So I just recently took a look to see how my book is doing. 107k views, 8 power stones, 213 collections, that might not be something. Hell it definitely rookie numbers compared to other fics that people just eat up like more popular anime fics and certain games
But to me it's huge, and I just would like to thank you all. From passersby's who just checking out my story. To the readers who enjoy my writing and everyone who donated power stones. You don't need to, definitely other hidden gems who deserve it more than my story but I thank you anyways.
Warning here I plan to do something new and dark here for this small parter. It's not going to be a trend, however I feel like th occasional spice needs to give a fic flavor if that's understandable. but I feel like those who don't like dark stuff to be given a proper heads up and just skip this chapter if you dislike it.
Anyways this is paaaaaaart one, tittle too long for the chapter and I don't think yall se the PT 1 lol
With that out the way let's get on with the story!
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Rip "Hraaaah!"
pop
The news paper zombie died under the barrage of acid shots from the scaredy shrooms and puff shrooms. Each plant worked in harmony with improvement from their gardener drilling teamwork to better cordinate with one another.
"Excellent work guys that's what I love to see! Keep it up!" Jason shouted behind his fungus themed plant defensive lines. Sun shrooms fully grown concentrated to produce sun for the other defenders giving the entire team nonestop energy to keep fighting.
"Alright Hypno shroom your up!" Jason shouted grabbing said mushroom who looked zooted out of its mind to process any of Jason words. A foot ball zombie just arrived charging at fast speeds like an actual foot ball player. The zombie tanked and soaked up damage like a sponge heading for the swarm of puff shrooms who tried to stop it. A fine shroom jumped/bounced infront of its smaller siblings to shield the young with his body, to be a living shield.
He would rather die defending his brothers and sisters than sit back letting them be eaten even if they are weaker and come in expendable numbers. Fume shroom blew a barrage of acidic bubbles at the foot ball zombie that hardly slowed it down, other shroom acid shots crashed into the foot ball zombie but it did nothing to stop him. Simply damaged the helmet further.
Fortunately no sacrifice is needed when Jason chucked a hyonoshroom like a foot ball straight infront of the foot ball zombie. The Hypnoshroom gave no reaction to being practically yeeted. It was too zooted out the wazoo to react much to anything. The football player zombie immediately bent down to rip into the Hypno shroom and eat the plant.
Ripping into the mushroom caused a purple ooze like substance to leak out wherever the plant is wounded. All it took being one plant and the foot ball zombie became hypnotized.
The effect became immediate with the foot ball zombie becoming purple with some kind of weird effect noise playing briefly. The zombie turned around charging straight towards the regular brown coats behind him.
Jason felt a tiny bit of disgust seeing the zombies preform cannibalism upon their own when hypnotized. But it was better a zombie to take the damage or 'sacrifice' than one of his own beloved plants.
"Interesting, going to have to run some tests with the Hypno shroom. Beldorion write that down please to remind me later"
Beldorion opened the note pad and started writing down casually like a battle for the lawn isn't taking place. Jason brings his cup of coffee to his lips and takes a sip only to recoil when he burned his tongue a little. "Ow ow ow-"
The last zombie of the night fell down allowing all the plants to relax for the remainder of the night. Jason did his morning- well nightly ritual, and inspected the last zombie pockets and obtained the ice shroom in a seed packet. "Ice shroom would have interest tests we can run-"
Loud writing on paper sound effect
"Thank you for taking note of that for the future Beldorion." Jason pocketed the seed pack so he could gently pat his pea shooter on the head making Beldorion do a closed eye smile at Jason.
Looking around himself Jason took a status of his mushroom plants on hand. The original puff shroom generation he obtained and planted all seem to have grown considerably when they were all first planted. Jason theorized that the puff shroom the pre evolution to the fume shroom, scaredy shroom being a side evolution of sorts.
While it may see obvious to most, to Jason he rather be correct first in his assumption then just assume without all the facts. Jason next guess on why scaredy shroom and puff shroom even have seed packets is due to demand in needing these puff shroom variants rather than waiting for puff shroom to evolve into either.
It is more convenient to plant a fume shroom than just wait for a puff shroom to fully grow. So far the theory on puff shroom able to grow into a fume shroom seemed to be the case day by day.
"Alright guys keep up the great work, I'll be back in the morning to relive you all of your night shift with our morning crew. Come get me if there anything serious. Beldorion let's go"
Letting out a yawn Jason and taking a stretch, Jason turned his coffee cup upside down and poured all the coffee into the grass next to him. As soon Jason and Beldorion left into the house several of the mushrooms nearby that saw Jason pour out his coffee into the grass begin to move closer, curious in what their planter poured out.
The gathered mushrooms decided they should all have a sip of this mysterious liquid on the floor and not waste a single drop.
-meanwhile-
"Alright bud you can go head to bed, I'll just check on the rest of your siblings. See you in the morning Bel." Yawning out the words Jason pats Beldorion on the head a few times making the peashooter lean happily against Jason hand. Then Jason made his rounds in the house like mansion from Crazy Dave construction.
Beldorion stretched his leaves and roots and felt drowsiness seep in.
Beldorion made his way over to one of the various rooms his fellow plants have turned into their room. There of course is the green house but multiple plants preferred the luxary of the comfort from a bad.
