I now give you the final chapter of Future Shock 2! I’d like to thank all those who read and reviewed all the chapters. You all now have the privilege of reading the last chapter (Even those who are just reading this now lol). SpongeBob has just defeated DarkEvil with his friends, now see them head back to the present. Enjoy the ending to the story.

Chapter 17: Beginning of the Future

Later on, SpongeBob, his future self, Buster, the triplets, Sandy, and her future self had met up with Squidward, Patrick, Crash, Junior, and Twitchy, and were now in the SquarePants living room.

“I can’t believe y’all beat DarkEvil LaserPants, Pa!” Crash said to SpongeBob in awe. “I wish I coulda saw that.”

“Yeah, you’re a hero!” Junior shouted.

“Wait, I thought I was the hero here!” Squidward pointed out.

“You are a hero, Squidward.” SpongeBob mentioned. “If you hadn’t defeated that Rocky-Bot, we’d all be doomed.”

“You’reheronumbertwo!” Twitchy rapidly said which seemed unintelligible to everyone except Crash who just grinned and held up two fingers.

“We’re all heroes.” Future SpongeBob stated.

“Future Me is right.” SpongeBob said with a smile. “I couldn’t have beaten DarkEvil without all of you guys.” He turned to Buster. “Especially you,” then to Sandy, “And you, Sandy.”

“It was a pleasure, SpongeBob.” Sandy smiled. “But, there’s somethin’ I’ve been meanin’ to tell you.”

SpongeBob had a surprised look as Sandy reached into her diving suit and took out the small purple box SpongeBob had. She opened it up to show the pearl back inside.

SpongeBob immediately recognized it. “Hey, that’s my- I mean…” he scratched the back of his head and got a nervous look. “Heh, eh, eh, eh…back there, I remember you saying…”

But Sandy put her hand on his shoulder and he stopped to stare at her as she said, “I said ‘yes’, remember?”

“Yeah…back when…” SpongeBob paused and shifted his eyes to the left to see Patrick giving him a wink and thumb up, and Squidward urging him to continue. Then he looks back at Sandy, and smiles. “You see, Sandy…all this time I thought I’d never get the courage to ask you. But, after all this wackiness that’s happened, I now know of the wonderful future I have waiting. And best of all…it’s with you.” When he hugged Sandy, this made most of the group go ‘aww’.

“SpongeBob’s growing up.” Patrick smiled as he wiped away a tear.

“Yeah…” Squidward also smiled until he suddenly frowned and began walking away. “It’s about time.”

Then Future SpongeBob announces, “Alright, fellas, we better get you all back to the past so all the events that lead to this future can occur!”

“You’re right,” Sandy nodded. “Let’s go!”

They went downstairs to the basement which was still pretty messy from the fight that had occurred.

“I’ll go set it to the correct time period.” Future Sandy said as she ran over to her time machine.

“So, SquarePants, what are you and the Mrs. gonna do since your place is totally trashed?” Squidward asked Future SpongeBob.

“Don’t worry. We can fix it.” Future SpongeBob answered in a confident tone. “Squidward would be glad to help along with Patrick once he gets back from his trip.”

“I’ll remember to say ‘no’ when the time comes.” Squidward said.

Suddenly the time machine turned on and Future Sandy stepped out from behind it. “It’s all ready.” Future Sandy stated.

“Well done, Goober-Pie.” Future SpongeBob smiled.

“Thank Neptune, I am outta here.” Squidward smiled in relief as he was about to run toward the portal.

“Wait, Uncle Squidward, don’t go yet!” Junior shouted as he clung around Squidward’s legs. “I wanna tell you I’ll miss you so much.” Squidward just stared at SpongeBob Jr. as the little sponge rubbed his head against him. “I’ll miss you, Uncle Squidward from the past.” He said warmly.

Squidward finally shook Junior off and started walking away. “Yeah, yeah…it gives me great pleasure knowing I’ll be seeing you in twenty years.”

“I’m so glad!” Junior just smiled and waved. “I feel that way too!”

Then Patrick said to Crash and Twitchy, “Thanks for the future pizza, guys.”

