The next morning, Clark decides to investigate the UFO, and is assigned to go to Vegas to cover a crash in Arizona with Jimmy. Batman uses this time to escape, while Superman tries to regain his strength. Wanting to know what he stole, Batman shows him the green rock, only for Superman to collapse in pain for the first time in his life.
While the two argue over the other being a creation or pawn of Luthor's, Batman removes his cape to escape, only for Superman to find him moments later. Knowing who he is, Superman stops Batman and carries him away en route to the authorities. Superman flies to Luthor's mansion to get answers regarding the UFO when he hears the alarms and sees Batman escaping. Seeking poetic justice for the theft against him, Batman steals the green rock, which sets off alarms, Luthor and his security, to Batman's presence. While discovering memos of Luthor being denied "his property" from Area 51 Batman discovers battlesuit designs based on Bruce's own Superman-related experiments, as well as a small case carrying the green rock from Siberia. Superman flies to intercept along with seven F-100D Super Sabres, but a LuthorCorp aircraft fires a pulse beacon to disable the planes, and disappears with the UFO.īatman heads to Luthor's mansion in Metropolis, and finds further evidence of Luthor's corrupted connections toward Wayne Enterprises. His question seems to get answered when a UFO appears, traveling across the country.
Clark sees Earth vs the Flying Saucers with Jimmy, a movie that seems to answer why no one believes Superman to be an alien, as well as makes Clark wonder about other existing aliens. This leads to Lois sneaking inside LuthorCorp, and reaching the assembly line and the secret maps, all of which prove Rosen's sayings. Lois meets with LuthorCorp ex-employee, Blanche Rosen, who reveals her and many others were hired to construct a reactor in the Caribbean, but the site was dangerous, leaving many sick and left to die. After Bruce finds out his father and Alfred Pennyworth's friend, Drayling, resigned from Wayne Enterprises because of the board of directors' corruption Bruce discovers Wayne technology being sold to LuthorCorp from their offices, and bribes, blackmail, and threats, either to them or to their families, from their homes as Batman. Lois wants to investigate the possible illegal activates LuthorCorp have been performing, but needs concrete facts first.
Editor Perry White gives Lois and Clark the assignment of completing this month's "love advice" column, though Clark has troubles because he doesn't know how to help people by offering honest advice. After showing him the violent Mutants that someone can become after long term exposure to the rocks, Luthor asks to have one for his journey home. In Siberia, Luthor meets with his partner, General Ceridov, who reveals his slaves working day and night at the Gulag in search for strange and deadly green rocks. Even though someone like Wayne cannot explain how Superman can do what he does.Īfter fleeing another trap from the police Batman returns home to meet, as Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen from Metropolis' Daily Planet for an interview. But to their surprise, no one, not even businessmen Lex Luthor and Bruce Wayne, believed that statement. A hero that, when interviewed by Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane, revealed he was an alien from Krypton.
Metropolis is the far opposite of Gotham bright, uncorrupted, and protected by the super powered hero known as Superman. Gotham is a crime-ridden city with corrupt cops, but the crime rate has been hit hard by the vigilante actions of The Batman. He had previously written a novel about the origins of Superman, The Last Days of Krypton published in 2007. He gained experience writing in the comic book format by authoring the 2004–05 six issue miniseries, JSA: Strange Adventures featuring the Justice Society of America.
His latest novels in the Dune series were Paul of Dune, published in September 2008, and The Winds of Dune, which would be released in August 2009, only several months after releasing Enemies & Allies. He was best known for his prequel novels in the Dune franchise with co-author Brian Herbert. He had been writing novels for the past 20 years and had 15 years' experience writing tie-in novels to existing franchises, such as The X-Files and Star Wars. Anderson who, at the time of publication, was 47 years old and living in Colorado. It was written by science fiction author Kevin J. The novel Enemies & Allies uses the DC Comics characters Batman and Superman.