Chapter 11
Sidesie
So far Freya and I haven't spoken the whole journey towards Ivy's weird plant lair. I had finally decided to break the ice with a question I was wondering about.
"Freya, what were you doing on my rooftop in the first place?" I asked curiously.
She sighed as she looked down at the ground. "Hector and I were planning to go hang out earlier tonight on top of the flower shop. I was waiting for about five hours and I was starting to wonder where he was, I decided I would go check out on you to see if you knew where he was, but when I arrive I saw..." She didn't finish her sentence, but she didn't need to, I could hardly think of it myself.
"Don't worry," I said patting her on the back, "Revenge makes everything better." I gave off an evil laugh.
We came to the old Gotham Casino, which was right across from the giant plant infested hotel.
"I brought some happy gas since it kills off plants. We'll use it for a getaway if things don't go our way." I said as we walked to the edge of the casino.
We swiftly jumped across from the edge of the casino to the broken highway
Freya and I both looked up at the front of the hotel. The entrance was onto of a building near the hotel. There was a long walkway across from the building and hotel.
"Too many of the hypnotized dumb asses for us to get past, we'll have to sneak in." I told her.
She was examining the walkway and the edge of the highway.
"I have an idea. What we will need to do is jump from the edge of the highway," She said pointing to the broken off bit, "To the plants over there. We climb up that vine and break into that window." She said pointing out a course for us.
"Got it." I smirked at her.
She did a run up, she ran from where we were standing and over to the edge of the highway. She leapt through the air and landed on a root. She climbed up the root and climbed onto another one, she sat there crouched down waiting me. I copied her actions and landed safely on the root. I climbed up the root and jumped onto another one. I kept my prefect balance so I would not fall into the water. We finally reached a window on a sturdy stalk. She looked at each other and nodded to each other, meaning that we were ready. I pulled out a machete that I had brought on this special occasion so I could hack my way into the room. Freya had her sword out ready as she opened the window.
Both me and Freya climbed through the window one at a time and stepped onto the root filled floor.
The room was filled with vines, giant Venus fly traps, huge stalks and other weird looking flowers.
"Ivy has no idea that we're here." I whispered to Freya. Freya pointed it a Venus fly trap then carefully walked over to it. I walked over to one across from Freya. As we raised our weapons we looked at each other, I held up three fingers and began to count down on them.
Three, two, one...
I slashed down at the Venus fly trap cutting right down to the base. The plant squirmed until it collapsed. The same thing happened to Freya.
"NO!" I heard Ivy's voice ring through the whole hotel. "Someone is trying to hurt you, my children. Stop them before they stop us." Her voice echoed all around.
Vines began to rise and gained movement and moved towards us. When the vine would come in range we both would cut them off, when we did, the vines would flee away. Freya and I untied against the wall near us. I looked up at a vine about me who was charging down towards me. As it was I noticed a huge hole in the ceiling. I chopped down the vice and grabbed Freya's arm and lead her to a giant stalk on the left hand side of the room. We both climbed up the stalk as fast as me could while destroying the annoying vines.
I jumped a metre across from the stalk and grabbed hold of the edge of the hole, I lifted myself up out to the hole and onto the next floor and I waited for Freya.
As soon as she was standing on the same floor as me, I grabbed a grenade that contained happy gas, I threw the grenade down the hole. A green gas escaped from the grenade when it exploded and it slowly filled the room. The gas was soon only half a metre away from reaching the. The moved plants jerked up around and began to shrivel up and turn brown, they collapsed to the ground. Within a few seconds the room was filled with dead and dying plants.
"How dare you hurt my babies! Destroy the intruders before they hurt more of us!" Her voice echoed. Her voice sounded closer to us, like it was coming from the top. I looked up to see the ceiling was a huge metal floor, I still couldn't see very well because of the roots covering the floor, but it was obvious she was there.
I looked around the room planning my tactics. Venus Fly Traps were all along the wall in the room, there was about twenty or more and no vines at all.
"We just got to get up there!" I pointed to the ceiling.
"It will have to wait though." Freya said pointed her sword directly at one of the Venus fly traps that started to open. The mouth of the plant opened up and emerged a penguin thug.
More were starting to open and even more guards came out. There were all types of thugs from all around Arkham. I brought my gun just in case I was put into situations like this. This was going to be fun. Obviously they were hypnotized because normally, a guy wouldn't be growling like a zombie.
As they all emerged from the plants, a few charged towards us. Two of them headed straight towards me. I shot one down, leaving him to bleed to his death. When another one came towards me, I pulled out my machete and swiftly swung it across his neck. I left the two on the ground, and let them bleed to death and began to attack the others.
Freya was doing well with only just a sword, she might not have killed as many as me, but she got the job done. Soon the room was covered with dead, bleeding bodies of the hypnotized inmates.
"My plant toxins will destroy your meat sack bodies." Her voice echoed. I looked down on the ground to find green gas was slowly filling the room. It was climbing up our feet before we climbed onto a stalk.
We were the luckiest girls in the world at this moment. The stalk we were standing on lead up to the metal floor. There was a gape between the floor and the wall so we were able to climb up. Freya was up on the next floor first, I held back for a few seconds so I could throw another happy gas grenade. I wasn't exactly sure if it would do anything to the toxin, but it was worth a try. I scurried to my feet with Freya and faced the famous Poison Ivy.
"You have some nerve breaking into my home and hurting my poor babies!" Hissed Ivy as she stood up on the plant platform.
"We come for revenge!" Freya confronted her. "And we are not leaving until you are dead!"
