Yay, I'm baack! Sorry for the exhausing wait, i've been caught up in the real world.

Now, I have good newses. Operation A.M.B.E.R, my KND story,has beennominated for the KND Community's 'Summer Fanfiction Games' Thriller catergory! KNDC is a relativly new board run by xpetahzx, who ironically just joined my forum. But I don't care! This is the first time any story of mine has been nominated for an award, and i'm so happy! SQUEE! Maybe now i'll update it...

cakreut12: Corr-rect! Here are your cookies.

Nite: Okay, thanks. I'll tell her.

Velvet Panther: Hey, tis okay. And as for Florida, I had lots of fun. My flight was delayed coming AND going, but that was as bad as it got, apart from sunburn. I went to MGM, Sea World, Animal Kingdom, and some pool. One of the best weeks of my life. And as an extra peice of info, all of Chapter 2 was written right there, except for the last part, which was made up on the spot. Heh.

Purple Ghost Sausage: Kay!

Green Phantom Queen: Well, they won't really meet Spongebob and co until Chapter 3, but Bikini Bottom will be mentioned.

PhantomAngela: Yep, repetitive humor rocks.

fubkis-wraph: Huzzah to you, dude(ette)!

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Chapter 2:A Bit Less than a League Under the Sea

The next day

7 am

"Ak!"

Danny awoke with a start. He rubbed his eyes, after which they snapped open.

"I fell asleep! NO!" He looked around. Everyone was saftely sleeping on the floor of the phone booth. There was still nothing but water outside the window, but there was something different about the seemingly innocent wetness.

"Oh, crap."

There was water-but no sky. No island. Nothing but endless ocean on all sides and above. The phone booth sank to the bottom of the sea overnight!

Danny's jaw fell. The booth hadn't gone very far- he could still see the sun. He guessed they were about 35 feet under, and weren't going any farther-the booth was on something solid. There was no way to swim up.

"GUYS!" The others woke up instantly, hitting their heads on the roof of the booth. "Ehh...whazzamater?" Tucker said sleepily.

"Guys!" Danny said again, rushing his words. "IfellasleepbyaccidentandIwokeupandWE'RE UNDERWATER! WE'RE UNDERWATER!" His eye twiched.

"What did you say?" Cosmo said.

"We're UNDERAWTER!" His eye twitched again.

"Oh, that's what I thought you said." Compared to what you might think, Cosmo was strangely calm. Jimmy was in the same state, but for a completely different reason. Everyone else just stood there for a while, mouths open.

After that lull, pandemonium broke out. The booth was a cramped jumble of screams, bodies, and hot air. Everyone was too blinded by their fear to think clearly.

"We're dead! We're DEAD! We're alive but we're DEAD!" Timmy screamed, latching onto Danny's leg. He forgot that he could wish himself out of the mess.

"I'm sorry..." Danny said. "This is all my fault." He forgot that he could just go intangible and fly them out of there. But luckily for all of them, Jimmy kept his head.

"Guys, PULL YOURSELVES TOGETHER!" he screamed. "We are not gonna die! Now stop sucking your thumbs and listen to me!" The crowd immediately feel silent.

"Good. Now, I anticipated that something like this would happen, so I packed a few of my latest invention: The Neutronic WetSuit!" He got his Hypercube and pulled out some full body suits in all sizes, even a really small one for Help. Problem was, they were all a blinding shade of hot pink. "Tacky, I know. But, when you put them on, they will become invisble on you. The WetSuit creates a private, everlasting bubble of air around you that allows underwater breathing, easy communication, and all the comforts of dry land."

Danny picked up a suit. He was almost afraid to put it on, but if it did what Jimmy said, the tackiness didn't matter. He slipped it on, and after a minute or two of looking stupid, it dissapeared. He couldn't even feel it on him. Seeing the safety, the others tried theirs on, with the same effects. "Cool," Timmy said. "How do you make these, anyway?"

Jimmy picked his ear. "What?"

