Batman Eternal - Full Story | Comicstorian

a long time ago there was a story line written by Scott Snyder called Batman eternal it is literally huge that is not even a joke so when we this was one of the first storylines that Dan and I had to break up into multiple parts it was just impossible to do in one sitting without taking a month off of the channel at the time I believe it came out over the course of six different months on a weekly basis when we were doing it so basically this is older videos compiled again to give you a giant epic Batman storyline let me know what you think of the comments down below and don't forget to subscribe to get these full stories every Monday I'm going to say it now because I don't know how many of you gonna stick around to the end we begin at the end with the city in flames Gotham has lost Batman is unmasked and strapped to the bat-signal I have taken everything from you piece by piece watch Bruce as you lose everything things begin with the arrival of Jason Baird the newest lieutenant at the Gotham City Police Department Harvey welcomes him at the train station and Baird asks where Gordon is the man is a legend and he was hoping to meet him but Gordon is currently pinned down fighting the animals that roamed the streets of Gotham that is until Batman the leaps into the scene taking out professor pigs guns before he can do any more harm with them as pig runs off into the subways a Batman stands there with his friend Gordon and the two of them had deeper into the subway to try and stop pigs gang as they run down into the subways they split up with Gordon taking out the thugs and Batman running after professor Pig himself he quickly catches up to pig and he beats his face in but before he can do anything serious an interesting call comes in from Alfred sir you might want to catch up with Gordon he is chasing a suspect onto active subway lines and there are trains coming from both sides Gordon has in fact cornered a man there with civilians watching Gordon demands that the thug drop his gun and the man tells Gordon I'm not holding no gun that's crazy Gordon can see the gun just drop it and this will all be over he tells the man but the man still doesn't understand so Gordon fires a shot at him hitting the power box behind the man it explores shorting out the train tracks turning off the ability to change tracks and the ability to break batman calls up alfred as he's running over there shut down all the power i don't care how many buildings you need to turn off but Batman's plan doesn't work and Gordon sees the two trains coming straight at each other and he repeatedly says to himself no no no no the conductor she just calls up to the entire train car and she apologizes to everyone on the train Batman arrived just in time to pull Gordon off of the tracks but no one was able to stop the two trains from slamming headlong into each other Gordon was brought in that night for manslaughter the beginning of the end started the wreck hit all of the news outlets every one of the bat families saw it Barbara suited up his bat girl she couldn't believe that this was happening and she would save her father Harper Row was in shock Jason felt that maybe it was time to return home from Hong Kong batwing had a feeling that he'd be needed that woman decided that she would come in to give them all a hand Tim Drake took a break from the Titans to rejoin the family and while they were all in route to Gotham Batman stepped up the Jim Gordon's cell we're going to get you out Jim and Gordon asks him to step out of the shadow so that he can see Batman's face how many people Batman I have to know but Batman just looks in him and says nothing that bad huh I need to know what you saw Jim Batman asks him I swear he was holding a gun I swear on it but they showed me the footage I shot an unarmed man and in the process killed so many innocent people there has to be more to this let me get a blood sample Batman says taking Jim's hand maybe I just made a mistake Batman maybe I saw something that wasn't there I know that's not true Jim and you do too I know you feel it Batman takes off to inspect the footage of the subway and he finds himself joined by Catwoman while she's trying to get his mind off of the case because she's bored he manages to realize who the man that Gordon shot at is he's a thug for carmine Falcone and that means that Falcone has returned to Gotham cattleman reels back and shucks because carmine in her half history that ended with her scarring his face last time elsewhere in Gotham a young girl named Stephanie brown is returning home and she needs to get as at the garage but oddly she's found that her father has locked it so she sneaked into the side window to discover her father is in a costume surrounded by supervillains and apparently is planning something then she finds herself knocked out back in the cells of the GCPD Barrett is asking Gordon how he's holding up Gordon is his hero and he doesn't like that he had to arrest him on day one but Gordon assures him that he did the right thing so Barrett asks him he's out there isn't he Batman is on the case over in the Batcave Batman is trying to put all of this together professor Pig the random thug carmine Falcone and conveniently penguin is apparently moving shipments of weapons all over the city tonight it's all coming together he can see it there's a gang war coming and Gordon is trapped in the middle all over Gotham the elements begin to move faster and faster Stephanie Brown wakes up with a gun pressed to her head from her father and he begins to open fire on her telling her that she was a mistake and maybe he can get her right two second time she flees from the house as quickly as possible as she begins to run down the street she'll be on the run for a bit and will come back to her much later while on the rest of Gotham all of the gangs are getting more courageous because someone in the police station is cancelling all of the calls to the police the police have no idea what's going on to make matters worse the new Commissioner Ford has decided to send the entire GCPD after the vigilante known as Batman and Commissioner Gordon has been sentenced to Blackgate prison without parole while Batman does his own investigation trying to get answers out of Carmine Batgirl tracks her own clues and she decides that she will save her father leaving Batman to his own devices as she leaves for her own investigation Batman takes off to see if he can get red Robins help but Red Robin has already come to town and he's begun investigating a situation in which children have gone missing and he's kind of unavailable right now as Batman leaves we see that Red Robin is dealing with the case all of his own in which the children are getting sick or they go missing he's traced the situation back to some crazy new nanotechnology and just as he begins to figure out who's controlling this technology it wakes up oh hell he says as it approaches him but while this is going on a young girl named Harper Row is saving Vicki Val and they are both in the floor right beneath Red Robin as he comes crashing to the floor the Nano swarm looks up and it sees all of these gang members and Vicki Val and Harper row and he decides that they are the newest threats so it moves some Red Robin to assault them Red Robin runs out of the room healing for everyone to follow him and they lock this warm inside but to swarm just assaults one of Harper Rose friends named Cullen it goes inside of him and it goes dormant as he falls to the ground unconscious Red Robin Vicki and Harper all stand there unsure of what they should do next meanwhile across the globe in Tokyo a man is staring in his computer with a newspaper in front of him the paper reads the gang war is going to be breaking out soon by Vicki Vale and on his screen he can see that the swarms have activated ho dear young mr. Wayne isn't going to like this one one bit meanwhile on the other side of town Batman is getting some weird reports about Arkham Asylum and some weird mystical energies happening underneath it so he sends in batwing to help Specter and bowing inspector have quite an adventure ahead of them as Batman himself begins to follow a fleeing truck that he tagged earlier during one of the shipments it's time to see where this is going as he gets closer to the truck those mystical energies that were underneath Arkham Asylum decided to leak underneath Gotham itself and they blow up on the truck right in front of the Batmobile the truck in the Batmobile catch on fire and the truck begins to roll around thinking quickly Batman grabs the thug that was inside of the truck any questions where are you going who hired you but before he can get any other answers out of the man professor Pig walks out of a nearby hideout and demands to know who and Sally his perfection Batman grabs a bat baikin he begins to charge in battling against all of the doll oh-oh Tron's the professor Pig is sending at him on the other side of Gotham Carmine sits with his men the explosion wasn't his it was someone else intercepting their bomb with their own bomb and now Batman is involved and he's busy fighting with Professor Pig very good carmine says if your associate is as good as he says than by morning the real rulers of this city will have it back from the freaks but while both of these events are happening Catwoman has broken into penguins hideout and is battling against him because she doesn't care of carmine and penguin have their little gang war but the moment that the poor people have Gotham underground have been dragged into it she wants to remove the threat herself she's wrecking penguin but he has a secret weapon up his sleeve and he knocks Catwoman to the ground before he begins to get word that Carmine's underwater attack is starting on his harbors side casino hideout distracted by the attack happening on his hina Catwoman gets back up and she jumps on penguin to continue her assault but that's when penguin explains that he isn't doing anything to the Gotham underground just like the missing children people are missing from the underground and no one knows why the citizens of Gotham underground have come to penguin for his protection and he's been providing it he explains that he unified Gotham underneath him to keep the violence from spilling out onto the streets but carmine would rather have the old days where children caught bullets Medford this is a war for the heart of Gotham and she needs to decide what side she is on because she's a lot more important than you or I both know at that exact moment an explosion rocks the hide on a penguin and carmine looks out over the bay that - boom was beautiful during all of this Batman has finally been able to push back these doll creations and get to Professor Pig the professor pig that started all of this by trapping Gordon with Carmine's thug but when he questions professor Pig as to what he was doing what he did to Gordon Pig just tells him that he's been working for carmine Falcone Batman tries to get through to pig to explain that he's been set up give him the information that he needs and carmine is going to destroy the streets with pig on them but pig doesn't listen as Batman ends this by destroying the device that pig is using to control the dolls back with cattlemen and penguins hideout she's trying her best to save the poor workers of this casino while it begins to sink into the bay she gets out who she cannon as she makes her way back out of the water where she saves penguin from a killer whale that's been set loose in the bay Batman time's up Pig for the police and it leaves the area then the new commissioner arrives Commissioner Forbes to set Pig free this city needs a message loud and clear the Gotham PD no longer works with Batman or any of the capes as the morning begins to arrive on Gotham Batman and Catwoman clean up the mess and the explosions but the war has officially started penguin and Carmine's gangs