Chapter 4: Ivy's New Target

Poison Ivy was currently sitting in her hideout in the old hotel that is still completely overrun with her mutated plants. She could not wait for her plan to be put into action. She would finally get what she always wanted which is Gotham being a beautiful garden instead of the breeding ground of crime and evil that it is with only her and her plants and no people living in it. She had used the TITAN formula on a few more of her plants that led to them growing to devastating proportions. She didn't want to use up too much of it since she wanted to save the rest when the time is right. She was quite pleased with the results on the plants she did inject the formula with. It worked just as well as it did on Arkham Island. Although, something was a little distressing to Ivy. She needed help carrying her plan to fruition. Real help, not just from the idiotic lowlives of Gotham's underbelly. Time after time, they have proven useless for the most part. And her plants couldn't help her with everything. She needed help from a person, someone new and determined. She had used her pheromones and brainwashed all of Batman's boys and she knew that wouldn't work on them again. One of her giant man-eating flytraps saw that she was in distress and went to comfort her. It started to talk to her through the magical natural force called The Green asking her what's wrong. "Oh, darling. I fear that I may need some serious help with making this miserable city the lush jungle it needs to be in order to save it. I'm so tired of having to both use my pheromones on and just to rely on small-minded thugs to do my work. If we're going to do this, we need someone real special to help us. I know I can't rely on any of Batman's helpers. I've used my pheromones on all of them and they've gotten over them.", she said. The flytrap then whispered to her saying that she hasn't worked her magic on all of Batman's helpers. "What do you mean I haven't worked on all of them?", she asked sounding confused. The flytrap then informed her on Batman's newest helper, the boy named Jacob who both saved the city from Scarecrow's toxin and beat Riddler at his own game, as well as a few other Bat-missions. "Oh, that's right. I completely forgot about him. Good idea, baby.", she said to her pet. Ivy then grabbed the newspaper on her desk and saw that this boy was on the front page along with Batman with the article talking about capturing Mad Hatter. "I do believe this boy will be of some good use to us. From what I've heard he's as determined as his mentor and that's just the thing I need in someone to help us. I'll have to arrange for us to meet somehow.", she said. The flytrap then mentioned of the other person in the picture which was Elsa who was said to be his girlfriend. It also mentioned her ice powers and how they could really damage it and the rest of the plants. "Interesting. I don't care if this girlfriend of his has ice powers or fire powers or the power to resurrect the dead, if she gets in our way, I'll make sure she's dead and her body will decompose and give birth to a bunch of beautiful new crocuses which can grow in the Wintertime.", she said with a sinister tone. The flytrap then asked what about the boy? "Soon enough, I'll have him join us and I promise you, once Gotham belongs to us and we don't need him anymore, I'll give his corpse to you and your brothers and sisters as a tasty snack.", Ivy told it. The flytrap seemed pleased to hear that. "Alright, my love. We have much work to do.", Ivy said as she continued her scheming.