A/N hello there! ThePeaWithGoggles here! and welcome to chapter 17! I can't really think clearly right now because I'm sick...but anyways, yesterday was my friend's birthday, and we got to do archery too. I did pretty well, over 200 hours of playing GW payed off. XD anyways, on with the chapter, enjoy!
The duo have been walking around the wasteland of Zomburbia for well over a day, even though they didn't cover much ground due to Ane's wound, they at least made some progress.
The entire trip was pretty much in silence since the time when Ane told Peater on how he became leader, they didn't even made eye contact since then.
The awkward silence continued until they found a large building in the distance, Peater was the one to speak up first. "That building looks...familiar."
Ane gave him a quick nod before they started to pick up the pace. Running at the direction of the building.
They stared at the building in shock, it was Zomboss' laboratory, with his estate standing next to said laboratory.
But unlike the last time the 2 have seen the buildings in front of them, it wasn't fully attached. Part of both buildings were rotting or crumbling and long thorn covered vines were on both buildings as well.
It was sensible that Zomboss decided to move his estate somewhere else. The Plants already knew of its location and they would used that knowledge to their advantage.
The unlikely duo decided to go in the abandoned laboratory, hoping that they would find anything useful.
Once they entered the laboratory they were met with a rather dark room, the only thing that had light was the lantern that was close to dying.
Mixed with the ominous feel and the dim light of the lantern, the scenery they were in was horror movie material, well enough for Ane at least.
They walked around a good 3 minutes looking at weird weaponry along with machines that weren't finished, a few of them only had the base built.
Not long after they entered the abandoned laboratory, they were meant with a shudder worthy sight.
It was a large room, a huge pane of glass divided it into 2, and 1 half was worse than the other. Bits of dry blood could be seen in the ground, but it wasn't just any blood, it was a Peashooter's blood.
"Ouch." Ane spoke out as he read out a label that was attached on a used gun which seemed to have shot out needles. Peater glanced at the dry blood once again before taking his attention towards the Chomper. "Something wrong?"
The Chomper gave him a mix expression of disgust and concern before throwing the gun at the Peashooter, who easily caught it with a small jump.
The Peashooter had a look of utter disgust as he read the label. "Microscopic Zombies that eat you from the inside...that's sick!" He quickly dropped the gun in disgust as he took his attention towards the dry blood that was near him. That poor Peashooter...they were probably begging for it to end already...
The sounds of footsteps snapped the Peashooter from his thoughts as he noticed Ane walking in another direction.
He quickly followed the Chomper to wherever he was going to. Walking became running as they ended up out of the laboratory and now making their way towards Zomboss' estate. The Peashooter's eyes widen as he knew exactly on why Ane was running towards the building at full speed.
It only took a minute for the duo to reach the mad scientist's mansion. And it was not long after that they were in the room where the time machine used to be.
It looked exactly the same in terms of design, but like the laboratory, the room, along with the rest of the estate were at the brink of crumbling down.
If Ane had eyes he currently would be frowning at the memory of this room, he only remembered part of it since he got knocked out from that ZPG from the Camo Ranger. But Peater, however, remembered everything.
The Peashooter approached him with a reluctant look. "You have no idea the looks on your friends' faces when you were knocked out by that ZPG." He spoke out as he remembered the scene. "Especially that Cactus, they were at the brink of having a breakdown."
The Chomper gulped as he stared at the area that the younger version of himself was when he was knocked out by the ZPG. He could imagine their faces already.
The Peashooter let out a sigh. "It was my fault that the Camo Ranger was able to use their ZPG, if only if I wasn't too cocky-"
"No." The Chomper replied even before the Peashooter could finish speaking. "Don't blame everything on yourself, at least you tried to make up for it at the end."
Peater shook his head in disappointment. "And I failed to make up for my little plan..look what has happened to not just Suburbia, but the entire world. The death of many good Plants was because of how selfish I was back then." He voice was coated in disgrace of himself.
The Chomper let out a soft growl, what the Peashooter was saying was true, but admitting that would only make his mood worse.
He cleared his throat before speaking. "That's not true, Peater. I know what you're thinking, they will forgive you in time-"
"What if they don't? Huh? Who would ever forgive me after such a crime I caused?" It was Peater's turn to cut off his speech, his eyes got more and more teary by the second.
"They will." The Chomper replied with a small smile, he wasn't the greatest at comforting people, but he did everything he can. "After all, I have forgiven you."
Peater let out a gasp of shock. "Y-you forgive me?" He managed to stammer out. The Chomper's reply was a amused laugh. "Of course! No one will be angry at someone forever!" He continued to laugh for a few seconds before calming down.
The Peashooter couldn't believe it, someone, especially a Chomper, actually forgave him? He finally smiled in relief, which turned into a wide grin as he too laughed.
Once the Peashooter regained his composure, he quickly tensed up, but the smile was still printed in his face.
The duo decide to leave the room and walk around the estate and see if they can find anything useful or something that can heal up Ane's wound.
After 10 minutes of walking, they found themselves in a room full of all kinds of torn up documents and other sheets of paper.
1 however, stood out to the Peashooter, not just because it was placed on a desk, it seemed to look like it had some important information.
Quickly hypering towards it and grabbing it. He quickly read through the document before gasping in shock, concern soon replacing it.
Ane, noticing the sudden change of expression, quickly asked as he approached the older Peashooter. "What's wrong?"
The Peashooter glanced at the document before replying. "Did this...L.E.A.F thing told you anything about the time machine recently?" The concern look was still printed on his faceL
The Chomper nodded with a questioning look, but once he was handed the document, he knew what the Peashooter meant.
"It...was all a scam?!" The Chomper exclaimed panicky as his heart started to increase. "Doesn't that mean that the Zombies aren't rebuilding the machine?!" He gasped. "No...no...that means..."
Realisation hit the Chomper like a ZPG. "The Zombies are leading them into a trap."
A/N and done! Yep...short chapter, but I think it's pretty good! Haha, a bit of a cliffhanger at the end there. ;) hehe, told you that I won't just be recycling the plot of my previous story into this. Hehe, until next time, ThePeaWithGoggles out!