Swallowing The Spider

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"They forced him into a meat grinder and turned him into minced meat!.. It was horrible..." They all stay silent in shock, to hear that a child was forced into a meat grinder while still alive is a shocking gruesome thing to hear especially for these three people who believe in justice so much that they took up a job to fight for it although only one of the threes jobs is actually legal in the eyes of the law, Batman was the first to break the tense silence that had come over us. "What else?" It seems that Batman has decided to place his feelings to ones side for a moment and gather more information with a calm mind which I can respect, I certainly wouldn't be able to do it as I get a bit too emotional sometimes and especially after the merge. "I don't know how long I watched them do it or how long it took, all I knew was that by the time they had finished fully grinding him it was starting to get dark."

I continue. "I honestly thought that they were finished at that point but it seems that they weren't as they put on some plastic gloves and some yellow scrubs and started started to shovel all of the minced human meat into plastic bags which they then sealed shut, there must've been at least twenty bags of minced meat they got from that kid and I watched them do it without taking my eyes of them for a single second because I didn't want to lose sight of them and i didn't want to be caught unaware, it was horrible to watch and what was even more horrible was the ease and efficiency they did it with which meant that they had probably already done this a dozen more times before which was terrible to even think about."

A take a breath as if reliving the memory, honestly I don't know what happened to me after I was put in the meat grinder so I'm making all of this up now, I don't even know if they had ever minced up a kid before they did it to me but I don't mind making them look even worse in the eyes of these guys (which is hard as the matron and drug dealer are already some of the worst people in the world) as it will just mean that they will go after them with every fibre of their being. "It was really dark at this time and I had to hide as I noticed a truck coming into the parking lot and reversing so that the back doors of the truck were facing towards the factory unfortunately it was so dark that I couldn't make out any distinguishable features on the truck but thankfully it was so dark that no one noticed me on the top of the factory, the guys in the truck went and opened the backdoors of their truck before walking to the front and having a smoke break."

Gordon interrupts me here. "Those guys, do you think you could remember what they looked like or the logo on the side of the truck? Anything would help." He's already read through all the information in the file I handed over and even then it's only on the information I had on the matron and drug dealer and their schedules, I didn't really care about anything else do it would make sense that he would ask for some more information, I didn't even try to find out the matron and drug dealers names, their families or their pets as I didn't give a f.u.c.k and none of it would change my mind, all I wanted was to kill those two in the most horrific way possible but that clearly no longer an option. " I didn't see anything, it was too dark to see and I was a little preoccupied with trying to hide."

To this Gordon nods. "With the two drivers smoking at the trucks front the matron and the drug dealer came out of the factory and went into the back of the truck with the plastic bags full of human meat, I don't know what they did but after they left the back of the truck leaving the doors open the matron went over and sat in the van while the drug dealer went and gave some money to the two drivers before joining the matron in the van and then they drive off which was the last I ever saw of them until I came back to Gotham a few weeks ago, I noticed that the truck drivers were staying at the front of the truck finishing off their smokes and I knew this was my chance."

At this point I'm getting a bit stressed as I'm not sure if my story is gonna pull through and that Batman will believe it as I'm sure that there are a few loop holes in it, I hold my hand out to Gordon and make a specific gesture which he understands and so he pulls out a cigarette and lights it before handing it to me so I can take a long draw of it before letting it out to stave of my stress a little, we both choose to ignore the glare that Barbara is giving us and I'm not too bothered about it as my healing factor will make sure the cigarettes don't affect me (I never smoked in the marvel universe but after the merge I've come to find I like to smoke at least when I'm stressed and I don't really care about getting rid of the habit as it won't really kill me will it?) plus even though Barbara's glaring at me she'd probably like me more because I do as girls like Barbara like a fixer upper and I'll probably be associated with her father in her mind which makes me more likeable to her, all girls have daddy issues though it's a matter of the magnitude of the issues.

"I wanted to get down off of the factory roof but because the van which I had used to get on it was gone I was stuck, I contemplated going down the pipes and ledges at the front of the building that I used to climb up and then dropping the rest of the way but I decided that it was too close to the truck drivers and they might hear me so I decided to go down the back of the factory on the opposite side which was thankfully a bit closer to the ground, without much time to think before they finished smoking I decided to take off my clothes and tie them together into a rope before tying it to a metal pole on top of the roof but I realised that it was still to far from the ground and I didn't want to land and cut my feet which would leave a blood trail so I decided to use my u.n.d.e.r.w.e.a.r and socks to further the rope and drop while hoping that I'd land without cutting myself which I thankfully did." I tell them some more lies that are a bit of a stretch but I couldn't come up with another way to explain why I was n.a.k.e.d in New York.

"Why would you worry about the landing? Didn't you have shoes?" Barbara asks but thankfully I'd already come up with an answer to this. "None of us had any shoes at the orphanage except for the ones the matron would get out with some nice clothes incase there were any visits or anything, I actually had a ratty pair which I got for being a good drug mule but I didn't have time to put them on before the matron dragged me and that other kid to the back of the van." Batman speaks at this point. "Which would explain why you were n.a.k.e.d as you had to use all your clothes to make a rope which would help you get down from the roof." To which I nod happy that Batman is going along with my story, for now at least.

I continue my complete and utter bullshit story. "I landed on the ground without cutting myself and making sure to be silent to the best of my ability I made my way to the back of the truck before climbing into it, I spotted only one thing in the back of the truck which was a big white refrigerator and knowing that the drivers could come back at any second to close the doors I decided to go and open it as it was the only place I could hide, of course at this time I forgot that the matron and the drug dealer brought the plastic meat filled bags back here and so when I opened the refrigerator I was treated to the sight.. The sight of..." I cut off here as if too traumatised to speak about it, though I am probably traumatised about my true experience back then I think instead of stifling me it just gave me an extra bit of insanity which isn't too bad I guess.

"It was filled with meat." Batman states for me to which I nod, I'm so glad my audience is being so interactive with my fabricated story...

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