Chapter Fifty: The Demon's Quest Part One.


Gotham City's notorious weather was acting up something fierce. There was a loud crack of thunder that was followed by a flash of light that whipped across the sky. One could not really accuse what was going on being any kind of calm before the storm. That was the furthest thing from a person's mind. The calm was not here, although there was a huge storm brewing above them in Gotham City.

The Arrow was a long way from Star City. She just had a close encounter with the League of Assassins tonight. She was meeting with two people here in Gotham City. The pitter patter of rain water down onto the sky caused shivers to blow down her spine.

Arrow turned around and saw the Huntress join her. She knew that she could count on her for back up. Batgirl showed up alongside her and Black Canary joined them. The quartet looked at each other and prepared for an intense battle.

"I doubted that you would miss this one," Arrow said.

Dinah responded with a smile when she looked at her partner, in more ways than one. "Are you kidding, I wouldn't miss this one for the world?"

"So far, all is quiet," Batgirl added. She was a bit nervous because of this fact, because everything being quiet put her at a lack of ease.

'Barbara, you of all people better not say that things are too quiet,' Kara thought. 'While you could make an argument of the fact that Donna and I didn't know any better a long time ago, you really should know better. You really should know about not inspiring all of the horror movie clichés.'

'I wasn't going to say that, I swear,' Barbara thought. That caused Dinah to turn to the redhead with a smile on her face.

'You were thinking of it, weren't you?' Dinah asked her. That caused Barbara to fold her arms over her chest and stick out her lip.

The Arrow ran into that one assassin that was scouting things. She could have sworn that there were more around, but they disappeared into the shadows. She felt rather bored just waiting for anything exciting to happen. She didn't want to say that she yearned for action, but she did. Anything was better than just sitting on the rooftop and twiddling your thumbs. She stood perched on the gargoyle near her, ready to fire when someone moved wrong.

Helena cleared her throat and pointed downwards. The group looked towards a group of shady looking individuals. They were about ready to break a lock on the building.

"About time, I was getting bored waiting," Artemis replied. She thought that her arm was going to get stiff from holding the Arrow for some long.

She was about ready to fire on the thugs, but there was a flash in the distance. That caused the group to pause and wonder what was happening.

A large wooden staff came down across the back of the head of one of the thugs. Another thug swung a beefy arm forward and tried to attack the person in charge.

Helena realized what was happening. She lifted her hand into the air and was about ready to do the most epic of epic face palms.

'He didn't….he so fucking didn't,' Helena thought. She wanted to scream and it was a good thing that Harry was preoccupied by other things, because he wouldn't be too happy regarding this either.

The girl was dressed in a green and red combination suit. She wore a pair of green shorts and a red shirt with a green "R". She wore a red cape and a black domino mask on her face. She dropped a pair of pellets on the ground and caused a cloud of smoke to appear around her. She propelled herself up into the air. She used the heads of the thugs as some stair steps and she ran up them.

She brought the staff down onto the face of one of her enemies. There was a loud crack when the staff was brought down onto an adversary. She swung the staff again, but she was brought down to the ground hard.

Rebecca groaned when she was struck down from behind.

The Huntress jumped in and hit a leaping kick to take out one of the goons. Another thug tried to take her out, but she caught the thugs arm and bent him back at the elbow. The loud and disgusting sound of a bone breaking brought him down onto the ground.

Black Canary was in position. She let out a canary cry and caused the thugs flying into a fence. She removed a pair of batons and swung them. The sound of iron against flesh was a nasty combination.

One of the thugs tried to get away, but Artemis shot him in the back of the leg with an arrow. The thug fell down to the ground, landing face first onto the ground.

She was about ready to swoop down onto the ground and move in for the kill, but Batman swooped down and snatched him up.

The thug's predicament appeared to go from bad to worse, at least from his vantage point. Batman dangled him over the ledge and his face was nearly in that of the thugs. The thug tried to pull himself away, but Batman wasn't going to let him up.

"Why are you breaking into that building?" Batman asked.

Helena reached down and helped Rebecca up. She gratefully took her hand.

"I don't know what he was thinking putting you in the line of fire like that," Helena said. She checked Rebecca out for any injuries. It was quite fortunate that the girl wasn't injured all that much.

She shook her head in response. "I'm fine, I got this….."

Artemis got up to the building, to join Batman.

"I've got this handled," Batman replied.

