Huntress was on the floor and two vines entwined around her abdomen. She
tried to break it with her hands but a new vine held her left arm, and
another held her legs. Huntress moved like a wild animal and as she broke
one vine, the one that held one of her legs, another vine curled around her
neck pushing her back against the floor. She grumbled and tried to stand
unsuccessfully. She was overwhelmed when too many vines encased her arms
and legs.
"God girl, you surprise me. You have incredible strength," Poison circled her "amazing and dangerous."
Huntress was choked by the plant around her neck but was still pulling at the vines that bound her.
"I'm your executioner. Better not move or my pets well press you harder, and that is not comfortable. The drug will be much easier."
"You are insane" Huntress arched her back trying to release herself. Every muscle was tensed and tight as she fought to be free. The vine's pressure had her encased and she groaned. She found her mind beginning to get hazy. Her head moved around groggily, searching for clues to her situation but finding none.
"I can control and manipulate biochemical makeup." Poison said "I can produce plant toxins. If these toxins come into contact with the skin of someone, the results are deadly."
Huntress continued struggling with her bonds, but it was even more futile than before. Not only could she not break the vines encircling her, she couldn't even bend them now. She was held almost completely immobile.
Poison Ivy smiled appreciatively as Huntress wiggled helplessly. "You are presenting substantial resistance, but you will be gradually worn down by fatigue. You will surrender to me."
"What do you want?" the brunette groaned.
"Maybe I need to tell you a story. A few years ago," Poison leaned over her and later walked toward a window, "I tried to turn earthquake-ravaged Gotham City into a jungle of my own design, but my plans were thwarted by Catwoman. Did you know her?"
Helena opened her eyes when she heard her mother's nick name. She was still blinded. She moved her head searching for where the voice was coming from.
Poison laughed, "Ah, I see that you remember her. I always tried to take revenge. That bitch screwed up everything. Now tell me, how you know her? What is your connection with her?"
Huntress' eyes were glassy, she tried to struggle against the drug.
"Come on dear, you want to tell me. You have many of her abilities, did she teach it to you?" Poison said.
"Yes." Huntress remembered that when she was a child her mother taught her some moves for personal defense.
"Good dear, you are doing this correct, where is she?"
".she is dead." The kid mumbled.
"Dead? Catwoman is dead? Don't lie to me!" Poison groaned slapping her. "So I guess she was training you, she must be hiding out now some place. And you are protecting her, but why are you fighting on the good side?" Poison leaned over Huntress. "What are you hiding from me? Come on dear, let the drug work on you."
Huntress didn't respond her eyes closed. Poison took her chin between her hands and forced her to see her. "Why are you a crime fighter and not a burglar? I think that you are doing the things wrong."
"I." Huntress moved trying to release herself unsuccesfully.
"Listen to me girl, listen my voice; you are going to work for me, to help me to recover the control of New Gotham." Poison caressed her hair "That flower shot you a drug that was absorbed into your bloodstream and reaches the brain. This drug would keep you in a mental state halfway between consciousness and unconsciousness while I weaken your mind defences and I break your own free will. You are going to obey me."
"Yes... No."
"That's not your decision dear, now I have the control. You are mine. I have some business to do. I'll back later, when I get back I'm sure my drug will have weakened you enough to talk about business. My dear plants, look after her." Poison laughed and she exited the room.
Huntress in her struggle was vaguely aware of her surroundings, she moved her head feeling a floating sensation. The drug was overwelming her.
* * *
Afternoon Helena, Alfred." Barbara said entering in Clock Tower, she had been at the shoopping center.
"Afternoon Miss Barbara." Alfred answered from the second floor "How was your day?"
"Too much traffic, I thought Christmas shopping was over but it seems not. Where is Helena Alfred?" Barbara asked wheeling inside the lab.
"I don't know Miss Barbara, after the lunch she went out and told me she will back soon. But it was almost 3 hours ago."
"It's freezing outside" Barbara turned on the computer and looked at the screen. "Well, she has the comset off. But it's strange" she looked her watch "I talked with her this morning and she told me that she was just going to take the plant sample with her to see her friend and then come to back to train a few..."
