A groan is heard as eyes were slowly opened to viewing nothing but a blur. The groan is made again, but the vision cleared up to seeing a smiling Joey.

“Hello, sleepy-head,” Joey said with a smile. The body had awoken from its slumber, only to succumb to a rather scathing headache.

“Guhh…. Why do I feel like I took a shovel to the face…?”

“Actually, it was this tire-iron thing that hit you on the head, Julie,” Joey corrected in his usual dumb attitude. Julie rubbed her head then opened her eyes wide when she realized that she was in a cage. She grabbed the bars and asked the guys, “H-hey… why am I in a cage? And why is my experiment room a wreck?!” Julie begins to shake it in an attempt to free herself. Jean-Luc then sat in front of her and casually explain everything that happened for about one entire hour.

“And that’s what happened.”

“And the pod?”

“Safely sitting right next to the elevator,” Jean-Luc casually commented before his tail then suddenly fell off of his body, causing him to sigh. Joey then grabbed the key from under his hat and began to release Julie while stating, “So Julie, I’m gonna let you out, as long as you don’t attack us.” Julie laughed and questioned why she would attack the duo… that is until she walked outside and saw the laboratory covered in nothing but plant vines and green slime. Julie stuttered and stammered as she was in shock and awe of all the slime. The fruit girl immediately slapped herself back to reality and just said, “Okay… okay… Let’s just get that pod to study and we’ll be able to put all of… THIS…. Behind us.” Jean-Luc and Joey smiled and nodded at Julie with a dumb, yet agreeing look on their faces, then took Julie to the giant, green pod. As soon as they get to the pod, she instructs the duo to carry it back to the experimentation room… or at least what wasn’t destroyed of it.

“Oh c’mon now, narrator. It’s not that bad,” Julie commented at us, “Why just look. Sure the walls are bent up and have wires protruding with some…. Important machinery destroyed…. But it’s not all bad.” Jean-Luc and Joey placed the pod on the table and strapped it down then gave Julie the thumbs up. Just before the trio can get started, Julie tells the duo, “We might need to get in touch with Melody and Danny in case things get hairy.”

“With how weird things have been for the past few days, when have we ever not needed them?” Jean-Luc pulls his phone out of his dismembered tail and began to call Danny. Danny, however, was in the city studio, Tribulation TV Network, working on another segment of his Danny’s Rants show.

“So I tried to go for the 2016 presidential election one day, #danny2k16 by the way, and one of the members of Congress says to me in front of all his friends, “Sorry, we’re not in need of more rabbit’s foot today!” Danny ranted to his live audience, making them laugh. He then sees the phone ring and notices its Jean-Luc calling. He then puts it to voicemail and continues chatting to his audience, “Sorry folks, my boss, Mr. Fox was calling. Must have been some new bad guy attacking him. You know how it is~”

“Always tryin’ to outfox the fox!” The audience cheered and began to clap as it was the end of the show. Danny gave his audience a nice sendoff before exiting the set and began walking through the hallways of the studio. Danny walked through the hallways casually with his hands in his pockets, grabbed a cup of water along the way then began to redial Jean-Luc.

“Hey-hey!” Jean-Luc answered.

“Yeah, you called, boss?” Danny replied.

“Yeah, we need you to come down to the lab. There’s something really shocking going on we need to tell you about. Oh! And if you can, try to get Melody too!”

“Alright I’m on my way,” Danny complied. Danny then hopped onto his motorcycle, turned the ignition and sped his way down to Julie’s treehouse.

After an hour or so of riding, Danny had finally reached the entrance to Melody’s neighborhood. However, things began to look bleak as dear Daniel turned in on Agave Street. It seemed as if the neighborhood denizens gardens were sprouting… weeds.

“Sheesh. People must be on vacation….” Danny commented, “There’s weeds are everywhere and nobody to clean it up…” These weeds looked like ordinary weeds at first, but as Danny passed them, they slowly got bigger. Danny made his way to Melody’s house, and parked in front of the house to head inside. Danny knocked on the door casually, but the door creaked and fell down to the ground hard.

“Huh….” Danny mutters to himself as he heads inside slowly. He calls out Melody’s name a few times, but no answer came in.

“Eyyyyy, Melody?” Danny called as he searched the place, “The gang’s lookin’ for us. They says they need us-” Danny stops as he felt a piece of glass crack under his foot. Danny look down and saw that the picture of her, Danny, and the others had fallen on the floor. He picked it up and was about to put it back, but then he saw that the living room area was a wreck and it shocked him. Danny quickly shouted, “Melody?!” again as he ran to the living room area and investigated. Danny looked around and shuffled through the broken sets in the living room and found one of Melody’s books lying in a puddle of spilt tea as the only remaining clue. A shift is heard fast through a corner behind Danny, and the bunny quickly pulled out his pistol from his jacket and aimed it at what shifted to the corner. The object that shifted across the room ended up under a small sheet and Danny slowly came over to the blanket while holding the gun in his partly shaking hand. Danny grabbed the sheet as slow as he could, and then when the time was right, he threw the sheet and aimed the gun was, but a scream of fright was heard causing the “thing” to slither away fast to a new hiding spot while Danny shot at it. Danny quickly stopped shooting and chased it to where it hid next, then pulled the obstructions away to find out it was Sherman curled up in a ball, cowering in fear.

