Chapter 1: Blades and Spatulas

Neighborville, Plantopolis city, Earth

Saturday, June 15

7:00 AM

It is a great day in Plantopolis city in Neighborvile, the sun is shining, and the birds and Sunflowers are singing. People are walking and cars are not in the traffic rush. A bird flew towards a tree branch, landed on it, and looked at a house that has a huge L.E.A.F. symbol. Underneath the house is the Plant heroes base where they would have meetings, planning, or for training. Three Zombie dummies were already set up in place until three precision blasts hit the dummies. The three precision blasts came from a female peashooter, who is wearing a purple mask with purple eye makeup to blend in with her mask. She is also wearing a purple cape and hood with a big red fabric inside the cape. The female peashooter's name is Penelopea A.K.A. Green Shadow. Penelopea is proud of herself when she landed those shots. She headed upstairs to see how the plants are doing. As she arrived at the main floor, she is happy to see some of the plants either having fun, training or going crazy. On her right side is a fit human, wearing a white T-shirt, dark blue jeans, brown shoes, and a dull silver pot on his head. He is also sporting a very fluffy light brown beard, munching on a taco and looking through some files. The taco maniac is Crazy Dave.

Penelopea greeted him, "Hey Crazy Dave!"

Crazy Dave turned his head to see his peashooter hero friend and smiled.

"What are you looking at?" Penelopea asked him.

On Crazy Dave's table were some files of new heroes that have been zapped by the Hero-Tron 5000. Green Shadow was going to take a look at one of the files until her phone went off. She looked at her phone to see who was calling her, it was her friend, Sunny.

"Hello?" Penelopea answered her friend.

"Hey Green, we may have a problem, It's Rustbolt, he's back again!" the sound of Sunny's voice boomed from the phone. And to Green Shadow herself, it sounds like the situation is very dire.

"Need some help in the Junkyard?" Green Shadow asked.

"What do YOU think Shadow? Of course, we need help!" Sunny said very seriously.

Green Shadow laughed a little, "Alright, I'll be there in a minute."

She hung up and rushed towards the front door and ran toward where her friend is. However, a blue armored plant was watching her on a nearby roof.

Neighborville, Junkyard, Earth

Saturday, June 15

7:00 AM

Sunny is having trouble trying to get a fire blast at Rustbolt, but he keeps on shooting his shrink ray at her. Sunny is a Sunflower but, she is more than a normal Sunflower, she is a plant hero and goes by the name Solar Flare. She is fitted with red goggles to protect herself when she catches herself on fire and wears a black tank top with a white L.E.A.F. symbol. When she turns up the heat, she can fly and shoot fireballs or a flamethrower at the zombies.

"How are you holding up Nightcap?" Solar Flare asked her hero friend.

Nightcap is a hero and a ninja mushroom. He wears his trusty purple hat with purple dots that a cut on its left-side of his hat. He also wears his dark gray scarf around his neck and has a black scar on his right eye. "Still not shrunken to the size of an ant yet." Nightcap said.

Solar Flare and Nightcap are hiding behind a wall while Rustbolt is firing everything he has in his suit. "Hey, guys!" Solar Flare and Nightcap turned and see their pea hero friend running to them. Solar Flare checked her clock on her phone and it reads:

7:01 am

"Wow, when you said a minute, you weren't kidding." Solar Flare said surprised.

"Now, what's going on with Rusty over here?" asked Green Shadow. Nightcap answered his partner's question, "As far as I know, he is not happy to see us."

The wall was about to fall apart and Nightcap senses this. All three heroes backed away from the wall when it exploded. As the smoke cleared, it showed a zombie in an Iron Man esc suit colored orange and purple. Rustbolt has destroyed the wall and just floating there. The three heroes got their fighting stances as Rustbolt floats and stares at the three coldly.

The Iron Man-like-Zombie noticed that Green Shadow arrived, and spoke in his raspy and dark voice, "Well well well, look who finally decided to show up".

"Here to kill me again, tin can?" Green Shadow asked.

"Of course. After all…" Rustbolt says as he activates his missiles and targets the three plants, "you're the first plant to be zapped."

He fires his missiles at the three, but the plants dodged the missiles before it hit them. Solar Flare fired a fireball at him, but it only left him with a black mark on his armor. In return, Rustbolt fired his shrink ray. Solar Flare would've been a sitting duck if it weren't for Nightcap to dive in to save her. Green Shadow fired some peas at Rustbolt but his armor just bounced them off and Rustbolt slapped Green Shadow with his "deadly" spatula.

Solar Flare and Nightcap were about to attack him but, Rustbolt fired his missiles at some rocks. Solar Flare and Nightcap dived to avoid the falling rocks.

Solar Flare looked to see Rustbolt standing and Green Shadow on the ground injured. Solar Flare shouted her name in horror, "SHADOW!"

"Say goodbye to your peashooter girl," Rustbolt says as he raises his Spatula preparing for the kill. That is until he heard a battle cry from someone else. "HHHHAAAAHHHH!"

Rustbolt looked up and sees a blue armored peashooter with a handheld energy blade on his right hand, raised up to slash Rustbolt on his chest. Rustbolt blocked the attack from the energy blade-wielding peashooter with his Spatula. The attack was so hard that Rustbolt slides backward and stops to a halt. The armored peashooter turned and held out his hand to Green Shadow, who is surprised that there's another peashooter hero just like her. Green Shadow took his hand and stood up on her feet.

Rustbolt peeks through his arm and was shocked to see that he wasn't the only one in an armored suit but through the looks of things, the peashooter's armor is more advanced than his. It's made from nano-tech and his suit colors are blue and gold. Rustbolt took another look at the peashooter and was even more shocked to see that he is a foot shorter than Green Shadow. Rustbolt scoffed at the little peashooter and says to him, "And who are you supposed to be, Green Shadow's little brother?"

