Disclaimer: Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 belongs to PopCap.
Author's Note: Welcome to my story! Sometimes when I play GW2 as the sunflower and revive a teammate, I gesture the "Happy" taunt and get a gesture back. Other times, I'd find Zombies idling around doing other things and got taunts from them. Thus, came this story. With that all said, I hope you enjoy the read.
Why would plants join and stay with the Zombies?
A light-blue faced shadow flower sporting a mask thought this as she gazed up at the night sky.
Maybe they were tricked and trapped?
She kept thinking to herself the many answers to her unanswered question with a look of wonder.
"Br-ainz!"
The shadow flower looked down from her stargazing and saw an All-Star zombie in basketball clothes dribble a ball slowly before throwing it towards the basket of the court he was in. Unfortunately, he had thrown it too hard to where it flew over the backboard and landed on the grass.
"Ah... Brainz..."
The nocturnal sunflower laughed at the poor shot. Normally, she'd be on her way back to her home when a zombie showed up, but for tonight, she decided to spectate this player.
It must be pretty hard playing that game as a Zombie. She thought as she stretched her roots and arms.
Sure enough, she saw the All-Star miss the next eight shots from all sorts of different angles. On the ninth one, he was shooting from the three-point range to the right of the rim and looking almost directly at her.
Is he looking at me?
When the ball missed the basket, it bounced once on the cement before starting to roll straight to her direction. The All-Star grumbled before sprint-dashing to the ball.
...!
The shadow flower panicked and was about to turn to run when she saw the zombie in the blue and white jersey stop his dash.
"Ey!" the All-Star greeted with a wave to the plant. Then he pointed at the ball and motioned it towards him.
"Huh?" the blue sunflower asked in confusion. "Me?" She went to the basketball close by to her and picked it up with her arms.
He's not going to chase me?
With both arms and with all her strength, she threw the ball right into the zombie's hands.
"Whoo! Nyuh-nyuh!" the shadow flower smiled and cheered at her first ever throw being successful.
The undead athletic laughed at the sight and flashed a thumbs-up to her.
"Yeah-ha-ha." The basketball player turned around and was about to run back to the court, but the shadow flower grew curious.
"Hey. What's your name?" To this, the zombie turned around and had a look of surprise.
"Ed. Sunflower?"
"My name's Saidy. Nice to meet you, Ed!" the blue sunflower introduced herself excitedly with a wave.
"Brainz... Nice meet you, too, Shady." the undead person obviously struggled a lot more than she did-and with her name mispronounced on top of it.
"H-Hey, it's Saidy, not Shady." the shadow flower stomped one of her roots and folded her arms.
"Sorry, Shady." Ed apologized with effort.
"Whatever..." The nocturnal flower shook her head and rolled her eyes. "Are you going to keep practicing?"
"Yeah. Trying make one tonight."
That made Saidy realize just how hard it was for him. He had only been playing for ten minutes and missed every shot. She had laughed at first, but now she knew he was trying.
"O-Okay." Then a thought came across her mind. "I always cheered for the plants when they were feeling down. Why not him, too?" Saidy looked up at the night sky briefly before focusing back on her zombie companion. "Hey, Ed, I'll be right back. Stay here, okay?"
"Buh-bye!" Ed waved at her before dashing back to the basketball court to keep on trying.
With that, Saidy took off running to her home. Along the way of her nightly run on the streets, though, her emotions are interrupted by her own doubts.
Am I really going to do this? If other plants find out I was cheerleading for him, they might think I'm on their side and kick me out of Suburbia.
After two minutes of dashing, the shadow flower approached the door to a light blue-colored home. The door was slightly creaked open already because in the past she always had trouble turning the doorknob. Saidy pushed the door open with her right arm and entered the home.
"Hah..." Saidy sighed with a mix of worry and happiness.
Inside the blue room around her were a few hung-up rally flags in all sorts of colors. There was a silver medal for 2nd place in a plaque under the small window. There was also a picture of her sporting a pink derby hat, purple glasses, and pink foam fingers smiling on the wall next to the plaque.
