BATTERY FULLY CHARGED. NOW ENTERING: CONSCIOUS MODE.
Zetty slowly blinked her eyes, awakening from her uh...nap? She was technically just charging her battery overnight. She wasn't in her normal state, she was in this miniature form of herself that is about 1'2. With how she's designed, Zetty can shape her body in a multitude of ways, even if it's somewhat limited. She made this robotic yawn noise before removing herself from the wall.
She waddled around the room she was in, trying to get over to the bed of the room she was , someone had been sleeping under the covers of the bed, his identity was unidentifiable due to him being well covered.
Zetty looked up at the bed, at this size the bed was way bigger than her - she knew that she needed to wake up whoever was under those covers.
She started tugging on the covers in an attempt to try and wake them up.
"Mmph.."
They just ended up pulling the covers back, they even pulled it hard enough that Zetty got pulled up onto the then was able to pull the covers off their head, and she gave them a weak bonk on the head-
"H-Huh, wuh?" Terry finally woke up.
He woke up and saw the little Zetty just staring at him."Oh, uh..morning, Zetty!"
"M-M..Munnin!" She said, she was still getting a grasp on English, so she didn't know how to talk very well yet.
"Hey..when could you get that small?" He said as he sat up on the side of the bed.
She simply shrugged at him.
"Huh..okay..what else can you change your body into?"
Zetty proceeded to transform herself to her normal size.
"Well, it's good you can still do that.."
And then suddenly Zetty grew all the way to ten feet tall
"W-WOAH!"
Due to this, Zetty would end up crashing into the ceiling and breaking it, but she wouldn't feel major impact from this. Some of the debris fell onto the ground as she broke the ceiling.
"WOAH WOAH ZETTY ZETTY PLEASE SHRINK AGAIN!"
Zetty looked down at Terry and nodded, going back to her mini form. Terry looked up and saw a hole in the wall after that.
"Oh no.. 's gonna kill us!"
Zetty looked down, feeling disappointed in herself for that."S...Sorr..ie.."
"What do you mean kill you I don't kill people-"
"AH!" Terry shouted, startled by the sudden voice.
Snaplight had walked into his room upon hearing the noise.
"Woooah, you made your first hole in the wall Terry!"
"M-My first?"
"Yeah, I make holes in the wall aaaaall the time in my lab. You should see the huge one I made with the wrecking ball cannon!"
"Do you...ever fix them?"
"Nah, those holes help me cherish the fond memories with my creations.." Snaplight said, proudly.
"Uh..okay.."
"Wait, kid- don't you have to get ready for school?"
"No actually, it's a Saturday so I can just go do whatever." He said as he picked up Zetty and held her like a baby.
"Oh, okay..to be honest I keep forgetting what day it is. My dad told me I never need to wait to chase my dreams.""...So I never looked at a calendar ever again."
"...well that would explain why we always have a substitute in chemistry-"
"Anyway, anyway!" "You take Zetty and uh..go have fun or something, I'm gonna work on a new invention, so it'll get pretty loud around here."
"Sure thing! Just uh..be careful and don't destroy the house, please.."
"Okay, okay, I will.."
"Good, good...well, you ready to go, Zetty?"
Zetty nodded in agreement and hopped up on Terry's shoulder.
"See you later !"
"Be back by eight, okay?"
"No problem."
Snaplight would watch the two leave.
"..No promises."
The unusual duo then left the house and ventured outside, where they found themselves in Preserve Pastures. The two would go looking around the farms and other things there.
"This place is kinda pretty, huh?" Said Terry.
Zetty pointed up at the windmill. "A-...A!"
"Huh? Do you like the windmill Zetty?"
Zetty nodded gleefully, and changed her face screen into a blue 8-bit spinning pinwheel.
Terry laughed a bit at this.
Zetty would continue this for a bit, until suddenly her face went to black.
"Uh- Zetty?" Terry said, with a rising sense of worry.
Suddenly she fell over to the floor with a pebble falling next to her, which had been used to power her off.
"Z-ZETTY!" Terry, in a panic, kneeled down to try and turn her on."A-Are you okay? What happened?!"
