This is just a little idea I came up with. It explains my beliefs on what I like to call the "Pikmin Cycle." Here you go!

A Pikmin begins its life as a seed. It will absorb nutrients in the ground as it grows into a bud, then a flower, which eventually wilts and reverts back to a leaf. If the Pikmin is plucked, it will form a body and will be an average Pikmin. The Pikmin can reproduce by a male pollinating a female's flower. A seed then begins to grow on the female, which eventually falls off and the process starts again. However, if left alone for long enough, the seed will eventually sprout into a Candypop Bud. This flower is basically a prototype of an Onion. It will house Pikmin of the same color, and will spit out seeds if nutrients are provided. If a Pikmin of a different color enters the Candypop Bud, it will change into the color of the Candypop Bud. However, the flower can only do this so many times before it wilts and dies, leaving behind a single Pikmin seed. If that is prevented, the Candypop Bud will sprout into an Onion. The personalities of the Onion will not be decided by its color, but instead by the personality of the original Pikmin. It will grow and house Pikmin until it reaches the end of its life cycle. Instead of withering and dyeing, it will produce on last seed first. However, instead of a Pikmin, this seed will sprout into one of the modern day Onions. These Onions operate more as living creatures then machines, and the personalities of the following Pikmin are often not the same as the original. The Onion will live on until the day it dies. On that day, it will deposit all housed Pikmin, disregarding the 100 limit. It will then release a seed for each Pikmin color it housed, and then, will wither and decay. Thus, the cycle starts anew.

How was it? If you like it, maybe I'll do more of them in the future. Please note, most of this fanfiction was thought up by me and is not official, but feel free to use this idea.