"Oh, never mind. So...why did we put these on anyway?"

"Oh, I almost forgot to tell you! Near this very spot is a colony of super intellingent fish- stop laughing!" At that moment, Tuck, Timmy, and Cosmo had been laughing their heads off. "I'm serious. Anyway, they're super intelligent-for fish-and i'm still not exactly certain why. They live in a sort of town- something Bottom, I forgot. I've been there before, and it's quite the vacation spot. The residents are friendly-well, most of them, anyway."

Jimmy blinked. "Okay...that probably sounded pretty hard to believe, right?"

"Y'know, after all that we've been through, that kind of sounds normal," Danny said. "But-I just have trouble picturing an intelligent fish." He had images in his head of a fake photo he had once seen of a smiling goldfish with glasses on.

"Yes, I know. We'll be taking shelter in that town. After the whole mutation incident, I think you might need some fun."

"Okay..." Sam said, looking at the ground as she remembered the events of yesterday, "I've kind of forgotten what fun means, but sure. Can anyone here not swim?"

"You don't need to," Jimmy said. "The town is within walking distance. Well, what is the world waiting for? It's time to go down the hatch!" He ran towards the booth door and opened it.

"Down the-aak!" The small booth was immediately filled with water, but Danny didn't seem to notice. He wasn't the least bit wet, and could breathe fine. But he could see the water swirl around him. The others weren't wet either, and were all in the same state of awe.

"Neat!" Cosmo said."So...where is this fish city?"

"Well, you know what they say-nowhere to go but down!" With that, Jimmy jumped out of the booth onto a sand bar a few feet down, and turned around. "Don't worry-it's harmless!"

"Okay..." Danny's human insticts told him that there was no way he was leaving the safety of the booth, but that tiny ghostly voice deepin his soul disagreed. Take the risk. After all, that's all the fun, right? To explore the unknown? Right. Exactly.He mustered all his courage, took adeep breath, and jumped.

He didn't plunge very far. There was no splash. He landed safetly on the sandbar without a single injury, and stood up with no effort at all. A few minutes later, Sam followed suit, ending up completely okay. When the phone booth finally emptied and dissapeared, everyone was at the sandbar, unharmed.

"Good, we're all here. Follow me." Jimmy walked northward. The others followed.

Half a mile away in a dark alley

five seconds later

A human figure crouched by the trash cans. The alley was filthy-street snails dug in the grabage, there was grafitti all over the walls, and the smell-yecch! But it was quiet-perfect. The human pressed something on her wrist. A screen lit up, and a voice came out.

"Hi!" a female voice chirped.

"How did you know it was me?" the human figure said, also a female.

"I didn't. I just wanted to psych out whoever it was. So, how are you?"

"Uncomfortable." She sighed. "J promised that they'd be here by now."

"Su, J's just a kid. Oh sure, he's a prodigy, but it'll take a while. It's been confirmed that they are in the universe, but a universe is big."

"Sta, I KNOW that a universe is big! Geez..." Su pouted. "Will you stop treating me like I can't handle this?"

"Well, you can't. You're too young for this, Su. You have to leave the grunt work for the respnsible ones."

"You saved them last time. Besides, what've I done? Just sit there and give orders? I want in!"

"You don't understand. That is your job, to tell us what to do, and we do it. You do that until you assume full duty when you're thirteen. Don't you know that the Elders do half the work for you? You're not even getting your feet hydrated yet!"

Su groaned. "Listen, Sta! I'm far enough along in my training to do anything you can do. And I have to question the way you guys handle things. They deserve the right to know what's going on! You guys are just playing blush-and-stutter with them!"

"But-"

"But nothing. I'm going in whether you like it or not. And don't worry, i'll make sure that they're all safe and sound for their mission, honest. Su out."

She pressed the button again, and the screen whent dark. She got up, mumbling "If you want something done, do it yourself", strolled out of the alley, and dissapeared into a nearby building.

Oo, how's that for mysterious? Bye! -SP