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Chapter 15: field trip

I woke up to Ariel shaking me.

"Come on Alex! The boy is here!" she said excitedly, running off.

After I got up, I found a boy with green hair wearing yellow clothes. He definitely didn't look like a pikmin.

I found out he had mimicked the hair from Flame, and he always wore yellow clothing.

School was still technically closed, but we had to go anyways. A group of kids filled the cafeteria.

"Due to the fact that the building still needs repairs, you will be taken on fieldtrips to substitute classrooms." The principle said.

I personally love fieldtrips, but I was worried about what the pikmin might do. We ended up on one bus, and the pikmin sat with the people who showed interest in them. Flame was with Amber, Daisy with static, Aqua with Jet, and so on. It looked like muscles had picked a girl he liked, and Ariel seemed to be with the kid that had green hair, though I could see the brown now.

We were taken to a water park for swim class.

"Since you all have electives that can't really be taught, you guys are allowed to have fun here instead. We will leave an hour before school should end" the swim teacher said. Everyone cheered and went to get into swim suits, except for the pikmin. Aqua ran off towards the water immediately, and had to convince the teacher she would be fine in her dress. The other pikmin wouldn't go in, so I told them to stay in the shade and not cause trouble, then went to go change.

Aqua was overjoyed at getting to spend the day in the water, and I could see some of the kids trying to convince the other pikmin to join.

After a bit, I went on the river and relaxed. I watched Amber finally convince Flame to get in. I figured the worst Flame could do was freak out at being drenched and stay out of the water the rest of the time, so I let him be. As it turns out, he freaked out the moment he was above his waist in water, and Amber had to drag him out of the pool. Then Aqua started pushing me, still wanting to move around, so I laid back and dozed off.

I woke up when Aqua started shaking me gently. "What's up Aqua?" I asked drowsily

"Is it really a good idea to let Daisy in?" She asked

I looked over to where Daisy was, and saw static trying to get her in, which wasn't good. Daisy still had a habit of shocking people on accident from time to time, and I had no idea how she'd react to water. She went to the water slide though, so I figured she was safe. Ariel was going towards the other waterslide with the boy she seemed obsessed with. I saw Muscles by a water playground, Rocky was talking to a girl near the pool, toxic was playing tag near a different playground, and Flame was still desperately trying to dry off.

Unfortunately, I hadn't been watching which slide Daisy had gone on. Most of the slides go into their own pool, so it would be safe, but one of the tallest slides led directly into the river. I saw her, and quickly got Aqua out. Luckily there wasn't anyone else in the river at the time, so when Daisy ended up in the water, no one got hurt. I could see the sparks along the water, and now everything electrical had shut off, making the park really dark, since it was heavily shaded.

Daisy had climbed out quickly, but everyone started freaking out. I heard several things crash, and a couple of them sounded like equipment. There was no way to see well, so I kept bumping into people. Soon, the emergency lights came on, but everyone was still panicking. I realized it was only students and life guards now, and apparently so did the teacher.

One of the teachers blew a whistle loudly, and all the kids came to their senses. Now, normally a whistle wasn't a problem, but normally, you don't have 7 people who are trained to run towards the source of a whistle when they hear it. All 7 former pikmin ran towards the teacher, and I heard several surprised whispers about it, but not much more.

Then I remembered we were looking for something that messed with the machine. I looked at the other kids, looking for any abnormal reaction to the whistle. I wish I had seen something, but if whatever messed with my machine was a pikmin, he or she hadn't come with us. That was disappointing, I would have liked to see how they would adapt to the world on their own.

I took a second look around and saw several posts and poles bent, broken, or knocked down. I figured that was the work of Muscles and Rocky panicking a bit too much. I also saw several things with scorch marks, which was probably from Flame.

We were sent back to the bus because the park had to close. All the former pikmin looked like they were nervous, but I figured no one knew they did anything. I was sitting next to my friend, who kept talking about how everything malfunctioned, and how Daisy was lucky she got out when she did.

Once we got back to the school, the parents were called to pick us up, since we didn't have anywhere to go.

I had to get their leftover abilities under control, but I had to figure out how first. Each pikmin had clothing that would nullify their ability, but while they were in swimsuits, the material couldn't do anything.

I yawned, and after changing, got into bed. There was a reason some of the former pikmin had their elemental abilities, but I couldn't figure out why. I slowly drifted off to sleep thinking about that.

Another chapter done! Credit goes to Keifren1ooo for suggesting I show how the pikmin would be on a fieldtrip. Originally the fieldtrip was going to be to a museum or something, but I figured a waterpark was better. Remember: I love criticism, reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input. Bye for now!