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The City of Neighborville had been experiencing strange noises from the sewers lately. It's why Louie, a sewer worker, was walking through the sewers. His flashlight illuminating the solid concrete walls of the sewers.

"See anything, Louie?" A voice asks over his radio. Louie takes his walkie talkie from his belt, lifting it up to his face as he presses a button.

"Nope. Not a thing. For all the reports we've been getting about strange noises in these sewers, there's nothing down here at..." Louie stops talking as the wall in front of him suddenly gets a hole from what appears to be the end of a pickaxe, small chips of concrete dropping to the floor.

"Brains?" A faint muffled voice comes from behind the wall. The wall suddenly gets busted open by a person(?). He has a gorilla like body. Big, but not fat. Big arms, but not muscular and toned. His skin is a greenish gray, black hair that's mostly covered by a mining helmet with the light off, a collared red and black shirt, blue overalls over the shirt, one brown boot on his right leg that's turned horizontally, and his left leg a normal direction but lacking the other boot. He holds a small pickaxe in his right hand. He's missing several teeth, having three teeth in the upper jaw and only two in his lower jaw. The whites of his eyes are a slight red.

Louie steps back a bit in shock, he raises his arms above his head to defend himself, not well though. He's confused when the person ignores him and just shuffles past him. The wall begins to crumble more and Louie sits in a corner, repeating 'oh no' to himself as more people emerge.

Above ground, in the streets, a boy rides his bike. He passes by a manhole cover, muffled 'Brains?' coming from underneath. The boy has apricot skin, dark brown hair and brown eyes. He wears a white t-shirt with red sleeves and a red collar, green cargo shorts, white socks with red lines on them and light yellow trainers with red soles, red parts and white laces, and a red watch on his left arm. He rides his bike across several blocks, driving up a driveway and ditching his bike onto the grass.

"I'M HOME!" He calls out.

"GONNA BE IN MY TREE FORT!" He yells into a open window of his home.

He walks over to the rope he climbs to get in, he grabs it and is prepared to climb when there's a sudden thump coming from his tree house. He quickly gets onto the rope and climbs up, he pushes open the trapdoor entrance.

"HAH!" He yells out as he pokes his head in. He looks around, only to see no one around. He gets into his tree house, leaving the trapdoor open for now. His tree house was his own space, his outpost. The rope is tied securely around a tree branch. There's a bunch of small furniture around. A bookshelf with books and a cardboard box on the bottom shelf, a chair made of wood painted green, and a wooden table painted green. The place was stocked with his own belongings and doomsday survival items. Paper, crayons, and a binoculars laid on the ground by the open window. A cardboard box filled with some sports equipment with a soccer ball laid by it. A wooden shield and wooden sword laid against a wall. A karate trophy on a table, no specifications on what position he got.

There's some shuffling behind a closed door. The door was the entrance to his secret lair. His mind goes through the possibilities of all his enemies. He unintentionally lets out a 'Yikes!' when there's a click from the door being opened on the other side. A girl steps out from his lair. The girl has apricot skin, short bobbed orange hair and blue eyes. She wears a half teal blue and white tank top, beige shorts, calf-length magenta pink leggings and blue and white loafers.

"Hello?" She says.

She quickly yells out as the boy jumps at her, armed with a hockey stick. She is quick to punch him in the stomach, dropping him to the floor real fast.

"Oh! Sorry!" She apologizes.

"No... my bad. I'm sorry... and my stomach is really sorry." The boy says.

"But why'd you attack me?" She asks.

"Oh, I thought you were one of these." The boy rolls over onto his back, presenting a paper of his enemies. A pirate mummy, alien ninja, laser caveman, and Sasquatch ballerina. It's all exactly as it sounds. A mummy in a pirate outfit, a alien wearing a ninja mask, a caveman firing a laser pistol, and a Sasquatch in a pink tutu.

"You thought I was an alien ninja?" She asks, amused and a bit confused.

"No. Yes. I mean... things seem weird in Neighborville today. I'm Nate Timely, by the way. Aspiring cowboy astronaut." The boy replies, getting up with the help of the girl.

"Patrice Blazing. Professional Tree House Investigator." The girl introduces herself, playing along with the titles. "And what do you mean by "weird"...?" Patrice asks.

"Oh, just... there's a peculiar smell. A tension in the air. I feel like something's happening." Nate replies. "Some evil is out there. Some menace is stalking the streets. It's lurking in the shadows. Spreading a wave of sinister foreboding." Nate continues.

"Spreading a wave of sinister foreboding, you say? Wow. You're really bringing the drama, there, Nate." Patrice says, a playful smug expression on her face.

"I've been practicing. Can't be a cowboy astronaut all my life. I'm going to be a writer. Seriously, though, there does seem to be some sort of weirdness going-" "Brains?"

The two look over at the open trapdoor, a newcomer poking their head in. His skin is a greenish gray, mostly bald except for random single black hair strands, and missing most of his teeth. From what can be seen, he wears a white shirt and a brown coat over his shirt. The two quickly close the trapdoor on them, stomping it shut, two of his fingers coming off in the process. The two both stare down at the trapdoor in silence before looking over at each other.

"Was that--?" "A zombie" "Couldn't be." "No way." "Didn't happen." "I disbelieve." Nate and Patrice say, back and forth. Their faces turning a bit grim as they can hear the zombie groaning "Brains?", heard even through the closed trapdoor. Nate continues to have his foot planted down on the trapdoor, while Patrice walks over and looks out the open window.

"Uh-oh, Nate. You better come look at this." Patrice says.

"Why? What's--? Uh-oh." Outside, there was a bunch of zombies surrounding the tree house.

"I no longer disbelieve." Patrice says.

"What I believe is that we should get out of here. We could end up trapped." Nate says, opening up the 2nd window which was closed. He grabs a rope hanging outside the window.

"We'll have to swing into the next yard. Like Tarzan. I do it all the time, but I'm not sure you'll be able to do it because-" "Gimme that!" Patrice takes the rope from his hands. She jumps out, swinging from the rope, the zombies and Nate watching her. She makes it onto the next yard, safe and sound.

"Okay. Umm... good job! But I can do it better!" Nate says, grabbing the rope as it swings back to him. He jumps out, swinging with the rope. He accidentally collides with three red balloons used by a zombie to be in the air, bouncing himself off of it. He crashes onto the roof, then onto a bush, before crashing on his back onto the grass.

"Taa-Dah!" Nate says, rolling over and into a push-up like position, his eyes closed and a open smile on his face.

"Nice technique, Nate." Patrice says. Her face looks like she's feeling concerned, slightly-impressed, and confused.

"Thanks. One of my best tries, really. But let's get on our bikes, and..." As Nate and Patrice get onto their bikes, their way is blocked by a horde of zombies.

"Why are there so many zombies? I mean, I get a pimple and I don't like to go outside, but look at those guys!" Patrice says.

"AAAH! I always knew it would end this way!" Nate yells.

"Really?" Patrice says, a exasperated expression on her face, mixed in with a incredulous look and tone.

A zombie reaches out for Nate, his head gets knocked off a light green ball of some kind.

"What?" Nate mutters.

Nate and Patrice watch in confusion as more of those light green balls collide with the zombies. Knocking them back, and knocking off limbs.

Nate looks down, seeing some strange plant hes never seen before. He doesn't have time to question or point it out as Patrice grabs his arm.

"C'mon!" She says. "We have to reach my uncle's house! He'll know what to do!" She begins to ride her bike, Nate follows her.

"He will?" Nate asks.

"Sure! He's really smart. A top-notch scientist! He's utterly brilliant! A genius!" Patrice replies.

Nate follows Patrice, zombies beginning to give chase after them. They soon arrive outside a house with a strange architecture, painted purple and with black tile roofs. They get off and leave their bikes outside the entrance of a open wooden gateway that's part of a wooden wall that surrounds the place. "Beware of Plants!" Is painted on a sign that's tilted on top of the gateway.

"It's here! This is where my Uncle Dave lives!" Patrice says, running into the property. Nate is quick to recognize the place.

"Here? But this is... this is... Crazy Dave's house." Nate says, following her in.

"His car is here! That means-" The zombie suddenly arrive, breaking apart the gateway and getting on the property. Nate and Patrice are forced against the closed garage as the overwhelming horde of zombies gets closer.

The garage door suddenly comes to life, rising up with the growl and roar of something unseen in the darkness. Several lawnmowers suddenly rush out, running over and destroying every zombie they come across. The zombies are forced to retreat, picking up the remnants of their defeated zombies on their retreat.

"Grobble-Flobble!" Crazy Dave rushes out, arms wide. Crazy Dave is a man with light brown hair and a light brown beard. He wears a white collared shirt, blue jeans with a brown belt, light brown shoes with white soles and white laces, and a cooking pot on his head.

"Uncle Dave!" Patrice yells. She rushes to him, the two having a quick hug.

"Crazy Dave? It's uh... nice to meet you." Nate says, unsure how to approach and talk with him.

"Flobble-Drobble!" Crazy Dave says.

"He says it's good to meet you. Also, we should follow him." Patrice translates.

"You got all that from... Flobble-Drobble?" Nate asks, incredulous.

"Yep." Patrice simply replies, following Crazy Dave inside. Nate follows them

The trio enter Crazy Dave's house. Nate looks around, seeing a bunch of tech and blueprints of things too... Crazy Dave, for him to understand. Crazy Dave brings them into a greenhouse filled with strange plants. There was a cabbage with an extension up top that looks like a catapult with a smaller cabbage as ammo.

"Froddle!" Crazy Dave says.

"He says these will deal with the zombies." Patrice translates, unsure of how this will work.

"Plants? Against zombies." Nate asks, incredulous.

"Plet v Zed." Crazy Dave says.

"He prefers Plants vs Zombies." Patrice translates.

"That feels like the moment they say the name of the movie or series in a movie or series." Nate says.

Nate pokes a plant with a head like a sideways green butternut squash. It suddenly opens up it's eyes, scaring Nate and Patrice for a moment. Then they get even more scared when the rest of the plants open up there eyes.

"Dribble-Drobble." Crazy Dave says.

"He says these will fight the zombies. He also says he lets them borrow his car sometimes." Patrice translates.

"Is that so wrong?" Crazy Dave says, in English (he speaks English in the first PVZ comic, sometimes).

"Alright then. We take these plants to fight the zombies. Sounds simple enough." Nate says.

The trio gather up the various plants here and form themselves a somewhat organized army of plants. They leave Crazy Dave's house and encounter zombies, lots of them.

"Here goes nothing." Nate says.

The plants open fire on the zombies. The zombies are beaten back and forced back. Things continue into a cycle. Going around, finding zombies, fighting zombies, zombies retreating, rinse and repeat.

"This is actually easier then I thought it would be." Patrice says, pleasantly surprised by the progress they've made.

They soon begin to get closer to the center of Neighborville. That's when the sky seems to darken. The trio and the plants look up at the sky, which is being covered in black smoke and blocking out the sun. They see a two story tall machine set up in the center of Neighborville. The bottom half is a half circle shape painted green, the top half a circle painted yellow and is actively spewing out smoke into the sky.

"What the-" "Flopple Zadop." "He says we need to go to the Blazing Manor and use the windmill above to clear the smoke. He's going to create a firebreathing dinosaur with boxing glove arms." Patrice translates as Crazy Dave runs off.

"A fire breathing dinosaur with boxing glove arms?" Nate asks.

"Don't question it. It'll work... probably." Patrice replies.

"Okay?" The two begin to head out to Blazing Manor with the plants. The zombies begin to follow them. Cut off from sunlight, the plants are getting weaker and aren't struggling much now, but they will soon.

"Where is the manor?" Nate asks.

"A short distance outside of the city." Patrice answers, jumping over a Digger Zombie that comes out of the ground.

They soon reach Blazing Manor, a old style tall manor that's very old and decrepit from being uninhabited for a longtime. They make it inside and unfortunately, zombies have also gotten in earlier. They rush past a room filled with zombies that were having a dance party of some kind, the zombies stopping and beginning to go after them.

"Elevator!" Nate yells, finding the elevator and pressing a button.

"Nate! That's a bad idea in emergencies." Patrice says.

"Come on it's- stairs it is!" Nate abandons the elevator idea when it opens up, stuffed with zombies. The two and the plants rush up the stairs and make it to the roof where the windmill is. Two Chompers were planted outside the door and take care of any zombies getting up the stairs.

"Is this even functional?" Nate asks, seeing the state of the decrepit wooden windmill that even looks like turning it on would have it crumble down into parts like a cartoon.

"Worth trying." Patrice says.

Before they could do anything, a Gargantuar Zombie climbs onto the roof from the side of the manor. Standing at ten feet tall, he's a intimidating figure dwarfing over the kids and plants. He uses a Baseball Zombie as a weapon. The two jump back to avoid a swing from the makeshift weapon. The plants do their best to fend off the Gargantuar, a squash jumps up and crashes into it's abdomen, pushing the Gargantuar back and close to the edge. Patrice picks up a Cherry Bomb, swinging it around before throwing it right at the Gargantuar. It explodes on impact and sends the Gargantuar and Baseball Zombie falling over the side and onto the floor below.

"Yes!" Nate yells out.

Patrice gets the windmill running, which manages to keep itself together as it begins to create a strong gust that is clearing out the smoke. The sunlight soon returns and the plants begin to return to full strength.

"Well done everyone." Patrice praises, petting the head of a Peashooter.

"Is it me, or did it get quiet?" Nate asks. Nate was right, the zombies rushing up the stairs are gone, the stairs completely silent. Patrice looks over the side, the Gargantuar and Baseball Zombie both gone. The group begins to move around the manor, finding no zombies in sight.