are about to begin battling and the case are going to be stuck in the middle of this meanwhile across Gotham one of Carmine's facilities explodes as Professor Pig has left a bomb in it he thanks the GCPD for making Gotham his new laboratory the new Commissioner Forbes turns on the bat-signal and he listens to the newest police detective Jason bard behind him for the record commissioner I'm against this duly noted LT once the sign on my door reads barred in not Forbes then someone might give a damn but for now this is my police force not yours not Jim Gordon's and certainly not Batman's it is then that we pan out to see the entire GCPD police force of waiting let's get ready for it doesn't take long for Batman to arrive Commissioner Forbes you called I came we should talk your predecessor Commissioner Gordon and I had an understanding James Gordon was a rotten cop with no respect for the law you and I want the same things to keep Gotham safe I'm here to keep the criminals off the streets I want them off the streets starting with you and Forbes raises his hands to tell the units to fire but bard shouts out d-unit fire d-unit is the smoke grenade unit and the entire rooftop begins to fill up allowing Batman to disarm everyone in the smoke but once he moves through the smoke Bard gets a perfect shot lined up with Batman's head and he lowers his weapon as Batman leaves the roof four smashes the bass signal ending the GCPD s connection with Batman Batman gets back to the Batcave where he turns to Alfred I might still have some help on the GCPD but I'm gonna go to Hong Kong Falcone came back to Gotham for a reason and I'm gonna find out why as Batman leaves Gotham Forbes gets picked up by the thugs of Falcone and brought to Falcone himself it happened to get in Forbes I thought we had an arrangement you promised to get a handle on the costume for Reese in this town as a condition of your employment someone broke into my hideouts and got away with three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars of my money Batman is a lot of things but a thief for obsessed shocked idiot not Batman I'm talking about Catwoman I thought Batman was my priority we've put a scare into him that's why he's not showing his face Batman isn't afraid to show his face if he isn't making trouble for me then he's not in Gotham right now across the globe in Hong Kong Batman is currently battling against ninjas with one of the many members of Batman Incorporated zero-zero and canary have been working with Batman to figure out what would make Falcone leave his gang war in Hong Kong and go back to Gotham he was winning against Fang with the help of the Yakuza with him gone the Fang took over so zero and Batman decided to pay the fang a visit but going to the fangs leader only to walk right into the middle of somebody else already breaking in the mysterious woman gets stabbed by Shen Fang the leader of the Fang and Batman begins to beat on the man to manage and know how fangs suddenly won this war and why did Falcone leave Hong Kong at first Shen Fang stands strong but it doesn't take long for Batman to get his answers Fang never won Falcone was offered a buyout because as he put it he had unfinished business in Gotham and someone told him it was time to come back Batman finishes Shen Fang and Jiro arrives just in time to ask Batman who's that woman once Batman gets into the batplane he looks up her name and he radios back to Alfred I need the guest room prepared for a special guest I'm bringing back Julia pennyworth your daughter meanwhile back in Gotham Catwoman continues breaking into Falcone's hideouts only to find a small army waiting for her behind one of the doors he quickly subdues her and he hauls her off Catwoman and Falcone have a history so he intends to enjoy this and he ties her to her chair and he begins to torture her telling her that he intends to become Gotham's protect her the true champion that they need the right beneath both of them Professor Pig hasn't forgotten Hal Falcone screwed him over in our last video and he's currently killing all of Falcone's thugs as he climbs up to his penthouse Catwoman scoffs at Falcone you'll never be a champion we have Batman and he throws her to the ground Batman is nothing more than a protector of the costumed freak parade he keeps the status quo he's so much weaker than I was told but that catches Catwoman's attention what do you mean you were told Falcone ignores her I'm here to put the animals back in their cages and that's the moment the professor Pig arise don't bet the farm on that Falcone yeah yeah meanwhile on the other side of Gotham Stephanie Brown has snuck into the library after hours where she does her research on a villain known as cluemaster the man her father is claiming to be is nothing more than a deal a super villain that has fought Batman a few odd times back with Professor Pig and Falcone pig has tied down Falcone and he's preparing to begin cutting and slicing him up he'll make him better luckily the hostage situation has made the news and the GCPD have the building surrounded so Batman comes crashing through the skylight and he begins to beat some of the half animals heads in he frees Catwoman is shipping is to jump over beating on the helpless Falcone while Batman is busy with the thugs he does manage to stop her though because he and her both need to leave before the GCPD stormed this building as Batman and Catwoman leaves she tells Batman what Falcone said that someone told him this would happen but the question is once again who is orchestrating this meanwhile down in Brazil Batgirl has tracked the man down that she believes is responsible for her father's incarceration but it turns out to be just another patsy set up to distract her and she fell for it luckily Red Hood has been sent down by Batman to help her follow the trail and figure out who arranged all of this but as she tells Red Hood they need to hurry because they only have days before Gordon's sentencing back over at the Wayne mansion Julia pennyworth wakes up and his groggy but grateful to be alive but she's immediately furious when she sees her father Alfred and his daughter haven't been in speaking terms for a long time because she just doesn't understand why a man that was once mi6 and worked for the Queen would give up his standing to go and work for some spoiled rich party boy how could he leave her and her mother for this Wayne family for the family that he chose while this is going on the gang war across Gotham rages on with bullets flying all over from Falcone and penguin so Jason bard rallies up the officers that he feels he can trust which includes Harvey Bullock he tells them that they need to take back this city because it's starting to get out of hand and for every place that Falcone shoots up penguin burns down one of his but Bullock looks at bard the GCPD can't get involved we're supposed to pretend that there isn't even a gang war thanks to the new commissioner and Bard looks at him who said we're gonna stop the gang war we need to stop Batman don't we meanwhile Red Robin is trying to figure out his own situation which involves in nanomachines and affecting the brother of a girl he knows harper wrote he feels as though he can get some answers out of the recently incarcerated professor pic but his computer informs him that Harper Row is currently hacking into the bad family computer network how does she do that he thinks to himself as he heads back to robin's nest back with the GCPD Bullock uses the one method of contacting Batman that you never hear about the Batphone Batman arrives on a rooftop with Bullock and bard standing there what is he doing here Batman asks Bullock and Bullock explains that this was bards idea he's just along for the ride I have an idea how we can stop this gang war by the end of the week but you just need to let us catch you Batman back with Stephanie Brown she gets a phone call from a roommate you got a package Stephanie but Stephanie warns her not to open it something fishy is going on her roommate doesn't listen it opens it anyway to find a horse one that is orange and blue Steph thinks about it for a minute that simply says it's a clue but that's when her roommate follows up with another comment this box is ticking Steph instantly the entire apartment explodes across Gotham the entire GCPD strike team is watching his Batman enters a building this is it Bart shouts we have Batman and his thugs cornered they kick the door in and they aim their weapons of the gang members sitting there one of the strike team members turns to pardon sir these don't look like bad people to me they don't do they that sure looks like a bat tattoo in that man's arm implying that the mark that is actually the mark of the Falcone gang is actually Batman's gang symbol the strike team member immediately gets what they're doing huh sir yes sir that is definitely the bats mark so the police haul off Falcone's thugs and Batman appears in front of Bart your plan I'm impressed well it's not over yet the next day Forbes comes storming into the GCPD offices what hell do you think you're doing Bard I was arresting known accomplices of the vigilante Batman sir do those men look like Robins or night birds or red ever sir they're all guilty of possession I don't care bard and that's when Vicki Vale steps up now that's a quote is it true Commissioner Forbes that you are not allowing these men to be arrested Forbes is now backed into a corner and Bartlet's Vicky's begin to grill him as he goes back to arresting Batman's accomplices meanwhile at the robin's nest Red Robin arrives and asks his computer where Harper Row is currently located what he doesn't know is that she's actually hiding right behind him in the nest she traced his signal back to this location but he does have other things to look into so he decides that he'll talk to her once he gets back from Japan as he loads up into the Robin jet on the other side of Gotham tears streamed down Stephanie Browns face as she looks from across the street at her burning apartment building how could it go this far she was just a simple girl and on a computer screen watching her is her father the clue master now there's one plot line that we haven't mentioned yet the cursed hauntings at Arkham Asylum well don't worry it's still going on as scarecrow is running from whatever is haunting the asylum he is afraid and whatever it is pulls him through the wall back with the other gang King wood is furious that he's been forced into hiding my falcomon he's worth 19 million dollars he shouldn't be hiding but a rather interesting phone call comes over the wire one that informs penguin of Falcone's whereabouts in his hideout Falcone is screaming into a phone demanding to know what is going on with the police who is this cop that is messing up their plans and that's when he gets a knock at the door he opens the defined all of his men dead ping what is standing there he launches a knife into Falcone's hand putting him to his knees with no guards to protect him you disgusting little oh let's keep this dignified penguin stabs Falcone again I'm what this city made me I'm a creature of the now penguin takes his blade and he presses it against Falcone's neck just as all of the lights come on and there at the end of the hallway is the GCPD led by Jason bard and Vicki Vale bard arrests both men on multiple accounts of murder and attempted murder and when they both try to argue that Forbes will have his head for this he informs them idiot Forbes arrested that morning meanwhile Red Robin is flying over the Pacific Ocean looking at all of the news reports coming in hero cop bard ends gang war overnight penguins feathers plucked carmine Falcone directly tied to criminal empire well that was one hell of a night to leave Gotham and just then his Diagnostics check comes in and it tells him that he has a passenger in the cargo hold of his jet is Harper row eating cheese puffs you have got to be kidding