Leader Plankton!: The Underwater Dimensional Battle

Leader Plankton!: The Underwater Dimensional Battle was a planned a finale film for the highly-successful spin-off series of SpongeBob SquarePants, Leader Plankton!. The film was notorious for being delayed numerous times, being announced official release dates almost yearly that never actually happened, and just never being released to begin with. 
On December 28, 2017, Travis officially announced in a blog post that the film had a 50/50 chance of being continued or cancelled. Since then, little update was given on the progress on the film. During late November of 2021, Travis had polled the writing crew of No Malarkey in Bikini Bottom on whether or not the film should be officially completed; The vote was a unanimous yes. However, on April 7, 2022, it was officially announced that the film had been cancelled. On the same day, the unfinished transcript for the film was released. 
==Plot ==
In a desperate attempt to escape from the fleeting angry mob out to get him, Leader Plankton activates his Universe Traveler and ends up in the SpongeBob SquarePants universe. He sees this as a clean slate, opting to continute his state as leader with this universe instead. However, when our heroes find out about this, they must team up with their counterparts to take Plankton down once and for all! 
==Characters==
===Leader Plankton!===
*Leader Plankton
*Ace Snider
*Black Sponge
*Sir Sandy
*Snailster Slimey
*Cyan Kent
*Tacom Tm
===SpongeBob SquarePants===
*SpongeBob SquarePants
*Sandy Cheeks
*Eugene H. Krabs
*Sheldon J. Plankton
*Patrick Star
*Squidward Tentacles
*Gary the Snail
*Karen the Computer
==​Production==
===Development===
Leader Plankton!: The Underwater Dimensional Battle was long planned; series creator Travisplatypus stated from the beginning of the development of the series that he wanted it to have four seasons and a film to conclude it.
In 2012, Travisplatypus and approached director, producer, and writer IHeartSpongeBob about the film, and they decided to stop making episodes to work on the film after the show's fourth season. From there, IHeartSpongeBob joined Travisplatypus as one of the film's writers and producers, as well as keeping his position from the show as a supervising producer, storyboard director and artist, and technical director, along with the rest of the show's staff keeping their main positions for the film.
The film was notorious for its incredibly slow writing process and continuous delayal; Travis had continually announced that the film would be officially released every year since it was announced, but it would never actually come out, much to the anger and annoyance of the members of the SBFW community. Eventually, former bureaucrat Kelpy G, who was well-known from being Travis' political rival on the wiki, proposed to adopt the series on 28 July, 2016, which officially passed in August of the same year. This angered Travis very much, as he felt his show was being stolen from him unfairly. Kelpy had promised that the movie would be released under his ownership, but Travis kept insisting that the series was, and always will be, owned by him. Kelpy had officially slated the film for a 2017 release date, teasing numerous scenes, which sparked enthusiasm in the fanbase, but Travis was still not amused in the slightest. Eventually, Travis got sick of arguing with Kelpy, and announced a proposal on April 10th of 2017, which sought out to protect fanon works from unfair adoptions via proposals; the proposal passed on April 17th, and the series was officially returned to Travis.
This feud had continued on until late December 2017, wherein Travis announced that there would be a 50/50 chance for both cancellation and continuation of the film, alongside the cancellation of his two series Livin' With The Squid and ParodySponge. At this point, the community had pretty much accepted the fact that the film would most likely never come out, forever remaining in its ghostly state. 
However, bits and pieces of the film's development would slowly come out in the following years: for example, in 2019, Travis stated that the film was neither actively being worked on nor cancelled. In the same year, Travis leaked the unfinished transcript on his Discord server.
However, on April 7, 2022, Travis announced that he would officially be retiring from the SpongeBob Fanon wiki, and finally provided closure by announcing that the film had been cancelled. On the same day, he released the unfinished transcript of the film. 
==Story==
SpongeBob and Patrick were walking through town, chatting away with each other when suddenly the portal opened up, revealing Plankton and Spot. "Nerds," Patrick muttered. “What makes them nerds?” SpongeBob asked, turning towards his friend. “They came out of a portal,” Patrick explained. “I don’t follow,” SpongeBob said, a confused tone in his voice. “A WIZARD PORTAL,” he shouted, quickly placing a flashlight up to his face. 
“You know, that whole flashlight thing doesn’t work very well if it’s not nighttime. Trust me, I’ve tried it before. I’m a criminal mastermind,” Leader Plankton commented. SpongeBob and Patrick glanced at each other, quickly bursting into fits of laughter soon afterwards. “What’s so funny?! You should fear me! Black Sponge, Bodyguard Patrick, you both know what evil feats I’m capable of! I killed your friends!” the miniscule leader growled. 
