Small Steps

Parody of the Spongebob episode: Walking Small

For Plankton centered episodes, I'll be using an OC, Lena Shroud. The character was thought of by DarthFlores who used her for his fanfics. So with that info out of the way, enjoy.

It's a nice sunny day. At the beach, people are relaxing and having fun. Just then, a small bulldozer arrives at the beach. It gets rid of the beach sign. A four year old genius comes out. This little genius is Lena Shroud, the arch rival of Lisa Loud. She laughs evilly and pulls out a megaphone to speak into.

"Attention beachgoers, you are trespassing! You have exactly seventeen minutes to haul your carcasses of the future site of the Natural Shroud Science Museum!" She pulls out a sign with name of the place.

Everyone looks at her for a moment but then resume to what they were doing.

"Fine! Have it your way! I don't mind bulldozing over each and every one-"

A kid walks over and picks up Lisa's toddler sized bulldozer. "Mom look, somebody left this toy tractor here."

"Put that down Billy. That has germs on it." His mother said.

The boy drops the bulldozer in front of Lena and leaves with his mom.

"Aw mom."

Lena glared. "You'll see. You'll all see!" She threw the megaphone away. "With this museum, I could be more successful than my arch rival Lisa. The future sight of science museum must be clear to these cretinous beachgoers."

She looked around and noticed that everyone was mostly taller than her. "But it's becoming increasingly obvious. I can deny it no longer...I am short. I need someone taller to cover the beach for me. I need-"

Just then, Clyde walked by in his swim trunks listening to music on his phone.

"That guy."

Clyde sang. "Ooh girl. If I could Ooh girl. Give you the world girl."

"Yes, I believe that's the friend of Lisa's white haired brother." Lena said to herself. "He'll do nicely."

Clyde walks up to the ice cream vendor. "One-"

A guy cut in front of him. "Two please." He gets two cones. "Thanks."

"One please." Clyde said. A tall guy jumped in front of Clyde.

"Excuse me." He took the ice cream.

"One please." Clyde said.

"Sorry kid, we're all out." The vendor guy said.

"Dang it."

Then Clyde hears someone sobbing. It was Lena sitting on a bench holding two ice creams. She was pretending to be sad to lure Clyde over. Clyde walked over and sat down.

"Hey there, what's the matter kid?"

"Oh hi. I'm crying because I've got these two ice cream cones but I only need one. I don't know what to do with the other one."

"Hey, no need to be sad." Clyde said. "I'll eat one of those ice creams for you."

"Would you do that for me?" Lena asked.

"Sure." He takes a cone.

Lena stops being sad. "I'm Lena by the way."

"I'm Clyde. Nice to meet you."

They shake hands. Clyde enjoys his ice cream.

"Hey Clyde, isn't it great to get the things you desire? Like that ice cream cone for instance. You can have anything you want with a little training."

Clyde continues licking his ice cream. "Training?"

"Yes, you just have to be more assertive. And I can show you how."

Clyde licks his cone. "Assertive huh?"

"That's right."

Clyde now finishes his cone. "Anything I want?" He eats his the rest of his cone. "Sounds great!"

"Wonderful." Lena said and laughed evilly. Clyde began to laugh too but his laugh was more awkward. Just then, a fat kid walked over and sat right on Clyde.

"Clyde! Don't let that guy sit on you!" Lena said. "Assertiveness lesson number one. Tell him to get off!"

"Um excuse me, you're sitting on me." Clyde said.

"No! Be assertive!"

Clyde sticks his finger in the guy's pocket. "Beep beep."

Lena facepalms. "Not insertive!"

The kid checked his watch and got off of Clyde. He left.

"Clyde, you missed your chance. You've gotta be aggressive to get the things you want. You're too soft."

"Well, I was strict with my pet cat once. I told him he could only have anchovies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner." Clyde said. "Does that count as aggressive?"

"...Not really. I mean, cats love fish."

