Plants vs Zombies the third element

-Pov Dr Edgar Zomboss-

For a week and five days I've been floating in the ROS liquid bathing in it's slow healing properties for awhile now. Letting my burns heal that I sustained, perhaps the most entertaining yet boring days in my undead life.

ROS is what I'm currently calling this prototype healing fluids I've made to heal myself, the full name of course is REJUVENATION OF SCIENCE! While during the time I was left floating in a tank filled of the REJUVENATION OF SCIENCE with nothing to do but be left with my own thoughts for company, natural my brilliance began to come up with ideas so smart it would put David genius to shame!

Which leads to now. "A little bit of this here, some of that there! And wola! My current greatest creation! Until I can make a device that makes unlimited pop tarts."

I said to myself while standing before my work bench, on it was a container filled with the liquid of REJUVENATION OF SCIENCE. Once my moment of weakness being regenerated in the tank was over, I immediately went to work on the ideas I had. A tank filled with the same healing liquid but smaller and that it could spray around to my minions that get hurt, keeping them in the fight longer!

"Mwawah! I Dr Edgar zomboss is once more a genius with hardly any rivials! Soon once I get this device mass produced I shall be unstoppable! Mwawawah-"

"Brainz?"

"Gah!- don't do that Maurice! You know how much I hate it when you sneak up on me while I'm monologuing myself involving my own genius!" I shouted out at the idiotic brown coat, there was hardly any intelligence at all in those dead lifeless eyes. As I designed them of course, don't want smart minions to rebel and stuff. But let them have enough intelligence to do basic needs and commands.

Such as fetching me pop tarts! "Good you brought my snack, give me that!" I shouted and snatched the plate Maurice was holding as he just stood there and blinked with one eye at a time slowly.

"Delicious truly one of the best snacks developed by humanity. Now where was I? Oh yes, that one word the kids use these days. Self glazing!"

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"Never using that word again, tastes awful and full of idiotic nonesense in my mouth." I mumbled to myself while looking over the container that contained REJUVINATION OF SCIENCE healing liquid inside of a smaller tank than my personal one. "I've worked out the flaws from the original formula, however it remains untested. Potentially having side effects that are unexpected not planned for and I can't have that effecting my plans. Such as the 'perfected' formula healing at a slower rate than desired. I'm going to need an experiment, with an independent variable, a dependent variable and a control group."

I mumbled to myself while already thinking of the experiment I have in mind, it should be simple really. "The control group being a zombie with normal injuries healing on his own, well they really can't heal but a zombie given nothing. The independent variables are the zombies given the healing solutions, and the dependent variable is measuring how fast the new vs old rejuvenation of science works. If the new formula is faster than that is a success."

"Mwhahahahaha let's get started with medicine" I said while rubbing my hands together and made my way to a different part of my laboratory, I've had a lot of work to do and it was about time I up the scale this little war between me and David. Oh and deal with the edgy human that set me on fire, understable why he did it. But I'm not above the act of revenge.

-scene change to the funny man with the pot on his head-

Crazy Dave moved away from his telescope as he felt an emotion he couldn't quite describe, it was close to sadness but also of acceptance. He was aware of the fire that consumed Edgar 'hideout', he knew his old friend was alive. He was too stubborn to let a fire consume him while, too smart in that he probably cheated death.

It wouldn't be the first time he done such a thing.

David knew that his battles with Edgar will now escalate. They had a silent agreement with one another to keep their war continued to their current advancements they've made in their respective fields, for him he stayed to his current advancements with his plants. So far it was enough, with the right plants in the right placements they was enough to hold Edgar at bay.

Of course Edgar advancements was with his zombies, slow, dumb and unique each in their own way.

David knew he would have to continue his own advancements, the agreement was off and all because of the third element in their war in neighborville. Crazy Dave moved towards his greenhouse while grabbing his lab coat and quickly puts it on. On the way he pets a happy sunflower that enjoyed the brief affection.

The sunflower was in a flower pot, alongside a serious looking Squash who very much didn't want some affection. He was a big boy of course.

"Afternoon!" David said to squash in a greeting which the squash made a grunt in his own form of greeting. David afterwards continued his stride to his green house.

