(((JOE)))
The Batman #3: blackgate jester 4/4 (finale)
Black gate
Bruce, with the aid of cowl implemented night vision goggles, navigates his way through the pitch black tunnels of the prisons ventilation system
He hears the eerie sound of punches nasally singing voice at optimum pitch and kicks through the grate landing on both feet among a mountain of rubble. He follows punch until he comes to a glass screen. It looks like it could be a maximum security cell. And clearly the cell of an Arkham inmate judging by the strange scratchings reminiscent of a calendar on the walls and the smell of fresh blood. Both unluckily and luckily for Bruce, the inmate’s nowhere to be found. On the other side of the glass, punch for perhaps the first time in his short life, feels genuine human fear. He stops singing as the two blank eyes of the boy he so cruelly tortured and used for all those years stare into his black soul.
Punch: come for something?...spare muzzle here If you want it....
Tensil says nothing. He lifts a can of petrol to his side and draws a circle around himself and around punch
Punch turns for help only to find Otis and the getaway genius atleast 100 metres out of the picture
Tensil: remind me...how long have you abused me. 3 years? Four years. Maybe just the one. Nonetheless it felt like decades. But that’s okay because you gave me time...time to plan.
Punch: l..look we can make a deal can’t...we..we can. Yeah. Uh y’dont need to be hasty bout it. Hehe
Tensil: you are fearful then. No love. No passion. Not even hate. But you do have fear. Makes this easier for me.
Bruce begins to kick at the glass. Doesn’t break of course. It’s designed that way. He left the glass cutter in the batmobile. He then decides to opt for some of the fallen bricks and begins to hurl them at the glass. He does this till he sees a crack start to show
Tensil drops a match and lights the fire.
Punch: ohh...sh..shit
Tensil: yes. That’s right. Shit. We pronounce it sheght but shit works too
He grins...then lurches at punch till they are but 2 or 3 inches apart
Tensil: this is not easy for me. No wait it is. Just not for you...
Punch kicks him in the stomach and begins to run. Tensil throws the can of petrol straight at him. Covered in the deadly stuff punch dashes through the flames instantly igniting. With blackened skin barely hanging from his face, he crawls back to Tensil.
Punch: please...
Tensil: okay.
So with the gracious hand of the saviour Tensil pours a ton of water over punches head
Punch: thank..you thank you sir
He then turns his head up to Tensils and grinning, he spits.
But within seconds the deadly matter eater lad has feasted his sharp katana like teeth into the thick and greasy peeling skin of one pathetic fallen jester. He begins to bite,...to swallow,...and to digest.
Bruce screams out as the glass finally breaks letting him through.
Batman: no!! It did not have to be like this
Tensil, still eating away at his prey: no it did. There was no compromise. You should know that. Oh and remember that c4 inside my stomach. I lied in saying it would do no harm to me.
He then graciously, lies down next to what few parts are left of old punch. He takes a grenade from punches belt, Sets it off and swallows it
Tensil: run batman run
Bruce realising nothing can be done, begins to pace through the hallways till he finally ducks behind some rubble and a few steel sheets
Both punch and Tensil erupt in flames once again bringing the skeletal structure hopelessly to its knees
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Gordon’s office
Amidst a clutter of paperwork and files, Gordon and bullock discuss the events of the prison break.
Harvey: we got all the prisoners back but nowhere to put em. Apparently strikers island is able to be repurposed for the time being but it’s in a pretty bad state and hasn’t been used in years
Gordon: And Arkham?
Harvey: eh. Still undergoing renovation I’m afraid but only for another 6 months. by then we can put the Arkham patients in there and the renovations to Blackgate might also be done. But for now the damage assessment’s still being done so we’ll have to wait till tommorow to really know how long it’ll take
Gordon: that’s not too bad. I agree that Strykers could definitely be reused but for the most part we should probably just be getting them into prisons around the country for now. Send some to star city, Metropolis and central city. Then we can work on getting the government to give us strykers.
And what about the lot who caused the whole thing. The moth man hehe
Harvey: he scampered along with drake Mortimer. His accomplice was allegedly killed in the flames but no body has been found. And as for Lenny. We missed him but he left his mask so we should be able to trace him easily enough
Gordon: thank god. Guessing loeb was right when he gave me that dead end case. As much as it sickens me to say. Any other casualties and escapees
Harvey: yes. Otis flannegan was seen leaving with the same “tin man” that entered and the man who appeared to be behind getting Otis out, the jester was found in pieces. there was another casualty but the government removed it very quickly. We’re apparently not allowed to know.
Gordon: aliens?
Harvey: in Gotham? You’re kiddin right. Nah we never get anything that exciting apart from that time a green lantern flew over Bludhaven. Though in fairness I don’t think I was born back then
Gordon: heh no you woulda been three at the most. I was 6 and remember it clear as day.
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The foul smelling lair of the rat catcher, deep within gothams sewers
Jewlee: and what of dear punch. I am shocked to not hear his words speak to me now
Rat catcher: well um...I did not want to tell you this jewlee but punch. Punch is dead
Jewlee slams down the phone hard enough for Otis to hear the thud to which he chuckles a little but all in all ignores.
Rat catcher: if the master thinks he can control jewlee here, he’s got another thing coming. I’d go as far as to say he should fear her. But then again he fears nothing. It’s his specialty....maybe I’ll change that when I get the chance...
