HaHA! My firstest fic ever!
I'm just warning you of the lameness danger...
WARNING: You are entering an extremely lame mine field. If you blow up, please clean up your face, thank you! And have a wonderful day!
I love mine fields 8D They are so... So... Explosive!
Yes, I know, story, HaHA! Watev!
Disclaimer: If I owned pikmin, we would be waiting for number seven, not three.
STARING down the old, rusty, drainage pipe, once from an old civilization that used this to rid of extra water in the lands, but disappeared mysteriously, leaving this thing to get mouldy and rusty, I gulped.
"Are you really sure it's this one…?" I peeped at Splish, a cyan who was very quick witted and clever.
"Of course…" He said, and jumped down, breathing in the wet scents. He looked up at me. "Well, let's go."
"Sorry…" I mumbled, and jumped down, fluttering my wings and landing softly, cringing at the disgusting odours. "It smells like something died down here."
"Something probably did." He said, making my stomach knot. "Sorry, but it's true… Things die all the time, Glory, get used to it."
"I don't like this place… Being underground gives me the creeps; I deserve to be up there… On a tree or something… I feel claustrophobic…" I whined, he pointed a flipper at me.
"Change the attitude… It's great down here…" He splashed in a nearby puddle, I cringed and stumbled away.
"Easy for you to say."
"Come on… Stop being a baby… Plus, this is the only way over there! So you better get used to it, we're heading back tomorrow. That means we'll be going through here again."
"Well, if it's as great of a place as you say, I might just stay there for the rest of my life."
"Oh come on… You're just saying that so you don't have to go back through here!"
"Partway yes…"
He stared at the puddle for a second before looking at me with mocking eyes. "Chicken…"
I glared at him. "I'm not a chicken!" I looked around the place with wide eyes. "This place isn't meant for my kind… We're supposed to be up there."
"Well, there's a war up there, and if you try flying, you're just gonna end up getting shot down." He said, being serious now.
"Where did they get such horrifying weapons…? Ever since they've made them we've been in battle! Instead of stopping, they're just shooting down pikmin and seed pods!" I fanned myself with my wings. "Will this nightmare ever stop?" Splish looked at me sadly.
"Hopefully sometime soon…" He said, and then turned and started splashing in puddles again. I made sure to stay out of splashing zone. As well as puddle zone, which trust me, is hard to do when the place was made to have water in it.
"So," I said, hopping over a puddle. "How has your tribe been doing while I was at mine?"
He didn't look me in the eyes. "Okay…"
"Really?" I narrowed my eyes at him. "Okay, cough it up, what happened?"
He sighed and stared at the ceiling. "We've been doing well, up until yesterday… Then when our seed pod went up it got shot and chief is in a pretty serious condition…" He shrugged and jumped in the next puddle, staring at it for a long time. "How about yours?"
"We've been trying our best to stay low… We've got the seed pod on the ground even at night, and lots of guards… But, once in awhile some of us will fly up, and then we'll find their body a couple of miles away, blown to bits…"
"That's what we should have done. Kept our seed pod on the ground at night too…" He stared at me with guilt. "I should have told them to do that… It's my fault that our chief is dying…"
"Don't blame it on yourself!" I said. He laughed.
Suddenly a huge quake shook the earth, and I tumbled through the air. Luckily, I caught myself, but Splish hit the ground on his face.
"Oww…" He mumbled. "My face…"
I giggled, and held out a hand, which was connected to my wings, like a bat's is… He didn't grab it though, and lifted himself up.
"How do you do that?" He asked me, I stared at him in confusion. "Catch yourself, no matter what knocks you in the air…"
"Wings!" I said, giggling. He laughed as well.
"One good thing about those stupid things…" He said. I stared at them.
The problem with wings is when they are taller than you are… So they drag, and then you feel uncomfortable all day… Unless you fly… Then things are all right… At least, when there isn't a giant war against the pinks with things that blast you straight out of the sky… Ugh… Then life just stinks…
Yep, the life of a green pikmin really sucks right now…
Luckily though, we had good vision and hearing. So we could see or hear them no matter what they tried to do to ambush us… At least, when we're on the ground. Flying is totally different, because who can dodge things going one hundred million miles an hour straight at you? You might be able to, but only with lots, LOTS of luck… Our leaves were leaves, well, duh, what else would you expect them to be? Lightning bolts?
"How far is it…?" I whined on, as he continued to splash in puddles, and I hop over them.
"Not too far… Don't worry." He said, staring at me with bright, happy, eyes.
"You better be right."
