A/N: Well I started to write this 3 day in my vacation in Taiwan because I didn't know google docs even exist as an android app as well so I wrote like three-quarter of this on vacation when I have nothing to do. But this is quite poorly edited because apparently google docs on my phone is absolutely crud and can barely edit words. In fact, it was so much more like a distraction compared to a helper from when I have typing mistakes, something unpreventable while writing, especially on a phone. But now I guess I can finally keep the promise of a chapter/week even when this is more than 3.5K words you're talking about. Oh, and remember in chapter 6, when I answered Schmackler about why the name is Stella and not the official name in the game, well this is the chapter that explains it all. Hope you all enjoy.

Stella awoke from the rubbles as she felt extremely painful. She knew it was all just a trick by the chemist to lure her to her death, although the beam hit probably saved her. She tried to rise from the rubble, a feeling of adrenaline shot through her as she somehow moved the heavy debris out of the way. It made Stella quite shocked that she was that strong. She can't even lift a weight properly without falling, not to mention underneath the heavy weight. But that was not on her mind.

Darn that scientist escaped Stella thought. She turned around to see Rosita and Jesse a bit dazed and the three peashooters trying to get to them.

"Guys I'm here!" Stella screamed out loud. It grabbed the attention of the rest of the peashooters as Stella walked to the stunned plants, around a few meters before the struggling plants.

"Wait how the heck did you escaped?" Jason asked in a shocked expression.

"I don't know how I escaped. I got hit by a beam as well as the chemist. He took the teleportation route to teleport out of the house with, apparently, all of the Infinity weapons. I didn't escape and was hit by the rubble. I somehow pushed it away though"

"Before we have any more questions, first of all, what happened to your pods and head?" AJ asked as he looked at Stella, seemingly changed by the hit of the beam.

Stella looked at her pods, only to realize that they weren't there anymore. It was replaced by two big leaves; of which she was shocked that it moved when she controlled it. Then she touched her head, to realize there was another leaf on her head. She tried to move it down her hair and in turn it covered her left eye. Her hoodie had turned into a cape, where the holes for her pods before were gone. The neck of the hoodie is now tied around her neck, giving her a twitchy and ticklish feeling as it softly rubs on her skin. The zippers were also gone from the hoodie, and with her front exposed, it made her look like a naked little peashooter, making the said peashooter blush a bit in embarrassment (although plants are always body exposed so still don't get why she was shy about it)

"Yeah I looked so weird. What the heck happened?" Stella asked, a bit confused why she changed her look.

"Well you might wanna look at Jess over there as well as lil' Rosy over there" Peeta nodded to the two plants.

"Alright." Stella walked to the plants before turning to the peashooter.

"FYI, you just said over there twice. Thank Dave I thought I was the only one who is that careless" This made AJ and Jason give out a little chuckle, while Peeta only shook his head with a smirk on his face.

Stella walked to the two plants who also got hit by the beam, and, to her surprise, except for Jesse's orange outer layer of the skin being completely removed (like the outside of the orange) and Rosita's leg injury somewhat if not wasn't there anymore, aesthetically they didn't change at all. It was awfully bizarre that she changed so much, but yet the two other plants who were also hit by the beam did not change as much, if not at all.

"What in the name of Dave happened? It felt like a punch in the face" Jesse murmured under her breath, only to look up and see a peashooter in a purple cape lending a leaf at her. It made her a bit shocked.

"What the...Stella is that you?" The peashooter giggled a bit as she helped the cactus stand up.

"Yeah...I think the beam made me whole lot different!"

"It's a whole lot different, Stella." Jesse shook her head. "And I am still confused. Without your hoodie, or what was once your hoodie, I wouldn't even recognize you at all! Like not even close. It's so scary what that did to you, and yet for me, all it did was peel my outsides. Crazy."

"Crazy for you to say. I felt...Great!" Rosita stepped in, looking down at her tendrils (I think. Don't know what it's called) "My tendrils stopped hurting and my body is filled with adrenaline. I felt like I could run for miles. The rush is amazing!" And then she turned to Stella, who only smiled at her enthusiastic behaviors. But the rose only looked at her in shock as she was stunned by...what seems to be how Stella looked.

