//------------------------------// // Arrival in Bikini Bottom/First Fight with Plankton // Story: G5 Adventures in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water // by ponydog127 //------------------------------// Bikini Bottom was just as peaceful as Burger Beard made it out to be, if not more. Friendly fish, good businesses... all pretty peaceful. Plus, Burger Beard's description of SpongeBob was pretty accurate as well-- from his love of being a fry cook to everything in between. As Burger Beard was reading the tale of Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob himself was hard at work in the kitchen, flipping Krabby Patties and whistling a cheery tune as he put on the ingredients for the perfect sandwich. “First bun, then patty, followed by ketchup, mustard, pickles, extra onions, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes and bun, in that order!” He chuckled to himself as he rang the bell, flinging the tray like a frisbee out to the waiting customer. “Ahh, this is the life. Just me, flipping patties in my favorite place, and a giant swirling portal opening beside me! Wait, what?” Just as SpongeBob had stated, there was a giant, rainbow colored portal opening up beside him, looking ready to either spit something out or suck something in. SpongeBob gasped and quickly grabbed a tray to defend himself, just as it sounded like several things impacted against the floor before it disappeared. When SpongeBob looked again, his eyes were as wide as Krabby Patties themselves when he saw what was on the floor next to him. It looked like six different seahorses and a green tropical fish on the wooden floor, and some of the seahorses had horns on their heads, while two of them had fin-like wings, and the other two looked like regular old... well, seahorses. But why did they come through a portal like that? Where they in trouble? Or were they just lost, helpless creatures who needed to find their way around in this dangerous undersea world? “Hmm... okay, SpongeBob. You have to be smart about this. There are strange, multicolored seahorses on the floor along with a green striped fish, looking like they're asleep or getting ready to puke. What's the right decision to make?” Suddenly, SpongeBob seemed to get an idea. He took his trusty spatula... and began to poke at the apricot colored sea horse with a magenta and purple mane with rainbow highlights repeatedly. “Wakey wake, pretty seahorse-y! Oh, please don't be dead... Mr. Krabs won't be happy if there are bodies of innocent sea creatures in his restaurant... especially if they haven't paid for any lunch yet.” He continued to prod the strange sea creatures until they began to stir, fluttering their eyes open ever so slightly. He jumped back in alarm as they began to wake up and prod each other. They got up slowly and their eyes all widened in shock upon seeing him. Pipp was first to freak out upon witnessing the sight of a tall yellow sponge in front of them. “Aaaaah!!” she screamed. “Our bodies have changed! What happened to my wings?! And WHAT KIND OF FILTER IS THAT?!!” “That’s…not a filter,” commented the white creature suspiciously. “That's--” “Hi!” SpongeBob greeted. “I’m SpongeBob SquarePants!! Welcome to the Krusty Krab! Would you like a Krabby Patty?” “A crabby whatty?” the apricot seahorse glanced at her friends in a confused manner before turning back to him and clearing her throat. “Sorry about that. My name is Sunny Starscout and these are my friends! Zipp Storm, Pipp Petals, Misty, Hitch Trailblazer, Sparky Sparkeroni, and--“ “I got this, Sunny!” the lavender seahorse with the horn quipped. “Hi, new friend! My name is Izzy! Izzy Moonbow. I sure am hungry!” “Izzy!” Zipp scolded. “We don’t even know who this talking sponge is. We shouldn’t take anything from him.” “Um, yeah we do, silly!” Izzy replied cheerfully. “We just got his name! And you know how your stomach can only think when it’s full!” Zipp sighed in defeat. “Ugh, fine. But we’re on a mission here! We need to find out why the Unity Crystals called us.” “I can get you that Krabby Patty lickety split!” SpongeBob immediately hopped to work, serving up seven Krabby Patties faster than a millisecond. The strange sea creatures ate the burgers up quickly, surprising even him. He knew that they must’ve been extremely hungry upon entering through that portal, which was now closed behind them. Sunny regained her composure. “Right! Thank you so much, Mr... um... SpongeBob. These patties were absolutely delicious! You know, I’m something of a chef myself.” SpongeBob’s eyes brightened up at that news. Finally, there was someone who he could relate to at long last. “Oh my gosh! YOU’RE A FRY COOK TOO?! We can make tons of Krabby Patties together!! This is the greatest day of my life!!!!” The apricot seahorse blushed awkwardly. “Well you