I'm hoping to get some reviews for this, since I think this is a good premise and I feel embarassed to have one of the few stories in this catagory that haven't been reviewed yet. Anyway, here's the next chapter for you.
SpongeBob was experiencing something new that morning and afternoon at the Krusty Krab, for he was at work, but he wasn't having any fun thanks to Plankton's demands. Sandy had come over to get her diary before he left, and although he looked and sounded very nervous when talking to her, thankfully it wasn't enough for her to suspect anything. Still, it didn't make him forget that unless a miracle happpened, he would have to give up one of two things. One was the Krusty Krab, his dream job that he loved doing every day other than today, and had nothing but joy for making Krabby Patties and serving customers, plus he got to be with his buddy Squidward as an added bonus. On the other hand, Sandy shared his passion for karate, he loved hanging out with her and making her laugh, and despite several times where he made her angry or uspet, she still liked him very much because she thought he was funny and sweet- something she wrote in her book herself if Plankton had read it correctly on the tape. This dillema of choosing one over the other put SpongeBob in many a trance during the day, which Squidward noticed and figured he was only asking for trouble if he pried any further.
Finally it was 5:30, the time Plankton promised he would try to steal a Patty, and SpongeBob, despite himself, was half hoping he would succeed so he wouldn't have to make that choice. Ironically, Plankton, who was now inside the Krusty Krab, was half hoping he'd fail so he could put SpongeBob in that position. Still, he decided he'd carry on with his back up plan as he strapped hismelf into a tiny chair which then flew up into the air. He figured he'd buzz his way around a customer with a patty and when he tried to find a newspaper to swat him with, he'd take the patty and fly away fast before Krabs or anyone else could nab him. Plankton then flew his chair over to a customer and started buzzing around him. But apperantly he did this too well as the customer got so panicked that he swatted Plankton to the table with his bare hand, and then flicked him off the table where he landed right on the shirt of a passing by Mr Krabs.
"Well, I was wondering when you'd show up for me to try out my new slingshot." Krabs said to greet Plankton as he took out a slingshot and prepared to sling Plankton out like always until SpongeBob interrupted. "Wait Mr Krabs, why bother wasting the end of the day doing that when I could do it and you could have more time to count today's money?" "That last m word clinched my decision, boy!" Krabs then gave SpongeBob the slingshot and Plankton as he went to count his money. SpongeBob then went outside and made sure no one was watching before he started talking to his tiny green companion, though Plankton was the first one to speak. "Okay, I gave you hours to think about my offer, I lived up to my end of the deal, you live up to yours now! Where's my Krabby Patty?!" "Um, well, uh....do I have to actually give you one? You know that if you get one and become succesful, Mr Krabs will easily know I helped you and I'll lose my job!"
Plankton answered, "So what? You're a fry cook legend, you can get another job anywhere in town if I don't buy out every resteraunt first. It'll be easy for you to work again, but you realize that your squirrel friend will never forgive you if she found out you broke your promise." "I never actually said I promised not to look at it, and you know I didn't take one peek at it!" "Try telling her that when she sees that tape. As I've hinted at, you can get another job, but you won't get her friendship back, and isn't that more important than a dumb old job?" SpongeBob had to admit that Plankton had got him on that last point. So finally, much to his reluntance, SpongeBob pulled a Krabby Patty out of his pocket and when robotic arms came out of Plankton's chair, he let the arms take the patty and stuff it in the chair. When Plankton finished laughing, he said, "Tell you what, why don't you come to the Chum Bucket in a half hour and I'll show you you did the right thing, then I'll destroy those tapes like you asked." SpongeBob nodded yes to his offer and then finally flung him back to the Chum Bucket with the slingshot, with Plankton laughing evily all through his trip.
A half hour passed and the work day ended, and amazingly, SpongeBob was able to avoid Mr Krabs and not break down in front of him before he left. He then went to the Chum Bucket and started to look forward to having one good thing happen today, which was Plankton destroying those tapes- hopefully without bragging too much about his victory. SpongeBob then headed into the Chum Bucket and found Plankton in the labaratory, next to a still uneaten Krabby Patty. Plankton quickly explaned why it was still uneaten when SpongeBob arrived. "Did you know I've been chasing Krabby Pattys for years and haven't eaten one? It's not only been my life's dream to find the formula, no, it's been my dream to eat one too. And now as I do, you shall see that you have done the right thing by making a tiny megalomanic's dream come true!" Plankton then opened his mouth wide and took a large bite of half of the Krabby Paty. It had taken him years to eat one crumb of a patty- and it only took 5 seconds for him to spit out every crumb he had just ate.
