This is the first chapter I got help. I would like to thank Kindred Spirit for writing the fight scene for me. But the debate and the part where Kelsey wakes up in a hospital was written by me. I also had to do some editing for the small mistakes Kindred Spirit made. Thank you.

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Time was non-existent no one moved...at least Kelsey didn't. His body became immobile rooted to the ground as his eyes were transfixed on the black figure before him. What did he have in his hands a bag full of harmless groceries and... yep he was dead.

His throat was dry yet he found himself oddly composed in the situation he found himself in. swallowing, he spoke, setting down his bag...if he timed it right.

"Gentlemen... he began cautiously raising his hand toward the larger man with the gun and hat...then at Batman... "We can all just-"

Suddenly Kelsey tensed in his spot as a quick action of foot meeting pavement sent the dark knight propelling into the air. The writer watched wide eyed as the vigilante briefly transformed into the symbol everyone feared in this city.

Then everything slowed as he became acutely away of the barrel of the gun pointed deathly close against the nape of his neck... so many things happened in a mill-second it was an astonishing. The finger pulled the trigger releasing the bullet, the gun went flying into unknown street drain a few feet away and Kelsey was knocked flat on the ground like a soldier would do for a comrade on a battlefield.

The ringing in his ears was enough to send him for a loop if he just stayed down and let these guys go at it he might be able to get away. Lifting his head he saw Batman grab hold of a street light, swing around and hit his opponent hard in the stomach making him stumble back into a garbage can.

"Yes! he can do this! He can get-" Than alarm bells rang out in his head as he was effortlessly picked up by the back of his suit. His brain couldn't even comprehend what was happening next as another hand grabbed him by the neck and forced him to look in the eyes of his imminent death.

He was massive. The tubes running from his head and the mask alone sent chills down his spine...NO! He wasn't going to die like this he couldn't he wouldn't!

He heard a sharp whistle go through the air then the man yell in pain but it did not fall him. Kelsey blinked as he felt tears come to his eyes and his vison blur as the grip tighten around his neck. Another whistle then a yell and a grunt as Batman latched on to the other's back.

"Let go of him Bane!"

"Bane?" Kelsey thought...Arkham he remembered that name...seen it in his research.

Then the release happened but it wasn't without pain as he was flung harshly through the air and he hit the pavement hard. His head smacking against the wall of a building as his vision fade the last thing he saw was a red cape come into view and then darkness...

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" So you make these heroes out to be an icon, but you say one of them attacked you?" Asked Lizzie who put his hand on his head and laughed.

" I don't know what happened," said Kelsey. " When I woke up there was a metal boomerang shaped like a bat in my leg and a giant hole in my pectoral muscles…it was amazing I wasn't dead. The police thought I was dead when they saw me and took me to the morgue. It was a good thing one of them noticed me or I might of not made it."

" But what your saying is…you blame the Batman for it? Do you blame Batman for it?"

" No. It was something no one could save me from. Superman couldn't even fight three guys and saved me from Bane at the same time."

" Yes…I read your book. In your book it said…Starling City and Gotham City were all towns trapped in a permanent depression and so far no one but Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen have done anything to help their cities. That was a nice thing to say about two billionaire playboys. Do you think those playboys are better supporters of this city than this league of super fighters?"

" People have been giving money to people since people could distinguish between the rich and the poor. These as you call them super fighters have only been around for ten years. Comic books are no longer fiction and the so far the Justice League have used their powers to stop bad guys like that cat hybrid, that ghost looking Superman, and metal robots disguised as humans."

" You say they have superpowers? Should they have these so-called powers? I mean superpowers isn't something anyone should have. I asked for superpowers every year at Christmas and not once have I ever gotten any powers. No super strength, no super speed, not even the power to concentrate at school."

" I don't know how they got their super powers, some of it is just a matter of what species they are. Martian Manhunter and Red Tornado are not human. Neither is Superman. Some say he too is an alien."

" But Green Lantern appears to be human. People are wondering if they can get their hands on that ring he always uses."

" That's not important. What's important is you generalizing every person who wears a mask, cape, or flies around as the threat. Sure, it's a little crazy, but that's beside the point—"

" I think you should back off and stop fighting for these super heroes. There's no place here or anywhere for them. All they do is cause good people to turn into villains. Every villain is a victim of these superheroes. We only had regular villains. Villains that mug you on the street and take your money. We weren't at war like this."

" No, but to finish a war we used the Atomic Bomb."

" Are you a pacifist? The Japanese would never surrender because they had something called religion and faith. Plutonian and uranium are what make the Atomic Bombs; I'm sure you studied it. And if it wasn't her that bomb million more lives would be lost or worse. Where were your heroes then?"

" After me," Kelsey thought. " I told him what happened between me and Batman. Batman wasn't the only member I came face to face with. That's only half of the story. No one must know what happened since the incident. No one…"

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Everyone likes to complain they are in pain. Everyone likes to think a headache is a tumor before taking an aspirin. Everyone likes to say their having a stroke because their arm won't move. Tuberculosis is sickness. Cancer is a sickness. What Kelsey felt when he woke up…resumption. His body trying to start again after previously stopping.

Kelsey woke up in a hospital. There were no flowers, no gifts, no anything for his recovery. Did his parents and siblings know he was in a hospital? Kelsey felt good for some reason. He felt really good. This good feeling was coming from his leg and his heart.

What he saw would scar a man who lost his foot or a man who had his own hand sliced open. He saw a big Band-Aid on his right leg. It was taped with very small tape lines. That wasn't the scary part. When Kelsey opened his shirt he didn't see his skin or anything that looked remotely like flesh. He saw…metal in his body. Metal covering up a big hole that went through his body.