One more time...

But this time is different. This time is doomed.

Pushing too hard for too long, facing the madness of too many masks, bearing the brunt of too much violence, too much pain.

Already burned down and out from ends and every angle. Battered, bashed and scarred from a thousand cuts and blows.

Tottering on brittle bones and lurching through vertigo for months now. Ears buzzing and ringing, everything too bright and glittery, even in the dark.

Too much punishment, overwhelming odds, passing blood for weeks, racing for death my whole life. Every muscle sluggish... sluggish and trembling. All strength stretched and sapped, washed in weakness.

Mired in a slowmotion of helplessness and through it all, no sleep, no rest. Even when movement itself was impossible, nothing but the mind's desperate urge to get off the floor and strike back.

Even when every uphill effort is wasted and futile, reality itself smashed and splintered, like the rude death of an impossible dream. Awakening again and again to nothing but agony, relentless and repeated.

And then the crowning horror of shattered Arkham, spilling its mad guts into the long dark night of hopeless horror. A legion of crazed killers loose on Gotham, too many and too much to fight.

The toll too breat, pride no longer an asset, only prelude to a fall, leaving me drained and depleted. Utterly empty...

But still they loomed and lunged from the dark, laughing demons with bad intent. Bearing pain and nothing more, chipping away at whatever was left, wearing me down towards nothing... and nowhere...

Insanity, too stark to suffer or surmount. All of them, they all had a hand in it. But it was Bane's bloody hand behind them, behind it all. Bane from the beginning, and Bane now, at the end.

No more power, no more speed, no more reflexes. I gave my all, long ago. All in a losing cause. And now... I feel so bad... I want to die...

And I'm done

"I am Bane, and I could KILL you. But death would only end your agony and silence your shame. Instead, I WILL SIMPLY BREAK YOU!"

- Batman: Knightfall, fyfan vad bra!

Annons

Bilden saknar taggar

mars 2009