The Battle of Lilly River/ The Assault on Mechanical Demons

Was looking for a place called Pikmin falls . Now I know not to look for a place called Lilly River.

The Battle of Lily River Part 1

The peaceful river slowly flowed, quietly pushing the large lily pads over the surface of the water. Overhead, 20 Arachnodes scurried about the leaves and branches, creating webbing that was camouflaged with leaves from Zol’s resource depot. These webs were sure to prevent any land troops from utilizing the lily pads as a source of transportation! Zol had set up quite a nice bottle neck, in which his snipers would be able to provide lots of fire from a safe spot, without suffering much retaliation.
Zol was aware of the assault that loomed overhead. An informant had tipped both him and Bolt to the threat. Zol was a warrior though, and he knew the woods well. He decided that a small troop would be sent away in order to protect his remaining resources and petals. This convoy consisted of 20 woggle spearmen and 5 ground Arachnodes. Their orders were to get the resources to a safe place, and to protect the APC carrying the goods with their lives. Moving quickly, the APC and it’s guard detachment quickly leave Twilight River and meet at the undisclosed location that both him and Bolt agreed to meet at, in case things were to go bad for them.
A few hours pass, and the scouts do not see any threats looming from the lily pad river itself. The serine area was like some sick lie, promising peace and quiet. Zol’s troops knew better. The Pikmin Warriors and Aquaneers would be coming, that Zol was sure of. Through the opening into the enclosed lily pad river, Zol spied his 20 Arachnode scouts skittering to the main base to warn Zol of an oncoming attack.
“The Aquaneers are coming! and they have a massive Iceball!”
“What? An Iceball? How did they create that?”
“We don’t know! But there are controlled by 5 water spirits!”
“Alright, then our snipers have a clear target. Tell them to open fire as soon as they are in the middle of the riverway. That way, the ship cannot maneuver to get away.”
The bottleneck was a simple strategy, designed to have multiple fallback points where more and more snipers would group up until finally meeting up with the main forces. This plan was a skirmish style battle, and as such Zol was sure he would minimize casualties and hopefully be able to hold the pass.
While Zol’s snipers began preparations for the battle, The sound of a loud engine could be heard approaching from the opposite side of the river.
“Oh no… the fortress is attacking us as well from the opposite side?”
Not prepared for a two pronged attack, with an arial strike from the rear, Zol quickly decides that he will pull back a portion of his main forces from the Lily River and positions them in the farthest waterway accessible, covered by sputtlefish ink for camouflage. Meanwhile his second sputtlefish would provide an ink camo for the troops near the rear of the lily river pass.
The massive battleship began it’s journey through the tight passway, the captain knew there was not much room for moving if things began to turn, but he was under orders to charge at full speed toward the base until the ship goes down or they reach dock. The water spirits, pikmin savages, and pikmin raiders are in a boarding position on the battleship, awaiting either dry dock, or a massive underwater fight. Suddenly, 2 of the Water spirits get sniped from afar by one of Zol’s sniper battalions.
“WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!”
The pikmin quickly regroup, with the Savages forming a shield wall in front of the remaining water spirits and the raiders. Two water spirits take the place of their fallen comrades, in order to keep the giant ice ball stable.
“Return fire!”
The Raiders quickly began returning fire with their high-pressure water guns. Because of the distance, the guns were useless. All of a sudden, the Battleship runs into the first web-trap created by the Arachnodes. The ship tares through it, but it slows down the ship a little. 5 Arachnodes were able to board the ship from the web, and they quickly dispach of 7 of the raiders before being noticed. The water spirits see their friends falling, and quickly bring around the enormous ice ball to squish the arachnodes where they stood.
“We can’t handle ambushes like this. We have to move the ice ball to the front to break anymore webs before the ship hits them!”
The water spirits bring the massive ice ball around to the front of the ship. The ice ball, not only began to break the webs before the ship hit them, but it provided a bit of cover from the snipers as well.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the tunnel, the flying fortress finally arrives. Zol’s troops focus fire on it for a minute, before realizing that General Pikpik had created a magnetic field with his metallic pikmin!
“MWAHAHAHA! Release the Ice Elemental bomb!”
General Pikpik’s orders were followed, and a bomb was dropped out of the hatch. After hitting the water’s surface, it detonates, making most of the river turn into an icy tundra. Luckily, the troops in the tunnel were not affected by the bomb at all, but 20 of the 40 wogpole spearmen who were designated to take down the airship, along with 5 skitterleafs and the suddlefish providing camo at the edge of the river were lost in the icy blast.
As if the Icebomb wasn’t enouph, General Pikpik releases 3 rock bombs in a bombing run, devastating the remander of the forces who were pulled back to contend with the fortress. In the blast, 18 of the 20 remaining wogpole spearmen are killed, along with the 10 remaining skitterleafs who were outside of the tunnel and 5 skitterskates designated to defend the rear.
“Stop the bombs, the Aquaneers can handle the rest! Now it’s time to see our old friend Bolt…”
The evil Flying Fortress, with it’s even more Malevolent ruler depart the skies
over Twilight River and head straight for the Mechanical Demon’s base. The only forces that remained behind were those who were in General Pikpik’s Iceship, and were following the Battleship at a distance.
Although the results in the rear were grim, Zol knew that he still had a chance, due to the confined space in the Lily Pad Riverway. His troops had not given up either. Seeing their friends fall in combat only strengthened their resolve to win the rest of the battle.
“Tighten the formations! Close ranks! Let the first two sniper units fall back, so that they can regroup! The rest of you lots, provide covering fire!”