SpongeBob and Patrick glanced at each other once again, then turning their attention back to Plankton. “What friends?” they asked in unision. “You know, Musical Squid and Cheapskate Krabs,” he answered. “Um, they’re not dead. I just saw them both at the Krusty Krab. My shift ended like ten minutes ago,” SpongeBob said. “And why do you keep calling everyone weird nicknames?” Patrick asked, crossing his arms. 
“I give everyone nicknames. I just hate calling people by their regular names. It all started in high school,” Leader Plankton explained, the scene quickly cutting to Bikini Bottom High. Sheldon had been walking through the halls, wearing red glasses and a black backpack. He headed over to his locker, jumping up, trying to reach the lock. “Ugh, darn it! Why’d they have to put darn thing so high?!” he complained. “You do realize your locker is on the bottom, right?” Musical Squid asked. 
“Did I ask you?!” he growled. “No, but you were talking to yourself like a weirdo. I took that as my chance to make you look like an idiot. Though, to be fair, you really don’t need me to. You do a great job of it all by yourself,” Musical Squid said. “Yeah, well I’ll also do a great job of eating you for dinner when I become leader of the ocean!” Sheldon shouted. 
“Pft, like that’d ever happen,” Musical Squid said, crossing his tentacles and rolling his eyes. “Hey, what’s going on here?” Ace asked, walking over to the two of them. The fish had been wearing blue glasses and braces. “Ugh, not another nerd. What do you want, Horace?” he asked. “I just wanted to know what’s going on. Ooh, who’s the cute new kid?” Horace asked, squealing with delight. “Ugh, I hate it when you do that. It’s even worse than SpongeBob’s laugh,” Musical Squid muttered. 
Cut to SpongeBob laughing. “Oh, come on, Squidward! You know you love my laugh!” he grinned, placing his arms around Squidward’s shoulder. “Hands off,” Squidward growled. SpongeBob quickly took his hands off the octopus, grinning nervously. “Sorry,” he apologized. “Horace, huh? Mind if I call you Ace?” Sheldon asked. “Ace, huh? I like that name. Mind if I call you Leader?” Ace asked. “Leader? What am I leader of?” Sheldon asked. “My heart,” Ace smiled. 
Cut back to present. “He’s been standing there for fifteen minutes,” Patrick whispered to SpongeBob. “Relax, buddy. I’m sure he’s just having a flashback,” SpongeBob said. “He knows we can’t see any of that stuff, right?” Patrick asked. “And that was back when I was high,” Leader Plankton suddenly stated. SpongeBob and Patrick glanced at each other for a third time. Spiteful Spot then began to bark. 
“What’s wrong, boy?” Leader Plankton asked, kneeling down. The amoeba whimpered, his stomach beginning to growl. “Aha! You must be hungry! Come on, we’ll go find some hobos to munch on,” Leader Plankton said, getting up from the ground and beginning to walk off with his pet. “Is it just me or has Plankton gotten weirder?” SpongeBob asked. “What’d you say, SpongeBob?” Patrick asked, looking up from a How To Spot A Nerd magazine. 
Cut to the Leader Plankton! universe. 
“He’s got to be in here somewhere!” Black Sponge said frantically, searching the Bucket of Evil. “Black Sponge, he’s not in here. We’ve been looking for over an hour now,” Cyan stated. “That’s not true! I know he’s in here! I know he’s in here somewhere!” Black SpongeBob shouted, continuing to search for the small leader. “Why does it even matter where he went? He’s gone and that’s what matters, right?” Tacom asked. “No! That’s not what matters! Don’t you guys see?! He’s playing a trick on us! It’s all a trick! A horribly written trick! Plankton’s in here somewhere...He’s just waiting for us to leave! And as soon he does, BLAM! He takes back control of the ocean! I wouldn’t expect you to understand, though. You’re just a little kid,” Black Sponge explained. 
“What did you just call me?!” Tacom growled. “I called you a little kid. Maybe you should learn to pay attention. Or is that too much work for you?” Black Sponge smirked. “I can pay attention!” Tacom said. “Then what’s the square root of 90?” Black Sponge. “Uh…” Tacom said. “Ha! You can’t even pay attention in school! If you can’t even do that, how are you gonna pay attention on an important mission like this?” Black Sponge insulted. “Well, I can pay attention in school, I just don’t,” Tacom said nonchalantly. 
