"Today is the day that the ultimate battle happens," yawned a tired Twilight, who had just woken up. After fixing up her mane, which she had messed up from tossing and turning during the night, she trotted downstairs.

"Wabbo, morning Twi, how was your night?"

"It wasn't good," said the unicorn, "I kept having bad dreams about Dr. Zomboss winning the battle, eating our brains, and taking over the world."

"Huh?"

"What is this place?"

Two zombies looked around the laboratory. However, these zombies were different. One zombie had the head of a Peashooter, and the other one had a Snow Pea's head!

"Welcome to the world, my Zombotanies." came a voice.

"Zombotanies?" asked the Peashooter zombie.

"Yep, Zombotanies," said the voice, which turned out to be Dr. Zomboss, "You two are my latest creations of zombiekind. You two will help me and my zombie army stop these plants. I know your shooting skills will be useful."

"Shooting skills?" wondered the Snow Pea zombie. She tried to shoot a pea, and she did. The frozen pea hit a target on the wall.

"Great job!" smiled Zomboss, "you hit the bullseye on the target on your first try!"

"Let me try!" said the Peashooter zombie. He shot a pea, which missed the target and hit a certificate on the wall.

"Aw man," grumbled Zomboss, "You ruined my certificate! Anyways, you two go attack the house now! The other zombies are waiting for you."

"Peashooter? Sunflower? Wall-nut? Chomper? Where are all the plants?" said Twilight, as she looked all over the house.

"Wabby, this is odd," added Crazy Dave, "it's like they've completely disappeared or something."

"Oh no," panicked Twilight, "This is bad! Today's the ultimate battle, and we don't even have any plants to fight those zombies!" She began hyperventilating. "I'm the only one who can attack! But how can I do it alone against 16 zombies! Well, technically 15, since Zomboss is not attacking, but still! And even then, there might be new recruits on the zombies' side!"

"Twilight," said Dave. The unicorn turned to the crazy pony.

"I believe in you! I know you can take them down alone! I'm even sure the plants believe in you. You're a smart unicorn. You'll find a way to stop them without letting them eat your brains."

Twilight took a few deep breaths to calm herself down as she listened to the speech from Dave.

"You're right," said the unicorn, who was now confident, "I'm sure I can do this. I'll find a way! Let's attack!" and she ran out the front door.

As soon as Twilight stepped out, she noticed a conveyor belt on the side of the lawn.

"What is this conveyor belt doing here?"

"Greetings, Twilight!" shouted a voice.

Twilight turned her head towards the direction of the voice. There was Zomboss.

"Oh, it's you, Zomboss," muttered Twilight, "What do you want?"

"I wanted to say that the conveyor belt is here for a reason," explained the zombie, "You're getting random plants this ultimate battle!"

"But how?" asked a confused Twilight.

"I broke into your house by going up a ladder and breaking the window carefully so that nopony or plant would hear me. After that, I ate all your plants so that they turned back into seed packets, and I took the DNA of the two Peashooters to make my newest recruits! Meet the Zombotanies!"

The two zombies, or shall I say, zombie-plant hybrids, came into the scene.

"Can we shoot her now?" asked the Snow Pea zombie.

"Not yet!" scolded Zomboss, "We're having a chat right now!" He turned back to Twilight, "Anyways, now that I've explained the plants' disappearance, I have one more thing to say."

"And what's that?" asked the unicorn with a raised eyebrow.

"Let the battle, begin!"

The conveyor belt started moving. Twilight positioned herself to attack the first zombie, which was Boot.

"Heh, looks like I am going to get her brains after all," laughed the deformed zombie. Suddenly, he was met with magic beams.

"I'm not giving up!" said the zombie, as he continued walking towards the unicorn, but he succumbed to the powerful beams anyway.

Just then, a seed packet came in from the conveyor belt. Twilight levitated the packet and planted it into the grass.

"Potato Mine at your service!"

Twilight gave out a sigh of relief. This was the first plant she had seen today.

Grassy tried to sneak through the lawn, but his hand touched something.

"Hello!" shouted a cute voice. Grassy looked up and saw he had touched Potato Mine.

"Aw, horse-"

SPUDOW!

The zombie was blown into smithereens by the explosion.

Vaulty and Sprinty raced towards the lawn.

"I'll get her brains first!"

"No, I will!"