Like Beldorion who one of the first pea shooters to be planted. Beldorion reached his room and opened the door with a leaf as slowly he could, which only made it creek very loudly causing the peashooter to wince. Peaking his head inside the peashooter saw the other plants asleep in his room did not awaken.
This room in particular is large enough to fit two bunk beds and a race car bed. Everyone in the shared room gets to have one night to sleep on the bed then the next night plant in line gets to use it.
Tonight is Beldorion turn. His four fellow plant roommates are on the other beds, one on each bunk. Each plant in the room being two fellow pea shooters, one repeater and a chomper who has a night cap and a teddy bear next to him.
Beldorion stretched one last time letting out his own yawn then with his roots put on his own nightcap, crawled under the blanket and promptly went to sleep.
Tonight is a good night Beldorion would say.
-Back with Jason-
Tonight is not a good night. Jason heart is racing like crazy as the feeling of panic starts to seep into his being. He checked the entire place from top to bottom and still couldn't find them.
Sweetie and her sisters in the SAS aren't in their rooms. "Those damn girls!" Jason hissed out loud to him when he finally got a lead in the form of the backward door being unlocked. Looking outside he saw several trash cans piled up enough to where it reached a height where the sunflowers could climb the fence.
"They snuck up…while being grounded! Those little!- when I get my hands on them!"
Jason never had a clue of what having a kid is like, but this is perhaps the closest he'll feel for getting angered when your kid purposely sneaks out at night after getting punished leaving you worried on their whereabouts.
Jason face felt hot and his heart would not slow to a normal pace. He didn't know how long the girls been gone for, he didn't think clearly or much at all and simply acted in the moment grabbing quickly what he could.
He felt the desperate need to catch up, bring the girls back to the safety of home. Who knew what dangerous boys- zombies are out at night! Their sunflowers they couldn't possibly protect themselves!
Jason opened a nearby room where he stored the cherrybombs and grabbed one and shoved it into his coat, then grabbed his trusty shovel. The few night plants that saw Jason run around in a panic looked at each other confused. But sensing the urgency decided to follow after Jason.
Their little search party consisted of a few puff shrooms. A trio of fume shrooms, a single scaredy shroom and a repeater who couldn't sleep. "Come on double time guys!"
Jason urged his small search group, they followed the trail left behind by the missing group of sunflowers deep into Neighborville.
"Haaaaaaa….."
"Brainzzzzzz"
Jason slowed down making his group slow down with him and he quickly crouched down to hide behind a car, he quietly gestured for his plants to follow him which they did with no hesitation.
No sooner did they hide with Jason, a large group of zombies shamble across one street to another up ahead. Mindlessly heading to a destination unknown, the group being too large to take head on with their small team and with how many tanky zombie variants made up a decent portion of the zombie group.
Seeing the large group only made Jason anxiety rise up. The thought of going back to get reinforcements for the search crossed his mind strongly but he shoved it down.
Only because of too many unfavorable variables that made him reconsider. The layout of Neighborville is still greatly unfamiliar to him, there a good chance the zombies out numbered him greatly away from his little area of safety.
He could bring all of his plants for a massive search party, however he didn't feel comfortable with that either. The zombies for whatever reason when attacking his house focused on invading in one direction allowing a nice kill zone and a concentrated focus on one front, but a large scale battle in city? His plants don't have such experience especially if they need to fight in every direction splitting their focus. A battle on several fronts did not seem good, especially from what Jason remembered in history.
He has not trained them for such a thing, yet.
Boing Boing!
"What is it? You found something?" One of the puff shrooms jumped up and down trying to get Jason and the others attention. Once the zombie hoard walked passed only when they all got out of hiding to search for the sunflowers.
The puff shroom showed the group and Jason a few petals on the floor that belonged to a sun flower. Jason picked them up inspecting them briefly before looking around thinking deeply. Where would this group of sunflowers go?
They resumed their search down the street sticking close together to not be separated, each plant and Jason looking for any sign of the sunflowers. They hid whenever a big group of zombies came close.
This led to Jason and his plants hiding in a dumpster together and waiting for several minutes for the hoard to slowly shamble on by.
Several minutes went on by with no signs of the sunflowers until-
Tap tap
Jason turned his head when the repeater in their group patted his leg with their leaf and pointed at a direction causing Jason to look. There were multiple broken cars and glass windows from buildings. "We have to be close guys."He said softly as he looked around himself, with all the damaged vehicles he knew they are close now.
Inspecting the area as puff shrooms and scaredy shroom took watch, Jason found remnants of pea rounds splatter all over the cars. Including some frozen pea rounds with frozen chunks still at the scene.
He felt his anxiety start to rise once more. All this damage must have caused a lot of noise, noise that could put the sunflowers in danger. Danger they had no decent means of protecting themselves besides their form of artillery.
They had to been firing these peas from atop of a building but which one is the question.
"Okay guys here the plan, we are going to climb a fire escape right? Get to the top of a building and see if we can find any rooftops having one of our slingshots on it. Hopefully their still on one…."
He hoped with all his being that the sunflowers are still alive.
-to be continued-
Good grief I had great struggle posting this one. But surprise another chapter so soon and not in several months!
This chapter was supposed to be posted in like half a month early ish, but I got sick then all sorts of other Bull crap got in my way till I finally had a moment of peace to commit.
I'm probably gonna post another chapter now from another story so they don't remain covered in dust, I'll be back here with another chapter eventually:p
See yall soon!