Batman Rebirth - Full Story of Tom King's Run | Comicstorian

welcome to the full story series right here at comic story where we give you the information your favorite comic books movies and video games involved in the pop culture zeitgeist so that you can be caught up in your favorite stuff today we're going to be looking at tom king's run with batman which spanned over 85 issues of batman telling the story of what happens when batman is happy this is a long full story so i'll see you guys at the ending and enjoy the video the plane was soaring through the sky preparing to descend into gotham the passengers were all told to put on their seat belts and prepare for the landing and as it flew through the night sky the bat signal shone brightly batman was standing on the gcpd roof talking to commissioner gordon about a recent incident a raid on a local fort that no one should know about gordon informs batman that out of the three missiles that were stolen two were recovered he then informs batman that they don't know where that third one is but they do know that there is a desperate man running around gotham with some rather big guns and then overhead there's an explosion as the plane is hit by a missile gordon looks up holy we need to get to the and he turns around to see batman gone already right right batman wastes no time leaping off the building alfred it's worse than it looks master bruce they have lost their vertical stabilizer in the hydraulic system it's also expecting to come down in gotham square in six minutes on a saturday evening with those crowds the loss of life will be exceptional all right put it out on justice league comms to hal and clark and then i need duke batman leaps into the batmobile and the roar of the jets go off as he pulls out of the alley i need an angle duke duke is bruce's new thing that he's trying duke worked as a robin in the we are robin gang and with all of his robins graduating and moving on to new missions batman decided that it was time to train another individual to work with him but not a robin he's trying something else duke runs the calculations and then points batman to a bridge with just the right angle as he screeches the tires spinning the car around alfred calls it back in to inform batman that the league is preoccupied off-world at the moment as batman drives off the bridge he informs alfred it's fine gotham is my city as the batmobile begins to fall into the bay batman hits the ejector seat button and launches himself into the sky i'll save it alfred as he roars into the sky getting closer and closer to the aircraft he informs gordon of the situation and he tells him that they only have three minutes until it crash lands gordon begins to panic asking how do we evacuate the square in three minutes batman but batman assures him it's going into the bay i'll be pushing it there where are you batman i'm on the plane oh of course you're on the plane he begins to attach boosters to the bottom of each wing and as he's doing this alfred is informing him that it's going to be a close call batman then swings back to the top of the plane and attaches the cable to the nose so that he can steer it with alfred congratulating him on his new bat plane he begins to steer the plane twisting and turning it around the buildings batman has successfully saved the square and the individuals on the plane but at this moment alfred informs him of the problem with the speed of this fall batman will take the brunt of the entire crash and he has no cushioning he has no hope of surviving this he can't leave or the plane won't hit the bay it'll hit a building or a populated area he has to stay on it until the very end so he tells alfred there are messages prepared for the boys and please send my regrets to mr thomas if he wants to continue his training dick grayson will be a good replacement as a teacher and then he asks alfred yes sir anything sir what day would mother and father have been proud is this a good death yes master bruce they would have been proud as proud as i am sir the plane then began his descent into the bay and at increasing speeds it began to hit it rest assured this is certainly a good death and as the plane is about to start tearing apart and the impact will be felt by batman the nose begins to lift up and batman asks clark and instead a plane lands softly and two individuals float in front of him batman it's an honor and a pleasure i am gotham and this is gotham girl the next day the statue of justice in gotham there's a fight with solomon grundy and he's not winning the guy born on monday christened on dues day married on wednesday took ill on thursday and then as he gets to that line he grabs gotham and he throws him into the statue breaking it in half luckily gotham girl flies in catching it from falling and gotham flies back down to catch grundy as he continues his rampage grew worse on friday died on saturday buried on sunday except in a puff of smoke batman is sitting there prepared as grundy comes to him he uses grundy's own weight and momentum to lift him off of the ground and that was the end of grunty he then drops him on his head gotham flies over thinking batman and batman informs him that gotham wouldn't have caught him in time before he trampled the man behind them do better and then he leaves gotham flies over to batman to acknowledge that he's doing this wrong he doesn't know how to do this and he wants batman to train him show him how to do it right batman flies back to the bat cave where he tries to figure this whole thing out he was dead with no option to save himself until these two supermen arrived and saved the day and offered jokes oh no gotham is sprawling down into chaos again but meanwhile over in gordon's office a man walks in confessing to be the one that freed grundy and then he stabs himself on the neck telling gordon that he had no option gordon shines the light into the sky and batman arrives with gotham and gotham girl introducing them to gordon he then explains the dead guy in the fact that the dead guy freed grundy and gotham girl connected to the men who fired the missile as they have all killed themselves as well gordon tells him that he doesn't know anything about any of that the man was ranting about the monster men he then turns and he talks with gotham and gotham girl and batman vanishes gordon shakes it off as gotham and gotham girl are shocked and surprised yeah he does that so where did gotham and gotham girl come from simple there was a dark alley and a young boy that was being walked home by his parents a mugger arrived and pulled out his gun and the father being brave decided to stand up to that man most of you probably know where the story goes next but i'm here to tell you you are wrong as the mugger threw the boy's father down and grabbed the woman's necklace there was a gloved hand and a punch that threw the mugger aside batman saved that family that day and he told the family that an ambulance was in route and then he told the boy it's okay to be afraid because it gives you a reason to fight that fear and everyone gets a chance to be brave the boy grew up looking up to batman he was the hero that the boy wanted to be but he didn't have superpowers or tons of money so instead he took his sister with him and they helped where they could they worked in soup kitchens and they helped the homeless while they trained to their bodies and their minds then eventually they went overseas to perform charity work when they came home they were different they were now gotham and gotham girl taking the name of the city that required them to be brave batman learned this history by pretending to be fbi agent malone investigating what he could by questioning the boy and girl's parents he walked outside and he took off his disguise while walking into his car then the car split into two revealing the bat cycle and him in the bat suit because alfred just called to make him aware that the bridge nearby is collapsing as a suicide bomber has blown himself up on it beneath the bridge is hank and claire otherwise known as gotham and gotham girl with hank holding the bridge hank is struggling to hold the bridge up while gotham girl is trying to speed through saving all of the people on it when batman races up he quickly fires off bat gadgets that attach to the cables and the bridge itself then the bat plane begins to fire its jets in reverse holding the bridge up but one individual was watching this one individual planned all of this one individual is able to convince people to do whatever he wants the mastermind behind all of this hugo strange batman jumps to the top of the bridge waiting for gotham and gotham girl to arrive and he informs them of the plan he'll track down the suicide bombers while they scour the city they find anything they tell him he then leaves off the side of the bridge and gotham girl smiles he let us see him leave that's gotta mean something and hank smiles as well as his hero is trusting him except nearby they see a fire blazing and they decide to take off for it only to find hugo strange standing there with psycho pirate batman arrives very soon after he finds gotham girl cowering in the corner telling him she's very very scared and he asks her where is gotham meanwhile gotham was on a rooftop trying to talk down a suicide bomber but the man tells him that the monster men are coming and he blows himself up right in front of gotham batman arrives on the scene with hank lifting a beam telling himself i can fix this i can fix this and batman explains you're only making it worse as hank throws the beam into the batmobile you don't know what i can do you're right you aren't scared like i'm scared i thought you could save this city in a way that i never could until i came across 27 dead bodies in a building 20 27 no hank says flying off batman grabs a hang glider out of his batmobile while duke transmits something weird that he found the serial numbers on the dog tags of the dead men all add up to the same number 24. when they looked up the number 24 and a backdoor military plan he found that it was related to the 24th letter in the alphabet and he found that that was the letter x batman knows what this means task force x suicide squad he flies to the office of amanda waller demanding answers and she gives them she recruited hugo strange and psycho pirate into her team to watch over gotham and be there when she needed them except hugo strange betrayed her and the team and using psycho pirates powers to manipulate emotions he has driven gotham and gotham girl crazy but good news you're here to help me with this unfortunate situation aren't you batman and i'll work with you on it as long as you say please 27 of your people are dead you want me to say please check your facts detective i had 28 people and that's when batman realizes what this means and he rushes to find hank hank killed 27 people while the 28th played dead that man took a picture of hank's face when he took off his mask and then he ran the picture through a database to find hank's parents to take his revenge batman showed up just in time to try and talk hank down telling him it's not you it's psycho pirate making you feel this way but hank tells him it's too late and he snaps the last man's neck and then he throws batman out of the building while he flies off batman calls up alfred to let him know that hank has gotten out of control psycho pirate has given him pure anger and because of that he is blaming the city of gotham for everything and he intends to destroy it the problem is batman is too far out he can't prevent the loss of life so one man grabs a spare batman costume and loads up into a spare batmobile well thomas allow me to say what an honor it is to have been asked for you possibly to entrust me with the care of master bruce well sir i am humbled but of course the need for such care will never arise that's not as if on some dark night you'll be shot dead by some mugger trying to steal martha's pearls that would be absurd but if such unlikely circumstances were to tragically come to pass allow me to assure you that it will not be a difficult burden to bear alfred keeps talking to himself as he rockets the batmobile at a target in the center of the city bruce will be a simple child to care for easy nights nice dinners and perhaps a charity baller too then alfred drives the batmobile into gotham he hops out of the batmobile looking at gotham in a bad suit and bruce tells him i'm here run for it so he does as batman kicks got them in the head throwing him into the stairs and nearby before blowing him up he then throws a plane at him and as gotham prepares his heat vision he fires it at batman but he's suddenly stopped by a green shield because the justice league is here superman grabs got them by the shirt telling him we're batman's friends and we'd appreciate it if you surrender but gotham isn't done as he punches superman you see gotham's powers are his to control each ounce of power that he uses will take moments off of his life so he can make himself stronger than a god or weaker than a mouse but with each use of his powers time is taken away from him and right now he isn't concerned with the time that it takes away as he punches through cyborg's chest he then throws aquaman down and he shatters a green construct he then catches flash mid-run and he uppercuts him and then flings wonder woman away with her own lasso superman flies in to bring strength to the table but gotham hits him so hard that he crushes the man of steel and then with the justice league defeated he looks at batman again fine fine do it kill gotham because this city is just brick and mortar i am gotham kill me but there was one person who could stop gotham his own sister and she decides that it's time to stop being afraid as she swoops in she takes gotham into the sky dodges a punch and then with everything she throws him into the ground she has the same powers as him and could easily match gotham strength and her punch killed him she landed on the ground holding her brother's head in her arms telling him i tried i told you to stop i tried have you ever wondered what turned pain into the man that he is today his terrifying childhood did it was because of that that he turned to venom venom helped him with the screams it helped him get through the memories but now he has a new addiction psycho pirate a man with the power to make you feel an emotion so powerful that you can't break free of it now psycho pirate makes bane feel happy he makes him feel brave and powerful without his venom but psycho pirate isn't just affecting bane he altered the mentality of a new hero in gotham claire gotham girl has been struck with perpetual fear from psycho pirate before bane kidnapped him leaving her lost in her