Prologue
Logbook, Day 1- approximately 12:00 P.M.
While in space, I had detected a planet that highly resembled Earth. I decided to go and investigate this planet. As I had initiated the landing sequence for my ship, however, the ship had a grave malfunction and crashed before I was able to land. I must have been knocked out from the crash, as I have just now regained conscious, and I see the debris of my ship next to me. It is beyond repair. I have also noticed that all three of my emergency devices, the Form Changer, the Communications Device, and the Wormhole Transmitter have gone missing. The form I am taking right now provides me with 30 days of life support. I am going to have to find my Emergency Devices within that time span, or I may not be able to return home. I will set off now in search of them. In the mean time, I may as well take notice of the planet's geography. This place is strikingly similar to Earth. I wonder if I will find any humans here, or maybe some new life-forms.
Before the Crash...
"Keith, we found it! The discovery of whole other universes. Some of them are as large as ours, some even larger and more ancient!"
That isn't me. That was my friend, mid-teen Max, screaming his head off as he ran down the hall toward me. I guess I shouldn't make fun of him though. I was also a little excited when he announced this news to me. I won't disclose my real name, so I'll be called Keith. I'm your mostly average mid-teenager. Notice the "mostly"? My past is complicated, and I also have slight amnesia, so my past is best left for another story.
"You found it?! I was reluctant to give the task, because I wasn't even sure if they existed. Good job!"
Max beamed one of his usual overly-happy smiles, then set off to show me the proof.
I know you're probably very confused right now, so I'll explain. I'll keep it short and simple because I did tell you that my past was complicated.
As I said, I'm a regular, teenage boy, born on planet Earth. After a series of events, I and a group of others about my age had created a science team, with me as the leader. Our biggest goal was to find the existence of other universes. You know how our universe is very, very big, right? With clusters of galaxies all bunched up in the giant space we call the universe. Well, we believed that there were other universes out there, maybe some being as large as ours (we had our reasons for believing this, which I will not disclose). It looks like Max was able to finally find these other universes. He explained the details to me.,
"We found out that these other universes could be accessed via going through a wormhole. We managed to find out how to create these wormholes, and now we could go to these other universes! Of course, you're going to go and investigate these universes like you said, right Keith?" Max asked.
"Yeah, of course." I replied
When we first created the group, I was the one who volunteered to explore the universes, if we ever discovered them.
"When will I be able to go, Max? Would today be all right?"
"Sure! But first, we need to set up a few things before you go."
He led me into a room which we called the "Main Quarters." It was a spacious, colorful room. I saw other member of the group in here, who all waved or smiled or did some other friendly gesture at me.
"This is the ship where you will be exploring, Keith." Max showed me a decent-sized ship which, on the outside, looked like a large, white, ball of metal on a tripod. The inside was the size of a small room, with white walls and the control panel at the front.
"Before you go, I'll need to give you these." Max said. He handed me three devices. One looked like a tablet, one looked like an old fashioned cell phone with a giant screen, and one looked like a round ball with a small antennae on the top.
"These are your Emergency Devices. Make sure not to lose these. Let me explain what they do. This one," Max pointed at the device that looked like a tablet "is called the Form Changer. It lets you scan any living thing, then will turn your body into the thing you just scanned."
"This thing," Max pointed at the device that looked like an old fashioned cell phone "is called the Communications Device. It allows you to contact us anywhere.
"And finally, this thing" Max pointed at the round ball "is called the Wormhole Transmitter. It will allow you to return here from any universe. These devices are extremely important, especially the Wormhole Transmitter. They will adjust to your size, but you must not lose them. Did you get all that?"
I nodded my head.
"Now, there's one more thing we need to do." Max led me into a small room at the side of the Main Quarters. The room had a large machine at the corner of the room.
"That device" Max explained, pointing to the machine at the corner of the room "is a larger, more advanced version of the Form Changer you hold. This Advanced Form Changer will scan the entire universe you will first explore in just a few seconds. The device will then determine the most successful living thing in that universe, and then transform your body into that living thing."
I said that I understood, and in the next few minutes, my body was transformed. I had turned into a guy dressed in a space suit. I had unusually large ears and a large nose. An antenna stuck out from the top of my helmet. The problem was, I was only an inch tall. Luckily, the emergency devices had shrunk with my body, and the scientists were able to shrink my ship so that I could still use it. In a few minutes, I was off. The scientists had created a wormhole that I went through, and in the blink of an eye, I was on the other side, in another universe.
When the wormhole closed behind me, I noticed I was in deep space, so I set off.
Immediately, I noticed a planet that looked similar to Earth. I set up the landing sequence for my ship, but as I had got into low orbit of the planet, the ship began to show grave messages on the screens.
Warning: Thruster Malfunction
Warning: Steering Malfunction
Warning: Radiation Critical! Evacuate Immediately!
"I have to contact the team!" I fumbled with the Communication Device Max had given me, but just as I had turned it on... *Boom!* I don't remember anything after that boom. I think I had blacked out.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pikmin and I do not work for Nintendo of any kind. I do own Keith though.
Note from Author: Sorry that there are no Pikmin in this chapter, but it's just the prologue! There are Pikmin in the next chapter, though. Just an FYI, the story takes place after the events of Pikmin 3. Also, doesn't the ship crashing seem familiar?
