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Episode 3: A Possibility

In the early morning, Lexi, SpongeBob III, and Danny Jr. took the drained SpongeTron to his home and plugged him in to charge his batteries. When Danny Jr. and SpongeTron III decided to take a seat on the couch while they wait for SpongeTron to reactivate, Lexi was pacing back and forth in front of them, looking frantic.

"I can't believe this!" Lexi complained in frustration. "I just wanted to live here in peace and quiet and now I have to deal with a ghost buster and a yellow…thing."

Hearing this, Danny Jr. frowned and retorted, "Excuse me, but I'm the one who left his town with nobody to protect it."

Lexi glared at him and shouted, "No one asked you to follow me!"

Rather than get involved, SpongeBob III continued to sit on the couch, texting on his phone.

Danny Jr. took a deep breath and exhaled, calmly stating, "You know, maybe there's a bright side to all this. Since we're gonna be staying here a while, we can all be Nicktoons just like our fathers before us."

"Huh?" SpongeBob III asks as he looks up from his phone.

Lexi was still frowning as she responds to Danny Jr., "That's where you're wrong, Danny. No one in my family was ever a Nicktoon, so I am not interested."

"You should at least give it a chance." Danny Jr. turns to SpongeBob III and asks, "How about it, SpongeBob? You in?"

SpongeBob III nonchalantly responds, "YSW. As long as I get to take selfies to post." He leans on the couch and makes a funny face while taking a selfie.

As he sat in the corner hunched over while plugged into his charger, SpongeTron groaned as he woke up once his battery was charged. "What happened?" he used his wrench to push himself up to his feet and he spots the three kids near the couch. "Oh…you're still here."

"SpongeTron, guess what?" Danny Jr. excitedly says, "We decided that we're all gonna be Nicktoons."

"I never agreed to that." Lexi dully mentioned.

"Ugh, look, I don't care what you do." SpongeTron bitterly replied, "Just go do it somewhere else, so I can get back to my life."

"Why don't you join us?" Danny Jr. asks, "We can use a robot like you on the team."

Frowning, SpongeTron asks, "Why in the heck would you need me? I've never done anything before in my life and I have no purpose. Besides, once that portal is working again, I want you out." He daggers at Lexi while adding, "All of you."

Lexi rolls her eyes in annoyance and an enthusiastic Danny Jr. continues, "Well, nothing says you can't make your own purpose. Besides, maybe you do have one. You obviously have some sort of connection to the Nicktoons and SpongeBob's grandfather." He holds his chin and ponders, "Now that I think about it, you kinda look like the sponge in my dad's Nicktoon picture."

SpongeBob III runs over next to SpongeTron and takes a selfie of them. Then, he uses the app on his phone to swap their faces. He giggles while saying; "Now we resemble each other."

When SpongeBob III skips away, SpongeTron sadly sighs and mutters, "I'm not interested in joining any world-saving group. I just wanna be left alone…like all defective robots."

Lexi sadly watches as SpongeTron slowly starts walking away, but Danny Jr. remains chipper and tells the robot, "You know, SpongeTron, maybe by being a Nicktoon, you might find some truth about your past."

SpongeTron stops in place with his eyes widening at the thought of finally discovering the purpose he was built for. He spins around and says in his usually dull voice, "Alright, count me in."

An overexcited Danny Jr. throws his arms in the air and hugs Lexi, who just pushes him away from her, unamused, while SpongeBob III continues to text on his phone.


A few hours later, after everyone was well rested (or in SpongeTron's case, charged), the group decided to start their Nicktoons training. Since, Danny Jr. was the only one among them that had any combat experience; he took it upon himself to teach everyone how to fight.

Danny Jr. swung his leg through the air and knocking over a tower of empty cans he had set up. Then, he took out his extendible staff and spun it around before swinging it hard onto the ground. As they watch, SpongeBob III recorded all the action on his phone, Lexi appeared impressed, and SpongeTron was not paying attention.

As he stopped to catch his breath, Danny Jr. wipes his forehead and states, "And that's the basic moves."

"I gotta admit that's pretty awesome." Lexi replied. "Your dad really taught you that?"

"Yeah, and he learned it from his dad." Danny Jr. answered. "It was all I could learn since I don't have superpowers like they do." He turns to Lexi and asks, "So, what useful skills do you know?"