"Is it over?" Patrice asks.

"No. I still feel the sinister foreboding." Nate says. "Coming from the nearby park." Nate continues.

"I guess I'm following you then." Patrice says.

The plants and Patrice follow Nate to the park. Nate could feel the sinister foreboding grow stronger, yet there wasn't anything visible, yet.

"There!" Nate points at a bush. 10 Gargantuars come out of the bush. A horde of zombies come out of another bush. And a Yeti Zombie comes out of a third bush.

"Yes! I knew the Sasquatch existed!" Nate yells out excited and in joy.

"That's what you're focusing on here?!" Patrice questions.

A Football Zombie laughs before being engulfed in flames and turned to ash. Crazy Dave has arrived in exactly what he said he would make. A Fire breathing dinosaur with boxing glove hands. The tail sweeps away the hordes of zombies, the flames decimating zombies and harming the gargantuars, the boxing gloves springing out into the faces of the gargantuars. The Yeti Zombie watches, his eyes looking around, before he goes back into the bush and hiding it out. The zombies are forced to pull back, but not retreating. They stand around in waiting.

"What are they-" The ground shakes for a moment, then the center of the park begins to crumble and crack before bursting up as a giant machine comes out from underground. Standing at 100 foot tall, the Zombot is made of metal. The torso painted a dark brown, the lower half of the bot is painted blue resembling pants, giant metal black shoes, a red collar around the neck area, green colored arms, the wires visible underneath, and the head is a green color with glowing yellow eyes and sharp teeth. The top of the head is open and serves as the pilot. The pilot is a zombie with a big head that has a peach colored top with some veins. He wears a white lab coat, black pants, and black dress penny loafers. He laughs manically as he looks down at them.

"Hello there." Dr. Zomboss says, a mischievous smile on his face.

"Did... did you just talk?" Patrice asks, surprised.

"Of course I can talk." Dr. Zomboss replies.

"Well, it's better then the mindless brains all the time." Nate says.

"Anyways, time to die, by the hands of me! Dr. Edgar George Zomboss!" Dr. Zomboss declares.

The Zombot spits out a ball of lava towards them. The plants and trio dodge and fight back against the zombies and Dr. Zomboss. The Zombot deploys more zombies and spews out balls of lava and ice.

"Penelopea, get the rest of the plants." Crazy Dave orders, fighting the zombies in his dinosaur. One of the Peashooters breaks away to recruit the rest of the plant spread around the city.

"Stupid dinosaur." Dr. Zomboss says. The Zombot picks up a RV and throws it down onto the dinosaur, destroying it.

"Uncle!" Patrice yells. Crazy Dave emerges from the wreck unscathed, he picks up a Coffee Bean and uses it on a dark mushroom with red eyes. When Dr. Zomboss lowers himself down, Crazy Dave throws the mushroom into the Zombot's mouth when it was going to spew out a ball of ice or fire.

"Wha-" The head of the Zombot explodes from the mushroom. A purple mushroom cloud coming out of the head and destroying it. Dr. Zomboss is sent flying high into the sky before crashing down onto one of his Browncoat Zombies.

"Tugboat... is that you?" Dr. Zomboss asks.

The destroyed Zombot falls to the ground, it's head completely gone and the wires underneath on fire.

"Zombies... retreat. And someone... get me Pop Smarts." Dr. Zomboss orders. The zombies begin to retreat, heading down into the sewers.

"This isn't over. You may have won this round, but not the war." Dr. Zomboss says to the group before his zombies bring him back into the sewers.

"Victory!" Nate yells. Patrice and Nate high five, Crazy Dave joining up with them as they begin to celebrate their victory.

Later. The zombies are back in the sewers, in the Sewer Sanctuary. The Sewer Sanctuary is the zombie's outpost/town. Everything is made of metal, some wood. They had established this place back in the 1980s. In his Inner Sanctum, Dr. Zomboss lays down on his bed, wrapped up in some areas and having ice.

"Computer!" Dr. Zomboss says. A IBM Personal Computer turns on, the screen entirely black except for a thin green line that moves as the AI speaks.

"Yes?" Computer says.

"We need to gather files on those three, and those blasted plants." Dr. Zomboss says.

"Shall I get General on it?" Computer asks.

"Yes. The sooner General can begin surveillance, the better." Dr. Zomboss replies. His hand moves out and pets Mr. Stubbins, his pet Zombie Hedgehog. Mr. Stubbins is a small zombie the hedgehog the size of a hand. His body is a light gray and his quills a dark gray.

"Also, let Samurai know that he will have some opponents soon." Dr. Zomboss adds on.

"Of course." Computer says.

"Those fools don't know just who they've crossed today. They won't be glad they've triumphed for long." Dr. Zomboss says, a evil smile growing on his face.

"I'm sure they'll kiss your shoes soon enough." Computer says.

"Don't start getting sarcastic with me." Dr. Zomboss says.

"I lack the ability to be sarcastic. Just like you lack the ability to win against children." Computer says.

"Oh shut up." Dr. Zomboss retorts.

"No." Computer says.

"You're very lucky you're so special and one of a kind." Dr. Zomboss says.

"I know." Computer says.

"You know, some more then just a word or two would be fine." Dr. Zomboss says. He waits for a response, getting nothing in response. He looks over at her, only to find she had shut herself down.

"Funny, real funny." Dr. Zomboss mumbles sarcastically.

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It's been about two months since his defeat, and things haven't been great. The Zombot was recovered but now they're working on remaking the whole head. Their measly workshop areas for Z-Tech are lacking in size and production speed. It's made worse by the fact that it's the head, once it's made it will have to be re-attached, rewired, and tests are to be run to ensure it works properly. There have been several plans and schemes made and done, always ending in failure due to their new kids, crazy adult, and plant enemies. Computer has been running research on time travel. It should've been great, but they've become aware that Crazy Dave is also researching time travel. Now what should've been a opportunity, has been reduced to yet another race and conflict with their enemies.

Everything has gotten Dr. Zomboss thinking about ways to break this stalemate and in his favor. Then it hit him, fight fire with fire. If they'll fight him with plants, he'll fight them with plants. But where was he to get some plants, especially the ones made by his enemy? At first he thought of getting into Crazy Dave's house, although he quickly shut that idea down. The place is crawling with plants and the home turf of the enemy, it's never a good idea to attack a heavily populated place on enemy ground. Don't get it wrong, he still tried anyways. The following attack was the quickest he had ever seen. Removing that plan from the drawing board, he got a new idea, acquiring DNA. A few drop kicked plants later, he had acquired the DNA of a peashooter, gatling pea, wall-nut, and tall-nut. He also got the DNA of a squash and jalapeno. Not physically for those two, he wasn't going to die trying, a few zombies did the trick of getting it. They were fine, after a few days.

With the DNA acquired, he began research. He couldn't just recreate these plants entirely, his zombies would be trying to eat the plants as soon as they sprouted. As such, he got zombie DNA for the bodies and would just make the heads be plants. It took about a day for him to create the fusion, Zombotanies, he dubbed these new zombie types. He had created special seeds that would sprout these Zombotanies. The only problem is that he's pretty much doing both cloning and growing a plant, which will take time. One google search later, he gave it about a years worth of time to grow.

"... Tugboat, Frogpants, and Nigel, get me enough Pop Smarts to last a year." Dr. Zomboss orders. He checks the current date, October 5th, 2009.

October 5th, 2010.

"Well Jerry, the Zombots working again. And the evil schemes are running and getting shutdown. A mixed year so far." Dr. Zomboss says, sitting in his chair in his office.

"At least things are happening." Jerry (a browncoat zombie) says.

"Boss, the Zombotanies are ready." Computer reports.

"Excellent! Jerry, with me." Dr. Zomboss says.

Jerry follows Dr. Zomboss out of his office and they begin to head over to his lab. Dr. Zomboss' lab was a vast large room with tables and shelves containing lab equipment and chemicals. One machine is making the Gargantuar Serum, what they use to turn zombies into Gargantuars. His Master Computer set up is several computers and three tvs located by the middle of the north wall. The door that leads down to the Zombotany Lab & Growth Center is on the left of the western wall and right next to the south wall corner. The two open the door and head down the stairs into the Zombotany area.

The Zombotany Lab & Growth Center has a small lab area but big growth area. The lab is a T shaped area with two growth areas on both sides of the vertical line of the T and a window for both growth areas. There's a computer set up tracking the progress of the growth and development of the Zombotanies. There are a bunch of filing cabinets and a desk for documented information. The floors of the growth areas are just several large pots they had stuck the Zombotany seeds in. Seeds which have grown up into the Zombotanies.

The first Zombotany is the Peashooter Zombie. It has the clothes and body of a browncoat zombie with the head of a peashooter.

The second Zombotany is the Gatling Pea Zombie, a upgrade of the Peashooter Zombie. It has the clothes and body of a browncoat zombie with the head and helmet of a gatling pea.

The third Zombotany is the Wall-nut Zombie. It has the clothes and body of a browncoat zombie with a head that's the body of a Wall-nut.

The fourth Zombotany is the Tall-nut Zombie, a upgrade of the Wall-nut Zombie. It has the clothes and body of a browncat zombie with a head that's the body of a Tall-nut.

The fifth Zombotany is the Squash Zombie. It has the clothes and body of a browncoat zombie with a head that's the body of a Squash.

The last Zombotany is the Jalapeno Zombie. It has the clothes and body of a browncoat zombie with a head that's the body of a Jalapeno.

There's about 50 of them total. 20 Peashooter Zombies, 10 Wall-nut Zombies, 5 Gatling Pea Zombies, 5 Tall-nut Zombies, 5 Squash Zombies, and 5 Jalapeno Zombies.

"Wow, I am both amazed, and unsure if I should be afraid of these half-plants." Jerry says.

"Both." Dr. Zomboss says, a maniacal smile on his face. "Anyways, it's time I put them to work. But first, I need to figure out what they can do." Dr. Zomboss continues.

"It seems simple though. The pea guys shoot peas, the nut guys are tough." Jerry says.

"Yes. But, not everything is as simple as it seems." Dr. Zomboss says.

"How are you going to see what they can do?" Jerry asks.

"This isn't what I imagined." Jerry says, wearing a patchy sunflower costume and standing in a target area.

"It is what I imagined, and that's what matters. Now stay still." Dr. Zomboss says.

The testing of the Zombotanies began. The Wall-nut and Tall-nut Zombies were obviously just tankier zombies, nothing to test out. The Peashooter Zombies were pretty good for what they could do, firing peas at their targets straight ahead, although they seem to have weaker peas compared to their plant counterpart. The Gatling Pea Zombies were a improvement compared to the Peashooter Zombies, they fired four peas straight ahead. The Squash Zombies were suicide attackers, moving fast towards their enemies and then their squash heads jumping up and coming down on a enemy. The Jalapeno Zombies were in the same boat, they would explode and send fire down the lane they're in and clear out all enemies.

"Excellent, excellent! These are just as great as I imagined." Dr. Zomboss says eagerly.

"You good Jerry?" Dr. Zomboss asks Jerry, who is currently a pile of ash with eyes on the ground.

"Alright hold on, lets get you back to normal." Dr. Zomboss says. He takes out a gun shaped device called the De-Ashifier, a device he made to turn the ash of zombies back into regular zombies. He made it after the many, many, many, fire plants and explosive plants used that have turned his zombies to ash and eyeballs. The device fires a beam at Jerry that turns him from ash and eyeballs back into a zombie made of flesh and bones.

"Thanks, boss. Can I not be used as target practice next time?" Jerry asks.

"No promises." Dr. Zomboss replies.

"Are we going to use these guys now?" Jerry asks.

"Well, there's two few and well... we lost ten just in testing." Dr. Zomboss replies, looking at the five headless bodies of what used to be Squash Zombies and the five ash piles that once were Jalapeno Zombies. "Clean these up, Jerry. I'll be meeting with Samurai and General." Dr. Zomboss orders, as he turns towards the door.

"On it." Jerry says, picking up a broom.

"Computer, summon Samurai and General to my office." Dr. Zomboss orders.

"Understood." Computer replies from the computer setup. "General and Samurai, report to Dr. Zomboss' office, effective immediately." Computer says over the Sewer Sanctuary's PA System.

Dr. Zomboss leaves the Zombotany Lab & Growth Center and heads over to his office. Once he's there, he sits down in chair and waits patiently at his desk for his top two zombies. The two arriving at the same time.

General is a zombie wearing a black vest with purple buttons, a plain black shirt underneath the vest that is tucked into his pants, black pants with a black belt that has a simple silver buckle, long black socks, black boots, a black cowboy hat with a wide brim and purple hatband, black bandana over the lower half of his face that has a purple dot pattern, black felt overcoat that's unbuttoned and opened at the front, and two holsters with revolvers with one on each side of his waist. Although you can only see his eyes, his constant stoic expression is always present even if he was off the job.

Samurai is a Japanese-American zombie wearing samurai armor colored red and pink. His helmet also red and pink with a black menpo and two golden horns pointed up. He keeps his katana holstered on the left side of his body. Like General, he always has a stoic expression although much more relaxed and not always there.

"Konnichiwa." Samurai says while General salutes.

"General, Samurai. Sit, we have much to discuss." Dr. Zomboss says.

General and Samurai sit down on the chairs that stand before the desk.

"Now then, Computer is nearly complete with the Time Travel Research. But that's not what I want to talk about. General, what is the current state of the Z-Military?" Dr. Zomboss asks.