fear bruce realizes that she'll never get over the death of her parents and brother without having this wiped out finally in order to wipe this emotion from her and allow her to be normal again he needs to get psycho pirate back and that's what he intends to do he knows where bane is and he knows that he has the psycho pirate but he also knows that going into bane's fortress alone is a suicide mission so he'll need to build his own squad of individuals to help him and off he goes to arkham asylum his first stop is to recruit the ventriloquist right now weskler doesn't have his puppet as scarface is locked up and batman has a plan for him next he goes to see ben turner the bronze tiger he's an arkham for two counts of manslaughter and after he wrestles with batman he agrees to help their old friends the next stop is to see julie a woman who's in for four counts of murder and then batman takes a swing at commissioner gordon knowing that it really wasn't commissioner gordon that had been walking with him this whole time because he put julie on the list to not get to her but to get punch out her boyfriend and the man pretending to be gordon right now punch-out is the only man to ever escape from bane's prison julie throws her arms around him calling him punchy and batman has the next of the people on his squad as long as he promises they'll be together after this he then walks into a private room with an arkham attendant telling him no no no no not this one and batman insists he walks into a room we find an individual all tied up with a mask on and he removes it inviting catwoman to his team she's locked up for 237 counts of murder and she's slated for the death penalty he might be able to get her out of the death penalty and with that the mission begins as batman flies towards bain's base of the prison of santa prisca he soars in on a bat plane and right off the counter aircraft are sent up to stomp him he takes a few hits and he crash lands the bat plane on the beach where he stands in front of multiple men telling him that they are here in the name of lord bane he jumps in kicking punching and dodging but literally hundreds of men come at him and they eventually overwhelm him he's beaten and taken straight to pain bane grabs him by the head throwing him face first into the floor you invaded my country mocked my laws because of that no one is coming for you you are alone alone with me before with the venom i would have bent you over my knee bane i have comfort psycho pirate however without to the venom i am not strong enough to punish you in that manner i need him to save someone turn him over and i'll go away refuse to turn him over and i will break your back bane doesn't listen though as he gets on batman's back and he bends him backwards he throws him into a cell on the ground and he locks him up with his back in pain batman gets up and begins to punch four holes into the wall then he gets on the wall and he twists his back back into the proper position and he stands up pain gone then as the prison fills with water he uses his gauntlets to break the lock and out crawls batman he walks to the back door and he opens it up where catwoman and wessler are standing all going according to plan catwoman asks him now what now we break his back he brings them back inside and he tells them that they are to separate the tunnels he tells catwoman and weskler to go down one tunnel because punchy said that that is the cell that pirate is in and he reminds her protect wesker without him no one gets out alive out in front of the prison bronze tiger stands there with julie and punchy telling the prison that he has brought back their escapees he brings them forward where he offers them his gifts to bane since punchy is the only man to ever escape bane's prison and julie is the reason that he left batman radios back to catwoman that the other team is in position and she replies with i'm in position as well batman bane looks at punchy and he smiles and then a whip comes out of the ceiling wrapping around bronze tiger's neck she jumps down to forming bane and the bronze tiger is actually lying this is all a plan of batman's tiger was supposed to distract him while she kidnapped the pirate band stands up catwoman how she goes on to explain that batman escaped from the prison cell and he let her in right now he's up in the ceiling waiting for the word that the pirate is safe then he's going to jump down here with tiger punchy and julie's help and he's going to break baine's back julie goes to tackle every catwoman slices at her throat punchy calls out to julie so catlin cuts his throat then she walks forward and sits on bane telling him now i'm going to tell you how to break the bat all according to plan and batman's hiding spot he jumps down and bane's soldiers begin to open fire on him he kicks punches and makes his moves and he runs through the prison dropping anyone in his path then from a window on the bottom floor he scales to the outside of the prison he makes his way to the rooftop he glides off it landing back in the ocean with the sharks and he swims it back into the tunnels he then beats down a hundred more guards and continues his walk he gets closer and closer until he walks up to baine's throne again with psycho pirate now next to him using catwoman's help they forced batman to show himself to bane again and bane asks him what's next batman while this is happening wesler is still standing where catwoman left him bane walks off his throne and he kicks batman down he then picks him up slamming him back down and with that batman is laid out bane explains to batman that the pirate makes him better he has no need for venom with the pirate here and catwoman smirks as she watches all of this he picks him back up batman tell me you want to be happy tell me you want to be brave tell me what you want batman i want to break your damn back while this is happening bronze tiger starts crawling through the pipes in the facility meanwhile julie and punchy sit up on a conveyor belt heading towards the furnace and they begin talking and blowing bubbles with bubble gum they aren't as dead as they would appear catwoman quietly asks that and batman simply says not yet as bane continues to beat on him down on the tunnels tiger finally makes his way to wesler who is waiting for him as he bursts out of the water while this is happening punchy and julie both pop out of the ocean using the bubbles that they made as air pockets and right then right then batman tells cattlemen break him catwoman leaps off the throne wrapping her whip around bane's neck and lands square in his back he drops to the ground realizing what just happened batman has broken him tiger and wesler come out of the main doors and batman tells westgard to get the pirate while everyone else works on the escape plan wesler walks over to psycho pirate and he just sees a mild-mannered guy he tells him gods have fallen to me now you're scared he tries to instill fear into wesklar but he seems rather unfazed by this weskler raises his hand and suddenly scarface begins to speak all right enough a diss i'd kept quiet so we can get out of how come but no one is going to tell my tub a lot what to feel that's my job and then weskler knocks out the psycho pirate tiger then asks him to turn around and he knocks wesler out the group grabs wesler and pirate and they head outside where punchy and julia are sitting on a raft made out of those bubbles and with everyone gone batman walks over to bane repeating one of the statements that he made to batman earlier in the coming days you're going to be tempted to leave the comfort of your home to seek out a monster but listen to me before you get yourself hurt you don't want to do it you can stay safe for the rest of your life all you have to remember you're brave you're happy you can always stop as batman and the crew leaves bane calls out for venom venom as the night falls silent bruce tells selena that it is done waller kept her word the president signed off no more death penalty life without parole instead selena pulls herself closer to bruce and bruce says that they're going to process her tonight back at blackgate not arkham and he'll take her there tonight selena's lips get close to his and she asks if he'll take her and after saying yes she kisses him as she pulls away she tries to hold back a tear she says that she at least wants tonight they can have her life without parole but right here right now the night is like a diamond shining she's been suspected of killing 237 individuals which bruce knows she didn't do she's taking the fall for someone though he can't prove it so the only thing that selena wants for her last night of freedom is him and her he asks what will we do and he sees the bat signal shining in the sky moments later at the clock tower the clock king tells bruce how he's been planning this night for four years how tonight will be batman's death and as the clock king goes on selena crashes through the window punching him and then turns to bruce asking if they're done he looks out and he sees another bat signal and he says well so the two of them go out stopping criminals each time the signal lights up until finally there's no more criminals out there but now that they have done all the things that bruce likes to do it's time for them to do the things that selena likes to do a little while later selena sneaks the two of them into a building holding the victoria cat something that was stolen four years ago from the gotham museum something that bruce has been looking for ever since selena says that the cat is hanging by at the red too thin to see too thin to work on and bruce looks around and he mentions that this apartment is under the name holly robinson who's that selena plucks the cat from the string and says i am she then runs past bruce telling him to run and jump the two leap out of the building as the room explodes and as they watch the fire selena mentions that he shouldn't worry she owns the floors above and below so everyone is safe as bruce stares at her he asks why she tears a hole into the cat and pulls out a small pouch she begins to pour out a bunch of diamonds and says that when she's gone she wants him to build an orphanage or a dozen she holds the diamonds out and then tosses them all around she says but first we have to stop for a second stop doing what we have to do maybe this once do what we'd like to do the masks both come off and the two of them kiss they embrace each other passionately and their clothing begins to get stripped away time passes as bruce and selena lay on the rooftop talking about the first time that they met bruce says that it was on a boat and selena says that it was out on the street both have different stories about how they ran into each other but there was one thing that bruce noticed and that was how impossibly beautiful that she was as the two of them get up selena tells bruce that she loves him and after a few moments hesitation he tells her that he loves her too they get dressed and selena asks him what time is it bruce says that it's late as she stands up she tells him she can see the dawn and that's the problem with bats they're always looking at things upside down she turns back and tells bruce to catch her before falling off the ledge he runs after her calling out to her and as he jumps she's nowhere to be seen he contacts alfred telling him to get any information he can on holly robinson this person may have information on selena alfred says that he'll get any information that he can but he assumes that she ran and bruce tells him yeah she ran a short while later a young woman sleeps in her apartment only to be woken up by the sounds of sirens going off she shuts her window and says that everyone needs to go back to bed and then bruce's voice says holly robinson where is selena kyle before holly has any time to react bruce says i know you and her grew up in the same orphanage and that you're her only friend i also know that she didn't kill anyone so i need your help in finding her holly waits for a moment and then she says that he's got the wrong person she doesn't know anyone her name is actually catherine cruz stops her stating that he knows what she means to her and what she has done for her but she doesn't know what she's done for him selena understood him she knows who he is and she loves him anyway catherine says that she has a phone that selena gave her in case they ever needed to talk she walks to her dresser to get the phone and as she grabs it she instead pulls out a knife slashing at bruce's throat his body falls to the ground and blood begins to pour out and after almost losing consciousness he picks himself back up he heads out and alfred reports that he just received an alert that catherine and turley just booked a one-way ticket to con doc the flight leaves in 30 minutes and you should be able to stop her as bruce jumps he doesn't answer and he falls short from the ledge that he was jumping to his body begins to fall backwards towards the ground but before we can land someone catches him moments later selena holds his body telling him he's supposed to catch her soon selena sits in wayne manor telling the story about holly selena used to train her and teach her the ways of how to control her anger but after her home was burned down by them her anger took over and holly robinson killed 237 people selena knew that that would give holly the death penalty so instead she did what she had to do to protect her and she took the blame so now they must do what they always do they must protect the ones close to them and before leaving she tells alfred to relay a message for bruce when he wakes tell him it was the street i'm sure of it alfred says that he'll gladly tell him but what if master bruce wishes to respond selena relays the message there are many rooftops in this city surely i will be on one of them once bruce heals from his injuries he tells alfred that she stole it alfred says that he isn't really sure what bruce is talking about after miss kyle left everything is where it should be what was it that she stole he begins to pull his mask on and he says the night she stole the night on day one someone hopped over the gates into arkham asylum inside batman was looking at psycho pirate without his mask as a guard pulled a gun preparing to shoot batman in the head luckily bronze tiger leaped in to stop the gunman and as the gunman smiled batman saw i am bane or written on his teeth before breaking them in and putting him down batman thanks bronze tiger for ending this and he tells batman it's not over it's far from it coming off a venom is like trying to scrape at it with a rusted knife he won't stop until he has the pirate back batman took dick duke jason and damien to bad