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Daisy Lore II: The Escape

Daisy’s mind whirled frantically. This was not part of the plan. She had not accounted for Super Brainz himself to be stationed guarding the inner room. A part of her swelled with pride. There she was, several months junior of even more experienced Plant cadets, attacking a heavy-security mansion to steal a high-priority asset. She had now even met Super Brainz himself in combat, though the only thing she did was get kicked by him right into a frenzied melee. And that was the bit the down-to-earth part of her was freaking out about. She had no close-range training. Her tactic had always been to speed in, shoot some bouncy peas, and speed out. She had never had to deal with a plan gone awry before.

“What are you DOING here, Daisy?” Her Cactus commander screamed. Her eyes were wide as she fired a spike into Super Brainz’s head just before he could punch Daisy.

Daisy turned around to respond, and her gaze fell on her commander just in time for her to see the battle-scarred cactus being bisected by a whirling blade.

The splatter of peas turned into a harsh CLANG-CLANG-CLANG against metal armour. Zombie droids. Daisy’s mind escalated into new levels of terror. Rooted to the floor, she took in the extent of chaos and bloodshed around her and screamed. Over all the panic, she was able to register her Peashooter comrade yelling, “The mission’s not failed yet! Go! We’ll buy you time. For L.E.A.F.!”

Daisy did the only thing she could do. She ran. Past the zombies, weaving through the buzzsaw-wielding security droids and through the legs of Super Brainz, down the corridor towards her goal. The tears streaked down her face and were blown off as she sprinted away from the brawl, trying to ignore the sounds of her loyal team getting butchered behind her as they bought her time.

She breezed past the rest of the corridors, moving too fast to even trigger the traps. All the security cameras captured was a streak of yellow as Daisy sped through the fortified vault door that protected the jewel. Without opening it. She was moving so fast she blinked right through the door.

There it was. Gleaming eerily in the darkness of the room, held in place by a force field, the sinister crimson light washing over Daisy’s body. Her training and determination kicked in. She fired a pea at the forcefield. As the pea entered the forcefield, it vibrated violently and was vapourised, releasing its payload of kinetic energy. The shockwave blew apart the force field projectors and the jewel fell to the ground. Daisy picked it up.

Her hard-won reward, the quest succeeding by a hair, paid for by the blood and tears of her loyal comrades. She wiped the tears from her eyes, still unable to process how quickly everything had gone wrong. Not everything. She was alive. She had the jewel.