Meanwhile, Mary's shift had just ended and she was in her manager's office.

"Well Ms. Sanchez, it seems you've done pretty good on your first day here at Bullseye Mart." said the manager.

"Thank you, Ms. Catherine." Mary nodded.

"I expect you to improve and keep up with this hard work." said Ms. Catherine. "See you tomorrow at six. People are shopping a lot more lately and we could use someone like you to help out."

"Yes, madame." Mary nodded.

"So you'd better set that alarm clock as soon as you get home!" Ms. Catherine waved her finger. "You'll need all the rest you can get! You know Sanchez, if you keep this up, you may someday end up in management."

She got up and walked out of the store.


Meanwhile back at Dr. Lo's undersea lab, the doctor was finished telling the Neptunes and Skipper Shelton all about his experiments. At that same time, the other monster crabs were serving up some sort of kelp salad to everyone.

"...and so, I decided to move here and make monsters out of crabs!" He finished. "I call them...MONSTER CRABS!"

Everyone stared at the doctor in confusion.

"Uh, could you repeat that one more time, please?" asked Clamhead.

"Well everyone, you'd better eat up before it gets room temperature!" Dr. Lo ate a spoonful of the kelp.

Jabber, Shelton and the kids each ate a spoonful of the kelp salad and boy, it was horrible.

"Nom...nom...nom..." Biff reluctantly swallowed.

"Now that's good eatin!" Clamhead nervously smiled, trying not to throw up.

"Needs a little less salt." said Jabber.

"But why move here when you can share your discoveries with your fellow scientists?" asked Biff.

"They all laughed at me and called me, 'Dr. Crazy Pants!'" Dr. Lo snarled. "But look at me now! I've shown them! Who's laughing now, hm? Who's laughing now? MWAH HA HA HA HA HA!"

Everyone stared at Lo with shocked and disturbed faces.

"I'll go check on dessert!" He said as he walked to his galley.

While Dr. Lo left, the kids and the skipper started to talk about what they just encountered.

"Well guys, we just found the source of these monsters, guess we can just go now." Clamhead stammered.

"Yeah, I've got to be home at five for my stories." Jabberjaw nodded.

"Plus, this Lo guy is a total Looney Toon!" Shelly added.

"Looney Tune?" Bubbles asked. "He doesn't look like Bugs Bunny."

"Never mind." Shelly slapped her forehead. "The point is, we need to get outta here!"

"But what about me nose?" asked Shelton. "I've gotta get me nose back! I wanna smell again!"

"I don't care about your stupid nose!" Shelly retorted. "This place is creepy, just like that mad scientist and I wanna get outta here."

"For once I agree with ya, Shelly!" Clamhead exclaimed. "Come in guys! Let's make like hockey sticks and get the heck outta here!"

"You said it, Clam." Jabber agreed.

But before anyone could escape, Dr. Lo came back to the table.

"So, are you enjoying yourselves?" He asked them.

"Dr. Lo, could you please tell us where Skipper Shelton's nose is and please stop terrorizing the beach?" Biff asked the doctor.

"I'd be happy to, my boy..." Dr. Lo gently said. "...right after your transformation!"

"Tr-tr-transformation?" Biff gulped.

"Yes, into monster crabs!" Dr. Lo sadistically grinned. "Just like all the other pathetic fools who came all this way just to spy on me! Your seaweed was filled with mutant crab serum, which as we speak is infusing you with crustacean DNA!"

"Wait, what?" Biff gasped.

"You're saying that we're turning into crabs?" Bubbles asked.

"Exactly!" Dr. Lo laughed manically.

"Ab-ba-ba-ba, guys...I'm turning red!" Clamhead gasped as he looked at his hands, which were turning red.

"But you ate the seaweed too, we saw you!" Biff pointed out.

"Ah yes, but I have the antidote!" Dr. Lo chugged down a bottle of liquid and put it in a safe. "Oh baby, that is some good antidote!"

"And they say I'm crazy." Shelton remarked.

"Boys! Seize them!" Dr. Lo ordered his monster crabs.

The monster crabs then grabbed our heroes and threw them into a jail cell somewhere in the lab, slamming the doors shut.

"Now what do we do?" Clam asked.

"Yeah Biff, what's the plan?" Jabberjaw added.

"I don't know." Biff shrugged. "Everything looks a bit bleak right now. You got any ideas, Shell?"