Lexi sticks up her nose and answers, "That's none of your business."

As he texts on his phone, SpongeBob III points out, "It is if we're gonna be on the same team."

Taking offense, Lexi marches over to him and shouts, "You wanna say that again, you little phoneaholic?"

Looking up from his phone and staring Lexi in the eyes, SpongeBob III retorts, "Why say it when I can text it?"

"Great! Now I won't have to hear stuff come out of your mouth that will be irrelevant in two years!"

"At least I have the top score in Krabby Krush!"

As the two argued, Danny Jr. came over to try and diffuse the situation. "Guys, guys, come on."

SpongeTron was ignoring the situation as he struggled to open a can of oil. When he broke the can opener, SpongeTron grunts in anger just as Danny Jr. comes over to him. "Hey, SpongeTron, can I get a little help here?" he asks.

"Not my problem." The apathetic SpongeTron replied before activating his finger into a laser that he uses to break open the oil can so he can drink.

Unamused by his behavior, Danny Jr. states, "SpongeTron, I think you have your own problem."

As he chugged the oil down, SpongeTron responds in a slurred voice, "Whaaat makes you say thaaat?"

Lexi then screams, "That's it! I've had it!"

Both Danny Jr. and SpongeTron turn to see Lexi starting to storm out as she shouted, "I don't want any part of this Nicktoon team or any other team!"

She starts to head to the front doors, but Danny Jr. rushes over and grabs her shoulder. "Lexi, wait! You don't wanna do this."

Lexi turns around, pulling herself out of his grip. "You're right, Danny. I don't." she spoke in a serious tone, "You do. You're the only one who does. You're trying to restart something that existed long ago that no one today knows about or even care about."

As she spoke, SpongeTron stopped drinking and SpongeBob III stops texting as they become invested by what Lexi is saying.

"You can't just bring all of us together and expect us to become a team, Danny. I ran away from home because I wanted to be on my own and not be part of a large group."

Danny Jr. argued, "But that's who we all are; beings from different worlds. Me from Amity Park, SpongeBob from Bikini Bottom, and you from…wait, what world are you from?"

"That…is also none of your business."

Without another word, Lexi ran out the door while Danny Jr. held his hand out, but she did not return. Afterwards, Danny Jr. turns to see the robot and sponge having watched the whole thing with interest, but the quickly go back to their own activities.

"SpongeTron, you have to get her back." Danny Jr. pleaded

"Why?" the intoxicated SpongeTron asked while chugging more oil. "She said she's… not interested in joining your…team. While it's a sad fact of life, you can't convince someone…to join something they…want no part of."

Danny Jr. gained a sad frown as he silently admitted to himself that SpongeTron was right. However, his sadness soon turns into an angered frown.


Outside, Lexi was walking through the city with her head hanging low as she nearly bumped into crowds of people who walked past her. From a top of the tall buildings, a figure was scaling the walls as it follows the same path as Lexi.

With a heavy sigh, Lexi mutters to herself, "What am I doing? I don't even know where I'm going to go."

She turns a dark corner where no one is nearby and the strange figure is still secretly scaling across the buildings after her. Finally, Lexi comes across a dead end and has no choice but to go back, but before she can, something lands in her path.

Lexi yelps in startle and asks, "Who are you? What do you want?"

"You came out of HQ, didn't you?" the figure spoke in a high-pitched female voice. "I want in!"

She takes a step forward to reveal herself as an orange and purple robotic squirrel with a spiked tail and green visor eye. Lexi was shocked by the sudden appearance of her opponent, but when the robot was about to strike Lexi with her dangerous tail. The robot was blasted away by a green laser.

Lexi turns to see Danny Jr. holding out his ecto-pistol. "Lexi!" Danny Jr. called out in worry as she rushed over to check on her.

"Danny?" Lexi asked, wondering what he was doing here. "How did you find me?"

Danny Jr. blushed and answered, "I…may have gone after you." Smiling slyly, he adds, "But I'm not alone."

This was confirmed when SpongeBob III came over, texting on his phone. "Good thing we did." SpongeBob III mentioned.

With a growl, the robot squirrel stood up to see her new opponents. "Didn't know she had bodyguards." With a sadistic smile, she adds, "I'll just have to take you all out."

