Chapter 2: Welcome the Order Sector
"Heeey!" a voice called out.
Soon, digital numbers, glitches, and light will form the Order Sector so that it will appear.
The voice called out again, "Heeey! HELLOOOOOOOOO?! Up and at 'em, Owen Eight! Yo, Owen Eight! You awake or what?!"
Lying on the ground unconscious is Owen. But her ink color is faded to a beige color by default, and she's dressed in a short-sleeved white jumpsuit with matching white knee-high boots, a thin, translucent brace on her left forearm, and an earring on her left ear. Once she woke up, she stood up slowly and looked around, confused.
"Where…am I? This is Déjà vu," Owen continued. "OK, let's think. Ugh! My memory is all fuzzy. All I can remember is putting on some weird headset. Then there was screaming and glitching. And Octavius, Off the Hook, Chris, and Corey were there…O MY OCTOPID! I hope they're OK. I got to find them!"
Soon, a mysterious drone flies before Owen, saying, "Nice. If you hadn't come around, I didn't have a plan B!"
"A talking, cute, royal drone?!"
"What's up? I got something on my face?"
"Uh…Do I know you?"
"Oh, right! You wouldn't recognize me like this."
After a pose, the drone responded, "I'm Pearl! You know, your bestie!"
"Pearl?! As in Pearl from Off the Hook?! That's impossible, despite the odd resemblance," Owen said in shock.
"…No, for serious! I'm legit Pearl!"
"If you are Pearl, how did you become a drone?"
"Not sure how I got this way, but here I am."
"If you say so, Pearl Drone."
"Not sure where Marina went either. She's supposed to be with me. And the others have no clue! Owen Eight…Don't tell me you don't remember Marina either."
"How am I supposed to know? I just got here."
"It's cool. You just woke up. Might take some time for your head to clear."
Soon, the Pearl Drone shows an image of Off the Hook's current style and says, "That's Regular Me on the left, OK? And the one on the right is Marina!"
"You really are Pearl. Amazing that you could change into a drone, but who knows how we'll be able to change you back."
"You got any idea where we should go from here? Marina's usually around to help me with that."
"If we're ever going to do something, we must find the others."
"Oh! Duh! We should go find Marina! She'll know what to do!"
"You're right, Pearl. If anyone can understand what is happening, it would be Marina."
"C'mon, Owen Eight! Let's get going!"
In cyberspace, Prince Octavious is lying unconscious on the floor. While he still has a golden conventional Japanese straw hat, he has the same outfit and color fade as Owen, but a translucent brace is on his right forearm, and the earring is on his right ear. Soon, Chris and Corey, in their agent outfits, came running, but for some reason, they were turned into holograms. When they see
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Wake up!" said Corey, moving Octavious gently.
"Yo, Sleeping Princey Beauty! We need to get going to find our way out," Chris picks up Octavius and violently shakes him.
Prince Octavius woke and said, "Cut it out, Agent 4. I just sent an SOS to Agent 3. It took so much energy to do that I need to rest."
"What? How?"
"Before we all got transported and separated from Owen, Marina, and Pearl, I did some quick hacking. My coding and hacking skills are far superior to Marina's. Anyway, it allowed me to digitally create items that give connections from outside and inside this world."
When Chris puts him down, she says, "If you do, Your Braininess."
"Looks who's talking, Miss Head of Security! You should've noticed the glitch when my Owen Babe put on that headset, and Marina's laptop sped up!"
"I'm a field muscle agent, not a techno field agent!"
Corey quickly got in between and said, "Woah there, tough mussel and Your Highness. The first thing we have to do is find a way out of here and get some contact with the others. By the way, Your Highness, how come we didn't end where the others are, and my girlfriend and I turned into holograms?"
Prince Octavius answered, "For you two, I'm not sure. And as for me, it's probably because of my hacking skills. We'll find out more if we can find a leak in the system. Perhaps when Marina is hacking, we can use it to gain contact. Now, let's roll!"
"Yes, sire."
"If I get a chance to fight anything, I'm in," said Chris.
"Hey, you two! I think I see an open window up ahead. Marina must be hacking already," said Prince Octavious, summoning a golden Octopus laptop.
He begins to type in it so signal waves can appear from the laptop. The signal waves go to the open window for connection as Prince Octavius's earring glows.
Back with Owen and the Pearl Drone, they come before the Spire of Order.
Pearl commented, "This place kiiinda looks like Inkopolis Square. But how'd it get like this?"
"That malfunction scrambled my memories. If only I could remember what happened when I put on that headset."
Soon, a voice is heard saying, "Krssshh…bzzt…Pe…arl…"
"That voice…Could it be?!"
"Marina?! Are you up there?" said Pearl.
The voice responds, "Skrrrzzz…zzzrrr…elp m…CLICK."
"Hang on! We're coming up to you now!"
"Owen…Babe…Can you hear me?" Prince Octavius's voice was heard.
"My Prince! Are you up there with Marina, too?" Owen said.
"Unfortunately, no. I'm trapped in some cyberspace with Agents 4 and 4.5. I'm able to communicate with you through our earrings."
"Did you reach Agent 8?" Chris's voice heard. "Hi, Owen! Don't worry, we got our monitoring on you."
"Chris! Give me back my earring!"
"Shake a leg, Owen Eight! Marina's at the top of the tower!" said Pearl.
"I overheard what Pearl said. It would be best if you got up to the tower and fast. We'll keep in touch and find any information we can," said Corey.
"Alright. Let's go, Pearl," said Owen.