THERE'S A ZOMBIE ON YOUR LAWN!

by Shadic Midnight Blitzer

The End?

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"ATTACK!"

Immediately the once calm air was filled with missiles and a variety of vegetables and weapons as the next and last decisive battle began between two very known foes.

On one side was the infamous Dr. Zomboss. After the massive zombie apocalypse that occurred a few years ago, everyone that was not a zombie quickly realized who was behind this coordinated attack against humanity. Once one of the most brilliant scientists, this now undead being somehow had kept the intelligence that his living counterpart contained, and unlike the other zombies who's tactics were stupid, this one zombie was the master mind of all of this. With some of his most insane inventions, he began his plan to force the entire human race to his feet. He was almost done....

...if it weren't for one man.

A man who goes by the name of Crazy Dave.

Crazy Dave was not your average citizen. For one, his name speaks for it. He is crazy. He wears a pot pan on his head, and his language is usually gibberish. He also has a crave for tacos, something that had been limited thanks to the zombie attacks.

But if there was anything no person could ever dispute about, is the fact that he had saved the world not once, not twice, but various times.

It all started on the first day of the invasion. The zombies were quick enough to take over most of the neighborhood, since the doors were usually open since everyone was a neighbor to another. But then it came to Crazy Dave's house and his pupil's house. The zombies suddenly halted there. They couldn't progress. It was because they had a army as big and as powerful as the zombies themselves. The funny thing though....it was a plant army.

Yes, the army that was capable of doing what no other army could do, was 100% organic plant life. But these were not your ordinary plants. These were mutants. These plants could fire ammunition, could blow themselves up, could eat zombies, could freeze them, burn them, turn them against each other, you name it. These plants were the ultimate weapon. No matter what time or place, in daylight, in nighttime, in the pool, in a foggy day, and even on the roof, they won ever single battle. Even an all-out attack was nothing to these plants. They were just to strong. The zombies were too dumb. Even Dr. Zomboss had failed to win against Crazy Dave.

And so for a very long time Crazy Dave and his allies fought a hard war against Dr. Zomboss and his army of zombies. Throughout time and space they fought, fighting in Ancient Egypt, then in the stormy Pirate Seas, then in the Wild West, the Frostbite Caves, the Lost City, the Dark Ages, you name it. They even fought in the age of the Dinosaurs. But no matter what, instead of weakening the vast plant army, Dr. Zomboss only increased its power more as the plants evolved and as Dave picked up more and more plants from each time era.

Eventually the battles became wars, as plants brutally fought against these zombies. And today, was the last battle they would have before peace would be brought.

From left and right fiery peas zoomed through the air as they made contact with the fire being created from Torch Wood, a green stump that burned perpetually. All the Peashooters were there. In the front row was the classic Peashooter, a green plant with a lone leaf at the back of his head. Every second he spat out a green pea which upon hitting a zombie tore a limb or a head. Then was it's older self the Repeater who spat two peas at a time and who also had a bad habit of repeating things. There was also the Pea Pod picked up from the Wild West, who could stack up to five peas at a time. Then was the famous war plant called the Gatling Pea which fired four peas at a time who was also the military counterpart to the Repeater. Then just recently added was the Goo Peashooter who's origins were unknown, but what was known is that it could fire poison peas that slowed down enemies. Then in the more backer rows was the Electric Peashooter, a Peashooter that spat out electric orbs that electrocuted zombies along its way. Apart from Sling Pea, the pea that fired a huge lob of peas over enemies, Shadow Pea, a peashooter that fired shadow peas at enemies and hid in the ground to pull zombies to the ground, and a bunch more types of peashooters, only Snow Pea was not behind Torch Wood. Snow Pea was the guy that usually chills out and who also fires frozen peas that slow down enemies, and since fire and ice don't get that along Snow Pea was placed in front. Kind of scary for any other Peashooter, but he trusted his friends and didn't worry about the zombies if he had his pals with him.

They were not the only ones leading the counterattack. There was Tall Nut, a more taller version of the Wall Nut, who stopped Imps being flung from their carriers from bypassing their lines of defenses. Every second, a explosion was heard as a poor zombie accidentally landed within the ranges of a hidden Potato Mine or its distant ancestor the Primal Potato Mine, both of which dealt high amounts of damage. Occasionally other zombies were being blown up by plants like Grapeshot, Bombegranate, or the popular Cheery Bomb. Apart from being blown up from the air came cabbages, the occasional butter, or the gigantic melons that crashed onto the zombies. No matter how many zombies came, the amount of plants that were scattered around the lawn, designed to protect their owner, and the world always repelled them.

