I'm trying out something different for this battle. I will switch between the characters in first person narrative. Later, please review and tell me which you like better: first person or third person.


Spider-Man

"Tell her your sorry," I said to the thief as I finished tying him to the stop sign with my web. He struggled, but the web was too strong.

"Let me out of this and face me like a man," he growled. I ignored him.

"Apologize," I told him, looking at the woman, who was clutching her purse tightly to her chest as if she thought the man would grab it again. He said nothing.

Then I heard the first siren. "Too late," I muttered, and I turned to the woman. "Need a lift?"

She shook her head. "No, I just called my sister. But thank you, Spider-Man."

I saluted and took off just as the cop car pulled into the parking lot.

Suddenly, I felt a buzz in my pocket. Come on, I thought, landing on a rooftop. I pulled my phone out. "Hello," I said.

"Spidey," I heard Tony Stark say on the other end of the phone. "I've run into some people who want to practice. They asked to pick a teammate. Want to join?

"Who wants to practice?" I ask.

"Green Lantern and Nightwing," he says dramatically.

I just sit there, momentarily at a loss for words. Weren't they just a story? I didn't think they were real.

"Neither did I," Tony says, and I realized I had spoken aloud. "But they are. And they're standing not 20 feet away. So do you want to join or not?"

I smile. "Duh."

Green Lantern

As soon as I had spotted Iron Man whizzing by in the sky, I had known this was a perfect opportunity to fit some practice in. I had told Nightwing to wait and flown up to meet him. Fifteen minutes later, we're in a small building, with nothing inside it. No furniture, no nothing. I wasn't surprised to learn that this was a training place that Iron Man and his super-friends used a lot. After calling his partner, Spider-Man, Iron Man had climbed up into this mechanical chair.

Now we were in the middle of an empty city, literally not a single citizen on the streets. The buildings were all real, and the room had suddenly become much larger. I wasn't sure how this type of technology was possible, but I didn't put it beneath Tony Stark to make it.

In a couple of minutes, Spider-Man showed up. "Ah, the city-scape," he said, and it was easy to see that he had practiced here many times.

"Alright, we're all here," Nightwing said. "Let's start."

"Just a second!" Tony called out. Suddenly, barriers jutted out in the sidewalk. "What-?" I began.

"Cover," Tony explained as he got back in his armor. "Now let's start!"