The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run is a Huge Lazy Mess…Which is why somebody else had to fix it because no one else did it before Me.
I wanted to do my own personal little re-written take on the Third Movie of what could’ve been handled if it was written better like the First Two Movies, that is if it didn’t started the Spin-offs that No one ever asked for. But I’m still one of these people who have mixed feelings on the Third Movie and its Spin-Offs, this movie isn’t really the best but at least it’s still holds up as a tribute to Stephen Hillenburg. Anyway, here’s a New Plot for my own take on Sponge On The Run.
The Concept of this Plot is basically the same; SpongeBob and Patrick go on an Adventure, Sage is their Male Mindy, Poseidon from Greek Mythology is the Main Antagonist, however, I made some slight changes.
1. This does not including the Flashbacks of Kamp Koral, the Retconned Past is not included since I scrapped out the Kamp Koral idea.
2. The plot of this version mainly focuses on the Boundaries between SpongeBob and his Entire Friends similar to how The First Movie focuses on the Boundary of SpongeBob and the Krusty Krab (to learn on how to be yourself as a Grown-Up) and how the Second Movie focuses on the Boundary between SpongeBob and Plankton, here, this does not just focus on the Boundary between SpongeBob and Gary but to Him and all of his own Main Friends. Instead of having a similar exact plot to “Have You Seen This Snail?”
3. Since it’s meant to be an AU version of the Third Movie, in my AU of SpongeBob, the Modern Seasons take place after the events of the First Movie since Mindy had a cameo in SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout (which leads me into thinking that the Show somehow actually takes place after the events of the First Movie despite that the First Movie is meant to be a Series Finale/End to the Show).
NEW PLOT!
In this re-telling of Mine, SpongeBob heads to work while Plankton is still plotting for revenge for the Krabby Patty secret formula just like in the Movie, only then, Sandy builds Otto as a New Employee to the Krusty Krab to wash dishes instead of having an assistant for Mr. Krabs. After work, SpongeBob and Squidward head back home as Squidward carries SpongeBob all the way home as Patrick was waiting for his Best Friend then the two hung out for the Night. SpongeBob is incredibly bored because he often wonders on what is more outside around of the Bikini Bottom that He and his Friends never traveled to before and begins to wonder if there ever more Different Kinds of Sea Creatures out there that possibly never been found or at least ones who have been forgotten.
Meanwhile, like in the movie, we are introduced to Another Sea King, Poseidon (The Greek Counterpart of King Neptune). And this point in my version, he isn’t too obsessed for himself but rather more vain and selfish with Pride as he is as he enjoys taking care of the Kingdom like a Snobby King but treating his own servants like garbage. Poseidon is very often bored since he’s very tired of Neptune getting all the attention his Roman Counterpart deserves so he decides to set up a New Kingdom for a New Palace and he somehow plans to overthrown King Neptune.
Meanwhile, at the Palace of King Neptune, he was often busy doing his own Royal Dueties as King while still living with his own Wife and their Children (1 Son and 2 Daughters), he had sent his own Other Child left to a Royal Summer School for Princesses where they had to learn on how to be Future Queens (which is his Daughter, Mindy who was sent there by her own Parents). Although while Mindy was at a Princess School, she was learning very well on her studies for future royalty (alongside with the Other Princess Students) but she couldn’t help but noticed but missing some of her old friends back in the Bikini Bottom.
When Poseidon declares a New Land for a New Kingdom in exchange for an award for someone, Plankton figures out a Best Idea to have the Krabby Patty Secret Formula all to himself; Have the Krusy Krab be sold, then, have the Formula as an Award for the Chum Bucket. When Poseidon steps in the Bikini Bottom for a New Land, he wants to condemn the entire City as a New Land for his own New Palace as he marks the Bikini Bottom as a New Land for himself while making some changes around in the City leading into the Bikini Bottom now having both a New Mayor/Ruler/King of the Sea that being the Greek God of the Seas himself as Poseidon gains a New Kingdom for his New Land. SpongeBob becomes heartbroken as he’s desperately upset that this City will change differently no thanks to the Cruel Selfish Greek Counterpart of Neptune himself, SpongeBob had always grew up around in the Bikini Bottom as his often scared for the New Future of his City now that Poseidon is taking over it with a lot of Bad Changes such as replacing the Krusty Krab with the Chum Bucket.
