The Hybrid

The Hybrid is the eighth episode of season three, and the forty-eighth episode overall of Welcome to Fancyland!. It was written by FireMatch.
==Plot==
A freak accident called Krabward moves to Fancyland after finding out his original parents both live there. 
==Synopsis==
The screen displays text that says “APPROXIMATELY 20 MILES AWAY FROM FANCYLAND”, and the scene fades into a small cave on top of a mountain, where a disgruntled figure is on the floor, crying.
“I… I can’t do this anymore,” the creature says. “I’m a freak! A FREAK! I’m too freaky for this world and I can’t take it anymore! I think I’m gonna fall off a cliff…”
The creature, depressed, exits the den he has built for himself and looks ahead at the cliff nearby.
“There is no reason for me to live anymore. Nobody loves a freak,” he says.
The creature prepares to jump, but his body refuses to let him.
“Come on, JUMP! JUMP! Like the plumber guy! WAHOO!” he yells to himself. Then, he gives up, sighs, and sits down on the cliff.
Just then, a mysterious Fancylander sits down next to him.
“Are you alright?” the Fancylander asks.
“I… well…” the creature hesitates.
“Waiiiit a second. I recognize you. You’re from that famous petting zoo show!”
“Petting zoo show? Huh?” The creature is confused.
“Your name is Krabward, correct?”
“Yeahhh…. HOW DID YOU KNOW?”
“You were on TV last night. Didn’t you know?
“No…. I was never on TV as far as I know.”
“Huh.” The Fancylander ponders for a second. “Maybe you’re from a different universe than the one I saw.”
Krabward scratches his head. “What are you even…? “ He sighs. “Forget it. I’m going back to my cave like the stupid hermit I am.”
“Wait, before you go!” the Fancylander butts in. “Your parents live nearby!”
“They… they do? I haven’t seen them in years!” Krabward cheers, and runs around in circles out of joy. “Where are they?”
“They’re in the prestigious town our people live in: Fancyland.”
“Fancyland, eh? Somehow I never heard of that place. Maybe now I can finally stop being a hermit and meet them.”
“Perhaps. Welp, bye now.”
The Fancylander vanishes without a trace.
“What the-?” Krabward shakes his head, then shrugs. “I guess it’s worth a shot.”
Bubble transition to Mr. Krabs at the golden Krusty Krab, setting up a new menu. SpongeBob takes notice.
“Ooh, what’s the new menu for, Mr. Krabs?” SpongeBob asks.
“I’m glad you asked, me boy,” Mr. Krabs responds. “It’s for me new deflation menu! Now we only have to use HALF of the resources for the SAME products! Agagagagag, I’m a genius, I know.”
SpongeBob shrugs and serves a Krabby Patty to a customer.
“Hey thanks, sponge man!” Scooter says. “Radical, dude. Hawhawhawhawhawhawhawhaw!”
Scooter floats up through the ceiling as heavenly music plays. SpongeBob scratches his head.
“The things that happen around here will always confuse me,” SpongeBob says. Again, he shrugs it off.
Cut back to Krabward, who is trudging along with his belongings in a knapsack, looking for his parents. He notices the “Welcome to Fancyland!” sign and entrance, as well as the pathways which are paved with gold.
“Dang, looks like everyone here is filthy rich,” he says to himself. His eyes then get dollar signs. “I… like… MONEY! Only like, just to clarify.”
Krabward enters Fancyland and notices the buildings around him, which are very large and luxurious.
“I want to live there… and there! And there! And there! And especially there!”
Fred hears this and pops out from a window in his house.
“That’s MY house you’re talking about, weirdo. MY HOUSE!” he yells.
Fred shuts the window but accidentally gets his leg stuck. “MY LEG!” Krabward laughs as he moves along, looking for one of his parents’ houses. He oohs and ahhs at more buildings, and then his stomach grumbles.
“Dang, I sure am hungry,” he says, looking down at his visibly rumbly stomach. “I sure hope there’s some food around here-”
Krabward doesn’t finish his sentence before seeing the Krusty Krab.
“Oooooh, the “Krusty Krab”? Oh yeah! Time for some grub! It better be extra crusty!” Krabward exclaims as he dashes into the restaurant, only to be met with a long line of customers. “Oh, come on! I haven’t eaten in weeks!”
A nerd looks at him and says, “You know, people can only survive twelve days without food. ‘Weeks’ implies you haven’t eaten in at least two weeks, and-”
The other customers say “SHUT UP!” in unison as the nerd is hit with a metal bar.
“Pfft, nerd,” Krabward remarks as he cuts the line. The other customers in line try to push him back, which Mr. Krabs takes notice.
“What in the halibut is going on back there?” he demands.
“This freak is trying to cut the line!” a customer complains.
“Freak or no freak, he’s going to give me money- um, I mean, gold!” Mr. Krabs says.
