"Superman!!!"
The nightmare had become reality. Bane's trembling voice was filled with undisguised terror.
Who could he blame but himself for being hopelessly absorbed in the fight? He had beaten the son, and now the father had come. He should have realized it when he was fighting Jonathan.
Yet he still couldn't understand why Batman always found a way to deal with him. William Cobb serving as a stand-in was understandable, but Superman joining in was simply cheating.
He even began to suspect that this masked Batsuit possessed some irresistible magic. Why else would everyone want to climb into that cowl?
"Thank you for teaching my child a lesson, but now you need to come see someone with me." Superman's words interrupted Bane's wandering thoughts.
After freezing his opponent's arm, Clark had stopped, afraid Bane couldn't withstand his strength.
But compared with the considerate Superman, Bane looked ready to throw caution to the wind.
"No one can threaten me, not even a Kryptonian!"
Roaring, Bane snapped off his own arm. At the same time, his legs seemed strapped with tons of TNT. With a deafening explosion, he bent his knees, pushed off on his toes, and leaped into the sky to escape.
Desperate to survive, Bane squeezed everything out of his body, unleashing 120% of his speed and breaking the sound barrier in an instant.
Gotham gradually disappeared beneath his dangling feet. For the first time, Bane found weightlessness so reassuring.
But his newly settled heart soon lurched again.
Just as he lowered his head to search for Superman, a finger reached down from above and tapped his shoulder.
"Before you run away, perhaps you could hear who I'm taking you to see."
Bane turned his head in horror.
Clark had remained serious throughout, but the torn mouth of that