Chapter 4: Day 2
Disclaimer-I only am pro at pikmin. I do not own it.
A/N-Today is about caves! Scream or smile.
The ship returns to the planet. Olimar gazed out his cockpit. Silently gazing at the large amounts of pellet poises in the general area of the landing zone. Louie showed his normally empty gaze at the same sights as Olimar.
"Good day crew!" The ship blurred.
"Great," Said Louie with slight feelings of melancholy.
Olimar walked out with a grand, colossal grin on his cream colored face. He was elated today. Way? Today he planned on exploring this area's caves. His co-worked would help. Along with more red pikmin.
"Wonderful day?" Asked Olimar with the largest grin possible.
"No," Responded Louie with an impossibly long, melancholy face.
Olimar smelled of beans. Louie just did not know what kind. They marched north. Heading over to collect pellets. Cutting down 5 one pellets, and one lone five pellet. They now had sixty-five pikmin. The duo tossed sixty pikmin onto the bag. With such weight crushing it. The bag gave way to sixty pikmin.
A great snowy flat lay around the bag. Olimar gazed about. He saw two Red Bulborbs. Snoozing without a care. Unaware that one of their greatest predators lurked to wait for the commanders' orders. Two Dwarf Red Bulborbs awoke from deep sleep. Now was their time to stalk the region. A White Bulborb was silently snoozing. His white fur adding additional warmth. A great number of pellets grow here. 5 one red pellets, paired with 2 five pellets. A breadbug ambled out. Walking past the swarm of grub-dogs, and pretend grub-dogs. Olimar spotted some wet wood. He would charge the Bulborbs, get the wood. With a population then about ninety. The two would then gather up to meet at the hole. Then down into the first cave of Olimar's third adventure. Now then he just had to order Louie.
"Louie we will need to strike those Bulborbs!" He ordered.
Louie noted. He grabbed a red pikmin out his many useable from his strike force. He wanted a sample of bulborb to observe for some more cooking.
"Louie you go to kill the Dwarf Bulborbs. I will take on the bulborbs," Said Olimar. "Also do not take any samples!"
Louie groaned. He wanted to take a sample back so he study it. Although an order from his boss did not stop him before…
"Louie you did here Olimar?" The ship informed in a question manner.
"Yes," Said Louie.
Louie quickly kills the dwarf bulborbs. He met up with Olimar. Who has so far killed only one of the red bulborbs. They tag up to quickly take the others down. The pikmin carry home the bulborbs. As the team does so the pikmin population rose to 104. A number that greatly pleases Olimar for this was a grand number. Granted all were leaf pikmin.
"There are 100 pikmin out-" The ship started.
"Shut-up," Olimar ordered.
As the gang advanced onward to the cave. The clock showed that it was almost afternoon.
Sublevel 1
Olimar gazed at this metallic landscape. Two shergrub females slowly strolled on some powder. A shergrub male also patrolled this area. Then he saw a fiery blowhog silently ambling across the area.
"I call the. Shergrub females," Said Louie.
"Then I get the rest," Olimar noted.
A short battle ensures. One pikmin is almost tossed off the map by the fiery blowhog's toss attack. Then they see some rounded glass. The pikmin carry the glass to the ship. Singing as they do so.
Sublevel 2
It was pitch black on the 2nd sublevel. Olimar's and Louie's lights were only producing an almost unusable amount of light. This greatly scared Olimar, because what if a Spotty Bulbear was on this floor? It could easily ambush the team, and result in a lot of deaths. Something that needed to avoided at all cost.
"All right, Louie what do you see?" Asked Olimar.
"Nothing," replied Louie with a great hinting of boredom.
"I might be able to make a map based on how you travel," the ship's pod stated.
"Yes we will try that. Louie take fifty red pikmin with you!" Olimar said.
Louie took the pikmin without question. Olimar took the other fifty. Each set out to explore. Olimar's heart was beating as fast as a Spotty Bulbear going downhill. Something he wanted to never see. He heard a long yawn. His heart skipped a beat. Did Louie just awake something? Then it went back to rest? Olimar tried to avoid such ideas…
He called Louie.
"Louie?" Asked Olimar with a very nervous tone.
"Yes?" Asked Louie.
"Just checking in," responded a calmed Olimar.
Olimar bumped into something hard. He scanned it. It was a colossal piece of glass that was blocking his path. He had his pikmin surround the glass. The fraction counter monitor on his helmet showed he needed ninety more pikmin. 160 total. He know this would require purple pikmin-something they lacked.
Olimar swore.
"Scans indicate heat sources similar to fire geysers. It should provide light," the ship said.
Louie walked. Noting a fire geyser. Then he bumped into something. That something was quickly made a biting sound. However his pikmin numbers did not decrease. He walked on.
Olimar was scouting-then he started to fall. H e had a panic attack. One of his lesser fears was falling, but it was only a slight fall. He walked right into a petal. He observed it, and barely made out that it was violet. Olimar grinned. He tossed five pikmin into the violet candy pop bulb. He walked right into a Shergrub female. She was just digging out of her burrow. Now her body is being carried back to a certain pod. Olimar turned back to pluck the five purple pikmin. All plump, but strong minute purple plant animals. He looked at the signature purple "hair" spines. The purple pikmin were just how he last saw on his second visit. However they lacked an immunity to fire. Something that could be disastrous on this fiery floor.
"Louie-I have found purple pikmin," the higher captain reported.
Louie did not reply with words. Only some grunts to show he understood. Olimar then encountered yet another violet candypop bulb. This time he was not worried by this event. Scans also revealed a sleeping bulborb somewhere nearby or a bulborb sized creature. Olimar barely avoided hitting said bulborb. This bulborb was a common red bulborb. Silently resting on a metallic floor. Olimar quickly set his purple pikmin up first; holding on to the stem waiting to toss the pikmin. His red pikmin shortly afterward the purple pikmin. As the battle (that was very one-sided) ended. It dropped a minute, wooden plank. The red pikmin carried the plank back to their ship's pod. The pikmin then carry the glass to the pod.
"I detect no more treasures on this floor," the ship reported.
"All right Louie we are going down!" Olimar ordered.
Sublevel 3
A much brighter environment. Olimar checked the pikmin numbers. Somehow they did not lose any pikmin. He looked all over the area. Seeing a geyser on a calm grassy pedestal that had a very gentle slope. He then spotted a newly discovered predator. It had the size of a sleeping bulbear. Yet it was sleeping. It had blue skin. With many light purple spots, and a slightly tanned face. Dried lips.
"It's a sleeping bulbear!" Olimar shouted. "We must sneak up on it, and slay it."
Olimar quickly grabbed the purple pikmin, and started flinging them at said predator. Quickly killed by the rear assault; the bulbear started healing at an alarming rate. Shortly after that observation the body is carried back. The higher captain breathed a sigh of relief. Noting that the danger was handled, Olimar, and Louie marched on with their epic quest. Encountering only a tad amount of snow bulborbs. The duo find a metal bent plate. Taking it back, the pikmin hum a happy, working song. Louie walks into a violet candy-pop bulb. Olimar notes two other plants of the same name, and tosses in fifteen red pikmin. The party now have twenty purple pikmin. Understanding the work completed. They leave the cave, with no intent to return.
The Surface
"Well, Louie we have nothing left today, so let us pack up," Olimar informed.
As the ship ascended into the sky, Olimar abridged the events of today. Then he reordered pikmin numbers.
Red: 84 from 50
Yellow:
Blue:
Purple: 20 from 0
White:
A/N-IT'S OVER A 1,000!