A full day had gone by, and Garfield was enjoying it greatly.

He had had fifteen Krabby Patties, and was currently making his sixteenth.

He was wearing an apron and a chef's hat as he stood at the grill, flipping patties.

Jon walked into backyard and saw him.

"Garfield, what are you doing? We had dinner an hour ago!"

Garfield didn't say anything.

He just grunted and started to build the Krabby Patty.

Jon watched with a blank expression.

"Ummm, are you okay?"

Garfield grunted again.

Jon paused for a moment.

Then he got a little closer and held up his hand.

"How many fingers am I holding up?" he asked.

Garfield grunted again.

"O-kay," Jon sighed.

Garfield finished the Krabby Patty and ate it down.

"MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" he squealed.

He wiped his mouth and went back into the house.

Jon stared at him.

"I could've got that lizard, but no! Mom wanted me to get a cat."

Then Jon noticed the piece of paper on the grill.

He picked it up and read it.

"Krabby Patty? What the heck…?"

Jon looked at the ingredients.

Then he saw there was still one hamburger patty sitting on the grill.

Jon shrugged and started the process.

Three minutes later, he had a Krabby Patty in his hand.

"Well, here goes nothing," he said.

Jon ate the Krabby Patty.

Suddenly, fireworks went off in his mind.

Jon's eye twitched.

"Wow…," he said.


The next day, Garfield and Odie were at the table waiting for breakfast.

"Okay, Arbuckle!" Garfield shouted. "Pancakes! Waffles! Eggs! Bacon! Hash browns! Milk! Orange Juice! Coffee! And don't skip on the butter and syrup!"

"Arf!" added Odie.

"Oh yea, and a biscuit for the mutt."

Jon entered the kitchen.

Garfield and Odie stared at him.

Jon's eyes were bloodshot, he was sweaty, he looked incredibly bleak, and he was holding a plate of…

…Krabby Patties?

"Hey, boys," he said. "Krabby Patty?"

Garfield and Odie looked at each other.

"How did he…?"

Jon immediately ate one.

"Isn't this great?" he asked excitedly.

Garfield shrugged.

"Yeah. Now get back to cooking, Arbuckle!"

Garfield shoved a spatula into Jon's hand.

Jon got all tingly inside.

And he ran back outside.

Garfield started eating the Krabby Patties.

Odie watched.

"Bark?"

"Huh? Oh, sure. Take one," said Garfield.

Odie took a Krabby Patty.

It tasted good, but he couldn't find that tingly sensation Garfield and Jon felt.

So he finished his and took another one to the fishbowl.

He gave it to SpongeBob.

"Thanks, Odie," said SpongeBob. "This is terrible! I have to get home! I still have to man the grill at the Krusty Krab!"

Odie just stared and drooled as SpongeBob spoke.

One might think he was listening.


Meanwhile, Jon was still flipping the Krabby Patties.

Garfield had finished the ones in the kitchen, and now he was ready for more.

"JON! EMERGENCY! WE NEED MORE KRABBY PATTIES IN MY MOUTH!"

Jon started flipping like mad.

Patties were soon flying into the buns, and tomatoes, onions, pickles, and other stuff went flying into sandwiches.

Soon Jon was making five a minute.

Garfield couldn't have been happier.

Once there were thirty sitting in front of him, he started eating them.

While this was going on, the mailman arrived.

"Excuse me, Mr Arbuckle, but do you want your mail?" he asked.

"Just leave it on the table!" Jon said. "Here! Take a free Krabby Patty for your trouble!"

Jon handed the mailman a Krabby Patty.

The mailman stared at it.

"What did you call this?"

But Jon and Garfield were still grilling up a storm.

So the mailman took a bite.

MUNCH!

A rainbow seemed to go over the mailman's head.

"Whoa…," he said.

Then he snatched a few more and left.

Jon and Garfield didn't notice.

Odie and SpongeBob watched the mailman run past.

"What's his hurry?" asked SpongeBob.

Odie shrugged.


I'm sorry to say that the one Krabby Patty had had a pretty big affect on the mailman.

Let's see, where do I start?

He gave some to the guys at work.

Then the guys at work shared them with the customers at the post office.

Then the customers at the post office went home and made their own Krabby Patties.

Soon, everyone in Garfield's town was eating Krabby Patties.

Garfield, Odie, SpongeBob and Jon were still unaware of this.

Garfield and Jon were in the backyard grilling more Krabby Patties.

SpongeBob and Odie were watching.

The world was about to descend into chaos.


Meanwhile, not far away for the Arbuckle household, three little sea critters were sound asleep under some fake rocks at the pet store.

Finally, a cone-shaped head popped out of the rocks.

"Hello?" asked Patrick.

Patrick managed to climb out of the rocks.

"What happened?"

Then Patrick spied a bunch of starfishes stuck to the glass walls of the fish tank he was in.

Patrick touched the glass wall.

"Where am I?" he asked.

No one was answering.

Patrick didn't no what to do.

No surprise.

Patrick looked around.

There was no sign of Squidward, Mr Krabs or Sandy anywhere.

"Squidward? Sandy? Mr Krabs?" he shouted.