Barbara wheeled toward Delphi's and began to work. A hour later Barbara watched her clock again, she turned on the mic and called Huntress with out answer. Barbara bit her lips and kept silence a minute. Her mind worked faster. She looked Alfred who was upstairs. "Did Helena tell you where the store of her friend was located?"
"No."
"Could you please bring me the flowers that she gave me the other day? There are in my room. She is not very friendly lately. Maybe it has something to do with that friend who gave her those flowers."
Barbara took off her gloves and rubbed her nose. Alfred walked in a few minutes later and put the flower pot beside her. Barbara looked at the pot and saw a label in the bottom that had the address of the store and the name of it: "Ivy's"
"I don't like this Alfred." She mumbled.
"What happened Miss Barbara?"
"The day of the assault, Poison called her by her name... Huntress. Huntress told me that she had never seen her... but she told me too that she had to meet her friend. She had helped her to prevent a robbery in her greenhouse. And she told that friend that her name is Huntress."
"Do you think she is Poison?" Alfred asked.
"I dunno, but I better find out just to be sure." Barbara wheeled toward the lab. "I'll go to that greenhouse and if it is Poison Ivy then she will be in trouble."
"Are you going to go alone?"
"I have been working on a new invention and I think that it works properly now."
Barbara put the transponder on her waist. It still hurt her spine but she didn't care about that. She was worried about Helena, Poison was a very serious enemy and she could kill easily with out thinking.
"Miss Barbara are you sure about wearing the transponder? Isn't it finished yet?" Alfred said.
"We don't have any other choice Alfred. If Poison has her... " Barbara said concerned. "Wish me a good luck."
"Good luck."
* * *
Poison returned to the second level of the greenhouse a few hours later. Huntress was almost unconscious, all soaked in her own own sweat and still wrapped in the vines. She was making a great effort to resist the powerful drug. It made her feel warm all over, very warm. Her lips were dry. Poison circled her. Huntress heard her steps and opened her eyes slowly. She could see now but her mind was foggy.
Poison smiled evilly "How do you feel dear?"
"Water." Huntress whispered.
"Later, we first need talk about bussiness. You now must obey me."
".I." Huntress arched her back but the vines held pressed her again.
"You can't refuse me, you must obey me." Poison glared to her.
"Let me go."
Poison was surprised, she suppposed that the drug must be working, but that Huntress was resisting it. She took a bottle of water from a table. She knew the effects of her poison and stood up again in front of her. "Look Huntress. did you want it? Did you want water?" she
opened the bottle of water. "I'll give it to you if you tell me who your master is."
"Poison..." She mumbled.
"Am I your master?" Poison leaned over her.
"I. don't have." she moved trying to release but the plants pressed her tight. She groaned.
"Huntress, you couldn't fight against the drug. want water?."
"No."
"I'm your friend Huntress, I can help you, but you must trust me." Posion brushed her hair. "Open your mind to me. I'm your friend, open to me, you can't resist my voice."
Huntress moved her dry lips.
"Trust me girl. I'm your friend."
". I can't"
"You can stop fighting dear. Where is Catwoman?" Poison slapped her. She grabbed her hair and pushed her head back, "Girl, I'm your master. How could you resist my drug?" Poison was pissed, she snapped her fingers and the ends of the two tendrils changed and blossomed into
small, bright red flowers with quivering stamens in their centre. It moved near Huntress' face. The flowers lowered over her and shot a green powder. Huntress shook her head and coughed again.
"Poor Huntress; you are too young to die in painful agony. I'm giving you another opportunity. How much time do you think you have? I need the free way for my next step, and you are not going to interfer. I asked you join me and you are going to do it in a good or in a bad way."
Huntress struggled but was unsucesfully again.
"Every minute the drug will block more of your nervous system and not let you be able to control your body and your mind. If you resist it, it will begin to affect your biological functions such as temperature, vision, talking, maybe even breathing. Better do it the easy way. You will help me with the next step of my plan. Sow this city with my plants seeds." Poison laughed and walked to the exit "I need to go, I hope that when I come back you will be better disposed to work with me."