The place was quite dark, and it would be impossible to see, but, thankfully, there were holes from outside, and sunlight beat down through the holes and into this horrible place. The water was tinted brown from mud, which came from how many times pikmin used these tunnels, and had mud from outside on their feet. Besides the water, the place was mouldy and rusted. The ground on my feet felt sticky and wet, causing lots of discomfort. The air reeked with polluted water and unnameable things that littered the area, like a big yellow object, turning brown, that looked like it had been peeled off of something else, and many other things as well.
And then suddenly the tunnel ramped upward, and stopped, sweet, natural, ground, waited ahead for me… I dashed forward, hopping over puddles much larger than back where the ground was flat. I jumped up and hit the soft, green, delicate, grass, hard on my face.
"Geez, you're so overdramatic." Splish said, giggling at me. I ignored him and closed my eyes, breathing the scents… Feeling the softness… "Glory, come on! We've got to go before they come by here!"
I sat up and sighed. "Fine… But only because you'll totally fall for every one of them and then they'll blow you up when you try to hug them."
He looked offended. "Hey! I would never do that!"
"Oh, yeah, sure you wouldn't." I said, getting up and following him as he started trudging away.
"The next part will be nice for you…" He said, staring at me, still annoyed, but a look of happiness covering it. "It's got trees…"
I sighed in relief, but he kept serious.
"Spores…" He added. I frowned.
"What? There are spores now…?" I said, rolling my eyes. "Great, now we're gonna lose our minds and become zombies for all I know!" He giggled.
"No worries, there aren't many spores up on the trees. So you'll be fine… Just don't go down there, no matter what, all right? You'll never make it if you try." He said, crossing his arms. I nodded slowly.
"B-But…" I said, and then gave up. "Fine…"
He started walking again, and I quickly ran after him. "There's a big river that flows right through it… If the spores weren't there, the place would be beautiful!" Splish said, looking at me happily.
"It probably would… But it's most likely infested with mushrooms and other fungi now. I'll be extra careful up there, don't sorry about me Splish, you should worry about yourself. I'll be just fine." I said, staring at him with excitement.
"You say that…" He mumbled. "But it's still pretty dangerous up there, so be careful."
"I said I would be careful, didn't I?"
He laughed. "Yeah, I guess you did…"
We walked to the start of the forest, and I looked up at the massive wall.
No, not just any wall that is supposed to keep out trespassers, this one was a wall of purple…
A wall of purple fog, the mushroom's…
Spores so heavy I could barely see through it…
I looked nervously at Splish, who started inside.
"Wait!" I called, he looked over at me, his eyes nervous and afraid, but determined.
"What is it now?" He asked, tapping a flipper.
"Well…" I paused, wondering why I made him stop. ""I'm afraid you might…" I raised my wings forward and waddled in place, mocking a zombie stereotype. He giggled.
"Don't worry, I'll find that river that runs through here and swim. There are no spores in the river…" He said, smiling with his eyes, and I nodded, staying quiet.
E finally stepped back into the forest, and when I couldn't see him any longer, I raised my wings and beat them hard. My feet lifted quickly off the ground, and I grabbed the highest branch.
The air was slightly hazy up here, making me twitch and stumble uneasily as dizziness hit me.
Green pikmin are more sensitive that others, so I wasn't surprised at how lightheaded I was. I held my ground with my claws though, which were made to grab tree branches like a bird. I waited for the dizziness to fade away.
Jumping from branch to branch, scanning the ground for any signs of Splish, I thought about how much thicker the air was down there, and how I would never make it on foot.
I also thought about what it would be like to be one of the infected… How lonely life would be.
Everybody would want to kill me, I thought. They would hate me and never trust me… I would have no use but to fend for myself…
How much life would suck for me if I was turned…? How much different it would be…
Suddenly bubbling was heard from below. I peered back down at what seemed to be a river, although through all the spores it looked like a transparent army, marching steadily. I sliver of cyan could be seen in it, as it wafted through the cold, wet, water. I sighed in relief anyways, no matter how much water gave me a fright.
Out of nowhere, there was a huge POP, and before I could even jump at the noise, an agonizing pain shot through my left wing, I cried out in pain and looked at it. Blood oozed out quickly, and I felt like hurling guts at the world. Blood wasn't my thing, it made me grimace and my stomach would spiral like crazy.
