"Ryder?" Asked a puppy-eyed Marshall, "Are you sure you have to go?"

"I've already told you all, I have to go on this trip, it's very important. But remember, I also called some special people to watch you." He answered.

"Who?" Inquired the pup.

"You'll just have to wait and see. I know there will be nothing to worry about with them around." Ryder said.

"Must you be gone so long, though?" Asked an also teary-eyed Skye.

"I know that it is a very long time, but I promise I'll come back. Not to mention, I won't have to do it again; at least, not for several years. Now before I leave, has anyone seen Zuma? He the only one I haven't said good-bye to yet."

"When I last talked to him, he said he was going down to the beach." Said Zuma's best friend, Rocky.

☆SPONGEBOB NARRATOR: WITH ZUMA...

'What a gwreat day for the beach'
He thought happily, while building a sand castle. As he began to build another tower, something sparkled in the sun and caught his eye. When he looked, it turned out to be a bottle top protruding from the shore. "Wonder what that is?" He trotted over and dug the object up. "Thewre's something in this bottle. Grrrr! (Pop!) Yes! It's a.... bwroken piece of stone? Oh well, might as well keep it, maybe Wocky can find a use for it." He looked at the sun and remembered that Ryder was leaving at noon, so he hurried back to the Lookout.

After Zuma arrived and all the farewells were said, the group of pups waited inside for the "pupsitters" to get there. Each pup did their own thing. Chase and Marshall looked up videos on the internet; Skye and Everest put on, looked at, and talked about makeup and jewelry; Rubble and Tracker played a game- which Tracker was winning-, and Zuma showed Rocky his discovery from the seaside.

"See, dude. It's totally weiwrd. Do you know what it is?"

"Nope, not a clue." Rocky replied. "Clearly it is a piece of old tablet. You know, like the ones Egyptians wrote on."

"Maybe it is one of those!" He bellowed.

"Hey Rocky, Zuma!" Marshall called, "Come watch this video me and Chase found on cats, it's hilarious!"

Everyone was so absorbed into what they were doing that they didn't see the two figures at the door. Slowly, these figures opened it and came in. The pups were surprised to hear footsteps so they turned and looked, then they saw two men standing in the play area. The shorter man smiled and began to speak.

"Ciao, pups!" He said with an Italian accent. "I'm-a Mario and this is-a my brother, Luigi."

"Hi-a dogs!" He said.

"We're-a gonna baby-a sit you for your-a master. So, what are-a your-a names?"

"Marshall!"
"Rubble!"
"Chase!"
"Rocky!"
"Zuma!"
"Skye!"
"Everest!"
"Tracker!"

"And that's Robo-dog." Rocky added.

"Alright. Well, if-a you need us, we'll be right-a in the guestroom. Arrivederci!" He bellowed.

"Bye-bye." His brother said.

"Hey, Wocky," Zuma whispered, "don't that seem kinda familiar? Like I've seen them fwrom somewhewre, but whewre?"

"I know what you mean, I feel like that too." Rocky answered.

☆SBN: THE NEXT DAY

"(Yawn!) Boy, what a good sleep; wonder who else is up?" Rocky asked himself. He then walked out of his house, paused to sniff the air, and continued walking to his water dish; however, said dish was drier than the Sahara desert.

"Hm. I'll need to have that Mario guy fill my water bowl."

He began to search for the mustachioed man. As he looked around Rubble's house he saw Chase doing his morning pup-yoga.

"Morning Chase. Say, have the sitters woken up yet? I'm thirsty."

"Hi, Rocky. No, I don't think so. I haven't seen them yet, maybe they're in the Lookout?" Chase said while performing the "tree" pose-- meaning the way a dog "uses" a tree, that is.

"I'll check the kitchen first then." Rocky said. "See ya, Chase."
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To be continued...

Author's Note: SBN stands for Spongebob Narrator, and this will be used throughout most of my fanfictions. I do not own the narrator or Spongebob, they both belong to Nickelodeon.