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Chapter 2: EFD and change
I woke up and forgot where I was…until I felt the rocket lurch. Man, I really need to get the omega stabilizer, I thought. I got up and went to what functions as a kitchen on the rocket. I could hear my stomach growling as I took out what looked to be noodles. "Good morning Alex!" Olimar said cheerfully. "Morning Olimar." I said with a sleepy smile. I poured some of the noodles and ate them…and found they tasted pretty good. "I wonder what this tastes like heated." I said. "Trust me, they taste WAY better." Olimar said. We landed once we were done. I looked around and saw we were in a crater, and the red onion had landed close by. While Olimar admired the scenery, I took out our 20 pikmin and knocked down a pellet posy, raising our number to 22. After I used the nectar from the grass to make them flowers, Olimar snapped out of his dazed and we got to work on the branch wall. I decided to explore the surroundings. I went to the metal wall and looked at it, studying it. When I was done, I looked at the pikmin and saw they only had the first third, so I decided to try to break it…and found it was just like real metal. I shook my hand and cursed under my breath. I looked back and found Olimar had called them back for some reason. So I decided to punch the wall…and it dropped its second third. Olimar reminded me not to exert myself again, and the pikmin got back to work. Before I knew it, the wall was down and I could see a dwarf red bulborb. "Wow, what a fascinating creature." Olimar said. I knew it would get in the way though, so I charged at it. "Alex, don't-" but it was too late already. I charged, and the beast snapped at me. I barely moved out of the way in time. It ripped my shirt and even scraped my skin. I grabbed my side, stumbling back in pain. God that hurt! I can still remember the pain now. After I was a safe distance away, I lifted my hand and saw blood. The beast had drawn blood! My vision went red as the adrenaline started pumping. All I knew is I wanted that beast dead. I charged, not hearing anything Olimar said, and jumped onto its back, slamming it with my fist. I expected to be thrown off, but I wasn't, it just stayed beneath me. I got up and looked at it…it was dead. Normally, I would have been fine, it's just a game after all, they re-spawn. But I wasn't in a game, he wouldn't come back. I stumbled back and Olimar caught me. "I-I killed it." I said in a quiet, shocked tone. "Why don't you leave the fighting to me? I'm the one whose life is at stake anyways." He said. I stepped back and kept to watching, taking his advice. He was right after all, I could survive if I found civilization, but he wouldn't last more than 30 days, 28 after today, because he relied on the batteries of his life support. Thinking about that, I got to wondering how they are able to survive infinitely in pikmin 2 if their life support runs on batteries. Olimar snapped me out of my thoughts. "Why don't you explore a little to keep your mind busy?" he said. I knew he was being gentle because his tone was soft and reassuring, like a parent talking to a scared child. That thought angered me, but I couldn't stay mad at my hero, let alone yelling at him and embarrassing myself further. I knew there was a barrier along either path, so I went through the pond to see if anything had changed. Thankfully it seemed normal, though there were no wogpole's. I figured there would be some latter, or maybe there would be yellow wollywogs instead, how would I know? Anyways, I decided to go back, and realized Olimar had just defeated every dwarf bulborb, and was about to see his EFD, as soon as he plucked the pikmin. I walked back, and got to land as Olimar was coming by. "I know you probably had seen everything already, but I needed you distracted." He said it almost apologetically, as if he had done something wrong. I figured he knew I was upset about him treating me like a child. It was noon, so I knew we wouldn't get the yellow pikmin unless we rushed ourselves, so I didn't say anything about them. "I know how to take down the red bulborb." I said. He nodded, though we hadn't talked about the name. I suppose he had named it the same, since it was a larger version of the dwarf red that he had just defeated 4 of. "How do we do it?" he asked. "Let me take it, I can do it!" I said. He shook his head, "killing is bad on you Alex, you nearly fainted from the last one." "But I can do this one, just let me try." I said. He sighed and gave me control of the pikmin. I picked one up and threw it experimentally, aiming for a bit closer than the bulborb. I missed, and it hit the bigger monster. Olimar took control, seeing me watching as the beast woke up. I let him, I knew he could do it. I watched as he threw pikmin onto the monsters back, and through my contacts (at least that's what I'm guessing), watched the health drop. Then the beast attacked. I was ready to lose hope as I watched most of the pikmin be devoured, but something surprised me…the first big change. Everyone whose played pikmin knows about the most annoying glitch ever: the invincible glitch, where when an enemy attacks it becomes invincible. Well, as the monster attacked, the health kept dropping. And just as it was about to swallow the pikmin, it collapsed with a cry, and I knew it was dead. I stared at it as Olimar did the same with the next. I couldn't believe the glitch that had cost me so many pikmin didn't exist! Then I saw the Eternal Fuel Dynamo. It looked even more impressive in person! Then I looked at the sky, and saw that it was turning orange. It was almost sundown, I knew we couldn't survive at night, but Olimar didn't. He came back, the body of the other red bulborb gone. "The EFD!" he cried out, "now we don't have to worry about saving power!" I smiled at his excitement. I was pretty happy two, now I could get an electric blanket to sleep on. You would not believe how cold it gets in that rocket at night. Olimar set the pikmin to carry the energy source back, and we followed. After it was connected, the pikmin got in their onion. Olimar didn't notice, he was climbing into the ship and I climbed in after him. I saw him falling asleep, and I knew I had to do something, because I saw the onion already taking off. Then the ship lurched, and we both saw a red bulborb trying to eat the Dolphin. "Their nocturnal!" Olimar exclaimed. I was panicking and couldn't speak. It didn't last long, because a little bit latter, the Dolphin started up, scaring it away, then lifted off, throwing me backwards. I got my balance back as Olimar put it into orbit. After we ate, I quickly went to bed. My dreams are usually about things I care about, yesterday they were filled with my friends and family, who I thought I'd never see again. But this time, they were worse, much worse. I dreamed about the monsters. Not just the ones in the pikmin games, but about mutations of bigger animals in the normal world. I didn't get a lot of sleep that night…
End of day 2
I somehow managed to complete this very quickly. The next chapter will probably take a really long time because at this point each player progresses differently, and I need to go back and figure out what part I should write about next. There will be more differences between the game and this story in future chapters, but I don't know what they'll be quite yet. Pleases review, it makes me feel people are truly reading, and a little feedback is usually good for me. Also, I'm open to suggestions for future chapters. The story will most likely cover all 30 days, one chapter per part per day, however, I might add more chapters if I decide to make a really long day. Keep watching, more is on the way!