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Mr. Green Feb 26, 2021 16:02:30 GMT

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Mr. Fire only gradually became aware of the most interesting and exciting event in decades, probably. It was hard to compare the magnitude of interesting events - Mr. Fire didn't have much of a long term memory, but lived almost entirely in the present moment. Somewhere in North America, a fire was burning out of control. It started small, as almost all fires do, and grew quickly, as many fires do. It was soon the largest fire he could sense anywhere, and he decided to go see! He held out his hand and gazed intently into the geyser of flame that gushed up from his palm - and then he vanished!

Mr. Bittergreen, the Plant Elemental formerly known as Mr Green, had just been 'born', in the same sense that a butterfly just out of its cocoon was a newborn, after almost of 40 years of holometabolism as he evolved from a mutated human into a force of nature. And seconds after his rebirth, he already sensed a disaster threatening one of the new jungles that had recently taken over Earth X! Far away to the west, the new Death Valley Jungle was threatened by a quickly expanding fire. He needed to get there instantly! His huge, vaguely humanoid body slowly collapsed into a heap of jumbled vegetation as his consciousness flowed into and through the interconnected 'Green Network' of plants. When he arrived in the Death Valley Jungle, well away from the threatening fire, he quickly commanded the incredibly fecund and densely overgrown jungle to produce him a new body. The Avenger of the Green was here!

See the Footnote: Who are these guys, and what's with the Death Valley Jungle?!?!

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Mr. Green Feb 27, 2021 0:37:40 GMT

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This is the footnote

So who are these guys - and what's with the Death Valley Jungle?

These guys:

Mr. Fire

Mr. Green / Bittergreen, Avenger of the Green

Not much is known about Mr. Fire, other than that he is a Fire Elemental, and he granted the super-heroine Wildfire her fire control powers equal to his own in his first recorded appearance on Earth X in Smash Comics #25, August 1941.

Mr. Green, on the other hand, was a human botanist who had been dead and buried for almost 40 years; at least, that's what humans had assumed! (See Police Comics #58, September 1946, "The Green Terror") He was a botanist who had hated humanity all his life, and managed to transform himself into a vegetable being, and the considerable plant-control powers he'd gained after the transformation energized him to begin his revenge. Even his enhanced powers proved not quite a match for Plastic Man, though, and Mr. Green had 'died' of a spear through the heart. But plants don't need hearts, and a WOODEN spear couldn't kill him, though the spearing had caused the cessation of his human life processes. SO they'd thought he was dead, and given him a villain's burial - in a cheap coffin in a poorly-tended, soon abandoned field, with nothing more than a flimsy wooden cross to mark his grave, a cross that the weather destroyed within a few years. The coffin decayed even more quickly, and soon Mr. Green's body was pervasively perforated and soon permeated by the roots of the various plants from the overgrown, forgotten burial grounds above.

For almost 40 years, still driven by his own experiments, Mr. Green had continued to evolve, fed by his plants. The sudden subjugation of Earth X just before the Crisis on Infinite Earths by an army of supervillains, using wildly out of control plants and weather control, had accelerated his evolution, and a few days after the rebirth of Earth X, he emerged from his grave - no longer human, or even a mutated human, but a new type of being - a Plant Elemental.

Death Valley Jungle

A few days before the final events of the Crisis, in August of 1985, an army of supervillains, recruited from many Earths, invaded the Earth of Mr. Green - Earth X. Many villains, armed with plant controlling powers, weather control, many other superpowers and a lot of just plain old evil villainyness, destroyed the planet's environment and mutated the vegetation so that it ran amuck, engulfing the world in out-of-control plant life. (see the Earth X Timeline for August, 1985) One of the places a jungle sprang up was Death Valley. When the Spectre took the villains from Earth X to the beginning of time, much of the unnatural vegetation began to die... but it continued to survive in the Death Valley Jungle.

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Mr. Green Feb 27, 2021 1:13:30 GMT

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of varied plant components - thick branches, vines, leaves, flowers, moss, spores, stalks, what-have-you. In the incredibly fecund, overgrown Death Valley Jungle, in an area well away from the fire, a new body was spawned, and within seconds, the consciousness of Mr. Bittergreen was inhabiting his second new body in seconds, after almost 40 years of holometabolism as Mr Green had evolved from a bitter human to an awesome Plant Elemental, the Avenger of the Green!

