[Stephanie Pov]
As Will lay there unconscious on the verge of death, a black plane could be heard overhead. The second white 18-wheeler was already long gone, commandeered by joker's men.
"Do you see him?" Stephanie asked
No, I don't." Bruce said
"He's probably fine, if there's one thing he can do, it's take a good beating." Damian said
Tim laughed, "You aren't wrong about that, Damian. It's just that I've got a bad feeling about this."
"Will, can you hear me? If you can report. Please report." Bruce said seriously but there was no response.
"He would have said something." Bruce said
He flew over the area by the docks, it looked like a warzone. Bodies were strewn about, and there were holes in several buildings. The street had caved in, and Joker Venom still permeated the area preventing them from seeing much other than the carnage below.
"Shit, it's pretty bad down there." Tim said
They heard a roar so loud it shook the building. "GRUNDY HATE LITTLE MAN."
"See, it sounds like he's fine." Damian scoffed
They quickly locked on to Grundy and opened fire from the batplane. It dumped round after round into Grundy. Then they dropped something. Something metal began falling from under the plane, it dropped and latched onto Grundy shackling him to the floor. Then, they dropped what seemed to be a giant magnet that caused the gigantic metal shackles to fly grundy up under the plane.
"We are going to go look for him." Tim and Stephanie said as they dropped down with bat-themed gas masks on.
They hit the ground with a thud, and the plane took off, bringing Grundy far away from the scene. "Spoiler, you go left, and I'll check right. If you see anyone still alive give them the Joker Venom antidote." Tim said
"Roger that Red Robin." Spoiler said
Tim took off in the direction he said to go and so did Stephanie. They searched for survivors, eventually Tim came across Dembe lying on the side of the road unconscious. Tim quickly slapped handcuffs on him and administered the antidote. The vicious grin on his face slowly faded away as Tim propped him up on the side of the building.
"Found one, what about you Spoiler." Red Robin said over the coms
"Nothing yet Red Robin." said Spoiler as she searched frantically through the rubble. Where is he she thought, he's got to be around here. What if he just ran off, I hope he's okay. She thought to herself as she examined her surroundings. Then she noticed a slightly larger than human sized hole in the building.
Shit she thought to herself, as she rushed through it. She looked around, and saw a family huddled together in the corner. "Shh, it's gonna be okay." she smiled and said, walking up and administering her Joker Venom antidote. There was another hole in the wall that led into the bathroom, she stepped inside and what she saw mortified her. She'd never seen a human body look so broken. It was covered in blood and oil, with a hideous shark toothed smile on its face. The right side of his face was completely black, swollen, and covered in blood. It didn't seem like there was a single bone in his body that wasn't broken, everything was bent at an unnatural angle and bones protruded from random places on his body. The back of his hoodie was singed, and blood poured from numerous gunshot wounds that hadn't yet closed.
"Uh guys, I think he's dead." She said as she rushed up to see if he was breathing. Blood flowed out of his mouth as he just lay there propped up against the wall. She checked to see if his heart was still beating, it was but it was faint.
"Robin he's still alive but barely. I'm afraid to move him." She said nearly on the verge of tears he might have messed up but he didn't deserve this.
"Wait right there, I'm on my way." Tim said
Her hands were shaky as she injected him with an antidote in one of the non injured spots she could find on his body. "Why, why would you do this to yourself," She said as tears began to fall from her face. Despite her injecting him with the antidote the shark toothed smile did not leave his face.
Red Robin rushed in, "Holy Shit…We need to get him to a League hospital asap. Are you sure he's still alive?"
Move over Spoiler, let me handle this, "Batman we have a problem. Will is pretty much dead. We need to get him to a League Hospital now."
"Alright, be careful, get him to the nearest Zeta Tube. There should be one a few miles from your location. I'm uploading it to your GPS now, Batman out." Bruce said over the headset
Tim picked up Will carefully, blood splashed all over his Red Robin outfit.
"Oof, you are way heavier than you seem." Tim said he looked over at Spoiler who was still crying.
"We will get him taken care of, don't worry. Also why isn't the creepy smile on his face going away, I thought you administered the antidote?" Tim asked
"I did, I don't know." Stephanie said through her tears.
"Alright then." Tim said as he began walking out the building, he called his bright red motorcycle to him.
[Will Pov]
He hopped on, and draped Will around the back of the motorcycle, secured him, and sped off.
Meanwhile in the realm of the spirit, Will was sitting next to the Black Throne of the demon atop the mountain of corpses.
"Hahahahaha, good work boy although you didn't defeat your enemy you acted like a true demon out there tonight. About damn time." The Demon said
Will merely sighed, "I'm back here again huh, I don't suppose you are going to let me go without torturing me are you? What about some help over here man."
"Torture yes, help no." The demon said chuckling evilly
"Jeez, again?" Will said
"Well you must prepare yourself for the rebirth, I have to torture you. Anyways I'm feeling a bit uncomfortable in this position I don't suppose you could help me out. Maybe I dunno, break my chains?" The demon asked calmly
"You're joking right." Will said stubbornly
"No, I figured it was a long shot." The Demon said with a sigh, even that sigh seemed evil to Will; Everything he did radiated an evil demonic energy.
"So, uh why aren't you torturing me yet? Usually by now you do something to me?" Will asked
"Don't Test Me Boy, I felt you deserved a reward for entering a True Demonic State." The Demon growled, each word was grated against his soul.
"Whatever, thanks I guess." Will said
The demon merely grunted in response.
