Firecracker Fluttertail

The Firecracker Fluttertail is a species of Snowswallow that creates fire and natural gas.

=In fanon games=

In Pikmin Evolution
The Firecracker Fluttertail is a species of Snowswallow appearing in Pikmin Evolution as a boss. It is the female counterpart to the Snowfake Fluttertail, and can be considered its opposite. While the Snowfake Fluttertail is a stocky and rather fluffy moth, the Firecracker Fluttertail is more slender, taller, and is covered in a layer of shining scales. The Firecracker has a pair of large graceful wings or shining reds, oranges, and purples, which is emblematic of the creatures control over fire, lava, and natural gas. When you first encounter the creature you can see it hanging from a vent of natural gas on the ceiling, feeding on the gas, this makes the area poisonous to enter so you need to have your Roach Pikmin activate the four fans to clear out the gas, however this causes the Fluttertail to become aggressive and attack your team as well as break the fans. The Firecracker Fluttertail, true to its name, releases flaming dust when it flies, alighting anyone who is underneath these flames. It also can shoot a concentrated ball of flaming scales at your army, creating a pool of lava that you have to avoid. To clear the flaming dust you need to have it blown away with a fan, however since the Fluttertail broke them you can only activate one at a time. When it charges a concentrated flame attack you need to direct it to the range of one of the fans before activating it, clearing the scales clean off and leaving the moth vulnerable to attacks, though after a while the boss will regain its scale armor and the process needs to be done again. However after a while, at half health to be exact, the wings of the Fluttertail will lose all of its red and orange scales, becoming pure purple, it will lose its ability to summon fiery scales but now gain a new more deadly attack, that being the ability to summon a constant stream of natural gas. This attack is quite dangerous as it traps your Pikmin directly under the Fluttertail, leaving them vulnerable to the moth's extendable proboscis attack. Additionally like the Hurricane Blowhog the boss will surround itself in a wind barrier, making it immune to direct attacks/ The fact that the moth won't fly over the fans so that you can clear the gas means that you have to travel out yourself. One captain needs to lead a squad of Roach Pikmin and try to activate all four fans while the others distract the boss, and after all four are activated the gas will clear and the boss will drop to the floor, allowing all Pikmin types to attack it. After a while the fans will break again, filling the place with gas, so you have the repeat the process in order to clean the floor of this fiery femme fatale. It is possible to skip this phase and just let the boss die on the first phase, to do this you need to have some gray syrups and toss those syrups into the fans when they activate. This will cause the syrups to poke holes into the moth's wings, making it unable to fly and therefore unable to spread fire or gas, making this Fluttertale's spark estiguish like the fires it creates. Overall the Firecracker Fluttertail fits its name both literally and figuratively, since it has one of the most dynamic fights in the game.