4212/Cleanin the nexus

Cleanin the nexus
Date of Scene:	23 November 2020
Location:	April's Apartment
Synopsis:	Harley is on clean-up duty after their adventure out of time when Ivy arrives after her own adventure mingling with Ace Chemicals execs. Spiral and her TROPES drop in and they mingle. Harley does dinner because she is nice like that.
Cast of Characters:	Harley Quinn, Pamela Isley, Spiral

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Harley Quinn has posed:
Do you know what NOONE ever speaks about after grand adventures out of time? The CLEANUP after. With all the smashy that went up on the apartment it took a bit to get all settled up but with Spiral's money and some legwork the place is as good as new...! Minus one vase and a few mirrors.. But wo needs mirrors anyway? Damn all those vain people ...

Harley has been hard at work today, wandering about like a busy bee with a duster. "I tell ya...!" she is talking to her hyenas now, " ... theah's a reason this is called spring cleanin! Maybe we should just delay it until it's actual spring!" she leans over to dust behind the tv, the hyenas following her interestedly... They lack good targets to munch on afterall, like thugs trying to run away. So what's the next best thing? Follow a clownette busy with cleaning.

"I now know why we had so many goons back in 2018. They kept the place clean! Oh else..." she makes a bang-bang movement with her fingers. Yea, almost tempts one to go back to a life of crime so they can have mooks to do this.

Pamela Isley has posed:
Ivy has totally missed out on the recent adventures, and as she walks out into the living room, she casts a quick look of disdain at the chaos in the process of being cleaned up. "Harl...what did you do?" She starts, as a vine coils from one of the nearest plants to brush away debris from Ivy's path, as she makes her way to the couch.

Spiral has posed:
Spiral has been diplomatically absent for a few days. Not just here, Belle Reve too. She's simply vanished. Probably to Tahiti, based on past antics, but not many are going to go check the beach there for signs of Spiral just because of that. But she has to return at SOME point.

She pops into existence over by the doorway with a bloop, looking a bit chastened. "Oh, I see you've fixed most of the damage. That's good." she says, looking around, her blank eyes seemingly passing right over Ivy without comment to settle on the wall, where there's a faded square where a picture used to be.
Then her eyes return to Ivy. "A new person.". The vine is noted, and she adds, "Ivy?". She has been mentioned before, after all, and she seems to be acting the part.

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Ives!" Harley seems surprised, peeking out from behind the tv and straightening up, like a cat found with it's jaws on a mouse. "Well ...." a nervous little smile, "Wouldya believe it if I told ya we had ta go and save time?" literally so! And it's even true. But considering her usual stories this seems rather far-fetched. She takes in a breath. "I .., saw the J again.." her gaze darkening some when she says that. She does sound serious too.

"Apparently this place is some sorta nexus of confluence foh time and space!" She waves her duster while saying this, the hyenas sneezing and she stopping, "Ooo, sorry Lou.."

It's in that pause that Spiral pops in, she looking over. "Theah yoh awhe. Wheah have ya been!" She asks of Spiral, as if she should had been here HELPING out instead of just handing out the money. She points a finger at Spiral. "She's ta blame! Time sorceress.., but all was .., solved in the end. Ives, meet Spiral. Spiral, this is Poison Ivy."

Pamela Isley has posed:
"A new person to you as well, new person," Ivy is quick to quip in retort to Spiral, she'll be damned if someone calls her such in her own apartment! Well, Harley's apartm...okay, so it was April's, like anyone cares!

"Yes, yes, me, I still live here," Ivy mouths at Harley, a frown on her face, not just for the chaos she finds had struck in her absence, but also for Spiral calling her 'new person' of all things. "Time...? As in time itself?" Ivy doesn't bat an eyelash, staring directly at, or rather through Harley as it seems. "Oh, hell no, Harl! No more Joker, remember? He's done nothing but bad for you..."

Crossing her arms, Ivy snorts, and moves over debris to get to the couch, where she sinks down to sit. "I've been in Gotham, did some down sizing in Ace Chemicals..."

Looking over at Spiral with a rather unimpressed gaze, Ivy nevertheless quips, "charmed, I'm sure."

