BLAM ......

Another man would have been dead but the Batman spent years of his life training himself, resulting in his reflexes being enhanced. He moved his head at the last possible moment, and felt the heat of the bullet flying by his head.

He got into a tactical judo stance and hooked his attackers throwing him out into the chamber. He turned around and loomed over the man, the lack of light made him look even less of a human than the costume already did. ''Wrong move'' he said simply. The attacker smiled, and flung his wrist forward, aiming the gun at the batman. The Batman stuck his hand out as if telling the man to wait, ut his cries went unheard as he fired. The bullet flew by The Dark Knight, who made no effort to move. The attacker erupted into flames, the gas leaking into the room from a broken pipe earlier in the night, ignited and a massive fireball resulted.

Batman rushed into the freezer closing the door almost the whole way. Within seconds the freezer itself was hot. The Batman finally got a look at the freezer, and froze as the grizzly sight registered in his mind. Dozens of small bodies lied around the industrial freezer in some sort of mass grave. The Batman frowned and removed his pocket camera from his utility belt, It was impossible for him to salvage the evidence in the present situation. He snapped a few pictures and turned to leave.

He stopped dead in his tracks, and turned around. He was sure he heard something, He scanned the area and heard it again... A cough, barely audible, He walked toward the back of the freezer, Kneeled down to one of the many bodies, and placed his fingers on a neck. No pulse, he then proceeded to another and another until he found the source of the noise. He picked up a little girl, Blue eyes, bald and with many facial bruises. He covered her in his cape and walked to the freezer door, kicking it open.

The warehouse was now completely ingulfed in flames, The Dark Knight brought his hand up to his face to cover up the stench of the now burning body. He rushed threw the warehouse returning to his original entrance point. The roof itself did not look safe to leave so the Batman looked for a alternative exit.

He turned and found a emergency exit, He opened it and cursed at his luck as he stared into a red brick wall. He had deactivated his last exploding batarang, he couldn't use it. He slowly began to ponder another escape route but the brick wall itself began to crumble. ''You really need to be more careful Batman'' A familiar voice spoke out. Batman frowned and rushed over to the man trying to hand him the girl. ''Take her, I need to retreive the goons I took care of..''

Superman shook his head and motioned for Batman to get behind him. The man of steel positioned himself as if he was going to run a race and flew at high speeds right threw the roof, The velocity alone sucked out the flames from the building, as well as the oxygen. He then turned in mid air zipped across the warehouse and dropped the thugs on the street, where several police cars and fire turcks had already arrived.

Superman rejoined Batman who had moved to the roof across the road in what he thought was excellent time for a normal human. Superman shook his head. ''He is anything but normal'' he thought pleasantly.

Little did The Batman know, this whould only be the beginning of what would surely be his greatest battle.