Green with Guilt

[Demetri Malius]

Finneas adjusted his glasses as the van, scrunching up his mouth a bit as he thought. "Not exactly. I guess you can call it magic if you don't know what it is, but it's just mixing up the things nature gave us and making new mixtures and applying them to the world. It's no more magic than this weird motorized vehicle. I only first saw them when I came to the omniverse. It was it hard to get through the mind." 

The doc chuckled. "Yeah this van isn't the magic school bus, but I see what you mean. I'm pretty used to seeing cars, though, so it's no biggie. Did you manage to bring anything with you from your old world."
" I used to know a few spells just in case things got hairy, but since coming here they stopped working. Harder to get the rarer ingredients when most stuff out here can take you out in a few seconds. I'm a little faster and tougher than most, but I am no knight or warrior. And certainly not a ninja or doctor like yourself, let along a ninja doctor. " The alchemist chuckled a bit, the ninja giving a smirk behind his mask.

A crack scattered across the windshield as suddenly a giant vine whipped across the van, causing the vehicle to spin out of control. The alchemist grunted as he unbuckled his seatbelt, calling out to his companion. "Get out the back! It's a-" McnNinja was already out of the van, slicing away at large tentacle-like green vines, a giant flower dripping drool from its mouth, looking rather hungry.

The alchemist stumbled as the van twisted into the air, seeing the rows of sharp teeth in the plants mouth as he hung on for dear life, his fingerless gloves showing his white knuckles as he clamped onto the seat. The plant opened its mouth and chomped down on the rear of the vehicle, a crunching and grinding of metal and rubber as it shredded the material in its mouth.

Finn quickly reached for an icy blue potion in his pouch, wispy and airy as he uncorked it and immediately put it to his lips. His grip loosened as the plant tried to shake him out, before the head of the seat tore off, the alchemist plummeting below. Vines immediately attacked and juggled the teen as he waited for the perfect moment, a flurry of vines around him before he sharply exhales his misty brew, a ray of frosting stopping the vines in their tracks.  he quickly grabbed one, the cold sending shivers down his spine as he wrapped a leg around it, feeling the drop in temperature through even his pants as he slid down, McNinja already dissecting his own problematic mess of vines that threatened him. 
 

The alchemist ran in a full sprint, taking another inhale of his aggressive coolant before spitting a bit of it here and there, working with the ninja in order to dwindle the number of vines. Once out of breath, they both looked up at the roaring plant, as they noticed that their work was being nullified, the chopped, leafy nubs of the plant growing back alarmingly quickly. 

"Doc! Look for the roots! Everything else will just grow back!" The alchemist tossed the mixture out towards the base of the plant, freezing the defensive vines that protected the bright purple roots below. The flowery head roared once more before joining the defenses, its razor teeth a grinder as it tried to suck the two into its mouth.