Pikmin: Echoes of Eternity

Pikmin: Echoes of Eternity is the upcoming sequel to Pikmin: Ultimate Doom. The story takes place fifteen years after the events of its predecessor. The game is a blend of the usual Pikmin Strategy elements and RPG elements, as well as some other RTS elements. The game consists of several modes, including the Campaign, Multiplayer, Dungeon Rush, and Arcade modes.

Main Plot
''Fifteen years after Pikmin: Ultimate Doom, Captain Olimar is enjoying his retirement. He sips on a mug full of pik-pik juice when he receives a transmission from the President of Hocotate Freight. The President informs Olimar that the Distant Planet has vanished from their sensors, which is inconvenient because the company was about to send a squadron to recover valuable loot. Stunned, Olimar is determined to end his retirement and go with the squad to investigate the disappearance of the Distant Planet. The President informs Olimar that Louie is the leader of the squadron, and Olimar chortles. Olimar and the Joker Squadron meet up in the Hocotate Freight Hangar Bay, and discuss their plans. Meanwhile, Louie wanders off to the shiny new freighter ship, the S.S. Pegasus. He gets in, and begins to search for food. He finds a crate of Pik Pik Carrots on the dashboard, and reaches over to eat some, accidentally turning on the ship's auto-pilot! The freighter ship takes off and bursts through the hangar shields. It rockets away, leaving a trail of dust and smoke in its wake. Olimar sighs, and looks to the cadets for answers. A stocky cadet with green hair stands at attention, saying his name is Abbad. He says that they can borrow the President's corvette, claiming he does it all the time. Olimar shrugs, and the group enters the S.S. Andromeda and they take off after foolish Louie. They track the Pegasus' drive signature, which is locked into a course towards the Distant Planet.''

Truths and Illusions
''Olimar and the Joker Squadron blast off in the S.S. Andromeda towards the Distant Planet, breaking through the lightspeed barrier. Quickly with a boom the stars trail into black and then a flash of light obscures the whole ship. Now in full view is where the Distant Planet should be - but instead there is a supermassive black hole! The crew are astonished as Abbad nervously checks the ship's engineering panels. He informs Olimar that the gravitational pull of the black hole is overloading the ship's engines. They have no means of escape. A sporting corvette has no escape pods installed. Olimar swallows hard and the team prepares for the worst. As the ship approaches the event horizon, suddenly space begins to stretch into infinity. The background of stars shifts into red, then blue, then green, trailing off like a ghost. The ship then becomes spaghettified, stretching like dough towards the black hole. A pulsating light of rainbow colors flashes in everyone's minds, and then they all lose consciousness...''

''Olimar wakes up. He is on the Distant Planet, lying on the ground, and grunting. He looks up to see Louie crying. Olimar realizes suddenly where he is, it's fifteen years ago, just after he defeated Doom, and he's dying! He gasps as suddenly a burst of rainbow colors melts the entire world into a thick washed-out soup. Olimar becomes pixellated and shrinks down into nothingness. He sees a flash of light, and he sees visions of his family. Each of their heads float by, causing a great deal of comfort. Dust begins to fly off of their faces, as they crumple into particles of nothingness. Olimar is extremely panic-stricken at this point, and faints. A burst of rainbows twisting in fractal patterns encapsulates the entire world and another flash of light absorbs everything into darkness.''

''A distant echo bounces across a still lake. A spectral apparition floats above the waters. It wields a lantern with Olimar's ghostly head on it. The spirit chuckles, and leaps into the lake, turning it from a pale grey into a rainbow of static electricity.''

''With a loud thunderbolt, Olimar wakes up. He sees nothing but white. He is disoriented and confused. "Did I die? Where am I? How did I live on after dying fifteen years ago?" he thinks as he looks into the horizon. He sees a glimmer of green light. He decides to make the trek towards it. He gets up and dusts himself off, and pinches himself to make sure he isn't dreaming. Pain. Definitely awake. He sighs and heads towards the light.''