When King Neptune hears about the New Kingdom that Poseidon is setting in, he doesn’t mind but at the Summer School when every Student hears about the News through a Radio, Mindy begins to worry since the friends that she knew from their Adventure of the First Movie live in the Bikini Bottom so the Princess sneaks out that Night and heads towards her own Father to look for help for the Said City. Tired but couldn’t stand the New Change, SpongeBob decides that now would be the time to ask King Neptune to get his own City back so Neptune can confront Poseidon about having the Bikini Bottom being owned by Him. SpongeBob goes along with Patrick and much like in the Movie, Plankton sends them off with Otto taking SpongeBob and Patrick along with. During the Journey, SpongeBob and Patrick accidentally bumped in towards Mindy, who’s also looking for Neptune as Mindy joins in the Duo’s Adventure as they continued on their Journey together to find King Neptune before it’s all too late for the Bikini Bottom.
Up in the surface, a Group of Mermaid Sisters that are the Daughters of Nereus and Doris are chilling up on the Surface. Out of the most Elderly and Middlest Mermaids was Salacia (One of the Middlest Daughters of Nereus), described being the most Beautiful and Lovely, was busy decorating her own Crown with Seashells like a Flower Crown. When The Trio came up to the surface, they asked the Mermaid Sisters for directions if they could find the Roman God himself but the Mermaid Sisters don’t know since they are not the Daughters of Neptune unlike Mindy who is the Daughter of an Actual Roman Deity. The Sisters began to tease on the Gang (mostly around SpongeBob and Patrick) until Salacia comes in a great approach which stops the Bullying for a moment. Salacia introduces herself to the Trio as the Trio explain that they’re looking for King Neptune and that they would need a path to find the Roman God himself. For someone who once knew where it is, Salacia tells them that the Road to King Neptune under the sea is straight towards the Right Side far away throughout the Sea.
The Trio thank Salacia as they jumped back in the sea, leaving the Mermaid Sisters behind, but Salacia on the Other Hand was so tired of her Sisters’ Sarcastic Nature, she decided to join in the Trio’s Quest because she figured that she would wanted to help out to show the Trio the way of where Neptune is.
Back at the Bikini Bottom, with the Krusty Krab now cancelled, Squidward has a new job now with Mr. Krabs lost all the Money to his restaurant that was now cancelled. Sandy even spies on Poseidon with her own flying machine as she watches through it in her Tree Dome, she hears little talks about Poseidon and the Chancellor’s conversation on how to overthrow Neptune just so that Poseidon can be claimed as the New and Main Ruler of all of the Seas for Himself. Shocking the Squirrel Girl, Sandy tells Mr. Krabs and Squidward about Poseidon’s true secret as they were about to warn the whole Bikini Bottom but they ended up getting caught by Poseidon’s guards in the Greek God’s clutches. The Chancellor finds Sandy’s Spying Flying Machine that she left as Poseidon instantly makes SpongeBob’s friends into slaves for new servants around in his Kingdom as the Three Friends were now forced to work at the King’s Domain. Poseidon even made Gary to have his slime be used as a cream for his face like in the Movie.
The Entire Staff of the Princess School (mostly likely the Teachers who worked there) have realized that the Daughter of King Neptune has gone missing. Fearing of the King’s Troubles, they sent out on a Search Party to look for his Missing Daughter.
