Chapter 5

.

Mr. Krabs picked up the shell-phone and began to dial.

"All right, we do not want to mess this up! Everyone remember what to do?"

SpongeBob pretended to have Plankton restrained as he held onto the copy of the formula.

"You all remember your lines?"

They replied yes.

"Now for the moment of truth.", the crustacean affirmed as he cautiously dialed the phone.

At his home in the surface world, the bounty hunter recieved another call.

"Hello!"

Krabs responded, "Hello, Mr. Bounty Hunter, sir. It's a dire emergency!"

"Plankton knew we were working together, so he duplicated and stole me formuler, while I was busy searching the air vents!"

The Player replied, "Don't worry, Mr. Krabs. I'll be down there right away!" (hang up)

When the man returned to Bikini Bottom, he was met with glaring eyes.

"What's all this, then?"

SpongeBob showed him the death certificate of Gary, as well as his autopsy.

"I was just about to ask you the same thing. Don't you have a suit that can shrink to whatever size you want?"

The man hesitated, "Uh, yes. I... I do."

While their conversation took place, Plankton hurried over to the Chum Bucket and pulled out a disabling ray from a secret stash.

"And look at this!", Mr. Krabs showed him the chemicals inside the snail.

"This just happens to be chim-i-nery soot, just like the kind from that gun you're wearing."

He also pointed to the red chemical, about to ask him, but The Player set his gun to "bullet mode".

Just as he was about to fire, he was met with a debilitating shock.

Plankton had deactivated his shrink machine, soot gun, and diversion-in-a-box, so now it was just three-on-one.

While the man fought with Krabs and SpongeBob, Plankton discovered a nearby scallop whistle that was left behind in the Krusty Krab.

He also brought along one of the steering wheel tables.

Just as it seemed like The Player gained the upper hand on Krabs, Plankton blew the whistle and the army of invisible scallops rose to his command.

The amoeba enunciated on his whistle "Attack!", and the unseen shellfish threw themselves at the bounty hunter's back like a machine gun.

While he was busy trying to dodge his former army, SpongeBob and Krabs set up the table to The Player's front.

The bounty hunter was somersaulted, before landing on the ground flat on his back.

Stumbling blindly, The Player got back up, only to fall on the recipe bottle, puncturing his air supply.

Krabs moved forward to interrogate him about the other chemical they found, but the man didn't respond.

Suddenly, electric sparks rose out of the bounty hunter's suit, and part of it exploded revealing him to be a robot.

"A robot?!", SpongeBob and Krabs exclaimed.

"Not a robot, an android.", Plankton corrected. "But unfortunately, we have no idea who he belongs to since I am a lone scientist."

SpongeBob perked up.

"You may not know who's behind all this. But I think I know someone who can."

The three investigators hurried over to a familiar bubble-shaped home.

At the tree-dome, their good friend, the world-renowned Sandy Cheeks, examined the robotic dummy.

"Hmmm.", she exclaimed.

"Extensive wiring, microscopic metal particles, shrinking technology, constant knowledge of current trends."

"Who is it?", all three asked.

Sandy replied, "The man who invented this is none other than my good friend and colleague... Walter T. Bass!"