2914/Trick or Wheat

Trick or Wheat
Date of Scene:	20 October 2017
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Gorilla Grodd, Green Lantern (Rayner)

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Gorilla Grodd has posed:
Gorilla Grodd has laid a series of rather interesting pumpkins around on doorsteps, attempting to experiment of all things on some agricultural projects that he hopes will help Gorilla City. And since humans are expendable, he is testing it on them first rather than anywhere near where he lives. Around the city a few people check out the cool jackolanters, only to have dozens of wheat plants appear out of nowhere.

Green Lantern (Rayner) has posed:
Look, up in the sky... It's... it's... well, it's a flying green-aura'd man... it's not like there are a bunch of... hm... OK, fairpoint. Well, it's Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, all right? Kyle adjusts the domino mask on his face... Even after all this time, it still feels uncomfortable, but he understands the need for it. Following up on a report of strange agricultural activity happening, he's flying over the city looking for any signs of abnormal plant growth. "Watchtower, Green Lantern here. I'm not really seeing anything crazy down here..." Kyle scans the landscape again, banking through the skies. "Ring, are you picking up anything strange down there?" ((Scanning... scanning)) reports the emerald ring on his finger.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
There are ....54 events involving Stranger Things. 5 People talking about Dr. Strange. If you mean 'anomolies'" it says with a slightly annoyed tinge, "There are 4. All involve unusual plant life."

Green Lantern (Rayner) has posed:
"Thank you, Ring," mutters Kyle as he notices a commotion below him. Coming to a hovering halt, he looks down at the people standing next to a strange looking pumpkin, surrounded by wheat. "Wait... this is important. Make sure that we set the DVR to record the October 27 Stranger Things season premiere." Kyle says in all seriousness. "Also, let's go down and check out the commotion about the pumpkins." With that, he swoops down to land next to the people, looking curiously at the pumpkin.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
"You cant DVR Netflix, but you can download. Set to download."

The wheat, by itself doesn't seem weird. It's just...in everything. Clothing, bags, brief cases. People are annoyedly trying to get shake it out or throw it away, but as they do, more wheat appears as soon as it touches anything organic.

Green Lantern (Rayner) has posed:
Kyle looks around puzzled. "I've heard of the straw that breaks the camel's back..." he starts saying. "But self-replicating straw? That seems a bit odd." Using his ring, he shoots out a green beam and encapsulates one of the sheafs of wheat being discarded by one of the panicked people. "Ring, analysis," he orders.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
"Wheat, heavily modified, African in origin, modified for a hot clime, with a dash of metahuman DNA, possibly from a duplicator. Seems to impact on soil or organic material. Potential disruption...high."

Green Lantern (Rayner) has posed:
"Wait, go back to the dash of metahuman DNA..." Kyle scratches his chin with his hand and cocks his head to one side. "What kind of metahuman DNA? Are you saying that it's some sort of mutant wheat? What, more genetically modified than Monsanto?"

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
"Clearly a class 9 mind. This is not 'Monsanto' or any other corporation. I believe the term is 'duplicator', someone has made the wheat duplicate."

The wheat, meanwhile is getting out of hand and into EVERYTHING. It's like the worst pollen season you can imagine at this point and has even gotten in a few cars.

Green Lantern (Rayner) has posed:
Kyle looks in dismay as the wheat is spreading at an exponential rate. "All right, all right. I get it. So let's contain it then." The green aura around Kyle's body brightens as he crouches and launches himself into the air with a leap. Floating over the area, Kyle outstretches his arm, bracing himself with the other free hand and concentrates. Green light flows out of his ring, forming into the shape of a vacuum cleaner, wielded by a well proportioned maid, albeit 25 feet tall. The giant green maid clucks her tongue and hits a switch on the oversized vacuum cleaner, sucking up all the loose wheat.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
The wheat begins to flow from the street to the cars. A lot of it anyway. Of course, the wheat begins to hit the other wheat which is organic so it soon begins to clog in the vaccum. Still it isn't as bad as it could be given the speed at which it spreads. Something might be controlling it somewhat.

Green Lantern (Rayner) has posed:
As the giant green maid cleans up the bulk of the wheat, Kyle turns his attention to the people still frantically trying to rid themselves of the wheat that keeps multiplying. "Attention citizens. Please remain calm," Kyle says, his voice magnified by a floating green megaphone that just popped into existence. Splitting his attention, he holds out his ring again, and a conveyor belt appears, leading into a squat green building. "Just get on the conveyor belt, and we'll get you taken care of quickly. Inside the building, large fans turn quickly, blowing air into the enclosed area. After a few minutes in the blowing wind, the conveyor belt leads them out of the building, where several normal sized green maids pick over the people, making sure to get every last wheat stalk. "All right... I'm guessing that this is by design, rather than coincidental... Let's take a look." Shooting up higher into the air, Kyle looks around for what would be the most ideal vantage point.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
As he moves higher, its hard to see at first but with some help from the ring, he can see that there is a camera bolted to a brick wall. The complexity of the construct is working but timely and starting to strain his will.

Green Lantern (Rayner) has posed:
Content with identifying the camera, Kyle floats back downwards to renew his concentration on the wheat problem. As the people are processed out, Kyle encases them in a green bubble to make sure that they're not re-contaminated, and then moves the gently out of the affected area. "Just stay back for now until we get this taken care of. Sorry for the inconvenience." For good measure, Kyle surrounds the area with some green police tape warning everybody to stay back. After several minutes of sorting this out, he takes a second to re-take stock of the situation.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
Slowly but surely he begins to make headway with the wheat. While Kyle gets one camera, about a dozen around the area suddenly begin to smoke....self destruct mode activated. The people cheer as the wheat is spearated from the chaff.

Green Lantern (Rayner) has posed:
"No! No!!" Kyle looks up in alarm at the cameras self-destructing. He shoots a beam out at the one he had identified, hoping to cut off whatever signal was remotely controlling it. Too little, too late, unfortunately. The camera, encased in a green bubble starts to smoke and smoulder. "Blast it!" Sighing heavily, Kyle pulls the remains of the camera towards himself. Looking at the smoking mess, he contains it the best he can. "Well, maybe Bats can take a look at this... do the detective thing..." he muses to himself. Looking around, he stands, self conscious as the people are cheering. He bags up the remaining wheat and pumpkins in a giant bag, which the giant green maid hefts on her shoulder. Then with a cheery wave, the maid leaps into the air and starts flying off. Kyle lifts off slowly behind her, giving the area one more survey. "Um... right, well... Be safe everybody." And with that, Kyle starts off after the giant maid, back to the Watchtower where they can properly contain and dispose of the wheat and pumpkins, and hopefully get more clues as to the dastardly intelligence behind this Halloween trick.