Spiral has posed:
Spiral holds up two hands in surrender. "I fixed it! with your help. It wasn't me who damaged the timestream. In fact I am sensitive to such things. It's not like anybody else seemed to notice, at least not as quickly.". As for the apartment damage, well, yeah. "It's not my home... if I decorated it you wouldn't like it. I gave you money." she reminds. No good deed goes unforgiven sheesh. "And I used up much of my magic, I needed a break.". She has a bit of a tan!

"She lives here too?" she asks, a bit more blatant than Ivy is. And smirks a little, dancing slightly as she hops from one foot the other and skips through the apartment, checking everything, and dodging the vine and Lou as she goes. "I remember Ace Chemicals." she says, sounding a bit distracted.

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Yes, yes. I am still the yongah o' us all so I am the newest." A roll of her eyes when they both start bickering about new, new persons and such. Geez! But Harley still has a big smile on her face, opening her arms to the sides in a grand gesture. "Time itself!" she confirms with a nod. "Kicked ass, took names .., got the 1.21 Gigawattz needed.. The whole shashing!" yet it's a smile that fades once Ivy speaks of Joker and how she shouldn't be near him... She wraps her arms about her torso. "I know..." said in a low murmur. "It was just a tiny bit, and foh a good reason.. That doesn't count, does it? I met the Jokah in the past, while April had ta keep my past self from interferin' so we wouldn't meet and create a time paradox and the whole thing would blow up." and honestly, she was probably more worried about April having seen her past, criminal self than the rest..

But her attention quickly shifts. "Wait..., is that a tan?" she approaches Spiral, eyeing her suspiciously. "Awhe we gonna find bikini lines undah that outfit?!" the nerve! Out on a beach while people are remodelling and WORKING! A challenging little look is given up to Spiral until it finally breaks into a wide smile. "Good for ya, glad ya had fun." a wink.

"What kinda down sizin' on Ace Chemicals?" She asks, curious.

Pamela Isley has posed:
Ivy rolls her eyes as Spiral seems surprised, snorting, "Harley and I are close, okay? Where she goes I go, and vice-versa, so don't act so surprised." Ivy tsks as Spiral mentions Ace Chemicals as well, "they'll need a few new members on their board, such a shame..."

"That so? Time itself?" Ivy does sound surprised, but even though, she spreads her arms apart for Harley, "I am proud of you Harl, you've gone and did a big thing for yourself, and the rest of us, I guess." Should Harley dally, two vines would reach to ensnare her and her towards Ivy for that promised embrace, Ivy just doesn't like to keep hanging. "I honestly think the time paradox theory is made up, and doesn't hold to true science, but sure...good on April."

Asked about the down sizing, Ivy shrugs, "just opened a couple of position, sent some board members for a swim. They didn't find Atlantis. I'm pretty sure they held their breath long enough, just unfortunate that shark had to feed...I guess he was hungry."

Spiral has posed:
"I know you are close.", Spiral says to Ivy. "I have heard of you... Harley speaks highly of you after all.". She smirks a bit though, looking between the two of them. The mama bear aspect she never really picked up on though.

Or maybe Ivy is unamused at the wrecked apartment, either could be understandable after all. "Paradoxes are impossible, new universes cleave off from the old where tampering happens. Though there is a certain resistance." she agrees with Ivy! "It was more a case of navigating back to this earth among the many possibilities which was the problem. Wait.". She tilts her head. "Have you got a PhD too?" she asks Ivy, almost accusingly.

And to think once upon a time the Time Dancer was just a rodeo girl.

She doesn't want to intrude upon Harley and Ivy, so she dances over to one corner of the room, by the big TV that was spared destruction, and manages to settle in the air, lifting one leg up, and then the other, magically suspended, while four arms weave shapes around her, and two settle in her lap. She giggle a bit at Ivy's story. "Sharks get the ratings." she nods.

Harley Quinn has posed:
Dallying? Harley is dallying indeed, still looking for tan lines. But the vines are quick enough about bringing out of there, swooping her through the air so she can be brought over to Ivy. Handy things! And grabby... But she does welcome the hug, resting her head on Ivy's shoulder a moment. It's clear her friend's approval means a lot to her. "Thanks .., it was .., yea." an ordeal! But the smile does continue to deepen on her expression whn she steps back from the hug, "Branches each going a different way.." a nod of her head, "We *think* we got back to the right one.." a glance to Spiral for confirmation. "... Right?" hopefully!

