I spent the most of the night thinking about the consequences if the base fell again and the recruits, now including Colin, died, I shuddered at the thought. I only got 4 hours of sleep that night and I felt drained. Elanor must have noticed when I went and got breakfast and she said.
"You know, it might be best if you stay here and get some sleep, I can go in your place." I smiled at her and said.
"Thanks for the offer but I feel fine, you just stay here and make sure this place stays in one piece." She nodded and I ate my breakfast in peace.

I waited out on the lawn for Crazy Dave with the rest of the team, Alison, Wulf, Peter and Cole. Around noon, Dave picked us up in his flying RV and took us to an abandoned shopping center and landed in the parking lot. Surprisingly the shopping center wasn't as abandoned as we thought and a single foot soldier fired on us as we quickly left the RV. Once we were out, Dave quickly flew off. Wulf quickly vanquished the foot soldier as I went through my pack and found the folder Dave gave me before we left. I pulled out the folder that contained most of the things we needed to carry out the mission. We had been given 2 gnome bombs, a map, and a red smoke canister. The map pointed out the two graveyards that we had been assigned to destroy and the location of some of the defences. I placed everything but the map back in my back and discussed a plan with the team. We decided that the straightforward route would be suicidal, but almost every other possible route was covered, the zombies were getting better at defence and it was worrying. We took a side route to the first garden and assessed the defences the zombies had placed. A few rocket and machine gun turrets, but the biggest threat was a Z-Mech being repaired, it's Imp driver nearby and ready to use it. We looked at eachother worryingly and considered how we were going to take out the Z-Mech. Without coming to a clear conclusion, we decided to tackle the problems as they came up.

I hypered onto a roof that overlooked the entire square with Peter and Wulf, and picked off the zombies in the structures. Yelling broke out across the square and a massive barrage of cannon fire broke out through one of the collapsing houses. Alison and Cole jumped into one of the abandoned houses as the Z-Mech with its crazed Imp driver, walked out into the square. Just after it stepped out of the square, the Z-Mech fired a barrage of missiles at me, Peter and Wulf. All three of us dodged the rockets and spread out, we were too vulnerable close together. The Imp opened fire on us individually with the Z-Mech's cannon. Even without hyper all three of us dodged the cannons shots. The Imp was getting frustrated and started moving its Z-Mech towards the graveyard so we couldn't get close to it without being threatened by the Mech. As I continued to dodge the cannon shots, I noticed Alison point out Cole, who was sneaking up on the Z-Mech. To make sure Cole could get there without being spotted, I jumped down from the roof and hypered towards the Z-Mech. The Imp smiled deviously as it fired another barrage of missiles at me. I dodged most of the missiles, thankfully they weren't as powerful as a normal ZPG. Just as I got in range of the Z-Mech's fists, I jumped over the Mech and graveyard while Cole got on the Mech and chomped the Imp inside before it could react. I was about to plant the Gnome Bomb when the Mech exploded and destroyed the Graveyard. Cole walked away unscathed while Alison, Wulf and Peter came over.

When we regrouped next to the ruins of the destroyed graveyard, we set off after the next graveyard. It took 10 minutes to get there and 5 minutes to defeat the defenders and destroy the graveyard. The process was sped up by the fact there wasn't a Z-Mech to deal with and the defenders were caught completely off guard. It took about 20 minutes before we spotted Crazy Dave's flying RV, when we did, we threw down the red smoke canister and waited for Dave to land. When he did, we got in and Dave flew us back to our base in southern suburbia. It took around 10 minutes, and the flight was uneventful, it was when we landed that things didn't seem right.

We got out of Dave's flying RV to find that the base hadn't been overrun, but it looked like most of the recruits took a rocket to the face. When I asked where Elanor was, the Law Pea said rather sadly.
"She's...I can't believe it. She, she jumped in front of a ZPG to save me, and Bella, the Shadow Flower couldn't revive her in time." My expression dropped in shock.
Alison started crying and everyone else stood around awkwardly. We stood there for half a minute in awkward silence, I was the first to break it.
"I know where we should bury her." Alison stopped crying while Peter asked.
"Where do you plan on burying her?" I nodded to myself, I knew that she would want this to happen.
"We bury her with Ash." Wulf shook his head and said.
"That tree is so deep in Zomburbia, it's a damn suicide mission." I shook my head and said.
"It's what she would have wanted! I'm willing to risk it, I'm sure that there is bound to be a portal somewhere." Wulf gave up, he knew it was futile to argue with me.

The rest of the day I spent preparing to go on the trip to take Elanor's corpse to the burial place of the Power Chomper Ash she probably loved.

A/N: Sorry for churning out just short chapters as of late, they're either short or Super Long XD