Ships Ahoy!

Prologue: The Uncovering

A/N Hello all! This is my first story published on Wattpad, but definitely not the first story I've ever written. I originally started "Ships Ahoy" on FanFiction.net back in November 2015 and completed it about a month ago, but upon request I'll be reposting it in its entirety on here-pretty much unedited, for better or for worse. (Because yes, I made plenty of errors over the course of writing this.) Some of you may have read it already, some of you may be reading it for the first time. Whichever it is, I hope you enjoy my work! (And excuse the long A/N, I like to write a lot...lol)

DISCLAIMERS:

1) I do not own Odd Squad, nor am I connected with it in any way, no matter how much I wish I was.

2) I may have kickstarted the OS shipping with "Olive's Last Partner", held a contest to see who could guess my ships, and gone on to write a (hopefully) novel-length fanfic about these ships, BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN I SUPPORT ODD SQUAD SHIPPING. I have fun with innocent coupling in my stories, yes, but beyond the types of "couples" you might see in an elementary school social environment (or in classic literature/movies like To Kill a Mockingbird or The Secret Garden), I do not at all approve of hardcore mature-content shipping in this fandom. Especially when it branches out to involve the actors themselves. They're kids, for heaven's sake. That's why I'm keeping my shipping K+ rated at the most, although most of it is probably worthy of only a K rating.

3) The main purpose of this story aside from shipping is to explain what the Odd Squad universe would be like if Olive and Oscar had indeed been partners, as was introduced in "Olive's Last Partner"; also to provide a plausible (at least to me) recounting of the events during Ms. O's days in investigation. More DISCLAIMERS coming later, otherwise I'd bore you all to death.

Prologue: The Uncovering

Olive and Oscar knew from the beginning it was only a matter of time before they were found out.

What they hadn't known was when.

Nearly a year had passed since the boiler room incident back in early August of 2014. A lot had happened since then, not only for the two of them but also for many of the other agents working here: Oren, Olaf, Octavia, Oz, Orchid, Obfusco, O'Callaghan, and O'Donnell, to name but a few. Not that Olive or Oscar knew about any of this other drama, or even cared. At first, with exception to a few reckless moments here and there, they had focused everything they could on keeping it a secret from Ms. O and Otto. Especially Otto. But as time went on and Otto never suspected, they relaxed their guard a bit. Olive stopped pretending to be overly annoyed with Oscar, who in turn stopped by her desk to chat more frequently than before. With Otto never suspecting a thing beyond cordially innocent friendship, it seemed he would never find out anyway.

Or so they thought. Until the day Oscarbot 10 destroyed all of their badges.

"It's nearly dinnertime," Olive commented with a sigh as she checked her watch. "How much longer is this going to take?"

Otto, who was sitting farthest away from the workshop entrance, craned his neck to get a better look at what Odenbacker, the Odd Squad repairman and carpenter, was doing at the moment. "Dunno. He took forever just to replace my badge. Probably be awhile," he snorted.

Olive made a face and nodded, but Oscar, seated at the other end of the bench, tried to be fair. "Well, look on the bright side. Odenbacker did just save us from a rogue Oscarbot with his, um, whatever-you-call-it. He's good at his job and he means well."

"Oscar's right," Olive agreed with a smile. Sandwiched in between her companions, she playfully propped up her elbows to rest on each of their shoulders. "Plus, it's kind of like getting the rest of the day off if we can't work without badges."