"OMG! You looked like a beauty! Even a sorcerer like me can't resist the beauty. And that's saying something. Whatever that weapon did to you...boy did it made you adorable! Before that you look like one of those emo plants but now you look so cute!"

This made Stella blush a bright shade of red as she turned away, meeting the gaze of the other 3 peashooters who in turn, giggled at her tomato-like cheeks.

"I don't know why I felt so flattered by it but I just feel...like really weird when someone compliments me. Like except for Fury, it's like so...like...awkward. It's like a weird feeling." But it made everyone; even Jesse, at smiling, with Peeta just downright giggling his plant bottom off.

"What? What did I said that made...you guys laugh at me that much?" Stella's cheeks got darker, to the point of having a cherry-like blush. (In Vietnam, we have cherries that has a dark red and purple color to it so don't know if you guys knew it because I think a lot of people thought cherries were straight up red) It was until Jason gave a little nudge to her that she realized what she has done.

"Ya know I really wanna make a Facebook joke about your likes but Peeta would be sad about him not being first to do it." In turn, Peeta smiled.

"You just said like literally four times. Stop liking yourself that much. This is not Facebook. Thank Dave I thought I was the one who was that careless"

"S-Stop it!" Stella squeaked, blushing at the embarrassment she made herself into when Peeta talked about the quote she gave her.

"No but seriously, Rosy did had a point. You do look kind of cute if you know what I mean. It's great that you look astonishing. Might attract loads of attention to others if you want to be serious. And zombies too for you to shoot I guess" Jesse smiled at the still embarrassed peashooter

"Honestly you looked like a cute little superhero, the perfect one if you ask me" AJ looked gleefully as Stella's blush finally was not visible anymore.

"This always freaking happen to me, especially in prison so I guess I don't mind. Plus, it should be pretty flattering for someone to compliment me, but it's just that I didn't get any comments seriously except, again Fury, so I guess I couldn't complain. "

As all the plants walked back to the extraction point, an important news was announced on behalf L.E.A.F. Rosita spawned, yet again, another screen as the Sergeant Major appeared from the screen. It looks like he also just got struck by the beam, as he has a scar and his flames somehow kept a light blue color the whole announcement, not like other torchwoods.

"Attention all plants, if you were struck by a beam of light then please make your way to the HQ. Thank you"

As the announcement finishes, all the plants started to board a corn copter to get them to the HQ. The pilot was a Pop Corn.

"Can you take us to the L.E.A.F HQ? We need to get there. How long does it take?" Stella asked as she board the plane first.

"Around 3 or 4 hours, madam. Depends on the weather." The corn answered as he fidgets on a plushie of a BBQ corn. Probably his wife or son.

"Alright. Thanks. If you can please make it quicker than that. If you can, alright?"

The Pops Corn nodded and gave a salute, to which Stella saluted back

"Glad to have you on board, Rook."

"I think that announce could be us. Let's try to get there before Sergeant Major Frederick goes all coo-coo clock on us" Rosita smiled as she entered the copter

"What are we waiting for? Let's get there before anyone in L.E.A.F gets mad, not to mention the torchwood meany" AJ enters the copter, the last person, or plant depending on your prespective, to do so.

"As I always say, the early plant gets the plant food" Jesse smiles as she lies her head onto Stella's head, giving the peashooter a comfortable warmth on her body and her cheeks.

Oh it's great to have an ally like that. Always strict but naive and cuddly at the same time when you need it. Stella thought as she starts to fall asleep on Jesse's shoulders. And then she was at bliss, wondering what awaits her.

Stella awoke around 2 hours later, with a nudge from Jesse, who was stroking her head, making Stella silently yelp at first when she awoke. But then she got used to it and purrs softly at the touch.

"Oh you're awake Stella" Jesse blushed as she realized Stella's soft purrs, "I could stop if you want to…"

"No it's alright." Stella interrupted. "I kind of liked it. You can continue if you want to."

Jesse lips turns up as she saw the peashooter also smiling at the touch. Jesse continued to stroke her head, giving a bit of shiver to Stella and gave her a little blush. The other plants can only squeal and let out some awws as if the citrus cactus and peashooter were mother and daughter, if not a couple.

It was not long, around 30 minutes, until the copter finally approached the landing zone of the HQ. There was an Electro Pea waiting for them. Jesse walked out of the plane first and saluted the electro pea, who also returned the favor.

