Calamity and Ali sat together on the lawn hugging, neither plant wanted to let go, but they both knew that they couldn't be together. Calamity was the first to break the embrace as he pulled away from Ali and said.
"Th-this is wrong...I shouldn't be doing this." Ali looked at the the undead Peashooter and said questioningly.
"What do you mean?" Calamity realized what he said and began to panic internally. He looked at Ali and said cautiously.
"I can't say, I promised I wouldn't." Ali encroached on Calamity who slowly shifted away from her as she said.
"Tell me Calamity. Don't make me ask twice." Calamity stopped trying to get away and said quietly.
"Ali...I'm not going back on my word. I don't want to be who I was in life...I want to be like...like..." Ali looked at Calamity, he was biting back tears and said.
"I understand you want to start over...But I want to know why hugging me is wrong?" Calamity looked internally torn as he struggled to say.
"P-Please don't speak of this. B-Benard...has...a crush on you..." Ali stared at Calamity in shock who stared back at her, fear in his eyes. The two plants stared at eachother for over a minute, until Ali broke the silence.
"B-Benard...L-Likes me...W-What?" Calamity continued to stare at Ali as he slowly nodded his head. After a few seconds the sound of a rocket racing towards the two plants snapped them out of their thoughts. Just as Ali realized the rocket was aimed at her, the memory of her brothers death flashed before her. A few seconds into the memory, the scream of a Peashooter being knocked out snapped Ali out of the memory. She looked around to find Calamity laying on the ground, unmoving, a large burn mark on the front of his stem. Not wanting Calamity to suffer the same fate as Ali's brother, she revived the downed, undead Peashooter and helped him get into cover.
Pete got up and unshackled Wulf from the restraints that held him down to the chair. Wulf jumped out of the chair and immediately hit the floor, something had sapped all the energy out of him. Looking around, Wulf realized what had sapped the energy out of him, a wire was connected to the lower part of his stem and led to a hole at the end of the room. Wulf also noticed something that made him worry the most, the colour in his stem was slowly draining away from it's customary, swirling, dark blue, to a light blue and was continuing to lighten up. Before Wulf could rip out the wire, Pete had pulled it out and was gripping Wulf's stem where the wire was attached, blood was beginning to flow out of the hole. Wulf looked around towards Jack who was sneaking up behind Pete with the knife he had pulled out of his stem. Before Jack could insert the knife into his brothers back, Wulf had shot him which knocked Jack back away from his brother and also alerted Pete to the danger he was in. Despite not wanting to harm his brother, Pete knew that if he didn't, he wouldn't see daylight again. Getting up, Pete grabbed the knife Jack had dropped and placed it in his brother's chest and whispered.
"I wish it didn't have to come to this...give mum my love...brother." Jack smiled weakly before going limp in Pete's arms. Laying his brother on the floor, Pete bit back the tears that threatened to burst forth and revived his father. Corinth got up and ran over to Jack's corpse and cried out.
"WHAT HAPPENED?! N-Not my son..." The old Repeater was leaning over Jack's body as he let the tears fall. Pete was busy leaning over Wulf as he covered the small puncture wound that Wulf had in the lower part of his stem. Pete got up and walked over to the curtain that covered the dirty window and ripped off some to use as a bandaid to cover the small wound. When Pete finished covering the wound, he helped Wulf up and the two plants walked over to Pete's grieving father. The Repeater didn't notice his last remaining son grab their brothers pack and go through it. Pete searched through the pack till he found the item that had been causing Pete grief since he learnt of it. Pete and Wulf looked through the document, most of the names had been crossed out while Pete's name had been crossed out, rewritten then crossed out again. The two plants looked at the document, there were a few names still uncrossed, Josie, Ane, Sarah, Hershel, Mystic. Three of the names stood out to Pete but the most shocking thing on the document was the Hodges Family. Wulf looked at the name in disgust and said.
"Shame Jack didn't get at them...The one who nearly ended all of us was a damn Hodge..." Pete slapped the weak Plasma Pea and said.
"That's cruel Wulf, they made a mistake, get over it...that was fourteen years ago. I mean, this is an entire family we're talking about." Wulf sighed and said.
"I'm just...they're the reason...I...it doesn't matter..." Pete looked at Wulf uneasily and said.
"I will find out what you're talking about eventually, but first we have to get out of here..." Wulf looked at Pete uneasily and said.
"Agreed but...uhhh...Pete, there's something I have to tell you...I may have bought your son here..."
Alison paced around the L.E.A.F headquarters lobby as she waited for her name to be called by a Cactus that sat behind a desk, the Cactus typing away at a computer doing whatever her job was. After 5 minutes, the Cactus called out Alison's name so Alison went over to the desk and the receptionist pointed Alison to a room at the end of a hallway that branched off to the right hand side of the base. Alison thanked the Cactus and set off for the room. Inside the small meeting room sat an Agent Pea that Alison hadn't seen for more years than she could remember. When the Agent Pea noticed her he said.
"Alison. It's good to see you...it's been years." Alison blushed slightly as she took a seat opposite the Agent Pea and said.
"It's good to see you to Jack. Look, my son has gone missing." Jack looked at Alison, concern on his face as he said.
"We'll find him Alison. Do you have any idea where he could be?" Alison looked at the Agent Pea opposite her and said sadly.
"Unfortunately no...hang on..." Her tone changed from sadness to optimistic as she said. "He said he was going to the place Pete's story started...I think I know how to find him." Jack smiled at Alison and said.
"I took the liberty to call in a few...friends, when I heard you were coming. I hope you don't mind." The door into the room opened up and a Fire Cactus, Fire Chomper and Fire Pea walked in, each of them with smiles on their faces. Alison smiled back at them and said.
"Joan, Elias, James...It's been too long." The Fire Cactus, named Joan, stepped forward and said.
"When we heard you needed some help, we thought it would be a great opportunity to get back together and go on another mission together." Alison continued to grin at the fire plants before and said.
"I couldn't think of any better plants to help..." Suddenly realization struck Alison like a ZPG, despite the fact she had never been struck by a ZPG. She had realized that she wouldn't have Pete by her side, the one plant she thought she would always be with and never forget, she had managed to forget briefly.