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] 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?”
okteiviakom: ([neg] prepare for sarcasm)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"We could do worse," Octavia rasped, the cabinet now blocking the door some of the way. Enough to slow down the people on the other side, without being too much of a problem for getting out. "You should be grateful."
knightinshinarmor: (so plesed)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Remy tsked. “Here I was hoping we’d be friends.” He pulled out his phone and shook his head. “Though I guess I ruined that chance when I took all your money.”

He showed the man the phone screen. And the app, showing the company’s accounts draining to zero.
okteiviakom: ([neu] wait what's that)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia was still at the door, too. Guy had to be desperate to think he ever had a chance - and that was without anyone knowing Ivy could do that.

Not that Octavia knew what the guy with the eyes knew or didn't know. She had a vague guess that she might have served him at the club one time, but that was it, and it wasn't like she even remembered he was in the room right now at all, because...

Because she was staring up at Ivy in awe. Textbook definition, too, every version. Veneration, wonder, and a sprinkling of the sort of fear prey animals probably felt.
knightinshinarmor: (hello petit)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, it had never occurred to Remy to wonder what the Phoenix looked like if made out of mushrooms. And yet, here they were.

He couldn’t help but wonder if Pam had much control in this form. He’d heard enough stories of Dark Phoenix to know Jean — or Madelyne or whoever — didn’t necessarily have much.

“What’s the plan here, Doc?” he asked, a trio of cards dropping from his sleeve into his hand.

He still wasn’t super into saving this asshole, but, well. He was theoretically an X-Man. There was a whole “once an X-Man, always an X-Man” deal and everything.
okteiviakom: ([neu] hope)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
This time, the word did make it past Octavia's lips, though barely more than a breath.

"Sha."

Prayer, compliance, both.

The spell finally broke when she shoved the cabinet out of the way of the door.
knightinshinarmor: (pretty basic)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh good. Remy really hadn’t been looking forward to maybe fighting fungal!Phoenix.

“You got an exit strategy?” he checked.

He also wasn’t looking to leave these two to fight their way back out.
okteiviakom: ([neu warpaint blodreina] leadership)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia's gaze followed her, and then flicked back to Remy, briefly. Then the man on the floor, right before she, too, slipped out the door to follow Ivy. Not right on her heels, but close enough.

There was a knife in her left hand, from where it had been concealed somewhere in her clothes. Just in case.

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