Jordan and Viney had to be honest. They just wanted to go home and see their mother. THEN they just wanted to nap and think this whole thing through. You know, because they were now bonded together forever and also have these unique powers. They just wanted a chance to think this all through and relax. But no… instead, they came home to find a ransom note on their door, prompting them to web sling back to the base and notify everyone.

"Guys!" They took notice of all the new Heroes that were found. "Wait, who are these? I don't think I've met them before."

Cue introduction to remaining Heroes…

"The name's Chompzilla."

"My name is Spudow!

"The name's Grass Knuckles."

"And I'm Captain Combustible."

"I was once an ordinary Chomper/Potato Mine/Bonk Choy/Torchwood before being blasted by the HeroTron."

"Being blasted granted me the ability to eat any Zombie and grow to enormous size! Though it does leave a poor taste in my mouth that just won't go away."

"I'm one of the more peaceful Plants that you can meet. I'm no slouch when it comes to planting Mines, though I do prefer to solve problems more peacefully. I'm more of a pacifist."

"Originally a nerd. Now I can punch! Hard AND precise!

"I prefer to live in solitude inside of Mount Vollycanno. When I'm OUT however, I can empower others with my fire. Think of it as like a buff."

"And that's pretty much my story!" The remaining Heroes finished condensing their origin stories for Spider-Vine

"Wow. That's a lot of information. Did we find everyone?"

"Yeah. So what were you going to say?"

"Oh, we got a note!"

Rose took the letter and read it. She gasped as she continued reading. It was a ransom note, with some Zombie saying that they have Wanah and need them to come alone.

"But who would do something like this?"

"I don't know but we need to head over there right away?"

"But they wanted us to come alone."

"Oh, come on. Are you expecting us to just let you go there by yourself? We'll at least be off to the side, just in case."

"Well… okay."

The Plant Heroes made it to the Zomburbia side of the Backyard Battleground, approaching the Zomburbian Mansion. As they approached the gates, Jordan and Viney kept hearing voices. But they were not from the other Heroes.

"Do you guys hear that?"

"Hear what?" Combustible didn't hear what Jordan and Viney did.

"Those voices. They telling us that it's not safe to be here. Can you not hear it?"

"I'm sorry, no."

"Well," said Viney. "We still feel that they have a surprise waiting for us."

"Don't worry," said Green Shadow. "You'll be fine. If you ever need help, just call for us."

"Thanks." The two felt a little better as they entered the Mansion, spotting someone in a cloak standing in the middle. One glance and he dashed. Spider-Vine made an immediate dash towards the portal that was next to the airship, and that was when they saw Wanah chained up.

"Jordan! Viney!"
"Wanah!" The two immediately ran over to hug her, only to be stopped by the cloaked figure as he blocked their path.

"Do you know who I am?"

"Um… no…"

"Well, I don't know who you are either." Jordan kept listening as Rose used her magic to spy on them. "Of course, there IS a plant or two who should know me." As he said this, he took off his cloak, revealing a Wizard Zombie. Though he did look a little different. Aside from the cloak, his beard was longer and wrapped around his neck and hi also wore a blue hat that was a little smaller than the normal ones. He also did not sport a staff, which was odd for Spider-Vine.

"A Wizard Zombie?"

"No, not just a Wizard Zombie. I am…"

"The Great Rottini…" Rose immediately recognized him.

"The Great Rottini?" Green Shadow showed confusion as Chompzilla shrugged, signaling that she did not know either.

"The Great Rottini. In the Dark Ages, he was one of the most feared Zombies in the land. He was the one who came up with the Sheepify spell and helped cause the Great Dragon Disaster!" The other Plants aside from Wall-Knight were confused.

"There were so many Fire Imps…" The Great Rottini continued to talk.

"I have been looking for a way to escape my time but thanks to the ray from the sky, I'm finally here! With my nemesis…" Like that, Rose and the other Plant Heroes were suddenly levitated and transported to his current location. "Hello, Rose…"

"Oh, hello, Rottini. How's business?"

"Great! Now here's what's going to happen." Using his hands, he levitated Wanah over the edge of Zomboss' Lava Lake.

"You," he said, pointing at Rose. "You can either give me your wand, or I can just drop her." Everyone gasped, but Spider-Vine's was the loudest. He was actually prepared to kill their mother if Rose did not give him what he wants. She can tell how scared they were and gave in after doing some thinking. She slowly levitated over to him, her wand in petal.

"Wait," said Viney. "How do we know he's not going to just drop her?"

"Why would you think that? I just want the wand." Rose then slowly moved her petals. Then something happened, Rose hit him with the Time Snare! Unfortunately, that caused him to drop his powers, causing Wanah to fall. With the limited time they had, Spider-Vine quickly dashed over to the edge, hoping to catch her. They did, and tried to stop her descent with the Webby-Shooties. The webs managed to hold on to her as she was pulled up.

"We did it! We saved you… Wanah?" They heard no response, only her head just lying backward as she was lying down. The two felt worse as Viney felt her pulse. There was no pulse. The other Heroes noticed and put together what happened.

"I thought I could save her."

"It wasn't your fault-"

"Yes, it was. I could have saved her!" The two started to cry.

"There was not much you could do-"

"Well, what could we have done?"

"Excuse me?" Jordan repeated what he said in a distinctively low tone.

"What. Could. We. Have. Done?" The other Heroes were at a loss for words.

"Exactly. I just let her die like this!" As if things could not have gotten any worse for them, they heard a noise on the other side of the large door.

"Let's get out of here."