"God damn it!" I cursed as I found out I couldn't even move it anymore. Another POP, I quickly jumped off the branch as it hit it, the branch fell downwards…
When I tried to fly, I found that only having one wing didn't exactly work… Gravity overruled and I began spiralling down, along with the branch. My wing that, hopefully, still worked, and the rest of my body hit branches and the sides of trees as I tumbled down, crazily flapping my wing, hoping to have a miracle happen and I soar through the air…
I hit the ground face first, and all the air I had held was knocked out.
I jumped up, full of adrenaline, and sucked in a big breath of air...
I'm just gonna say it was a horrible mistake and leave it at that...
The first reaction to that giant dose of spores (and the fact that I was super sensitive to this horrible stuff) was falling on the ground once again and going into spasms. I managed to stand myself up, still shaking and trembling.
"Sp-Splish!" I called out, although it only came out as a weak sob. "Somebody!"
I fell to my knees and tried to suck in breath, which I was running out of quickly. All I got was a sharp pain in my throat and an even bigger need for oxygen... Fresh, clean oxygen...
"Somebody!" I cried out again, more strong, but still barely audible. I layed down on the ground, giving up completely...
This wouldn't be so bad...
Just for now, then everything would soon fade and I wouldn't have to worry any longer...
"SOMEBODY HELP ME!" I screeched, though it sounded more like an animal than I meant it to be...
I closed my eyes tight, and then held my breath as my mind began to fade.
Even after my mind gave up, my body still hadn't. I weakly flapped my wing.
Something grabbed my right leg, and even when I tried to look up and see who it was, hoping it was Splish, my eyes wouldn't open.
This... This is over...
Give up...
I felt my body finally stop trying. And I went limp, well, besides the spasms.
I felt like I was going insane. Each thought I had didn't sound like I would... I wouldn't give up... I would fight till the end... This... This was different though...
Give up...
There's no use fighting...
"What's your name...?" An unfamiliar voice asked. A very sudden loss of hope showed up when I didn't recognize it.
"G-G-G..." I froze and went stiff before crying out in pain.
"Don't answer that... Just pay attention to not falling asleep." The voice said quickly.
"W-W-W... W-Who is... T-T-T-T-This...?" I asked, tripping around in my own mind, which you can call insanity if you like, because I've already established that...
"If you actually make it, then you'll remember that my names Ace... But... If I don't get you out of here in time and clean up your wounds and stuff, then I don't think you'll remember anything... You'll be... One of them..." The voice, or Ace, answered.
"D-D-D-Don't y-y-y-you e-ever w-wonder what it w-w-would b-be l-l-l-like to b-be one of t-t-them...? H-H-H-How h-h-h-horrible it w-w-would b-be...?" I asked, making Ace pause for a second before going even faster.
"No, I don't ever wonder that, because it only causes you trouble when you think crazily like that... It wouldn't be horrible to them... Because they'd have the one thing they ever wanted... That stupid mushroom... Please tell me you aren't thinking about the mushroom... Please don't tell me you're putting 'great' and 'all powerful' in the same sentence..." Ace said quickly.
"W-W-Why-
I was hit by another agonizing, gut spilling punch in the stomach. I cried out again, although this one was more of a whimper.
"We're almost out... I hope... I'm almost as lost as you are... But I see some light ahead, hopefully that's from the sun and not... Never mind..." Ace said.
My body finally stopped going into spasms, and my head felt like it had been squashed and beat against a wall, over and over again. Ace went into a sprint.
My grip on consciousness slipped and I went tumbling down the infinite black hole, into something even deeper than insanity... Something that I thought wasn't possible, but now clearly is...
My last thoughts before I finally slipped were, is this it? Is this what it's like to be insane? Even on the inside? Is this what it's like for a mushroom pikmin? Am I turning? Or am I already turned?
Yes... I am insane...
This... This is over, this is gone, done, nothing can change this...
Instead of pure blackness, I went to memories I had.
I stared ahead at their swamp.
Gross, water... How horrible...
But instead of turning around right then, I mustered up the courage to walk into their territory, straight towards their tribe's chief's temple thing. It was surrounded in water, so I beat my wings and flew over the moat, ignoring the curious eyes staring at me as I climbed the small amount of stairs.
Inside, the place reeked with fishy odours and such. I sucked in air (even if it smelled revolting) and walked towards their tribe's chief, who sat in a throne, dead centre in the temple. He looked like he was sleeping. I stood in front of him, he blinked and looked at me tiredly, before his eyes widened in shock.
"Oh! A green! From the south, correct?" He said, sitting up and yawning, although he looked wide awake.
"Yes..." I said, keeping my face serious. This was important business, no time for seeming any bit happy and glad to be here, especially with the bad news coming for him. "You're place stinks..." I added, he laughed.
