Chapter 6
Another Hero? Or Heroine?
"E?" Pete said shocked that he was rescued by a murderer. E, with his jetpack soared through the magnificent blue sky as his mechanical hands attached to his jetpack carried Captain Ironic Eraser and Pete.
"Yeah, I thought you would be surprised," E replied.
"But you murdered Governor Jack Reese!" Pete exclaimed.
E chuckled. "You probably mean Governor JACQUELINE Reese and no I didn't murder her."
Pete was totally lost. "He's a SHE? Anyway, if you didn't murder her, then why does all evidence point to you and gunshot residue on your tie?"
"It was all fake Pete," E explained. "She is still alive. You see, she's one of us. I mean Mr. Eraser and me. We are a secret organization who strongly disagrees with the government we live in. I should've probably said is the world that we live in now, is a totalitarian rule. Those who oppose the government are sentenced death. And our enemy is Chancellor Red and Chancellor Blue. Vice Chancellor Black has been eliminated."
Pete, lost in a pile of words, asked, "But what did they ever do to us?"
"They took away," E said pausing dramatically, "our freedom."
Pete stared for awhile as he finally noticed two things. One, that they were already safe on the rooftop of Captain Eraser's apartment and two, that E was right.
"You may not know this Pete but the only reason why our species is decreasing is not because of natural disasters, diseases, or epidemics. It's actually the enslavement that was put into us back in history. That was the day when many Pikmin died of terrible…shoes…and strawberries…eating them…"
Pete looking terribly shocked at the news that he had heard collapsed on the ground, petrified. Captain Eraser and E looked at each other.
"Maybe you shouldn't have mentioned the strawberries and shoes E," Captain Eraser said.
After that they picked Pete up and took him to Captain Eraser's apartment.
Meanwhile, in an underground base Red Frenzy or either the infamous Fatman plots an evil plan to eliminate the one that stands in his way: Captain Eraser.
"I'll make him pay for interfering with my devious plans!" Fatman vowed sticking his index finger up to the ceiling. Dragon Noth, or Jerry, stepped into the room.
"Sir, my abnormally large, shoe was unable to destroy Captain Eraser," Jerry said.
"Damn!" Fatman cursed. "We'll have to think of a way to KEEL Captain Eraser!"
"I think you mean "kill Captain Eraser," not "keel"" Jerry corrected.
Fatman rolled his eyes and then glared at Jerry.
"Get out of this room!" Fatman spat.
While Pete was recovering and Jerry cursing at Fatman where his boss can't hear him, Agent Roswell trailed the clues that E had left behind. If I were E, where would I be? Agent Roswell thought. It was night and he needed clues. In earlier cases, this wouldn't be really difficult for Agent Roswell, but E's left many clues making it seem like the whole thing was staged and he expected it to happen this way. When the FPPA came to investigate the place there was no dead body that lay before them. Although the other FPPA detectives jumped into a conclusion that the body was buried secretly Agent Roswell decided to dig a little further.
Just as Agent Roswell was about to walk past an alley until an ominous voice appeared through the empty sidewalk.
"Hello detective," the voice said. "I've been waiting for you."
Agent Roswell turned and looked at the black chasm that enveloped the alley.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"I want what you want," the voice said.
"Hey wait a second," Agent Roswell said hearing the familiar phrase from a movie. "Are you Agent Smith from the movie, "The Matrix"?"
The voice sighed as the clueless Agent Roswell gave a quizzical look.
"No, but you could identify me as Alan E Sonbert," the voice replied.
"You want to know where E is, right?" the male sounding Pikmin said.
"Yeah," Agent Roswell replied. "You know him Mr. Sonbert?"
"Yes detective," Sonbert answered. "I know a lot about him."
"Pete, wake up!" Captain Eraser said. Pete opening his eyes examined the room to find that E was gone.
"Where's E, Captain Eraser?" Pete asked surprised.
"He went to fetch Governor Jacqueline Reese," Captain Eraser explained.
