Pikmin Story

Chapter 1: The Crash

An explorer crashes on a distant planet. His name is Olimar and he is very confused. Olimar lives on the planet Hocotate and was on vacation when he was struck down to the mysterious planet. This new world that Olimar is now stuck on is quite intriguing. There's one problem, the planet has a layer of oxygen covering its surface, oxygen being poisonous to Hocotatians. The Hocotatian has 30 days' worth of life support, so he better leave quickly. What's this? It seems Olimar's ship, the S.S. Dolphin, is missing many of its parts. 30, to be exact. All hope seemed lost, but Olimar was an optimistic fellow, so he decided to search the area for anything helpful.

About 10 cm away was something strange. 10 cm may not seem like much, but Olimar himself was only 2 cm tall! As the Hocotatian approached the object, it seemingly became full of life. Olimar decided to call it an onion as it resembled onions from his home planet. It had a bright red sheen to it and three long legs holding up the body. The body itself was round with a white flower shape on top. Before he could observe it any longer, something curious happened. The flower on the top spun rapidly and spat out what looked like a seed. It landed in the ground and after a few seconds, it sprouted. A single leaf at the end of a red stem was now planted in the ground in front of the Hocotatian.

Olimar, acting as the audacious explorer he is, plucked the seed out of the ground. Standing before him was a strange creature. It had the top of the seed he plucked, but with a body. It had two eyes, a long pointed nose, and qualities of both a plant, and animal. It was just as red as the Onion it came from. Strange. Olimar decide to name it a Pikmin because of its resemblance to Pik-Pik carrots from Hocotate. Olimar decided to find out if it was hostile.

When it started towards him, he panicked and blew his emergency whistle. Funnily enough, the Pikmin responded to the whistle. It followed him around like Olimar was king. Olimar, with his new friend explored a little more. They found a plant almost as strange as the Pikmin. It had a pellet in its center which the Pikmin yearned to have. It was a little out of reach, so Olimar threw the Pikmin at the Pellet.

The Pikmin continually slammed the leaf on its head into the pellet until the flower died, leaving only the pellet behind. It then picked up the pellet and started carrying it. When the pellet was carried under the Onion, it was absorbed. The Onion then released two more Pikmin seeds which Olimar then plucked. He now had 3 Pikmin by his side. They seemed close to extinction, so he decided to help raise their numbers. There were more flowers, including some bigger ones that gave more Pikmin, but need more to carry. Once he was finished, he had 21 Pikmin.

Olimar was quite impressed by their strength, so he wondered what other feats they could perform, especially in large numbers. He had an idea. Using his large number of Pikmin, he had them push a large obstruction away. It took 20 Pikmin, but they did it. When he got to the other side of the wall, he saw his engine.

Olimar was filled with joy. This joy was soon replaced a doubt. How could he lift such a huge object back to his ship? The ship could repair itself using its latest technology, but it could not bring the engine back. He then wondered, could the Pikmin do it? He threw all 21 Pikmin to the engine, but they couldn't do it. They need more help. Olimar raised more Pikmin with some newly uncovered flowers, raised up to 30 Pikmin, and tried once more.

Success! It took a minute or so, but they did it. His ship was able to fly off the surface and orbit this strange planet. Night already? It seems this planet has 13 minute days! That's even less time to find the remaining 29 ship parts! Olimar sighed and decided to run a diagnostic on the ship. He thanked the Pikmin and left the planet's surface as to avoid the many nocturnal creatures.

As the ship took off, the Pikmin climbed back inside the Onion. It seemed to be their home. To Olimar's surprise, the Onion took off with him. Maybe the Pikmin would help him the next day as well.