SOLmaster presents a new Nicktoons fic written by me. This is also the winning fic picked by voters on my Deviantart account as to which choice of fics should I post here first. So I hope you all enjoy it.

Plot: When SpongeBob is driving in a race and wins, he gets his driver's license from Mrs. Puff. But once he gets it, it burns to shreds in his hands and his car explodes. He soon realizes he's in a nightmare, and his dream self pops of his nightmare. (Like in the ep 'Sleepy Time') Then he is shocked to see himself, Jimmy, Timmy, Danny, and Tak each trapped in containment chambers fast asleep. He then goes into Danny's dream that also turns into a nightmare like his, and they both work together to go into the other three Nicktoons' nightmares and try to wake them up. As they travel from dream to dream, they each try and remember what happened to them before they fell asleep and as they each tell what they remember, they learn Nocturne put them to sleep and captured them to use their nightmares as energy to rule the worlds.

Enjoy the first part…

Nicktoons: Dream-Escape

Part 1

On a bright sunny day in Bikini Bottom, everything seemed peaceful today…except for something zooming down the road past Conch Street.

It was a large green race car that had hotrod flames and a large motor in the back, and the driver was none other than SpongeBob SquarePants, who was wearing a helmet and had a goofy expression on his face. He was happily driving his racing car in what seemed to be a race. When another mysterious driver in a racing helmet was trying to push SpongeBob off the road, the sponge just smirked and narrowed his eyes as he steered his racing car to the side, and the racer drove off the road and his car suddenly exploded.

When SpongeBob drove past the stands and crossed the finish line, the audience cheered loudly, among them being Patrick, Sandy, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs.

"Whoo-hoo!" Patrick cheered.

"You the man, SpongeBob!" Sandy called.

"It's all you, SquarePants!" Squidward also cheered.

SpongeBob stopped the car and jumped out, raising his arms in triumph. Then a news reporter approached him. "Congratulations, Mr. SquarePants." Perch Perkins stated. "You have just won the big race and proven yourself to be an excellent driver."

SpongeBob giggled in flattery. "Oh, gosh."

"What are you gonna do next?"

"How about accepting his grand prize?" Mrs. Puff answered as she stepped forward.

"My grand prize?" SpongeBob asked in anticipation.

"That's right, Mr. SquarePants." Mrs. Puff replied as she pulled something out of her pocket. "The thing you deserve most."

SpongeBob's eyes widened as he stared at the fresh new driver's license Mrs. Puff was holding. "A…driver's license…"

While retaining his dreamy expression, he reached his hand out for the license. But, right when he was about to touch it, it suddenly burst into flames in Mrs. Puff's hand.

"Huh?" SpongeBob wondered with a shocked expression.

Then he saw a strange evil look on Mrs. Puff's face. "You think you'd actually get your driver's license, SquarePants?" she said with an evil laugh as her eyes glow red. "Well, guess again."

SpongeBob gasped in shock as he saw all the other citizens and guests acting the same as Mrs. Puff, and they began to approach SpongeBob with their arms sticking up like zombies.

"Aaah!" SpongeBob screamed as he made a run for it.

When he tried to get in his race car, it suddenly exploded into a pile of scraps. "Barnacles!" SpongeBob shouted as he held his head. "Why is this happening?"

"SpongeBob…" a moaning voice said as SpongeBob turned to see his friends and fans slowly approaching him with their evil looks.

SpongeBob screamed again and ran away as fast as he can. When SpongeBob had run a few feet away from the mob, he suddenly looked down to see he had run off a cliff. He gasped before he began to fall down below into what looked like an abyss. "AAAAAAHH!!!"

Then suddenly, SpongeBob fell sideways and then downward again before landing on a hard metal floor with a grunt.

"Ooohh?" SpongeBob groaned as he sat up. "Where am I?" he then looked down at himself to see he was small with a green glow around him. "Oh, tarter sauce. I must've been dreaming again and I popped out of it. But no matter; I'll just go back inside."

When he walked forward, he suddenly bumped into what seemed like glass. SpongeBob grunted until he opened his eyes. "Hey, what- AAH!"

