4A/N: Hi guys, here is the second chapter of Shrubs. I am playing the game along with each chapter, so I have more ideas, also to know what is actually going on and able to describe it better, and so I can pick the perfect time for certain things to happen. Thank you ZPF for reviewing, I have posted stories before, but I like to think of this as a fresh start, thank you very much =D. Thank you to Giga Mettalix for reviewing, thanks for never giving up on me, thank you for your continued support =D. So yea here we go.
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Chapter 2
It was late that first night, there 20 red Pikmin safely in the orbiting around the planet along with the ship. POD finally switched to sleep mode for the night, while Louie, half asleep in his chair. Olimar was sipping a cup of coffee at his desk, writing in his journal.
Olimar's Journal #1 book #2: Day 1
Today, I got back from this planet, and I was heading home. Luckily for me, I was sent on another journey, not even spared a few minutes to say hello to my family, I was off again, now aided by the help of my co-worker Louie, we set off to repay the debt looming over Hocotate Freight. When we landed back here, I must have got the coordinates wrong and landed on this snowy wasteland, instead of the Impact Site. I might as well name this place something, because we are going to be here for a while, so I think the Valley of Repose fits pretty good. Anyways we got one treasure today, a cylinder thing POD never gave a name to, he probably will, that's how POD is. I got to see the first Pikmin here, red Pikmin I recorded in my first Journal entry ever. We got 20 of them. It's strange, Louie really likes Pikpik carrots, and I guess he might be holding back his urge to gobble them up. So lets see what else is on this strange place, hopefully we can find some more charts or some sort of map to find more areas, so I think I'll call it a day.
Day 2
Beep! Beep! Beep! The alarm clock sounded, waking Olimar up from his light sleep. Louie jumped up from his chair, knocking over a couple of notebooks, and papers. POD still in sleep mode, didn't turn on. Olimar went down a floor to the air tight space lock. From there he went and tied a rope to his suit, and then opened up the air lock, and out into the darkness. He floated over to the red onion. The onion looked fine, then on the under side, he checked the total, still 20 Pikmin, it was a daily routine. Once back inside the ship, he looked over his records, and he then sat down in a chair, waiting for POD to wake up.
"BiNg BoNg! Good morning Captain Olimar and Louie, ready for another day? Well you should be, you should be ready for anything in fact. I'm going to pilot us down, and get ready for landing!" POD finally said after he turned on.
The ship, and the onion, hurdled back down to this mysterious planet.
They landed with yet another bumpy landing, making Olimar and Louie fly out of the cockpit.
"Nice landing again POD. Just awesome." Louie said, while wiping the snow off his helmet.
"Why thank you, anyways lets get moving, by moving I mean you two, this cold isn't really good for the circuits, now come on lets go." POD instructed.
Olimar and Louie went over to the onion, getting the Pikmin to slide down, and March to Olimar's side. Of course Louie, not very good with Pikmin, was ordered to stay there with five Pikmin, to grab the nearby Pellet Posies, as POD called them, while Olimar went back to the clover field with the two bags. He then saw two big five pellet posies, and a one pellet posy. He ordered ten of his Pikmin to grab both five pellet posy, and then one to grab the little one. Wile the Pikmin were collecting, he turned on to the path with the battery, and back to the onions original spot, where three one pellet posies grew, and he ordered the rest to grab them, he headed back.
Back at the onion, Louie just finished grabbing the two one pellet posy, and the big five one on the ledge. He then started plucking as Olimar's squad rounded the corner, carrying the pellets. Olimar helped Louie pluck, and when they were finished, they ended up with forty-two Pikmin
"Okay, we got all the surrounding posies, I think we have enough to crush that other bag. So let's go." Olimar announced, and they headed back to the clover field with there squad. From there, they both rapidly fired Pikmin up on to the bag, with thirty-five Pikmin on there, the bag crumbled down. They then regrouped, and scanned the area. There was a spotty bulborb, but behind that, it was a bigger version of the smaller one.
"I've seen those before, we will split up, I will take on the bigger one, while you take on the smaller one. Here is five Pikmin, try and hit its back. This is your first test. Good luck." Olimar snuck along the concrete ring, passed the Spotty bulborb, up to face his match, the bigger one. Luckily it was taking a snooze. From passed experience he knew the best strategy to defeat the bulborb. He positioned his crosshair in the middle of the bulborb. Ever so quietly he inched up, and then with started to rapidly toss his Pikmin on the monsters back. The monster health was already half when it got up, it roared and then tried to shake, but it was too late, it flopped over and was silenced.
While this was going on, Louie was working on his 'test', he heeded Olimar's advice, he aimed his rainbow crosshair on the spotty, and tossed his Pikmin, he missed the first and second time, but the third one got the job done. They then regrouped, and started collecting the bodies. Louie noticed something out of the corner of his eye, a big crushed metal thing. Being amateur, he didn't even think twice about it. Back at the onion, the Pikmin sprouts finished planting themselves, and Olimar and Louie started to pluck them. The sun was four-sixths of the way down, they had some time until night time.
They went back to where the big bulborb was, they noticed the floor had some sort of design on it, Olimar looked around and spotted the crushed can.
"Hey more treasure! Louie haul it back, and me and my Pikmin will work on those white roots, we can break them down if I remember correctly we can break the roots down." Olimar instructed.
Louie went to the object, and commanded his Pikmin to grab it and take it back to the rocket. Olimar went over to the roots, and ordered his Pikmin to start hitting it down. Louie's squad got the treasure back when the wall was one-third of the way down.
"BeEp BoOp! Another treasure, I will appraise it…. "POD informed.
Louie walked back to the root wall, and it crumbled down. Olimar charged forward but was stopped by a weird stone structure, it had a hole in the middle of it, and warm air was welling up from it.
"KrRrRrRzRt! What is this strange stone formation you ask? Well this looks like an entrance to an underground cave. My sensors indicate it is actually warm in there. I order you guys to go down there, and of course I shall come, since it is warm and I want to escape this bitter cold, now let's go." POD commanded.
A/N: Thanks for reading, cave exploration and more next chapter, so thanks for reading. See ya next time.