"State your name" The electro Pea shouted as the copter starts to get shut off and the rest of the crew getting off the plane.

"Sergeant Staff Jesse." Jesse spoke out. The plane finally shut down so the electro pea could hear her name quite clearly.

"Madam, you were supposed to be at Colrad Base."

"Lieutenant Jackson, we could've been there but following the order of Sergeant Major Frederick to be here when we were struck by the beam. Three of us were hit, so here we are."

"Alright madam. We need to get you there quickly. We're pretty sure it was only one person left until you arrived." The electro pea ran to the door and opened it, leading the plants to the HQ.

They arrived at the 2nd floor of the base after 3 flights of stairs, where the office of the torchwood should be. The hallway was quite long and wide enough to fill at least a couple dozen families. There were doors and one-way glasses, at least according to Jesse, making it sound as high-tech and spy-like at the same time. The room had light green walls and with the sun shining into the blue-tinted windows creates a haunting vibe. It certainly seemed like a nightmare to some plants to be here. Near the end of the corridor were some red chairs with a few stains here and there. In the opposite side was a sliding door with, like pretty much all of the rooms, a long piece of one-way glass stuck on the wall. On the top of the door has a sign that reads "Sergeant Major Frederick"

"Here it is" Jesse looked up, her citrus hands start to give out sweat of acid.

The team of 7...or what was once a 7-plants team, sat on the red chairs as they waited for the torchwood to be available. Finally, a plant walked past, a normal sunflower with freckles on her cheeks and some red goggles with a signature to it. Stella remembered the red goggles somewhere.

"Summer? Wait that was Summer! Summer got hit by the beam as well."

"Jesse, you know the girl that passed by?"

"I'm afraid I do. It was Stella's best friend before she was locked up."

"But that is not really important right?" Rosita asked. Stella shook her head profusely, not admitting that it was Summer Sativum herself.

"I have a story to tell. Yesterday Summer visited me. Turns out she apparently had big news for me. Her mom and my dad got married so technically I became her younger sister. I was jumping for joy as i heard the news but soon to realize I might never be able to see her again. But there she was, right in front of me. I just don't..." But then she got interrupted by the sliding door and a torchwood popped out. He gave a salute to Jesse as she also stood up and saluted back.

"Glad to see you back from the mission. Your mission was half-successful. At least you caught 1 of the scientists. We need to talk about the beams though. So I want all the 6 of you to join me at my desk"

Then the torchwood casually walks himself to the back end of the desk. The 6 plants followed suit, sitting at their seats at each part of the desk, with Jesse at the other end of the table.

"So we got a few news from the scientist who Rosita in her accidental and completely lucky teleportation ways for the second time today, and boy did I say that out loud, had managed to teleport..." This made Rosita roll her eyes in disgust. "to get the news. Apparently he has a watch on his right arm indicating the amount of heroes. Apparently the robot that Dr. Edgar George Zomboss used to one of our bases malfunctioned. As a result, it broke the hero beams generator and spread the beams to 11 random plants and 11 random zombies. Apparently it took notice and can track all of the heroes. I heard Zomboss also has the watch so both us at L.E.A.F and the zombies are going to be able to see where the plants whom got hit by the beam and vice versa. Apparently you Peashooter with the purple cape, the rose and our Staff Sergeant over there at the end of the table were hit. So tell me…" The torchwood takes a deep breath before shouting out, "WHAT IN THE NAME OF FUCKERY HAVE YOU PLANTS BEEN DOING TO MAKE ALL OF THIS CHAOS PIECE OF CRAP!"

The room starts to fall silent as the plants got intimidated by the fiery torchwood. They knew they were fucked so none answered.

"Okay, I could probably explain" Stella squeaked. All eyes turned on her as she took a deep breath. She managed to find the voice in her to speak.

"I found this information while talking to my mother, from what seems to be a psychic communication" Stella turned to Jesse, who in turn, gave a look of "who me?", in which gave quite a reaction to some of her teammates.