TO BE CONTINUED.



Losses so far

Vo Spader
-2 waterspirits
-7 raiders

Zol
-5 arachnodes
-38 wogpole spearmen
-15 skitter leafs
-5 skitterskates
-1 suddlefish

General Pikpik
-1 Elemental Bomb
-3 Rock Bombs

The Assault on The Mechanical Demons Part 2

Bolt took one last, look at his home, knowing it would be the last time he would see it for a while. Although robots are said to have no emotions, you could sense that Bolt was sad. His home, which him and his people have resided for almost 60 days, was now going to be abandoned. A tip from an informant told them of the destructive force that was on it’s way to destroy both him and Zol. The pilgrimage to the forest navel, where he would meet up with zol’s survivors, was going to be a long one. A large convoy, consisting of every surviving member of his party, except for 40 steel shearwings and 40 steel snitchbugs, and every petal and resource he had in his vault stretched on like a large mechanical snake. The convoy also had 1 of every copy of research they had up until this point on them, with every other copy burned or destroyed prior to the attack.
“Let us press on. This place is no longer safe for us.”
Before leaving, the robots performed one of their fire rituals one last time.
“I just hope this works…”
The Remaining soldiers were not assigned to defend anything. They were not given orders to attack troops, or told to make any move until every troop was inside the base itself. Their mission was one that could even be called a suicide mission, but they were determined to bring this mighty giant down.
A few hours passed, as the machines quietly waited for the massive fortress to arrive, along with support from Vo Spader and his raiders. Sure enough, after a while, the enemy could be seen.
At first, it was just Vo Spader’s units arrived. It was a massive land force, consisting of 100 cavalry units, 50 savages, 25 raiders, 10 water spirits and 10 Caustic Dweevils. The intention was clear, the enemy was trying to destroy Bolt and what was left of his army. The cavalry began doing charging maneuvers toward the base, expecting to receive fire from the cannons and meet resistance. After a few charges, with absolutely no results, the savages raised their shields in a defensive formation and began approaching the base.
They only walked a few feet in when they decided that no one was here.
“Where are they all?”
“I don’t know… what should we do?”
“Well I guess we should wait for General Pikpik to get here, before we do anything else. After all, this was his plan and we were not even supposed to get inside the walls until his fortress arrived to bomb the enemies fortifications!”
The Aquaneers withdrew from the base, and camped outside until about 10 minutes had passed and the giant flying fortress was overhead. General Pikpik descended from the fortress and addressed the Aquaneers.
“What are you lazy warriors doing? Where is the enemy?”
“They are all gone sir. There is no one left here.”
“Gone? Oh well. At least we can raid what they left behind in their escape! Send your Caustic Dweevils to gather anything that is not nailed to the ground. And make sure you check for petals, resources and research projects!”
“Sir yes sir!”
A contingency of 50 winged pikmin start to bring down 25 black and 25 orange pikmin to help with the gathering of whatever may be left in the base.
“Now is our chance!”
The 40 steel shearwings and 40 steel snitchbugs quickly ascend to the flying fortress, while it’s aerialforce is busy.
“Our orders are to find the engine, and drill into it until it is completely destroyed! Then we will either let it crash in a fiery fury, or attempt to get it to land right in front of our base so we can collect it!”
Quickly climbing in altitude, the robots attempt to stay out of sight of the 25 orange pikmin, 25 black pikmin, 15 cloud pikmin, and 4 magnetic pikmin who remained on the ship. It was only 50 feet (in pikmin measurements) between the robots and the engine when the first pikmin that was on the ship heard the mechanical robots flying toward their base.
“Quick! Start the magnetic pulse! And don’t forget to make a wind current Cloud pikmin!”
The base began to run it’s primary defenses, and the orange pikmin quickly began tossing fire at the steel bugs flying toward the ship.
“They will surely take us down! This wind current is too strong! The magnetic pulse is messing with our steering systems as well!”
