After finding that his whistle could control the creatures, Olimar decided to see if he could use that to his advantage. He conducted a series of tests and came to the conclusion that the creatures saw him as their leader, and he could use that to make them find and rebuild his ship. Once the ship was complete, he would fly away and never see them again.
"Listen up!" he said to them once his conclusion had been drawn, "I am your master and you will do what I say! Otherwise she'll devour us all!" He received blank stares from all of the creatures. "Ugh..." Olimar moaned while shaking his head, "Ok. First, you have to stop staring at me like that. Otherwise, I'm going to kill you all!" Again, Olimar's reply was a group of blank stares.
Olimar fell to his knees in defeat. "Ah!" he shrieked, "I didn't ask for this! She made me do it! All I wanted was a home... I just wanted a home and she forced me to become this! But I'm coming home! Nothing can stop me... NOTHING!" Olimar began to froth at the mouth, and then fell to the floor. He was shrieking and convulsing, but the creatures continued to stare.
After some time, he saw that the creatures were still staring at him and he immediately stopped. He chuckled nervously, "Nothing's wrong! Nothing at all!" he stuttered as he wiped the froth from his mouth, "That was... that was a test! It was a test to see if... to see how resolute you were and it also tested... um... your loyalty! Yes. It was just a test. Nothing's wrong here!" He cleared his throat, straightened his hair and then continued with his previous orientation, "So back to the rule's and such... I'm not sure there are any more rules but there is one problem that needs to be dealt with. What do I call you?" Olimar waited for a reply, but there was none.
"Ok, well since you've decided to keep quiet, I'll just call you Pikmin. That will be your name for now, and forever. You have become a part of the league. You now have responsibilities. Don't fail me!" Olimar went quiet for a moment and then said, "Now let's stare into the sky, and let this sink into our souls." Olimar looked to the sky, but all of the Pikmin continued to stare at him.
After a few moments of silence, Olimar began to run away and all the Pikmin pursued him. Olimar let out a maniacal laugh but tripped before he could finish laughing. He plummeted to the ground and violently rolled a few feet. "My knee! Why now? Why me? I thought we got over this already! It was a year ago... That's like... almost a year! Get over it already!" Olimar let out a scream! "I don't think I can go on men..." Olimar panted, "You'll have to go on without me until I'm healed. A few of you need to carry me back to the cave, the rest of you go out and find ship pieces. Once you find something bring it back to me and another team will work on putting the pieces together. Now go!" None of the Pikmin moved.
"I said move!" Olimar yelled at them but the Pikmin remained unmoving. Olimar shook his head and put his head in his hands. "Why is this so hard? Why can't they just listen to me?" he muttered to himself. As soon as the words left his mouth, he farted. Immediately, all the Pikmin did what he had asked. "Well... I suppose that works." Then Olimar was carried back to the cave.
After two days Olimar's knee healed, but he fell into laziness and faked injury so that he wouldn't have to do any work. All the Pikmin believed him and kept following his orders day after day. After about two months, they had managed to find and build almost the entire ship, with the exception of three missing pieces. The Pikmin gathered around Olimar and started staring at him again. "Why are you all staring at me again? Shouldn't you be working?" As always, his response was a group of blank stares. "You aren't finished yet so why are you standing there?" he asked the Pikmin firmly. Once again, there was silence.
"You think that you can get away with three missing pieces? Well let me tell you a story! Is that alright? Is story time ok with you? Good! I'm glad to hear that you're all still silent!" Olimar pointed to the sky and then said with great determination in his voice, "There was once a man. He felt the same as you do. He was a little creature, alienated from the rest of the world. He had no home, and he was what we call on my planet, a bum. But alas, he didn't let it get to him and he set out to create the nuts. Unfortunately, he thought he could slack off, much like you, and he lost the nuts forever!"
Immediately after Olimar finished, he stood up and began walking. "Come with me!" he said, "I'm going to take leadership and get this crap done!" Then Olimar whistled and marched out of the cave. All the Pikmin trailed behind him and as always, they were silent. Olimar and the Pikmin had been marching for around an hour when they arrived at the H.E.L.P. "Wow," Olimar exclaimed, "I haven't been here in forev..." He stopped midsentence as he remembered what happened the last time he had been there. "Oh no..." he said under his breath.
Olimar looked back and saw the group of Pikmin staring at him, but this time angrily. "It... it was an accident!" he chuckled nervously, "I never meant for that to happen. I lost my temper for a second but I didn't know his head was going to pop off! That's just unnatural. I've slapped people in the face plenty of times and that never happened to them!" The Pikmin jumped at him and tied him up. "Ah! What are you doing? I'm your leader! Stop! Obey me!" Olimar screamed. The Pikmin paid no attention to his cries. They simply picked him up and started carrying him back towards the cave.
As they were heading back, Olimar continuously tried to reason with the Pikmin to let him go, and eventually started begging, but their determination was unaffected by his cries. "I didn't mean it!" he screamed as they were entering the cave. "She was just coming home! She was just coming home!" As soon as they entered the cave, the Pikmin threw Olimar to the ground. "I'm an adult!" he yelled at them, "I'm not part of your system!"
They left him lying on the ground and gathered around a pew in front of Olimar's spaceship, where a red Pikmin was standing. "My brothers, it is time!" he yelled. They all began to cheer. As soon as it went quiet Olimar interjected.
"Since when can you talk? You've been lying to me this whole time?"
"Since forever my friend, since forever. Now silence yourself in the presence of our freedom!" The Pikmin then continued with his speech, "We've lived on this planet forever, but now it's time to go and conquer the world. With the help of this poor fellow's space device, we shall leave our planet forever and go live elsewhere! But first we must dispose of this wretch that we've captured. He is a jerk and he has killed one of our own. It is time to devour him. Go now and consume him!" All the Pikmin turned and started walking towards Olimar.
"What? No! Leave me alone!" he shouted frantically. "If you touch me I'll destroy your nuts! Your nuts are mine! Get away! You freaks of nature! I AM GOING TO DESTROY YOUR NU..." Olimar's cry was quieted as the Pikmin killed him and began to devour him. Once they were finished they turned from the corpse and looked back at their leader.
"Now it is time! Board the space thing! We shall be free!" All the Pikmin ran to the ship and went in. Once they were all aboard, their leader boarded the ship as well. He climbed to the cockpit, and started the ship. As he began takeoff, he let out a maniacal laugh, "I'm free! Forever I'm free!" but as the ship was lifting, it started to shake more violently than it was supposed to. "What? What's going on?" the Pikmin said with fear in his voice. "Why is it shaking?"
Little did the Pikmin know, the three pieces that were never found for the ship were necessary for it to function properly. If it had been any other three pieces, the ship would have worked quite well, but these specific three meant the ship was going to fail. As the Pikmin started to scream at the ship to work, it exploded. It broke apart into little pieces again, and all the Pikmin inside were consumed by the explosion.
And thus ended Olimar's life, and the entire Pikmin race forever.
The End
Written by Isaac Gilbert