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Chapter 15: Give In For You
In the main room where Platform was being held, Max's body was still chained up and was lying on top of the metal table, breathing heavily in exhaustion from everything he was going through as robots torture him to get him to divulge the code to unlock Platform.
"Feel like confessing now?" SpongeCog asked fiercely.
Max continued panting until he glared and spoke in an equally fierce voice, "…No."
SpongeCog growled as he signaled to SpongeCog 13, and the large robot pushed a button that caused the chains around Max to start shocking him as he screamed in pain.
"How about now?" SpongeCog asked with an evil smirk. "Wanna talk this time?"
As Max screamed in pain at the electricity over his body, he blurted out, "N-N-Ne…NEVER!"
SpongeCog signaled to 13 again, and the large robot pushed the button again which stopped the shocks. Max looked close to crying, but the stubborn boy did his best to hold in his tears.
"What's taking so long?" DarkEvil shouted in anger from on top of Platform. "I need that code now!"
"We're trying, Master." SpongeCog explained. "But this squishy refuses to tell us no matter what we do to him; electrical sensory, smelling the starfish's socks, force-feeding Plankton's chum, beating him up; nothing works."
SpongeCog 13 once again tried the latter by picking Max up in his fist and banging him on the table repeatedly as he dimly said, "Code, code, code."
As 13 dropped him on the table, SpongeCog 10 reached up and started growled at him as he drew his teeth near Max. But SpongeCog 8 pulled him down by his extension cord tail as he spoke, "We will not need that. Perhaps we should try a different method that is more…persuasive."
The samurai robot poked one of his swords out from his robe as Max stared in horror. "I'm certain that if he lost one of his limbs, he'll agree to cooperate." 8 spoke coldly as he aimed the sword at Max. "If not…we'll just keep cutting until there's nothing left."
Max closed his eyes in fear as SpongeCog 8 prepared to swing his katana. He wished his powers would activate to protect himself, but no matter how much he tried, he couldn't summon them, which annoyed him since all the other times he hadn't tried, they would activate much to his displeasure.
But then, a blue ecto-beam suddenly fired and knocked SpongeCog 8's sword away from the boy. The robots all turned to where the attack came from, and they see Darry Phantom standing at the doorway with his right fist glowing blue.
"Don't…touch him." He said in a furious tone.
DarkEvil LaserPants looked down below to see the Nicktoons walk inside the room with their weapons in hand. "You've escaped imprisonment, big surprise." He said sarcastically, but then he noticed Danny, SpongeBob, and Tak with them. "And you've got the rest of your little team with you."
"We're not so little anymore, LaserPants." Tak said with a glare.
"And we're not gonna let you pick on little kids anymore." Timmy added in the same manner.
Danny began saying, "So either you come quietly…"
"Or we beat the pants off of you like last time." SpongeBob finished as he made a karate pose.
"Nice threats, Nicktoons." DarkEvil said with ice in his voice. "But I'm not done getting the code yet, and I'm determined even more to get it out of that pointy-haired brat."
Max once again tried to struggle out of his binds, but still had no luck whatsoever. "But with you older brats in my way, this will be much difficult." DarkEvil snapped his fingers. "Get rid of them."
At this, the four SpongeCog robots charged at the Nicktoons while the group readied themselves for battle. "Nicktoons Unite!" Jimmy shouted as the group splits up to take on the robots.
SpongeCog 13 roared as he charged straight at Danny, his feet cracking the ground with each stomp. Danny just narrowed his eyes as he stood there. "I've been waiting for this rematch." He said to himself.
When SpongeCog 13 approached him, he took a large swing at Danny, but the young half-ghost man suddenly vanished into black mist, confusing the dim robot as he blinked and stared. But Danny suddenly reappeared with the same black mist and gave a hard kick to SpongeCog 13. The muscular robot growled in anger and tried to grab Danny again, but he disappeared into black mist again and reappeared, pounded his fist on top of 13.
Timmy witnessed the whole thing and looked amazed. "Nice moves, Phantom!"
