joan_of_bark: (pam: walking in the woods)
Dr. Pamela Isley ([personal profile] joan_of_bark) wrote2024-10-24 08:34 am

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.

[[ nfb due to distance. open for interaction only to those aware of the situation, if they wish ]]
okteiviakom: ([neu] second dawn sinner)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Depends on the motive," Octavia replied, wrenching a pipe open.

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.
knightinshinarmor: (in the dark)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
Remy bit back a curse as the server room went dark.

Well. He was reasonably certain his program had taken hold.

Either way, time to make his way out of here!
okteiviakom: ([neu] considering)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
And where the darkness had started, Octavia blinked into it, a reflexive effort to force her eyes to adjust before her hand went for her phone.

"Well. That worked."
okteiviakom: ([neu] tribe leader)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
Octavia was not so blessed, so it took her a second longer. The screen on her phone lit up first, then the flashlight.

Then she was moving to follow.
okteiviakom: ([neu] withering look)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 10:05 am (UTC)(link)
Octavia wondered, idly, whether she should've kept the pipe she'd been wielding and had left behind for being cumbersome.

She was on alert, staying behind Ivy, but --

Something in her was curious about how this would play out.
okteiviakom: ([neu blodreina] wait)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
... Whatever Octavia had been expecting, it wasn't that.

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?"
okteiviakom: ([neu] lead the charge)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia had no problem keeping up, even with the cone of light showing her the way swinging a little with every hurried step.

"Good."

She could have asked what it was Ivy had actually done, but it didn't feel relevant.
okteiviakom: ([neg] death awaits you)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia sure seemed willing to give it her best go. Not that she felt particularly worried about two or three people. She'd faced worse - and thought, in a flash, about the stretch of corridor right outside the hydroponic farm, where she'd dealt with the uprising, body after body hitting the floor.

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.
okteiviakom: ([neu] look down)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia gave a vague grunt, both acknowledgement and a mask for the second or two it took her to gather herself, like shaking off a dream.

(Nightmare. Nightmare, right?)

And then she was moving again, to catch up.
okteiviakom: ([neu] challenge)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia paid it no particular mind either. Just let it boost the adrenaline already coursing in her veins.

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.
okteiviakom: ([neu] lead the charge)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia made sure the door closed after her, then scanned the room for something to push in front of it for good measure. Slow down the loud people still on the stairs.

This wasn't her moment for pithy comments.
knightinshinarmor: (mid-swing)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Remy had taken his time on his way from the server room, careful not to draw any attention from the folks now running around the facility. He paused by the vent in the CEO’s office again, surprised — but somehow not — to see who was busting in.

“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.”
okteiviakom: ([neu] withering look)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, he could try.

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."
knightinshinarmor: (say my name)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Remy noted the skill of that attack with a slight tilt of his head. He wasn’t sure exactly what these two had planned or which side of it he preferred to be on — but considering it had been talking to Pam that had inspired him to rob this place in the first place, he was willing to see where it was going rather than rush into any heroing.

“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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