Future Shock 2 Chapter 14

Chapter 14: Smoothie of Life

Sandy still cradled SpongeBob, who lied lifelessly in her arms after being blasted by DarkEvil LaserPants. Sandy continued to sob with her helmet lying on SpongeBob’s chest.
“Oh, SpongeBob, I can’t help feelin’ it’s my fault this happened.” Sandy sobbed to him. “You wouldn’t be here like this if it weren’t for me.”
“Sandy! SpongeBob!” a southern female voice called out, and Sandy looked up to see her future self, Patrick, Squidward. “Guys, we-” she stopped when she spotted Sandy holding SpongeBob’s lifeless body.
“What happened?” Future Sandy asked as she rushed over to them and placed her paw on SpongeBob’s forehead.
“SpongeBob!” Patrick shouted as he rushed over to SpongeBob and grabbed him by his shoulders. “You can’t sleep now! You gotta wake up and help us!”
“Patrick!” Sandy snapped as tears fly out of her eyes. “Can’t ya see?! SpongeBob ain’t sleepin’…! He’s dead.”
“Dead?” Patrick questioned in shock as he looked at his best friend. “I’ve never seen a dead person before.” Then he put his arms out and got a determined look. “I shall restore him!”
When Patrick began to inhale deeply, Squidward suddenly put his tentacle over his mouth and stopped him.
“Don’t even try it!” Squidward snapped as he let him go. Then he looked at SpongeBob with a worried look. “He’s gonna be okay, right?”
Future Sandy gave a deep sigh as she put her hands on her helmet. “It’s no use. SpongeBob’s gone…and the kids are gone.”
While the friends were sobbing over the loss of SpongeBob, a black boot suddenly stomped behind him. “Am I too late for the mourning party?” a cold voice asked.
They all turn and gasp to see DarkEvil LaserPants alive and well. “What are you still doing here?” Sandy angrily asked.
“Yeah!” Patrick shouted and pointed. “You killed SpongeBob, so you should be gone because of the Time Paradocter thingy!”
“Poor fools,” DarkEvil said with false sympathy as he shook his head and lifted up his mask. “You still don’t get it, do you? I killed SpongeBob, so his good future self and his children have disappeared, and I still exist. It proves that I’m no longer tied to SpongeBob’s history.”
“HOW CAN YA BE SO CRUEL?!?” Sandy furiously yelled at DarkEvil with tears pouring down her face and flooding her helmet.
“Simple,” DarkEvil nonchalantly said with a smirk. “I’m evil.” Then he put his mask down and continued; “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a world to take over. And if you promise not to interfere…let’s just say you won’t be joining SpongeBob.”
When DarkEvil started walking away, something suddenly blasted him from behind and knocked him far away. The blast had come from Future Sandy, who was holding a blaster ray.
“I will NOT just let you leave and get away with destroyin’ my family!” Future Sandy angrily said as he cocked her gun and ran off after him, leaving the past members.
“Oh great,” Squidward groaned. “Now a deranged lunatic is about to take over this future, we’re stuck here with a lifeless shell of my neighbor, and his wife just left us to go stop him.”
“And we have to go stop him too.” Sandy pointed out.
“What?!” Squidward asked in shock. “I was dragged here by you and some muscle-bound squirrel, who was really an evil robot, to go drag SpongeBob back to the past before he…” then he pauses as he takes a look at SpongeBob’s lifeless body which causes his lips to quiver.
“We can’t just let DarkEvil run wild in the future and destroy what awaits us.” Sandy told him. “Even if SpongeBob’s gone now, he would want us to stop him.”
“Want US to stop him? This is all his fault, he…” Squidward paused again, looking at SpongeBob, and then he suddenly got a depressed look as he put his tentacle over his face. “Oh, who am I kidding?” he cried. “He’s gone forever now…He had a great future ahead of him and he just lost it in ten minutes.”
“You’re right, Squidward.” Sandy cried as she held SpongeBob’s hand tightly. “We lost him, and I lost him forever.”
“No!” Patrick sobbed, falling to his knees. “My best friend can’t be dead!” while he was crouched the ground, he sees the triplets’ energy potion on the ground and picks it up. “What’s this?”
Sandy opened her eyes to see Patrick holding the potion. “I don’t know, Pat. I’ve never seen that before.”
“Well, seeing my best friend die makes me thirsty.” Patrick said as he opened the bottle while still crying. “This Barnacle Berry Smoothie should hit the spot.”
But when Patrick was about to drink the potion, he ended up missing his mouth and the potion flung over his shoulder and splashed all over SpongeBob’s body.
Sandy gasped at seeing SpongeBob covered in the blue liquid, and she angrily snapped at him, “Patrick!”
“Aww,” Patrick groaned after seeing what happened. “I was really thirsty too.”
“Give me that!” Squidward snapped as he snatched the bottle away from him and tossed it over his shoulder.
But what they didn’t notice is that the potion began seep into SpongeBob’s absorbent body.
“SpongeBob…” Sandy began to say. “I know ya can’t hear me, but all this time…I really did lo…”
“Look!” Patrick shouted as he pointed at SpongeBob.
“Patrick, don’t interrupt.” Squidward quietly scolded.
“But look!”
Sandy the looked down at SpongeBob and saw his eyelids twitching and his fingers curling. “SpongeBob?” she asked hopefully.
Then sponge suddenly opened his eyes and took a gasp of breath with his tongue sticking out like he was gagging in disgust.
“Blah,” SpongeBob said as he sat up. “That was the worst thing I’ve ever tasted.” Then he got a smile as he licked his lips in delight. “But, it does have a wonderful Barnacle Berry aftertaste.”
Sandy gasped in shock, but smiled with joy. “SpongeBob! You’re okay.” Squidward and Patrick smiled as well to see SpongeBob back to life.