"Right, sure you do," Artemis said. She launched an arrow into the side of the shoulder of the thug. "Either you tell me what you know, or when I pull this arrow out, I'm going to do it in the most painful way possible."

The thug started to foam at the mouth. She wanted to scream in frustration.

"The League pulled one over us again," Artemis said, and Helena was up on the rooftop again, to face Batman.

"What were you thinking?" Huntress asked, staring down her alternate dimension father.

"She's been trained," Batman said, getting what she was talking about right away. "And it was her choice to be out here on the field."

Helena's gaze was burning at him. If she could set fire to him with her mind, she honestly would. She was about ready to say something. The radio crackled to life and there was something happening in the bank.

"Guys, there's a problem!" Barbara yelled urgently over the communication link.

Huntress and Arrow joined Black Canary, Robin, and Batgirl on the ground. Batman joined them right away.

"Stay back," Huntress said urgently to the young sidekick. There was a second where she looked at Helena and she really frowned in response.

Inside the building, they peered through the windows. There was several large plant monsters that broke through the ground of the building, through a vault. Batman broke open the lock and entered inside.

"We also have another problem," Chloe informed Arrow through the link.

"Really, bigger than this one?" Arrow asked. She aimed her arrow and started to fire at the plants over and over again. The arrows didn't even put a dent in the plants. She was going to need something stronger.

"Arkham Asylum has been busted open," Chloe said. That was a statement that got people's full attention and rightfully so.


Meanwhile at the League Headquarters, Chloe positioned herself in the mission support chair. This was a pretty amazing experience all things considered. It caused her blood to pump and her heart to rush when she looked around with everything. Impressive didn't even begin to describe what was happening around her.

She thought that she would lose her mind. The woman got onto the communication link.

"The plants are popping all over Gotham City, but there's also in Star City, Central City, and Metropolis," Chloe said. She could hear some footsteps behind her.

"So, we're just going to have to find the source and take them out," Lois added. She had her ring charged and she was ready to go. Shayera and Diana joined her, as the trio of females wondered when they were going to be deployed on missions.

"If it was only that simple," Chloe said. She bit down so hard on her lip that she left an imprint on them. The woman shook her head in response. "The source….the source is something that's not anywhere near the city."

'Shouldn't Pamela's mind be spread a bit thin, then,' Kara thought. 'I mean, she's trying to control all of those plants.'

'Not if she grew satellite duplicates of herself to control then,' Harry thought. 'The problem with that is the duplicates might think that they are the original copy. LuthorCorp managed to get their hands on a sample of one of the first plants, we're sending the readings to RAO to see if we can figure out how to find a counteragent.'

'We're running down to the wire if we don't have a counter agent,' Karen said. She frowned.

'I know we're really running down to the wire, but what are you going to do about it?' Harry asked. 'These plants are pretty impressive, I'll say that much.'

Harry might have been more impressed by the plants if they weren't about ready to kill them. Chloe made her way off to check on a couple of things. The elevator across from the room would lead her to the RAO tower.

'Shayera, Diana, and Lois, back up the crew in Gotham City, that's where the main concentration of plants is,' Harry thought. He frowned. 'The League would sooner burn Gotham City to the ground to get Batman's attention.'

'Believe me, they've got his attention already, no need to burn it to the ground,' Helena thought. 'How close are we to gaining a counter agent?'

'Closer than most would be, but not close as we should be,' Harry said.

Chloe arrived in the lab right now. She nearly was run over by Whitney who tripped over her own feet in an attempt to rush some notes over towards others in the building.

"Whoa, what where you're going," Chloe said. She was almost amused by this entire situation.

Whitney shook her head in a rapid fire flurry. The girl took a deep breath and closed her eyes. "Oh, there's no time, wish there was more time, but there's no time, trust me on that one."

Gwen poked her head out of the lab. She was all businesslike, but nervous at the same time.

"I have some of the notes on the plant attacks, if you want them," Chloe said. She answered Gwen's unasked question.

"Thanks," Gwen said. She wasn't ignorant to what was going on here. She wasn't one of the smartest girls ever for no reason at all. "That will be a big help. There have been a couple of attacks in Metropolis, but not too many."

"That's because the man behind this is afraid of…." Chloe said. She could see a dark haired blur outside of the window. That caused Chloe's frown to deepen.

'Claire, would it help if I asked you to be careful?' Chloe thought. She could see the cyclone effect outside of the window that she created.