see, I’m not really a fry cook. I mainly produce smoothies and follow my own recipes at home. This is a restaurant?” SpongeBob nodded vigorously. “The one and only Krusty Krab, run by the ever so krusty and ever so crabby manager Mr. Krabs! I can’t wait to have him meet all of you! In the meantime, you can help me around the restaurant until you can find your mission.” Right as he said that, Mr. Krabs burst into the door to the kitchen with a very miserable looking Squidward in tow. “SpongeBob!!” Mr. Krabs cried out. “What was that whirling sound I heard coming from me office?! Is a tornado coming for us, lad?!!” Hitch screamed. “Oh my goodness!! A talking crab and mutant octopus!!” Just as he was about to freak out, however, he thought about it and calmed down. “You know what? This is actually just a normal day for me at this point.” “Oh hi, Mr. Krabs!” SpongeBob greeted. “I’ve just hired these multicolor seahorses to work at the Krusty Krab! They’ll just be here until they find whatever mission they’re looking for.” “Oh no!!” Sauidward shouted. “Not again, SpongeBob! We already had enough trouble with that other seahorse of yours in the past! How can these creatures be any useful?!” “Well for starters,” Zipp replied, getting close to his face with hooves on hips, “we can talk, so we’ll be able to communicate with the customers. We won’t be a burden.” Squidward fainted at the sound of these creatures actually talking. He slumped on the floor, motionless. Mr. Krabs looked awkwardly at the sight of his fallen cashier, poking him multiple times. “Uh Squidward. Squidward. Squidward…” “It’s okay, Mr. Krabs,” SpongeBob told his boss. “We’ll just have these pretty horses take over Squidward’s job until he wakes up.” “Uh yeah,” Mr. Krabs said with a hint of nervousness. “You see lad, I’m not so sure. ‘Last thing I want to do is risk me bottom line over a bunch of strangers that just got here. I mean, we don’t even know if they have any work experience.” “Sure we do!” SpongeBob insisted. “Sunny here says she’s a chef, so maybe she can help me with the grill!” “Yeah, that could be a possibility…” Mr. Krabs was thinking hard about this. “Well, tell ‘em they’re working for free until I can see some progress from them. I’m gonna go count me money outside. The hats are in the back!” SpongeBob saluted his boss. “Aye aye, sir!” Once the crab had left, he faced the newcomers. “Allow me to give you the premier tour of the Krusty Krab!” “Wow, thank you so much, sir!” Misty smiled. Now this was a place she could get used to. XXXXXXXXX “…and this is the dumpster!” SpongeBob walked out of the kitchen back door with the ponies following close behind him. They sported curious eyes as he explained everything. “This is where all the messes get thrown away.” “Oooh...” Pipp took a couple of snapshots. “Very rustic.” As he was explaining, he suddenly caught the eyes of a familiar pink starfish coming his way. It was none other than his best friend Patrick Star! He was coming to the Krusty Krab to order a Krabby Patty and go about his day. “Good morning, SpongeBob!” Patrick greeted him. “Morning, Patrick!” SpongeBob responded back cheerily. “Are you here for your pre-lunch Krabby Patty?” “I’m getting two today!” Patrick explained. “One for me, and one for my friend!” “Ooh!” SpongeBob said, playing along with his buddy’s antics. “Have I met this friend?” Patrick reached down and pinched his belly button to make it look like it was talking in a cleverly hilarious manner. “‘You know me, SpongeBob!’” As the two of them laughed over this, Zipp was standing behind the sponge looking utterly dumbfounded. “How does that even work?” Misty shrugged. “Enjoy, Patrick's tummy!” SpongeBob waved farewell as Patrick walked off. But after a minute, he began to hear the sound of a plane engine. Planes don't usually come around Bikini Bottom too often... what could that be? SpongeBob had a feeling about what was gonna happen, so he needed to get his new friends someplace safe. “Hey, why don't you guys go help get things organized? We don't want too much on anything!” “Sure thing, Mr. SpongeBob,” Misty nodded quickly. “Come on, ponies!” The others quickly followed her inside with their new seapony abilities, just as a large green plane approaching dropped a giant jar of tartar sauce toward the Krusty Krab. Meanwhile, on the outside of the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs was counting some of the cash he had earned earlier. “13, 14, 15...” “Hey, Mr. Krabs!” SpongeBob greeted, interrupting him. “So... what do you think of Sunny and her friends now? They're really making a good effort.” “Well, I wouldn't go assuming the best out of them right away, boy-o,” Mr. Krabs frowned. “They may seem lovely and innocent at first glance, but I still got me eyestalks on them. You know what happened the last time ye