Plants vs. Zombies

Chapter 3

"Now, take a look at the TV," Crazy Dave continued. They all looked and a second later, the Sunflower on the screen suddenly glowed a bright yellow! A second after that, an object that resembled a sun popped out of her face, landing right in front of her!

"That right there," he said while pointing at the sun-shaped object, "is a sunawatt! Or rather, 25 sunawatts!"

"Didn't you say they were invisible?" Alex asked.

"Yes," Dave responded, "but I also said I created a technology that allows you to see them, which I have installed on the security camera!"

"So what happens when she spits out a sunawatt?" Freddy asked.

"Well, normally they'd be collected automatically by the computer," he admitted, "but something went wrong with the camera, so we have to do it manually."

"How do we do that?" Freddy asked.

"It's not that hard," Dave responded. "The sunawatt also appears on the laptop." He then pointed to the laptop screen where, sure enough, a yellow dot was shown in the same space where the sunawatt was on the TV.

"All we have to do is scroll with the mouse and click on the sunawatt," he continued. "It will then be added into the sunawatt counter!"

"This is all amazing!" Josie told him with a smile on her face.

"I second that," Alex said. "You may not be completely sane, but you sure can make a pretty amazing self-defense system!"

"Why, thank you!" Dave responded. "And hey, thanks for letting me stay here!"

"No problem," Freddy replied. "Just one more question."

"Yes?"

"Why did you bring highly toxic chemicals?!" Dave just smiled.

"I've had ideas for other plants. The way to create them is with these chemicals!"

"What other ideas do you have?" Josie asked with curiosity.

"You'll just have to wait until they're done," Crazy Dave responded. With that, Alex looked down at his watch.

"It's pretty late," he told them. "Let's get some sleep. We haven't seen zombies for a while. Hopefully it'll stay that way overnight."

"Hopefully it'll stay that way for eternity..." Josie murmured and then walked up the stairs.

"I assume she's tired of the zombies?" Dave asked the boys.

"Aren't we all?" Alex responded.

"Yeah, I suppose you have a point," Dave replied.

"In a way, I think she's been affected the most," Freddy told him. "Alex and I know for sure what happened to OUR parents. She has no idea if hers are dead or hiding somewhere. All that not knowing seems to be getting to her."

"I understand," Dave replied with a slow nod. "My buddy Harvey Flaxcaster was headed to Portland for vacation last year. I haven't heard from him since! I mean, maybe it's best to assume he's gone, but at the same time, there's always that small possibility..."

"Let's just head to bed," Alex quickly told them all. "We've had a busy day. We need our rest." The guys nodded in agreement and Alex and Freddy headed upstairs while Dave lied down on the sofa in the basement. When officially upstairs, Freddy turned to Alex and asked, "Are you still sure we should be letting him stay here?"

"Of course," Alex responded. "He's got nowhere else to stay, and he clearly can help us defend ourselves against these zombies! Do you really want your brain eaten?"

Freddy just stared at his brother in silence and then proceeded to walk over to his room. The brothers said their goodnights and Alex started walking to his room.

On the way, he passed his parents' old room, where Josie was sleeping in. He paused, slowly opened the door a crack, and saw her sitting on the bed with her head down and hands on her face, and heard the sound of weeping coming from behind her hands.

Alex just stood there for a few seconds and slowly yet quietly shut the door again. He truly felt sorry for her; less than a year of having a new life in a new place and it's ruined by mind-chomping creatures. But at least she's not completely alone. She's with the two people outside her family that she considers to be just like brothers.

After standing in the hallway for a few more seconds, Alex then walked over to his room. He quickly changed into his pajamas, lied down on his bed, removed his glasses, and slowly closed his eyes. A lot happened on the one-year anniversary of the day the world went into the worst chaos in history. The biggest and most important, however, was the fact that he and the others had a way to protect themselves! Hopefully it would work as well as Dave said it would....and that was the last thing Alex thought of before drifting to sleep.