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Chapter 11: snagerets and counters
I woke up to the lurch of the rocket. The space noodles flew into my hand as we landed. I quickly ate and got out just as Olimar had gotten out pikmin. "Sorry I didn't wake you, I thought I'd let you sleep." Olimar said, though he had never needed to wake me before. I noticed all of the pikmin were blues. "Why are all the pikmin blues?" I asked. "We're going to need them because the part is near water." He said. I nodded and noticed Aqua had come out. She seemed nervous for some reason. "Get as many as possible to flowers Olimar, ok?" he nodded and headed out. Aqua already had a flower, so I stopped her. "What's wrong Aqua?" I said gently. "Well…I have a bad feeling, like one of those times where you know you're running at danger." I briefly wondered how shed know that with her short lifetime, but shook the question off. "Don't worry, just stay near Olimar or me and you'll be fine, ok?" I smiled and hugged her gently, the blues seemed to like it when you hugged them. I won a bright smile in return. "Thanks Alex. Olimar is seen as a super pikmin because of his antenna, your natural appearance is what brought you to Flames attention, and your leadership makes you like one of us." She smiled at me, and then Olimar came back. "Ready Alex?" he asked. I nodded and we set off. There was only one snagerets there, and it was so easy to defeat, it's not worth talking about. What happened next is though. The explosion flung everyone off balance except a few pikmin. When we got up, the part was gone, and it had landed in the lake…which now had 16 Wollywogs. "It's like each of them doubled, twice!" Olimar exclaimed. There was no way we'd get the part without serious injury. We jumped down well out of the jumping range of the wollywogs. I could see the hate in their beady eyes, these weren't friendly creatures like the bulborbs. I jumped to get a better look, and caught a glimpse of the Geiger counter, which was necessary. The clock stroke noon, and there was no way to get it before sun down, and the Wollywogs would probably have grown in number again. That's when we heard it, the loud cry of a snageret. Dust and water flew into the air. The pikmin crowded closer behind us, obviously scared. Then the dust cleared, and the Wollywogs were gone, but so was the ship part. Then came a loud snageret screech. The pikmin ran, as did Olimar, and a giant snageret burst through the ground. He screeched again, and I knew he'd be hard to beat as he dove back into the ground. Flame, aqua, and Daisy came up to me (Olimar had switched out pikmin). "This guy can't be reasoned with, Alex" Daisy said. "The yellows can knock him down, then use my troops to attack its head." Flame suggested. "Us blues will help anyone who gets flung too far, but we aren't useful for much else this time." Aqua said, a bit sadly. "Your plenty useful Aqua." I said, gently rubbing her cheek affectionately, which earned me another smile from her. "Now rally your pikmin, were fighting this thing together!" the three leaders went back. "Olimar, stay with the blues and keep them out of danger." I called to him. He nodded and took the blues with him. Aqua followed Olimar closely, giving her pikmin a briefing of what to do. I whistled at the others and Flame and Daisy brought their pikmin over, the leaders staying close to me. "Ready when you are." They each said in their personal way. I nodded as the snageret came up in the middle of the clearing. It gave its battle cry, and the pikmin gave theirs. The snageret swooped down to grab me. I rolled to the side with the pikmin following suit, and it lodged its beak into the ground. The head was too far up, so I threw yellows at it. When it got its beak out, it fell with a screech, and the reds attacked. Its health drained slowly, but it was working. It shook them off and got back up. I waited for it to dive at me again, but it never did. It gave out a loud call, and dove into the ground. It came back up, and it was holding a wollywog. I was surprised at this, until 15 of the dead bodies rained down. We dodged them, and barley dodged the attacking snageret, who instead of lodging its beak, just kept going down. I grabbed its tail just as it finished burrowing. I fell into a large pit, and the snageret popped its head up, screeching. I launched at it and climbed its head. A few punches got it down a 16th, and it chook me off and lurched. After 6 more rounds, it dove up when I climbed up. It had no health left when it resurfaced, and it fell heavily, dropping the part. We took it back to the ship, and Olimar climbed in. I looked at the three leaders. I realized I was growing fond of them. Flames cool contrasting attitude made him unpredictable and fun to be with, Daisy's perky team working attitude made her a nice girl to work with, and Aqua's shy attitude was the most adorable thing ever. They ran into their onions as the sun set, and I climbed into the ship. As I lay waiting for sleep to overcome me, I couldn't help feeling a bond with them, just like Bulby and Olimar. Then sleep finally claimed me.
First boss battle, and I think I did pretty good. This one was hard to start, but the idea kept going once I got it. I thought the next chapter would be a boss, but it might not be after all because I realized I had forgotten about a ship part I want to get to before the next area. Remember, I love criticism, reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input.