2nd place... That other sunflower messed up twice and still won... So stupid...
When thinking about her cheerleading memories, she decided that she'd do it-she'd cheer for the undead basketball player. It was her decision and not anyone else's.
Okay.
With her mind set, the shadow flower went to the closet. She reached up, took off the black mask she sported and grabbed a pair of wooden frames spray-painted silver to put on.
She then opened a drawer nearby that had pom-poms in almost every color combination possible.
"Mm-mm." Saidy shook her head in denial and opened another drawer to find a pair of golden pom-poms. She placed them on the end of her arms and nodded in approval. "Ah-ha."
After getting herself set up, she fidgeted with her front door to make it appear closed and ran off towards the park under the night sky.
Hm...
Saidy slowed down her run when one after another, memories came to mind-memories that had always hurt her feelings.
"Wow. A shadow flower... She's going to be one of those super sunflowers that's going to help us win the fight against the Zombies." an ice peashooter once said.
Everyone always expected something great from me.
"Wha-What was that?! That was so cool! You'll beat up lots of Zombies with that!" a fire flower once exclaimed with surprise and joy at seeing Saidy use a Solar Flare beam to destroy ten tackle dummies in ten seconds.
To use that on the Zombies...? And what if I missed and hit a plant by accident...?
The one usage of that great power had scared her from using it again.
"You're going to be a cheerleader? Why? You'd do much better joining the fight for Suburbia." a power chomper one time told her when she had only just grabbed the sign-up sheet.
They tell me all these things like they know me.
Before another bad memory could return, Saidy saw the basketball court in sight. In it was the athletic zombie dribbling the basketball at a slow pace.
Well, here I go. He'd better not laugh.
She entered the court and stood on the outside of the huge white rectangle. Ed continued his slow dribbling before grabbing the ball in front of him with both hands folded inward and launching it up like a catapult. The shot had a great angle, but he clearly threw the ball with too much power and had it land onto the grass some twenty feet away.
"Ah... Br-ainz." He ran to get the ball and ran back to the court. But along his way back…
"Na-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. O-whoo!" The shadow flower smiled, stuck her right arm out, and shaked it as she was turning to the right. Then she put that arm down, stuck out her left, and shook it as she was turning to the left. What she had done was like someone in a garden having fun with a watering can.
The All-Star in basketball apparel merely stood there. Then he smiled and started laughing in a deep voice.
"Daw. Huh-huh-huh-huh." Even though she didn't show it, this made Saidy upset. And she would've stayed that way if not for what he said next. "Thanks, Shady. You da best."
Hearing that made Saidy beam a bright smile.
"Hmhm. Want to be friends, Ed?"
"Yeah-ha-ha." the zombie agreed right away and flashed a thumbs-up.
Out of nowhere, the two's attention turns to a gate.
"Alright, let's break it down!"
The loud voice came from a boom box that was being carried by another All-Star in basketball clothes, only in black and red. And the undead athlete wasn't alone as he was accompanied by an armed imp with an Elvis hairdo wearing a leather jacket, a fully equipped foot soldier wearing a pair of black sunglasses, and a computer scientist carrying many healing stations in place of his code corrupter weapon.
One zombie was enough to make Saidy scared. Four was the most she's ever come across and she was already quivering in her roots.
"Shady, go home." It was disappointing that she wouldn't see him score his first shot of the night, but she nodded in agreement and took off running.
"You ready to get creamed again, Ed?" Saidy heard the boom box exclaim this and made her feel confused, yet awful.
He's been practicing to try to beat that other zombie.
Part of her wanted to stay and cheer for him, but the imp had his blasters, the soldier had everything he was known to have, and the scientist had lots of healing stations. If she did something wrong, it'd be over.
Nyuh!
She entered her home and eased the door to where it looked closed. She then rooted herself into the dirt ground where a few floorboards were missing and looked up at the night sky through the small window.
Still though...
Saidy closed her eyes and smiled as she remembered that short little moment after she cheered for Ed.
That made me so happy. Maybe tomorrow night we'll...
And the shadow flower slept soundly as her head faced the starry sky.