Pikmin: Triad War

Pikmin: Triad War is a Pikmin fan game made by Zen the dark lord of PNF-404. It is the first game in the Triad War timeline. Unlike most other Pikmin fangames, Pikmin: Triad War has a maturity rating of 12, or teen in the United States, for mild violence, minimal blood, mild language, and dark themes. The concept for this fangame was inspired by a series of edits, which were later reverted, to Pikmin: The Rise of the Illuminati page.

Plot
Olimar and Louie meet with the President after Alph, Brittany, and Charlie return the pair to Hocotate. They fear having to return to PNF-404 to collect treasures to pay Hocotate Freight's current debt, despite not having a ship to get there. However, they are pleasantly surprised when the President informs them that the debt has been paid by a company named Terra Co. and that he's not sure why, although he is glad the company did Hocotate Freight the favor. He then apologizes to Olimar and Louie for getting the company into debt again because of his own greed and allows the two leaders to spend quality time with their friends and family. Olimar and Louie then realize that their families might not have any money, but their assumptions turn out to be false. While Olimar was gone, his wife got a job and has Olimar's cousin, Michael, look after Olimar's son and daughter while she's away. Olimar greets his family and walks upstairs to the study to research Terra Co. He discovers that the million-Poko company is based on Koppai. He presumes that Alph, Brittany and Charlie must have realized that he would probably have no money, so when they got back to their planet, they must have had the government pay the debt off. He thought it was nice of them, even though he didn't know what he did to deserve it. He decided not to dwell on it and then went to bed.

Intruder?
A week later, Olimar woke up to find it was something like 3 in the morning. He realises that a note has been left on his bedside table. Before he calls the police for an intruder breaking in he reads the note (what harm can reading a piece off pulped tree do?). It says...

Dear Olimar You may be wondering why I have done this. Don't worry, I didn't steal anything, why would I need to. Anyway, this is important. Meet me at the back of the hocatate freight main building at 10am. If you don't think you can trust me, take a look around the house when you get out of bed. This is important. From: You have to find out...

Olimar Decided to go back to sleep and wait for the alarm clock to go off.

More then meets the eye...
Olimar hears the distinctive beeping of the alarm clock. He checks the time, finding it to be 7am (just as the alarm was suppose to go off). He checked around the house to find the person who had left the note was telling the truth, nothing had been stolen. He says he received an important email from the president yesterday saying he had to meet him at Hocatate freight. Olimar goes off the work to meet the stranger. He goes to the train station and boards the train that goes to the freight. At 9.30am he arrives. He waits until 10 and then he goes to the back of the building. He see's a man with a hoodie standing in front of him. Olimar asks if he's the man. The man smiles and says "see, I didn't steal anything" and then Olimar asks why did he tell him to come here? The man says that Olimars family is in great danger. Olimar says that even though he cares about his family, why should he care about this? The man says "Ok, let me rephrase that...all of hocatate, maybe even the entire solar system is in danger! Now is it important enough for you to give a crap?" They engage in a conversation where the man mentions a group that is planning something big, possibly a superweapon. The man says that he cannot name the group or else they will both be killed. Olimar asks him why he's asking him to go. The man says that the one thing he definitely knows about the group is that they are operating on PNF-404 (or at the very least most of the work is being done there) and that Olimar can fight them without attracting too much attention at first because he is only one person. The man also says that he can quickly amass an army of pikmin because he's worked with them for a long time, so they follow you without question. Olimar then says "so your telling me to go to PNF-404 so I can make an army of pikmin and use them to fight an evil group and destroy their doomsday weapon?!". "If you put it that way, then yes!" says the man. He also tells Olimar that it's up to him if he wants to bring along other people. He also says Olimar needs to go as soon as possible so he has more time to stop the group and make sure they don't kill him. Olimar asks the man how he's going to get there without a ship. The man says he's sorted something out. Olimar leaves and goes back home, ready for the task ahead.

Preparations
Olimar decides that he will go alone because he doesn't want to endanger anyone else. He knows that mike won't be interested and asking Louie may put his family in danger. He tells his wife that he needs to go PNF-404 to run some errands for the president. His wife is about to angry when she realises that at least he actually spent some time with her and that the family is probably going to get more money (if only she knew). Olimar gets his essentials (including his wife's pik pik carrots) and then heads off to the freight.

Journey to chaos
Olimar discovers a new ship at hocatate freight. It resembles the S.S dolphin but it looked more developed. He boards the ship and takes off for PNF-404. Most of the journey is peaceful until he gets three quarters of the way there. He runs into some space pirates who attempt to hunt him down and steal his "booty" (treasure). He attempts to escape them and flies into an asteroid field near PNF-404. They nearly catch up to him but are detected by a weapon concealed inside an asteroid. It launch's missiles at them. The pirate ship is destroyed but Olimar manages to dodge the one that's after him. However, at the last minute he crashes into a asteroid and crash-lands on PNF-404.

Back so soon?
After being hit by the asteroid, Olimar crashed in the Volatile Glade. There he meets some Red Pikmin. He helps them defeat a bulborb (as usual) and increase their numbers. He uses them to tear down a bramble gate and collet the engine for his ship. Both he and the onion go into orbit at the end of the day (event triggered when ship part is collected).

Pikmin

 * Red Pikmin
 * Yellow Pikmin
 * Blue Pikmin
 * Purple Pikmin
 * White Pikmin
 * Rock Pikmin
 * Winged Pikmin
 * Magenta Pikmin
 * Orange Pikmin

Areas
There are two types of areas: normal areas and sub-areas. Sub-areas are much smaller than normal areas.
 * Normal areas
 * Volatile Glade
 * Nocturnal Desert
 * Endgame Ocean
 * Stargazer Garden
 * Dark Side
 * Moon Base
 * Sub-areas
 * Halls of Stone
 * Dusk Abyss
 * Kingdom of Ash
 * Centerpiece of Chaos
 * Trench of Terror

Enemies

 * The Illuminati

Factions

 * Human Quadrant Defense Grid
 * Rubidium skulls: members begin appearing after the Illuminati Superweapon is destroyed.
 * Space pirates

Trivia

 * Each of the nine Pikmin species corresponds to one of the nine classes in .