me back with Batman he confronts Jason barred on the rooftop of the GCPD because what he did was incredible but at the same time he was the one that sent to penguin to Falcone's location and it cost 12 people their lives but Barda tells him I'm changing the city for the better Batman and I'll do whatever it takes to get there and I want you to do it with me together but as he turns around Batman has already left lastly we end this chapter by cutting back to scarecrow to see what it is that he's truly afraid of in Arkham Asylum Joker's daughter hasn't pinned to the ground and she has a hatchet ready to slam into his face the little bat boy and his ghostly friend are about to pay us a visit and I can't have any distractions so I'll just take care of you right now after all that's what my daddy told me [Laughter] Red Robin found a stowaway on his plane Harper just come out I know you're there he calls out to her in the cargo hold of the ship Red Robin has begun investigating children that have recently gotten sick with nanomachines one of these children was Harper's brother and when Red Robin decided to go to Japan to see if he can find the inventor of the nanomachines Harper Rose stowed aboard you just let me crouch back there this whole time Harper yelled as she came out of the cargo hold damn right I did you stowaway you deserve nine hours of sitting in a stress position how did you even get on board I hid right behind you the whole way like a ninja sure you did you stay here will I find this Sergei guy he made the robots from what I can find and I'm not babysitting you look Robin this is my family and I can handle myself the name is Red Robin and no dice this isn't amateur hour and on that note Red Robin walked into the city meanwhile back in Gotham batwing and Spectre are investigating the reports of hauntings and Arkham Asylum batwing is a member of Batman incorporated the organization that Batman started to get other like-minded heroes under his wing inspector is the holy spirit of vengeance housed in the body of Jim Corrigan they begin investigating the lower levels and quickly discover the site of blood falling up from the floor there's an etheric pylon underneath this cell the good news is that this means that we're getting close the bad news means that this is someone that can work with skill Corrigan says is the two men follow their clues and they go deeper into the building I say we get Batman and the whole crew down here this might be a bit much for us batwing tells him Batman is busy with the gang war and since you might not be able to communicate with your team while we're down here if you want to turn around you're welcome to but I need to stop this Corrigan says as they exit through the back door and into some caverns beneath Arkham what they find sends a chill down batwing spine because it's a man with this head bound in a bag being suspended in the air and the blood being drained from his body and flowing upwards I think I know who's behind all of this Corrigan says meanwhile down in Brazil Batgirl and red have tracked their lead down to a plastic surgeon and as soon as they break the door open they find Batwoman standing there holding the person that they want to interrogate by his shirt you're here to bat girl exclaims I followed my own trail here Batgirl but it would seem that I'm on the right track fine whatever I want to go first bat go grabs the doctor and begins to find out her next clue over in Japan Red Robin finds himself thrown out of the scientists lab and thrown onto the ground right in front of Harper I told you to stay with the plane Red Robin I know and I totally didn't listen then they both turn around to find an old man with a monkey excellent you two survived now we could talk and then we can test you again back beneath Arkham Asylum batwing and Jim Corrigan have battled ghosts empty vessels and even the Joker's daughter to find themselves in front of the man behind the entire haunting of Arkham Deacon Blackfyre they begin to fight against the undead beings that they were supposed to be stopping while the Joker's daughter watches from the outskirts showing a severed head the entire battle batwing and Corrigan find themselves overwhelmed and separated while Joker's daughter continues to look on and just when Corrigan finally decides he needs his own internal demon the spirit of vengeance Spectre refuses to manifest itself leaving Corrigan and a pool of blackened murky water back in Japan Red Robin and Harford aren't getting any answers out of the doctor that they came to see his name is Sergey and while he admits that the nanomachines they're his he has no idea how they got there because those models were conveniently stolen meanwhile over in Brazil the team-up of Batgirl Red Hood and bat woman is finally making some traction to find the man that arranged to have Jim Gordon sent to prison for manslaughter walking through the worst slums in the area they come across a child and after rescuing him and calling the child a painted horse with his poor Portuguese Red Hood figures out that this child is from a nearby sweatshop and that girl's target is in there also back and Gotham finally Batman and bard are working together to clean up the streets which includes tracking down the missing people from the Gotham underground and that Catwoman mentioned a while back Batman isn't sure if you can trust bard because as Batman puts it bards intentions are too good but he does follow part down into the sewers as Bart is tracking down these missing children and the sewer they don't find any missing children but they do find killer truck and he's none too happy to see Batman in this cop on his turf as bard falls into the water he yells out the croc is under arrest for the suspected kidnapping and murder of multiple victims but croc just seems shut kidnapping those people came to me they wanted my help and he grabs officer bard and gets ready to feast on a cop when Batman leaves onto his back truck I know you didn't do it I know look at the wall on the wall of the sewer is a black handprint the trio agreed to work together for now because those handprints are linked to some rather odd creatures and croc can bring Batman to a location where he's been stashing the ones that he's been finding back in Brazil Red Hood is spying in on the sweatshop there's a lot of things that a person can do to guarantee a bullet for me but enslaving a bunch of kids is definitely a way to get a full clip for me we said no killing Red Robin Batman's rules Batwoman tells them not my fault if I get confused if someone's face looks like their kneecap let's just break in there I'll get the guards to the left no if we break in Red Hood style whoever's in charge of this and whoever framed my father will get away we're gonna go in stealth Batgirl tells him so they sneak in slowly knocking out the guards and creeping over the shipment crates but it's Batgirl who walks into the main office to find her target sitting there with the bat family Toys making a business deal he stands up and he looks right at Batgirl right in the eyes and she finds herself mesmerised then out of the blue red hood and bat woman find Batgirl leaving at them ready to fight she begins throwing her batter rings at two individuals that she sees which is actually the Joker and her brother she doesn't see Red Hood and bat woman Red Hood looks at her she doesn't see us does she bat woman nope just like Commissioner Gordon saw a guy that wasn't there so this is some kind of mind-control device yep looks like the one used by the Mad Hatter so we're fighting a knockoff Mad Hatter which means batgirls right and our culprit is here go get a bat woman I'll get back girl but look I'll do my best not to shooter and with that back go cracks red hood across the face of the kick and while I'm at it I'll try and not die meanwhile back in Gotham crock has brought bard and Batman to his cage where he's keeping the reanimated corpses that he's been finding the ones that have been leaving behind black handprints and the ones who have been kidnapping people from the Gotham underground Batman get reports from the two men that he sent to Arkham Asylum that these black handprints were linked to be Undead and that's why he believed croc but Batman knows these things they aren't from this world or from some Hell beneath Gotham like croc believes they're extra dimensional aliens but while Batman is explaining this bard is looking at some police officer equipment that he's found and the names and the badges of the names of the officers that have been missing Batman finishes by stating that these creatures are probably right beneath him in the caverns somewhere because wherever they're bringing these kidnapped people to it will be somewhere where they're at their strongest and that's gonna be deeper down so Batman leaps off the cliff and first ready to fight whatever's down below back in Brazil Red Hood finds himself kicked down into the sweatshop area and he rubs his head and sees all of the children around him look I probably got a concussion so I'm not gonna bother with the Portuguese get out of here run kids run get the hell out but one of the thugs stops the kids by holding a gun to their heads so Red Hood shoots him in the kneecap damn concussion I was aiming for your head and then Batgirl lands in front of him oh hey Batgirl bat moment has made her way to the mad man's office during this time though and as she knows what technology he's using she knows exactly how to prevent it from affecting her and she walked right up to him and sticks him with a version of Scarecrow's fear toxin he freaks out and runs to the door down with Batgirl in Red Hood he's finally noticed that all of the children have left the area AHA playtime's over so he leaps right at Batgirl I know you have a photographic memory BG so remember this and you'll know that I'm not your enemy the autumn evening yellow and orange leaves the dinner party at the Manor the whole time he's trying to remind her he's literally letting her kick him around I've requested the face kicks to the head and eventually his entire helmet is cracked out you kept looking away from me and I thought you were nervous liked me even so I said what's wrong red and gave me this cold disappointed book and said you'll never be Dick Grayson come on Batgirl you had this photographic memory we'll remember this because I only remember the important things and with that finally jogging backhoes memory she stops and she falls into red hoods arms look today that I finally got to meet Batgirl oh god Jason while they were resolving this the good doctor behind the entire scheme doctor fell sorry Oh has made his break out the back door terrified out of his mind and Batgirl sees him leaving and shouts he's mine back beneath Gotham Batman crock and bard have already managed to find the extra dimensional aliens and started fighting them back down there's the girl Jada that croc was trying to protect the one that begged for his help and the aliens are moving so fast they opened a portal back home as they tried to suck a Crocs friend Jade Batman moves quickly firing his grappling hook to catch the young girl and pull her out of it but as it turns out the kidnapped kids were the power source for the portals and it shuts down as Batman pulls her closer the whole portal area begins to come down as croc throws Jade over to barn then both croc and Batman leap off the portal area as it all comes crumbling down to the depths below Batman bard and croc all braced themselves as they fall into a ledge and the whole group hits a safe spot I got what I came for bats so this is where we parked croc says the Batman but bard pulls a gun on Kruk you're under arrest for the suspected murder of three Gotham City police officers oh is that right back in your lair there were the best of missing officers those were dirty cops but realizing that far is not gonna listen to reason croc pushes Jade to Batman