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Chapter 13: Proposition

Darkness surrounded the girl in black as she entered the catacombs of the sewers in Ninjago City. Her brown eyes scanned around her surroundings and felt her eyes become enlarged of a cat's eyes in the darkness to see better. Everything around her had lit up to see what there was with her. But the foul stench of a sewer never entered her nose, but the sweet aroma of flowers surrounding her. She knew she was close to the meta-human known as Ivy.

Nya kept herself alerted in case there was other people in where she was at. But if it was her, Ivy and her partner, she'll feel fine to know it was just them. And this wasn't going to stop the girl to know what Ivy's plans were with a perfume and being a person who can control plants. Even when she found out she controlled her partner to be in her lair. Something was up to her and Nya had to find out.

The samurai followed along the trail of vines and other greenery that clung onto the brick walls to know she was on the right path to the lair. To her, it seemed that there was more plants than last night. The girl turned the corner to walk into the clearing to see the large plant-like fortress to quietly rush to the walls and jumped on the walls. Her nails dug into the chlorophyll wall to see water leak from her marks making contact. She reached the top of the wall to look around for a way into the fortress and saw what appeared to a window of the sorts to jump high to reach the windowsill and climbed over to be in a room. "Okay. . ." she wondered. "If I was a plant person making some perfume, where would I keep it all in production?" Her nose smelled something strong to alert her senses to turn her head to the door. "Follow your nose then."

The girl walked down the long corridors of the fortress with her nose as her guide to find wherever the ingredients for Ivy's perfume was. But in hopes for her, her allergies don't let her go into shock. Then Catwoman wouldn't be able to do anything. Nya stopped as her nose picked up something strong to turn to a wall to run her hand along it and knocked to hear it was hollow on the other side. "Door hidden from the public," she stammered. "Must be under her control to hide it from anyone and I don't see a switch to unlock it. Time to improvise then." She extended her claws to quickly slash against the wall create an opening for her to squeeze in. And what she saw atonished her.

Tables ran in rows and along the walls. Chemistry sets with beakers and vials spread on the table with pink liquid running through the glass tubes. Nya smirked as she found the source of the perfume production and nothing was alerting her allergies yet even. She heard something groaning to turn and watched the hole she made close itself up and heal as if it wasn't scratched. "It's alive," she blinked as she walked around in the laboratory. "This fortress acts alive and she protects it. And I guess in return, it provides her with the stuff to make this." She walked to a table that didn't have anything on it, but the empty glasses of perfume vials to ponder as she glanced around. Nothing seemed wrong to the girl.

Her ears and other senses alert the girl in black to know someone was coming and glance around for any way to escape from. But her way out was the only way the person was coming in. She glanced up to see vines hanging above to smile at something to hide in and jumped to grab onto the vines to hang from and became quiet.

The wall split open to have Ivy enter in and closed behind her with the wave of her hand as she walk to the table right underneath Nya. The girl became quiet to the red haired woman below her to quietly climbed away from her but her body brushed against the vines make the meta-human perk her head. "You know, it's illegal for someone to break into my home without any permission whatsoever." the woman said to snap her fingers. The vines around Nya reacted and grabbed her legs. The vines then dropped her to make her yelp until she dangled behind Ivy. The meta-human turned around to face the girl who had her arms crossed as she was upside down.

"First question, how did you know I was here?" Nya asked.

The red head only glimmered at the girl who trespassed in her fortress. A plant around her wrist with a barbed stinger grew on her arm and moved as it was a snake when it faced Nya. The girl in black gulped a bit to the plant. "I can sense with the plants around here," Ivy responded as she walked around Nya. "We are all connected in one and I care for my babies. That's how I was able to tell you were up there." She stroked the leafy green plant that was on her wrist to hear it hiss in delight. "My question is who are you and how did you get in my home?"

Nya, unfazed with being dangled by the vines, only sighed as she was like this. Looks like she wasn't getting out alive on this. "My name isn't important right now," she replied. "I've been looking for someone who started the fire over at the conservatory. And from what I've been told, from the guy with green hair, it was you who started the fire."

Ivy stopped to glare at her to quickly punch her in the abdomen to hear her gasp. "How you know about the fire is none of your concern!" she growled. "What matter was that I was stuck and had a gun on my partner until someone spotted us to make me fire it and cause it. So why do you care?"

Pain raked in her stomach to try and surpress the pain to take a slow breath. So Oak was right about her being the one who caused the fire, but yet she didn't want her to know it was her that spied on them. "Because a little girl was in the fire, but she didn't make it out alive." she replied to catch her breath. "So I've been sent to avenge for the girl who lost her life in the blaze and here you are. I've found the one who caused the fire."

The meta-human turned her gaze to the girl to feel sympathy claw her throat. She didn't realize that someone was a child spying on her and Oak to make her cause the fire. And here she had the ability to control plants and be one with them. She sighed as she lets Nya go to walk to the tables to rest against it. "You don't know the entire story though," she sighed to see look puzzled. "Before I changed, I too was murdered during the fire by my old partner to become this. I never realize though that the person spying on us was a little girl. I just didn't know when I started it."

"So what are you doing exactly then?" Nya asked as she pulled herself up. "I found you with your old partner and said you wanted to propose a proposition to him. I just waited to be sure on something and decided to come by for a visit."

"I'm turning a new leaf as you can call it," Ivy replied to have her plant pet move around her shoulders. "I wanted to change the world, but I never realize Oak was a eco-terrorist to kill people with a toxin that we made. How was I suppose to know he wanted me to create something to kill people. Including the Ninja. So I'm wanted to change the ways of my action in the past and wanted to create something with my abilities."

"And this happens to be perfume?"

"Hypoallogenic and all natural herbal rememdies from my perfume," Ivy stated. "All natural without the need of chemicals to extract the natural oils from the plants. Even with those that have allergies with perfume will be able to use this." Nya felt intrigued to this. A perfume she could have and not go into shock. "This is what I want to do for the people of Ninjago. And with you here, I think we can work together."

Nya looked at her skeptically on the proposition she was offering to her. Ivy had too been killed off during the fire as her. Both were reborn with new abilities as well. Something felt off to her, but Ivy looked true to her word on turning a new leaf. But what about her partner? "And your old partner?" she wondered. "What about him?"

Ivy turned her bright green eyes to the samurai to walk over to another table to pull open a drawer to shuffle through it. "He too has turned over a new leaf as me." she explained. She found what she was looking for to pull it out and walked over to Nya. "And he's doing errands for me at the moment to help me find the right plants for my perfume. I'm so close to finding the perfect perfume for all to enjoy. If you want to see him, you'll find him here." and handed her the newspaper.

Nya glanced at the paper to ponder what it was about to see it was an advertisement article. And it was about an opera of ancient Ninjago at the Ninjago City Opera House. She had to wonder what it had there for Ivy to use for her perfume production. SHe nodded to her Ivy for this and stowed it into her belt. "Thanks for the info." she said and started walking away.

Ivy watched her walk away to flick her wrist to open the wall for her and turned around to look at her chemistry set. "What do they call you?" she wondered before Nya left. Nya stopped to glance over her shoulder. "What do they call you for dressing up as this?"

The samurai smirked. "Catwoman. I think we're going to be great partners then." and walked off. Ivy too smirked and continued with her work on her products.