SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Junior Novel (11 page)

SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs, and Squidward landed on their feet and struck heroic poses. Patrick posed facing the wrong way. “Da-da-da-DA!” he sang heroically.

“Patrick!” SpongeBob hissed. Patrick turned around and faced the right way.

The crowd stared at them.

Burger Beard stuck his head out the ordering window to see what was going on. SpongeBob said, “We'll take one secret formula … TO GO!”

“But … but I BANISHED you!” Burger Beard stammered, amazed to see them back.

SpongeBob turned to Squidward. “We need to clear the area, Sour Note! You know what to do!”

Squidward put his hands together and his clarinet assembled itself right in his hands! He took a deep breath and blew.
SQUOOORKKK!

When they heard the hideous sound of Sour Note's clarinet, everyone on the beach doubled over and covered their ears. Screaming, they ran away.

Burger Beard ran out of his food truck to stop the people from leaving. “Wait! Wait! WAIT! HOLD ON! No! No! Me customers!”

Sour Note stopped playing. SpongeBob said to Patrick, “Mr. Superawesomeness, take him down!”

Patrick closed his eyes and concentrated. Two ice cream cones flew out of a couple of kids' hands and went straight to Patrick. Clouds formed overheard as Patrick raised the two ice cream cones to the sky.

Then he lowered them and licked both cones at the
same time.

“Um, maybe we should've picked a better superpower for you, Patrick,” SpongeBob admitted.

Burger Beard ran back to his truck, where he grabbed his old book and a feather pen. “Let's see you get outta THIS one!”

When he saw what Burger Beard was going to do, SpongeBob gasped and turned to Mr. Krabs. Mr. Krabs launched one of his claws at Burger Beard, pinning his hand holding the pen to the side of the truck.

“Huh?” Burger Beard said. He thought of a simple solution. “All right, then,” he said, switching the pen to his other hand.

But Mr. Krabs fired his other claw, pinning that hand, too!

So Burger Beard took the feather pen in his mouth and tried to write in his magical book that way.

“Get ready for the Invincibubble!” SpongeBob cried. He took a deep breath and blew a HUGE bubble out of the wand on his helmet.

The bubble rocketed toward Burger Beard and snagged the magical book from his pinned hand, carrying it away. “NO!” Burger Beard cried, struggling against the two claws holding him captive.

SpongeBob turned to face Squidward, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs. “All right, team! Time for ‘hands in the
middle'!”

Unfortunately, to do hands in the middle, Mr. Krabs had to call back one of his claws, which freed one of Burger Beard's hands. The pirate used his free hand to pry open the remaining claw and escape!

Mr. Krabs put one of his claws on SpongeBob's hand. Patrick and Squidward put their hands in, and then all four hands were covered by a giant squirrel hand!

It was Sandy!

The big squirrel struck a few poses and did some cool karate moves. “You can call me … THE RODENT!”

Patrick looked around. “Hey, the pirate isn't here. Where'd he go?”

They all turned to look, and saw that the Burgermobile was gone! All that remained was Mr. Krabs's other claw, slowly spinning on the ground.

“Oh, no!” Mr. Krabs cried.

S
pongeBob looked around for clues that might reveal where Burger Beard had gone. He spotted a pool of golden liquid on the ground. “Aha!” he cried.

He ran his finger through the puddle and licked his finger. Then he smacked his lips, nodding. “It looks like Burger Beard forgot the first rule of mobile fry-cooking: always batten down your grease traps!”

SpongeBob pointed to a trail of golden liquid leading away from the spot where the Burgermobile had been parked. “Follow that grease, team!” Mr. Krabs shouted as his superhero suit sprouted jet engines.

Mr. Krabs rocketed down a street that ran along the beach. Sandy sprinted behind him with Squidward on her back. Patrick brought up the rear, riding on SpongeBob's back as he propelled himself with his powerful bubble-blower!

On his Burgermobile, Burger Beard peered through a spyglass until he spotted the floating bubble with his
old book trapped inside it. “Thar she blows!” he called, laughing.

But when he looked in his rearview mirror, Burger Beard saw the heroes gaining on him. Growling, he release his side sails. The sails gave him more speed, and he shot ahead.

“Engage boosters!” Mr. Krabs said, firing up extra engines.

“Hang on tight, Squidward!” Sandy whooped. “YEE-HAW!”

But it was SpongeBob and Patrick, cruising on bubble power, who reached Burger Beard first. Patrick climbed on board but accidentally sent SpongeBob spinning away. SpongeBob managed to grab Patrick's shorts, pulling them down until he could see Patrick's butt crack. “AHH!” SpongeBob screamed.

Burger Beard dropped his heavy anchor, knocking SpongeBob and Patrick off the Burgermobile. “Arr, arr, arr, arr!” he laughed like the evil pirate he was.

He spotted the book in the bubble floating above his ship-truck. Letting go of the steering wheel, Burger Beard climbed up into the crow's nest. He was so eager to get his magic book back that he didn't notice SpongeBob, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, Sandy, and Squidward standing on his anchor, behind the Burgermobile!

“He's after the book!” SpongeBob yelled, pointing.
“Sandy, use your squirrel powers!”

“Roger that!” Sandy replied. She ran up the anchor's chain and onto the Burgermobile.

But as SpongeBob watched anxiously, Burger Beard got closer and closer to his magic book. “She's never gonna make it!” he cried.

He spotted a large metal statue just ahead on the right side of the road. “Everyone, LEAN!” he shouted. They all leaned to the right, and the anchor hooked on to the statue.

The Burgermobile jolted, and Sandy fell right off. “Whoa!” she shouted. But the Burgermobile didn't stop. It kept going, dragging the heavy statue behind it. Mr. Krabs, Squidward, SpongeBob, and Patrick were sent flying into the street. Burger Beard managed to hold on to the mast.