“Uh, I don’t have any gold, sir,” Krabward responds. He then notices that he is talking to his father, and he gasps. “DADDY?!”
“Huh?!” Mr. Krabs says, confused. “You look oddly familiar.”
“YOU’RE MY DADDY!” Krabward exclaims.
Squidward enters from the restroom with cleaning supplies.
“Mr. Krabs, the toilet is crying again,” he says, then he drops his mop. “Who’s this weirdo?”
“Papa… it's you!” Krabward says excitedly.
“Yeah, uhh, well I gotta get back to working,” Squidward says, starting to mop the floors.
“Daddy, take me with you!” Krabward pleads. “I've been living alone for years and years and now I can finally live with someone I know!”
“Ohh nooonono, I cannot take you home with me,” Mr. Krabs says, shaking his head. “Too much of a liability. Me daughter Pearl is enough as it is. Besides, I don't even know who ye are!”
Krabward sighs in disappointment. “Shouldn't have had such high hopes for myself. Maybe Papa will take me in.”
Squidward inhales. “No.”
Krabward starts to cry.
SpongeBob, noticing the situation, gives Squidward intense puppy dog eyes as sad violin music plays. Squidward’s lip quivers and he finally gives in.
“D’oh, fine! But don't expect much from me, considering I am a professional artiste.”
“YAY YAY YAY!” Krabward literally jumps for joy. He then jumps so high that he gets stuck in the ceiling.
Squidward groans. “I'll get him down.”
Bubble transition to Krabward with Squidward at his house, with Krabward visually stimming.
“Oh this is so exciting!” Krabward says. “I can’t wait to be back at home with family again!”
“Yeah, yeah, sure, just gimme a moment to open the door,” Squidward says. He unlocks the door with his fingerprint.
“Wow, so futuristic,” Krabward says in awe.
“It’s not THAT futuristic,” Squidward says to him. “We’re just rich.”
“Ah, makes sense.”
Squidward opens the door and Krabward steps inside, immediately dashing from room to room.
“Oh my gosh there's so much to look at here!” he says. “There's a TV room, a gaming room, a kitchen room, a music room, an art room, and…” he gasps. “Even a robot room!”
One of Squidward’s robots turns on and greets Krabward.
“Hello, my name is MELISSA 4000. How may I help you today?” the robot says in a female text to speech voice.
“Hi Melissa, my name is Krabward. I'm just looking around the place. I can't believe I'm moving in with my Papa again!”
Melissa scans Krabward and makes a buzzing noise.
“I do not recognize any family members named ‘Krabward’. It appears that you are not related to Squidward Tentacles.”
“What? Huh?” Krabward scratches his head, confused. “Guess she just never met me before.”
Melissa shrugs with her robotic hands and goes into sleep mode.
Krabward chuckles. “Reminds me of Papa. Classic Papa. Always sleeping wherever he goes.”
A montage of Squidward sleeping at the Krusty Krab plays. During the montage, the customers always get impatient or angry. One of them even throws a shoe at Squidward to wake him up, but he is still asleep. Mr. Krabs even yells at him to wake him up, also to no avail. At the end of the montage, he wakes up, stretches, and acts surprised seeing a giant line of customers.
Krabward goes into the next room, which is the laundry room. Several piles of laundry are swirling in the washing machines. Krabward is intrigued and sticks his face on one of the machines, and gets dizzy watching it. He falls to the ground and knocks one of the machines over, sending laundry flying all over the room.
“Uhhh… yeah that was my fault,” he says. He pushes the washing machine back to where it was, and puts the laundry back inside.
“Ummm… which one of these buttons starts the machine?” Krabward presses a bunch of buttons, causing an entire disco ball to appear, which starts an entire light show with music in the laundry room.
Meanwhile, Squidward is in the art room, painting a “masterpiece”, which is just himself as a monkey eating a banana on top of a tree.
“My artsterpiece is almost complete,” Squidward says to himself. “Just a little flick of the wrist and that should do it.” Squidward gets ready to do the last stroke of the painting, but gets startled and drops his paintbrush upon hearing the music. “What?! Did that nincompoop turn on the disco set in the laundry room? Ugh…”
Squidward groans as he stomps his way over to the laundry room. His monkey painting frowns in disappointment.
“Don’t worry, you’re not the only one who hasn’t been finished,” an unfinished Squidward Picasso painting on the wall says.
“I haven’t even been started!” a blank canvas says. “I’m supposed to be a pretty princess!”
Back in the laundry room, Krabward is pressing several buttons to try to stop the disco from playing. Instead, this makes it worse, even adding strobe lights, which burn Squidward’s eyes upon opening the door.
“MY EYES!” he yells, scrambling for something to extinguish them, but instead pours his eyes with bleach, making them worse. He claps his tentacles three times, which summons a fire extinguisher from the ceiling to put out his eyes. “Much better. Now, what in the halibut do you think you’re doing?!”