He was shocked to see himself standing up in a large glass container fast asleep, but with a disturbed look on his face due to the nightmare he had.

"Hey!" SpongeBob yelled as he banged on the container. "What's going on? What am I doing here!" he turned and screamed again at what he saw next. "EEK!"

Next to him in a straight row were Danny, Tak, Timmy, and Jimmy standing in chambers like his own, fast asleep also.

"Oh, my gosh!" SpongeBob yelled as he ran over to Danny Phantom's chamber that was next to him. "Danny!" he shouted as he banged on the glass. "Danny, wake up! You can't sleep now! You gotta wake up!"

But all his shouting didn't seem to reach Danny at all. "Oh…" SpongeBob groaned. "What am I gonna do now?"

But then he looked up and noticed a device on Danny's head that was just like the one on his own body's head. It was a strange helmet with a cord connected to it that went straight through the top of the chamber and into a strange machine connected to the wall.

"I wonder what that thing is." SpongeBob questioned as he hopped onto the chamber, and walked over to the cord on top. He grabbed it and shook it around to see if it would do something.

"I gotta find some way to wake up Danny." SpongeBob told himself. "He might be able to help figure out what's going on." Then he let go of the cord and groaned in frustration. "Ohh…he's probably stuck in there, dreaming like me. He might never- hey, wait!" he shouted with a smile and idea. "I bet I can slip into his dream and tell him what's happening, and then he'll wake up and help me. It's worth a shot."

Then SpongeBob grabbed the cord and slid down it through a hole in the chamber that was big enough for him to slide through. Then he jumped onto the helmet and through the sleeping Danny's head.

SpongeBob then appeared into what looked like Amity Park. "Okay," SpongeBob told himself. "It looks like I'm in Danny's dreams. Now I just need to find Danny."

Then he started walking away as he thought out loud to himself, "What do guys like Danny dream about anyway?"

He stopped when he reached Casper High and looked up to see a bright flash. He ran around to the back and took a peek from behind the wall to see Danny Phantom standing in front of a group of people.

"Okay, everyone!" Danny shouted. "The Ghost King has been taken care of and everything's safe."

All the students cheered as Dash yelled, "You rock, Phantom! I want you to take my place as quarterback of the football team!"

Then Paulina shouted, "I want you to accept my offer for popularity and go on a date with me!"

"Overshadow a cheerleader so they'll go on a date with ME!" Tucker shouted.

"Okay, okay!" Danny shouted over everyone to quiet them up. "I'll see what I can do for all of you, right after I spend a little time with the girl of my dreams."

When the crowd all left murmuring in disappointment, Danny changed into human form and Mr. Lancer walked over to him.

"Before you leave to do your duties, Mr. Fenton, I just want to give you the quiz you aced with flying colors."

Danny took the paper to see he got an A+ on his math test. "Sweet!" Danny cheered. "I love my life!"

"Oh, Danny!" a female voice called out as Danny turned with a grin to see Sam, holding school books with a smile. "Come on and enjoy life even more."

Danny strolled over to his girlfriend as SpongeBob continued to watch from behind the wall.

"Danny's loved even more by everyone, passing all his tests, and is getting everything he ever wanted." SpongeBob noticed as his looked turned worrisome. "This is just like my dream. And if it is just like my dream, that means…Oh no!"

Danny was sitting on a picnic bench next to Sam as they stared into each other's eyes. "Can this get any better, Sam?" Danny asked dreamingly.

"I think it can." Sam replied in the same tone before they leaned toward each other about to kiss.

"DANNY!" SpongeBob voice yelled causing them to stop.

Danny and Sam turned to see SpongeBob approaching them. "SpongeBob?" Danny asked in shock. "What are you doing here?"

"This isn't what you think, Danny." SpongeBob explained. "None of this is real."

"What are you talking about?" Danny asked in disbelief.

"I got my driver's license." SpongeBob explained. "Only it wasn't my driver's license, and everyone wasn't there to cheer me on. They turned into monsters that tried to get me. Then they chased me off a cliff and I fell onto the ground, and I was there, but I was still asleep. But I wasn't in my bed, I was in a pod looking thing, and so were you and the other Nicktoons. Then I went inside your dreams to get your help before your dreams turn into a nightmare like mine."