During the Gang’s Journey, in a Campfire, Salacia does get to know about SpongeBob, Patrick, and even Mindy as they would tell stories to each other of their lives as Salacia would always tell her own stories about her own life and how that she was the most different Mermaid out of most of the Merfolks under the sea who had deep care for Marine Animals like Fish than Her own Kind. The New Mermaid Friend explains to herself that throughout her life, she had a huge fascination with Marine Animals as she used to befriend a one particular Dolphin Girl and other Small Sea Creatures but Salacia and her Family had to move away, thus, she never saw her one true dolphin childhood friend again. Soon after as the years go by for Salacia’s growth, her Elder Sisters began to have Boyfriends that Nereus would always arrange his Daughters for Future Marriages for both his Daughters for their Mermen Lovers as Salacia was once in a forced marriage with a Snobby Prince but she and her Old Said Boyfriend broke up as life was hard for Her growing up. The Trio felt for Salacia as Mindy truly understands her as she felt that she was in the same place as Salacia too, so SpongeBob thought that befriending a New Mermaid would perhaps be a very good choice for Salacia since everyone who has lived a harsh life deserves friends.
When the Gang continue on their Journey, they almost get crashed by a Giant Bounder that almost hits them but the Gang are saved by a Spiritual Magical Ancient Sea Dragon who guides them by the same, “Sage”. Sage decides to help out the Gang as he leads them towards the way as a Guide to help the Young Heroes for their Journey of the Roman God in order for the Said Gang to face up some Challenges. Unaware that the Gang are being watched, when Poseidon realizes that his new servants’ friends including the Sponge Guy are gone, Poseidon looks through his Magic Crystal Ball and sees SpongeBob and his Friends going through an Adventure to find Neptune. Angered by this situation that the Joyful Sponge himself is actually going to tell Neptune the truth, however, Poseidon then gets surprised when the Lovely Mermaid Salacia herself gets caught towards Poseidon’s attention as Salacia’s Beauty fills Poseidon with the Fire of Heart as Poseidon immediately falls in love with her.
The Gang first come across a Bar that invested with Ghost Pirates as they drink over for some beer until they meet the Leader of the Ghost Pirate Bar, El Diablo. Much like in the Movie, SpongeBob and Patrick are send by El Diablo’s office, the Boys accidentally disintegrate Him, the Pirate Spirits are free. The Gang have passed their own First Challenge thanks to Sage as Sage gives them the Challenge Coin that SpongeBob and his Friends had when they were at the bar. When Poseidon kepts watching the Sponge and his Friends go by throughout their journey, Poseidon figures out a plan to stop the Sponge and his Friends by distracting them to go to the Other/Wrong way instead of the right way that they were heading for with the use of his own Magic. But when SpongeBob’s friends hear about the News that SpongeBob and Patrick with the help of some Mermaids are on their way to help, they were so happy that they were gonna get rescued by their own Heroic Friend, but not on to Poseidon’s watch.
At the Chum Bucket, while Plankton is so happy that his own restaurant is finally getting the attention it deserves as he now sells Krabby Patties thanks to Poseidon who gave him his own award, the Arch-Nemesis of the Said Crab begins to miss the Old Days of how things used to be before the terrible change.
As the Gang were almost there to Neptune’s Kingdom, Poseidon instantly tricks them through his Magic Crystal Ball into having a sign that leads towards the left side which makes the Friends accidentally go to the Other Way which turns out is a mistake as the Friends were then caught by the Slugs lead by the Slug King. The Slug King then forces SpongeBob, Patrick, and Mindy as his slaves by doing the chores while the Said Slug King himself wants to make Salacia as a Slug Queen but Salacia instantly disgusted by the Slug King’s ugliness and refuses to marry him. Since Salacia rejected him, Slug King decides to make Salacia as his Main Slave Girl with The Gang now working as New Servants for a King of Royal Slugs.
However, SpongeBob instantly comes up with a Plan as he tricks the Slug King into eating a Grain of Salt in Bread which burns his Mouth as the Gang manage to escape causing the Slug Guards to chase after them but Sage saves them as he scares the Slugs off with his Fire Powers. As the Gang continue on their Journey, they were somehow far away from the Bikini Bottom, sensing that they were getting close to Neptune’s Kingdom. However, they instantly ran over into a Kraken that tries to attack them causing the Gang to Panic as the Kraken tries to attack but chases after them. The Kraken instantly captures Mindy but Patrick saves her as he instantly punches the Kraken right into the Eye as Salacia and Sage push a Bounder right over the Kraken as the Said Sea Beast dies.
