"Alrighty, kids!" Mr. Rhodes announced as he spun in his chair with a grin on his face. "Today, we'll go on a field trip!"
"Where?" The children cried.
"To the Everfree Forest! There has been a preselected route and we will all stick together. No fighting or wandering off, ya hear?" Mr. Rhodes answered.
"YES MR. RHODES!" Cried the children in glee.
TIME SKIP!
"Hey, Alexis." Whispered Vibrant Color to the quarter-demon child with a grin, "I heard there are killer plants here."
"Nonsense." Replied Alexis in another whisper, "The killer plants are just bedtime stories used to make children behave."
"WATCH OUT, KIDS!" Mr. Rhodes bellowed as he scooped Nick up before a green, rapier-like plant with five pink petals surrounding the base could harm him.
"I stand here eating my own words!" Alexis cried as another plant--same green base but with yellow petals and a topaz-like orb instead of the stabby part--tried to shock her with electricity.
Another flower, similar to the yellow one except with frilled petals and the color blue, suddenly shot hail-spikes at the twins. The spikes were grabbed and thrown at the pink flower. It hit the flower right in its stem, but it hadn't fell. As a result, it dug its way back into the earth and attempted to hurt the twins by becoming a colossal spike comparable to a tree. It missed, but its petals fell of and the plant itself sank slowly back into the earth.
A fourth--white, thin, blade-like petals with white orb--blessed the other flowers present. It blessed them!
Nick suddenly called out to the heavens again, and this time dropped a circular bot with wheels on its sides. It was mostly gray in color but it had a green eye.
SCAN BOT ACTIVATED. SCANNING ENEMIES NOW..... HEASY, FLORN, STUNFLOWER, FROSE. HEASY HAS THE ABILITY TO HEAL, FLORN STABS ADVERSARIES, FROSE CAN FREEZE ENEMIES AND MAKE THEM WET WITH RAINWATER, STUNFLOWER CAN STUN ENEMIES IN MULTIPLE WAYS. ALL ARE WEAK TO WIND AND ABSORB WATER; OTHER WEAKNESSES AND RESISTANCES VARY FROM FLOWER TO FLOWER.
Alexis slammed her hands onto the ground, chanting an ominous spell as a staff that had one angel wing and one bat perched behind a cross with a demon's tail wrapped around it in such a way the triangle was behind the top formed before her.
The Stunflower began to absorb sunlight.
"Guys! That flower's gonna fire a Solarbeam!" Alexis bellowed, taking hold of the Hallowed Demon Staff, "Take it out now!"
"On it!" Wing cried, allowing her wings to become huge. She suddenly took to the skies before quickly swooping over all, slicing the Stunflower in the process. The Frose and Heasy went with before she landed.
"Well, kids." Mr. Rhodes said, clearly impressed by the youngsters' fighting skills, "I think the flowers need to be addressed. Should we find their source?"
The children of the Heroes banded together. "Ve'll take care of it. You guys go on ahead and continue vith the trip." Nick mimicked Daddy, right down to the German accent he'd used when speaking about a serious matter.
"Just be careful, alright?"
"We promise." Nodded the kids before they and the Scan Bot ran off the preselected path and into a bunch of dense woodland.
"Alexis," Nick sighed, "Do you know what's causing these plants to attack?"
"I dunno," Alexis replied with a shrug, "But we said we'd take care of it. Now we have to take care of it."
"Guys!" Fang called out, pointing a hand to a pile of rubble beyond the river. "Over there! I see something!"
"What are we waiting for?!" Wing called, "LET'S GET A MOVE ON, PEOPLE!"
The children ran towards the river and across an old bridge. There they saw wrecked walls, broken statue, and a huge pile of rocks in the far back.
Bursting out from under the statue was a green plant that stood on multitudes of sharp, pointed roots. It had the face of a fiend, complete with yellow shark teeth and bad breath. Sharp, elongated leaves frilled out from behind its head, making it look like it was wearing a sort of wig. On its head was a gargantuan pink flower complete with a little crown of filaments. On its sides were two Heasies, a Stunflower, and a Frose.
"It's the Rafflesia mom told me about!" Nick cried, readying his crossbow, "How'd it get here?!"
"I wish I knew, Mr. Wise Guy!" Alexis replied as Chuckles appeared behind her.
"This doesn't look good!" Wing cried, readying an illusion, "I think he's hungry!"
"Quit your complaining and take it down!" Fang yelled angrily, forming an aura.
Tartarus quickly broke loose. Nothing seemed to even phase the Rafflesia or its pet flowers. The children were exhausted, and it looked like it was over....
....when a tank dropped down onto the giant, Malboro-esque plant with a man in a Nazi suit on top of it. He had a blaster in both hands and he was busy firing shots into the tank.
"WRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Lance cried, jumping off the Valkyrie just before it detonated. Natalie came and cast a Barrier around the children to ensure the Oblivion didn't hurt them. When the Overdrive ended, Anna quickly sent the Mighty Oak into battle--and even after being hit about what, fifteen times, the Rafflesia still didn't give up. Matt suddenly rushed in with the Devil's Sunrise on hand as he performed a Cleaver that was quickly followed with a Ragnarok. Once all that was said and done, Natalie decided to finish things off with an Absolute Zero.
The plant fell into the ground, and so too did its pets.
"You guys okay?" Lance asked, worried.
"No. We didn't even scratch the Rafflesia..." Alexis answered, her sight spinning too much for comfort.
"Yeah, I figured as much." Anna scoffed, crossing her arms.
"They did their best to take care of it. Chillax, Anna." Matt sighed as he picked up the twins.
Anna sighed before picking Nick up. Natalie did the same with Alexis and Lance held the Scan Bot.
"Why did this little bugger come to my kid?" Asked the Nazi.
"Prolly the same reason the Ion Cannon activated when he first screamed on the battlefield. Ya might as well give him a walkie-talkie." Matt sneered, a cat's grin on his face.
"I'd be afraid if he ended up summoning the Praetorian." Natalie agreed with a nod. "Right now, they need a nap."