burger where he wasn't happy that they were offering to jokerize his fries he tries to tell them to stay away from this bane is his problem but all four boys fight against that while arguing over the toys that damien got fed up with them making fun of the way that he eats a burger with a fork and knife bruce stands up demanding that they stay clear of this later that night batman lands on the rooftop with the bat signal to talk to gordon but it wasn't gordon who shone the bat signal into the sky instead it was catwoman batman tells her to step away from this get far far away because catwoman is the one who helped to break baine batman knows that she is a target gordon runs up to arrest catwoman and she gets away and gordon tells batman that he could have stopped her and batman agrees i could have and he leaps off the roof himself that night batman decides to grab gotham girl claire and bring her to the bat cave for safekeeping but as they enter the bat cave she gasps as they see three people hanging damien dick and jason hung up by nooses and blood smeared on their chest stating oh yeah later that night bronze tiger has someone pounding at his door he hops out of the bed grog yes someone calls out room service he opens the door and takes a blast to the stomach a few more hours go by and superman arrives at the fortress of solitude where he finds batman is there already he asks how bad and batman doesn't respond as he walks into the main room where he has dick jason and damian sealed up in tubes he explains that if they wake up they're going to go after bain again and if they do they won't wake up again he explains that the process of fixing claire will take four days so he has to keep everyone safe for four days superman looks at batman bruce it's me or him no one else superman tells him okay and batman leaves meanwhile as the evening approaches claire is brought into a room with a psycho pirate and they hold his mask over his face they tell him to tell her that she's brave tell her or die and they hold a gun to his head elsewhere selena is looking over the old orphanage from her past when a stranger walks over and opens fire on her back back with gordon a man with a gun approaches from behind as he drops his pipe as he picks it up he turns and shoots his gun he drops the gunman and then he sees two more thugs there to kill him luckily duke jumps in and together they drop them they think everything's fine until the wall behind them grumbles and two hands reach out that night as batman is perched above the asylum on the clock tower he hears nothing but the ha of crows until a flare is lit and on a nearby rooftop he sees bane with gordon duke bronze tiger and catwoman all tied up prisoners batman lands in front of bane and he looks at him my offer is this the pirates for the cop of the boy the tiger and the cat do you accept the reign because they hit the back of batman's head as he stares down bane no and bane eyeballs him no he reaches out for batman do you know who i am he throws batman into the walls watching a crumble behind him do you think that you can come into my home and take my life away from me do you think you can run away and hide in the city do you think you can say no to me do you know who i am he begins to pummel batman with his mighty strength i am not a joke i am not a riddle i am not a bird or a cat or a penguin he dodges as batman tries to fight back i am not a scarecrow a plant or a puppet and then he puts a massive boot into batman's face i am not your broken friend or your regretful teacher he races up both his fists to put batman down on his batman spits of blood bane lifts him up i am not some rich boy playing dress up he then throws babin into the wall so hard that you can hear the walls cracking and breaking behind the weight i am bean he grabs batman by his shirt now give me the pirate and as he coughs up his own blood batman tells him no bane throws him aside and as he grabs batman again he looks at him with his fist clenched this is how you die batman and batman with blood all over his face responds like a man who isn't giving up brain shut up bane knocks batman out and dials up one of his thugs on the phone kill the hostages batman won't give up the pirate but instead of a man about to kill the people on the other end he hears someone tell him i'm sorry bane snaps at them who is this mr bird is currently unavailable but i can take a message and as she says that catwoman is scrolling with her nails into the man's chest i am cat realizing his plan to force batman into giving up the pirate is shot bane walks to the front door of arkham and with a single kick he knocks the steel doors in and he walks in bane walks into the main hall and he's stopped by two-face you see batman offered the inmates of arkham a deal if they stop bane he'll improve their stays but on the other hand two-face wants to carve out batman's spleen so he asks what are you offering for helping you instead of hindering you vayne looks in him and he punches him in the gutted across the face pain i offer pain bane then proceeds to blow through inmate after inmate and meanwhile deep and arkham alfred goes over the situation with bruce you freed the inmates and you armed them with weapons take the girl and run master wade he killed gotham he broke claire he shot selita he hanged the boys he hanged my son from a rock in a cave i'm not running madness this is a madness back with bane he shatters mr frieza's attempt tears apart firefly soon and he throws flamingo aside one by one he systematically defeats each villain telling them the pain was gone i was done i was done with this and calendar man stands in front of him you were never done neither was he you'll never stop he puts his fingers to his head and he says bang before falling over tune in tomorrow same bat time same bat channel in the final room a giant steel door lays in front of him and the riddler walks in offering to crack it he allows bain entrance telling bane say hello to batman for me tell him i still remember our war of jokes and riddles i still remember what he did dane walks in to find batman standing there in front of him both men make a fist and as they tighten it up they realize that it's time to finish this it's time for it to end baine looks at him this is the end batman and with one punch babbitt is on the ground do you know how many times i've heard that rest in peace batman there's no escape batman time to die batman every night over and over and over for so many years this is the end batman every damn night and yet i'm still here with that he gets out prepared for another punch i'm going to kill you every damn night bane begins to beat down batman crushing his face stomping on his back batman's blood dripping from bane's gloves and mixing in with bane's own blood which has been spilled but while batman is getting beat down and destroyed he swears he hears a voice deep down in his mind the voice of his mother calling for bruce to come home as his death is approaching with everything happening between him and bane batman knew that this was his death it was the end and the voice of his mother was comforting him then he thought of claire the girl that he needed to save and he whispered it yeah i know your pain but i think you forget and then batman arose and headbutted bane with everything i'm batman bane hit the ground in a pull of his own blood and batman collapsed as well thinking about his mother's voice for a moment he believed that you were done for a moment he left himself vulnerable after a moment bane finally understood that though you fall though you want to fall no you need to fall you're never done you vowed to win a war the girl was your war to win so you did this suffered all of this for the possibility of and then on the verge of death he saw himself leaning on his mother's shoulder victory but batman sits up no and in his thoughts in a place beyond this plane of existence he stands i'm sorry mother but no that's not right this had nothing to do with victory or winning a war the girl needed help so i helped her that's all there is to it that's all it's ever been she stood up and she reached out for his hand bruce thomas wayne my little boy all grown up you know you don't need a good death for me to be proud of you batman spits his own blood out of his mouth as he stands there yes mother i know tale begins with a hockey game the final minute of a match between the gotham blades and the metropolis mammoths in an arkham asylum a blond-haired inmate starts to put something together in her mind she cries out panicking they're going to kill him she turns to her fellow inmates and she grabs her head stop it stop it i can't stop it stop it stop it can't you see superman won't come our friends will die the legion will die no one will stop it no one will save us and then we fade away from saturn girl deep in the bat cave batman stares at an enormous series of monitors each with a view of the button and he watches the hockey game he twirls it between his fingers as he watches the puck hit the ground and two of the players begin to fistfight they have a history the announcers say this was in the making the audience says but neither man is giving up ground and they hit each other so hard that one man hits the ground and everyone begs for him to stop the fight is over as they pull one man off of another batman turns off the television and he throws the button over to the table the one where he's been keeping the psycho pirates mask ever since he got it from the man himself the two land next to each other and there's a slight spark and a faint noise batman turns to see what's going on and the button sends out a current of lightning that hits batman in the chest throwing him back he looks up to see another batman a man from another time a man from the flashpoint event called thomas wayne thomas looks down at his sun and he calls out bruce and in response to that bruce reaches out father and then thomas wayne fades from the vision of the dark knight so he calls up a friend flesh something's happened with the button can you come over here and flash tells him that he's a bit caught up with about 37 samurais attacking him so give him one minute it'll be there then batman hears the telltale crack of a speedster's lightning you said one minute flash of all people i never expected you to be early flash no and then the reverse flash punches batman to the ground quite the reverse actually with 56 seconds until the flash arrives reverse flash begins to talk my name is eobard thon and i've been dead for quite some time i should be dead for quite some more time and then with 53 seconds left he stomps over at the button on the ground but of power it awoke me it called out to me for me and i am resurrected batman leaps at him but he vibrates letting batman hit the floor oh you want to fight some more at second 47 reverse flash cracks batman with a right and then a left and then an uppercut at 46 seconds remaining he throws another left and then a right and then at 45 seconds remaining he hits batman across the face with 44 seconds remaining he grabs him you're still alive how fun he begins to run around the batcave throwing batman into the trophies and devices that he has around until he finally comes to the letter that his father gave him from flashpoint with 37 seconds remaining he tears it up with batman calling out no and then he throws it into the air like confetti oh yes and now we have 29 seconds remaining until the flash arrives reverse flash begins to vibrate making it so that batman can't do anything to him and batman tells him there's one thing i know about speedsters to blur you have to be touching something on the ground and he drives a batarang into reverse flash's foot pinning him there at 22 seconds remaining batman gets up for round two punching to the right and then a left in reverse flash sonic collapse him into his monitors you have to know you can't win batman wipes the blood from his face oh i know but i don't need to win i just need 11 seconds at the 10 second mark reverse flash runs in punching batman over and over and batman even manages to get a shot in himself so reverse flash pins him to the ground pummeling him and then he lifts him up batman looks him in the eyes one and nothing happens huh i guess overtime reverse flash knocks batman out and stands over him pathetic he slowly walks over to the button and he picks it up and he vanishes he then returns moments later with a blue fire burning on him god he falls to his knees i saw god and he dies that's when the flash runs at apologizing for being late he tried to save the hockey player who was beat but he was too late and then he looks down to see the dead reverse flash and an unconscious batman flash gets batman up to his bed where alfred begins to take care of him and he begins to go over the crime scene the reverse flash is there as a skeleton and he's trying to figure out what happened eventually he realizes there's only one witness so he goes to talk to batman and they decide to figure out what's going on batman tells him that eobard said that he saw god flash tells batman that he knows thon's vibrations and there was something weird about them on his corpse it's almost as if he traveled throughout space and time how did he get back to the cave batman then explains that he put the button next to psycho pirates mask and he saw something a ghost of his father they go over their notes as all started the night that wally west returned flash has also been seeing things such as eobard thawne and the helmet of mercury the helmet apparently gave him hope batman asks flash what he isn't telling him and flash tells him that he'll update him when he gets info within a short amount of time flash has made his way up to the justice league watchtower it is here that they house all of the artifacts that they have come across he thought back to the day that wally returned from the speed force and while he told him that there was somebody watching them he never saw who it was but they're out there and they're waiting to attack wally said that whoever this was was more powerful than darkseid flash runs over to a sheet pulling it off and there sits the cosmic treadmill the tool that the flash uses to travel through time the thing that he swore that he would never use after he created the flashpoint universe but as he goes to get on it batman steps out of the shadows this is my case too barry flash tries to tell him no but of course that doesn't work as batman and the flash get on the treadmill together and he begins to run faster than light all around them is a blinding white light as they begin to run through the time stream flash notices that things aren't right immediately around them are different timelines