(Scene changes to the next day at Buck's Pool Hall, a run-down bar on the other side of Bikini Bottom. The place is packed to the gills with fish. Also there, are Spongebob, Mr. Krabs, Buck, Squidward, Patrick, and Sandy.)
Spongebob: Gee, Mr. Krabs, I don't know if I can go through with this.
Mr. Krabs: (gasps) You're talking crazy, boy! Remember, the future of the Krusty Krab is at stake! So go out there and make me proud!
Patrick and Sandy: Yay, Spongebob! Yay!
Squidward: (sarcastically, with a band-aid on his head) Yay.
Mr. Krabs: (walks up to Buck with Spongebob) Well, Buck, I think Spongebob is ready to play you now!
Buck: Well, I'm really glad to hear it, Mr. Krabs.....if he were playing me that is.
Mr. Krabs and Spongebob: What???
Buck: (pulling out a microphone behind his back while a spotlight suddenly shines on him) Ladies and gentlefish! May I direct your attention to that side of the pool hall! (points to the far wall) Presenting....Spongebob's opponent!
(The spotlight shines on a door with a fish symbol on it, indicating that it's a restroom. A fish walks out of it, shades his eyes from the light with his fin, and says "Meep." Everyone bursts out laughing, except Buck, who grows increasingly angry.)
Buck: (to the spotlight operator) Not there, you moron!! Over there!
(The spotlight follows the wall until it comes to a plain door. It opens and a fat shark walks out. He is wearing a fine brown suit, tie and a fedora. He holds a pool stick with his fin. Everyone gasps, especially Mr. Krabs.)
Mr. Krabs: Blazin' barnacles!!!
Spongebob: Who is that Mr. Krabs.
Mr. Krabs: The best pool playin' shark in the ocean, lad.......Minnesota Sharks!
Squidward: (amazed) I thought he retired!
(At another part of the pool hall, a betting table has been set up. All the fish betting for Spongebob suddenly move over to bet for Minnesota Sharks.)
Buck: (to a sweating Mr. Krabs) May the best sea creature win, Krabs.
(Scene changes to Spongebob at one end of the table. Minnesota Sharks decided to let Spongebob fire the opening play. Spongebob glances at Minnesota, who has an expressionless face. He glances down at the table and notices the cue ball is missing.)
Spongebob: Patrick, my cue ball, please.
(Patrick gives Spongebob a white billiard ball with a big letter 'Q' on it.)
Spongebob: No, Patrick. (tosses ball away) The plain white ball.
(Patrick walks out of the scene. A woman's voice screams. Patrick returns with a big white sphere.)
Spongebob: Patrick, this isn't a cue ball. It's a pearl!
Patrick: Oh.
(An old, wrinkled female fish with glasses walks up and takes her pearl. She puts it back onto her necklace. She then turns around and whacks Patrick with her cane. Patrick falls onto the floor as the woman walks off saying, "No-good whipper-snapper.")
Mr. Krabs: Here, boy. Take this cue ball. (gives Spongebob a real cue ball.)
(Spongebob takes the ball and puts it on the rightful place on the table. He then gets into his firing position. After a tense moment, he abrubtly fires the ball! However, just as before, the ball flies off the pool table and knocks out Squidward again. Much laughter follows.)
Buck: (recovering) I think...(snicker)...I think we'll let Minnesota go first.
(Buck gives Minnesota a cue ball, which, by the way, is a few shades darker than a regular cue ball. Minnesota professionally breaks up the billiard balls. A plain colored ball falls into a pocket.)
Mr. Krabs: OK, Spongebob. Now, all you gotta do is sink all the striped colored balls.
Spongebob: Aye aye, Mr Krabs.
Buck: (smiling) Your turn, Sponge.
(Spongebob sees a striped ball right in front of a pocket. He takes careful aim and fires the ball directly towards it. Suddenly, at the last moment, the cue ball changes direction, missing the striped ball entirely! Everyone gasps.)
Buck: Ooooh, tough luck Spongebob. Ha ha!
(As the game progresses, Minnesota Sharks continues to sink in plain-colored balls while Spongebob keeps missing striped balls because the cue ball always mysteriously veers away at the last second. Mr. Krabs and Buck periodically glare at each other across the room. Halfway through the game, Minnesota chalks up the end of his stick. Following his example, Spongebob takes the cube of chalk and chalks up his stick so hard, there is no trace of the chalk left, except on an entire half of his stick.)
Spongebob: (to Minnesota) Uh, I like to keep my stick extra chalky.
(After a while, Minnesota only has one plain-colored ball left before the 8-ball. It's Spongebob's turn.)
Spongebob: (thinking to himself as he sets himself up for one last-ditch effort for a comeback) I can't believe it. I'm going to lose. Not just the game, but the Krusty Krab. And then my house! Then Gary, then all my friends, then my laundry, then...
Mr. Krabs: Spongebob! Snap out of it!