The Plants managed to escape to the Backyard Base, but the tone was dark because of what just happened. Jordan and Viney failed to save their mother.

"Listen, Jordan. I'm sorry. I had the idea of Time Snaring Rottini. I did not expect this to happen." He said nothing.

"Just please leave me be."

"But-"

"Please?" The other Heroes understood him and left the two to cry, just as Dave walked in.

"What's wrong with him?"

"Um, Dave. Something happened…" Crazy Dave and Penny was told everything that happened.

"Oh… well, don't worry. I'll just make him some tacos to help him feel better!"

"No! User Dave, I understand that tacos can help lift one's spirits up, and I do agree with you, he's still… bargaining. He on that stage of grief."

"Oh, okay. Maybe later. Well, we gotta plan the funeral for Wanah. Anyone know where the Celebration Funeral Service is?"

"Oh, it's in downtown Plantopolis." Penny looked up the location and powered herself up. "Would you like me to take you there?"

"Yes, please! Oh, and Jordan? Viney? You two can stay at the house on the top of the tree if you'd like."

"*sniff* Thank you…" Jordan webbed the two of them to the top, walking inside as Dave and Penny went to plan. Though Rose can't help but feel guilty about this. She had to do something. So a little while later, at night, she visited the two, who were finished crying but were still sour about something.

"You know what we just realized?"

"What?"

"You were right. It wasn't our fault. It was Rottini's fault.

"Really?"

"Of course! He was the one who kidnapped her in the first place! And he did this just to get you to give him your wand!"

"I can see you're right!"

"Yeah, but he's a zombie. There isn't really anything that we can do…" It started to rain outside as Rose consoled the two.

"I am still very sorry."

"Don't be. I guess we just forgot about one of the most painful things in the universe."

"What's that?"

"Reality." Rose understood what he meant as the two kept hugging as it continued to rain.

Bells rang at Carrie's Cemetery as Wanah, in her coffin, was lowered into the ground. Jordan and Viney, dressed in a black suit (which was weird considering the two were merged), sadly watched as their mother went down and was buried. Rose, who was also decked in black, floated up to them.

"How do you feel?"

"Still sad, but a little better. Thank you for cheering us up."

"You're welcome. If you need a place to stay, the castle is always open."

"Well, we can't live in that house by ourselves… okay. When can we move in?"

"After the reception. Come on, let's go to the Base."

After the reception, which had typical food fare courtesy of Crazy Dave, the Plant Heroes arrived at Jordan's soon-to-be-former home and helped him move his stuff to Rose's castle. The process was simple thanks to her magic and once everyone was finished, then came the rearranging.

"Oh, hold on for one second…" Rose went into a room and a rumbling noise was heard. When she came back out…

"Let me introduce you to your new section of the castle!" It was an exact replica of Spider-Vine's former home, which helped him feel better after the furniture was rearranged in there.

"Don't worry," said Crazy Dave. "You're not alone!" He smiled at them, who graciously returned it. "And besides, this can be a whole new chapter in your lives!"

"You know, you're right! We can help people with these powers!"

"Yeah," said Viney. "We may have failed once, but we just have to… get back up."

"I like that. Let's make an oath. No matter how many hits we take, we will always find a way to get back up." Jordan and Viney shook hands, signaling their pact.

Two months later…

Alright, let's start at the beginning one last time.

My name is Jordan C. James. And this is my friend Viney, a sentient bag of retractable vines. I was bitten by a radioactive spider and blasted by the Hero-Tron 5000, and for the past two months, we have been the dup known as the one and only Spider-Vine. Pretty sure you know the rest.

Saved a bunch of people, fight with superpowered Plants, fight Zombies for a living, blah blah blah, all that jazz. Though one thing that we do crave for in our life is something new. It feels like a job: Zombies invade, we push them away, rinse and repeat, the end. Maybe that's why they were Browncoats all the time? Anyway, little did we know that today, we would get our wish…

It was just another day of Zombie fighting for the Plant Heroes as they were battling against the Zombie Heroes. As usual. Spider-Vine dueled against the Iron Zombie, a.k.a. Rustbolt.

"Say, Rustbolt, did you get your suit a shine recently? It glows a bit!" Because you can't forget about the quipping!

"Well, I think it's best for me to say, 'Mind your own business!'"

The two kept fighting for a while until Jordan and Viney eventually win, launching Rustbolt back to Zomburbia. The two applauded themselves for their work and prepared to head back to their home. But then this weird thing happened. Not "Plants fighting against a Zombie invasion" weird, but really weird. The lawn in front of his house was covered by a small hole that began to grow and grow and grow until it was large. And the duo was slowly being sucked into it. The other Plant Heroes took noticed and went to help the pair as they tried to anchor themselves using webs. But the vortex became more violent until it was no use. Jordan and Viney were sucked in, causing the vortex to close.

"Um… what just happened?" Grass Knuckles can only question what just happened.

AU: So I'll be honest, I have been thinking of ways to make Wanah a version of Gwen Stacy, and it wasn't until today that I finally found a way. I wanted to establish one of the rules of being a Spider-Person: no matter how many times Spider-Vine gets hit, they always find a way to get back up. And Wanah's death inspired them over the course of two weeks until the events of the Spider-Verse crossover.

So what do you think? I personally do not have much knowledge on Spider-Man so I was a little worried. Let me know.

Also, sorry for being so doormat lately. I graduate this month so I was busy preparing for the next major step of my life.

Final note: Rose will not be the love interest for Spider-Vine. I already have her paired with Wall-Knight, remember? In fact, there won't be anyone for Jordan James at the moment.

Well, as always leave a review! Never hurts to help!