I looked at Virgil's big brown eyes unable believe what I had almost done to he and gear and also how I couldn't have noticed the similarities between the two hero's and their normal selves.

Gear rested his hand on my thigh and squeezed to draw me back to myself.

"we knew it was you for a while. Now you know who we are and everything can be ok." he said and I looked away from him only to be met with Virgil's brown eyes again

"how did all this happen, when?" he asked and I sighed

"it was after I got the job for Alva, he recognized my name and my genius and sent me a sample of the bang baby gas. I used it to alter the D.N.A of my plants. I spliced them with the world's most poisonous and deadly snakes and serpents and it was successful but then Rex, Doug and Ramiro ambushed me." I said scooting away from the two hero's and standing up.

"There was a fight and chemicals fell on me, I was bitten by one of the flowers as the acid burned a would be grave for me and I felt myself dieing but then, I was this."

Virgil and Richie stood and came close to me again.

"it's ok Ivan we can fix all this" said Virgil

A vine suddenly slapped him across the face leaving a long gash on his cheek

"I don't want to fix it!" I all but hissed

"Ivan please calm down." said Richie putting his hand on my shoulder and the other on the hand vigil had covering his wound.

"what we are trying to say is that you don't have to do all this anymore. Things can go back to the way they were."

I stepped back from them both shaking my head. They thought this was all a cry for attention and maybe that's how it had started maybe they were right but it was more now. I was going to change the world. This was about revenge for me, revenge for my father, revenge for mother earth.

"back to the way they were. You mean me as weak, helpless Ivan don't you?" I cried

"this isn't about just me anymore."

"this isn't you it's the power of the green talking." said Richie.

"you've hurt people Ivan. Do you understand that?" said Virgil.

"I have never hurt anyone, scared maybe, but I never hurt anyone without cause"

"what about Rex, Ramiro and Doug"

"Rex and Doug aren't dead, or haven't you noticed rot and vain." I said

"you turned them into those thing…" began Richie but Virgil cut him off

"and what about Ramiro. What happened to him huh Ivan"

I hung my head and blinked a few times.

"he was an unfortunate casualty but I do not regret any of it."

"you should listen to them Ivan." said a deep voice that made my spine tingle.

I turned and was met face to face with a leather clad chest. I stepped back and was beguiled by the image of the dark Knight, The Batman!

"your going down a dark path here in you intention to create this plant utopia of yours. Do you really want to live in a world where you constantly have to fight the men you love?"

He said stepping toward me.

"it won't be like that" I said stepping back.

"yes it will. They are heroes. It's their job to save people and take down villain. And you are a villain. Just like your grandmother. But you can change before you go down that road cause I swear even if they don't take you down I will."

I looked from the batman to my heroes and felt an all too human chill run down my spine. They were right. But I couldn't stop I wouldn't. I shook my head and glared at them all.

"forgive me Virgil Richie but I'm on a mission and I will not be stopped."

"then you leave me no choice." said the batman. He made a move for his utility belt and Virgil and Richie protested but there was no need because suddenly a huge root erupted under his feet and drove to the other side of the roof.

"that wasn't me.' I said holding my hand up as both my heroes looked at me as though I had just bitch slapped Santa.

"no it wasn't my lovely" said a voice that had haunted my dreams.

A huge root rose from the side of the roof and standing on it was a figure as beautiful as dawn. Her flaming red/orange hair was tussled and wild. Her eyes shone like emeralds in the dark.. Beneath the day glow orange shirt she wore tired under her large perky breast leaves and vines served as her only clothing, like eve rising from the garden of Eden. Save for the breast and the flaming hair it was like looking at an older more mature female version of myself. The barky root coiled over the roof edge and she descended down it like royalty down stairs. This was her, the infamous Poison ivy. My father's mother, my grandmother. Her eyes were locked on mine and I felt a tingle of longing. A desire to run into her arms and stay there forever.

But there was another urge almost like something tugging at my blood telling me to stay away.

"Ivan. My Flower." said the woman.

