I awaken to hear the sound of my onion landing, followed by the sound of the Leaders ship shutting down. Everything is quiet for a second then I hear the sound of the Leader's footsteps on the ground. I can hear them getting closer he's coming to my onion!

I hear the Leader again; he's calling for 50 blue pikmin. I scramble out of the blue onion crawling down one of the large brown stems that poke out of our home. Making it to the bottom I look around at the environment and sigh in displeasure, it is the dead waste land. Other blue pikmin beside me groan in annoyance too. It's too dry here; the ground is hard and hurts when you step on it. The only thing good about this place is the large bodies of water that litter the area. I hope we get to go in one today, perhaps that's why he called us blues out.

The Leader is now moving towards the red onion. He stands under the beam of scarlet light seeming to make calculations with his hands. Than out of the brown stems red pikmin crawl down, chattering enthusiastically. They all gather around the Leader who faces us and calls us to join the reds. We march over, since I am a leaf bearer I'm slow and one of the last to make it. I hate my leaf and die to have a flower or at least a bud. When ever the Leader finds what we call nectar I'm never there. The flower pikmin say it's the best thing that can happen to a pikmin, to drink nectar.

There's 30 red pikmin with us, and I don't think the Leader's going to take out the yellow pikmin today. He now leads us over to the ledge of the plateau that our ships always land on. There's a ramp leading down and the Leader leads us down that. I run as fast as I can but still slowly the flower pikmin pass me followed by the bud pikmin. I hate being the slowest, well maybe not the slowest as I'm ahead of all the other leaf bearers.

When we reach the bottom the Leader turns left and we follow. Up ahead there's a large body of water, my gills open in excitement and I run faster. Guarding the beach though is a large grayish creature. Its eyes are blue and it has a snout with is red at the tip. It waddles around mindlessly on its four pitiful stumpy legs. I've seen these creatures before, they breathe fire out of their snouts so only the reds can fight them. I had to learn that the hard way.

The Leader dismisses us and the calls the reds to his side, he approaches the creature cautiously. He tries to circle around to the left side of the creature, but it sees it coming. The creature spouts fire out if it's snout sending it right for the Leader. All red pikmin in the way are caught up in the blaze but are not burned, instead they seem happy to be engulfed by the inferno. The Leader though has to skillfully dodge out of the way as his suit can't stand fire. He now starts picking up red pikmin one by one and tosses them onto the creature's large body. It roars in pain as each red pikmin buries it sharp nose into its hide again and again. The creature then shakes the pikmin of its body scattering them everywhere. A few of the reds almost land in the water; quickly though the Leader calls the red pikmin to his side and begins to toss them at the creature again. Each red pikmin flips through the air several times before landing on the creature and jamming their sharp noses into its body. In a few seconds the creatures roars again in agony and falls to the ground defeated. No red pikmin have died because of the Leader's skill. The Leader now orders the red pikmin to carry the body back to their onion. The red pikmin all surround the carcass in a circle and pick it up. They begin the long journey back to the onion were the creature's body will be recycled for more red seeds.

The Leader now calls the blues to his side. I rush over being the first leaf pikmin there and almost beating a blue sporting a bud on his stem. The Leader now leads us into the water. A few red pikmin that didn't carry the creature back now lay on the beach lazily watching us. In the distance up ahead I see a pair of red eyes watching us and suddenly a second pair appears too.

A blue pikmin with a bud beside me asks "Hi this is only my second day, do you know what those eyes are up ahead?"

"I have no idea", I reply back. I'm not usually the talkative kind of pikmin. New comers talk the most, always asking questions, or the yellows, yellows just won't shut up.

Up ahead I can see the outline of the creatures bodies, the red eyes stare at us rarely blinking. In between the two large creatures is another one of those "metal treasures" that the Leader collects. Every single day we hunt for these unusual objects, with no idea what purpose they serve except that they always join with the Leader's ship.

Suddenly, one of the creatures with the red eyes jumps into action. In midair it stops over us, I can tell by the large shadow that is covering most of the pikmin. The Leader frantically leads us away from the shadow as the creature slams down into the water. None of the pikmin gets crushed, with the last leaf bearer narrowly escaping the creature. The creature looks like one I've fought before, that creature was yellow and green and had black eyes, and this creature seemed to be grayish white and has red eyes.

The Leader now commands us to swarm the creature. I charge at it and begin to attack with all my might hitting it again and again with my leaf, other pikmin beside me do the same. The creature unexpectedly jumps into the air knocking all pikmin attacking it backwards. I am completely submerged in the water, looking up I can see the creatures body floating in the air, it's tiny arms paddling to keep it up. The Leader now whistles to us, I immediately jump up and run to him as the creature slams down behind me. This time not all pikmin make it as I can hear the sound of a couple pikmin being crushed. The Leader decides to turn to a different strategy; he starts to toss us on top of the creature's back. I cry in glee as the Leader picks me up and tosses me. I do several flips before slamming into the creature's body. I hit it again and again with my leaf. The creature suddenly jumps up into the air again with me on his back. Other pikmin beside me look down to the ground far below in fear, others still hit the creature. I see the pikmin that talked to me earlier; he's hugging the creature in a panic, afraid that he will fall. Then the creature slams back down into the ground again.

