Well, this is a slightly different take on the Pikmin 3 final battle and ending. Things don't really work like they do in the game, but bear with me.
I hope you'll enjoy it, so please tell me what you think!
The escape from the Golden life form
Alph was running for his life, Brittany and Charlie right behind him. The pikmin were running behind them, as fast as their tiny legs could carry them, carrying the still unconscious Olimar. The mysterious lifeform was still following them, and even though he could not see it or hear it, Alph could imagine it crawling after them, fully intent on crushing them and taking Olimar, starving him to death. The thought made him run even faster, if possible. They were out of the cave with the narrow hallways, and out on the desert. Just a little longer to the ship, and they would be safe.
The golden lifeform burst out of the three, its sightless eyes still set on Olimar. It threw itself toward them, intending to take them all out in one move. Alph managed to avoid it by rolling to the side, the pikmin following his lead. Brittany and Charlie weren't so lucky, and got knocked unconscious, coming to a stop quite a distance from Alph, in the opposite direction of where the ship was.
Before Alph had time to think any further about the situation, the lifeform attacked again, managing this time to hit Alph and the pikmin carrying Olimar. Alph was sent skidding several feet away, Olimar and some pikmin landing some feet in front of him. Now he was staring to panic, as his friends were unconscious, the pikmin were scattered and his whistle had broken when the creature hi him, so he couldn't even command the pikmin anymore.
The lifeform was slowly approaching them, as if sensing Alph could do nothing to stop it from taking what it wanted. Then Olimar started waking up.
The Hocotatian was somewhat disoriented and confused to find himself outside the three, rather than inside it. His back was facing the strange lifeform, so he didn't see it until he turned around. He seemed to be in shock at first, just standing there staring at the thing. Then he looked at Alph, at Brittany and Charlie, at the pikmin scattered around, and then back at the golden creature. Connecting everything together. Then he snapped into action.
With two sharp whistles, he took command of the pikmin, gathering them and readying them to fight. He seemed to not quite know what to do with the winged and the rock pikmin, but seemed more than familiar with the red, blue and yellow ones. He split them up according to colour, then sent the winged ones to help Brittany and Charlie to a safer place, so they wouldn't get in the way as he prepared to take on the massive creature that had held him prisoner for a while now.
"Go help your friends," he even instructed Alph, who saw no other opinion, but do as he said, considering he would be no help without his whistle. He hurried over to where the winged pikmin had brought Brittany and Charlie. Luckily, they both seemed to be at least mostly unharmed, just unconscious. His attention went back to Olimar, who was now fighting the golden lifeform.
He seemed to have figured out the rock pikmin, but still stuck mostly to the other three kinds. When the yellows were distracting the creature by hitting it in the back, he was tossing reds on top of it, and when it turned its attention to the reds, he was already on its other side with the rocks, ready to damage it even more. When it started using elemental attacks, he wasted no time switching out pikmin for those that could withstand whichever element it was using, and getting the others to safety. It was going so smoothly, it hade Alph think about how many different kinds of enemies Olimar had fought on some other trip to this planet, and if he had fought many other multi-elemental enemies. The fight had now been going on for a while and only four pikmin had been lost. Alph couldn't help but wonder how many pikmin he would've lost by this point, after which he cringed. It probably wouldn't have been pretty.
"What happened?" Oh, Brittany had woken up. Alph was right next to her in the blink of an eye. She was looking around, somewhat confused over what had happened.
"You got knocked out by the mysterious lifeform," Alph explained. "Olimar is fighting it right now."
"As a fellow explorer and a fellow captain I am certain he will not let the enemy best him!" Apparently, Charlie was up, too. He seemed no worse of than Brittany, which was a good thing. Alph didn't think he would've been able to move him to the ship, even with Brittany's help.
"Look at Olimar!" Brittany had been following the battle between Olimar and the lifeform and was also the first to notice it was starting to end. The lifeform had been shrinking steadily when parts of it were destroyed, and now there was no more than a small puddle left. Olimar was also heading toward the trio. He was carrying a red leaf pikmin with a tear in the leaf on its head and what seemed to be an injured leg.
"I think we better get going before that thing recovers," he told them, not giving them a chance to answer before continuing on to where he had noticed the ship was. Behind him the pikmin were marching in a single file line.
Soon they reached the ship, and let the pikmin back into their onion, aside from the one injured Olimar was still carrying with him.
"Maybe introductions would be good about now," Olimar said, looking at the trio who had saved him. Alph hadn't paid attention to it before, but Olimar, like Louie, had a surprisingly deep voice. "I'm Olimar, Captain of the S.S. Dolphin. It's nice to meet you. And, thank you for saving me."
"I'm Charlie," Charlie started by introducing himself. "I'm Captain of the S.S. Drake." He pointed to Brittany. "This is Brittany, our botanist." She nodded to Olimar, not really knowing what to say. "And this is Alph, our engineer," Alph was lastly introduced.
"It's nice to meet you, Captain Olimar," Alph greeted the older man. "And thank you for saving us."
"Anyway," Olimar seemed to want to move on. "As thanks for saving me, I'll give you this treasure I found," he finally put down the pikmin and handed over the cosmic-drive key they had been searching for since they landed.
"It's the cosmic-drive key!" Alph exclaimed happily. "Now we can get home!"
"We can give you a ride to Hocotate, if you'd like, since it's on our way home to Koppai," Charlie offered Olimar, who didn't have a ship after it crashed in the Garden of Hope.
"I'd appreciate that," Olimar seemed to really appreciate the offer. It was possible he was planning on asking for a ride, anyway. "Also…" he considered how to put his question. "My subordinate, Louie, came here with me, but we got separated a while back. Have you…?"
"Oh, yeah, we found him back in the Garden of Hope!" Alph interrupted him before he had time to finish the question. "He's aboard our ship."
"That's good," Olimar sighed in relief, glad his friend was alright, before remembering what Louie was like, especially with strangers. "I… hope he didn't try to hog all your food or something. He has a habit of doing that."
"Actually, that's pretty much exactly what he did," Brittany confessed, "He ran off with all our food, so we had to tie him up." She was still rather upset over the food getting stolen part. But she had calmed down a little bit from before, at least.
"Well, I apologize for him," Olimar said, managing to look sheepish, understanding and apologetic at the same time. The injured pikmin seemed to not like being ignored, and squeaked at Olimar, while tugging on his sleeve. "Don't worry, I'll take care of you soon," he told it patiently, but picked it back up anyway.
The small exchange seemed somewhat strange to Alph and Brittany, who were also feeling a little guilty, as they had never thought pikmin would be able to understand speech.
"This is all fine and good," Charlie interrupted them suddenly. "But maybe we can continue this somewhere else?"
"Right, let's get going," Alph agreed. They all boarded the ship, and shot up into the sky, the pikmin and their onion following closely behind.
A/N: I actually had to play the game again, because there were some things I had completely forgotten!
I do think Olimar would be at least somewhat better at handling the pikmin, considering this is, what, his fourth visit to this planet? It shows here, and maybe in the future as well.
I'm not the only person who can't get over Olimar's super deep voice, am I?
I don't know how a red pikmin would do on the ship, but if purples and whites can be aboard a ship, why not a red?
Also, I'm not really sure how to write Charlie, so he's going to be quietly sitting on the side-lines for quite a bit. Sorry.
This thing was originally supposed to be two chapters, but I have started on the next chapter, and it's becoming really long, I'm thinking about splitting it in two.