I woke up with my head spinning. "Ugh…what the heck happened?" I wondered out loud. Looking around, I saw a forest. It had a familiarity I couldn't place…
"Aqua?" I called out, remembering that she was with me.
"Down here!" I heard her call. I looked down and saw she was a Pikmin again! My first thought was how small she is, and then I realized I was actually bigger than I should have been.
"What the heck happened?" I asked
"I was hoping you could tell me." she said, putting her hands on her hips.
"How are you so small?" I asked.
"I'm pretty sure it's you who's too big." she said, annoyance in her voice.
Ugh, this wasn't helping. "Something must have gone wrong with the machine." I said.
"You think?" Aqua said, more bitterness in her voice than usual.
"Hang on." I said, looking through my pockets. I found a button that I attached to my watch.
"And what's that supposed to do?" Aqua asked, still bitter. I ignored her angry tone, hoping she would calm down.
"Just watch" I said. I pressed the button, and immediately felt a strange tingling. At first I thought it hadn't worked, but I corrected myself as the world around me got bigger.
"So you shrank yourself?" Aqua asked, still annoyed.
"Yea, better than me crushing you." I said.
"Whatever you say." she mumbled.
I sighed "I think were in the Forest of Hope." I said, looking at the trees around us.
"Didn't Olimar rename this place?" Aqua asked, her anger seeming to fade.
I sighed "I don't remember, all I know is-" I was cut off as I heard a loud roar.
"Was that a Bulborb?" Aqua asked.
"I sure hope not." I said.
Suddenly, I saw a Bulborb charge through the trees. I recognized it as Bulbous, who had taken care of me when I was stuck here. "What has gotten into him?" I asked.
He looked at me, and then gave another angry roar "I don't think we should find out." Aqua said. I picked her up and took off through the trees, not caring about the normal boundaries.
After a bit of running, we lost him, and stopped to catch our breath. "What the heck is going on?" I asked out loud
"How would I know?" Aqua snapped at me, her bitterness back.
"What's gotten you in such a bad mood?" I asked
"Let's see…I woke up to find myself 10 times smaller than you, and then I was attacked by a Bulborb who should be our friend. Am I supposed to be happy?" she asked rhetorically.
"No, but yelling at me won't help either." I said, staying calm.
She shook her head "I'm sorry Alex, something doesn't feel right." she said
"It's fine, let's try to find Olimar and the Pikmin." I said
"Good idea." Aqua said. We started walking through the woods again.
At around noon, we started hearing high pitched noises, the noises of… "Pikmin!" I exclaimed, running towards the noise.
"Alex, wait!" I heard Aqua call from behind me.
We broke through the bushes and saw Olimar attacking a pellet posy with the Pikmin. "Olimar!" I cried out in excitement.
He turned to me confused. "Who called me?" he asked out loud.
Aqua jumped out of my arms and ran over to him. "Hi Olimar!" she said, her Pikmin instincts kicking in.
Olimar jumped back "Stay back!" he yelled.
We both looked at him in confusion "What's gotten into you Olimar?" I asked.
"How do you know my name?" he asked, fear obvious in his voice.
"I helped you repair your ship, remember?" I said.
"What are you talking about?" he asked, "and how can you speak my language?"
"Olimar, we've talked about this before" I said.
"Wait…you have one of my parts, don't you?" he asked.
"What? Of course we don't!" I exclaimed, shocked he would even think I would take a part, or that I even could.
He shook his head. "You won't best me that easily!" he said, throwing a Pikmin at me.
I yelped in surprise and took off, Aqua running close behind me. At that moment, I was really happy Aqua had a flower and could keep up. We ran for what seemed like hours, the Pikmin noises slowly fading behind us.
We stopped, panting. "What…is…his…problem..?" Aqua asked, not fully used to being a Pikmin yet.
"I don't know…but we can't go back to him." I said, finally catching my breath.
"We have to try…maybe we can show him we don't want to hurt him." Aqua said.
"No way, we won't stand a chance against all of the Pikmin." I said "and I couldn't bear to see you hurt."
"Me neither." Aqua said, hugging me. A loud roar echoed behind us "Eep!"
Before we could run, I heard the sounds of Pikmin fighting. "And there's Olimar." I said.
"I don't know about you, but I don't like the looks of either option." Aqua said.
"Come on, let's find some shelter" I said. And we ran off into the forest again.
Around sunset, we were nowhere near a place where we could sleep. "How the heck are we going to survive?" Aqua asked.
I looked at my watch, which was set at shrink, meaning I was smaller than it thought I should be. "Worse comes to worse, I can grow again and that should be enough." I said.
"And why haven't you done that before?" Aqua asked.
"It can be painful, to say the least." I said. "You went through a growth spurt as a human, remember the pain?"
She shuddered. "Yea…still didn't fully go away" she said
"Well, that's normal growth." I said. "This puts it into overdrive, causing more growth, and more pain."
"I get it now." she said. "Hey, is that good enough?" she pointed to a thicket
"Hmm…let's see." I said, pushing through it, with her close behind. Suddenly, I tripped over something, causing me to hit my head hard, and black out.
Well, this is the next chapter in my point of view. I decided to put a twist and make myself bigger than I should have been, It'll make sense later…I think. Anyways, I'd still like reviews and criticism! –Kingalex1234