Disclaimer: if I owned pikmin it would be a LOT different…but I don't.

Chapter 7: the strange creatures

Accessing mission data….

Switching views…

Point of view: Flame

"Stupid Onion! Now we're lost!" Red yelled from the control room

"Its you're fault for putting it on manual" I said. I was second in charge since I was the most experienced in the field…I wasn't experienced with the onion though, so he tended to ignore me.

"I know what I'm doing Flame!" he said

"Obviously you don't, now land before it malfunctions even worse!" I retorted

"You want me to land? Fine, I'll land" he said. I felt a lurch, as he flew towards the water…and landed in it.

He stomped off "where are you going?" I asked

"To find an onion that won't malfunction" he said.

Before I knew what was going on, every pikmin had gotten out. I fumbled with the controls, trying to knock the pikmin onto land. "Come on you stupid thing, work!"

I saw Red on land, stomping off into the distance, but the others had disappeared completely. Suddenly, the onion lurched up words, launching itself. Not what I wanted.

I tried putting the onion on auto-pilot, but it wouldn't respond. I took control of the onion, trying to find the other pikmin…and I hit a branch. I was thrown out of the control room and into the seeder as the onion crashed into the ground, burying itself. The onion dimmed as it shut down, and I soon lost consciousness myself…

Data missing, jumping forward…

I opened my eyes to find soil pressed around me. Why was I in the ground? What happened?

Before I fully got my thoughts together, I felt myself pulled out of the ground. I expected to find another pikmin, but instead found a strange creature standing in front of me. He looked similar to a pikmin…except he was in a metal suit, and his stem had a strange light on it. I looked around, and saw something much more interesting.

Off in the distance, I saw a creature that looked…human, that was the word.

I walked up to the human "hi there!" I said.

He looked at me wide eyed, not saying a word. I waited for a response, but before he said anything, I heard a loud whistle, and was called back to the weird space suit guy.

I mostly watched the human as the pikmin raised our population. I felt kind of relaxed, not having to be the one in charge. The whistle was way more efficient than me telling the pikmin what to do, and the guy in the space suit seemed to be able to do things I couldn't…probably worked vice-versa too.

I saw the human starting to push a box. The human was strong, but the box barely moved.

"Hey! We should help him!" I said, tugging on the captains' suit.

"Huh? What's wrong little guy?" he asked

That's when I realized he didn't understand me. "Look!" I said, pointing to the human. The captain looked over, and sent us to push the box instead.

"Thanks Olimar" the human said

"You shouldn't exert yourself, Alex. The pikmin are more than capable of handling things" he said

Well, I suppose he was right. In moments, we could have hundreds of ourselves; meanwhile, there are only 2 of them.

"My engine!" Olimar exclaimed, running up to a weird looking object. As if that wasn't bad enough, Olimar tried to drag it.

Alex rolled his eyes and walked off, and we followed.

"Ok…let's take this one down first" Alex said. He threw a pikmin at a pellet posy. The pellet dropped, but the pikmin didn't do anything.

"Take the pellet back!" I called

"Back where?" the pikmin asked

"The onion, where else?" I said

"Ok!" the pikmin replied, picking it up and carrying it off.

The process repeated until we had 20 pikmin, I think. Honestly, I wasn't very good with keeping track of the pikmin.

"You shouldn't work too hard either, Olimar" Alex said

I realized Alex wanted us to carry the part "ok Pikmin, lets carry that thing back" I said.

We picked it up, and started carrying it "Flame, this doesn't look useful, what are we supposed to do with it?" a pikmin asked

"Put it…uh…" I was having trouble figuring out a place for it

"In front of that weird broken thing?" a pikmin asked, pointing to a strange structure that was sparking.

I decided that would be best "yes, in front of there" I said.

We dropped the part in front of it "so…what now?" a pikmin asked

"I don't know" I replied. I looked at Alex and Olimar, and saw them talking, looking at us.

"Should we try to attach it?" a pikmin asked

"You see the sparks, we wouldn't last" I said.

Suddenly, Alex charged towards the structure. We quickly moved out of the way as he hit the rocket dead on, making it flip over.

"Throw it in!" I said. With a simultaneous effort, we threw the object into a hole in the structure. It fit perfectly.

The pikmin jumped with simultaneous cheers. I looked at the sky and realized it was almost night time.

"Ok guys; let's go back into the onion!" I said.

We all ran into the onion, and I got ready to lift off. I realized these two couldn't do anything without us, and we probably wouldn't survive long without them because of how new to leader ship I am. In fact, I was so nervous that my anger had completely faded until now; no way I'd be able to command them on my own.

As the rocket launched into the sky, we quickly followed it, making sure to keep up. I set the onion on auto pilot, making sure it would follow the ship.

"Are we staying with the captains?" a young pikmin asked. Hearing him call Olimar and Alex captains made me realize they were ready to follow their lead, as much as they would follow mine.

"Yes, but right now, you need sleep" I said

I wasn't too far behind, and my dreams that day were wild.

End of transmission…

Yay! Another chapter done! I decided to go a bit farther than just new types of pikmin, so now I'm putting each colors first reaction to the captains. Lucky for you, that means more chapters! Remember: I love criticism, reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input. Bye for now!