I stood still as a an oak fighting between the urge to run into Ivy's arms and stay where I was.

"grandmother?" I quizzed and she nodded.

"so beautiful, and how you've suffered. But just like a wild rose you bloomed and strangled out everything around you till you reached your potent ional." she said with an almost ad look in her face.

My feet moved without my control and I flung myself into her arms, barring myself into her almost bare breast. Here it was a connection to my father, a link in the chain that I alone had occupied for so long. I could feel him in her though they bore little to know features in resemblance. Still. She had come for me when no other had.

"Ivan! Get away from her!" cried Static rushing forward but he was knocked back by what appeared to be a huge boxing glove on a spring. I looked to the large gun that had shot the thing to find it being held by a woman in a Harlequin costume of red and black. Her face was painted white behind a black mask and her lips a dark red.

"sorry kiddies but this is a family only event. No interlopers." she said in a sing song voice with an almost manic smile.

"Harley!" cried gear rushing forward only to be kicked back by Harley's cart healing feet

"come my bloom. Show me where you have set your roots and we may begin to realize the reign of the green." said Ivy looking at me lovingly. So few people had ever given me that look. First only my mother then too my other shock and surprise Virgil and Richie, and now my grandmother.

The branch on which we stood rose and a leaves sprouted as a large rose grew under us closing it petals instantly just as Harley joined us inside.

My boys were already gone, having received some silent order from ivy herself. I had one last glimpse oat my heroes and fought the tears realizing that with this single act I had betrayed them and all they stood for. I begged mother earth that they would understand and forgive me.

"he is beyond our help. He is in Ivy's thrall now we must take him down!" said batman sternly as Gear and Static paced around HQ trying to figure out what could be done.

"no!" cried Static. "ivy is hurting and on a power trip right now. He isn't a bad guy, he isn dangerous.!"

"Not dangerous! He nearly killed an entire building of people, Edwin Alva is a catatonic state, and have we forgotten about your three high school bullies and that missing hood."

Batman as always was right but Gear and Static wouldn't here of it.

"haven't you even loved someone batman?" asked gear knowing that he was overstepping his bounds.

"someone who seemed to be bad and maybe even was. Didn't you ever think you could change them? Didn't you ever try?"

Bat man said nothing but simply turned his back to type into the HQ computer.

"if you can talk him out of it then so be it. But it not we must take both Ivan and ivy down. Alone ivy is dangerous but with Ivan's considerable powers under her control and tutelage she could take the city of Dakota in les than a month in less than a year she'll have the whole country green and not in a good way."

"we will save Ivan and stop poison ivy if it's the last thing we do." said static slamming his fist into the wall and sending an electrical shock through the entire block causing ever light within a mile radius to glow brighter and flicker.

Ivy was strong and ruthless as crabgrass. In less than a week she had over taken the entire subway system around my lair and the large sprawling park and subway station above. With my help we turned it into a paradise like none ever known. Ivy dubbed it Eden 2. I build for the Breed specialized chambers fit to there powers and personalities and for Vein, Rot , and Rockwood a sprawling area composed of a noxious acidic swam surrounded by a forest of trees, stones and algae and vines. But nothing I did could bring me the feeling I had before. I really only felt when in grandmother's arms. She taught me so much more than I had known before. How to hear the voice of the green as though it were all around me, how to not only summon flowers and pants to my bidding but trees and other plant matter as well. Harley or auntie H as she made me call her was just as helpful. She taught me how to fight, how to flip and kick and float through the air like a gymnast. And still I felt un even. Unwhole. I knew of course it was because if Virgil and Richie. Ivy had been very careful to make sure that I had little to no contact with there heroes' since her arrival weeks ago. She seemed to think they would turn me against her. She constantly told me men, humans were all the same. When they found something beautiful, that either had cultivate it or bottle it up and put it on display. Was that to be my fate? I was so confused. I loved ivy and wanted to do everything in my power to make her happy but I was in love with my two heroes so deeply that even my own desires to turn the earth into a green paradise had died slightly, SLIGHTLY.

