the warehouse the three men standing is quiet, before them sits a monstrously big crate, from inside is the muffled sound of scales on wood
" remind me, Jervis, why did you do this again" Edward cuts through the silence as he turns his head to the hatter
" I'm honestly not sure, something about that Craigslist I just enthralled me somehow, I was honestly hoping it was just a scam but looking how big this crate is I think what I bought might be real" jervis says, he then tentatively begins walking towards the crate with a crowbar
" well it's a good thing I brought my gun" Jonathan thanks to himself as he passed the gun in his pocket," just in case the thing tries to eat us"
driven climbs on top of the crate and begins working one of the sides open with a crowbar, after some hard pulls it comes loose and falls with an echoing third to the floor
" took you long enough" a voice booms from the darkness of the crate, and not soon after too strong arms pull forward a very familiar face
" Michael!, what the hell are you doing here" Edward says an alarm, and indeed it is Michael, though he looks different than the last time they saw him, for one he's not wearing a shirt
and also he doesn't have legs, and in their place is quite imposing looking Serpentine tale of purple
" well, I was just minding my business visiting the forests of Portugal and then it got captured by some poachers with all that was a big snake, but when they realized I had a people upper half they sold me to a freak Show, I thought I started killing all the handlers they gave me so they put me up for sale on Craigslist, and now I'm here" Michael says quite matter of factly before distending his jaw quite obscenely for a yawn
Travis who would recently guard himself off the crate opens his mouth to begin to speak but is interrupted by Michael," beat off topic but I'm feeling a little bit packaged from all that traveling, would you like to be so kind just bring me someone doing", Michael says before giving the group a self one of his signature cocky smiles, when all they get is quiet staring he lets out a sigh
" pleasesssss" he hisses out and let's hes eyes do the convincing
a smug smile split his lip when a chorus of yes sirs comes from the group of men
...
Dr Hugo Strange sits at his desk in Arkham jotting down therapy logs when there comes a knocking at his door
when you open the door he sees I'm not very convincingly disguised Jonathan crane, who just stands there his eyes vacant and shaded light purple
before Hugo kicking word out a needle is pierced into his neck and he begins to feel faint
he falls to the ground and before he blacks out completely The vacantly Smiling forms of jervis and Edward Loom above him in addition to Jonathan
...
When Hugo finally regains consciousness he finds that he strapped to a table, luckily his head is free, so he surveys the surroundings, he finds that he's been relocated to a sensuously lit room, the walls are bastard was quite fancy looking paintings of a serpentine man creature, most to pick the creature being worshiped by scantily clad servants, mostly male servants, these Illustrated thralls bear striking resemblances to patients from Arkham Asylum, the most commonly depicted all the visitors of his kidnappers
before he can look into any more detail of the room his attention is caught by a metal clinking, when he looks he sees the serpentine beast in physical appearance, he had recently sat down a goblet onto a metal plate being held by Edward, who's dressed in what can best be described as a green bikini
Hugo wants to begin demanding release but the serpent begins speaking," evening morsel, my name is Michael, and you're my dinner"
all in that moment Hugo knows exactly what's going to happen to him, he's going to die and he's scared
"oh don't worry doctor, I won't be swallowing you whole you fall too big for that, I'm only going to eat your legs, so we will need to get them off of you" the serpent snaps his fingers and Jervis who before that moment was violently making out with Jonathan pulls away from his sloppy make out to look at his master
the serpent pulls out a wicked looking stylized bonesaw, and hands it to Jervis," if you do the honors Mr tetch" to this the hatter smiles and grabs the instrument with enthusiasm
he then begins walking over to the bound form of Hugo Strange
...
Some hours after Hugo passed out from the pain and his legs were devoured, Michael lounges, his pets cuddling Sweeney into his coils