Pete felt out of control of his body as the world seem to get further and further away, one of the side effects of putting aternalus fuel into you. After a few seconds, Pete regained control and looked down at himself, his body was being repaired cell by cell from where he had stuck the needle into himself. It seemed to only be rebuilding his stem where his current translucent stem so that he was anatomically correct, just like he would have been before he been transformed into a ghost. Avrae and Raziel watched in amazement while Delnid finally found what he was searching for, the ruined time machine.

"I found it! It's broken though." Avrae, Pete and Raziel rushed over to Delnid and the ruined time machine, a look of worry on Delnid's face.

"I think I can fix it for you." Pete's comment brought a questioning look to his ancestors face.

"You really think you can fix it, ghost?" Avrae asked with a questioning tone.

"I know I can. When I get it working, you might have a minute or two before I return to being a normal Peashooter and I lose the ability to maintain the time portal." Pete's answer was directed at all of them. Without any warning, Pete started working on the machine and after around a minute, Pete placed his still ghostly white, right pod against the machine and it activated, the portal revealing a scene Delnid hadn't see in a long time, his home and castle.

"Alright, I might be able to maintain the portal for a minute longer." By this point of time, Pete's entire stem, roots and the leaves around them had materialized Pete was quickly becoming a Peashooter again.

"Alright, Pete, thank you so much or your help. You haven't disappeared yet so I am clearly going to have children for many generations to come. Good luck Pete, don't die on me now." Just as Delnid started stepping through the portal, Pete spoke.

"Goodbye, Delnid. I hope to see you once more." Delnid smiled at his descendant and went completely through the portal. Avrae and Raziel both looked at the portal then back at each other.

"Avrae... I don't want to go back." The Dark Peashooter was shocked by the Fire Roses declaration.

"Look, Raziel, if you don't want to go back, then I will stay here with you." Avrae yelped when the Fire Rose pulled him into a hug.

"I love you so much." Avrae struggled with his emotions as he tried to form a reply.

"I...love you too." Raziel's smile deepened when the Dark Pea expressed themselves, something she knew he struggled with. Before the two could continue to converse however, Pete collapsed and hit the floor with a thump, the repair process was complete and he was a full-fledged Peashooter again,
but this would all be at a cost however.

"APOLLO! I NEED YOUR HELP!" Desmond yelled out to the Armour Chomper who came as fast as he could.

"What's the matter?" Apollo asked in a concerned voice, he knew something was really wrong if Desmond was flustered and worried.

"Calamity, I think he may have just done something horrible, it sounded like he slumped to the floor." Apollo understood what Desmond was trying to say so he headbutt the door, knocking it down and opening up the small bathroom.

"Oh my Dave, Calamity, please don't be dead." Desmond ran over to the bloody, undead Peashooter, an incision on his neck, it was bleeding profusely. Desmond placed his pod over the incision.

"Apollo, go and get, Tania, tell her it's important." Desmond turned his attention to Calamity. "Come on Calamity, don't leave us again...you're so close to what you want." Calamity coughed up some blood as he chuckled slightly.

"I don't want to go on...not without her." Desmond grabbed his cousin's head so that he had to look into Desmond's flaming eyes.

"Don't you ever say that, Calamity. I want you to know this, I will go to the ends of this Earth, even moves Heaven and Earth, for you." By this time, Tania the Metal Petal came into the bathroom and healed the hole in Calamity's neck.

"Thanks you, Tania." Desmond directed his response at the Metal Petal before turning his attention back Calamity. "Hey, we're landing now, let's go meet this scientist you've telling me about." Desmond got up and helped Calamity to his roots before they left the RV to be greeted by a giant tarantula, one that seemed to even intimidate Apollo.

Toki felt all the weight removed from his head and he soon found himself in the maws of a Chomper, he was too weak and too injured to do anything about it. To his great surprise, the Chomper didn't consume him, instead, it let out a rather reluctant moan and shut their mouth enough so it was comfortable for them, while not killing Toki in the process. From what Toki could hear and see, the Rose had captured Svetlana and Dimytri.

"LET ME DOWN THIS INSTANCE!" Svetlana screamed out in anger.

"Alright, Magi, get us out of here." Before any of them knew what was happening, the sensation of teleportation overcame all them and they soon themselves standing outside L.E.A.F HQ.

"Welcome back, commander Saur." A Fire Cactus stood saluting ahead of the strange looking plant. They had the resemblance of a Raptor, but they were a banana, standing on their hind legs, they were an intimidating sight, far more so than a regular Chomper. On their back sat a pot, inside said pot stood a Lightning Reed, a rare variant of plant barely found. The Chomper holding Toki dropped him to the ground before wandering off to Dave knows where. The Rose released Vera, Svetlana and Dimytri before they floated off knowing their job was done. Vera, Svetlana, Toki and Dimytri were quickly shackled and brought into L.E.A.F where they were taken to a meeting room where an Ice Pea sat, alongside a Camo Cactus.

"Welcome to L.E.A.F." The Ice Pea directed at the group of four, who were still shackled. When she saw the Peashooter, her expression remained that of calm, but a slight tinge of anger could be heard in her ice cold voice. "Do get a medic in here, now. I want that Peashooter healed, we need their
entire teams expertise." A Fire Cactus guard ran off and got a sunflower to heal the Peashooter while the Camo Cactus addressed the recent arrivals.

"I apologize in advance for any pain you may have suffered, but L.E.A.F is in need of plants from your region of the planet." Svetlana and Vera's expressions were ones of shock, Dimytri seemed disinterested and Toki seemed to be barely holding onto reality.

"Why us? Why do you need us?" Svetlana asked in anger as she looked over at her best friend since they were both young kids, Toki.

"Because we need your knowledge of the landscape. We have intelligence claiming that a group of zombies have been terrorizing the human population and we've been requested to try and stop them in an attempt to unify the resistance further." The Ice Pea's reply shocked Svetlana, she was now honoured
to have been selected.

"I uh...wow. How do we get back their though?" Svetlana asked rather cautiously.

"Fly, obviously. We know Vera is a pilot and that we can lend her a plane to fly you all back...along with some support of course." The Camo Cactus answered this time.

"What kind of support?" This time Vera asked.

"We'll give you a choice. Team Sierra, lead by Pete Lathyrus. Team Sprout, who retrieved you, and Team Af Alpha, lead by Ane Conel." The Camo Cactus' answer was only half of the full answer.

"Team Sierra consists of Pete Lathyrus, Alison Helianthus, Peter Elatius and Cole Drosera. Sprout consists of Saur, Magi, Andrew and Reed. While Af Alpha consists of Ane Conel, Sarah Caryophyllales, Hershel Leguminosae and Mystic Asteraeae. The problem is that trying to assemble Af Alpha and Sierra may take a while since most of those teams haven't been on the battlefield together for a long time." The Ice Pea's answer limited their options down so Vera made a decision for their team.

"I think it'll be fastest and the best if we go with Team Sprout because they're here and I mean...some of these names will be hard to remember." The Ice Pea and Camo Cactus seemed slightly relived by Vera's choice.

"Thank you, I feel better knowing some of our best fighters will still be here if the situation demands it."