Alph

## story

“Ohh-!” Megiri had just remembered something. “Tyaskri, you forgot to tell them about the Onions and the new pikmin.”

“Oh ya.”

Megiri blew his whistle. In an instant the tree started shaking. Tyaskri noticed that Megiri’s whistle looked different than what it usually looks like.

Megiri’s whistle color changed depending on where it was pointed. The light pikmin were flickering, they started to jump toward Megiri. Along with every other Pikmin type they’ve discovered so far. Especially the Onions.

“Onion, Wave, Illumin, all the orange Pikmin, the original 7 types, bulbmin, puffmin,” Tyaskri started listing all the Pikmin and Onions.

“Orange pikmin?” Olimar seemed confused, Alph as well.

“Yes, look below you.”

Olimar and Alph looked below them. There were cracks in the ground. Olimar squinted hard. Sprouts started appearing out of the cracks. In fact they were orange! Both Alph and Olimar were still confused as the Master Onion was outside. *So how were the sprouts inside?* The Pikmin sprouts came out of the ground by themselves. Usually you would have to pluck them.

“These are Orange pikmin.”

“They don’t appear to have eyes like the rest,” Olimar was still observing them closely.

“No, this special type of Pikmin is blind,” Tyaskri said as she plucked the rest that got stuck. “The reason they didn’t come from the onion is because they can burrow in the ground.

“What does that have to do with them not coming from the onion?” Alph said, they were still clueless. Someone came up from behind them.

“Because they were there before.”

Louie who rarely said anything, to anyone, other than Captain Olimar, came out of literally nowhere. Since, Perplexing Pool Louie started getting familiar with the Pikmin and his Captain. Remember Shacho, the company’s president? Remember Wistful Wild? **Remember the Dream Den?** *Remember, the King of Bugs?* Louie wasn’t the same after these events.

Flashback, while Shacho and Olimar were in Wistful Wild, looking for Louie they came across the Dream Den. Heading down with mostly yellows. The reason, because as they reached sublevel *14*, yes 14, they finally found louie sitting atop a large pile of treasures. He wasn’t moving, the research pod started analyzing louie and everything around him. But, something was off. Very off. Olimar could tell, he was fairly certain he saw Louie smirking. Shacho didn’t really care, as long as he could salvage the treasures and get lots of pokos from them.

“Hurry and get those treasures, Louie.” Shacho started collecting pikmin for his squad.

Just as Shacho ran closer to Louie, a massive leg came from the ground. So did another one and another one. A Dweevil had rosen from the ground. This particular dweevil was bigger than any other dweevil that Olimar has seen. Olimar had now realized something.

“Those aren’t treasures.” And he was right. They weren’t. “Those are weapons! Run!”

In that instant the dweevil had pulled out one of the four weapons on its body. All the weapons on the dweevil were elemental. But somehow it knew not to use the electric attack, which was strange. Normally the enemies don’t know which attack to use, but weirdly enough this one did. *Or at least I thought*. Throughout the battle Olimar didn’t believe the creature knew which attack to use, or even how to use them. Actually he didn’t even believe that it was even there. *Yet it was, the dweevil was so horrifying it was hard to believe any of this was happening*.

“I see you must be very fond of my Titan Dweevil” Now, Louie was--

“Exactly how long is this flashback going to be?” Charlie interrupts. “I was going to wash my rubber ducky.”

“Look no one cares about your stupid duck!” Louie and Brittany were getting tired of this man.

“Well Co-captain Elizabeth needs a bath,”

“Wut-?”

“Why can’t you just wash it now?” Olimar tried reasoning with charlie. Before Louie gets any more annoyed.

“Because I don’t want to miss any flashbacks!”

“Ok but, why not wash it *as* you listen to the story?”

“It’s only sunset so we have plenty of time until morning.” Alph checked in with the S.S. Drake.

