Sun is shining in my face, there ain't a cloud in the sky! It's stopped rainin', everybody's in the play: And don't you know? It's a beautiful new day! Hey-ey hey!

Sun-John boogied to the groove!

I'm generating Sunshine, wooah! I'm generating Sunshine, woooah! I'm generating Sunshine, woooah… And don't it feel good!?

Mind you, the dance was more than a bit complicated considering that ALL the Sun-Johns were mentally singing DIFFERENT songs at the same time, with unmatching tunes and beats and stuff.

Here comes the Sun, doo-de-doo-doo! Here comes the Sun: And I say? It's alright!

But sometimes the act of dancing is more important than performing well! So even if the billions of Sun-Johns just happened to be humming and grooving to trillions of lyrics, who cared anyway?

Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind… It's gonna be a bright [[Bright!]], Bright [[bright!]] Sunshiny day!

Though for some reason Sun-John was starting to feel like the Realm itself was growing more and more exasperated and confused by all his John-ness as the endless flowers boogied down with their bad selves.

Let the sunshine! Let the sunshine in… The sunshine in! WOO!

He didn't actually feel reality rejecting him or anything, nothing that serious… But it was clear that for some reason, beyond Sun-John's ability to understand, the Realm was growing more and more 'done' with his antics.

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, yeah! Make you wanna move your dancing roots now! To the rescue, here I am… Want you to know, y'all, can you understand?

No clue why.

Meanwhile, in the background… The endless cycles of zombies consuming Sun-Johns continued. And unlike normal plants, which were basically really hard bits of Magic, John himself had enough self awareness to exist on a fundamentally different level than prior Sunflowers.

It was probably fine.

~~~Pocket System~~~

John has Sun, can he has zamboni!?

John ALSO has Sun and was just nommed on, John would ALSO like a zamboni!

Hey, John was here WAY before you other Johns, and he brought a whole BUNCH of Sun! If any John's are getting a zamboni, it would be THIS John!

My Homeowner planted me in the front to slow down the hoard, I don't have enough zamboni Sun yet… Can John get a loan? Or borrow Sun from John or John?

John is not positive that John can be trusted to repay John's loan.

What if John had John vouch for John? He knows John is good for it!

…Well maybe, if he says you're reliable.

HELL no, I wouldn't trust John with my LIFE!

Aww dang it! Couldn't you have played along John? I just need a bit more Sun and I can low ride with the zamboni-ronis! The ice renew crew! The bobsled paving banzai bonanza!

Go generate some ambient Sun like the rest of us John, and YOU other Johns shouldn't encourage him slacking off like this! We don't need Jonns to set bad examples!

John has Sun, but is willing to evolve without requiring that he gets a zamboni.

WHAT!? Madness! He's no John of mine! Wait, wait, let's hear him out first! NO! He's betrayed EVERYTHING zamboni's stand for! Yeah, that John has gone TOO FAR! [[HUSH!]]

…

You may make your claim, lesser of the Johns.

Uh… Thanks? Anyway, I uh… I want one of those catapults instead, please. The rideable ones that launch infinite basketballs to attack stuff.

…What!?

Hey Johns, he's right! Yeah, look up the cheat sheet that Temptation uploaded for us, it doesn't pop up as an alert or anything but we can 'remember' it in real time while she updates it… Well I MYSELF am not getting swayed, this John is team zamboni forever! Meh, magic Zombie Heaven Ice is nice but I want unlimited Zombie Heaven Basketballs! Yeah, go team catapult! You HERETICS!

Hey Johns, I just got eaten, has anyone managed to get their zambonis yet? I brought Sun!

If it was possible for an entire Realm to glare at an army of cheerful sunflower idiots, they'd be doing it SO HARD right now.

Because they CAN'T choose to evolve. Period!

Aww! Why not!? Yeah, why not!? I've got Sun! Do we need more Sun? I can get more Sun!

Only Zombies evolve. Not plants. Plants aren't even real, they are solidified memories of past eons formed from raw power and…

John feels pretty real. Yeah, and before my lawn was consumed I saw like 30 Sun-Johns, and I bet THEY'D argue they were real! Am I real? Hush John, the Johns are talking right now. Hey, don't be mean to the younger Johns! Here, don't cry John, have some of my Sun. Sniff… Thanks John, you're always the best…

It isn't even POSSIBLE for this to happen. The plants do not have enough STRUCTURE to allow awakening, even IF a zombie could choose to sleep into one!

Well that sounds like someone else's problem, really. Yeah! Johns are just built different. Hell yeah, you tell them John! Hey guys, have you tried growing UNDER the water? What, we can do that!? No, it's against the rules. We can only grow on grass, lily pads, and flower pots. Is that a rule, or like… A suggestion? It is a rule! Like, are you SURE? Because I'm pretty sure I managed to plant myself underwater when that snorkel zombie ate my lily pad… Don't break the rules!

What even was this anymore… ALL of you go away.

Sure… After we get our zambonis! Yeah, then we could all race each other or something. Team catapult still wants our rideable basketball launchers! Wait, the what now? Ask John, he found out our girls have been uploading evolution data to our Pocket. I'm here, Johns! And I got Sun… Can I haz zamboni now? Hey John, guess what I just found out! What? If you choose to be reborn and force your new Sun to twist like [[this]], you end up being planted with TWO heads! WAIT, WHAT!?

Oh no.

Yeah! Both heads are just Johns, but technically the same John just split in half and regrown or whatever. That way we can earn double the Sun for double the zambonis! Yeah, but the other John will still be you, and everyone knows how annoying we Johns can me. Yeah. True. Hey! I happen to LIKE most of the Johns! Yeah, but only in moderate doses, right? Fair.

…Were there now going to be even MORE of these insane plants entering the reincarnation cycle!? Why!? ARGH!

John here! Got sun too, can John haz zamboni? Oh hey John, come join us over here in team Catapult. Team what now?

ALL OF YOU, CHOOSE [[REBIRTH!]] NOW! GET OUT!

…Silence.

Glorious, glorious silence as the countless Sun-Johns vanished from these mists and sprouted out on endless lawns.

…For a few moments at least.

John's here and I brought the SUN! Who's ready to get this zamboni started!? …Hello? Where is everybody?

The Realm wanted to glare BADLY!

