Time Fixers: Nicktoons of the Future

Episode 10: Nano

Plot: The Nicktoons discover that Jimmy has been studying the remains of Morph- at the cost of his own rest. But soon, Morph escapes and searches for its remaining parts that are hidden away in secret locations, all except one single nanobot that becomes attached to a terrified Maxwell. The Nicktoons must try to secure the nanobots while Yuki looks after Crash after he loses his eyesight.

Part 1

In the early morning of Bikini Bottom, Crash, Twitchy, and Junior were under the basement in their pineapple dome. Crash was holding a hoverboard and a pair of goggles. "Okie-dokie, I got the hoverboard and the night-vision goggles. Ya know what to do, Twitchy?" he asked his squirrel brother.

"Uhhuh, uhhuh, uhhuh." Twitchy responded rapidly while nodding.

"Is this safe?" Junior asked timidly, "In the dark while hoverboarding...in the dark?"

"Relax, Junior." Crash assured. "With these here night-vision goggles, I'll be able to see everything while you won't be able to see anything." he turned to Twitchy. "Just remember to keep the lights off until I say so. There's a warnin' label on the back sayin' not to turn them on in brightly lit rooms for some reason."

"Right, right, got it," Twitchy assured as he walked over to the light switch, "Ready!"

Crash got on his hoverboard and put on the goggles over his eyes. "Okay, ready." He called and Twitchy turned off the lights in the basement, making the room completely dark and causing a frightened Junior cling to him. Crash turned on the night-vision goggles and took off on his hoverboard. While Twitchy and Junior couldn't see a thing, Crash could see perfectly through his goggles and yelled, "Whoo-hoo!" as he flew up the walls and across the ceiling, "I'm boardin' in the dark!"

Twitchy giggled in excitement. "Wow, you're so good! I wish I can see it!"

Junior was still clutching to Twitchy in fear. "I hope there aren't any monsters down here...in the dark."

From outside, Yuki and Kida had arrived and were looking for the boys until they heard Crash's cheers from down in the basement. "Sounds like Crash is once again doing something crazy and dangerous." Kida said with a smirk.

"Let's check it out," Yuki suggested with interest.

Kida follows Yuki downstairs and they see nothing but darkness, though hear Crash yelling in joy. "Why's it so dark in here?" Yuki asked as she feels around for a light switch.

Suddenly hearing Yuki's voice, Twitchy knew what was about to happen. "YukiNO!" It was too late as Yuki flips the switch and the lights turn back on. The goggles Crash is wearing suddenly amplify a bright light that shines in Crash's eyes and causes the sponge to scream in pain and fall off his hoverboard.

"Crash!" Junior cried as he and the others rush over to him as he lies on the ground, trying to grab at his eyes from behind the goggles.

Yuki removed the goggles from around the sponge's head. "Crash, are you alright?" Yuki asked in panic, knowing that she caused this. "I'm SO sorry!"

Crash's eyes were red and watery and his vision was completely blurry and can only see silhouettes of his friends and siblings up until his vision completely darkens and he can't see anything in front of him.

Meanwhile in Retroville at the building of Strych Enterprises, in the top most building of the office president, Eustace Strych was sitting at his desk as he talked to a holographic image of a mysterious person. "Your plan to take the Nicktoons down from the inside does sound promising." Eustace told the hologram. "But how will I even transfer the virus into your robot when the headquarters has a shield surrounding the building to protect it from any outside viruses?"

"Fear not." The hologram assured. "I can transport you the data from here."

"What?" Eustace asked in disbelief. "But how?"

His questions were answered when a glow appeared from the hologram and a tablet appeared in his hands. The hologram explained, "The virus is already uploaded. Just hit send and it will be transferred to the robot inside Nicktoon HQ."

But a surprised Eustace then asked, "But how do you know how to bypass Neutron's firewall?"

The hologram simply ignored his question and demanded, "Just send the virus. That is if you want to apprehend the boy and seize that device." and the hologram shut off.

Eustace rolled his eyes and muttered, "I should really find out who my business partners are before I strike deals with them." then he looks at the tablet in his hands and hits "send".

Darry, Tammy, Tommy, and Maxwell approach the front doors of Nicktoon HQ. "I wonder if SpongeTron has the internet glasses that Strych Enterprises just released." Tammy asked enthusiastically.

"I already have a pair of those in the future." Maxwell mentioned. "I used them all the time when I was in 2nd grade. I feel kinda betrayed now knowing that the owner of the company who makes that stuff is trying to hunt me down."

"Man, don't worry about it." Darry assured, "As long as you're with Neutron, Eustace can't get to you. As a genius, he's always watching and alert."

Suddenly, the front doors open and Cindy comes out in her reporter outfit and was carrying Max in one arm, looking very irritated. "Oh, hey guys." Cindy bitterly greeted, "If you're here to see Neutron, don't get your hopes up."

"Why? Is he out?" Tammy asked, until she realized, "Come to think of it, I haven't seen him in days."

"No, he's here." Cindy explained with a scowl, "Locked in his lab more than usual. He barely eats, hasn't come to bed, doesn't spend time with his son, and I haven't even seen him shower. He says he's trying to replicate the schematics of that invention he lost, and after seeing Maxwell using it, he's been trying to figure out what happened that it gives the user psychic powers." Maxwell's eyes widen in guilt, hearing that his father has locked himself away due to wondering how it was his invention gave him psychic powers.

"Anyway, I'm on my way to work and I'm taking Max to my parents' house, so he can be watched by responsible adults." with a huff, she heads to her car with Baby Max.

"Yeessh...sounds like someone had a bad day," Tommy noted.

