"To be honest, I'm really not that bad. I know I'm still some distance away from being a superhero, but I shouldn't be losing to a kid."
Standing on the padded floor of the martial arts gym, Barry, now changed out of his Flash suit, tugged at the belt of his white training uniform and looked somewhat wistfully at Jason standing across from him.
Just as he said, no matter how bad he was, he couldn't possibly lose to a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old kid, could he?
Though he wasn't much older himself, Barry had that confidence, and it came from Miao Mu's earlier persuasion.
He was now a member of the legendary Justice League. Though Barry had no idea what the Justice League was actually like, the word "Justice" already represented everything.
Miao Mu looked at the clueless Barry with a strange expression. It wasn't that Miao Mu looked down on him, but once the superheroes in the Justice League lost their powers...
The only ones who could still fight back would be Batman and Wonder Woman. The former was the pinnacle of humanity, while the latter was an Amazon princess, a divine being who had received combat training on Themyscira.
People like the Flash and Green Lantern, those chosen ones who gained superpowers later in life, actually had major weaknesses.
Take Green Lantern. After joining the Justice League, he once worked with Batman. When he learned Batman had no superpowers, he wanted to throw out a few taunts and show off his own abilities.
Then he saw Batman's legendary smile. Batman had stolen his Green Lantern ring without him even noticing, leaving him looking especially weak and helpless, like a baby whose pacifier had been taken away.
Though Green Lantern truly wasn't weak, when it came to scheming, Batman