Weeding

"They're here."

Plant Master ambled from the doorway of their log cabin to a large boulder outside. Professor Goldbloom and Poison Ivy were at a table next to the boulder. The old professor, wearing a gas mask, was synthesizing tubes of pale yellow potions.

"I can feel it!"

Poison Ivy was typing furiously on a keyboard.

"They're getting closer!"

Poison Ivy picked up a bottle of potion, shook it, stirred it with a stirring rod, and put it into a box.

"Can you stop fidgeting like that? I need to concentrate."

She said, "We won't have these instruments once we get to Louisiana, so we need to hurry and synthesize more raw materials!"

"Hurry up," Plant Master grumbled, plopping down on a nearby rock. "They're almost here."

"We're here, come on, this way."

Harley Quinn pointed to a log bridge that went straight across the swamp. "I bet Poison Ivy's base is just across this bridge."

Robin stepped onto it immediately, followed by Deathshot and the others. Chen Tao looked at Harley Quinn meaningfully.

"Oh, really? Harley? We'll meet Poison Ivy by crossing this wooden bridge."

"Ah, yes, yes, yes."

Harley Quinn nodded emphatically.

Batman was still staring at her.

"Um... is something wrong?"

Stare--

"Hahaha, huh?"

Chen Tao chuckled inexplicably and also walked onto the wooden bridge, which made Harley Quinn breathe a sigh of relief.

She deliberately dawdled behind the bridge and mentally counted down:

3, 2, 1.

BOOM!

Countless giant vines and tree trunks burst out from the bottom of the lake. The wooden bridge beneath everyone's feet instantly turned into a winding, coiled wooden trident, binding everyone up.

"Damn it, what's going on?"

Everything happened in a flash. Deathshot instinctively drew his gun and fired rapidly, shattering five or six vines that lunged at him. However, he lost his balance due to the unstable wooden bridge beneath him and was eventually bound tightly.

Buzz buzz buzz...

Harley Quinn, with agile flips, rolled away from her original position. "Don't waste your energy, Dizzy Earl. I know your power is strongest up close, and it's best to have a dense solid to help transmit that sound in your head."

She pointed at the disgusting water underfoot. "But you're separated from the water, which is a good conductor of sound. At this distance, you can't do anything to me."

Ms. Vick displayed astonishing flexibility. She curled her body and dodged several vine attacks. Then, working with Cheshire Cat, a few flashes of blades from the two women cut through the surrounding vines, severing them.

But the next second, the wood beneath their feet vividly taught them what "an old tree blooming" meant. The two, with their feet locked by tree trunks, were quickly captured.

"Wh-why?" Ms. Vick struggled, grabbed by vines and pulled towards a large tree. The tree split in half from the middle, and a sharp, dark gaping maw opened on its trunk.

"What are you doing, damn it, Harley Quinn?!"

Robin screamed, "I knew I shouldn't have trusted her!" While shouting hysterically as if having a mental breakdown, he secretly clenched a plastic explosive behind his back.

Only Chen Tao and Welding Dog seemed to have a "whatever happens, it's fine" attitude, letting the green plants crawl onto them and bind them all up like zongzi.

The pale-faced young girl hugged her arms and looked at Chen Tao. He sighed. Harley didn't seem to see any surprise on his face, which made Harley a little surprised.

"Harley Quinn, what are you doing again?"

"What am I doing?"

Harley suppressed the strange feeling in her heart and replied, "Exactly what you wanted, you idiot."

"Because today is Thursday. And Thursdays are usually crazy."

Poison Ivy and Plant Master, sensing that their trap had been triggered, finally arrived.

"Harley?"

Poison Ivy said in surprise.

Harley Quinn hopped over and said in a voice sickeningly sweet:

"Hello, darling. I'm so sorry about hanging out with Batman, but I had to make these guys think I was on their side so I could bring them here into your trap. You can continue with your plan! Great, huh?"

Poison Ivy walked up to her, looking at her somewhat blankly, as if she couldn't believe Harley Quinn would say something like that.

But soon, she heard Harley lean in and say to her:

"My dearest Pammy, please, please give up this crazy plan! It's truly, truly, truly unreliable. Don't turn us all into vegetarians! There has to be another way. You're tampering with the ecosystem, and humans don't even know it. I'm sure I can appeal for you when you're put on trial, because after all, your intentions are righteous, even if you've killed some people. But please, give up the plan, Pammy, my sweet, my darling, my precious, I beg you, I beg you, I beg you, give up the plan!"

"What? No! Harley, the Earth is dying. I'm not destroying the Earth, I'm saving it! Saving it from those who exploit and use it—"

Harley Quinn's face fell.

"I've been surrounded by these humans my whole life, but we can change them, prune them, shape them, like a gardener. I didn't want to do this, but I had to—"

Harley Quinn's face crumpled, and she let out a deep sigh.

"Fine, you can't blame a girl for trying."

She lunged backward, and two micro-weedkiller capsules flew from her hands, landing at the trap and exploding.

Giant trees toppled with mournful groans, and Ms. Vick and Deathshot broke free.

Poison Ivy: stunned.jpg

Harley's rapid about-face had confused her.

"These are specialized, targeted herbicides. You gave them to me, remember? Little Red."

Harley Quinn said, "I still think I should help them out, because of that lollipop incident."

Then she was immediately choked by Poison Ivy: "I thought we were friends!"

"Little Red, friends don't let friends slaughter 7 billion humans, you..."

"Ah—oh."

Harley Quinn saw Poison Ivy raise her fist.

BANG!

Harley Quinn was punched in the eye, and she immediately panicked.

"Little Red! I'm helping you!"

And so the two women began to fight.

"Hah!"

The Plant Master lunged forward. Deathshot scrambled to his feet, pulled out two freeze grenades, and threw them directly: "Damn it, everyone, together—"

"Wait."

Chen Tao reached out and stopped him.

"Just a moment longer."

"What are you trying to do?"

Deathshot was speechless. He watched as the two frost bombs landed on the Plant Master. In a violent explosion, countless frost crystals appeared out of nowhere, but they vanished almost immediately, doing no damage to the Plant Master.

"Just a moment. Do you remember? The herbicide."

"What do you mean?"

Deathshot hadn't even figured it out when, the next second, it started raining.

Instantly, countless trees dissolved under the pale green rain. The Plant Master's body was corroded, forming hole after hole, and he let out a heart-wrenching scream.

Deathshot turned around and heard Batman say to him: "Why are you fighting? I'll just dump herbicide in this whole area, make sure even their farts smell like the stuff."

My name is Bane. No matter where my tombstone may be, I am now sprinting towards it, utterly exhausted.

And while I was chasing lightning and putting out fires everywhere, draining myself dry, Batman was conserving his strength, enjoying the spectacle, waiting calmly at its center... waiting to crush me at my grave.

I know I should be pursuing the mastermind, the cold, central figure around whom all this chaos is swirling—Batman.

But to reach him... I must face this storm head-on.

I am Bane. I am in motion.

There is no time to spare. No moment to lose.

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