Boq awakened after what felt like forever. From the looks of it, it was the middle of the night, and Boq was lying on a cot in Seymour's lab. How long was I out? And what did Audrey II mean by I was a threat to him?
He was the only one in the lab and, by the looks of it, he had been out for a while; green vines and leaves covered the walls. Seymour's equipment had all been destroyed and his precious hybrid plants were lying, dead, all over the ground. All of a sudden, he heard Seymour scream from the entrance hall, and then a huge crash. He looked around the room and saw the emergency fire axe, which he grabbed and headed downstairs.
It was a horrible sight; Audrey II had completely taken over the store. It's trap was three times the size it originally was, and its vines and roots had grown all over the walls and into the floor. Seymour as a crumpled mess against the wall, unconscious or dead, Boq did not know. Fiyero had been torn to pieces, straw everywhere, with his head laying over be Seymour, a look of horror on his face. But the worst was Elphaba; she was standing in the middle of the room, looking at Fiyero and Seymour with a look of evil joy. For some reason, she seemed greener then normal, and that's when Boq saw a thin, yellow vine from Audrey II attached to the back of her skull. As Boq clanked down the stairs, both Elphaba and Audrey II glared at him. "Elphie! What's wrong with you?! Did…did you do this to Fiyero and Seymour?! What have you done?!"
Audrey II extended a huge vine and constricted Boq once again. "She can't hear you son," said the plant, "You see that vine connected to her head? It's called a taproot, and with it, I'm in control. And it won't end here, either. This little girl will help me with my take over!"
"What kind of take over? What are you talking about?"
"Man, she was right; you are slow. You think that parasite just jumped onto my neck? Hell no! When it was in the development stage, Seymour couldn't stop talking about how it was going to help him. He said he made a deal with a girl from another world, that if he gave her the plant, she had a way of getting him anything he wanted, and I couldn't help from wondering if that was to get rid of me. Naturally, I was very suspicious; I didn't like the fact of Seymour being in charge of my wellbeing; once she got the plant, would she kill me? I had to make sure she wouldn't, so, I implanted the parasite on myself so that Seymour couldn't get what he wanted without my consent. Then I began to realize that this girl was much more powerful then I expected"