It took around 4 days for a message to arrive from L.E.A.F summoning me and my chosen team to their hidden Headquarters somewhere deep in suburbia. My team hadn't changed since just before the tide change, so I decided to keep it that way. My team consisted of Wulf, Alison, Peter, Cole, Elanor and myself. When I received the message from a canister dropped in through my office window, I literally jumped out the window onto the lawn expecting the canister to release a purple gas that didn't react well with plants. When it didn't, I went up to my office and opened the canister cautiously, I expected something to fire out of it. When nothing did, I was disappointed, there was only a slip of paper with an important note inside it. Alison and Wulf came rushing into my office a few seconds later, Alison asked.
"What in the name of Dave just happened? I'm out enjoying the sun and I hear smashing glass and you flying out of your window." I laughed inside and said to the flustered Fire Sunflower in front of me.
"You know how the foot soldier elites throw canisters of gas, well this," I held up the canister and continued, "flew in through my window. I assumed it to be a gas cannister so I jumped. The only thing in it though was a note from L.E.A.F." I held up the note, Wulf asked.
"What's on the note?" I read it aloud.

*To Pete and his team. You are needed at L.E.A.F headquarters for evaluation and, if you pass successfully, induction into L.E.A.F. You all have 1 day to prepare,
Crazy Dave will pick you all up tomorrow at noon. Be prepared and ready by then.*

Alison asked.
"So, who is in your team?" I looked at her, stifled a laugh and said.
"Don't worry, I may not like the thought of you getting hurt, but you." Alison's smile widened substantially. I continued. "Wulf, Peter, Elanor and Cole." Wulf smiled and left to get ready for the coming day. Alison hugged me and said.
"You know what this means right?" I hugged her back and asked.
"What Alison, what does this mean?" We stopped hugging and she said.
"You could take me out to lunch like you promised sooner than we thought." She started giggling, I must be blushing. I told her.
"I wish it were that easy, we have to pass that test tomorrow, plus the war won't be over in a night." Alison nodded, said goodbye and went and got ready. I stayed in my office for a few minutes and wondered, what would the test be like. Without coming to a conclusion, I joined Alison in our room and prepared a travel pack for tomorrow. I packed the essentials, water, food and a medi-pack, just incase one of the sunflowers can't get to me when i'm injured, personal experience of course.

The rest of day passed in a blur, I told Peter, Cole and Elanor to get ready and I put Felicity, one of the 4 cacti in charge during my absence. Alison, Wulf, Peter,
Cole, Elanor and I waited out on the lawn for Crazy Dave and his flying RV. Around 5 minutes past noon, Crazy Dave arrived and picked us up. We appeared to be the only plants the humans picked up. The flight to the L.E.A.F Hq was uneventful, the only thing that really happened was Cole got motion sick. I tried to open a window for the chomper to vomit out of, but I couldn't get it open fast enough and I got covered in the chompers saliva. I went through my pack and wasted all of my water just washing the saliva off. Thankfully Dave gave me a bottle of water he kept spare in his fridge. I thanked the human and sat in a different part of the RV, my first seat was covered in Cole's saliva. After around half an hour of flying Crazy Dave landed and let us out.

L.E.A.F's base was huge, a giant metallic structure created from some of the toughest metal discovered. I'm amazed, it looked like the zombies haven't found it yet.
I lead the team to what appeared to be a door. As I did so, a strangely feminine voice said.
"Who is this?" I thought for a second and said into the communications device next to the door.
"Uh, Pete." The feminine voice sounded disappointed as she said.
"Pete who?" I shook my head and better explained myself.
"Pete, I'm the peashooter from southern Suburbia. I'm here with my team for an evaluation by L.E.A.F." The feminine voice apoligised.
"Sorry sir, security is a priority here." The door clicked open and we walked in. The space we entered was huge, there were plants running everywhere doing their daily duties. I was approached by a Fire Cactus who said.
"Welcome Pete, and accomplices, please follow me, there is a lot to do." We followed the Fire Cactus to a door opposite the main front door.

We entered the room to be greeted by an Agent Pea who introduced themselves.
"I am Jack, I run testing here at L.E.A.F." I shook pods with Jack and introduced myself and my team.
"Well, I am Pete, this is Alison, Wulf, Peter, Cole and Elanor." Jack nodded and continued.
"I will be testing you as a group. You have to face five waves of progressively harder zombies, pass them all without needing help outside your group, you pass."
We all nodded. Jack led us to a chamber that was full of debris and a few collapsing buildings, he said this is were we will be tested. He wished us luck and left us in the chamber.

In the chamber, we got 2 minutes to discuss a plan before the test began. I would take a position on a roof that overlooked the entire chamber with Peter. The sunflowers would stay in a position that allowed them to fight without getting in serious danger while Cole would be on the ground getting the stray threats. Over a loudspeaker, Jack said.
"Testing has begun."

The first 2 waves were easy, just browncoats. The next 2 waves were harder because there were elites in the groups, but they all fell as well. The fifth wave was something completely unexpected, a gargantuar as well as a horde of browncoats. I looked at Peter uneasily, this wasn't going to be easy. I dropped down to the ground and dropped a chili bean bomb into the browncoat horde. The bomb went off and sent a large number of the horde into the 'sky'. A few seconds later, I was sent flying across the chamber. The gargantuar had fired one of his kamikaze Imps at me. I heard Alison scream as I flew across the room. I landed in a garbage skip on top of a roof. I still, thankfully, had my pack with me and began to cover some of the cuts the explosion had left in the side of my stem. I made myself visible to Alison to assure her I was fine. I looked at Peter, he was rooted in place and was gatling the gargantuar, which was bending over and fired a kamikaze Imp at Peter. Peter tried unrooting but took the Imp directly. Injured, he fell off the roof and was quickly attended to by the sunflowers. I got up and hypered towards the gargantuar, Cole was in trouble. Cole was in a terrible state, the gargantuar had hit him a few times. The gargantuar was preparing to finish off Cole with its power pole, my attempts to get its attention by shooting it were proving futile. In an attempt to save my friend, I jumped on the power pole, which got the gargantuars attention. An Imp got out of the pack on the gargantuars back, it ran along the pole and started trying to push me off the pole. I shot the Imp, which knocked it out, and got up on the gargantuars arm. Using its free arm, the gargantuar tried to punch me, I easily dodged the giant fist and began putting critical hits on its head.

For the following minute, the gargantuar tried shaking me off while the Imps came out and started attacking me. Despite fighting my hardest, I had to hop off the gargantuar, the Imps didn't hit too hard, but they hit really fast and with the damage from the kamikaze Imp still stinging, I didn't want to be unrevivable. I fell back behind a wrecked car and tried healing some of the more serious wounds the Imps inflicted when a kamikaze Imp exploded just in front of me. I knew I couldn't take to much more so I hypered up to the roof and hid up there while I healed up. Half a minute later, a loud booming noise sounded out throughout the chamber.

I got up and had a look, Peter had finished off the gargantuar, with some help from the sunflowers. Over the loudspeaker, Jack spoke out.
"Congratulations on your success. Please exit the chamber and I will meet you there." I jumped down from the roof covering a cut just below my arm with my left pod. I met the rest of the team by the door, we were all jubilant over our success. Exhausted no one spoke until the door opened and we were met by a strange sight.