[ Chapter XI: "Plants, And The World Vs Zombies!" ]
[ Volume I: "Game Entertainment System." ]
[13:44] [January 7, 1 AET]
[Plants Vs Zombies (Game I, Map I), U.T.O.P.I.A Dimension]
[ "G-guys! A-are you sure this is an good idea?" Ned Leeds amidst the action going on around him yelled out loud, at the crowd of bystanders gathered around pass the portal, all watching him as he talks to them via an digitalized video feed connected to Peter.
[ "Just do it Ned!" ] Peter scream at the camera, while the video feed is just encompassing him, with others trying to butt-in. [ "Oh, my sweetie, could you kindly ask that young man to plant more of those lovely flower thingies?" ] An old, sweet tone spoke-up right behind Peter.
"S-sure thing Mrs. Anne, do that too," Peter spoke-up as others flood him with suggestions in the background, "S-sure, h-here I go."
Ned looks around and sees an Giant Monster, Zombie thing holding an giant telephone pole-sized club in hand, with an Baby Grinch-like thing riding it in the back like it's an twisted version of an one man sleigh; with that thing looking at Ned's direction ever so slightly.
"God, no, I-I can't do this, I can't do this." Ned's head quickly lower down as he hides behind an wall, far-away from the menacing Gargantuar but not far enough for the other Zombies not to see him.
[ "Ned!" ] Peter's voice quickly caught his attention as an horde of slow-walking Zombies tries to get to him, [ "Ned, buddy, have faith in yourself. You can do this," ]
"I-I can't Pete," Sweating heavily at this point, Ned curls into an ball and closes his eyes, hearing his friend, Best Friend calm him down, " I- just can't, I-I'm not special."
[ "YOU ARE!" ] Peter's raspy voice from shouting echoes through Ned's ear, slightly caughting his attention, [ "Why'd you think you were chosen to be the Champion, huh." ] Peter says out loud which made him think for a second.
Seeing this Peter smirks to himself, before continuing, [ "W-who do you think got my back when no one else does," ] which caught Ned's attention before instinctively blurting out, "ughhh, MJ?"
[ "What? No! The thing I'm trying to say here is that you dude," ] Peter smirks through the call, and points at the image of Ned, [ "you always had my back." ]
"I did?" Ned, points to himself, as he looks confusingly at Peter, seeing the Zombies surrounding him a few feet away from him, [ " Yeah bro! So stand up, and show those Zombies who Ned, the Nerd Leeds really is!" ]
"Harsh, but, thanks Pete, thanks." Ned smirks, similar to Peter's smirk as he slowly regains his confidence, "Yeah, I'm chosen for a reason, I'm special." he thoughts before pulling two gold coins from his pocket.
He throws it near his feet, which naturally confused the Zombies approaching him making a few of them look at each other, scratching their heads; that hesitation naturally gives them hit with an giant pea each on the head, angering them more.
"Thanks bud," Ned pats the natural 3ft Plant with sentient, and pea for an head like it's some kind of an Cat, the funny thing is that "it" likes it
As Ned regains his composure, he notices the giant pea-shooting plant beside him responding to his pat affectionately. With newfound, he stood up, as he looks at the faces of each and every single one of the Zombies in front of him, recognizing, and seeing a few familiar faces being hit by pea's, but not enough to knock them down.
[ "That's the spirit, Ned! Go, go, go! You've got this!" ] Peter cheers through the digital feed, and so does the other participants behind him.
[ "..." ]
[ "DODGE, KICK, CRAWL NED!" ]
[ "NED! NED! NED!!!" ]
[ "Just camp man, JUST CAMP!" ]
[ "TRUST YOURSELF BRO!" ]
[ "NED!" ]
[ "I LOVE YOU NED!" ]
[ "YOU GO NED!" ]
[ "..." ]
Multiple advices, encouragements, and chanting later Edward "Ned" Leeds finally got the motivation to pick up the Pea-Shooter off from the ground, carrying the little fella on his arms... And running away.
[ "What the fuck is he doing?!" ] A new voice rang out behind Peter, as they all watch Ned run around carrying an giant overgrown pea plant with an confused face. [ "I... have no idea." ] being chased by an hoard of Zombies.
"Shoot, shoot, shoot, little guy! Hahaa!" Ned shouts out loud as he laughs, with the little guy nodding, trying to fire more pea's than usual, succeeding, and creating an cartoonic scenario in the process.
With Ned running around, dodging more incoming Zombies with pine cones, buckets, and other weird objects ontop of their heads. And with the Baby-Plant shooting any Zombies he/she sees, taking 4 shoots to fully take down one.
The crowd looks at one another in confusion, except for Peter and then looking back at Ned again through the Portal-like barrier that isn't letting them in, [ "This motherfucker don't miss." ] another spoke up, this one being much farther in the back, as they all continues to watch Ned, this time cheering.
[ "..." ]
[ "NEVER DOUBTED YOU MANN!" ]
[ "JUST RUN KID!" ]
[ "DUCK!" ]
[ "Goose!" ]
[ "..." ]
Ned continues to hear the cheer not from them physically being their, but them being heard by Ned through the call, through the window that constantly follows him, which encourages him more to run faster, dodge, and zig-zag pass more Zombies; all while Pea Pea shoot them down, dead.
Of course all while Ned screams, "AHHHHHHHH!" as he thinks, "I can't belive this is happening, I can't belive this is happening." he runs constantly in an zig-zag pattern, around houses, around rubbles, trashcans, and other everyday items you'll see in the street.
As he ran pass an normal everyday looking Zombie, glowing green with something that caught Pea Pea's attention, as he/she shoots multiple Pea's at him at once, beheading the thing, as it still moves for a few moment before finally dying, i.e disappearing being taken by an Light from the sky.
Ned was about to run to the left, but, Pea Pea points and nudges himself to the right, "W-what?" which caused Ned to look at Pea Pea, when he realized that Pea Pea is actually pointing at something. "Oh." causing him to run at that direction. ]
"You go Pea Pea!" Felix thoughts to himself as he continues to watch the video in front of him, drinking coffee from his mug fron time to time.
"Hmm, more sugar." He thoughts as two sugarcubes magically floats and plops onto his mug, "Much better." as he focuses back on the video.