A missile came to destroy a fellow Peashooter. Coconut Cannon counterattacked by firing a coconut, saving the Peashooter's live. The Ra Zombies attempted to steal the sun being produced from the Twin Sunflowers, but a quick blow to the head by Bonk Choy instantly got the zombie out of the ring.

A Explorer Zombies crept across the green lawn with a lit up torch in his hand. Just when he was about to destroy a Wall Nut by turning it on fire, Snow Pea fired at the Zombie, slowing it and disabling its torch. Suddenly a fiery pea shot through the air and unfroze the zombie, and the torch was back alive. Snow Pea glared at Fire Peashooter who had made the stupid mistake of firing the fire pea.

"What are you doing!? You just lit up his torch again!" Snow Pea yelled to Fire Peashooter.

"Don't worry Snow Pea!" Fire Peashooter said as she fired another pea, killing the zombie. "You just gotta chill ya know?"

Instantly the whole peashooter gang was in a uproar as they started to laugh. Snow Pea tried to glare at the plant but soon she was laughing too.

"Yeah! You got to....Let It Go!" Peashooter said as he fired another pun. Again the Peashooter gang was in a uproar as they laughed again, nearly forgetting about the battle that was happening.

"GUYS! The zombies are literally RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!" Sunflower yelled. The Peashooters gulped as they saw the Zombies right in front of them. Suddenly they got pulled into the ground and reappeared in a safer place, right before seeing a explosion happened where they were.

"Thanks Escape Root!" The saved Peashooter exclaimed. "Seriously they do a really good job saving your life."

"Yeah right....." Sunflower mumbled. Then suddenly a silhouette appeared in the sky and landed behind Sunflower. The zombie from the Wild West slowly came to Sunflower. Before anything could happen to her however, a sudden burst of peas hit the zombie and destroyed it. Split Pea came over to Sunflower.

"Don't worry! We and our men will save you!" The Peashooter side of the mutant pea said.

"Yeah! Don't worry! We and our men will save you!" The Repeater side said.

"He just said that you idiot." A nearby plant said.

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The plants were in a uproar again before they continued to fire against the zombies and Dr. Zomboss.

"Why do you guys always bully them? Why don't you bully some plant else? Why not Iceberg Lettuce?" Snow Pea said. The Shadow Pea next to Snow Pea laughed.

"And why would we do that? The guy looks so cute!" The Shadow Pea exclaimed as they turned to see the one plant they were talking about.

"D'Awwwwwwww...." They all said. Iceberg Lettuce sighed.

"I hate having these cute big adorable eyes....." The plant said. Missiles flew everywhere as the desperate zombie doctor attacked again and again, hoping to find a weakness in the formation of the plants.

"Seems the zombie is finally getting to his breaking point!" Cabbage Pult said. Lightning Reed nodded as he zapped the incoming Chicken Zombies.

"That's right! Get roasted you little chickens!"

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The plants were in a uproar. They continued to fire, mowing down more and more zombies. A Gargantuar Zombie appeared and tried to crush a zombie with his electric post sign, but he accidentally chose the wrong plant and brought his wrath down on a Explode-o-Nut, which promptly blew up the Gargantuar, who was already injured from the assault of organic material. Everywhere, zombies fell. The mighty Gargantuar was not enough to outmatch these plants. Up to that point, not a single plant died, save for the ones that self-destructed or had a one time use. Finally after seeing the amount of losses, the Doctor had enough.

"I HAD ENOUGH OF YOU PLANTS! IT'S TIME FOR YOU AND YOUR OWNERS TO FINALLY DIE!" The doctor said as he came down in a giant mech. The mech was nothing like before. It had a combination of all the mechs he previously made. But what was there still was the eyes that stared down onto the plants. But instead of being full of fear, the plants only became more determined to win.

"Seems a boss fight is going to start!" Wasabi Whip said. The plants prepared for the battle that was to come.

The doctor using his paradox machine started to bring zombies from all eras again. Vast blue vortexes appeared everywhere. Then came the zombies. From Cowboys to Pirates a huge horde of zombies were coming. The zombies started to collapse under the pressure of the plants, but not before a majority reached the nearest row of plants. The Nutshells were having a difficult time resisting this huge force as the zombies began to eat their shells. Even with the specialized Aloe healing them, the Wall Nuts were struggling to blockade all these zombies.

