"My sleep schedule is in tatters and my day has been ruined." Jason said to himself while sitting upon the steps to his front door, it was the second night that he stood up for. After dealing with the previous night zombie wave he went to bed after waiting for a minute or two for any other zombie to show up. When he woke up he did his usual morning routine, let the plants out to defend the lawn.
Eat some food. And deal with a usual wave of zombies, which was a surprise to be sure. He thought burning down Zomboss house and setting him on fire would cease all attacks upon his home, he assumed it was just stragglers at this point that was not at the mansion. Jason still has no clue how Zomboss shoved so many of the zombies into one locker to be their sleeping quarters, it defied the rules of physics!
Then again days ago he used to been on a normal world with normal rules of reality and physics. And now found himself in the PVZ world that has taken some liberties to their own rules. Like time travel being possible. The saving grace is that this is perhaps the most tame world he could've been sent too, it could've been Doom as a normal human or hell being sent to some scuffed fantasy world.
At least this cannot get any- "that one doesn't count fate!"
So far the only good news seem to be that the day attacks was more smaller after Jason gave Zomboss a visit.
Leading him to assume that hopefully Zomboss was indeed dead with no more zombies to be made.
"….im loosing my mind from a lack of sleep." The only other good news was the puff shrooms grew quite quickly. They was quite small though that wasn't hardly surprising to him.
In all the PvZ games the puff shrooms was one of the smallest plants in the game. "You're my friend now. We're having soft tacos!" He picked up one of the puff shrooms with his hand gently and stared into its eyes.
It wiggles happily in his hand while he gently rubbed its head with a finger, the plant was light and only the size of a baseball. Relatively small and….yeet able.
He wouldn't do that of course the puff shroom was too cute! "Then again…." He muttered to himself while raising the puffshroom to eye level, the puffshroom simply blinked while staring Jason in the eyes with its smaller ones.
"Nah I wouldn't do that."
"However-"
"Just kidding"
*blink blink*
The puff shroom could only blink as its gardener was acting like a total weirdo with a few screws loose. "I miss my friends and family." Said the human with a sad sigh of dejection. He crouched down putting the puffshroom back on the floor, the plants and his thoughts was his only source of company. There was Crazy Dave buuuuuuut well….its Crazy Dave. As far he knew he was currently the only human left in the neighborville. Besdies Crazy dave, speaking of him. "Where is that bastard Crazy Dave?"
-meanwhile-
"RAROOOOAHHH!"
Crazy Dave placed a slice of pineapple on his slice of pizza and strarted eating it
-back with our bum protagonist that gets no bit-
"I'm gonna have to find his house and ask if wall nut bowling a thing" While continuing to chat with himself the puff shrooms continued their viligance in keeping an eye out for any zombies.
It didn't take long for the first zombie to show up being the same slow walking usual brown coat, it made the usual weak groans and slow shambling forward. Jason was expecting the usual obliteration of the zombie as soon it stepped onto his lawn but nothing happened.
"Where the exasperated amount of violence? The total anhilation of zombie with gore splattering everywhere? Oh, oh yeah. Your range is terrible" he forgot about how the puffshroom had terrible range but around the same damage as a peashooter in the game, the puff shrooms was also zero sun to balance out that there no sun that falls during the night levels and also to balance that atrocious range.
The puff shroom to be honest wasn't a terrible plant in Jason eyes, a decent plant for early levels. Even later levels a good plant to stall for time while building your forces. Of course there was better plants than the puff shroom which was a given.
Jason leans on his shovel and waited for the brown coat zombie to get in close enough range for puff shrooms to open fire, there was just one small problem.
"How long is this going to take!" The brown coat was moving far too slowly for Jason liking. His patience was already wearing thin due to recent events he would not like to dwell on.
Only reason he didn't rush the sorry excuse of rotting flesh was simply wanting to see the puff shroom in action. How could he not be curious to see what type of damage/effect would take place when it impacts the zombie skin.
The pea shooters released high velocity rounds that tore through flesh and bone with ease, cherry bombs and potatoe minds was expectedly explosive in nature.
Even more predictably the wall nut and sun flower wasn't an over all difference in the game compared to real life.
Additionally the Chomper and ice peas was also predictable in what their abilities and effects are in combat. But the puff shroom and all other shrooms besides Hypno shroom and Doom shroom release some kind of liquid/bubbles at their foes, Jason was very curious on how exactly would the puff shroom hurt the zombie.
Would it shoot a fast pace liquid like bullet that'll tear through flesh and leave a hole. Or would it act like some kind of acid?
"This is taking too long! Come here guys!" Jason said grumbling as he scooped up a handful of puff shrooms who could hardly react before Jason did a light jog towards the brown coat zombie on his lawn
"Ogahhhhh" the zombie would let out its pitiful groan while slowly raising its arms toward Jason, who held his arms out towards said zombie with the various puff shrooms in his hold.
-Insert the sound of multiple puff shrooms firing here-, the sound effect went off as multiple liquid orb projectiles was launched towards the now close enough zombie was in range, Jason watched with rapid attention as the projectiles impacted upon the undead face.
