Toon Wars: The Final Days

Chapter 24

Spongebob awakens once again laying on the ashy concrete in the soaking purple rain. The skies have turned almost completely blood red. He raises himself; a bit sore in the joints but easy to readjust. Around him, the altar he stood in is almost completely nonexistent, only implying where it used to be with broken pillars and a leftover wall still holding a partially shattered mosaic in it. Parts of the Grand Palace have toppled from top to bottom and lost its coloring. Fires are still burning from under the pile of metal and ruined forestry. Curiously, Spongebob peeks up to the sky again almost forgetting the bright white halo glowing above him. Some of the shine it once had has been blocked off by the smoke billowing from the rest of the wreckage of the surface. Though he can't tell exactly where anything is besides the palace and altar, seemingly alone after the explosion, he calls out "Patrick?! Squidward?!" No response. Perhaps they can't hear him or are in a different area, he thinks.

Spongebob: Mr. Krabs?! Anyone..?!

Peridot somewhere in the distance: Jasper?!

Spongebob: Huh..?

Peridot runs past Spongebob and limps with a bum leg towards Jasper, who's been crushed by a massive chunk of a fallen stone balcony and has undergone a warped blue shade from her cracked gem.

Peridot checking Jasper's gem: Jasper! ...Get up Jasper! You always were the brawn of my brain! Now come on!

Jasper slowly opening her eyes and chuckling a little: ...Dottie. We...had a good run together, did we? Guess we really were meant...to be a team... (Goes limp)

Jasper fades into only her gem and the saddened Peridot cradles it with her arms as heavy rain pours down on her and the other survivors. Behind one of the knocked down pillars, Bimm, with much of her fur and undershirt exposed, rises, still holding the antivirus in her hands and gets startled when Ashi reaches underneath the rubble beneath her.

Ashi reaching out to Bimm: Hey. Can you give me a hand? Please?

Bimm grabs Ashi's hand and lifts her from the ground, brushing each other off.

Bimm: Are you alright?

Ashi: Yeah. Where's Jack?

Bimm pointing over to her right: Over there with... (Notices Jack holding Scotsman's sword)

Ashi and Bimm make their way across thousands of piles of debris from the village and the chamber to the heartbroken Jack, who's praying after his best friend, Scotsman, and his daughter, Flora, were swept away in the blast. All that remains of both are their swords, and Flora's shield.

Ashi: Jack...

Jack with his head bowed: ...I'm sorry. I couldn't save any of you... (Sheds tears)

Behind Jack's end, Gumball frantically runs around in the storm searching for his father and Alt. Anais in the ruins.

Gumball: Anais! Dad!

Alt. Anais in rubble next to Gumball: I'm here. Just a little beat up.

Momo uncovers herself from a large slab on top of her next to her step mother.

Momo: I don't even know how I made it.

Gumball helping Alt. Anais up: We need to find our Dad. In fact, we might have to find just about everyone!

Richard limping over with his arm across his stomach: To think...I probably married the literal Devil and I didn't even know it. Isn't that cool? Hehe. Eeeh.... (Reveals pipe lunged into stomach's side)