The gang was teleported at the bottom of the sea. They looked out to see three houses nearby. One is a rock, one is a stone tiki, and one is a pineapple. Cade made sure if the tablet is working properly and that it will make them breathe underwater. "Ok, so the tablet is working, so this is what we're going to do. Mickey, Melira are going to investigate the tiki stone house, with Melira in the house, and Mickey digging around for the code. Alloy Boy, Pibby, both of you are going to the pineapple with Alloy Boy digging around outside. I'll take the rock house, because I can open it with my strength. So let's move out." The group then exit the camper, relieved that the tablet is working. Each group went into their own building. Melira went into the tiki house, while Mickey looked around outside for the code. Cade lifted the rock up, and went into it to look around there. Pibby went into the pineapple, as Alloy Boy looked around. Pibby went around the pineapple, looking around, checking the rooms. The house owner seems to be a yellow sponge with his pet snail. She then went to the bathroom, because she started to notice that she is dirty. She walked up to the bathroom, and went to the sink but stopped when she saw herself in the mirror. It has been a long time since she saw herself in the mirror. She saw her tired eye, her scarred eye, and her hair let down. She then put her hand on her the scar where Rudy have her. She almost didn't recognized her, when she saw herself. She then thought to herself, what will happen when this is over. Will she loose her new friends? Will she loose her old friends? Will nothing happened? She then got determined, and stopped thinking about the negative thoughts in her mind. "I don't care what will happen. Even if nothing changes back, we will stop the static, and save everyone." She then walked out the bathroom, look at the mirror one more time, and left the bathroom."
While searching the bedroom of the squid who used to live in the tiki house, Melira saw an opened diary on the bed. Normally she used a diary to blackmail other people, but now she is reading it to find any clues to find the code. Luckily in the diary, the squid wrote that his boss's competitor came here, dug up some sort of suitcase, and took it back to some place called the Chum Bucket. Melira went out and yell out that she found something that will help them. After telling the group what she found, they drove to the Chum Bucket, but couldn't help but notice that the town is abandoned. There is no one within miles, but Melira said that from the diary she read, it said that once a year, the whole town population leaves their home to get away from the sponge due to him being extremely annoying, but from what it said, it only lasted one day on April twenty eighth, but from the clock she saw, it has been a couple of months since that date. The group was confused by what was going on, on why did the town population didn't return. While Cade is thinking about it, he looked up and swerve pass an huge infected, grabbing the attention of the gang. They look out to see that it was the sponge that was mentioned in the diary, and that it has the static pouring out of its holes and mouth. Luckily, it moves slowly, so Cade drove away from it as it tries to crawl towards the camper. They managed to get to the Chum Bucket which is across a destroyed restaurant that looked liked a lobster trap.
The group then discussed what to do if the infected sponge comes here, but the diary said that the burger from the destroyed restaurant is the sponge's favorite food. So they decided to split up in two groups. Alloy Boy and Mickey would be at the destroyed restaurant called the Krusty Krab to make some of the burgers to distract the sponge in case it comes here, while the rest search the Chum Bucket. With the plan in motion, Alloy Boy and Mickey went to the Krusty Krab and kept an eye out for the infected sponge, while the rest went into the Chum Bucket. When they got in there, it smelled so bad that Melira nearly puked from the smell, and Pibby nearly passed out due to not getting used to bad smells. Cade then asked the girls if they want to go back with the others, but they were persistent and are ready to face what will appear in front of them. With that in mind, they encountered a locked door in the dining room, where Cade rammed through the doors with his helmet, where they entered a laboratory. They then walk around the lab to see to find the suitcase, but then they were interrupted by a female voice. "Who are you people? Can you respond to what I am saying? I'll activate the security bots if you don't respond in ten seconds!" Cade then told the voice that they are friendly, and that they are looking for a suitcase that is important to them. The voice went silent for a while, then unlocked the doors which led to a big computer with a green line on it. The trio entered the room, where the computer introduced herself as Karen the robotic wife of Plankton, the one who took the suitcase. "You see. Plankton detected something entering out world, so he went to investigate it, and came back with a suitcase. He opened it, where there is some computer chip in it, and I put it in my system to decode it. I found only two unknown locations from it, with one of them only described only halfway."