"And o' course she got a PHD!" A beat. "Doesn't everyone!?" she laughs loudly.

"And yea.. Apes really kicked ass when we went back in time. We got back just in time ta see Baby Yoda too so .., a bonus." never miss an episode of Baby Yoda.. Yet the tale about drowning Ace Chemicals execs make her hrm.. "Oh, gosh. I thought you weah goin' with just beatin's first ... Drowned 'em?! I suppose ya don't even need ta get 'em on cement shoes too.." all those vines. "But still, that's very mafia, even foh ya.."

Pamela Isley has posed:
"I've got several," Ivy flippantly answers Spiral's question of whether she has a PhD or not, not saying anything to the claims Spiral had heard of her. After all, she'd expect for Harley to talk about her, much as she talks about Harley. Now and then. "So you do party tricks?" Ivy asks as Spiral appears to sit in the air.

With Harley in her arms, Ivy continues to embrace her tightly, while still inspecting Spiral with a suspicious eye. "So where did you come by the buddha of six arms, Harl?"

"You'd be surprised," Ivy adds to Harley's remark of the PhD, "but Harley has one too."

Ivy reaches to press a finger to Harley's lips, "kelp is very handy...buuuut, they choose to pollute the ocean with toxic spills, illegally done at that, I just served them a taste of their medicine."

Spiral has posed:
Are there tan lines? Who knows. It could just as easily be metal under there, Spiral IS a cyborg after all, and her metal shoulder vanishes under the spandex top she has on. She's amused by Harley obviously staring. "I would hope scrying is not one of your powers. And this one is close enough to make no difference. I'm sure there are some minor changes, but not a chaotic spiralling into an altogether different reality. Returning to a smashed room was a good indication, as many events had to be just so for that to happen.".

The comment on PhDs causes her to shrug. "Mojoworld does not have such things." she says, a bit defensively. "I acknowledge your psychologist magic.".

As for Ivy, Spiral's smirk swiftly returns. "Shiva is the normal comparison.". As for Ivy, she ponders for a moment. "Blue and orange morality.". Clearly, categorisation has begun.

Harley Quinn has posed:
With Ivy wanting her close Harley does so, continuing curled up against Ivy's arms. It's warm, and she deserves it after all the work dusting the place up! Bud observes, tongue out and then looks up at Spiral inquisitively. Maybe it wants a hug too! Damn those hyenas, they can't see anything that they want to copy it right next! Hopeful hyena eyes turned to Spiral! "How we met? Oh!" a grin. "Well, it all started with a dance contest out on Sion. D'ya know the place? It's a club wheah mutants awhe welcome. Apparently an old friend of Spiral's runs the club, this posh girl called Elizabeth." she turns her nose a bit. British. "But anyway, fate had it that we weah teamed up foh it and won! And then we just went from theah. Apparently she came heah from anotha dimension. The wildways, or mojowoahld.." and she doesn't even bat her lashes when saying that. "I have been theah.." of course she has.

And uff, that was a lot of talkin', so she takes in a breath, looking amused, a devious little grin coming to her expression. "She is so cute. She calls my psychoanalysis a kind of magic." hey, it can be! "They don't get many o' my kind wheah she comes from."

As an afterthought she then adds, "She also likes directing TV shows. So yea.." and maybe that explains the categorization.

Pamela Isley has posed:
"Mojoworld must have bleak intellect to not have any PhDs," Ivy remarks, clearly not quite up to the fact Mojoworld is not necessarily a place on Earth, and they might not have PhDs purely because it's a non-existant concept there. When Spiral helpful brings Shiva as comparable, Ivy smirks, "of course, I just didn't want to offend Shiva," naturally there's Lady Shiva about and she gets quite irate.

As soon as it sounds like Spiral is trying to fit her in a box, Ivy shoots a rather angry glare her way, "excuse me? What is all this nonsense of painting morals with colors now?"

"So, your friend is something of a professional dancer?" Ivy asks of Harley, while looking over Spiral. "You don't have psychologists on Mojoworld?" Ivy finally address Spiral after looking at her, "it's a science, not magic. Simple really."

"Hey, Harl, seeing how she's your friend...maybe she can give you a show like Dr. Phil? Only make it Dr. Harley."