The Batman #3: blackgate jester 4/4 (finale)
Black gate
Bruce, with the aid of cowl implemented night vision goggles, navigates his way through the pitch black tunnels of the prisons ventilation system
He hears the eerie sound of punches nasally singing voice at optimum pitch and kicks through the grate landing on both feet among a mountain of rubble. He follows punch until he comes to a glass screen. It looks like it could be a maximum security cell. And clearly the cell of an Arkham inmate judging by the strange scratchings reminiscent of a calendar on the walls and the smell of fresh blood. Both unluckily and luckily for Bruce, the inmate’s nowhere to be found. On the other side of the glass, punch for perhaps the first time in his short life, feels genuine human fear. He stops singing as the two blank eyes of the boy he so cruelly tortured and used for all those years stare into his black soul.
Punch: come for something?...spare muzzle here If you want it....
Tensil says nothing. He lifts a can of petrol to his side and draws a circle around himself and around punch
Punch turns for help only to find Otis and the getaway genius atleast 100 metres out of the picture
Tensil: remind me...how long have you abused me. 3 years? Four years. Maybe just the one. Nonetheless it felt like decades. But that’s okay because you gave me time...time to plan.
Punch: l..look we can make a deal can’t...we..we can. Yeah. Uh y’dont need to be hasty bout it. Hehe
Tensil: you are fearful then. No love. No passion. Not even hate. But you do have fear. Makes this easier for me.
Bruce begins to kick at the glass. Doesn’t break of course. It’s designed that way. He left the glass cutter in the batmobile. He then decides to opt for some of the fallen bricks and begins to hurl them at the glass. He does this till he sees a crack start to show
Tensil drops a match and lights the fire.
Punch: ohh...sh..shit
Tensil: yes. That’s right. Shit. We pronounce it sheght but shit works too
He grins...then lurches at punch till they are but 2 or 3 inches apart
Tensil: this is not easy for me. No wait it is. Just not for you...
Punch kicks him in the stomach and begins to run. Tensil throws the can of petrol straight at him. Covered in the deadly stuff punch dashes through the flames instantly igniting. With blackened skin barely hanging from his face, he crawls back to Tensil.
Punch: please...
Tensil: okay.
So with the gracious hand of the saviour Tensil pours a ton of water over punches head
Punch: thank..you thank you sir
He then turns his head up to Tensils and grinning, he spits.
But within seconds the deadly matter eater lad has feasted his sharp katana like teeth into the thick and greasy peeling skin of one pathetic fallen jester. He begins to bite,...to swallow,...and to digest.
Bruce screams out as the glass finally breaks letting him through.
Batman: no!! It did not have to be like this
Tensil, still eating away at his prey: no it did. There was no compromise. You should know that. Oh and remember that c4 inside my stomach. I lied in saying it would do no harm to me.
He then graciously, lies down next to what few parts are left of old punch. He takes a grenade from punches belt, Sets it off and swallows it
Tensil: run batman run
Bruce realising nothing can be done, begins to pace through the hallways till he finally ducks behind some rubble and a few steel sheets
Both punch and Tensil erupt in flames once again bringing the skeletal structure hopelessly to its knees
———————————————————
Gordon’s office
Amidst a clutter of paperwork and files, Gordon and bullock discuss the events of the prison break.
Harvey: we got all the prisoners back but nowhere to put em. Apparently strikers island is able to be repurposed for the time being but it’s in a pretty bad state and hasn’t been used in years
Gordon: And Arkham?
Harvey: eh. Still undergoing renovation I’m afraid but only for another 6 months. by then we can put the Arkham patients in there and the renovations to Blackgate might also be done. But for now the damage assessment’s still being done so we’ll have to wait till tommorow to really know how long it’ll take
Gordon: that’s not too bad. I agree that Strykers could definitely be reused but for the most part we should probably just be getting them into prisons around the country for now. Send some to star city, Metropolis and central city. Then we can work on getting the government to give us strykers.
And what about the lot who caused the whole thing. The moth man hehe
Harvey: he scampered along with drake Mortimer. His accomplice was allegedly killed in the flames but no body has been found. And as for Lenny. We missed him but he left his mask so we should be able to trace him easily enough
Gordon: thank god. Guessing loeb was right when he gave me that dead end case. As much as it sickens me to say. Any other casualties and escapees
Harvey: yes. Otis flannegan was seen leaving with the same “tin man” that entered and the man who appeared to be behind getting Otis out, the jester was found in pieces. there was another casualty but the government removed it very quickly. We’re apparently not allowed to know.
Gordon: aliens?
Harvey: in Gotham? You’re kiddin right. Nah we never get anything that exciting apart from that time a green lantern flew over Bludhaven. Though in fairness I don’t think I was born back then
Gordon: heh no you woulda been three at the most. I was 6 and remember it clear as day.
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The foul smelling lair of the rat catcher, deep within gothams sewers
Jewlee: and what of dear punch. I am shocked to not hear his words speak to me now
Rat catcher: well um...I did not want to tell you this jewlee but punch. Punch is dead
Jewlee slams down the phone hard enough for Otis to hear the thud to which he chuckles a little but all in all ignores.
Rat catcher: if the master thinks he can control jewlee here, he’s got another thing coming. I’d go as far as to say he should fear her. But then again he fears nothing. It’s his specialty....maybe I’ll change that when I get the chance...