I've been wanting to write this for ages!
WARNING
This chapter contains a large amount of blood, violence, and inhumane treatment.
Still no language though! ;)
(I'm probably not sane by this point, but who cares?)
*Cackling*
Chapter 10: The Betrayal
The browncoats were literally tearing the building apart from the inside. Luckily for them, the building was void of life. With one exception, of course.
Cabbage-pult and General Supremo were talking about the plan of attack in the Hero's meeting room. After talking for thirty minutes, they agreed on a plan.
The browncoats restlessly tried to get to the lobby, but it was on lockdown for the time being. Cabbage-pult made sure no browncoat stepped out of line, snapping at them if they did. No one questioned Cabbage-pult's authority out of fear, Supremo included.
Eventually, when three o' clock rolled around, Cabbage-pult unleashed the army. Literally hundreds of browncoats flooded out of the building, wrecking havoc on the city. Cabbage-pult, flanked by two camo rangers, made his way through the city. Multiple plants glanced quickly at him before having to run for their lives.
The first target was the human sector, which was surrounded with the agent's houses. Surrounding the humans with agents proved to be a smart move, as they had plenty of time to escape as the browncoats tried to break past the few agents still in the area. Cabbage-pult found Chomper, who immediately growled at him.
Cabbage-pult made a note to stay away from Chomper.
The human sector was being held off, so the second target was immediately assaulted with the remaining forces: Downtown.
Cabbage-pult personally assaulted the academy, having hated the place for so long. Zombie flags were raised in place of the L.E.A.F. ones. Most of the students were fleeing, a few having the unfortunate luck to come across Cabbage-pult. They initially thought he was on their side, and their misjudgment was met with a painful death by his hand.
Cabbage-pult made the browncoats leave the Ribbon Café alone, since it was empty. One tried to get in, but Cabbage-pult snapped their neck in front of the rest as an example. He was becoming scarier by the minute.
The next attack was on the plant residents. Cabbage-pult found his brothers in the chaos, and told them he would help them. In a brief moment of hope their faces lit up, but immediately fell when Cabbage-puly broke their arms. They ran, dozens of browncoats chasing after them. Cabbage-pult didn't even flinch at their screams.
Supremo and Cabbage-pult regrouped back at L.E.A.F.'s former HQ. They noticed that over ninety percent of the plants were escaping. Cabbage-pult was more concerned that neither Peashooter nor Sunflower had been found yet. Peashooter was specifically being hunted down, but no zombies had seen him.
Cabbage-pult considered capturing one of his friends to lure him out, but Chomper's growls told him to not do that.
"S-sirs! A peashooter with a gold necklace and a scar like you said… is here!"
Supremo thought about that while Cabbage-pult smiled evilly.
"Let him in. I want to personally greet him."
Peashooter walked calmly through the path the browncoats had made for him. He knew they wanted specifically him dead, rembering the kidnappings and assassins. The browncoats laughed and jeered at him as he walked through them. Once in the lobby, Peashooter heard the doors go into lockdown behind him. He faced forwards at the desk.
Cabbage-pult broke through the ceiling and landed in front of him. Peashooter helped him up.
"Were they chasing you?"
"Yeah. I cr-"
"I'm not an idiot."
Peashooter threw Cabbage-pult to the ground, a look of hurt and betrayal on his face.
"Threepeater told me how he saw you raid the academy. Chomper said you attacked the humans. Wallnut, crying, said you had your brothers hunted like animals. Suburbia is abandoned, we're the last plants here. Please, tell me…"
Peashooter walked to Cabbage-pult, knelt down, and whispered to him, "Are you proud of yourself?"
Cabbage-pult got up and glared at Peashooter.
"It's your fault, you know."
"I know. That's why I'm here. To make up for that. We were enemies. I saved your life from Sunflower. I told Sunflower to give you a second chance. I convinced everybody you had changed. I was right. You have changed. For the worse."
Cabbage-pult shook his head.
"It's my fault. I'm sorry."
He extended his hand to Peashooter. Peashooter was about to take it, but grabbed Cabbage-pult's wrist instead. Cabbage-pult found himself flung across the room once again.
"No, you're not."
Cabbage-pult wiped some blood from his mouth and smiled eerily. Peashooter was unfazed.
Cabbages flew through the air, but Peashooter stood still. They flew all around him.
Peas and cabbages were shot and thrown, both Cabbage-pult and Peashooter dodging every single one. Peashooter charged, catching a cabbage and using it to block the others. He dropped it and slide-kicked Cabbage-pult, jumped back just in time.
"Somewhere else, people are celebrating love. Here, you're celebrating hate. Tell me, doesn't that seem messed up?"
Cabbage-pult landed the first hit with a punch to Peashooter's chest. Peashooter groaned, then retaliated with four rapid punches finished with a spin kick. Cabbage-pult was only hit with the kick, and he fell back.
"It was the perfect time to attack, wasn't it? No one was expecting it. Except, someone was."
