Pikmin 2 - Plot

Plot

After escaping the distant planet in the first game, Captain Olimar returns to his home planet Hocotate to learn that the company he works for, Hocotate Freight, is in severe debt, after a payload of golden carrots was supposedly stolen. Because of this debt, the company was forced to sell everything, including Olimar's ship. Shocked, Olimar drops the bottle cap that he brought back from the planet. The nearby Hocotate Ship determines that the bottle cap Olimar retrieved from the distant planet has a considerable value of 100 pokos. The company president, hearing this, decides to send Olimar and his co-worker Louie to seek out the planet where they quickly reunite with the Pikmin creatures, who help in scavenging the treasures, in order to pay off the debt. Upon doing so, Olimar departs for Hocotate but leaves Louie behind. Upon telling the president, he decides to help Olimar find Louie and claim any additional treasures still left undiscovered. Louie is later discovered and rescued from a deep cave. Upon collecting all the treasures, the trio depart the distant planet.

In an unlockable video, it is revealed that the golden carrot shipment mentioned at the game's beginning was not actually stolen, but in fact, consumed by Louie, who had been sent to deliver the freight but couldn't contain his hunger. Realizing his mistake, Louie turned back and fabricated a story of the cargo being stolen by space bunnies, thus setting in motion the events of the game.