Doof: *tied up* *gagged* *in tux*
Ferb: *holds gun to Doof's head* *in tux*
Velociraptors: *are extinct* *in tux*
Boulder: *falls* *in tux*
... If you saw a certain pikmin story, you'd know exactly what I was talking about.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the enemies from Super Paper Mario, but it sure was something I would have done. :) I also don't own Black-Eyed Peas.
(Ruby's POV)
I wake, up and crack my back. Sleeping in a tree gives such a crick in the back. I could hear yells from outside. Yells of joy. I looked out of the opening that we flew in, and I could make out several figures, enveloped in shadow. I jumped down a few of the branches, trying to get closer. After 34 branches down, I could finally make out what they were saying.
"Kay, as per intructions we were defeated. However, we didn't get a memo about a girl named... O'Chunks, what was that girl's name again?" A girl's voice asked.
" 'Er name was Don." A voice replied.
"Don?" A silky, dark voice asked. "Is that correct?"
"Yeah boss. 'Er name was Don Ablo." There was a short silence, when even the creatures stopped chattering.
"FOOLS! DANI DIABLO! DANI DIABLO THE 2ND STRONGEST REAPER IN THE SYSTEM? ARE YOU MAD? YOU ENGAGED THE THIRD STRONGEST FORCE IN THE WAY OF ORGANIZED DEATH! O'CHUNKS SHOULD BE GLAD THAT SHE DIDN'T TEAR HIM LIMB FROM LIMB!" The dark voice erupted, causing a nearby bulbear to leap in surprise. It made a mental note to stay away from that area. Anything that was that loud had to be dangerous.
"Well, dat's me bad." O'Chunks replied.
"Yeah, it is your bad." The dark voice returned to its original octave. "You did get what I asked for right?"
"Yup!" A girl's voice replied. "The thingymabobber that looks like a laser pointer!" The girl said, holding out what looked like a laser pointer to a shadow.
"Ahh, O.W.C.A. grade Auto Scan Replicator. I believe this is the device you damaged, Deus ex Machina." Ruby froze. She had no idea who the rest of them were, but if they worked with Deus ex Machina, then they were probably bad guys.
"Correct." Deus ex Machina crackled. The shadow takes the device and fiddles with the orange spot on his shoulder.
"There. Try it out." The red-eyed shadow cackled. A bright red laser shot out of the shadow's shoulder, illuminating the figure of a black-haired boy and a black cloak. No wonder he blended in with the darkness so well. The red light formed a centipede-roller-coaster fusion that we originally saw Deus ex Machina as, and the small orange spot on the black cloak jumped onto the coaster, fitting into a slot between the speaker-like eyes that were on either side of the head. The rollercoaster's robotic legs cracked as Deus moved in his new form.
"Ah, much better." Deus buzzed. Oh no! Deus was back, and just as powerful as ever. I glance at the rest. Maybe even stronger.
"Everyone is waiting for us." The dark voice said. He leaves followed by the small group, just as the sun began to rise.
(Smiles POV)
We land in the Forest Navel again. We had a nice amount of ship parts, and quite enough time to do it in, but we still need four more parts. Besides, while heading back to the rocket, I noticed that destroying the drain left a nice dry lake bed where the Anti-Dioxin Filter was.
"Alright." I say, letting Bulbert out. Yesterday he left a... present for us in the kitchen. "Stay here." I then turn to Olimar. "What we want to do today is get four ship parts." I take out fifty reds, as well as twenty purples (you can never be too careful) and thirty yellows. We walk in the direction of the now dry wollywog lake. I lead him through the left side, tapping the bottle as I do so. It has been a habit, cause when I was younger I'd spend all day trying to lift it, always with no success. I show him the canister of bomb-rocs and tell him where to use them. With that, I set my reds to work on the bridge right next to the canister. I then take the purples to the wall on the other side of the dry bed, where a black brsmble gate stood and set the purples to work on it.
DPE H.Q.
*I tell you they are coming for me next.* Beady cackled.