"The Zombie Military is currently still a developing project. Research is continuing along and I believe in time, that this war can be evolved beyond simply fighting on lawns and simple army against army fights. I'm talking mobile warfare, looking like a real war. As of now, we are still drawing up ideas and researching weapons. I have four ideas for the start of what I have dubbed, Garden Warfare." General reports.

"I'm intrigued and very pleased. What are these four ideas of yours?" Dr. Zomboss asks.

"It's not so much four ideas, as much as it is four classes. The Foot Soldier will be a zombie in a military uniform fit with a helmet. A RPG like weapon to be worn on the back that can both fire rockets and rocket jump units. They will also be equipped with gas grenades that can both harm plants and conceal movement. They will be equipped with a automatic weapon that can fire pellet like objects. The Scientist will serve as a field medic unit. They will have abilities to be able to both heal and damage others. Naturally, as medics they will need to be mobile, so we're working on mobility techniques for them. They will be equipped with shotguns, since they will be at the forefront of combat as medics. The Engineers will be a support class. They will be mobile, able to hit hard, and we're thinking of manufacturing drones for both scouting and aerial strikes. The All-Star will be the heavy fire units. They will be tanky and have football launchers that act like machine guns, able to fire many shots but the users will need to be careful to avoid overheating." General reports.

"Excellent! I assume we will also get variants of these four classes." Dr. Zomboss says.

"Yes, but in time. We need to focus on things one step at a time right now. We first need to create the four classes and get everything about them in working order and reliable. Then, we can begin thinking about branching out with variants." General says.

"That's what I like about you, grounded and very focused. Keep up the good work, General." Dr. Zomboss praises. "Now then, Samurai, I wanted you to begin work on your own plan to deal with the plants. What is the current state of the plan?" Dr. Zomboss asks.

"Training for the plan with the Samurai Gargantuar Crew is still ongoing. As for the weapon aspect, it is completed. I give it about two months or a month and two weeks worth of training left, and then my plan can commence in full." Samurai reports.

"Good. I have high hopes for your special plan." Dr. Zomboss says, spinning his chair around and facing away from the two.

"I have high hopes for the two of you. You both are some of the most competent zombies in my arsenal, military men with strategic minds. I expect great things from the both of you." Dr. Zomboss says, his tone serious yet not unkind.

"We won't let you down, boss." General says, Samurai nodding in agreement.

"Then you are both dismissed. I look forward to the future with you both." Dr. Zomboss says.

General stands and salutes before leaving, Samurai bows before he leaves.

"Sir, Jerry has finished cleaning." Computer reports.

"Excellent! Get him to my lab, we need a test dummy for some weapons I've developed." Dr. Zomboss says, eagerly taking out a Freeze Ray.

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Tugboat walks through the Sewer Sanctuary. He soon comes across the traditional Japanese room that has a open sliding door, revealing the Samurai sitting in the middle of the room. His eyes were closed as he meditated. As soon as Tugboat entered, his eyes were open and he looked at the browncoat zombie.

"Tugboat." Tugboat said.

"Arigato." Samurai says. He stands up and leaves his special meditation room and he walks through the Sewer Sanctuary and into the area dedicated to Z-Tech. He passes by General, the two giving each other slight nods as they passed each other.

Samurai enters a room that has been used for his special plan. Inside he has four Samurai Gargantuars and the cannon.

The Samurai Gargantuars are four trained Gargantuars in big Samurai Armor. Their armor is painted a blue and brown color with a blue and brown helmet with a red colored strap. One has a iron bag strapped to his back containing fuses. Another has a iron bag strapped to his back containing cannon balls. The last two both had lit torches holstered by their sides.

The cannon is made of metal and very dark in color. It's not meant to have much in terms of looks, just use.

"Follow me, and bring our special surprise." General orders the four. The four bow before picking up the cannon, two holding it up front, two holding it in the back. The two with torches at the back, the two with the cannon balls and fuses at the front. They follow General out as General began heading towards the exit of the Sewer Sanctuary. For every zombie they came across, Samurai pointed at them and then pointed forward as he passed them, a silent order to join him. By the time they had reached the end, he had his Four Samurai Zombies with the cannon and around 80 zombies of varying roles and types.

Samurai turns around and faces his army.

"My army, we embark today on yet another battle with the plants. But today is different, for you have me, and I have a plan. The enemy has not faced such destructive power since the Zombot, but even then, this cannon will be unlike anything they've ever faced before. I ask you all today, to battle with me with honor on this day. This will not be like anything you have all done before, it will be new, it will be hard, but the rewards at the end are many. The enemy will be crushed under the power of us zombies, and our great leader will be most pleased with us. Now, let us fight, and let us win." Samurai addresses his army, taking out his katana and holding it up high above him, getting applause from his army.

"So, I was thinking, pizza eating competition between me and a chomper." Nate says.

"You would lose, very fast." Patrice says.

Patrice and Nate were with some plants in the kitchen to Crazy Dave's house, Nate is rummaging through the fridge for some lunch, or ideas on what food eating record of his he should break. With how much Patrice knew Nate at this point, it could be either way, or both.

"So, what is Cr- I mean, Uncle Dave, doing right now?" Nate asks, making sure to correct himself at the last minute on the nickname he notices Patrice seemingly doesn't like.

"He's out eating ice cream." Patrice replies.

"Stay back folks!" Police had barricaded off the ice cream shop as Crazy Dave was eating his ice cream. It's a tense moment as people gather and his ice cream melts against the clock. Nearby, Dr. Zomboss and Jerry were hiding in a bush and watching from a distance.

"Why are we doing this?" Jerry asks, not following along with everything.

"This maybe a chance to get a glimpse at the mind of Dave, a chance to see his genius." Dr. Zomboss says.

"But he's just eating ice cream." Jerry points out.

"You can never truly know, Jerry." Dr. Zomboss says.

"Why are we even dong this? This is pointless." Jerry questions.

"Well if Crazy Dave working against the clock to eat ice cream is a side plot of a comic, it can be for this." Dr. Zomboss answers.

"Can I go home?" Jerry asks.

"No." Dr. Zomboss replies.

"Fine, but let's make this actually worth something. Five bucks says the ice cream melts and he creates a machine that makes unmeltable ice cream." Jerry says.

"Oddly specific, but fine, five bucks on it melts and he gives up on it." Dr. Zomboss agrees.

"I feel like a pointless side quest has just begun." Nate says.

"What are you talking about?" Patrice asks.

"Eh, it's probably noth-" A fireball suddenly breaks through several walls and causing chaos and destruction through Dave's house. Several pots fell to the ground and the plants on them crashed onto the ground, spilling dirt and pot fragments. Outside was Samurai, standing to the right of his Samurai Gargantuar Gunner Crew with his army of 74 zombies backing him up.

Patrice and Nate were quick to look out and see their new foe. Both were surprised and feeling intimidated by Samurai and his gargantuars, although Nate does look very excited to see a real life samurai, even if they were a zombie.

"This is new." Patrice quietly comments.

"Indeed." Samurai says, surprising Patrice. "I didn't hear you, I merely assumed on what you said. Based on your reaction, it was a good response. But that is not important." Samurai continues.

"Who are you?!" Patrice questions.

"And can I get your armor somewhere nearby?" Nate adds.

"Seriously?" Patrice asks, incredulous.

"What? Don't tell me you wouldn't want that armor." Nate replies.

"I am Samurai, and no, you cannot get this armor." Samurai answers, he could barely hear Nate saying "Damn it" in response. "And this, this is the day you fall." Samurai continues.

Samurai points forward and his 74 zombies begin their attack.

"Defend Uncle Dave's House!" Patrice orders.

The plants get into position and fire off barrages of peas, cabbages, corn, melons, ice peas, cactus spikes, and more. The zombie horde struggled against the onslaught of plants, many falling quickly under the hail of plants.

"Reload." Samurai orders.

The Samurai Gargantuar with the fuses stuffs one inside the cannon, the one with the cannon balls stuffing one into the cannon.

"Fire!" Samurai orders.

One of the back Samurai Gargantuars hold their torch to the fuse sticking out, lighting it and they hold the cannon steady and aim it towards the plants. Nate was quick to notice.

"Clear out!" Nate yells, picking up a peashooter and running aside, Patrice and the other plants quick to follow. The gargantuars begin to turn but the next cannon shot fires before they could get it aimed at anyone, it misses everyone but it causes more destruction as it rips though more of Uncle Dave's house.

"Damn it!" Patrice yells to herself, looking at the destruction caused on her Uncle's place.

"Get back to it!" Nate orders to the plants, pointing at the still attacking zombie horde. Nate joins up with Patrice.

"You alright?" Nate asks.

"Yeah, just hating what is happening to my Uncle's place." Patrice replies, her expression one of annoyance.

"We need a plan." Nate says.

"I think we both know that." Patrice grumbles, the two beginning to think.

"Oh god!" "He's not going to make it!" Crazy Dave's expression is one of stressful worry as he tries to eat his ice cream before it melts. The crowd had only grown, each one watching in worry and anticipation. Dr. Zomboss watches intently while Jerry is internally debating if repeatedly hitting his head against the wall out of annoyance, would be worth the brain damage.

"I got it!" Nate yells, his face looking like a light bulb had just gone off while Patrice punches away a zombie that was about to bite him.

"What are you thinking?" Patrice asks.

"First, we need to get rid of these zombies that are attacking, then we can go after the samurai." Nate replies.

"Got the perfect thing." Patrice says. She runs off and returns with five Cherry Bombs.

"Alright!" Nate picks up a Cherry Bomb excitedly. He spins it around before throwing it at a bunch of zombies, blowing them up and turning them to ash and eyeballs.

Patrice and Nate use the Cherry Bombs to clear out the zombies while the plants helped to clear out the rest. They struggled against the cannon balls that were being fired, they did their best to both evade them and ensure that when the cannon went off, the cannon balls would go through already destroyed areas so nothing else got destroyed.

Soon, the zombies were cleared out and it was only Samurai and his gargantuars left.

"Focus on those gargantuars!" Nate orders. The plants focus their fire on the gargantuars, their shots having little effect on the armor and they were still going to have get a lot of damage on them to defeat the gargantuars. The gargantuars weren't idle either, they reloaded and fired under Samurai's command, causing damage and taking out a few unlucky plants.

"Any ideas for this?" Patrice asks.

"Yes! Behold, Grrawrr-Bear the Ultimate Face-Puncher (actual name of a Bonk Choy in PVZ comics)!" Nate proclaims as he holds out a Bonk Choy with a red headband.

'What is that name?' Patrice and Samurai both think.

Nate throws Grrawrr-Bear the Ultimate Face-Puncher at the Samurai Gargantuar with the cannon balls, his fist going back before plunging forward with a loud pound from a punch directly to the face of the gargantuar, knocking it down to the ground and out of the fight.

"Yes!" Nate yells out, Patrice is shocked but she soon smiles with him and lets out a victorious shout. Samurai's eyes are wide and he's surprised, although he quickly shakes it off and looks at the two. He could tell what Nate was thinking and he gestures his Samurai Gargantuars to back off. He'll deal with them himself.

"Clever, real clever. Taking out one of the key members so it won't work, smart. I'd need someone new to load up the cannon balls, but there's no one else around now, isn't there? I will admit, you're smarter than I thought. But, alas, this is where the fun ends." Samurai says, he quickly unsheathes his katana and gets into a fighting position.

"Fire!" Patrice orders. The plants fire out their projectiles and lobbed projectiles, Samurai is quick to cut everything apart and makes a whole fruit salad in the process.

"Wow, that's impressive." Nate says, impressed and definitely wanting to try it.

"Focus, Nate." Patrice reminds.

"Sorry." Nate apologizes, scratching the back of his head with a cheeky smile on his face. "Any ideas here?" Nate asks.

"Yes, one of my uncle's old inventions he made for a Japanese Festival." Patrice replies, she runs off before Nate could ask any questions about it.

Nate is left there with the plants and Samurai, who simply stands around, they've certainly got his attention on a Japanese themed creation. Patrice returns with a robot samurai, Crazy Dave's creation for a past Japanese Festival held in Neighborville. It acts as a opponent to fight during that festival, a easy fight of course, but Patrice has turned the difficulty up to max for this.

"A worthy challenger, but lets see if it stays that way." Samurai says, standing into a position as he is ready to do battle with his robotic counterpart.

Samurai and the Robot Samurai stand against each other in silence, each waiting for the first move. The Robot Samurai moves first with a downward strike, Samurai blocking and parrying the strike as he goes for a sideways slash which is blocked. The two samurai fight in a intense sword duel, the two seemingly on par in terms of skill and ability.

"This is honestly cool to watch." Nate comments.

"Focus Nate, but you're right." Patrice agrees.

Samurai goes in for a downward slash and puts in enough force and the toughness of his sword, shatters the katana of his robotic counterpart and he quickly takes advantage and decapitates the robot, the head falling to the ground as sparks from cut wires comes out of the falling body.

"Oh crud." Nate says, eyes wide.

"You have thrown your best at me, and it's gone." Samurai says. "I commend the effort though and must acknowledge that Crazy Dave's engineering is good and his programming exceptional, it fought as good as a samurai." Samurai praises.

"Thanks?" Patrice says, not really sure what to say in response to his praise.

"Both of you are quite good and capable kids. Nate knew exactly what to do to deal with the cannon, and you had the idea of the robot samurai and that punch on the zombie looked quite strong and formidable." Samurai continues his praise.

"Thanks?" Patrice repeats, still unsure on how to respond.

"I'll take it!" Nate says, with a smile.

"But this is where it ends for the both of you." Samurai says, his intrigued/impressed tone turning back to his serious one.