"Still, it's not like Jimmy to spend more than a week in his lab." Tammy also noted. "He must be having a hard time."

Maxwell lowered his head and muttered, "If he is, it's all because of me. Using my psychic powers and my intellect is what intrigued him to devote all of his time trying to decipher what exactly I'm-" then he growled in frustration at his vocabulary. "See what I mean?"

Darry chuckled and stated, "Well, your powers are gnarly, so who wouldn't wanna study them?" but once Maxwell glared at him, Darry stated, "But Neutron's not the kind of guy to just blow off life to just focus on science, why don't we find SpongeTron and talk to him?"

In Neutron's lab, Jimmy is wearing a face mask and has SpongeTron doing something very important. "Carefully...carefully...carefully..." Jimmy cautioned.

SpongeTron sweats (if robots can sweat) as he is slowly moving one of his devices when- "Hi Jimmy!" Tammy called out, causing the genius and robot to jump.

"Gah!" Jimmy yelped when he turned to the four children, "Haven't you heard of the phrase 'Knock first'?"

"Haven't you noticed that your wife thinks you've been neglecting her and your son lately," Darry retorted.

"What would make her think that?" Jimmy asked as he takes off his face mask, revealing himself to have very baggy eyes and five o' clock shadow due to having hardly slept or done anything else.

"Anyway, we came in to wonder what you've been-" but Maxwell froze to discover what Jimmy and SpongeTron are up to. SpongeTron's right arm is some sort of tiny drill when they were about to drill into a very familiar being...the frozen Morph. "What in the theory of Albert Einstein are you two doing?!"

"Probing," SpongeTron answered as he activates his drill that moves closer to Morph.

"I've been researching all my old blueprints, the psychokinesis abilities displayed by Maxwell, and the advanced technology that I'm trying to recreate," Jimmy stated, "But I've gotten NOwhere. I didn't think my invention would be advanced enough to evolve a mere being into a mind-probing metahuman. That's when I had this brilliant idea: to research the other invention from the future!"

"We're gonna drill into Morph and take a small sample of him to research." SpongeTron finished with an excited grin.

"Are you crazy?!" Maxwell panicked, "He's MORPH! If you make even the smallest crack in his icy prison, he's bound to escape!"

"Which is why I have the flash freeze ray above us to use once SpongeTron collects our sample," Jimmy backed up, "Pretty smart, right?"

"NO!" Maxwell cried out in distress. "That thing is deadly. It's programmed to eliminate you and only you! You don't know what I had to do to stop that thing!" he turned around and covered his eyes as he still shook in fright.

Darry became concerned. "You know, Neutron, Max may be right. Maybe you shouldn't do this."

"Wait..." Tammy noticed something off about Morph when she said, "Wasn't he bigger before?"

"Yes," Jimmy smirked when he explained, "Remember our previous fight? Morph split into two which we both iced."

"Yeah, now that you mentioned it...where is the other Morph?" Darry answered.

"Somewhere secure," Jimmy answered, "Don't doubt my intellect if you believe I would do this without any thought. Before, I took apart each fragment of Morph and transferred its parts to different locations. Aside from temperature, Morph's other weakness is quantity. It's only powerful with a large amount of nanobots powering it."

"Nanobots?" Tammy asked, "Those are like small robots, right?"

"That's what makes up Morph's body and the core of his shape-shifting abilities," Jimmy answers, "A large quantity of nanonbots can change him into large beasts, but in that size and small quantity, he's not as dangerous as before."

Maxwell hit behind Tammy and timidly asked, "What are you gonna do with him then?"

"That's easy," Jimmy explained with a yawn. "With some research, I can detect where he originated and find where he...originate...Zzzz" in mid-sentence, Jimmy dozes off.

SpongeTron pokes him a few times until Jimmy bolts awake and shouts, "Is the process complete yet?"

Noticing his sleep-deprived condition, Darry suggests, "You know, Jimmy, why don't you hold off on the evil robot dissecting for now and get some sleep...and maybe shave."

Jimmy ran a hand across his exhausted face and replied, "I suppose you're right." he turned to the sponge robot. "SpongeTron, can I trust you to keep everything in order until I return?"

"Cross my core processor or let me be dismantled, sir!" SpogneTron assured.

Jimmy smiled in approval and left to get some sleep. But as soon as he was gone, Maxwell looked at Morph and picked up a scalpel. "Quick, kill it! Kill it now!"

He was about to stab the robot, but SpongeTron quickly grabbed him. "Max, what are you doing?"

"Destroying it before it destroys us!" Maxwell screamed.

"Come on, Max. We know a mere knife can't kill it," SpongeTron reminded, taking the scalpel away from the boy, "Besides, I'm just taking a sample as instructed." He finally drilled a tiny hole into Morph, released and allowed his left hand to turn into a syringe to extract the nanobots inside. Inside the syringe are what seems to be black fluid consisting of those nanobots.

"There! All done," SpongeTron smiled to calm Maxwell down, "Now we just have to freeze that hole again."

"Oh! Oh! I wanna do it! I wanna do it!" Tommy volunteered enthusiastically as he holds up the Freeze Ray.

"Okay, just hurry before it tries to leak out." SpongeTron urged.

As Tommy carefully aimed at the frozen Morph, Maxwell stared at the syringe and then at Morph. He began to shake with more fright, causing his powers to start levitating objects in the room. When Tommy fired, he was suddenly lifting into the air, causing the ice to misfire. "Hey!" The ray hits SpongeTron, freezing him in ice and everything dropped on the ground, including the syringe SpongeTron was holding. It shattered on the floor, releasing the liquid that held the nanobots. All the Nicktoons stare at the tiny robots while Maxwell suddenly jumped onto Darry, gripping him tightly.

