Nicktoons Unite: Turning the Tables

6: ℜ𝔢𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔰

3rd POV

Danny sat down next to Jimmy, they were all now sitting by the road. Just listening to the waves above them, was soothing. Danny took a deep breath, "Once in one of our visits, I wasn't really in a good mood. Spongebob tried cheering me up and I might've said a few hurtful words to him." he spoke slowly while looking down at his shoes, Jimmy patted his back to comfort him but it seemed to make him more emotional. "What's worse was when I tried to apologise for my outburst, he wouldn't let me. Saying I had every right to be angry at him. We all did. He then started apologising for being different..." he paused, "being different? What does he mean by that?" Timmy asked. Danny continues, "His demeanour, his attitude. Everything. He apologised for being too naive and trusting of strangers. He apologised for his quirky decision-making. He apologised for his obliviousness and foolishness. He even freaking apologised for coming 15 seconds late!!".

     Jimmy then spoke, "How is it that we haven't heard of this?", "We never brought it up again, even if I did he would brush it off. So I assumed he didn't want to talk about it" Danny explained. They sat in silence again, it was obvious that they all might've had something to do with Spongebob's disappearance. 'He probably felt he wasn't needed and left, just like what happened before in Danny's story' Timmy thought. "I still feel guilty to this day...", Jimmy huffed "You can't blame yourself, you didn't know he had problems. Danny shook his head, "No, that's just it. I knew he had problems! He told me himself. I managed to convince him to tell me his problems in return for my problems! And despite that, I still went and yelled at him-" "Wait, you knew he had problems and you didn't tell us?!" Timmy yelled when it finally sunk into his brain.

Danny glared at him, "Well telling you guys wasn't my first option. We've been distant for a while now, how would you guys react if I burst through your doors after months and say 'Hey guys, Spongebob is going through some shit, wanna come cheer him up?!'" he yelled. They've never heard Danny curse, usually, Spongebob doesn't like it when they curse but he's not here right now. They can say whatever they want. Timmy stood up, "We were your friends at some point dipshit, you should've at least told us!". Danny stood up too and was about to yell something when Jimmy got between them, "Now is not the time to be bickering like kindergarteners, but Fenton, Turner is right. We are a team, you should've told us this when you first knew it." Jimmy lectured. Danny's eyes glowed green, "You do not have the right to say that! You do not have the right or authority to say that when you weren't the one acting like a team player!".

"Don't forget who built the communicator Fenton-" "Yeah, of course! But did you contact us? Did you message us 'Good Morning!' or 'How was your day?'? You fucking didn't! You might've built it but Spongebob was the only fucking one to use it and keep us connected!!" Danny continued. Jimmy fell silent, everything said by the raven-haired boy was true. He did build the communication, but he put little effort into actually spending time trying to keep in touch with his teammates. Danny turned a ghost and flew into Spongebob's home. Leaving Timmy and Jimmy alone.

Jimmy was about to ask Timmy something when he realised he wasn't behind him. He and his fairies were gone.

Jimmy POV

"Turner?" I called out, he isn't behind me. He was here a second ago when we were arguing. Where did he go? Did he go into one of the houses? "TURNER!!" I called out again, but no response. Then I realised a piece of paper on the ground where he last stood. I picked it up and read it, it said 'Went to interigate Mr Krabs. C ya later'. I sighed, I knew it was him. Nobody has bad spelling like he does. He also could've just sent a message using the communicator instead of wasting his fairy program's energy. I turned back to the pineapple house, I was debating whether I should go in or not.

Judging by how badly we fought, Fenton probably is still angry about it and won't talk much if I go now. I decided to sit back down, I allowed the calming clashes of the waves above me to calm me down. I started thinking, who else can I go to ask questions or find more clues? I looked back at Patrick's house, then Squidward's and then Spongebob's. Didn't Spongebob mention he had a land friend? I stood back up to look around. He said that the land friend lives close by, so it shouldn't be too hard to find. I'll look for this friend instead. He said she is a man of science, hopefully, she knows Spongebob's whereabouts. What was her name again? It was a weird name...

I looked back at the pineapple, I pulled out the communicator and sent a message to Danny and Timmy explaining my plan to them. Hopefully, they read it, I put away the communicator and pulled out my mapping device. This device can map your surrounding area and is even equipped with coordinates and is also able to show the locations of the communicators. I haven't decided on a name for it yet but Spongebob kept calling it a mapping device and now I too kept calling it a mapping device. I pushed the button and waited as the device scans the area and builds the perfect map. Once it was done, it will show the layout through a screen on the decide. You can zoom in and out if you need and it can calculate from you to a place you intend on going to and it will calculate how much time and distance it'll take until you reach your destination.

When it was done, I took a look and tried to find my way to the land friend's home. Hopefully, the others are doing well, I guess the team needs some alone time. I'll come back soon. For now, I've got a squirrel to find.

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