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Chapter 4: muscles restraints
Aqua woke me up with cold water, probably not thinking about how I would feel. I heard giggling as I shot up "morning sleepy head!" she said, in the same tone I had said it to her. They were pretty much 5 year olds in 15 year old bodies. "Good morning" I said sleepily. They were all dressed already, so I shooed them out while I changed. Flame was able to eat a hardboiled egg, so the mess for him was a minimum, but Daisy had to eat a softer form and ended up with grease all over herself, and May had to help her clean. Aqua managed to make almost no mess with her cereal…until Flame knocked it over trying to get the salt. Aqua just sighed and went to the bathroom to clean up. Flame and Daisy were a bit calmer than Aqua, but with all three of them it was like having children, and my parents could confirm it. May and Bryan had to distract them by playing tag outside for a bit, then I got a call from the hospital. Once again someone wanted to see me, but this time there was a sense of urgency in the nurses' voice. After calming down the trio, we went to the hospital. They led me to a room that was normal this time, but I knew something was up when the trio wouldn't enter, though that might have been due to the fact that Aqua took off down the hall way as soon as we got to the room. My guess was the doctors would be busy with them for a bit. When I went inside, I saw a boy. The boy had green hair that was brown at the tips, and was wearing a purple tank top with purple basket ball shorts. He looked really muscular, and he was already awake, and restrained. "Oh, hi Alex" he said. His speech was slurred slightly "he didn't want to be here, and we had to sedate him several times. He's restrained and drugged so that he's calm. He refuses to eat or drink, and we can't get near him without him hitting one of us." The nurse said. I knew it was Muscles (Wieghter's more sensible name), so I approached cautiously. "Hey Muscles" I said "you don't have to be so cautious, you know I wouldn't hurt you on purpose" he said. That was a relief "have you looked at yourself?" I asked. He nodded "I think whatever the doctors put into me has me hallucinating" he said. I looked at the nurse and she shook her head "we thought it would make him more violent, so we used morphine to dull his senses, it had a different effect than we intended" she said. After a bit of convincing, he believed he wasn't hallucinating and happily took the water and ate, though he complained about it being too hot several times. Because of his muscle mass, he was way heavier than the others, and I couldn't support him very well, luckily I didn't have to. Once the drugs wore off, and I helped him get used to his body, we went outside. Aqua had barely grown accustomed to her body, and she tumbled right into us, followed shortly by Daisy and Flame "sorry Alex!" they said in unison. I brushed it off and we went home. It was easy to make Muscles sleep wear, and after a bit of running around, they all got changed. Muscles could eat steak immediately, and did so happily while the others had more tender foods. After dinner, Muscles went to find my dad's weight set and trained with my dad, who was way more comfortable with him after that. Actually, my dad seemed to like Muscles the best, though I had no clue why. Aqua was the first to discover the shower, and it took me a bit to explain how it worked, then I had to explain about the privacy of showering when she started getting undressed in front of me. Because she didn't know how to use it, May had to help her for the first few minutes, then decided to just let her take a bath instead. Daisy was flipping through the channels with Bryan helping her, and Flame had my mom start teaching him how to cook, so I went to research my machine some more. I found out that it used technology similar to some that someone else had shown me, but I couldn't figure out who had shown me the technology, and I dismissed it. I remembered that I had chosen every pikmin leader, but the machines feedback said only 7 made it, but there were some still pending, that meant there was a possibility that I would have to deal with more former pikmin, but for now I only had 7, and I had discovered 4. That meant there were still 3 more trips to the hospital, and 3 more days until school started. School! How could I forget about school? It would be impossible to get the pikmin used to school, they weren't used to home life yet! How was I going to get them prepared for school if they're not used to being at home? "You're supposed to put your clothes back on after Aqua!" I heard May shout from across the house. Yea, I had a feeling school would be really hard for them to adjust to. Aqua already seemed pretty well mannered, though she did have a few other things she had to learn. Flame and Daisy were another story, and Muscles was still with my dad. I yawned, more than ready for bed after dealing with the former pikmin all day. It was Thursday and school started Monday…did my parents pack my supplies already? I guess I'd have to find out latter. It's not like I couldn't get supplies if I needed it anyways. Muscles took the bottom bunk on another bed, he felt it was safer. I yawned as I climbed above Aqua. I didn't bother saying goodnight as I knew the others had fallen asleep, much like I did moments later.
Another introduction done! I thought up a better name for the purple leader, so I put that in instead, that's why his name is different. Each pikmin's personality isn't going to show a whole lot in their introduction chapters, but in latter chapters it will. I decided to give Aqua a personality to make her more humorous, it also shows a more human personality in her. Remember: I love criticism of all kinds, reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input. This chapter is updated earlier than normal because its early release, so I got out of school early. Bye for now!