"Guys! I can't hold on any longer!" The Wall Nut said as the zombies started to eat his outer shells. Massive explosions occurred as the Explode-o-Nuts blew themselves up. The zombies started to move foward under the heavy bombardment by the plants. The plants were being overwhelmed by the huge amounts of zombies. They defeat one, and four more takes their place. The zombies already had began to destroy their first line of blockades and were quickly heading to the main body.

"We're going to lose!" Most of the plants said as the zombies started to break the last line of blockades. Dr. Zomboss leaped from his chair yelling out a victory call.

"At last! Victory is mine!" Dr. Zomboss yelled in triumph. He started to charge up an insane amount of energy in his machine. "ALL OF YOU WILL DISAPPEAR FROM EXISTENCE!" But then, right when the first line of defense was about to break, and right when it seemed all hope was lost, a huge number of purple trails flew from the sky and landed in the ground. It was the Tile Turnips and as quickly as they landed they buried into the ground, forming purple squares with a purple circle in the middle.

"You know what that means?" A surviving Explode-o-Nut said, devilishly grinning.

"IT'S TIME TO ROCK!" Primal Wall Nut said, just when from Crazy Dave's house a green leaf flew out. Dr. Zomboss panicked pressing his buttons furiously as he loaded up a homing missile.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" The doctor said as he aimed and fired at the Peashooter that was to receive the Plant Food. Time slowed down as both the Plant Food and Homing Missiles were inches away from one another. A huge explosion happened, creating a huge amounts of dust. But to the Doctor's horror, a yellow light emitted from the dust, revealing the Peashooter, now powered up to a Gatling Pea. Instantly the rest, having being placed on top of the new Power Tiles, also transformed.

They instantly fired, taking out all the zombies in front of them. Heads of the undead flew into the air as all the plants worked together to defeat the Zombies. The huge wave of organic material was coming closer to the Doctor's machine. Right when it was about to fire its deadly vortex of doom, all the combined force hit the machine, causing it to malfunction. A huge rift appeared and started to pull the vast army of zombies. Even the Gargantuar Zombies were being pulled back. The plants did a shout of victory as the head of all the zombies was too being pulled. Crazy Dave, his time machine vehicle Penny, and all their pupils came out and started to cheer.

"Seems that time is up for you Doctor!" Penny said. Crazy Dave smiled.

"Finally I'll get to eat my taco again!" The man said. One of his pupils frowned.

"Dave, this is not the time to be talking about tacos." He said. Another nodded.

"He's right, but hey! Once this is over we'll do a party and then you can eat your taco Mister!" She said. Dr. Zomboss growled.

"CURSE YOU ALL! MY TIME HAS COME TO BURN, BUT I SWEAR THAT WHEN I COME BACK I'LL COME BACK WITH A BIGGER ARMY OF ZOMBIES! I'LL GO WHEREVER I GO AND I WILL CONQUER THAT WORLD SO THAT WHEN I COME BACK, I'LL DESTROY YOU!!!" The Doctor said, being pulled back. "CURSE YOU!"

And as soon as he said that, the grand vortex pulled him away and closed up. There was a silence from the plants and the humans. Then there was a huge cheer of victory. After years, they have finally won the most biggest battle ever. No longer would they have to live in fear of another zombie attack. No longer would they have to serve that tyrant. They had won the most biggest battle ever.

"Foods on me!" Crazy Dave said, and he and the rest went inside the house, plants included. They cheered for their victory. After all these years they had won. But at the same time they felt saddened that their fun of defeating these zombies everyday had ended. What would they do now?

Penny was also silent in what the head of the zombies said. She drove towards Crazy Dave.

"I have a awful feeling that this is only the beginning of the war, not the end of it." Penny said. Some of the more older pupils stopped cheering, while the more younger ones continued to have fun inside the house.

"What do you mean Penny? We saved our home!" A young boy of the age of 18 said.

"We did. But remember what he said? We might have to soon intervene again if the doctor lands in a civilization large enough to being his conquest all over again." The time machine said. Everyone was silent. But then Peashooter piped up.

"If there were to be any future zombie attack, we'll be prepared for it!" The Peashooter exclaimed. The rest of the plants cheered. Penny did something similar to a nod.

"Well thing, let's celebrate now while we gain information on where and when the doctor went, and then we'll travel there if it were to be necessary." The machine said. They started to celebrate as they went back inside to celebrate. The plants in the meantime had their own little discussion.

"So what should we do now?" Peashooter said.