"I'm sorry; we've been busy lately... Lots of fish were caught... The reason the place 'stinks'... I find it refreshing, but our thoughts on refreshing are quite different... How has the place been down south? It's quite a surprise to see you, since we're so far apart..." He said, sitting back, seeming quite calm.
"I've brought bad news I'm afraid..." I said, looking down at the ground shamefully as his relaxed form stiffened.
"What is it? This must be quite important... You usually go to the yellows if there's a problem..." He asked, seeming quite startled.
"Well, it involves everybody... You see, it started over at the yellows, and then moved on to us, and then the greys... It'll soon be at yours... The ones who have been attacked have already had a meeting, and since it's faster to go by air, I was sent to warn all the ones who haven't been ambushed by these menacing creatures yet. I had a bit of a rough travel, but at least I got here..." I explained, making him seem even stiffer.
"And what are these creatures?" He asked.
"We have no idea, but whatever adaptation they have, they can shoot things at such a fast speed... Even out of the sky..." I paused. "I figured that out on my way here..."
"What happened?" He urged.
"It only got my leaf, luckily..." I said, showing proof by straightening my stem and showing my leaf, which had a few holes in it. "It can do more damage than that though... Many have already passed on..."
"My..." He said, stepping down from his throne and inspecting my leaf further. I tried not to flinch as his wet hands grabbed my leaf.
"Splish!" He called, and almost immediately a cyan hurried in. He was a tiny bit shorter than the average cyan, as well as skinnier, like he'd been starved, and he walked over with wide eyes.
"Yes sir?" He said, fidgeting in his spot, staring at me, his eyes trailed up to my leaf, and he gaped.
"I want you to get this green some nectar... For all the trouble she went through to get here..." Their tribe's chief ordered. Splish nodded quickly and hurried down the steps.
"No, I really-
"No, you need it..."
"But I should really-
"Just stay for a little while..."
"They'll think that-
"It's alright..."
I sighed, and then looked at him gladly. "Thank you, I really don't deserve this though..."
"Oh, yes you do... You warned us, and now I can be prepared."
"Yes, but-
"You were the one that came over here and almost died... You should be rewarded."
He let go of my leaf and sat back down on his throne. "Sir, I really must-
"It won't be long..."
As if on cue Splish came in with a glob of nectar. He handed it to me and bowed to their tribe's chief. I sighed and stared at it.
"I really don't deserve this..." I muttered, but drank it anyways. After drinking it I felt an all new strength. I twirled in a circle happily. "Thanks!" I said, Splish giggled.
"You're welcome, Ballerina..." He teased, and then burst out laughing. I stared at him, angry slightly, but amused as well.
"You can go now, Splish..." The chief said, sighing. After Splish exited, still laughing his face off, he looked at me. "I'm sorry about him... He's a bit... You know..."
"Yeah, I kinda thought he would be like that right when I saw him..." I replied, giggling slightly.
"I'm wondering, I know you've gone through a lot of hassle, so, do you mind if Splish goes with you back on your travels...? You can say no if you want... I just want him to go with you so we can be caught up with what goes on over there..."
"No problem!" I said, shrugging.
Ugh, stupid wings, why do you have to drag? It causes such a pain...
If you didn't drag, I would have a lovely, carefree life...
"Splish!" He called again, and Splish came back, looking serious again.
"Yes...?" He said, seeming slightly annoyed.
"Would you go with this green to faraway adventures full of fun and joy like the wizard of Oz and jump and skip around singing songs?" He asked. Splish nodded, perking up with happiness.
"Of course!" He said.
"I can fly, right?" I asked, the chief nodded.
"Of course! He'll be fine down there!"
I quickly bowed and said my thanks and walked away, Splish following behind.
"So, we're a team?" He asked me, I looked at him.
"Yeah, I guess so..."
"What's your name?"
"Glory..."
"That's a pretty name..." He held out a hand as we neared the warzone, I shook it.
He beamed at me happily. "I'm glad to meet you, Glory..."
O...M...G...
That's all I'm going to say because I'll ruin the rest for you if I say anything besides O...M...G...
What do you think? Do you think she literally turned into a mushroom pikmin? Or do you think she's still normal...
You know what would be hilarious? A battery commercial, and at the end it says 'batteries not included'... Lol...
Ok, maybe that's lamer than it is funny...
Oh well, it was funny for a second...
PLZ R&R! (If you do I will post an even better chapter 2! If you don't I will post it so lame the lameness will come out of your eyeballs and you will go WHAT IS THIS *BLEEEEP*)
So O...M...G...