"What?" Danny asked with a smile as he floated in the air. "You thought I wouldn't have learned any new tricks these past couple years?" he quickly turned around and fired a ghost ray at SpongeCog 13.
SpongeCog 8 swung one of his swords at Tammy, who quickly swung her jump rope around the blade to stop it. Tommy fired magical rays out of his laser while the robot deflected every shot with two of his swords. When the fourth sword swung at him, Jimmy quickly moved in front of Tommy and grabbed the blade with his two gloved palms, trying as hard as he could to hold it.
SpongeCog laughed maniacally as he jumped up and swung his claw at SpongeTron. The good robot quickly moved to the side, having SpongeCog's claw scratch the metal floor. SpongeTron quickly pulled a beamsword from his arm.
"You and those fleshbags won't stop my master's plans." SpongeCog said with a smirk as he turned to SpongeBorg, who was just standing there, watching everything. "And since you all just so insist on meddling in with us getting that code," He raised a claw as he approached SpongeBorg. "We'll have to slice you open and spill all your innards to teach you what happens when you mess with us."
SpongeBorg screeched with his arms up and ran away while SpongeTron swung his beamsword at SpongeCog to block his path.
"I won't let you do that- for two reasons!" SpongeTron shouted. "One: because I'd never let you hurt my friends! And two: because that's really gross…"
"That's because humans are really gross." But then there was a tap on his shoulder, and he turned to see SpongeBob, holding up his large karate gloved-fist.
"Not all of us are human!" SpongeBob shouted as he punched the evil robot in the face, knocking him far away. SpongeTron smiled in admiration and giggled.
Max was watching the whole fight on the table he was sitting on until a black-gloved hand grabbed the chains around him and yanked him off the table. SpongeBorg witnessed this and ran away, beeping in panic.
Timmy held up his green hammer to block SpongeCog 10, who was savagely chewing on the handle with his sharp teeth in order to get at Timmy. Cosmo laughed, "That tickles!"
Timmy began to struggle to keep the vicious SpongeCog away, but then Dani flew over and grabbed SpongeCog 10 by his tail and used it to flip him over onto his back. "Bad robot!" she shouted.
"Sit!" Tak ordered with a smirk as he fired a beam from his staff that hit 10 and flopped him on his back.
Danny's hand began to glow green as he used his ghost manipulation to easily lift SpongeCog 13 into the air. As he held him up, Darry suddenly flew forward and gave the large robot a hard kick toward the ground. Then Danny's hands glow blue and he uses his ice powers to freeze SpongeCog 13 in a large block of ice. Darry lands next to his past dad and the two high-five.
SpongeBorg reached Jimmy, while the genius deflected another of SpongeCog 8's swings, and started beeping franticly to get his attention. Jimmy finally turned around and noticed him. "What is it, SpongeBorg?"
The little robot pointed upward, and Jimmy followed his gaze to see DarkEvil climbing back up the ladder to the top of Platform with Max in tow. Jimmy shouted in shock, "Max!"
"Don't even move." DarkEvil threatened as he placed Max on the side next to the ladder and aimed his beamsword near Max's throat.
The rest of the Nicktoons noticed this and immediately stopped attacking their enemies which allowed the evil robots to gain the upper-hand. SpongeCog 8 aimed each of his swords at Tammy, Tommy, Danny, and Tak. SpongeCog 10 circled Timmy and Dani as he growled like a vicious predator. And the SpongeCog leader giddily held SpongeTron on the ground as he kept one foot on his back and grasped onto his head. SpongeBob attempted to help, but SpongeCog extended his arm and pushed the sponge to the ground.
Darry was about to fly up to him, but Jimmy held him back for everyone's safety. DarkEvil kept the beamsword held at Max's throat while the boy held his eyes tightly shut and tried his best to look fearless.
"Now, how about telling me that code?" DarkEvil asked Max.
"You're crazy!" Darry hollered at him.
"I'm not crazy." DarkEvil simply responded. "All I want is that code."
"I don't care what you do to me!" Max shouted in response, "I'll never tell you the code!"
DarkEvil moved his beamsword away and said, "Is that so? Well, I think I know who will convince you otherwise." He snapped his fingers, "13!"