Danny Jr. smiles and states, "Nicktoons…" but with no enthusiasm from Lexi and SpongeBob III, Danny Jr. says in defeat, "…oh, right."

When the robot squirrel jumps forward with fingers protruding claws. Danny Jr. takes out his staff and fights the robot, deflecting her attacks. Rather than help, SpongeBob III records the fight, and afterwards, texts, "'Big fight going on! Danny is KB. #WhoWillWin?'" And send."

The robot squirrel swings her tail at Danny Jr., who deflects the attack with his staff, but gets knocked back into a wall. Snarling through her buckteeth, the robot jumps forward with intent of killing Danny Jr. with her claws. But before she could get close, Lexi jumps into the action, swing her leg at the robot, pushing her away with a karate kick.

Lexi then grabs a lid from the trashcan and flings it at the robot's face, hitting her in the visor eyes, blinding her.

"Wow," Danny Jr. said, impressed. "So you do know how to fight."

"Yeah…" Lexi admitted with an embarrassed grin. "I have a few family members who know karate."

Once the robot squirrel gets her eye functioning again, she glares heavily at the two and snarls, "I've had it with you humans."

She takes a few steps towards the two teens, but SpongeBob III slides between them with his phone held out. "WAS!" he shouts, "Need a picture for my blog."

SpongeBob III takes a picture with his phone, and the flash blinds the robot and causes her to short-circuit, falling on the ground.

"Wow, SpongeBob," Danny Jr. states, "Looks like your weird stuff is helpful too."

"THX, Danny." SpongeBob III replied with a proud smile.

The squirrel robot was about to get back up, but Lexi rushed over and kicked her to make sure she stayed down. Suddenly, SpongeTron finally arrived to see what's going on.

"SpongeTron?" Lexi asked, surprised to see him here as well.

"You're L8, SpongeTron." SpongeBob III pointed out.

"Sue me for having a bad leg." SpongeTron nonchalantly replied. When he sees the defeated robot, he admits, "I don't know what happened here, but it looks like you kids did a good job here."

The three smile at getting a genuine compliment from the grumpy robot. "Wow," Danny Jr. cheerfully responded, "Thanks. Maybe we do have what it takes to be Nicktoons."

Hearing this, Lexi's smile vanishes and attempts to talk to him, "Danny…"

However, the squirrel robot recovers and starts to stand up. She is still angered at being defeated until she spots the other robot with them. "SpongeTron?!" she asked in shock.

SpongeTron suddenly turns his arm into a sonic cannon and aims it at the squirrel robot. "Looks like I have to complete the job you kids were too incompetent to finish."

But rather than attack again, the squirrel robot stared at SpongeTron in complete shock. "It can't be! Could it possibly be you, Spongy-Poo?"

SpongeTron deactivates his weapon and dully asks, "Come again?"

The three kids are confused by this. "Wait, wait, you two know each other." Lexi asks.

"And she calls you "Poo"?" SpongeBob III asks in confusion.

"Not all robots know each other, Lexi." An annoyed SpongeTron answers, "Contrary to what humans may think."

The robot gasped in shock and horror. "Spongy-Poo, what are you saying?" she asked on the verge of tears, "It's me, Java. We used to date!"

Lexi and Danny Jr. react in surprise. SpongeBob III was invested as well while he texts on his phone, "'BT! DNSTC!'"

But SpongeTron remained apathetic to the whole thing. "Sorry, never heard of you." He darts his eyes up and down her figure. "I'm starting to wish I had though."

Java looked even more stunned to see that SpongeTron did not recognize her. "How can you say that, Spongy-Poo? We haven't seen each other in over a decade! I thought you were dead!"

This last statement finally brings a reaction out of SpongeTron, "What?!"

Suddenly, Java zips over to SpongeTron and wraps her arms around him, holding him in a tight embrace. Lexi looked uncomfortable at seeing the unrecognizable robot holding their friend, but when she was about to intervene, Danny Jr. held her back.

"You don't know how happy I am to see you again!" Java said in a tearful voice.

As SpongeTron lied in the squirrel's embrace, he still had a confused look on his face, but couldn't shake the strange unfamiliar feelings he was having for the other robot. He starts to wrap his arms around her while saying, "I really am starting to wish I've heard of you."