"What is this, some kind of cheap payback?! Why else would you make this taste terrible?!!" "Hey, are you trying to make me feel worse or something, cause Squidward tried to make me think patties tasted bad and he couldn't convince me, so how can you?" "Look at this!! You undercooked this thing, the ingrediants appear to be all wrong, and you certainly didn't put the tender love and care into this like I hear you always do!" After hearing this, SpongeBob was able to figure out the reason for this quickly: it looked like he was so caught up in trying to think of whether to give Plankton a patty that he forgot to take the time to make the patty taste good. He then quickly tried to appease Plankton's anger. "Cheer up, I mean, you still have half of the patty left, you cam still figure out the formula" "Of course I can, but what about my dreams?! I heard so much about how good these taste and now the first time I try one, you make it taste bad! How dare you ruin my expectations, I'm amd enough to...to..!" Plankton then got his composure back together and quickly thought of a new plan.
"Well, I am pretty mad, so I think I'll go outside and take a ride on my other flying chair to clear my head." Plankton then headed to a tiny chair just like the one from before, strpaped in, and made it fly up. "Don't worry, I'll be back in a few minutes and then'll I'll destroy those tapes for you, sound good?" "Sounds better than most of the stuff from today, so yes it sounds great! Have a nice ride!" Plankton chuckled at the fool's cheery parting words, since the sponge was blissfully unaware that Plankton had the tape he showed this morning in his pocket and was heading over to Sandy's to show it to her, SpongeBob stayed in the lab with his usual smile on his face for a few minutes. "Gee, I hope Plankton's rides don't take too long, since I'm really looking forward to him wrecking that awful tape." Just then the voice of Plankton's computer wife Karen came through. "So, you really are as dumb as Plankton says, otherwise you'd figure out that he's going to show that tape to your friend right now as revenge for that patty." "That's crazy, he said he'd come right back, why would he lie about that...." SpongeBob stopped as he finally realized his mistake. "Boy, sometimes I wonder if Squidward's jokes that I'm stupid aren't that wrong." "You realize of course that I'm telling you this because there's no way you'll make it in time now-" Karen stopped as she noticed that SpongeBob, who apperantly hadn't listend to her, had sprinted out of the lab at 50 miles an hour in a desperate rush to stop Plankton in time.
The conclusion will come soon, but I hope some of you are interested in seeing it, so please read and review before then.
SpongeBob was experiencing something new that morning and afternoon at the Krusty Krab, for he was at work, but he wasn't having any fun thanks to Plankton's demands. Sandy had come over to get her diary before he left, and although he looked and sounded very nervous when talking to her, thankfully it wasn't enough for her to suspect anything. Still, it didn't make him forget that unless a miracle happpened, he would have to give up one of two things. One was the Krusty Krab, his dream job that he loved doing every day other than today, and had nothing but joy for making Krabby Patties and serving customers, plus he got to be with his buddy Squidward as an added bonus. On the other hand, Sandy shared his passion for karate, he loved hanging out with her and making her laugh, and despite several times where he made her angry or uspet, she still liked him very much because she thought he was funny and sweet- something she wrote in her book herself if Plankton had read it correctly on the tape. This dillema of choosing one over the other put SpongeBob in many a trance during the day, which Squidward noticed and figured he was only asking for trouble if he pried any further.
Finally it was 5:30, the time Plankton promised he would try to steal a Patty, and SpongeBob, despite himself, was half hoping he would succeed so he wouldn't have to make that choice. Ironically, Plankton, who was now inside the Krusty Krab, was half hoping he'd fail so he could put SpongeBob in that position. Still, he decided he'd carry on with his back up plan as he strapped hismelf into a tiny chair which then flew up into the air. He figured he'd buzz his way around a customer with a patty and when he tried to find a newspaper to swat him with, he'd take the patty and fly away fast before Krabs or anyone else could nab him. Plankton then flew his chair over to a customer and started buzzing around him. But apperantly he did this too well as the customer got so panicked that he swatted Plankton to the table with his bare hand, and then flicked him off the table where he landed right on the shirt of a passing by Mr Krabs.
"Well, I was wondering when you'd show up for me to try out my new slingshot." Krabs said to greet Plankton as he took out a slingshot and prepared to sling Plankton out like always until SpongeBob interrupted. "Wait Mr Krabs, why bother wasting the end of the day doing that when I could do it and you could have more time to count today's money?" "That last m word clinched my decision, boy!" Krabs then gave SpongeBob the slingshot and Plankton as he went to count his money. SpongeBob then went outside and made sure no one was watching before he started talking to his tiny green companion, though Plankton was the first one to speak. "Okay, I gave you hours to think about my offer, I lived up to my end of the deal, you live up to yours now! Where's my Krabby Patty?!" "Um, well, uh....do I have to actually give you one? You know that if you get one and become succesful, Mr Krabs will easily know I helped you and I'll lose my job!"