"Calm yourself Long Legs." Akuma said, arriving at the scene, along with a Toady Bloyster.
*What is that thing doing here?* Raging Long Legs asked.
"This is the answer." Akuma replied, placing a hand between Toady's eye stalks. Toady flashed twice, before turning to a bright pink flash. "Come here Beady." The arachnorb hesitated. "Come here. You want to die?" That was what sent Beady over, and walked over to Akuma. He took the pink ball of energy and pushed it into Beady's 'head,' where it sank in. Beady shook, and gargled, it stood straight up and down, its knees were bent at a ninety degree angle. He opened up like a party ball, the ship part along with five pellets fell out. There were several growls of protest, and a roar of anger from Raging. Then, skin grew where there was once nothing. With vampire power, the ship part, as well as the five pellets and many more pellets in a corner flew into the circle that kept the four legs together, sealing in. Beady's head sealed itself, and to many people's surprise, four eyes grew from his face, blinking several times. There was a loud cracking as Beady's legs broke down the middle, moving away from each other. The legs grew more skin until they were solid legs. He stomped expirementally. And his feet fell off. He blinked several times.
*What... did you do?* Beady asked.
"Just a little Dweevil DNA, a little bit of Toady Bloyster for the abdomen, and a teeny bit of snitchbug." With no warning, wings grew from the sides of Beady's head. He slowly moved them, more and more rapidly, until he was off the ground.
*A-Amazing.* Beady gasped. *Flying... is so...amazing.*
"Well I'm glad you think so, because Olimar has been briefed on your whereabouts. Show him what your made of... Volante Long Legs." Akuma smirked.
*Oh wait! Volante! Can you take my kid? He has been a little... kind to pikmin recently. Can you show him what an archnorb should do?* M.A.L. (Man-at-Legs) asked.
*Why not.* Was the flying spider's reply.
"I think I would like to watch this." Dimentio chuckled. He snaps his fingers and he disappears with a ripple.
*You are one thing, Akuma.* Grand Emporer Bulblax said, licking his own face. *But that Dimentio guy is something else all together. From what you tell me, he stabs people in the back. What is your assurance that he won't do the same with you?*
"One, I will give him what he wants. Two." Akuma smiled. "I'm not the guy in charge."
(Ruby's POV)
Bludge grabbed my hand and we slowly flew down towards ground level. I could hear the Onion flying down next to me. I turn, unsure that I wanted to see. Blue. Like the water all around me. Blue onion. The onion, recognizing that it was day, shot a single seed out. It floated slowly down and planted itself in the earth. A leaf on the end of a stem, swaying hypnotically. I never really done this before. I hesitantly reach for the stem. Bludge comes over and writes in the dirt.
'Pikmin are resiliant. You can't hurt them, unless you're trying to.'
"What if I hurt it?"
'It's fine.'
"Okay." I pull upwards, and the pikmin comes loose from the ground. It stares at me. It seems surprised to be in the area, and glanced around, confused. I pull out my trumpet. With a quick blow, the pikmin runs to my side. I start walking. I don't know where I was going, but I was going somewhere. I stop at the water. I didn't go far.
'Blue pikmin are water resistant.'
"Really?"
'What you see as a mouth is actually a set of gills.' I walk into the water, followed by the pikmin. When it didn't start flailing, I let out a sigh of relief. I walked for a little bit. Not far up, on a ledge, was what looked like a silver wind-up key, turning, ever turning.
"Oh my gosh! Oli's ship parts!" I glance worredly at the single pikmin at my side. Bludge's hand is on my shoulder.
'Calm. We have time for that later. As for right now, we should worry about making more blues.' I nod.
