Our first day here was…something else…

"Well to start off, Mystic and I both came here together expecting to become heroes, I suppose, but you know, we were just kids back then. We were greeted by Dave who had completely caught us off guard with his babbling and didn't understand not a single word he said." Ginger began.

"His niece and other plants had to translate for us all the time-"Mystical cut in, aimlessly staring out a window.

"Are you telling the New-Seed about the time you guys came?" The three girls heard someone say. They all turned their heads to see the Chomper, Bane, from earlier asked curiously.

He then focused on Mystical as she looked at him, a worried look on her face while he smiled without hesitation. Mystical looked even more worried than before and tried to stop him from adding on, "Please n-" but it was too late.

"These two caused total chaos!" He bellowed, letting out a laugh- "Ginger started a plant-food fight and Artimis was so-oo pissed-"

"Language!" A Dark-Flower next to him snapped, joining the conversation now. "He was very upset that it had happened and they both had ran off and the others had to clean it up." The flower finished for the story for the Chomper.

"I was getting to that part, Demetri!" He whined loudly. "But that's not all this one had done-"The male Dark-Flower began, pointing a petal at the grinning Peashooter- she managed to get the majority of the plants to T.P Zomboss's estate and almost got all of them-"

"You mean us, including you..." Ginger corrected trailing off intentionally causing Demetri to paused for a second before speaking again. "Almost got all of…us…caught."
"You got in on that?" Blair sounded extremely surprised, although she had not known many plants here- she had known that Dark-flower, Demetri, to be a rather detached plant who didn't participate in many…optional group activities.

"The only reasons I had went is because I thought it was a mission or whatever."
"Yes, because the bags of toilet paper weren't enough of a clue for you." Ginger hummed. "Oh- I remember that!" Bane suddenly spoke up. "Zomboss sent Dave so many complaint letters that day!"

He began to laugh along with everyone else when Blair look over at Mystic who looked nervous…too nervous.

Why was that? The cactus wondered looking back at the group.
"What about Mystical?" The cactus spoke up as all eyes shifted to the sunflower who seemed to be backed into a non-existent corner.

"U-u-u-m—H-h-hi.." She stuttered horribly as she tried to force a nervous smile. The group quieted down as Ginger looked around. "I don't see him…so I it's ok to talk about it."
"Him?" The cactus hummed curiously.
The group of plants let out a loud 'Ooo-ing' sound as Mystical's face seemed to grow a soft green but she stayed silent while she looked away from the group. "When Mystical got here- she had a major crush on a pea-shooter, she still has a crush on him. The sunflower shook her head quickly.

"N-no I d-d-d-on't we'r-r-re ju-u-ust fr-riends, jus-t f-riends!" She was stuttering even worse now. "She would get all quiet and shy when he's around, she stutters so much when he asks her the simplest of things-"

"That is not true!" She exclaimed.

"My Mystic- You would talk my ears (If I had any) off about him all the time!" Ginger paused for a moment, "You still do." Ginger mumbled that part.
"That still going on?" Demetri sounded a bit curious.

"How did that happen?" Blair mused, looking at Mystical. "Well-" Ginger began-"

"Let Mystical tell it!" Bane cut in.

"Yeah, I want to hear it from her point of view." Blair smiled at the embarrassed Sunflower before her. "T-there's n-n-nothing going on be-between us but, i-i-f you g-guys in-insist…"

"A month after, we arrived-" She began intently, her stutter going away. "It hadn't taken Ginger that long to get used to all of Crazy Dave's form of communication but I still couldn't understand him so in a rush, Artimis was assigned to translate for me." She paused for a second, looking down, toying with her petals(/Hands?). "Then after I didn't need him to translate for me anymore, he told me that he liked hanging out with me and…"
This time she went silent for even longer, a soft smile tugging at her mouth.

"Awwww!" Ginger cooed loudly.

"Artimis?!" They heard Bane say loudly and somewhat dramatically.

"Why are you saying his name like that?" Ginger asked as she twitched away from the loud Chomper.

"Because I had heard of Missy likin' a peashooter, but I never knew the name of em'." He explained a large smile returning upon his face. "And I never would have thought it was big-boss shooter."

Blair let out a soft chuckle as she thought of stone-cold Artimis liking someone. Not that she though it wasn't possible, she had only met the Peashooter a couple of times and seen him running around with one thing or the other to do since he was in charge of a whole base full of plants. It was just that he was always serious, no nonsense and also a little bit scary based on the story that she had heard about him. Mystical must've really gotten to the soft jelly in the middle of the hard shell that was and still is, Artimis.