"I know it was you who helped me communicate between by me and mother who passed away. Don't even try to lie that fact because you're the only one who has the psychic power and don't even try to blame it on Rosy. She can barely teleport, as of what Sergeant Major Fredrick said"

"Is that true, Sergeant?" Jesse only nods.
"It's true, sir. I need to know as well what happened. Apparently Stella's mother, Major Lieutenant Melissa Connors, was a traitor because she was trying to save her own family" The torchwood looks at the peashooter with pity.
"So you're Stella Connors? I heard what people did to you in prison and I'm sorry for that. I never thought being a "cute girl" could get you in so much trouble" The torchwood sighs in disbelief. "Your mother was a great trooper. A legend at her ranks. I would have chosen her as the one who would replace me if I ever pass away. Sadly, that military raid…"
"Took hostage of her and she succumbed to death trying to save her family" Jason interrupted. "I'm sorry, sir. Did I interrupt your sentence?"
"No, not at all. But honestly though, she was someone who I can put my life on the line, probably the only one until this day. I'm sad that you got that much of a prison sentence. I felt it was harsh! But I guess the court already ruled it so…yeah I guess"
"You don't have to feel pity that I got charged. I mean it's my own wrong-doing that got me into boiling waters. But I just can't get the grasp on who the heck put the flammable liquid there for me to accidentally light it on fire" Fredrick only puts his stumps onto the ground and walks to the peashooter, signaling her to look at him.
"I can see it in your eyes. You are more than just a peashooter. You are a special one, my friend. I know already for a fact that this is not a joke. Nor is it a game that you got sent in. My son saw a foot soldier dumping the liquid onto the house before your accidental ignition. But his evidence was just thrown right off. Left on the sideline. You are innocent, and I know you could have done something else instead of getting butt-raped in prison. Or at least what I could imagine. But that's not important right now. What is important is first of all, I want to meet Stella in private so can you five please leave my office and let me talk to Stella?"
The five other plants listened and one by one, each left the room, with Jesse being the last one and closing the sliding door. Now it is only Stella and Sergeant Major Fredrick.
"First of all, I need you to tell me what you heard from your mother after Sergeant Staff Jesse connected you and your mother."
Stella told all about the story, from the betrayal, the life, and the promise. The gigantic torchwood nodded at every single detail.
"Alright. Next, can you tell me what you heard from the zombies?"
Stella also started to tell about the story, from the conversation between the two scientists, to the talk about some type of weapons named the Infinity weapons, and how it can kill anyone with no chance to revive them, the only hope to kill all of the plants and zombies.
"Alright. Now, I need to give you a new identity…"
"What? What do you mean by that?" Stella looked around, a bit bewildered.
"Well I'm trying to help you out. In L.E.A.F, we can't have a criminal to be a "hero" and that has been a moto since the beginning of the war. I am wanting to change that. Because I know you have loads of potential. Most of all, I could see that you are not a criminal. Your mother was a brave soldier and I saw the same thing in your changing eye colors. Only you and our previous acquaintance's official younger sister Olivia is the only one who can change your eye colors in a very…professional way to say the least. But the moto that has been passed through generations of the battlefield does not apply for you. Because of that, I want you to have a new identity, a new name. So what's going to be your new name…"
Stella smiled at the torchwood. It's her chance for a new identity. A new person. A new peashooter. A new her. A new Stella. And she came up with a name in the memory of someone who just passed away.
*flashback 8 months ago*
"If you get to choose any name for the other person, who would you name them?" Stella read the letter from Summer, one of the jokes and questions that was sent to her best friend.
"So what would I call you and what would you call me?" Fury asked as he looked through the letter.
"I already know what I would call you. In fact, your whole name, not just your first name. Anti Chatterbox"
"Oh shut up…" Fury playfully slapped Stella cheeks, producing giggles between the pair.
"Well I know what I would call you. It's a great name by the way"
"I'm going to call you…"
*Back to reality*
"You can call me…Penelopea"
A/N: No review time for this chapter, although shoutout to Redscorpion1224 for introducing to some animation as well as following and favorite me and this story. Also, I've recently so wanted to do a just dance animation of 2 things in the PVZ: Heroes series…a GrassCap ship dance of a Japanese song called Gokuraju Jodo and a GreenFlare ship dance of another song named Seven Nation Army remix by the Gltich Mob remix. Sad that I'm too crap at drawing and modeling. Also, grabbing an A3 paper and trying to draw my OC. Until then, I'll see you guys next time. 2930 out!