The commander Steel Shearwing knew that his mission would not end well, but he had an objective and he would do anything necessary to achieve it.
“Group up! Form a V formation so the wind will not affect us as much! Steel Snitchbugs, make a suicide run on those 4 Magnetic pikmin! If they are finished off, take as many cloud pikmin as you can down with you!”
The group divided into two, with the 40 snitchbugs going stright for the magnetic pikmin. With the magnetic pikmin required to focus their efforts on 2 different groups, they were not very effective.
“If only we had more of these magnetic pikmin up here! Orange pikmin, unleash hell on these steel bugs!”
The retaliation was brutal. One by one, the Steel Snitchbugs fell. Finally reaching the top of the fortress, only 15 of the Snitchbugs remained. They did what they had been ordered to do. They ran stright at the magnetic pikmin, killing all 4 but losing every single one of the remaining steel snitchbugs.
“Now turn the attention to those pesky shearwings before they hurt our engine!”
The orange pikmin began their fire barrage on the shearwings.
“Our fellow robots fulfilled their purpose. Press on to the engine!”
The brave shearwings suffered a very similar fate to their snitchbug counterparts, but again a small battalion managed to make it through the fire.
“Sir! Only 8 of us are left! There is no way we can drill the engine in time! What are we going to do?”
The Shearwing captain knew that it was a suicide mission, but they had come farther than even he could have imagined. The determination of his men inspired him, and he knew exactly what he was supposed to do.
“Our efforts will not be in vain! *the shearwing scans the engine schematics, learning of it’s vulnerabilities and weaknesses* Squad one, your job is to take this information back to Bolt. Squad 2, we will provide the distraction. You fought bravely soldiers. Every one of you will be honored for your sacrifice!”
As quickly as he delivered his orders, he and 5 of the remaining Shearwings detach from the engine, and begin to fly upwards toward the main forces that are stationed on the fortress. The remaining 2 shearbugs begin their descent into the cover of the trees, where they would follow them until they reached up with the convoy.
“They are charging us in desperation! Focus on the captain so they lose communications!”
The fire pikmin do just that, firing directly at the captain. 4 Shearwings take a fireball in order to protect their captain, before the captain reaches the dock of the fortress and slaughters 4 orange pikmin, 2 black pikmin, and 3 cloud pikmin before him and his remaining comrade are brought down.
After this quick, 30 second battle took place, General Pikpik hears the exploding of robot chassis in the distance. He turns to see the two fleeing shearwings in the distance.
“What have they done?”
He takes a ball of fire in his hand, and launches it a great distance to hit a tree directly in front of the fleeing shearwings. The tree falls, crushing the furthest shearwing, but leaving one unscathed. General pikpik sees the fallen tree, and a corpse sticking out from under it and assumes that both have been destroyed by the tree.
“There. I SAID NO SURVIVORS!”
As if the battle itself was not brutal enough, General Pikpik destroys everything he can see. He orders his troops to obliterate the remains of the Gyrocopter that had been injured in the recent fight with Carnivorous, and does heavy damage to any project that hasn’t been completed. Where the 2 petal factories were being constructed, the general had a bomb placed and detonated, leaving the place in crumbles. The mobile radar walker and the WAL are set ablaze by the General Himself. The gyrocraft assembly building was also destroyed with a massive electrical blast from the flying fortress itself. The Blast Berry Greenhouse schematics were stolen by general pikpik out of spite, and the building was turned to ruin. All of this destruction… but almost the entire robot army escaped.
“I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN BOLT! YOU AND EVERY ROBOT IN THIS WORLD WILL FALL IN MY NAME! FOR MY NAME IS NO LONGER GENERAL PIKPIK, BUT IS FIRE LORD PIKPIK!” (an Avatar: The Last Airbender reference. Just doesn’t actually have to use this name, it is just there for irony.(PPS. All of his troops are based of that show, in case you haven’t figured it out))

