The A-Team: Leatherface

The heroic A-Team manage to capture and incarcerate the maniac Leatherface at Arkham Asylum and begin a lifelong process of dyslexia treatment for an American monster.

Here's a fun Leatherface horror-comics and Batman comics inspired story about a modern-day Arkham Asylum event worthy of Frankenstein or Elephant-Man medicine. Thanks so much for reading, 

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The modern world was difficult and maddening. There was 9/11, the Coronavirus, Enron, and Trump's media scandals. Everyone felt weary. In this mix came a megalith of a social monster. Why not? Weren't we catering to all kinds of insane imagery in media and in TV and in cinema?

This monster was Leatherface, a chainsaw-wielding cannibal in Texas who wore a mask made out of human skin. Leatherface (real name: Dan Hewitt) had killed over 10 Texas policemen and various travelers who crossed his property area in Texas. He'd become the most terrifying serial-killer in U.S. history.

To stop such evil, you need to become an angel of law enforcement. You have to become and do whatever is necessary and sane to stop a maniac who may wear a suit while sporting his horrible buzzing chainsaw. You have to become a creature of the night and a creature of a knight variety. There's no other way to create a stable parallax when thinking of Leatherface. You have to become a sentinel of psychology. You have to be the psycho's costumed brother!

So who would stop Leatherface? The team honored for this miraculous American achievement was none other than the CIA's special group of freelance law enforcement operatives known as the A-Team. Not really like SEALs or SWAT, the A-Team functioned as a roving unit of 4 specialists who were capable of interceding and intercepting and therefore lifting any kind of super-villain. The A-Team was assigned to capture Leatherface and that's what this amazing team of super-heroes did in Texas in the summer of 2020.

The A-Team was comprised of the 4 men, each aliased --- Face, Hannibal, Mr. T., and Murdock. Face was an ex-IRA sniper and interceptor working for the CIA and good friends with Evil Knievel. Hannibal was the general of the group and devised the strategies for law and crime-fighting. Mr. T. was a super-athlete with incredible muscular skills. Murdock was a loon but an excellent team-player. The A-Team managed to capture Leatherface on his Texas property using net-guns after reports of him terrorizing people finally surfaced. Until then, Leatherface had managed to scare the living daylights out of everyone and forcing them to keep silent about sighting him. They dared not report him. When the A-Team brought Leatherface into Arkham Asylum, the D.C. center for the incarceration and treatment of the criminally-insane, scientists and doctors were flown in from around the world in a miraculous media medical event symbolic of modern intelligence!

Leatherface was something to behold. He had crazy hair, a demonic skin-mask, and his evil chainsaw. He was a butcher and a super-terrorist. He had no cause, only bloody mayhem on his mind and a taste for chaos. When he was brought into Arkham Asylum by the stealthy and cunning A-Team, everyone wondered simply how to treat the large b*****d. He was simply an American psycho. How would he be catalogued in the annals of American crime?

In Arkham Asylum, it was exposed that Leatherface had a strange taste for drinking rat-blood in cups. He also liked horror-cinema and horror-comics and very large bowls of spaghetti. He was given these entertainment and culinary items so he'd remain peaceful and incarcerated with minimal effort. The A-Team members were assigned to regularly visit him and assure him that those who brought him in would not be too far away from any psychological supportive need. Arkham Asylum became Leatherface's new home. Treatment options were then seriously discussed.

The security assigned to hand Leatherface his horror-comics and food were clothed in puncture-proof uniforms and wore metal masks and helmets and gloves to deal with the brute. They were also given electrifying sticks which they could easily use to subdue the psycho. In Arkham, Leatherface became a celebrity, and it was mostly because he insisted on wearing his mask at all times. He told his doctors and the A-Team he wouldn't remove his mask until he was rendered a consistent Frankenstein by society, complete with all the benefits of human care. The Arkham security therefore had to approach him with kid-gloves.

The doctors assigned to study Leatherface were geniuses and specialists from all over the world. They evaluated his strange obsession with bulls and the Minotaur avatar as well as his taste for drinking rat-blood and punching through cardboard boxes and his love of children's music. He was a real oddity, this one! The doctors at Arkham also studied his strange interest in characterizing the human body as a sponge for bloodletting. Basically, they studied how the man-beast was a modern paragon of perfect anti-social psychosis. The doctors were nevertheless quite intrigued and fascinated by this real-life new age Elephant Man.

