Err hello. In case you were wondering I'm not dead. I blame school for not posting something new sooner.
This, my second story, is about the adventures of Olimar's children, Tank and Maria(yes I made the names up) and a friend of theirs named Alex. More will be explained about the reason they are there later in the story because I'm not about to give the story away.
Disclamer: I dont own the Pikmin, Olimar, Louie or the Pikmin planet (coughearthcough) But I do own Tank, Maria(well the names and personallitys anyway) and Alex(someone who I really do own. yay).
"Up and at 'em Louie. We've got a big day ahead of us!" Rang out the oddly chearful voice of Captian Olimar through the halls of the rusty hunk of metal they called a ship.
Louie, Olimar's assistant slowly opened his eyes. He looked at the old digital clock that rested on a wooden end table near his bed side.
" Captian..." Louie complained gorggly "It's only 5 AM... must we wake up this early every day?"I woke up this early every day on my first trip to this planet..." Olimar replied in a slightly impatiant voice. "Now lets go Louie.. we should be out there already." Louie roaled over in bed.
"Can't it wait Captain?" Louie asked"I'm still sore from yesterday's 'quest', And besides we don't have a very strict scedual at all, you do realise we can take our sweet time and Syacho can't do a thing about it.""Just get up and go Louie.." Olimar said in an exasperated voice. "We are waisting daylight."
Loiue rubbed his eyes and slowly rose to get out of bed."What daylight?" he muttered bitterly under his breath as he doned his old worn spacesuit and followed Olimar out the door of the old ship.
A thick fog had spread it's self over the land, covering the once firmiliar forest which they had nicknamed 'the Awakening Wood' in their last journey to the planet. The ground was now soggy and wet and the fallen petals of various plants had now turned brown and dead. Although they'd been to the Awakening Wood many times before is time it seemed different, erie, almost frightening.
"Maybe we should wait untill the fog clears captain." Louie suggested "Inside the ship."Olimar turned to him "Louie you aren't going back to sleep." he said "I'm not dragging you out of bed twice today."
Louie glanced around nervously. A gut feeling told him that today hanging around here would lead him into trouble.
"Well I'll just go out and harvest some pellets."
Louie took hold of his axe. It was made out of a sharpened stone and a large stick that Louie had found one day and decided to fashon something out of it. Olimar had made himself a small dager the day before for self defence and Louie, not wanting to be more vernarable then his captain had made an axe for himself.
"Ok fine" Olimar said "Just dont go too far, chances are that you will get lost and I dont want that happening again."
He gave a little shudder, probably at the thought of his fight with the titain dweevle. Over 50 pikmin died in the battle, most from the "shock therapy" as the ship called it, After a while it was a singal pikmin trying despretly to wrench off the part, in the end it worked, but only just about.
"It only happened once..." Louie mumbled shaking off the thought of the Titain Dweevle. He began to run off. "I wont be long!" Louie called into the distance. "come meet me in the clearing once you get the pikmin." And with that Louie ran off into the dence forest of the Awakening Wood.
It didnt take long to find a bunch of Pellet Posys sprouting up from the ground. After only a small bit of walking he had found enough poseys for almost 30 pikmin. Louie took his axe and quickly cut down 5 Pellet Posys, stopping only for brief rests. It wasnt untill he had started on his 6th posy that he noticed a small thumping noise in the distance. Either a Bulibear was out hunting or a Breadbug has smelled the freshly cut pellets and was ready for a little free food. Most likely it was the latter since Bulibears were rarely seen in the Awakening Wood.
"Breadbugs.." Louie muttered under his breath."Why is it that every time I try to do something good some bug has to spoil it and time and time again make me seem like a complete idiot to Olimar." He got his axe poised to attack "Well this time it isn't going to happen."
After a few moments a lone breadbug came out of the bushes and quickly stomped towards him. Louie lunged at it laying down numerous blows to it's body, but it barely noticed that he was even there. It went straight for a red 1 pellet and began to drag it back to it's underground lair. Louie quickly grabbed hold of the other end of the pellet and began to try to pull it back. Unfortunately the Breadbug was too strong for Louie to pull it backwards and too dumb to know he was hitting it with his axe. Louuie cursed under his breath, and did the last thing he could think of. By cutting off half of the pellet he would at least save the other half. He raised his axe and brought it down on the pellet. There was a cracking noise and the pellet burst apart flinging red dust every where and covering both Louie and the breadbug. The pellet was reduced to a pile of dust as well. The breadbug went flying backwards and stomped off in the other direction. Louie sighed and began to walk back to the clearing. The breadbug was gone, but he'd have liked to hae a bit more credit than four pellets.
He pushed a small red button on his left wrist and established a communication link with Olimar. "I'm coming to the clearing now captian." He said. There was no answer.
"Captain?" Louie asked. "Look I'm sorry if I was late I got into a fight with a breadbug." There was no answer again.
"Oh come on Captain!" Louie shouted in an exasperated voice and cancled the communication link. "Man Olimar is dence.." Louie said "He probably thinks I'm lyeing... man he really needs to trust me more.."
