"Oh thank goodness, I thought I lost you again." I pulled off the thin sheet that covered the rest of my body and looked down, the hole was still there. Alison must have seen my frown and said.
"You know it missed your heart by like 2cm." I frowned harder and looked around the infirmary, a familiar looking cactus was lieing in a bed next to mine. I asked.
"Who is that?" Alison answered rather quickly.
"Someone who made Wulf, Peter and Cole, extremly happy when they appeared." I got a better look at the cactus and said in astonishment.
"Wait, it can't be, Cherie, she wasn't at Zomboss' estate, and she was taken with you." Alison shook her head and said.
"Gala took out the zombie dragging Cherie and they tried to vanquish our guards but Gala had to escape because the foot soldiers nearly shot her out of the sky while Cheire had to run for survival." I nodded, it made sense the cactus didn't want to fight a battle up close with little support. I tried to get up to have Alison and Jack push me pack down onto the bed and Alsion said.
"You need to stay in here until I figure out how to close the hole in your chest." I frowned. In an attempt to make me happier, Wulf came in and said.
"The mission was a sucsess commander, the zombies won't have as many pellets for a while." I frowned even harder, the fact I couldn't go on the mission made me feel useless. Seeing this, Alison shooed Wulf out and went to check Cherie, she appeared to be in a stable condition. Jack went to walk out, before he did, I asked if he could bring me a glass of water.
It took the rest of that for Alison to come to the conclusion that she wouldn't be able to speed up the healing of the hole. I thought about possible ways to speed up the process, when the Jade Cactus messenger came into the infirmary and said.
"How do you manage to get a hole in your stem, that was barely not fatal." I rolled my eyes and explained the harpoon incident. I went on to ask.
"Do you know any quick ways to get to the L.E.A.F base?" The Jade Cactus nodded, reached into their pack and gave me a temporary portal cannister. They finished up by saying.
"Look, when you get to L.E.A.F, ask for Hershel, he's a very good mechanic and he might be able to create a machine to help you with that hole." The Jade Cactus laughed as they walked out, probably to go back to L.E.A.F. I looked at the canister in my pod, I decided I would go with Alison and maybe my brother tomorrow morning.
When I woke up earlier then Alison, or my brother, I went into the canteen and had breakfast and a drink. Bella the Shadow Flower was the days chef, and when she saw the hole in my stem, she whistled and said.
"Damn, how are you still alive with that hole there?" I laughed and rolled my eyes. I replied by saying.
"The needs of the many out ways the needs of the few. I would endure the worst pain to save any plant." I went and had my breakfast, to have a mad Alison storm in.
She yelled at me.
"WHAT DID I TELL YOU!" She realized that she was in a canteen full of plants and toned down her yelling. "I thought I told you not to leave that infirmary" I looked at her and pulled out the canister. I told her.
"Look, find my brother and meet me here, I think we might have a way to fix this...hole." She looked infuriated but she did what I asked. When Alison came back with my brother, I told them what the canister did.
"This canister will open a temporary portal to the L.E.A.F base. We go through, ask for Hershel and he might be able to make something to fix...this." I pointed to the hole in my stem and opened the canister. The portal opened and I went through, Alison and Jack came through and the portal shut.
The eccentric cactus that operated the portal came over and asked.
"What, how did you get here?" I explained how I got the canister then asked.
"Do you know how I can find Hershel?" The eccentric cactus smilled and said.
"Hershel is here at L.E.A.F for a few days actually, he's working on an improvement to Crazy Dave's Flying RV." I thanked the cactus and went off with Alison and Jack.
We found Hershel in what appeared to be a garage. Hershel appeared to be the same Toxic Peashooter that I had seen in my dream. I yelled out to the nerdy Toxic Peashooter and asked.
"Hey are you Hershel." They dropped the wielding tool they held in a pod and said.
"Uh-um yeah, why do you ask?" I looked at Hershel and pointed to the hole in my stem and said.
"I was told you could help me out of this...prediciment." Hershel dropped down, had a closer look at the hole in my stem and said.
"Wow, how do you manage that?" Hershel looked up and continued by saying. "Damn, that was nearly fatal as well." I rolled my eyes and said.
"Yeah, Alison told me it was nearly fatal as well. Look I can't lead my team until this hole heals." Hershel nodded and went off to get a few things. Jack looked at me and said.
"You know, how do we know that this...Hershel can actually do this?" I rolled my eyes, my brother was always skeptical. I said.
"If Crazy Dave trusts his engineering ability, I will as well."
Ten minutes later, Hershel came back with a strange looking device. He gave it to Alison and told her.
"Look, if you can stich this into the hole, it should act like that missing part of his stem." I thanked Hershel and followed Alison and Jack out. Alison told us that she hadn't done stiching before, so we headed to the L.E.A.F bases infirmary to find a sunflower that could carry out the procedure. When we did, they got me to lie down on a bed and they knocked me out. When I woke up, I had a strange feeling in my chest, it turned out the sunflower had successfully stiched the device into the hole in my stem. Thanking the sunflower that did it, I got up and took the portal back home with Alison and Jack.