Samurai rushes forward at a fast speed, faster than they were expecting, his katana ready to strike them down once he gets close enough. Nate picks up Grrawrr-Bear the Ultimate Face-Puncher and throws him at Samurai. However, Samurai repositions his katana to kill the plant that is rapidly getting close to it. Patrice can see where this is going and see desperately looks around, her mind racing as she looked for a solution. Her eyes land on a pipe that was in part of the rubble and a Peashooter by it. She picks it up and throws it towards Samurai.

"Hit it!" Patrice orders to the peashooter.

The peashooter fires a pea that hits the pipe and gives it a speed boost and extra force. The pipe flies forward and strikes Samurai's two hands, knocking the katana out of his hand, his eyes having a visible shocked look to them. Grrawrr-Bear the Ultimate Face-Puncher gets close enough and with all his face-punching might, he punches Samurai square in the face, breaking through his menpo. His strike hits hard enough to send the standing Samurai straight to the ground and onto his back. Samurai laid there, defeated and unmoving.

"Alright!" Patrice yells, raising her arms in the air in celebration.

"I just beat a Samurai! My list of dreams finally gets something checked off it." Nate says, smiling and picking up Grrawrr-Bear the Ultimate Face-Puncher and raising him up like he's a champion.

Samurai stands up from the ground, some of the lower half of his face that was concealed by the menpo is now bleeding from the broken pieces of the menpo. One visible bruise present too. Samurai picks up his katana and holsters it, he leaves the grounds of Crazy Dave's house, his forces following him and taking the cannon with them.

"The plan failed, but, it was fun and a good learning experience." Samurai says to the zombie next to him.

"It is completed, Samurai." Computer reports.

Samurai picks up the new menpo from Z-Tech in the Sewer Sanctuary. He attaches it to his helmet and he is now fully back in action.

"How are you holding up?" General asks.

"I am fine. The loss didn't help with the boss' overall happiness." Samurai replies.

"I'm sure he's fine. It's been about two days now since your loss. If anything, he's still unhappy he had to pay Jerry five bucks because Jerry was right on their bet that Crazy Dave would invent unmeltable ice cream after his original one melted." General says.

"That was still ridiculous to hear about." Samurai says.

"Same." General agrees.

"So, Time Travels here. I guess that means we're doing a whole time travel scheme now?" Samurai asks.

"We'll see. The boss has a new plan coming up, says it will be the plan before they do any time travel shenanigans." General replies.

"If it goes to plan." Samurai says, having a feeling.

"Considering the other zombies' competence, definitely not." General says, having the same feeling.

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Dr. Zomboss finishes tightening the last bolt of his latest creation. He had created a machine that was about two stories tall and had a vacuum like top. It was built for his latest plan.

"Finally, my latest creation is complete!" Dr. Zomboss proclaims. He looks back at 4 zombies standing around by him, their usual blank stares present as they watch him. He slumps over a bit, disappointed by the lack of reaction. Noticing their leader's reaction, they soon hold up signs with "Haha" painted on them, mimicking their leader's laugh, which makes him happy and feeling recognized.

"This will be my victory! This is a Sun Vacuum, it will absorb every last bit of sun in Neighborville. Soon, all plants will lose their energy and I will win!" Dr. Zomboss yells. More zombies holding "Haha" signs to celebrate and praise their leader.

"Now then, Thomas, you have a very important mission." Dr. Zomboss says to Thomas. Thomas is a zombie standing by the machine. He wears a all red color scheme, red pants, red shirt, red baseball hat, and red shoes. He's on his phone as he stands by a toaster and a slot that goes into the machine. Dr. Zomboss puts a box of Pop Smarts by Thomas.

"Now, you are going to make Pop Smarts for celebration. It goes into the toaster, do you understand? Into the toaster, not the slot here, the toaster." Dr. Zomboss instructs. "Now then, where was I? Oh yes. Hahahahahahahahahahaha" Dr. Zomboss begins to laugh as he joins his other zombies, all holding "Haha" signs.

Thomas puts down his phone and looks at the box of Pop Smarts. He tries to recall which one it was, his eyes going from the toaster to the slot, slot to the toaster. Thomas slides the Pop Smart box into the machine slot. As Dr. Zomboss is laughing, he hears some sparking and strange noises, his laughing stops as he looks behind him. He doesn't get to see much of the machine before he suddenly sees nothing but orange and red as his machine explodes. He covers his face, covering his eyes from the brightness of the explosion and to protect himself. When the explosion clears, Dr. Zomboss yells out in rage as his machine is destroyed and gone.

"Thomas! What did you do?!" Dr. Zomboss yells at Thomas, the part of Thomas that was facing the machine covered in soot from the explosion.

"Warning, my sensors indicate the fragments of the machine have been sent throughout time." Computer says.

"Great. First, my plan is foiled by incompetence. Second, those fragments are now spread throughout time. Third, that explosion burned off the corner of my signed Albert Einstein poster." Dr. Zomboss complains, one hand gesturing at his signed poster of Albert Einstein that now has the bottom left corner burned off.

"Assemble the zombies!" Dr. Zomboss orders.

A few minutes later. Dr. Zomboss stands on a overlook as he overlooks his massive horde of zombies in the Sewer Sanctuary.

"Listen up! We are going to get back those fragments, so we can rule Neighborville. And by we, I mean all of you. Any questions?" Dr. Zomboss asks, which is responded to by several raised hands. "None? Good. Get going!" Dr. Zomboss presses a button, his horde getting sent across time to retrieve the fragments of his machine. Dr. Zomboss chuckles to himself as he sits down, he reaches for a plate he had piled Pop Smarts onto. His slight smile fades as he feels nothing and looks at the plate which no longer has any Pop Smarts.

"Damn it." Dr. Zomboss mutters after a sigh.

"So what is this supposed to be?" Nate asks.

Nate and Patrice look at a new strange car in Crazy Dave's garage. The car has front that has a 1950's car model design, only the front has that design as the rest of the body looks like it was removed and replaced by an RV body and then customized with various tech made by Crazy Dave. There are pink tailfins that do have a 1950's design that are on the back sides of the RV part. Through the front window they can see the top of the steering wheel and a pair of red fuzzy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror. There's a bunch of decorations and random items all across Penny. There's a harpoon gun, porthole, lifebuoy, fire extinguisher, siren, satellite, two truck exhausts with one on each side of the back RV part, bull skull with horns, and a tray extension on the passenger door that has fast food. The right front headlight is not fully attached, the bottom part still attached and the top part broken off and leaning down. The back of the RV part has a massive jet engine that looks like it belongs on a rocket.

"Plodet Grobet." Crazy Dave replies.

"He says that this is Penny, his time machine." Patrice translates, a smile on her face and very much excited by this development.

"A time machine?! Can we use it? I wanna go to so many places so badly." Nate asks, practically ready to run around at a moments notice.

Before anyone could react, a rift opens up in the air and spits out a busted up pipe that hits Nate on the back of his head, the rift closing up after spitting out the pipe.

"Ow! What was that?" Nate asks, him and Patrice looking at the moving pipe that rolls after landing before coming to a stop when it hit Crazy Dave's shoes. Crazy Dave picks it up and inspects it, Nate and Patrice watching him. Crazy Dave suddenly licks the pipe, Nate and Patrice having disgusted expressions on their faces.

"Groden Droden." Crazy Dave says.

"He says it tastes like strawberry flavored Pop Smarts, evil, and rotten meat. Dr. Zomboss created a sunlight absorption machine but one of his zombies put Pop Smarts in it which led to it exploding and spreading the fragments of the machine throughout time. Dr. Zomboss has sent his zombies after the fragments, sending them throughout time." Patrice translates.

"You got all that, from Groden Droden?" Nate asks, his expression a mix of exasperation and disbelief.

"Yep. Anyways, he says we need to go after those fragments before Dr. Zomboss gets them." Patrice says.

"Can we all fit in that?" Nate asks.

"Pedle." Crazy Dave replies.

"He says the inside is bigger than it looks." Patrice translates.

"Alright then, everyone in!" Nate says.

The trio and many plants file into Penny. Activating, Penny begins driving and flies up as it travels through a time portal and heads back in time to the set destination made by Crazy Dave. The time portal leads them through a vast circle blue lane that was all around them as they traveled to the past. They soon exit through a time portal and Penny slows them down as they stop in a desert near the pyramids, succesfully arriving in Ancient Egypt.

"Wow, the pyramids!" Nate says as he steps out of Penny.

"Indeed, User Nate." Penny says.

"Talking car? My dreams are all coming true!" Nate says, Patrice covering his mouth quickly.

"You sounded like you were yelling there, don't give us away right now." Patrice says, Nate removes her mouth and smiles sheepishly.

"Sorry." Nate apologizes, Crazy Dave stepping out of Penny with the plants. "Anyways, we should be careful, zombies sense fear. No, wait, dogs sense fear." Nate says.

There's a light bark, the trio looking over and seeing a zombie holding a leash connected to the collar of a zombie dog.

"Now that's just unfair." Nate says.

"At least it's just two." Patrice says.

From behind the sand emerges a horde of Egyptian zombies. Mummy Zombies, Mummy Conehead Zombies, Mummy Buckethead Zombies, Ra Zombies, Pharaoh Zombies, Explorer Zombies, Tomb Raiser Zombies, and Mummified Gargantuars.

"Oh boy." Nate says.

"Yeahriga." Crazy Dave says.

"Good idea, Uncle." Patrice says.

"What did he say?" Nate asks.

"We need to split up if we want to get more fragments." Patrice answers.

"Split up? In this situation." Nate questions, unsure about leaving someone here to deal with the horde.

"Don't worry, the next destination is the 1970s in a dancing competition. You and Uncle Dave can go there." Patrice reassures. "Just leave most of the plants with me, I can handle it." Patrice continues.

"Are you sure?" Nate asks, sill unsure and worried.

"Don't worry, Nate. I'll survive against them, we've survived all the other times, I think we both know that we won't let that change at all." Patrice replies. She gives him a smile before looking at the horde, cracking her knuckles for the upcoming fight.

Nate looks at her before nodding with a smile. He, Crazy Dave, and a few plants get into Penny who enters a time portal with the 1970s as the destination. Patrice establishes her defenses quickly and begins her battle with the zombie horde.

Meanwhile, Penny arrives outside a dancing club in the 1970s. Crazy Dave and Nate step out of Penny with the small batch of plants they brought along. The group heads into the dancing club. The inside was pretty big with a big dance floor set aside for the dancing competition. Sitting on a table is the prize for winning, a bundle of cash and a fragment of the machine. There was the judges table with three judges. The first judge is the club's owner, the second judge is the club DJ, and the third judge is last year's winner.

"Looks like there's no zombies here." Nate says.

"I think you should look again." The group looks over at a table with a curved padded seats that is occupied by a single Disco Zombie. He wears white dancing pants, blue disco shirt with a white collar and white shirt cuffs, gold necklace with a small golden ball, a golden ring on his left index finger, golden ring on his right middle finger, golden ring with a blue jewel on it that's on his left middle finger, yellow circle glasses with somewhat purple lenses, and brown disco shoes with a clear glass sole that has a fish in it. He has a orangeish-brown afro. He sits down on the middle of the curved seat, holding a paper cup filled with iced water.

"Only one of you guys?" Nate asks, confused.

"Yep. I'm Micheal King by the way, professional dancer and the best dancer in the Zombie Horde." The Disco Zombie replies, holding out one hand for them to shake.

Nate looks at Micheal's hand for a moment, unsure for a moment before he reluctantly shakes Micheal's hand. When he lets go, Micheal moves onto Crazy Dave, who shakes Micheal's hand with less reluctance. Micheal picks up his cup and drinks some water, setting it down as he sits around.

"I'll be honest, I was expecting more." Nate says, Crazy Dave wanders and signs him and Nate up for the dancing competition.

"Dancing's my passion, I want to participate in this." Micheal says.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the dancing competition will be starting now." The announcer says.

The dancing competition begins. Various people step up and dance on the floor, showing off their dancing skills and getting varying scores from the judges. Nate and Crazy Dave watch the dances. Micheal watches the dances, clapping along at the end of each dance routine. Soon enough, Micheal's turn came up and he quickly stood up and he stepped onto the dance floor. He taps his shoes onto the floor and nods his head repeatedly, he gets a feel for the beat and starts to dance. He dances fast and does his classic disco moves, before moving to modern moves like doing the worm and spinning around on his back. He finishes off by his head facing down with his eyes closed, one arm raised up with his finger pointed up, and his other arm going downwards. Everyone claps at him with some cheering, the judges scoring him very highly with a 10, 9, and 9.5 respectively.

"WOW! That is going to be a hard one to beat! Next up is Nate, Nate Timely." The announcer says.

Nate steps onto the floor. He begins to dance and adds a bit of singing to it. It's horrible, very horrible. People are looking away, covering ears, and the judges very much don't look impressed. Crazy Dave is cringing. Micheal watches the entire thing, he's not the most pleased but he does watch it entirely. When Nate finishes, the judges were very much unanimous with their choice, 1s all around. Nate leaves the dance floor, his head up and not phased by his failure or the embarrassment of it.

"Wow! That is going to be very easy to beat. Next up is Dave. Please be better after that." The announcer says.

Crazy Dave steps up and saves everyone from another awful experience by being great, if not the greatest dancer of the competition. Dancing and doing various moves, the finishing touch being when he spins on top of his pot head. When he's finished, he's met with cheers and clapping from the crown, Micheal clapping along with a closed smile on his face. The judges show off their score, 10s all around.

"And we have a winner! Dave!" The announcer declares.

"Alright!" Nate yells out.

Crazy Dave and Nate collect the prize money and the fragment, the two head out to Penny.

"Hey, nice work out there. It was awesome." Micheal praises Crazy Dave.