"Jacqueline Reese? Oh yeah! I forgot, she's one of us,"
Captain Eraser smiled. Pete found himself on Captain Eraser's bed. He, while petrified, slept while Captain Eraser planned of what to do. There was a knock on the door, all of the sudden. Pete went to answer it. To his surprise, it was a female Pikmin. A pretty one. She was a red rose colored pikmin with long lashes. Although unlike E she had no pointy ears unlike Pete who did. Pete immediately dropped on the floor phased of such a pretty female Pikmin he had just seen.
"Violet!" Captain Eraser said surprised. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to help you dad!" the female Pikmin replied.
Pete suddenly sprung up. "DAD?" he said suddenly confused.
Captain Eraser chuckled. "I'm sorry I've never mentioned my daughter Violet. She's mainly known as "Super Girl", so she's really hard to identify since she's with a mask and all," he explained.
This was obviously too much for Pete. He then again fainted.
"Jeez, this is what happens whenever I show up and there's a guy!" Violet said.
"Well," Captain Eraser said, "what do you think of my male sidekick?"
"Although he's almost like the other boys, I got to admit, he's kind of cute," Violet said. A pink color spread throughout her cheeks. She was blushing.
Captain Eraser laughed. "I guess you've developed liking each other," he said, "and don't worry, I won't tell him."
"Thanks dad," Violet said smiling.
"So, what are your powers? I haven't seen them since I became a super hero," Captain Eraser said with amusement.
Violet lifted up his father's bed.
"Hmm…super strength," he said. "Anything else?"
Violet dropped the bed and flew around a little. Afterwards she ran up and down the apartment.
"Actually," Captain Eraser interrupted. "Can you see through things?"
Violet smiled. "Your watch is under your pillow and you haven't taken a bath in a while did you?"
Captain Eraser laughed. "Guess you didn't need to see through that," he said, "you're in!"
Agent Roswell, pointed the direction from Alan E Sonbert, went into a bowling alley and investigated. Meanwhile, E went to get Jacqueline back to the headquarters at Captain Eraser's apartment. He went to an empty warehouse and finally found Jacqueline hiding in the basement.
"Well looks like its back to the headquarters for you Mrs. Reese," E said.
Jacqueline, looking relieved, got up of the chair that she was sitting on and went with E out of the basement. To there shock, there was a fire in the main part of the warehouse. Everything was crumbling into an inevitable nothingness. E handed Jacqueline his car keys.
"Go back to the Captain Eraser's apartment if I don't make it!" E shouted over the roaring sounds of flame.
"No!" Jacqueline shouted back. "I won't leave you!"
"Just go!" E cried.
At that minute, a pile of wood separated E from Jacqueline. From the muffled voice of E, she heard, "Go back to Captain Eraser's apartment! Room 980!" Jacqueline, shedding a tear ran out of the warehouse, dodging falling objects. She quickly got out and drove madly to the headquarters. As she continued to cry she said softly, "E is dead…what will I do? How can I tell them?" Back at the warehouse a maniacal laughter came from an evil Pikmin who is only known as the vile and wretched Fatman.
"Too bad, I couldn't trap both of them," he said still laughing his evil laugh. He had just arrived to the scene. The warehouse was filled with flames but there were no screams, nothing. Only the sound of the flames crackling and what would be E, trapped under a pile of wood and fire. If you think E was burnt into crisp, you would be probably right, because as E slowly feels the pain of fire searing through his flesh he would burn into nothing. But if you know E, he's a brave Pikmin, and cunningly smart. It wouldn't have been plausible for such a Pikmin, so cunning, so smart, even escaping death by the chair, then that wouldn't have been E.
Meanwhile, outside Fatman smoked a cigar as the finale of the flaming warehouse arrived. The warehouse exploded with little bits and pieces flying out. On of the things that flew out was a fedora hat. Fatman smiled evilly.
"Goodbye, E" he said with cruelty in his voice. Has evil final started to begin its wrath on the helpless? Will a new Chancellor arise to the throne? The answer lies only in the greedy, vile, cruel, and evil mind of Fatman and his also described assistant, Jerry.