Batman Secret Files:
This is Batman, Bruce Wayne.
Security clearance, password DC-27-5-1939.
A new protocol can be activated.
Name: Member Containment Plan.
To prevent our members from defecting.
We need plans and weapons to restrain me, my teammates, and everyone else. We must not become threats.
At present, many people are allies of the League, but... we need to prepare for the worst-case scenario.
At all times.
Member Containment Plan:
Code name: Dark Dragon.
Barbatos was the strangest and darkest creature I had ever seen. The metal creations he showed me were astonishing.
Even though Supreme Superboy and the World Forger took turns suppressing him, that did not mean he was weak.
Although Barbatos acted harmlessly when facing me, the scant language he used was riddled with logical flaws.
Intelligence 1: Barbatos had never received counterintelligence training, even though he could have learned it with minimal effort during his long life. But he had not.
I drew a great deal of information out of Barbatos during our conversation.
This was not a difference in intelligence. It was a complete domination in technique.
Setting aside his self-aggrandizement, I could roughly piece together that he had spent most of his past slowly stealing the World Forger's energy.
A wise choice. As long as he was powerful enough, so-called counterintelligence training was meaningless, and he therefore had no need for it.
But I guessed that Barbatos had never imagined he would end up in such a situation.
Intelligence 2:
There had to be some kind of metal that was Barbatos's natural enemy.
Barbatos used metal. He actually carried weapons capable of harming himself.
This was not a wise move.
But my theft methods had failed to steal the metals Barbatos carried, which meant he had hidden them on his person by some method