and backs the rural wall behind him crushing the entryway and blocking bar from getting to him barred even opens fire in the rocks hoping to get in a lucky shot but he doesn't succeed over in Brazil Batgirl has finally caught up that doctor false are you the man responsible for her father's crime and the true mastermind behind what happened to Jim Gordon but just as she goes in to capture him he's murdered by an assassin looking around she sees nothing but a sword lodged into a tree she walks back to the factory defeated and Red Hood stands there with a flash drive don't worry about him barb Batwoman pulled all of the evidence off of his pewter your dad will be going free meanwhile back in Gotham during all of this Stephanie Brown has decided that it's time for her to do something it's time for her to spoil her dad's clues as the spoiler Batman calls up Alfred letting him know that Alfred may have been right bard might just be a good cop so Batman arranges for the police to allow him to speak to Falcone and he opens up their discussion by punching him across the jaw you lied you said that you had nothing to do with Jim Gordon's framing but my agents found dr. fell sorry oh the man that hypnotized Gordon and he was murdered by a man on your payroll we can tell because the assassin left behind a ceremonial knife that was passed from crime lord to crime lord so I'm going to ask you one more time who's behind all of this Falcone just laughs at Batman I told you I have no idea I just got this invitation so Batman looks at the card Falcone is holding you have been cordially invited to partake in the devastation of Gotham City you know what this means right bats this is just the beginning Batman's next stop is to bards office where he hands them the bat flashdrive all this is all of the evidence that will clear Jim Gordon it's all a part of a deliberate plan to start crippling Gotham City what do you think is behind all of this and Batman just stares him you don't know Bar says sadly meanwhile at the Wayne Manor Alfred and his daughter who he hasn't seen since she was a child are finally starting to make headway and connect when alarms go off in Wayne Manor suddenly almost on instinct Alfred walks over to a safe room where he walks Julia in before knocking her out and sealing her inside of it he even walks out of there with her pistol and begins to walk through the manor looking for the invader but that's when hush comes out of nowhere and sticks a syringe into his skull back at Blackgate prison a man is standing in front of one of the cells we need your help we need the architect it's time for your role in the grand design to come into play and after leaving the villains uniform behind he steps outside the prison revealing Jason bard his phone suddenly rings he answers it is it done yes the architect is in play in Batman he doesn't suspect a thing Barda then breaks the thumbdrive in half as he says to himself Gotham belongs to us now things begin with Julia trying to call Bruce to make him aware that something has happened to her father but he's not answering and alfred manages to get the words out to her grandfather clock 1048 at first she has lost as to what's going on but when she turns around and sees the clock she decides to spin the hands to 1048 and is amazed when it opens up revealing a secret passageway elsewhere the architect has begun his assault on Arkham by taking over a tower that was still under construction Batman sees him tearing apart the walls from a distance and setting something up so he calls back to the Batcave but no one answers until Julia pennyworth ends up answering the call into Batman's surprise informs him that her father is currently being taken to the hospital she tells Batman that he should go to her father he should try to help but Batman informs her that he can't much to her dismay Batman explains that he needs to get to the architect's beacon now or people are going to die it's what Alfred would have wanted so he goes to the tower and he gets inside and he starts taking out the guards and saving the hostages and then he asks for penny two's help Julia help me he needs to know the layout of the building so that he can get these hostages out and once he does get him out with her help he goes to the top where he slams the architect into a wall who are you working for this is only the start Batman but behind him Batman can hear someone talking and a shot fired no not him penny - how did the attacker get into the mansion through the South Library the clues are right there it's the only person that it could have been hush and behind Batman hush has killed one of the hostages meanwhile on the Gotham underground some more of the thugs are fighting animals against each other until Catwoman comes in to rescue a Snow Leopard but they were just about to sacrifice two pitbulls but as she tries to get out of the arena with the cat the villainous character tiger shark takes a shot at her ruining Catwoman's rescue operation as she's mourning the loss of the Snow Leopard a child by the name of Jade sneaks into Catwoman's apartment and tells her he needs her at Blackgate elsewhere Crocs trying his best to find his way out of the tunnels beneath Gotham as he sealed himself there too Jason barred his people need him he screams out as he drops multiple and dead creatures Catwoman and J both make it to the cell in black it did they were trying to get to the cell of the last crime family in Gotham the one that's been out of commission for the longest time the one run by Catwoman's father Catwoman grabs him and demands to know why he would use a child to get at her and he explains Jade works for croc and wanted to help then he explains that he called her here because she needs to save Gotham she is the only one that can unify the families while she goes by the name Selina Kyle her real last name is Calabrese and with that name comes a power and a legacy she can end these gang wars no more innocents need to suffer back with Batman he begins to beat down the architect telling him that he's just hushes pawn but the architect tells Batman that it's too late and Penny too reports seismic activity happening beneath the tower that they're all on the tower begins to fall apart around them as the architect jumps off the side using his wings to fly away all of Gotham begins to feel the smaller quakes from the random streets with the random passerby 'he's all the way down to the underground as Catwoman and Jay believe her father back in the cell but across town Jason bard enters the mayor's office and he tells him this city has been going downhill since 0 year but I have reason to believe that all of these recent events are connected we need to declare martial law in the city sir meanwhile over in the old Gotham district cluemaster is having a meeting and he sure didn't check for any tails because Stephanie Brown and her spoiler outfit has snuck in behind and is recording the conversation but she's left wondering who this bandaged man that he's talking to is the one that's ordering her father around hush explains that they're gonna move forward and cluemaster needs to present a body for his daughter now she needs to die but cluemaster tells him that he already has his been working he has a guy messing with the traffic lights causing gridlocks he's blowing out water lines and they've begun rolling blackouts so once hushed leaves spoiler jumps down from the rafters and she gets ready to take her motorcycle but that's when cluemaster comes back in and throws gas onto the floor it fills the room and spoiler begins to call we could have been cluemaster in the Pointer why are you turning on me Stephanie a pointer is a dog dad she shouts as she throws a wrench his head and takes a motorcycle he quickly gets up and begins to chase her on his own motorcycles wearing various explosives at her and eventually they make their way to the bridge where Stephanie lets the bike get blown up so that her father thinks that he's won and just then the police arrived to arrest him she waves at him hey she set the whole thing up to get him arrested meanwhile at the Gotham Gazette Jason Bart is forcing them to run a story stating that the city is under attack and that the government refuses to act he needs them to run this story now to save everyone to make them aware of what's about to happen of course this starts a panic across the town and a young girl is about to be mugged for a jug of water but Harper Roe and Red Robin prevent it from happening he started her training in Tokyo and he's using this as a perfect opportunity to see if it's been working she's been getting good back with Batman he knows that he has to move fast if huh she's behind all of this and he has penny to run a scan on the cameras in Blackgate just to see who set the architect free and that's when he sees his new friend Jason bard setting this psycho free Red Hood and Red Robin take a second to stop in and check on Alfred they're getting close to home Robin says as they note the Commissioner Gordon and Alfred and now both out of commission let's get back girl and go see the boss it's time for us all to work together again Batman leaps in the Bard's apartment to try and end this but inside he discovers nothing more than a hologram of hush why are you doing this Tommie I've come here to take everything away from you everything that you've never deserved he then blows up the apartment with Batman aside as he struggles to get out of the explosion Red Robin reaches out a hand we're here so the whole crew goes back to the Batcave to go over this whole situation and meet Juliet pennyworth Red Robin goes over the notes Jim Gordon hasn't been released from prison yet even though Jason and Barbara got enough evidence to clear him riots are spreading throughout Gotham there's a nanotech virus that I can't even crack this service of an Alfred's been injected with so much beer toxin that it could be years until he recovers who is this that is attacking us that knows us so well and bruce tells them if it's been hush all along he owns the police and he got the riot started so Tim Jason and Barbara all tell Bruce that they'll be there for him and they head off to stop all the riots to try their best they're gonna find hushes plants that are keeping the riots going and they're gonna take down the plants batman takes julia to see her father and explained that hush was a former friend of Bruce's and when he lost his parents everything went downhill and he blamed Bruce for having what he deserved himself so his goal has always been to take it all the way from Bruce meanwhile spoiler has broken into the prison so that she can show her father what she's about to post to the Internet all of her spoilers about his plans and his evil deeds but he smirks as her post changes from revealing everything to a bounty of 100 million dollars on her head then while the bat family is preoccupied trying to squash the riots and the police are trying to work together to calm down the riots dr. Thomas Elliott hush his true identity moves Alfred from the hospital and into Arkham Asylum and while Alfred is trying to get his bearings in Arkham Asylum crock has finally started to make his way back to the service and as he exits through the Arkham Asylum tunnels he won't be having any problems with the bizarre creatures that have started taking over Arkham Asylum back with Jason bard he smirks as he sees Batman shadow looking over him let's talk Batman but Batgirl leaps at him oh you're gonna wish that I was Batman across Gotham everyone is looking for something Batman and Catwoman are looking for information on hush in the gangs but they have a slight falling-out when Batman asks if he can help her with her issue and croc he's back and got them tearing the place apart looking for Jade when he escaped bard he left Javid Batman so where is she now once Catwoman gets back to her apartment she finds another of Gotham's gangs of waiting to assault