"I think I'll go back to teaching kids about fire safety. These kids nowadays play too much with fire. They must be taught about this important topic." Fire Peashooter said.

"I'll be returning to my singing career. There's a Zombie on Your Lawn did had huge success ya know?" Sun Flower said.

"I'll be just chilling by the beaches ya know?" Snow Pea said.

"Yeah let's just hope this peacetime would last...." Iceberg Lettuce said before a shadow loomed over them. It was Penny.

"I have a mission for all of you." She said. A Gatling Pea did a salute to her.

"Give us the mission and we'll do it!" The army peashooter said. Penny showed a holographic map.

"I'm tracking the zombies plans. They're now in this dimension called Equestria. You're mission is to land there and save the nation of ponies before the zombies get the upper hand." Penny said. There was a awkward silence before they all started to laugh.

"Now THAT was hilarious! Nice one Penny! You're finally making sense!" Repeater said.

"Crazy Dave already said that pun Repeater." Sunflower said.

"OHHHHHHHH!"

When Penny stilled hadn't said anything, they all got silence.

"Y-you're not joking....right?" Wall Nut said. Penny did something similar to shaking ones head.

"I'm not. I know that the amount of energy required to make a dimensional jump with all of us would take longer than a time travel since I'm a time machine, not a dimensional hopper machine. At that rate the Zombies would've already had the nation in its grip. So I'm sending you all, five from each species to go there and fight to protect the nation of ponies."

"Wait. Wait wait wait wait wait. You said....ponies?!" Sling Pea yelled.

"Yes. Ponies."

"THEN HOW ARE WE GOING TO PROTECT THEM IF THEY'RE GOING TO EAT US!? THEY'RE VEGETARIAN! WE'RE PLANTS! WE'LL ALL DIE!"

Immediately all the plants begin to panic, with the Sunflowers attempting to create order. Crazy Dave came out.

"So you're actually sure you want them to leave to this weird place?" Crazy Dave said. "THEN I'M IN!" The man said. For a moment a sense of relief came to the plants as no matter what, as long as they have their owner, they feel safe (minus Scary Shroom, He's always afraid.)

"No Dave. The energy required to bring us with the plants would take too long to charge so these plants must go first as a first line of defense." The machine said. Crazy Dave sighed.

"Well then I guess we should start sending them there, right?" Crazy Dave said, already heading for the pots. Penny shook her head.

"We'll have to turn them into seed packets again for the transportation to be easy. We'll also provide whoever receives them a maximum of 200 sun. We don't know if that place is in perpetual darkness or if they could control the energy from the sun." Penny said. Dave sighed.

"Well then I wish you all good luck." The man said, saddened that he has to leave his plants alone and not join them. The plants lines up to be turned back into seed packets. They began their farewells to the man that created them and cared for them throughout all these years and months. Finally it was Sunflower's turn.

"I'll miss you Dave." The Sunflower said, ready to be turned into a seed packet.

"I'll miss you too Sunflower." The gardener said before turning her into a seed packet. He placed all the seed packets, along with some plant food in front of Penny.

"Good luck." Dave said, and then Penny charged up the required energy and whisked them to this strange new world.

Meanwhile.....

"Ugh....that hurts...."

In the middle of a burning machine was the doctor, severely hurt from the crash landing. The doctor realized he was in a dense forest. He grumbled.

"Where the heck am I?" The Doctor said. He looked around and saw all the dead zombies, no longer useful to his advantage. Though he could see some zombies that were still alive, but they were only the ones from the Modern Day time. The rest were either dead or now being whisked back to their respective time era. And worse, his time machine was broken.

The doctor cursed out loud, but then he sensed something. He could feel living beings in this world. Not just squirrels but he could see small and large cities in the distance.

Civilization.

And where there is civilization there is....

Brains....

The doctor wildly and evilly laughed. He checked his monitor, which was the only thing that was working now, and searched for where they were. He laughed out loud as the info of where he was was revealed to him. A huge population. Not a bit advanced like his world is. This....was ....perfect!

"Watch out world! For Equestria shall be mine!" The doctor yelled, laughing out loud. But unbeknownst to him, a small rift appeared in the sky, and soon what would save the nation of Equestria landed.


Author's Note

What will happen to Equestria? Will the plants sent to defend this nation be able to defend this nation of ponies? Or will Dr. Zomboss force everyone into becoming the undead? Find out next time in the next chapter of THERE'S A ZOMBIE ON YOUR LAWN!

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