[ TT ] `` You do what 's right . I do what 's required . ''

A disheveled man ran into a dark alley, looking around frantically. He reached into a purse he was carrying and dug around. After pulling out a wallet, he let the purse fall to the ground. 
 
 `` Score,'' he said to himself with a snarky smile. 
 
 He suddenly noticed a shadow form around him and spun around to find a black-gloved fist barreling into his nose. Before he could fall to the ground, the dark shadow grabbed him by the shirt, kneed him in the chest, and threw him into a nearby dumpster. 
 
 Bloody and panting, the man pulled himself up to get a better look at his attacker. He was wearing a black and gray custom and cape with pointy ears protruding out of the top of his mask. It was the Batman. 
 
 `` Do n't,'' he said as soon as the man reached into his jacket. After a moment's hesitation, he continued and Batman leapt toward him. 
 
 Suddenly a blur of red and blue light zoomed down from the sky in between the two men. A third man appeared, wearing a blue custom with a red and yellow'S' on his chest and a red cape that fell to the ground as he landed. 
 
 `` I was wondering when I'd meet you,'' said Batman in a deep, grainy voice. `` Are you really bulletproof?'' he asked, nodding toward to the man on the ground, who had pulled out a gun from his jacket. 
 
 The brightly colored man, turned his attention to the gun, which quickly started glowing red. 
 
 `` Ow!'' yelled the downed criminal, throwing his gun away and clutching his burning hand. 
 
 `` I do n't have to be,'' the newcomer answered. He turned his attention back to the Batman. `` What you're doing here,'' he pointed back to the fallen man. `` It's wrong. You seem to be on the side of good, but you're resorting to thuggery.'' 
 
 `` Go back to Metropolis,'' said Batman. `` Gotham is different. Shiny role models do n't make an impact on scum like this purse-snatcher.'' 
 
 `` It does n't matter where-'' 
 
 `` It does matter,'' interrupted Batman. `` You're *Super*man. You do things in a way to inspire good in your people. I do what must be done to instill fear of doing wrong. It's the *only* way here.'' 
 
 Superman looked into the Batman's ghostly white eyes. `` It ca n't be that black and white,'' he said. `` People are people.'' 
 
 `` People who use fear to rob, attack, or even gun down a boy's parents need to witness that fear. Like I said, it's the only way.'' 
 
 `` That's a bit hypocritical, is n't it?'' asked Superman. 
 
 Batman looked back at the beaten criminal, covered in his own blood and writhing in pain. `` Point taken,'' he said. `` I may have had some extra aggression tonight. It wo n't happen again.'' 
 
 `` It better not,'' said Superman. `` I'll be keeping an eye on you.'' He leapt up into the air and disappeared an instant later. 
 
 Batman ran over to the criminal and kicked him in the stomach.