Cabbage-pult hit Peashooter in the jaw and ripped his leaf. He grabbed the necklace, but released it immediately when Peashooter kicked him in the eye. Peashooter shot the floor behind Cabbage-pult, and he slipped on the pea stain.
"Sunflower convinced L.E.A.F. to have a failsafe for you. She didn't expect eight hundred zombies to be with you."
Peashooter avoided three more cabbages and shot a single pea, which hit its mark. Cabbage-pult tackled Peashooter and beat his face over and over, then finishing by grabbing the necklace and trying to break it, only for Peashooter to smack him across the face and send him back. Blood was starting to drop from Peashooter, and he didn't look too good in general.
Peashooter shot a barrage at Cabbage-pult and charged, not letting Cabbage-pult get a moment to recover or retaliate. Cabbage-pult was lifted and punched over and over, before being spun and thrown into the wall.
"You'd planned this for weeks. We noticed the drone. I told everyone you had probably gotten it from a mission, or perhaps a lucky shot. Maybe, a Christmas present?"
Peashooter dodged a punch and quickly blinded Cabbage-pult with a pea stain.
"Sunflower has disappeared. She knew you caused this. One of her parents died. Did you know that? DID YOU?!"
Peashooter angrily grabbed his adversary and slammed him into the ground. He was bleeding.
"We've had 'only' one hundred thirty-three casualties so far, not including me, Sunflower, Solar Flare, NightCap… or you."
Cabbage-pult yelled in anguish and rage as Peashooter kept slamming him, over and over. Cabbage-pult finally grabbed Peashooter's necklace and pulled him forwards into a kick. The necklace snapped and the gold chain fell to pieces on the floor. Cabbage-pult held the peashooter emblem and dropped it. He crushed it with his foot.
Peashooter tried to get up, but he was getting tired from the fight, and from running almost the entire way to the H.Q. His pod slipped and he fell back down.
"If only Sunflower could see you now."
"Dying-" Peashooter inhaled sharply, "-by your-" exhale sharply, "-vile-" inhale, "-traitotous-" exhale, "-repulsive-" inhale, "-hand."
Peashooter breathed heavily for a few more seconds, a small pool of blood growing around him.
"I win."
"Was-" inhale. "Was it worth it?"
Cabbage-pult smiled a twisted smile.
"Every part."
Peashooter was too busy trying to catch his breath to say anything, but the glare on his face said everything.
Cabbage-pult walked up to Peashooter and kicked him onto his back. Peashooter tried to get up, just for Cabbage-pult to kick him again.
"Any last words?"
Peashooter looked at Cabbage-pult and held up his pod to tell him to pause. A few seconds later, Peashooter was barely able to respond.
"Out of everyone, I was the one that trusted you. I was your biggest problem, yet also your only friend."
"You're just the biggest fool now."
Cabbage-pult picked up Peashooter by the neck, and almost brought it down when someone threw him to the side.
Sunflower helped Peashooter to his feet, and he leaned on her for support. Cabbage-pult was going to growl, but instead let out a cackle. Sunflower and Peashooter watched him in awe and horror until he finally regained his composure. He looked at his two adversaries with a crazed smile.
"You just made my job so. Much. EASIER! I don't get why you thought coming was a good idea, but thank you for your shortsightedness."
Cabbage-pult's face then darkened.
"Guards."
Dozens of foot soldiers came down from the hole in the ceiling and the melted door Sunflower had broken. In mere seconds, they were surrounded. Peashooter tried standing on his own, but had to settle for a glare instead. Sunflower just looked at Cabbage-pult angrily.
"You're heartless. You're worse than Zomboss. You are the most despicable thing to walk the face of the earth."
"And…?"
"I can't believe I ever loved, liked, or even trusted you.
"You didn't even let me finish what I wanted to say earlier. You ran off like a coward. Your own hatred and jealousy drove you to mass murder. This all could've been avoided if you just listened. Think about that."
Instead of him feeling guilty like Sunflower and Peashooter expected, Cabbage-pult shook his head.
"That wouldn't change anything. This wasn't random. We'd planned it for weeks, Zomboss and I. And we all know you're too stubborn to leave your family behind."
"You killed my mother you PSYCHO!"
Peashooter finally stood up on his own and whispered something to Sunflower. She went from looking like she wanted to kill Cabbage-pult to looking like she wanted to kill Peashooter. Peashooter eyed Cabbage-pult and whispered something else. Sunflower started to calm down. She didn't stop glaring at Cabbage-pult.
Peashooter spoke after a brief awkward silence.
"What happens after you kill us?"
"I kill everyone else."
Peashooter shook his head. Sunflower finally noticed Peashooter wasn't wearing his necklace, and spotted the peashooter emblem broken in two on the floor. She looked at Cabbage-pult.
"I made him that necklace."
"Wait… made?" Peashooter interrupted.
