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] locked lips)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"So you're not a man now?"

So that was also a no.
knightinshinarmor: (mid-swing)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
“Ha,” Remy said. He leaped down the next set of stairs, not even to show off, just out of expediency. “Point is, I know how to use my powers for combat. Like how much we want something to go ‘boom’.”
okteiviakom: ([neu] tribe leader)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia was hot on -- well, their heels, now.

With one last glance up the stairwell, just to make sure no one else was about to leap into their midst. But no, all seemed clear on that end.
knightinshinarmor: (hello petit)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
“Want me to blow the exit?” Remy asked. He had more cards in his hand again, glowing bright pink.
okteiviakom: ([neu] stop your shenanigans)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Would slow them down from coming after us."

Blowing it up after they were through, obviously, but she was a but busy trying to do that to complete the thought.
knightinshinarmor: (powers)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
“Usually,” Remy agreed. He dodged to the side after going through the door, and waited for Octavia to get clear before tossing his cards back in.

The ‘boom’ wasn’t too big. It certainly wouldn’t give the three of them any trouble.
okteiviakom: ([neg] what oh no)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"What th--"

There was more instinct than thought involved in Octavia starting after Ivy and the....

Okay, she had no idea what that was.
knightinshinarmor: (not again!)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
“That’s new,” Remy said. “It’s new, right? Doc!”

He also dashed after Ivy and the . . . thing.
okteiviakom: ([neu] considering)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Even if Octavia had wanted to (maybe did want to) disobey such a direct order, she couldn't follow them into so much vegetation.

She pulled her outstretched hand back. (Another instinct. Guess they'd wait yet some more to find out what her trouble did to fungi.) Looked over at Remy.

"Well, you heard her."
knightinshinarmor: (daddy issues)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
“Mmhm.” Remy nodded toward the road. “After you.”
okteiviakom: ([neu] head on straight on)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia glanced back at the door - or what was left of it - one last time.

And then took off, making sure to keep to the asphalt.