"AH HYUCK! That's a fancy-shmancy pin ya got there, kiddo!". The buck-toothed attendant from before now loomed over Squidward. He had to have been at last six, no, eight feet tall. At least. His four-sizes-too-big patched overalls added to his size as they were stuffed to the brim in trash bags.

"Where'd yah get such a thang?" his voice sounded cheerful but in a menacing way. In a "I'm going to break each and every one of your tentacles if you don't tell me" kind of way.

Squidward didn't back down though. Arms folded, he put on an air of indifference and haughtiness. Squidward eyed the attendant top to bottom in an approximately equal mixture of disgust and contempt "What do you want, carp?".

"Carp? Ah-hyuck! I ain't no 'carp'. I'm a Jim!"

"Indeed, and I'm out of here. Goodbye." The carp tried to cut Squidward off, but his arms, thin as toothpicks, could be dodged even by the legendarily-obese Bubble Bass.

"Ah! hwait!"

"Not a chance, trash boy, not a chance"

"SQUIDWARD!"

Squidward came to a halt. His ligaments and tendons stuck like glue as they stubbornly refused to move. His eyes widened and his heart rate started slowly increasing again.

"Look, lad, I know you've been upset with me but—Jim? JIM!" the crustacean began bouncing up and down and he sprinted for the buck-toothed attendant.

"Krabs? Ah! Hwell A'll be! If it ain't the cheapskate crustacean himself!"

"It's been years! What are ye doin here boyo?"

GRUMBLE GRUMBLE GRUMBLE

"what... was... that." Squidward whispered, his voice trembling.

GRUMBLE GRUMBLE

The entire chamber shook with the force of a category get-the-neptune-out-of-there earthquake. It became difficult to stand.

"D'ya hear that lad!" Krabs yelled with his claws cupped around his mouth.

Squidward didn't respond back though. He just looked at his boss as an avalanche of broken bikes, an impounded car, congealed sludge, cardboard boxes, and a sea of black trash bags all appeared to the left of Krabs.

There was a piece of Squidward that wanted to yell out "Run!" or "On your left!". It's not that Squidward wanted Krabs to be saved necessarily... He also didn't want to see even more needless bloodshed. This piece of him fought against the thought that Krabs should be punished, and all he could utter was

"Kra-"

KRSSHHHHHHHHH

The trash ungulfed Krabs. His boss become a member of the garbage aggregate which continued, unfazed, to raze the park and every structure it passed over.

As the avalanche continued and passed out of sight, Squidward sprinted as fast as he could to where his boss was previously standing.

"What the hell, SpongeBob?! What hell have you dragged us all into?"

Squidward looked around everywhere but Krabs was nowhere to be seen. In fact, nothing could be seen for an entire mile long strip of land the avalanche had already passed through.

Squidward began digging desperately in the sludge. But every attempt to move even a handful of sludge was futile as more surrounding garbage filled the void.

"No, Krabs is gone and it's all my fault... It's my fault he's dead... It's... my fault those people are dead... My fault"

Squidward felt a hand like that of a skeletons dig into his right shoulder. A creeping feeling ran up his spine.

"Ah! Yes! It is your fault!"

The hand gripped tighter

"Ah hyuck! Krabs is-Ah! Dead! Hyuck!"

Squidward punched the ground. His fist slowly sunk into sludge.

"Those people, too! Hyuck!"

Squidward slowly turned his head to face the carp. His face pale and his eyes filled with despair.

"W-what people?" his voice quaked

"Those good ol' folks! They even had a kid with them! Ah Hyuck! A kid!"

"Look, I—"

"Ah! Hyuck! We'll do all the lookin ya want in a minute! But first, you gotta come with me". The carp leaned in, his off-putting grin gave no doubt there was a vileness about him; an evil that had afflicted Jim down to his very soul. Squidward had never seen anything like it before but he could have sworn that Satan incarnate was now standing before him. Jim's grip tightened even more—his fingertips felt like sharpened spears as they started to break skin.

"Is that alright with you? Squidward?"