DoodleBob Redrawn

Chapter 11: Arms Race

January 27, 2017. 42 Sand Dollar Boulevard, Bikini Bottom.

1:45 P.M.

SpongeBob, Patrick and Gary, all armed and in their vehicles, followed the GPS route to their destination. On the way there, they stopped by the institution Sandy worked at to pick up some more weapons, just in case they needed extras. As they ran in, Mr. Pla shook his head.

"Oh, good, the murderers want more tools", he muttered under his breath, after they went past him.

SpongeBob and Patrick went up the staircase and into the weapons room where two students were testing a laser beam they recently created, while Gary was in the Boatgatti, listening to Swim to the Hills by Iron Marlin.

The two of them get burlap sacks and grab as many weapons as they can and run out of the room with them. 

"Patrick, wait!" SpongeBob calls before they go out through the entrance. Patrick stops, puzzled.

"We don't want any raised suspicion about what we're doing. I know how to solve this."

(In Jacques Cousteau Voice)

 A FEW SECONDS LATER...

As Gary bangs his head to the rock music, he stops and stares out the window as he sees SpongeBob and Patrick falling 15 feet out a window into a dumpster with two bags. After he and Pat get out of the dumpster, Gary looks away, wondering why they did that. 

Patrick and SpongeBob call Gary out and all three look at the weapons they stole.

They counted 2 high-power lasers, 25 grenades, 4 smoke pellets, an electric scimitar, a heat-seeking bazooka, uranium Tekko-Kagi claws, and a self-handling machine gun on 6 wheels, code-named M.A.M.A. (Mechanical Autonomous Mega-musket Android). Gary loved the name. He snickered after hearing it.

SpongeBob and Patrick then decided to get more weapons, so they climbed back up to the window they jumped out of, while Gary stuffed the weapons in the vehicles.

After climbing 15 feet, both of them were exhausted. SpongeBob leaned against the wall and panted heavily, while Patrick was lying on his back coughing and said "Water, I need some water."

"We live in it", SpongeBob said.

Patrick then tried sucking in the water around him. It made him feel a bit better. But then, a bit is not a lot. SpongeBob just stared.

When they walk into the room, Sandy walks up to them from a machine holding a large pen. Large as in 5 feet long and 30 pounds. She gives it to SpongeBob.

"Hey, I remembered what y'all said 'bout that DoodleBob fella, and I decided to have my students make this for you", she said sincerely. 

SpongeBob became surprised. "But how di-"

Sandy interrupted to explain, because she knew he'd say that. "How it didn't take so long? We made these things 2 years ago, and we have the 1st produced ones as examples for the kids. This is no more than a simple thing they can do in class, Mr. SquarePants. Look, this is called the Pen of Life. I know someone who is a forensic scientist, and he was at the crime scene of your house. He was one of my students, and he collected some residue of DoodleBob from your house. He helped in the experiment, and we managed to break down, interpret, and copy DoodleBob's genome. With this pen, anything you want can come to life, and it will be twice as durable as DoodleBob's lead, because, you know, you can erase pencil markings, but not those from a pen."

Patrick and SpongeBob looked at the pen, then at each other, and yelled at the same time "AWESOME!". Sandy chuckled. Both embraced her.

"Thank you, Sandy, I knew you'd be a great help to everyone if you worked here", SpongeBob said.

"Can you eat the food you draw with the pen" Patrick asked. 

Everyone let go, and Sandy said, "It's ink. You'll get sick if you eat it."

Patrick looked down. "Oh, fish sticks."

They all said their goodbyes, and SpongeBob and Patrick make it out the door of the room...

...and right out the window again.

Everyone gets back in the cars and then they drive to the destination.

Until...

Patrick presses a few buttons on the boat truck's dashboard, and he calls SpongeBob via the truck.

"Hey, Spongey? What does it mean if the destination is getting closer to us, even if we aren't moving? We were at a stop light a few minutes ago, and it kept moving."

"What," SpongeBob asked. He looked down at the GPS. There is no way DoodleBob could be travelling that fast, he thought to himself.

Suddenly, they heard an explosion, a few gunshots, and numerous screams. SpongeBob, Patrick and Gary jumped up in their seats and floored it to the location.

He's here.