A/N: Recently I have passed my second year on this site so I would like to thank those who read my stories despite this account being practically dead. School has been a serious inhibitor to my creativity and free time to write, draw and undertake personal fulfillment.

I am also obligied to thank ThePeaWithGoggles, since she has been with me from the start, literally. If it wasn't for her, my stories wouldn't have gone anywhere and you wouldn't be reading this. And while she has suffered a similar fate as myself, I still recommend reading all of her stories, they are some of the best.

Further shoutouts go to TastyBlueCrayon, thanks for supporting me when I needed it. Further more, GamerGirlandCo, yuancorpuz, chumpatrol1, FlimsyCone, Dorylus, Kitty1353, Alex-olo-gy, MiracleBreaker and TimeMan63, without your stories, I probably would have gone insane by now and the older authors (Those who probably don't write anymore), your stories pretty much inspired me so yeah.

To the newer authors writing the fourth generation of stories, good luck and keep going.

In a large house in northern suburbia, a Peashooter named Pete and a Fire Flower named Alison, who wore a pair of crooked, silver Aviator glasses, looked at each other with looks of shock and embarrassment. The two plants hadn't seen each other for 12 years and when they finally met, Alison had some shocking news for Pete. The Peashooter named Pete turned his attention to a small Fire Peashooter who stood awkwardly in the doorframe that divided the lounge and the hallway and said with amazement in his voice.

"I'm a father. So you're my son?" The Fire Pea nodded hesitantly and said.
"I-I guess so. M-my name is Desmond." Alison giggled, the flame on the head of her son started to change from a light orange to a dark red. Pete smiled and said to himself.
"Hmm, Desmond Lathyrus...Desmond Helianthus, either name works." The Peashooter stopped talking to himself and asked Alison. "So, I guess he took your family name?"
Alison giggled and said.
"No actually, he asked what his fathers family name was. I told him it was Lathyrus and he seemed to prefer it over Helianthus. I guess it is easier to spell at school." Pete gave Alison a questioning look and asked.
"School?" Alison giggled again as Desmond said.
"Well school is a place that all young plants go to now. It's where we find and train for a peacetime job." Pete had a look of absolute shock on his face before asking.
"So they don't teach you the basics of fighting?" Desmond shook his head and said.
"No, unless we have certain...qualities, we aren't trained to fight. I can't even hyper like some of the other peashooters." Pete's expression changed from shock to anger. Alison gave Pete a worried look before the mad Peashooter said.
"That's ridiculous! Look, now that i'm here, I am going to teach the basics of survival." Desmond looked jubilant as a weird sensation over came the small Fire Peashooter. Before anyone knew what was happening, Desmond was hypering all over the place.

When Desmond finally calmed down, Pete went over to the young fire pea and said.
"Well done! I didn't even tell you anything and you just hypered all over this room. Granted your mother will kill us for making such a large mess." Looking around,
Desmond realized the mess he had made and said.
"I'm so sorry mum. I-I promise to clean it up." Alison giggled and said.
"It's fine. I've never seen you so happy before." Desmond looked up and smiled, it really was the best he had felt in a long time.

After Alison cleaned up the mess in the lounge that her son, Desmond, had left, Pete asked her.
"Why did you look so shocked to see me? I mean your eyes were red so I guess you were crying?" Alison looked away from the peashooter and said.
"Not long before you arrived, I made a phone call in an attempt to contact you." Alison began to tear up as she said. "They told me that there were only two plants with your name and apparently both of them were killed in action." By this time Alison was crying again. Pete went over to her and said.
"You know they could never kill me." Pete's tone changed from a comforting one to a questioning one when he said. "Did you say two, were KIA?" Alison looked at the befuddled peashooter next to her, nodded and said.
"Yes, why do you ask?" Pete recoiled from her in shock and began muttering.
"No, nononononono. It can't be." Alison looked at the shocked peashooter and asked.
"What can't be?" Pete had tears in his eyes when he looked at Alison and said.
"If what you said is true. Then I have no family left alive." This time Alison recoiled in shock and asked.
"You can't mean...no. What happened." Pete was on the verge of crying when he said.
"I made a ridiculous deal with my brother. He suggested I fake my death to make me invisible to L.E.A.F but he would take my job as leader of Sierra under my name. That way I was dead to L.E.A.F while alive to the remaining plants in my team. He had a pair of dog tags with my name on them. That must mean..." Pete couldn't carry on but Alison knew what the crying peashooter next to her was trying to say, his brother was dead. Alison comforted the crying peashooter while trying to hold back her own tears, the memory she was thinking of could wait.

While he knew that his mum and dad were probably discussing important events of the last 12 years in the lounge, Desmond couldn't help but wonder, how was he going to explain to his dad of his special skill. When plants started to find out about it at school, they started to pick on him more then they already did, especially the other peashooters who had beaten the grass out of him on multiple occasions. Another thing Desmond couldn't help but wonder was what his dad was going to teach him about fighting. He wanted to know badly because, until his dad taught him how to defend himself, he would keep coming home with a fresh batch of bruises.

When Pete started to feel better, Alison said to the sad Peashooter next to her.
"You know, you still have me and your son, we are family." The sad peashooter looked at her and smiled weakly. They ended up saying.
"Yes, I guess you're right. I will have to visit L.E.A.F at some point." Alison gave Pete a look of confusion and said.
"I wonder how they're gonna react seeing you aren't dead." Pete laughed at the thought of the reactions of the plants at L.E.A.F. Before the two plants could continue their conversation, Desmond walked in and said.
"Uh...Dad, I have something to show you."