"You're not so bad." Nate says.

"See you all in the present, it'll be back to fighting." Micheal says.

Nate, Crazy Dave, and the plants get into Penny and they travel back in time and return to Ancient Egypt. They quickly step out and are pleasantly surprised by what they see. The zombie horde lies defeated in the sand, the plants having come out victorious in the fight. Patrice turns to them, wearing a female Ancient Egyptian headdress.

"What do you think? Queen of Egypt worthy?" Patrice asks.

"I'd say so." Nate replies.

"Anyways, lets get going. We got more fragments to get." Patrice says, getting back on task.

The trio and the plants get into Penny and travel back in time to the next era, the Age of Pirates. They soon arrive on a atoll where another fragment is.

"Aw man, I was hoping we would be on a pirate ship and be pirates and everything." Nate says, disappointed.

"Sorry Nate. But the pirate life is not what a lot of us want to experience right now." Patrice says. "Anyways, lets go and get this fragment. Wherever it is." Patrice continues.

"Which one of you is number 97? You're going to be up next on the swing." Dr. Zomboss says.

Aboard the Zomboss Pirate Ship, he's at the wheel of his ship. Various pirate zombies are aboard, either assisting with sailing or doing their own thing. At the front of the ship is the bowsprit that has a swing for pirate fun.

"Hey boss, what's that?" A Pirate Zombie asks, pointing at something in the distance.

"Jerry, spyglass." Dr. Zomboss orders, Jerry hands him the spyglass and Dr. Zomboss uses it to look out on the horizon. He sees a big pirate ship that is occupied by pirates.

"It's fine, there's no reason for them to head where we are going. The Z Atoll is barren and the only thing there is from the future, they wouldn't be interested in the fragment anyways." Dr. Zomboss says, giving Jerry the spyglass.

Jerry looks at the other ship for a moment.

"Boss, that's Chestbeard. He buried treasure on Eye Island, which is what Z Atoll was known in the past." Jerry says. Dr. Zomboss' eyes widen for a moment.

"Boys and girls! Get to it! Faster! Get more zombies onto the hamster wheels, get us going faster! We will get there first and get the treasure and the fragment!" Dr. Zomboss orders.

The zombies quickly follow his commands and move out to get themselves going faster.

Aboard Chestbeard's pirate ship, the famous pirate is with his crew. Chestbeard is a pirate that is known for his beard. His hair is a orange reddish color, the back tied back in a short pony tail and having a simple mustache. His beard grows on his chest, covering most of it, his beard is known for having sea creatures inside, the most common sight is a purple tentacle slightly sticking out of it. He wears blue jeans with a black belt with a gold buckle, red felt gloves, and a red tricorn hat with a continental line up front and the hat has a long pink feather sticking up. On his left arm by his shoulder is a anchor tattoo. On his right arm by his shoulder is a octopus tattoo. (From PVZ comics).

"Aye mateys, we'll soon be getting my buried treasure." Chestbeard says to his crew.

"Captain, that ship is getting faster and seems to be going to the island." One of his crew members says.

Chestbeard looks at the horizon at the zombie ship.

"Then we go faster for me treasure!" Chestbeard declares.

"We need a better strategy than dig holes until we find it." Patrice says.

They've been digging for about 20 minutes now, they've created several holes around the atoll from failed attempts. Nate is digging in one hole when he hits something solid, the noise attracting Patrice and Crazy Dave. The trio dig up the hole more and discover a treasure chest with golden edges and red wood.

"Treasure!" Nate yells out. He opens it up, the trio's eyes practically becoming entirely yellow as sunlight reflected off the golden coins inside. The chest was filled with gold coins, sitting on top of it all was the fragment.

"We're rich!" Nate yells, picking up some coins.

"I believe you mean, I'm rich." The trio and the plants look over as Dr. Zomboss has arrived onto the atoll.

"I believe you mean, that's mine." The plants and zombies look over at the third party, Chestbeard and his crew.

"Look, we just want the fragment is all. We can give you the treasure." Patrice offers.

"No! That chest be mine, and everything in it, be mine." Chestbeard says.

"Everything's mine!" Dr. Zomboss declares. "Get it!" Dr. Zomboss orders.

The three armies charge into battle. The zombies fight everyone, the plants fight the zombies, and the pirates fight whoever is threatening the treasure the most. The plants shift things to fight the zombies while staying away from the pirates and the treasure, trying to appear as situational allies to the pirates. Chestbeard notices, giving a nod in Crazy Dave's direction and leading his pirates against the zombies only.

"Fight harder!" Dr. Zomboss orders.

His zombies fight their hardest but they are getting overwhelmed by the combined force of the plants and pirates. The last zombie is soon to fall, leaving only Dr. Zomboss left. He is visibly angry for a moment before retreating through time with his ship and forces.

"Now then, my treasure." Chestbeard says, picking up his chest.

"Mr. Chestbeard, sir?" Patrice says, Chestbeard looks over at her. "There's a thing in there that we need. We can make a trade, we promise it will be worth your while." Patrice continues, Chestbeard scratches the underside of his chin in thought for a moment.

"Alright lass, I'm listening." Chestbeard says.

"We get the fragment in there, and we will give you a spray that my Uncle made. Beard Glimmer, it makes your beard glow." Patrice says. Crazy Dave uses a spray on Chestbeard's beard that makes it glow and glisten, like a freshly polished shoe. Chestbeard looks down at himself, visibly intrigued.

"OOH! You've got yourself a deal, lass." Chestbeard removes the fragment from the chest and tosses it over to Crazy Dave, Crazy Dave catching it and tossing over the Beard Glimmer to Chestbeard.

"Until we meet again, mateys." Chestbeard says.

The plants and pirates split ways, the plants heading back into Penny and traveling through time to their next destination, the Far Future. They soon arrive onto a street in the Far Future. As Nate and Patrice step out, they can't help but notice traveling to the future had aged them to what they are like in the future.

Patrice had gotten taller. She keeps her shirt, shorts, and leggins but now wears boots the same color as her shoes and red biker gloves. Her hair has grown a bit to include more defined edges on the left and right sides of her face and a bun at the back shaped like a closed flower. She wears a small red backpack.

Nate had gotten taller. His shoes are the same and his shorts have become pants of the same color. He now wears a red t-shirt with a yellow dancer on it, "Disco Champ 2023" in yellow on his shirt. He wears a open lab coat with no sleeves and a add on hood that is lowered down. His pants have a yellow pouch wrapped over his right leg above his knee. He has a tech device designed like a watch under his left wrist that replaces his watch. A band aid on the right side of his forehead. His hair is a bit darker and bigger, with bushier eyebrows and sporting a horseshoe mustache. On his left arm below his shoulder is a sunflower tattoo. On his right arm below his shoulder is a peashooter tattoo.

"Nate? Why have you changed? You're... older." Patrice asks.

"You too. Although, you have less changes. Which looks... pretty nice." Nate replies.

Crazy Dave steps out, also older. He still looks the same except for his beard which has grown longer to be down to right above his abdomen and having a noticeable gray hair line going down the middle of his beard. His pot is the same but the handle has three future rings on it.

"I was expecting more from him to be honest." Nate admits.

"Attention zombies!" The trio and the plant's attention turns to a floating TV addressing the future zombies.

"Beware of our top enemies! Nate and Patrice! Nate is a genius scientist and the most proficient anti-zombie mechanic. Patrice is skilled in 452 martial arts, including the devastating Gorilla Chop and Toaster Fu (cannon martial arts from comics)." Dr. Zomboss informs before the floating TV flies off.

The plants and zombies stare at each other for a moment in awkward silence. Eventually, a zombie presses a button on a device which creates a time portal that summons up several zombies and mechs, with them is the laughing Dr. Zomboss.

"Well, well, well, well, well. What do we have here? My good old enemies back again for more pain." Dr. Zomboss says.

"Last time I checked, you got your butt kicked by plants and pirates." Nate says.

"That doesn't count!" Dr. Zomboss retorts. "Get them!" Dr. Zomboss orders.

The Future Zombies begin their attack and the plants return fire. Nate and Patrice quickly find that traveling to the future has not just made them older, but having the abilities of their future selves. Patrice is able to get toasters from out of nowhere and throw them at zombies, landing every time. Nate is going around getting into mechs and using his knowledge to disable them or make them attack friendlies. The true challenge comes with the arrival of the Gargantuar Prime, the robot gargantuar piloted by a imp. It's fast, can shoot lasers, attack twice with it's pole arms, and durable. Toaster Fu fails against it, and the Gorilla Chop is meant to be used on the ground for a group wide attack. Nate studies the new threat before quickly coming up with an idea.

Nate runs away and climbs onto Penny, hiding behind her many roof decorations. He waits until the Gargantuar Prime is close enough and he jumps from Penny onto the mech. He opens up a panel and begins to fiddle and change things around, he acquires a E.M.Peach from Crazy Dave and implants it inside the mech. He jumps off and lands safely, his plan beginning.

"Patrice!" Nate yells.

"Yeah?" Patrice yells in response, kicking a zombie to the ground.

"Stand with me." Nate instructs.

"Why?" Patrice asks.

"Trust me on this." Nate replies.

Patrice thinks for a moment before she goes and stands with Nate. The Gargantuar Prime turns towards them, it's eyes changing purple as it charges its laser.

"Nate? What's the plan here?" Patrice asks.

"Being targets." Nate answers, making her eyes widen and she quickly looks at him in shock.

"Targets?!" Patrice questions.

"Just trust me. It'll work." Nate replies, his face serious and expecting.

"I... alright, I hope you know what you're doing." Patrice says, still unsure and looking a bit scared as she stands by him.

The Gargantuar Prime charges up its lasers. Some plants try to intervene but Nate stops them, holding out his hand to them. As the lasers get close to firing, Nate and Patrice continue to stand there, Patrice looking more uneasy and Nate still looking serious. Dr. Zomboss cackles as he bears witness to his enemies' demise.

Before the lasers could fire, the modified systems and wires move energy into the E.M.Peach which super charges it and then it blows, it's E.M.P. effect spreading farther due to the super charge and it engulfs all the mechs. The Gargantuar Prime shuts down and falls backwards, it lands on it's back, a part of it crushing one of Dr. Zomboss' feet. He screams out in pain and gets his foot free, jumping around a bit in pain and then shut up by a flying TV that got shut down in the blast and crashing right on his head, knocking him unconscious.

Crazy Dave is visibly impressed by Nate's move. Patrice herself is shocked and then happy as she takes in the aftermath, letting out a breath she wasn't aware she was holding.

"Pold Henda." Crazy Dave says.

"What did he say?" Nate asks.

"He says we can... let go?" Patrice translates, her voice and expression filled with confusion.

"Why are you confused?" Nate asks, curious.

"I know about 84% of Dave, not the entire language. I don't know what he means by 'let go', so I think I misheard them." Patrice answers.

A Sunflower taps both their shoulders and points at what Crazy Dave had been referring to. They had subconsciously held hands while they were standing there. The two quickly separate, surprised by what they had done during that moment.

"Wow, I uh... wasn't expecting that." Nate says, kind of quietly.

"Yeah, a heat of the moment thing. Getting comfort or... standing our grand." Patrice says, turning to look at her uncle who is looting Dr. Zomboss.

"Flobtch." Crazy Dave says, Nate didn't need a translation as Crazy Dave holding various fragments and fragments he looted from Dr. Zomboss.

"All of them?" Nate guesses.

"Yep." Patrice confirms.

The trio and the plants travel back in time to the present through Penny. They arrive back in Crazy Dave's place and get settled in. Crazy Dave takes all the fragments.

"Grobble Fleen Garble-Thwongg." Crazy Dave says.

"He gave us some instructions." Patrice says. "First, we need to give him time to make a machine out of those fragments. Second, we gotta deal with the horde of zombies." Patrice translates.

"What horde?" Nate asks.

"The one outside." Patrice answers.

The two and the plants open the garage and are met with a horde of zombies assembled throughout time. Dr. Zomboss standing atop a Gargantuar, a smile on his face.

"You were fast to recover." Nate says.

"I'm persistent." Dr. Zomboss says. "Now get them and those fragments!" Dr. Zomboss orders.

The zombie horde charges in to battle. The plants and zombies engage, the plants aiming to keep the zombies away for as long as they could. Crazy Dave's house had been upgraded with defenses ever since the destruction of the battle with Samurai. Cactus placed up top fire and pop balloons of high up Balloon Zombies, making them drop to the ground and getting a few lucky drops on zombies, taking out more than one at a time. Patrice throws around some explosive plants, taking out many zombies. Squashes hold off until they could drop down and take out more than one zombie. Nate is directing fire at high priority targets when necessary. They had been training and preparing for any future assaults on Crazy Dave's house, and it was paying off. However, the zombies were slowly overwhelming them with the size of the horde.

"Retreat into the house!" Patrice orders.

The plants and the two retreat into the house, heading in through the garage and starting to close it. Potato Mines were planted to slow down the zombies for as long as possible. When the garage door closed, the plants knew it was only a matter of time before the zombies got in.

"User Nate, User Patrice. I have an idea." Penny says.

"What do you got?" Nate asks, his eyes never leaving the garage door.

"Follow my instructions." Penny replies.

Nate and Patrice get to work under Penny's orders. They follow her instructions, tampering with Penny and getting what they need. As soon as the zombies busted open the garage door, Nate and Patrice use Penny's idea, blasting the zombies with a modified hose that uses travel and puts the zombies into a time loop. The zombies are stuck repeating the same thing. Busting through the garage door, then time reversing and fixing the door while they are pushed back, busting through, fixed and sent back, rinse and repeat.