Suddenly, they see a tiny nanobot crawl out of the liquid and scurry across the floor, causing Tammy to shriek as if she saw a bug, and it escapes through under the doorway. "Oh no!" SpongeTron cried as he put a jar over the remaining nanobots. "One of the nanobots escaped! It's running free in the lab. Who knows what it could do? Neutron is gonna crush me into a cube!"

Then, the remaining scattered nanobots formed into one liquid as it tried to get out again. "Oh, no you don't!" Darry said as he changed into ghost form and grabbed the thing like a snake when it formed into a black snake-like creature and hissed at him. Maxwell was hiding under a desk as he watched the remaining part of Morph try and attack his friends. Darry struggled to hold the robot back as he yelled, "Somebody, get this thing off!"

Darry screamed as it wrapped around his neck and starts to strangle him. "Darry!" Tammy yelled when the robot smacked Tammy away with its tail. Tammy slams into a table when a glass jar falls on her lap. Darry quickly turned intangible to slip out of the robot's grip, but the robot paid no heed to Darry when it spotted Maxwell. It reverted to its liquid state and moves toward him.

Maxwell freezes in fright as the robot moves toward him. "Max!" SpongeTron cried out. "Look out!"

The liquid forms a mouth as it launches itself toward Maxwell. Maxwell closed his eyes when Tammy intervenes and traps the liquid inside the glass jar. She grabs a lid to close the top. "All right!" Tommy cheered. "You got it!"

"Now destroy it!" Maxwell cried out.

"Not yet!" SpongeTron protested. "We still need to analyze."

"You remember what that thing did! And you saw what it did just now!" Maxwell yelled in fury. "There's nothing we can learn from it and I have no connection with it other than its purpose was to kill my dad! But if you wanna help the commander bring it back to life to cause more destruction, then you can COUNT ME OUT!" he yelled at the top of his voice before storming out of the lab.

The Nicktoons stare in shock by Maxwell's outburst. "What's his problem?" Tommy asked.

"Who knows?" Darry responded, rolling his eyes. "Come on. We better look around for that loose nanobot before Neutron realizes what's going on."

The three agreed and left to begin the search, unaware that the head nanobot was still in the room and suddenly vibrated as if something was scrambling its brain. It caused the small robot to push the jar off the table and release the rest of the nanobots.

In Bikini Bottom, Yuki and Kida accompany the SquarePants family to check up on Crash's diagnosis. "What happened to him?" Yuki asked.

"Did his eyeballs fall out?" Kida asked as well.

"Course not." Sandy answered. "They're just a little burned up."

"Hey, who's there?" Crash yelled out, revealing that he was now sitting in a hospital bed, wearing a green gown and had bandages wrapped around his eyes. "Why are you all standin' around in the dark?" he asked, waving his hands around to feel anything.

"Is he gonna be alright?" Yuki asked Sandy.

Sandy explained, "Well, accordin' to the doctors, Crash's retinas did get badly damaged, but they should heal over time, so the blindness will wear off in a couple of days."

But SpongeBob chuckled in amusement and added, "Oh, pshaw, Sandy. Our boy's a sponge. If he has my genes, his eyes will heal in a few hours."

"Great!Great!Great!" Twitchy jumped for joy.

Allie giggled and started making faces at the blind Crash while Dolly held up five fingers and teasingly asked, "Hey Crash, how many fingers am I holdin' up?"

Sally joined in and said in fake astonishment, "Wow...check out that solar eclipse that's occurring outside." and laughed along with her sisters.

An unamused Crash growled in anger and yelled, "If you hadn't turned on them lights, this wouldn't have happened, Junior!" Crash scolded, unknowingly pointing at Kida until the latter pushed his arm in Junior's direction. "This is all your fault!"

"I didn't turn on the lights," a timid Junior spoke out.

Yuki frowned when she admitted, "Crash, it was me who turned on the lights. I didn't know that time. I'm sorry."

Crash then smiled and replied, "Really? Well, don't worry about it. It's not your fault."

"Technically, it is," Twitchy peeped up until Kida punched him in the shoulder.

"I am so SO sorry, Crash," Yuki said, bowing her head in guilt, "Is there any way for me to make it up to you?"

"You could it make up to him by being his seeing-eye dog," Twitchy joked as he nudged his teammates to laugh along.

Crash sat over the edge of the bed and explained, "I don't need eyes to see. I'm part squirrel, remember? I'll just use my keen sense smell and hearin' to get around." he tried walking off the bed and ended up falling flat on his face.

After seeing Crash, SpongeBob helps him up and Sandy quickly added, "Ya know, I think it's a great idea to have Yuki guide Crash around."

But Yuki didn't seem comfortable with the idea. "I don't know. I mean, I'm so busy with school, and taking care of Ringo, and..."

"You WERE the one who blinded him." Kida mentioned again.

"Pretty please, Yuki," Junior pleaded as he tugged on her shirt, "My big brother needs your eyes as his guide-ness."

However, Yuki still didn't look up for the task. "But I..." she stammered.

SpongeBob playfully punched Crash in the arm and cheerfully stated, "Did you hear that, Crash? Yuki is really gonna be your seeing-eye dog until you get better."

A smile grew upon the red-headed sponge's face. "Really?" he then hugged Twitchy tightly, "Oh, thank you, Yuki! I'm so grateful, I can kiss ya!" he proceeded to kiss Twitchy on the cheek, still thinking he was embracing Yuki.

Twitchy pushed Crash away, yelling, "Gross!Gross!Gross!" while running away as he wiped his cheek.

