A stone door opened, making grinding noises as it ascended. Three gnomes hopped through and began talking.

"My lord, the dead rise and are killing the humans. Trum-dee-do!" The one on the left said.

"Let the humans army deal with that." The one in the middle replied dismissively. He had a crown and a big gray beard. A pair of goggles covered his eyes, one lens blue, the other red. His name was King Gnomus, leader of the gnomes. "They can defend themselves."

"That's the thing, your excellence," The gnome on the left said. "The zombies have a leader who outsmarted the military and now controls their undead remains. Tra-la-la!"

King Gnomus paused for a second as the three gnomes reached a table. On its surface showed a birds eye-view of the situation. A horde of zombies in the brown coats of Safe Labs co, where the zombies first showed up, ran towards fleeing humans.

"This is problematic. Dum-dee-loo!" King Gnomus muttered. He snapped his fingers and called, "Bring out the Magic Gnome!" In a poof of blue smoke, a Gnome in a purple robe appeared.

"You summoned me, my lord? Deedly-dee!"

"You can turn anything into a weapon, correct?" King Gnomus questioned.

"Yes, sire. That is how we have our weapons."

"What things can you cast a spell on to turn into a defense system? Dum-dee-dum!"

"Nature, your Highness. Mainly plants."

"That'll do. Work thy magic. Tra-ha-ha!" King Gnomus ordered. The Magic Gnome hopped up to the table and muttered something. All around the Neighborhood, plants started to wriggle and twitch and shake until they grew and began fighting the horde of undead. King Gnomus marveled at this.

"Good work. Trum-dee-dee!" King Gnomus said. "The humans will be safe now."


And that's how it was for a long time. Plants fighting zombies to protect the humans. Over time, however, the plants became sentient, developing speech, feelings and other things. Now, the story of a particular group of plants begins. Plants who will someday go down in history as heroes…

A/N: Okay, I know this is out of the ordinary, considering this is sandwiched between two unfinished stories but lemme explain why I'm doing this. This story was basically written by (I think) 8 year old me, back when ALL I thought about was PvZ, and after a while, I grew bored and moved on. Jump to present day and, after playing a LOT of Battle for Neighborville, I found this scrolling through Google Docs and decided that this would be my next story. So I took it, fixed the poor grammar, replaced a Sunflower with a Nightcap in our list of main characters, made this opening you just read, and added my new knowledge of Plants vs Zombies as I finished this incomplete story. So...thanks 8 year old me!