Pushing open the green house door he was greeted to a full green of all the plants he created, the day time plants. From sunflowers to threepeators and even some Melon pults. The nocturnal plants was all resting in the other greenhouse tailored to their needs.

The green house was alive with plant chatter, as close as the plants could talk with the ruffling of leaves with the sounds they make. He smiled as he walked by them all, petting a Chomper as he walked by who tried biting his hand in excitement.

David easily moved his hand back faster than the chomper could bite, he learned by now on how to anticipate their bite speeds. He headed straight towards his work station in the green house, it held the seeds he had and would use for his experiments. It was time to strengthen his plants and prepare for what his old friend has planned for neighborville.

"Awowowowo?"

The big question is should he make the plants bigger? After all bigger is sometimes better, or focus on making new varieties.

"RA RA ROOOOH!"

Why not do both? Both is good, like making the sun flower big enough to fire a laser beam! Or make a plant that shoots fire peas! Edgar has no idea what's coming when he decides to rear back for another round.

-with our protagonist-

"Why can't my life be easy? Why are the zombies attacking my house at night now?"

Jason asked to himself and swing his shovel as hard he could, having reeled it back for maximum hitting power. The shovel connecting with the brown coat zombie head knocking it clean off with practical ease.

It was a rotting corpse after all, "haaaa this is going to mess with my sleep schedule. And I just got it under control too." Jason said complaining some more, venting out his frustrations and built up resentment he still had from his recent loss.

The only reason he was outside right now in the middle of the night was pretty simple, he had to use the bathroom. Couldn't fall back to sleep and decided to sit outside for a bit hoping that the dark sky would help calm his nerves.

Only for a small amount of brown coats to approach his barren lawn. All his plants was currently asleep inside of his home and he didn't want to wake them up and leave them tired for the morning.

Which currently lead to him using this as an excuse to let loose some pent up emotions, and tire himself out.

*Swing swing, bonk shovel sound effects*

"Huff….huff…that should do it" Jason said to himself as he took down the last zombie, he counted six undead kills. Wasn't a lot of the basic brown coats, but still something to tire himself out with.

"I need a better weapon than a shovel, like a baseball bat or gun. Maybe not a gun I've never used a gun before. " he thought out loud as he stared up at the night sky, sitting on a brown coat zombie stomach. His shovel buried in the floor between the neck separating the head from the body.

"Moon doesn't have Zomboss face on it" it perhaps wasn't the most important observation, it was more evidence than what he's already gathered and experienced first hand that he was around the events of PVZ 1, Garden warfare hasn't even taken place yet.

"Garden warfare most likely not going to happen anymore. Set that fucker on fire" he said referring to Zomboss while letting out a sigh and resting his head on his hands.…. "I need to stop talking to myself, I'm getting too lonely….where the hell is Crazy Dave?"

He said to himself before getting up and grabbing the handle of his shovel, readying to head back inside. He was gonna leave the corpses on the lawn and bury them later, with his adrenaline dying down he was starting to feel tired.

He took a single step forward and knew he stepped on something from what he felt, looking down he couldn't help but blink in surprise when he lifted his foot up. Worried he stepped in dog shit, that would've ruined his night. However it was a seed packet, which he picked up gently to examine then open it.

"I forgot that Puff shroom the first of the night plants you get in the night level" the seed packet that Jason found was indeed the puff shroom, a small mushroom like plant with purple coloring for the head. A small body that shoots small goop at short range. One of the best parts about the Puff shroom was that the plant costed zero sun and you could spam them.

They wasn't exactly the best plant but perfect for early game defense to save up sun on other plants while you set up your lawn. What he did find weird was that the puff shroom packet contained seeds, while Jason was no flower expert and knows he could be wrong. He assumed all mushrooms was fungi and reproduced or well planted themselves via spores and crap.

He has no idea how Crazy Dave achieved this. But he's not one to complain about free stuff, he'll plant all the puff shrooms then head off to bed.

He's gonna need to catch some sleep anyways, it's been a tiring night.

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Hoi Hoi another chapter out, hope everyone is doing good in 2025. Been going through myself.

What would cheer me up is whenever Evelyn from ZZZ banner will drop so I can gamble for her lol.

Hoped ya enjoyed the chapter, take care!