The Arkham doctors consulted with the A-Team, especially with Hannibal and Face, whom Leatherface seemed to trust, about the psychotic's brain ERP reports and measurements. They reported that Leatherface exhibited moments of strange subdued humility followed by strange and violent reactions to anything out of place or undesirable in terms of personal space and privacy. He was something like a cricket, and the doctors at Arkham and the A-Team considered his ERP graphs to be signs that they were truly studying Frankenstein himself!

Two special care-takers were assigned to Leatherface and required to bathe him and massage him regularly while he was in chains. They were also required to dress up in Batman and Catwoman costumes, since this made the sociopathic psychopath feel much more comfortable and at ease. They promised Leatherface someday he'd be able to return to his Texas mansion and run around his backyard with kites and dog-toys under further supervision of course.

The A-Team regularly visited Arkham in their CIA black-van to see the progress of Leatherface. They were told by the Arkham warden and head-doctor Jennifer Connelly that the psycho was to be transported to his Texas mansion in the summer of 2021 where he'd be allowed to run around while tied with chains and watched by security in an electrified fenced area. This would enable the dude to feel at home. The A-Team was also told they'd have to transport Leatherface in their black-van. What a task!

Leatherface received very large bowls of spaghetti and pasta everyday for lunch and dinner, since that's all he liked to consume, besides the blood of dead rats. These strange preferences were catered by Arkham Asylum, since the fact that he was a real-life Frankenstein shouldn't deter medical professionals from evaluating his basic and even child-like needs!

Leatherface was also given a special wrestling and combat video-game in which a model of him was made in his perfect likeness. Leatherface played this game for hours and considered it one of his most enriching activities at Arkham. It made him quite peaceful and this gave the A-Team much hope.

Leatherface was also shown movies with colorful characters representing all kinds of anarchy and confusion, so he'd be able to expose his sense of frustration and angst towards loss of self-control and privacy. He considered these movies his moments of zen, since the strange characters in them reminded Leatherface of his own childhood.

Finally, in the summer of 2021, Leatherface was transported to his Texas mansion by the A-Team. All the security provisions as prescribed were put into place, and he was basically kept there as a 'centurion' of profundity! Every summer, teams of sporting athletes would show up and have Leatherface chase them around in his backyard cornfield maze while he was kept tied by chains by security cops in masks and helmets of course. This trespass-and-chase game encouraged Leatherface to think more progressively about nonviolent stalking games in his own Texas home where he grew up and lived alone for years after his parents passed away.

Leatherface had a strange fascination with the Marvel Comics super-villain Scorpion (Mac Gargan), so all kinds of Scorpion comics and dolls and games and paintings were brought into his Texas mansion for his therapy. He considered his Scorpion pastime reflective of his basic human love of strange magic and deformed but surprising playfulness!

Leatherface was even given a special doll action-figure which was made in his likeness by Arkham craftsmen. Leatherface requested the A-Team members Mr. T. and Murdock be brought in sometimes to play with him and his special action-figure doll. He began to consider these play-times as meaningful as his artistic activities with Scorpion (Marvel Comics)!

Face retired from the A-Team and began blogging about eco-pollution with a celebrity friend of his who was involved in social work. Together, they worked with the eco-activism group the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. When asked about his newfound passion for eco-activism and his co-blogs with his celebrity buddy, Face explained a peaceful life of retirement and social work and marriage to his gorgeous stewardess girlfriend is what was needed after a life of fighting strange criminals and dealing with the deformed Leatherface.

The Arkham warden and head-doctor Jennifer Connelly was responsible for the long-term supervision of Leatherface's personal care. She continued to monitor the A-Team members who continued to visit him at his secured Texas mansion. Dr. Connelly considered the Leatherface affair a vital example of modern-day medical diarism.

To deal with Leatherface, you have to be both smart and savvy. This is no joke. This requires you to be both a ninja and a scientist. There's no other way to conceive of such evil or harness it as human history.

Hannibal continued to visit Leatherface at his Texas mansion and became his official primary mentor and self-help guru. Hannibal realized he loved treating Leatherface like an American man capable of more than just pure darkness. This was terrific folklore.

LEATHERFACE: They've given me special horror-comics modeled after me, and this gives me confidence and good humor. I play trespass-and-chase games with visiting athletes and A-Team members. I miss the A-Team guy Face, but I know he's now retired with his wife and working with eco-disease! God bless America.

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