"Wow," Patrick said, blinking. "I feel like I just saw the inner workings of my own mind." "Was it scary?" SpongeBob asked.

SpongeBob puffed out his chest, trying to look brave despite his legs occasionally clipping through the ground. "We just wanted to save our friends! We didn’t mean to break the... the..."

Suddenly, the sky above them flickered. A massive, scrolling wall of green code cascaded down like a waterfall, momentarily replacing the pink clouds. A figure emerged from the glitch—a version of Squidward that looked like he was made of broken glass and static.

"You fools," the Glitch-Squidward droned, his clarinet emitting a high-pitched frequency that vibrated their square pants. "By using the Cosmic Jelly without the proper 'permissions,' you’ve bypassed the natural order. You’ve bypassed the of the world itself!"