SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Junior Novel by Nickelodeon Publishing Read Free Book Online

in!” he said. Then he swung the door closed.
SLAM!
    â€œShhhh!” Plankton hissed. “There’s a guard over there!”
    Plankton pointed across the room at the guard. It was Patrick, snoring loudly as he slept in a chair by another door. “The key’s around his neck!” Plankton whispered. “We can take it from him, but we’ll have to be very quiet. Let’s walk on the tips of our toes.”
    Plankton raised himself up on the tips of his toes—which SpongeBob had never noticed before—and skittered across the floor. There was a high, tinkling sound.
    Patrick stirred in his sleep. Plankton froze, but the high tinkling sound continued. He looked back and saw SpongeBob playing a tiny piano. “Will you stop playing that tiny piano?” he said. “You’re going to get us caught!”
    SpongeBob sheepishly put the tiny piano away. “Sorry,” he apologized.
    They both tiptoed over to Patrick, who was still snoring. The key was on his chest, hanging on a chain around his neck.
    â€œOkay,” Plankton said to SpongeBob. “Just reach out and grab that key!”
    SpongeBob took a step closer to Patrick and stepped on a floorboard.
CREAK!
    â€œHalt!” Patrick said sleepily. “Who goes there?” But then he fell right back to sleep.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
    SpongeBob gently grabbed the key and pulled it down.
    â€œStop!” Plankton hissed. “Pull it over his head!”
    â€œOh,” SpongeBob said. He lifted the key up toward Patrick’s head, but the chain got caught in the folds of Patrick’s neck fat.
    â€œStop! STOP!” Plankton warned. SpongeBob let go of the key. “Let me get up there,” Plankton continued. “I’m smaller. I won’t wake him up.”
    Plankton jumped onto Patrick and climbed up to the key. He yanked the chain free, but then the key sliddown Patrick’s chest, heading straight for his belly button. Plankton leapt onto the key and rode it like a snowboard.
    â€œYAAAAHHH!” he screamed as he headed into Patrick’s belly button. Just as he and the key were about to completely disappear into the depths of Patrick’s navel, SpongeBob plucked them out, covered in gross lint.
    They had the key! Success!
    Except—at that very moment, Patrick woke up.
    When he saw SpongeBob and Patrick, he pulled out a giant whistle and inhaled, ready to blow a mighty blast!
    â€œNO!” SpongeBob yelled, tackling Patrick. The two buddies struggled. Patrick kept trying to put his lips on the whistle, but SpongeBob kept stopping him.
    â€œPlankton, help!” SpongeBob shouted. “I’ll rock him, and you tell him a bedtime story!”
    SpongeBob flipped Patrick over onto his lap. Plankton jumped onto Patrick’s belly and talked quickly. “Once upon a time there was a big fat pink idiot who went to sleep. The end!”
    â€œNice try,” Patrick scoffed, “but it’s gonna take more than that to—”
    And he fell fast asleep.
    SpongeBob and Plankton lost no time using the key to open the door. They burst through to find …

… K aren chained to the wall!
    â€œI told you I don’t have the formula, you monsters!” cried Plankton’s computer wife.
    â€œHey, baby!” Plankton called. “How are you?”
    Karen was thrilled to see her husband. “Plankton! My hero!” She stopped. “You must need something. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have come back.”
    â€œPlankton has a plan to save Bikini Bottom!” SpongeBob said as he unlocked Karen’s chains.
    If Karen could have shaken her head, she would have. “It’s impossible, Sheldon,” she said. “Krabs knows all your plans. He’s been through my hard drive looking for the secret formula.”
    Plankton hung his head. “Eh, I never had it.” Then he looked up and smiled. “But we’re gonna get it! We’re going back in