After a Long Rough Journey, the Gang finally made it towards the Land of King Neptune around his Kingdom. SpongeBob and his Friends silently but slowly walk quietly towards the Kingdom inside around in the Halls to look for the Roman God himself. Unfortunately, when the Gang accidentally crash into Neptune’s stuff, it causes a big huge loud noise as Neptune turns and sees SpongeBob and his Friends in his Kingdom without permission to come in. The Roman God felt horrified of why they came here (especially his Daughter), but Mindy tries to explain that they wanted her Father’s help to stop Poseidon but the Said Roman God doesn’t believe in his Daughter’s foolishness as he thinks it’s a trick that they’re pulling out so he kicks them out right into the curve.
When Mindy is finally found after all those Days by one of her School’s Teachers, King Neptune is very disappointed in his Daughter that she ran away, Mindy was sent back to Princess School, thus, the Friends had to split apart. When SpongeBob and Patrick failed to save their town, they decided to head home but Sage says to not gave up. Fortunately the Duo didn’t care anymore as this was a hard decision that they for now had to accept it as they immediately head back to the Bikini Bottom. All that was left was Salacia, who felt bad for her New Friends since the Four Had at least a Fun Journey that they all went through. Salacia felt in sorrow for she felt bad for both of her new friends but what’s importantly of all was that she was all alone without them while Sage had no choice but disappear in magic.
Salacia sat down in a rock for she began to cry up, thinking of all the harsh times that she has been throughout the years especially in both of her Childhood and her Adulthood when she had a rough time making relationships. When Poseidon sees her crying all alone through his Crystal Ball, he instantly comes up with a plan to have her; make her his Wife and New Queen of the Seas, then, overthrow Neptune, since he’s been obsessing over for her for Days just thinking about her. As the Greek God teleports him and his carriage as he tricks a Dolphin into luring her, Salacia meets Poseidon the very first time in his Carriage as He asks her to join him and be his Bride. Without any further of a second choice, Salacia accepts, only because she wants to know what the Bikini Bottom looks like since it’s the place that SpongeBob lives there.
When Sage finds out about this, he immediately runs back into SpongeBob and Patrick (who were just going on their way home) as he warns them that Poseidon has captured Salacia which shockens the Duo for a moment as Sage immediately takes them back to the Bikini Bottom to go save her and their entire town.
During her stay in the Bikini Bottom, Poseidon showed her around the new palace that she will now live in, Salacia was impressed and amazed by the place but deep down, she missed her new friends since they were very close to her that no one other friend was to her in her life. While SpongeBob and Patrick were heading back to save the Bikini Bottom, Poseidon and Salacia do quite to get to know each other some quite time as Salacia develops a crush on him even after when they figured out on how to start a good relationship before marrying each other. Unaware that Salacia is also now secretly in love with him, even when Poseidon introduced his Bride to his own pet sea horse, Arion (the Baby Horse that he raised since Ancient Times). Poseidon decides to put up a wedding so Salacia could become his Queen of their New Kingdom.
When the Duo finally made it back to the Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob calls Mindy and tells her to bring Her Father to come over because Poseidon has kidnapped Salacia to make her his Queen of the Sea as Mindy immediately gets to her own School’s Principal. Plankton decides to help in only because he’s doing this just to have the Good Old Days back because he’s now very tired and bored of how new things are turning out and he only wants to save his Arch-Rival. Sage wishes them a good luck to them as he flies off to go get the King Neptune’s. When Plankton and the Duo sneak fully run up towards Poseidon’s Palace, they start freeing the Rest of the Bikini Bottomites and their own Friends out of their Cages as Sandy, Krabs, Squidward, and Gary team up with SpongeBob to stop Poseidon before it’s too late.
Poseidon forms up a Date in the Lounge that he orders his Servants to help out just so that he could propose to her where he could wed her and finally make her Queen. Unaware that the Heroic Duo are now back, Salacia joins in the Date that Poseidon set for them as the servants appreciated their new upcoming Queen. After watching acts on the Stage, it was now the perfect time for the Greek Sea King to propose to Salacia with a Wedding Ring that he grabbed out but that gets instantly ruined when SpongeBob and his Friends stop King Poseidon and even save their New Mermaid Friend.