“Well, Black Sponge, since you’re so smart, why don’t you tell us what the answer to your question is?” Cyan asked. “Of course! ...What was the question again?” Black Sponge asked. “The square root of 90,” Snailster Slimey said dryly. “Oh, that’s easy! The answer is obviously 86,000!” the ninja grinned. “It’s 9.48683298051,” Cyan corrected. “It’s 9.48683298051!” SpongeBob grinned. 
“Pft, you can’t even get your own question right! Who’s the idiot now?” Tacom smirked, crossing his arms. “Ooh! Ooh! Am I the idiot?” Bodyguard Patrick grinned. “Well, you’re one of them,” Snailster Slimey said dryly. “Yes! I knew it! I knew it I’m so smart! And I didn’t even study!” Patrick exclaimed. “You’re not the only one here who doesn’t study,” Black Sponge said, glancing down at Tacom. “Why do you look at me when you say that?” Tacom growled. “Well, it’s obvious that you don’t study. That’s why you’re so dumb!” Black Sponge said. “We literally just went over this! I’m not the dumb one, you are!” Tacom said. “Well, it was a horribly written scene! I say we fire this lame-o fourteen year old and hire a new one!” Black Sponge announced. “Wow, that’s the first time Black Sponge has ever been right about something,” Snailster Slimey said, clearly surprised. “Hey! I’m right about a lot of things!” Black Sponge defended himself. “Like what?” Cyan asked. “Uh...what was the question again?” Black Sponge grinned nervously.
SpongeBob Universe 
While walking through the town, something arised in the corner of the former leader’s eye. His old hide-out. “Spot! It’s the Bucket of Evil! Well...before it became the Bucket of Evil, that is. Let’s go give this dimension’s version of me a little visit. Perhaps he could assist me in my take over,” Leader Plankton commented, walking his pet towards the barely-visited resaturant. 
Sheldon had been in the kitchen, talking to his computer wife, Karen. “Look, Karen. All I’m saying is that if you’re in high school and spend your time writing fanfics for childrens’ cartoons that have gone way past their prime, you’re pretty lame,” Sheldon said. “And if you’re a grown man who spends all their time trying to steal the recipe to a sandwich, you’re even lamer,” Karen responded. “Yeah, you’re right. That does sound pretty lame. Good thing I’d never do something like that! I bet Travis does though,” Sheldon commented. 
Suddenly, Leader Plankton and Spiteful Spot burst into the room. “Gah! Impostor! Are you trying to steal my life away from me?! Because if so, what are you, crazy? Who the heck would want to steal my life? It’s terrible! My life is nothing but an assortment of disapointments and failures!” Sheldon shouted. “I can vouch for that,” Karen stated. “Shut up, Karen!” Sheldon shouted. “You let your assistant talk like that towards you? Gee, I’d fire her immediately,” Leader Plankton commented. “Assistant? What are you talking about? Karen’s my wife,” Sheldon corrected. 
“Y-You’re dating a computer…?” Leader Plankton asked. “That’s right!” Sheldon grinned. “Wow, you guys must have some real weird copulation,” Leader Plankton said dryly. “Wanna see how we do it? I have the video,” Sheldon suggested. “...I’d prefer not to. And anyway, I’m not an impostor. I came here from an alternate dimension. A dimension in which I had great success in ruling over - until rather recently, where the public threw me down. I’ve came here to confront you about this. I was thinking that if we both work together, we could easily gain control of both dimensions. What do you say?” Leader Plankton offered. “That sounds fake but okay,” Sheldon said dryly, crossing his arms. 
Leader Plankton! Universe
“GOTTA FIND THAT PLANKTON! GOTTA FIND THAT PLANKTON! GOTTA FIND THAT PLANKTON” Black SpongeBob shouted as he marched back and forth inside the Bucket of Evil. “Would you stop doing that already?!” Tacom growled. “Oh, I’m sorry. Did I wake the baby?” Black Sponge teased. Suddenly, Bodyguard Patrick, who had been fast asleep on the floor of the restaurant, opened his eyes. He then burst out crying. “Apparently so,” Snailster Slimey said dryly. 18
SpongeBob SquarePants Universe 
“I can’t wait to take over the ocean with you! How should we do it though? Here, I have a whole file full of evil plans! From A to Y!” Sheldon grinned, bringing his alternate over to a gray cabinet. He then opened it, pulling out the aforementioned file and handing it over to Leader Plankton. “A to Y? Don’t you mean A to Z?” Leader Plankton asked, looking through the file. “Z? Isn’t that what people usually do whenever they hear Sandy talk?” Sheldon asked. “Well, yes, but it’s also a letter. The last letter of the alphabet,” Leader Plankton explained. 
