[AT] A Thick Pipe of Pain...

[After Transition]

I open my eyes to complete black and I realise that I can't see anything at all except a pitch black darkness and after recollecting the last things I remember I wonder if I actually did die in the factory blaze and I've been taken to an everlasting void to live out my days and I begin to regret but it's at that point that my vision begins to acclimate to the darkness and I begin to see my surrounding that are not actually much since I'm surrounded on all sides by debris so much so that I can't actually see that much even with my night vision but I can see lot bits of gaps that have even more debris on top but that doesn't matter as its all the confirmation I need to know that I'm actually alive which I only doubted because this was actually my first time actually using my regeneration after the merge of my two selves and I didn't actually test it at all which in hindsight was a really stupid mistake so I'm glad that it actually worked, figuring that my regeneration must've taken quite a lot of time after being consumed by the raging fires and buried under all this debris I come to the conclusion that this sight must already be cordoned off and investigated (they're not gonna believe anyone survived this and they won't get construction crews in till someone buys it as this is Gotham and the politicians won't waste money on cleaning up this mess when they can be making their own pockets heavier) so there must be no one around so I decide to chance it and begin to move around to try and push the debris away from me and escape my confines but no matter how hard I try it seems I just can't gather the strength to do so and after a while of trying and having minimal progress I finally figure out the reason why.

Moving my arms through the debris to the area around my midsection I manage to feel out around there and I grab hold of something that seems to be directly on top of my stomach and so I try to shift it out of the way coming to the conclusion that this was what was disrupting my movements and I was right since when I grabbed hold of it and tried to pull it off I felt an intense pain and screamed out in anguish because although I was right that this was what was holding me back it's not because it was too heavy or something but it's because it's going straight through my lower torso and seems to be stuck into the ground impaling me and restricting my movements and it's a wonder that I didn't notice it's when I first woke up but I surmise that my whole body under quite a lot of pain right now being buried underneath a literal building (since my powers are more tuned towards agility and speed not durability, gonna have to find a way to solve that problem in the future but that's future Nick's problem not mine) and I only noticed the object going through my body when I tugged on it and felt a sharp pain that overwhelmed the rest of the pain I was feeling, after I felt around the object that was keeping me pinned in place I came to the conclusion that it was a thick industrial pipe that must've been from part of the debris and it's ran through my midsection just to the left of my spine and I can feel my spine scraping against the side of the metal pipe every time I move and to make matters even worse only a little bit of my body is left around the pipe making the pain even worse.

It's no wonder I feel weak as shit and can't even move the debris off of my body and its because did this fucking metal pole that penetrating through me and stopping me from using any of my strength as pretty much all functions come from the bones and all bones are basically reliant on the spine and currently my spine is in a precarious situation with it rubbing up against the burnt rusty pipe running through me and it's stopping me from actually using any of my strength to move any of this debris and it's starting to worry me since I've never been in a situation like this before ( not even my DC self as the closest he got was when he woke up in the back of a meat truck but it was easy for him since he was only wrapped in plastic bags which were restricting him and were easy to break out of but I'm surrounded by debris and have it inside me as well) and I'm beginning to panic wondering if I'm going to be stuck down here for years to come or if I'm going to be eventually found by in my state I'm going to be powerless when I'm taken by the government for countless experiments, I don't want that and that's not going to happens and I'm definitely not gonna be stuck down here for fuckin' ever so dredging up all my determination and strength I start to roughly move my other hand towards the pipe going through me before I clap it with both hands and steady myself before I pull up with all my might to try and dislodge it and at the same time I let out a guttural scream as it grinds against my spine as i move it in an upward motion and pretty much straight away I let go not being able to take the amount of pain but I instantly realise I have to take hold of it again straight away as it begins to move back into the position I just moved it from as it slides against my insides causing me even more pain.

I take a moment to breath before I try once again this time making sure to keep a hold of it even if I stop moving it which I make sure to do even as I go through this process another ten times each time releasing a anguished roar from the pain but after those ten times I begin to understand my situation and realise a few things with those things begging the fact that due to the fact of me only being able to muster a little strength that I'm surrounded on all side by debris whenever I move this pipe up it only goes up around a centimetre as my hands are immediately stopped by the barrier of debris that lays on top of me and I can't break through it with my neater strength which is all going towards moving the pipe which doesn't even go up a centimetre maybe even less than that, I realise that this is going to take me a long fucking time to do and I'm no LG sure how long this pipe actually is or how far it's ran through me and into the Earth because I could be looking at a two maybe three meter pipe that gone through me and with me only being able to move it a centimetre at a time I'll have to repay the process over a hundred times maybe two hundred depending on how much has gone through my body and that's going to take a hell of a lot of time to do so since each time I've got to acclimate to my new position and make sure that the debris and progress I've made isn't going to collapse on top of me as well as taking breaks when I'm too tired so this could take a long ass time.

I take a moment to regret my course of actions because of my desire to remain out of the limelight and undiscovered by anyone since it's because of that desire that I chose to I stay inside of the burning building and ended up buried underneath all this debris with a pipe going through my gut rather than just saying fuck it and using my powers to escape no matter the fact that I might expose myself to anyone that was watching because what reason do I have to keep my powers a secret since I don't have any family or friends that would suffer from the reveal that I have powers so I should've just said fuck it and jumped out of the building because honestly the only person that would have seen it would've been Barbara and I highly doubt that she would've done anything that would've negatively impacted me or told the authorities since she might not have even told Batman if I asked her too, I swear when I get out of here I'll never hold back again no matter the consequences and I'll put my all into everything rather than hiding my powers for some fucking useless reasons like I did back in the Marvel universe since I'm honestly confused why I didn't always use my powers to my advantage whenever I could but I suppose it's because of my messed up mentality at the time, well I'm not gonna make the same mistake here because I will be using everything available to me to achieve my goals and I won't hold anything back for some stupid insignificant reasons.

Finding my resolve my determination hardens once again and I tense before clasping my hands around the pipe tightly and heave it upwards with all my strength while screaming out in a guttural roar of pain. I'm gonna get through this no matter how long it takes...

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