Chapter 2: Ivy's Master Plan
Eight years ago, Dr. Pamela Isley's life changed forever. She could remember it all very clearly as if it just happened yesterday. She was looking for all kinds of ways to help plants fight for their survival so they don't become endangered or worse yet, extinct. She was doing this by mixing animal DNA with her plants, but her attempts have been unsuccessful so far. She was always a bit of a science nerd and it was about a year before that she got her PhD in Botany from Gotham State University. She had been trying to do as much experimenting as possible, but it was hard seeing as her boss, Dr. Jason Woodrue, had recently cut a decent portion of her funding for his own research. This outraged her, but she was more focused on actually doing her work instead of having the money to back it up. So, she continued her experiments without Woodrue knowing about it. When she had to, she would secretly steal some of the funding for his work for her own. Right now, she was working on another way to mix animal and plant DNA together, but it ended up being a false too. "Damn it! My attempt to mix together the DNAs of the Vanilla Orchid and the South American Rattlesnake has failed again! But I still have high hopes for the animal-plant cross breedings. If only I could find the correct dosage of poison, all plants in the world will be able to defend themselves like the deadliest animals in the world do. They could make all the corporate and logging bastards pay for attempting to tear down their jungles, their forests, their homes.", Pamela Isley talked into a tape recorder. "But it would definitely help if I could have more money to help me out with my work. But I can't take too much more money from Dr. Woodrue. I've already taken too much and he'll most likely find out soon er or later that I've been stealing from him.", she continued to talk. She then looked over and saw her latest concoction which was an experimental plant poison that she hasn't tested it yet. She feels that if all else fails, this will be the key to Mother Nature's survival, but she doesn't want to go down that road quite yet. "And I still have hope for you as well, my love. I just want to see if there's any other possible way first.", she said to the vial of bright green liquid. Then all of a sudden, Woodrue came barging into Pamela's laboratory with an angry look on his face. "Dr. Isley!", he yelled. She dropped the recorder in fright once she heard him yell. "Oh, hello, Jason. What's wrong?", she asked. "Cut the shit! I know you've been stealing my money after I cut funding for your experiments!", Woodrue said. Pamela didn't know what to say now that she's been caught. "I'm sorry. I can explain!", she said. "No need! You're fired! And I want all these ugly weeds burned now!", he demanded. Isley got in his way and said, "No! You can't! This is what I've been working for all my life! This is Nature's last chance at surviving!". "I don't give two shits about your delusional dreams about Nature! Nobody steals my money! Get out!", he screamed. "No!", she screamed back. "Very well.", he said as he pushed her into one of her plant tables. The table collapsed and her plants broke all over the floor. Isley was laying up against the broken table and saw the broken plants and became angry. "You bastard! You'll pay for killing my plants!", she said in a weakened tone. He looked over and saw her poison in a vial and had an idea. He grabbed the vial, walked over to her, and bent down to her level. "I know you wanted to try this poison out, so let's do it now!", he threatened. She became scared and begged, "No! Please don't do that!". He held her mouth open and poured the poison down her throat. Isley gagged and coughed as she felt the poison enter her body. It became harder to breathe and she felt her body going weak and numb. She then collapsed on the floor and was no longer breathing. Woodrue assumed she was dead and said to himself, "Well, now you'll be one with the earth that you love so much.". He then left the room while unknown to him, the tiled floor of the lab began to break up and Isley's body began to go down into the soil as the poison was starting to make her body go through one extrordinary transformation. Later on that evening, Woodrue was writing some notes in his lab completely devoid of remorse that he just murdered his assistant earlier. He stopped when he heard a knock at the door and was curious as to who would be knocking at his door at this hour of the night. He got up and went over to the door and opened it. He was completely astoundec when he saw that the person who was at the door was the woman he thought he killed earlier, Dr. Pamela Isley. But she looked different because her skin had turned green almost like the Wicked Witch of the West and she looked way more attractive than she did before. He thought she did always look pretty, but not as much as now because she always had glasses on and her hair in a bun. Now, her hair was long