Dick managed a thin smile for Peter. "If you think for a moment that even thinking of this option is an easy thing for us, you're very much mistaken." He nodded to Batman. "And I know you don't like him, but the fact that Batman hasn't had any stronger objections to the idea than reminding us that some of our heads will be on the line says a lot." Because Dick knew Bruce and, when the idea had come up, he'd expected him to jump straight in and remind everybody that they don't kill. That it wasn't an option at all.
The fact that he hadn't told Dick exactly how tired this man who was so like his own father was.
"However," he continued, "Kon is right. We don't have a lot of options. Kal is stronger and faster than all of us put together. Wonder Woman is stronger and faster than any of us except Kon and Cassie. Hal's powers are limited only by his own imagination...and frankly, we should be glad it's him and not Kyle because Hal's never had much of an imagination." Kyle as the Yellow Lantern in this scenario was not something that Dick wanted to think about in the LEAST. "Even getting all the help that we're talking about, asking the Kents to try to talk Kal down, getting some of his people back on side? We are going in severely outnumbered and overpowered. All the power pills in the world are not going to change that. And short of finding a way to shove Kal though a red star and seeing if there's a Green Lantern Corps to call to take him into custody, the fact of the matter is that we need to be prepared to do something should we fall in the fight. And freeing the Spectre kills far fewer people than letting Kal go free would.
"What I'd really prefer is some option that would allow us to depower Kal and allow us to arrest him. And keep him depowered.." He made a motion to the area around them, more meant to encompass the entire world. "This world has only known a dictator for over three years now. A man who is more powerful than them, who has used that power to basically scare everybody into submission to where they're afraid to step a toe out of line because that makes you a criminal and we know what this Superman does to criminals. I want to see him brought to justice for that. All of them brought to justice. And not the Spectre's brand of justice, either. Human justice." He paused and let out a sharp breath. "Which may well still mean that he dies, but if that happens, then at least it will be by jury. This world has lived in fear long enough. I want to be able to remind them of what heroes really can be."
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The fact that he hadn't told Dick exactly how tired this man who was so like his own father was.
"However," he continued, "Kon is right. We don't have a lot of options. Kal is stronger and faster than all of us put together. Wonder Woman is stronger and faster than any of us except Kon and Cassie. Hal's powers are limited only by his own imagination...and frankly, we should be glad it's him and not Kyle because Hal's never had much of an imagination." Kyle as the Yellow Lantern in this scenario was not something that Dick wanted to think about in the LEAST. "Even getting all the help that we're talking about, asking the Kents to try to talk Kal down, getting some of his people back on side? We are going in severely outnumbered and overpowered. All the power pills in the world are not going to change that. And short of finding a way to shove Kal though a red star and seeing if there's a Green Lantern Corps to call to take him into custody, the fact of the matter is that we need to be prepared to do something should we fall in the fight. And freeing the Spectre kills far fewer people than letting Kal go free would.
"What I'd really prefer is some option that would allow us to depower Kal and allow us to arrest him. And keep him depowered.." He made a motion to the area around them, more meant to encompass the entire world. "This world has only known a dictator for over three years now. A man who is more powerful than them, who has used that power to basically scare everybody into submission to where they're afraid to step a toe out of line because that makes you a criminal and we know what this Superman does to criminals. I want to see him brought to justice for that. All of them brought to justice. And not the Spectre's brand of justice, either. Human justice." He paused and let out a sharp breath. "Which may well still mean that he dies, but if that happens, then at least it will be by jury. This world has lived in fear long enough. I want to be able to remind them of what heroes really can be."