People plucked off of the ground and trafficked elsewhere. They were safely high above the ground out of the reach of the plants.

'You told her to be careful for years, and she didn't listen,' Lana reminded Chloe. 'And I'm sure that she'll be okay, Kara's keeping an eye on her and there's more help on the way.'

'We're never going to find this counter agent in time,' Karen said in an exasperated voice. 'Harry, are you still there?'

'Yes, I'm here, I've got a lead of where I need to go,' Harry thought.

'What are you going to do, ask Poison Ivy to stop attacking?' Barbara asked. She was half joking when she spoke. She didn't expect that to be what Harry was going to try and do.

Harry wasn't joking at all when he responded. 'That's exactly what I have in mind. Do you have a better idea?'

'I was half joking,' Barbara muttered. There was some laughter, but the fact was that she was fighting the plant monsters that were trying to take her out. The redhead was starting to get extremely annoyed by this attack.

'I don't believe it, they're retreating,' Helena said. She managed to slap a tagger on it. There was a slight chance that they might make their way back to the source. Granted, she wasn't completely sure, but it's better than nothing.

Chloe looked at the system before her. She smiled, the added processing power in her brain allowed her to focus on everything that needed to get done. And by added processing power, she didn't mean coffee. She was glad that she was able to get things done.

'Kara, Karen, and Diana, are you close by?' Chloe asked.

'Yeah, we're close by,' Karen thought. 'Shayera is with us as well.'

'The four of you should go check something out, there's something really dangerous in Metropolis,' Chloe informed them. The blonde placed her hand underneath her chin and sighed. 'Well, Claire says that she can handle it, but you know how that normally goes.'

'We have a pretty good idea, yes,' Kara said. She quickened her pace and she stopped. Her heart was racing. 'Great Rao!'

That exclamation could not be a good thing. There were heroes trafficking in and out. The attacks didn't cover too large of an area, which made Chloe a bit less frustrated. It wasn't something that was good by any means, but it was really less frustrating. She picked up the communicator that was lying on the desk.

"Progress report," Chloe said.

"We're testing the counter agent to the plants, hopefully this will put them down," Whitney said. "There's a mutation variable that's making it extremely hard to kill them. I don't think that standard weed killer would really work out all that well."

"No, I don't think so," Chloe agreed. Her frown deepened when she thought about it. "Just keep doing what you're doing, and I'll be in touch."

"Gotcha," Whitney said in agreement. "Gwen and Caitlin think that they have something and…..the one plant that you were able to get your hands on, it's putting up a fight."

Donna was down in the lab to give some relief if things got too dangerous. Chloe really did feel bad about putting these girls in danger, but sometimes you really had to do what you needed to do to succeed.

Chloe could see that Metropolis looked like a jungle out there. It was even more so than usual. The situation in Gotham City was getting far worse than it was at well. All Chloe had to do is sit back, wait and watch.

'For the record, I think that my lead might be promising, but it's going to be a trick to get there,' Harry thought. 'The League is on high alert.'

'Looks like Ra's is the one that you're going to have to worry about and not Poison Ivy,' Artemis said. She was almost out of arrows. She doubted that she could get some here in time.

'Yes, it looks that way,' Harry agreed. There were things that Harry regretted, and one of them was not finishing off Ra's when he had the chance.


Claire Kent was having a really awful day, to put things bluntly. There was a plant that looked to want to wipe her out. The vines shot out towards her, but she dodged them. She used her heat vision with great skill and precision to take out her plant enemies.

"So, do you need a hand?" Kara asked. She spiraled in like a cannonball and stuck a landing right onto the plants.

Kara figured that it was her fault that she was wearing a skirt. The plants tried to get a bit too personal with her. That angered the alien female and she rocked snapped the vines of the plant. It gave a hiss of pain.

"There are just too many of these things," Diana remarked. She joined the fight with furious fists of fire. "What's his end game anyway?"

Shayera came down, her mace clutched in her hand. She smacked one of the pods hard. She didn't really want to answer any questions, but having something to hit, that relaxed her.

Karen looked impressed with what Shayera was doing, but she was damned if she was going to be left out of the fun and games. The blonde lifted her hands and caused a cold snap to ripple from her hands.

The roots of the plant tensed when Karen connected with them. Kara looked at Karen with reverence and the blonde's lips cracked into a smile.

"Oh, you've got to teach me that," Kara whispered. There was almost pleading in her voice when she said that.

