SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Junior Novel by Nickelodeon Publishing Page B

before you hurt yourself?”
    Burger Beard put his Burgermobile in gear and hit the gas, but the vehicle wouldn’t move. When Burger Beard looked around again, he saw the reason.
    Plankton now had a huge, strong body! He was holding one end of the truck up over his head. He shifted his hands and lifted the entire Burgermobile over his head!
    â€œPlankton?” SpongeBob asked when he saw the new version of his teammate.
    â€œIt’s Plank-TON!” Plankton roared. He flipped the Burgermobile upside down and shook it. Burger Beard screamed as he fell. He managed to snag the broken mast and climb up into the ship-truck through a trapdoor in the deck.
    Plankton growled, flipped the ship right-side up, shook it, and spun it around. Inside, Burger Beard was pinned to the wall by the force of Plankton’s spinning. Kitchen knives flew at Plankton, narrowly missing him.
    Plankton’s huge red eye peered through the window of the Burgermobile. “Come out, come out, wherever you are….”
    Burger Beard squeezed hot sauce straight into Plankton’s eye!
    â€œMY EYE!” Plankton screamed. He threw the food truck down onto its side, and Burger Beard jumped out and ran down the street.
    â€œHe’s getting away!” SpongeBob yelled.
    Plankton jumped out from behind the ruined Burgermobile. “Ready for a Plank-TON of bubbles?” he asked.
    SpongeBob smiled and nodded. Plankton picked him up, took a deep breath, and BLEW through SpongeBob’s bubble wand. A massive cloud of bubbles headed for Burger Beard.
    The pirate looked back and saw an avalanche of bubbles bearing down on him. He tried to run, but slipped and slid so much on the soapy bubbles that he ended up running in place. Plankton reached down and picked him up by the hat.
    Holding Burger Beard in one hand, Plankton held out his other hand and said, “The secret Krabby Patty formula, please.”
    â€œCome on!” Burger Beard pleaded. “Team up with ME! We’ll be RICH and POWERFUL!”
    SpongeBob and Patrick gasped. Would Plankton accept the pirate’s offer?

P lankton shook his head. “No, thanks,” he told Burger Beard. “I’m already part of a teamwork.”
    He moved his hand closer to the pirate. Burger Beard gave him the bottle that held the secret formula. Plankton drew back his muscular foot and punted the pirate far, far away.
    â€œYAAAAAH!” Burger Beard screamed as he flew through the air. He returned to the deserted island where he’d lost all his treasure, buried up to his neck in sand. A seagull landed on his bare head. Burger Beard moaned.
    Back on the boardwalk, Patrick asked, “Can we do hands in the middle again?”
    â€œYes, we can, Patrick!” SpongeBob agreed. “But this time, there’s ONE MORE HAND to go in the middle!”
    SpongeBob put his hand in. Patrick put his on top of SpongeBob’s, followed by Mr. Krabs’s, Squidward’s, and Sandy’s.
    But where was Plankton’s?
    â€œPlankton?” SpongeBob asked, looking for their last team member.
    Plankton was standing nearby, staring at the secret formula in his hand. The secret formula he’d been trying to get ahold of for so many years.
    â€œHmm …,” he said, thinking.
    â€œOh, no!” Mr. Krabs gasped, thinking Plankton was going to keep the formula for himself.
    Plankton handed the bottle to Mr. Krabs. “Here you go, Krabs. She’s all yours.”
    Mr. Krabs joyfully took the bottle. Then he looked suspicious. “This doesn’t have another insulting note in it, does it?”
    â€œNo,” Plankton said. “That’s the OLD me, the one who turned his back on everything important just to have that formula all to himself. But I realize now that keeping something to myself is … selfish.”
    â€œEspecially when that something is the Krabby Patty,” SpongeBob said, smiling proudly. He turned to the other