(Disclaimer: I do not own pikmin, Nintendo does. Wah.)

(Also, I realised that I did blues before yellows in the last chapter. Woops, I'll either continue doing that on purpose, or attempt to change it next time they're mentioned, and most likely forget to and put blues before yellows again Dx)

Chapter3: Reunion of the damned

Purple:

*Boomboomboomboomboomboom*

The man-at-legs was firing at a target in the distance. Thanks to some mechanical help from the purple pikmin, it was able to fully control all mechanical parts of its body, and as such, it had control over the machine gun. However, it needed training to use it.

The 10 purple pikmin that worked on the beast were watching from the sidelines, writing notes down and discussing how its aim and firing ability was improving all the time. One of these pikmin, a semi-veteran of fighting and a full veteran of anything mechanical, was called Purple. His fellow mechanics and scientists wondered why he chose such a bland name, but they did not argue, as they were all work buddies and friends. "Hmm, I say that's enough for today", he said to his colleagues, and they both walked over to the man-at-legs, getting its attention. It made a few whirring and clicking noises, both mechanical and natural sounding at the same time, before bending down and receiving a pat on the head. Although they could not understand what it was saying, they knew that its response was one of happiness when they told it about how well it was progressing and that soon enough it would be ready.

With another mechanical chirp, it went to the hole down on the sublevel, where it would eventually find its resting place and the section of the cavern it called home. Purple wandered off to the crude structure that they had made out of metal and wood, and starting the daily task of building onto it and making it better. Today, he was upgrading the walls to be thicker and straighter, and he was going to cover them in a nice blue paint he had found several days ago. He started getting to work, looking for whatever metal and wood scraps he could find, but, as usual, there were very little, if not none. Many a time they had debated whether to use the metal that the cave was mainly made of, however, they had no way of getting the metal without fear of destroying the whole sublevel. Using their leafs/buds/flowers wouldn't work, and the man-at-legs could blow the place up.

Purple sighed, and returned to searching. He was searching in a place he had never seen before, and was pretty sure no-one had been here before, so his hopes slowly started to rise. Suddenly, he tripped on something. He landed face first, and remained there for a few seconds before getting back up. He turned around, and his eyes lit up in excitement.

Right there, in front of him, was a gigantic piece of metal!

If he could cut this up somehow, then this would finish ALL the walls with metal to spare!

He got to work, quickly carrying it back to the base. Due to all the metal every found here being strangely light, he was able to do it himself fairly easily. Eventually, he got back, and looked around for his friends. He saw none of them. He started to get worried, knowing that there was always other purples around here. Then, from seemingly nowhere, there was a loud rumble. Purple put the metal down, and looked around some more.

"Hello? Anyone there? Don 't be playing another trick on me, just come out!" he shouted out, but no response. Instead, the rumble was heard again, and this time it was louder. Then, after a few seconds, a third rumble, even louder still, and it didn't stop. Purple heard it getting louder behind him, so he turned around, and his mouth hung open in shock.

The ground was disappearing before his very eyes!

He tried to run, but, due to being a purple pikmin, this was quite slow, even with a flower. He was now running back towards the unexplored area, and went past the place where the metal was resting. Looking behind him, the collapsing edge of the metal ground was getting closer and closer, but when he looked in front of him, he saw a rocky wall. He saw that there was a crack in it, with light shining out, and he knew from past experience that this meant that there was something on the other side. He ran faster and faster, and put his head down, therefore failing to notice the crack was getting bigger. Screaming, he jumped at the crack, and burst straight through it, doing several rolls before finally coming to a halt on the other side of the wall.

White:

They were nearly there; whatever was on the other side of the wall was close, and the anticipation of what they could find was killing them. White and her friends were jumping up and down, thankful that the mamuta was helping them instead of planting them. Just before the mamuta swung the final blow, something burst through the wall, scattering every one of the 5 whites and the mamuta. White quickly got up, and gasped loudly at what she saw.

It was a purple pikmin!

Slowly, the others saw it too, and finally the mamuta saw it, and ran straight at it, wanting to slam the intruder into the ground. White stepped in the way, and the mamuta stopped instantly, looking at her. She shook his head at it, and then turned towards the purple pikmin. What was he doing here?

"Wooooooooooaaaaaaaaaahh, look at that!" said one of her friends, and she quickly ran to see what he were talking about. Her friend was looking through the wall, and white peered through the giant hole too, and gasped again. There was a giant chasm of nothingness. White looked down, and saw what remained of a blue metal pathway with large rusty patches, just barely hanging onto the wall. It gave a groan, and then snapped off, sending a large chunk of dirt spiralling down into the abyss below. "The remains of a sublevel of the Subterranean Complex…" White murmured to herself, and then heard a groan behind her. She turned around, and saw the purple pikmin starting to get up, the other three whites surrounding him.

"Bloody heck that was harsh… where am I?" he said in a strong but nice voice. White thought that it was a great voice.

"Don't worry mister, just careful getting up… there we go…

"I've heard that voice before… wait a minute…

White had walked over to him, and was now standing directly in front of him. The purple's eyes adjusted, and his face lit up as he saw White in front of him. "Whites! I thought I'd never see yas again!" Seeing as White was the first white he saw, she was the one who received the hug. She thought that she'd be crushed, but he was surprisingly gentle. Maybe purple pikmin weren't really that rough 'n' tumble that they appeared to be when Olimar used them…

"So that means I'm in the Frontier Cavern, right?

"Yes it does, mister", White said to him.

"Great. And what about the Complex?" he asked, but White could see he already knew the answer. She pointed to the hole where he had burst through, and one look at it and he walked away. The other white pikmin stood there for a second, still trying to process what was going on. All they had done was a simple chore for some friends and they had found a purple pikmin! White eventually decided to follow him, but she had no idea why.

After a little bit of searching, she found him, sitting on a rock, gazing at a swarm of spectralids. White sat down next to him, and watched the flitterbies dance around, the melodic tune that their wings made humming through the air. Eventually, she piped up, trying to cheer him up. "I know you just lost a sublevel of your cave and all, and that you will probably never see any of your friends again, but you can live here if you want. You'll become famous pretty quickly, most of us like new things and excitement all the time…"

"Thanks, I guess", he said back, and although White knew that that sounded a little rude, she couldn't help but forgive him, especially after seeing a tear roll down his face.

"….I lost more than friends down there. I lost my whole life, and years of work and dedication. And a special beast that was like a pet to me".

On that note, he stopped talking, and continued to stare at the spectralids, and White decided to stay with him, as she felt something inside her burning through her, but not of hate.

So, not exactly the biggest chapter you've ever seen, but it's better than nothing. Yay for no homework, and therefore more chapters! Rate and review please, I accept any opinions and all constructive criticism. Sadly, no new enemies this chapter, but I can assure you that next chapter, when we feature Red again, that something big will happen, so stay tuned!