Losses so far

Vo Spader
-2 waterspirits
-7 raiders
+3 iron from scavenging
+30 petals from scavenging

Zol
-5 arachnodes
-38 wogpole spearmen
-15 skitter leafs
-5 skitterskates
-1 suddlefish

General Pikpik (Fire Lord Pikpik)
-1 Elemental Bomb
-6 Rock Bombs
-4 orange pikmin
-2 black pikmin
-3 cloud pikmin
-4 Magnetic pikmin
+basic Blast Berry research (if blast berry greenhouse is researched, 12 days are auto-completed)
+3 iron from scavenging.
+30 petals from scavenging

Bolt
-40 Steel Snitchbugs
-39 Steel Shearwings
-Gyrocopter (Completely destroyed)
Research set-back
Petal Factories (4/40 days each. both require 2 more iron to put back into production)
WAL (12/150 days)
Blast Berry Greenhouse (4/20 days require 1 iron to re-initialize)
Mobile Radar Walker (completely destroyed)
Gyrocraft assembly (4/40 days. Require 3 iron to re-initialize)
+Flying Fortress Schematics (enables "anti-Fortress" Projects that can be researched to exploit weak points)

Zol’s Gambit Part 4

The 10 Skitterskates and 10 arachnodes slowly approach the highly defended home of General Pikpik.
“Our orders are clear: get in, grab what we can, and get out. All of their forces are occupied attacking us at the moment, so now is a prime time for a raid!”
Little did they know, General Pikpik was so sure of his victory, he left all of his brown pikmin, many orange pikmin, and many more back at base!
“Oh no! It is highly defended! What should we do?”
“We can try to sneak in, it looks like they aren’t expecting a counter attack.”
The skitterskates and arachnodes silently scale up the wall, and take out 1 orange pikmin who was on watch. They quickly approach the General’s vault, where it is guarded by a detachment of brown pikmin.
“no way around them… should we make a move? There are only 25 of them.”
“There is no way we can take them all out silently at once. We should kill them quickly, and then grab what we can and run!”
“Good plan! Lets move!”
The Arachnodes drop from above, but are only able to kill 10 of the diggers before they dive into the ground. They come up from under the 10 skitterskates and drag 3 of them down before yelling out “WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!”
The Arachnodes and remaining skitterskates grab what they can out of the vault, securing 85 petals total. They begin to run as fast as they can out, only stopping to kill who they must in order to secure the loot.
The brown pikmin work in groups of 25, to sandtrap their opponents and take out all 7 of the skitterskates without taking any further casualties. The 10 arachnodes avoid the floor, and as such are safe from the brown pikmin. Sadly, because their webs are flammable, the orange pikmin begin to burn the webs. 7 arachnodes are roasted alive, but they manage to take 15 additional orange troops with them. The 3 remaining arachnodes make it out of the base.
“Wow that was close… we only have 15 petals to show for our work too? This is no good.”
After clearing around 100 feet from the base, they hear an unsettling sound. It sounds like a rock has collided with the earth in such a large force it would rip it in two. They turn around to see a massive fireball being hurled in their direction from the flame cannon on the base wall. Because of the size, they are unable to dodge it and are instantly disintegrated. The angry brown pikmin spend the next few minutes gathering up the 85 petals that were almost stolen, and returning them to the vault.
“Stupid bugs… did they really think we would fall for that?”


All at once ,all of the battle zones begin to cool down. The sky is a poetic shade of red, reflecting the amount of needless blood spilt today. All armies who participated quietly return to their bases, and tally up their casualties.