Cabbage-pult went back and picked up the two halves of the emblem. He showed it to Sunflower with a sneer.
"Oops."
Peashooter had taken the opportunity to glance at the almost fifty soldiers that surrounded them. He would've done some acrobatics and been able to escape, but Sunflower kinda made that plan worthless. She didn't have his speed or agility, and he wasn't going to leave her.
"So," Cabbage-pult interrupted Peashooter's thoughts. "Any last words?"
Sunflower was about to say something when Cabbage-pult turned around and quietly said, "shoot."
The foot soldiers immediately shot at Peashooter and Sunflower, who ducked under the first few shots. Cabbage-pult was raised up through the hole in the ceiling by a rope as gun fire resounded beneath him.
Sunflower grabbed Peashooter and jumped behind a pillar, both plants shooting at the soldiers. Peashooter made sure to shoot the soldier's feet, as the pea stains made some of them slip and fall, knocking over a small group of soldiers.
Cabbage-pult was walking calmly back to the teleporter when Supremo rushed past him, a bomb in his arms. Instead of stopping Supremo, Cabbage-pult sneered and entered the teleporter. The bomb's detonation would server the teleporter's connection, and they would be trapped.
Cabbage-pult looked one last time at the emblem shards. He dropped them on the ground, unsmiling.
Peashooter had carried Sunflower to the second floor, where they intercepted a very surprised Supremo. Supremo dropped the bomb and ran for his life, Peashooter giving chase. Sunflower was left to diffuse the bomb.
Peashooter found the teleporter, with Cabbage-pult waiting calmly for Supremo to stop rambling incoherently. Peashooter made himself known by shooting a pea right over their heads. Cabbage-pult rolled his eyes.
"Some pests just won't die."
Peashooter sighed at the two and stepped forwards. Supremo pulled out his rifle.
"We both know I would kill you whether I wanted to or not, so surrender and you just might live."
Cabbage-pult And Supremo exchanged nervous glances. They had completely forgotten about Peashooter's ability to kill mercilessly. Peashooter himself hated it, but he knew he couldn't control it.
"Hopefully we won't meet again…" Supremo answered nervously, then backed into the teleporter and left.
Cabbage-pult faced his nemesis and got ready to fight. Peashooter narrowed his eyes and clenched his pods. Cabbage-pult loaded a large cabbage into his arm. The two were at a standstill.
Sunflower had identified the actual explosive on the bomb and determined it would destroy about a thirty square foot radius, enough to destabilize and destroy the building. Luckily a bomb diffusion class at L.E.A.F. Academy had to be almost perfectly passed in order to graduate.
I wonder if this is what it's like for the bomb squads in the army. Sunflower thought as she worked on the bomb. If so, thank goodness I'm an agent instead.
Cabbage-pult ran into the teleporter right before Peashooter had been able to crush him. Peashooter thought about chasing after him, but decided to break the teleporter instead. He disconnected the wires in the back, and was relieved when the teleporter shut down silently.
Well this is just Dratastic isn't it? Sunflower griped as she switched around the wires. This thing is more complex than a computer.
Eventually, Sunflower disarmed the explosive with removing the actual explosive and leaving the timer. There were so many wires connecting the two that it had taken nearly thirty minutes. She sighed in relief as the timer reached zero less than a minute after the two parts were separated. That was close.
Sunflower found Peashooter in one of the hangars, the teleporter in pieces behind him. He looked exhausted, and blood was all over him. His fight with Cabbage-pult had done a number on him. Sunflower grabbed him and dragged him out of the building towards the survivors, passing a few plants picking off some leftover browncoats.
Peashooter was immediately swarmed by aloe veras and sunflowers trying to heal him. Chomper was out leading the cleanup crew, and Wallnut was asleep. Threepeater hugged Sunflower tightly when he spotted her. Sunflower smiled sadly at him as the sun set and Valentine's Day came to a close.
/Zomboss Manor: That night…
"I can't believe they FAILED!" Zomboss yelled in disbelief. "They surrounded them and had them pinned down, and they FAILED!"
Cabbage-pult stood next to Zomboss, examining a blank piece of blueprint paper. Quickly grabbing a pencil, he started making plans. Zomboss wasn't watching, instead he was grumbling about Supremo's inability to train decent soldiers.
After almost an hour, Zomboss finally noticed Cabbage-pult drawing a blueprint. Zomboss looked at it intently, seeing a wide, supersonic capsule armed with nuclear power. He looked at Cabbage-pult, who finally finished by signing his first name at the bottom-left corner. Zomboss spun the blueprint to face him, then a malicious grin spread across his face.
"Well done. I will contact my scientists immediately."
The blueprint was set back down, and Zomboss added a title to the top: Operation Earth Shatter.
Hooray for L.E.A.F. because they didn't all die! So… I forgot what the next few chapters were supposed to be about. BUT I do have a plan for the rest of the story (unlike the last two where I just improvised)! C U Laytor!