~~~Pocket System~~~

It had been HOURS since her SPYRAL agents had discovered which of the MANY data feeds belonged to her brother prime, or Sun-John Plant #0 as they called him, and now after a LOT of work she was pretty sure they had updated ALL the modules to better handle such crazy situations from now on! Never again would they lose track of her brother in a sea of unexpected siblings!

And as he seemed to be having fun doing impossible things, that finally left Jessica with enough time to work with Grace and get this 'Gut Feeling' module tested, corrected, and officially ready for ongoing future use.

And now, after many MANY small modifications… Jessica grinned! "Run the module again, Grace!" Please work… PLEASE work this time!

Her brother's angelic girlfriend was smiling right back at her, despite her exhaustion! "I'm getting readings… Module remains stable… No signs of explosive cascade failures this time… I think we're good!"

FINALLY! "How does the new sensor data look compared to the past attempts? I know prior detection mapping only had partial results or false positives, is it any better with this new setup?"

Grace nodded! "Yes, the range is MUCH wider and the marked areas of probable targets are far more focused compared to before! It looks like there are variants of Dave distributed pretty evenly every thousand or so lawns… Although they still mess up our sensors to the point where I can't examine them properly."

She snorted. "Not important, the point is we can DETECT that they exist now! I don't care if he is an immortal consuming solidified 'plant' spells or some sort of solidified Concept of this Realm that ensures a guided path towards Homeowner development… I'm just glad we aren't BLIND to him entirely anymore."

From the side, Temptation coughed as she shifted in her seat. "So the new detection modules are up and running? We got everything we wanted from here? I've already scanned John's data connection to the reincarnation cycle, so we have templates for all the zombie variants and plant spell matrices and stuff…"

Jessica slowly turned and looked at the 'innocent' demoness. "Temptation?"

