As of January 25, 2014, I decided to rewrite this chapter. Why? 'Cause apparently, it wasn't the best it could've been (looking at you Sableye). I also changed the summary too. Anyways...
This is the story of how eight teenage humans try to help save the human race 300,000 years after its demise. In an Earth that is both strange and familiar to the humans, they find the Pikmin, who both help... and hinder the humans. This chapter will provide background information to these eight humans...
Olimar... was not the first sentient being to discover the Pikmin. In fact, it wasn't even an alien at all who first discovered them. Quite the opposite: humans first discovered them, and not too long ago. Humans discovered the Pikmin 100 years before Olimar crashed on the planet of the Pikmin.
To be more specific, eight fifteen-year old humans found the Pikmin. Like Olimar, the Pikmin and the humans worked together to solve each of their problems. But how did these humans get here in the first place, and how did they manage to get so small, since Pikmin are only about an inch tall? Furthermore, if these humans really did exist not too long before Olimar, why didn't their descendants ever meet Captain Olimar when he crashed on the planet?
300,100 years before Olimar crash-landed on the Pikmin planet, or PNF-404, humans lived as the dominant species of Earth. Nothing could beat them, as the humans were the most powerful race of the planet. It wasn't too long until...
The period of Crisis. Due to a shortage of resources and the booming population, the humans turned into anarchy. Unlike the planet of Koppai, however... the humans didn't have the technology to find other sources of food on distant planets.
Seeing that the humans may soon see its demise, they decided to use a last resort to help save the human race. They gathered eight fifteen-year olds, four male and four female, and gave them new names based off of colors. The four males were knows as Yellow, Green, Purple, and Grey. The four females were known as Red, Blue, White, and Pink. How would these eight teenagers help the human race? These teenagers would be shrunken down and preserved in stasis chambers. Then, after 300,000 years had passed, the eight humans would awaken from their stasis. Once awakened, they would try to survive in the new environment of Earth, and continue the human race by reproducing.
And that's what they did. After gathering eight fifteen-year olds, they shrunk them down to about an inch tall (the smaller the subjects, the easier it was to preserve them), and they placed them in small stasis chambers, where they would open once again 300,000 years in the future. The chambers were all placed next to each other in a forest.
It wasn't too long after the chambers were placed when humans had finally died out. It was inevitable, after nuclear disaster and the scarcity of resources. Until finally, the humans had destroyed themselves in their own dying planet.
… The eight teenagers lived on though. Deep in slumber from the protection of the stasis chambers.
As the years passed, Earth underwent a dramatic transformation. Not only did humans die off, but so did all other mammalian creatures. The scarce resources were not enough to feed off all of the large animals of the planet. However, the resources were just plentiful enough to maintain a certain group of creatures: the small ones.
These small creatures, whether it be bugs or bacteria, thrived under the new environment of Earth. Plants also began to thrive. Without the presence of humans to destroy the ecosystem, plants once again began to flourish. The dying planet was beginning to live once again.
And among all this, the Pikmin arose. These were an early form of the Pikmin: they did not have an Onion, and didn't even respond to the sound of a whistle. This would change however. 300,000 years had finally passed, and the stasis chambers would finally open and reveal to the eight teenagers a world that had changed over the years...
Disclaimer: I don't own Pikmin, Nintendo does. That's going to be the first and last time I put a disclaimer in this story, so don't sue me when you find out that the disclaimer's not in later chapters!
Author's Note: So you might be wondering about how the Pikmin could "hinder" the humans. After all, they only seem to be helpful... right?
Anyways, feedback on the concept or idea is greatly appreciated. If you think that something's off, then I would love a suggestion, even if it's harsh! Don't worry, I can take hurtful words... maybe.