Mr. Green had been dead and buried for almost 40 years; at least, that's what humans had assumed! (See Police Comics #58, September 1946, "The Green Terror") He was a botanist who had hated humanity all his life, and managed to transform himself into a vegetable being, and the considerable plant-control powers he'd gained after the transformation energized him to begin his revenge. Even his enhanced powers proved not quite a match for Plastic Man, though, and Mr. Green had 'died' of a spear through the heart. But plants don't need hearts, and a WOODEN spear couldn't kill him, though the spearing had caused the cessation of his human life processes. SO they'd thought he was dead, and given him a villain's burial - in a cheap coffin in a poorly-tended, soon abandoned field, with nothing more than a flimsy wooden cross to mark his grave, a cross that the weather destroyed within a few years. The coffin decayed even more quickly, and soon Mr. Green's body was pervasively perforated and soon permeated by the roots of the various plants from the overgrown, forgotten burial grounds above.

As the years passed, energized by the root network of the verdant weeds, shrubs and trees above, Mr. Green's body continued to change and evolve, becoming less human and more potentially powerful. Plants are patient. The evolving changes were slow but inexorable and never ending. There was a force, presumably the subconscious of the altered Mr. Green himself, that was guiding the changes and it wasn't quite satisfied, no, just a few more decades... and then the Crisis on Infinite Earths happened.

A few days before the final events of the Crisis, in August of 1985, an army of supervillains, recruited from many Earths, invaded the Earth of Mr. Green - Earth X. Many villains, armed with plant controlling powers, weather control, many other superpowers and a lot of just plain old evil villainryness, destroyed the planet's environment and mutated the vegetation so that it ran amuck, engulfing the world in out-of-control plant life. (see the Earth X Timeline for August, 1985) One of the places a jungle sprang up was Death Valley. When the Spectre took the villains from Earth X to the beginning of time, much of the unnatural vegetation began to die... but it continued to survive in the Death Valley Jungle.

Among other things, ivy-like plants such as kudzu quickly buried all but the tallest buildings, even in the barren concrete jungles of major cities. Trees grew from sprouts to hundreds of feet high in seconds. Civilization was literally buried and choked in plants - and some of the plants were actually the control of the invading villains.

Massive swells of energy surged through the root network, and though this energy had unfamiliar qualities, it was instantly useful - the work of decades was done in days! And the buried entity realized that it was time to reemerge, no longer as the human Mr. Green but now as a much more powerful plant elemental He no longer needed his original body; at a thought, thousands of plants in the now densely overgrown jungle above him began shedding - leaves, twigs, branches, moss, spores, seeds, thorns, and these thousands of donated components self-assembled into a massive, powerful roughly humanoid body, wide and thick, covered in leaves and flowers and moss, with a massive head with no face. The new being stood and stretched - and mentally announced to the plant network around that world the birth of Vegatron, Avenger of the Green.

The birthing process over, Vegatron once again had time to consider the environment around him, and realized that whatever energies that had animated the recent unnatural growth had vanished, and most of the unnatural growth was already dead - except for a patch far away to the west. And that patch was threatened by fire! He MUST go there instantly and save whatever he could! The newly assembled body collapsed in a heap, as his mind left - and the still living plants in the Death Valley Forest contributed bits to his new body - and within a short time, Vegatron was rising again in the Death Valley Forest.

His awakening had taken several days since the initial surge of magically assisted plant energy, and it had been... interrupted when his Earth, and all surviving Earths, had been merged into one and then once again split into individual Earths. And when the split occurred, he was immediately torn by a great loss - the magical energy was gone, leaving only the natural connection to natural plants that he had grown used to over his long internment.

the most part of that overrunning vegetation had vanished! He could still sense a massive concentration of unnatural vegetation far way to the west and south, all that the mystical changes to the planet had failed to erase. Still, it the most dense concentration of his new kind of life on the planet - and it, too, was being destroyed!

He engaged in what in a human might be called 'meditation'. His mind contacted the 'field' of linked life forces that was the 'Green' - the ambient energy generated by ALL of the trillions of plants around the planet, and 'went' to this threatened concentration of plant life. His current body collapsed into a heap, resembling a big pile of trimmings from spring yardwork - and two thousand miles away, hundreds of trees, shrubs, bushes, weeds, grasses and other types of plants each contributed a bit to a new body, which accepted the seeking mind and rose to its feet to determine and stop the cause of the destruction that he now felt around him, close at hand.

in Death Valley, where the entire desert was buried under a hundred feet of green, a new body formed and accepted the seeking mind.

Mr. Fire was in the fight of his life! Well, it's not really exactly what we think of as life, but it's what he had - and he didn't want to lose it! His foe, Mr. Green, wasn't in danger of loosing his life - in fact, the life that sustained him was what was endangering Mr. Fire! <describe Mr. Fire here>

Mr. Fire was, for want of a better term, a 'mythical' being, a flame elemental brought into being by the energy of the collective human subconscious. He had come into existence when the first thinking beings on Erath Earth X, anyway) had been frightened and awed by the power of flame. He was an elemental, a Flame Elemental, associated with open flame - from tiny flames such as a candle through giant conflagrations that burned whole forests or whole cities. He was closely related to other 'heat' elementals -Lava, Nuclear Fire, the Sun, but his speciality, bestowed on him through hundreds of thousands of years by humans, was open flames - fuel burning in the presence of oxygen, producing visible light and heat. Candles to Conflagrations were his realm. And Mr. Green threatened that realm today!

