Thanks Egbert for moving this project along with a skeleton plot. Here are the chapter outlines so far, and you can comment which chapter you want to write. Instead of just Tweak and Shel, we'll be adding Dashi as well for Dashton..
1: Tweak and Shellington(or any other octonaut really) are out on some expedition around the Philippine area when they run into a massive path of destruction. They begin to trace and track down the creature when a massive freak storm hits and they are attacked by the nutopus .The other octonauts realise that theri gup has gone missing and begin to try and investigate things from the octopod using all theri sensors. Then they receive a morse code message from tweak telling them to beware the monster 2: tweak has finished tinkering with the remains of the gup that she had used to send the morse code message. She's marooned on a beach with an almost completely destroyed gup. Her and shellington then go up the coast and encounter the city of Manilla which is alien to them because they've spent that last decade only in the wilderness and octopod. They go into that mall Yza mentioned to try and find a way to communicate back to the octopod (great opportunity for loads of jokes and skits)Meanwhile the octonauts (who are near hawaii) notice that on their wide area sonar, a massive object is heading for them from the philippines. They quickly deduce that this is the monster and send out Kwazii with some fish biscuits to try and divert its course. He meets the creature and tries to divert it's course but the creature seems completely unfazed, seeming not able to talk. Kwazii nudges gently into with the gup b to try and attract its attention but this angers the nutopus who attacks the gup b (kwazii's fine, he follows the creature back to the octopod) for a bit before continuing on it's path towards the octopod.3: tweak manages to get communications up and explains her predicament to the rest of the crew and shellington figures out that the nutopus is probably after the Octopod because it thinks it's another nutopus. The captain comes up with the plan that they'll lure the nutopus to tweak using the octopod and tweak could manufacture a trap to catch it. Tweak also informs the crew that the octopod has a turbo button but it can only be used once because it tears up the bubble engine. Tweak gets to work making the trap, I'm envisioning a massive net with rockets on each corner that wraps up the nutopus. The rest of the octonauts get to work, readying all (and i mean all) the gups (probably with the help of hte octo agents) to help the octopod pass the Nutopus. As the nutopus approaches, the huge swarm of gups rushes forwards and using bubbles, rope and a hodgepodge of tweaks old gadgets (good spot for references) distract and hold off the monster as the octopod rushes past. After a while of being distracted, the Nutopus manages to knock away all of the gups and perseus the octopod which now only has inkling in it Inkling activates the turbo booster as the Nutopus draws close. 4: The octopod maintains speed across most of the pacific but right by the bay of manilla, the engine finally breaks down and the Nutopus closes in. inkling panics as the nutopus descends onto the octopod and picks up the octopod (i'm envisioning the Nutopus's head being the size of the octopod). Tweak pops up on the screen and tells inkling to use that octopod controlling suit from the colossal squid episode. Inkling puts the suit on and breaks out of the grip of the Nutopus before backing away into the bay, fending off the nutopus, trying to lure the creature in range of the trap. Once, the nutopus is close enough, tweak activates the trap, capturing it. I have no idea what they do with the nutopus now, i'm out of ideas