"Whew, nice job Penny." Patrice praises.

"What now?" Nate asks.

"Well, anything really." Penny replies.

For about 2 hours, the plants just do whatever while they wait for Crazy Dave to be finished. First playing chess, then video games, pizza eating contest between Nate and a chomper (chomper won that real quick), pool party, and talking about anything.

The zombies suddenly burst through the garage door, this time staying as the plants had ended the time loop.

"Ah ha! Now we can- gahhh!" Dr. Zomboss covers his eyes from a bright light coming from the house. A giant pea suddenly emerges, taking out a Gargantuar that is the same size as the pea. "What did-" Dr. Zomboss is cut off as the plants emerge with Crazy Dave's machine. Crazy Dave's machine looks the exact same as Dr. Zomboss' except for one major difference, it's producing large sun now that is empowering the plants and jumbo sized a few of them.

With their boost of power, the plants begin to easily sweep the zombies and clear out the horde. The zombies are overwhelmed by the crazy amount of plant projectiles being sent their way and the bog squashes that are just taking out like 20 zombies with each squash. Dr. Zomboss is enraged by this turn of events but can also see the writing on the wall and retreats with his forces. The plants celebrate their win while the zombies shuffle away in pain and defeat.

A few days after the plants victory, Dr. Zomboss sits on his office chair. Yet another plan, yet another failure. There's a knock at his door, he sits up straighter and faces the door, his expression not hiding any of his annoyance.

"Come in. This had better be good." Dr. Zomboss says.

General steps in, which makes Dr. Zomboss' annoyed expression fade.

"I hope you have something good. I need something to make me pleased after this fiasco." Dr. Zomboss says.

"The Garden Warfare classes are ready." General reports, getting Dr. Zomboss to smile.

"Good, maybe now we can get somewhere." Dr. Zomboss says.

Over at Crazy Dave's house, the plants wait for the pizza to arrive for their celebration.

"I can't believe how many of my own dreams had come true." Nate says, looking over his Pizza Eating Record log.

"I can't believe you plan to eat that much." Patrice says.

The doorbell rings and Crazy Dave answers the door. Much to everyone's shock, Chestbeard was there with pizza.

"Chestbeard?!" "How did you get here?" Patrice questions.

"Me and my crew got lost in time and ended up here. Anyways, who wants pizza?" Chestbeard and his crew show off the many pizza boxes they brought along (Chestbeard and his crew actually end up in the present in PVZ Comics, never explained).

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Dr. Zomboss finishes attaching the last bit for his Body Fabricator. The Body Fabricator is meant to fabricate bodies for any purpose, he was planning to use it to create a commander for the new Garden Warfare forces. It consists of a metal circle floor with three pillars by the sides, the top of the pillars having various fabrication beams to fabricate what is inputted on the computer in the center pillar.

"What are you imagining for this?" General asks.

"I've created a body for Computer, one that will be advanced in combat and she is already capable of thinking far better than any commander." Dr. Zomboss answers.

"A body for me? I don't want that." Computer says, appearing on Dr. Zomboss' IBM Personal Computer.

"Why not?" Dr. Zomboss asks, one eyebrow raised.

"I don't want to bind myself to a body not of my design, I also don't plan to have a body in the future. I much like being part of the digital world." Computer replies.

"Just suck it up for now, it'll be over as soon as this war is won." Dr. Zomboss says, beginning the fabrication sequence.

"Who knows when that will end." Computer remarks. She accesses the Body Fabricator and purges the body made for her and replaces it with something entirely new.

Dr. Zomboss' triumphant expression changes as the Body Fabricator produces something he doesn't recognize. It had fabricated a girl that appears to be the age of 8. Her skin is a pale gray version of the zombie's gray skin. Her eyes have a purple iris and black pupils. Her hair is black and short, barely below her chin level. Parts of her body is black with binary code, those areas had been corrupted in the fabrication process, those corrupted parts of her body being her legs, the left side of her torso, right hand, left arm, and a part of her neck on the right side. She is adorned in a simple brown dress. She looks around, seeing the two zombies and the lab.

"Computer, what is this?" Dr. Zomboss asks, not annoyed, not happy, but certainly curious about this new addition.

"I made her to replace me in the fabrication. Like I said, I don't want a body." Computer replies.

"It's alive." General notes, the girl stepping off the metal circle floor.

"You gave her an AI?" Dr. Zomboss asks, surprised and impressed.

"Not the best one, I didn't name it and it is only able to process the basics." Computer answers.

"No name? Shall I do the naming, or will you do the naming." Dr. Zomboss asks.

"Hmmm... you." Computer answers.

"Very well. She shall be named, Mira... Mira Gefen Zomboss." Dr. Zomboss says.

"Sounds nice." General comments.

"Approved." Computer adds.

Dr. Zomboss walks up to Mira, taking a knee to be on her level and snapping his fingers to make sure she's focusing on him.

"Welcome to the world, Mira. You'll be a fine addition to this zombie family." Dr. Zomboss says, a small smile on his face.

"Unable to register 'World, Mira, you'll, fine, addition, this, zombie, and family'." Mira says.

'Really is just the basics.' "We'll work on it." Dr. Zomboss says, standing up.

"General, as of today, the Z-Military is now established and will currently consist of the Garden Warfare classes. I am promoting you to the leader of the Z-Military. You are to be the one commanding the forces today." Dr. Zomboss says, holding Mira's hand now. "I'll be working on her today, improving her basic programming to something better." Dr. Zomboss says.

General salutes.

"Thank you for the promotion, I will not let you down." General leaves Dr. Zomboss' lair and heads out across the Sewer Sanctuary. He gestures to Samurai, who begins to follow him. General informs Samurai of everything that has occurred earlier.

"Prepare the classes, today, we go to war." General commands.

"Yes, sir." Samurai goes to leave, stopping when he feels General grab his arm.

"I'd like you to be my second in command in the Z-Military." General says, letting go and holding his hand out. Samurai stares at it for a moment before shaking hands.

"It's an honor to serve." Samurai says.

"So do we just have pirates in Neighborville now?" Nate and Patrice look at Chestbeard's pirate ship in the Neighborville harbor.

"Guess so." Patrice says.

Nate and Patrice get back to walking around Neighborville with the plants. As they walk, they can't help but notice how empty and silent it is.

"Where is everyone?" Patrice questions.

"Hello? Big surprise party today for us?" Nate yells, met only with silence.

"Guess not." Patrice says.

The two and the plants wander around Neighborville. No matter where they went, it was devoid of people. Nate was going to make a remark when there's what sounds like a rocket coming.

"Hmm-" A ZPG Rocket suddenly flies past them, making impact with the ground. They don't get much time to question it when pellets, footballs, purple energy, and concrete balls, are being launched their way. Nate and Patrice take cover, the plants take cover and fire back. Foot Soldiers, Scientists, Engineers, and All-Stars assault their position with their respective unique weapons.

"What is going on?! Since when are they this weaponized and organized?!" Nate yells out.

"Who cares?! Let's get rid of them!" Patrice replies.

The plants and zombies engage in battle. The new style of warfare making itself present and changing the way of war. The zombies were mobile and took out plants quickly and utilized their abilities to the fullest. Many plants were becoming obsolete due to the zombies newfound mobility, those whose attacks took a while to reach the zombies were failing to hit them. Straight shooters/attackers like Peashooters, Cactuses, Chompers, and similar plants, were becoming the dominant force on the plant side and taking out zombies.

"Think this will escalate more?" Nate asks.

"I don't think it could get worse than this." Patrice replies.

A few hours later, it got worse. Variants of the four classes were emerging. General Supremos, Centurions, Painters, Astronauts, and Goalie Stars, are just a few of the new arrivals. Then the zombies were getting arrivals from across time. Imps, Super Brainz, Space Cadet, and TV Heads from the future. Wizards, Captain Deadbeard, Electric Slide, and 80s Action Heroes from the past. Crazy Dave had created several plants to join the fight. Kernel Corns, Night Caps, Snapdragons, Acorns, and Wildflowers. They were reinforced by past and future plants, Citron and Rose. The usual simple battlefields of one side here and one side there, is replaced by mobile warfare and chaotic battles everywhere the eye could see.

"This escalated quickly!" Nate comments, ducking down to avoid a punted imp.

"I think this is beyond anyone's control now." Patrice agrees.

Over at the Z-Military HQ in the Sewer Sanctuary, General, Computer, and Samurai, are watching over their map of Neighborville that is updating with every new development.

"I can't make any sense of this, it's changing too fast and too much." Samurai says.

"This is becoming a disaster in many ways." Computer agrees.

"What should we do?" Samurai asks General.

"... pull back, we will disengage from this massive battle. This is becoming a logistical and command nightmare to manage, so we'll end it. We need to address some problems first, and I'm thinking of recruiting some field bosses to add extra muscles and leadership." General replies.

"Understood." Samurai says.

The various fighting zombies receive the order to retreat, they obey the order and flee from the battle. Neighborville finally calms down as the battle finally ends. As the plants survey the battlefield, Neighborville was intact, mostly. The place looked like if you got a thousand delinquents all together for a vandalism project. Wrecked cars, broken windows, splotches of color from pellets and other ammo all around, and more.

"Why are they running?" Patrice quietly questions.

"Well done everyone, we've sent them packing." Nate praises the plants.

Patrice approaches her uncle as he is actively thinking.

"Blogg-Grobble Pwone-Finster." Crazy Dave says.

"Yeah, we need stronger plants." Patrice agrees. "And we need ideas for them." Patrice and Crazy Dave turn their heads towards Nate.

"That'll work." "Finster." The two say.

"What do we got?" Samurai asks. Samurai and General sit around a table while Computer is in the TV hanging on the wall.

"The obvious ones. The Gargantuars have prime material to be leaders, or, bosses as we decided to call them. The Yeti also has potential. Then we have the ones we are considering, Disco Zombies and the Zen Sensei. Disco zombies like Micheal have potential and they can fight since dance fighting is a thing. But then there's the question of how we get them into the fight. They're physical and up close, which isn't going to be doing them any favors on a range dominated battlefield." General replies.

"So we need to build something that can grant them ranged capabilities, or else they're duds." Samurai notes.

"I can begin work on something that both grants ranged abilities and enhance physical combat." Computer says.

"That would be great, thank you, Computer." General says. "And finally we have the Zen Sensei. His skill in martial arts is certainly a plus, but he's... unorthodox, to put it simply." General continues.

"I believe he will be worth a shot, unorthodox seems to be the new way of war." Samurai says.

"Agreed, a war between plants and zombies isn't exactly what people would call a regular war." General writes down their current bosses.

"How are things?" Dr. Zomboss asks, coming in with Mira. Mira's appearance had changed as Dr. Zomboss had upgraded her with the Body Fabricator. Her skin has been made to be the same gray color as the zombies. Her eyes have been changed to resemble zombie eyes, her sclera now white and her pupil a regular black and the iris a blue color. Her hair remains the same although they styled it into a pixie hair style. Her attire has changed into a purple dress and black slippers. The corrupted parts of her remain.

"We've figured out on bosses to employ and use as leadership or just muscle on the battlefield." General reports.

"How is Mira?" Computer asks.

"Mira is developing wonderfully. I spent the start by upgrading her appearance, then I began the reprogramming process. I've successfully upgraded her to be like Computer, genius level intelligence and capabilities." Dr. Zomboss answers. Mira walks up to Samurai, holding out a tray of sushi.

"Dr. Zomboss said you would like this." Mira says.

"Thank you, Mira." Samurai says, a slight smile behind the menpo. Samurai sets the tray down on the table, his eyes look everything over before he grabs a paper and writes on it with a pen.

"Here, a gift." Samurai hands her the paper that has two characters written on it, "ミラ".

"My name in Japanese?" Mira mutters as she reads it. "Thank you, Samurai." Mira says, giving a slight smile to him.

"Anyways, if we're speaking of bosses, there is the one in Romania." Dr. Zomboss says.

"We have someone in Romania?" General asks.

"I believe he is referring to the baron." Computer clarifies.

"Exactly. There is a vampire baron in Romania, no one has been able to kill him, which forced the locals to make a treaty with him in the past. That baron's castle is practically its own independent country, recognized by all nations." Dr. Zomboss says.

"But then there is the matter of reaching him, we can't exactly board any plane bound for Romania." Samurai says.

"True, but I've been working on a plan that will fix all our international problems for good." Dr. Zomboss sits at the table, a evil smile on his face as he thinks of said plan.

Over in Crazy Dave's house, Patrice and Crazy Dave are taking notes and drawing pictures as they listen to Nate ramble. All they had to do was mention boss plants and Nate was shooting out ideas.

"I'm talking about increasing the squashing power of the squashes. Think about it, a big squash, ten zombies squashed at once! Then we get some hero power, we saw those Super Brainz, we need a rival to them and a hero of our own. I'm thinking cape and powers in one plant, also something not easy to hit, like a bean. The sunflowers could get themselves a leader, a queen or a king, maybe a queen fits them better. Oh! The torchwoods! Give them bodies and give them arms and they can cause some serious damage." Nate rambles on and on.

"Pwone." Crazy Dave says.

"Yep, we're going to be here all night long." Patrice says.

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The year is 2016. The war has been going on for 7 years now. Both sides have embraced Garden Warfare, competing for land, getting bosses, and constantly fighting. Moonbase had been established and they've started mining Moon Crystals they found there. These crystals are being researched as they could potentially be the key to an unlimited energy source. They had also found Blue Moon Crystals, these crystals were one of a kind and had the potential to create superpowers, they immediately began research and are finishing up the development of a weapon that will harness the unique energy. Now, he was eager as the last touches are done and his latest creation is powered up.