The trio explained to Karen about what is going on, but Karen interrupted them by stating that she knows what is happening. "You see when we returned from our yearly holiday, we came to see that SpongeBob changed somehow. Then a blob came through the city infecting some of the citizens. All of the citizens drove away, while Sheldon and I went back here. I was confused by why we came here, but then Sheldon then told me to stay here no matter what, because he is going to distract the blob with his robots. The last words he said before he went out is that he loved me with all of his heart. It seems that he understand the importance of the codes, so let's make a deal. If you can put me in that tablet you are holding, I'll give you the code, since it is in my database." The trio after listening to her story, then discussed about it for a while, then told her that the tablet needs to be upgraded once more in order for Karen to come along with them. Karen is happy with what they said, told them to leave the upgrading to her, while they help their friends, when they revealed to be running from the Infected SpongeBob, saying that he just got there. The trio then ran out, but where stopped by Karen who wanted to say one thing. "Just try not to hurt him. He may be annoying, but he is the most kindest man you will ever meet. Just try not to kill him."
Alloy Boy and Mickey were running from The infected SpongeBob, because as it turns out, it attracts him instead of distracts him. Alloy Boy was using his mallet to hit away the hands trying to grab them. They then heard a loud boom, and Cade ram towards SpongeBob in the head knocking it out. After the fight, Cade then told the duo about the deal, and what happened in the town. With that, Cade is going to drag SpongeBob as far away from the restaurants, while the others wait for Karen to finish upgrading the tablet. While dragging the body, Cade couldn't help but worry about Pibby. She haven't been to happy when she entered SpongeBob's house. He'll asked her about what is going on with her when he got the chance. He looked around, and thinks that this is far enough s he ran back to the restaurants as fast as he can, before SpongeBob wakes up. He came back to see the group looking at the tablet. He went to to see that Karen is now in the tablet, and is ready to the group to the next location of the second code. With Karen as their new member, they went back into the camper, and teleported to the next dimension.
They teleported near to a city that is full of animals. They looked from the distance and think of their next plan. From the code they got, Karen announced that the second one is in a comic store. "From what I can deduce, the code was given to some mean toad. The toad thinks that it some collectible item from one of their comics. All we have to do is buy it, but it may requires all of our money in order to get it, but it will be worth it. But we can't gain suspicion from buying it, so Pibby and Alloy Boy must be the one who buy it, the rest of us would be here." The group discussed with the plan for a while, then agreed with it. Karen then put the disguises on Alloy Boy and Pibby making the residents see them differently, but the group can see them. With that, Pibby and Alloy Boy went into the city, while the rest kept watch. The duo walked into the city asking for some directions to the comic store. Turns out it is further from where they are, so they decided to take the bus. When they got in the bus, they sat on their seat together, then Pibby is starting to get concern. "Hey Alloy Boy, if we managed to get out of this, what do you think will happen? Will we remember what will happen or will we forget everything we have been through?" Alloy Boy thought about it for a while, then came up with a not so good answer. "I honestly don't know what will happen, but maybe you should talk to Cade about it. He seems to be know more about this then the rest of us." Pibby nodded and put her head on his chest, with Alloy Boy looking around his surroundings. He is a bit jealous of them, living a life without fear of being consumed by the static. The bus stopped at their stop, so Alloy Boy woke Pibby up, and they got out of the bus, and head to comic store.
After getting the code with no problems, due to the toad happily taking half of their money, the duo went back to the gang, only to see them worried about something, and with Cade missing. They came up to them and asked what is wrong, and Mickey told them what happened. "We don't know what happened. All we know that a portal opened up and some kind of gang of robots came out of it, knock out Cade, and took him into the portal. One of them left a note, which said that they came from Melira's dimension stating that they work with Rudy, and that they came here with their own teleporter. They have been watching us from me joining you, to trying to get the codes. All they want is the codes, so they can go to the factory, and burn it to the ground for corrupting their boss. They left the location on where they are going to be. We need to head their to find a way to save Cade, and to not let them destroy the factory." Pibby and Alloy Boy were shocked and angry on what just happened. With no hesitation, they got into the camper, then Karen put in the location on where they need to go, and teleported there to save Cade. Little did they know that an infected was watching them, and got the location of where they are heading to.
The gang managed to get the codes, but during their quest, Cade got kidnapped by Rudy's gang of robots, and they will not let him go until they give them the codes. Now they must head to the location they were given with the static following them. Will the gang save Cade from the robots, and will the static get in the way? Find out in Chapter 10: The Desert Fight.