General Pikpik: “This is just the beginning. We will not stop until all of your kind are eradicated from this planet!”
Vo Spader: “My poor people… my poor ship… and what do we have to show from it? Just bodies… bodies everywhere…”
Zol: “That was close… all of those brave soldiers who gave their lives… without them, we would have lost everything.”
Bolt: *the only surviving Steel Shearwing arrives, delivering it’s datalog. “Now it truly begins… are you ready for the wrath of the Mechanical Demons General Pikpik? I now hold every bit of knowledge I need to bring that flying fortress down…”

From afar…
Captain Chaos: “Why did this have to happen? Why did it have to come to war?”
Clapton: “Did my fallen pikmin at the Battle of Carnivorous teach you guys nothing about working together? You are killing each other out!”
Pik Gates: “This was not necessary… we could have written a peace agreement… we could have prevented all this bloodshed.”


Final Losses

Vo Spader
-17 waterspirits
-35 raiders
-40 savages
+3 iron from scavenging
+30 petals from scavenging
- battleship


Zol
-20 arachnodes
-38 wogpole spearmen
-65 skitter leafs
-20 skitterskates
-1 suddlefish
-20 Scornets

General Pikpik (Fire Lord Pikpik)
-1 Elemental Bomb
-6 Rock Bombs
-38 light blue pikmin
- 30 blue pikmin
-23 orange pikmin
-18 black pikmin
-10 brown pikmin
-50 flying pikmin
-5 cloud pikmin
-4 Magnetic pikmin
+basic Blast Berry research (if blast berry greenhouse is researched, 12 days are auto-completed)
Flying Fortress damaged (30 day repair project required)
Ice ship damaged (12 day repair project required)
+3 iron from scavenging.
+30 petals from scavenging

Bolt
-40 Steel Snitchbugs
-39 Steel Shearwings
-Gyrocopter (Completely destroyed)
Research set-back
Petal Factories (4/40 days each. both require 2 more iron to put back into production)
WAL (12/150 days)
Blast Berry Greenhouse (4/20 days require 1 iron to re-initialize)
Mobile Radar Walker (completely destroyed)
Gyrocraft assembly (4/40 days. Require 3 iron to re-initialize)
+Flying Fortress schematics (outlines weak points and allows for construction of “anti-Fortress” projects.)

That was really well written. The right amount of panic happened. Liked that due to the long battle it was split into parts. I should have just went with the casualty plan on the raid but it did look safe. Actually the original plan was to destroy the resources as well but that'd be even worse for the economy. Maybe more description on weapons piercing Armor or things bouncing off of armor, didn't really get the sense of the equipment advantage of my units besides the simultaneous snipe. Only thing I'd need more clarification was the shots on the ice ball and if Pikminite would have been more effective on the ice and that's more of a War Master's question.

Insert Questions:

Wait no water calvary thingys were used, or any ground forces for that matter?

Err this was a day battle right?

Were the Thermal Goggles helping at all?

Might need some details on equipment lost/destroyed/gained too that's a bit of a mess.

Meanwhile At Zol's Base

"What's taking so long?" Thought a Wollywog veteran of the plant fight. They've been in position for what seemed like forever waiting for the raiding force to fall back. Getting extremely bored a lone Scronet flew off to figure what happened. Troops face palmed or did their equivalent at thier over eager friend but held position still waiting. Another half hour goes by before the Scronet flys back with the remaining wogpoles in the raid following by river. The Wolloywog looked in surprise at the the fact that there were that many survivors before realizing that the Revive Tome must have been used. The troops in base got ready for the sounds of enemies, flying, skittering, digging, or floating surely being right behind them after regrouping.

" Err they went back, Zol thinks they want to avoid even more casualties. Also, Can you get another Guillotine blade? He wants to erect a grave for all that have fallen at the river. He's busy looking for any wounded enemy soldiers to get some names from with some of our remaining troops from the raid. ", stated one of the returning Wogpoles.

The troops stood in shock that they weren't going to fight the flying electric fortress today. As cheers went on the Veterans of the Plant monster incident began to bring the Requested blade to Zol. The Veteran Wolloywog looked back at the partying units, mostly dancing before dragging the blade with a smile.

- 1 Guillotine Blade

This was perfect deviantsword!!!

I think you didn't forget much, I totally approve your writing ;P