Supergirl's Sacrifice by Barry Lyga

Supergirl's Sacrifice by Barry Lyga

Author:Barry Lyga
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2020-05-26T00:00:00+00:00


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A part of Owlman couldn’t believe how lax things were on Earth 1. For example, right now he was just walking down a sidewalk near the local baseball park, the place where the speedsters from his own world’s version of Central City were being housed. He could approach within a hundred yards of the place before being turned away by a duo of soldiers in uniform.

It was laughable security for so valuable a resource. More than ten thousand human beings imbued with superspeed, and the only thing between him and them was a loose phalanx of utterly normal soldiers with utterly normal weapons.

Back home, he’d have had such a potent mass of power and potential sealed behind four-inch-thick titanium doors, and walls made of reinforced concrete. Double-redundant biometric security systems.

The people of this world were too free. Too trusting. They would benefit from a strong hand and a keen intellect to keep them in line.

Just like the people back home. In the Gotham City he’d grown up in, a wealthy enclave of privilege and power built on the backs of the poor and impoverished, like his parents. Tommy and Marta Wayne had never had two dimes to rub together at the same time, but they’d managed—against all odds—to build a good and loving family.

And then some rich folks decided that they needed the land where the Waynes lived. It was a run-down apartment complex, half-eaten by rot and decay, but the rich people just had to have a new convention center right there so that they could invite their rich friends from other cities to come see the glory that was Gotham. Tommy had led the residents’ fight against the forces aligned against them. And they’d been doing well, with several court decisions coming down in favor of the residents who just wanted to keep living where they’d always lived.

Until the cops got involved. Bought off by the wealthiest 1 percent of the city. They trumped up charges against the Waynes and shot them dead trying to “escape” during an arrest.

Bruce had watched from behind the garbage cans in the alley. And he’d sworn, then and there, that he would never—ever—rest until he’d made Gotham into a place where no one would suffer such injustice again.

It took him years of training. Of learning from the wretched scum of the underworld in hellholes like Metropolis and Opal City. But he’d gathered the skills and the knowledge to tear down the golden palaces of Gotham’s moneyed elite.

And just when he was ready to start . . . the world changed.

Metahumans. A speedster in the Midwest. A flying man. An impossibly strong woman. A man with a ring that could do anything.

He’d recognized immediately that these four, with their powers and their complete lack of self-control and morality, could cause problems for him. He would have to impose that control, but in such a way as to make them think it was voluntary, that the limits imposed on them had been self-imposed.

And so



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