Ivy said she would make both our dreams a reality but her plan for the world was far more drastic than my one. But how could I argue with my grandmother. She new best as she constantly reminded me.

"my dear little tulip, I know my actions may seem harsh now but soon you will see that it is for the best. The humans have ruled the earth long enough and have done nothing but destroy her. Can't you feel her pain. Your still holding on to your human life and mind. Let it all go and you will see that my way is best."

She was right but I didn't want to let go of my human side. It was my connection to my mother, to Virgil and Richie and to all my friends.

I wonder through Eden 2 till I came to HotStreak's sunny patch of garden. I needed to feel something and the danger of his fire was provoking. I found him easily enough and he knew what I wanted. Without hesitating he was on me, scorching off my floral robe and laying me down on the dry grass. I dug my nails into his back no longer fearing that I was a danger to him as he drove into my nectar wet entry. I arched my back throwing back my head and releasing it from the lavish combs ivy had presented me with. She said that was a god of the green now and should dress like one.

"harder I moaned and HotStreak obliged driving into me with such farce that my breath cinched in my chest and I was a lost for words but it wasn't enough. I needed the pain, the raw hurt of it all. I wanted to be ravaged and there was only one who would be capable.

"ebon" I cooed in his darkened jungle. I had left HotStreak tired and satisfied but I need more.

"what you want fairy." his voice hissed in the shadows.

"you." I said dropping the robe once more. I was still leaking with cum from Francis.

"I'm not gonna be nice about this. This isn't about making you feel good like all those other faggots out there. This is about finally putting you in your place fairy boy."

I shivered as the whisper of ebon's voice came from all around me then I felt his presence behind me and I was slammed against the ground on my back. I could see him in the shifting shadows but I felt him.. He enveloped me and then he was in me. Hard and fast and with out mercy. This felt right even as I screamed out. This was what I had needed. Secretly I knew that it was my guilt at leaving both my heroes that drove me to this but I had never been the kind to reckless or self destructive but now with the master of shadows plowing into me I had to think. Could I have been wrong? Could I have made a mistake. No! I had done everything right. When it was all said and done and grandmother and I had secured the green's rule over the earth I could claim my heroes once more. Till then I could easily avoid them. Battles could be easy to walk away from. I could attack them just enough to leave them a little battered and bruised but never severely then when all was said and done they would come to me. They would realize that I loved them I had down this for their good as well as my own.

I clutched to ebon's back arching up against his chest as he hammered into me with inhuman force and ferocity, digging my nails into his black skin till I felt the cool wetness of blood.

My grandmother knew what was best for me and the green would not lead me wrong.

Right? Right?

"there's my little lily." Ivy crooned wrapping a loving arm around my shoulder and kissing my cheek then forehead.

"what is all this?" I asked observing the lab that had all but sprang up in what had once been the subway station gift shop. There were tubes and beakers and diffusers and other such lab equipment everywhere. Vain, Rot, and Rockwood were all lined along one wall with tubes leading from them to the boiling beakers on the table. From there more tubing leading into the body of a prone homeless man chained to the adjacent wall.

"this is how we will rule the world my little one. Said Ivy leading me over to the homeless man. His skin was already turning green and pale from the transfusion of my creatures' blood. His eyes were lidless and white and he seemed to be shrinking in on himself.

"it's a dialed down dose of the green that created your beautiful creatures." she said with a snake's smile.

"with this we will turn any human who opposes us into plant beings. Mindless, but strong, easily controllable and obedient to us alone. They won't be anywhere near as strong or intelligent as your originals and no where near so as Vain but they will be useful."

"grandmother. I don't want to hurt anyone. Those two, it was revenge, they killed me. And Rockwood was just in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Ivy put down the test tube she was examining and looked at me with a small smile. But her eyes held something else. Anger, annoyance.