“Sandy?” SpongeBob asked until he noticed Sandy was still cradling him in her arms. “What’s…going on?”
“Oh, I’m just relived to see you’re alright?” Sandy smiled as she stood up and hugged SpongeBob tightly.
SpongeBob seemed surprised as he blushed, but then smiled as he replied, “Yeah…I’m glad to be alright.”
“SpongeBob!” Patrick shouted happily as he pulled SpongeBob away and hugged him tightly. “I’m glad you’re alright too. What was it like being dead?”
“Hmm…I don’t know.” SpongeBob answered with an unsure look. “One minute I was there and the next I couldn’t see or feel anything.”
“Creepy.”
When SpongeBob stepped onto the ground, Squidward walked up to him. “Well, SpongeBob, I’m actually glad to see you’re still up and moving.”
“Did you miss me when I was dead?” SpongeBob asked with a hopeful smile.
Squidward frowned, but then got a small smile as he answered, “I can’t believe I’m saying this; but yes, SpongeBob, I think I actually did.” When SpongeBob hugged him, Squidward shoved him away and said, “But don’t push it.”
While SpongeBob was smiling at Squidward, a white gloved-hand suddenly grabbed SpongeBob’s hand, and he turned to see Sandy. “No one’s more glad to see you than I am.” She said with a tender smile.
SpongeBob suddenly got a large grin as he moaned excitedly. Suddenly, there was a sparkle of light that appeared and a small flash shone as Buster suddenly reappeared. Buster just stood there silently in shock until more flashes of light appeared with Twitchy reappearing followed by Crash, Sally, Dolly, Ally, and SpongeBob Jr.
“Daddy! Mommy!” Junior shouted happily as he ran over and hugged SpongeBob and Sandy.
Then another sparkle of light appeared and Future SpongeBob reappeared, looking dazed by the whole thing. “Ohhh…what just happened?” he groaned as he held his head.
“Dad/Daddy/Pa!” all the kids each shouted as they ran over and hugged Future SpongeBob.
“Oh, kids!” Future SpongeBob smiled as he hugged his children, relieved to see they were safe.
“Dad!” Patrick shouted happily as he ran over and picked Future SpongeBob up, hugging him.
Future SpongeBob just had a confused look, but remained positive as he asked, “Did I miss something?”
“Future Me!” SpongeBob called as he ran over to him. “You won’t believe what happened! DarkEvil killed me, and then you and all the kids disappeared due to a Time Paradox thing, and then I felt the taste of that High Inducing Energy Potion that Sally, Dolly, and Ally gave me, and I suddenly woke up in the arms of an angelfish, which actually turned out to be Sandy- which in my opinion was even better- but to get back on topic, I might’ve missed a few things when I was in my death state since I don’t know where DarkEvil is at the moment.”
“Hmm…” Future SpongeBob thought as he stood in a thinking pose. “You may be right, Past Me. I need someone to fill me in on what I missed.”
Sandy answered, “DarkEvil left to go do some no good deeds while my future self left to stop him.”
Future SpongeBob still retained his thinking pose until he growled in frustration. “This is bad. We have to leave immediately to find DarkEvil.”
“You’re right, Future Me!” SpongeBob shouted, throwing his fist in the air. “I will head forth and stop him once and for all!”
“SpongeBob,” Sandy warned as she stood in his path. “Ya totally got yourself killed when you last faced him.”
“I know, Sandy.” SpongeBob replied, speaking in a solemn voice. “But this is what I have to do. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I’m pretty sure this has something to do with a destiny-related thing. Something is telling me I have to defeat DarkEvil again or else my future will never be the way I’ve always dreamt of it being.”
While still unsure about letting SpongeBob go and face DarkEvil LaserPants again, Sandy seemed to be understanding of SpongeBob’s choice while Squidward stated, “Wow…I am mildly impressed right now.”
Everyone stood there silent until Buster approached SpongeBob, and spoke up, “Hey, SpongeBob, if you’re going to stop DarkEvil, I’m with you.”
SpongeBob seemed alarmed by his future son wanting to face such a dangerous foe. “But, Buster, I-”
However, Buster interrupted him, “I promised I would try and stop him.” He held out his hand as he declared, “But, now…I’m going to stop him with you.”
SpongeBob grinned with pleasure. “Well, I accept your help, son of the future.” He said, shaking Buster’s hand.
“Mind if I tag along?” Crash asked as he popped in-between them.
“I’mgoin’too! I’mgoin’too!” Twitchy rapidly shouted with a huge grin and his right eye twitching.
“If Crash and Twitchy wanna go, I wanna go too.” SpongeBob Jr. declared, standing in-between Crash and Twitchy.
“We’re coming too!” Sally, Dolly, and Ally shouted in unison.
“Hold on a second, kiddos.” Future SpongeBob intervened with his arms crossed. “None of you are allowed to go…” they all deflate with disappointment when their father refused to allow them to help, but Future SpongeBob eagerly concludes, “…without parental supervision.”
While the kids and SpongeBob cheered, Sandy’s voice shouted, “Hold up, y’all! You fellers ain’t leavin’!” she then stood next to SpongeBob. “Not without me you ain’t!”
“And not without your best friend.” Patrick smiled and winked as he put his arm around SpongeBob.
The only one left was Squidward who just stood there until he shrugged and stated, “Well, I got nothing better to do at the moment.”
Once the group was all together, Future SpongeBob shouted, “Alright, children and pasties! Let’s head out!”
When Future SpongeBob ran off ahead, SpongeBob, Twitchy, Crash, Junior, Sally, Dolly, Ally, Patrick, and Sandy all cheered as the group followed him. But when they were far off, the deactivated Rocky-Bot’s eyes suddenly began to glow red.