“Really? I thought Y was the last letter of the alphabet,” Sheldon said. “No..It’s Z,” Leader Plankton said. “You sure?” Sheldon asked. “Yes,” Leader Plankton said. “You sure you’re sure?” Sheldon asked. “Yes, I’m sure I’m sure,” Leader Plankton answered. “You sure you’re sure you’re sure?” Sheldon asked. “Indeed. I’m sure,” Leader Plankton answered. “You sure you’re sure you’re sure you-” Sheldon asked. “YES! I’M 100% (dolphin noise) SURE, OKAY?! YOU CAN SHUT UP ABOUT IT NOW!” Leader PLankton shouted. “Okay, okay. Geez, you don’t have to yell about it,” Sheldon said, crossing his arms. “You yell even louder than Karen does when we copulate,” Sheldon commented. Leader Plankton’s eye widened. 
Leader Plankton! Universe 
Timmy had been wandering through the near-empty halls of Leader Plankton’s weapon room when he stumbled upon the Universe Traveler. His eyes widened at his discovery and turned towards the exit, quickly beginning to bark. “What’s that noise?” Black Sponge asked. “It’s just Ace doing some handiwork with the pictures of Leader Plankton he took,” Bodyguard Patrick answered. “Ooohhhh yeah...y-you’re my leader, P-Plankton…” Ace could be heard moaning in the background. “Not that. I’m talking about the other noise,” Black Sponge said, pointing to the weapons room, where Timmy’s barking could be heard coming from. 
“...Oh. Well, I don’t know what the (dolphin noise) that is,” Bodyguard Patrick said. “It sounds like a dying chipmunk,” Tacom said. “Travis is dying?! OH YEAH! Now we just need that Gary rip-off to die!” Black Sponge grinned. “I’m right here, you know,” Snailster Slimey said dryly. “I know,” Black Sponge smirked. “Let’s go check out what it is,” Cyan said, heading towards the weapons room. The others soon followed him into the room, gasping at what they saw. “I can’t believe my eyes...Timmy’s even uglier than usual,” Patrick said. Timmy glared at the starfish. “Not as ugly as Travis,” Snailster Slimey commented. “That’s true,” Bodyguard Patrick agreed.
“Could it be…?” Cyan asked, walking over to the device and beginning to examine it. “This is a machine made for the purpose of traveling to alternate realities!” he exclaimed. “Your point being…?” Patrick asked, crossing his arms. “So that’s where Plankton must be! In an alternate reality!” Cyan explained. “Really? I thought he was in Kentucky,” Patrick said. “...Why would he be in Kentucky?” Cyan asked. “I thought he was making chicken with Bernie Sanders,” Patrick said. “Well, Ace is choking his chicken. Does that count?” Tacom asked. “Tacom!” Cyan scolded. “What? I’m just telling the truth!” the child exclaimed. “Ooh~ Tacom’s in ttttrrrrrooooubbbbbllleeee!” Black Sponge giggled. 
“You’ll be in trouble if you don’t shut up,” Tacom threatened. “Ooohhh, I’m so scared! The tiny, little kid’s gonna get me! Pft, yeah right,” Black Sponge smirked, rolling his eyes. Tacom then punched Black Sponge in the face, knocking him out cold. “That’s my boy,” Cyan grinned.
SpongeBob Universe 
“I can’t believe he doesn’t have a plan Z…” Leader Plankton said to himself, staring down at the file his alternate self had given him earlier. “You know what…” he said, taking out a piece of paper and beginning to write on it. “There, that oughta do it,” he said, placing the paper into the file and back into the cabinet. Suddenly Sheldon burst in. “I’m back from lunch!” he grinned, walking over to the other. “Erm, you’ve got a bit of mayionaise on you,” Leader Plankton said. 
“It’s not mayionaise,” Sheldon said, a smirk on his face. Leader Plankton’s eyes widened, quickly throwing off all over his counterpart. Sheldon grinned, licking up the barf. “You know, vomit play is one of my kinks,” he said. 
Leader Plankton! Universe 
“Alright, guys. I’ve managed to get this thing on. However, unfortunately I wasn’t able to figure out exactly what universe Plankton traveled, so we’ll have to just keep going to through random ones until we find the correct one,” Cyan explained. “Do we have to? That sounds like a lot of work,” Tacom said. “Well, what Ace is doing right now is also a lot of work, but I guess it’s worth it for the pleasure he recieves afterward,” Patrick commented. “Could we please stop talking about this?! You know, you guys are really pushing the PG rating for this film!” Cyan shouted. 
