Chapter 2: Exploration

Recently, Olimar and Co. crash landed on the strange, bare, snowy Pikmin Planet. Here's where we continue.

Olimar decided to set up a small base. He decided to first start by clearing the snow. Louie volunteered. "I can do it! I can do it!" he cried, jumping up and down.

He bit into the snow, and then swallowed. "Like, I'd avoid that snow if I were, like, you. It's like, yellow, and stuff." Jane said, as he bit into some yellow snow.

After a few more mouthfuls, he bit into something hard. "OW!" he cried in pain. Then, a strange, round ball, that sat in the deep snow inflated .Three legs unfolded, and then it popped up, the legs stiffening up, creating a vessel.

That vessel is known as an Onion according to Olimar's notes. But unlike his notes, it is Aquamarine. The color of the onion's base and light coming out of it is supposed to represent the Pikmin color, and to Olimar's standards, there hasn't been any occurrence of 'Aquamarine Pikmin'.

But then, a small seed appeared in the dirt of the cleared snow. It then sprouted, a long, aquamarine, willowy weed. Bobbi tried to eat it, but it squirmed, and then popped out.

It stared, and stared. It cocked its head. It was up to everybody's (but Bobbi's, of course) knees. Jane screamed, and ran around like a maniac. Everyone else but Olimar followed.

"Wait . . ." Louie thought. "This looks familiar; it's on the tip of my tongue . . ."

"It's a Pikmin, you idiot, Louie." Olimar retorted. "Hmm, it's not in the notes. Here, Jane, you check."

"Like, wait, though." whispered Jane. "I erm, can't read. You have to read it to me."

Olimar stared. The President stared. King then said, "Cool. Oops, I mean:" and then he stared too. Bobbi woofed, then stared. Even Louie stared.

Louie snorted. "Even I can read. Just watch!"

Louie then took the notes out of Olimar's hand. He squinted. "T-, t-, t-, t-, thuh-, thu-, thhhh-, thhhh, thhhhheeeee-, thhheeee, theeeeerrrrrr-, theeeerrrrreeee, thereeee, there!"

Olimar finally read it out loud. "Well, anyways, we need to take care of this Aquamarine Pikmin. Well, I did build a Pikmin Translator that translates native Pikmin sounds into Hocotate Language."

"Let's see." He held the translator at the Pikmin. The screen then had on it:

dshfajkgfjdafjhgdafjdfjhdf, udasdlasifiaifidasgfiafi, assdpfpaogifgag!

"Erm, never mind the translator." said Olimar, tossing it somewhere. But then, a creature came up behind them, opening his mouth at the Aquamarine Pikmin . . .

The creature (known as a Baby Bulborb) was about to lunge at the poor Pikmin, but then – it froze - literally. Icicles hung from it's lips, as it stood motionless. Then, the Aquamarine Pikmin leaped and started pounding it, until it died.

The Aquamarine brought it back to the Onion. There, the light coming from the center beamed out. The dead creature wobbled, then was shot into the Onion. After it was processed, two other Aquamarine seeds fell out into the dirt. Two more sprouts appeared.

Louie plucked them from the ground. He then screamed. "They follow me!" he cried. He ran around in circles, them following. He finally picked it up, and threw it at Olimar, and then the other.

"They're supposed to do that." Olimar remarked. Then, Louie found a purple onion. "DON'T EAT IT!" Olimar cried, as Louie was about to take a bite.

The purple onion then hovered above the ground as three legs popped out, then stiffened almost vertically. Then, the Onion stood up, a purple beam coming down from the middle. A purple seed came from it.

"Wow, a Purple Onion!" Olimar said surprised. According to his studies – only Red, Yellow, and Blue Pikmin have Onions. Purple and White Pikmin lived underground, and were transformed by special flowers. They never had an Onion.

King plucked it. "Purple, cool." But then, the Purple Pikmin froze in a few seconds, and fell over, a frozen corpse. The Aquamarine Pikmin then brought it (it took three Pikmin to carry it, Purple Pikmin are fat) to the Onion, and out sprouted two more Aquamarine Pikmin.

"Pikman, cool." remarked King.

"No, it's Piknin!" Louie snorted.

"No, both of you are wrong." Olimar then said. "It's Pik-MIN!"

"That's what I just said!" scowled Louie.

"I was correcting your English."

"I already SPEAK English!"

"No, your grammar!" Olimar came back, frustrated.

"Graham Crackers, Cool." King came in.

"Yes, Graham Crackers are quite a delicacy." Louie said.

"NO! GRAMMAR!" screamed Olimar. "I give up…"

After staring at the Aquamarines, Olimar found out they were quite happy and fine in the cold, unlike the Purple Pikmin, and Baby Bulborb, who were uncomfortable, and eventually froze to death.

"Oh, I think I get it." Olimar said. ""Aquamarines have thermo-stimulated cooling systems in their bodies, allowing them to withstand the freezing cold. Their Onion also seems to be able to break down ice on frozen corpses, breaking it down to make better thermo-stimulated cooling systems, making more Aquamarine Pikmin."

Jane was turning on her uPod. "Um, can you like, repeat that, like, please?"

"Erm, don't worry about it." Olimar sighed.

But then, a huge, Snowy Snagret appeared. They were horrible, disgusting creatures. They had a thick, snaky body, that was actually about 100 times their height, that popped out of the ground. But the scary part was the bird head on top, it would dive down and eat Pikmin.

But as the cliché goes, he ate the six Pikmin. "We're Pikminless." said Louie.

"Pikminless is not a word, Louie." Olimar said.

"But you just said it."