Mr. Green <describe Mr. Green here> had begun as a human. a professor of botany who had apparently died in 1946. But his years of bleeding edge experiments, often on himself, had altered him, and almost 40 years of being buried had altered him even more. His experiments had changed him into a plant - and as a plant, he had realized how deadly dangerous to the very existence of plant life humans were! DUring his long interrment, the roots of various plants had intertwined throughout his body, nourishing him and changing him even more - and recent events had awakened him from his long hibernation, and he was ready to begin his war against humanity again.

But first... he sensed a great disturbance in the plant life force. A giant fire was destroying all the plant life that had recently overrun a place that had once been a seemingly lifeless desert - Death Valley. Awakened to be the Champion of the Greed! He was not yet aware of the full extent of his powers - but he needed to be in Deaath Valley! His temporary body in an overgrown cemetary outside of New York City collapsed into a heap. Note that a fragment of his consciousness remained in the Heap, a fragment that would eventually grow and mature into an independent being...

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Mr. Green Feb 27, 2021 2:29:40 GMT

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Bittergreen stood amongst his plants, many miles from the fire, reveling momentarily in their worshipful adulation and the incredible power he now derived from them. Then, "You can't just stand here, Green! You have WORK to do!" He remembered some of the results of years-ago research and set the jungle to work, ordering the plants to begin making massive, rapid modifications to their own physiology throughout the entire jungle, and then he made some some similar modifications to his own plant body. Now armed and armored, he set out towards the fire. In spite of his massive, ragged body and lumbering gait, he slipped through the impassible vegetation easily, as plants swayed aside to grant him passage through even the densest thickets.

Mr. Fire wandered through the burning jungle inferno, unerringly seeking out the hottest hot spots, basking for a short time, and then moving on. The roaring and crackling of the flames washed over and soothed him like the applause of a giant, enthusiastic audience for their favorite superstar; the tremendous heat, ubiquitous flames, and billowing surges of superheated air caressed him like a gentle lover. Around him, living things died in the conflagration; he was barely aware of it. It was the natural order of things: all living things die, and there is always unending torrent of new living replacements!

Mr. Fire was stunned to see something approaching him through the fire; something living, something as tall and massive as he was. A shaggy, plant-green humanoid, shambling inexorably forward, crashing over all the burned debris, and seemingly ignoring the roaring, scorching flames.

"YOU! Fire thing! This fire is KILLING my jungle! Stop it, NOW!" Bittergreen demanded. He wasn't actually speaking; the incredible thunderous roaring of the fire would have drowned out any actual sound. And the message he conveyed was a lot stronger than could be expressed by human language.

"Who are you?" the Flame Elemental replied. "Why do you want me to kill this fire? It will die on its own soon enough... and the plants will grow back after the fire is gone."

"If you won't stop this fire, I will kill YOU!" Bittergreen roared.

Mr. Fire was dumbfounded. Kill him? The concept was inconceivable. As long as there had been fire, there had been Mr. Fire; as long as there was fire, Mr. Fire would continue. At least, that's what he believed. "I don't start fires; I don't stop fires," he finally replied slowly.

"Then, you die!" Bittergreen screamed as he attacked!

Thousands of poison thorns blasted out from his sweeping gesture, accompanied by billowing clouds of poison spores - which instantly flashed into an explosion. This rocked both combatants but harmed neither, and the thorns were burned to ash by the aura of flame surrounding Mr. Fire, and for a few instants, Mr. Fire was surrounded by a cloud of ash, which was instantly blown away by the hurricane-force updrafts created by the fire.

Another scream, this one of wordless rage, and Bittergreen lumbered forward, moving much more quickly than one would expect from his size. And Mr. Fire was still somewhat befuddled by being attacked, and he didn't even attempt to dodge. Of course, he didn't yet believe that Bittergreen would be able to reach him - he was surrounded by an incredibly potent aura of fire and Bittergreen was a plant; he was just incinerating himself...

Except, the massive Plant Elemental smashed violently into the massive Flame Elemental and knocked him to the ground, and immediately rearranged his body so that Mr. Fire was completely covered by vegetation - bark, leaves and vines. "I've incorporated asbestos into ever cell in my body, fool! I'm now fireproof. And I have other weapons. I am smothering you in carbon dioxide emitted by my plant body!"