Suddenly, the ice around the frozen robot began to crack, and SpongeCog 13 growled as he broke apart the ice and stomped over to Jimmy, shoving Darry aside, and grabbing Jimmy's neck into his fist.
"NO!" Darry shouted on the ground.
"JIMMY!" the rest of the Nicktoons cried while Max's eyes widen in shock.
They all watch in horror as SpongeCog 13's large fist tightens around Jimmy's neck while the genius gagged and tried to break lose. However, 13 used his other hands to restrain his arms together to keep him from breaking free with his Mech-Suit. The others wanted to break away from their SpongeCog captors to help their friend and leader, but DarkEvil made sure of their hesitation by keeping his beamsword aimed at Max, threatening his life as well if they intervened.
"Well, kid, what's it gonna be?" DarkEvil coldly asked. "The code or your father?"
Max stared in horror as SpongeCog 13's grip slowly tightened around his past father's neck, giving him only less than a minute to live.
"This isn't gonna work, DarkEvil!" Tak shouted to the evil sponge. "If you kill Jimmy, Max will be gone as well! Which means you won't get the code either way!"
"You think I don't know that?" DarkEvil simply replied. "This is all up to the Target here. Will he be able to cope with the fact that he is responsible for his father's death and his own demise because he refused to tell me some little 'ol code?"
As Max stared down at his past dad's jugular being crushed, his eyes begin to water and he whispered, "Jimmy…"
Jimmy opened one eye and glanced up at Max. "…Max…" he struggled to say, "…don't…"
Max shut his eyes tightly, letting his tears run down his face before screaming, "STOP!"
At this, SpongeCog 13 stopped squeezing Jimmy's neck and everyone glanced up at him as Max finally said, "I'll do it."
"Excellent." DarkEvil said in satisfaction as he moved away from Max and pushed a button on Platform's keyboard with made an image appear on one of the screens, asking for the passcode.
SpongeBob glanced up at 13 still holding a tight grip on Jimmy's neck. Then the sponge quickly sat up out of SpongeCog's grasp, and shouted, "Stop it!"
13 heard this and loosened his grip on Jimmy, allowing the genius to breathe again. SpongeCog growled angrily at this, but SpongeTron managed to push his evil counterpart off of him and rush to his creator's aid, helping him up. SpongeBorg stared up at Max in worry, too scared to even help the others.
"The code is…" Max reluctantly began, "4 18 3 14 79."
As DarkEvil typed this onto Platform's keyboard, Jimmy closed his eyes in discontent, but opened them once again to surprisingly hear Max continue, "10 26 0 5 7 24…"
Tommy's eyes widened as he watched the whole thing and listened to Max, "43 68 23 11 34 68 22 24…"
"Whoa," Timmy said in awe as he listened.
"546 6 21 5 1 99 7 18…" Max recited as DarkEvil continued to type everything he said on the keyboard.
"Holy…" Darry also said awestruck.
"10 23 0 7 7 14 86 320 58 1 4 3 7 7…"
"Uh…" SpongeBob stammered, dumbfounded.
"0 70,1000,43 4 28 79 3 4,1600,25 23 5 9 12 11 13 1 8 14 0 0 33 9 58 252 1 1106 3 8 15 49 7 4 11…"
"Pss," Tak whispered to Danny. "Is THAT supposed to be a secret code?"
As Max continued to recite numbers, Danny shrugged while Tammy responded, "How is Max able to remember something like that?"
They suddenly hear SpongeBorg beeping a possible explanation, but were not able to understand anything. Luckily, SpongeTron was available to translate for them, "SpongeBorg says that Max's dad was the one who came up with that code to keep Platform from being operational."
"Of course." Dani said brightly. "It's the ideal code. No one, except someone with a genius IQ could remember a code that long, and to use it to lock up a machine that powerful, that's the perfect way to do it."
Darry began to understand as well, and said, "And Max is that 'someone' other than the inventor. That's why his dad trusted him with the code, because Max is able to remember it." He looked over at SpongeTron, "Right?"
"That's basically it." SpongeTron replied.