After SpongeBob finished, Danny just raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms. "SpongeBob, please. I have no reason to believe that I am in a dream that will turn into a nightmare."

"But Danny-"

"Forget it." Danny said, raising a hand to stop him. "If you are really intruding in my dreams like you say you are; why don't you just go back the way you came, and let me get back to my duties?"

SpongeBob then slumped in disappointment.

Then Danny smiled and closed his eyes as he turned back to his girlfriend. "Now where were we?" when he puckered his lips and moved his head in close, he opened his eyes to see he was no longer in front of Sam, but Skulker.

Danny's eyes widen in shock, and Skulker pops a blade out of his fist in front of Danny's face. "Pucker up, ghost child."

Danny screamed as he backed away and fell to the ground in front of SpongeBob.

"RUN!" SpongeBob yelled as Danny got up and the two quickly ran away as fast as they could.

The two ran to the side of the Casper High building and leaned against the wall as they panted.

"I told you this would turn into a nightmare." SpongeBob said.

"No kidding." Danny exasperated. "I almost made-out with Skulker."

"Well, we're safe now, right?"

All of a sudden, someone landed on the ground in front of them. It was the Guys in White. "Vlad Masters in mayor again, ghost punk." The first one said.

"And that means you're public enemy #1 again."

Danny glared and tightened his fist. "We'll see about that. I'm Going Ghost!" a bright light appeared around his waist, but it did now go around the rest of his body. "I can't go ghost."

"Let's get out of here then!" SpongeBob shouted as he ran away.

"Right." Danny agreed as he followed.

The two ran away as fast as they could from the hunters. They soon ran behind a large bush which they thought could keep them safe for a while.

"So…" Danny said as he kept an eye out. "This is supposed to be a nightmare you say?"

"Uh huh." SpongeBob nodded.

"But, the real question is how we ended up here." Danny turned to SpongeBob. "Quick, what do you remember before you came here?"

SpongeBob smiled. "Oh, I was driving an awesome hotrod in a big race where I'll finally acquire a driver's license and-"

"Yeah, okay," Danny interrupted. "A little further back please."

"Oh, right. Well…we were at your house in your backyard, and I was showing you this new move I've been working on."

Like SpongeBob says, a flashback leads to SpongeBob and Danny, along with Jimmy, Timmy, and Tak, standing in Danny's backyard.

SpongeBob reached into his pockets and pulled out a bottle of bubble soap and a bubble wand. "I call it…Sponge Dash."

The other Nicktoons glance at each other as SpongeBob blows a bubble into the shape of a Viking helmet and it floats onto the top of his head. Then SpongeBob turned around and started moving his legs in a fast running motion. He lowers his head forward and the charges off at the fence.

A loud thud was heard causing the others to wince.

Back in the present time, SpongeBob finished and shrugged, "And that's all I remember."

Danny stared until he said, "Well, that explains almost everything."

Then an ecto-beam suddenly fired in between him and SpongeBob, followed by a bomb that landed on the ground in front of them. SpongeBob gasped and quickly took out his bottle of bubble soap and blew a large bubble around the bomb which exploded inside, causing no harm.

Danny looks out from behind the bush to see his parents holding ecto-weapons toward them. They also had red eyes similar to the residents in SpongeBob's nightmare.

Then Dash appeared in the same way. "I'm gonna start beating you up again, Fenton!"

"We have to get out of here." Danny said. "SpongeBob, how did you escape your nightmare?"

SpongeBob thought for a while until he remembered. "I…ran off a cliff and popped out of my subconscious."

"Of course." Danny smiled. "Any shock in a dream is sure to wake someone up. SpongeBob, I need to you wake me up! Do something that'll shock me awake!"

"Shock you awake?" SpongeBob questioned nervously. "But how?"

"I don't know. Just…" Danny then closed his eyes and held his face out to SpongeBob. "Punch me! Maybe being hit by you will shock me awake."