“Surething,UnclePatrick!” Twitchy said as he jumped up and down.

“A little thanks for helpin’ us.” Crash smiled with a wink.

Sally, Dolly, and Ally hug SpongeBob and Sandy.

“Good luck in the past.” Sally said, hugging Sandy.

“It was nice meetin’ our parents from the past.” Dolly smiled, hugging SpongeBob.

“We’ll miss you guys.” Ally said, hugging them both.

“I’ll miss you girls also.” SpongeBob smiled, hugging the triplets.

“Y’all take care of yourselves now.” Sandy warmly told them. “Listen to your parents and work hard on those inventions of yours.”

“Make some more of that High Inducing Energy Potion too.” SpongeBob suggested. “It really does work.”

“Uh huh!” the three nodded before they ran away giggling.

Then Crash, Twitchy, Junior came up to them. Junior jumped on SpongeBob and hugged him. “Goodbye, Daddy and Mommy, thanks for beating that mean DarkEvil.”

SpongeBob giggled in delight. “It was our pleasure.”

“You’reawesome!” Twitchy rapidly said while jumping in delight. “You’refromthepastandyou’reawesome!”

Crash giggle, “You ARE awesome, Ma and Pa.”

“A little word of advice from your future dad though, Crash.” SpongeBob said, turning to him. “Try and lay off all those dangerous stunts you do.”

“Aw, come on, Pa.” Crash groaned and slumped. “You know I love it.”

“He’s right, Crash.” Sandy said sternly. “You should stop before ya break somethin’ important.”

Crash sighed, “Alright, I won’t do anymore stunts…” then he secretly smiled. “…much.”

“Well, you wreckin’ we outta be goin’ back now?” Sandy asked SpongeBob.

“You bet, Sandy.” SpongeBob happily replied until he looked back. “Although, there’s something I should do first.”

He walked near the front of the basement to where Buster was standing alone. “Hey, Buster.” He greeted. “Well, I guess this is goodbye…for now.”

Buster turned his eyes away from SpongeBob and shyly replied, “Yeah…I guess.”

SpongeBob giggled a bit until he said, “Listen, Buster, I know we haven’t really seen eye-to-eye, and I know I kinda didn’t really follow that-”

“Are you kidding, SpongeBob?” Buster interrupted, “You were awesome.”

“I was?” SpongeBob asked in surprise.

Buster quickly blushed and sheepishly said, “Well…I mean, yes…you beat DarkEvil, and…saved me.”

SpongeBob smiled and laughed. “You were pretty amazing yourself, Buster.” He then hugged him until he realized something and quickly let him go. “Oops, forgot you didn’t like that.”

Buster lightly chuckled, “Thanks…” he then got a sad frown. “I guess this really is goodbye. And…I’m sorry about everything I said before. I just thought since I was the one who caused this, I should be the one to fix it on my own and that…I didn’t need you.”

“Oh, Buster,” SpongeBob smiled widely as he held Buster’s face. “There’s no need to apologize. So what if you made a mistake like bringing an evil version of me into the future? You fixed it; you and me both. We made the perfect team back there, and I couldn’t be more proud of you.”

Buster removed SpongeBob’s hands from his face and smiled, “Thanks…for everything, SpongeBob.” Then he shifted his eyes away as he continued saying, “You’re the best…Dad.”

When SpongeBob heard this, he got a happy smile and moaned excitedly as if he wanted something. Buster noticed this and got a somewhat annoyed look as he rolled his eyes and reluctantly spread his arms out.

“Hooray!” SpongeBob cheered and ran up to Buster, happily hugging him while Buster just stood in his arms, not saying anything.

“Come on already!” Squidward said impatiently. “Let’s leave before things get even more cheesy and disgusting.”

He then walked through the time machine portal, and then Patrick ran through next while giggling.

SpongeBob walked over to Sandy, and she said, “Well, SpongeBob, you ready to head on home and continue toward our future.”

“I’m ready.” SpongeBob replied with a grin as he and Sandy grab hands and jump into the portal.

