Here is the next update.

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Batman had soon gotten the call and was immediately on his way to the crime scene. When he got there however, he noticed the shocked and frightened faces upon the investigators faces.

"Batman," Commissioner Gordon said. "This is nasty stuff, two muggers were attacked while in the process of mugging their attacker."

"Doesn't sound so bad to me," Robin said.

"I'd agree with that normally, but this is anything but normal, even for Gotham. Come and see."

He led the three heroes to the scene and he first showed them the tied up mugger, or where he was tied up.

"I at first thought it was Poison Ivy, but the guy said that it was a boy, seventeen at the most."

"Alex Nashton," Batman concluded.

"I thought he was dead," Gordon said. "You saying we're dealing with a zombie who can manipulate plants?"

"I don't think he really did die, just seemed like it, maybe put into a dormant state while his powers manifested."

"Well you might want to see this other guy."

He led them to the other body and they stood in shock at it.

"What happened to him?," Batgirl asked, and Batman shook off his shock and examined him.

"Something impossible," he said. "He's been petrified, like fossilized wood."

"That is impossible, Batman," Robin said.

"It would seem it is when you're Alex Nashton. Must've received different abilities than Ivy."

"Temblor did hit him with his glove things," Batgirl said.

"Whatever caused his powers, we need to find him before he hurts anyone else," Batman said and they all left to look for another more reports on Alex.

Botanical Gardens

Alex walked through the gardens with ease, admiring even simplest beauties of them, unaware that someone was watching him, getting more and more angry that he was there.

With his hood up, this person could not see who it was. Alex continued to explore, as he did he encountered many of the sentient plants that Poison Ivy had created.

"Why hello there," he said walking up to one, unafraid. He then placed his head on it and stroked it. "You're a big one."

Then vines wrapped around him and a bigger plant appeared and he was placed right in front in of it.

"You shouldn't have come here," a muffled voice said.

"I had nowhere else to go," he said. "Throughout the time I woke up, I have felt most at home when I came in here."

"Who are you?"

"Better question is who are you? I'm in perfect view, you are not."

With that, the giant plant opened up and Poison Ivy appeared.

"See me now?," she asked in her real voice, and Alex's eyes widened, but she could not see this as his hood was still up and he was looking downward.

"Pamela?"

"I am Poison Ivy!!," she angrily yelled and she slammed him into a wall and was about to hit him again but he placed his hand out and the plant stopped. "What?"

"Alright then...Ivy," he said. He got up and looked up at her as he pulled down his hood, and she gasped loudly.

"A-Alex??"

"Yes."

Ivy came down from the plant and she over and hugged him tightly, which he returned.

"I thought you were dead!," she said as they let go.

"I was," Alex answered. "When I awoke, I heard whispers. Pained whispers, I soon realized that they were the pain of Mother Nature. I understand now, Ivy. Man must be stopped from destroying everything."

"I couldn't agree more," she said. "Right now I'm bidding my time, tending to the plants here. Waiting for the right moment."

"That's a good idea."

"Now if you're gonna help me, we need to find you a name."

"Well since Poison Ivy is taken already and it sound too girlish to me," he began and she playfully scoffed. "I was thinking of Poison Oak."

"Sounds good to me," Ivy commented. "So, why didn't you tell me that the Riddler was your uncle?"

His eyes then widened again at this question. "Because...because I was afraid I'd lose the only two friends I had if I did."

"Oak," she said using his new name. "You could never lose me. It doesn't matter who you're related to, you are who you choose to be."

"And I choose to be a hero," a voice said behind them and they turned. "While you both choose to be villains."

"Batgirl," Ivy said.

"Batgirl?," Oak said. "How much did I miss?"

"A lot," Batgirl answered.

"Well, sometimes one must do the wrong thing for the greater good, there is no easy way out of it."

"And how did you find us here?," Ivy demanded.

"Wasn't hard as Poison Oak here, has left a trail of bodies in his wake," a familiar voice said above them.

