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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 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.
knightinshinarmor: (fronch)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
“Not big on subtlety, are they,” Remy noted.

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.
okteiviakom: ([neu] challenge)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia was brave, a little reckless, but not stupid. When she saw what from her point of view looked like Ivy absorbing bullets, she opted to stay behind her.

"More incoming?"
knightinshinarmor: (powers)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
“With all this noise?” Remy asked. “Count on it.”

He tossed a charged card over Ivy’s shoulder, down the stairs, hoping the explosion would discourage more security from coming after them.
okteiviakom: ([neu] withering look)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia swiped a flashlight from one of the guards (one that hadn't been knocked out yet, but was now) because the light from the office would only help for so long on the way down, and she had no intention of rolling down the stairs and breaking her neck.

Also the flashlight would do okay as a blunt instrument, in a pinch.
knightinshinarmor: (say my name)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
“That’s why I only used one card, cherie,” Remy muttered. The woman Ivy had tossed aside started to get up and Remy caught her with a kick to keep her down, before trailing after them. “I’m a professional.”
okteiviakom: ([neu] yeah that'll suck)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-26 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Didn't I see you at the Nest once?" Octavia added, in a heavy drawl. Maybe less out of genuine curiosity than it was out of a need to make sure the hypnotic snapshot quality of whatever she saw with the flashlight had no chance to draw her back into thoughts of somewhere else, sometime else again.
knightinshinarmor: (no appointment)

[personal profile] knightinshinarmor 2024-10-26 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
“Probably,” Remy said idly. She’d clearly made as much an impression on him as he had on her. “And I’m a thief. And sometimes a superhero. You two ever hear of the X-Men?”
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."

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