Plankton answered, "So what? You're a fry cook legend, you can get another job anywhere in town if I don't buy out every resteraunt first. It'll be easy for you to work again, but you realize that your squirrel friend will never forgive you if she found out you broke your promise." "I never actually said I promised not to look at it, and you know I didn't take one peek at it!" "Try telling her that when she sees that tape. As I've hinted at, you can get another job, but you won't get her friendship back, and isn't that more important than a dumb old job?" SpongeBob had to admit that Plankton had got him on that last point. So finally, much to his reluntance, SpongeBob pulled a Krabby Patty out of his pocket and when robotic arms came out of Plankton's chair, he let the arms take the patty and stuff it in the chair. When Plankton finished laughing, he said, "Tell you what, why don't you come to the Chum Bucket in a half hour and I'll show you you did the right thing, then I'll destroy those tapes like you asked." SpongeBob nodded yes to his offer and then finally flung him back to the Chum Bucket with the slingshot, with Plankton laughing evily all through his trip.
A half hour passed and the work day ended, and amazingly, SpongeBob was able to avoid Mr Krabs and not break down in front of him before he left. He then went to the Chum Bucket and started to look forward to having one good thing happen today, which was Plankton destroying those tapes- hopefully without bragging too much about his victory. SpongeBob then headed into the Chum Bucket and found Plankton in the labaratory, next to a still uneaten Krabby Patty. Plankton quickly explaned why it was still uneaten when SpongeBob arrived. "Did you know I've been chasing Krabby Pattys for years and haven't eaten one? It's not only been my life's dream to find the formula, no, it's been my dream to eat one too. And now as I do, you shall see that you have done the right thing by making a tiny megalomanic's dream come true!" Plankton then opened his mouth wide and took a large bite of half of the Krabby Paty. It had taken him years to eat one crumb of a patty- and it only took 5 seconds for him to spit out every crumb he had just ate.
"What is this, some kind of cheap payback?! Why else would you make this taste terrible?!!" "Hey, are you trying to make me feel worse or something, cause Squidward tried to make me think patties tasted bad and he couldn't convince me, so how can you?" "Look at this!! You undercooked this thing, the ingrediants appear to be all wrong, and you certainly didn't put the tender love and care into this like I hear you always do!" After hearing this, SpongeBob was able to figure out the reason for this quickly: it looked like he was so caught up in trying to think of whether to give Plankton a patty that he forgot to take the time to make the patty taste good. He then quickly tried to appease Plankton's anger. "Cheer up, I mean, you still have half of the patty left, you cam still figure out the formula" "Of course I can, but what about my dreams?! I heard so much about how good these taste and now the first time I try one, you make it taste bad! How dare you ruin my expectations, I'm amd enough to...to..!" Plankton then got his composure back together and quickly thought of a new plan.
"Well, I am pretty mad, so I think I'll go outside and take a ride on my other flying chair to clear my head." Plankton then headed to a tiny chair just like the one from before, strpaped in, and made it fly up. "Don't worry, I'll be back in a few minutes and then'll I'll destroy those tapes for you, sound good?" "Sounds better than most of the stuff from today, so yes it sounds great! Have a nice ride!" Plankton chuckled at the fool's cheery parting words, since the sponge was blissfully unaware that Plankton had the tape he showed this morning in his pocket and was heading over to Sandy's to show it to her, SpongeBob stayed in the lab with his usual smile on his face for a few minutes. "Gee, I hope Plankton's rides don't take too long, since I'm really looking forward to him wrecking that awful tape." Just then the voice of Plankton's computer wife Karen came through. "So, you really are as dumb as Plankton says, otherwise you'd figure out that he's going to show that tape to your friend right now as revenge for that patty." "That's crazy, he said he'd come right back, why would he lie about that...." SpongeBob stopped as he finally realized his mistake. "Boy, sometimes I wonder if Squidward's jokes that I'm stupid aren't that wrong." "You realize of course that I'm telling you this because there's no way you'll make it in time now-" Karen stopped as she noticed that SpongeBob, who apperantly hadn't listend to her, had sprinted out of the lab at 50 miles an hour in a desperate rush to stop Plankton in time.
The conclusion will come soon, but I hope some of you are interested in seeing it, so please read and review before then.