Back in Nicktoon HQ, Maxwell was laying on the couch after getting away from his friends, who were looking over the remains of the Morph robot. "Dumb idiots," Maxwell grumbled to himself. "Thinking they can work on a killer robot." but from down on the ground, he was being watched by something of microscopic size.

Maxwell continued to lie on the couch bored until the door opened and the Cadets walk in. "Okay, Crash," Yuki stated in an unamused voice as she held his hand. "We're here at HQ."

"Yes!" Crash cheered. "I can do all the extreme stuff I've done before, but without my eyes!" he ran off in one direction with a crashing sound being heard.

Yuki glared at her friends and ordered, "Get him."

When the other Cadets went to collect their blind reckless teammate, an exasperated Yuki went over to Maxwell and complained, "Oh Max, you won't believe what I've gotten into."

Maxwell sits up and retorts, "You think you've got it bad? Your dumb brother and my equally dumb roommates are harboring a homicidal robot for Commander Neutron.

"Oh! Oh! Are they ripping it apart molecule by molecule?" Yuki asked eagerly. Maxwell glanced at her when she explained, "Sorry, I got some Fenton genes in me."

Twitchy, Kida, and Junior had brought Crash. "So what happened to him?" Maxwell wondered.

"Yuki blinded Crash, so now she has to be her sight-seeing dog!" Twitchy laughed.

Yuki gave them a death glare until Crash exclaims, "Did I hear correctly? That Maxwell said you have a live piece of Morph and are dissectin' it as we speak?"

"Right," Maxwell answered with a frown. "And rather than destroy him, they want to study him. How dumb is that?"

"Well, shee-oot! That's what I wanna see- with my fingers!" He tried to get to the lab, but ended up crashing into the wall. He held his head, feeling dizzy. "Hey, does HQ have a bug infestation?"

"Bugs?" Junior asked in fear.

"Bugs?!" Twitchy asked in excitement.

"Yeah," Crash answered as he put his hand on the wall. "It sounds like somethin's crawlin' around in the walls."

Kida looked confused and said, "I don't hear anything."

Crash then tried looking around. "Hold on a sec...now I think the rascal is squirmin' out of that crack in the wall and is runnin' along the floor."

Yuki looked annoyed and explained, "Crash, your eyes aren't working, but mine are and I'm telling you there's nothing here."

Crash slumped in disappointment. "Aww, you're right. It stopped somewhere over there." he pointed in the direction where Maxwell was standing. All of a sudden, something black seeped through the tiled floor Maxwell was standing on when it pushed Maxwell up into the air. Maxwell screamed while everyone gasped, but Crash looked around, confused. "What's going on? Is there a monster nearby? Can I pummel it too?"

Maxwell fell on the ground and saw the small black ooze launch part of itself towards him. Too scared to move, Maxwell screamed loudly, causing his powers to make the room shake and disintegrate the ooze off on the small robot and it fell on the floor, shaking as if malfunctioning. Soon, Maxwell calmed down and he fell on the floor, tired. The Cadets surround Maxwell in concern, and the event brought the attention to the Nicktoons, who rushed in when they heard the commotion. "What's going on?" Darry asked.

"Don't you know you might wake the Commander?" SpongeTron mentioned in worry.

"Don't worry, he's still asleep." Crash assured. "I hear him snoring, and Goddard must've put some noise cancelling ear plugs in his ears. He's listening to some nice sounds."

"Not sure how you know that, but okay?" Tommy replied. "What happened? Did Max's powers go out of control again?"

Maxwell immediately sat up and retorted, "It wouldn't have if you hadn't lost track of Morph and had him almost destroy me?"

"Well, at least you blew him up." Kida pointed out with a shrug.

"What do you mean Max blew it up?" Tammy asked.

But Crash pointed somewhere on the ground, "I hear something squirming over there."

Everyone looks around, wondering where Crash pointed at and they spot a small insect-like robot, running around the floor in panic now that its shape-shifting body was gone. It runs by its large, but still small robot body as it tries to shape itself into something bigger, but fails. "It's the head nanobot!" SpongeTron pointed out.

"And it got the rest of the nanobots back!" Tammy exclaimed.

"AAH!" Junior shrieked as he jumped on top of Twitchy. "Get it away! Get it away!"

Maxwell seemed equally afraid, but didn't show it and stayed still. Morph turned into a small puddle and slid across the floor. Darry, Tammy, and Tommy all jumped after it, but were not fast enough. SpongeTron attempted to stretch out his arms to get it, but it went under the doorway, escaping from his grasp. "Oh no!" SpongeTron exclaimed, "The head nanobot is loose!"

"We should let Jimmy know." Tammy suggested.

"We can't." Tommy reminded, "He hasn't slept in nearly a week. He won't be able to focus."

"Then we'll go after it ourselves," Darry smiled in confidence, "Who's with me?"

"We are!" Tammy, Tommy, and SpongeTron all shouted excitedly.

"I'm not." Maxwell added with his arms crossed.

"Come on, Max," Tammy encouraged, "I know Morph caused you a lot of trouble, but you can't let Morph scare you into not fighting."

"Yeah," Tommy agreed, "Our enemies try to kill us all the time, but you don't see us hiding."

Maxwell glared and responded, "You have no idea at all what that thing's put me through. So I'm not going and you can take someone else to assist you."

Darry shrugged his shoulders and asked, "But who else can we take?"

"You should take Crash." Yuki suggested, pushing the sponge forward.

Crash grinned in excitement and the thought of literally going on an adventure blindsided and Yuki recommending him. "Really?" he asked.

Yuki whispered to her friends, "That way I don't have to take care of him."

"I don't know, Yuks," Darry said concerned, "With Crash blind, who will watch him?"