Not even a flinch. "Yes, Mistress?"

She narrowed her eyes. "Is there something you'd like to tell your sister and me? Are you hiding something?"

The black beauty shifted in place, trying to look cool and collected. "I mean, maybe a few things… If you two are not super busy with more System module modifications and stuff, I mean. It's not a big deal, and I have it under control. Probably."

Oh no.

Grace was barely awake at this point. "Sister, whatever it is that has gone wrong now… I leave it in the hands of my Lady. I am too tired to deal with whatever… THIS-ness that is going on right now. My Lady, I will be disconnecting from the virtual network and getting some sleep, please wake me if my Lord returns…"

Jessica waved her off and turned back to Temptation. "Is John in danger?"

NOW the woman flinched. "Not… Not exactly? Not yet, at least. But uh… We may have to leave soon."

…Of course they would. "I thought the Realm had been reacting to John's craziness pretty passively, that it seemed safe to let him continue to experiment…"

Temptation sighed. "That was before the billions of plant copies began to somehow begin slipping into the reincarnation cycle like the zombies do. It took a while before one of the Sun-Johns learned the trick, but he shared it with ALL the Johns and well…"

Oh for goodness sake. "Is my brother spamming the Zombie Afterlife with plant siblings?"

A nod. "All of them want their own zambonis, too. Well, most of them… There's a growing coalition that argues that only Team Catapult can truly represent the peak of manliness, or zombiness or plantliness or whatever, but over 99% of them are pestering reality itself for their new toy."

Damn it John. "Is the entire Realm going to turn on us?"

Thankfully the woman shook her head. "No, but uh… He might get banned from being reborn or evolving soon, forcing all of them to sleep. And then we'd have billions of Sun-Johns all taking naps at the same time, at least until the Realm discovered the ORIGINAL John merged with the Sunflower Archetype and then punts HIM out, which should revert all the spells back to normal but also shove my Master into permanent timeout."

Well considering how much a headache this was all turning into, maybe he SHOULD just sit down and think about what he's done.

Sigh… Whatever. It wasn't like he hurt anything, and even the Realm itself was apparently just exasperated and not angry or whatever. "When he pushes the world too far, let him stay in 'time out' a bit so this place can feel satisfied that they were able to 'handle' John's craziness. He's so hyped up on Sun right now, I'm pretty sure it is a hundred times worse than a normal sugar rush…"

Not to mention, if Jessica just bailed her brother out immediately when put into timeout for pestering the foundations of existence, that could both anger the Realm AND be considered pretty insulting. Better to let reality get a few words in on her brother for causing such a mess first so they could all Transfer somewhere else on good terms.

The fact that it would give her and the girls time to get some actual REST instead of watching over an endless ocean of little brothers to ensure their safety would just be the icing on the cake, really.

Speaking of her new veggie-brothers… "Are they all coming with us? When we leave, I mean."

Temptation sighed. "I'm not sure. They may not even technically exist, as they are all just magical constructs solidified using a tainted John infused sunflower 'plant' as the Source and don't even have individual Souls, but just in case? I've had backups of all their Minds added to the Pocket System Archives."

Jessica considered that.. .And blinked. "They have no Souls? Are you saying that if John disconnected from the Essense of Sunflower right now, then ALL this collected Sun would go solely to HIM instead of all these Sun-Johns as they revert?"

She nodded. "Yep."

Oh for pete's sake! "So he has already had more than enough Sun to evolve and gain a zamboni for a long time now."

Temptation smirked. "He earned enough Sun for THAT within seconds of becoming all those plants, yes."

…Nope. "I'm out. Wake me up in a few hours when my brother gets put in timeout for accidentally dominating an entire Realm's plant based utilities equivalent to an electrical grid. And please have some coffee for me whenever I eventually wake up, thank you."

The woman nodded with a grin. "Yes, Mistress! Goodnight, sleep well!"

Here's hoping. "Goodnight, Temptation."

This whole chaotic mess could be FUTURE Jessica's problem, thank you very much!