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Chapter 1: the discovery
When I woke up, I didn't know where I was, barely knew WHO I was. Ok, I thought to myself, my names Alex…I am 15…I work on inventions… that's when I remembered what happened. I got up and looked around, and saw flowers the size of houses. "Whoa." I said, shocked at what had happened. Then I heard a whistling. Not the human made whistling, the whistling of something falling from the sky. It got louder, and louder, until it was all around me. I ran, and a ship crashed right where I was standing. When the dust cleared, I saw the ship, and it seemed familiar. Then I saw the person on the ground. I nearly passed out again because of the discovery…it was captain Olimar. Let me repeat that, the person passed out in front of me was CAPTAIN OLIMAR! After calming myself down, I hid behind a bush and waited. The sky brightened as I watched Olimar passed out. Then he stirred, and got up. He looked right at me, obviously not knowing I was there, then looked at his ship. I knew this couldn't be a dream because of how long it took him to wake up. Coma? I made a machine to make sure I wouldn't dream in a coma. So it had to be real. Why am I suddenly saying this now? Olimar is an alien, one who shouldn't speak our language, but when he saw his ship, he said, yes, SAID, "Oh no! My precious ship!" I screamed like a little girl, then fell out of the bush, now unconscious. When I woke up, Olimar was standing over me. I must have been a sight, a person that looked just like him without a space suit. "I see you're awake." I blinked, trying to get the stars out of my eyes. I still couldn't believe I was looking at my hero, who I thought didn't even exist. "Who are you?" he asked me. I couldn't get my mouth to work. "Guess you can't understand me, huh?" he said. "I-I'm Alex." I managed to say. "So you can talk." He replied a bit sarcastically, then he helped me up. "I am captain Olimar of hocatete freight. I crash landed on this planet, and my ship is in pieces." He seemed to wait, and I realized what he wanted. "My name is Alex, I don't really have a job, but…" I tried to figure out how much to tell him. When I didn't say anything, he asked "your native to this planet, aren't you?" if I said no, he'd know I was lying. I nodded, and he turned away and started mumbling. I looked up, and saw the sun had moved again. I didn't want to seem rude to my hero, but the formalities were taking too long, the sun would set before Olimar got his engine. Id probably be fine, I took a few lessons on survival, but Olimar? He'd die by midnight with all the night hunters. I had to hurry. Olimar turned back to me. "I know I only just met you and all, but-" "you want me to help you repair your ship?" I couldn't help interrupting him. He nodded, "then let's gets to work." I said. "Look over there." I pointed to where the red onion was, and he saw it. "Come on." I said, and we went over to it. "Go up to it." I told him when we got close. He did, and it burst into color. I watched as the flower started spinning…and Olimar got closer. Just as I was about to call out to him, the onion burst from the ground, causing him to tumble back. It landed firmly, then released one red seed, which soon sprouted. Olimar plucked it, and a red pikmin jumped up and landed behind him. Pikmin, in case you didn't know, had humanoid bodies, with a stalk and leaf on their head. They had two small legs, two small arms, two eyes, and an almost invisible mouth. Red pikmin had red bodies and long, pointed noses. It looked at Olimar, and I looked at it. It was adorable! I probably sound like a girl right now, huh? Anyways, I turned away for a second, and when I turned back the pikmin was right in front of me. I looked at it, and it looked back in curiosity. Olimar took over and started building the pikmin population. I felt like I was going to pass out again. A pikmin actually came to me like I was its leader? I was amazed. I leaned against a wall to try to clear my head, and fell as the wall moved. Olimar didn't notice as I got up. Hmm, I thought, it's like I have a portion of power the pikmin have… I decided to keep pushing, but it exhausted me, and I barely got an inch before I couldn't move it anymore. I sat down, now exhausted, and didn't notice Olimar coming up with the pikmin. As the wall I was leaning on moved farther back, I looked up to see Olimar smiling at me. He helped me up. "You should let the pikmin do the hard work and save your energy." I nodded as the pikmin finished and started jumping with joy. We walked over, and Olimar came to a complete stop as he saw his engine. "My engine!" he exclaimed, running up to it and trying to pull it. And he was telling ME not to exert myself? The pikmin were looking at me, so I decided to get their population up. When I was done, Olimar was siting against the engine panting. It had barely moved an inch. "You shouldn't do any heavy work either, I'll survive here, you won't." I said, then I told the pikmin to pick up the engine. He just smiled at me, out of breath, as the pikmin carried the engine to the ship. After he caught his breath, we went to look at the pikmin progress…to find they had dropped the engine in front of the ship. Why wasn't it being absorbed like in the game? I thought. It was almost sun-down, so I knew he had to move quickly. Then I realized why, the ship wasn't powered. Even though I had nothing to protect me, I tackled the damaged ship. I barley heard the yelp of surprise from Olimar as I ran head first into the upside-down dolphin, and it flipped over. "How did you know what to do?" he asked, amazement in his eyes. "I-I didn't." I said, a bit dazed. I shook the stars from my eyes, just as the pikmin threw the engine into the ship. A second later, the ship had recovered enough to take off, and Olimar confirmed it. "My sensor just buzzed, the part is in place." I sighed in relief, and yawned as I realized how tiered I was. "I suppose I should try it out…" he said. I was about to nod in agreement, then I realized, if the rest of the micro-world was a parallel to the game, how in the world would I survive? I started panicking, but tried to calm myself down. Olimar was climbing into his ship. "Wait!" I called, as I got an idea. He looked at me questioningly "can I please come with you?" "It's not comfortable for two people, you should be fine here, it'll be better." He said, though it seemed with a more confused tone then annoyed tone. "I don't care, I barely survived so far." I stretched the truth, but it would take forever explaining why I need help when I'm native otherwise. "Ok, if you're absolutely sure…" he helped me in, and my earing allowed me to survive (long story), and then we took off…and I was unconscious in no time.
End of day one
This took longer than I expected to wright, but it's also a longer chapter. I know it's a bit like 'my adventure with Olimar', but that will change in the following chapters. I will hopefully have the next one written sooner, and am already working on it. Thanks for reading! Please review, I'm also open to input for my next chapter. Bye!