Our heroes were on a boat in a vast sea. "Are you sure about this emergency in Bikini Bottom?" Michael asked.
"It is," Donna replied. "Sandy sent me an email that SpongeBob has been freaking out for three days."
"Usually," Emma recalled. "He panics over minor things. Running out of ice, crickets, butterflies, and requesting criticism and getting upset about it - that's upseticide."
"I know," Shreya replied. "Intentionally making yourself upset, that's just wrong."
"Guys," Zephyr said as he finished his location spell. "We're approaching Bikini Bottom."
Donna knew that it was time to go under the sea.
Honesty
Kindness
Laughter
Generosity
Loyalty
Magic
Harmonize
And just like that, Donna, Emma Shreya, Iris, Atlas, Michael, Griffin, and Zephyr turned into mermaids. Animal and Groot, on the other hand, got into their scuba gear and dived in.
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Along the way, they spotted Flounder, his kids, and Sebastian. "Where are you guys going?" asked Flounder.
"To SpongeBob's pineapple home," explained Emma. "Sandy warned Donna about his panicking and can't get over it."
"Why can't your animal friends come?" Sebastian asked.
"Stitch is scared of water, remember?" explained Donna. "Plus Rocket has a DJ gig at a monster truck rally in Atlantic City."
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They swam down, down, down to Bikini Bottom.
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At SpongeBob's house, they met Sandy and Patrick in front of his house. As they opened the door, they spotted SpongeBob curling on the ground saying, "Gary!"
Donna and the others came up and comforted the yellow sponge, "What's wrong, SpongeBob?" she asked.
"It's Gary," SpongeBob replied. "He's missing. I think he's been snail-napped. It all started three days ago. I was coming home from an 18-hour shift at the House of Mouse. I know I barely wear myself out, but a fairy band is going to book a livestream concert. In the end, I decided to go home to make Pretty Patties to celebrate, but when I got home, I saw that Gary was missing."
"Don't worry," Donna replied. "We'll help you find him."
"Did you lock your door?" Michael asked.
"I did," SpongeBob answered, "but I guess I didn't lock it through."
"Let's get to the Patty Wagon Mach 2," suggested Sandy. "It's parked in SpongeBob's garage."
Before they could go, they saw that Animal has wandered off, again, "Oh no!" shouted Animal, "Animal is gone too."
"No, he's not," said Michael. "He's in the kitchen making Pretty Patties."
"He better not put any poison joke in it this time," Donna replied. "We had to take a two-hour herbal bath to get the color skin stains out."
In the kitchen, Animal whipped up a fresh batch of pretty patties to cheer SpongeBob up, and without a poison joke. Donna started to sense the presence of where Gary is. "I sense that he's in Atlantic City," she said. "We should go right away."
After a little Pretty Patty power-up, they were off to find Gary and return him home.