“Besides, my part is coming up.” Louie said proudly, even though he himself knew he shouldn't.

“Ok, back to the flashback.”

--Now, Louie was raging at least internally. But still he kept a smug look on his face.

With this, the ship stopped analyzing the Titan Dweevil.

“Away Rust Bucket!” Louie shooed the research pod away.

“Captain Olimar, sensors detect weakness if you throw your Pikmin at the treasures, on the Dweevil’s back.” The research pod said in its robotic voice.

Olimar used only the yellow Pikmin, in case the titan dweevil used the electrical attack. Because if it had used it, the Pikmin would have been instant killed, which would have made the death counter go way up. But other than that, *it’s on like Donkey Kong!*

The Dweevil started spamming its attacks. The Pikmin who failed to hear the whistle died of the hazards.

“Why are you still fighting? Just give up!” Louie started taunting and teasing Olimar and Shacho. “Using child’s play against my Titan Dweevil!” This was because Louie was thinking to himself, *because of that stupid Rust Bucket, i’m screwed.*

With that the first treasure came off, the Flare Cannon.

Olimar decided to leave the Shock Therapist treasure, instead of taking it off first so the dweevil would use an attack that can’t damage the Pikmin in Olimar's squad.

Where’s Shacho you ask? He’s quaking in his boots, under the research pod, with the remaining Pikmin. The Pikmin started staring at Shacho wondering *why the heck isn’t he helping Orimā? Seems pathetic*. But the Pikmin couldn’t talk so they just stared judging-ly.

The second piece came off, the Monster pump. Good thing the dweevil could use its water attack since it can hit pikmin that are hanging around near the research pod, or Shacho.

Now just to get the Comedy bomb. The white Pikmin are all dead so Olimar couldn’t use them. At least the poison attack doesn’t spread out of the arena.

Finally, the last two pieces came off the titan dweevil. As soon as the last treasure came off the Dweevil’s skin started peeling off. But only it wasn’t, instead it apparently was armor.

With nothing to attack with, Olimar gathered all the Pikmin and threw them all on the Titan Dweevil. *Defeated at last.*

“While we salvaged the treasures. I kept thinking Louie might have been controlling the monstrous Titan Dweevil. But that’s nonsense! Right, Louie.”

“Yea, Definitely.”

“I definitely didn’t hijack that dweevil’s brain, using some of the treasures I found and hid from you.”

“What?” Olimar over heard the part with the treasures.

“Nothing.” *But, I’m still sorry for that, Captain.*

“Start of a new day! Specifically day 3.” Charlie and Olimar, the only two people up, lately they have been competing to see who’s the best captain. The rest of the crew, sleeping.

“Where’s Tyaskri?”

“Olimar, Megiri is gone too.” Charlie stuffed the rubber duck in his pocket.

“Captain Tyaskri and Co-Captain Megiri have started their expedition.” The S.S. Drake announced

“Precisely.” Megiri and Tyaskri came out from behind Olimar and Charlie.

“Wat de--”

“If you two were competing against us, as best captain, I’m pretty sure we would have won.”

“Captain Tyaskri and Co-captain Megiri have started working since dawn.” The S.S Drake added to their bragging.

“Okay. Well. We should probably stop messing around and wake the rest of the crew up.” Olimar said, being reasonable as always.

“Analyzing…-”

“Good, ok, that’s the last fruit in the area!” Brittany had checked with the Drake

“Sorry, we can’t calculate the treasures as good as your last ship, Captain Olimar” Alph added.

“Ah, yes the company’s ship. Me and Louie tried returning it to the company, but it insisted on coming with us. Instead of my ship, the S.S. Dolphin. Kept telling us something about, *the data must be extremely accurate, as like my artificial intelligence*. I don’t know what it was thinking back then, but thanks to its driving it’s totaled now.”

“Rip. Rust Bucket.”

“Yeah, I wish it would stop giving me sass when I give it a slimy specimen.”