her and kidnap her when Catwoman comes to she's tied to a stripper pole in a strip club with a villain known as the skull ready to beat her head in with a baseball bat and Jade is about to be forced to watch meanwhile Batman is gonna trace her on to a random thug hoping that he will lead him back to hush his base of operations back with Catwoman she turns to Jade and she tells her not to watch as she gets ready to take a bat to the head and that's what croc breaks down the door looking for Jade he swore that he were protect Jade she is his family Jade perks up mr. Waylan and the skull turns to see him holy hell he's real using this distraction Catwoman trips up skull putting him to the ground croc continues to throw thugs around with bullets bouncing off of his thick skin everything is getting crazy hectic and then one of the gang leaders decides that he's gonna take a shot at Catwoman so that she can't get away just as Jade is trying to uncover Batman arrives just as things are beginning to calm down because the thug led him right to this building but as he enters he sees croc on his knees holding Jade and Catwoman crying Jade took the bullet for her and she's already dead croc just tells everyone to throw him in Arkham because they took his people they took his Jade they took his soul he's got nothing left Batman jumps in not understanding what's going on and he's ready to attack croc but Catwoman to kick some ass I'd leave croc alone so Batman grabs her by the shoulders to ask her what happened what did you do Selina Catwoman begins to cry on Batman's surprise shoulder I could have stopped it I could have stopped innocence or being in the crossfire i Selina I'm here and she steps away no you're not I'm alone back with Batgirl she's threatening to drop bard off a rooftop until he finally talked but she couldn't bring herself to actually hurt him and he knew that so he didn't say anything but that's when Jason Todd arrives and he takes the rope from her and he drops Jason bard to the ground as bard is falling to Gotham face first he says I'm sorry got them and that's when Batgirl catches the Rope right in time at the last second you were always better than me barbs and you proved it again Batgirl looks to Jason Todd maybe you should stay this time Jason help the family save Gotham nah Gotham has never been enough for me Barbara what if there was more she says leaning up against him no he says turning away grabbing his hood and putting it on why because barb it's like you said I'll never be Dick Grayson and with that red hood jumped off the side of the tower and lands it onto starfire spaceship red hoods Starfire and Arsenal have many more adventures to go on their own and we'll be touching on those later but once again across Gotham Catwoman sneaks back into Blackgate penitentiary where she walks up to her father she looks right at him and she tells him you were right there's only one person that can fix this who can control the chaos who can assert the natural order me the daughter of the lion we begin with Jim Corrigan the host of The Spectre being turned into another one of blackfyres totems Neath Arkham Asylum Corrigan asks him if he's even in control of it or if there's a higher power controlling him and down in the waters below filled with bones and corpses batwing finally gets his suit to come back online at his comms finally begin to start working again Batman can finally communicate with him Batman I need your help these tunnels are changing shape and the suit keeps going offline you called it earlier you said everything was fine that wasn't me this place is the opposite of fine Corrigan is gone and Deacon Blackfyre has come back from hell that doesn't make any sense how did hush get black fire at fault you tell me boss where I stand nothing makes sense anymore so batwing uploads a code that he found in Riddler's cell hoping Batman and paints who can crack it and see what the Riddler was trying to tell them while Gotham itself is going crazy with all of the riots all around traffic piling up and helicopters being dropped Batman tells batwing that he's on his way meanwhile back at Arkham Joker's daughter has had enough she thought she was helping because that's what daddy wanted but the Joker never gave her orders like this someone's been messing with her batwing manages to get to the main room where he sees Corrigan being tortured and he jumps at Blackfyre hoping to stop this but it's all too late the final totem has been connected in a beam of green energy fires into the sky for everyone at Arkham to see and penny to finally cracks the message Arkham is just a piece of the plan if you can read this you are smart enough to know our foe black fire hasn't done it he's been refined and now has hundreds of undead creatures crawling towards him but it's finally time for the specter to arrive massive in size the spectre is the weapon of God a spirit of vengeance that cannot be called on because he arrives when he decides to and he is needed to seal this breach between earth and hell he absorbs all of the undead creatures and the spirits and it contains all of them and then he's warped back into Jim Corrigan's body batwing jumps down into the crater that was made and grabs Corrigan we've got to go black fires magic is gone on the walls are falling apart and as Batman approaches Arkham he looks on at as it crumbles in a round on itself and Alfred panics from his new cell as the very ground beneath him and his new cell is cracking then it happens all of Arkham Asylum falls into the sinkhole created by the specters actions Batman barely catches himself from falling in and he can't believe the hundreds of people just fell to their deaths potentially there are survivors though batwing is one of them but he's pinned and losing power just as Batman gets a radio from batwing and he starts to try and think of a plan the gcpd appear on the scene and they tell Batman that he's under arrest so Batman jumps into the sinkhole using a spiral pattern with a smoke grenade to cover his escape and he reports to penny too that he needs a map he needs to know what's going on down there just as Joker's daughter is another survivor ready to take a swing at him with dynamite strapped to her body another of the survivors begins to move around he finds himself pinned Alfred realizes that he's about to dies he hallucinates but suddenly Bane lifts the rock off him maybe but not here all of Gotham's emergency services converge on the destroyed Arkham leaving the city to fend for itself as they try to save the super villains that are held there only to find themselves having to fight against the super villains as they now try to escape Batman quickly disarms Joker's daughter as penny to reports that Clayface Victor Zsasz and mr. freeze are trying to escape Batman ignores the fact that the police want to arrest him again and he jumps out of the sinkhole to start fighting against the insanity of Arkham luckily he has a few friends in the force who just can't seem to get clearance to shoot at the bat Batman makes quick work of the super villains with penny to keeping him informed of their locations but back down below Bane and Alfred have teamed up to try and escape together but Alfred wants to know why did Bane save them you can still walk and one look at you there and I knew you were ex-military in a place like this you are an asset yes they wander down a few tunnels but they quickly find themselves under attack for the undead that survived back in Gotham Stephanie brown now going by the name spoiler is trying to get out of Gotham someone just place a hundred million dollar reward on her head and she needs to get away from here but hush seas are coming and he grabs her off of the motorcycle back with BAM and he's finally dropped all of the super villains and he finds himself against the police once again so penny 2 tells him that she just got a read on hush and he's about to shoot someone so she sends off a shock wave from the batplane and Batman makes his escape as he begins to leave penny to informed him that she just found out that her father was in Arkham when it fell but Batman reassures her he saw Joker's daughter which means that there are survivors and Alfred is one of the toughest people that he knows but these Arkham being an Alfred are fighting against these undead beasts and winning this actually isn't a problem for Alfred he was Special Air Services and a British Army he then leads Bane to a secret wall where Batman was keeping his spare supplies underneath Arkham and he uses the gas that is in the wall to knock out Bane he then walks in and reports in penny one here and well Batman makes it just in time to rescue spoiler and he pans hushes guns to the wall the fight is pretty evenly matched with both men beating on each other but Batman gets some help in the form of spoiler on a motorcycle and she literally runs into hush with it he throws a grenade at them trying to cover his escape so Batman then heads back to Arkham Asylum where he finally rescues batwing before it's too late with this plan slightly derailed hush meets Jason bard where he informs him to go he tells him that the attack is going to slightly change they're gonna cut Batman off instead Batman Returns to the Batcave or he discovers hush his latest plan when hush broken he got the report off of the bat computer that stays to the location of every batman emergency supply in the city all of Batman's arsenal all undeniably Batman's weapons now at hushes disposal and bard is giving a map with the location of all of Batman's supplies to Vicki Vale for her to report on while that's going on Gotham has ramped up his military presence demanding all of the residents remain indoors as the streets are now closed and then a tank explodes with an explosive battery Batman moves quickly he needs to secure all of these caches before hush can use all of the explosives in there and Jason Bart can believe what just happened he tells hush this has gone too far he's now injuring his own men but hush tells him there's no backing out now Batman finds himself under attack from the GCPD at every turn so he has penny two locking down the caches while he battles against the newest recruits in the GCPD but while he's moving through and disarming them Wayne Enterprises is holding a meeting where they've assigned that they need to vote out Bruce Wayne Wayne Enterprises is attached to these attacks on Gotham because they funded the creation of Batman's weapons through the Batman Incorporated project and the name on all of the paperwork is Bruce Wayne someone's going to take a fall for this Batman has larger problems though penny too has run into hush at one of the caches and while he's amused that she's the prettiest of his partners it doesn't take long for him to shoot her and then leave her for dead as he rigs the place to explode Batman rushes there and finds that she's managed to escape into the sewers she isn't doing well hush then activates one of the alarms calling Bruce Wayne out so he heads over there after Alfred tries to convince him that penny too should not be involved in this anymore Batman and hush finally have their meeting hush is ready to confront battle II as Batman enters the cache a hush puts on the Batman armor and jumps in guns blazing they battle it out punch his kicks batarangs lodged into hushes helmet but in the end Batman defeats hush rather easily he grabs him and he whips the bandages off of his face you're not a puzzle a secret or whisper this is who you are Tommy he says as he forces hush to look at himself in the reflection you're not me you never could be then a public announcement goes out that Wayne Enterprises has had its chief operating functions and Holdings seized by the federal government realizing that things are going rather poorly for raine enterprises Batman reaches down to grab a note card that hush had in his pocket and he dropped slowly picks up the note card and he