Day 1, Part 1 – Colorful Creatures
Keith woke up and found himself in a lush, green environment. It looked nice, until he looked to his right and saw the debris of his ship. Keith instantly jumped up, looked at the ship, and panicked. "Oh no! The ship! How am I able to contact the science team, or get back home?" Just then he remembered the emergency devices. He searched what remained of the ship, but with no luck. "Great, looks like I'm going to have to look around for the devices. Huh? What's this...?" Keith noticed a little counter attached to his life vest. It looked sort of like a geiger counter. At the top, the counter said, in another language, Life Support System. At the bottom of the counter a little needle was pointing to what said 30 days. Keith assumed this to mean that the life vest would keep him going for 30 days, and if that time ran out... he preferred not to think about it right now. Keith also noticed that he was able to understand the language that the counter was written in. Keith remembered that he was able to do this because, when he changes into another form, he inherits the knowledge of the organism's language, although Keith didn't understand what the language was called.
"I may as well go and search for the emergency devices." Before he did that, though, Keith quickly made an entry in his logbook about what had happened on this first day. The logbook was a microchip that the team had embedded into Keith's mind, allowing Keith to make journal entries mentally.
When Keith was finished, he set off to look for the emergency devices. As he walked, Keith took note of the surrounding geography. Everything looked so similar to Earth, yet also different because Keith was only an inch tall. The grass towered above him, and the flowers looked like skyscrapers.
Keith walked for a few hours. His feet were starting to ache, and he was starting to get exhausted and hungry. When Keith checked the ship a few hours earlier, all of his supplies were either missing or had been destroyed from the crash. Based on where the sun was in the sky, Keith estimated that it was about 4 P.M. Keith wondered if this planet followed a 24-hour day. Earth had a 24-hour day, and this place looked like Earth, so he assumed so. As Keith moved aside another patch of grass, Keith saw a sight on the other side greatly surprised him.
On the other side, were these colorful creatures playing around on an open field. They were about his size and they all either had a leaf, flower, or a closed flower on their head. They looked like a cross between plant and animal, and like a human, had two arms and two legs. Keith spotted 7 different colors; red, blue, yellow, white, purple, pink, and greyish. At the center of the field was a large, onion shaped, colorful orb that stood on three legs. Keith's immediate thought was to go out and observe these creatures, but he held back. What if they were hostile? Before Keith could step back out of sight, however, one of the red creatures spotted him. He seemed to make a noise to the other creatures. Soon, all the creatures had stopped what they were doing and were staring at Keith with their beady eyes.
Keith stood still. He suddenly became very nervous, but the creatures weren't attacking him, so Keith decided to step forward. He took about two steps, when the red creature that first saw him started walking toward him. Keith unintentionally took a step back, and Keith noticed that his vest had a whistle attached to the helmet. He wondered what would happen if he blew into it. Could he scare the creatures away? Keith took a large breath and blew loudly into the whistle.
All at once, all the creatures surged toward him. Keith was so shocked that he fell back and simply stared in shock. This it it. My life ends here. Keith thought. After a while however, Keith noticed that he wasn't being attacked. All the creatures had simply grouped around him and stared at him. Keith stood up cautiously and looked around. All the creatures were staring at him as if they were expecting something. Keith decided to say something simple.
"Hi." They were still staring but they tilted their heads, as if trying to listen to him. "I don't know if you can understand me, but my name is Keith." They still stood staring, so Keith decided to keep moving. He went up to the large onion-shaped thing, while the creatures followed him.
They're kind of cute, but they're also a bit unnerving, with all of them staring. Why do they keep following me? Do they want something, or do they think I'm their leader or something? They also seem very familiar, as if I had seem them back at the Human Universe. I wish I didn't have amnesia... Keith thought this as he walked toward the strange, colorful onion-shaped thing. When Keith got to the onion-shaped thing, he examined the large object. This thing looks very strange. I wonder what is it. Is it related to these creatures? Hey, what's that? Keith noticed something in the branches of the tree to the right of the onion-shaped thing. In the high branches of the tree, Keith spotted one of his emergency devices, the Form Changer.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pikmin and do not work with Nintendo of any kind. I do own Keith though.
Note from Author: Yay, cliffhanger! :) I know that it's odd that I suddenly switched to third-person. The rest of the story will be in third-person. Part 2 of Day 1 will be much more interesting than this part, especially once Keith gets that Form Changer. I should hopefully get Part 2 finished this week.