Chapter 20: Last Stand
Light footfalls echoed in the long corridors followed by deep, paced breathing. Her heart was racing as she ran in the illuminated moss on the floor that brightened after each step. She had to flee, her plans were ruined. She would regain her reign of control. But when she escapes it'll help her. But it couldn't help her as she heard heels clicking on the moss-marble floor.
Her running lead her into a large clearing of an exhibit to stop at the sight of an unconscious security guard on the floor. To the sounds of the heeling tailing her, she quickly reached for the gun attached to the guard's belt and drew it out. The sound of the heels stopped to have her glance around in her surroundings and cocked the gun. All was quiet to her, she didn't like it one bit.
"I was always right to never trust you," Nya hissed to have Ivy turned to the voice. The meta-human looked around for the voice with the gun out and aimed for the feline heroine. But her bright green eyes lead them upward to see Nya was on the overhead lights. The samurai glared at the girl. "You're nothing but a lair and a killer."
"And what are you? A hero?" Ivy retorted and fired the gun. The sound of the bullet ricochet off the ceiling to have her notice Nya was gone from her spot. She kept turning her head around to search around for the girl. "A thief? A coward? A freak?!" All was quiet to her. "If you have a face, then why do you where that mask?"
Unknown to her, Nya quietly snuck up behind the green skinned girl. "Because you killed me." she snarled. Ivy snapped her head to the girl behind her to spun on her heels. "It was me that spied on you at the conservatory." She kicked the gun out of her hands and swung around to land another kick to her chest to have her on the floor and pounced onto her. "I'm Nya."
Anger boiled into the meta-human to snap her arm at her to have vine sprout from the floor to grab at the girl, but Nya jumped away on time from the command. "So that's who's under the mask." she said as she pulled herself to her feet. "The well-known samurai that flies in Ninjago. How unfortunate of you being killed then, but how you are alive is beyond me." She held up her hands to have thorny plants surround her. "But it might as well be another pleasure to kill you."
The air became still as the two glared at each other. Both remained still while the thorny plants swayed around the red haired girl as she flexed her fingers. Nya had to draw out her claws while getting into a stance. Tension grew around the two; a fight for redemption. Or conquering.
Ivy stopped flexing her hands to quickly thrust her hand out at the samurai to have the plants react and lunged for her. Reacting, Nya quickly dropped to all fours to leap away gracefully from the lethal thorns to the side and quickly jumped onto a column to climb up as she heard the plants follow after her. She had to leap off to be on the railing of the second story floor to perform flips while maintaining balance to dodge the thorns from striking her. Ivy growled as she tried land a blow to the raven haired girl. "Hold still!" she bellowed.
Chocolate brown eyes glared at the meta-human as she ducked herself behind a column. But her head quickly snapped at the thorns that wrapped around the column to lunge for her. She quickly leaped back to fall back on the first floor and raced to Ivy to slide on the floor to avoid the plants grabbing at her. Once she was face to face with her, she quickly lashed her claws to hear her cry out as she grazed them across her face. Bright green eyes glanced down at her left cheek to trace a finger across one of her marks to have green-clearish liquid on her fingers to growl at the girl as she felt her face mend itself just as a plant would. A smirk flashed on Nya's face to quickly throw a kick to her chest to have the green-skinned girl thrown back and broke through a display case; unconscious.
Nya stared at the unconscious girl to carefully walk over to her limp form as glass showered around her. She stared at the girl to huff through her nose and turned on her heels to walk away. A large cry of pain tore through the girl as she felt something stabbed into her leg to glance over her shoulder to see Ivy on her knees with a grin on her face. The samurai saw the large piece of glass in her leg to quickly pull it out while holding back a yelp to see her blood stain on the shard. She quickly turned back to start running as she watched Ivy reach for the gun and heard the gun fire around her, but the bullets passed her she ducked behind a case.
The gun kept firing over at Nya's direction until she heard the gun click to know it was empty and tossed it aside. She stretched her arms out to have vines sprout from the plants around her to gently wrap themselves around her and carried her up to the museum's sun roof and broke through the glass to be on the roof. Nya watched her leave to quickly rush out from her hiding spot to find the fire exit stairs and raced to the roof.
Bright green eyes stared at the city in front of her to scoff as she stared at the museum behind her. She stared at her hands as the vines softly set her on the roof to sigh through her nose. She had to scream in anger loudly. "It was all mine without little much effort." she scowled and raised her arms high. "Now I'll have to take it by deadly force. No one will stop me from creating Ninjago to its original image. Back when it was new." She closed her eyes to concentrate on her abilities to feel her heart racing to the power she was controlling to cross her arms over her head and pushed them outward.
Thick, large plants broke through the asphalt of the roads and stood tall than the skyscrapers. Other plants broke through the buildings to have glass showering to the streets. Cries of fear and terror from the citizens made Ivy smile as more as she wavered her arms and hands in elegant movements to have thick trees growing and the plants blooming. A thick, hand made jungle grew around the girl as she continued to create everything around her. She couldn't help but laugh in joy and victory.
The roof access door was kicked open to have Nya rush out from the stairs to scan around for the meta-human and finally spotted her to rush over to her. But she stopped dead in her tracks as she stared at the city. Large thick plants sprouted everywhere in the city to make her heart beat rapidly to everything. She could hear the people of the city screaming in terror to enhanced her vision to see some of the citizens running from the plants. She quickly turned on her heels to race herself to Ivy to leap onto all fours and bounded at the green skinned girl to tackle her to floor and both rolled.
A snarl escaped from the red haired girl as she glared at Nya as she got in a crouch to raise her arm and thrust it at her. A thick vine sprouted from her spot to lash out at her, but the samurai jumped back to land on the vines and ran along it to jump away from another vine to land in front of her. Nya ducked and swayed her body to avoid the meta-human's attacks to jump aside and quickly drew out the glass shard of the green liquid. She drew in a deep breath as she was worried of what could happen, but she ducked her final attack to twist around behind her and grazed her across her side to stand in a crouch.
A mild burn spread through the girl's side to fall to her knees. The burn quickly stopped spreading to chuckle lightly as she gotten herself to her feet to turn to the girl. "Foolish little girl," she mused. "Using my own medicine against me just because I did it to your little boyfriend. Foolish of you, you've just given me more power than I can ever imagine." Nya remained unfazed to snort. A smirk grew on the green skinned girl's lips to take a step, but stopped to feel strange. She struggled to gasp a breath to fall to her knees to glance at Nya.
A smirk flashed on the samurai's face to stare down at the glass shard. "Unlike you're plant and Jay, they were all powerful." she stated and tossed the shard aside. "But for you, you're too powerful to have a powerful substance in your veins. When two powerful substances combine, a reaction causes both substance to fight against each other and destroy each other." She brought her face closer to hers. "You basically caused your own death where you can no longer be the girl you are. You poisoned yourself, Poison Ivy. How ironic."
A weight grew on the girl's chest to shake in fear to stare at her arms. She finally gasped a breath as she watch her skin become pale than green and flaky to scream in anger to glare at the girl. Nya had to step back as a gust of wind surrounded the girl with bits of pollen and leaves surrounded the girl as she watched her body deteriorate back to itself and her bright red hair turned darker. Ivy screamed loudly as the inside of her body burned and she collasped with the miniature tornado disappearing. She tiredly lifted her head as her body became more flaky than it was. "Nature will always win!" she said quietly and collapsed with her eyes closed. A gust of wind brushed across the museum roof to brush across Ivy's body and crumbled into pollen to disappear into the city.