"But why use just a bunch of random numbers?" Tammy asked. "He can't possibly remember all that even if he is a genius?"
SpongeBorg beeped again which SpongeTron translated, "That's because they're not just a bunch of random numbers. They all relate to something: The day Jimmy moved to Retroville, Albert Einstein's birthday, the day he met Timmy, Danny, and SpongeBob, and there's the day Tak was recruited, his parents' names written in Morse code, the number of inventions he made in eight months, Max's birthday, the day SpongeBob-"
"Okay," Danny interrupted. "We get the idea."
Whether they knew or not, Jimmy was listening to them talk behind them, and was just as impressed as they were at the security code his future self came up with for his invention. He continued to listen to his future son still reciting the code while DarkEvil typed in every number he listed.
"8 9 55 37 14 300 6 9 11 0 6 90 6 3 92…" Max took a pause and finished, "3.14."
DarkEvil chuckled and pushed the 'enter' key. After which, the word appeared on screen, 'Password Accepted'. "Yes!" DarkEvil shouted in triumph as the machine began to whir and the computer screens light up. "YES!"
"No," Max quietly said until he shouted, "NO!"
Danny witnessed this and glared at his captor before secretly making his fists glow green. Suddenly, SpongeCog 8's body began to glow green, much to his surprise. Danny moved his fingers in a certain motion, and this caused 8's swords to move away from him and his friends. Then the half-ghost swung his arms back which shoved 8 backwards into the wall.
"Let's go!" Danny shouted as he, Tammy, Tommy, and Tak rush forward.
Tak fired a beam out of his staff and hit SpongeCog 10, shrinking him down to the size of a bug. SpongeBob picked him up and smiled. "Aww," he said in a lighthearted voice. "He's so cute." But then he screamed in pain when the small robot bit his finger. "OW!"
Timmy looked at the last remaining robot and shouted, "I wish SpongeCog 13 malfunctioned."
A 'poof' was heard and 13's arms began to vibrate and smoke, much to his confusion. This allowed Jimmy to pull his arms free from the robot's grasp and activate the strength in his suit's boots to kick the giant robot away from him. But Jimmy immediately afterward doubled over and grasped his neck which still ached from being held for so long.
"Jimmy!" Dani cried as she rushed over to him and knelt by his side.
DarkEvil watched the whole thing below. "Some people just never learn." Then he suddenly pushes Max off the edge of Platform. The boy screamed as he fell from the top of the high machine, and Tammy and SpongeBorg gasp.
"Max!" Darry yelled before he quickly flew up and caught Max in midair.
"Scottie?" Max asked with strain in his voice as Darry phased the chains off of his body and placed him on the ground as SpongeBorg hugged him.
"Master!" SpongeCog shouted after he got up. "What should we do with these squishies?"
"Forget them!" DarkEvil answered. "They already know they have lost."
"Big whoop!" Darry scoffed. "So you activated Platform. It won't be enough to stop us."
But DarkEvil began to type on Platform's keyboard. "Well, why don't we see what this thing can do?"
The tip of the machine lit up, and a large ball of energy charged up on the satellite dish and a beam shot at the ground surrounding Platform.
"Look out!" Timmy shouted as he and the others quickly backed away as a river of lava suddenly appeared around Platform acting as a protective moat to block the Nicktoons away from the machine.
"Oh shank." Tak cursed in disappointment. "This is so unfair."
"How interesting." DarkEvil said as he looked at the screens. "This is only what minimal power this thing can do."
As the events went on, Max watched in horror as he quietly backed away from the Nicktoons and ran off without anyone noticing.
"You forgot one thing, LaserPants." Danny said in a confident tone as he took to the air and flew straight at DarkEvil. "It's time we knocked you off your high-seahorse!"
"Oh yeah?" DarkEvil said calmly as he typed on the keyboard. "What if your powers were the one that knocked you off?"
The same thing occurred as the tip of the machine lit up, and a beam of energy shot at Danny and electricity course over his body and he screamed in pain as he fell to the ground.
"Dad!" Darry cried as he rushed over.