"Yeah, what if we run into danger and there's no one to watch his back?" Tammy added.

But Crash seemed almost offended by their concern. "Hello, folks! I'm part squirrel, remember? My keen sense of hearin' has already proven good and I can certainly get around just fine." But he is the only one unaware that he is talking to a lamp.

"Oooh..." Kida said with a mischievous smile, "If only someone who promised to take good care of him was present. Someone who made a promise to his oh-so-caring parents. Someone who, after all, caused his blindness in the first place..."

Oblivious to all the sarcasm, Junior mentioned, "Hey, didn't Yuki promise to watch over Crash while he's blinded-ed?"

"YukicanwatchoverCrashwithyou! Heh heh heh." Twitchy rapidly said with a laugh.

"Guys, no." Yuki whispered with slight panic.

Hearing the idea of being alongside Yuki the whole day, Crash immediately agreed with Twitchy, "Yeah! Yuki can watch over me while I come with you."

SpongeTron smiled, "You know, that doesn't sound like a bad idea. What do you think, Darry?"

Darry smile as well. "I'd say it's gnarly with me." Then he pointed forward, "Now let's go, Nicktoons."

As the Nicktoons marched toward the exit, Yuki glared at a smirking Kida until she noticed Crash marching at the wrong direction and has to lead him to where her brother and friends are. Once the Cadets leave, Maxwell sighs serenely, "Wow, I finally have the whole place to myself. That's never happened before."

Maxwell smiled calmly, not noticing a silver-colored bug spying on him from afar.

Later on, Maxwell was still in HQ by himself as he sat on the couch. "Now this is more like it. I'm on my own, no one to bother me, and I don't have to deal with any dangerous robots." he used his psychic powers to open the fridge and made a soda fly into his hand. But eyeing from the ground was the same small silver robot as it moved closer to the couch. Maxwell turned on the TV and drank a sip of soda as he eyed the cushion next to him and saw the small robot sitting next to him. Even though the robot did nothing, Maxwell spat out his soda and screamed loudly, "AAAAAAHHHHH!"

Meanwhile outside, the Nicktoons were searching Retroville for the escaped nanobot. "So Crash, do you hear anything?" Darry asked.

"Well, I sure hear a lot of hovercars." Crash answered in excitement, "Think I can try car dodgin' real quick? I've never done it without sight."

Tommy dully stated, "Dude, I think you need to see a car unless you wanna jump to your death."

Yuki added with a stern tone, "And remember, Crash, you have to lay off and help us."

"Oh, right." Crash laughed, "So where's that varmint at?"

Darry glanced around, but did not see anything. "Ugh, it's so tiny. It could be anywhere," he said in frustration.

"Not a problem," Tammy assured, "Poof?" Poof waves his rattle and poofs up a magnifying glass in her hand.

As Tammy peeks through the glass to look around, Yuki says, "At least without the rest of its components and shapeshifting powers, it's pretty harmless. I mean, what could it do in that state?"

Maxwell still screamed as he hid behind the couch. His fear began causing his psychic powers to lightly shake the room. But the single nanobot didn't react and just scurried toward the frightened boy.

From inside his bedroom, a sleepy Jimmy woke up when he felt the room shaking. Still tired and groggy, he didn't quite know what was happening. "Hm? What's...going on?"

Maxwell still cried in fear as the nanobot climbed up his arm. "Please don't hurt me." He whimpered.

But to his surprise, the nanobot just sat on his arm, not doing anything. Instead, it stared at Maxwell with its bright blue eye. Suddenly, it purred and nuzzled on Maxwell's face. "Gah! It's trying to eat my brain!"

"Aw...it likes you," Maxwell heard Jimmy say as he entered the room. "I know robot affection when I see it." But Jimmy glanced down at the nanobot and asked, "What is that thing anyway?"

Maxwell quickly ran behind Jimmy and held his legs. "That's the maniacal nanobot that wants to kill you. Well, 1℅ of it anyway."

Jimmy's tired eyes widen in surprise. "That's Morph? Where's the rest of it?"

Maxwell realized his mistake and chuckled, "Uh...funny story actually..."

Jimmy held his forehead and muttered, "I can't leave my lab alone for five minutes."

But then he stared at the nanobot sitting on the floor, jumping up and down. "But why hasn't it tried to attack me? And it was acting rather affectionate with you earlier."

"Who cares why?!" Maxwell shouted, "Let's just squash it before it does try to kill you and me...by grievous harm!"

Jimmy stared to see the nanobot still sitting on the floor until it started scurrying toward Maxwell. The boy screamed and ran away while the bot chased him. "Why is it after me?!" Maxwell yelled.

"Maxwell, stop running!" Jimmy suggested.

"Huh? Why?" Maxwell asked, stopping immediately, only for the nanobot to jump on his head as he screams, "AHHH! Get it off!"

"Maxwell, look! It's not attacking you!"

"But it's a killer robot! Why would it change?" Maxwell asked, running into Jimmy's legs.

Jimmy picked up the nanobot with his fingers. "This is perplexing. A robot designed to kill me can't change its programming without proper input from its original creator." He yawned and spoke in a tired voice, "I gotta go to my lab and check it out."

But Maxwell was still worried about his past dad being killed. He reached his hand out, "But Commander-" And unintentionally used his powers to push Jimmy onto the couch.

"What the..." As he sat on the couch, Jimmy tiredness suddenly took over. "...I never noticed how comfortable this couch was." With a yawn, Jimmy lied down and shut his eyes, letting the nanobot drop from his hand.

"Commander!" Maxwell called out, but Jimmy was fast asleep and Goddard came over to drape a blanket over his master.

