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“I’m telling you Karen this time I’m really gonna get the krabby patty formula and everyone’s going to start eating at the chum bucket!” the thumb declares proudly dancing around his wife to reach for a piece of cardboard.
“How are you going to do it then?” she asks so dryly she’d probably be rolling her eyes if she had them.
“Just wait and see Karen wait and see!” he responds running off.
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Two hours later Thumbton is stood outside the Krusty Krab trying to plan his way in. As he hasn’t actually made a plan for what he’s gonna do realising that in the past his plans hadn’t actually worked so maybe if he just thumbed it -like winged it but thumbed it as he’s a thumb and he’s funny- it would work.
Gathering all his strength and making himself as big as possible he charges into the building pushing his way through all the fish he makes his way to the front.
“Oh, hey Thumbton” SpongeBob says when he sees him.
“No time!” he shouts back leaping over the counter and charging through to the back room where he knew they kept the secret krabby patty formula.
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The next thing he knows he’s made his way past everyone and even thumbed his way into the vault now all he needs to do is grab it and run. “I win” he whispers to himself “I win.” He jumps up stretching his thumbs -he doesn’t have fingers just five thumbs on a hand- and the formulas within reach when-
“A thumb!” he hears a voice shout “just what I needed. I lost mine.” He turns round confused and finds himself face to face with Patrick the flipping starfish. He sees the hand reach out and grab him and finds himself being pulled all the way back until they’re outside the fish’s house.
Patrick drops him for a second going to open it up when-
“Wait a second it wasn’t my thumb I lost it was my belly button never mind.” The starfish shrugs and walks off.
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“Let me guess another failure” the robot asks as Thumbton trudges back in wearily.
“Go away Karen” he mumbles dropping his thumbhead onto his desk.