He wasn't fully aware of how Zetty worked, or, machines really, he's intimidated by a lot of smart technology, so he doesn't quite understand what happened. Before he could even comprehend what happened, he was shot in the arm with a tranquilizer dart. "Uuuh- wuhizzah-"
Terry shortly fell asleep due to the dart, they were grabbed by someone that looked to be a Snapdragon, and they flew away with both Terry and Zetty.
"U-Ugh.." "Where..where am I..?" "Huh..?"
Once Terry woke up and opened his eyes, he looked around where he was. He was in a dark room, illuminated by a strong lightbulb in the center of a table. He also realized he was tied to a chair.
Zetty wasn't far - laying on the table in her mini form, still powered off.
"Zetty!" He struggled from his ropes "What is thi-"
"MPHMMPPHHMPPPHH!"
"AAH!" Terry heard angressive muffling to the side of him, this was because in a chair next to him was Zackary, who was not only tied up, but gagged as well.
"Z-Zackary..? Why are you here?"
He didn't really listen to Terry, he just kept throwing a fit in his seat.
("Thiis is getting weird..")Terry thought, as he looked around to his right to see if anyone else was there, which there was.
Also there and tied to chairs were Lucia and Lily, who unlike Zackary were not gagged.
"L-Lucia?! And Lily too?"
Lucia was just looking at the ground and shaking fearfully in her chair, not saying a word. She couldn't properly communicate without her notebook (which is explained later.), so this put her in a bad spot. At Terry's presence she perked up bit, this is because her and Terry were actually good friends; but then went back to quivering, realizing that him being here actually could be a bad thing.
"Nngh..T-Trust me, I'm just as confused as you!"Lily said, while struggling in attempt to get herself free, fearing not only for her own life, but now theirs.
Terry begun to sweat a bit. ("Why would someone take us away in particular..? That doesn't make se-") Before Terry could finish his thought, the other side of the table was hit with an ice spell, causing a large icicle to form which threw the whole table off balance.
All four of them perked up, becoming alarmed by : "huh?"Zack: "Mmp?"Lucia: "EEK!"Lily: "WHAT THE-"
Chillius walked into view in front of the icicle.
"..YOU COULD HAVE JUST SAID HI!"Lily Exclaimed.
"M-Mister Chillius?!" Terry said with confusion, he didn't expect him of all people to have kidnapped them.
"Good morning, you four.."Said Chillius."You may be wondering why I've gathered you here."
"To be honest, I'm just wondering why you tied us up..?" Said Lily, still confused.
Chillius sighed. "I did that so you guys would actually pay attention. Especially that delinquent.."
He pointed at Zackary.
"I didn't gag him originally, but he wouldn't stop spouting death threats at me, and it was getting irritating."
Lily, Terry, and Lucia all looked at each other.
Terry: "Yeah I can't argue with that-"
Lily: "I mean he is pretty rude sometimes-"
Lucia didn't really respond to this, even though she isn't fond of Zack she feels like maybe he's a bit misunderstood.
"Well, can you at least untie us-?"
Said Lily.
"Very well, but don't run away or try to attack me, that won't end well for you."
Said Chillius, creating small ice shards behind their chairs to release them.
Immediately, Zackary ripped off his gag and lunged at Chillius
"YOU DON'T GET TO HOLD ME DOWN, YOU DAMN POPSICLE-"
"GAH!"
Chillius made a wall of ice in front of him that Zackary crashed into, just falling over after that.
Chillius looked down at Zack.
"Stop embarrassing yourself and sit down, you bohemian."
"Gh- w-what do you even got us here for anyway?!"
Zackary said after getting up and dusting himself off.
"I can give some context if you all just sit down.."
"Tsk- well as long as you don't kill me, then whatever, I guess."
Zackary went and sat down.
Terry grabbed Zetty and pressed a few buttons on her in attempt to try to turn her back on, however he had no idea how Zetty even worked so it took him like 20 seconds to even do that.
POWERING ON...ENTERING: CONSCIOUS MODE.
Zetty woke back up.
"H-Hey, you're okay!" Terry exclaimed, happily.
"M-Munnin!"
She hopped out of Terry's arms and onto the table, she looked at her surroundings with curiosity and then looked back at Terry with her eyes changing into a question mark on her face.
"Uh..just be patient, I can get us out of here soon." Terry put simply.
"ACHEM, can we not with the reunions so I can get on with it?" Chillius scoffed.
"R-Right, sorry!"
