A/N: How's everyone doing? Hope y'all enjoyed the first week of 2023! Anyways, here's chapter 10! Enjoy :)
Chapter 10: Ivy's Dream:
The Militia were now on the hunt for Ivy, that meant she had to be very wary of when she would use her powers through the night. Ivy had decided to use her powers to spy upon the criminals Batman had already locked up in the GCPD thus far. Luckily The GCPD had average sized plants lying all over the precinct.
As predicted, there weren't many of them in the main lockup. Two-Face, A psychopath calling himself 'Professor Pyg' and the recently arrested/arrived Firefly.
"Little Dent, little Dent...do not fear, Pyg can make face whole again! OH YESSSS!"
"Try touching me, and I'll make sure your corpse isn't funeral ready." Dent was absolutely disgusted with not only Valentin's disturbing personality, but he was disgusted with his 'perfect' dollotrons as well. "The same thing goes for my boys, try turning any of my men into those doll things, I'll make sure you suffer. We'll kill you in the worst way possible."
"OH MOMMY! Mr Dent is just angry! Pyg just wants to help!" Pyg was clearly out of his mind in the eyes of Dent and Firefly.
"You know Dent?!" Lynns continued. "You're incompetent in my eyes, you're supposed to be one of Gotham's most feared and respected mob bosses, yet I lasted far longer than you did!"
Two-Face easily brushed this off. He didn't take Firefly seriously. "You relied on your flying toy and barbecue gun, I kept it old school and brought the fight to Batman upfront."
"I didn't lose to The Bat! It was that PLANT BITCH! IVYYY! She screwed with my equipment! When I get out of here, I'm gonna burn down every plant in Gotham! Then I'll be sure to settle the score with Batman!"
"You said you'd burn down all of Gotham, plants included, I'm not surprised that Pamela stuck her nose into things. She'd rather herself die than all of her plants."
Lynns was in full denial. "But Batman was busy playing hide and seek with Scarecrow! That should've given me the time I needed to burn Gotham! And I also heard the Bat personally thank the salad whore for her actions! THEY MUST HAVE TEAMED UP! I KNOW THE TRUTH!"
Dent was very much not pleased by this. But, since fate seemed to be on Batman and even Ivy's side he gave it some thought. "If that is true, we shouldn't lose what has happened in the past. I personally could care less what Pamela has done or is planning to do, but we all know she's been trying to make The Bat fall for her for years. Batman isn't easily seduced by her magic. He must be willingly working with her. So far, fate is on the side of The Dark Knight and Pamela."
Firefly snorted at Dent's claim. He thought Dent was an insane idiot for believing that such an odd alliance would last long term. "No wonder you're insane Dent! You're making the Bat and the Plant sound like mystical lovers!"
Dent was ignoring Firefly's ranting. He leaned against the walls of the main cell, ignoring him. "I'm not making them sound like anything...it's all up to fate..."
Lynns laughed maniacally in return. "HAHA! You might as well as skip to the part where they're married and in bed making little Bats and little Flowers!"
After hearing disturbing and annoying rants from both Firefly and Pyg and somewhat logical statements from Two-Face, Ivy now had some more things to think about.
Mainly being Firefly's last two comments, about herself and Batman.
She thought of the possibilities inside of her head. Would Batman ever be genuinely attracted to her? Could he see past her as the plant mutated eco-terrorist of Gotham City?
"Could it be possible?" Ivy briefly lost touch with reality as she dreamt of a world where everything was perfect for her and Batman genuinely cared about her...
Ivy's dreamworld:
Ivy sat down by herself inside of of mostly plant and ecological based billionaire's mansion. The place was mostly colored in dark green much to Ivy's liking. The place had plant decorations all over the place. They were carefully placed in a sophisticated manner so that they didn't overgrow and make the place look ruined.
She had it all. She settled down with a man understanding of her environmental beliefs and he was charming and handsome as ever.
She had it all to herself...
"Ivy..."
The ex-villain turned around to see her lover, Batman upon arrival in their private bedroom. Judging by the looks of things, he had just came from sending another psychopath to BlackGate or the GCPD.
"There's my Prince Charming," As the hard-working vigilante sat down on the bed, Ivy began to remove his upper body armor of his Batsuit. "how's Gotham?"
"Good." Batman was in obvious pain. "Had a little run-in with Zasz tonight." But he wasn't going to let Ivy worry about that. "Minor difficulty at best, a knife here, a knife there, and some glass, but there's nothing for you to worry about Ivy, I'm fine."
"Fine? You have glass all over your body and knife wounds. Sometimes I wonder why I can't have all of you to myself?"
Batman grew a smug look. "Hmph, you do have me all to yourself, Gotham gets what left of me."
"You're lucky I love you or else I'd be angry right now. But anyways, how's Harley and Nightwing doing?"