Karen shook her head, barely able to keep the grin off of her face. "Maybe later."

Claire was now back up, driving the plants into the ground. She reached onto the ground and lifted plants high into the air. She punched at them one at a time. She never thought that she was going to fight plants like that and the weeds at the Kent Farm didn't technically count. The dark haired girl kept fighting, swinging her fists into the plant creatures.

The girls landed onto the ground. Their breath had been completely taken away.

"For the record, I did have that," Claire said. Kara folded her arms underneath her chest, hovering an inch off of the ground so he could look in her cousin's eyes. "But thank you for the assist never the less."

"You're welcome," Kara said.

'So, how is the counter agent coming on?' Kara inquired.

'Whitney, Gwen, and Caitlin are almost done with it,' Chloe thought.

'I'll be back there to pick it up, these plants are getting stronger, and I'm not even sure if these are completely dead,' Kara said. She could hear a rattling from the pods on the ground.

"I'll be back in a second," Kara said.

Before the girls could ask where Kara was going, she zipped off into the wind. Karen sighed and she looked over the city streets.

"Well that's going to be a hell of a mess to clean up," she remarked. Her lips curled into a tight frown.

"Well, to be fair, the mess would be even worse if we didn't intervene," Diana said. She frowned. There was something about this entire mess that seemed a bit too easy.

The Amazon Princess felt that they were at a lull. She knew enough to not say things that were too calm. All they could do is wait and watch.

The pods on the ground began to rattle suddenly. Karen stopped and held her hand up when Diana and Shayera were about ready to move. She frowned when she could hear something stirring from life from the pods.

"There's something inside," Karen whispered. Her eyes widened when she could hear something. There was a crack, there was another crack, and there was a huge smack.

Something punched through the pod. A giant fist print was left inside the edge of the pod. The other pods had the same thing.

Several fully grown men rose from the pods.

'That looks like Ubu,' Artemis thought. The same thing was happening in Gotham City. 'You know, Ra's number one man.'

'Yes, I'm well aware of who that is,' Helena thought. She charged up a pair of brass knuckles and she swung for the fences. She cracked them into the base of the pods and caused a burst of electricity to flow from her hands.

The pods didn't even waver for a second. Helena frowned as the Ubu plant monsters were about ready to attack them.

"We've got big trouble," Karen said. She raised her hands high into the air and clapped them. She really hoped that the sonic attacks were enough.

'Kara, please tell me that's ready,' Claire thought. She ripped apart one of the Ubu monsters. The leafy parts of it started to rise and three more rose in its face.

"Ripping them apart doesn't seem to work well at all," Diana commented. Shayera turned towards her, an eyebrow corked and her mouth hanging halfway open. The redhead sounded flustered for obvious reason. "Yes, I know, that much is obvious."

"Yes, it is," Shayera agreed. She raised her mace high up into the air and she slammed it down onto the plant monster creature constantly.

The blood spurted out it, but it kept coming back at them. It was attacking them with a sickening vengeance.

'Please tell me someone has some good news, and has some good news soon,' Barbara thought. 'And Whitney was right, ordinary weed killer doesn't work on these things, it just makes them stronger. They're going to overrun the city if we're not careful.'

Karen looked high into the air and smiled. Help was in fact on the way and she came in faster than a speeding bullet. She shot forward, causing a ripple effect on the ground. Darts grasped in her hand when she flung them down hard.

The darts struck the pods and the pods started to wilt underneath her efforts. There was a prominent and loud hiss when the plant creatures tried to break their way out.

"Good, Gwen, Whitney, and Caitlin all deserve raises," Kara said. She armed the other heroines with the dart guns. "I've got to traffic this all over to Gotham, take your shots wisely ladies."

'It's not an arrow, but it will do,' Artemis thought. She jumped into the air and two of the Ubus punched each other and destroyed the other in a pile of mulch. 'They're not growing back, that's good.'

The group hoped that they were getting rather closer to solving this problem and taking out these plant monsters. At least that's what they hoped that they were doing. The difference between what they hoped and what they actually were going to do was two entirely different things when they thought about it.


Talia returned to the headquarters of the League. She wasn't going to lie, things were rather tense.

"So, did your business trip go well?"

Talia turned around and saw Nyssa standing before her, her arms folded. The two sisters met each other's gaze. It was an anxious moment at best and a tense moment at worst.

"Everything is in order as it should be, the distraction attack on Metropolis is occurring," Talia replied.

