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this?”
    â€œIt’s Thursday,” Patrick answered.
    â€œAccording to my calculations, we’ve only gone four days into the future,” Plankton explained.
    Patrick was celebrating. “They said you’d never come back, but I knew you would!”
    â€œWhere’s the Krusty Krab?” SpongeBob asked, looking around.
    Patrick shrugged. “Same place it’s always been,” he said.
    A gust of wind blew away sand from underneath Patrick, revealing that he was sitting on the Krusty Krab’s old sign.
    â€œI’m sorry, Patrick!” SpongeBob said. “I’m sorry I letyou down!”
    â€œDon’t apologize to me!” Patrick said. “Apologize to HIM!”
    SpongeBob looked confused. “Him?”
    Patrick pulled in his stomach, making a crease that looked like a mouth. Then his stomach spoke! “If I don’t get a Krabby Patty soon, I’m going to eat you AND your friend!” it growled.
    Horrified, Patrick cried, “He’s joking! He’s got a really great sense of humor!”
    But Patrick’s stomach turned into a huge mouth and started gobbling up the Krusty Krab sign. Patrick screamed!
    SpongeBob and Plankton ran back to their time machine and climbed in. “Well, the GREEN button didn’t work, so let’s try the RED one!” Plankton said, pushing it.
    VRROOM! WHIRRR!
    The time machine disappeared!

O nce again, SpongeBob and Plankton hurtled through time and space. When they opened the photo booth curtain, they peeked out and saw …
    â€¦ nothing. Everywhere they looked, they saw gray nothingness.
    â€œUh-oh,” SpongeBob said. “This still looks like the future!”
    He and Plankton stepped out of the time machine and found themselves in a great hall. They cautiously followed a long corridor. At the end of the corridor, they could see a mysterious hooded figure standing with his back to them.
    They approached the figure. “Excuse me, sir,” SpongeBob asked politely. “Could you tell us WHEN we are?”
    Without turning around, the figure spoke in a low voice. “Who dares disturb the One Who Watches?”
    â€œThe One Who Watches?” SpongeBob said. “Your name is The One Who Watches?”
    â€œNo!” the hooded figure said. “My true name is … BUBBLES!”
    The figure turned around. It was a dolphin!
    â€œBubbles?” Plankton said, laughing. “What kind of a name is Bubbles?”
    The hooded dolphin drew himself up with great dignity and said, “It is my ancient dolphin name.”
    â€œWhat’s a dolphin doing out in the middle of space?” SpongeBob asked.
    Bubbles looked out the window. “My kind have been watching and protecting the galaxy for ten thousand years.”
    SpongeBob suddenly understood. “So YOU’RE the one keeping the meteors from hitting us!”
    Bubbles nodded solemnly. “Yes, I am. I could really do with a toilet break. Would you mind keeping an eye on things?”
    â€œSure thing!” SpongeBob said. Then he thought of something. “WHAT am I keeping my eye on?” he called after the dolphin.
    But Bubbles had already left, closing the bathroom door behind him. SpongeBob walked over to the window and stood still, staring.
    â€œWhat are you doing?” Plankton asked, tugging SpongeBob’s arm.
    â€œI’m watching,” SpongeBob answered.
    â€œBut you don’t even know what you’re watching FOR!”
    â€œWell, like, meteors! And black holes! And … more meteors!”
    As SpongeBob stared out the window, two planets orbited into view. “Wow, there sure is a LOT to watch. Maybe we should split up the workload.” He pointed to the two planets. “You watch the one with the big red eye and I’ll watch the one with the ringy thingies. Like a team!”
    As SpongeBob and Plankton watched, the two planets slowly moved toward each other.
    â€œOkay,