Numerous video files captures rescue team's "incident". Led by experienced hocotate Cale the squad went in to retrieve Telix and his crashed shipment of two relay spheres. It s unknown why Telix's ship crashed...
Cale's POV
Static, camera focuses. Interior of ship, we see the rest of the rescue team sit on opposing ends. The ship's exterior doors are open giving us a clear view of the outside, it is a heavily forest area under a clear night sky. Ship soars over this before diving down into the foliage. A brief moment of rustling as the ship flies through the thick layer of branches before coming into clear space below, much darker.
CALE: Alright we'll be landing shortly, everybody switch visors to night vision.
We hear a brief click as Cale fumbles with his helmet, everything goes dark for a second before being brightly illuminated by night vision. Everything now appears as deep shades of blue or black.
CALE: Remember the briefing guys, my group is going after the wreck site and retrieving Telix and the cargo which is two relay spheres, state of the art. Quen you're in charge of forming a perimeter around the ship and luring all creatures to your location and disposing them as such. I'll be taking the twenty blue pikmin, you will have the purples and reds, we'll divide the rest up accordingly.
He then takes his gun out of holster and flicks a switch on it.
CALE: And keep your WAST's on semi.
Fast Forward
We see the ship land and the squads jump out. Cale and Qeun go to the side of the ship and call out the pikmin. Cale and his squad begin to head towards the wreckage site, down a dense path overhung by tall plants.
Normal Play Resumes
Quen's POV
QUEN: Alright, shoot flares now.
Another hocotate besides Quen activates the flare, it shines almost white in the night vision and emits a pitched screech.
QUEN: That should get any creature's attention within the whole forest. Okay you each have three purple pikmin and five reds. Make sure a purple is the first thing you throw at what ever comes at us, we need to stun them and maintain the perimeter.
The flare illuminates deep into the forest, we pick out the vast trunks of trees, a rich navy through the nightvision. We can see no creatures though, the only other living thing besides the hocotates are the pikmin, their eyes glow in the nightvision and they stand completely still, awaiting orders from the hocotates.
QUEN: (into mic) Cale have you reached the wreckage site?
Cale's POV
CALE: Affirmative, we have a positive ID on Telix, he's unconscious. Sending him back with two pikmin now.
The two pikmin carry Telix away into the darkness. We see the wreckage of Telix's ship scattered across the clearing, a couple of fires still burn brightly causing Cale to lower his night vision.
CALE: Ray spheres remain unlocated though.
VAZ: Sir I found one of them!
CALE: Cancel that Quen, we have one of them. Any contact yet?
QUEN's POV
QUEN: Negative, surprisingly no creatures spotted. We've activated another flare, but nothing has been attracted. Any contact there?
CALE: Negative.
Quen's camera does another quick pan over the surrounding, nothing living seems to be coming out of the forest. A dull silence hangs over the night.
QUEN: Any sign of Telix yet?
Other hocotate troops shake their heads.
QUEN: (into mic) Cale we have not received Telix yet...
CALE: (curses) That pikmin escort might have ran into something. I'll send a scout to check.
CALE'S POV
CALE: Vaz take your blues with you and find Telix and his escort.
VAZ: Affirmative.
Vaz disappears from the bright light of the burning wreckage, five blues follow him into the darkness.
VAZ'S POV
We hear Vaz whistle numerous times to try and attract the attention of the pikmin carrying Telix. Neither them or Telix is in sight. The cool blue of the night vision only picks up trees and dense strands of plants on either side of the path. Vaz suddenly seems to stop, we see him turn around and his camera focusing on the pikmin behind him.
VAZ: Well come on let's go...
Vaz whistles to the five blues to follow. They remain standing there, stem limp and eyes glowing in the night vision.
CALE"S POV
VAZ: (into mic) Cale?
CALE: Go ahead...have you found Telix?
VAZ: No..but the pikmin, they're not responding to my signals.
CALE: Is your whistle defective?
VAZ: Negative...
CALE: (Curses) Vaz stand by, I"ll be coming now...
Cale now whistles to his group of 5 pikmin. They don't respond either though, simply returning the stare to Cale.
CALE: Damnit, everybody check your pikmin...
We hear a fresh volley of whistles through the clearing.
CALE: Anybody's group not defective?
A chorus of negatives echoes through the comlink.
CALE: What the hell...
THUMP
VAZ'S POV
VAZ: Shit, what's wrong with you things?
Vaz whistles several more times to the pikmin who remain unresponsive...
VAZ: Gosh Olimar should never have...
Vaz is cut off as suddenly one of the pikmin jump up and latch onto his helmet, beating it with its stem. Vaz successfully pulls it off and throws it away into the darkness, but now the other pikmin swarm him, knocking him down. Vaz tries to push them off, but the pikmin are insistent in their attack. We see their glowing eyes looking almost inhuman...
VAZ: (into mic) Help.. the pikm-
Vaz doesn't finish the sentence, as one of the pikmin cracks his helmet, letting deadly oxygen flood in. Vaz's scream is short and brief before a short chocking noise.
Silence...
Except for the repetitive thumping as the pikmin continue to beat Vaz's body with their stems.
THUMP
Vaz's video feed cuts to static.
CALE's POV
We hear Cale yell in surprise as he is knocked down by his own pikmin. We hear similar screams as hocotates all across the clearing suffer the same fate, we see their dark blue silhouettes in the nightvision. Short bursts of gunfire are quickly cut short...
Cale manages to kick the pikmin off and get his WAST from the holster. The pikmin swarm again and we hear WAST fire. In three short bursts, the pikmin are shot to ribbons of stem and fluid. Cale gets up, breathing heavily, he hears the chirps and whistles of pikmin in the distance, and then he turns and runs...
Cale gets a short distance down the path, when something suddenly drops out from the tall plants on the left. Cale's camera zooms and focuses, and we see Telix's body...helmet cracked.
Cale is knocked down when two more pikmin jump from the tall plants. Cale struggles briefly...
We hear a short scream.
Static.
QUEN'S POV
QUEN: Cale, what the hell is going on?
CALE:....min....(silence)
THUMP
This one shakes the ground, almost sending Quen off his feet. He looks up at his pikmin, who simply stare at him. A beat passes, then the pikmin suddenly rush towards Quen. The pikmin almost reach Quen before being shredded with gunfire.
QUEN: The min! Shoot them!!!!! NOW!!
There's a pause, then more gunfire erupts from the clearing, we see flashes of blue in the night vision. The chirps of the pikmin are cut short.
QUEN: Shit....
THUMP
QUEN: Something big's coming, get the ship's rockets ready!
We hear the sharp snap as tree's branches are torn off. This unknown creature sounds close.
UNKNOWN HOCOTATE: Sir it's to the left. I can see an outline...
QUEN: FIRE AT IT, FIRE EVERYTHING!!!
Quen's screams are drowned out by a loud roar. We see blinding flashes of white as rockets are fired from the ship, leaving bright trails in the night sky. The rockets emit enough light to catch a glimpse of a plant covered mound rising...
The rockets hit this, large explosions shake the forest floor. Another loud roar.
QUEN: Damn, hit it!!! Everybody into the ship!!.
More rockets streak overhead, Quen is now sprinting back to the ship. He passes a couple of other Hocotates firing their WAST's into the air.
QUEN: It's futile you fools!!! Come on...
Quen is knocked down. His camera goes out of focus, capturing the last few blurry moments.
We hear several large more explosions
.
Another ear splitting roar.
Other fuzzy forms of hocotates, scrambling into the ship...
And then the brightest light of them all, shining painfully through the night vision...drowning out everything else
The ground shakes.
Static.
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