Batman Beyond: Sons Of Batman

Ivy

Chapter 30

Ivy

Botanical Gardens

Ivy's 350 foot plant threw the Batmobile against a building. Dozens of the infected watched, laughing. Joker enjoyed this. He enjoyed the chaos. He enjoyed living in a hellhole. The Joker had no idea what was going on but he enjoyed it.

When the Batmobile hit the building, it bounced off of it. It left a hole in it though. The building was made out of clay bricks. It was an older building, probably around since the Kryptonian Invasion.

Bruce converted the Batmobile into Battle Mode. It had just previously been in Pursuit Mode. In Battle Mode, the Batmobile had a cannon that fired non lethal rounds, a Vulcan gun that also fired non lethal rounds, an EMP Shock, and a Sonic Disruptor.

Bruce had the Batmobile scan Ivy's plant while the plant was trying to the Batmobile with it's branches. The plant's energy was stored in the six branches and in the stem. Bruce knew to target those seven areas now.

"Gotham will burn!" Ivy shouted. She tried to strike the Batmobile and hit the end of it. "You will to Batman!"

Bruce shot and hit one of the plant's branches. The branch fell of of Ivy's plant.

"Five more marks to hit." Bruce thought. Bruce's shields on the Batmobile were at 75 percent.

Bruce dodged three of Ivy's attacks with her branch. Once a fourth branch came towards him, Bruce fired and hit it with his cannon. There were four more marks to hit.

Ivy started firing orange, circular blasts at the Batmobile. Two of the blasts hit the Batmobile and reduced the shields down to 30 percent. If the shields went down then Bruce would be relying on the Batmobile's armor. The armor wouldn't last as long as the shields. Bruce had to be careful.

Bruce had the Batmobile dodge a blast that Ivy had fired and then started firing it's Vulcan gun at one of the last three branches. After firing at it for ten seconds, the branch bursted.

Ivy fired three more orange blasts at the Batmobile but Bruce was able to stop the blasts with the Vulcan gun. Bruce then fired his EMP which paralyzed the plant for a few seconds. In those few seconds Bruce was able to destroy the last branch.

"Ahh!" Ivy screamed. "You will die here Batman!"

Ivy started firing her blasts rapidly. Almost all the blasts hit the Batmobile. The blasts  that didn't hit the Batmobile it the Infected that were around and killed them. Joker was probably laughing. But Joker didn't have any eyes on Bruce right now. Bruce could gain Ivy as an ally.

"We need to calm her down." Dick stated.

"Agreed." Bruce stated. The Batmobile's shields got destroyed and was running low on armor now.

Bruce stepped the Batmobile and got out. When he got out Terry took control of the Batmobile. Bruce put his hand up to Ivy, telling her to stop.

"What's he thinking?" Terry questioned.

"Just watch." Dick stated.

Ivy stopped attacking. "You idiot. You're vulnerable now." Ivy laughed.

"We were the once who rescued you Ivy." Bruce stated. She didn't know that Bruce was Batman.

"Gotham's Citizens were the ones who trapped me underground." Ivy stated.

"No that was the Falcone Family. We'll let you deal with them later." Bruce stated. "But as you can see, Gotham needs your help, please."

Ivy calmed down and walked out of her plant. "Why do you need my help?"

"You can breathe the nanites. We need your help finding a cure for them." Bruce stated.

"What if I don't help you?" Ivy asked.

"You don't get the Falcones."  Bruce looked around at the plants. They were dying. "Look around. Your plants die too." Bruce stated. Ivy snorted. "We believe something in you can help us find that last part of the cure."

"You're right then. Some of the nanites reached me underground. I breathed them and I'm fine." Ivy stated.

Bruce scanned Ivy to make sure she wasn't lying. She wasn't.

"Joker's trying to blackmail me. I need you to create a fake dead body of yourself so he doesn't know we're working together." Bruce stated.

Ivy created a dead body of herself with plants that still remained in Gotham and left it near her giant plant.

Bruce called Barbara. "Send a Batpod. We have Ivy."

"Ok." Barbara replied over the communicator.

Minutes later a Batpod came in. Ivy walked in the Batpod and the Batpod brought her to the Fortress of Solitude.