As the Burgermobile slowly came to a halt, Burger Beard grabbed for the book in the bubble!

“The book!” SpongeBob said. “Sour Note!”

Squidward blew his clarinet. The clarinet's horrible sonic wave popped the bubble, and the book fell down into the truck.

“NOOO!” Burger Beard howled. He jumped down into the truck just in time to see his precious book burst into flames on the grill. “NOOOOOOO!”

SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs
strode up to the pirate. “All right, Burger Beard,” SpongeBob warned. “Prepare to be teamworked. GET HIM, THE RODENT!”

Sandy filled her cheeks with nuts from a handy bin and fired them at Burger Beard. But the wily pirate batted the nuts away with his spatula until she ran out of them. “Aw, nuts!” Sandy said. “I'm all out of nuts!”

Burger Beard used a rope to hoist himself up into the crow's nest. Patrick summoned dozens of ice cream cones to fly at him, pointy end first.

“Patrick, I should NEVER have doubted your powers!” SpongeBob said admiringly.

Burger Beard jumped out of the crow's nest and swung around on a rope. The ice cream cones followed him. But when he swerved back up, the ice cream cones all headed straight for Patrick! He fell to the ground, covered in ice cream.

“I can't think of a sweeter way to go,” he moaned.

Burger Beard dangled the secret formula in his hand. “It's ALL MINE!”

“Not so fast,
Booger
Beard!” Mr. Krabs said. He shot his claws at the mast, cutting it into three pieces. The pirate fell to the deck and dropped the formula, which rolled into the street. Mr. Krabs's claws flew back to his arms.

“Me formuler!” Mr. Krabs shouted. But before he could grab it, Burger Beard shot him away with a blast of melted butter!

SpongeBob reached for the formula, but Burger Beard saw him. The pirate pulled on a lever. Hatches opened on the Burgermobile and REAL CANNONS popped out!

“Voilà!” Burger Beard said proudly.

“Uh-oh,” SpongeBob said. A cannonball was rocketing towards him!

U
sing his incredible flexibility, SpongeBob managed to dodge all of Burger Beard's cannonballs. One flew right through SpongeBob's bubble wand and came out trapped in a bubble. He watched the cannonball float away.

“Huh?” he said. Then he got an idea!

While Burger Beard continued to fire cannonballs at him, SpongeBob used his bubble wand to catch every single one in a bubble, rendering each cannonball harmless!

“They're beautiful!” Patrick said. He reached up to touch one floating over his head.
POP! WHAM!
The bubble popped, and the cannonball fell on Patrick, knocking him out cold.

“Patrick!” SpongeBob called to his friend.
BLAM!
Distracted, SpongeBob failed to dodge Burger Beard's last cannonball, which sent him flying. The pirate laughed a long, loud, evil laugh.

SpongeBob lay on the ground with cannonballs falling from bubbles all around him.

Still laughing his evil laugh, Burger Beard grabbed the secret formula and ran back to his Burgermobile.

Covered in ice cream, Patrick crawled over to SpongeBob and cradled his best buddy's head. “SpongeBob!”

“Patrick?”

“Yeah, buddy. Talk to me.”

“I'm … I'm seeing a bright light.”

Patrick moved his head to block the sun, which was shining right in SpongeBob's eyes. “Is that better?' he asked.

“Much. Thank you,” SpongeBob said. “But the discomfort I feel in my eyes is nothing compared to the shame I feel for letting down the Patty. For letting down Bikini Bottom.”

“Yeah, SpongeBob,” Patrick said, nodding. “You really blew it.”

“No, Patrick. WE blew it … as a team.”

“Nope. This one's on you.”

Inside the Burgermobile, Burger Beard hummed happily as he started the engine. “Hmm-hmmm, tiddly hmmm …”

Suddenly, a loud voice boomed through the food
truck. “Where do you think YOU'RE going?”

Burger Beard looked around and saw … Plankton!

The mean old pirate laughed hysterically. “Why don't you get goin', little fellow, before you hurt yourself?”

Burger Beard put his Burgermobile in gear and hit the gas, but the vehicle wouldn't move. When Burger Beard looked around again, he saw the reason.

Plankton now had a huge, strong body! He was holding one end of the truck up over his head. He shifted his hands and lifted the entire Burgermobile over his head!

“Plankton?” SpongeBob asked when he saw the new version of his teammate.

“It's Plank-TON!” Plankton roared. He flipped the Burgermobile upside down and shook it. Burger Beard screamed as he fell. He managed to snag the broken mast and climb up into the ship-truck through a trapdoor in the deck.

Plankton growled, flipped the ship right-side up, shook it, and spun it around. Inside, Burger Beard was pinned to the wall by the force of Plankton's spinning. Kitchen knives flew at Plankton, narrowly missing him.

Plankton's huge red eye peered through the window of the Burgermobile. “Come out, come out, wherever you are….”

Burger Beard squeezed hot sauce straight into Plankton's eye!

“MY EYE!” Plankton screamed. He threw the food truck down onto its side, and Burger Beard jumped out and ran down the street.

“He's getting away!” SpongeBob yelled.

Plankton jumped out from behind the ruined Burgermobile. “Ready for a Plank-TON of bubbles?” he asked.

SpongeBob smiled and nodded. Plankton picked him up, took a deep breath, and BLEW through SpongeBob's bubble wand. A massive cloud of bubbles headed for Burger Beard.

The pirate looked back and saw an avalanche of bubbles bearing down on him. He tried to run, but slipped and slid so much on the soapy bubbles that he ended up running in place. Plankton reached down and picked him up by the hat.