"Normally I would, but I'm a little more concerned with the fact that my hands are now claws!" Shelly said sarcastically. "Maybe I can pinch your faces off!"

"Oh come guys, maybe being crabs won't be so bad." Bubbles said. "I mean, all we gotta do is keep our lungs moist."

"And be underlings to a nutcase." Shelly deadpanned.

"If yer think that's bad, just wait until yer start pinchin' yer noses off!" Sheldon exclaimed.

"In my case, it would be pretty long and painful." Clamhead remarked. "Say Jab, do you think you can try using your shark jaws to break open these bars?"

"Provided I've still got some shark left in me." Jabberjaw gulped.

"Well, it's worth a shot." Biff said. "And you better hurry, Jabber. Time's not on our side."

"No need to remind me that." Jabber agreed.

Using as much shark strength he has left in him, Jabberjaw chomped the bars wide open, freeing him and his friends.

"Well, good to see that you can't take the shark out of the shark." Bubbles giggled.

"Uh, guys?" Clamhead pointed down to his legs.

The gang looked down and saw that their legs had transformed into crab legs.

"Oh no!" Biff panicked. "It's getting worse! We've gotta get that antidote, now!"

"No need to remind me!" Shelly said.

"Come on, let's go!" Biff exclaimed.

Jabber, Shelton, and the kids then crawled out of the prison cell and saw Dr. Lo and his monster crabs right near the safe where the antidote was.

"Oh great, how are we gonna get past those guys?" whispered Shelly.

Biff frowned as he tried to think of something.

"This reminds me back in the Sea Voyage of '89." Shelton whispered. "Only without the crab monsters and the crazy mad scientist."

"What happened?" asked Clamhead.

"Well, I was face to face with a giant barracuda and the only way to get it away from me was to toss it me last bucket of chum." Shelton explained. "Shame though, I was planning on frying that later."

"Hey!" Shelly clicked her claw. "That gives me an idea!"

She then saw a rock on the ground and threw it past Lo and his crab monsters.

"What was that?" Lo gasped. "After it!"

Lo and his goons ran after the rock, just enough time for the gang to get the safe.

"Alright, we better get the safe door open." Clam said.

"I got it!" Jabberjaw (or rather, "JabberCLAW") crawled over to the safe and smashed it open with his newfound claws. "There! Piece of cake!"

"That's good, now let's get back to normal!" Biff gulped. "I think my eyes are starting to become stalks!"

Jabber grabbed a bottle of antidote, when all of a sudden, Lo and his minions arrived.

"Intruders!" Lo gasped. "Boys! Seize them!"

"Jabber, quick!" Biff urged.

Jabber tossed the bottle into Biff's claw, who then proceeded to chug down the antidote.

"Gimmie that!" Shelly drank the antidote as well.

Just then, the monster crabs started to charge after our heroes.

"Yikes!" They exclaimed.

Our heroes ran away from the crabs while they finished drinking the antidote and returning to their normal forms.

As they returned back to their normal forms, Jabber asked, "What now, Biff?"

"Let's get outta here!" said Biff.

"After them!" Lo ordered his crabs.

Lo and the crabs chased after our heroes all over the lab. Please feel free to play some chase music while you are reading.

Soon enough, Lo and the crabs had our heroes cornered at the control room of the lab.

"Great, now what?" Clamhead sighed as Lo and his minions surrounded them.

"For once, I can't think of anything." Biff gulped.

"Me neither." Shelly added.

Dr. Lo and his crabs were about to seize our heroes, who kept trying to back away, when Bubbles accidentally pressed a button on the wall. Just then, there was some flashing red lights and buzzing.

"Oh great, what did you do now, Bubblehead?" Shelly sneered.

"I don't know." Bubbles shrugged. "I was just backing away."

"Self destruct sequence has been initiated." said a voice on the speaker. "Fifteen seconds till detonation."

"Self destruct button? Not one of my bright ideas." Dr. Lo gulped. "Boys! Retreat!"

Dr. Lo started to run away and over to an escape submarine.

"He's getting away!" Biff gasped.

"Then, what are yer standin' around here for?" Sheldon asked.

"Good point!" Biff deadpanned.

The Neptunes and the skipper then chased after Dr. Lo, only for him to escape with his life.

"Rats!" Jabberjaw stomped his tail fin.

