Selina and Harley watched as Ivy paced back and forth. She'd been at it for at least 10 minutes. Pam had never seemed like the pacing type to Selina, she always came off more as a 'sit down and focus' type brain-stormer, but again, this environment tended to change people.

"Pam?" Harley ventured after a while. "Pam-a-lam?"

The redhead held up her finger to signal that she needed another moment and Harley fell silent again, pretending to zip her mouth and throw away the key.

"I need three days." Ivy decided, finally. "Three days and a promise that you will respect my authority."

Selina raised an eyebrow. "Authority? What authority?"

"I know what I'm doing." The green woman explained. "I've been here. I have personally killed 14 selections. I am the only one here with special abilities…I am in charge."

"Oh I don't think so." Selina crossed her arms. "I'll respect your authority on poisons and botany, but when it comes to staying in the shadows, you're going to have to fall in line. There's literally nothing about you that's subtle, Pam."

Harley snickered. "She's gotta point, Red. You ain't exactly sneaky. You're kinda like a peacock." If looks could kill…Harley cowered slightly "I jus…I jus mean cuz you're so pretty, Pammikins!"

Ivy grunted, letting that one slide as she turned back to Selina. "Fine. Then I will need you to use your 'stealth capabilities' to bring me back a few items that will help us on our journey."

"OK…" Selina moved her hands to her hips. "Like what?"

/

"Catwoman is on the move." Oracle called over her shoulder.

Zatanna plopped down into the chair next to her. "Where's she headed?" She asked with her mouth half full of breakfast burrito.

"I don't think I've ever seen you eat before." Barbara noticed as she adjusted the camera to give them a good look at Catwoman as she scurried along the tree branches.

"You're witnessing a unicorn." Zatanna chuckled as she took another bite. "Where's she coming from? Where's she going?"

"Unfortunately, I can't answer either of those questions." Barbara glanced at her watch, it was 11am, time to turn the heat up just a bit. She raised the temperature in the game environment from 68 to 72 degrees. "I could only get one angle where she killed Jewelee and then she disappeared. The forest is too thick in that spot to follow her."

Zatanna chewed. "Sounds like a design flaw."

"It wasn't a design flaw…" Oracle grumbled. "Ivy updated the design herself."

"See, this is where Selina would make a snide comment about how that's so Ivy and I would laugh." The magician chuckled as she watched her colleague leap onto the next branch. "We can both agree that this is beyond strange though, right? Watching Selina of all people go through this?"

"What do you mean 'Selina of all people'?" Barbara's attention remained on the screen as Catwoman dropped to the ground near Ivy's poisoned spring. Barbara's heartrate picked up speed.

Zatanna saw it too and her chewing slowed. "I mean….we're….you know….we're Gotham girls…" Her eyes were glued to the same place as Barbara's. "I think Ivy's about to kill Selina."

Oracle nodded slowly, suddenly wishing that she could warn the villain. "I know…" she breathed.

The two women watched in silence as Catwoman cautiously approached where the clear water was bubbling up from the ground. She looked over her shoulder and- after evidently deciding that she was alone- took the bag off of her back and began to fill it with the liquid.

"She's not going to drink it?" Zatanna asked.

Oracle narrowed her eyes. "I guess not…"

Zatanna scooted her chair closer. "Will that bag even keep the water in?"

Barbara nodded as she tried to figure out what was happening. "They're dry bags. It should—" She stopped when a red dot blinked on the screen. "Harley's out too…" she clicked on the notification and an image of Harley Quinn grew so that it shared the screen with Catwoman. The blonde jester was sprinting across the forest floor, leaping over the slightly discolored sections of grass that Barbara knew were concealing Ivy's traps.

"Well where do you think she's going?" Zatanna sat back, but she didn't have to wonder long because Harley stopped at the base of one of Ivy's apple trees and began to hurriedly strip the branches of as many as she could carry. "Are those the ones she poisoned?" the magician asked.

Oracle shook her head. "No…Captain Boomerang ate those and he was fine."

Zatanna furrowed her brow. "Isn't Boomerang dead?"

"Mhm." Barbara nodded. "But it was the water that killed him, not the fruit. Ivy's got another tree about 200 feet north of there that we know for sure is poisoned, though."

Zatanna mulled that over. "So either Harley got lucky, or Ivy told her which one was safe."

"Well we figured Ivy would protect her for as long as she could." Oracle scowled as Harley stuck her tongue out at the camera. She turned her focus back to Catwoman who was now strapping the heavy bag onto her back. "Do you think she's protecting—"

"Selina too?" Zatanna finished her sentence. "Oh absolutely. I've seen it before."

"Well we've all seen it before, but—"

"Ivy will end the alliance when it suits her." The magician cut Barbara off again. "But those three are like a weird little gang."

"You sound a bit jealous." Oracle smirked as she moved the camera forward, forcing Harley to have to duck to avoid it.

"I'm not jealous." Zatanna crossed her arms, watching Catwoman make her way more slowly through the branches. "I'm just saying putting them all in there together was a bit reckless."

"What are you talking about?" Barbara asked, turning to the brunette. "You voted, didn't you?"

Zatanna shook her head. "Only Diana, Clark, Bruce and Hal voted on Ivy. They went and got her in the middle of the night, too. I heard they had Joker help lure her somewhere and they pardoned him for another round."

Barbara cocked her head. "Why would they do that?"

"Well Joker doesn't exactly match up favorably against Diana's selection." Zatanna chuckled. "I mean, we sent him back in anyway and they ended up delaying her arrival…"

Oracle raised an eyebrow. "They sent Ivy in to fight Cheetah?"

Zatanna was chomping down on her burrito again. "That's what I heard." She swallowed. "Not like it's paid off. They haven't even come within a mile of each other."

Barbara turned back to the screen as both Harley and Selina dove to places the cameras couldn't follow. "Ivy, Harley, Catwoman, Joker, Bane and Cheetah. I guess they really did want a show…"