A/N hello! ThePeaWithGoggles here! And welcome to chapter 15! :) Last chapter we got a bit of a flashback about one of Ane's birthday, it serves no real purpose other than the gift that Sarah gave him, who knows, it might play a bigger role in the story later...haha. :) anyways, enjoy!

For the past 5 minutes the 2 Plants have been fighting. Ane decided to only headbutt instead of biting or anything close to that, he didn't want to mercilessly kill another Plant.

The Peashooter he was fighting against however, only dodged the upcoming headbutts, he really didn't want to fight now. Instead, he wanted to have a friendly talk with the angry Chomper.

"I-I'm sorry okay!" The Peashooter exclaimed, attempting to apologise, but only to be end up dodging another furious headbutt. "I've been sorry for the last 4 years!"

Ane came to a halt. "Where the heck were you for the past 4 years anyway, Peater?!" He growled, earning a nervous chuckle from the pea shooting Plant.

"I would only tell if you calm down, Ane." He said as he once again attempted to calm down the Chomper, he didn't want his instincts to take control of him, if he did, then the Peashooter will end up lying on a pool of blood.

If the Chomper had eyes he would be glaring at Peater, but he proceed to nod, signalling that he has calmed down, at least a little bit.

The Peashooter let out a soft sigh of relief in response, then he let out another nervous chuckle before speaking. "You know the Plants' previous base was destroyed right?" The Chomper simply nodded as a reply.

Peater gave him a "please don't kill me" look before speaking once more. "I kinda ran away...and well. I roamed Suburbia for the next 4 years..." He could easily see the Chomper was getting angry once more, but he held it in.

"Why do you think that it was good idea to leave your fellow Plants like that?" The Chomper's reply was one of anger. But he tried to sound as calm as possible.

Peater let out a sigh before replying. "I-I...was quite immature back then, wasn't I?" He spoke as if he was disgusted of himself, he probably was. Ane gave him a rather reluctant nod as he started to soften up a bit.

"Icee probably was devastated when she got back to Surburbia..." Peater's voice drifted off, sadness coating his voice. "She's probably thinks she's the only one left."

Ane gasped softly, wasn't Kendrick still there? After a few seconds of pondering, realisation hit him like a ZPG. Peater doesn't know that Kendrick is still alive.

As much as he felt a bit bad for the Peashooter, he didn't want to fully trust him, after another few seconds of pondering, he thought of a idea.

"I don't really trust you, Peater." He spoke out as he looked at the Peashooter in the eyes. "But I can help you get to the L.E.A.F HQ." He knew that he might get a ride back home if he went there, so it's a win win.

But Peater came with a confused expression. "L.E.A.F?" He asked with his all inspiring confused face.

This didn't surprise the Chomper at all actually, he probably was cut off from the latest news since he ran away from the old base, he gave the Peashooter a small smile.

"You'll know when we get there."

He quickly turned around as he started to walk towards the door of the abandoned house, leaving Peater with a even more confused face, but he decided to follow him anyway, it's was better than being left alone after all.

He quickly caught up with Ane, soon noticing the wound on the Chomper's stem. With worry coating his voice, he asked. "You okay that wound over there?"

The Chomper simply nodded as he continued to walk. The injury was still stinging but he decided to ignore it.

With Ane's reply, the Peashooter decoded to shrug it off. Continuing to follow him to whatever Ane thinks would lead to L.E.A.F's HQ.

A few hours later...

They have walked quite a few kilometres since they started, the Sun started to rise as they continued their journey.

The entire trip was in silence, the only thing they could hear was their breathing. But Peater was the one who decided to break it.

"So I heard about this rank thing in teams." He looked at the Chomper before continuing, who has a look of interest. "So Alpha is the highest right? So..you got there yet?" The Peashoter had a look of curiosity printed on his face.

The Chomper gave him a small smile before replying. "Indeed I have." The smile on his face turned into a chuckle. "It's a funny story how we got to that rank actually."