Twilight facehoofed at the two athletic zombies' competitiveness. It was like Applejack and Rainbow Dash's rivalry, but worse! Just then, the unicorn saw two more seed packets from the conveyor belt. "I'll place you two down!"

On the far back of the lawn, she put Cabbage-pult and Single Cherry. Even though Cabbage-pult couldn't get the two athletic zombies killed, the unicorn was confident her strategy would work. The two athletes jumped over Cabbage-pult and right in front of Single Cherry!

"Ooh, a snack!" shouted Sprinty.

"Let's eat!" added Vaulty.

The two zombies began eating Single Cherry, but they were so indulged in their eating that they didn't see him grin.

CHA-BOOF!

"I knew it would work," smiled Twilight to herself.

As Cabbage-pult took care of Caleb, Crazy rushed towards the lawn, laughing like a total maniac.

"Okay, this is annoying already," muttered Twilight. She shot the crazy zombie down with several magic beams to cease his annoying laughter.

Three more seed packets came from the conveyor belt. The unicorn noticed and planted them down. Out sprouted Peashooter, Snow Pea, and Sunflower!

"Time to kick zombie butt!" shouted Peashooter.

"Let's cool things up!" added Snow Pea.

As the two Peashooters took care of Basic and Watterson by shooting peas at them...

"A HUGE WAVE OF ZOMBIES IS APPROACHING!"

"Come on, follow me!" said Purple to Untote, Elmore, and Armless. They followed the purple zombie into the lawn. Luckily for Twilight, the conveyor belt had a seed packet on it!

"Hi guys! Wall-nut's back!"

"Oh no!" groaned Purple, "I'm stuck eating you again!"

While Cabbage-pult lobbed his cabbages at Elmore, the two Peashooters had just finished Basic and Watterson off. They saw Untote and Armless headed for them. Twilight, who had just finished shooting Purple down, decided to take care of Untote, as the peashooting plants shot at Armless.

Just then, two more seeds came out from the conveyor belt. Twilight planted them...

"Twin Sunflower's here to help heal and energize!"

"Hey!" shouted the two-headed sunflower's left head, "I was going to say that!"

"Rawr! Chomper's hungry!"

As the sunflowers energized the plants and healed them when they got bitten by the zombies, Twilight just smiled. The battle was going well.

Just then, a pea hit her. She saw the Peashooter zombie.

"Oh hey, cute unicorn thingy!"

Twilight was about to shoot magic beams at the zombie-plant hybrid, when...

"I'll take care of that hybrid, Twilight."

Twilight moved out of the way for Sunflower to shoot her sun beam at the zombie-plant hybrid, which disintegrated him before he could shoot any more peas.

"ANOTHER HUGE WAVE OF ZOMBIES IS APPROACHING! FINAL WAVE!"

The final wave consisted of Nurp, Conehead, Buckethead, and the zombie-plant hybrid that had the head of a Snow Pea. Twilight threw the next seed packet at them...

"CHA-BOOF!"

The seed packet was Cherry Bomb. But due to the windy weather, it had caused the seed packet to misland and only blow up Nurp and Conehead.

As the Snow Pea zombie shot frozen peas at Cabbage-pult, Buckethead was headed near Twilight. She picked up the last seed packet and planted it in hopes that it would save her life...

All of a sudden, Buckethead's bucket flew off! The zombie turned around and saw Magnet-shroom! He had the bucket!

Buckethead lunged at the mushroom, but Chomper happened to be on the same lane as the mushroom, so before the zombie could eat the mushroom up and take back the bucket, the purple hungry plant was looming over him...

CHOMP!

Chomper had eaten the zombie up.

"You're pretty delicious, Buckethead. Pity about your skin though, it could use lots of color."

Poor Cabbage-pult was losing hope. He was getting colder and colder, and he was the only plant on his lane left... The zombies would win after all...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

The plants and Twilight looked up to see six ponies and a dragon falling from the sky at a very high speed. There was also a blue pegasus with a rainbow mane chasing after them by flying very fast.

"It's a bird!" exclaimed Sunflower.

"It's a plane!" yelled Cabbage-pult.

"It's Supermare!" called out Magnet-shroom.

"I don't believe it!" shouted the unicorn, "My friends! I'll save you!" She jumped as high as she could to catch them. She was able to catch the dragon, but an orange earth pony fell on them.

