Week 11 Story: Plankton and Krabs the Greedy

Far Far Away, in a town deep deep below the sea there was a crab. This was no ordinary crab. He was a very greedy one. His name Eugene. Eugene Krabs. His goal, to have the best burger in town. He would search far and wide for the best recipe. He would give away his junk and make profits off of it. Why? Because one mans junk is another mans treasure as he would say. However, in the same town lived a Plankton, who's name was well Plankton. He too wanted to be like Mr. Krabs and have the best burger. However, he was not so greedy. He really had nothing to his name but an old run down bucket that he used as a restaurant and a computer for a wife. These two were the best friends growing up but the search for the best burger caused them to grow apart.

Krabs vs. Plankton (source: Odysse)

After years and years of searching they had not found the special recipe that would make everyone love their food. Out of fear that the other would find it they both kept up the search. They both felt like the hit Rock Bottom after all these years. Then it clicked. Rock Bottom. They had not searched there, so both of them went to the small town of Rock Bottom.

Mr. Krabs arrived their first and started to explore. Plankton got there a little later and was on the other side exploring. Occasionally they would see each other and would glare and go back searching.

Mr. Krabs came across this household that was obviously very poor. He thought about skipping it simply just because of the way it looked. However, he went in. He told them what he was looking for. The young girl in the house needed money to survive. She begged him to please help her out and he said not without giving me what I deseire. The young girl began to cry "I don't know if I have what you are looking for. I just have this old cookbook my grandfather gave me." Mr. Krabs scoffed. "I could buy a cookbook from the store. Why would I want your grandfathers?" said Mr. Krabs. The young girl looked at him and said "he always made the best food and his burgers were my favorite."  Mr.Krabs asked to look at the book. He flipped through the pages and it seemed like a normal cookbook. However tucked between some pages was a recipe, a recipe to his burger. Mr. Krabs had to hold back his excitement. He knew this could possibly lead him to a fortune but as a cheap and greedy crab he did not want to pay much for this so he said it was not valuable and all he could give her was 1cent. The girl cried and held on to the book so Mr. Krabs left and planned on returning to see if the girl would change her mind.

However, Plankton then came in when Mr. Krabs left. He told her what he was looking for and she said I don't have what you want. A crab came in here and told me that this book I had was pretty much worthless. Plankton the wise scientist, wanted to see this book and verify for himself. She showed him the book and he begin looking through it and saw the recipe. He said "That was a foolish crab. This book is so valuable. I will give you my restaurant and all the money I have. Use it to go to school and get a good life!" The girl was so happy that tears of joy began to leak out. Plankton quickly left the town and moved to a new city.

Mr. Krabs, eventually came back to the house and saw the girl moving. He said, "What happened? Have you gone broke?" "Oh, the contrary", she said, "I am rich. A little plankton came in and bought the book from me with all that he had." Mr. Krabs was furious. He knew his enemy had won. Krabs would no longer have the best burger under the sea.

Plankton started his own business in a new city. His burger gained a lot of popularity and within a couple of months, he was the richest person under the sea and had the best burger under the sea.

Authors Note: I modeled this story off of the Merchant of Seri by Ellen C. Babbitt. In the story there were two merchants that were friends. They both were selling things. One was greedy and wanted to get a bunch of things for as cheap as possible and then sell them for as expensive as possible. The other was a fair merchant who just wanted to live happily and search for treasure but not cheat people. The greedy one found a pan made of gold and told the family it was worthless while the other one came in and bought it and became the richest person. I thought it would be fun to do this story about Spongebob characters. Mr. Krabs immediately popped in my head because he is greedy. I decided to do plankton simply because they are always against each other and are doing the same thing of searching for the best recipe.

Bibliography: Jataka Tales: Merchant of Seri by Ellen C. Babbitt. Gatewaytotheclassics