Everyone gave their attention to Chillius.
"I know I gathered you all here in a sketchy way, but I need to put things into action, and this was the fastest way to do so."
WRITERS NOTE: Lucia is a character with extreme social anxiety, and thus hardly ever uses her voice to talk. Because of this, she mainly communicates by writing things in her notebook and showing it to people.
- Whenever she writes something, it looks like this. -
"Whenever she talks, it looks like this."
Something to keep in mind.
- Do you have a job or something for us..? -
Lucia questioned, she can talk now because she can write in her notebook again.
"No. More than a job. An internship with L.E.A.F, for all four of you."
Lily and Terry gasped, Lucia's eyes widened, and Zackary raised an eyebrow at this news.
Zetty had no reaction because she doesn't know what's going on. All she knows for certain is to sit on the table and chill.
"A-An intership? For all of us?" Lily said, somewhat intrigued by the idea. She didn't have a great home life, so this could be huge for her.
"Well..sort of."
"You see, you may know that at times, I would assist Rookie when he would teach you guys things in his combat class at Flamingo High."
"So because of that, I've seen first hand what some of you guys are capable of."
"And even though you guys have a long, long way to go, I feel you guys have great potential in terms of fighting."
"So, I was thinking that perhaps I could personally train the four of you, and involve you four in L.E.A.F related missions, as well as my own endeavors.."
"That way, I can teach you guys in the way I desire, and you can get your own experience in the field.""
"That uh.."
"That doesn't sound anything less than extremely dangerous." Said Lily, and she continued saying:
"Taking a bunch of inexperienced teens out on missions for a war-related agency honestly just doesn't sound safe at all.."
Chillius snorted a bit from his snout, making the air a bit colder due to that.
"Well..from my understanding, you guys desire to become stronger, considering what you said your desires were in the combat class."
"...How the bloody hell do you know that-" Zackary questioned.
"Well I'm..uh.."
"No, not friends- uh.."
"I know Rookie, he just told me what you guys answered when he asked you all why you joined his class."
Chillius wrote down all the motives that Rookie gave for them.
"Terry, you want to be the first Weed L.E.A.F agent. Lucia, you want to fight for everyone. Lily, you want to be able to protect yourself. And Zackary, you want to, uh..know how to beat people up. Uh..okay."
Zackary snickered a bit at this.
"Damn straight I do!"
The other three just sat in silence.
"..Well, anyway-"
"And if you wanna reach those goals that you have, then this may be the best way to do it.."
They all stopped to think about this for a moment. If they all decide to work under Chillius, it could definitely change their lives forever..but will it be for the better, or for the worse..?
Eventually, Zackary slammed his hand on the table after consideration, which startled the rest of them, except Chillius.
"I'll do it."
"Frankly, I already love beating the hell out of people. And if I can continue to do that while getting better at it, then i'll do it."
"Plus, if I can get strong enough I could just be a L.E.A.F agent and then be set for life because with me there, there wouldn't even be a worry."
Zackary said, with a strong sense of cockiness.
"Well, Zack, don't expect to be doing just physical stuff, you'll also be-" Chillius tried to say, but was cut off by Zackary.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever, I don't care."
Chillus sighed. "Very well."
"I'll do it!" Exclaimed Terry.
"More than anything, I've always wanted to see if I could be a L.E.A.F agent despite the body I live in!"
"And there's nothing that would get me closer to that than this."
Lucia stood up, actually speaking this time without her sketchbook.
"I-"
"I'll..do it.."
She put simply, not saying much else.
"W-Well..if I'll be able to protect myself, then I guess there's no point in not doing it.."
Said Lily.
"I've always wanted to be stronger..that maybe I could be what other people think i'm not so.."
She had a bit of an awkward pause.
"..S-So I can prove i'm more than that."
Chillius smirked at these responses.
"That seals the deal, then."
"Starting this week..you four will be trained under me!"
He tossed a strange looking device to all four of them. Terry, Lucia, and Zackary caught one of each, but Lily didn't catch her own and it dropped on the floor, due to her not expecting it.
"Wait wuh- huh?"
She awkwardly picked her device up.
The device was a flat circular shape coated with green paint an a circular screen.
"Uh..what are these?" Said Terry.
"These, are communicators." Chillius explained.
