Chalant Kisses

Mermaid Kiss

"I choose you, and I'll choose you over and over. Without pause, without doubt, in a heartbeat. I'll keep choosing you."

~ Unknown

Poison Ivy was reeking havoc in Gotham. They found her plant's control center: a greenhouse beside Gotham's River. The Team was sent to detain her. What they didn't know was that the plants had been injected with a heavy dose of Cobra Venom. The monster sized plants were really getting annoying.

"Robin! Do you have any idea of how to destroy these monstrosities?" Aqualad yelled as he dodged another monster vine.

"Aim for the plants beside her when they open up," Robin threw an explosive birdarang at the left towering plant beside Poison Ivy just as it was about to spit acid. It exploded on contact and Poison Ivy cried out as the plant bursted beside her.

"Sedicitsep!" A green gas spread throughout the greenhouse. The big plant on her right shrieked as the pesticides made it withered along with some of the baby monster veins. Poison Ivy fell from her throne of weeds. She held her side in pain.

"Y-you brats!" She yelled. One hand held to her side, she lifted the other, commanding the plants to attack again.

"Ahh!" One of the plants managed to hit Miss Martian on her back while she was in camouflage mode and sent her spiraling to the ground.

'M'gann!' Everyone shouted in the mind link. Superboy ran towards M'gann and everyone else was momentarily distracted. Ivy took that to her advantage. More plants broke through the concrete floor of the greenhouse and wrapped around the Team in a bind. Everyone struggled except for Miss Martian who just hung limp in her bindings.

"Now, let's see who to kill first."

The vines pulled tighter around their bodies, restricting their movements and making it harder to breathe.

"This could be my chance to finally get rid of the Superboy." The monster vine lifted Superboy away from the others and started pulling him towards the open hole in the wall with the river just over the edge.

"Esaeler su mrof eseht- Mmf!" One of the veins wrapped around her mouth before she could finish the spell.

"Better yet, I could test a little theory I have." Robin caught the quick look she sent his way before she ordered her plants again. With a snap of her fingers the plant whipped back and pulled her out of the greenhouse and down into the Gotham river.

"Zatanna!" He struggled in his bonds, trying to dig in his utility belt for something sharp to cut through the plants.

"That's right. Squirm Boy Wonder, watch as my plants drag your girlfriend down to the bottom of the Gotham river to drown!"

He managed to grab a birdarang from one of the pockets and started to saw at the plant binding him. The plant shrieked and released him. He managed to flip out of the way when another plant tried to grab for him and he started running for the river.

Ignoring his teammates yelling for him, he jumped.

The splash was muffled to his ears when he entered the water. He pulled out a rebreather from his utility belt and held it in between his lips, biting on the rubber as oxygen filled his lungs. The water was dark and murky. He searched for her in the dark and murky water.

"Mmphh!" He swam towards her muffled screams and found her at the bottom of the river. She was still struggling against her binds but her moves were slower. She was starting to lose consciousness from lack of oxygen.

Rushing over to her he cut through the plants with his birdarang while she helped try to pry it away with her hands. Once they freed her hands he began cutting her mouth free. She sagged into his arms. Her eyes were half lidded and unfocused. He started kicking towards the surface.

She was getting heavier the closer he got to the surface. Lifting her head from his shoulder, her eyes had fully closed and he was starting to panic. Remembering the rebreather , he took a long gulp of air before he removed it and mashed his mouth against hers.

He pushed the water out of her mouth and the oxygen in as he kept kicking towards the surface. When they broke through the surface he took another breath of air and kissed her again. He didn't care if Poison Ivy was still watching or if the Team had already defeated her; her life was all that mattered right now.

He felt so relieved when she started to cough the rest of the water out of her lungs. "R-Robin? Where's Poison I-Ivy?"

"The Team is dealing with her. Come on, we need to get out of this water."

"Okay," she nodded and Robin supported her as they swam back to land. When they got back to the greenhouse the plants were all gone and the Team had apprehended Poison Ivy. They were glad to see that Zatanna was okay. M'gann was conscious but she was still weak. Connor was letting her lean on him to keep herself upright.

Once they got to the Bioship they found a towel to wrap around Zatanna and Artemis took up the pilot's seat because M'gann was out of commission and Robin wanted to stay as close to Zatanna as possible.

"So how exactly did you revive Zatanna?"

Everyone turned towards them. Zatanna blushed and Robin pinned Wally with the worse batglare he could muster.

He is going to kill Kid Mouth someday.