"Alright zombies," said Dr. Zomboss to his zombies, "Today, we're back to attacking the plants, Dave and that purple unicorn again. I've spent the last few days coming up with a plan."

"Boss," said Basic, "What's the plan?"

"I stole all these shields from the store!" laughed Dr. Zomboss, pointing to eight shields. "Basic, Purple, Nurp, Crazy, Untote, Elmore, Watterson and Boot, you will be carrying these shields, so that the plants will have a hard time going through you!"

The zombie boss laughed some more until he coughed. "Anyways, we have two new recruits today. Meet Vaulty and Sprinty!"

Two zombies in red tanktops came to the scene. They looked athletic. Both zombies had yellow hair, and a blue headband.

"Hi, I'm Vaulty," said one of the zombies, "and this is my cousin, Sprinty. We jump over plants."

"Excellent," laughed Zomboss. "Now go attack!"

"Welcome to the team."

"Thanks," said the cabbage catapult, who was sitting on the lawn with the other plants. The lawn now had two lanes. "The name's Cabbage-pult and I can throw cabbages that go over shields."

"How did you get here anyways?" wondered Twilight. "You weren't a seed packet from a battle."

"I was a plant in a store along with many others, but we were often abused by our owner, who was a pink pony with a cyan mane and tail. I swore her name was Winter Lotus. Luckily, a unicorn rescued me after she paid 4 bits. I think her name was Moondancer or something."

The name surprised Twilight. She hadn't heard that name in a long time. She began having a memory.

At Canterlot, Twilight was just walking with her books in saddlebags. Just then, she saw three unicorns. Their names were Lemon Hearts, Twinkleshine, and Minuette.

"Moondancer is having a little get-together in the west castle courtyard," said Twinkleshine. "You want to come? "

Back then, Twilight was into books and studies and valued them over friends.

"Oh, sorry, girls." said the purple unicorn, as she was eyeing her bags. "I got a lot of studying to catch up on." She gave the trio a big grin and galloped off, much to the annoyance of the three unicorns.

"Does that pony do anything except study?" sighed Twinkleshine, "I think she’s more interested in books than friends."

Twilight felt terrible. "I've been such a bad friend!" she wailed. "I've gotta make it up to her!" and then the purple unicorn trotted off leaving only the plants on the lawn under the eye of Dave.

"The zombies are coming!"

"Well, I guess they're back at it again," said Peashooter, as he began shooting Basic. But Basic grabbed a shield, which stopped all the peas.

"Let me try!" yelled Sunflower, as she began shooting a sun beam at the shield, but the shield took no damage. "But how?!" yelled the flower.

Just then Cherry Bomb jumped down and exploded themselves.

CHA-BOOF!

Basic and his shield were sent flying into the air.

Zomboss was aghast. "Vaulty! Sprinty! Go now!"

The two athletic zombies were running like crazy. Just then they both vaulted over Wall-nut and Single Cherry. (Vaulty vaulted over Wall-nut, and Sprinty vaulted over Single Cherry)

Both zombies landed and began walking normally. This gave Peashooter and Cabbage-pult time to shoot these two down.

Twilight was making her way to Moondancer's house. She saw the unicorn in a cottage, which was old and broken down, had dead grass and trees, broken windows, grass growing from the roof, and there was a dead and dried up tree in the yard.

“From the looks of this place, it looks like no one has really lived here at all.” Twilight dryly responded after looking at the cottage.

Twilight knocked on the door but got no reply. She knocked on the door again but accidentally punctured a hole into it, as it was made from weak wood. The unicorn peeked through the hole to see if Moondancer was home or not, but then the door creaked open, and she was immediately faced with a pair of eyes causing her to gasp in surprise seeing them.

From the shadows, a cream-colored unicorn with a red and purple mane and tail came out. She was wearing a sweater and glasses and looked like she hadn't left home for a very long time.

“Moondancer?” Twilight asked with a smile. But she was met with an aggravated and cranky response.

“What do you want? I'm trying to study.” But this didn't make Twilight upset.

“It's me! Your old friend Twilight!” Twilight replied and greeted her.

“Ugh!” groaned Moondancer very uninterested as she slammed the door shut on the purple unicorn.

"That went well."

Conehead and Armless were going next. But as they didn't have shields, they were taken down easily, even with Conehead's roadcone on his head serving as an armor.

Caleb was next. He suddenly stepped on something and looked down.

