The Story, Chapter 1;
Nearly one year after the events of Pikmin 2
The Pikmin led normal but boring lives after the commanders left. They had learned much from the one called Olimar. The Pikmin began to use basic strategies like swarm and divide. Soon they needed much less protection from the predators that roamed the planet. Then the Thing came.
It streaked across the sky like a black star and the Pikmin wondered what it was. When it landed it cast up a black dust that blocked the sun