reads it you have been cordially invited to partake in the devastation of Gotham City Jim Gordon falls in precisely two weeks time the rest is up to you Batman's eyes go wide in shock as he's also listening to the report that Wayne Enterprises is no more and dissolved Bruce Wayne is effectively broke and hush wasn't the mastermind hush gets up on his knees maybe you're right Bruce maybe I'm not to you but right now who would want to be Bruce Wayne meets with Lucius Fox in a random cafe in the middle of Gotham how bad is it lucious he asks I think you should cancel your next few ski trips mr. Wayne all of your holdings have been seized they even took Wayne Manor and turned it into a temporary holding facility for Arkham inmates you are basically broke Lucius I need to know the status and the remnants of the R&D department in Batman Incorporated the Commissioner rated all of them they have everything Lucius then picks up the tab and Bruce calls of Julia to check on things in the Batcave she says that the concrete slabs are holding and that none of the nut jobs should be getting into the cave she then looks over at hush who's all locked up in a Cell in the cave as Lucius leaves the table he warns Bruce of one more thing let Batman know commissioner bard also has me that night Bart is setting everything up he has this trap prepared it's too late for the police to bring down Batman he blows up two buildings that are literally just being blown up to draw Batman and then he looks down at Lucius Fox you'll let me know when he enters Gotham right well across Gotham Batman is racing into the city with penny two in his ear you know this is a [ __ ] right Batman yes penny too but sometimes you need to prove someone doesn't have all of the cards by heading into their trap but what about someone that does have all the cards just then Jason bard interrupts their call with his own Batman this is the GCPD pull over now but obviously Batman ignores him so bartels Lucius to lock down any systems that they can control on the Batmobile oh and Batman remember that waynetech ultra heated wire mesh that your friend claims you couldn't get into your battle B without damaging it I hope he was in line and at that moment the ultra heated wire mesh expands in front of the Batmobile shredding the armor in the front side of it shut the hell up they've been eject the or that Batman uses to protect the systems of the Batmobile and they gain full control of the Batmobile are you ready to surrender Batman let me think on that that's too bad what are you doing I have control of your fancy Batmobile you're like my little RC car hit the brakes and put on your fancy back cuffs and we'll end this no barred looks over at Lucius hit the bat-jets you could kill him so bard walks over and hits it himself forcing Batman to launch the jet propulsion system and go over the edge of one of the tallest bridges in Gotham Batman goes crashing through the Wayne Enterprises building driving through it and then he realizes he only has so many buildings that he can drive through until he'll run out of buildings and come crashing down into the streets below so he calls up penny - I need your help they have control of the Batmobile and the cockpit has been wielded shut by the wire mesh but just as he's calling her the Batmobile hits the end of the road and it begins to plummet down into the streets penny jus panics trying to think of an answer anything Alfre figured this out already and then she thinks blue rose and boom the Batmobile explodes as it hits the pavement bard Pat's himself in the back and leaves the cleanup job to the rest of the GCPD well this was going on Vicki Vale went on a mission of her own to discover who Bard is what she found is that he was a normal cop with a partner and due to a bad vigilante that was a kid there was a bloodbath and his partner didn't survive after that he blamed people like Commissioner Gordon for allowing vigilantes like Batman to exist leading to kids trying to be just like him and that's when a doctor by the name of Thomas Eliot approached him Vicki then called bard to call him out and tell him that he was just too pathetic for her but at the moment that Bart is he answering the phone call Batman sucker punches bard how there was a safety protocol to get me out of the undercarriage if it hadn't worked I had 6 more ways out of the car this is what you don't understand Jason I thought hush had a gun to your head but your men died you put them there and they died you have no regard for human life don't you dare I'm doing this with a woman I love the one that I lost the idiots trying to be you there wasn't a single life lost for what I did three stabbings eight shootings at a young woman beaten to death by a mugging all because the officers were busy trying to clean up the Batmobile I'm sorry for your partner all of those years ago but the deaths tonight are on you then Batman turns and walks away stop put your hands up Bart says I don't think he will Batgirl says that she appears with both Red Robin and Red Hood and then with a little smoke they all leave to go back to the Batcave where they all welcome each other back home Tim tells Batman that they only need to stop Bard and this will be over the bamming informs him that hush wasn't behind this neither as Bard someone is still trying to get the nanotech virus out there the one that infected Harper Rose brother and someone hired a false REO to use mind control and Gordon and someone else was behind the destruction of Arkham Asylum forcing them to turn Wayne Manor into a holding cell who was the man behind the entire plan not just another one of the pawns but while Batman is trying to figure it all out so was the Riddler and he thinks his time that he helps Batman out just a little Bama should have had this already meanwhile across Gotham Catwoman is starting to get used to her new job as a mob boss but only assassins would stop trying to kill her so she suits up and she meets up with croc to offer him a chance for revenge meanwhile the worst of Gotham's villains are forming up things - scarecrow it turns out that he isn't as dead as everyone thought he was since he traded his soul to hell he feels that he should get to lead this new band of Batman villains while it does take some convincing he does get everyone to at least temporarily listen to him Selina turns on the bass signal she calls on Batman and at first he doesn't want to hear it she sided with a gang her gang and once she did that she became his enemy so she tells them that they don't need to end it like this and to make it up to him she has all of Arkham's worst just waiting for him Batman arrives at the location and he makes short work of every single one of Arkham's inmates they never were a true problem for him and it was made even easier by Selena's plan you see she arranged for poison ivy and croc to work against scarecrow frees Bane and Clayface then informed Batman of their location so that he could capture them all all because she wanted to remove the freeze so that she could place her own individuals to their places in her own words it's time for Gotham to go back to its rightful masters meanwhile across Gotham at Blackgate gen-pop Jim Gordon is getting a visitor Jason Bard is there explaining the whole situation to him that he was convinced to go along and because of him Gotham has become a war zone then because of him Batman and his allies are hiding out instead of saving Gotham he wants to fix this he wants to make it right but no one will listen to him any longer he has no allies of his own and Gordon tells him that he did the right thing by coming to him now the first thing that they need to do to fix this is get Gordon out of Blackgate but do it by the book our villains aren't gone yet though they're being hauled off to Blackett and the SWAT van carrying them takes a detour as the back door opens the guards inside find themselves being shot up by other SWAT guards they are then escorted to a room where cluemaster and his deal as super villains are also being escorted and Catwoman has been invited by invitation inside a voice comes over a loudspeaker and it explains that they are now in a room with all of Bruce Wayne's seized Batman weapons and his money and they're allowed to take it as long as they go to town on Gotham while this is happening Batman has gone to rid of his location high in the mountains the Riddler left a clue all the way back in our --them that he knows who was behind all of this and Batman needs to know so he accomplishes a simple riddle and then he begins to throw Riddler around he's exhausted mentally and physically and half mad as the Riddler puts it Batman doesn't have time for games anymore what's going on you claim you know who's behind this now tell me Riddler but just that as Batman is getting ready to bring the Riddler back to Gotham explosions go off around them creating an avalanche the two men quickly become buried in the snow but Batman knew what to do and he's currently in case in the snow he calls up penny to to tell her what happened but that he's a little preoccupied trying to get out he'll be fine but this is gonna take some time while this is going on all of the criminals are loading up on baton his toys and his money well Catwoman tells them that this isn't her style she's out she tells the punks here that this is pointless she isn't going to listen to a mystery voice and while they've been waiting for a payday like this she's been making her own she made her own life she edged her way out of the Gotham underground and that's when the crooks assigned cattlemen isn't with them she's against them and Firefly blows up her car back with Batman in the snow he finally drags himself out and he grabs the Riddler I'm taking you back to Gotham but the Riddler pleads did not go back we'll all die there he says so Batman asks him who has you so scared don't be silly I'm not scared I'm being logical when suddenly the ground beneath them gives way and both men fall down the cliff and into more snow at the bottom The Riddler gets up and he tries to run again but Batman tells him stop running and that's when the bad jet rises up from the snow which was conveniently right beneath the Riddler we're going back to Gotham Riddler you'll never make me talk I only led you here to make you think for yourself Catwoman of course walks out of the warehouse unscathed she knew to jump away as she leaves the building telling croc one of her henchmen this is gonna be bad meanwhile Red Robin and Harper row are hard at work on the location of the nanotech virus Tim has been working out uh since the beginning of this insanity and he hasn't gotten any closer to figuring it out it's a virus that's taking over the children of Gotham and Harper Rose brother Cullen is included in this mass it takes over their bodies and it turns them into drones with a virus kind of like zombies well Tim and Harper have tracked it down to a warehouse where the drone people are building something spoiler on the other hand is still battling against everyone trying to take her in for her bounty but as she begins to fight this new individual telling him that she's already dropped six low lives he explains that he was hired to protect her not take her in for the bounty and he knocks her unconscious realizing that the nanotech virus situation is much worse than he originally thought Tim calls for help from Red Hood aka Jason Todd and Batgirl you want me to shoot a bunch of kids Jason asks no what that's not at all what I said Tim tells him well that's how it sounded to me jason says typical bad girl says shrugging off Jason's comment Harper corrects Jason doe we need you guys to clear up the nanotech zombies so that we can find the big boss man and shut this down where's Batman Batgirl asks he's dealing with the Riddler and I trust Harper Tim tells her fine let me get my rubber bullets jason says all sad Tim and Batgirl jump through the upper levels