Maxwell shook his fist in frustration by this. "Jumpin' Jupiter!" he exclaimed, "He's too sleep deprived to do anything."

The nanobot jumped away and went over to Jimmy's main computer, going inside. "Hey!" Maxwell yelled at the nanobot, "Get out of there!"

Suddenly, the computer turned on and the voice of Vox came on, "Fear not, human. I am simply using this machine to state my true objectives."

Maxwell gulped until he scowled, "I already know what your objective is! Your objective is to kill me and my past dad!"

"You are correct and incorrect," the nanobot spoke through Vox, "However, I should tell you my master's current objective."

Maxwell was perplexed when he asked, "Your master? You mean Eustace...or..." He realized when he remembers Jimmy and SpongeTron's previous lecture, "The original Morph?"

The nanobot spoke through Vox, "I apologize, but if you mean my original malicious programming. It was wiped from my hard drive after you used your powers to separate me from the head nanobot."

"What? You mean you're not programmed to kill my dad anymore?"

"If I was, not anymore. After you changed me, I was confused about what my new objective was. But then I saw you, the boy who tore me apart, and I wanted to get close to you, but instead you just ran."

Maxwell looked a little sheepish, "Well, can you blame a guy when you tried to wipe me from existence by killing my past dad?"

"If you'll give me a chance, I can show you I am not the robot I once was." The nanobot exited from inside the computer and scurried across the floor to Maxwell. Though hesitant, the boy held out his shaky finger to the nanobot, allowing it to crawl on his finger.

Maxwell carefully raised the nanobot close to his face when the nanobot once again nuzzles on him. He chuckles lightly, "Guess you're not so bad." But he realized, "Wait, so what is your master's current objective?"

Back in Downtown Retroville, the Nicktoons kept searching for the head nanobot. Tammy looks through her glass when, "Aha!"

"You found the nanobot?" Tommy asked.

"Nope, but look," Tammy hands Tommy the magnifying glass and he glances through to see tiny black drops of goo, likely from Morph.

"A trail," Tommy said and discovers the drops of goo leading, "To the Museum of Past Treasures."

"Now why in tarnation would it be there?" Crash wondered aloud.

SpongeTron gasps when he realizes what this could mean, "Oh no, some of Jimmy's greatest inventions are displayed there."

"That fiend!" Darry exclaimed, "Knowing its ability to change into anything, it probably wants something powerful to turn into."

"Let's go in and find it." Tammy suggested, "It shouldn't be too hard since Crash can hear it."

Crash became excited as he asked, "Ooh, Ooh, can I bust in on a hovercycle while I search?"

"Sorry Crash," Yuki stated, "But you need to stay right by my side where I can keep an eye on you."

Crash looked surprised, but then got a dreamy smile. "Okay." He answered in a soft voice.

Inside the museum, among the rest of the guests was Maxwell looking at an invention on display. He was holding up his finger that had the nanobot sitting on it.

"This place is a lot more different than the last time I saw it." Maxwell explained, "I guess this is before it got remodeled."

The nanobot buzzed and jumped up and down. Maxwell laughed and stated, "You are kinda funny." Then it jumped away and went off ahead at fast speed. "Hey, wait!" Maxwell called out, "Stop! Oh, I knew that thing couldn't be trusted."

But when Maxwell followed the nanobot around the corner, he saw it insert itself inside a soda machine and made it shake until it spat out a can of purple flurp into Maxwell's hands. The nanobot bot exits from the machine and hops onto Maxwell's shoulder. Maxwell couldn't help but giggle. "Maybe you're not so bad after all."

The nanobot formed a smile on its face (after it formed a face) when it widened its eye and buzzed at Maxwell. "What?" Maxwell asked, surprised, and asked, "Where?"

Meanwhile, Tammy has led her three friends to the basement where the black trail seems to lead them. As they walk down the stairs, Darry asked, "Why would it come down here when there are better gadgets up there?"

"I don't know," Tammy answered and stopped with Tommy, Darry, and SpongeTron crashing into her. She raised her magnifying glass as the trail stopped. "Oh boy," she said dejectedly, putting her glass down, "At least we know it should be here somewhere."

The four split to cover more ground in order to find Morph. SpongeTron scans the area when he finds a familiar face, "Ah, SpongeBot-001, how have you been?" Of course, the robot didn't respond due to its deactivation.

"This is so weird." Tommy stated, scratching his head, "First Morph escapes without landing a single scratch on Neutron, and it comes here instead of adapting to the high-tech gear upstairs," he leans against a bookshelf, "What could it be up to?" Tommy leans on a book that presses in and suddenly, the bookshelf slides open, making the 11-year-old jump.

Darry, Tammy, and SpongeTron joined him as they see what was behind the bookshelf. It was a freezing chamber similar to the one in HQ. The Nicktoons walk inside, not noticing the head nanobot peeking from behind.

Once inside, Darry shivered. "It's really cold." There was fog inside the chamber, so Tammy wiped the glass to see what's inside. The four gasped to see what it was.

"Morph?" Tommy asked in shock, seeing another black robot made up of nanobots, only smaller, about the same size as the previous one they encountered, "But how?"

"Maybe someone else got to him first?" Darry guessed.

"I don't think so," SpongeTron assumed, "Remember what the Commander said? He split Morph up and had pieces of him sent to secret locations to prevent him from recovering his whole body. This must be one of them."

"But why keep it down here." Tammy asked, suddenly getting annoyed with her arms akimbo, "And why didn't he tell me- I mean, us?"