Patrick quickly climbed to the top of the tank and looked around.

Uh-oh.

There was air up there.

And Patrick doesn't like air.

So quickly, Patrick saw another glass bowl just below him.

"Cannonball!" he shouted.

SPLOOSH!

Patrick landed in the bowl safely.

Then he looked around.

Hmmmm.

It seemed that he was in a bowl of crabs now.

"Mr Krabs?" he asked. "You in here?"

Just then a pair of eyestalks popped out of the fake rocks.

"Patrick?" he asked. "Where are we?"

"Pet shop," said Patrick. "I've seen this kind of place before. Now comes the part where the Cyclops sneaks up behind me and SpongeBob and attempts to kill us with his heating lamp to turn us into smelly knickknacks."

Mr Krabs stared at him.

"Okay, we just gotta find Sandy and Squidward, and then we get start searching for SpongeBob."

"Well, where do we go?" asked Patrick. "There's oxygen up there. And I don't know what oxygen means, but it sounds dangerous."

Mr Krabs ignored Patrick and started to look around.

Then he saw a tank that read OCEAN ODDITIES.

"Oddities, eh? With any luck, Squidward will be in there somewhere."

Mr Krabs climbed out of the bowl.

"Okay, as a crab, I am able to move around on the surface world. Just give me a minute to think of a plan."

"Ooh! Ooh! You could do what SpongeBob and me did once: make it rain!"

"Huh?"

"Yeah, when we woke from being dead, it was raining in Shell City!"

Mr Krabs stared.

Then he saw a match on the floor.

"Bingo!"

Mr Krabs ran over and lit the match with his claw.

A small flame came out of the match, and then started to rise towards the ceiling.

It hit the water sprinklers.

SWISH!

The sprinklers sprang open and water rained down.

"WHAT TH—!" shouted the store manager.

The staff started running around.

Patrick immediately jumped out of the crab tank.

"It's raining inside! Hooray!" he cheered.

And he started to frolic in the puddles.

"Now we just gotta find Sandy and Squidward!" said Krabs.

"Up here!" shouted a voice.

Mr Krabs looked up.

Sandy was in a cage up above.

"Get me outta here!" shouted Sandy.

Mr Krabs quickly climbed up the wall towards Sandy's cage.

Meanwhile Patrick was just finishing his frolicking, but then he saw a familiar face in the oddities tank.

"Squidward?" he asked.

Squidward was staring at him through the glass.

He was covered in eels, sea urchins, and a tiny shark was gnawing at his head.

"Yeah, uh, anytime you wanna get me outta here, I'll appreciate it," said Squidward monotony.

Patrick quickly grabbed some fake rocks and hurled them at the glass.

SMASH!

The glass tanks shattered, and Squidward tumbled to the floor.

WHAM!

"Hey, Squidward! You're flat!" said Patrick.

All the creatures quickly ran away from Squidward.

Patrick quickly peeled him off the floor.

"Hi, Squidward," said Patrick dumbly.

Squidward glared.

Mr Krabs finished climbing to the top, and then used his claw to break open the lock that held Sandy in her cage.

"Okay, boys!" said Sandy. "Let's find SpongeBob."

"But he could be anywhere in this surface world!" objected Squidward.

Just then, a TV came loose from its stand, and it crashed to the floor, just inches away from them.

The TV came on, and a news guy appeared on screen.

"…and in other news," he said, "the entire town is going gaga over a new burger know to us only as the 'Krabby Patty'."

Mr Krabs' eyes popped open.

"WHAT?" he shouted.

"This burger was originated at the home of a Mr Jon Arbuckle, who says he found the recipe at his house. He made it, and shared it with the world."

Just then, a video of Jon and Garfield appeared on the screen.

Jon was still in his backyard at the grill, making and eating Krabby Patties.

Garfield was right behind him, sitting in a lawn chair, eating them down.

The camera panned across the yard to Odie, was standing there watching them, and holding a fishbowl.

Then Patrick burst out.

"Hey, look! SpongeBob's on TV!" he shouted. "Hi, SpongeBob!"

Sandy, Squidward and Mr Krabs stared in shock at the screen.

In the fishbowl, they could make out the sad and desperate look of SpongeBob SquarePants, watching the scene in despair.

"So, this Jon Arbuckle has our lad, eh?" said Mr Krabs, scratching his chin.

"How do we get there?" asked Squidward.

Suddenly, the cash register was accidentally knocked to the floor.

Out fell a ton of receipts.

Sandy started to dig through the pile.

"Maybe the address is in here somewhere," she said.

After five minutes of searching, Sandy finally found the right one.

"Here it is!" she said.

"But how can we travel without water?" asked Squidward.

"I'll take care of that!" said Sandy.

Sandy immediately got a round jar and filled it with water.

Then she shoved Patrick, Squidward and Mr Krabs into it and put the lid on it.

Then she jumped on top.

"YEE-HAW!" she shouted.

And she started to run backwards, and out the door of the pet shop.

"SANDY!" everyone shouted. "SLOW DOWN! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

But Sandy was off!

"Hang on, boys! We're gonna find this Arbuckle sap!"

And they rode into the sunset.