* * *
"God girl, you surprise me. You have incredible strength," Poison circled her "amazing and dangerous."
Huntress was choked by the plant around her neck but was still pulling at the vines that bound her.
"I'm your executioner. Better not move or my pets well press you harder, and that is not comfortable. The drug will be much easier."
"You are insane" Huntress arched her back trying to release herself. Every muscle was tensed and tight as she fought to be free. The vine's pressure had her encased and she groaned. She found her mind beginning to get hazy. Her head moved around groggily, searching for clues to her situation but finding none.
"I can control and manipulate biochemical makeup." Poison said "I can produce plant toxins. If these toxins come into contact with the skin of someone, the results are deadly."
Huntress continued struggling with her bonds, but it was even more futile than before. Not only could she not break the vines encircling her, she couldn't even bend them now. She was held almost completely immobile.
Poison Ivy smiled appreciatively as Huntress wiggled helplessly. "You are presenting substantial resistance, but you will be gradually worn down by fatigue. You will surrender to me."
"What do you want?" the brunette groaned.
"Maybe I need to tell you a story. A few years ago," Poison leaned over her and later walked toward a window, "I tried to turn earthquake-ravaged Gotham City into a jungle of my own design, but my plans were thwarted by Catwoman. Did you know her?"
Helena opened her eyes when she heard her mother's nick name. She was still blinded. She moved her head searching for where the voice was coming from.
Poison laughed, "Ah, I see that you remember her. I always tried to take revenge. That bitch screwed up everything. Now tell me, how you know her? What is your connection with her?"
Huntress' eyes were glassy, she tried to struggle against the drug.
"Come on dear, you want to tell me. You have many of her abilities, did she teach it to you?" Poison said.
"Yes." Huntress remembered that when she was a child her mother taught her some moves for personal defense.
"Good dear, you are doing this correct, where is she?"
".she is dead." The kid mumbled.
"Dead? Catwoman is dead? Don't lie to me!" Poison groaned slapping her. "So I guess she was training you, she must be hiding out now some place. And you are protecting her, but why are you fighting on the good side?" Poison leaned over Huntress. "What are you hiding from me? Come on dear, let the drug work on you."
Huntress didn't respond her eyes closed. Poison took her chin between her hands and forced her to see her. "Why are you a crime fighter and not a burglar? I think that you are doing the things wrong."
"I." Huntress moved trying to release herself unsuccesfully.
"Listen to me girl, listen my voice; you are going to work for me, to help me to recover the control of New Gotham." Poison caressed her hair "That flower shot you a drug that was absorbed into your bloodstream and reaches the brain. This drug would keep you in a mental state halfway between consciousness and unconsciousness while I weaken your mind defences and I break your own free will. You are going to obey me."
"Yes... No."
"That's not your decision dear, now I have the control. You are mine. I have some business to do. I'll back later, when I get back I'm sure my drug will have weakened you enough to talk about business. My dear plants, look after her." Poison laughed and she exited the room.
Huntress in her struggle was vaguely aware of her surroundings, she moved her head feeling a floating sensation. The drug was overwelming her.
* * *
Afternoon Helena, Alfred." Barbara said entering in Clock Tower, she had been at the shoopping center.
"Afternoon Miss Barbara." Alfred answered from the second floor "How was your day?"
"Too much traffic, I thought Christmas shopping was over but it seems not. Where is Helena Alfred?" Barbara asked wheeling inside the lab.
"I don't know Miss Barbara, after the lunch she went out and told me she will back soon. But it was almost 3 hours ago."
"It's freezing outside" Barbara turned on the computer and looked at the screen. "Well, she has the comset off. But it's strange" she looked her watch "I talked with her this morning and she told me that she was just going to take the plant sample with her to see her friend and then come to back to train a few..."