separate from the one that they live in different outfits altered histories even timelines where individuals have died and behind them is a time storm which is getting closer and closer and the flash knows what this means they can't get caught up in it or they won't even know where they land he has to run faster but he isn't fast enough as he gets hit by the storm with a full chrome batman and flash go flying off of the treadmill with batman holding on to it with a batarang and the flash zipping around trying to get back on but the white light of time begins to close around them it begins to swallow them up and then the treadmill hits the ground breaking into pieces they both get up looking around and batman sees that this is his cave but different and the flash realizes where they are batman sees the gun the gun that killed his parents and he sees a glass case he lowers his cowl as he looks at it how is it here i never recovered it and then batman turns to see another batman his father and thomas wayne turns to bruce i did this all because of you son thomas continues everything i did i did because i wanted to save you and the final fight the flash gave me hope for you and i put my faith into him that you would be saved and i would die and the nightmare of the flashpoint universe would end but something put this world on life support the nightmare didn't stop the war continued the fights the floods the deaths of millions i was a fool to think that i could do anything to save my son and now my enemies come for me wonder woman and aquaman finally agreed on something and they both have sent their soldiers to put me down i decided to take them with me but now here you are and this isn't real he grabs flash by the throat but the flash vibrates out of it telling him dr wink please listen to me something went wrong it's been months since i've repaired the timeline since i left and changed it all back but there's something that has kept this universe around and we are trying to follow its trail how is it even possible the flash says kneeling down to field of vibrations flashpoint was never an alternate timeline but an alternate history it should no longer exist it's being held in place like those visions that we saw on the time stream i don't understand any of this but i have to rebuild the cosmic treadmill it should only take me a minute and then thomas wayne looks at the stairs we don't have a minute both batman drop their cows and they jump into battle as the flash rebuilds the treadmill and as they complete the fight the entire world begins to shake it begins to fall apart it's being let go of finally bruce turns to his father your letter it was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given to me bruce after i read it i knew i would never get a chance to respond but if i did there was one thing that i wanted to tell you above anything else you're a grandfather i have a son flash turns to them batman the treadmill is at full power without me on it we have to go now bruce turns back to his father come with me please and thomas turns back to throwing him onto the treadmill with the flash the universe around them begins to fade away into the time stream flash you promised me that you would save my son now do it thomas calls out bruce tries to fight against him barry let me go but thomas looks at them as they begin to fade away into the time stream you were my world son i delivered you myself in the moment that i saw you i know that every choice that i've ever made has been for the right reasons because they led to you you're the greatest gift this life has ever given to me and there is more that i should have shared with you in that letter so listen to me don't be batman find happiness please don't do this don't do it for me don't do it for your mother be a father in the way that i never could for you let the batman die with me bruce calls out we can save you and then cocoon they all vanish thomas stares at the dust cloud where they once were you have he throws the trigger to the bombs on the bat gave aside and he drops his cow and then he turns to the white light wayne's never stay down we rise and he fades into oblivion as batman and flash begin to run through the time stream again batman tries to convince flash to turn around but the flash turns to him there's nothing to return to that world is gone so batman asks the next question the button came to the cave why did it bring us to the flashpoint universe and behind them is the reverse flash running past them coming through flash how on earth did you get ahead of me let alone find me batman and the flash are shocked but batman sees thon holding the button and he tells flash he's holding the button this is before he runs off and dies so flash calls out stop stop or you'll die thon and thawn shouts back i know where this button comes from flash and they've never faced someone like me and he continues to barrel on into the time stream flash calls out thought i've seen your future you're going to die if you keep going my future berry like the day that you broke my neck or the day that you watched batman's father's side of sword in my back empty threats to a living paradox there is no future there is no past then a big bolt of lightning hits between them and as the flash calls out to thawne again he feels another force barry i'm here batman asks him did you hear that and flash tells him it's nothing it's the time stream calling out to you thon turns back to the two of them i have an idea barry once i have this power i'll go back and make you my son i'll become a social worker and raise you make you my acolyte and at that moment the treadmill begins to fall apart and fall to pieces batman tells flash we need to land somewhere barry and the flash tells him i have to catch thon and thon gives the grin of the psychotic reverse flash like always you're too late barry i'm here your life is about to be done he arrives alone in open space with nothing but the ground and the person in front of him waiting he looks down at the button pulsing with power hello you don't have to be shy now i can feel your presence like a wave of static electricity it's powerful i'll admit to the fact that i've never encountered anything quite like this you've done such strange things to the timeline things that i won't begin to question and never made hidden from all of them but i'm not like them my existence is the only constant in a sea of possibilities i cannot be erased by anyone by you show yourself thawne looks up and he sees the blue light and he begins to swirl around him and he realizes his mistake my god wait wait i didn't know the blue light touches him and it begins to pull him apart at the seams please i don't want to die but before he can even finish his sentence he's pulled apart and turned into the skeleton from the start of our story meanwhile batman and flash are the screen from thon and they're tumbling through the time stream but flash here's another voice barry i'm here flash and batman begin to fall out of time in space itself flash grabs on to the treadmill for his life and batman is clinging on hoping that the flash has the answer and both of them hear that voice again barry batman looks at him barry listen to that voice grab on to it bruce we don't know where it'll take us we don't have a choice the voice calls out again right here say my name say jay flash is confused jay and krakum a speedster's lightning flies through the time stream as jay garrick arrives on the scene at last i'm free he leaps in front of both of our heroes grabbing them trying to run them through the time stream he screams out as the time and space streams around him are trying to absorb him flashing batman and when he finally gets his footing he's off hey god hang on power enough to get you and then he throws them out of the time stream home cracoon the echoes of a speedster's lightning ring throughout the batcave as batman and flash have arrived flash turns to jay and asks him who are you did you kill thon what do you want with us jay struggles because like wally the speed force is pulling at him trying to return him back to where it was hiding him i didn't kill anyone barry he stands with smoke and lightning flowing off of him my name is jay garrick i'm your friend a flash listen to me i need you to remember if you remember me like you did wally barry thinks hard and a sad look begins to grow on his face he told me i forget things people someone did this do you know who it was and then the time stream begins to reabsorb jay they took everything from me barry i don't know how and i don't know why barry reaches his arm out what is your name what was it again and then comb a giant bolt of blue lightning reaches out and grabs jay removing him from the timeline again smoke swirls on the floor of the bat cave and the flash helps batman up the man said that he knew me the same way that wally did but he's not here maybe he's from another timeline maybe or maybe i wasn't the lightning rod that he needed to stay grounded the next day bruce and barry stand in front of the grave of thomas and martha wayne barry asks him i wonder if all of this was dawn's doing time rupturing changing people fading in and out of reality like your father and that other flash he died but maybe his death is what triggered all of this maybe there's no one else to chase i appreciate you trying to close the case barry but it's far from closed so what our primary suspect is god for now that's all we have the two of them walk away from this for now and off in space something with blue light is watching over the planet but back in wayne manor bruce is looking out the window thinking about what his father told him don't be batman find happiness the bat signal shines in the sky and he remembers the next words let batman die with me alfred walks over to see bruce looking into the sky at the signal sir aren't you going to answer that bruce looks and then he hangs his head low and out in a time and place unknown to us the button is sitting on the ground as the blue light draws closer to it and we see the blue hand of dr manhattan reach down and pick it up why does my perception of time distress you everything is preordained even my responses we're all puppets lori i'm just a puppet you can see the strings near the beginning a woman lowered herself into the bat cave it was slow and methodical and she grew closer to the batmobile as the bats flew around her with the simple act of letting go she dropped onto it and with a grin on her face she said meow and drove out in the city so dark as the hearts of the men that he was catching batman stood on a fire escape when alfred called him up master bruce and he growled back brizzy and alfred told him i'm aware of your busyness sir but there's an issue with the car it comes crashing into the bar where they're at and batman looks at it and finds a rat on the front seat he reports to alfred that the batmobile will be fine and alfred asks him are we calling it the batmobile sir batman looks at the driver's seat to find that mouse squeaking and staring up at him later bruce sat on his day off trying to figure out a riddle left by the riddler he was making notes on his notepad when alfred came over with a drink so he put down the pen and paper and took it he reached down to pick it back up a minute later to discover that the pen was gone alfred jokingly asked if he should alert superman or perhaps mr wayne could look under the sofa but he stood up looking around she's here alfred he listened intently and he could only hear the meow he leaped over the chair and he ran into the dining room where he jumped up and ran across the table he yelled stop and she said no they entered the kitchen and he yelled i'm gonna catch you no you're not he jumped over the chairs into the empty room crying out this is ridiculous that you think you can catch me i agree they went up the staircase and he told her i am gonna catch you no you're not they made it to the second story and she explained i wanted to tell you i wanted to be nice after what happened to the car so i called the cops on myself before breaking in which i think is very generous she sprinted for the window leaping out the police should be here and they should be so surprised to see me going out the window and you following bruce wayne realizing that he just chased her without his costume he stopped letting her leap out the window yelling out bye bye bat and thanks for the pen bruce stood there wanting to chase after her but knowing he couldn't he shut the window and he turned around where he found another mouse squeaking away later more time passed and batman returned to the bat cave due to the alarms going off one set up specifically to alert him of catwoman he set up five she only found four he walked upstairs and alfred called out that if she leaves another mouse tell her to leave some money for some food for the thing it's only proper he walked into one of the rooms where catwoman was messing with a safe telling her that she's trapped she told him that the safe behind the fifth alarm only had jewels in it so what's in this one after opening it up she pulled out a single pearl and asked him why standing in front of a painting of his parents batman told her it was my mother's she died i know everyone knows yes everyone knows but i know you shouldn't be here my mother left and growing up in gotham i was astray i was alone like you after they left after a while did you ever had that moment where you don't know anything else well you almost like this life you like being by yourself and then you think maybe it's better maybe it's okay because it is okay why dress like a bat why dress like a cat i like cats everyone likes cats they're soft who likes bats no one you shouldn't be what everyone likes you want people to be scared of you it helps i'm not scared of you no you're not and with that she leaned in for a kiss but before she could embrace him she pulled back and began to fiddle with his belts batman told her that she shouldn't do that but he didn't stomp her and then a smoke bomb went off and she ran into the distraction that she had created he called out the alfred asking if the alarms are going off if anything is happening but alfred told him that all of the locks failed and that batman sees the mouse that she left later she tried to enter again but this time batman found her on the roof of the building and he wanted to ask the one question why and as she runs at him because i'm making you better or you're going to die she jumps over grabbing his chin you've mastered just about anything you can master but under it all you're still a poor little rich boy in the house on the hill she runs off the roof as he yells chasing her you don't know me and she tells him