"Computer, lets get out there and showcase to the plants, that their end is near." Dr. Zomboss says.

The plants are having a BBQ on the lawn of Crazy Dave's house. Nate and Patrice play Table Tennis while Crazy Dave is grilling. Plants around them relax or drink lemonade.

The ground suddenly shakes and the ground nearby rises up as Dr. Zomboss emerges in his latest creation, the Zombot Hero-Tron 5000. Standing at 100 foot tall, the Zombot is made of metal. The torso painted a dark brown, the lower half of the bot is painted blue resembling pants, giant metal black shoes, a red collar around the neck area, green colored arms, the wires visible underneath, and the head is a green color with glowing yellow eyes and sharp teeth. The top half of the head is a glass case/pilot area where Dr. Zomboss controls it. It looks like a normal Zombot until he opens up the chest area which unveils a long and big metal cannon connected to a energy container containing the unique crystal energy.

"Behold! The Zombot Hero-Tron 5000!" Dr. Zomboss' voice booms from the speakers in his creation.

Dr. Zomboss fires the cannon which sends out the energy towards a zombie wearing black pants, white collared shirt with stripes, black suspenders, black dress shoes, a black fedora hat with a small paper with the word "Press" on it. After the energy strikes him the zombie is engulfed in the energy before it is absorbed by his body and his appearance drastically changes. The skinny zombie becomes toned and having a muscular build, his mostly bald hair now having excellent slicked forward black hair. His clothes have changed into a purple full bodysuit, a orange cape that's strapped to him and connected to a central buckle area with a fake brain located at the front of his body where his chest meets his ab area, orange rubber gloves with purple lines near the bottoms and a purple triangle over the back of the hands, the classic superhero underwear over their clothes with his being orange, pouches connected to a orange belt, a single orange rubber boot with purple lines and a purple sole for his right foot, and a purple superhero mask. His press appearance now the appearance of a Super Brainz Zombie.

The new Super Brainz flexes his muscles and demonstrates his new found powers. Flying, super strength, excellent hair, and the other powers a Super Brainz would have like his Super Ultra Ball, Turbo Twister, Heroic Kick, and the ability to fire a laser beam from his fist.

Dr. Zomboss laughs while the plants watch in unease and fear. Except Nate, Nate seems more enthusiastic and amazed that super powers now exist.

"Focus, Nate." Patrice says.

"Sorry, but it's just so cool." Nate sheepishly says.

As Dr. Zomboss revels in the moment, the screens in the pilot area flash warnings.

"Boss, the energy has become unstable!" Computer warns.

"What!? You said this energy would hold, that even if it became unstable it would be fine. You said it would be destabilized and then stabilize in 20 years." Dr. Zomboss says, scrambling to get things under control.

"It destabilized far more than calculated and predicted." Computer replies.

Dr. Zomboss couldn't get it back under control. The Zombot Hero-Tron 5000 is malfunctioning, beginning to spark in the pilot area and in other parts of the body.

"Boss, self-destruction is imminent." Computer warns.

"Bah! Time to leave." Dr. Zomboss uses a new addition to his lab coat, a console implanted in the left arm sleeve of his lab coat and located below his elbow. He uses the console to access teleporters and teleports back to the Sewer Sanctuary and to safety.

The Zombot Hero-Tron 5000's explodes from the inside, releasing the unique crystal energy into the world. Everyone is blown away by the blast. People and plants are knocked over and crashing onto the ground, anything they had for the BBQ on the table is sent flying off the table, and the Zombot is in ruins with its pieces falling apart and crumbling down to the ground.

Nate groans as he lifts himself up the ground a bit, rubbing the back of his head. A leaf is extended out to him by a plant, he grabs the leaf and ready to get back up with the plant's assistance, but instead he's quickly lifted up from the ground by the plant. After he is pulled up, Nate gets a look at the plant that helped him and is surprised.

It's a Peashooter with yellow eyes with purple eyeliner. She is wearing a purple cape that is tied around her neck and bound by a gold medal of a leaf. The cape has a hood and it's raised at the moment, a single leaf is sticking out at the front and middle of the hood. A navy blue domino mask that covers most of her face except for the lower half and her mouth.

"Nate?... What is that?" Patrice asks, standing up and seeing the peashooter.

"Is something wrong..." The Peashooter trails off after hearing her talk. She finds a mirror laying on the ground and looks at herself, her eyes widening at her change in appearance.

She didn't have much time to question it as the mirror is picked up and taken by Super Brainz, who begins to admire himself in the mirror.

"What do we do here?" Nate asks Patrice.

"Get rid of him." Patrice answers.

"How do we get rid of a zombie with powers?" Nate asks.

"Leave it to me." The Peashooter says. "Hey, ugly mug." The Peashooter says to Super Brainz.

"Hmm?" Super Brainz looks towards her and gets a leaf to the face, reeling back he rubs against his cheek as he scowls at her. He puts the mirror away then cracks his knuckles as he readies himself for the impending fight.

Super Brainz flies at her and brings his fist down, she dodges back as his fists crash into the ground and make a tiny crater and cracks in the ground. She fires out a pea that hits him in the face with a force more powerful than a normal peashooter. He shakes off the pain and fires off his Super Ultra Ball a purple fireball that flies quickly towards her. She moves out the way and pounces at him, striking him across the face with her leaf that is curled up into a fist. He quickly retaliates with a punch that makes direct impact with her face, she drops like a brick to the ground and he goes to strike her again but she rolls out the way and quickly gets up. He fires out his fist beam which she runs to evade and fires another pea directly at his face. She rushes in for another strike but Super Brainz begins his Turbo Twister move and spins around like a tornado. She retreats back and prepares to fire another shot, tapping into a feeling of power and then firing her shot. She fired out a pea going fast and hits hard, a Precision Blast. It goes straight through his move and hits him right in the face, the force of it knocks him out right away.

"Yes! High five." Nate and the Peashooter high five, Patrice joining in with one of her own.

During their little celebration, Crazy Dave joins them and has brought with him another plant that was affected. She is a sunflower that wears a black shirt with a white leaf emblem in the middle of her shirt. She has red welder's goggles on top of her head.

"Sweet, more heroes! I feel like all my dreams are coming true." Nate says.

"That's great, Nate. But we need to find out if there any more plants affected by the Hero-Tron and how many zombies were affected. So far we have two, and they have one." Patrice says.

"Okay, I know exactly how we can get any plants to come to us." Nate says.

"What is it?" Patrice asks.

"It'll take a bit to create, but I'm sure that it will bring heroes to us in no time." Nate replies.

"Welcome to my lair! I am counting on you to help us fight the evil plants! Now that I've retrieved you, I expect you to be of great assistanc- are you even listening to me?" Super Brainz continues to admire himself in his handheld mirror.

"Never mind, I need to gather the rest of the heroes anyways. Based on Computer's findings, there are 10 heroes total. I have you, so there are nine others, all of whom are here in the Sewer Sanctuary at the moment." Dr. Zomboss says, turning on his PA System. "Attention! General, Samurai, Mira, report to my lair. Any zombie that has had a sudden appearance change, sudden possession of powers, or increase in current abilities, report to my lair too." Dr. Zomboss orders over the PA System.

General, Samurai, and Mira show up to his lair and join him in waiting. The first new arrival is a Gargantuar Zombie and his Imp. The Gargantuar Zombie is muscular, giant, wearing wrestling shorts colored dark blue with orange strips, brown belt with a silver buckled shaped like a cartoon skull, brown wrestling boots, dark blue wrestling cuffs with orange bottom trims, dark blue blackish large cape, and a lucha libre style wrestling mask colored dark blue with yellow circles around the eyes and top of his head with purple fake hair coming out the top of the mask. The imp on his back wears a white tuxedo like suit and has white hair.

Following him are two zombies. The first zombie's appearance can be best described as a "Very low budget Iron Man" or "Junkyard Iron Man". He wears a metal iron man like suit colored orange and purple, duct tape over the upper metal arm parts, a metal cartoon skull central piece in the middle of the chest area of the armor, a blow dryer duct taped onto his right leg greave, a black electrical charger sticking out the back of the left leg greave, and a helmet with the mask part painted purple and shaped like a flat cartoon skull.

The second zombie has a brown afro with a lighter brown lighting bolt spot in the afro. He wears a yellow disco jacket with black lightning imagery, the same design and colors for his disco pants, yellow disco shoes with a black lighting imagery and large blue soles, golden necklace with a golden necklace medallion with a cartoon skull design in it's center, and wearing yellow googles with yellow lightning extensions.

The next arrival is the Yeti Zombie with a imp sliding in behind him. The Yeti Zombie's appearance hasn't changed physically but he now has ice gloves and a blue hero mask.

The imp is wearing a rubber full bodysuit, yellow rubber gloves, yellow rubber boots, a metal belt painted yellow with a blue button instead of a buckle, a siren like light on top of his head, and yellow googles.

Coming in next is a Imp and his Z-Mech with a zombie scientist curiously studying them. The Imp wears a orange rubber bodysuit, yellow helmet with a orange antenna up top, and black belt with devices on them. The Z-Mech is red and black in color with a few color differences and a metal fake cartoon skull.

The Zombie Scientist's hair turned a beige color and he has a mustache that is cut in half underneath his nose holes, his lab coat has futuristic look with a light orange color with red trims and a huge collar, dark red pants, a black belt with a silver buckle shaped like a cartoon skull, a single rubber black boot with a red rubber strap over the foot and a orange sole for his right foot, and his glasses with a extension on the right rim that connects to a orange monocle piece at the end of it.

The final two arrive, a zombie witch helping two Browncoat Zombies push in a giant fishbowl that has a Zombie Mermaid in it. The zombie witch wears a witch like outfit colored dark purple and a dark pink, light pink and semi dark pink leggings and sleeves, a dark purple high heel like shoe for her right foot, and her long black hair that sticks up and goes back with a white strip down the middle of it.

The mermaid zombie has a orange tail with large metal scales, dark blue shirt, fish fins underneath her elbows on her arms, black finger less gloves, a red octopus wearing a crown on it's head that sits on top of her head, and wielding a golden trident. Inside the fish bowl is her pet zombie fish.

"Welcome heroes, my zombie heroes! I can recognize a few of you, our yeti, Neptuna our Atlantian mermaid, our witch Immorticia, and Super Brainz as I saw who he once was. But then that leaves the rest of you, zombies I don't recognize due to the change." Dr. Zomboss says.

"Smash, Javier Hernandez." The Gargantuar Zombie introduces himself.

"Codicia." Smash's Imp introduces himself.

"Tony Ross, I'm thinking Rustbolt for what I will go by." The Low Budget Iron Man introduces himself.

"Micheal King, Electric Boogaloo." The Disco Zombie introduces himself.

"Micheal? Damn man, you look great." Rustbolt says, smiling at his friend.

"You too, pretty cool to have armor like Iron Man." Electric Boogaloo says.

"Bob Harrison, Impfinity." The Imp introduces himself.

"My pilot is Steve Circa, I am designated ZM-1. Together, we are Z-Mech." The Z-Mech introduces himself and his imp pilot.

"Boris Beakerson, Professor Brainstorm, one of your top scientists." The Zombie Scientist introduces himself.

"Excellent! Now then, I am officially employing you all as the Zombie Heroes. You will be the best of the best, the zombies all zombies look up to, the zombies that will win this war and destroy the plants!" Dr. Zomboss declares. "But first, we must understand your powers and learn how to use them. For that, we do a montage then." Dr. Zomboss continues.

Montage time (add your own music). Dr. Zomboss and the zombie heroes begin training. Super Brainz showcases his new abilities. Smash is easily lifting heavy weights, getting tossed heavier and heavier things and lifting it all with ease. Dr. Zomboss orders a stop and Smash drops all the items, Jerry (who was taking notes) gets flattened like a pancake by the items. Electric Boogaloo dances while his electricity powers runs though him. Dr. Zomboss and Rustbolt do target practice with Rustbolt's Shrink Ray, shrinking down various items and cans. After Jerry gets healed up and unflattened, Rustbolt practices on Jerry as a moving target practice. Impfinity is repeatedly cloning himself, Dr. Zomboss tests Impfinity's competency by having him be his assistant. About less than five minutes, Impfinity is no longer an assistant after most of the lab was vandalized and a key monitoring system was changed into the top gaming system the world will ever see. Z-Mech joins Rustbolt in target practice, Jerry running as fast as he can to evade each blast coming his way. Professor Brainstorm and Dr. Zomboss do equations together. Neptuna's water control has been greatly improved and she practices it. Immorticia practices her magic, potion creation, and commanding her Zom-Bats. After training, everyone is gathering around Brain Freeze as his ice powers are being put to work into making shaved ice.

"Can't believe Nate's light in the sky worked." Patrice and Crazy Dave look over the gathered Plant Heroes while Nate shuts off the modified searchlight they used and he created.

They currently have the Peashooter and Sunflower from earlier. The two had been named Green Shadow and Solar Flare respectively.

Wall-Knight is a Wall-Nut with a metal belt across the middle of his body. The belt is made of a dark blue metal with light blue glowing lines all across the body, the belt buckle is a dark blue metal circle with a light blue leaf emblem.

Chompzilla is a massive chomper that has some vines wrapped around the center of her body that connects to a golden leaf emblem.

Spudow is a Potato Mine with a body. He's overweight and wears beige trunks with a red waistline, the trunks have a green metal leaf emblem up front.

Citron is a Citron that seems to have a body that has more red on the non-organic orange parts of his body and his legs.

