SpongeBob and his friends (Patrick, Mr. Krabs, Squidward, Sandy, and Plankton) need to go on a quest to discover a stolen recipe that takes them to the surface, where they tangle with Burger-Beard the pirate who possesses the recipe along with a book that could change things when written in it. In order to get back the recipe, the gang steals the book and they transform themselves into superheroes using the book