Desmond and Benard walked out of the abandoned warehouse and towards a well known graveyard that everyone was told to avoid. Desmond carried Calamity's corpse despite the strange looks he was getting from the other plants, and occasional human. It took the duo an hour to get to the rusted gates that divided the small number of undead in the graveyard and the rest of suburbia. Because the gates were locked, Benard burrowed beneath the gates while Desmond hypered over them with Calamity's corpse. Using his free pod, Desmond grabbed an old shovel that had been left next to the gate and set off to find a suitable place to bury the dead Peashooter he carried. It took twenty minutes to find a place that wasn't crawling with undead. When Desmond started digging, Benard started to walk away from Desmond and said.
"I'm gonna go and get something to eat, I'll be back." Benard burrowed down into the ground beneath him and left Desmond to bury the corpse that he had created.
It took Desmond an hour to finish digging the hole that he would bury Calamity in and refill it. When he finished, he fell on his back and stared at the evening sky,
his mum was probably worried sick. He lay there for a few minutes and contemplated how quickly someone could take his life. He only got up in the end because the moans of the undead were drifting closer and closer to him. Desmond grabbed the shovel and headed towards the gate that he had entered the graveyard through. As he got close to the gate, he saw there was no chance of getting through, the browncoats were at the gate and trying to push it down. Desmond ducked behind a bush and watched the browncoats for over an hour, they were still trying and he knew his mother was bound to be worried sick. Desmond knew he couldn't be there any longer so prepared to hyper through the horde that had gathered near the gate, when a loud explosion gave him a fright. Some of the browncoats near the back of the horde noticed the yelp of surprise from a nearby bush and approached it. Desmond tried to stay hidden in the bush, but as the browncoats got closer, the flame on his head began to burn brighter as he felt more frightened, this ended up with the bush catching fire. Desmond cursed as he jumped out of the bush to confront the browncoats, who began to lurch towards him. He fired 5 flaming peas at the approaching browncoats, only one hit in the end but it did leave Desmond to deal with only nine browncoats. Looking around for a weapon before he became a zombies salad, Desmond grabbed the shovel and began swinging it at the zombies. After half a minute, one of the browncoats grabbed the shovel and took it from the Fire Pea that had just been using it. They looked at it before swinging it at Desmond, who dodged the shovel, only to be grabbed by a different browncoat who tried to rip a chunk out of Desmond's stem. Before they could make any progress, a small, green explosion, knocked the head off the browncoat who went limp.
Ali watched in fear as Desmond tried to fight off eight browncoats by himself, when Benard popped out of the ground next to her and chomped a browncoat Ali didn't see. She smiled in relief at the Hot Rod Chomper beside her and jumped up on him. Benard then charged through the horde of browncoats towards Desmond, using his head as a ram to knock over the browncoats that didn't try and run from him. When Benard and Ali got through the horde, a Peashooter carrying a Fire Flower hypered over the horde and the Fire Flower asked in a frightened voice.
"Where's Desmond?" Ali and Benard looked towards the Fire Pea that was now dealing with 4 browncoats, blood running from multiple small, deep cuts caused by a shovel wielding browncoat. The Fire Flower growled and opened fire on the browncoats, quickly felling them as the flames that engulfed her head changed to a light blue. She yelled out at Desmond as he made his way towards the group of plants.
"I AM GOING TO LOCK YOU IN YOUR ROOM TILL YOU WITHER AWAY MISTER! ALL THE NEWS YOUR FATHER AND I HAVE GOTTEN TODAY IS SLOWLY DESTROYING US! DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS MESS!" Desmond's expression changed from fright, to relief and back to fright in 10 seconds flat. He looked down and said.
"I-I didn't mean to, it was an accident..." Alison screamed at her son again.
"ACCIDENT?! HOW DO YOU ACCIDENTALLY RIP OUT A PLANTS HEART AND CRUSH IT IN FRONT OF THEM! I-I..." Alison couldn't continue, she was in tears. Pete stopped shooting at the zombies and hugged Alison and said.
"It's fine, I'm sure there is a perfectly good explanation." Pete looked as his son with a look that said 'don't say a thing'. The plants spent the next hour clearing out the gate and pushing back the browncoats from the gate. Desmond was approached by not only 4 of his teachers, but also the principal and he assumed Calamity's parents. A drunken Law Pea asked in a very unique accent.
"So, what did y'all drag us down 'ere for?" Collin, the principal, looked at Desmond and said.
"I was hoping to find out as well, I want to know if these...rumours are false or not." Before Desmond could say anything, Ali spoke.
"Y-Yes Mr Collin, I witnessed the event." Ali looked terrified as she thought about the events that had happened earlier that day.