and you don't know me why do you care if i live or die do you care if i live or die that's different we're different no bat that's just it under it all we're the same and in the darkness she vanishes batman stands there in the rain looking around calling out cat cat cat and then he sees a mouse on his shoulder later that night as she entered her apartment and took off her mask batman was standing in the shadows squeak your mice left droppings those droppings had leaded them which traced it back to the lead used in this apartment she put her head in her hands mouse poo but it doesn't take four mice to leave poo you've known since the beginning haven't you what did you keep letting me enter because sometimes i like being alone and then i hate everything because i like it i saw you i see you he lowered his cow and he stepped forward and she asked him you want to help me and he told her as he took her into his arms i don't want to help you and he embraced getting the kiss that she teased him with earlier but let me ask you what if this was the end what if batman and catwoman decided that enough was enough and they got to live their lives together without the threat of death destruction or the end of the worlds well later on in their lives when they were pushing their older years they sat in the doctor's office happy because they were together their entire lives and they still debated how they first met was it on the boat or was it in the street something that they could never resolve and sadly this was the beginning of the end as the doctor informed them the results weren't good as they left a doctor's office bruce wayne was using his cane and they discussed the tricks that bruce used to train his memory why his version of how they met is the true version but as he went into the story selena began to cry from the news that they had just received she told bruce that she was okay and he held her before they continued their walk the news from the doctor wasn't good later that evening helena the new batwoman was there with her mother explaining that they tried magic but zatanna said that there was no fix everyone has a time and as atana said it's finally batman's time the bat signal blared in the background and helena told her mother that she had to go that's when selena was left alone with her thoughts later in bed bruce stood by the mirror looking at the punch that he had developed over the years somewhere out on another world where i stayed the batman i never got sick i never got old and i never got married selena told him to not forget the light as he came to bed but he continued after we're done here i want you to find barry i want him to find you another earth bring that guy over to watch over you i want you to be happy selina lay with her head on her husband's chest as she said but yes cat you forgot the light yeah i'll get it in a second just give me a second time passed and the condition got worse until his final days surrounded by his friends and his family bruce wayne was allowed to pass on after living a long life with the love that he was meant to be with her final words to him being i love you and she walked into the bat cave and took a seat in the batmobile remembering the first time that they had met a kitten was sitting in the passenger seat and it had a note attached to it she picked it up and she read that note i love you too cat from the first kiss to the last and as the sun begins to set in the desert bruce sits on his horse holding a shotgun stating here selena takes it looking down at the dying horse stating she was a good one she deserved better bruce takes out his canteen getting a sip of water and with a heavy side he tells her yeah selena takes aim and she fires one shot she walks back to bruce's horse asking one horse in this heat 14 hours bruce hands over the canteen telling her that he had it at 15 but it could have been 14. selena takes a sip and hops back on the back of bruce's horse telling him not bad and the two begin to ride off as they ride bruce tells her i love you cat selena tells him i love you too bat after a little while bruce and selena arrive out of town and tiger tells them that they really shouldn't be here bruce tells him i know but i've got some business in kadyam so here i am tiger begins checking the horse and says that kadyam is not a country for business it is a country of war sealed off and abandoned by their leagues of justice as they should know it does not welcome superheroes bruce then says that dick grayson says that tiger is the best intel man that there is a man who knows what needs to be known so could you get me it or not tiger takes the horse by the rainstorming batman dick grayson is an idiot after a bit of traveling the guard standing before the cave tells tiger we have known each other for a long time for the money you're offering i'd open the gate for anyone but that is no man that you are with that is batman batman gets off the horse and selena stops him telling him please bruce sighs again telling her all right but be nice as selena walks up to the giant man he tells her i am the god of the desert appointed by the justice league of america i have turned away heroes villains armies and i want to fight and to bleed i will even turn away the batman but you you're just a little girl what are we supposed to do now dance selena thinks about it for a moment and smiles telling him yes and she takes out her whip a few moments later the guard falls in the ground bloodied and bruised shouting there are rules i agree to the rules everyone has selena walks up stepping on the guard's head and bruce asks that was you being nice and selena tells him nagnagnag as a three walk-in tiger says he is right you know there are rules and bruce tells him i know i'm the one who wrote them tiger goes on stating what i mean is that no one will follow you aren't you a bit worried the u.n the military all those super friends bruce stops him asking if you're a man who knows what needs to be known then you should know why we're here right tiger tells him yes and bruce then asks then do you honestly think that we're getting out of here alive tiger tells him no and bruce finishes by telling him that you probably understand right now i'm not worried about my super friends meanwhile in another part of the country talia al ghul sits up from her bed brushing her hair when a messenger tells her that they just received a word that batman has arrived she pauses and then goes back to brushing her hair telling the messenger that she understands please prepare the swords back outside selena looks around stating that's a lot and bruce tells her i see more selena looks around at bruce telling him i didn't say i haven't seen more i was saying that that's a lot bruce stumbles over his words telling her that he wasn't trying to but selena stops him telling him that she knows what he's trying to say and bruce corrects himself stating look you're right that's a lot selena then asks are you making fun of me and bruce tells her i may be wearing a leather bat costume but do i look like i'm crazy enough to make fun of you she then says that she's not sure does she look dumb enough to know what a lot is bruce looks around at all of the assassins surrounding them and then says no you actually look lovely selena takes out her whip telling him sure now you say it just wait until i've got blood all over me as the fighting begins bruce quickly notices the assassins are not using guns perhaps to keep them alive selena asks how about we ask them and bruce tells her it's hard to ask the bounce of their jaws and my knuckles feel off they don't have tongues which means this is her the two continued their couple quips while fighting off the assassins and after the last assassin falls bruce pulls a knife out of his arm telling her i just realized something these assassins are not here to kill us they're here to tire us out a stern voice cuts through the silence and says detective and bruce responds talia talia then asks do you have a sword because if not get one and selena asks is that your ex ignoring the question bruce tells talia i'm not here to fight ignoring his question talia tells him get one as selena says yeah definitely your ex talia swings a sword and bruce backs up stating that they're just here for a woman by the name of holly robinson talia then continues to slash at bruce and he goes on explaining that holly killed 237 people and catwoman took the blame she fled from gotham and was later tracked here to her as talia brings the sword down bruce blocks them with his arm guard telling her we just want to see holly after that we'll leave talia leans in telling him yes that is what you do and then she flips bruce to the ground before he can get up she takes one of her swords stabbing it down into his shoulder telling him you will leave now selena runs over to check on bruce and as she does talia asks do you have a sword selena shouts asking are you insane and talia repeats herself so selena yells back no talia then calmly tells her get one so selena stands back up grabbing the sword out of bruce's shoulder stating okay got one talia readies herself telling her good shall we the fighting between the two of them lasts long enough for the desert sun to turn to night and all the while talia tells a story of her upbringing the day that she took her first step her father did not smile nor congratulate her he did not take a picture or tell her how proud he was instead she was given a sword and slapped to the ground the taste of blood in her mouth and on her tongue it was bitter and wet she wiped her lip and then she looked up and she saw a demon and he said one thing fight or die as talia goes on selena swings knocking the sword out of talia's hand telling her that is all very impressive but i didn't know my own father no one gave me a sword no one gave me anything in fact i only picked up a sword once maybe twice she then kicks talia's sword to her and as she charges back in she asks how is that for impressive outside on the steps entering the area dick grayson says the damian knowing that they can't enter and dick asks why do you think he came and damian tells him i don't know and i don't care dick then asks the better question why didn't he tell us instead of us finding out through alfred damien says the same thing i don't know and i don't care when my father chooses the choice of my father and dick asks what is that supposed to mean and damian tells him my father is batman and i am robin dick says wait wait wait wait wait wait did you actually just say that out loud he's batman and i am robin those are the words that were in your mind and exited your mouth maybe that's why bruce didn't tell us because he thought you would say that i have something to tell you son i'm going to ask her to marry me holy moly that's wonderful because you're batman and i'm robin damian tells dick to shut up and dick says fine fine i will because you're robin and i'm nightwing back inside talia asks so you are from nothing and you wish to marry the detective is that not laughable selena is knocked down she says obviously i'm not laughing natalia goes on stating to be married is to be a partner an equal do you think yourself an equal to him really well then now it is time to get laughable selena gets back up engaging asking what's so funny look at you you tried wouldn't that mean that you see him as an equal as well and talia tells her i tried because in all of the world only the detective could possibly be my equal selena that asks in all the world you think that you're the best for him the man is broken all the way from the start he's correct he's going to always put a vow a vow that he took as a 10 year old boy before anyone else no matter how much we love him no matter how much we want to be loved back we will always be second to a child's idiotic fantasy in a world full of superman and mr terrifics you think yourself the best and for you looking for the best whatever he is i can swear he is not that what he is all that he is is just a stupid man that i stupidly love out in front dick says here's why i think bruce didn't tell us please don't interrupt by going all i am robin on me damien tells him you're such a child and dick yells you're like 10. but dick goes on take her for what it's worth but i think bruce just wants to be happy damien tells him that his father is happy and dick tells him no he's not and the reasons he's not is the reason he's not telling us or rather told us bruce is a lot of things world's greatest detective that keeps crusader the dark knight all of it but he is not selfish he gives whatever he has and whatever happens he is the first to bleed being happy that's not bleeding that's not giving that's asking for something and that's not easy for batman to do back inside talia asked selena you love him and she tells him that she does and talia says you are a fool then talia kicked selena down telling her you fought to well maybe after i kill you i will do as my father did and throw you in the pit when you scream i will fetch you back out as talia holds the sword close to selena's neck selena reaches up grabbing the blade with her head telling her i have nine lives and i'm not wasting one on you one selena has a firm grip on the blade she kicks talia to the ground and talia begins to get back up as selena takes the sword stabbing it into talia's shoulder telling her i have to go talk to holly for a second you mind holding my sword selena runs over to holly who's been watching the whole fight and holly says that after what they've been through she's just gonna make her confess also she could be with him selena hugs holly telling her no i would never but i want this to happen and that's why i'm asking you to help me off in the corner talia sits next to bruce asking so that's your betrothed and after a grumble talia says you know what i actually like her a little while later at the front of the entrance selena comes out with bruce around her shoulder dick runs over to help support bruce and bruce says alfred i shouldn't have told alfred dick tells him yeah yeah and then damien steps up bruce looks at damian and damien asks are you happy at first bruce hesitates and then he looks to selena then he tells his son i'm getting there damian waits to respond but then he says we don't have extra horses so we're gonna have to ride two per horse and this heat should be about 14 hours selena tells him that she makes it 15. and damian says no it's 14. also while you were inside did you happen to see my mother selena says that she sort of stabbed his father in the back so she stabbed her in the back and damien says well the more things change [Music] as superman flies down to stop a speeding train he finds himself in a slight predicament