(Spongebob snaps out of it, which causes him to knock the cue ball toward a striped ball. Amazingly, the cue ball doesn't change course. The striped ball goes into the pocket. Everyone cheers. Buck's eyes widen with surprise.)
Spongebob: Hooray!
(The following segment shows Spongebob sinking striped ball after striped ball. He does so with a multitude of wacky aiming stances. Everybody starts cheering except for Buck, who grows increasingly worried. He says to himself, "What's going on? This can't be right." Minnesota remains neutral, but grows anxious. Finally, the only balls left are the cue ball, the 8-ball, and a plain-colored ball.)
Spongebob: Allrighty. Mr. Krabs...(aims the cue ball toward the 8-ball and glances toward Mr. Krabs) Here I go.
(Spongebob slowly pulls the stick back. Mr. Krabs, Buck, and everyone else, starts sweating. Squidward looks shocked for a second, then quickly puts on a football helmet, for fear of getting hit in the head again. Only, Minnesota Sharks remains calm, although his fins become sweaty. Then, using all of his strength, Spongebob fires the cue ball! Once again, the ball flies through the air. It ricochets off of Squidward's helmet.)
Squidward: Hah! (a rack holding spare pool sticks collapses behind Squidward and falls on him.)
(The ball begins ricocheting off the walls, fish, ceiling, and the floor. Everyone dives for cover. Eventually the ball lands back onto the pool table. Spongebob sighs with relief. Suddenly, he gasps. The cue ball is heading toward the last plain-colored ball! To his dismay, the cue ball sinks the plain-colored ball into the pocket. Now, Spongebob and Minnesota both have a shot at the 8-ball, but it's Minnesota's turn. With Spongebob and Mr. Krabs's mouths agape, Minnesota leans over to take the final shot, a smile upon his face.)
Patrick: (off to the side) Achoo!
(Patrick's sneeze causes Minnesota to slip. The cue ball heads away from the 8-ball. Spongebob's friends begin to cheer, but they suddenly gasp in shock. The cue ball curves impossibly toward the 8-ball. They collide, and the 8-ball falls into the pocket, which ends the game.)
Buck: Minnesota wins!
Mr. Krabs: (running up to Buck's face, enraged) Waddya mean "Minnesota wins?!" That ball is rigged!
Buck: Are you calling my family's cue ball a phony?
Mr. Krabs: I'm calling this whole game a phony...one that you conjured up!
(Spongebob and his friends get behind him while Buck's friends get behind him. A fight is sure to break out, but instead, Minnesota Sharks whacks his stick against the table. This causes everyone to freeze and stare at him. The shark leans over and taps on the cue ball with his stick. To everyone's amazement, a tiny door opens up on the side of the cue ball. Out stumbles Plankton, his skin an ill shade of green from being knocked and spun around for so long. He had been controlling the ball from the inside this entire time.)
Plankton: Oooohhh....I don't feel so good. (he puts his hand on his mouth with cheeks bulging, pulls out a paper bag from behind him, and runs back into the ball. Barfing sounds are soon heard from inside.)
Mr. Krabs: So. Me old arch-enemy hired me new arch-enemy to help win the game. Well, I think we all know what you gotta say now. (everyone starts crowding a very nervous Buck.)
Buck: (defeated) OK, you can keep the Krusty Krab.
(Everyone cheers except Buck, Minnesota, Plankton and all those fish who bet against Spongebob. Everyone starts to leave, but Buck pulls Minnesota aside.)
Buck: What happened to you? I could've given your career back! You said you wanted it more than anything!
Minnesota: (speaking for the first time) Not at the expense of cheating. I went along with it at first, but throughout all my years of playing pool, I have never once resorted to cheating. Unlike you, who couldn't even win a "most likely to succeed" competition at high school without adding an extra winning ballot!
(Mr. Krabs freezing at the door.)
Buck: (grabbing Minnesota by the shirt.) I thought I made it clear never to bring up that little fact once I told you about it. (makes a fist) Now I'm gonna have to-
Mr. Krabs: (taps Buck on the shoulder and says, in a singsong voice) Oh, Mr. BUUuuuck...
(Spongebob, Squidward, Patrick, and everyone else looks on and then cringes when a punching sound is heard. Obviously, Buck received Mr. Krabs's well-overdue retaliation. Mr. Krabs returns.)
Mr. Krabs: (smiling) Well, I think our job is done here.
Minnesota: (to Spongebob) Good game, Spongebob.
Spongebob: You too, Mr. Sharks. Hey, let's all go down to the Krusty Krab to celebrate!
Everyone: Yeah!!!
(The final scene: Everybody leaves the pool hall. Buck is lying unconscious by a wall with a big dent in his nose and stars circling above him. Plankton stumbles toward the edge of the pool table, still dizzy. He falls over the side, screaming, and hits the floor hard.)
Plankton: Ouch.
The End