im lose unsciousness - the only

escape when being tortured. But the lad couldn't focus with the pygmies

lashing his body.

After an hour of the pygmies' relentless assault, the Piper returo

the chamber. He was wearing heavy leather gloves that had steel bars across

the fingers. When the Piper made a fist, the steel bars were directly

across his knuckles. "Before I start pounding you with these, I'll give you

one more ce," said the Piper. Robin lifted his head and just s

his tormentor. "Very well, then," said the Piper. He brought back his arm

and fired a punch straight into Robin's belly. The boy buckled and arc'd in

his restraints. The Piper threw a roundhouse right into the sharply

striated delts and heard a satisfying ch as it ected one or more of

Robin's ribs. Robin was now semi-scious, uo hold up his own

weight. His head and shoulders sagged forward over his lower body, his

flaccid cod balls dangliween his thighs. The Piper pulled back

his arm, aiming another punch directly at Robin's groihe Boy Wonder

broke. "Okay, enough, you win," he sobbed. "Stop, please. No more."

The Piper roared back his head with laughter. " him up, boys," he

directed his pygmies, who threw buckets of cold water at Robin until his

head had cleared and he brought himself back upright.

"Now, Boy Wonder, watch what happens because you wimped out." The Piper

adjusted the volume on the closed circuit monitor and flicked a switch that

sent a signal to the other chamber. Without hesitation, the two bruisers

oV s begaing the maeen before them. The boy

screamed in agony with the first pund was soon sobbing "Stop, please,

stop, don't hit me anymore!" at the top of his lungs. Robin watched with

horror and listened as the boy's screams tore into him. Finally, one of the

men threw a roundhouse right at the boy's ed his head back

and knocked him out.

"That cludes today's lesson," said the Piper. "I will see you

tomorrow." And with that, he left the chamber, leaving Robin's bruised

body and psyche to plate what else might await him.

Part 4

Robin realized that he had either fallen asleep or, more likely, had been

drugged again. He came too out of an inky blankness in a new location. Now

he was ier of a large empty room, still naked but now

spreadeagled, with his wrists mao tethers that reached to the

ceiling. His legs were spread to shoulder width and his ankles were