Batman: Chronicles #9
May 1997
Surrounded only by hand-drawn pictures of flowers, Poison Ivy sits alone in her lifeless cell in Arkham, calling her plants to her. Though the ground beneath and around her side of the building has been recently fumigated, the plants grow up to her hands. With her influence, they slowly evolve.
Outside of her quarters, guards watch her through surveillance cameras. Grumbling, one of them, called Malcom, dons a Bio-Hazard Suit and enters her cell. She gives him the plants that she called to her, sighing that she was lonely and that he never comes. She tells him to give the plants to his daughter as pets -- she never had any as a child, and turned to plants and flowers. She was different from most girls.
Malcolm talks to his fellow watchman, and returns home to his daughter with the plant-animals. She is delighted to see them, and keeps them in her bed as she falls asleep. Once she's nodded off, however, the creatures escape from her grasp out of the nearest window.
Poison Ivy smiles in her cell. "Now he'll come. Definitely."
Meanwhile, the streets are overflowing with the creatures, which apparently breed andytime they hit water. Batman appears in Gordon's office, and they discuss what to do. Batman ends up visiting Ivy in her cell, just as she had planned.
He walks into her cell and demands to know why she filled the streets with the creatures."...You never visit unless there's something wrong. So I made something wrong."she maintains that she can fix the mess and take the "spark" from the creatures... for a price -- a kiss from Batman.
Outside of her quarters, guards watch her through surveillance cameras. Grumbling, one of them, called Malcom, dons a Bio-Hazard Suit and enters her cell. She gives him the plants that she called to her, sighing that she was lonely and that he never comes. She tells him to give the plants to his daughter as pets -- she never had any as a child, and turned to plants and flowers. She was different from most girls.
Malcolm talks to his fellow watchman, and returns home to his daughter with the plant-animals. She is delighted to see them, and keeps them in her bed as she falls asleep. Once she's nodded off, however, the creatures escape from her grasp out of the nearest window.
Poison Ivy smiles in her cell. "Now he'll come. Definitely."
Meanwhile, the streets are overflowing with the creatures, which apparently breed andytime they hit water. Batman appears in Gordon's office, and they discuss what to do. Batman ends up visiting Ivy in her cell, just as she had planned.
He walks into her cell and demands to know why she filled the streets with the creatures."...You never visit unless there's something wrong. So I made something wrong."she maintains that she can fix the mess and take the "spark" from the creatures... for a price -- a kiss from Batman.
The creatures turn to strawberries, and Poison Ivy is no longer so lonely, but in a house on the streets of Gotham, windows barred, a young girl is crying. She is lonely just as Ivy was, until she sees a most curious thing. Strawberry vines are curled around the harsh bars of her windows... Fascinated, she stops crying and forgets her loneliness in the interesting new things on her windows, the same way as a young Poison Ivy did so many years ago...
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