Sprout was built to plant life, launching bouncy seed bombs with reckless love. He is able to make a large root hedge that acts as a wall if needed. Sprout was created by a biologist named Rosa, who's hobby consists of boxing on the weekends. Sprout is a seedling that controls a robotic suit, he looks sort of like an egg, but the top half is glass, protecting his seedling self inside and allowing his leaf to poke out. And due to his lack of facial features, Rosa added a pencil drawn face on a sticky note, and stuck it to the front of his glass top body.
Sprout wandered in the forest. The ground grew slippery and Sprout slid down a hill and into a moss covered stone, everything went black. Sprout woke up on his back, but something was off. Instead of a seedling, he was moss on a stone...with a sword stuck in it! Sprout tried not to panic, it didn't seem to be causing him any pain. Sprout examined his outfit, instead of his grey robotic suit, he was wearing a green and gold outfit. Two people in knight armor appeared from behind the trees and picked Sprout up by his sides. One of them looked like a dinosaur, the other was a human girl with a crossbow.
"Who are you, and what are you?!" The dinosaur knight yelled at him. But Sprout only beeped in fright, "Plant, plant, plant." "Plant? You don't look like our normal walking talking trees," they looked at the sword that was planted in his stone body, their eyes widened, "We need to take him to the king." Sprout was carried through the castle and thrown down in front of the king's throne. Sprout picked himself up and looked up to the king. "Wield the sword." Sprout reached up and unsheathed the sword and held it in his hands. It was green and gold just like his outfit. The king watched Sprout in awe as he held the sword. "That is the sword of the great Emerald Prince!" He told him, "I King Caesar Sam appoint you a knight of the castle..." Sprout answered him, "Sprout." The king thought to himself, "Interesting name, sir Sprout." "I am sir Buzz," said the dinosaur knight. "And I'm Jessie," said the girl knight.
Sprout heard a slight buzzing sound and immediately made a hedge wall around the king and the two guards. Protecting them from an explosion. They walked over to the new large hole in the wall. From a distance they saw a robotic army charging the castle. The king held out his hand, and Buzz handed him a scope. "Pam the dragon queen is attacking us, we must show her we won't go down easy, attack!"
King Caesar set his crown on his throne and jumped out of the hole, disappearing below. A whirring sound was heard and two objects flew from behind the king's throne and followed Caesar as he fall. One of the knights lifted Sprout into his arms and jumped out the window, he threw a grappling hook onto the building and they slid down the side of the castle. Jessie landed next to them. Ahead was Caesar Sam punching through the army with his added gauntlets. "Time for a diving dino to defeat some delinquents," said Buzz as they charged. Jessie fired her crossbow and Buzz breathed fire into the army while Sprout launched his bombs into the crowd. Some of the robots passed through. "Follow them, don't let them reach the crown!" Caesar called to Sprout. Sprout pulled his sword free and spun through the crowd of enemies.
An assassin was jumping from roof to roof, and a big woman riding a small red dragon was flying towards the throne room. Sprout sped to the castle. He shot seed bombs into the air, their force causing her to fall and crash into a lower level of the castle. Sprout tried to climb the castle but he slipped and fell on his back. He beeped in pain. Suddenly he was lifted into the air. "I got you, sir Sprout," Caesar Sam told him, "Hold them off, I'll be right up!" He shot his gauntlets into the air with Sprout on them. He flew into the air and stopped mid-air in front of the throne room. He quickly pulled out his sword and stabbed into the side of the building and climbed into the room. He walked in, sword in hand. He heard a slight whipping sound and planted his hedge, pushing himself back. Edgar the assassin was on top of his hedge. Sprout beeped in fright. The assassin leaped off the hedge towards Sprout, he held up his sword and closed his eyes. When he opened them, Caesar had the assassin lifted in the air by his shirt. The assassin drove his knives into the sides of the king. Caesar Sam fell to his knees, Edgar jumped over him towards Sprout. Sprout moved backwards near the edge of the throne room. Queen Pam appeared on her dragon outside. Edgar flew through the air again. Sprout swung his sword, blocking the blades in mid air. He jumped around the assassin then aimed his cannon at him. He shot his hedge at Edgars feet, its large seed landed in front of Edgar. "Is that all you got?" he said in disbelief. "Nope," Sprout's hedge expanded and pushed Edgar out of the throne room, launching him into the Queen, causing them both to fall to the hard ground below.
Sprout rushed over to his king. "The crown..." Caesar called out to him. He retrieved the king's crown. Buzz and Jessie appeared in the room, they rushed over to the fallen king. He placed the crown onto Sprout's head, "Protect this kingdom while I'm gone, protect..." The king passed. The three knights stood in silence. "He was the best king we ever had," said Buzz in sadness. "Indeed he was," agreed Jessie. "We will protect the kingdom," Sprout told them.
And so they did. They rebuilt and strengthened the castle and hired more knights. After that, Sprout decided to take a walk into the woods and rest on the grass, next to a young growing tree. He woke up back in his world. He examined himself, he was in his normal metal plated suit. He turned around and looked at the stone he crashed into. And on top of it was the gold and green sword. Sprout climbed on top of the stone and pulled it out with ease. And his suit changed, he transformed into the Emerald Prince.
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The Emerald Prince
FantasíaIn this short story, Sprout is brought to a new world, where a kingdom is in need of help. Sprout must use his gift of becoming the great Emerald Prince to save it.