The force of the impact throws me away from the creature. Sending me into the water, I'm very glad that I have gills. The Leader whistles to us again, I get up and rush to him. I see the creature that I attacked is dead, and the Leader is now ordering the other blue pikmin to attack the second creature that looks just like the first one. Before I get a chance to lay a hit on the second creature, it roars and slumps to the ground dead. Pikmin start to chatter about the battle, the one blue pikmin with the bud I talked to earlier approaches me.

"Did you see how high that monster jumped the one time, and I was right on top of it!" he says excitedly.

"I ways up there too", I reply not saying much as usual.

"Really wasn't that cool? I swear I could see the Leader's ship and our onions from up there, those lazy red's haven't even finished bringing back the one creature to their onion…", he says, but before he can say more the Leader calls us to him with the whistle. He now order's us to carry back the metal treasure that the two creatures were guarding. I try to grab on but the bud pikmin stops me.

"Let's stay with the Leader", he says with his over enthusiastic voice "It's no fun bringing parts back".

He has a point I realize, with a shrug I walk over with my "friend" to the Leader. The other pikmin who also didn't carry back come over too, there's eight of us. I wonder how many pikmin had died in the battle. The Leader now leads us back onto the shoreline, there he whistles to the red pikmin who had been waiting on the beach. The bud pikmin talks to me again.

"I forgot to ask, how many days have you been around", he asks me.

"Six or seven", I reply. I have to struggle to keep up with him as he is a bud pikmin; he notices this and slows down a little.

"Wow, you've been around for a long time it's a pity that you don't have a flower or at least a bud yet. I wish I could've stayed in the ground as a sprout for little bit longer as I could feel my bud begin to open, but then the Leader plucked me. Ah well". The bud pikmin stops as we enter a weird dark area I haven't seen before.

The dark place had little glowing blue mushrooms everywhere. It's sort of eerie and it's to quiet. I suddenly wish that I had brought the metal treasure back to the ship. The red Leader is about to lead us down into the mushroom place when three small bugs pop out of the ground right in the middle of our group. Each bug is dark green and has a small circular mouth; they have two small wings on their backs and orange eyes. The surprise attack catches the Leader off guard but he quickly tells us to attack the bugs. One bug quickly snatches a red pikmin and begins to suck it in to its circular mouth. I quickly bash the creature with my leaf. Other pikmin also surround the bug, in seconds it is dead and the red pikmin still alive. One of the other bugs also dies but the last one tries to escape on its two wings. The Leader tosses a red pikmin at the flying insect, making a direct hit. The bug falls to the ground and is quickly swarmed by pikmin. Below me I can still hear other creatures tunneling underground but they don't surface.

The Leader now leads us down into the mushroom area. Eerie shadows are cast upon the ground; the whole place has a blue hue to it. My bud friend is beside me looking around nervously, he doesn't like this place either. I can't see any enemies could they possibly be underground, what if it's one of those giant serpent creatures with the beak?

The Leader now takes us around a corner and into a wide open area. There are still mushrooms here but there is also a creature. The creature looks like a giant mushroom except its not glowing. Instead the top is dark red and the bottom is pale yellow. It has two yellow things sticking out on top of his head supporter by stems, I don't know if they're eyes or something else. The creature has two stubby legs to support its bulky body, I also can't see a mouth, and I guess that's a good thing.

The giant mushroom notices us and starts to run away. The Leader begins to chase it and we follow. The area is small though so the mushroom soon has nowhere to go, it starts run into the cliff as if thinking it'll get through. The Leader stops short of the mushroom and begins to toss pikmin on its large flat head. The creature now begins to sway as about fifteen pikmin pile on it. Right before I get tossed the mushroom loses balance and topples over, its legs kicking in the air. The Leader now tosses me onto the creatures upside down body. I start hitting the mushroom with my leaf. This part of the creature's body seems more delicate then his red, flat head as I can feel the mushroom get weaker and weaker.

Suddenly in a burst of stamina the mushroom flips its self right side up again, throwing all pikmin on its body away. I am thrown against wall of the cliff, and I groan in pain, other pikmin beside me slowly get up. The mushroom towers over us, and it begins to shake. The Leader notices the danger and whistles to us to return to him, I immediately get up and begin to run to the Leader. I hear a weird noise come from above, I look up to see a large purple mist falling from the mushroom's head. The other pikmin and I run faster, but I can see pikmin on my left and right get engulfed by the mist. I try dodging the mist, but then it too engulfs me. As spores enter my body through the gills, the last thing I see is my bud friend reaching for me………………..

Note that I had to write this story without using the pikmin game (No I don't have it) so don't criticize me if the forest naval or anything else wasn't as accurate as it should be.