4A/N: Hello Fanfiction world. This is my new story called Shrubs. It is set in the Pikmin2 world, on the first day. It might sound like a novelization of the game, but once we get further into it, the story develops faster. It has been a while since I've written, so please give me tips. So without further a due, let's get to the story.
Disclaimer: I own only of what I create, thus the rest is owned by its respective owners.
Chapter 1
A beaten up ship flew through space, pluming colorful smoke behind it. Seated in the control chair, Captain Olimar of Hocotate was leaning forward looking out the front window. The famous Saturn shaped planet came into view. The ship was pulled into orbit.
When it finally landed on Hocotate Freight's landing sight Captain Olimar, hopped out of the rocket with a tumble and landed on the ground, to greet his coworkers.
"Olimar! Your back, what a long vacation you were on, you are such a slacker! Anyways while you were on vacation, Hocotate Freight has been in the hole when it comes to financial problems. Sadly we had to sell our only machines to help repay the debt, which is your old rusty ship." Olimar's boss, Shacho said. A crane came over the S.S. Dolphin, grabbed it, and took it away, out of sight.
"What! My ship…" Olimar mumbled as he dropped a bottle cap he was holding for his son.
"Thanks to Louie's run in with the ravenous space bunny, it ate all our supply of golden Pikpik carrots! Those were going to pay off our bills, but it ate all of it, Louie, you better be glad it was the space bunny and not you!
"Now, anyways our debt is now 10,100 Pokos. Wait what is that!" Shacho picked it up and examined it, then he let the red cone shaped thing on a ship in the background, take it.
"BeEp BoOp! Appraising object…. KzZzZrT! This object is worth 100 Pokos!" The cone thing spitted out.
"100 Pokos?! Olimar, there's more on that vacation planet!" Shacho started, Olimar nodded. "Louie! You dolt, look alive you must depart immediately with Captain Olimar!" Shacho said excitedly. Without another word, he shoved Captain Olimar and Louie into the new ship with the cone thing. Olimar didn't say anything, so he started up the engine, and they took off into the sky, leaving Shacho waving behind, only to be knocked over by the blast.
Out of the orbit, they flew off to this "vacation" planet. It came into view, while Olimar quickly dodged an asteroid, the bane of his existence, as they rocketed to the planet. Pulled in yet again by an orbit, they flew down. Through the clouds they went. Close to the ground, Olimar ducked down, while Louie stared out the window, didn't see the tree branch coming. It crashed through the window, and knocked Louie out of the cockpit. He fell out of sight.
When Olimar landed the ship, he fell out with a tumble.
"KzZzZrT! Running diagnostics. BeEp BoOp! The ship is fine; it looks as old as it already was. BrRzZrT! Louie is missing from cockpit two. He most likely fell out when we hit that branch from that "amazing landing. As self nominated overseer of this adventure, you Captain Olimar must look for him, as I try and make contact with his receiver. BeEp BoOp!" The pod sputtered out. They landed on what looked like a snowy plain with few hills. Sheets and sheets of snow covered the plain. Twigs stuck up from the earth, but looked like redwoods from Olimar's size.
"But I thought I was the leader?!" Olimar objected.
"Just Go!" The pod retaliated.
With out another word, he set out to find his co captain in this snowy wasteland. He heard faints mooing sounds in the distance. He looked around to see a familiar face. He walked closer to see the infamous red Pikmin. They were battling the spotty Bulborb.
"Whoa! Red Pikmin. Wait, I still have my whistle, here goes nothing." Olimar blew into his whistle. The red Pikmin perked up, leafs in the air, ran from there predator, by Olimar's side.
"They came! Now my Pikmin army, let's take down my first enemy on this snowy wasteland!" Olimar commanded his army of five reds; he maneuvered his cross hair right on the Spotty's back. The unaware enemy suffered a blow on the back from Olimar's army. It died on the spot, with a screech it fell down.
"A one hit K.O. Now let's see which way you take back its carcass." Olimar said. With a moo the Pikmin started to grab it but were interrupted by the POD.
"BeEp BoOp! I have re-established communications with Louie! Press your walky-talky button to reach Louie." The Pod informed.
Olimar did as told. With a click a static sound started. He heard nothing. All of the sudden he heard a hefty breathing sound.
"Louie! Are you there?" Olimar said.
