After leaving Lily to the Yellow Pikmin, I decided to head back to the area we found the Eternal Fuel Dynamo. I wanted to see if there was anything else there that we could get. When I got there, I saw that there was nothing in the area, but I did see a ledge. I could get up there myself by going up a natural ramp, but there was water there. My Pikmin wouldn't be able to cross. I looked at the ledge again, trying to see what action I could possibly take to get the Pikmin up there as well. Hmm… Oh! That could be an idea! "Crimson, show me your hands." The red Pikmin did what I said, albeit hesitantly, and I saw that their hands weren't exactly meant for climbing rock walls. Mine could climb it, but they couldn't. That option was out the window. I guess I could try something else. I grabbed one of the pikmin by the stem and threw them up there to experiment. I didn't expect them to be so light, so I may have thrown him higher than the ledge was tall. "Well, that works. Ok, everyone, lets get going." They all came up behind me and as I reached my hand back, they would set there stem into my hand for me to through them up. Soon, I had thrown all twenty five pikmin up there. Going up the ramp at the side, I called to the waiting pikmin and went to see what was there. We almost immediately found a sleeping bulborb there. Of course. Sneakily, we went around it and decided to explore a bit. We didn't have to go far before we found another one of Olimar's ship parts. It looked like a swirly slide, but it was definitely one of his. Only one problem. The bulborb.
I thought about rushing it with the pikmin, but I decided to just save time by doing it a quicker way. I elongated my fingers and sharpened them, then went to the front of the sleeping bulborbs face. It didn't take me longer to quickly jump up onto its forehead and drive my claws into the skull, puncture the brain and ending its life painlessly. I would train the pikmin later. Right now, I wanted to get this ship part. But this bulborb was just here…and Lily and I haven't had fully grown bulborb meat in a long time. I shrugged and went to the flank of it and cut off a large piece. Going to the edge of the short cliff, I threw it over the edge and went back to the bulborb. "Ok, ten of you guys take that bulborb back to the Onion. As for you, Crimson, you, me, and the rest of the pikmin are going to bring back this ship part." The pikmin nodded and did as they were told. The pikmin trying to lift the ship part alone weren't enough, but when I joined in, we were able to move it. We slowly moved it over to the cliff and pushed it over. It fell with a clank, but wasn't damaged, luckily. We all jumped down and continued carrying it. By this time, Olimar was out of the ship from doing whatever he was doing, and he noticed the ship part. "The Shock Absorber! This is going to do wonders for my flight!" This swirly slide thing? Helping his flight? I'm not even going to ask. "Well, whatever this thing is, it's a heavy thing." Setting it in front of the ship, I watched as it was beamed up into the ship. I waited for it to appear visibly in the ship, but it didn't. "Hey, where is it? I don't see it." Olimar looked at the ship to see what I was talking about, then he seemed to understand. "It's really small, so you can't see it." SMALL MY DRYAD ASS! "Excuse me, but that thing was heavy as fuck and fifteen times larger than me! How the hell is it small?!" Olimar went along explain all sorts of shit that I have no idea what it means. I just ignored it and labeled it as alien logic.
After plucking the pikmin we got from that bulborb, I decided to see how Lily was doing and went to the place I last saw her. However, she wasn't there. "She must have gone farther down the path. She seems eager to play this treasure hunting game that you were talking about." Crimson seemed to have the right idea, because when we went down the path to search for her, she was at a rock wall with quite a few dead enemies around the area. Looks like she got the hang of it. Then I saw that Electra was ordering around the pikmin. I guess she still needs to learn. A lot. I walked up to her and roughly grabbed her shoulders to spook her. Didn't go as planned. She screeched, spun around, and slapped the absolute shit out of me. "OW, FUCK!" That hurt like hell. Imagine a piece of wood the size of your head in the shape of your hand being smashed against the side of your face, and you got what I felt. Upon realizing what she had done, she gasped and immediately started apologizing. "Shadey, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to do that!" I got up, my face still hurting like a bitch, and hugged her. "Hey, it's ok. Nothing bad happened, my face just hurts a little bit. That's all. I deserved that for spooking you." She could tell that she decided that accepting the apology was the best move. She knew I wouldn't let her take the blame for something like that, although sometimes she tries to take it.
After hugging her for a little while, I looked at the stone wall that we were in front of. It was mostly destroyed, but it would still be an obstacle to us if there was anything on the other side. Was there anything on that side? I decided to climb up the wall to see what was on the other side. I used the cracks that had been created to dig my fingers into and scaled it quickly. Look over it, I saw something that was literally a hunk of metal. It wasn't moving, it was fancily designed, it was just there. "Uh, I guess this is one of his? Might not be. It's just a piece of iron." Lily did the smart thing, the thing that I continuously forget to do, and looks at the map. "It's a part! It comes up as a star!"
Well, damn. I guess even this thing can be useful. I climbed down the wall and go to some nearby bomb rocks. Picking one up, I tossed it at the wall, and it exploded soon after. More cracks appeared in the wall, so I threw one more bomb rock to knock it down. The wall crumbled when the bomb rock exploded, and rubble was everywhere. Luckily, we could now get to the bolt, so I ordered the pikmin to grab the bolt and go back to the ship. As they did so, I turned around to go back to that piece of bulborb meat I had cut before so I could cook it. However, Olimar was right behind me "JESUS CHRIST, MAN!" I yelled at the alien. How did he sneak up behind me? He had apparently gone past Lily quite a while ago, while I was plucking the new pikmin that were born. He had been working on taking down a wooden wall this entire time, and, from the looks off a giant thing with a flashing color light at the tip that his pikmin were carrying, he had successfully gotten another part.
Well, that was two parts going back to the ship. It was getting rather late, so I decided that now would be the best time to go cook that bulborb meat. I went to the ridge were I put it with Lily following me and went to the little cooking area that we had made earlier that day. This time, I didn't teach Lily how to cook just because we had to eat fast then get out of there. Night time was approaching fast, and we had to get to an Onion. "Hey, Lily. How about sleeping in the Yellow Onion tonight? It was a little hot in the Red Onion." She nodded, not saying a word since her mouth was full of grilled bulborb steak. I chuckled at the sight of her. She was always adorable, no matter what she did. After we finished our quick meal, we hurried to the Yellow Onion and climbed in. It was much cooler in here, but there was an odd feeling. Like our skin was tingling. It didn't really bother us that much, so we just snuggled up together and prepared to go to sleep. "Goodnight Lily." I said to my little sister. She looked up at me with a tired smile. "Goodnight Shadey." With that, she was dead to the world. When my sister starts to sleep, she sleeps deeply. I closed my eyes, quickly following her lead.