not involving trains one of his close friends bruce wayne is getting married and he really hasn't told anyone about it over at metropolis lois tells clark that she should just call him and clark says that he can't if bruce wanted to talk he would call but he hasn't besides i'm busy lois says ride i'm pretty sure he's sitting at home right now just twiddling his thumbs meanwhile over in gotham as bruce and selena go on patrol bruce says that i don't need to call him selena knocks out two armed men telling him i thought he was like your closest friend don't say gordon is because that doesn't count bruce tells her fine alfred's my closest friend and selena tells him that also doesn't count alfred is on payroll bruce says what i'm not supposed to pay him do you know how many cucumber sandwiches he makes every week selena then says bat my love just call him over at metropolis lois says that she would actually like to meet her and clark quickly tells her absolutely not she's a criminal we can't share our secret identities with a criminal lois says how is that gonna work we trust bruce daly to save the world but we can't trust him to love someone that we can trust besides i've read up on catwoman she's very good at finding things on people that they try and hide if she wants to know something she will or probably already knows it meanwhile over in gotham selena tells bruce he's the man who writes about superman he also happens to look like superman with glasses and slicked back hair there isn't much i don't know later once bruce and celina get back to the bat cave selena says that she gets it now you're ashamed of me bruce looks at her and after a few moments of silence he tells her no selena then says okay if that's not it what is it and rather than answering her question bruce starts by trying to talk about the investigation that he's looking into she jumps down and climbs on top of bruce telling him no matter what happens she'll understand just do it a short while later as the two of them head back out to follow up on bruce's new lead clark and lois begin to follow up on their own lead and while both couples get back to work seemingly at the same time both bruce and clark begin to speak about each other clark says how bruce witnessed the deaths of his parents at a young age how he was raised alone inside of a huge mansion with that kind of a lifestyle he should have been a killer but instead he took that pain and he turned it into hope bruce says that clark watched his whole planet be destroyed the sole survivor of a forgotten race he grew up in the dirt finding out slowly how different he actually was he could have taken that and become something terrible instead he became a symbol of hope even though the two heroes won't talk to each other they both have nothing but positive things to say about one another clark tells lois that bruce got engaged and he didn't call that's okay it's his way of stating that we're not really friends and bruce tells selena that one cannot just be friends with superman i don't need to congratulate him who am i compared to him as the two couples sneak into their target location through the elevator shafts they step out and they see each other clark asks how did you get in without me seeing you and bruce says why would you take the elevator besides you weren't supposed to see me after several awkward moments of silence lois reaches out to shake selena's hands stating hi you must be catwoman and then the two are separated as the two villains that the heroes are searching for appear bruce and clark easily knocked them out and clark asks so how about we all go out and get a bite to eat the next night at the gotham county fair a staff member says that he's sorry but rules are rules it's superhero night so to get in they have to be a superhero and with how they're dressed they're not superheroes bruce looks at the suits that they're all wearing and scouts yeah we'll just go somewhere else selena tells them that it took them an hour to agree on this and lois says she has an idea it's not like they don't have costumes bruce gets ready to go into the car and says no clark says well this is an idea but wouldn't we just look too much like we already look right now so lois doesn't write why don't we switch things up bruce can be superman and clark can be batman bruce says no again and selena steps up stating what my kind and patient fiance is trying to say is that he sees his kind and patient fiance getting tired and hungry he'll do whatever he needs to do to remedy that situation isn't that what he's meaning to say and bruce tells her no with that the couple said to the bathrooms to switch their costumes as bruce is putting on superman's tights clark hands them the cape stating the s stands for hope bruce then hands over the batman costume and says the bat stands for a bat and clark tells him sure in the other bathroom lois looks at selena's outfit and selena says don't worry it stretches lois tells her that it better a short while later the four returned to the staff member from before and he says everyone's good except for the one on the dress who are you supposed to be anyway selena stares at him and leans in and meows in his ear and he says ha ha well and selena meows again the man says okay you're good have a good night once the four walk in clark wearing his glasses in the batman suit says that this will be fun while bruce quickly tells him no it won't everyone grabs corndogs and bruce looks at it and says that he's going to have to kick a lot of trees to work this off lois then asks why would you kick a tree and clark says i kicked a tree once i felt so bad that i spent the rest of the day planting 800 saplings outside of smallville after that the couples walk around the fair until they see the tunnel of love ride clark and lois are the first to go in and as they come out clark says that was nice and right behind them bruce and selena come out as selena says can't seem to keep my hands to myself next up in the batting cages bruce and clark hit a few balls with bruce stating there needs to be a faster setting this is way too easy for us and clark cracks another ball and says you know i suppose i could pitch for you unless you're scared bruce has another ball and asks scared of what embarrassing you no so while the two begin to focus on their game lois pulls out a flask and says that she's trying hard not to be a reporter but of all people him why would you why would anyone that's all i'm asking after taking a sip lois hands the flask to selena a salinas as well it's just that when she falls he catches her she knows it's stupid but does any of that make sense lois sits down stating that her father general lane wanted her to be in the army wanted her with a gun shooting people selena squeezes her oversized stuffed cat stating that her father ran away maybe she's not sure lois asks if it's better not knowing that you're living the wrong life and selena tells her that she tries so many things her life is always changing what's left of her without anyone watching at the end when she meets her maker where is she supposed to state and lois says meow and the two burst out laughing as selena slides down to sit she says that she's getting married and lois tells her that she's too young and selena then says you know i am too young thank you soon the night begins to wind down and as the four get ready to leave selena tells lois how bruce proposed and told her that before she was allowed to answer he needed to tell her something it was about kite man lois asked what but selena yells don't even get me started as the two talk a man dressed as the question grabs lois's purse and shouts the question is it about who is going to let me it's about who's going to stop me lois stares and says oh and both her and selena start to laugh bruce grabs a baseball and tells clark to spot him clark scans the crowd and says throw a 95 feet straight six feet and three inches to the right and three two one bruce throws the ball into the air over everyone and as it comes back down it hits the robber in the back of the head knocking him out afterwards clark and lois ride the ferris wheel and clark says seriously he has no idea john can't even get a hit off of me bruce begins to think out loud trying to calculate clark's pitch and selena completely ignores him by actually having fun later as the couples leave the fair clark says that it was actually kind of nice going out and selena tells him that bruce thinks so too but he won't tell anyone lois hugs selena telling her that whatever wedding she is doing she is so coming and selena asks do i really have to do a wedding thing lois tells her of course you do that way i can come clark pats bruce in the back telling him congratulations she's a real catch and bruce tells him you didn't do bad yourself as the two shake hands clark says it's too bad we didn't get a chance to pitch and bruce tells him yeah maybe next time as the two silently stand there bruce says i know a place and clark says fine but we're switching clothes back a short while later out of the baseball field clark starts to ready himself for the throw as bruce gets into position over by the dugout lois sees selena pulls something out and asks what's that and she says that it's the wallet of the mugger she swiped it as you ran by lois says why would you keep it that's so wrong and selena says right over at the pitcher's mound clark says that he knows that he's trying to do the impossible right and bruce tells him i know lois looks at the two of them and says that these boys have so many problems selena tells her that that's true but they also have so many abs and lois says right clark winds up the pitch and he throws into everyone's surprise bruce hits it out of the park as commissioner gordon sits on the phone before he heads home for the night from the office he talks to his daughter barbara about the football game that he just missed she tells him how campbell fumbled at the one yard line as he listens he sees the bat signal shining in the clouds and he says that he's got to call her back he hangs at the phone grabbing a few of the officers heading to the roof asking how many damn memos does he have to send no one touches the damn bat signal whatever damn fool turn that thing on this is no exaggeration i'm going to kill him but as he opens the door he sees wonder woman standing there and he says i'm sorry miss woman wonder woman diana tells him that she would like to speak with batman alone please and gordon says sure uh he should be here shortly she motions to behind him stating actually he's already here gordon says right good uh we'll just excuse ourselves once all of the police officers leave batman tells diana that she should have just used the justice league communicator dan it says that she wanted to try out the signal she thought it might be fun batman asks what can i help you with and diana says that it's the gentle man he's contacted her he's ready batman thinks of the of johanna and how they forever tried to break into their realm their numbers derive from the sin of man so their numbers are endless but forever standing between the apocalypse entering their existence is the gentleman several years ago in a league mission diana and batman discovered this fight and briefly fought alongside him and that short time they felt his nobility and the impossibility of his burden there is only one way to enter that realm and it's if someone on their side opens it so for thousands of years the gentleman has fought with no way of coming back but before zatanna pulled the dinah and batman back to the real world they offered to one day return and take the gentleman's place and finally he has accepted that offer back at the batcave selena swipes at a scarecrow dummy asking doesn't batman fight crime this doesn't really sound like a batman thing wouldn't this be better suited for superman batman tells her first i don't have a thing second powers don't work in that realm as they do here fighting proudness is more essential that's why wonder woman and myself have an advantage over superman in that area the head falls off the dummy and it rolls off and selena says i'm so telling clark that batman then steps forward in his suit of armor and says please don't as selena looks back she starts laughing telling him he looks ridiculous later as he's getting ready diana tells him not to listen to her he does not look ridiculous he looks but batman stops her stating ridiculous diana takes her sword and smiles and says well yes a bit but i am also very much not one to say all men who try to fight look ridiculous to me all of you with your weapons acting so tough it really does not suit your gender she takes her sword slamming into the ground and seconds later batman and her are in the other realm fighting against the hordes of johanna in their place in the real world julian the gentleman takes off his helmet and a voice tells him don't worry we left you a suit julian looks up to where the voice is coming from asking are you a demon selena tells him no well at least not today a short while later at bat burger julian takes a bite of his burger and he says batman is really popular here he seems like a good man and selena says that she sure hopes that he is julian then asks are you his wife as selena says to be so julian follows up asking why would you marry someone if you could only hope that he is good she thinks about it and it says come on we don't have much time we should get going meanwhile back in the other realm after fighting several armies diana looks off in the distance and says that another one is coming batman begins to shave with an axe telling her the horde is everlasting and diana says yes but are they back with selena and julian julian says yes i am married just as a mugger attempts to romp she turns back kicking the gun out of the man's hand and asks how exactly does that even work julian julian punches the man stating i will tell you after i call her back with batman and diana diana stabs down onto the creature asking how long has it been and batman tells her too long as jana starts to get back up she says she's starting to but bruce stops her stating don't say it back in the real world selena walks with julian as he goes to see his wife and selena asks when was the last time that he saw her the last time that he left for the hordes maybe a year or so selena then says that batman says that you are fighting for thousands of years and julian says that is right time is different there it passes but you do not age as julian continues to walk ahead selena says wait they've already been gone for hours how long but back in the other realm batman and diana sit down by the fire and batman says by my guess it's been about 10 years diana saiz