"Yes! Yes I am" Louie said shakily through the device.
With Louie…
In a small basin in the Snowy Plain, Louie layed there on the ground, panting heavily. After hearing his antenna buzz, and his walky-talky buzz, he knew he had re-connected with them, but then he heard POD'S annoying beep.
"BeEp BoOp! Louie! Are you okay? Let me access your condition? You look fine, wow you fell about two stories, I'm surprised you're not dead! Anyways, try and find us, if you check your GPS, you should be able to find us in a jiff. Now get going!" POD buzzed.
"Well isn't POD positive. Oh well let's find them." He said to himself.
He got up, stretched and dusted off the powder from his suit. He adjusted his pack, and straitened his suit. He saw his imprint in the ground, getting covered by the slight snowfall that picked up. He trudged through the snow up a little hill. He slid down to be surprised by a big red thing.
"Whoa! What is that?" Louie thought. He looked at it. The thing started to shake, and then glow, and then a small seed popped out from the top. It planted itself into the ground. Pod clicked on.
"ZiP ZoOp! Louie, is that an onion! If I remember correctly, Olimar recorded this in one of his entries; you should be able to pluck the sprout." POD beeped.
Louie walked towards the sprout, and grabbed it with both hands and pulled up. It did a flip, and then it turned around and drilled Louie with its eyes. Louie stumbled back.
"BeEp BoOp! Louie what did you do, oh wait you plucked it. It is staring at you. Let me see if I can match its description. Here it is! Apparently, it is called a Pikmin, it strikingly resembles Pikpik carrots. It has a nose which is used to pierce its enemies, it is also flame resistance, hence its red color. Now Louie, get going, again use your GPS, and I guess you can take that Pikmin with you. ZiP ZaP!" POD logged out.
"Well little dude, let's go find my friends." Louie whistled him and the red came to his side. He scanned the area; he saw a path, then a hill, and a couple of strange flowers. He walked up to it, and then the red started to attack it, the plant fell down with a thud; it was red with the number one on its surface.
"What is that? Hmm, carry it." He motioned his Pikmin to the to the pellet. The Pikmin carried it towards the onion. The onion shaked and sucked up the pellet. It gave two seeds, and then they planted themselves. Louie went to the sprout and pulled it out of the ground. He proceeded to gather more of the pellets. When finished he had a total of 11 Pikmin. He checked the GPS and started to track the red arrow, Olimar's symbol, and went down the path to the location. Half way down the path, with the mooing Pikmin behind him, he spotted an electronic device, shrugging he passed it. He turned the corner and went through a field of clovers. Once there, he saw two bags, blocking the path, so he switched on his walky-talky.
"Olimar, come in, over." He spoke into the mic.
"Louie, I'm here, what is it, over." Olimar responded.
"Olimar there is a bag blocking the path that connects our location to an onion I found."
"I know what to do." Olimar leaned back and threw his five Pikmin on the top of the bag, "Now you do the same."
Louie threw his share on the bag. The bag crumbled to the ground, squished. They rejoined, and the Pikmin regrouped, and came by Olimar's side.
"BeEp BoOp! Yes we have regrouped, but enough with this, we have to get going on the deck, also it's almost sundown. Louie what was that you encountered a while back, you should go examine it. BrRrRrZrT!" Pod signed off.
"Let's go." Captain Olimar started up Louie's path, with his co-worker and Pikmin followed. They retraced there steps to the electronic device. It had a gold band and the rest was black. It had an alien language on it.
"Ok Pikmin lets go." Olimar said. Even though the Pikmin were impressively strong, they couldn't lift it.
"Wait we need to get that carcass back to the onion then we should have enough Pikmin to lift it." Olimar went back with a couple of Pikmin, and a few minutes later, he came back with four extra Pikmin. They surrounded it and lifted it up and began waddling to the ship, mooing a chant. A while later they gave the treasure to the ship.
"BeEp BoOp! Appraising treasure… This is worth two-hundred Pokos! Wow, that's good for today! As you know haste makes waste so lets call it a day, its sundown too, we need to go in to orbit. Now come on!" Pod ordered them into the cockpit; the Pikmin returned to their onions, they rocketed to the sky. Into the orbit, they awaited to go back down the next cycle.
A/N: Thanks for reading. It does sound like a re-write but the story will develop soon, please review respectfully, and give me tips. See ya.