Sorry for the long wait. I have been very busy with school (and I beat Pikmin for the second time). To answer your question Icepik, the Red heard a loud noise that he could tell was not coming from his onion. Second, he could tell that he was not yet lifting off of the ground.

Red: Chapter II

I woke up as the onion began to descend. I had slept well that night, and I was ready to fight. I waited patiently, and rather anxiously, for the Leader to call us down. After what seemed a long time, he did. As I ran out the onion and down the stalk, I noticed that we had entered a new area.

This place was similar to where we had been previously but not as bright. There seemed to be more plant-life, and there was a huge stone blocking one of our paths. The other path was blocked by a fragile wall of roots. The Leader had most of us work on the wall, while the rest of us gather more pellets.

I beat the roots with my stem, alongside my other Reds. This is what life was supposed to be like. Work, and see the benefits of it. Find new things, explore unknown regions, and fight. Soon, the wall we had been thrashing had fallen, and I saw a huge area to explore, that had enemies to fight.

The Leader came over with the new pikmin, and he called us over to him. He led us down the hill towards my first enemy. This creature was quite a bit larger than me, but I could tell that he would be smaller than most enemies. He had short, stubby legs, and a large body. The body was red and had small white spots on it. This creature did not notice us as we crept up on it from behind. It was too busy sniffing the ground.

When we were just inches from it, it did notice us. It turned around, but our brave leader had already taken the initiative. He commanded us to swarm the creature, and all of us did. I beat my leaf against its body. I saw others attack its legs, and more were scratching at its eyes. The small, red creature tried to defend itself, but it was dead before the battle had begun. There were no casualties, and three pikmin were designated to take the carcass back.

To the right of us were two more of what we has just killed. Once again the Leader had us swarm the creatures, and they both died without any pikmin dying. I marveled at the strength we had in numbers. It was incredible.

Then I saw something familiar, but very different. It was another metallic part, like what we had collected yesterday. This piece had a gray, circular base, and also two large, brown cylinders on top of it. Then, I heard a loud, snoring noise. I saw a beast, similar to the small ones, but this one was several times bigger. For now, however, it was asleep.

The Leader whistled for us to carry the piece back the ship. Along the way I decided to strike up a conversation with one of the many pikmin around me.

"This is so exciting. I love doing all of this. The fighting, the clearing of paths, the collecting of bizarre parts and pellets, and seeing our population rise," I stated to the pikmin to my left. He seemed uneasy.

"Fighting! How can you enjoy fighting? We need to learn to live at peace with these creatures. We populate ourselves while they populate themselves. There is too much danger involved."

"Don't be so foolish," the pikmin to my right piped up. "We can never live in peace with them. If we don't kill them, they will destroy us. They are our natural predators. They won't hesitate to kill. They do it only for the taste of blood."

By now, we had already taken the part to the Metallic Onion and were sitting idly, waiting for to come. I saw that there were some pikmin that needed to be pulled up from the ground. I wondered when would come back. He seemed to be taking a long time.

When he finally did come back, he had a surprised, but pleased, expression on his face. "I found more of them, but I cannot reach them. There is another wall in the way. I wonder if there are any more. I will have to write all of this down when I get the chance." He was mumbling to himself. It was the first time I had heard him speak, but I had no clue as to what he was saying.

He called us to him and took us a few steps to some tall grass. A few pikmin started pulling up the grass, without any commands. Globs of yellow nectar popped out with the grass. I felt a huge desire to absorb it into my body. I scrambled towards the glob closest to me until I could touch it. When I did, energy was released throughout my body. I felt stronger, faster, better, and more capable. I looked up at my stem. I flower was now resting on top of it where the leaf had been.

The Leader took us back down the hill. This time he took us to the left, to a dead end. Actually, I was mistaken. He threw all of the pikmin following him onto the ledge above us. I saw another of those monstrous creatures in front of us. Shortly, slided by the creature and called us to him. He commanded us around the sleeping animal until we were behind it. My heart was pounding with the thought of battling such a thing. Then, grabbed the first pikmin and took aim. He launched the pikmin onto the back of the beast. As fast as he could, continuously threw as many pikmin as possible. I myself was grabbed and thrown. I landed on the face of the creature. It was awake and its eyes were wide. I sat there wondering what was going to happened. What was I doing? I needed to fight before I died. I beat the face with my flower as hard as I could. The creature shook its body, sending pikmin everywhere, but I dug my claw onto its face. The creature let out a roar. The sound of it was so frightening that I loosened my grip and was thrown off. I landed in front of the monster, my flower still intact. I knew if I stood here I would be eaten. I ran towards the feet. If I would not of had my flower, I would have been eaten, like some of the unfortunate pikmin behind me. I recognized one as the pikmin who said that there should be peace. I felt pity for him and thought that life was too short, but I could not ponder that now. I had to fight. I attacked the legs, along with so many other pikmin, slowing the beast down. It tried to bite as some more pikmin, but these were too fast for it. He fell to the ground. Every battling pikmin swarmed the beast. It roared once more before it was finished.

The Leader had some of us carry the creature, and others carried the spring that it seemed to be guarding. I could tell that we were tired from the fight. It was our first battle that required effort, and our first battle with deaths, though I know not how many died.

Our Leader took us out to were we had found our first part that day. There was another of the big creatures here. This one fell easily by 's constant throwing of pikmin onto its back There was another root wall that he seemed particularly anxious about us tearing it down. We worked quickly for him, and when it was down, I could see why he was so anxious. There was another onion, a yellow one.

I did not know what other pikmin families looked like, besides that they were a different color. After the Leader touched the onion, it rose out of the ground and spurted out a seed. The onion itself was the same as ours, only yellow. He pulled out the first Yellow, and took it over to some yellow pellets. It had no nose like us, but instead had large ears on its head. I was very curious as to what their abilities were.

Most of us Reds were dismissed, but a few were taken to help get the yellows started. As I was helping three yellow take back a large pellet, I took the chance to talk to one.

"Hi. I'm a Red. We are strong attackers and resistant to fire," I explained. "What can you guys do?"

"We know what Reds can do, even if we are young. I'm surprised that you are so unlearned," one of the yellows said.

Another one was a bit more friendly. "Excuse him, he's a bit arrogant, because he thinks that Yellows are smarter that everyone else, which is in fact true. Yellows can be thrown higher than anyone else, can carry bomb rocks, and are also able to withstand electricity, an instant killer of other pikmin families."

"Thank you for your help." I was glad not all Yellows were as bad as the first one I had talked to.

By now, it had gotten dark without my noticing. So much had happened to me today. The Leader put the Yellows up and called the idle Reds. When he got back to camp, he also had us go up. The day was over, and I was ready to rest.

However, I had one thought in mind. I wanted to be able to understand my Leader. I trusted him with my life completely after what had happened today. I desired to know what he thought. I thought that with the help of the Yellow I had met, we could figure out this mysterious language. I knew that understanding him would have to be enough though. Pikmin vocal cords could not make the sounds that he was making.

The onion took off, this time followed by the yellow one. I found my spot that I had slept at yesterday. One thing that intrigued me was that even though there were more pikmin tonight, there was the same amount of space. The onion stopped moving, and I went to sleep.

I hope that was a better chapter than my last one. I am going to have the pikmin learn his language so that it won't be so confusing as to what this beast is or what that beast is. Sorry for the wait, and please review. (Also, tell me about grammar errors, as I was too lazy to read through it more than once. It is 11:30 after all.)

Parts found: Eternal Fuel Dynamo, Shock Absorber