"You're right." Bludge gestures for her to follow him. I have to run to keep up with the flying bug. All of a sudden he stops. We had reached more land. I could see one of those black bulborbs in the distance. I glance questioningly at Bludge, who had just landed on the ground on his surprisingly strong arms. He walks over to a gonna be bridge, and to my surprise, green, bread loaf shaped bugs dug their way from the ground, looking around for an intruder. They see Bludge, who appeared to be talking to them. They appeared to be listening, and I shot the blue at one of the three, landing on its head and crushing its skull instantly. The pikmin quickly ran back, and before they even recovered from the initial shock, the second went the same way as the first. The third appeared to have gotten a hold of itself, cause it started coming for me and my blue pikmin. I throw the pikmin, which landed on its back, and started whacking it with all it had. The creature, half-beaten, took to the air. With several throws, and the same number of misses, the bug came back down to earth... in the water. It made gurgling noises, as if it was choking. It opened its wings, and started back up again. However, he was shot down by me before he got very far. Bludge swooped down grabbing two of the bugs, while the blue grabbed the one that had slipped into the water. We started our trek back to base.
(Olimar's POV)
The yellows and I walk into the arena. It was quite fitting. I leave twenty of my pikmin at the entrance. He said the creature stomps around, but that was the only thing it could do.
(Smiles POV)
The fourty flower reds toted the Anti-Dioxin Filter. I watched them closely. I glance over to the Long Legs arena. Huh. Funny. He should have fell from the ceiling by now.
(Olimar's POV)
I was starting to get frustated. Smiles had said to run in the center of the arena. Well. What's supposed to happen? I was getting frustrated, as well as just a little dizzy. I coninue running, looking up. Of course, perhaps I should have been looking at where I was going. My foot landed, and wouldn't come back up again. I fall flat on my face. Ouch. I look back at my foot. Covered in a sticky white substance. I command the yellow pikmin to attack it, and to my reief they slowly beat the stuff into the ground. But I was curious. I had been running in a perfect circle the whole time, the place where I had ran had actually sunk a few inches into the ground. So, this wasn't here before. That was when something fell from the ceiling. Well, two somethings. But I wasn't worried about the second one. It was the first one. This was sort of what Smiles said it would look like. It had an orb like head, but it definitely had eyes. and it had eight legs, like the spiders on my home planet. There was the sound of a bell tinkling. Great! At least now I know what time I'm going to die at.
(Smiles POV)
I had just gotten the ship part back, and I had thirty of my fifty pikmin carrying the Gravity Jumper. I glance over, hoping Olimar had gotten the Beady Long Legs. I blanch at the sight. It was horrendous, sort of like a Titan Dweevil mixed with an actual spider. I left the thirty to carry the ship part and ran as fast as my eight-year old legs could carry me. Eight years of age and could kidnap a girl twice my age? I was good. Fighting giant monsters... not so much.
"Dammit. That is Beady Long Legs. Akuma!" I run faster. Of course, having mostly purples would seriously slow anybody down.
(Ruby's POV)
Plucking some grass and getting some nectar near base, I had thirteen flower blue pikmin. With these, I had decided to kill the flying purple thingy that sort of looked like one of those pigs that were walking around the Forest Navel. Unfortunately, there were two black blulborbs sleeping nearby. I snuck slowly by, the flying purple pig not noticing me yet. I through all my blues onto its back, and called them back when it shook itself. This might take a little while.
(Akuma's POV)
CRAP! Curse this dimension's fast pased days. Tomorrow. I have to get as far away as I can tomorrow, cause I doubt that I'll be able to find anything on this god-forsaken planet.
"I'm going out." I say as I pass Dund.
"That time of the month?" She asked.
"You know it." I replied. Uggh. I could already feel the blood swirling nauseatingly in my stomach. I briefly pondered if I should transfer it to my blood pouch... No, too much effort. My mind becomes dizzy, and I could feel my losing power of the body.
(? POV)
I look around the damp cavern once again, from my glass jar. It was that time of the month again. The seal was loosening under the almost complete moonlight. Wherever Akuma was, time was moving at a rapid pace. The fake moon was visibly moving, just one more rotation. Just one more day.
(Olimar's POV)
The creature's unearthly eyes were black pools and out of its face grew long jaws. It hissed angrily. The small creature at its side did a horrible imitation, shaking its head as if it found the idea as stupid. That was when the creature was attacked ferociously by a barrage of purple pikmin. The creature shook its head, sending the purples to the ground. With a battle cry worthy of any army general, Smiles came charging in, a new barrage of purple pikmin flying as he did so. The creature, shocked at the new appearance, in pain from the pikmin attack, and stunned from the purple pikmin attacks just stood there.
