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K', Kula, Whip, and Maxima were staying in their hotel room in the late hour. They knew something was up sooner or later, surely word has gotten out to the media and of course the other fighters. Whip pondered telling Heidern, but she knew they had a mission of their own. Not all of them stayed in their room, surely they stayed in not out of fear, but just to talk of the situation. Just then someone knocked on the door.
Maxima opened it to find Bennimaru smiling. "Uh hey, I just found this letter outside your door…" he held it up to Maxima who swiped it away. He then turned away looking at the letter, while Bennimaru walked in, Shingo tagged along and followed in the room. "Thanks I'd love to come in" he amused. K' shook his head at them. "Since when have we ever bugged you?" he muttered. "Yeah go away we're doing something" Whip agreed. Bennimaru shrugged and put his hands on his hips very feminine like instead of normally. "Hey that's no way to be neighbor like…besides I did deliver this…" He stood, Shingo interrupted. "What do you think is it? Fan mail?" Whip rolled her eyes. Maxima had a bewildered look on his face as he handed the envelope to K. On the back which he thought would be stamped with a red R, instead was a green question mark. He opened the letter to find a small note inside. K' stood up and looked at everyone. "What the hell is this crap? We don't have time for games.." he threw the letter to which Kula caught. She looked over it and read it out loud "In a concrete room with no windows and no doors…there is only a bench and a large mirror. How do you get out?" she blinked. Bennimaru crossed his arms. "Huh? I don't get it." Maxima " It's a riddle…, but who would send us that and why?" Whip smirked, "Thank you mister state-the-obvious.., but what the hell is the point of this.." K' stood in the corner with his hands in his pockets his eyes fixed on everyone from behind his shades. "Probably a clue to whoever's trying to kill us.., ever think of it like that?" he leaned on the wall.
Bennimaru started to pace "Concrete room hmm? Uh…., break through it with the bench or mirror?" Whip stood and stretched a bit " You can't break solid concrete with a bench genius." Maxima grumbled, "I'm not that good at riddles.." Shingo bolted up. "Oh I know! Oh wait…, no..sorry.." he sat back down on the floor. Bennimaru blinked "Mirror, break it ..?..in half maybe then ..I don't know make a hole or something.." Whip snapped her fingers, "That's it, whole! Break the mirror in half and you have two pieces, put it back to make a whole and go through it.." she nodded to them. Maxima eyed her "That doesn't make any sense…" She shook her head "it's not supposed to it's just stupid riddles with ironic answers.." K' snickered. "Americans.." Whip looked down in thought. "Well..what's it mean..?" Bennimaru tilted his head at something and stood up walking to the large man sized mirror they had in their room, he inspected it closely then moved it to find a hole in the wall. "Hey! Look!" he exclaimed as he reached into the hole then held up another note. He handed it to Whip and she read it "A man living alone turns off a single light and goes to bed tired. He wakes up the next morning finding hundreds of dead people next to his house, Why?" she was already thinking of answers. Bennimaru leaned back against one of the beds, "That I don't get.." Shingo scratched his head and shrugged. Whip looked up "maybe…" Maxima interrupted "maybe a airplane crashed..?" he looked to her. She nodded to him. "Maybe…but.." K' stood in front of them grabbing the letter with his gloved hand. "Graveyard..he lived next to a graveyard." He crumpled up the note. "And what's that have to do anything what the hell are we doing in a damn room playing with some stupid puzzles someone left.for us when we should just go out there and find .." he stopped as he heard some commotion downstairs in the lobby. Bennimaru got up and walked out the door to go see, a moment later he returned. "Hey guys come quick…Ramon's yelling about Vanessa being gone!" they looked to each other then left the room heading downstairs. Shingo trailed behind them. Ramon was standing there obviously upset about something he paced back and forth in front of Seth. "What could've happened!?!" he asked very hot-blooded over the situation. Seth shook his head "probably out doing something…don't worry she can handle herself.." Ramon pulled on his hair as he eyed Seth with his one eye. "Worry!?! That's my love out there and she's been out for the whole day, what could she be doing at this time of night!?!" Ramon stomped his foot down. "I think I have an idea of where she is…" K' interrupted as he walked downstairs with the rest. "And with who.." he removed his shades.
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Kyo wiped the blood off his chin as he stood up from the hard floor, he glared at Batman and the newly discovered green covered woman. He stood in a fighting stance as he eyed them both. Poison Ivy raised a brow as to who was this person and why he and Batman both ended up in her secret green house. "Ikuze!" He screamed as he clenched his fists. Poison Ivy was intrigued "Hmm? Oh well I'll just have to punish you both for interrupting me.." she took out two long vials containing green liquid. And threw them towards Kyo. "And you'll be the first…" a smile formed on her rosey lips. "Down!" Batman yelled as he tried to throw Kyo out of the way but found himself trapped next to him as the vials broke and the liquid turned to a green growing plant which seemed to cover both their bodies up to their chests rendering them helpless as she planned. This only made Kyo more angry. He snorted as he struggled within the plant. "A friend of yours Batman?" he grumbled. Batman eyed him as he was struggling to reach for his utility belt. Poison Ivy walked up to them both and touched her green colored glove to Batman's chin then to Kyo's. "Hmm…two more little guinea pigs for my experiments." she smiled. She snapped her fingers as two abnormally large men with green skin and plant covered arms made their way out of the shadows. "Like these two.." she nodded to them both, they seemed to be unknowing of where they were but they obeyed Ivy like pets. She made her way to the table and grabbed two syringes, she tested it out before slowly walking back to both "ready now boys?" she eyed the two trapped men.
That was it, it was over, he was just going to snap. The rage of the Kusanagi rose in him as his eyes narrowed , fire burned within his eyes as his entire body started to engulf in flames. "Don't you know gardens are quick to burn!" he yelled as he raised both his fists as the plant burned off of him. He was enraged, his body a flame covered human shape that walked towards Ivy. She gasped and quickly ran back ordering the two experiments of hers to attack. His flames died down as he ran towards the one plant man creature heading towards Kyo. Kyo ducked under the swipe of the creature's green arm, he then slammed a flaming fist towards the creature's gut, a rise of his other fist upwards spreading a line of Kusanagi fire against the creature's body, then finishing his combo with a elbow to it's chest as he leapt into the air swerving his body doing his infamous flaming uppercut move as his arms smacked against the creature's head knocking him to the floor cold. By this time Batman reached his belt and struggled open one pouch as he took out the device and cut his way through the plant with the mini-saw. He rushed to confront the other plant and subdue him. Meanwhile Kyo was approaching Ivy who was backed to her lab table. She flipped behind the table as Kyo did another of his hard swinging flaming punch, knocking and breaking all the lab equipment that Ivy had. She let out a small growl and aimed her wrist crossbow at Kyo as he approached her. He flicked his wrist shooting out a small stream of fire at her. She winced as the flame hit her wrist and shook it off backing up again against the wall now scared of this man, she had no idea who or what he was. Kyo raised his palm up, flame building up in his palm as he let out a growl as it grew larger. "I'll teach you to experiment!" he screamed as he swung his arm hard to the right, a huge burst of the serpent wave of flames headed towards Ivy. She was stunned as she laid against the wall. Quickly Batman came from the side and pushed her out of the way as well as himself. The serpent wave hit the wall and made a huge impact against it more of a fire ridden hole. Batman held the stunned Ivy which had her shoulder singed. as he glared at Kyo. "You could've killed her!" he looked to Ivy finding her unconscious then back to where Kyo was, he was now gone. Batman could hear Kyo yelling from a distance outside the building "Oh well ,some can handle it while others can't.. " back at Batman.
