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[color=CC5500]"Understood,"[/color] Blake said with a nod as Tom split them up while moving to the left side of the road. Blake sized up the right side of the road, which looked [i]exactly[/i] the same- a bunch of big dumb plants lingering around and causing damage. Well, not for long, that was for sure. Blake lifted both his hands and focused, flames beginning to swirl around his hands as the Ambleweeds progressed towards him, sensing a new target. As they closed in, Blake focused once again and sent two pillars of fire spewing forwards, towards the Ambleweeds. 

The fire cleanly cut through the Ambleweeds like a knife through butter, the heat melting the flora quickly and effectively, leaving very little to no mess except for the fire itself. Smiling, Blake pressed forwards, flames still spewing from his hands and blasting down all that stood in his path. At the moment, luckily, 'all that stood in his path' was mostly weeds, so Blake continued using his dual streams of flames to chop down them down with ease. So far, so good. 

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[color=007236]"Isn't this wonderful, Tulip?"[/color]

Atop a large apartment complex in New Athens, at an apartment balcony overseeing the city, an old lady, perhaps in her late 60s or even 70s, stood there, watching the city with joy. At her side was a small potted plant, albeit not a normal potted plant- it was a [i]Urtica dioica,[/i] more commonly known as the "stinging nettle," a small green plant that is covered with needles of formic acid that cause a burning sensation and rash on contact. Most normal old ladies did not laugh at seeing the city get destroyed by living plants nor did they keep toxic plants in their house and speak to it like it was alive, but then again, Willow Fern Gardener was not an ordinary old lady. She was the Greenhouse, and she believed it was high time that the plants retake control of the city. [color=007236][i]"Just like in the olden days,"[/i][/color] she would often whisper to her potted plants. But now it was no longer time for whispering. It was time for action.

By this point, the entire apartment building was covered in heavy vines that wrapped around the complex and ensnared all the unfortunate residents inside. The building was no longer an apartment building, though- it was a factory, a factory for all the Ambleweeds that were now flooding the city.

First, it was a matter of simply getting tons of plants, something that had taken years to do. She had used her pension money and some extra loaned from [color=ed1c24][ UNKNOWN SOURCES ][/color] to rent several apartment spaces in her building just for plant storage. Then, it was simple enough to use a couple seeds and rob a biochemical engineering facility in Watervale and take some of the chemicals she needed. After that, just sprinkle a little "magic juice" and use a little bit of her powers and voila, an army of plants ready to destroy the concrete jungle and bring back the [i]real[/i] jungle. It was almost too perfect of a plan.

Until, of course, these pesky heroes had to show up. Greenhouse hoped that they would have simply been like everybody else and just hid and let the plants take over, but of course they had to try and fight off what was their impending doom. She sighed and turned to the other side of her balcony, where a long purple flower on a vine slipped onto the platform like a snake would up a tree. 

[color=007236]"Let's take a good luck here, then, Copernica,"[/color] Greenhouse said as the purple flower blossomed open, revealing a small TV screen. While Greenhouse liked to resort as much as possible to using her plants to achieve her means, she did find a [i]couple[/i] technological innovations effective for the time being. One of them was using a camera system to keep an eye on all those pesky heroes across the city. It was a simple matter to plant a bunch of normal flowers like tulips, daisies, and more across all of New Athens, all of them with a fish eye lens attached in the center. Greenhouse removed a remote control from her apron and began to flick through channels. 

Most of them showed what she liked- civilians running and screaming as her plant army descended upon them. Good, good. One that concerned her a bit more was one where what appeared to be a robot villain was fighting a group of heroes. Robots and heroes. She hated them both, so it was good that they were going to off each other. She flicked to another channel where two heroes had finished apprehending a bank robber. Potential danger, but no present harm- worth keeping an eye on. The next channel that she flicked to, though, that one scared her greatly. She nearly gave an "eep" as she saw it.

[color=007236]"TULIP!"[/color] she screamed at her potted plant, who seemed to be awfully receptive to her speech. [color=007236]"TWO DELINQUENTS! THEY'RE DESTROYING MY CHILDREN!"[/color]

The plant nodded slowly.

Her eyes grew even more dark and evil than before. [color=007236]"You foolish brats are about to see what happens when you mess with [i]my[/i] children,"[/color] she muttered as she lifted her hand, gesturing upwards with her gnarled hand. Immediately, a great amount of vines began to crawl up the apartment building, even more so than before- while the apartment building looked like an abandoned old college before, it was now almost entirely covered in vines and blooming flowers, with the exception of the balcony, illiciting the screams of neighbors. She then pointed at "Tulip," the stinging nettle, and dropped a drop of green liquid from a test tube into the soil. The stinging nettle began to morph as its pot broke, and it grew into the size and shape of what appeared to be a large lion, albeit one made entirely out of plant matter and covered with poisonous thistles. The newly-formed plant Ambleweed lion bowed its head before Greenhouse, who grinned.

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[color=007236]"Go, Tulip! Bring me one of the two. They'll make a fine human servant for the new plant empire. Kill the other one. Of your choice, of course,"[/color] she said to Tulip, who nodded his planty head and leaped from the balcony, leaping rooftop-to-rooftop, moving towards the two "twerps" that were, of course, Spacewalker and Firebird.

She chuckled as she watched. She was such a damn good gardener. 

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As Blake was cutting down Ambleweeds, he noticed in the distance a strange beast jumping from building-to-building. It looked like an Ambleweed in that it was made of plants, which was something that was [i]definitely[/i] suspicious, but it also seemed to be moving somewhat quickly and with agility, which was quite different than the movements of normal Ambleweeds, which were slow, clumsy, and [i]literally[/i] brainless. Taking out two more Ambleweeds with a burst of fire, Blake then blasted two streams of flames into the ground in front of him at a 45-degree angle, the force of which sent him both upwards and backwards. He landed next to Tom.

[color=CC5500]"Hey,"[/color] he said as he sent two fireballs bowling towards the Ambleweeds on the street. [color=CC5500]"What do you think that thing is?"[/color] He pointed up at the plant monster that was doing some sort of ninja-run across the rooftops. [color=CC5500]"Looks like one of these weeds...but smart. Which is not possible,"[/color] he said as he threw 3 more fireballs. [color=CC5500]"Think that's gonna be a problem, bud?"[/color]

[@KaijuBaragon]
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