telling him that they could not have opened the gate without him and yet he does not come so then perhaps this is everything all of life their life batman says the hordes are everlasting and dana last telling me yes and all we have is each other now that she looks at him without the pointy ears it doesn't look so bad batman and dana lean their heads together as if they're about to kiss and bruce tells her yeah back in the current time selena pins julian down with her boot and julian says they offered and i accept it and selena asks did they know and julian tells her no back over in the other realm as the two heroes lean in closer bruce stops and says that they can't dana tells him no we can't ever the two begin to laugh bruce then says that this is ridiculous and diana tells him yes very much bruce i stating that he loves her and he misses her and diana tells him that she sounds like a good woman just as steve trevor is a good man and like steve trevor his selena deserves someone who is also good so be good and if you are not as a friend i will hit you so hard that those silly pointy ears will fall right off and the real world julian rings the bell to the apartment and selena asks him so you just go for all that time and she just stays and julian tells her that his wife has her own life it is here not in the other realm selena then asks how does that marriage even work she thought it was something different julian says that he does not know how marriage works all he knows is that he loves her and he always will after a few moments the door begins to open and a young woman starts to tell them that she's sorry and then she stops and she begins to cry julian looks at angela and tells her it's been so long i don't even have words over in the other realm the years begin to pile on with only minutes passing in the real world angela tells julian about how she made full detective at her ceremony gordon was even there and after some time selena sighs and calls out mr gentleman sir julian whatever we need to talk once julian steps away selena tells him that he said briefly and julian begs just another hour or two please selena then asks what is it for them then and julian says it'll be about a decade or more selena waits in silence for a moment and then says that she's sorry over in the other realm it is currently year 31 of their journey and after another successful fight bruce says that he really misses his dog diana takes a bite of the roasting tail and asks what and bruce says he misses everyone the boys the cat the family his dog ace dana takes another bite she says that she misses her kangaroo as bruce starts to eat he asks you have a kangaroo and anna tells him that she doesn't talk about it but his name is jumpa bruce starts chewing it he says she sounds nice and diana says that she is nice and she misses her over in the real world alfred begins to drive selena and julian back julian says that he had to see angela if he had told batman and wonder woman of the sacrifice no matter how good they think they are they never would have greed so yes he lied he fights every day to save everyone and once he lied because there's been so many years of blood and of killing that he could not live one more day without his angela as julian suits up he spins his mace and selena tells him that he asked how he could marry a man that she hopes is good growing up she didn't see love like this but now she can and for that he has her thanks julian says please do not thank me not while i am leaving her not while i am showing how much of a fool i am the only thing that i truly stupidly know is that i am the gentleman and the horde is everlasting as julian slams his mace to the ground a bright light begins to shine and in the other realm bruce and diana see that light julian steps through shouting all right you bastards make it worth it in the real world bruce and diana begin to appear and diana asks where they are and bruce sees selena and tells her we're home diana a short while later diana hugs bruce and then tells selena thank you for waiting and saving us years people say that you are criminal that you steal things but perhaps everyone is wrong perhaps you are a hero i am happy that my friend has found love in you but but this gentle man the next time that he needs his break what shall we tell him bruce says that he can go but selena stops him stating that they will be waiting but this time batman's wife will join her husband in battle dana begins to fly up telling her and if both of us are there then the hordes may not be so everlasting as diana leaves bruce and selena start to walk and bruce says that he has to say something selena says 37 years a wonder woman were you bad and bruce tells her bad no not good enough this is new but i'm trying and selena says yes well try harder it was late night in wayne manor when bruce suddenly awakens from his sleep in a panic he starts to look around and sees selena sleeping next to him and she quietly says i'm selena he jumps up out of bed and begins to run down the hallway when he runs into alfred and alfred stares for a moment and then asks sir if i may where are your clothes bruce begins to feel weak in his legs and he falls to his knees and as he does alfred reaches down asking if he can help him back up but without answering bruce springs up sucker punching alfred and knocking him out as alfred's hand falls over he loosens the grip on a batarang that he was carrying bruce stumbles as he gets up trying to head to the batcave and as he sits down selena walks in asking what's the matter he doesn't answer her and she wraps her arms around him telling him relax just let me hold you as she leans in for a kiss bruce reaches down to grab a small injection gun she quickly pulls back to swipe at his neck but before she can reach him bruce takes the gun and he injects selena with a unknown formula before injecting himself with the same thing the moment he does he begins to feel his body go weak and he passes out but as he does that a voice begins to tell bruce that they love him they love him so much not only that person but everyone across the globe they love him too but the voice that is coming out of everyone is poison ivy's the next morning bruce begins to wake up in bed and as he looks around he sees both selena and him are in their costumes batman and catwoman she wakes up asking what's going on and he tells her she's here a few moments later ivy using and speaking through alfred walks in to tell bruce a story several years ago joker decided that he could be superman to do so he took a number of hostages and he hid them around the city placing each of them in lead boxes the joker figured that since superman couldn't use his x-ray vision to see through lead he would have the upper hand so as superman scanned the city he saw what he could not see thus he located each and every one of the hostages bruce gets up out of his bed ready to knock alfred out and as he goes to take a swing there's a crack of lightning and barry allen the flash runs in the path forcing bruce to punch him instead ivy asks would you like to try again i'm sure there's a few more flashes available bruce asks what does she want over in the park ivy says oh you misunderstand every person holding a gun every army awaiting their orders every superhero and super villain i control them all they all love me and i can feel and understand each of them just as i control the green so what do i want no no no no i don't want anything i already have everything bruce tells her that there's something that she doesn't have and that's me ivy says well yes however using alfred's codes and cyborg's abilities i took a look inside of the bat computer i saw the formula your cure and i must say it's very impressive the use of such a rare franciscan daffodil extract clever though i'm sure that you're unaware that the cure can only defend against what happened it cannot reverse it so as far as i know there's no formula that can fix this there are 7.6 billion people under my control and through them the world will be made a better place it's true i don't control you two little superheroes hiding in lead boxes alfred begins to leave the room and ivy finishes stating it's a shame that you won't get to be a part of this but that's not a concern selena then asks does she mean everyone but how bruce tells her i don't know selena that asks if she controls the league and our families how are we supposed to fight bruce takes a moment of thinking he tells selena i i don't know a few days go by and bruce selena watch the news and the reporters talk about how they have yet another day of peace and prosperity thanks to ivy no wars are going on children are eating the earth is slowly beginning to heal itself and of course we are all happy in love with ivy bruce groans and tells her all right let's go he drives the batmobile down the road and selena asks isn't it nice that she lets us out and then repeats herself only a little louder isn't it nice that she lets us out up above them superman is listening in and bruce just thinks to himself a short while later the two stopped by bat burger to get something to eat and selena says you know we could have ivy as your best man and she would obviously be my maid of honor as well we could also do something with flowers perhaps ivy could help us i was never a big fan of large weddings so how about we just invite ivy after the two leave bruce drives them to the suburbs with superman closely following as they get out bruce leans over to selena and whispers i have to tell you something something that i don't want her to hear and that is that i love you selena whisper is back that is very interesting i'll try and keep it between us there's also something else superman knows when not to listen in as superman is focusing on listening in bruce places his fingers to his mouth and he lets out a loud whistle superman shouts in pain and bruce tells her see and selena says fine i was wrong you can stop superman with a whistle the two of them begin to walk up to a house but before they can walk in there's a crack of lightning and selena says i'll handle this one she waits for a few moments and then times her swing back perfectly hitting barry wally and the second wally stating there we go all of the flashes are taken care of bruce pushes the door open to the house and he sees an older woman sitting in a chair and he asks is he here through the woman ivy tells him i have a lantern coming two actually and a wonder woman oh and don't forget gorilla grodd and his army of gorillas just in case peru says no he's not here and ivy shouts i told you to stay in the mansion i was trying to be nice a short while later bruce and selena find themselves strung up on top of a building with selena stating you know the whole bat-striking fear in the hearts of villain thing i'm pretty sure ivy isn't getting that and bruce tells her yeah he then turns to the heroes that are floating around them and he says she's letting them eat it was on the burgers tomatoes lettuce onions the whole planet has been consuming the green all of those planets dying and then there was johnny sutras he has a severe allergy to greens it's debilitating the wayne foundation has been trying to find him a cure but he couldn't eat greens so when we went to his home you've hidden him from us that's what you didn't want me to see where's johnny where did you hang the boy and ivy yells through superman telling him shut up we were on the brink of destruction fires hurricanes starvation the world was trying to kill us before we could kill her bruce tells her that's awfully kind of we're all so damn ugly and you turned us into roses and made a beautiful bouquet now everyone loves ivy with a frustrated shout ivy uses superman to punch square into batman's head she then looks at him saying no a selena shuts bad bat a short while later and ivy's overgrown park selena asks is he dead an ivy looks at a flower stating he was i brought him back magic science surgery there's someone for everything these days selena asks if that's so what am i used for and ivy doesn't respond right away ivy says that she's going to be her maid of honor they may as well become friends selena says that they were friends before all of this and now and ivy says i had to do this there's rot in the garden and i will cleave it out what is good will grow again selena says what is all this talk about rot you're really starting to sound like freeze i know you and whatever this is it's not you an ivy shout you think you know me you don't know a damn thing about me i've done something i've killed right here in this spot i should have stopped someone should have stopped me i was so scared of the joker and the riddler i thought i had control but the truth is i was never in control now though i'm afraid everyone is in my control i can be good i could be redeemed and no one can stop me elsewhere a voice tells bruce that he's recovering nicely and bruce says you needed speed so you used flash's speed you needed strength so you used superman's strength you needed help to recover someone with a head injury so you brought in someone with four phds in neurology and after getting hit that hard after making you hit me that hard this is exactly what i was expecting pudding bruce looks up to see harley quinn in a lab coat smiling back bruce leans up stating you have so much all of the heroes villains and weapons if i want to fight with what little i have i would lose wars but the thing is we both should have learned this in the war of jokes and riddles is that some wars shouldn't be fought back in the park ivy tells selena that she didn't pick a side like the rest of them she didn't pick joker or riddler's side selena says yeah they asked and i simply declined rather impolitely ivy then asks so you are willing to let the joker set it all on fire or willing to let the riddler control everything as selena tells her no any man who wants her in the way those two wanted her well she's forever unwilling ivy says okay so i was weak a poor little girl lured into a trap i killed five men wore riddler signet fought for the rid of her just how young was i selena tells her too young and ivy snaps back i don't understand anything selena says that they have both seen some terrible things maybe that's all she understands back at the hospital bruce tells ivy that she needs help they're going to help her ivy brushes them off stating that she is saving the world and bruce tells her that she is trying to do good but doing it the wrong way i know you don't want to hurt anyone because you are hurt she shouts back asking what do you know about hurt the earth is hurt people are hurt i am fine bruce tells her you are not fine you're alone or you think you're alone i'm here