Just then, the lab started to rumble and honk louder and louder. "AAAHHHH!" The gang screamed.

Jabberjaw grabbed the gang and swam them right out of the lab, just as it exploded, thereby sending our heroes flying back to the surface.

At that same time, a bubble from the explosion popped right next to two pelicans.

"Nice." The pelican on the right glared at the one next to him and flew away.

Without missing a beat, the gang all resurfaced.

They landed right onto the seashore, with their faces right in the sand.

"Oh man..." Jabber spit out some sand from his mouth.

He then saw his friends' legs sticking out of the sand and pulled them out.

"Guys!" Jabber urged. "Are you okay?"

The others all groaned before they began spitting out sand from their mouths.

"Besides having sand in my mouth..." Clam groaned. "...I think I'm okay, Jab."

"Well gang, looks like we caught the monster...sort of." said Biff. "Sorry we didn't get your nose back, skipper."

"It okay sonny." Shelton assured Biff. "Maybe it just wasn't meant to be, maybe I'm just destined to live without me sense of smell, maybe-"

"Look!" Bubbles pointed to the ocean.

Everybody looked at what Bubbles saw: something small flew out of the ocean and landed right into the skipper's hand.

"What's that?" Shelly asked as they leaned forward to take a closer look at the object in Sheldon's hand.

Shelton gasped. "Arrgghh! It can't be!"

"What is it, skipper?" asked Jabber.

"Glory it be, young Jasper!" Shelton jumped for joy. "Tis me long lost nose!"

Shelton showed the Neptunes the nose in the palm of his hand.

"Yuck!" Shelly made a face.

"So now that you've gotten it back, what're you gonna do now?" asked Bubbles.

"Why, I plan on puttin' it back on me face!" Sheldon said.

"I don't even wanna know how you're gonna do that." Shelly deadpanned.

"Well, good luck with putting your nose back on, skipper." Jabberjaw gave a fins up. "See ya."

"See ya around, sea dogs." Shelton waved goodbye to the Neptunes. "Oh dear nosey, I will never lose ya again."

Just then, a seagull swooped up and took off with Shelton's nose.

"Rats." He deadpanned.


Meanwhile, Marilyn has just gotten back home from work and was lying on the couch feeling exhausted.

"Oh boy...being a cart attendant is hard work." She sighed.

Just then, Shelly and Bubbles came inside.

"Hey mom." Shelly said.

"Hi Aunt Mary." Bubbles greeted Marilyn.

"So, any luck finding work today?" Shelly asked her mother.

"Yeah, I did." She nodded. "It was really good. Why don't you go wash up for dinner?"

"Sure thing." Shelly walked away.

As soon as Shelly left, Marilyn began sadly thinking to herself about her encounter with Nan earlier.

"Hey Mary, something wrong?" asked Stacy. "You look a bit down in the mouth."

"Well Stacy, sometimes I wonder if Shelly and I could've had a better life than this." Marilyn confesses.

"What do you mean by that?" Stacy asked as she sat down.

"Well, I ran into an old friend of mine at work earlier today and, well, she has everything." Marilyn explained. "She's got fancy cars, a mansion, a yacht, and everything. I've got nothing to show off or flaunt. I am just a single mother with no money, I've been fired from every job I've ever had, and I can barely afford gum underneath the seats at a restaurant. I guess we're not meant to have great things. I wish I had a legacy or something to at least fall back on"

"Don't say that." Stacy urged. "You still have your daughter Shelly."

"I know, but I just wish I could've given her more and better things." Mary started sobbing.

"Don't worry, Mary, you'll think of something." Stacy hugged her friend. "You always do."


Meanwhile, somewhere in the sea, Dr. Lo was on his way somewhere in the escape submarine. He called someone on his screen.

"What is it, Lo?" asked the man on the screen.

"Sir, I'm sorry to report that my lab has been destroyed by some hooligans and so have my assets." Dr. Lo informed the man onscreen.

"I knew you were too loony to trust!" said the man.

"Don't worry, I managed to retrieve the monster crab formula and I can recreate my army." Dr. Lo assured him.

"Good!" said the man. "This plan has to go smoothly. There can't be anymore screw ups!"

THE END?


Author's Note:

Well folks, it seems that this ain't the last we'll be seeing of Dr. Lo! As for Mary, she is still trying to find her own self-worth and respect. Stay tuned for another adventure.