Chapter 1: Time Pool

It was a beautiful morning in the Pacific Ocean. The Octonauts were out in the open, helping Peso with another task of coral transplants. This time, thankfully, there were no dolphins to bother them.

"Just one more coral transplant." Peso said to himself, as he carefully placed the pink coral in the hole that Tweak drilled in the white coral. "There! All done."

"Good work everybody." Barnacles nodded. "We've saved yet another coral reef."

"Aye, and this time there were no dolphins to bother us." Kwazzi cheered.

Barnacles laughed. He may get frustrated with the cat a lot, but he always seemed to be able to put a smile on his face.

"Captain," Dashi suddenly came swimming over, looking rather concerned. "I think we have a big problem on our hands."

"What is it Dashi?" Barnacles asked.

"There's something big on the radar." Dashi explained. "It looks like a whirlpool and it's heading our way, fast!"

"Then, we better get out of here." Barnacles nodded. "Let's sound the OctoAlert."

Barnacles pulled out his OctoCompass and pressed the OctoAlert. The alert sounded, startling the other Octonauts.

"Octonauts, to the Octopod." Barnacles ordered.

The others nodded and swam towards the Octopod. Once inside, they all went up to HQ.

"Octonauts, there's a large whirlpool headed our way, and it's coming fast." Barnacles explained. "We need to get the Octopod running and get away from here as fast as possible."

"Fascinating." Shellington breathed, looking at the radar. "I've never seen a whirlpool move so fast before."

Shellington put a paw to his chin, studying the whirlpool closely.

"Maybe it's not a whirlpool." Shellington gasped. "Maybe it's actually a TIME POOL!"

"What in the seven seas is a Time Pool?" Kwazzi asked.

"A Time Pool is like a whirlpool." Shellington explained. "Only, it goes after for certain victims, and once you get sucked in, you travel through time and space and end up somewhere else."

"How are you supposed to get back home if you get sucked in?" Peso asked fearfully.

"Time Pools don't normally form and go after victims unless there's a quest in store for the victim." Shellington explained. "You usually go back home after you've completed your quest."

"Hm," Barnacles looked hard at the radar. "That Time Pool is coming at us fast. Do you suppose it's after us?"

"Of course." Shellington nodded. "There's no other explanation."

"I'm sure whatever it is, it has no importance over us." Kwazzi frowned. "We have other things to do than go on some random quest in another world."

"Why, Kwazzi. I thought you liked big adventures." Barnacles was shocked.

"Only when I know what I'm doing." Kwazzi answered. "I say we get out of here, now!"

"It's a little too late for that now." Dashi gasped. "Look!"

Everybody looked outside and gasped. The Time Pool was right in front of them, coming fast. It looked like an underwater tornado!

"There's no turning back now." Shellington sighed, putting on his helmet. "The Time Pool is not going to leave us alone unless we finish that quest."

"Very well then. Octonauts, let's do this." Barnacles instructed, putting on his own helmet.

The others nodded and put on their helmets, except for Inkling. They left the Octopod and swam towards the Time Pool. When they got closer, the Time Pool started going faster, twisting and turning like an underwater storm.

When the Octonauts thought they were close enough, they held each others paws/flippers/tentacles and waited for the Time Pool to submerge them. The Time Pool spun a little closer to them, then it fully submerged the Octonauts.

When the Time Pool started to cease and disappear, the Octonauts were gone.