"Batman," Poison Oak said, and the caped crusader jumped down.

"You know we can help you both, we can fix you."

"Fix us?!," Oak yelled, and he covered his arms in petrified wood. "We are the solution."

He then ran at them and threw punches at Batman, who could barely deflect them, as Alex was a martial artist as well.

While they fought, Robin had shown himself and he joined Batgirl in fighting Poison Ivy.

"Don't you remember what happened last time you two fought me?," Ivy asked.

"Yeah, we kicked your butt!!!," Robin answered.

"With Batman's help. You're no match for me without him."

"We'll see about that," Batgirl said. They then ran at her and she shot vines at them, which the two sidekicks used their Batarangs and Birdarangs to slice through them, causing Ivy and Oak to feel some pain. It wasn't much but enough for Batman to gain the advantage. He punched him in the face, grabbed his arm and flipped him over his head, and he knocked him out. And Ivy saw Oak on the ground and a look of fear grew on her face.

"Oak!!," she yelled and she unleashed massive roots which began crumbling up the flooring, but Batman thre Batgrenades at them and they were indisposed. Robin and Batgirl had decided that he could handle things and they would just enjoy the show.

Poison Oak wasn't as knocked out as everyone thought and he opened his eyes and saw the sidekicks, then he saw Batman preparing to subdue Poison Ivy, and he smirked.

He slide his hand over the floor and roots wrapped around Robin and Batgirl, trapping them both.

As Bruce cuffed Ivy, his attention was brought to the sidekicks.

"Hey!!!," Oak yelled. He turned to see the sidekicks captured and now Poison Oak had petrified wood blades at their necks. "Release her!! Now!!!"

"Don't do it Batman!!," Robin yelled but a root covered his mouth.

"There are three ways this can go down," Poison Oak said. "One, you let her go and you all leave, or you find a way to subdue me which would lead to them being crushed. Or you outright refuse and your sidekicks lose their heads."

"You'd kill children?," Batman questioned him, but the look in his eye said it all. "...Next time, we're bringing you both in."

"Only fate knows that for sure. Now at the same time," he said and Batman uncuffed Ivy and Poison Oak released Robin and Batgirl.

"You certainly have changed Alex," Batgirl said.

"So have you, Barbara," he said and everyone went wide eyed. "Did you honestly think I'd not recognize your voice?"

They all said nothing and as they left, Barbara took one last look at Ivy and Oak.

"I wish things turned out differently," she said.

"In a way, so do we," Ivy said. "But know that we will always consider you our friend."

She nodded and she disappeared, leaving the to metahumans alone again.

"Are you okay?," Oak asked.

"I'll live," Ivy said.

"Feels only like yesterday the three of us were normal teenagers."

"Yeah, so what now?"

"Well for now...I'm going to go find Temblor," he answered. "He's going to pay for what he did."

"His actions made us who we were meant to be, you know?," Ivy said.

"True. But he did kill me still."

There was a small silence for a while, until Ivy finally nodded.

"It'll take a while, he's very hard to get ahold of, much less find."

"Then we'd best get to work, I'm sure our friends would be more than happy to find him for us."

With that, the two then began searching for the man responsible for what they had become. All the while, Oak couldn't keep his eyes off of Ivy.

'Just when I believed she couldn't get anymore beautiful,' he thought to himself.

Batcave

Back in the Batcave, Bruce found Barbara sitting with her head down, about to cry.

"I really am sorry, Barbara," he said. "I know how much they meant to you."

"Its not just that," she said. "Its that he knew it was me, and he was still willing to kill me, his friend."

"People will do anything to protect the ones they love."

Her head shot straight up at hearing this, barely believing it. Then she thought about it for a moment.

"Suppose it makes sense now, he always acted so strangly around her."

"I may not act like it much, but I do have hope that people can change. So don't go on and lose hope on them."

"I-I'll try," she said through tears, but smiling. She then left to go home, but she left with renewed hope. Hope that she could get her best friends back.

Hope that was good. I'll have the next chapter up as soon as possible.