"Most of the attacks are directed at Gotham," Nyssa said. There was something in her eyes that indicated that she was very agitated.

"Is there something the matter?" Talia asked her.

"Nothing is wrong," Nyssa responded. Her voice was so cold and harsh that it pretty much told Talia that she would just have to drop the matter, so she did.

It was just as well that Nyssa didn't say anything. She was agitated that her father didn't even consider her to be worthy of holding his empire. He had much hoped that Harry Potter would take the reins.

Did she think of Harry Potter as unqualified to hold the empire of the League? Naturally, Nyssa respected the young man and his abilities. He was someone who was rather dangerous and that you wanted in your corner for a fight.

One should not mistake respect for a person's abilities for weakness. Nyssa thought that after all she sacrificed, she should have been next in line to run this empire. It was something she earned and something that was her birthright.

"All of these things happen for a reason," Talia informed her sister. The eyes of Nyssa locked onto Talia's. Her tone was calm and cool.

"It's time," Nyssa responded. There was nothing but a crisp and cold tone in her voice.

Talia didn't really have any argument to that. The members of their father's elite guard were walking around with each other. The two daughters of the Demon walked by, and Talia discreetly passed a note to the woman in red.

Her eyebrows rose for a brief second, but it was a gesture that pretty much no one caught in the end when she brushed past her.

Nyssa and Talia joined the other members of the League of Shadows. Lady Shiva followed straight behind them as if nothing happened. The White Canary turned up next to her.

There was Ra's Al Ghul. The man stood at the foot of a large podium where he looked down upon them all. No one dared speak to him. He didn't speak. All there was is silence before him.

Time stood still. Ra's Al Ghul walked closer and spoke. "The League of Assassins have weathered many storms throughout all time and we will continue to weather many more. We are an ancient organization that has been set up to bring order to a chaotic world."

Ra's stifled a cough. Only those who knew him best might be able to consider that something was wrong. Others didn't even bother to blink. Weakness must not be shown before the League. The man stood up even straighter when he faced his men.

"The League's trials and tribulations have brought us to this point, a point where there is no turning back," Ra's reminded them. "In the darkness, there is light, but we must stick to the shadows. For otherwise, we will be consumed by what we do not understand."

Ra's paced around like a caged animal. There was more intensity that flashed through the eyes of the Demon Head. He arched his neck backwards and gave a heaving breath when he spoke.

"No matter what those trials and those tribulations were, there is one thing that is for certain, the League grew strong," Ra's said. "Therefore, the League will continue to grow strong, whether or not I am your leader."

Ra's craned his neck forward and he smiled when he whispered.

"Time runs short," Ra's reported to them. "And time almost runs out. Each second passes will be the final second before our final test. The greatest test approaches and many of you will return. I have absolute confidence that the strongest of you will be back sooner rather than later."

His voice dropped to a hoarser whisper. Those who dared not listen hard to him would do so at their own peril. The clock winded down second by second.

"The Dreaded Dragon is the most likely to take control of operations at the League, but he will not have this handed to him, he must earn it," Ra's said. "I do admit that that there has been another that I have taken a close look at. But in the end, he has been judged and he does not have the ability to lead the League. It's a pity such talent has been wasted, given that I once took this young man underneath my hand and trained him."

Ra's looked rather forlorn.

"The Detective will get an honorable demise despite his flaws, and it will be at my hand," Ra's said. "And it will be after his beloved Gotham City burns underneath the might of the League of Assassins. The only way to destroy the disease is to scorch it off of the earth. Destruction is at hand and Gotham City will be annihilated."

There was a harsh whisper from Ra's. It was the type of voice where you had to listen closely to understand what he was saying, but you better listen when he spoke. His eyes grew rather mad when they flashed with malice.

"Believe this, my friend," Ra's informed them. "Believe in the League of Shadows and what they can do when Gotham City is decimated."

There was applause. The League made their way out. It was now time to enact the ultimate plan, the destruction of one of the most diseased areas on the planet. When Ra's Al Ghul decimated Gotham City, his grand vision could be realized.

Talia met Sara's eye and she gave a short nod. The League was too caught up in their jubilation with their leader's plans to say anything.

"The first test run is completed, now it's done for real."


The storm was getting worse in the area outside of the Greenhouse. That matched the storm that was about ready to come. There was a group of dozen assassins walking outside the greenhouse. Their orders were to guard the greenhouse.

