G5 Adventures in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water

Building the Time Machine

The former queen of Mount Aris, and descendant of the great Queen Novo, Queen Skygrace, sat on her homemade rock throne, frustrated with the younger seapony in front of her.

Her younger sister Riverstream had been going on and on and on about the Equestrians and how they have entered the nearby ocean, and the former queen was just about sick of it.

The ponies of Equestria had forgotten about them, and that was that.

Finally, when Riverstream began saying that this could be their chance to change history, Skygrace swam in front of her younger sister's face. "Riverstream, enough!" she squawked. "I know you want to make life better for me, yourself and the hippogriffs and seaponies scattered around this world and the worlds beyond, but let me tell you something Mother told me when I was your age-- we... have been... forgotten."

"We can't have been forgotten!" Riverstream rambled on. "If Equestrians are here, maybe Princess Twilight and the Guardians defeated that fire alicorn! Maybe they've come looking for us to take us home!"

"...no, sister. That isn't it," Skygrace said, a bit softly since she mentioned the fire alicorn in question. "Since we still have our royal Mount Aris magic, we've been 18 and 16 for the past 1000 moons. The fire alicorn, and even the Guardians, should be gone by now. You have to accept that."

Riverstream took a breath before turning away, flicking her purple and blue fin as she swam toward the entrance. "Fine... I'm gonna go find some Sparkle seaweed for dinner. Don't wait up for me."

And with her sister stunned at the cold voice she had spoke in, Riverstream swam down the mountain and out of sight.

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Our heroes had finally escaped with Karen in their grasp, able to not be seen by the forces of their once beloved town. Now all they needed was a quiet place to work on their time machine.

At an abandoned Mexican-German restaurant called Taco Haus, SpongeBob carefully set Karen's head on the floor as Pipp looked around, taking a couple of photos before looking at them with a confused glance. "Is this really where you're gonna build the time machine?"

"Sure," Plankton nodded. "It's got everything we need. A photo booth. A cuckoo clock. Some day-old chips. Now all we have to do is build it."

Seeing another opportunity for a song about teamwork, SpongeBob happily pulled out his trusty pitch pipe and blew into it. "Oh no you don't!" Plankton quickly grabbed the pitch pipe and ran off with it. "Hey!" SpongeBob cried. "My pitch pipe!"

"Uh, I need it. For the time machine."

"Oh... okay."

Plankton took the pitch pipe into another room. WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! It sounded as though he was smashing something with a hammer. Then it sounded like he was flushing something down a toilet. "Installed!"

"Okay, great!" Zipp unrolled a blueprint that she and Plankton had drawn up earlier. "Now all we need to do is make sure everything has the same power voltage..."

"...hook everything together..." Plankton continued. "...go back in time, get the formula, bring it back, and save Bikini Bottom!" both of them cheered, and everyone else cheered and began to mingle before they got to work.

Well... all except one.

Sunny was glad they were finally getting a plan together, but there was still two lingering questions on her mind.

Could Opaline have come after them and kidnapped Sparky? And did she know whoever took the Krabby Patty formula?

It was a lot to take in, and it was really beginning to make her doubt her abilities as a leader...