“Well, Travis is really pushing the Summer 2016 release date for this film. I mean, seriously. He hardly works on it at all. And he’s pushed back the release date of the film at least four times now. Do we really trust that he’ll get it right this time?” Snailster Slimey stated. Black Sponge then immediately woke up, getting up from off the ground and pointing an accusatory finger at the snail. “Well, can we trust you, shameless Gary rip-off?!” the sea sponge questioned.
“Of course we can. I am an extremely trustworthy individual. Perhaps the most trustworthy individual in the ocean, maybe even the world,” Snailster Slimey replied. “Trustworthy people don’t brag about how trustworthy they are,” Black Sponge growled, crossing his arms. “Well, I don’t think you’re a very good judge of character, considering you use blackface,” Snailster Slimey said. “What the heck are you even talking about?” Black Sponge questioned. “You call yourself Black Sponge! You’re not black. Pretty messed up, dude,” Snailster Slimey said. 
“Would you two losers stop bickering already?! We have several dimensions to sift through, we don’t have time for this argument!” Cyan said. “Cyan, I am shocked to see you running interference for SpongeBob’s racism,” Snailster Slimey said. “Ugh,” Cyan muttered, rolling his eyes and hopping into the portal. He was then followed by the rest of the Anti-Plankton team members. 
Cyan walked over to Tom, showing him a picture of Leader Plankton. “Excuse me, but would you happen to have seen this individual?” Cyan asked. “Uh yeah...but he’s not here. He’s over in Coral City,” Tom asked. “OF COURSE! He deliberately went to a new city in order to deceive us! THAT DEVIOUS MASTERMIND!” Black Sponge exclaimed. “Shut up, racist,” Snailster Slimey. “Why I oughta salt you right now-” Black Sponge threatened. 
“TO CORAL CITY WE GO!” Cyan shouted. “Okay, okay, we get it. You don’t have to yell,” Bodyguard Patrick said. 
CUT TO CORAL CITY 
The Anti-Plankton crew exited a bus, stepping into Coral City. “Well folks, we’re here,” Cyan announced. “Well duh, we know that. We just got off the bus,” Bodyguard Patrick said. Suddenly, the ears of the team were permeated with the sound of clarinet music. “Daddy, I think Timmy is dying,” Tacom said. “No, no, son. That’s not the sound of Timmy, or any other dying animal. It’s the clarinet,” Cyan said. “I’d know the sound of such terrible clarinet music anywhere! SQUIDWARD! Perhaps he can help us out! Follow those poorly rehearsed notes!” Black Sponge shouted. 
CUT TO SQUIDWARD’S RESIDENCE 
Cyan knocked on the door. However, there was no response. He knocked on the door again, yet there was still no response. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And agai- “ENOUGH OF THIS!” Bodyguard Patrick shouted, knocking the door down with his body. “Patrick! I didn’t know you were such a roughster~” SpongeBob purred, winking at Bodyguard Patrick. “AH! Black Sponge! This guy’s trying to impersonate you!” Bodyguard Patrick yelled, getting out a baseball bat and beginning to viciously beat the sea sponge with it. 
“Woah woah woah! Stop it! That’s not an impostor! It’s just this universe’s version of SpongeBob!” Cyan shouted. “No, no, it’s fine...I’ve always been a fan of BDSM,” SpongeBob said. “Well, whatever. Let’s just find Squidward!” Cyan shouted, marching up the door. He opened the door to Squidward’s voice, revealing Squidward playing the clarinet through his posterior. Cyan quickly covered Tacom’s eyes. 
CUT TO LEADER PLANKTON AND HIS COUNTERPART 
Leader Plankton, the former ruler of the ocean in his universe, was planning to take over this universe’s ocean. He started worrying about whether his plan to take over the ocean in this universe would end up like his plan in his home universe. He stopped worrying and got into a giant robot version of himself, along with his counterpart. Both plankton robots started terrorizing the city and took over. 
==Release==
IHeartSpongeBob released the first and only teaser poster for the film on December 16, 2012. As the title of the film at the time was not yet decided, the poster does not feature a title, but rather the film's original 2013 release date, art featuring what looks to be a crawling or injured Leader Plankton on the ground, and credits for some of the film's cast and crew, including IHeartSpongeBob's original credit for writing before he dropped out writing the screenplay.
Before the film even began production, Pineapple Entertainment gave the film a PG rating for both the United States and Canada.
==Trivia==
*IHeartSpongeBob was originally meant to be a writer, but in Season 3 of the show, he left Leader Plankton!.
*The release date has been pushed back several times. The planned release dates for the film include 2013, late 2013, late 2014, early 2015, general 2016, summer 2017, and general 2018. It is unknown if the film will be released in 2020 or any following year.
*Writing begun September 19, 2015, a week after "The Downfall" premiered. 
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