"Sorry, sugarcubes," she said, rather sheepishly.

The two lavender pegasi had just realized they could fly. They flew down to pick up the falling ponies. The one wearing a bow on her head was able to catch a yellow pegasus in her hooves, while the one in a darker shade of lavender caught a white unicorn.

"Oh my, that was rather scary," said the yellow pegasus.

"Thank you so much, darling", smiled the white unicorn to the pegasus that had just saved her from falling to her death.

The blue pegasus with a rainbow mane swooped towards the ground. She saw Twilight, "Twilight!" shouted the pegasus, as she gave the unicorn a hug, "I missed you!"

"We all did, sugarcube," said the orange earth pony. The rest of the group joined into the group hug. Just then, they heard a scream, followed by a squishing sound. The group turned to see a pink earth pony, who had landed on the Snow Pea zombie, killing her instantly.

"Um... oopsie!" the pink pony gave out an embarrassed grin.

"Pinkie," said Twilight, "you saved us!"

"Um, what do you mean?" asked the confused pink pony.

"That was the last zombie of today's battle!"

"Battle?"

The unicorn just smiled. "It's time I told you all a story."

"Stories?" said Pinkie, "I love stories! Tell us!"

"Well, to make the long story short, I ended up here after I was banished, saw Peashooter being attacked by those zombies, helped take down these undead things, I met Crazy Dave, we got some new plants on the way like Sunflower, Cherry Bomb, Wall-nut, Single Cherry, and more, but also encountered new zombie enemies, like Conehead, Buckethead, those two athletes, and more, and then today was an ultimate battle, Dr. Zomboss stole all my plants and installed a conveyor belt to load the plants randomly, there was one zombie left, but it nearly won, then you all fell from the sky, and Pinkie landed on the last zombie, and that's what happened."

"So, this is Neighborville," said the yellow pegasus.

"It is, Fluttershy," smiled Twilight, "and you'll like these plants."

Fluttershy turned to see the plants.

"Oh my Celestia! They're so cute!" She squealed cutely as she hugged Sunflower, though gently. "You are all cute!"

Twilight smiled at her friend's reaction to the plants. She then turned to the rest of the ponies, "You went looking for me?" the unicorn teared up, though they were tears of joy.

"We've always got your back, Twilight," said the blue rainbow-maned pegasus.

"Thanks, Rainbow Dash. But I have one question. How did you know I was here?"

"Well," said Pinkie, "We tried to contact you, but we couldn't find you. A couple of days later, we helped reform Discord-"

"Wait, Discord?!" exclaimed Twilight in surprise.

"There's more to him than you think," reassured Fluttershy. "He's really sorry for all the bad things he's done, and he made friends with us, though he considers me to be his very best friend. He also went through a lot of torment in the past." And the yellow pegasus proceeded to tell the unicorn about Discord's past and how he was an outcast just for being different.

"I don't believe it! So he went through all that torment in the past?" The unicorn had once thought Discord was just an evil entity who liked to corrupt others and make things chaotic, but after what she had heard, she now knew that Discord had gone through lots of pain and only took over Equestria, because of what he went through.

"Well, if what you're saying is true, then I'll give him a chance."

"Glad you understand, Twilight," smiled Fluttershy.

"Anyways, can you continue the story about how you got here?"

"I believe I'll take it from here, darling." said the white unicorn. "So, it wasn't just us who believed you were innocent. There were the Crusaders, the Cakes, Thunderlane, Helia, Rumble, Button Mash, Pipsqueak, Flitter and Cloudchaser, Discord, even a visiting Trixie-"

"Trixie?!" yelled Twilight, who was surprised once again.

"Believe me, darling, she really was sorry for what she put you through when she visited, and she's even looking for you right now! At least that's what she said before she made her leave."

"She's really that remorseful that she went looking for me?" thought the unicorn to herself. She realized that Fluttershy and her friends were able to reform Discord, plus Trixie might have been able to change herself.

"That's awfully nice of her," said the unicorn after what seemed like ages, "Rarity, is she really sorry?"

"Don't worry, she is. We were skeptical of her at first and we even warned her no funny business, but she meant every word of her remorsefulness."

Twilight knew that her friends would never lie to her. Not after the Lesson Zero incident. "Well, she's really come a long way then. If I can't get in contact with her, but you can, please tell her that I forgive her."

"Will do, darling."