while Jason breaks down the front doors and he makes a mess like he was supposed to they quickly see that the nanotech zombies have been building a relay tower of sorts Jason tries his best not to harm the kids while Batgirl is keeping things busy so Tim can jump up to the catwalk and discover the mastermind behind all of this the Mad Hatter you're the one behind all of this crazy tech Tim exclaims no not behind oh no not out on top wear hats go Gotham needs a new look and I'm just the Hatter - give it to them and leave it to you to find the creepiest way possible Jason yells out doctor fell sorry Oh had a knockoff of your technology we thought he stole your inventions tim tells him you are correct a little bird that horrible man only saw money in my work but i do i to it i do to embrace the outcast this hat the lonely the hatter then hits a switch and things begin to get much worse inside of the warehouse because he just took control of jason bad girl realizes what's going on that they are losing and she yells the tim to get out of the workhouse and save her and jason as she finds herself being turned into a nanotech zombie as well but he can't get away fast enough as the hatter takes control of tim as well leaving harbor row outside the building all by herself she quickly escapes the area and goes back to her apartment harper is tired of being pushed aside by all of these heroes this is her brother and she will help him so she finally suits up as the newest superhero in gotham bluebird the mad hatter begins to march on gotham with his nanotech zombie army in tow but meanwhile spoiler wakes up with her outfit all in a nice and comfy bed and her mother is standing in a doorway this isn't good because her father is the clue master and her mother has been in on the plot to kill her this whole time at least that's what Stephanie thought but as her mother tells her she had no idea how far her father had gone and if she did she would have gotten Stephanie out of there sooner harper Row is now going by her superhero name blue bird as she waits with a mad hatter to take most of his army out of the building she then slips in to finish what Tim started but it didn't take her long to find that there are still some nanotech zombies inside and they definitely alerted the Hatter to her presence he comes back in a hurry and begins to send zombies and to grab her using Tim Jason and Batgirl the whole down he will infect her with the nanotech virus but Bluebird is a tech girl and she sees how he's controlling everything it's all in the Hat so she takes a free moment to kick it off his head then using a gadget in her glove she blows up everyone that's trying to hold her down and she picks the Hat up off the ground there's a new hatter in town she walks over overloading the relay and destroying all of the nanotech virus finally the Hatter looks on as shocked as his entire plan was foiled by the new girl on the block Harper then runs over to her brother in a braces him because it's finally over and that's when Batman finally arrives to grab the Hatter and demand to know why are you here Hatter but the Hatter explains he was invited like everyone else he has no idea who did it he only got the instructions on a card to make Gotham hate Batman frustrated as always Batman explains that he was following some of the nanotech teenagers which is how he found this place and he asks Tim how he found it Tim points the Bluebird her oh we're gonna need to talk about that and then Batman leaves meanwhile back with Stephanie she walks out to the kitchen to find that her mother is tied to a chair and Catwoman is standing there my you are a difficult person to find lucky for me I like a challenge well as it turns out cattleman was only looking for her not for the bounty on her head but for the information that warranted such a large bounty she also knew that Batman would be coming for this girl eventually for some reason so Catwoman leaves the underworld to think the spoiler is here with her in her casino while Batman brings spoiler back to a safehouse to be guarded by Bluebird and her brother Cullen Bluebird agreed on the condition that Batman will train her for real all the karate chops and eye poking stuff the weird part is though spoiler still wouldn't reveal what she knows to everyone because she is seemingly afraid of Batman and she wouldn't say why so after a night of explaining the situation to Bluebird she finally does reveal what she knows what everyone has been hunting her down for she knows who's been handing the money to her father the man behind all of this she saw Bruce Wayne the man who funds Batman spoiler then gets up and begins to leave with Bruce Wayne funding all of these bad people she isn't going to stay here she's gonna stop him but Bluebird tells her that she isn't leaving and if she tries she'll stun her spoiler won't be stopped from leaving and they begin to fight it out meanwhile the GCPD have finally gotten the name of the person who was doing the entire Arkham Asylum Dark Arts and then collapsing of the entire facility dr. Milo Batman has his agents tracked down any more information on dr. Milo and they catch him just in time as he's attempting to leave Gotham through the airport he is chased through the airport by the security until he flies out onto the runway with a bat jet hovers overhead and demands that he surrender or be neutralized he panics and screams I'd surrender but the Bechet then shoots all of the drugs that he has in his pockets and Batman jumps down to grab the man by the throat and demand to know what he did to Arkham what did he do to the inmates he explains that he did what the book said it entwined magic and science and it worked it was a gift to him so Batman to Manson know who gave it to you and dr. Milo explains it was attached to the card he received then the spirits of the deceased seemingly rise on the ground and they surround Batman that man the old time has come they exclaimed dr. Milo holds his hands over his eyes who are you I didn't summon you I can't look Batman looks in horror as the spirits around him are that of his mother and father telling him that he couldn't help them there poor baby they tell him that he has desecrated their memory with his war on crime while this is going on the spirits are also crawling all over dr. Milo demanding to know why he gave them to Joker's daughter she killed all of them then one of the spirits which turns out to be a doctor of Arkham appears and tells the others to leave Batman alone they are here to get dr. Milo he made them into this but his Batman runs over to Milo to save her from a heart attack the GCPD arrived just in time to demand that Batman puts his hands over his head Batman activates a flashbang off his belt and he disappears into the night with dr. Milo as they take off into the night Batman calls up Jim Corrigan again the spectre and he explains that all of this Arkham mess was because of dr. Milo using a book that he wants Corrigan to look at it so Corrigan batwing and Batman all get together in a cemetery that's considered hollow ground just in case Corrigan needs it Corrigan then finds out that dr. Milo opened up a trapdoor of magic one tailor-made to allow black fire out tailor-made to make a hole into hell and tailor-made to allow him to do all of these or redness acts but he went too far and it eventually broke him mentally back was spoiler in Blue Bird they have slightly resolved their differences spoiler is sitting on the bed telling Blue Bird that she just can't trust her she can't trust anyone so Blue Bird decides that she's going to ask Batman if they can just get spoiler out of Gotham and she sets up an automatic stun gun on spoiler if she moves she'll be knocked out for quite a while as blue bird leaves spoiler can only say well damn back with Batman in the Batcave he begins to look through who bought up all of Wayne Enterprises companies and structured them in such a way that it looked like a signature he even realizes who is devious enough and rich enough to snag up all of Wayne Enterprises semi legally and gets that far unseen only to sign it who can bring the city to its knees who has the influence over all of these people in all these different types of walks of life Ra's al Ghul Batman arrives in Ra's al Ghul's current hideout Karachi only to be welcomed by one of rasa's tricks a mist that is all around him raus where are you Batman yells out I believe the answer isn't aware the question is when look around your detective you see no walls or floors I am nowhere you are nowhere we are not in a place we are in the future your future what do you see in your future Batman do you become a remnant of a long dark era do you find a successor maybe a student or something worthy by blood I present to you the question Batman is Batman eternal but Batman isn't tricked and he reaches through the mist to knock the teeth out of ebenezer dark one of rasa's lackeys what's ross playing at I don't know I do what he says and he lets me live not unlike your relationship with him ra's explains that this conspiracy is against the fat and it is not Raza who's doing he then opens up the doors in the back of the room showing himself at a hospital bed on life support he has been struggling with his recovery ever since Batman threw him into a ravine Batman that takes his hand and slams it against the wall no there's no one else it has to be you look in your heart you know what isn't true detective no return and figure this out evolve and then become ready to face me again Julia pennyworth heads off into the city to answer the bass signal wearing a bat mask of her own Selina aka Catwoman has called for Batman she has shipping manifests coming through her gang and sane stuff being ordered by Gotham's worst someone gave them a blank check and they went crazy with it and they are insane there's about to be a battle between all of them to see who can clean Gotham first and they're extremely competitive penny two goes back to the Batcave where she phones in to Batman a new piece of the shadow conspiracy against you is in play a number of your villains are setting up but Batman has a bit of a flight ahead of him as he's returning from Ra's al Ghul's hideout so penny too has dialed up the rest of the bat family to begin looking batwing is handling scarecrow and his crow drones Red Robin is handling Clayface and his attempt to become a star again Blue Bird is taking care of mr. freeze and his creepy frozen family and life Batgirl is fighting against Joker's daughter and Red Hood battles it out with Bane and his super armor with the family preoccupied by each of Batman's villains the power suddenly goes off in the Batcave and hush walks free without the electronic locks and he ties a sick Alfred to a chair he does this so that Alfred can watch his daughter being launched into the sky and away from the Batcave she turns back to see Gotham is burning from the harbor and just at that moment Batman's bat plane automatically shuts down as hush now has control over the computer and he's turned it off Batman steers for an airfield where he has another crash landing while this is going on Jayson Bart is finally doing the right thing by going to the mayor and demanding Jim Gordon's release he explains that Gordon was framed he has evidence to prove it but the mayor refuses to listen it begins to go to the helipad where he intends to get out of Gotham Bart stops him if you want to flee fine but you aren't gonna do it before signing this release form but over at Blackgate gordon has much worse things to worry about as someone has knocked out all of the guards they just released all of the prisoners of Blackgate to make matters much worse of the bat family hush stands in the center of the Batcave in awe at the power that he now has at his disposal so while the bat family is trying to battle their villains peeping is the Tinker with the remote controls in their suits making their battles even