Barbara wheeled toward Delphi's and began to work. A hour later Barbara watched her clock again, she turned on the mic and called Huntress with out answer. Barbara bit her lips and kept silence a minute. Her mind worked faster. She looked Alfred who was upstairs. "Did Helena tell you where the store of her friend was located?"
"No."
"Could you please bring me the flowers that she gave me the other day? There are in my room. She is not very friendly lately. Maybe it has something to do with that friend who gave her those flowers."
Barbara took off her gloves and rubbed her nose. Alfred walked in a few minutes later and put the flower pot beside her. Barbara looked at the pot and saw a label in the bottom that had the address of the store and the name of it: "Ivy's"
"I don't like this Alfred." She mumbled.
"What happened Miss Barbara?"
"The day of the assault, Poison called her by her name... Huntress. Huntress told me that she had never seen her... but she told me too that she had to meet her friend. She had helped her to prevent a robbery in her greenhouse. And she told that friend that her name is Huntress."
"Do you think she is Poison?" Alfred asked.
"I dunno, but I better find out just to be sure." Barbara wheeled toward the lab. "I'll go to that greenhouse and if it is Poison Ivy then she will be in trouble."
"Are you going to go alone?"
"I have been working on a new invention and I think that it works properly now."
Barbara put the transponder on her waist. It still hurt her spine but she didn't care about that. She was worried about Helena, Poison was a very serious enemy and she could kill easily with out thinking.
"Miss Barbara are you sure about wearing the transponder? Isn't it finished yet?" Alfred said.
"We don't have any other choice Alfred. If Poison has her... " Barbara said concerned. "Wish me a good luck."
"Good luck."
* * *
Poison returned to the second level of the greenhouse a few hours later. Huntress was almost unconscious, all soaked in her own own sweat and still wrapped in the vines. She was making a great effort to resist the powerful drug. It made her feel warm all over, very warm. Her lips were dry. Poison circled her. Huntress heard her steps and opened her eyes slowly. She could see now but her mind was foggy.
Poison smiled evilly "How do you feel dear?"
"Water." Huntress whispered.
"Later, we first need talk about bussiness. You now must obey me."
".I." Huntress arched her back but the vines held pressed her again.
"You can't refuse me, you must obey me." Poison glared to her.
"Let me go."
Poison was surprised, she suppposed that the drug must be working, but that Huntress was resisting it. She took a bottle of water from a table. She knew the effects of her poison and stood up again in front of her. "Look Huntress. did you want it? Did you want water?" she
opened the bottle of water. "I'll give it to you if you tell me who your master is."
"Poison..." She mumbled.
"Am I your master?" Poison leaned over her.
"I. don't have." she moved trying to release but the plants pressed her tight. She groaned.
"Huntress, you couldn't fight against the drug. want water?."
"No."
"I'm your friend Huntress, I can help you, but you must trust me." Posion brushed her hair. "Open your mind to me. I'm your friend, open to me, you can't resist my voice."
Huntress moved her dry lips.
"Trust me girl. I'm your friend."
". I can't"
"You can stop fighting dear. Where is Catwoman?" Poison slapped her. She grabbed her hair and pushed her head back, "Girl, I'm your master. How could you resist my drug?" Poison was pissed, she snapped her fingers and the ends of the two tendrils changed and blossomed into
small, bright red flowers with quivering stamens in their centre. It moved near Huntress' face. The flowers lowered over her and shot a green powder. Huntress shook her head and coughed again.
"Poor Huntress; you are too young to die in painful agony. I'm giving you another opportunity. How much time do you think you have? I need the free way for my next step, and you are not going to interfer. I asked you join me and you are going to do it in a good or in a bad way."
Huntress struggled but was unsucesfully again.
"Every minute the drug will block more of your nervous system and not let you be able to control your body and your mind. If you resist it, it will begin to affect your biological functions such as temperature, vision, talking, maybe even breathing. Better do it the easy way. You will help me with the next step of my plan. Sow this city with my plants seeds." Poison laughed and walked to the exit "I need to go, I hope that when I come back you will be better disposed to work with me."
* * *