Spiral has posed:
"I am the Time Dancer." Spiral agrees with the professional dancer comment. "Mojo created the wildways, but it is Spiral's place to dance upon them. Or... was.". And she makes a bit of a face. "And the colours, Black and White morality, absolute good or evil, Blue and Orange is when your worldview is alien to the average human." she explains. "I am watching, and listening, in my old role as a talent agent, one which I no longer am, but old habits die hard.".

"I have been trained in science as well. Science and magic BOTH explain the multiverse, however. Reality alteration through magic, through psychology, the end result is the same. And as for psychologists on Mojoworld, enh... sort of. Marketing, mass psychology and such, a form of magic from which great power is derived there in fact.".

"And, I suppose I could." she glances over at Harley. "That previous one was bad.". One hand twitches towards the leg pocket where her recording eyeballs are, while the others mainly weave idly through the air forming various shapes and patterns which by now Harley is probably used to.

Harley Quinn has posed:
The question about being a professional dancer has Harley handwobbling. "Sorta. It's how she expresses her magic, and who she is. I can read it." a beat, "The patterns, that is." a sagely nod given. Give it to the crazy one to be able to read those. "I have only been able to emulate it once, it was .., a different experience." and very, very weird considering how it came from one of Strange's strange parties. Regardless, she does give her six-armed friend a faint, sad smile, "The wildways were a beautiful place though!"

The mention of Dr. Phil has her make a face and then laugh. "Ooo, ya thinkin' what I am thinkin' ..., Dr. Kat." she cackles like an hyena then. "That was fun, Deadpool didn't even know she was from a Tv!" Ah! "But yea, maybe I *should* get my own show ya know?! The bounty huntin' business is gettin' a little slow as of late..." she lets out a soft sigh. "And now *that* is an idea. How about ya both come and get a bounty with me sometime? Harry got me a license now so I can have pattnehs!"

Pamela Isley has posed:
"Time Dancer...?" Ivy does seem to perk at the mention of that title, "that -does- sound special," she doesn't outright dismiss the possibility, not after Harl just told her about her escapades in time. "Blue and orange...huh? If you say so," Ivy notes, before quipping, "to me there's wrong and right. It's just that large parts of humanity is wrong."

"Interesting, don't suppose I'll ever try anything like magical time dancing..." Ivy remarks, before looking at Spiral and asks, "although...can you travel far enough back in time to a point there are no humans? I'm sure the planet was gorgeous then." But then back to Harley, and a shake of her head, "bounty hunting isn't you, Harl, I told you as much."

Spiral has posed:
Spiral wrinkles her nose. "It would be considerably easier to travel to a planet that had no humans to start with. And no, I have not.". No humans, no stars, no ratings, no point! Though from the sounds of it Ivy wouldn't like that logic at all. "And yes. Blue and orange morality.". Spiral nods triumphantly. None can escape the tropes! "I do not plan on any more time travel, and it requires too much effort to use it for parlour tricks.".

"She loves her bounty hunting, she invited me before. I suppose it's heroism but still getting paid.". Spiral shrugs. "Like being a mercenary.". She eyes Harley for a moment. "Well... that is rather you, no?". And from her perch her metal arm reaches out, to rap on the wall.

Harley Quinn has posed:
Sad clownette... Refused not once, but twice on bounty huntin! Really, her friends don't know what's good! And she lets them know just that. "Pfaaa, bounty huntin' is *so* me! Imagine bustin' heads, kickin' down doouhs, all in the name o' the law!" she announces, then dangles her fingertips together as if she was holding some card. "And all with a multipass!" she cackling again. And yes, Fifth element is one of her favorite movies. "And ya know what they say, nevah deny befoouh ya've tried it." clearly she has plans on convincing both on going with her soon.

Maybe it's time for some psychologist magic.

"But anyway, we talkin' and yappin' so much without no food. So I am gonna prepare dinnah foh us." She gestures. "To the kitchen!"

She starts stomping that way, nodding towards Spiral, "And yea, that's me. Bein' paid ta do shit is right down my alley. Sorta like you as well." Suicide Squad represent, yo!

"Now get ovah heah, I am gonna teach ya my secret recipe, spaguetti with meatballs!" since Ivy went all Mafia with those Ace Chemicals execs... Gotta celebrate! Or somethin'....