Intermission 2! The crew is at the Awakening Woods now!
-Alph and Olimar go into a cave to try to find purple and white candy pop buds, Charlie and Brittany are surveying the area with the Hocotate ship giving them a tour, and Louie is trying to figure out a nice thing he can do for Olimar as a way of saying thanks.
-These three events happen at the same time, progressing with asks to each character. Story wise, a bit more development to Charlie's conflict. Rigol grieves over Vio much to other pikmins confusion and with the help of Astur, they end up discovering a ancient mural. Louie finds a secret garden where the Snagret Hole is (thanks to Blue!), and O and A are unsuccessful finding any candy pop buds (odd…)
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-the next day, the crew wake up to find the Drake landed back on the Awakening Woods. The ship alerts the crew that Louie has gone off early, but left some wildflowers on the table for some odd reason.
(The small batch of flowers include: periwinkle, clover, lavender, dandelion flowers, etc.)
-Olimar is led by a blue pikmin (Blue, the reincarnation of Ne, holder of the strange flower) to the secret garden where Louie is.
-The koppaites, not worried at all, decide to just take the day to explore the area some more.
-The Hoco Ship stays behind, claiming he’s not feeling like himself, which the crew is semi confused about, but just brushes it off simply thinking it's just Rusty being…rusty.
- before this however, the asks were bound to have people telling Alph to smell one of the flowers, insisting he must even if he is allergic (lol). Alph reluctantly agrees and smells a lavender. A very dramatic pause later, he comedically sneezes and begins to question the askers before being hit with a memory.
-A memory of Alph with D(ead) by his side as they watch over his body in a white room. Then another memory (from A’s perspective) where Character D(?) is reaching towards him, telling him to smell the flower. (The Landing Event from the beginning!)
-Alph snaps back to reality by Charlie, who right behind him is D. Watching. Looming.
-He blinks and D is gone.
-Charlie asks again if Alph is alright. Alph responds that he is fine, and the two head out along with Brit outside.
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((Again, two events occur at the same time before coming together so I’ll go over them one at a time!))
-Alph tells Brit he would like to speak with Charlie alone, so she reluctantly agrees and feins recalling a fruit she forgot to retrieve.
- C and A walk around the woods, stopping to battle a few fiery blowhogs. Charlie would have been happily answering a few asks before Alph gains the courage to ask about D.
-Alph begins to question Charlie about who D is (along with asks pushing questions too), C finally breaks and yells that he has no idea if D was even real or not. We learn that he believes he just…imagined them during his lonely solo missions.
-Alph is left dejected, C puts a hand on his shoulder and tells him to not bring up D again.
-But then C spots someone behind Alph
-the tall, bleeding transparent figure of D.
-C stumbles back in shock, Alph asks if Charlie is alright. C bumps into a red pikmin(Astur) carrying a bomb rock, causing the pik to stumble, nearly dropping the bomb but manages to not drop it.
- But Astur ends up right inline of a blow hogs fire
-C and A look in horror as the bomb detonates.
-Olimar is worried as he is led by several pikmin (including Blue and a rock Pikmin, Magnolia) to the Snagret Hole. The little group begin to travel past the cave deeper into the log. Olimar is astonished to find a full garden inside.
-The garden would’ve looked similar to a rest area, but with a variety of flowers, big and small. A tiny pond with a small river would be in the center, lined with rocks also varying in size. Spectralids and flutterbies are seen fluttering around.
-Olimar is amazed, marveling at how such a cave exists while the outdoors is getting cold. (Awakening woods here would have been fall themed to match the games changing its season every game. Pik 1 was summer, Pik 2 was spring.)
-He is startled by Louie suddenly appearing by his side. O learns that L sent the Blue to lead him to the garden. So they chill here for a while, Oli doodling and taking notes while talking with Lou and answering asks.
- Lou asks if Oli is ok after…well…everything. O has certainly been through…a lot. Bad luck seems to follow this poor guy wherever he goes.
-Olimar tells Lou not to worry about him, O claims he’s gotten quite used to the troubles the Pikmin planet throws at him, which makes moments like these all the more special.
-The two sit in silence, being present in the moment.
-Lou slightly shifts closer to Oli, his hand inching closer to his hand
-Oli notices Lou shifting around, and asks if he has anything to tell him. Lou is noticeably very very nervous, slightly stammering as he reaches behind himself about to pull something out before…
-The two hear an explosion in the distance. Oli gets up to investigate the outside, Louie is visibly (slightly comedicly) frustrated at the interruption. The Hoco Ship comms the two alerting that 1, Charlie is down and 2…THE FOREST IS ON FIRE!
