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Chapter 9: recovery day (Alex)
I woke up with Andrea still in my arms. I couldn't believe a sweet girl like lily would yell so harshly for something so minor. Sure she could have gotten hurt, but according to Brittney she could handle herself. I woke Andrea up so that we could get breakfast. After breakfast I started feeling sick though, and I couldn't go out. The others reassured me they wouldn't get into any big fights without me, so I decided to take my suit off. Man, the breeze felt amazing! I looked at the nearby lake and decided to swim, even though I was fully clothed. The crew got back with me lying in the sun "decided to go for a swim?" Brittney asked. I just nodded my head "ok, Diana got scared, so were taking her inside, Lilly went to go find Andrea who somehow wondered off again" she looked like she wanted to say more, but she and Alph were beamed into the ship. Charlie sat down nearby, looking at the scenery. For some reason, I had a suspicion that he was there to watch me…or maybe to keep me company? Of course, I didn't need another companion if the pikmin were out. Speaking of the pikmin… "Hello Alex" one of the rock pikmin came up to me with Flame "Alex, this is Rocky" Flame said. "Hello Rocky" I said, though Flame had already told me his name. Rocky didn't look too different from the other rock pikmin, though I noticed a darker coloration that could only be noticed if you were looking for it. The others seemed to be looking for something to smash, he was just looking at me "I can kind of guess why you're the leader" I said "actually, the reason why is a story for latter, right now I'm focused on you" he said. Well, his loyalty was amazing…I guess that's his special trait. Daisy walked up at that point "Alex! Can you believe my new ability?" she seemed to be sparking with joy…literally "careful Daisy, I'm not shock proof you know" she giggled "of course you aren't, you're as vulnerable as the other pikmin colors" ok, something was up with her. I looked over at Charlie, who was watching a few pikmin wrestle, thankfully a rock pikmin wasn't involved. I looked back at Daisy "are you ok?" I asked her. She looked at me "of course I am!" she then looked at Flame, and looked at her feet. She wasn't like that the last time… "Daisy, something's up, I know it" she looked at me "I'm fine...but those two aren't!" she ran towards two pikmin who were play fighting pretty roughly, but I knew they would be fine, and so did she. There was something else up with her, but I decided not to pursue it. "You can go back to playing Rocky" I said, dismissing the rock pikmin. He ran off towards a group. "So, how'd you do it this time?" I asked Flame. He knew exactly what I was talking about. "Well…I can't say I'm proud of it…Daisy found a data base and got us back to the pikmin city, where we got the purples and white an onion, as well as updating ours. Once we took off, we went to a different area. We had found Olimar, but had to run away when he got captured. We had lost sense of direction, and we had little field practice with the new controls. Most of my pikmin had died when we were with Olimar, the remaining 3 were ones from the first adventure. I swerved out of control, and crashed into a nearby tree. I expected to be thrown into stasis, but the onion got caught in a branch instead. I managed to jump out with the 3 pikmin, 2 of them went to jumping for the onion, the other one went looking for food. I sighed, knowing I'd have to get up there somehow, when I saw a ship fly across the sky, and heard the splash of someone nearby. I climbed up the ledge and ran towards the noise, and that's when Alph found me" he finished with a sigh "do you know about Aqua?" I asked "all three of us went in different directions, I didn't even know rock pikmin existed before now. I don't know where Aqua is, but I hope we find her soon." I did too. My favorite type of pikmin was winged, then white, but Aqua was my favorite leader by far, and she seemed to like me just as much. So the onion had been upgraded, and that's why they can combine like they do…huh. I yawned, realizing it was almost sundown "Getting tiered?" Charlie asked. I had almost forgotten he was there. I wondered what the captain thought of me. I already had an idea of each of the explorers personalities based on the game, but none of them had ever heard of me. I nodded, and sent the pikmin to the onion. Just as I was about to go inside with Charlie, Lilly brought a crying Andrea over "you yelled at her again?" I asked in shock "I didn't yell at her!" Lilly told me. Regardless, I picked up Andrea as we were beamed in. we ate, and I asked Brittney to keep Andrea this time. She said it was fine, and I went to bed. My thoughts wondered between each pikmin, my main thought being how they ended up crashing. Flame's was easy to see, especially with how unreliable the red onion can be sometimes. I could think of a few ways the yellows could have gotten trapped, but the rocks were a mystery. Was it possible they had grown outside of the onion? I shook the thought off as sleep finally claimed me.
Another chapter done! I had to switch ideas several times in this chapter, because I found I couldn't make any of them long enough. Remember as always: love criticism, reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input. I will try to leave room in some chapters for character development, but it might be tough. Bye for now!