The kids waved while Junior shouted, “Bye Past Mommy and Daddy! See ya again!”

Buster then walked over next to Future SpongeBob. “Hey, Buster,” Future SpongeBob began saying. “Next time you accidentally bring about a horrible villain, how about warning me before you bring my past self here?”

Buster got a small smile that no one seemed to notice as he replied, “I’ll keep that in mind, Dad.”

Sometime later, back in the present, it was a nice sunny day in Bikini Bottom. On Conch Street in front of SpongeBob’s pineapple, the front door opened up as SpongeBob stood there with a big smile on his face and he inhaled the fresh air.

Then he strutted out of the house and onto the street. “Hi SpongeBob!” Patrick waved to him from in front of his rock.

“Hi Patrick!” SpongeBob greeted back.

“Where’re you headed?” Patrick asked.

SpongeBob got a sheepish smile as he answered, “Oh, I’m off to a certain someone’s place where I’ll spend time with that certain someone.”

“Ohhh…” Patrick said in an understanding tone. “Maybe you should ask Sandy to hang out with you and that certain someone.”

SpongeBob giggled and started walking away, “See ya later, Patrick!” he waved.

Soon, he started walking past the Krusty Krab where Squidward was washing the outside windows.

He turns his head to see SpongeBob going by. “Well, well, SpongeBob. Off somewhere I assume.”

SpongeBob stopped and answered with a wink. “You bet, Squidward. I bet you don’t know where.”

“Would it be your ‘Goober-Pie’?” Squidward guessed as he tried to contain his laughter.

SpongeBob got a surprised look and blushed a little. “Heh, eh, eh, eh…kinda. She’s more of a girlfriend/fiancé type deal.”

“Whatever, SpongeBob,” Squidward said as he turned his head back to the window he was washing. “Just keep going to whatever type deal she is.”

“Can do, Squidward!” SpongeBob excitedly said as he continued skipping on ahead.

Mr. Krabs poked his head out of the Krusty Krab door, spotting SpongeBob. “Well, I’ll be. So the lad actually did it.” He noticed. “He must’ve gone through a lot of trouble to get her to say ‘yes’.”

Squidward just answered, “You have no idea.”

Soon, SpongeBob reached Sandy’s treedome and went inside the front door after putting on his water helmet. When he knocked on the second door and the water started to drain, he took out a small flower he brought for Sandy and took a sniff of it before the water completely drained.

Then, the front door opened and Sandy stood there with a smile on her face. “Well, howdy, SpongeBob. Been expectin’ you.”

“Not as much as I’ve been expecting myself to show up.” SpongeBob replied as he handed Sandy the flower and she happily took it.

“Oh, SpongeBob, you’re all too sweet.” Sandy said while walking away as SpongeBob followed.

“You know, Sandy, I’ve been doing some thinking lately.” SpongeBob suddenly said.

“What kind of thinkin’?” Sandy wondered.

SpongeBob nervously scratched the side of his helmet. “Well, before all this insanity and time-travel happened, I loved my life so much that I never wanted to change it. But, when I soon realized that popping the question to you would change a lot of it, I wasn’t sure what would happen after that. But…” he gulped and started to blush. “I’ve seen…the…and- No wait! Let me start again!”

However, Sandy smiled and put her hands together. “Aw, SpongeBob, that’s the sweetest thing you almost ever dun said.”

Then Sandy walked over to him and put her hands on the side of his helmet. “I’m lookin’ forward to the future too.”

She stood in front of SpongeBob and placed a kiss on the front of his helmet where his lips normally would be. After she stepped away, SpongeBob stood there with a shocked look until his eyes go droopy and a silly smile went across his face which continued to stay there until he fell on the ground in faint.

Sandy stared at the passed out love struck sponge on the ground. “Boy, things sure are gonna be interestin’.”

The End

Ta da! I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter of the story. Sadly, there won’t be a third story. I just think that right here is a good place to stop. But, I will be writing more SpongeBob stories including others, and you can find more on my profile. Well, review this chapter and what you thought of the story and thank you for reading and enjoying.