"They're devices often used by L.E.A.F so that agents can stay in contact with each other as well as find new information about missions and report strange or concerning activities happening in neighborvillie."
Zack raised his hand.
"No, you cannot download Angry Birds on it."
Zack slowly put his hand down.
"..*achem* just make sure to keep those with you at all times so I can contact you all."
"Also, you won't be training all at the same time, all the time, sometimes I'll just be training a couple of you, or just one of you, so I can train more specific aspects of you guys."
"So...does that all make sense to you guys?"
Chillius said, growing tired of explaining.
"Y-Yeah, but uh..how do I use this thing? There aren't any buttons on it.."
Terry said, rather unfamiliar with the technology.
"Terry..have you ever even used a damn smartphone before-?" Zackary scoffed.
"N-Not really, those things always looked really weird to me."
"I also can't even get one-" Terry explained.
"Tsk- you are reaaally depressing sometimes."
Chillius tossed Terry a paper manual.
"Just use that.."
Momo, Lucia's pet snake was slithering under the table after she realized that Lucia wasn't in trouble. Zetty noticed Momo from on-top of the table and jumped down to look at her. The two just stared at each other for a bit before Zetty waddled around and picked up a small pebble, bringing it to Momo.
Zetty tossed it at her and Momo latched onto it with the other end of her body, then tossing it back to Zetty - eventually they just started playing catch.
Terry and Lucia looked under the table to see the two.
"Heh..I guess Zetty made a new friend."
Said Terry, as Lucia giggled quietly.
"Well, that's all I have for you four now."
"Sessions will begin monday, but don't show up if I don't call you on the communicator."
Chillius turned off the light in the room.
"..Why did you turn that of-"
"Zack shut up it's for dramatic effect-"
"The hell are you on about-"
LATER...
Late that night, Lily was just laying her bed, thinking about everything that happened today. Even though she felt confident in the moment, she was starting to doubt herself again. Could she..logically become anything more than what her parents tell her she can be?
After all..she's just some normal vampire flower, and at that, she's slightly more frail than the usual ones. She turned on her side. Maybe the things that they say about her aren't..inherently wrong. She groaned, grabbing a pillow and covering her face in it.
("I'll just..sleep it off..whatever..")
MEANWHILE...
That night in the oozivoir, a strange zombie with red armor and a large hammer was walking around. It had been reported by Z-Corp that a strange noise was heard at the Oozivoir, so he was sent there to investigate.
After walking for a bit, he looked over at a corner and saw another armored zombie, this one was purple and carried saw blades.
This purple one was choking the life out of a random wildflower that unfortunately was in the area.
"Awww..look at you trying to talk.."
He mocked it, as the wildflower struggled for a breath.
"What's wrong? Can't break free from my grasp? Tsk, I can't believe even your whole body can't overpower the strength in just my hand-"
"MOTOR SNIPER!"
The red one yelled out in the distance, Motor Sniper (the purple one) looked over at the Red one, who gave Motor Sniper an annoyed glare.
"Oh. Nitrous Destroyer."
Motor addressed him as, then tossing the wildflower into some debris with little effort.
Motor didn't seem too enthused to see Nitrous. (the red one)
"The hell are you doing here?" Motor asked.
"Sigh we were told about a loud noise at this location, so Lord Crysum asked me to investigate."
"Aagh- why the hell do you call him LORD anyway? He never even asked you to do that."
"I think that such a great leader deserves such a title."
Motor rolled his eyes "You're a total bottom feeder, always sucking up to that guy.."
Nitrous was irritated by this comment "You're impossible."
Nitrous starting walking off to where the loud noise was heard, and Motor followed.
"So what even is this thing anyway?" Motor asked.
"I'm not sure, a couple of hours from now, apparently something had been found in the ground around here..and apparently it made a really loud noise shortly after it was discovered."
"Uh..okay..what's that though?" Motor pointed to a hole in the ground, which had a white glow emanating from it.
"W-Wait, this must be it!" Nitrous ran over to the hole, intrigued by the glow - in which Motor followed after shortly.
Nitrous dug his hand into the hole and pulled out a strange artifact. It was a seemingly white crystal gnome with a beautiful glow.
"Woaaah.." Said Motor, in a state of awe.
"..."
Nitrous put two fingers on his ear to activate an ear piece for communication.
"Lord Crysum?"
"We found it."