"Danny!" Danielle, Timmy, and Tak yelled as they rush over also.
Danny quickly changed into human form and the effects disappeared. "Don't worry." Danny assured as he panted. "…I'm fine."
Darry looked up at DarkEvil and growled furiously. He was about to fly up as well until Dani grabbed his arm to stop him. "No!" she shouted. "Do you want the same thing to happen to you as well?"
Jimmy stared at this from afar and watched with a look of stun. "This can't be." Then he turned around to see SpongeBorg standing by himself with a look of fright. "Max?" he asked, noticing his future son was nowhere in sight.
SpongeBob looked over at Danny in concern and glanced back at DarkEvil with rage in his expressing. The sponge suddenly charged toward Platform and jumped high through the air, leaping over the lava and making it to the island Platform was sitting on. He began to rapidly climb up the ladder, desperately trying to reach his foe for vengeance.
"You invade my town, kidnap me, terrorize a poor little kid, and attack my friends!" SpongeBob spoke angrily as he climbed up the ladder, and soon reached the top to confront DarkEvil. "What do you have to say to that before I kick your butt?"
DarkEvil just calmly looked over at him and responded, "I say…I'm about to do what I've always wanted to do."
He pushed the enter key on Platform and beam of energy shot out and directly hit SpongeBob, knocking him off of Platform on back down below toward the others as he screamed and slid on the ground.
"SB!" Tak cried out, seeing this.
"Creator!" SpongeTron hollered in distress as he rushed over.
However, SpongeBob managed to sit up and hold his head as he groaned from the impact. But then, he looked at his hand and noticed it was suddenly turning transparent. "Wha…" he muttered in surprise to see the rest of his body doing the same thing.
"Creator?" SpongeTron asked in surprise. "What's happening to you?"
"I don't know." SpongeBob replied as his body suddenly began turning digitally holographic as the others stare in surprise.
DarkEvil looked down to them and spoke, "You plummeted down before I could finish, SquarePants. Thanks to Platform, I did what I always wanted to do: erase you from existence."
Suddenly, SpongeBob become computerized pixels and began to fade away into oblivion. "Guys!" he voice echoed as he faded away.
"Creator, NO!" SpongeTron cried as he jumped on top of SpongeBob, only for his creator to vanish at the last second.
SpongeTron sobbed loudly as his friends looked equally sad. "SpongeBob…" Danny whispered before turning back into ghost form and glaring at DarkEvil. He was prepared to fly up and beat him senseless, but then fell to his knees and bowed his head in sorrow.
Jimmy continued to watch from afar as he fell to his knees from the loss of his friend and teammate.
Timmy turned toward DarkEvil with a furious look. "You idiot!" he shouted. "You realize that with SpongeBob gone, you're gonna be erased as well!"
"Didn't you even read the manual?" DarkEvil asked cynically before taping the bottom of the shell overhead. "As long as I'm in the control seat, I'm protected from any effects Platform would have on this world. And speaking of worlds…" he began to type on the keyboard. "I think it's time I made a few little changes to this one."
Tammy gasped as he backed away. "What'll we do?"
Jimmy soon shook his head backed to reality and got on his feet, determined to do something to help their situation. "Get together everyone!"
Timmy, Danny, Tak, Darry, Tammy, Tommy, SpongeTron, and SpongeBorg quickly obeyed and huddled in a circle. Jimmy got in front of everyone and put his hands together. "Let's just hope that my future self really did input the same technology from my suit onto Platform." He said as he generated energy into his palms.
From atop of Platform, after inputting the data, DarkEvil pushed the 'enter' key and a large beam of light charged on the tip of the ray and shot out a large beam of light that seemed to engulf the entire area. The Nicktoon all closed their eyes and huddled even closer as the light approached them. But Jimmy suddenly created a blue shield from the gloves of his suit that went over him and all his friends just as the light engulfed all of them, leaving nothing but a blinding light all around them as the machine began to change Bikini Bottom to something far worse that couldn't possibly be imagined…
It's the end of the world as we know it. But that's not the end…it gets worse. Please review what you thought and the next chapter will be up soon.