"You cannot defeat me. You will suffer for what you have done!" Hissed Ivy.
"You fight plant girl, and I'll take care of her 'babies'." I whispered to her, while observing the room. She had many vines, Venus fly traps, giant moving flowers, and a weird flower pod that was moving. It was going to be hard, but I know that we will get through it. For Hector.
Freya was approaching Ivy with her sword raised, when all hell broke loose. The vines shot out at her, inmates came out of the Venus fly traps, and the giant flowers were spitting something at us, that had a burning sensation. I pulled out my gun in my right hand while holding my machete in my left hand and began to defend Freya. Freya had to try her best to dodge the plants to get to her, while I had to keep vines from attacking her back. She would swiftly flip, cartwheel, and dodge the vines and hypnotized thugs as best as possible.
I slashed at the vines, shot the inmates and dodged the burning shots. She was so close, but it was getting more intense. The burning shots would hit her occasionally and she would suck it up and keep going. I admired her strength.
"Stop her now! She is going to hurt me!" He screamed out to her plants.
More and more vines shot out towards her, but I furiously cut them and sent them away. I was getting irritated. I wanted Ivy to die now!
Finally, what felt like forever, Freya reached her. As I continued to shoot and cut, I watched her beat the living crap out of Ivy. She used her martial arts training to swiftly kick her and punch her. After beating her for a bit, he grabbed Ivy's neck, and swung her off of her platform and onto the ground near where I was standing. I had an idea, and it was good. I waited until a vine was going ti struck out at Freya, I let it get as close to her as I could, before I cut it off near the base. The vine landed on to floor with hardly any life in it at all. I picked it up, it was strong like rope, perfect.
I rapped the vine around her feet until she couldn't move freely around. I held the end of the vine a swung it around in a circle. When it was ready, I flung it up into the air and hooked it through a stalk at the top of the ceiling. I let go of the vine and quickly ran to the head of Ivy. I jumped up into the air and grabbed the vine. I yanked it down and pulled her into the air so she was hanging upside down. I held onto the vine as best as I could. Not wanting her to drop. I winked at Freya was still standing on the platform looked over at Ivy.
"I hope you suffer!" Freya screamed as she ran across the room with her sword raised. When she reached upside down, struggling Ivy, she slashed her sword across Ivy's chest making her scream. Freya repeated the same action, only aimed for her chest. Ivy screamed again, as her chlorophyll blood ran down her neck, clothes and face.
"It hurt's doesn't it?" Freya darkly hissed at Ivy.
"Let me go!" Screamed Ivy in agony.
"This is how it felt when you killed my poor Hector!" Freya screamed angrily.
"Hector? You mean that horrible man who hurt my children!" Ivy exclaimed.
"SHUT UP!" Screamed Freya before she sliced her sword across Ivy's face. "He was not a horrible man!"
"He is! He was at my flower shop cutting off my vines, my flowers, everything! I did what I had to do is save my babies! They were in pain! So I eliminated Hector." Hissed Ivy.
"Enough with the flowers already! They are nothing! The flowers that you care for deserve the same pain you deserve!" Freya whispered close to her. Ivy was going to bleed to death soon enough. But apparently it wasn't soon enough for Freya. Freya brought her sword up to Ivy's neck, and slit her.
Ivy gagged before she felt silent, hanging upside down, dead. I let go of the vine and let her pointless body drop to the floor. I walked over and bent down over her body. Freya was speechless, just glaring at her body, looking like she was about to cry. All of the planets retreated to a spot, before falling into a place all a normal still plant.
"It's okay Freya, she is dead, Hector would of been so proud of you." I said as I ran my palms through Ivy's blood.
"I wanted her to suffer, and she did, but I still feel hollow and empty." She whispered, with her eyes still glued on Ivy's body.
When my hands were fully covered and dripping with Ivy's blood, I walked over the a bare wall, and began to write something.
"I like to always go out on a joke. And you're apart of it. You see, if you don't tell the world you said it, people can steal it." I said to her finished up on my name.
Just thought we would tie up so loose ends! – Freya, league of assassins & Sidesie. I wrote.
I went back to her body and got some more blood, using that blood I just wrote HA in different spots all around the writing.
"Just in case any of her zombie prisoners are wondering where she went." I smiled examining my finished work.
"But we assassins must not work with a criminal that we are sworn to kill, especially one who is on our most wanted list. What if the othes assassins find out.
"I doubt a couple of ninjas would be snooping around an old hotel covered with plants." I told her as I walked away from the wall.
"Now I am going to return back to the steel mill and try to cheer myself up. You can go back to wherever your ninja headquarters is, and tell the head of the assassins that you eliminated someone mean from the world." I smiled at her trying to make her feel better.
"Thank you Sidesie. For all of your help, It's going to be a really hard time..." She trailed off.
"It is going to be hard for me too, but you will find someone else, and you will be happy again." I told her.
She walked over the edge of the floor getting ready to jump down. "I think it will be best if we don't see each other. Considering how the assassins don't like you and all." She gave off a slight laugh, but it did sound forced.
"Agreed, but I might run into you again." I smirked at her.
She gave me a slight smile before jumping down and making her way out of the building.
I turned back to Ivy's body lying in front of me. Ugh.
"You stupid, little, bitch." I said before I sent a pointless bullet into her forehead. I then began to make my way out of the building.
I will head back to the steel mill and call Lukess, to explain everything. I need some comforting. As I got out of the building I began to walk down the highway, I whispered to myself, "Hector, You know that Freya loves you. And I love you too. You were the best friend someone could ever have."