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-Alph wakes up with a very heavy weight ontop of him. (It’s Charlie, milliseconds before the bomb blew, he shielded Alph and promptly got knocked out from the explosion.)
-A manages to push C off and is left momentarily dazed, wondering what just happened. Brit runs to his side, having heard the loud explosion.
-The explosion caused the surrounding area to set on fire. Brit comms the Ship to teleport Charlie back to the Drake, but her koppad isn’t working (neither is Alph’s…weird)
-So A+B use the few pikmin they have left to carry C back to the ship as the fire continues spreading…
-meanwhile, Olimar commands Louie to collect wayward pikmin(not in the fire) and bring them back to their onion. O goes to the Drake to bring out some reds but notices a gathering of pikmin around the onion. Confused, he attempts to whistle them over.
-Ontop of the Onion is a yellow pikmin(Rigol) seemingly speaking to the crowd. They and a majority of pikmin(notably blues, yellows, and winged) look to Olimar with blank eyes. These pikmin return inside the onion. A majority of Rock and Red pikmin listen to Olimar’s whistle, with only a few handful of blue, yellow, and winged following.
-The onion then proceeds to fly up into the air, and split in half!
-The first onion lands back on the ground(Red and Gray, we’ll refer to this one as…the onion), while the other onion flies to the direction of the fire(blue,yellow,pink, we’ll call this one the Tri onion)
-The HOCOSHIP exits from the Drake, telling Oli she’s lost track of ABC’s signals in the fire. Olimar regains focus, and takes a small squad of red pikmin into the inferno. The Ship refuses to let him go into the flames(too dangerous, it's not worth the risk, etc) but Olimar goes in anyway.
-JUST as Oli goes into the fire, the Koppaites return to the base. Rusty’s about to express their relief but Brit interrupts, annoyed that he didn’t receive their distress signals. The ship immediately defends herself, saying he didn’t even receive ANY notifications.
-Louie arrives at the base, having retrieved several wayward Pikmin. He asks where Olimar is.
-A and B are left shocked as The Ship remembers.
-“Wait. If you three are here, and Louie is here as well…Olimar-Olimar went into the fire to look for…”
-A comedic pause between the crew, before Louie bolts directly into the flames
-The ship commands A and B to prepare for liftoff while he retrieves O and L
-Alph protests, wanting to help but Brit says something like uh, “dude we just got OUT of the fire. Let’s not go back there.” (I’m great at dialogue I know /sarc)
-A then asks, “but… what about the fire?” B hesitates before saying “well, there’s not much we can do about it…nature will naturally ease the flames.” Then adds, “who knows, maybe it’ll be good for the forest.”
-Alph agrees, and A and B both return inside the Drake
-We cut to Olimar calling for the Koppaites but to no avail. He hears a Pikmin cry nearby. He discovers a lone red pikmin cowering in a hole, a wound on their forehead. (Later, they are known as Clover)
-He gently helps them out of the hole and calms the little pikmin in his arms. The red pikmin in his squad appear to be pleased with their captain.
-The HOCOSHIP is flying above the forest fire, trying to detect his crew mates through the flames. They spot the Tri Onion from far away, dunking itself in a lake. Rusty is puzzled by that, but focuses back on her mission.
- Rusty finally manages to contact Oli, pinpointing his location and briefly comms Oli to yell at him. (“You idiot! Why would you do such a selfless, reckless act?! Now Louie is looking for you too!”)
-Olimar immediately began to focus on finding Louie, the ship following him from above the forest.
-We cut to Louie, who’s also looking for Oli. L is coughing and holding his chest. The smoke from the forest fire seems to be affecting him to a much greater extent than the others. (Must be a bug in his oxygen filter…)
-he then spots something glowing red in the distance. L begins to walk towards it, thinking it’s Olimar
- But as he gets closer, Louie freezes.
-Louie runs the opposite way, trying to get away but ends up collapsing. His coughing is getting worse, and his nose appears to be bleeding. The Progg slowly approaches L.
- Louie is terrified, thinking that this was the end…
-They both look up. A large tree branch is falling.
- The branch lands between the two, creating a wall between them.
-The Progg turns away, disappearing in the flames
-L is left frozen, wide eyed.
- He hears Oli calling for him, and spots his red antenna light. They both reunite, Olimar expressing his relief while lightly scolding Louie.
-Then Oli whistles behind Lou, red pikmin begin to climb down the tree the branch fell out of. It’s revealed O was the one to save L!
-The ship comes down to teleport the two(and the squad of reds!) into his cargo, and flies back to Drake.
-We see the Tri onion hovering above the forest, spreading a light water mist that slowly dispels the flames.
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