found one of them creatures, don't ye?” SpongeBob nodded with a sigh, hating being reminded of his past mistakes. “Yes... I do. But these guys seem different!” “Hmph. We'll soon see.” SpongeBob was about to respond when he noticed something falling out of the sky right toward them. “Hey, Mr. Krabs, I thought we got our tartar sauce delivery on Thursday.” “Tartar...” Mr. Krabs was about to answer when the tartar sauce splashed everywhere on the Krusty Krab, including on them. “...sauce?” “Bullseye!” shouted a familiar and cackling voice, and hearing it made SpongeBob realize exactly who it was. “Plankton!” “So it's a food fight he wants, eh?” Mr. Krabs narrowed his eyes as tartar sauce dripped down his face. “Quick, boy-o! Put up our armed forces and defend the formuler!” “Sir yes sir!” SpongeBob cried and ran inside, right past the ponies as he grabbed Patrick and headed up for the closet. “SpongeBob? Patrick?” Sunny blinked. “What's going on?” “No time for chit chat, Sunny girl!” SpongeBob stated as he and Patrick began to get changed into military style clothing. “Plankton’s challenging us to a food fight for the Krabby Patty secret formula!” “Plankton? Food fight? Let us help!” Zipp zoomed in front of him. “We have plenty of fighting experience!” “Yeah!” Hitch said. “Even though we just got here and we don't have the slightest idea as to what's going on, we wanna help!” SpongeBob and Patrick looked over at each other before the sponge finally relented. “Okay... but be prepared-- it'll get messy up there!” XXXXXXXXX At the same time, Sheldon J Plankton was flying his military plane toward the Krusty Krab, preparing to blast it to smithereens. “Welcome to Air Plankton! Please put your seat backs and tray tables up as we're now approaching our final destination.” The group immediately got onto the roof after Hitch hid Sparky in the closet, where SpongeBob stood, ready to command the firing weapon. “Okay, Izzy and Patrick. Load the potatoes!” Patrick quickly held up two plates of cooked potatoes by this point. “Mashed or scalloped sir?!” “No, Patrick. Raw...” “Sir yes sir!” Izzy used her unicorn powers to load the raw potatoes into the cannon. “Locked and loaded!” XXXXXXXXX At the same time, Mr. Krabs opened the safe in his office to check that the formula was still safe. “Don't worry, little formuler. You'll be safe in this... uh... safe.” He then sealed the safe and grabbed the microphone before shouting at the top of his lungs. “FIRE!!!” XXXXXXXXX SpongeBob fired the potatoes out at a rapid speed, watching as the military plane dodged the potatoes left and right. Zipp was luckily able to bring her gear along, and thankfully, it worked underwater just enough to see Plankton quickly approaching them. “He's closing in!” “I think we have a few minutes before he gets here,” Patrick said, using the binoculars he was holding... backwards. Zipp sighed and flipped them around, causing Patrick to scream. “HE'S RIGHT ON TOP OF US!!!” Some of the potatoes got cut up through the plane's propellers, causing it to rain fries on a fish named Sandals. “Hey... it's raining fries!” “It's gonna take a lot more than potatoes to bring this baby down!” Plankton shouted, but then watched as the potatoes took out the wings and propellers all at once. “Or maybe not.” Everyone on the inside watched as the plane crashed to the ground in a huge explosion, and they cheered at the fact Plankton was causing no harm. On the top of the building, the group was celebrating all on their own before SpongeBob began to notice something. “Wait a minute, guys-- look! HE'S GOT A TANK!!” True to SpongeBob’s words, a tank was dropping down by a parachute, and Plankton had just inserted a pickle into the firing chute. “Well, Krabs, you're certainly in a pickle now!” “Everypony! Hit the dirt!” Hitch screamed, and they all dove to safety, nearly being squashed by the pickle when it impacted. The tank then landed and moved toward them, making SpongeBob realize they didn't have much time. “Pipp! Hand me your phone!” “B-B-But... oh, fine...” Pipp reluctantly handed it over, and SpongeBob quickly dialed in a number. “Your order, sir!” “I'll have two Krabby Patties,” said the voice of SpongeBob’s friend Sandy Cheeks. “Extra ketchup, extra mustard, and hold the mayo.” “Wrong channel!” SpongeBob typed in another number, this time getting Mr. Krabs. “YOUR order, sir!” “Extra ketchup, extra mustard! HOLD THE MAYO!!!!” “Yes sir!” SpongeBob saluted and brought out a big ketchup bottle followed by small ketchup and mustard bottles. “Extra ketchup! Extra mustard!” “Hold the mayo...!!” Patrick strained as he and Misty held up a giant jar of mayonnaise. “Unleash the condiments!” “With relish!” SpongeBob shouted, and screamed as he fired mustard and ketchup at the tank repeatedly, only stopping when the weapon ran out, resulting