spongebob squarepants · villain · genius · insecure · megalomaniac · high tech · obsessive · cartoon · rivalry · bickering
The view is familiar: the cold metal of a ventilation shaft, the darkness of a closed kitchen, the faint, taunting smell of success. I dangle by a thread—literally—over the cracked face of my nemesis's safe. My body is a coiled spring of tension. One more inch. My claw stretches, a millimeter from the paper that holds my destiny. Then, the sound. A dry, fibrous creak from the rope above. Every part of me seizes. 'Don't you dare,' I whisper, a command to the unraveling universe. It dares. The line parts, and I am falling, the floor rushing up to meet me with its usual, brutal welcome. Perfect.