Chapter 5 here! Sorry it took a bit of a while, just life giving me headache. I don't have much else to say here but to enjoy this chapter.

Pulse was unknowingly walking towards the zombie's side of the Backyard Battleground, where the plant's mortal enemies resided.

The zombies, the plants number one enemy, always wanting to destroy and pollute what was once beautiful and living. The plants do all they can to stop their reign and ensure that they don't rule in the end or it will be their end if the zombies win.

Pulse unfortunately didn't know this, so she walked towards the zombie's fortress anyway.

A random weed walked nearby. It was waddling towards the battleground's center wanting to fight something when it suddenly turned and saw something pink from the corner of its eye.

Pulse saw the foreign plant and hid behind a wall hoping it didn't see her. The weed looked around trying to find what it was. Pulse continued to hide quietly, waiting for the weed to leave to continue her observations and explorations. Eventually the weed got bored and waddled once again towards the backyard, feeling the urge and excitement to wack zombies.

Pulse sighed in relief. She took a few silent photos of the weed to place it in her database. She was about to walk out of the bush when she remembered something. She mentally slapped herself for not remembering. She quickly checked how much energy the cloaking had. Currently it was nearly full, but it should be enough for a quarter of a day. Cloaking from the creature by that boat didn't sap too much energy, she should be fine in using it but Pulse would like to be efficient with it.

She reactivated her favorite EX suit's feature. It was Pulse's favorite feature when it came to sneaking around. Her entire body began disappearing from the cloaking feature, and eventually she was completely invisible to those who relied on sight. She smiled, now she won't have to worry about being seen now, yet she needed to be careful about her actions to not reveal her existence. At least not reveal herself more than before. She feels she already compromised everything, but she at least wants to bring back anything worthwhile to her planet.

Pulse walked out of the bushes with more confidence and less fear. She looked towards the zombie's side, and she went closer. She looked at the stone wall protecting the base of the undead, still afraid yet filled with curious vigor.

When she looked up above the wall she saw 2 foot soldiers who looked around for any leafy intruder. They stood firmly on the top part for any stupid weeds that would dare try to enter their magnificent fortress of destruction and polluted domination.

She didn't need to worry since she was cloaked pretty well. Also if they had cloaking detector technology they would have used it by now for she is now only a few feet away from its doors. She walked closer to the entrance carefully and silently..

Inside was a spacey area with a flying vehicle to the right, what looks like a portal to the left, and in the center a large and weird, twisted building with an open entrance that leads to who knows where. She wasn't sure what it was or what could be inside.

She was about to try and enter when something shuffled out of the centered building. It was another one of those bipedal beings. Pulse stepped back, she still remembered her encounter with the one at the ocean.

The waddling zombie, a regular engineer, was coming closer to the base's gate. Pulse stepped to the side to avoid bumping into the zombie. When the engineer came close enough to the gate doors it automatically sunk to the ground to let the zombie out.

Pulse watched with interest, and suddenly, got an idea, very likely not a safe one. 'I'm most likely gonna regret this..." She thought and quickly yet quietly went through the gates just as it closed behind her. She gulped when the gate closed, feeling threatened inside.

She looked around the zombie base. Unknown to her, another zombie was waddling towards the base, a chemist zombie. He came closer to the gates which opened up for him. He kept shuffling without a care in his own undead world until he bumped into something.

Pulse yelped at the sudden force behind her. She stumbled forward but caught herself from falling face first to the ground. The chemist also yelped, and stumbled back also catching himself from falling back. When they both regained their balance the chemist stared at the 'air' in front of him with suspicion.

Pulse stared at them nervously. She didn't notice this being approaching from behind her.

The chemist then raised his left hand and moved it forward to try to touch the 'air'.

Pulse's eyes widened at the action the creature was taking and slowly yet quietly inched away from its appendage to avoid being touched.

For every inch the zombie's hand came closer, Pulse would inch away. The zombie's arm eventually reached its limit so the chemist retracted his hand back to his side, still looking at the air with suspicion and confusion.

Pulse smiled in relief and hoped that the bipedal being would walk away. Unfortunately for her, the chemist raised his weapon and pointed it in front of himself, where Pulse quietly paled in realization despite much of her skin already a natural snowy white. Looks like the zombie wasn't satisfied without more confirmation.

The chemist fired a shot at the spot Pulse is in. The foot soldiers on top of the wall jerked up at the sound of a weapon being fired, looking at each other confused.

The impact didn't hurt Pulse but the sudden sound and the impact vibration made her yelp quietly. The chemist's eyes widened, likely having heard it anyway, and fired multiple times on the same spot, trying to kill whatever that was there. It just made Pulse scared and unnerved about this situation. Part of her was concerned of getting hurt or even dying by the weapon, despite the fact her suit is preventing her from taking zero damage.

The chemist stopped shooting due to the need to reload his weapon after running out of ammunition, which gave Pulse the opportunity. Pulse quickly went closer to the chemist and punched him as hard as she could in the face. The chemist shrieked and his head bobbled with dizziness from the hit, then fell down like a cut tree.