"Smiles!" I cry, trying to wrench myself from the goo. Smiles glanced over and called his pikmin to him, ordering them to attack the goo. To my surprise, the smaller, four legged creature cocked its 'head' in curiosity, before running over to us. Smiles didn't have time to call the pikmin back. The creature lifeted a leg, and it landed with a crack.
(Ruby's POV)
The creature had dropped several large pellets, each with a 5 on the top. I had seven grab one of the blue pellets, while the other six grabbed the other. Harvesting went fast, and after a second trip for the three non-blue pellets I was left with 29 pikmin. Enough to challenge one of those black bulborbs. I snuck up behind the black, red-spotted backside of the creature. Upon closer inspection, the red spots were actually pulsating with the creature's breathing. Well, this was hopefully going to be a nice amount of pikmin.
(Smiles POV)
I stare incredulously as the Dweevil had broken through the hardened web, while Olimar pulled his foot out, staring at the creature. There was a cry as the Dweevil-like creature was slashed at by the deformed Beady Long Legs.
"Oh, no no no. We can't have that." With a space altering entrance, Dimentio chuckled. "Volante Long Legs deserves more of a fighting chance. With the help of magic." Dimentio snapped his fingers. Volante Long Legs turned a deep red color, and the jaws grew to be more like a Shearwig's. Its spear-like legs twitched and little claws appeared at the end, about the size of us. It's face caved in slightly, before jutting out so it looked like a computer mouse, and the wings on its back became thicker, as did its hide. It opened its wings, which looked like a birds, except it had scaly feathers. The creature fainted on the ground, pellets and Olimar's Guard Satellite. The creature popped like a balloon, sending dust flying. "Oops." Dimentio said, his smile faltering. "I think I pumped him with too much."
"Pump it! Louder!" I yell, remembering a song. Both friend and foe glance uncertainly at me. "Black Eyed Peas?" I ask hopefully. "You don't know that?" They both shook there heads, before Dimentio disappeared with a ripple. There was a loud chime, causing me to jump. Well, might as well as try to bring this as close as I could get it. We didn't get very far.
(Ruby's POV)
We return to the knothole where we had spent last night. Me, Bludge, and Woggen curl up to sleep. The blue pikmin have chose to sleep outside, a luxury that was rarely given to them. I count heads. 1, 2, 3... 68. Not bad for a first days work.
Day 4
We have exited the atmosphere, a frustrating one part short from being able to visit a new destination. Despite this, we have decided on going back to the Forest of Hope. Akuma has started to seriously get on my nerves. Anyway, Bulbert is chewing on my leg. I should teach him that that it isn't polite. Aw well. Hopefully we'll find Ruby soon.
Smiles Log
It appears that using a special power of Akuma's, they have reformed the once weak Beady Long Legs into the destructive Volante Long Legs. The only reason that we beat it was because Dimentio overcharged it, causing its heart to give out. We have no idea at all about this creature, because it is the ony one and we didn't know what was different besides a brief viewing. We have also managed to befriend a... Dweevil of some sorts. I have decided to name it the Bland Dweevil. I have decided to name this creature Cli-Cli, after the noise it makes when it walks.
Dear Diary,
I have discovered three major things today. One, the onion from yesterday is a blue onion, and the pikmin it expels are water-resistant. Two, many of Oli's ship parts are in this region. Three, strangely enough, Bludge knows English. Well, he can't talk, but he can spell. Also, to my horror, I have discovered that Deus ex Machina had gotten an owka grade auto scan replicator, whatever that is, which allows him to make that odd red coaster that he used as his body last time. Anyway, I am tired. Write more later.
End of Day 4
Red Pikmin: 115
Purple Pikmin: 69
Yellow Pikmin: 37
Blue Pikmin: 68
Ship Parts: 11/30