"The Demon has given us our orders, no one is to disturb what's inside the greenhouse," the assassins whispered. His voice sounded raspy as if one of his vocal cords had been tampered with.

One of them scoffed in disgust. "Who is going to disturb us? I think that you're worried too much, we've got this."

"Keep your eyes open," one of the more experienced assassins said. While it wasn't ideal to travel in this weather, taking chances would be foolish.

They were close enough to Gotham City to wonder if they were caught up with whatever plan their master was cooking up. They all had faith that the Demon's word that all who were fit to survive would live in a new world.

A canister rolled onto the ground. One of the assassins stepped forward and prodded it with his staff.

Much to his surprise, nothing came out of the canister, there wasn't even a spurt of gas. The man in the shadows frowned deeply.

A flash of light appeared and two of the nearest assassins dropped to the ground.

The men staggered around. No sooner did they turn, two more were taken out. A third dropped to the ground before he could remark about what hit him.

A figure swept through the rain and the remaining assassin tried to take out his adversary. A pair of swords swung for the fences.

The enemy deflected the attacks. The swords ripped from the hands of the lone assassin. The next move was the assassin getting stabbed with his own swords.

Blood spurted to the ground. All of the male assassins were left on the ground with fatal injuries that would cause them to succumb to death if they were not healed straight away. All of the female assassins were left to breathe another day.

A pair of hands reached to the door of the green house. It was locked up tight. Not tight enough for the lock to be broken by the mysterious force.

A loud creak resounded.

'I'm inside,' Harry thought. He stepped around. It looked to be a perfectly normal greenhouse. It was beautiful, don't get him wrong. The plants were perfectly normal and nothing was out of the ordinary. 'And nothing too out of the ordinary just yet.'

Harry could hear something. Those weren't assassins. There was a sound of something sobbing in the background.

The warrior prepared himself for battle. The pods were set up in the background.

'Those are just like the pods in Metropolis and I'm sure in Gotham City,' Kara replied.

'The ones with the Plant-Ubu hybrids?' Dinah asked. Harry nodded in confirmation for her.

Harry inched his way towards the plants, slowly, carefully. He could hear something rustle behind him. He thought about all of the problems that he had to deal with.

Pamela Isley had been broken when she got her powers, but naturally if she had gotten the proper treatment and rehabilitation, she might have done fine. The problem was that she was sent up the river to Arkham Asylum. It had a rather notorious track record of making prisoners worse.

Her doctor was the one and only Hugo Strange. Someone who should have been in the Asylum just as much as his patients, for that man wished to study his patients and experiment to see what made them tick.

"They will not be taken away from me, the world will burn, and they will grow," a soft voice replied.

"Pamela, I'm just here to talk," Harry said firmly. He prepared himself to be attacked by the plant hybrids. Harry was not going to lash out and attack them. Not if they gave him a reason to anyway.

There was a nice round of musical laughter. Pamela seemed to be entertaining herself for some reason.

"I wish I could believe you at face value," she commented softly. "Perhaps you are just here to talk. But you should know that there's nothing wrong with me. There's no reason why we should talk."

Harry stepped further into the Greenhouse. The fact that the plants didn't attack him was an encouraging sign and it almost disturbed him a slight bit. He passed further into the depths of the greenhouse.

His heart raced against his chest the more he stepped forward.

Harry could see her, sitting there in a Venus fly trap. Vines wrapped around her body in subjective places. One of the vines lifted up and waved Harry over. Gorgeous red hair hung down like a curtain.

She was there like the seductress to draw anyone into her web.

'What's she waiting for,' Kara thought.

Harry could see her there.

"You're just another one she created, to stall for time," Harry whispered to her. He could see the plant's face wilt.

"Yes, they are not very long lasting, but they will be perfected, soon, my children will grow and prosper in a perfect world," she breathed excitedly. Her smile grew even wider when she rocked back and forth. Madness was soon to follow through her eyes. "They will grow and prosper in this perfect world."

Harry stepped forward and he could see her fade away.

"You're not the one that I want, well not like that," she commented. Her tone grew rather flirty when she spoke to him. "You see, I'm after the man who was responsible for the cruel world. The man who was responsible for sending me to Arkham."

The plant clone crumbled into nothing. The mulch landed on the ground.

The Greenhouse allowed him to find a vital clue where in Gotham City the attacks would take place. Triumph flashed in his eyes.

'I think I have it.'


To Be Continued on February 24th, 2015.