Hey all! Sorry for the wait. I really have to pay more attention to this, I really do.

Green Phantom Queen: Thanks.

Purple Ghost Sausage: It's supposed to be. And yes-it is kind of like the Unfortunates (that's what I like to call them). That is one of the best series I have ever read. Can't wait for Book 12.

Velvet Panther: Hey, thanks!
-looks around- okay...listen very carefully. Jimmy did NOT scout out the area before Danny and co. arrived. He is NOT there on orders. He has NOTHING to do with this. Understand? You don't? Go back and watch The Incredibles again. Now, go act like these past few minutes never happened. GO!

Heh...what was that? Oh yeah. If I could go anywhere, I'd go to California.

venusgal100: Hmm...does Spongebob have SS agents? He probably should. He's really popular. I once heard of this kid who almost drowned or something because he was 'looking for Spongebob's pineapple'. It's really wierd.

Disclaimer: Doirep. PSBS ro, NJ, POF, PD nwo t'ntd I.
Chapter 3: Welcome to Bikini Bottom

an hour later

Danny walked. And walked. Since there was no drag from the water, the gang could go pretty fast. But still, his legs were tired, and so were everyone else's. The added strength from his ghost side wasn't helping any. "Hey, Jimmy," he said, "I thought you said that the Bottom place was NEARBY! When are we getting there?"

"Just a little longer," Jimmy said. "But what's the hurry? It's beautiful down here." He was right. The clear blue water, the coral, the funny looking rocks, the cloudlike flowery things- it was very beautiful. Lulling, almost.

But it couldn't last very long. A couple hundred (thousand) steps later, Jimmy stepped onto a small hill. "Well," he said, "Here we are!"

The gang looked down the hill-and gave Jimmy some skeptical looks. What they saw looked like a small pile of trash. There were some small moving pinpricks, but there wasn't much else to look at.

"Okay..." Cosmo said, "And this is interesting how?"

Jimmy slapped his forehead. "Oh, I almost forgot!" He took out his Hypercube, and pulled out a wierd gadget. "Hang on, everyone!" He pressed a button, put the gadget on the ocean floor, and zapped everyone-including himself-with it.

Suddenly, Danny felt very strange. Was it just him, or was everything getting bigger? No. He- and Sam, Tuck, Timmy, Cosmo, Wanda, Help, and Jimmy- were getting smaller!

When the effects stopped, Danny was about five inches high, Timmy was two, Cosmo and Wanda wereone anda half each, the hill was a cliff, and the shrinky thingy looked like a large, hulking monster. Jimmy pulled out his Hypercube-now about 1/8 of an inch high-and sucked the thingy into it. Tucker's mouth dropped open. "That was so...cool..."

"Yes, shrink technology is quite incredible. Now tell me- what was the pile of junk again?"

Danny looked over- and saw, instead of junk, a city. Most of the buildings looked like they were made out of pipe, with ship's portholes for windows. There was an arch near the town. It seemed to be thriving.

The residents- well, they were fish. But not just any fish. They stood on their hind...fins, and acted like any human would. They wore clothes, and conversed in English, amazingly (the people involved later found out that there were translators in their WetSuits). There weren't just fish-there were sea stars, squids, sharks, octupuses, and countless other marine life.

But what really caught Dan's eye was the town's name, printed on a lifesaver floatie on a stick nearby-Bikini Bottom. He took one look at it, and-along with all the other boys-burst out laughing. He almost lost his balance, he was laughing so hard. "Man, who named that town?" he said. "Whoever they are, they sure ain't female!" Sam and Wanda, however, were not amused.

Danny stopped immediately. "Sorry. I...just couldn't pass it up."

"It's cool. Hey, if they'd named it Boxer Bottom, we'd br laughing and you'd be seething."

"Yes, we would," Jimmy said seriously. "Come on, let's go. Lots to see-including a very good resturaunt. It's very expensive, but worh it."

Timmy slapped his forehead. "Geez, what are we still doing here? Let's go!" Unafraid, they all jumped (or floated, in the fairy cases) down fron the cliff and walked into Bikini Bottom.

The city...wasn't too amazing. Oh sure, the residents were fish, the 'cars' looked like boats, and there was water all over, but it was like any city, except ocean-ized. There was the occasional odd house, like an Easter Island rock head, but other than the obvious, it was all strangely normal.

After a while of walking uneventfully, Danny noticed that they were getting a few odd stares from some fish. Some just walked on, but most turned to the nearest guy and began whispering. Wanda also noticed this. "Uhh, Jimmy?" she said. "Have any of these fish-people seen a human before?"

"A few. But we'll explain that later. Here we are!" Jimmy pointed towards a building by the roadside. A tall sign by it proudly proclaimed, 'The Krusty Krab'. The building itself looked like the side of a boat. It really needed a new coat of paint.

"It's...quaint," Sam said.

"Looks...reasonable," Tucker said.

"Nonsense," Jimmy said. "It'll be amazing to you when you take your first bite." He walked up to the door and opened it. "Commence forward."

Danny didn't know what that meant, but he walked in. The inside looked just as 'wooden' as the outside. Fish-people sat at tables that looked like ship's wheels, eating burgers. A bored-looking squidlike emplyee sat behind an old fashioned register. To top it all off, there was a happy, high-pitched laughing and singing coming from the pickup window. "La la LA la la...la la LA la la..."

Jimmy directed them to a table near the register. "Wait here," he said. Now, Danny noticed something about these fish people. Unlike those outside, these completely ignored their coming. Huh? he thought.

Meanwhile, Jimmy walked up to the squid. "Good day to you, sir," he said. "I'd like..."

Yay! In the next chapter, I FINALLY get to introduce the best character I have ever created. Bye! -SP