SpongeBob just stared with a confused look. "Are you sure, Danny? I don't know if I can hit you like that."

"I'm sure!" Danny shouted impatiently. "Just do it!"

"Okay." SpongeBob replied nervously as he held up his fist and stepped back, about to punch Danny in the face.

But when SpongeBob stepped back further, he stepped on a stick and it rolled under his feet, causing SpongeBob to lose his balance. SpongeBob yelled as he fell to the ground and some bubble soap flung out of the bottle.

Danny opened his eyes, wondering what had happened. "SpongeBob, what-" then before he knew it, the bubble soap flew in his eyes, causing him to scream and hold his eyes. "AAH!"

In the real world, Danny suddenly opened his eyes as he continued to scream, and the pod chamber opened up as the helmet slipped off his head.

SpongeBob flew out of Danny and landed back in his own body, also waking up and having his pod chamber open.

"Danny!" SpongeBob cried happily as he stepped out. "The real you is awake now."

"Yeah," Danny said bitterly as he walked out of his chamber. "And thankfully not suffering from eye burns."

SpongeBob grinned with a nervous chuckle until Danny turned and noticed the others asleep in their pod containers.

"Oh man," Danny gasped as he rushed over to Tak's and put his hands on it. "You weren't kidding before."

"What are we gonna do?" SpongeBob asked. "No matter what I do I can't wake them up."

Danny knocked on the glass once. "You're right. It looks like they're stuck in their dreams."

"Which will turn into nightmares soon!" SpongeBob yelled in panic. "There must be some way we can wake them up."

"I think there is, SpongeBob." Danny smiled.

"Really?" SpongeBob asked now calm. "How?"

"The same way you woke me up. We slip into their dreams and wake them up before their happy dreams turn into nightmares."

"Oooh!" SpongeBob said in awe. "Sounds like a great idea."

"Yeah," Danny said as he grabbed SpongeBob's hand. "And with any luck, they might know how we got in this mess. Now let's head into Tak's dream."

Danny then turned him and SpongeBob intangible and the two flew in through the container into Tak.

Danny and SpongeBob then reappear in what looked like the Pupununu village. Danny looked around and said, "Well, everything looks normal for now."

"All we have to do is find Tak." SpongeBob said.

"What does Tak dream about most?"

They then heard faint noises that sounded like chanting. Danny and SpongeBob stared at each other, and then look from behind a tree to see the entire Pupununu tribe gathered around and chanting what sounded like, "Tak! Tak! Tak!"

SpongeBob looked at Danny, "You don't think…"

They look ahead to see what looked like a stage, and on it was Tak, who was lying sideways on a throne. Next to him was Jeera. "Oh, Tak, you look so handsome." She was swooning over him.

While the tribe continued to chant Tak's name, Danny and SpongeBob approached the back row.

"I gotta hand it to the guy." Danny was saying. "He's got style."

Then Tak walked off stage and fell back into the crowd with the tribe carrying him away. When Tak reached the end of the crowd, white-gloved hands grabbed him next and pulled him down. He lied in Danny's arms.

"Hello there, oh modest dreamer." Danny sarcastically greeted.

Tak opened his eyes and jumped to the ground. "Danny! SpongeBob! You're here, that's great!"

"I know!" SpongeBob smiled. "It's good thing we got here in time."

"True that, SB." Tak then signaled them to follow. "Now do your wonderful shaman the honor of praising him all the way to his hut."

Danny and SpongeBob then get confused looks. "Uh…Tak?" Danny began explaining. "We're not part of this dream. We came here to get you out of it."

"Get me out of it?" Tak questioned. "Why would I wanna leave? It's great here."

"It won't be for long, Tak." SpongeBob mentioned. "This is gonna turn into a nightmare soon, and you won't be able to escape unless we wake you up."

Tak snickered and laughed a bit until he said, "Good one, guys. Like this could ever turn into a nightmare."

"Tak, it's true!" Danny snapped. "I didn't believe it at first either, but your little fantasy is about to turn into your worst nightmare."

"Tak!" the chief's voice called. "Will you come here?"

Tak turned around and said, "Well, see you guys later."