"Anyways, sugarcube," interjected the orange pony, "Continuing on, some changelings in disguise bombed Sugarcube Corner and Flitter and Cloudchaser were blamed and got exiled. After that, we had it with ponies getting exiled, so Spike asked Discord where ya were, and he gave out directions. But sadly, the draconequus was on a magic drain, after an incident involving him zipping up many ponies' lips after they insulted Fluttershy. We all formed a search and rescue team. We ended up finding Flitter and Cloudchaser in a place called Klugetown. These two were taken hostage by Discord's father. Apparently, that varmit had the nerve to abandon his own son. Then, we met a charming but friendly cat named Capper, who joined our team, and knew where Neighborville was. He gave us an airship ride, but then another airship hit us, and those creature things captured all of us except for me, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Rarity, Pinkie, Spike, Flitter and Cloudchaser. These creatures said something about a Storm King and how he wanted us dead. We tried to go after these creatures to stop them and rescue the rest of the search and rescue team, but our airship came loose and we fell off and ended up here, and that's how we got here."

Twilight was surprised at the story. "Applejack, that was one crazy adventure."

"Yeah, it was, sugarcube. But, mah sister and her friends along with everypony else who believes ya, well except the Cakes, who are still in Ponyville due to their job, but still! And we don't know where they are! They could still be in that airship or they could have landed somewhere!"

Meanwhile, the airship was flying over Equestria. The creatures were watching over the Crusaders, Thunderlane, Helia, Rumble, Button Mash, Pipsqueak, and Discord

"Can you seriously not stare at us every second?" asked Scootaloo.

"She's right," agreed Pipsqueak, "you're creeping me out."

"Sorry, once again, Storm King's orders," said the creature.

The captured ponies (and draconequus) looked out of a window.

"Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Spike, Cloudchaser, and Flitter... please be okay..."

Twilight patted Applejack on the back, "There there, we'll find them eventually."

"I hope so," sighed the cowgirl pony sadly.

"Anyways, it's nice to have you back," said the purple unicorn, "I've missed you."

"We missed you too!" exclaimed Pinkie, as she and the rest of the group got into a hug.

"So, who are these plants anyway?" asked Spike

"Oh right, we forgot to introduce ourselves," said Peashooter, "I'm Peashooter, and the rest of the plant team is: Sunflower, Cherry Bomb, Wall-nut, Single Cherry, Potato Mine, Twin Sunflower, Cabbage-pult, Snow Pea, Chomper and Magnet-shroom."

"Well, shucks," smiled Applejack, "nice to meet you all."

"Same here," agreed Peashooter.

Crazy Dave then walked up.

"Let's have some tacos-"

He was cut off by a loud smashing noise. Everybody turned around and to their surprise, they saw a very damaged airship in the middle of the lawn! Smoke was rising from the twisted metal remains.

"I was wondering what happened to it," said Pinkie after a few minutes of silence.

"So, is the plan ready?" asked Iceberg Lettuce to the other captive plants.

"It's all set!" called out Starfruit.

"We got all the cameras hidden all over the store!" added Small Pepper.

If Iceberg Lettuce had a visible mouth, she would be smiling. "Good job, all of you." she said, "Miss Lotus here thinks she has the right to call us cowards, put us through physical abuse and she thinks she can get away with it. Well, this plan will make sure she won't get away with it! Tomorrow, she will be filmed by the hidden cameras, and the day after tomorrow, we will show the footage! She's not getting away with the torment she's put us through for the last couple years or so!"

But what would happen tomorrow?

That's another story for another day.

Author's Note

The day levels are officially done!

So, what does that mean? Well, I'm going to put this fanfic on a hiatus for now so that I can take a break from writing. After that, I will make the last five chapters, which will serve as a buildup to Season 2, which will have the Night and Pool levels. (each season will have 26 episodes as par tradition to the actual MLP with the exception of Season 3, which will have 13 episodes.)

During the hiatus though, I might rewrite all the episodes prior to this one to make them longer, lengthy and more detailed. After all, this is the first chapter to go over 1,599 words!

Spitfire: That's an academy record!

Anyways, about Twilight knowing that her friends would never lie to her after the Lesson Zero incident, I know some of you will say, "But the rehearsal at the Canterlot Wedding happened!"

Well, in this AU, the events of the wedding rehearsal happened differently. The details of this event will be explained in one of the next chapters.