and flowing and no glasses on and her eyes were green as well, but that didn't seem to disturb him one bit as he was captured in her beauty. "Dr. Isley? Pamela is that really you?", he asked. "Yes, Jason. It's me. I know you're surprised to see me since you tried to kill me earlier.", Isley said in a seductive tone. "I...I'm so sorry, Pamela. I honestly don't know what came over me. I lost my temper and I shouldn't have. After all, it's just money. There's more to life than money.", he said. "Yes there is. Such as protecting the environment. Which is what I have been trying to do my entire life, or I should say my former life.", she said as she walked closer to him while he backed up. "What do you mean?", he asked. "You see, Jason, darling, the poison you made me drink, altered my body's biology and physiology. I have begun a new and better life. Now I am more one with Nature. I can now begin my quest for plants to once again dominate the world and make humanity suffer and I could really use your help.", she said as she blew some sort of pink dust in his face. After he inhaled the dust, he said in a fool in love look, "Anything for you, Pamela.". "Please, call me Poison Ivy. Or just Ivy for short.", she said. "Okay, Ivy.", he said. "Good. First off, I need your equipment and research.", she said. "It's right over there. You can do whatever you want with it.", he said as the dust got him completely under her control. "You're such a doll, Jason. Now give me a kiss.", she said as she moved towards him. "Really?", he asked. "I insist. Come here.", she said. They then locked lips and Woodrue was completely awestruck as what was going while Ivy had a sinister look in her eyes as she kissed him. Once they separated lips, Woodrue began to feel weak and in pain that first began in his lips and traveled through his entire body. Ivy noticed this and asked in a mocking tone, "What's wrong, Jason?". "I feel...weak. Like I've been drugged...or poisoned.", he said as he felt his body going limp. "Well, maybe that's because you have been poisoned. That's why I call myself Poison Ivy. Rot in Hell, Darling.", she said as he collapsed dead on the floor as the poison from her lips filled his whole body. "Now, to get to work. First, I'll start with plants dominating this miserable city, and then the whole world will be one big beautiful jungle where my babies will reign supreme!", she said. And that's how the story of Poison Ivy began. In present day Gotham, Poison Ivy was currently waiting for one of her mind controlled slaves to bring something very important to her. She had made her base of operations in the abandoned hotel when she was first put in Arkham City, and she still was there even though Arkham City was shut down and the walls were destroyed. The building was overgrown with her strange living plants while she did her evil experiments. Her servant who was a member of Scarface's gang had just come back with what she had requested he get. "Did you get what I need?", she asked him. "I did. Hear you go, Ivy.", he said as she handed her a vial of bright green liquid. "Thanks, love. "You're a total doll.", she said to him. "Anything for you. I love you, Ivy.", he said. "I love you too. Now do me a favor and shoot yourself in the head with your gun.", she instructed him. "Sure thing.", he said as he got out his gun and shot himself in the head. His brains were splattered on the floor and he fell down dead. Then Ivy looked at the vial in her hands and had a devious smile on her face. What was in the vial was some of the TITAN formula which was new and more dangerous form of the super-steroid Venom which is what Bane had been addicted to for years. It was created by Dr. Penelope Young and was used on the night of Joker's takeover of the asylum on some of his men and on himself. The disease that ended up killing the Clown Prince of Crime and almost Batman too was caused by TITAN. But it was also used on her plants which made them grow to monstrous proportions and made them stronger than ever. They nearly destroyed the asylum and it took a long time to cut them all down when the asylum was reopened. Ivy knew that this formula was the key to her plants taking over the city. Seeing as how they completely covered Arkham Island, they could do the same thing to Gotham. She then filled a syringe up with the formula and injected it into her flytrap which was over on her desk. Within seconds, the flytrap began to grow to huge size and became way more ravenous and beastial with rows of razor-sharp teeth in its mouth. Once it was done growing, it reached the ceiling and let out a loud bellowing roar. Ivy just smiled and was in awe of how beautiful and strong her baby was now. The flytrap looked down and saw the dead henchman's body. It bent down and swallowed it whole. "Beautiful! And this is just the beginning! Soon, the rest of my plants will become as big and strong as you are and this miserable, dirty, polluted city will be ours for the greening!", she said.