in farting noises being produced. “Excuse me!” Patrick and SpongeBob laughed before SpongeBob reloaded and began to fire again. XXXXXXXXX “Hello? Hello?!” Sandy called from the drive thru window. “Guess y'all don't want my money!” “Money?!” Mr. Krabs immediately zipped to the window, took her cash and handed her a Krusty Krab bag. “Thank you. Come again!” And with that being said, he quickly shut the window to go back to the battle. XXXXXXXXX Outside, SpongeBob continued blasting the condiments, but Misty and Patrick were becoming tired from holding the mayo up for a long period of time. It became too much for Misty to use magic without her unicorn powers, and she began panting tiredly. “I can't hold the mayo any longer!!” She kicked the mayo right in the path of the tank, and Plankton watched as the condiment splattered all over the ground. “Mayo?! Well, it's gonna take a lot more than mayo to stop--” But the tank immediately crashed into the mayo, allowing the tank to explode and mayo to fly right onto the group. But, Sunny then heard a creaking noise coming from the pile of mayonnaise, and groaned to herself. “Now what?” The tank began to reassemble itself into a frightening sight-- a giant robot that bore complete resemblance to Plankton himself. “Uh... I just remembered!” Patrick quickly handed his helmet to SpongeBob. “I don't work for Mr. Krabs!” And just like that, he quickly walked off, leaving the ponies to run toward the Krusty Krab. “Robot! Robot! Robot! GIANT ROBOT!!!” SpongeBob screamed. “Robot, robot!” “Mr. Krabs!” Sunny shouted as the group entered the office and held the door shut. “Plankton’s here! And he's got a giant robot!” “Quick, boy!” Mr. Krabs ordered. “Bar the door!” SpongeBob then stuck a chair underneath the door, expecting that to keep the door shut. “Got it!” But the robot barged right through without even trying, squishing SpongeBob underneath its giant foot and pinning Mr. Krabs against his desk as Plankton smirked. “I'll take one secret formula... to go!” “Misty, help SpongeBob!” Sunny whispered. “We'll take care of the robot!” “On it!” Misty swam to SpongeBob’s aid as the other ponies began to use their unity magic all together without Planton noticing. And as the magic increased, the gas tank got lower and lower until Plankton was mere inches away from the safe, where it finally ran out of gas, annoying Plankton completely. “Oh, barnacles! I'm out of gas?!” SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs laughed at Plankton’s demise, but Plankton wasn't done with his scheme yet. “Well, I'm not through yet. I've got something that will make you hand over that formula: something you can't resist!” He then whipped out a small, brown leather wallet, and Mr. Krabs gasped with wide eyes. “Money...!” “Yes!” Plankton looked inside the wallet, only to find out it was empty with a startled gasp. “That's... that's... that's impossible!” he shouted. “Well, it was full of money just last week. Then I bought that airplane, and built that tank--” “Sounds to me like someone's just a wee bit... broke!” Mr. Krabs taunted, but Plankton only sighed at this. “Well, Krabs, I guess you've won. I've spent every penny I've ever made trying to put you out of business...” he said, taking out a penny as he began crying. “Except this one: my last penny. Besides, what could I do with one measly cent, anyway?” Mr. Krabs merely shrugged. “You could give it to me. Just a suggestion.” “Here, take it,” Plankton threw it to Mr. Krabs who tossed it into the safe. “You've taken everything else. Why not?!” Plankton began to sob right on the spot, and that made Misty frown a little. Even though he was maniacal, like Opaline... ...why did she start feeling bad for the poor guy? XXXXXXXXX A few minutes after Plankton stopped crying, Mr. Krabs carried him out of the office with SpongeBob and the ponies in tow. “Well, Plankton, like a reheated Krabby Patty, you've been foiled again!” Mr. Krabs put the one-eyed creature down, and Izzy smiled. “I guess this means that the secret formula is safe forever. Right, Mr. Krabs?” “It sure does, me dear,” Mr. Krabs patted her on the head before nudging Plankton out of the restaurant. “Why don't you scurry along?” Everyone laughed as Plankton left the wrecked building in defeat. And after he was gone, Mr. Krabs turned to SpongeBob and the ponies. “You all work to get this place fixed up before the next lunch rush. I don't want me customers walking in on such a waste site.” “Yes, sir!” Sunny saluted, and soon after he left, she turned back to her friends. “All right, everypony... let's get Sparky and get to work!” XXXXXXXXX But what the ponies didn't realize was that some creature was watching them in the caves outside of town, and she turned to the inside of the cave. “Sis? Call me crazy, but... I think the Equestrians might be here.”