Surprised to see that the Heroes have now come back, Salacia was happy to see her new friends again as SpongeBob got her back as Poseidon immediately pulls out his Trident and even attacks SpongeBob and their Friends as he chases them through the entire kingdom leaving Salacia behind as she tried to stop her future husband but Poseidon was out of rage outside of the Palace. SpongeBob and Poseidon ended up having a big battle throughout the entire chase of his Kingdom as Poseidon keeps trying to zap SpongeBob but fails. Sage even back as he saved SpongeBob in the middle of a Fight as Poseidon instantly zapped Sage right into his back as the Sea Dragon falls down on the ground, outside of Poseidon’s Kingdom.
SpongeBob is now in shocked for his Sea Dragon Mentor was now hurt down as he comforted his dragon friend, but when Poseidon walks down outside as he was about to finish up the Sponge, but the battle roughly ends when The Famous Roman Sea God come in and stop Poseidon, even Mindy and Salacia were at The Roman King’s side while protecting SpongeBob and his Friend while Patrick and the Gang instantly walked down and were surprised to see The Two Sea Kings thanks to Sage who convinced the Roman King. Neptune is deeply disappointed in Poseidon but his Greek Counterpart said that he didn’t mean any of it and that he just wanted to get all the attention that he deserves as a True Main Sea King but Neptune refuses to have Poseidon be the Main Ruler of the Sea since he stated that he had the right to be the chosen one as Main Ruler of the Seas and therefore not Poseidon.
SpongeBob explains that the Bikini Bottom is their only home to live and that they need their home in order to survive and live since it’s not meant to be a place for Rulers to rule there. Neptune felt disappointed in his Greek Counterpart as Poseidon apologizes since he was only a bit jealous of Neptune gaining more popularity by the Fish Folks under the sea as Neptune forgives his apology as he is sorry for overshadowing him, but Poseidon felt so lonely since he never had any love nor friends in his entire life as he cried, knowing that he had face up these consequences for all these years.
SpongeBob and Salacia stepped forward comforting the Greek God himself as they’ve decided to become Poseidon’s new friends as He and the Bikini Bottomines including the Other Sea King and Mindy forgive Him. Salacia does accept his apology as he tells him that she was once unloved too and that no man ever came into her life before Poseidon chose her. With a cheer up of a kiss, Poseidon feels a lot better as he proposes to Salacia, to in which, she accepts his proposal as The Two Wed in the Bikini Bottom with Salacia now Second Queen of the Sea.
Salacia thanks SpongeBob for the Adventure that she gave as Salacia now stays with Poseidon as her new husband as the two leave the City as they now go back to his Old Palace where it was now redesigned as Poseidon and Salacia become the Second Royal Couple under the Sea while the Bikini Bottom was now fully restored (even the Krusty Krab was now back in business with Plankton returning the Formula to Krabs) as Merfolk from King Neptune’s Kingdom would now a days pay a visit to the Bikini Bottom along with The Main Royal Mermaid Kings including Mindy and Salacia, who often visit their friends as Mindy would sometimes bring her own Siblings with her whenever they would visit the Bikini Bottom.
I decided to make Sage into a Sea Dragon as an Inspiration for a Chinese Dragon from Chinese Mythology/Folklore since they represent Good Luck in Chinese Culture since Sage somewhat reminded Me of a Wise Chinese Dragon (hence, that’s why I changed his design). Also, since it’s actually meant to be an AU, Poseidon’s disguise form in this is actually his actual true form and not an Old Man in disguise since I’m more used to his Other Form than the True One. Also, in this version, this re-written story develops friendships and relationships slowly instead of having it rush like in the Movie, so in this version of mine, the Portrayal of Poseidon in this gets to have more character instead of less screen-time.
Also, before you guys kindly asked, I’ve decided to have King Neptune and Queen Amphitrite to have Three Daughters instead of just One based on the one version where the Actual Sea Rulers had Three Daughters and One Son.
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