I mostly wrote this for the WTF? factor and teh lolz. That, and because there weren't any Pikmin lemons. That was pretty shocking to me - there are Pong lemons and no Pikmin lemons? Seriously? Lol…
With the company debt already having been paid and Louie already having been rescued, Olimar's main job was now simply to get rich, more or less. He, the President, and Louie were taking the ship and the Pikmin to a new area, a place rich with treasure yet somehow previously overlooked. While they flew, they all prepared their suits, making sure they were in good repair and that their modifications were still functional. They, particularly Olimar, had been away from Hocotate for a long time, and it was simply here that they wanted to go before returning home for a vacation.
Upon landing, the ship made an announcement. "The treasure here…as a machine, I have trouble comprehending it, but I believe it is…something you will find pleasing." The last remark was stated in a way that was as disgusted as a monotone could possibly sound. All three looked at each other with some concern, but decided to ignore it - it was the ship, after all, and it was prone to derision.
Leaving the purple and white Pikmin behind for preservation until further notice, Olimar took out some red Pikmin, Louie some yellow Pikmin, and the President some blue Pikmin. After avoiding quite a many Empress Bulblaxes and encountering unprecedented amounts of candypop buds, they could tell already that their wealth wasn't going to come without a fight. It was not long until a real anomaly was spotted.
"Captain! President! Look at that Bulborb!" Louie cried, pointing to a decidedly odd-looking individual.
"My word! Look at that coloring! Bright pink, and speckled with hearts no less!" the President gasped.
"Quickly, we must study this specimen!" Olimar communicated urgently.
By this time, the rosy Bulborb had heard their voices and turned towards them. Its face was the picture of fury, and it charged at the Pikmin. Panicking, Olimar called Louie's and the President's Pikmin, along with his, out of the way of the rampaging monster. Louie and even the President had little quarrel with this, seeing as Olimar had much more experience with the Pikmin than either of them had.
Instead of consuming the Pikmin, however, the pink Bulborb simply emitted a purple gas from its maw - in purple heart-shaped rings. This made the Pikmin chirp excitedly and run in erratic patterns in all directions. When the Bulborb stopped spewing gas, the Pikmin returned to their previous state. The ground surrounding them, however, had changed. There were hundreds of Pikmin sprouts of all colors everywhere!
"Why, this is…simply fascinating! We must return to the ship at once to record our findings on this new species!" Olimar exclaimed with glee. Unfortunately, his excited outburst reminded the heart-emblazoned Bulborb that the three extraterrestrials were present, and its attitude returned to the aggressive state. It charged at Olimar and attacked him with an angry zeal, which prompted Louie to send the Pikmin into battle as the President plucked out the Pikmin sprouts to join the fray. The Bulborb, in an unprecedented turn of events, seemed to completely ignore the Pikmin as it attacked the three. It was easy, then, for the Pikmin to vanquish it, but not before it had severely damaged the space suits of the three Hocotatians. It took little discussion to agree that they should return to the landing site and call it a day.
The Pikmin, eager as always, were more than willing to cart the odd Bulborb's corpse to the ship for analysis. After being sent back to their respective Onions, the three battered, weary treasure hunters entered the ship. They took off their suits, and Louie and the President went to rest.
Olimar was still too excited about the discovery of the Bulborb to worry about repairing his suit just yet. He went to the research pod and poked and prodded the Bulborb from all angles, dissecting it to discover the source of the gas that had prompted the Pikmin to seed. The organ he discovered did not appear to be a part of the creature, but rather something it had ingested and utilized.
"Treasure detected!" the ship announced when Olimar removed it from the body.
"Well, this really isn't a part of the Bulborb, then," Olimar mused. The object was a hard, transparent, hollow container with a bulb on the top. The container had a bluish liquid on the inside, and, Olimar noticed, a tiny hole opposite the bulb. "This looks a bit like that stuff my wife keeps on her bedside stand," he observed. Always the DIY lab rat, Olimar decided to squeeze the bulb.