Nero Sage was a botanist in Brazil when he found a glowing purple herb. He studied it and sought to help nature and mankind alike with it. His goals were quickly put to an end when three intruders set fire to his lab. Before the guiding collapsed he drank from the herb. When the dust settles he found himself with the ability to control flora around him. He lived a peaceful life in the jungle until a strange android and his two companions approached him. I own nothing.

Prologue: Amethyst Heart

Nature.

It is chaotic and peaceful, life and death, nurturing and unforgiving. Nature is untamable and wild. Yet mankind believes they can control it. Their arrogance will be their downfall.

Nero Sage always disdained humanity. Being bullied and abused throughout your life would do that to you. The only thing that brought him peace was when he tended to his deceased mother's garden. As pathetic as it sounds his only friends were plants.

His passion for plants branched out when he decided to major in botany in college. He graduated early by a year. He then got a job at a lab in Brazil owned by Stark Industries. Nero didn't even know Tony Stark cared about botany.

He spent years at the lab, learning how plants could aid humanity and vice versa. That's when he found a peculiar plant. It was a glowing purple herb. He named it the Amethyst Heart, for its shape and color. He collected specimens and the soil surrounding the herbs.

What he found baffled him. The soil had traces vibranium as did the herbs. He theorizes that this particular grove stayed intact when South America and Africa separated due to continental drift. Nero sent all his information to the higher-ups.

What he didn't see coming was when Tony Stark himself came. Nero explained all the possibilities this herb could do to help mankind and nature alike. Curing diseases, regrowing dead forests. Tony seemed impressed and said that he'll fund his lab enough for fifty years.

Everything seemed perfect for Nero, he was up for a Nobel Prize, he's head scientist, in Tony Stark's favor and he spends most of his time with plants. Everything seems perfect.

But alas life is never perfect.

Nero would usually leave at around midnight and he did but a bad feeling kept eating at the back of his mind. When he returned, the first thing he checked on was the Amethyst Hearts. He found three people dressed in strange clothes. One of them dressed in all black with a mask like a cat and the other two were women with bald heads and spears.

He pulled the alarm alerting them. They aimed their spears at him and sent blasts of energy at him but he dived out if the way. He saw them begin to take the herbs so he quickly tackled the masked one down. His helmet flew off and he saw a clear look at the man's face before he scrambled up. He grabbed one of the specimens before he was knocked down.

Before he could get up he heard and felt an explosion. He heard one of them scold the other before they fled. The explosions continued and the building began to collapse. He looked around and saw all the shelves of chemicals falling over. The chemicals drenched him blinding him. He used what little strength he had to raise the herb over his mouth and squeezed. He drank every last drop before the ceiling caved in.

Nero thought he was dead when he saw was an idyllic haven. A never-ending jungle without a human in sight. The sky shined a brilliant violet with stars dotting through. He felt at peace.

Suddenly his eyes shot open and he gasped for air. He was covered in debris and pushed it off with relative ease. He climbed out of the ruble and witness what remained of his lab. Everything he worked for, the thing that made him happiest were all gone.

Tears welled up in his eyes before he let out a wail. What he didn't expect is when the ground shook and trees broke out from the rubble. The trees grew to full maturity, which would usually take decades, within a matter of seconds.

Nero slowly reached out and touched the stump of the closest tree and ferns, flowers and vines instantaneously grew on the trunk and up to the branches up top. He pulled back and looked down at his hand.

Sirens broke him out of his inner thoughts. He knew what would happen to him if they find out what happened. He'll be a lab rat, experimented on so he ran as fast as he can into the Amazon. And he never looked back.

The only thing on his mind is to find those responsible for destroying his life. Once he does he would use these new abilities to make them pay.