“I-I’m sorry, I knocked over your laundry and tried putting it back to normal and-” Krabward gets interrupted by Squidward, who sighs.
“Okay, new rule: do NOT touch any of my stuff. You hear me?”
“I-I hear you loud and clear, Papa.”
Squidward groans. “And please stop calling me Papa, I hardly even know you. What’s your name, anyhow?”
“My name’s Krabward.”
“Krabward, really? That’s just a combination of my name and Mr. Krabs’ name. Pfft, what kind of loser would do that?”
The screen goes black for a second.
“What was that?” Squidward asks.
“I thought I went blind,” Krabward says.
“Oh. Well anyway, do NOT touch any of my stuff or you are being kicked out, pronto,” Squidward tells him.
“Yes sir,” Krabward says with his head down.
“Good. Now I’m going to go back to watching some old House Fancy episodes. You, uhh… stand around and do absolutely nothing.” Squidward goes to the TV room, leaving Krabward alone.
Krabward stands still for approximately seven seconds. Then, he dashes into the next room: the computer room.
“Oh boy, the computer room! Ooh, look at all the pretty colors.”
The room has several computers, from old to new, from cheap to expensive. Krabward’s eyes point towards a supercomputer in the corner, paired with a giant 8K monitor.
“Expensive…” Krabward gets into the chair at the computer with a tranced look in his eyes. He turns on the computer and is greeted to a giant emoticon face assistant.
“Hello, my name is Courtney. How can I assist you today?” she says.
“I would like to go to desktop,” Krabward requests.
“I’m sorry, but it does not appear you are in our database. Would you like to add yourself to the database?”
“Sure,” Krabward responds.
“Please enter your date of birth, place of residence, first and last name, and gender.”
Krabward uses the keyboard to enter “Fancyland” as his place of residence, “Krabward” as his first name, and “Male” as his gender. He scratches his head while trying to figure out what to put on the other fields.
“Now… what IS my last name?” Krabward asks himself. He shrugs and puts “Krabward” as his last name. “Now date of birth, that’s even trickier. When… when WAS I born?”
Krabward spends some time thinking about when he was born, and the cogs in his brain start working in overdrive. Eventually they get tired of spinning and he passes out. When Krabward wakes up, Squidward is carrying him in his arms.
“Papa! I’m so sorry!” Krabward says to him.
“No more apologies, mister,” Squidward says. “I will give you ONE more chance to not be a nuisance, and that is it. You will be kicked out if you touch my things again. Now I’ll sit you at the kitchen table while I finish my bingewatch.”
Squidward places Krabward on a chair at the kitchen table as he goes back to the TV room.
“Oh, and I’ll make sure I’ll have MELISSA watch you the whole time.” As Squidward says this, MELISSA wheels in and starts staring at Krabward, who gulps.
MELISSA and Krabward have a very awkward staredown for what seems like ages. Intense music plays as this happens. Krabward starts sweating, gulps, and looks away. He then gets an idea.
“Oh MELISSA, what is 62 divided by 0?” he asks her.
“62 divided by 0 is… is… is is is is is is is is is…” MELISSA starts having a stroke, distracting her from her duties. Krabward sneaks away, nervous, and goes into the restroom to have a rest.
“Y’know, it seems most people don’t go to the restroom to… rest,” Krabward says to himself. “I think I need to do that right now.”
Krabward sits on the toilet and starts to take a nap. When he once again wakes up, Squidward is staring him down angrily, as Krabward is now stuck on the toilet.
“What did I JUST TELL YOU?!” Squidward yells at him.
“I’M SORRY I’m sorry I’M SORRY!” Krabward yells back. He struggles to get off the toilet since he is stuck.
“You little [dolphin chirp], I’ll get you out of here at ONCE!” Squidward yanks Krabward out of the toilet, causing the entire restroom to shake and then crumble. Krabward nervously chuckles and suddenly vanishes.
“Huh?” Squidward says. “Where did he go? I’LL GET YOU FOR THIS!”
Squidward runs in circles around his house trying to find Krabward, to no avail. Squidward breaks down crying. “MY RESTROOM! MY TOILETRIES! MY TOILET!”
Squidward’s toilet comes crawling up to him, wheezing.
“Save me, Squidward… save me from that cretin…” it says, before passing out.
“NOOOOOOOOOO!” Squidward yells.
The screen fades to black, and comes back to the French Narrator.
“So, what you have seen may have come as a surprise to you,” he says. “But it’s all pretty simple. Sometimes, marine life has no explanation for what the heck just happened. Universes may collide, and may coincide, to create… the Tidal Zone.”
The French Narrator disappears, and Zee French Scientist comes on.
“I have no idea what he just said,” ZFS says. “But zere is one thing I know for sure: Krabward does not indeed exist. Or… does he?” He shrugs. “I honestly don’t know, I’m here against my will. LE HELP!”
Zee French Scientist is pulled by an invisible cane as the episode ends.
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