“Sherman?” Danny queries as he then picks up the snake and comforts it, “What’cha doing here, bud? I could have made holes in you.” Sherman snuggled Daniel slowly with its body, but then perked up, jumped off of Danny and tried to warn him of what has been happening. Danny tilted his head slightly as he tried to piece together what the snake was trying to tell him. Danny however, did not have much patience or time to fully piece together what the snake was trying to tell him and just simply pets his head and began to move on, assuring Sherman that he’ll look for his owner. Sherman shivered in fear then as Danny was about to walk out, he immediately jumped into Danny, wrapping his body around the snake’s face. Danny shouted in surprised, “WHAT THE-?! SHERMAN!!!” He shouted and shifted as he tried to pull the snake off of his face. After a few attempts, Danny pulled the snake off then began to reprimand him, “Are you OUTTA YOUR DANG MIND?!?” Sherman then pointed his tail to behind Danny, and the bunny turned around. Danny’s eyes then bulged wide when he then saw the weeds from earlier grow to an intense higher while vines were SWIRLING around at the sky as if they wanted to whip at the clouds. Danny then slowly wrapped the snake around its neck and began to head towards his bike very slowly.

However, things began to go sour as a lowly vine from the grass of Melody’s own garden began to take hold of Danny’s leg and pull him down to the ground, causing Danny to fall on his face. Sherman lifted Danny’s face up as the bunny groaned in annoyance, but the two were both then lifted up high in a sudden burst to be faced by a high-rise length version of one of Melody’s sunflowers. Danny shouted in fear, but then got angry and threw its fists at the giant sunflower, demanding it to let him go. The giant sunflower then roared at him, causing Danny’s color to melt off of his body and onto the pavement. Danny then pulled out his gun and was about to shoot, but the plant whipped his hand, causing the gun to be flown off and near his bike. As if things couldn’t get any worse for the boy and low-sounding “murrrr….” was heard from in the distance. Danny looked “up” and saw what looked like a little girl coming from the bristles of the tall weeds and grass. The little girl looked at the tall plant and said, “He is not to be eaten that way…. H-he is to be fed to the master….” Another body comes out of the bushes while stating, “Yes…. The master must be fed…. For he is the key to our salvation….”

“Wait…” Danny said as he stared with squinted eyes, “Melody?!”

“We will become one with the plant…”

“One with the plant…”

“ONE with the plant…”

“ONE WITH THE PLANT…”

“ONE WITH THE PLANT…!” The two zombified bodies shouted, creating a crowd of spellbound neighborhood denizens chanting the same thing until Melody’s house was surrounded by plant people. Danny and Sherman made a collective gulp as they watched the swarm crowd the house. Danny and Sherman were in deep trouble as the sunflower hailed them above the zombified citizens in such a manner. In a quick impulse, Sherman bit at the sunflower’s vine, causing the both Danny and Sherman to fall. Luckily, the two fell onto Melody’s hammock and bounces over to Danny’s motorcycle and his dropped gun. The biker bunny grabbed his gun at a fast pace and pistol-whipped the “zombies” away before hopping onto his bike. Danny kicked the ignition into high gear, ducked his head down, and rammed his way through the array of plant people as fast as he could. He and Sherman looked back as they saw poor Melody being one of them now. The lowered their head in depression then began to press forward for 100% Julie’s treehouse.

“We should….. hhhh…. Go after them….” One hypnotized citizen queried, only to be cut off by Melody.

“No…. the master will take care of them…” Melody stated as she stared at them drive off with her shining, pale eyes. However, the now-anesthetized Melody was not the only one watching… for a surveillance camera built into a bionic wasp was following Danny drive away as well. The recording of Danny driving off was also being displayed on a lone monitor within a dark room of a devastated laboratory. Through the shadows and remnants of human beings that once resided in this place, low murmurs and echoes of a conversation was heard within this locked laboratory.

“Brother, I do believe zee plan iz working,” one voice began.

“Of course it works, fool. I came up with it after all,” the second voice iterated. A whirring sound and footsteps are heard as the voices closer to a giant pod. The pod was glowing, slimy, and to most people… highly poisonous.

“So… what does this…. Horrifying abomination mean for us, brother?”

“Bruder, Bruder, Bruder... Sie und ich wissen, was das für uns bedeuten... It means we can exact our VENGEANCE on these feeble, disgusting beings we call humans and animals…. They laughed at us… scoffed at us…. Made us feel like NOTHING!”

“And what about that girl….?” The second voice asked as he pulled up a newspaper article featuring Team Whacko.

“I will never forgive what they have done to me…. Especially her….” The first voice swore while a robot claw points to 100% Julie in the newspaper clipping, “That girl did this to me… and thrusted my name into the mud…. But now… hah ha ha ha ha hah haahhhh….. She will get what she deserves…. Very… very… soon…”

“Father will be so proud…” the second voice pointed as he and his brother began to laugh in a maniacal laughter, all while the plant beast from the destroyed defense zone screamed in horrible pain.