The little Peashooter turned around and spoke to the Iron Man-like-zombie, "Uh, technically, this is the first time we met. And by the way, the name is Sky Kid, Zombie Iron Man."

Rustbolt was in shock and was furious when he called him a Zombie Iron man, "Why you little-!" He ran towards Sky Kid, raising his metal spatula and tries to slash the blue armored peashooter in half but the little peashooter was quick, as he catches the spatula with his hand. Sky's nanobots in his suit form a mallet on his hand and he uppercuts Rustbolt, which sends him flying.

"AUGH!" Rustbolt cried as he landed hard on his back but got back up quickly. He proceeded to attack the little peashooter again, but Peater blocked his attack. Rustbolt then punched him in the face. "Oof!" exclaimed Sky Kid.

Sky Kid slid back a little but used his flight stabilizers to stop him from sliding far. He then flew forward and shoulder charged at Rustbolt. Rustbolt dodged his charge and used his metal spatula to slash the little peashooter. Peater turned and the metal spatula collided with his faceplate, making a scar on his right side of his face. "AAAAAHHHHH!" Peater cried in pain as he gets thrown back from Rustbolt's strong punch.

"I'm getting tired of this, I need to finish my mission," Rustbolt says angrily. He turns and aims his cannon at Green Shadow. Rustbolt fires his cannon, only for Sky Kid to fly in front of her and use his nanobots to form a tall, big shield. He blocks the powerful energy that's coming from the armored zombie's cannon. However, his nanobots are depleting rapidly and Peater noticed it. When Rustbolt stopped firing, Sky Kid ran towards him, jumped up in the air, and punched him right on the faceplate. Rustbolt, in return, punched him in the stomach and he landed on his back.

Rustbolt was ready to pummel the little peashooter until he was hit by a thrown black kunai. Rustbolt turned around and was hit face-first by a fireball. Green Shadow rushed to Sky Kid's aid and pulls him back to make sure it doesn't get hasty. She then asked the little peashooter "Are you okay?" Sky Kid answered her question, "I'm fine."

Green Shadow looked back at the other two heroes and seeing that they're having a hard time. She then rushed forward and tackled the armored zombie but he managed to overpower them and tossed them like ragdolls. Both Nightcap and Solar Flare are knocked out and Sky looked on in horror as Green Shadow was down on the ground on one knee, kneeling injured and bruised. Rustbolt was a few feet away from Green Shadow. he activated his metal spatula and ran towards the caped peashooter girl to finally kill her. Green Shadow braced for impact as Rustbolt goes for the kill.

SHULCK

Green Shadow opens her eyes and moves her head on her right to see that she had moved on the side with Solar Flare and Nightcap, who were awake. When she looked forward, her pupils shrank and she is horrified to see Sky Kid impaled on the left side of his waist. Rustbolt's metal spatula is now covered in a green liquid substance.

"NO!" Green Shadow screams in such horror, she gets up and tries to help the kid only for Nightcap to put out his hand in front of her to stop her.

"So, you've chosen death to protect your friends? Says a menacing Rustbolt. How foolish of you."

Sky Kid felt the pain through his waist. Rustbolt took out his green blood-covered spatula and grabbed the little peashooter's throat with his right hand.

"If I can't kill Green Shadow…I'll just have to kill you."

Sky Kid heard what Rustbolt said and does not like the sound of it. He doesn't want to die, not like this.

He grabbed Rustbolt's forearm and removed the shell of his armor that's hiding his missiles. Sky grabbed one of his missiles and stuck it between the chest of his armor.

Rustbolt looked in shock as he tried to remove the missile but it was stuck in there pretty good. Sky Kid pushed him off of his chokehold and landed on his back on the ground and formed his repulsor cannon. Green Shadow ordered the other two to take cover as she grabbed her cape and used it as a shield, Solar Flare flame's on, knowing she can take big heat, and Nightcap teleports to a high place to avoid from him turning to a mushroom crisp.

Rustbolt looks at the little peashooter in horror and fails to take off the jammed in missile which means he has to flee.

"Eject!" he tells the computer. The armored zombie ejects out of his suit just as Sky Kid fired his repulsor cannon creating a big fiery explosion.

"I'll get you next time, heroes!" he shouts out to the plant heroes as he flies far far away.

Peater groans in pain when he tried to get up. He sprays his medical spray on his waist and gets back up on his feet. He limped forward toward the three heroes until his left leg hurts so much that he starts to fall but, Green Shadow was able to catch him and lays his head on her lap. Nightcap and Solar Flare stood right next to her and looked at the kid.

Peater coughed just as his nanobots retract his scared and broken helmet, revealing his green, scarred, yet cute face. He looked at Green Shadow and the other two and spoke weakly, "D-Did we do it?"

Penelopea looked at him in sadness but answered his question, "For now." She stroked his jet black leaves that were showing through his cracked helmet. Peater gave her a weakly smile before passing out.

"Hey, is everything okay over there?"

The three looked up and see a female carrot wearing a red helmet with a yellow visor and her red jetpack.

"Yeah, we're okay over here Beta-Carrotina!" Solar Flare said as she called out to her.

The carrot girl, named Beta-Carrotina, landed next to the injured, armored peashooter and scanned him through her visor, "Heartbeat detected, he'll be alright."

Green Shadow looked at the unconscious peashooter before saying, "He needs some medical attention." Green Shadow lifted Sky Kid up and carried him on her arms, cradling him and starts walking.

"Yeah but, where though?" Asked Nightcap. Shadow stopped walking and turns her head. She answered the mushroom ninja's question.

"Home."