Upstairs, Crash was walking around slowly with his arms held out in order to prevent himself from bumping into anything. But then, his ears catch whiff of a SpongeTron-Unit demonstrating Jimmy's first rocket model. He hears the robot turn the key to start the engine and Crash gets excited.

"Is that a rocket?" Crash asked with an excited grin. "When will I get another chance to drive a rocket blindfolded?"

Crash followed the voices of the demonstrator and was about to push his way through the crowd until Yuki tugged on his suit collar. "Crash, where do you think you're going?"

The sponge stammered as he answered, "I-I-I was just…gonna go on a little ride?"

"No way," Yuki responded in a stern voice. "Last time you tried to drive a rocket, you ended up with your whole body bandaged. Imagine what would happen if you tried it with just your eyes bandaged." She then grabbed Crash's hand and started dragging him away. "Besides, we're on a mission. Let's catch up to the others."

As he was led away by his guide, Crash's lips began to quiver in sadness over a lost opportunity for a stunt.

Yuki led Crash downstairs to the basement just as the head nanobot scurried around the room. Crash looked around curiously, despite not being able to see. "Do y'all hear that?" Crash asked, walking into a stack of boxes. "I think there are bugs in here."

Before the boxes can topple over onto Crash, Yuki quickly pulled him out of the way. "Crash, this is a basement. Of course there's bound to be some roaches and spiders down here."

Crash chuckled as he stood next to Yuki. "Whatever ya say, Yuki."

Without anyone noticing, the head nanobot jumped from out of its body and went toward the control panel of the chamber. They suddenly see the control panel sparking as the freezing chamber began to malfunction.

"What's happening?" Tommy asked in alarm.

"The freezing chamber is breaking!" Tammy exclaimed. "Morph could escape any second!"

An emergency alarm began to ring from inside the chamber and Crash got in front of Yuki, "Don't ya worry, folks. I'll take care of this." And he ran off in a random direction. He jumped on top of a discarded mannequin and started beating it up. "Ya like that? I don't need eyes to pound ya!"

The nanobots jumped into the rest of the melting nanobots and it suddenly began to take the form of Morph, only now it slumped over and struggled to stay standing.

SpongeTron held the sides of his face, shocked to see the assassin robot from the future back to life.

Suddenly, Maxwell came from upstairs, looking around on the ground for the nanobot he befriended. "Nanobot?" He called out. "Where are you?" He then gasps in shock to see Morph taken form. "It can't be." He cried out.

"Nicktoons Go!" Darry yelled.

Tammy swung her jump rope around Morph's arm, but the robot changes its arm into a scythe that cuts the rope off. Morph then swings its other arm and knocks Tommy away before he could fire at the robot. While Crash was getting up from the mess he made, Morph flung itself through the air in Crash's direction. Yuki spotted this and yelled, "Crash, look out!" and jumped on top of the sponge as Morph flew over the two.

Maxwell stared in shock and horror at the nice nanobot once again in the form of the dangerous robot. Darry tried punching the robot, careful not to let it copy his ghost powers, but Morph swallowed his fist into its body and the pounded the ghost boy against the wall. Seeing the former friendly nanobot turned into the large robot that he feared, Maxwell's eyes water as he yelled, "I knew it! I knew you were still evil! You wanted to kill my dad and now you wanna kill my friends!"

The single eye on Morph's body stares at Maxwell and the robot begins to approach him. But SpongeTron jumps in between them to protect Maxwell. Morph changes its hand into a plug and injects it into SpongeTron's body, making him scream and feel jumbled up.

Maxwell screamed and closed his eyes, unleashing a blast of psychic energy to blow Morph away from him. Once it hit the wall, Morph stood up and turned into a puddle, escaping through the air vents.

"Max! What are you doing here?" Tammy asked.

"What am I doing here?" Maxwell asked, "I was tricked into befriending a reformed robot who originally tried to kill everyone I know and love, and betrayed me just to kill everyone I know and love."

"Well, that's a shock," Darry responded, raising an eyebrow.

"I know, right!" Maxwell exclaimed.

"Yeah, that you can actually LOVE someone," Darry smirked.

Maxwell gave him a dull look, "Funny. And to think I found that silver blue-eyed nanobot cute..." Just then, the Nicktoons notice a glimpse of a silver behind Maxwell's head.

"Uh...you don't mean that thing, do you?" Tommy pointed.

Maxwell widened his eyes and turns when the small nanobot pounces on him and licks him affectionately. "Gah! Stop it! Don't deceive me with your so-called affections!"

"Maxwell, did that thing used to be Morph?" Tammy asked.

"Yeah," Maxwell answered, holding back the nanobot, "It told me to head to the museum's basement because its master was after something."

"If by 'master', you mean 'Morph', then you're right," Tammy explained, "The Morph we encountered was a piece of him until the head nanobot we tracked merged with it and escaped."

Crash approached by following their voices and hollered, "Guys, I don't wanna alarm you, but there's one of them nanobots in here!" He pointed at Maxwell's direction, "Right there!" He pounded his fist in his hand, "Don't worry, I can squash him with my eyes closed."

Yuki held him back. "No, Crash, without your eyesight, you'll end up hurting everyone." She instructed.

Even after Yuki's warning, rather than be excited, Crash sighed in disappointment. "Everyone but me." He groaned sadly.

"B-But wait a minute." SpongeTron asked, his voice now stammering and his balance a bit off, "Why is a Morph nanobot with you?" SpongeTron asked before he felt his body short-circuit and he stumbled back.

This concerned his teammates. "SpongeTron, what's wrong with you?" Darry asked.

"I don't know." SpongeTron answered, holding his head. "Morph inserted some of his data into me and it kinda feels like a- Kill! Kill! Kill Neu- Nick- all!" SpongeTron suddenly yelled as he fell over.