When the shaman-in-training went through the crowd and met up with the chief. "Tak, for being such a wonderful, shaman for my people," the chief said. "I am going to give you a 'warm treatment'."

"Aww, guys," Tak smiled. "You don't have to do that. Well…maybe you could."

"Very well." The chief snapped his fingers.

Suddenly, most of the villagers grab Tak's arms, restraining him. "Uh…guys?"

Then the Pupununu suddenly had red eyes and the chanting turned into, "Kill Tak! Kill Tak! Kill Tak!"

As the tribe put Tak onto a stake and tied him with rope, Tak asked, "I…I think you guys are making a mistake? My first name isn't 'Kill'. And what about that 'warm treatment'?"

"You are getting the warm treatment, Tak." The chief said, also having red eyes. "Or should I say…roasted."

The Pupununu then placed Tak above a fire, and started turning him around as if they were roasting him while still shouting, 'Kill Tak'. Tak, however, was trying to blow the fire out with no luck.

Suddenly an ecto-beam suddenly fired from above, knocking Lok away from the turning handle. Then a green glow formed around Tak, and pulled away from the fire, still tied to the stake, and into Danny's hand.

Danny held the stake over his shoulder and said, "Sorry, folks, but I'm afraid your roasted shaman is about to be fast food."

He flew away with Tak into the woods and met up with SpongeBob. "Tak, you're okay!" he said happily.

Danny stuck the stake into the ground and phased Tak out of the ropes. "I guess you were right about all that nightmare stuff." Tak said.

"As much as I would like to rub it in your face, right now we need to know how much you remember before all this happened."

Tak thought hard and responded, "Well…I think SpongeBob was showing us a new move."

Another flashback leads back to Danny's backyard, with SpongeBob wobbling over to the Nicktoons dizzily from the impact he had.

"Yeah…" SpongeBob groaned with a weak smile. "How'd ya like that?"

"Uh…don't you think that move is a little dangerous, SB?" Tak asked, unsure.

"Dangerous?" SpongeBob asked. "What makes you think it's dangerous?"

Jimmy replied, "Well, we can't have you go passing out in the middle of battle."

SpongeBob sighed and said, "Well, just you wait. Someday that move will come in handy."

Then, Danny gasped as he saw his Ghost Sense go off.

The flashback ended with Tak saying, "And that's about all I can tell you."

"Well…" Danny thought. "That tells us a little more I guess."

"We have to get outta here now." SpongeBob said.

"You're right," Danny nodded. "Tak, you gotta wake up."

"How am I supposed to wake myself up?" Tak shrugged.

"Leave it to me." SpongeBob smiled as he dug into his pocket and pulled out bubble soap.

But before he could do anything, Danny put his hand on it and pushed it down. "Don't even try it, dude."

Suddenly, a spear fired from behind that almost hit Tak. "Guys, hurry! They're getting weapons and I don't know how!"

Danny looked around until he spotted something and smiled. "I think I know just what to do."

He then turned intangible and flew straight into the dream version of Jibolba, causing his eyes to glow green like Danny's.

"Tak!" Jibolba called out. "I'm taking your magic staff away and banning you from the village."

"No…" Tak gasped as he held his head.

"Yes!" Jibolba continued. "And I'm sending you to live with…Slog."

"NOOOO!!!"

Back in the real world, Tak suddenly opened his eyes as the containment chamber opened and Tak fell out still screaming. Danny and SpongeBob also flew out of Tak and landed on the floor.

Tak gasped, "I had the most terrible nightmare." Then he looked around to see what was going on. "And now I think I'm in a worse one."

Danny walked over to Timmy's chamber and stared inside, "Okay, we only got two more to go, and I got a feeling were close to finding out who's behind all this."

"Alright, Danny," SpongeBob said in determination. "Let's go save Timmy now."

Danny grabbed SpongeBob and Tak's hand, and turned intangible with them before flying into Timmy next.

Three down and two to go. Will the Danny, SpongeBob, and Tak be able to rescue Timmy and Jimmy for their nightmares and remember how they got in this predicament? Stay tuned for part 2 with all the answers and be sure to review.