"Anyways, why do you not make a move on the red haired slut. I know how you feel about her, just take her already." The Demon asked
"First off she's not a slut do not call her that. Secondly, I can't just take her, that's not right man." Will said darkly
"Why not, you are stronger than her. Just take her and be done with it." the demon said
"I do not want that though; I don't want to hurt her." Will said angrily
"But you do though, cause I want it. She will learn to like it." The demon said nonchalantly
"I will absolutely not do that, and I'm not sure it works like that." Will said
"Oh, but it does, it's simply the virtue of being strong. I bet if that Supergirl bitch felt like fucking you she'd just take you and I know you'd enjoy that." The demon said, licking his lips with a pitch black tongue.
"No, I wouldn't actually. Do you not understand the concept of consent?" Will asked curiously
"I fucking understand it, do you not understand such insipid concepts are meaningless to me. Now let me out so I can do as I please." The demon said menacingly.
Will rolled his eyes, "You are much more lustful than I expected." he said
"You try being chained up and repressed for so long and see how horny you get. Anyways, I'm horny because you are fucking horny. I feel what you feel, I am you, what do you not get about that." The demon growled.
"Yeah, I guess, I know we share a face, but you are so different from me, sometimes I feel like you are somebody else. I mostly just figured you were the tattoo." Will said.
"I am your darkness boy, we are two sides of the same coin, as embarrassing as that thought is. Though, maybe I'm something else and that's just what I want you to think. Who fucking cares, you are stuck with me regardless. Now, hurry up and get strong already." The demon said in a resigned manner.
Will merely sighed and looked out onto the desiccated landscape, observing.
After what felt like a few hours, the demon spoke up, "Alright that's enough, time for pain now."
Suddenly, Will was thrown down the mountain of corpses when he reached the bottom. The pressure spread out once again. Will was forced to his knees, his bones creaked and eventually shattered under the weight of the pressure; It was nearly 10 times stronger than before.
"I can't let that motherfucker do as he pleases; it would be a disaster." He thought to himself calmly.
The Demon chuckled at his thoughts.
"I wonder how far you will make it this time. Will you push through the pain and learn something this time?" The Demon said under his breath.
Will at this point was getting used to the pain of his bones breaking, and the reforging technique. Every cell in Will's body felt like it was on fire, he felt his lungs burn with each breath as he was forced, spread eagle into the bloody floor and corpses below. He stayed conscious through the pain unsure if he could even pass into the sweet release of unconsciousness in here. Suddenly he felt his head moving on its own, and then it was slammed into the puddle of blood below. He tried to breathe, but each breath caused more and more blood to go into his lungs. He coughed; each cough felt like he was breathing fire like someone poured acid into his lungs. More cracking sounds rang out, as his body continued to be destroyed in the realm of the spirit.
Several days passed in the demonic realm, and every day, Will felt a tremendous amount of pain. Eventually, he adjusted and became used to it. It was unimaginable torment, however, he persevered, the demon taunted and mocked him constantly, and Will's hatred fueled him. He found he could circulate the technique in the demon's realm and eventually found himself slowly standing under the pressure. Although the technique worked in here it did nothing to his body outside. Will finally stood on shaky legs, with a defiant look on his face. He was no stronger than the average person, no, far less than average in this cursed place. He stared down the demon with bright red eyes, each breath stung and his bones were held together by demonic energy. Then, Will did the unthinkable, he willed himself to take a step forward. The pressure increased the closer he got to the throne. However, he didn't fall and managed to take two more steps before falling down on one knee. Blood poured out from his orifices under the titanic pressure.
"Kekekeke," the demon chuckled. "You might not be as worthless as I originally thought. Still trash but slightly better than before. I wonder how you will handle this?"
Suddenly the corpse of a woman covered in burns and rotting flesh rose from the pile of bodies near the throne. It had blonde hair, and if it weren't so hideously disfigured one could tell it might have once been attractive. "Kekeke, be careful weren't you just saying how pretty she was the other day? Oooh Kara you look so nice in your supergirl outfit… Fucking pathetic." The Demon Screamed
"You are a fucking embarrassment to us, now Kara be a doll and have your way with him or kill him whatever you want. It's been a long time since you've had anything to eat." The demon laughed loudly. The sound was grating and horrible.
Then Will felt a monsterous killing intent from the blonde abomination. It slowly walked towards him. Will scooted back to a point he could somewhat withstand the pressure and looked around for anything he could use to defend himself. He was so weak, he knew if that thing got near him he would be beaten. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a rib sticking out of a corpse. On shaky legs he shot towards the bone. He reached it quickly, he looked back frantically. The blonde abomination was almost upon him. So with a sickening crunch he broke the rib and decided to use it as a makeshift dagger. Next he felt an iron grip around his wrist, and then a fist struck him hard in the face.
"Definitely not as strong as Kara" he thought as he stabbed out with the bone.
The bone quickly sank into the abomination's chest, but that didn't stop it from attacking. It threw him to the ground, he tried to gain distance but it straddled him. He quickly jammed the bone in the creature's neck, which stopped it for a second. When he pulled it out, black blood sprayed him, he kept stabbing it over and over and over again. He was terrified, he hadn't felt this weak since he was a child. He kept stabbing the thing. He rolled over on top of it, black blood flying everywhere as he kept stabbing the thing over and over and over again. He kept stabbing it, even when it finally stopped moving he kept stabbing it. His blood red eyes were striking. As he finally stood up once again on shaky legs and moved back to where he was before the blonde abomination came for him. He stared at the being chained to the black throne, eyes full of hatred, he wanted to kill that monster and do the world a favor.