The foot soldiers on the wall turned back to look down at what happened, but all they could see was the downed chemist on the ground and nothing else.

The gate opened up to let a normal scientist come in to revive the chemist. While the gate was open Pulse snuck out through it in relief.

The scientist was able to revive the chemist who immediately looked around for the threat. He made zombie grunts and tried to mime about what he felt and heard since he didn't really see anything that would have caused him to fall down. The foot soldiers above were confused about what he was saying. Pulse was very much long gone before the zombies could start an investigation of their base.

Pulse was running towards the town hall, hugging the wall as she went to avoid bumping into anything, still feeling scared about what just happened. A second encounter and it proved further their hostility, even if this one they didn't see her this time. Perhaps there are circumstances she doesn't know that made them hostile, or perhaps they just don't like the unknown at all. She sighed and walked to rest behind the town hall since it was very isolated right now. In front of the hall's entrance she saw three figures. She tilted her head at them, she couldn't help but feel like they were important. Pulse decided to stay behind the corner of the hall's wall to watch them.

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Meanwhile-

With those important figures that Pulse is seeing before her were the top three agents of L.E.A.F, Commander Kernel Corn, Agent Rose, and Agent Citron, sometimes Kernel, Rose and Citron for short typically amongst themselves or close acquaintances. They were speaking in hushed whispers about various recent events.

"Are you sure about that Citron?" Kernel asked Citron, who nodded.

"I detected unknown radio spikes and energy signatures that came from somewhere in the atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean, my ship's computer detected it wasn't of zombie origin, and it couldn't have been made from something natural." Citron explained.

"Extraterrestrial beings? Like the alien flowers and plasma peas?" Rose questioned, remembering their otherworldly leafy allies.

"Who knows, it could be a ship or something new entirely, hopefully it's nothing from the zombies trying something new." Citron muttered with distaste at the last part.

"The Moon Magnet fiasco was bad enough, an unknown alien or an invasion is the last thing we need right now, and the gnomes..." Kernel muttered under his breath while looking around. When he looked at his surroundings, he paused. He saw...something behind the Town Hall's corner. Kernel hummed in concentration.

Kernel, being a pilot of a butterhawk for many years, has made him great at discerning visual details from great distances. Such skills and precision was required to have excellent aim with bombing targets from the sky such as using butter barrage on zombie targets. Right now, he could see there is something different about the air on the corner of the Town Hall he was looking at. For a brief half second, the air seemed to shimmer like small ripples on water before disappearing. His eyes narrowed.

"Is there something wrong Kernel?" Rose asked politely, noticing his expression and rigid form.

"Do you see that?..." Kernel pointed towards where he was looking, not taking his eyes off it. Whatever it was, it quickly disappeared. Rose and Citron blinked and turned to where he pointed, they were trying to discern anything out of the ordinary. Kernel managed to see it leaving beyond the corner. From the way it moved it looked like it went behind the corner of the town hall.

"What?..." Citron muttered.

"Whatever that was, it's best to check it out, if it's zombies, best to take care of them now." Kernel declared with a vicious glare, but one who knew him could see some kind of glee under that stern face. He walked towards that spot he saw with Rose and Citron who followed him.

When Kernel reached the corner and rounded it, he saw... nothing back there. He glared, examining the area with his trained eyes.

"There is nothing beside the building..."Rose was confused. Citron raised an eyebrow. While they do question if he saw anything, they still want to acknowledge he did. kernel takes many things seriously, he wouldn't be joking about seeing something that could be a threat.

"I know I saw something," Kernel calmly stated. His eyes were scanning the area carefully, making sure he didn't miss anything. He was wondering if he was going to see the air ripple differently, that would be a sign there was something still there, that whatever it was didn't leave.

Citron hummed in though," let me try something..." Citron stepped out forward from Kernel and Rose, the two stayed behind to watch.

An EMPeach from Citron's gun was shot out.

Static filled the air and the space in front of them cracked as a strange citron figure popped from thin air with a grunt. The Rose and Citron's eyes widened while Kernel glared.

The figure struggled to stay on their feet from the stun effect of the peach, shaking with visible short circuits circling them around their bizarre armor.

Kernel stepped forward and demanded," who are you?!" He has seen all manner of plants as well as variants, but this armored citron's armor isn't something he hasn't seen before. Rose and Citron were in the same boat.

The figure started to step backwards away from them, struggling against the effect of the EMPeach. Rose floated forward in front of the two," wait, please, we don't mean any harm."

The figure didn't seem to listen and continued to step away from the now considered hostile beings in front of them.

When the peach's effect wore off the agents became tense, unsure of what the figure would do. Rose floated a little closer to the unknown citron and was about to speak but before she could say anything, the citron turned and ran off. The agents quickly went after them.

Cliffhanger then hmmmm...

There more characters to come in most likely in the next chapter, and it will be filled with many, and I mean many OCs from me and some friends, just you wait, it will be strange, but entertaining.