Brad's body began floating up to roughly Superman's altitude.
"Don't think your Krypton genes are anything special. I can piece together every one of your abilities from the mutant gene bank currently available to me."
"Super strength, super physique, super speed, super stamina..."
With every word Brad spoke, the bones inside his body cracked as they stretched, and his muscles began swelling.
"Laser vision, Freeze Breath-I can do those too."
Brad blew out a breath in a show of force, coating the ground before him in a layer of bitterly cold frost.
"And I don't have your weakness to kryptonite."
Whoosh!
Batman flicked out a batarang glowing green, but Brad casually raised a hand and caught the dart between two fingers, its edges gleaming with kryptonite.
"Try not to debuff me instead once we start fighting."
Superman had naturally spotted the kryptonite dart and couldn't help complaining.
Batman replied in his low voice that he merely wanted to confirm Brad wasn't lying.
"What does this mean?"
Brad waved the batarang in his hand. "We're starting, then?"
"Of course. We're already..."
Bang!
"Ready!"
The batarang Brad held exploded violently, and the shock wave hurled him away.
"He doesn't have a bio-electric aura!"
Batman shouted the warning to Superman as jets of flame erupted beneath his feet and along his thighs, propelling him in the opposite direction.
Superman grinned and instantly accelerated. A ring of compressed air burst around him, and just as Brad steadied himself, a probing heavy punch slammed into the left side of his chest.
There was no helping it-Superman was too kind. No matter what enemy he faced, he always held back on the first punch, then quickly used his super brain to calculate roughly how much force he could use without killing his opponent. He would maintain