Chapter 21 Pretty Little Poison
The stolen police vehicles arrive at Hall of Doom. The villains exit the vehicles and the Hall of Doom. The villains exit the vehicles and enter the Hall of Doom. The members currently at the table look at the group, Catwoman asks, "So, I see you've found some allies. But did you find Harley?" Lincoln steps forward and states,
"She wasn't at Belle Reve, but we found a possible location. She's probably with her best friend, Poison Ivy."After hearing this, Catwoman sighs in anger and exclaims, "Why didn't we check there first!" She turns to Lincoln and the group,
"Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Killer Frost, and Rookie, go to the Botanical Gardens! It's one of Ivy's most infamous hideouts!" The four of them begin to exit but Jinx exclaims to Catwoman
"Wait, could I come with them for support?" Catwoman answers
"No, we need you here to help out with showing your team the HIve, around the base" Jinx looks at her teammates Mammoth and Gizmo, and then she looks at Lincoln leaving the Hall and frowns then walks to a different room in the Hall of Doom. The foursome that was given the mission fully exit and re-enter one of the stolen police cruisers and rides off into Gotham.
Back in the Hall of Doom
Jinx and her two teammates from the Hive Five are walking down a hallway. Mammoth taps on Jinx's shoulder and asks
"Hey Jinx, you know that bunny boy, you seemed pretty close with him back in Belle Reve. Is there something between you two?" Jinx blushes and remarks
"W-well, he is the only one who can deflect my hexes" Gizmo then asks
"Wait, he can do that? How do you know that?" Jinx retorts
"Linc and I spared a bit before we went to Belle Reve" Gizmo and Mammoth become dumbfounded for a moment and Mammoth states
"He is a rabbit and his villain name is Linc, he's weird" Jinx comments
"No, Linc is the name he allows me to call him, you can either call him the Hare or Rookie"
In the stolen police cruiser
A little while till they get to the Botanical Gardens Deadshot who is in the passenger seat turns around to face the backseat and asks Lincoln,
"So, Rookie was it? What exactly can you do? I mean I can't miss a shot, Killer Frost has her ice" He gets cut off by Captain Boomerang who says
"And I have by boomerangs, what do you have mate?" Lincoln nervously answers
"At certain times I get this weird feeling and the inside it feels like something is bursting but on the outside, nothing happens. After that I get a new power or ability, so far I've got shrinking, growing, acrobatics, and a heat blast." Captain Boomerang says
"So, you're like our wild card, we could use that" Killer Frost continues the thought
"Especially against those new Crime Syndicate jerks, also good news, we're here." The car gets parked to reveal them arriving
In the main room of the Botanical Garden
Harley Quinn is sitting on a large mushroom and talking to Poison Ivy, she says
"Everything is getting weird Red, the justice league is gone, Mr. J is stuck in Arkham, and the replacements are bad at their jobs. I mean we're the bad guys but they are the worse guys" Poison Ivy asks
"Can you show me?" Harley nods no and states
"If only I had my I could show you but I lost it after I saw it" Poison Ivy replies
"Harley dear, don't worry, you're safe here and you can stay as long as you want" Just then the door gets slammed opened revealing the four villains to Harley and Ivy. Lincoln looks at the two of them and whispers to Deadshot
"Not gonna lie, both look gorgeous" Then Captain Boomerang exclaims
"Harley, there you are, we've been looking for" His statement gets interrupted when he trips on a plant and he falls face-first to the ground. Out of annoyance, he states
"Damn weed, all they're good for is cutting down" He takes one of his sharp boomerangs from his sash and starts slashing plants on the ground, each time he cuts down a plant Poison Ivy's anger grows. She uses her powers to have vines wrap around them capturing them. Poison Ivy then exclaims
"Don't worry Harley, I won't let them harm you!" Harley Quinn tells Poison Ivy
"Red wait, the" Her speech gets cut off as Poison Ivy uses her powers to send Harley Quinn into another room. With Harley out of the room Poison Ivy says to the foursome
"Well since you want to get rid of mother nature, I believe it's time for you all to give back to mother nature. And when I say give back, I'm talking about your lives." Just then Lincoln uses his powers to reduce his size and escape the vines. He lands on the floor and burns the vines with his heat blast, this frees the other three. Killer Frost lands gracefully on the ground but Deadshot and Captain Boomerang land on their faces. They get up and shake the dirt off their costumes. Poison Ivy who is angry at this moment uses her power to summon her minions. They include about twenty humanoid mushrooms, cacti, and corn. The minions all charge at the foursome, but each of the four began to take on five of them each. Killer Frost froze her in their tracks, Deadshot ricochet one of his stun bullets hitting all five in one shot, Captain Boomerang used his knock out boomerang which paralyzes them, and Lincoln increased in size and kicked them against a wall. Poison Ivy then tries for a head-on attack with her vine whip, this sends them back a few steps. Poison Ivy then goes on the defensive by raising a wall of giant sharp cacti. Deadshot asks the group
"With the cactus, I can't get a clean shot, what are we supposed to do?" Killer Frost and Captain Boomerang shrug their shoulders. Just Lincoln doesn't hear Deadshot when he feels a familiar vibe drawing him to one of Poison Ivy's artificial lights. He runs over to it, then places his right hand on it. Then he feels like an explosion is happening under his skin but like always there is no pain. After that, a mini burst happens that shrivels into tiny seeds. Poison Ivy sees this and angerly uses her powers to send a large rock straight towards Lincoln. Killer Frost says
"Rookie, move out of the way" The boulder appears to hit Lincoln directly causing dust to fly up around him. This turn of events makes Poison Ivy smile. Just to Poison Ivy's dismay, the dust clears and Lincoln is standing there with the boulder in his hand. Deadshot exclaims
"No way, it appears Rookie has gained the power of super-strength. Lincoln throws the boulder at Poison Ivy causing her to fall to the floor. Lincoln says to himself
"I got a new power, sweet"
End of Chapter 21