"Yeah, but anchovies are his least favorite kind of fish."

"But still, it's a well known fact that cats will eat those species and we're getting off topic."

Clyde and Lena now notice the tall guy who took Clyde's ice cream from earlier.

"There's the guy who took your ice cream." Lena stated. "Don't you want it back?"

"Well, it's probably full of his germs now." Clyde said.

"Oh just follow me."

Lena and Clyde go after the guy.

"Hey you, my friend's got something to say to you!" Lena said.

"Who said that?" The tall guy said. He looks at Clyde. "Was it you?"

"This is it Clyde. Assert yourself!"

"That's my ice cream." Clyde said.

"Now let him have it!"

"You can have it." Clyde said, thinking Lena meant that he should let the guy have his ice cream.

"Ok, thanks." The guy left.

"No!" Lena shouted. "I'll show you how it's done."

She got out a walkie talkie and taped it onto Clyde's back. She got out another walkie talkie for herself to speak into. She went behind a garbage can. Clyde was confused. Lena then spoke into her walkie talkie in a loud voice.

"Hey string bean!" Her voice was heard from the walkie talkie that Clyde had. The tall guy looked back.

"Yeah, you! Get over here!" The guy walked over to Clyde. "Surrender that ice cream cone or every waking moment for you will become a swirling torrent of pain and misery!"

The guy looked scared. He threw the ice cream at Clyde and ran off crying.

"Hey, that guy was crying." Clyde said.

Lena came over. "Those were tears of joy! He was happy that you were assertive."

Clyde bought it. "Oh, ok."

"You see how wonderful life can be..when you're maniacal!"

"I thought it was called assertive."

"Whatever."

"Well, if it got me this ice cream, then I like it." Clyde said.

Clyde's next activity was looking for treasure in the sand with his metal detector. Lena followed him. His detector made a beeping sound when he came across something.

"I found something!"

A boy walked up to him. "Excuse me, my metal detector broke. Can I borrow yours?"

"Sure." Clyde was about to hand it over but Lena stopped him. She whispered in his ear.

"Clyde, this is your next lesson. Tell that guy to take a hike!"

"Do you wanna take a hike with me?" Clyde asked.

"Sure." The kid replied.

Lena grew frustrated. "Now look what you did! Tell that guy to go fall in a ditch!

"Hey, why don't you go check in that ditch?" Clyde pointed to a ditch nearby.

The kid went down and found a treasure chest with the detector. "Wow. Buried treasure. Thanks!"

"Did you see that Lena? That guy found some buried treasure."

"Clyde, you'll never get it right. Tell that guy you know kung fu and you'll tie him a knot if you don't your metal detector back."

"Hey, I'm gonna tie your shoe if you don't give that back." Clyde said.

"But I'm wearing sandals." The kid pointed to his sandals.

"Alright, nevermind. It's ok Lena. He's wearing sandals."

Lena looked annoyed and walked away.

"What's wrong?"

Lena packed up a suitcase with her beakers. She also had a Einstein doll. "Oh nothing. I was just beginning to think this was a waste of time."

"No it's not."

"Forget it. I guess you don't have what it takes to be a stand up guy."

"Well, I'm not an expert but I have learned some things from a certain comedian."

"What?" Lena said confused.

Clyde cleared his throat. "Did you see the movie about the hot dog? It was an Oscar Wiener. Get it?"

Lena groaned.

"Yeah I know, it was a bad pun."

"Clyde, you'll never get the things you want. You'll always let people step all over you." Lena said. "You're like a carpet."

"Wait Lena, give me another chance."

"Ok, but this is your last chance." Lena pointed to the people laying around the beach. "Look at those beach hogs soaking up your sun ray. Do you have what it takes to get a tan?"

"Just watch me!" Clyde went over to the crowd of people. He takes a beach towel and waves it in the air causing sand to build up everywhere. The people run away.

