I got up and looked at the downed zombie, what had I done? I gave up, I had closed my eyes and waited for the zombie to finish me, when did I start giving up? I tried to push it out of my head by thinking about the peashooter that saved my life, why did they hyper away after vanquishing the Super Brainz elite? I had to many questions and so little time. I went through my pack and grabbed the canister that contained a temporary portal that would take me back to the L.E.A.F base. I knew that deploying it on the ground would be a major mistake, a zombie could sneak through behind me, so I hypered onto the roof of the collapsing base and opened the canister. A purple portal opened up and I walked through it.
When I was through, the portal I just walked through closed and the eccentric cactus that operated the portal came up to me and said.
"So, how did it go?" It took them a couple of seconds to realize I was covered in bruises and had a black eye but when they did, they gasped. Before they could talk I said.
"Don't worry about it, just a...minor run in. Thank you, it went well." When I finished my sentence, I walked out of the giant base and made my way towards southern suburbia and the base my team operated out of. Just as it began to get dark, I went into an abandoned house and pulled out some food from my pack, it was the first food I had eaten in 2 days. I also drank half of the water in my bottle and left it in the structure, I wouldn't need it and perhaps some wandering plant would need it.
When I finished eating, I continued on my journey home. Around midnight I caught sight of the base, I sped up and I was going to hyper the last 50 meters, but I walked into something. Whatever I walked into must have been as confused as me because we looked at each other with confused looks on our faces. The 'thing' I walked into turned out to be a zombie, when they got a proper look at me, their expression changed from confusion to terror. They got up and ran away, something I didn't expect.
I shrugged it off and continued home, I could worry about that later, I had to worry about my life when Alison saw the bruises and my damn black eye.
I got inside and I decided I would sleep in my office so Alison didn't get up in the morning and have a heart attack. The following morning, I woke up to an infuriated Alison sitting opposite the chair I was sleeping in. When she saw I was awake, she nearly yelled at me.
"I thought you said you were going to L.E.A.F." I knew I couldn't lie my way out of this one, especial with Elanor's corpse now buried with Ash's. I just said to her.
"I went to L.E.A.F, to use the portal there to bury Elanor with Ash." Alison frowned, she must have known I was just trying to do the right thing. She replied with.
"Why did you go without us?" I looked down and said.
"I don't know, it was a risk I wasn't willing to take." Alison told me to look at her, so I did. She saw the bruises and my black eye and scowled.
"Why, for once, can you not get hurt." She walked out and left me in my office. I sat there while I thought about the last few days. The zombie that ran away, the peashooter that saved my life, and the Super Brainz elite that I let nearly take my life.
After an hour of being deep in thought, a loud explosion rocked the side of the structure. I got up and went to the window, the zombies had begun another assault.
The base withstood the pounding of 20+ ZPG's slamming into it while everyone else had started to gather outside to hold back the zombie horde. To save time, I jumped through the window and onto the lawn, we were vastly out numbered. The Power Cactus, named Eva, was on the roof and was picking off browncoats, the peashooters had gone up onto the roofs of nearby houses while Alison and Bella, the sunflowers, were in an abandoned house. The chompers, Cole and the toxic chomper, Jared, were on the ground harassing the horde. I hypered up to the horde and dropped a chili bean bomb into the horde. I managed to get around 13 browncoats and an unaware all-star.
The recruit peashooters did the same and dropped chili bean bombs into the horde. 20 minute later and almost all the browncoats were down, and the elites in the horde were also, probably, beginning to give in. I spotted a scientist going around the side of the base so I hypered after them. When I was close enough, I jumped at them,
they had reacted really well because they turned around and, using their shotgun's butt, knocked me onto the ground. They aimed the shotgun at my head and I must have looked terrified because there was nothing I could do. The scientist and I looked at each other for half a minute, at the end of which, the scientist stopped aiming at me and warped away.
I sat up to the noise of cheers, I went around to the front to find that the zombies were retreating. I wanted to cheer, we had come out of the battle virtually unscathed, but I felt hollow inside. I snuck inside and went into the room I shared with Alison, and went to sleep. The dreams I ended up having, were haunting.