A/N: Sorry for taking so long to update this story, I just had to get some of the ideas in the other two stories I'm working on out. But now I should be updating this story some more...so on with the chapter.
Corinth opened his weary eyes, he was still alive, which he found to be a miracle. He looked around the dark room he was lying in, the same cold stone made up the walls and the floor of the dingy, blood stained cellar. Corinth pushed himself up and recoiled in shock from the groaning Primal Peashooter that was slowly pushing themselves up. The two plants glared at each other in shock and confusion as they both asked.
"What happened to you? I asked you first." Corinth growled internally as he said through gritted teeth.
"Not much father. I see you've changed." The Primal Peashooter appeared to be an advanced Peashooter but they still looked like a Primal Pea. Corinth's father smirked as he said.
"You've changed as well you traitorous bastard." Corinth smirked as well, he to, was an advanced plant now. The two Peashooters glared at each other for over a minute, both sizing up the other. After a minute, Corinth lunged at his father, who simply laughed as he shot his son. The uneven pea slammed into Corinth and, not only knocked him onto his back, it also stunned him for a few seconds. The Primal Pea took advantage of their sons temporary openness to tackle them and punch them a couple of times. When Corinth came to his senses, he shot his father off of himself and grabbed their throat. The Primal Pea growled and slugged their son across the face. Corinth threw his father against the wall as he felt the blood start to trickle down his face. The Primal Pea groaned as they leaned against the wall, only to have Corinth start pummeling them with a short, wooden pole. After a few minutes, the Primal Pea fell silent and Corinth threw the pole aside, blood covered the pole and his bloodied father. Corinth grabbed his father and dragged him with him as he limped out of the cellar. After half an hour of limping, Corinth reached the crowed bus station, he received many strange looks from the two humans, the shade wearing Citron and a Rock Peashooter with a spear holstered on their back. Corinth ignored them and waited for the bus.
Ali slowly approached her mother, Sonatra, who had a look of relief and anger on her face. Once the two sunflowers were close to each other, Sonatra pulled her daughter into a hug and said.
"Where have you been young lady?" Ali frowned slightly as the two plants stopped hugging and she said.
"Doing...stuff..." Sonatra scowled at her daughter.
"That isn't a sufficient answer. You have no idea how worried I've been." Ali's frown deepened as she replied.
"I can tell. Look, I swear I did nothing bad and no one got hurt." Sonatra gave her daughter a skeptical look as she said.
"If no one got hurt...where's Calamity and Benard?" Ali said apprehensively.
"Well uh...Benard said he had to go somewhere while Calamity is going to visit...someone." Sonatra looked right into her daughters eyes as she said.
"Tell me where they are." Ali sighed and gave in as she said.
"Benard went somewhere...somewhere I don't know while Calamity is going to L.E.A.F, for some reason." Sonatra frowned at her daughter and said.
"We're going to L.E.A.F...now young lady." Ali sighed and followed her mother to the nearest bus station, which was a five minute walk from their home. When they reached the bus station, they were presented with an interesting sight. There were two humans, a Citron, which surprised Ali as Citron's were rare around Suburbia, a Rock Pea, who had a spear holstered on their back, and an Advanced Peashooter holding onto an unconscious Advanced Peashooter who had tufts of hair all over them. Ali's surprise moved from the hairy Peashooter to her mother, she was asking the conscious Peashooter a question.
"Can I help at all?" The Peashooter was shocked by Sonatra's question and replied by holding out their unconscious friend and simply grunting. Sonatra healed the hairy Peashooter before healing the other Peashooter's injuries.
When she was finished she sat beside her daughter and waited for the bus. When the bus arrived, ten minutes later, Sonatra paid for herself and Ali before taking a seat in the third row of seats from the front.
Colin, Orlan and Pete spent half an hour getting ready to break out of The Citadel. As soon as they were ready, they found a serious problem, Pete seemed to be bound to a capsule that sat on a desk. Orlan grabbed the capsule and they were able to break out of the room. As soon as they were out into the dark, stone brick hallway. Pete summoned the skulls that would protect them against attacks, until the skulls were destroyed. The small group of three headed down the dingy hallway towards the stairs that were at the end of the hall. As they ascended the stairs, the sound of voices grew louder and louder and as soon as they crested the top of the spiral staircase, they were presented with the sight of a human talking with a strange looking zombie. The zombie wore a bandage that covered the entirety of their head and they wore a well kept uniform that appeared to be of military origin. While it seemed like the zombie and human hadn't noticed them, a sharp pain coursed it's way through the three plants heads, it felt as if their heads were being pried apart. Once the pain receded, the human grabbed their gun and aimed it at Colin while the zombie raised it's hands. Wispy, white orbs flew from the hands of the zombie and, when they hit the ground, a horde of browncoats appeared out of nowhere. Orlan shot the gun out of the humans hand while Colin shot at the horde of browncoats. Pete found that the peas he shot were completely ineffectually against the browncoats, but they seemed to break the strange zombies focus. Despite this discovery, the zombie was able to summon another horde, just as Orlan and Colin finished off the first horde. The human ran up the hallway, leaving their gun behind and, a few seconds later, an alarm rang out through the facility. Pete growled and started levitating random objects in the hall and sending them at the zombie in an attempt to clear the way. Unfortunately the zombie shrugged off everything thrown at them, even a steel beam which now stuck from their chest. Pete growled harder and continued sending objects at the zombie while his cousin and friend tried to deal with the browncoats. After a few minutes of intense close quarter fighting Pete got lucky when a copper pipe pierced straight through the zombies head. This caused the zombies head to explode while the browncoats they had summoned fell limp.
With the hallway clear, the three plants raced down the hall and up the winding staircases. After a few, hectic minutes spent running with the constant threat of being caught looming over them, the plants burst into, what appeared to be, a courtyard, their freedom just on the opposite side of the large, open gate. The three plants sprinted across the large, chess board like courtyard, only to run into an invisible barrier that seemed to hold them back. Colin, Orlan and Pete looked around in confusion, until they were presented with the sight of a massive, humanoid ghost, a large grin spread across their pale face. A deep, booming laugh launched across the courtyard, it seemed to be preceded by a gust of wind. After the laugh came a voice full of sarcasm.
"I congratulate the three of you for making it this far. You know, I had an idea, after I successfully split your soul from your body, Pete. I realized how much a single ghost could do...so I improved the machine, and now look at me, hundreds of times more powerful than you. Hundreds of times smarter than that bumbling, idiotic Zomboss who called himself a leader and-" Pete interrupted the monologuing ghost with a snarky remark.
"He isn't just Zomboss. He's Dr. Edgar George Zomboss." This only caused the ghost to laugh before he spoke.
"Why are you defending your greatest nemesis?" Pete smirked before he spoke.
"Just using his name to distract you." With that, Pete teleported himself, Orlan and Colin out of the facility and outside L.E.A.F Headquarters where they were approached by a few of the shocked guards.