"Man, this thing is sandy!" Clyde then lays down on his back with a funnel as his sun lamp.

Lena witnesses this. "Yes! My plan is beginning to work. They're leaving the beach."

Clyde walks over to Lena. His skin is more brown.

"Clyde, that was wonderful! Is that an all over tan?"

"Well, not all of me."

"Hotdogs!" A guy selling hot dogs at a stand is giving hot dogs away. There was a line of people. "Get your hot dogs here!"

"Look at that huge line at the hot dog stand." Lena said. "Assertive yourself to the front!"

"I'll do better than that." Clyde takes a cooler and rushes to the front cutting in front of the people. He takes the tray of hot dogs and dumps them in his cooler. He goes back to Lena. The people were disappointed.

"Let's go home." One guy said.

"Clyde, that was genius!" Lena complimented. She pointed to a group of kite flyers. "Look at those kite flyers blocking your view."

"What?!"

"Breaking your wind!"

Clyde pulls a comb out of his hair and throws it. It cuts the strings of the kites and comes back to him like a boomerang going back in his hair. He laughs maniacally. A volleyball lands near his feet. Becky and her friends are seen at a volleyball court.

"Hey Clyde, can you pass the ball?" Becky asked.

Clyde picks up the ball and pops it. He roars like a lion. The crowd looks surprised at this.

"What do we do now?" One teen asked.

"Let's go home I guess." Becky said disappointed and she and friends left.

"Did you see that Lena? I was a regular alpha male!" Clyde then realized Lena was missing. "Lena?"

He then sees her driving a small crane. He goes up to her. "Lena, all my asserting has driven everyone away."

"Exactly."

"You didn't tell me they'd leave."

"Oops." Lena presses a button on her crane and a sign came out out the ground. It was the science museum sign.

Clyde gasps. "Shroud science museum? You used me for land development! That wasn't nice."

"Haven't you figured it out Clyde? Nice guys finish last." Lena said. "Only aggressive people conquer the world!" She laughs evilly.

Clyde thinks for a moment. "Well, what about aggressively nice people?"

"Huh?"

Clyde takes his cooler of hot dogs and goes back to the hot dog stand.

"What are you doing?" Lena said.

Clyde dumps all the hot dogs out of his cooler and onto a tray. People come back and help themselves to a hot dog.

"Yay! Hot dogs!"

Clyde brings back new kites. He ties them near a dock. People come back to start flying kites again.

"Wait Clyde, stop!" Lena shouted.

A little girl was crying. She had dropped her ice cream in the sand. Clyde saw this and came back with a bowl of fresh ice cream for her. She smiled as she took it.

Lena was disgusted by this. "Oh mother of Einstein! I can't take it! It's too cute! I-It's disgusting!"

A surfer was sitting in the sand looking bummed because his surfboard was broken. Clyde came over to him.

"Hey man, what happened?"

"I hit a rock with my board dude." The surfer explained.

"I can fix this." Clyde got to work with his construction skills and quickly fixed the surfer's board.

"There you go!" He handed over the surfboard.

"Alright! Thanks dude!"

"Clyde, stop! Before it's too late!" Lena yelled. "Your kindness is bringing everybody back!"

A crowd of people rushed over onto the beach.

"Stay back! No!" Lena got trampled by the people. The surfer was surfing the waves and came back to the shore.

"That was awesome!" He said.

Lena was groaning in pain from getting run over.

"Gee Lena, sorry about your museum." Clyde said.

"Forget about that! I just can't take so much kindness in one sitting!" She bunches into into a ball and crawls away. "Need hatred."

Everyone stared at her crawling away. Clyde looked back at the crowd of people.

"Who's up for a game of volleyball?" Clyde asked.

"We don't have a ball." Dana said.

"I do." Clyde said holding up a new volleyball.

Everyone cheered and ran to the court.

"Serve up!" Clyde tossed the ball and he and the others enjoyed their game of volleyball.