"A virus!" Maxwell finished, recalling what he saw happened. "Morph somehow passed a virus into your systems."

"But how?" SpongeTron asked, still jerking around and yelling, "Kill-kill! I have a virus protection software that no one can bypass, except Jimmy- who I shall kill!" He yelled before pounding the side of his head to get himself to stop.

The Nicktoons began to worry about their robot friend. "What do we do?" Darry asked. "I didn't even know Morph had a virus, and how do we get it out of SpongeTron?"

Without a word, the nanobot jumped from Maxwell and went onto SpongeTron. "H-H-Hey! Get it off of me!" He yelled as the nanobot inserts itself into his body.

Before anybody could try to help, SpongeTron gained a blank expression and stated, "Fear not, Nicktoons. I am merely controlling this droid from within so I can communicate with you." Everyone stared in surprise, but Maxwell recalled the nanobot's ability to control machinery.

Tommy yelled at the nanobot, "What are you doing in our friend's body?"

"You already turned him evil with that virus!" Tammy yelled as well.

SpongeTron spoke in a monotonous voice, "I do not wish to harm you, humans. And the virus was not my doing. It was sent to my body by an unknown source in order reawaken my original programming, but contained catastrophic results."

"Who would create a virus and send it to Morph?" Tommy wondered. "He's a robot from the future."

Tammy the added, "Better yet, how could they create a virus that could bypass the security of HQ?"

"That is a little weird." Yuki added, looking thoughtful.

Maxwell stepped forward and asked the nanobot, "You must know how to stop the virus and cure SpongeTron of it."

"Unfortunately, I cannot cure the virus, but I can transfer it from this robot to myself. I will return to my original programming, but once I am part of my body, you can destroy us both." Maxwell gasped silently, shocked to hear that the friendly robot was willing to sacrifice itself for them to beat Morph.

"No way!" Darry suddenly exclaimed, "I don't know what's going on, but if you're really on our side, we need your help to find Morph and see what he's up too"

"So...what is Morph up to?" Tommy asked.

"As you know," the nanobot spoke through SpongeTron, "The Morph you faced earlier wasn't as strong as before. He is seeking the remaining parts of his body in order to accomplish his goal."

"So we have to find those pieces of Morph before he does," Tammy understood.

"We're on it," Maxwell responded until he asked the robot, "But with you helping us, what are we gonna do with SpongeTron?" The three Nicktoons glance at each other, wondering what to do.

At HQ, the nanobot is back on Maxwell's shoulder while SpongeTron is in a straitjacket strapped onto a table, and wearing a Lecter-like mask. "Don't you think this is too much?" Tammy asked Jimmy.

"Do you want SpongeTron to kill his co-creator with that virus inside him?" Darry retorted. "Besides, we need SpongeTron so we can use him to track the virus and see where it originated from."

"In the meantime, why don't you tell us where the other pieces of Morph are?" Maxwell questioned.

"Well..." Jimmy responded while yawning, "One was in HQ; the other was in the museum, so there are two locations left."

"Okay, so Morph has two parts of him to find," Darry realized, rubbing his chin.

Jimmy yawned heavily and answered, "Fear not. One of the locations is Axion Labs, where Danny and Valerie have it secured. The other...is..." Before he could answer, Jimmy leaned on a computer and drifted off to sleep again. Goddard came over and once again draped a blanket over his sleeping master.

Yuki and Tommy slap their foreheads since Jimmy was still too tired to give them any help. The nanobot buzzed and Maxwell gets the idea to stare at Jimmy and read his mind. Maxwell announces, "The last pieces are in Mrs. SquarePants's home."

Tammy shrugs with a knowing smile, "It makes sense that Jimmy would hide the pieces in places of science."

"Okay, we know where both parts are, now we just have to find them before Morph does." Darry instructed.

"You're darn tootin'!" Crash agreed. "I'll get those bugs and I'll board down the incline blindfolded to celebrate."

Yuki crossed her arms and responded, "No way! Remember you're supposed to sit still."

Crash growled in frustration and snapped, "I'm tired of sittin' still!" He pointed to the left, missing Yuki. "I thought hangin' out with you would be neat, but I haven't done anything fun all day, longer than the time I was in that coma! Where's the fun in that?"

"But Crash, I was left responsible for you, remember?" Yuki reminded. "Don't forget, it's my fault you're like this."

"Then I'll do what I should've done before. Yuki..." He bit his lower lip as he struggled to say, "You're fired!" He yelled, unknowingly pointing at Tammy.

Yuki eyes widen, feeling offended. "You're kidding, right?" she asked in annoyance.

"Nuh uh," Crash retorted, crossing his arms. "I may be blind, but I don't wanna be restrained from Nicktoon danger or stunt danger."

Darry approached them and awkwardly tried to intervene, "Uh, guys? We kinda have a situation going on, so can you settle this another time?"

"NO!" Crash and Yuki both yelled at Darry.

Crash continued yelling at Yuki, "I don't need you to take care of me anymore. I can do whatever I want without my eyes!" He began walking toward the door, but ended up bumping into the wall. He tried the other direction, but bumped into the wall again. Crash tried feeling around for who was near and whispered to Tommy, "Pss, can you make a portal for me to get home?"

Tommy rolled his eyes and obliged to his request. Yuki turned to the rest of the Nicktoons and stated, "Well, don't we have a robot assassin to retrieve?"

The nanobot buzzed on top of Maxwell's shoulder and the boy dully responds, "At least you don't know what they're thinking."

The hunt is on! But will Maxwell fully accept a single good nanobot that came from an enemy in his own time? Please review and stay tuned for Part 2.