Peater nodded as he processed the newly given information. "Then how come you became the leader?" Curiosity was coating his voice.

But before the Chomper replied a explosion occurred on their right, it was so strong it caused the ground to shake slightly.

Curiosity was replaced with a serious attitude, Peater quickly hypered towards the source of the explosion, with Ane close behind.

Back at SF Alpha's base...

The continuation of Sarah's breakdown echoed throughout the base, most of the Plants stopped from what they were doing to hear the cries of the poor Cactus, and they all knew that something really bad happened if she was this sad.

Even Lynith, who was outside of the base testing her spells could hear it. She couldn't help but feel sorry for the poor Cactus even if she didn't knew much about her.

Rodly did his best to ignore the saddening cries, he gulped as he continued to do what he was doing.

Cornerl's room was close to the room Sarah was in, so he was one of the Plants that could hear her cries the most, he tried his best to think on other things. But he couldn't help but one tear fall.

Hershel and Mystic decided to do what Sarah wouldn't want them to as they waited outside her room's door, but they wanted to help or at least cheer her up.

Hershel was the one who opened the door, which surprisingly wasn't locked, the 2 Plants were met with Sarah lying on her bed, her face was on her pillow as she continued to sob, she seemed to haven't noticed that the 2 Plants were there.

"Sarah?" Right after the Toxic Peashooter spoke up Sarah lifted her head, her face was dry and was all red from all the sobbing, she looked as if she hasn't slept for days. The look on the Cactus' face shocked the 2 Plants but they decided to ignore it unless they wanted to be plucking out spikes from their bodies for the rest of the day.

"What..." Sarah's voice was weak, it could only be barely hearable. "What...do you 2 want?" She sniffed before making eye contact with the duo.

Mystic and Hershel each other glances of worry, anxious thoughts raced through their mind, Mystic decided that it was her turn to speak up. "We...we want to cheer you up..."

"And you're not helping..." The Cactus' voice got more and more un-hearable by the second. "Go away." She laid her head on the wet pillow once again.

Hershel cleared his voice before speaking up. "S-Sarah...you're overreacting." He didn't knew he just made the worst reply ever.

"OVERREACTING?! DIDN'T YOU SEE WHAT ANE DID?!" Sarah voice became from one barely hearable to a tone of complete anger, her sudden change in tone even made the 2 Plants jump. "HE WAS ONE OF THE FEW PLANTS THAT I DEPENDED ON! HE-He...he was one of the few Plants that I truly loved..." Her voice trailed off. Sadness replacing anger.

The Plants who watched as she started to sob once more exchanged glances of worry once again, they decided to sit next to the crying Cactus, 1 Plant on each side.

Mystic placed her equivalent of a human's hand on the Cactus' right shoulder. "Sarah, we understand the pressure and the betrayal you're currently feeling." She gave the Cactus a soft smile. "But you can't stay like this forever."

The Toxic Pea who sat on the left side nodded in agreement. "He didn't do it on purpose, you know that a Chomper's instincts can take over when they're angry or in danger."

Mystic nodded at the Toxic Pea's statement. "He's right, Ane had no choice..." The Cactus sniffed once she stopped crying. "I can't believe I slapped him...now he's somewhere lost in Suburbia...because of me..." The flowers on her head started to droop as tears threatened to pour down from her face once again.

Both Hershel and Mystic gave her a small smile of encouragement. "We'll find him, okay? I don't think he's really far, that area is still in Eastern Suburbia." The Toxic Pea said as the smile on his perfectly circle shaped mouth widened.

The Mystic Flower nodded once more. "We'll find him, actually, let's start tomorrow, you would like that right, Sarah?"

The Cactus sniffed once again, and after what felt like years she finally smiled. "Yeah...I'm okay with that."

A/N and done! Haha, this was a fun chapter to write, but don't expect this to be the last chapter where Sarah will have a breakdown. ;) until next time, ThePeaWithGoggles out!~