Dr. Pamela Isley (
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A Chemical Plant Near the Chesapeake Bay, Thursday Evening
Unmakings took time.
She knew that. Had always known that. Poison Ivy had spent weeks feeding spores into the systems that supplied a place just like this, not even a year ago, letting them spread into the bodies and bones of those inside. Letting them pull together, however unwittingly, into a colony, into something she could mold.
Unmake.
(But then there had been a young blonde woman on the floor, so achingly resembling--)
(Why... why do you want to hurt me?)
But she had made Janet a promise, of sorts. To be a monster, but only to those who deserved it. Not to the little ants running around inside that hulking cage of metal and acrid smoke, with their little lives that harmed little in the space of all things. To embrace some humanity (sentimentality), for once.
(She knew herself better than that. Knew that it wasn't about the promise to Janet, but the promise to herself, to grow, to rise, to genuinely improve what could be improved, instead of lashing out.)
So out in the marshes, she waited. An access pass sat snugly within a pocket on her overalls, stolen from some poor sap in a bar who couldn't believe his luck. (He was alive, too.) Should she wait for that dark-haired woman with her dangerous hands?
Probably not. She always worked best alone, and the vegetation here stood tall, vulnerable to deadly fingers. So Ivy righted herself, and let the vegetation move with her as she walked the last half-mile into the belly of the beast.
Not an unmaking, but a precision strike.
It was a place to start.
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She knew that. Had always known that. Poison Ivy had spent weeks feeding spores into the systems that supplied a place just like this, not even a year ago, letting them spread into the bodies and bones of those inside. Letting them pull together, however unwittingly, into a colony, into something she could mold.
Unmake.
(But then there had been a young blonde woman on the floor, so achingly resembling--)
(Why... why do you want to hurt me?)
But she had made Janet a promise, of sorts. To be a monster, but only to those who deserved it. Not to the little ants running around inside that hulking cage of metal and acrid smoke, with their little lives that harmed little in the space of all things. To embrace some humanity (sentimentality), for once.
(She knew herself better than that. Knew that it wasn't about the promise to Janet, but the promise to herself, to grow, to rise, to genuinely improve what could be improved, instead of lashing out.)
So out in the marshes, she waited. An access pass sat snugly within a pocket on her overalls, stolen from some poor sap in a bar who couldn't believe his luck. (He was alive, too.) Should she wait for that dark-haired woman with her dangerous hands?
Probably not. She always worked best alone, and the vegetation here stood tall, vulnerable to deadly fingers. So Ivy righted herself, and let the vegetation move with her as she walked the last half-mile into the belly of the beast.
Not an unmaking, but a precision strike.
It was a place to start.
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She let the fungus slip into the electrical systems.
"And blowing myself up seems like a stupid idea."
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No point in commenting on the wide range of things between not planning to get someone killed, and actively wanting them dead. But she still thought about it.
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...and then the room went dark as the power shut off.
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Well. He was reasonably certain his program had taken hold.
Either way, time to make his way out of here!
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"Well. That worked."
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"And now what little security this place has is probably on its way," she said. "Time to move. Upstairs. Fast."
She was already heading for the door.
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Then she was moving to follow.
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Another flashlight pierced through the darkness, from the other side of the hallway they'd come in through. Clearly a lone security guard, barging his way down the stairs.
Ivy sighed. She turned into the corridor anyway, approaching. "Nothing you need to worry about."
A soft scent of something special carried on the air, drifting towards the man. No need to make this painful.
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She was on alert, staying behind Ivy, but --
Something in her was curious about how this would play out.
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"Of course not," he said, dreamily. "I'm so sorry, you beautiful, incredible creature!"
He stepped out of Ivy's way. "Anything you want..."
She offered him a businesslike smile. And then headed past him, up the stairs.
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She looked wary - not that anyone was watching her - as she slipped past the man onto the stairs, giving him a wide berth just in case, as incapacitated and distracted as he seemed. "How long before that wears off?"
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"Good."
She could have asked what it was Ivy had actually done, but it didn't feel relevant.
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Hopefully, they could outpace these people.
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With the limited vision provided by the flashlight, all flashes of metal and concrete floor, it was easy to feel like she was right back in the b--
She stumbled, on the last step onto the second floor, but caught herself. Just barely.
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(Nightmare. Nightmare, right?)
And then she was moving again, to catch up.
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One more floor to go.
Ivy moved faster, ignoring the yelling below.
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She did her best to stay at Ivy's heels, ignoring the way her thighs were beginning to tell her she was pushing too far. One more floor was easy.
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She pushed open a door. Light shone out into the corridor. (Of course the CEO had a generator.)
"What on Earth--?" There was a small (he seemed small) dark-haired man at the desk, his eyes huge. "Security!"
"They're on the way," she said dryly. "They won't save you."
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This wasn't her moment for pithy comments.
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“I’d take her word for that,” he said, dropping from the vent into a crouch on the far side of the CEO from the two women. “She seems pretty serious.”
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(Nice job, Remy.)
Maybe he could get there before Octavia got to that half-sized wooden cabinet two feet away?
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And he could also get his legs kicked out from underneath him by Octavia's boot connecting with the side of his knee.
"Don't think so."
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“Have a seat, mon ami.” Well. He was already on the floor. Remy went ahead and telescoped his bo staff, planting the end by the CEO’s hand to discourage him from getting up. “Let’s hear these ladies out, hmm?”
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