A firmilliar thumping noise interrupted Louie's thoughts. "Oh not again..." He thought "That thing had better not eat any of my pellets or I swear..."
but then he noticed something odd, the bug appeared in the distance but did not turn right. Instead it turned left, towards him. "what the heck?" Louie thought "why would a bread bug come this way.. there are no pellets here..." Suddenly he froze. There might not be pellets where he was but there was the dust. He was still covered in dust. Louie turned to run, but a tree root knocked him from his feet. The breadbug was now a few feet away from him. At last the great beast seazed his hand and began to drag him to it's hole. Pain seared up his arm and grew worce with each breath.
"Let go of me!" Louie grunted trying to pull his arm out of the beast's mouth, but it was no use.
Although Breadbugs are encredibly stupid, they are also encredibly strong. This combination of strength, stupidity, and shear luck could be leathel to both Louie and Olimar, whose lives hung by a thread even when there are no preditors around, as one false move can be the end when you are on a forign planet with an atmosphear that alone could kill. Louie waved his Axe wildly, trying hard to make the creature flinch for even a second so that he could free his arm, but the beast was so encredibly stupid that it didn't even recognise the pain. As the lair of the breadbug became visable in the distance Louie finally gave in, and took the last route out he could think of.
"Captain? Come in captain." Louie said into his com. link, trying his best to hide his fear. "Captain I need you to get over here now! I'm having a bit of trouble with a breadbug could you get over here?" No answer came. "Come on captain!" Louie cryed finally letting his true tone come out. "This isn't funny. I'm really being attacked by a breadbug. Please!" There was still no reply.
Louie gave a grunt of frustration. It was clear to him that Olimar wasn't going to help him. He looked around, there had to be another way out, there just had to be. Suddenly a thought hit him. There was one way out. An old dead branch was dangeling from a tree. He tossed his axe up intot he air and closed his eyes. He knew he would have to deal with falure once again. Luck never seemed to work in his favor and today seemed no different. Louie finally looked up, the axe soared up and missed the branch compleatly. Louie's heart sank. Again luck wasn't with him. He looked up to the sky, practicly begging the branch to fall down. Suddenly the axe came into view for the second time, hurteling down from the clouds. With a thud it hit the breadbug squarely between the eyes. The creature gave a tiny squeak and fell over dead. Louie breathed a sigh of relief. He pulled his hand from the bug's mouth quickly and in his good hand grabbed his axe, which was miraculously clean. His hand was a different story however. Blood was gushing from the wound and had stained his glove red.
Louie just shook it off, after being on this planet for a while, things dont seem to hurt as much as they should, either it was that of the planet's oxygen had over time made his nerves numb, one of the first signs of oxygen poisoning. There were bigger issues than oxygen poisoning at the moment however. Louie now had no idea where he was or how to get back to the landing site. Just like before, he was compleatly lost.
"Captain come in." Louie spoke into his com. link for the third time. There again was no answer. This time things were getting suspicious. Olimar had sometimes givin him the silent treatment when he was either extreamly mad at him or just wanted to fool with his mind, but never for this long. What if it wasnt that Olimar was refusing to respond, but couldn't respond.
"C-can you respond? Captain!" Finally he caught a signal, a faint one but a signal none the less.
"Louie... Louie can you ..ear m.." Came Olimar's voice from the link.
"Captain? Yes I can hear you... just barely though." Louie replyed "Captain what is going on? Where are you? Are yo.."
"Louie there is no time for questions.. just get out of here now.." Olimar cut him off, hs voice was tence, and almost strained. "We are both in grave danger, just get out of here and dont come back to the landing site!"
"I can't abandon you captain!" Louie said, for once expressing his fidelity to his captain. "I'll come and get you out of there."
"Louie no!" Olimar's voice came through the speaker "Just get out of here. I can take handle things on my own, and if I can't at least you will be ok..." His voice broke off into static.
"Captain!" Louie cryed "Captain come in! Can you read me?" There was no reply, just the buzzing static.
Louie disabled the com. link and traced the signal he'd gotten from Olimar. Since they'd established a communication link Louie now knew exactly in what direction he was, and from the looks of it he was farely close. He ran off into the bushes east of him, despret to get to Olimar as fast as possable. "If Only I'd stayed" He thought " If only I hadn't chickened out. Them maybe we wouldnt be in this much danger." Louie finally broke out of the brush and burst into the landing site. There Louie saw, a horrific scean that he wouldn't forget for the rest of his life. "He staired into his captian's eyes, but they weren't as haughty nor as confident as they always were. They were now clouded with uncertainty and fear. "Captain..." Louie whispered, unable to say any more. Then, the breaking of glass echoed throughout the forest.
Yeah I'm so evil. I already killed someone off and it's only the prolouge. Well.. don't worry. I'm not gonna go crazy on this one. Only a few other people die and one is just a supporting charictar so he dosn't count.
(Ps. Sorry if this has some spelling errors in it. but thats wha tI get for writing this without microsoft word on my computer, but I will make the edits later when my microsoft word program is back up and running)
Please R&R You know you want to.