"Sisssssss"
The liquid effect made Jason watch in slight horror and fascination to the point he couldn't look away.
The puff shroom liquid projectile had a bit of force behind them yet weaker than the speed of a pea round. How they made up for it was the liquid projectile they released had acidic properties within their attacks.
It made sense to him when he thought about now, liquids/water in general wasn't dangerous only in certain circumstances. Like a Tsunami, a flood, drowning, string water currents. No one died from drinking from a water bottle or a droplet of water.
Now if the water was high pressure like for example the type they use to cut metal or diamonds, that could do damage or even kill.
He doesn't know if they use high pressure water to cut diamonds or metal and could be wrong but you get where he was going with this!
Now with acid that is indeed dangerous, obviously. And what Jason was observing that the acidity level of the puffshrooms was around a level where it was burning away flesh and patches of the zombie clothes where they missed the head and hit the main body.
"Ugh you look even more disgusting. As repulsive as my friend grandma"
"Ssssssssssisssss Brainz"
"Yeah I know that was uncalled for" Jason watched as the zombie head was quite literally melted before his eyes. Flesh, bone, all off it. The walking corpse collapsed like it strings was cut and fell at Jason feet.
"God damn that was brutal." Was all the human had to say to the puffshrooms in his arms as they looked at the non moving zombie corpse then at their gardener.
"BLEHHHHHH!"
He then threw up bile and food chunks all over the floor.
-30 minutes later-
So far the night went pretty well to the point Jason didn't need to step in and crack open a zombie skull with a shovel. The puffshroom spam with all the seeds he had was enough to destroy any brown coat or cone heads.
Once the night attack was over Jason went over and searched the last zombie for his prize. Which he found that was a seed packet for the Sun shroom, of course he immediately planeted the seeds on his lawn. Poured some water where he planeted them, then immediately went back inside after waiting for an hour or so for any other zombies to show up.
He decided on leaving the puff shrooms outside to protect the lawn and house. Once the first rays of light came was when Jason would collect the puff shrooms and let them rest inside. Oh and the sun shrooms, whenever they grow to full size of course.
"Damn it's dark as shit in here" Jason mumbled to himself while he was walking around the inside of his house. He was wandering in the dark looking around for the damn light switch. His hand brushing against furniture to the wall, only to them with a loud bang….
Bang his nose against the corner of a wall he couldn't see making his head reel back and quickly grab his nose. "ffffffffffffffffffU- nghhhh sleeping plants everyone is sleeping I can't scream" he hissed out in pain as his nose started to bleed.
After that incident he eventually found the light switch, cleaned his bloody face and nose.
With that all out the way Jason checked the time and it was only 1:30 at night. "Welp time to head to bed-"
Before he can finish that sentence his stomach began to growl. Well it seemed like his stomach had other ideas besdies bed, he didn't deny his stomach it's wants and moved to the kitchen closet to check what he had. "Soup or Mac and cheese? Hmmmmm"
He picked soup considering it was pretty easy to cook. After a couple minutes his meal was finished being made and started to eat. While he was eating his soup Jason thoughts began to wander.
How long would he be stuck here and did he ever want to go back home? This place was simple without the chaos of his old life, the uncertainty. The lack of utter bullshit of Politicians ruining things for everyone else or worrying about the future of the next world war.
And yet the freedom here didn't come without its own costs, Dr zomboss was a dick in making zombies and wanting Brainzs as well as wanting to most likely take over the world. Hell Dr Zomboss carved his face in the moon, only an asshole would do that crap with a major ego.
Additionally Jason did have family. He wasn't an orphan or had any bad blood, he loved his parents and siblings as they loved him. His uncles and aunts to grand parents was all still around, he cherished them too. He…..missed them deeply.
Jason didn't realize it while he slowly ate and slurped up his soup. His eyes was getting red from the tears slowly, he sniffed softly and used a napkin to wipe his eyes, then blow his nose as it too then began to get runny dripping mucus.
Jason depressing thoughts was halted when he heard the sound of movement, for a moment his heart raced with adrenaline and shot up standing quickly. His hand grabbed his bowl and prepared to chuck it as hard he could at the home intruder, only for the reveal of the noise just being one of his plants. A Pea shooter at that making Jason let out a sigh of relief and calmed down significantly, the pea shooter was in a pot and hopped its way to him.
It looked a bit tired but also very happy to see him which such a sight always made him equally happy as well.
"You shouldn't be up so late little one, what are you doing so up?" He asked the pea shooter, who responded by wiggling its leaves and body to 'speak', Jason stared with a small smile and nodded pretending to understand.
"Well little guy since you're still up with me, wanna watch some tv before bed?" The pea shooter gave its best excited nod then began hopping towards the living room, Jason following after the plant with a small smile still on his face. His thoughts on his family still on his mind but for now pushed to the sideline from a welcome distraction.
The next night would bring more challenges, things still set in motion.
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Hellooooo there everyone one, thanks for being patient for the next chapter. I know not much action or plot progression in this chapter. Was struggling to get this one out from lazy ness. Promise the next chapter will have more entertaining elements too it
Have a good day!