Amy meets Scratch and Grounder

In the glade of the forest, Amy made her way into the center of the woods, calling out his name twice.

"Mister SquarePants! Oh, Mister SquarePants!"

However, SpongeBob was gone again. There was still no luck for the female pink hedgehog to catch the yellow sea sponge.

"Oh, dear. I’m sure he came this way,” she said, looking around with her fists on her hips. "Do you suppose he could be hiding somewhere?"

Little did she know that there were two robots peeking from behind the bushes.

One of them was a silver mechanical chicken with red tail feathers, a black mechanical feather chest, yellow legs, a yellow beak, and a gray body only wearing a belt. His name was Scratch.

The other was a robot that was green with a yellow collar, a screw for a belly, an antenna on his back, a drill for hands and a nose, and tank wheels. His name was Grounder, Scratch's "twin" brother.

"Where could he possibly be hiding?" Amy wondered, as she looked behind a tree. The two robots moved between the bushes and the tree, yet they were hidden within a shadow. As Amy turned toward an open log, the robots moved next to the tree and they stood right behind her.

"Not here…," Amy said, before kneeling down to the log’s level. "I wonder..."

As she crawled into the log, the robots looked at each other and skipped on top of the log in unison, before stopping in front of the other side of the log. Once Amy came out from the log, she stood still for a moment and brushed her dress with her hands.

"I suppose he—" she started to say, before she jolted and gasped in shock when she turned and glanced at the two robots.

"Why… what peculiar robots."

Just then, she spotted two blue ribbons with their names embroidered in yellow and read them one at a time: "Scratch...And Grounder!"

Amy placed a finger on the mechanical chicken's beak, and a low honking sound came out of his mouth, surprising her.

"If you think we're made of wax, you ought to pay to see us, you know." Scratch said, and he jabbed his twin with his left elbow. As a result, a high honking noise emitted from Grounder's mouth.

"If you think we've come to life, you ought to say something to us." Grounder added, before jabbing his twin with his right elbow. The same low honk came out of Scratch's mouth, and Scratch bounced into Grounder, the same high honk emitting from him. The robots then hopped on the log and made the same honking noises by jabbing one another with their average-sized feet, svelte/thickset hips, torsos, and backs before landing on the grassy terrain.

"That's logic!" the robots said in unison, holding their left index fingers up.

"Well," Amy said with a short chuckle, as she gave them a short curtsey. "It's been nice meeting you boys. Goodbye."

Just as she started walking away, however, the robots darted and stood right in her way.

"You’re beginning backwards." Scratch said to her.

"Aye, the first thing to say actually is,” Grounder added, before the bears broke out in song again and took Amy's hands. They spun her around in a circle, like a game of ring-around-the-Rosie, before they shook her hands rapidly and released her, causing her to fall on the ground.

Scratch and Grounder: *How do you do*
*And shake hands*
*Shake hands*
*Shake hands*
*How do you do*
*And shake hands*
*State your name and business*

"That's manners!" the robots said to her, holding up their opposite index fingers in front of her.

The two front bangs of Amy's fur-hair were covering her face, so Amy flipped them out of the way to give herself a better view.

"Really?" Amy asked them, and she then stood up on her feet. "Well, my name is Amy. Amy Rose, and I’m following a yellow sea sponge, so—"

As she turned to leave, the robots suddenly appeared in front of her again, stopping her in her tracks.

"You can't leave yet." Scratch said to her, waving his hands in front of her.

"No, the visit has just started." Grounder added.

"I'm very sorry, but—" Amy said as she continued walking, with the robots still in her way.

"Would you like to play hide and seek?" Grounder asked, as multiple clones of the bears popped up from the trees and a single bush. The clones disappeared, and the robots then fused themselves into one body, yet their legs and arms were still with each of the two robots.

"Button! Button! Who's got the button?" Scratch said.

"No thank you." Amy replied to them politely, only to see the robots in front of her again in fighting stances.

"If you stay a little longer, we’ll have a battle." Grounder said, and the robots began bopping one another in a honking, comical fight.

"That’s very kind of you, but I must get going." Amy said, as she gently pushed them out of the way. The robots then jolted in front of her and stood next to two trees that served as an archway in the woods.

"Why?" they asked her in unison.

"Because I’m following a yellow sea sponge." Amy answered them, only to be blocked by them again.

"Why?" the robots asked her once more.

"Well, I'm curious to know where he's going." Amy replied to them, before finally starting to leave again.

"Ohhh, she's curious." Grounder whispered, as he and Scratch had inquisitive expressions on their faces.

"The oysters were curious, too, weren’t they?” Grounder whispered to him, causing Amy to stop and turn around to listen to what the robots were saying.

"Aye. And you remember what happened to them."

The robots huddled with one another and started crying before Amy came walking straight back to them.

"Poor things!" they said in sad voices.

"Well, what did happen to the oysters?" Amy asked them. Scratch and Grounder began marching towards the log.

"Oh, you wouldn’t be interested in hearing about it." Scratch said to her.

"Oh, but I am." Amy replied to them, as she followed them and got in front of them.

"Ohhh, no. You’re in much too much of a hurry." said Grounder.

Amy was still in front of them as she was walking in reverse towards the log, and said, "Well, perhaps I could spare a little time."

"You could?" the robots said, smiles of delight forming on their faces. "Well!"

With that said, Scratch and Grounder placed Amy on the log before making back-flips and landed in front of the bushes and trees.