"UH OH!"

SPUDOW!

Caleb had stepped on Potato Mine, and what was left of him was now all over the lawn.

Twin Sunflower suddenly saw the huge wave of zombies approaching them and their fellow plants.

"Oh no!" yelled the left head. "They all have shields!"

"What will we do?" said the right head.

"I'll take care of them!" said Cabbage-pult. "My projectiles can go over shields!"

So he did. The cabbages flew over the shields and hit the zombies. Purple was down. Then Nurp. Crazy tried to brave through the cabbage, but he got a cabbage in the eye. Untote, Elmore, Watterson and Boot were not on Cabbage-pult's lane, so he couldn't get through them, but guess who was on these four zombies' lane?

"Um, I've got a bad feeling about this plant!" said Boot.

"Oh quit being a crybaby and eat him already!" yelled Untote.

So the four zombies ate through Single Cherry, but all of a sudden...

CHA-BOOF!

The four zombies were now a pile of ash, and the damaged shields were laying where they once were.

"THERE'S A CABBAGE IN MY EYE!" wailed Crazy, who was running around in circles like a total baby. He had forgotten about his shield, which was lying on the grass. This gave Peashooter a perfect opportunity.

Twilight was walking sadly. She felt terrible for the way she acted in the past. She knew Moondancer would never forgive her for not showing up at her party. She really was a bad friend.

Just then she heard two shooting noises, followed by a head popping off. She raced back to her house and saw what happened.

There were a bunch of dead zombies parts and shields all over the place. Peashooter was taking a deep breath as Crazy's headless body stumbled around for a few seconds, then fell over.

"We won!" yelled Twin Sunflower's right head.

"I knew we would win," said Cabbage-pult.

"Of course we would! We've fought them before!" replied Wall-nut.

"Wall-nut's right," agreed Sunflower. "No matter how hard fighting these zombies are, we'll always find a way."

"I wish the same could be said for me and Moondancer..."

The plants turned to see Twilight.

"I ran off to make amends with her, but she didn't seem interested at all. I've been such a terrible friend." The unicorn began walking back into the house.

“I really messed this one up." she moped to herself, "That party was everything to her. I can only imagine what it must've felt like when I didn't show up."

“If there was only a way to undo the damage...“

"Those shields didn't work?!" yelled Zomboss angrily. He grabbed a phone and began talking.

"Hello?"

"Why hello!" said a mysterious voice from the other end of the phone, "It's Zomboss, my best customer!"

"I know that, but I need some new zombies! Have you got any zombies with tough armor?"

"We've got a zombie with a bucket on his head."

"Perfect. How much?"

"5 bits. And he will arrive in two days."

"I'll pay the bits when you arrive with the zombie, okay?"

"Sure."

And then the phone chat ended.

"Huh? Where am I? The last thing I remember was sacrificing myself to freeze that pesky zombie. I must have been in that seed packet for a long time."

A blue frozen lettuce looked around where she was. She saw a writing on the wall that said "Lotus n Flora store", and a few plants tied up and blindfolded.

"Meow?"

"Bonk Choy. Wanna punch."

"Money money money money money"

She then heard some screaming and angry yelling.

"I'm sorry, Winter Lotus!"

"Sorry does not cut it! You have proved your worthlessness just now, Scaredy-shroom. Now time to die!"

The lettuce peeked to see what was going on but shut her eyes when she heard some scared screaming, and some blending sounds. Then she saw a pink earth pony with a cyan and blue mane drink the juice she had just made out of the mushroom.

"What a coward." said the earth pony. Just then she saw the lettuce. "Iceberg Lettuce! Why are you peeking?! That does it! Time to blend-" she saw the lettuce making a cute face. Even though Iceberg was annoyed about her cute-looking eyes that she was born with, they were useful in some situations.

"Fine!" grumbled the earth pony. "You get one more chance."

Iceberg Lettuce silently cheered. Now she had to tell the other plants of what was truly going on.

"The Lotus n Flora Store will be exposed someday," she muttered to herself. "That Winter Lotus isn't getting away with all the plant abuse she's putting us through!"

Author's Note

Amending Fences vibes, anybody?

Also, who is supplying all the zombies to Zomboss? Will we ever see what happened to Flitter and Cloudchaser? Will Moondancer forgive Twilight? Will Iceberg Lettuce succeed in exposing Winter Lotus?

Find out in the next chapter!