Batman responded in his stoic demeanor. "They're fine, they've been cracking Penguin's gun smuggling operations in and out of Metropolis, Bludhaven and Coast City. They're a feared duo and their reputation is cemented as among the very best crime-fighting romantic pair."
"I'm proud of them hun." Ivy said, as she finished using her vines to remove all the glass from Batman's wounds. "Next time try and be more careful when having fun with your 'playmates' okay."
Batman held her cheek up in a loving manner. He caressed Ivy, which she appreciated very much. "I promise." Soon the pair began kissing each other albeit very passionately. Ivy was growing to enjoy this very dearly. She tried to overpower Batman by aggressively kissing the Dark Knight back. Batman found the rest of his Batsuit removed.
There were no pheromones or mind-control, it was real genuine love between the two. Soon they found each other laying down in bed together, beginning to make love with each other...
"UGHHHH!" Ivy's daydreaming was cut short when she felt one of her plants in pain.
Naturally Ivy was outraged by this act against her plants and immediately began searching for the culprit.
Of course, it was the Militia, and they were apparently burning down some plants that were nearby the botanical gardens. Ivy could sense that they were also sending some tanks onto the Island as well.
She decided to teach these meat-sacks a lesson about respecting the environment. "Fleshy scumbags, they'll pay for this...all of them." Ivy made the decision to use her powers to take down the nearby Militia as well as destroy the initial tanks they had placed on the Island.
"WHAT THE?! AHHHHH!" One Militia soldier was grabbed by a mutated plant and immediately attacked by it.
The other Militia soldiers saw this and tried to run for their lives seeing that there was no point in trying to save their comrade or trying to burn some more of Ivy's plants. "Screw this! Let's get the hell out of here!"
"I'm not done having fun yet boys." Ivy said this as she used a vine to grab one of their discarded gasoline canisters. She then ordered her vines to incapacitate all of the fleeing Militia, all accept one. The final Militia soldier was forcibly wrapped around in vines against his will.
"UGH! WHAT THE...HELL...IS THIS?!" He struggled to get these words out as he was beginning to be strangled by Ivy's plants. Unfortunately for him, Ivy was no where near satisfied by this ordeal yet.
She decided that these fleshy verminous men deserved the same treatment as her plants. The vine that held the metal container of gasoline began pouring it all over the captured Militia thug, confusing and frightening him greatly.
"WHAT'RE YOU DOING?! STOP PLEASE!" The Militia soldier was pleading after being completely soaked in gasoline.
Ivy then used her powers to make the edge of the vine act as if it were a match. The vine then proceeded to set the Militia thug on fire before quickly retreating to avoid harm. The soldier ran away in horror as his entire body was set on fire.
"OH GOD! AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The burning soldier ran around frantically looking for the nearest piece of water he could find.
Now Ivy was satisfied with her actions. "Men...they try to overtake nature but forget Mother Nature is always watching..."
"AGGHHHHHHHHHH! HELP ME! WHERE'S THE WATER!?!"
"And listening." Ivy jokingly added, finishing her statement.
After some short time had passed and the small squadron of soldiers were dealt with, Ivy immediately began trying to heal the plants that were damaged by the Militia. While some of her other nearby plants worked on this, she decided to use her powers to listen in on the Militia once more.
The Militia and The Arkham Knight as expected were not happy...
She first heard The Arkham Knight giving more orders to his men. "Mother Nature decided to crawl out of her tree gentlemen."
"What do we do next sir?!" The Knight's Main commander of the Militia asked in a very stern manner. "She's made her move! Now it's our turn!"
The Arkham Knight chuckled lightly. "Easy Soldier...I've got a good treat for you boys, listen up." He grew serious. "I purposely sacrificed a couple of men to Ivy, we all know how she feels about plants and animals. By destroying the very thing she loves, she was bound to reveal her hiding spot." The Knight briefly laughed. "I'll give Batman credit for beating Ivy, she's so damn predictable. Her cause for her plants will be the end of her." The Knight finished his statement. "Here's your orders...KILL HER! Commander, you can use as many tanks as you need to take her out, her interference ends here tonight."
"YES SIR! ALRIGHT LISTEN UP! I WANT AN APB AT THE BOTANICAL GARDENS! SEND SOME TANKS AND BLOW THAT ENTIRE WALKING BOWL OF SALAD AND HER LITTLE GARDEN TO KINGDOM COME! I REPEAT, SEND SOME TANKS TO THE GARDENS AND BLOW IT ALL TO KINGDOM COME!"
Ivy quickly realized that The Arkham Knight purposely wanted her to reveal her secret location. Ivy was beyond furious that her own care of plants were used against her.
With no other options at the moment and Batman being busy with the rest of Gotham's scum, the plant mistress realized soon that she would have to prepare for battle against The Arkham Knight and his men...