBob, filled with horror, shields his face with his hands, preparing for death. Farquaad is ready to strike the final blow until...
...a myriad of flashes go off in his face. It's Jimmy and the toys using the flash equipment to stun Farquaad.
"You there! Leave our friend alone!" Sherman yelled. Sherman ran to the sponge and helped him up, "Are you OK, SpongeBob?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, now that you guys are here." SpongeBob sighed.
Agnes noticed the tiny rip in SpongeBob's shoulder. She gasped, "SpongeBob, you've got a little cut in your shoulder!"
SpongeBob clung to his arm, "Don't worry, Agnes. I'll be fine. That can be fixed."
Sherman turned to Farquaad with a game face. He slowly walked up to him, and he growled, "You monster. Trying to kill SpongeBob wasn't enough for you, huh?! HUH?!" Sherman grabbed the doll by the collar and the young boy yelled, "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO NOW?!"
Farquaad sneered, "SpongeBob doesn't deserve new friends, little boy. He never does." He added with a furious scream in Sherman's face, "HE NEVER DOES!"
"Oh, I've been wanting to do this for so long."
With that said, Sherman readied his fist...and the young boy threw a HUGE punch to Farquaad's face. The punch by Sherman was so hard, it made Farquaad stagger back. All of the toys saw all this and they all oohed and aahed at Sherman's heroic action. Jimmy ran up to Farquaad and grabbed him from behind. He smirked, "Gotcha!" The Space Boy action figure turned to Sherman with a proud face, "Nice work, Sherman!"
As Sherman retreated to the others, Agnes saw what her brother did, and she marveled, "Sherman...that was awesome."
"Yep." Sherman nodded triumphantly.
Farquaad glared at the toys with fury burning in his eyes. He growled, "IDIOTS! CHILDREN DESTROY TOYS! YOU'LL ALL BE RUINED! SPENDING ETERNITY ROTTING IN SOME LANDFILL!"
Agnes interjected defiantly, "Snap it up! We never believe you!"
SpongeBob walked up to Farquaad and said, "Well, Lord Farquaad, I think it's time you learned the true meaning of playtime." The sponge pinches his cheek for emphasis, before he points in another direction of the conveyor belt. "Right over there, guys!"
Sherman whispered to Agnes, "Looks like that man's gonna get what's coming to him." Agnes responded with a sly snicker.
Farquaad's eyes widened in extreme horror at where SpongeBob pointed to.
"NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Farquaad wailed.
Meanwhile, out in the main lobby, a Bratz backpack came out into the luggage retrieval area...with a surprise toy at the back.
A girl walked over to it, and she excitedly gasped. "Look, Bratz, a big ugly man doll." the girl said, sliding her Bratz doll beside Farquaad, who was this close to his punishment for his treachery and betrayal. "Ooh, he needs a makeover."
The girl slides on her backpack, and Farquaad came to life, whimpering in fear. The Bratz doll, with part of her face obscured, greeted "Hi! You'll like Wendy." The doll turns her face toward Farquaad, and had to stifle a scream upon seeing the beautiful but creepy-looking decorations on her face with a lock of hair missing from her head. "She's an artist!"
Wendy skips over to catch up to her parents, with her mom calling, "Come on, sweetie!" As soon as Wendy caught up, the family walked off, with her mom taking her hand. Farquaad begins to sob in defeat, and this is the first time to be a toy to a little girl who will invite him to a tea party with girls and dress him up in doll's clothing.