Was this not what you wanted Ivan. For man kind so summer for all that they had done to the earth, all that they had done to you." she said snaking an arm around my waist and pulling me close to her. I rested my chin on her breast and looked up at her, my eyes ever questioning. What had I wanted? Surely not this. Maybe Batman was right. Maybe I had used vengeance for mother earth as a scapegoat, a shield to hide my true intentions. Had I really just been a hurt little boy wanting to get back at those who had hurt me. Perhaps but still I wanted to change things for the better. Turning a few careless business tycoons with no care for what they did to the earth into algae men would have been for the better and I never had the intention of hurting anyone not like this.

"I don't know about all this grand mother. It seems so drastic. Not all humans are bad and not all of them are destructive either. Some of them care for the earth, some of them fight for her just as hard as we do and with not added help from the powers of the green." I said and she chuckled stroking my hair.

"yes and those shell be the ones we spare, after all, I intend to turn the entire world into my garden, so we will need those caring humans to tend it,"

I opened my mouth to speak but soon found her lips pressed to mine in a chaste kiss of dismissal.

"go find Harley and tell her I wish to speak with her."

"yes grandmother." I said and turned to go.

Virgil hung up the phone again throwing his mask down on the table.

"that was Ivan's mom. Again!" he groaned.

"I can't keep lying to that woman rich."

"well you can't very well tell her the truth either no can you. "oh yes Mrs. Isley, I've seen Ivan. He's currently terrorizing the city with your late husbands mother, poison ivy. Cause he had the same powers she does. I'll be sure to send him your love next time he's whipping my ass" I don't think she would like that. It's best to let her worry."

Virgil threw his shock box at Richie before flopping down on the couch.

"I want him back Richie. More then I want to breath sometimes and I'm so afraid that we've lost him."

Richie took off his visor and plugged backpack into it's charger before sitting next to Virgil.

"we both miss him V that why we gotta stay strong and keep fighting ivy till she slipped up one day and tells us where he is. We'll make him see the light even if we have to drag him kicking and screaming."

"easier said than done Rich man." sighed Virgil.

"what happens if we can do it Richie. Ivan was already angry and bitter and hurt before Ivy got here. What will happen if she's brainwashed him into thinking that her view of things is right. I mean you heard bat man. If Ivan becomes a danger and we can't take him down. He will and I'm sure he won't be nice about it."

"if that happens we will have to think of something to do. We can take him away somewhere or. Or_"

"or what rich? Or what!"

"or you could just kill me"

Both heroes looked up t the door of their hide out to see a figure standing there shrouded in a hood that hooded cloak that's seemed to be made out of a huge deep green flower petal. The figure lowered that hood setting free and mane of dazzling red/ pink curls that tumble over his shoulder down to his waist, setting his glowing green eyes ablaze.

Richie was the first on his feet launching him self off the couch and at Ivan like a mad man, Virgil right behind him. Ivan fell to the floor with the combined weight of the two teens on top of him but he didn't care in moment his lips were being assaulted by tow other pairs. Back and forth from Virgil to Richie till his lips were bruised and puffy.

"we would never kill you Ivan." whispered Virgil fighting back tears as he kissed Ivan's neck and cheeks.

"we would die first."

I had betrayed my grandmother to see them and now in their arms I realized it was the right thing to do. I could not survive in a world where I could never feel them against me, never hold them, kiss them, love them. I only prayed that I had come in time to warn them and that they would forgive me for my foolishness.

author notes

to all the readers and Followers of POISON IVAN i just wanted to say sorry for taking so long. it's been kinda slow year for me and a lot of stuff has happened but im back now and will re cranking out the rebooted last few chapters of this fanfic and all my others as well. i want to thank everyone for all the kind words about this fanfic and all those who have been fallowing the story so far. this chaper of Ivan's life is almost wound up but we all know that you can't keep a good Boy down and ivan will be popping up again to woo a whole new group of young heroes soon.

once again i just wanted to say thank you to all my fans and fallowers and i hope you guys support my other fics and give me the stregnth to keep on cranking out these fanfics.

sincerely Child of Calypso