(Yes, while plants are famous for emitting oxygen, they also emit carbon dioxide. Bittergreen is using his elemental powers to enhance that capability to super levels.)

Mr. Fire was wrapped in darkness, wrapped in stuff he couldn't burn, and as his metabolism was based on fire, the blank of carbon dioxide was killing him! And he had no idea how to escape; all his struggles did was make him weaker! In his desperation, he remembered his protegee - if only she could help him!

"WILDFIRE, COME TO ME IN ALL YOUR POWER!" he put as much power as he had left into the command.

Carol <Martin, unless she has been married> was awakened by a strange sensation, and when she opened her eyes, she saw a candle in her bedroom flare suddenly into flame, and then she screamed as her body deformed and stretched toward the flame, and then her hand disappeared, and before she react further, she vanished from her bedroom and reappeared instantly in a forest fire! Adrenaline surged through her and she was fully awake and she heard a voice in her head, pleading with her to rescue the supplicant. She recognized the dry, raspy voice instantly, even though she hadn't heard it since she was three - it was Mr. Fire! She was instantly aware of his dire situation, wrapped in an fireproof trap under that pile that was impossibly leafy green, when every other remnant of vegetation was charred black or powder on the ground, lit with brillliant yellow, orange and red flames. And he was being smothered to death!

Carol raced to the impossible heap and began tearing it apart, frantically exerting all her flame-powered super strength! She realized vaguely that she had never felt so strong; she was tearing thick vines easily and breaking thick branches like twigs!

Mr. Fire had never faced death before, and he was terrified. He was straining to use his powers to burn free, desperately exerting his will to produce flames more powerful than he ever had before - and suddenly Carol ripped away a layer of the fireproof asbestos-enhanced vegetation that was smothering him, and he was exposed to air with oxygen in it, and he EXPLODED!

Carol was thrown high into the air, but the heat of the explosion couldn't harm her, and she drew healing power from the intense flames engulfing her and the remnants of the forest and within seconds she had recovered. And again, she was surprised at the strength of her powers. She gained control of her flight and circled back to the site of the explosion. There was a massive crater, debris was still raining down, there was no sign of the heap of green, and Mr. Fire was standing in the center of the devastation, laughing!

He saw her approaching and gestured... and again her body elongated, and she was drawn into a flame - and an instant later, she was back in her bedroom!

manufacturing carbon dioxide and drawing silicates and particularly asbestos from the ground and to start channeling as much water as every plant could spare towards the plants near the front. He made other botanical preparations as he thought of them, and then turned his attention to the physical.

He could sense that there wasn't a lot of dead vegetation in this jungle yet; he ordered the living to start shifting it away from the fire front. Near that front, plants started moving in unnatural ways; ripping up their roots and pushing back from the fire, as Bittergreen ordered them to create a natural firebreak. Plants, even those plants under the control of a powerful Plant Elemental, are not capable of moving quickly in human terms (although these were moving at incredible super speed in plant terms!) so it might take some hours before a wide enough swath of land was cleared. The fact that the roots were sunk through the granular sand of the former Death Valley Desert rather than densely packed soil helped! Vegetation on the other side of the future firebreak was sacrificed, and dutifully moved toward the flames and imminent consumption.

While all these changes were going on, Bittergreen was also making changes to his body; in particular, armoring it with asbestos - lucky this area was a natural supply of the stuff! When he'd finished preparing himself and the jungle as well as possible to resist fire, he moved through the jungle towards the fire front to see if there was anything he could do to help.

He couldn't change the natural order, and if he _were_ to save any of these things from death, why, they would still die anyway, wouldn't they? And, what better way to go than to feed the glorious flames? Occasionally in his virtually infinite lifespan he had been charmed by a human who was fascinated by, rather than terrified by conflagration, and had amused himself by granting those humans powers similar to his own - but in they end, they died too, didn't they? To him, any living thing was like a flame - it came into existence, flickered, and vanished. The time scale was slightly different; most living things lived longer than most flames, but what is a few fleeting years to an almost-immortal Elemental?

So he was basking, and totally stunned and dumbfounded to see another being stalking through the flames toward him!

So, Bittergreen causes the plants to mutate and start giving off carbon dioxide instead of oxygen. He tells them to armor themselves with asbestos, which is found naturally in Death Valley. Mr. Fire doesn't really care that the plants in Death Valley Jungle are becoming armored against fire, and has never cared when humans put out fires - there are always more things to burn and there will always be more fires. But Bittergreen attacks anyway. And Fire has never been attacked by anything before, so he is totally unprepared to defend himself. So he is quickly overwhelmed, and has to call Wildfire for help, and restores her youth. Wildfire quickly battles Bittergreen to a standstill, then Fire recovers and incinerates him. Wildfire is unhappy; Fire sends her home.

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