The group was grabbed and restrained by Bane's militia and thrown onto a helicopter. They soon found themselves lowered with ropes down a pit somewhere in a large prison in the middle east. Their powers were rendered useless via the cell they were thrown in with Bruce....something in the cell was neutralizing their abilities. Leafa and Kirito's kryptonite was removed since their powers weren't able to be used to escape. Bane crouched over Bruce who jerked awake on the cot. "W..why didn't you just....kill me?" Bruce asked weakly.<br/><br/>"You don't fear death, you welcome it. YOUR punishment must be more..severe." Bane said. Bruce coughed,<br/><br/>"Torture...?" "Yes....but not of your body, of your soul." Bane said. "Where are we...?" Zach asked.<br/><br/>"Home! This place is where I learned the truth about despair....just as you all will. There is a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth: Hope." Bane looked through the bars at the large opening above their heads.<br/><br/>"Every single man who has rotted in here over the centuries has looked up to that light and imagined climbing to freedom....so easy and so simple." Bane mused. There is a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth: Hope." Bane looked through the bars at the large opening above their heads.<br/><br/>"Every single man who has rotted in here over the centuries has looked up to that light and imagined climbing to freedom....so easy and so simple." Bane mused.<br/><br/>"I learned here that there can be no despair without the presence of hope." Bane turned toward the group of players and Bruce. "As I destroy Gotham from within I shall feed it's people hope to poison their souls..."<br/><br/>"I will make them believe that they can survive, and you all..." Bane pointed toward a television screen hanging just beyond the bars. "Can watch me torture an entire city..and force them to scramble and trample each other....to stay in the sun."<br/><br/>Asuna and Klein watched horrified as Bane said his speech. Leafa and Kirito began to recover from the bullets but couldn't feel their powers, Lisbeth's ring could not work. It seemed the players would just watch as they seemingly failed the mission.<br/><br/>"You think you've won?" Kirito asked, "We'll get out of here and we'll show you that hope is not what you think it is."<br/><br/>"To torture someone like you said you'd do with Hope... it'll only bite you back as many times before you let it go." Kirito only smiled after his statement.<br/><br/>Quintus smirked. Kirito was right. However, he had one more thing to add on. "When I get out, not even your Venom will be enough for what I will do." Quintus stated. "Because you made a mistake with me. You hurt my friends and pissed me off."<br/><br/>Bane proceeded to walk over to Quintus and smash his fist into the side of his head. And then turn to Kirito and choke him to the point of near unconsciousness....before releasing him. Bane opened the cell door: "Doctor!" he called as Zach kicked Quintus.<br/><br/>"You need to get ahold of yourself. Stop acting crazy."<br/><br/>"Kirito!" Asuna shouted as she hurried to him. Quintus gripped the side of his head as Zach kicked him. His right arm began to quiver as he clenched his fist. He had a furious wild look in his eyes as he began to breath deeply in anger. His fuse was lit and was dangerously close to exploding in anger.<br/><br/>"Is Quintus going to be okay?" Lisbeth asked Zach, trying to help Zach as Klein helped Asuna. Leafa only glared at Bane, with an intent on beating his face in when they got the chance to escape.<br/><br/><br/>As Bane left he turned slightly: "When Gotham is ashes....you all will have my permission to die." A man with a balding head but a kind face went into the cell, and handed Kirito and Quintus a medpack. "I am Dr. Fredrickson." He said with a slight German accent. He knelt by Bruce's cot and looked at him. A blind man with dark skin rolled his wheelchair into the cell next to Fredrickson. The latter roughly sat Bruce up, the billionaire hissing and crying out in pain. The wheelchair bound man was making what looked like a very large noose attached to the ceiling. "We need to get this around his waist." Fredrickson said to the players<br/><br/>"I need to see what we are dealing with.."