worse and cutting off all communications but Julia isn't out of this fight yet if she drags herself to the harbor and Batman of course didn't die in the plane crash as he drags himself from the wreckage and begins to walk to the nearby air force airfield he then steals a jet and spray paints IOU on the ground with a bat signal he'll be getting back to Gotham soon enough over a black egg the GCPD and Jason Bart are trying to get Gordon out only to find that the whole facility's overrun by the inmates but back at the Batcave alfred is finally done being sick as he gets out of the cell but hushes put him in and he cracks hush over the head we're done here Tommy with Alfred at the bat-computer controls again the bat family finally has their support again but they also now have Batman there as he's finally gotten back to the city he throws an entire jet at Bane saving Red Hood and then reports over the radio that he's coming and this back at Blackgate penguin a croc used this chance to escape from the prison but bar does get Gordon out finally which was just the time that Batman needed to arrive where batwing was battling scarecrow and Batman comes riding in on the crow drones he quickly removes the scarecrow threat he then goes to Bluebird where he electrocutes mr. freeze and he disables him then using Victor freezes freeze gun he freezes Clayface and saves Red Robin they then all head over to help Batgirl with Joker's daughter but she's already beat up Joker's daughter you guys didn't seriously think that I would need help with this did you she asks and Tim tells her showoff but while Batman is getting the family back together Firefly has lit most of Gotham on fire Batman cannot believe how far this is gone and he punches the window and that's when he turns back on his kal communicator and Julia explains that he received an invitation to the best seat in the house if he's willing to meet up with a bat signal he can see Gotham fall and see his failure with no sleep for 36 hours and exhaustion setting in Batman goes to signal tower to end this while the bat family goes out to rescue people in the fires Batman arrives at the tower and he demands to know who was behind all of this who did this the corporate launch stunt lines out of shocking him and forcing him down to his knees in out steps cluemaster you never did consider all the options all you needed to do was follow the clues Batman cluemaster straps Batman to the bass signal and cuts the bat signal off of his chest with a razor he then takes off Batman's shirt and he asks him do you even remember my name after you stopped me all of those years ago Arthur Brown the clue master a second-rate Riddler knockoff shut up The Riddler never got you this far Diddy and then the clue master removes Batman's mask ha no wonder you have such an ego Bruce Wayne is Batman your name is all over this city it doesn't matter now your allies have been slaughtered your city is burning I have taken everything from you piece by piece and then he throws the cape and cowl off the side of the building we talk you know those who don't make your a list we have meetups and poker nights I remember during one of Joker's big schemes I made a joke what if we struck right then when Batman was focused on one of the real baddies we laughed about it but I knew I was right we could do anything while you were focused on one of the big baddies puzzles the reason no one does is we think that you're bigger than us but you're not are you you're just a man see I created the illusion of a coordinated attack so many people hate you that they came stumbling out of the woodwork to be involved all's I needed was some offhand Hatter tech to get Gordon to pull the trigger and it threw you off right from the start then I sent out invitations the kind of people that would see this as an opportunity it didn't matter what they did big or small they just needed to do something and they certainly each took a different path it made you look for someone behind everything look for the big bat and you were so focused on finding somebody worthy of a plot like this that you ignored the little stuff the way the city was changing the way we were preparing for the total chaos to take hold you bought into your own legend your own story you thought there had to be someone worthy of you but this whole time Batman has been picking the locks on his own wrists and he throws a left hook at the clue master meanwhile back with Gordon and bard they're finally putting everything together Brian's body armor CCTV cameras and an entire fleet of armored vehicles they are going to take back Gotham Batman begins to head the clue master over and over and then he throws him headfirst into a wall with the James Bruce this is really the end I've had my fun but I'm not going to play this game with you anymore is that so you can stop with the ridiculous voice Bruce you can't even stand up and the clue master is right as he hits Bruce across the face dropping him then he pulls out a gun gotta shoot you and that's when the clue master has his throat slit by an unknown assailant coulomb no not according to plan our unknown person begins to approach Batman your plan may be cluemaster him but I've always had a plan of my own hello brother are you ready to end this and we see that Lincoln Marsh has his own plans that he wants to enact it turns out that when cluemaster wanted to start this plan he arrived at the harbor house on the night of the the night of the owls is the night that Bruce Wayne's supposed brother killed the court of the owls and tried to take Gotham cluemaster arrived in a harbor house wanting money resources and power and with it he could do anything but he was defeated when he saw the court of the owls was dead but one man was still around that night Lincoln to Marsh also going by the name Thomas Wayne jr. and he funded clew masters entire operation Lincoln Marsh now stands in front of Bruce Wayne ready to bring his own plans to fruition it really is sad he actually was smarter than anyone gave him credit for not smart enough mind you but smart he had this excellent plan of a lying in the fact that he was literally the last person you'd expect to put it together but that's it he was a nobody he couldn't bring this to its end Lincoln to Marsh then lowers his mask and using his jet pack he grabs a person he launches him into the sky you see brother I already know that I'm a nobody I come without a code name and without some colorful entourage I'm holy nothing and you made me that and I will return the favor but Batman isn't done yet he takes a shard of glass out of his own back and he shoves it into the jetpack no I can't control you bastard and they both land into the nearby building meanwhile across Gotham the entire bat family is saving the city batwing Red Robin Batgirl and Red Hood all trying to save people but Red Hood is about to meet his end as the building around of his crumbling and Batgirl is trying to save him but that's not all Gordon the GCPD and even Catwoman and croc are all coming up with plans to save Gotham this has to end now Bruce Brucie Lincoln Marsh calls out your brother wants to come out and play you aren't my brother Lincoln Bruce yells back as he takes the tattered remains of his costume and he makes a makeshift mask before grabbing a street sign and running in to finish this off but Lincoln Marsh breaks the street sign and then opens fire on Batman Batman dodges and grabs a car door slamming it into Lincoln Marsh telling him to shut up but Batman is defeated he's too tired too exhausted to injured and Lincoln no Martian knows it as he grabs Batman by the throat it's over Bruce you and I both know that I have one and then I will slink back into the shadows with no one knowing what truly happened without your fortune without your company that names Batman and Wayne will disappear from this city and I will have one you will be a footnote a strange deviation tied into these past few troubled years but Batman will be done forever but a voice comes over the loudspeaker with the bat signal on the television screens Gotham City I need you to listen this is the former Commissioner Gordon Jim Gordon broadcasting on every street corner in Gotham I know you're frightened right now more frightened than you have ever been maybe that fear has pushed you to do things that you wouldn't normally do maybe it's just pushed you to hide away in some dark corner but Gotham City is our city and when hell is unleashed we don't run and hide it needs a City it needs all of us and that's when talent arrives and saves Red Hood and back go from a crumbling building Talon what the Red Hood says the lady in the cave she put out a call to everyone and that's when we see the extended family is arriving Batwoman Black Canary and even katana back with Batman and Lincoln Marsh our villain is staring and disbelief this can't be happening and that's when Batman uses this opportunity to headbutt him breaking his mask off then a bucket is started him throwing him off balance who'sa it was actually spoiler she leaps him punching him don't you recognize me I'm Batman she shouts looking up Lincoln more she sees that he's defeated as behind Batman stands everyone now everyone in the family you're not very invisible now are you Lincoln Batman says as Commissioner Gordon helps Batman back up Lincoln Marsh vanishes into the tunnels below and our story finally comes to a close so what happened to everyone after this well jason bard went right to vicki vale and he offered to tell her everything that happened she warned him that he'll be disgraced and never able to work for the GCPD again but he isn't mind Gotham's known for hiring ex police officers aren't they Catwoman and croc will they continue to run their criminal organization and while Batman isn't happy about that because woman has a lot to answer for he'll deal with that on a later date Jim Corrigan went back to his unit in the police which is covered by another book Gotham by midnight and he offered a spot on the team to bowing before he went off on his own again Jim Gordon and his daughter Barbara Gordon well they finally good to have a quiet night at home Jason he was done in Gotham and he had some friends waiting for him he almost left Barbara a message so that they can pursue a possible relationship but he changed his mind and he told Roy Harbor to come pick him up Stephanie went to go stay with Harper and Cullen after all of this and she seemingly trusts Red Robin who came to check up on them as she finally had her first official meeting with Red Robin they shook hands and then they looked into each other's eyes because they saw something that might happen someday Lincoln Marsh didn't get away he did fully into the tunnels but the court of the owls they were gone and they found their wandering talent they sealed them up and they told him who might have a use for you again and a decade of to and with everything finally done the city went back to its beautiful black and blue sky and Jim Gordon became commissioner again Batman who already fixed the Wayne Enterprises situation getting back his money and resources arrived at the bass signal and Gordon told them about a plan the Scarecrow has enacted something that is going to need Batman to stop it it looks like the job for the Dark Knight never ends if you're still here you are amazing mr. Wayne aren't they amazing Robert anyone anyone who stays to the end of my full stories gets a cameo from Robert Jefferson yes what did you think of the Batman eternal storyline when it came out yes yep there you go don't forget to subscribe to get more full stories every Monday and other videos as we do them throughout the week and thank you guys it was a really long video enjoy the next one [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Comicstorian

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Length: 90min 33sec (5433 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 04 2018