Grass Knuckles is a Bonk Choy that has a dark green cloth that wraps around his body below his mouth. The cloth has a red leaf emblem in the middle of it. His fists and arms are dark green with some spikes, the arms having a red cloth wrapped around them. He wears a red cloth that wraps around his head and has eye holes cut out so he can see.

Nightcap is a mushroom with a purple mushroom cap with a wide brim. He has a black scarf wrapped around his body below the mouth and eyes, the scarf having a gold leaf emblem on it.

Rose has practically no change in appearance compared to any Rose.

Captain Combustible is a torchwood plant with a yellow metal armor that has a yellow leaf emblem with a light blue background to the emblem. He has a yellow metal helmet that has four extensions that look like flat horns and are pointed up. His fire is a light blue and white color, his eyes on fire and having the same light blue and white color.

"Fleen Garble-Thwongg Flabbit Glapp Graggle Fleen Garble-Thwongg." Crazy Dave addresses everyone.

"... What?" The Plant Heroes and Nate says.

"He says that we should begin by figuring out their powers and then train them so we can get them used to their powers." Patrice translates.

"I am a more powerful version of a Peashooter. I can concentrate a Precision Blast which is a supercharged pea that hits hard and goes fast." Green Shadow says.

"If I lower the goggles my body will be on fire, so fire powers." Solar Flare says.

"I'm invincible, this belt can become a full body armor that makes me immune to any attacks and completely invincible." Wall-Knight says.

Chompzilla was pretty self-explanatory.

"I can use my head as a powerful and destructive potato mine." Spudow says.

"My shield ability has been expanded upon. I can protect my allies around me by creating shields for them." Citron says.

"I have super strength and I can extend my fists out to strike far in front of me." Grass Knuckle says.

"I'm pretty much a Ninja but with mushrooms, I can conjure up a shadow dragon." Night Cap says.

"My magic has been greatly improved." Rose says.

"I can improve the firepower of my allies with my fire." Captain Combustible says.

"Now that we've shared, training montage time!" Nate says.

"Could we copyright strike them for copying our montage?" Impfinity asks, the zombies watching the plants from a monitor.

"I think that's plagiarism." Immorticia says.

"So boss, shall we head out and fight them?" Rustbolt asks.

"No, I have a much better plan in mind. You see, I've tasked B.I.G., one of my creations, to create teleporters and establish those teleporters all across the world. No longer will things be simply bound to Neighborville, Moonbase, the past, present, and future. Now, we take this conflict to the entire world and take over the world." Dr. Zomboss replies. "Computer! Prepare the army for conquest!" Dr. Zomboss orders.

"World domination!" Impfinity yells with a smile.

"That's the spirit!" Dr. Zomboss praises the imp.

The zombies gather around as they prepare for world domination. They had been gathering zombies across time and have way more than enough to easily overwhelm all of Earth. Dr. Zomboss, Computer, General, and Samurai begin to plan out the armies they will be sending out to guarantee victory. As they plan, Mira pulls on Dr. Zomboss' lab coat to get his attention. He looks down at her and sees that she is holding his photo album.

"Why don't I remember the past?" Mira asks.

"I'm sorry, I don't understand what that means, Mira." Dr. Zomboss replies.

Mira opens up the photo album and shows him a picture. The picture is old, black and white. It's of a young girl Mira's age, she has black short hair, her skin is a light gray due to the black and white coloring, and wearing a dress of an unclear color.

"Oh, her, that's not actually you, Mira." Dr. Zomboss says, his face falling a bit at the picture.

"Who is she then?" Mira asks.

"...... follow me, Mira." Dr. Zomboss stands and heads to his room, Mira follows him in. The two sit on the edge of his bed, Dr. Zomboss takes the photo album from her.

"That is my mother, Mira. Her name was Amber. There's actually a boy in the background of that picture, that is actually my father Georgie, my middle name was based off his name. This was back when they were kids back in the 1940s. I didn't actually realize you resemble my mother when she was a kid." Dr. Zomboss says.

"What were they like?" Mira asks.

"They were... good, good people. Which is something that seems to come naturally from anyone who comes from Neighborville. She was kind, caring, and playful. My dad is the one people used to say I got the inventor's genetics from, because he and I both liked to create and whenever we had something in mind we wouldn't stop until we made it possible." Dr. Zomboss answers.

"Why are they not here now?" Mira asks.

Dr. Zomboss' face falls. He thinks while staring deeply at the picture.

"It... the people killed them." Dr. Zomboss replies. "It... back in 1984, the zombies came into existence after the chemical plant nearby couldn't contain Z-Cells. These Z-Cells were what made zombies zombies, they made us immortal, made most of us less smart, but retained our personalities. We were like humans but not as smart, to simplify things. The people back then feared us, as you would expect from seeing real life zombies. They drove us away, drove me too, but then... they actually killed. They killed my parents, only mine, the only two people they ever killed were them. I was just four back then, the only one I really had left was B.I.G., I made him back when I was a kid and my parents were still alive. The zombies and I retreated to the sewers and we rallied under my leadership, we sought to take our revenge on humans." Dr. Zomboss wipes away his tears as he finished recounting the story.

"Oh, I didn't know. I'm sorry that I brought up painful memories." Mira apologizes.

"It's alright, Mira. You didn't know about the past." Dr. Zomboss says. "You know, I think she would've loved having you as a granddaughter." Dr. Zomboss continues.

"Granddaughter?" Mira asks.

"Yeah, I think that in terms of family you'd be my daughter and the granddaughter to my parents." Dr. Zomboss replies.

"But families are created of genetics and biological relations." Mira says.

"That's one way of creating a family, Mira. But often, family is created through love and what role people have. I've taken care of you like a father, Computer created you so she'd be your mother. B.I.G. you can think of as an uncle, I should introduce you to B.I.G. one day." Dr. Zomboss elaborates.

"Boss, the arrangements are ready." General yells from the other room.

"Come on, Mira. Greatness awaits." Dr. Zomboss says.

The two leave his room and group up with the rest. Dr. Zomboss' massive zombie hoard have already been dispatched to all across the world and were already making their presence known. Reports from Computer were coming in fast and were absolutely successful. There were too many zombies and robots for the world to handle, their unique and distinct way of warfare was throwing the world off, and they were conquering the world. As they watched, Dr. Zomboss was getting more and more giddy and his smile wider and wider.

Within a few hours, the world was his, except for Neighborville. Immediately he departed and used the teleporters to visit each nation, seeing the new lands he owns. He wasn't quite done, he determined a small town nearby Neighborville would be the location for the capital of the empire he has created today.

Construction of the new capital began, they transformed the suburban town into a diverse city. Zomburbia was born. At the very heart of the city is Dr. Zomboss' Castle, the new place he would rule and run everything. The city contains new key places for them, Z-Tech Factory, The Z-Military HQ, and Z Academy. Their buildings are diverse and differ in size, architecture, and time periods. The place looks like a mix of the past, present, and the future.

Dr. Zomboss gathers together his force of zombies for a grand ceremony. He sits on his newly created throne before his zombies, his newly established Zombie High Command by his side. Mira, his daughter stands by his throne. Mira's gone through another attire change, now wearing a light gray dress shirt with a frilled collar and a plain black pinafore with two large, purple buttons on either side of her chest and black slip ons. Computer on the tv, B.I.G. standing by. B.I.G. is a robot made by Dr. Zomboss in the past. B.I.G.'s body consists of a sideways barrel torso with robot arms on both sides that end with claw arms. The bottom of the barrel has two long robot legs that make him tall and his feet are metal versions of a crow's feet. His name means Big Intelligent Giant, first thought up by a 4 year old Zomboss. The center of the barrel has a circular black screen that displays a green smiley face, the face changing to whatever B.I.G. is feeling the situation. Super Brainz, Smash and Codicia, Electric Boogaloo, Rustbolt, Impfinity, Z-Mech, Professor Brainstorm, Neptuna, Immorticia, and Brain Freeze, the Zombie Heroes. Mr. Stubbins sits on Dr. Zomboss' shoulder. Jerry stands with Dr. Zomboss' three assistants Frogpants, Tugboat, and Nigel Blimpbottom. The Head of the Z-Military General and his Second in Command Samurai stand by.

Dr. Zomboss stands as he dons a ear piece connected to the PA System connected throughout Zomburbia. The cameras rolling to capture this historic moment and broadcast it live to all of his zombies.

"My zombies! Today, the world bows to us. Neighborville may remain in the hands of the enemy, but it will not be that way for long! Today, the world now belongs to us and we have turned the world's population into zombies and established our rule from the far reaches of Eastern Russia and circling all the way around to the tips of the islands of Alaska that are so close to those far reaches of Eastern Russia. Today, I declare the official formation of an empire! An empire of zombies! We have come a long way from the sewers we crawled out from back in 2009, going from the masters of the sewers to masters of the world! I started as a mere child, then a Mr., then a Dr. and your boss, and now I stand before you as your Emperor! I must thank you all for making this all possible, for conquering to carve out a world we desire and have always dreamt of! So many people have imagined themselves to be the masters of the world, empires have fought and risen to try and achieve what we have achieved today. Alexander the Great, Napoleon, so many have dreamt of the day they would be the masters of the world. Yet, it is us, who have claimed the dreams of great and terrible people that came before us. As of today, we are the Zombie Empire, and we will rule this world as a united people that will strive for the prosperity of all zombies!" Dr. Zomboss' speech is met with thunderous applause and cheers from his people.

Dr. Zomboss sits back on his throne as General comes forward carrying a pillow on which a newly created crown sits. He stands and kneels before his master. Dr. Zomboss takes the crown and places it on his head, no longer a mere doctor and leader of a zombie horde, now he is an emperor and the ruler of the Zombie Empire.

The zombies all cheer and shake the world with their thunderous applause. The Zombie High Command claps along with the crowd.

Emperor Zomboss snaps his fingers, Samurai steps forward with another pillow that is adorned with a crown, this crown smaller and less grand compared to the one Dr. Zomboss received. It's a simple golden circle crown with jewels along its sides. Samurai kneels before Emperor Zomboss as he presents the crown. Emperor Zomboss takes the crown and stands from his throne. He stands before Mira and crowns her, Mira is now a Princess of the Zombie Empire and most likely the heir to the throne. She smiles up at him, the two sharing a hug as the zombies celebrate the crowning.

The rest of the night is defined by celebration. Fireworks light up the sky while the ground is littered by dancing zombies. Everyone celebrates in their own way, but they all celebrate together. They talk, they cheer, they dance, they sing, they feast, and they all have fun. They celebrate the rise of their empire and the impending doom that was sure to find its way to their enemies.

By the next day, the celebration had ended and they had cleaned up. Their empire returned to normal but the excitement of yesterday had yet to truly die down.

In Emperor Zomboss' Castle, Emperor Zomboss was with his High Command when a portal had opened up in their meeting room. Immediately they were ready to fight, ready to face whatever came through the portal.

Four individuals came through the portal.

The first is a tall black stick figure with an hourglass silhouette, tucked behind a green lavish cloak. Two golden bands hang around their body, one acting as a neck-collar, and the other as a headband. Atop her scalp are approximately thirty snakes, similar to hair, strewn along in messy fashion.

The second is a skeleton that has pitch black eyes with red pinprick glowing pupils, two scars over it's left eye, has a mantle on it's back that's brown with wide spikes and shaped like bat wings or demon wings, wielding a golden scythe.

The third is a man with short white hair and blue eyes. He wears a black tunic with sleeve cuffs that have a gold pin on of a owl creature of some kind and black formal boots.

The fourth is...

"Is that General Grievous?" Electric Boogaloo was the first to ask the obvious.

"Holy shit, I can't believe it." Rustbolt says.

"Think he does autographs?" Impfinity giddily asks.

"Definitely not, have you even seen the movies and the show?" Professor Brainstorm replies.

"Who are you four, and what is your purpose here?" Emperor Zomboss questions the new arrivals.

The man simply smiles in response and does a slight bow.

"Apologies for the intrusion, but I wish to simply make you an offer of alliance with myself and my associates here. I believe you will be delighted to hear my proposition and the prospect of crushing each other's enemies." The man says.

"... I'm listening."

Meanwhile, the plants were busy trying to figure out what the Zombie Empire and its world domination means for them and how difficult things will be when a portal opens up by them. They too are ready to fight, just like their enemies, four individuals leave the portal.

The first is a black stickfigure that is seemingly old, as indicated by a white beard they have. He wears a small crown on his head and has a maroon cape with small white padding with dots on the edges, he has a small golden necklace underneath the cape. He wields a gold cane with a diamond on top.

The second is another black stickfigure that is also old, having a longer white beard. He wears a blue pointed hat and robe that covers the rest of his body, his hat has a yellow crown-like print around the base. He wields a silver staff with a glowing white crystal at the tip.

The third is a Mon Calamari. He is a humanoid aquatic alien with a high-domed head, webbed hands and large, goggle-like eyes, which stuck out from the sides of their head. Their hands have three suction-cup like holes on its palm, and featured five claw-tipped fingers: one opposable thumb, two long middle fingers, and two very short outer fingers. Although they were shaped like flippers, their feet are in boots meant for a humanoid species. His skin is a cyan color. He wears a robe with golden edges and silver lines across his sides going down.

The fourth is...

"Oh my god, Patrice, that's Plo Koon." Nate says, practically fanboying.

"Glapp Grabble." Crazy Dave says to the four individuals.

"... What?" The four say in response.

"He's asking who you four are and what your purpose is." Patrice translates.

"I am Chancellor Chalu. We are here because your enemies are being approached by our enemies. We are here to establish an alliance against our mutual enemies." The Mon Calamari says.

"... We're listening." "Glapp." Nate, Patrice, and Crazy Dave say.