Hawkeye's operation ran into some trouble as well. After shooting two gang leaders dead, he was preparing to withdraw when he spotted a young man with black hair, dressed in black and wielding twin batons.
The two fought fiercely. Hawkeye retreated as he fought, while the young man showed little interest in him, merely going through the motions. Once Hawkeye left Gotham City's limits, the young man also chose to withdraw.
Nebula's trouble was far greater!
While slaughtering the second gang, she noticed something unusual.
A tall black figure was clinging to the wall, silently watching her from not far away.
Nebula scanned him twice with her electronic eye, then gave a disdainful smile. With a casual flick of her laser sword, a white glow flared along its blade. "So you're the Batman those pieces of trash kept talking about? You just look like an ordinary human."
Batman stood high above, watching her. His voice emerged through a voice modulator, slightly hoarse and muffled. "You've killed too many..."
Nebula rudely cut him off. "Keep talking nonsense and I'll kill you too! I've been playing the good guy lately, so get lost while you can!"
Was Nebula a good person? She wanted Ronan to kill Thanos, and in return, she was willing to destroy a thousand planets for Ronan. How could someone like that possibly be a good person? If she was a good person, it would be an insult to the very word.
Still, her sense of good and evil and her personal values were insignificant. With revenge against Thanos as her overriding goal, she could be a villain or a hero. The fact that she was suppressing her urge to kill already counted as turning over a new leaf.
She swung her laser sword twice, signaling to Batman that