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 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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"You've been dumping illegal waste into the water for decades," she said. "Now, we've already done enough damage that you won't be able to get this facility working again for some time."
She squatted down, looking him right in his terrified face. "You're not going to try. Or we'll come back."
On the other side of the door, a set of boots landed on the fourth floor.
"You're psychos!" the man roared. "I'm going to have you all arrested!"
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He showed the man the phone screen. And the app, showing the company’s accounts draining to zero.
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Well, Ivy reflected. This was some unexpected teamwork.
"What did I tell you?" she said idly, as her hair seemed to catch flame, as hyphae wound its way around her body and fruiting bodies of fungus sprouted from her chest. Her voice twisted into something wet and dark, like the deep soil of the forest. "They won't save you."
He screamed.
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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.
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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.
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Her gaze, red and impossible, landed on Octavia. "N̵̬͠o̷̬̅w̵̗̍ ̴̼̘͊w̶̺̝̕̚e̶͖̿͠ ̸͚̾̓ḷ̴̔͠ȩ̵͊̚a̵̼̰͒͠v̷͚̋e̸̜̭̓.̸̨̌" She gestured at the door with long talons.
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"Sha."
Prayer, compliance, both.
The spell finally broke when she shoved the cabinet out of the way of the door.
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“You got an exit strategy?” he checked.
He also wasn’t looking to leave these two to fight their way back out.
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"Y̵̡̤̬̎́͝e̶̛̞̤̬̥̕s̷̛̤̿̎͌̒.̸̭̟͖̰̓ͅ," she said, irritation slipping into that otherworldly voice.
She had been tall before. She was taller still, now. There was something almost stately in the way she strode past Octavia, out the door, and batted one of the incoming security guards aside like he was nothing.
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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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The man on the floor just whimpered.
Remy folded his bo and stuck it in his pocket along with his phone, then headed after them.
Someone had to make sure this place didn’t end up a bloodbath.
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With an irritated swipe, she grabbed the woman's pistol and cleaved it straight in half, flinging a part of the metal at the third guard, still coming up the stairs. It hit him square against the forehead.
"What the--" he managed, stumbling backwards as he fumbled for his own gun.
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"More incoming?"
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He tossed a charged card over Ivy’s shoulder, down the stairs, hoping the explosion would discourage more security from coming after them.
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Though at least that explosion blew the other guard against the wall, knocking him out completely. Ivy grunted, shoving the female guard in front of her aside.
She charged down the stairs, pulling the fungus back into her, clearing it from her skin - she'd be faster that way, less noticable.
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Also the flashlight would do okay as a blunt instrument, in a pinch.
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