"Where the hell did this creep come from!?" One of the gang members shouted. They all turned their attention me and looked scared to death. I looked passed them over to the redhead.

"Ladies first." I said. She looked back at the gang and threw all of her rocks at them. While they were distracted, the girl in distress ran away and I ran over and punched one of the members so hard they flew into a wall. One threw a punch at me but I grabbed his fist and punched him in the gut. The redhead ran up and kneed one goon in the head while punching another. Another guy tried to attack her from behind but she quickly turned around and threw him into me for me to slam him into the ground. I ducked a cheap shot I predicted and the redhead shot lightning out of her fingers that sent the scumbag flying.

"I was aiming for you." The redhead said to me before I shot an unstable wave of energy at her. She got out of the way and I burned a guy with broken bottle sneaking up on her.

"Guess we got off on the wrong foot the other day." I said before kicking a downed thug. "How bout we get to know each other after we give these guys what they deserve?" She didn't answer me and instead dodged a bunch of punches by one of the gang members before socking him in the jaw. They finally tried using the numbers game and three of them jumped me at once. An explosive wave of energy sent them away. But the redhead who was dealing with four wasn't even knocked on the floor. She just kept blocking before sweeping one's leg, pulling herself back up with the arms of two guys trying to hit her while she was down and kneeing them at the same time, and having a rock hit the last guy in the back of the head. She looked over at me.

"Could you not stare like that?" She asked me.

"How do you know I'm staring?" I asked. Instead of answering she gasped before running in front of me and throwing a boulder up in front of us like a shield before gunshots went off. She threw it forward and knocked down a thug who somehow had gotten a machine gun. "...Thanks." I said. We looked back and the seven that we recently put away had run off. With the guy just hit with the rock that left two. The guy the redhead initially hit had just came too and started running away.

"Oh, no you don't!" The redhead said before running after him. I looked over to the side and saw the last guy aiming a gun at the redhead. I ran towards him and before he could even react I grabbed him by the threat and threw him back into a rusty beam. I threw him down to the floor and started punching him repeatedly. Blood started not that soon. He looked like he was starting to fade before someone grabbed me by the arm and started pulling me off.

"Stop you're going to kill him!" The redhead girl said. I got up and looked at her.

"So? He's a gang member, attempted rapist and attempted murderer, and that's assuming he hasn't raped and/or killed anyone before tonight." I said.

"You have to let the cops handle this-"

"Why? So you can get your 15 minutes of glory and attention for bringing these guys to the cops? This is why I don't do the superhero thing. This is the death he deserves but you're probably just worried about not getting blood on your coat for when they take your picture for the newspaper."

"You really think I do this just so I can be famous? I don't give a shit about that!"

"Then why not let me kill them?"

"Because arresting them is what's gotten the world this far. If every guy with a mask like you just went out on the streets and killed whoever they wanted because of their own twisted view of Justice, we'd all be in hell. Everything bad that you think is caused by people who arrest bad guys instead of killing them would've happened decades earlier if it wasn't for us."

"You're forgetting one thing, these aren't bad guys. A bad guy is someone who steals his paycheck from his struggling coworker. A bad guy is someone who shuts out everyone he loves for heroine. A bad guy is someone who fucks his best friend's wife because 'he's a sex addict'. Those guys get arrested. These guys are dogs, in no way equal to humans. And a wise man once said; 'Men get arrested. Dogs get put down.'" I said before fixing my collar and walking away.

"Sounds like a psychopath." The girl said.

"Maybe. Or maybe he was just enlightened." I said before turning back. "I'll give you one thing, though. You're definitely different. You're definitely not an egomaniac. So take my advice and try to remember what I said about the difference between men and dogs the next time you go out to save lives." I said before lazily saluting her. "See ya." I said before turning to walk out the door.

"So that's just it? You're just going to walk away?" She asked. I continued to walk away and answered with a single word.

"Yep."