Bubblestand: A parody of Bubblestand from SpongeBob SquarePants with Total Drama characters.
Disclaimer for the series: Some (though far from all) chapters will contain moments of nudity or underwear due to the canon SpongeBob episodes' plots and gags, though it won't be anything that wouldn't happen in TD or SpongeBob. Credits to another user on FF for letting us use their idea, and another for their cast idea who wishes to remain anonymous. Some episodes may also take massive strays from canon in order for things to work. Feel free to leave a review if you enjoy it!
Ella took a step outside, breathing in the fresh air as she marveled at everything outside, despite the fact that she'd seen it several times before. "Oh, what an amazing day!" She started. "The sun is out, birds are chirping, winds are shifting… It's all so peaceful!"
She went back inside for just a moment to grab a foldable table, a banner, a few cookie cutters, and two poles to hold the banner up. As she went back outside, a few bangs were heard because she accidentally bonked the table in the doorway.
Her neighbor Noah, who was reading in his dorm, heard the clattering of steel, and he went to see what Ella was doing. "Careful there, clumsy. You might cause an earthquake." He commented as he watched the songbird struggle to get the table through the door in slight amusement. Eventually, she went outside and pulled it out that way. Having nothing better to do, the bookworm followed her out.
"There we go!" The princess said triumphantly. Soon after, she used the two poles and the banner to put them next to the table she had set up. In a pretty black, cursive font, the word "bubblestand" was written, along with a smaller yet still visible "25¢" underneath it.
"Blowing bubbles?" Noah asked in disbelief.
"Mhm! Would you like to be the first customer?"
"Suuuure, someone's gonna pay 25 cents to blow a bubble. Yeah, good luck." He sarcastically bid before starting to leave.
The door to the apartment complex then opened before Noah could do that himself, revealing their other neighbor Owen. This made the bookworm stop in his tracks. "Good morning, guys!" The larger boy greeted, walking over to the stand.
"Good morning, Owen! I'm opening a business, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in being my first customer." She smiled warmly.
"Oh, that sounds awesome! What is it?"
"It's a bubblestand!" Ella declared, still smiling. "For just 25 cents, you can blow a cute little bubble with this wand!"
"Hey, that sounds cool!" The big guy praised. "Could you blow them into cool shapes besides just circles?"
"Allow me to give you a tutorial!" The songbird offered before standing up. She took one of her cookie cutters off of the table, which was shaped like a heart. After dipping the wand in some bubble soap, she placed the heart-shaped cutter in front of the wand and blew. For a few seconds before it popped, the bubble looked just like a heart.
"Woah! That's awesome!" The big guy chortled. "Let me have a crack at this." He begged, rummaging his pocket for the price needed. Noah just glared at the two. "Right then, I wish you the best in your business venture, Ella." He flatly, inconsiderately wished, walking back into his dorm.
"Oh, I dunno if I have it." Owen sighed, his contents spilled on the floor, which ranged from lollipops to some pictures of prime ministers. "Well, I guess if you don't have money, I can employ you!" Ella suggested, sensing Owen's sadness.
"Aww, really? Thanks!" Owen accepted gratefully.
"No problem! It's all in a technique of sorts!" The songbird explained. "If you have trouble blowing a bubble, then following these steps shall help you on the double!" She sang as an introduction before beginning the process.
"First, you spin like a ballerina, then stop in your tracks! Ensure your surroundings are safe so you don't harm anyone, and then do two ballet leaps back and forth! Then spin around one final time. I suppose you could call that bringing it around town, aha! Then perform a saute, which is jumping and landing on both your feet at once, and blow!" She told Owen, performing the actions as she explained them. The bubble she created by doing this resembled a butterfly, again with the help of a cookie cutter. However, as it flew, it started to morph into a bigger butterfly. Bigger than the kitchen material made it.
"With enough focus, you can make it into any shape you want, though it is a lot easier with a cookie cutter!"
Owen followed carefully. "Okay so I just-" He then tried recreating everything Ella had shown him, although he wasn't as graceful as the princess - he stumbled a little with the leaps and felt dizzy after the spinning, but with a heavy heave, he blew his first bubble.
"It looks beautiful!" Ella praised, as Owen's bubble managed to recreate the Venus de Milo perfectly. Owen simply looked at the sky with a neutral expression. "I was trying to make a meat lover's pizza, but it's pretty, I guess." He remarked, slightly disappointed.
"No worries, Owen! You're already very good at it, so it shouldn't take you too long at all!" The singer assured as the art piece popped behind them.
"Thanks!" Owen thought for a moment. "Hey, is it possible to make a really big animal with that stuff? That'd be cool!"
"Of course it is!" Ella beamed. And they got to training. Owen was slowly becoming as graceful as Ella was. Not exactly smooth, but he managed to get better at making what he wanted.
Noah was idling in his room, reading a book, when out of nowhere, he heard an elephant, a chimpanzee, and a snow leopard? "What on earth?" Noah pondered as he saw a bubble animal parade out of his window. "Hey, Noah! Check it out!" Owen called as he rode a large elephant made of dish soap.
Noah said nothing as it passed him. He then heard Ella humming a song, and looked to find her on bubble peacocks. "Good tidings, Noah!" Ella wished. Noah was gobsmacked. Annoyed, he walked back out.
"And how exactly did you blow bubbles into that shape?"
"It's all because of a special technique, aha!" The princess reiterated. "First, you…"
Noah cut her off. "Yeah, that's great, honey. If you want the bubbles to be big, all you need to do is blow for a while. Will you two shut up if I just blow a bubble?"
"Sure, if that's what you want!" Ella agreed, either ignoring or not noticing the rudeness.
Noah wanted to prove the two wrong, after seeing the absurd petting zoo a mere minute ago. He took a deep breath, and got ready to blow.
"Ah, sorry to bother you, but you need to pay 25 cents, please."' Ella politely requested.
"Wha-" The bookworm looked up and saw the sign again, then sighed. "Whatever." Annoyed, he pulled a quarter out of his pocket and put it on the stand.
"Remember to do the technique!" The princess reminded.
"Sure, dancing around like a hooligan. Sounds fun." Noah quipped, ignoring the directions, before taking another deep breath and blowing as hard as he could. The bubble grew, and grew, and grew some more! Ella and Owen marveled at the sight of it. It didn't have a shape, but it was bigger than any of the bubbles the two had blown combined.
The songbird clapped close to her chest. "Good job, Noah!" She praised.
Noah only smirked as the two continued to cheer, but the bubble got close to the apartment building. The wind drifted it into the building more and more until, eventually, it popped, covering all three of them and the building in bubble soap.
"Well, at least we had a nice, clean game!" Ella shrugged as the other two gave her disappointed stares.
A/N: And we're gonna be a little closer to canon for the next couple episodes. Sorry if the differences turned anyone away, but Reef Blower and Tea at the Treedome wouldn't make sense since Ella's not an underwater creature, and I don't think she'd get rid of her problem by making it another person's issue.