to tell you that that's not true there are people that are ready to help she sai selling him great fantastic i'm hurt i'm alone and batman and catwoman are going to help me selena tells her no not us bruce says harley ivy asks what's he even talking about i am harley i am everyone and bruce tells her yeah you're mostly everybody but she is harley because harley isn't most everyone everyone else you could have lived with them losing everything but not harley ivy begins to say harley and her you don't know anything about us and selena asks ivy what's wrong you seem distracted ivy begins to rub her head stating that she has to run the entire world while dealing with catwoman and batman how could she not be distracted bruce then says everyone else is buried deep inside but harley you left right on the surface selena tells ivy no you're supposed to be distracted that's the plan and just as ivy asks what plan is that selena kicks ivy in the head knocking her out she picks up ivy's body stating the bat's gonna have about 14 seconds to wake up harley i have 15 seconds to wake up ivy before the planes start to fall out of the sky and at those moments bruce and selena try waking up both people that they're talking to with bruce begging harley to snap out of it after a few seconds her head begins to bob and she simply says pudding ivy begins to wake up asking what happened selena smiles stating that she's guessing he probably freed harley over at the hospital bruce grabs harley and jumps out the window down to his batmobile once inside he quickly puts his mask on and tells harley i'm going to need you to talk to her superman will hear you tell ivy that you want to meet in person she begins to rub the side of her head and looks over at batman and says you and batman tells her yeah a short while later with everyone meeting up in the park harley batman catwoman and ivy harley simply shouts batman changed in the car batman has a machine to put his pants on in a car batman's crazy and i know crazy harley looks at ivy and asks how are you doing and ivy tells her i'm fine i'm saving the world and harley says that's not what i asked how are you doing ivy pauses for a moment and then begins the breakdown stating that everyone keeps saying that she's hurt but harley hugs ivy and kisses her on the cheek telling her it's okay to be her but i'm here now so i can hurt with you bruce tells ivy that she needs to release everyone and ivy says that she can't she has to make the world better and selena then says that those men aren't coming back they're dead you killed them they died in the park they stay in the park but you're the one who left the park bruce asks what do you mean in the park wait ivy didn't kill any men in the park riddler did i examined those bodies they had bullet wounds that traced back to the riddler's gun based on the blood flow they had been hanging for at least 30 minutes ivy begins to say but riddler said that i was the one and bruce stopped her telling her he lied that's what villains do they lie ivy shakes her head stating that she has to save the world it's broken harley kneels down telling her that she knows she will but today why don't they just save ivy okay ivy begins to cry grabbing harley stadium that he lied to her and later that night as bruce and selena get ready for bed bruce's phone goes off and he says that superman said that ivy arrived safely at sanctuary they're gonna do what they can for her selena asks if she's going to be okay and bruce tells her that 7.6 billion people were in her head when she let them all go everything that she's been through i'm not sure she climbs on top of bruce asking what about us after all we've been through and are going to go through bruce tells her well we've already had the entire world against us and here we are selena then asks are we gonna be okay and bruce tells her yeah cat we're gonna be fine now in the final days before the wedding there's another man who knows just what to get them the joker as a man prays at gotham church he asks god please preserve me from the wickedness of that violent man who appeared on my wedding day gunshot after gunshot can be heard as the man moves from one guest to the next until finally he reaches the man praying just like the others there's one last bang in the bats within the chapel flutter away the joker looks around with his gun singing batman just then batman bursts into the church by jumping through the window and joker grabs the soon-to-be wife shouting wait why are the hostage batman stands still and joker says if you move one inch even one edge i'm going to and suddenly there's a bang and the soon-to-be wife falls to the ground the joker looks at the woman stating huh or maybe i won't oops is there anyone else alive i need a hostage so batman won't punch me batman runs forward jumping kicking joker and then punching him to the ground as batman pins him down joker puts his gun to batman's head telling him wait let you have a hostage let's try this again if you move one inch and wait wait wait wait we need to be careful this time because if i shoot batman batman's going to punch me batman stares and joker goes on you know i'm glad you're here i was trying to think of a way to get in touch with you but nothing came to mind and then it occurred to me i should go to a church and kill everyone so batman will come at me now since i'm already in a church which is convenient there's people in it and they're inconvenient so i've got to go downtown but the traffic was just then there's another bang that is batman falls backwards the joker tells him oh coconuts i did it again a few moments pass and the joker says uh hey batman are you dead if you are raise your hand and shout i am very dead if not just open your eyes furiously batman opens up his eyes and joker says ah kevlar cow clever and batman springs on the ground kicking the joker in the face he gets back to his feet rubbing his head and then the joker begins to tell the story of how this whole thing reminds him of his mother he tells him of how much he loved her and how she was shouting don't kill me please it hates so much joker begins firing and as he stops to remember he says wait that was his mother i cut her tongue out so early in the process so whose mother was that while the joker thinks a batarang is thrown into the side of the joker's face that he falls backwards onto the ground he leads up pulling the bataring out telling him you know i used to call these people to help clean up messes after i got done killing people except when they would show up i would kill them too so basically it solved nothing if anything i made it worse you see the problem here batman begins to walk forward and the joker looks around he says i need another hostage oh how about myself he gets up holding the gun to his head yelling if you move one inch i will he stops and tells batman i remember my mother told me a story of augustine she used to say that there were two powers in the world good and evil god and satan batman and kite man the life was about choosing between the two and then i had a revelation and mother said that it was a really good one one power one divinity and nothing else there was salvation so long as you would head towards it remember that everything else is just chaos he walks over to the altar and he kneels down telling batman come kneel with me he places his hands together holding the barrel of the gun under his chin and he says amen and batman does the same joker goes on asking am i gonna be your best man but before batman can even answer there's an explosion and the two men have thrown back as the smoke begins to clear joker coughs telling him oh right i forgot to tell you i put a bomb on the grass i thought it would be a little funny as batman doesn't move joker gets to his feet and he kneels down next to batman's body telling love is the true north love is salvation love is paradise head toward it and remember everything else is chaos as he points his gun and fires the bang rings out from the church and outside selena listens she says stay here cat he's not like anyone else cat he's too dangerous can't he'll hurt you cat he'll kill you cat stay here my love please but her response to the last things that bruce said to her was to jump off the roof a few moments later the joker asks remember the old days penguin and the umbrella is that a gun or a helicopter riddle they're in the puzzles iv in the plants scarecrow and the gas and you and the cats me and the smile it was all so much fun but do you know what was odd about the whole thing selena tightens her grip on her whip asking what and joker goes on stating that it was all fun we all used to laugh and you you never laughed selena tells him that he's right it is odd joker begins to shoot at her as she ducks behind one of the pews and then she jumps out cracking her whips grabbing one of joker's legs and pulls it out from underneath him he falls and she lunges towards him swiping ripping right through joker's throat but not before he can get another shot off in her stomach several minutes pass and selena asks why does the penguin have an umbrella is that even a thing joker holds his neck keeping the blood from flowing out telling her i always thought it was a tuxedo penguins do have tuxedos you know like the movie where the man dances he has a tuxedo with an umbrella he points his gun to selena and he tries to shoot but every pull of the trigger all the two here is click click she tells him that it is not an umbrella he had a cane or at least she's pretty sure it was a cane joker let's go over his gun telling her well i'm not so sure then more time passes and selena says that she would have figured that he would have asked him at some point they always seem close joker last telling her now i was close to harvey harvey was close to oswald oswald was so straight about things i myself always related to more crooked fellows hardly he'll blast him he could go both ways selena groans telling him yeah harvey held a lot of them together people forget he's underrated always thought that he was the dark horse to get batman she saw him in arkham joker asks oh yeah how's he holding up and selena tells him ah you know he could still go both ways as the two lay there holding their wounds neither willing to move for fear of bleeding out joker asks selena if she can do him a favor she says sure he then says well he's out of bullets but he has more in his left pocket and he can't get to it and reload without letting his artery bleed out if she could reach into his pocket and get it let him reload he'll shoot her stupid face off she tells him yeah if she does that then she would bleed out and die then what would be the point of shooting her joker last okay that's true so how long would i have if i used both hands a few seconds you wouldn't be able to defend yourself she tells him yeah she's pretty helpless he would have to move fast though he might live long enough to do it silence fills the air and joker asks why didn't you ever laugh with us weren't you having fun and selena tells him that he knows how it is whatever they did he was better and they kept losing she only laughs when she's winning and right now all she is doing is dying joker then says that he heard that she was getting married congratulations is it going to be a big wedding like all the superheroes gathered around because that would be nice selena says that she's not sure they haven't talked about it and the joker yells you should talk about it these things can't be done at last minute trust me on that she then says that she got a dress but she did steal it the joker asks does he know selena sai telling him no he would be mad and joker tells her that he hopes that he lives long enough to see her in it that is to say bury you in it obviously more time passes and the joker says we all loved him we wanted him to love us but he never did instead he loved you why selena rolls over stating because she's prettier than them and joker asks are you now she laughs stating that all they ever do is talk about batman they're obsessed over him but none of them knew him she knew him joker then says well i created batman chaos for his order i gave batman meeting i held him at the rain gate and we laughed i heard him i know batman after a few moments joker says that she knows that if they do get married batman would lose the frown on the costume right all of it will be gone he can't be happy and be batman selena doesn't respond and after several more moments joker rolls over stating it's time as selena tells him no it's not he begins to get up telling her before you get married i have to save him i'm sorry to say he liked you loved even wishes all the best but we must save batman we need him on the rooftops the alleys him to say how much of a horror he is to hit me joker takes his hand off his throat and begins to bleed as he loads his gun blood pouring down his shirt he points it at selena stating that he needs batman to stomp him if she makes him happy if he isn't batman it's just not fun but before joker can pull the trigger his eyes roll into the back of his head and he falls next to selena a few moments pass and as selena holds his body bruce wakes up asking if she's okay the joker poisoned and paralyzed him but i can fight through it just don't move until i get there we're gonna make it that i swear whatever the joker wanted he didn't get it but selena she begins to laugh and it begins to get louder and louder a few days later at the top of the finger tower kite man proudly stands tall yelling kite man then he's punched up the ledge by batman asking why don't we just do it tonight selena kicks kite man in the head stating okay where and when batman tells her how about here maybe a dawn that'll give us time to prepare i can get a judge so that all we will need is two witnesses maybe we could just bring one selena tells him that it's good or rather that would be perfect kite man leans up yelling hell yeah later at porky's bar judge wolfman tells the barkeep that it's been a long day how about another the bar keep says you know what they say gotham is batman wolf ben looks down stating no it's gotham is a mystery and bruce says judge wolfman meanwhile over an arkham a voice tells holly robinson that they have made some payments and she'll be moved to block 3-7 but along the way holly says that they'll get into trouble and the voice tells her they always get into trouble a few seconds later a guard unlocks holly's cell stating that they've got orders to transfer her please step away from the door later in the west wing of wayne mender the bookshelf slides open and holly asks so she can take off the blindfold now it's starting to itch selena tells her that it's bad enough that she's got to explain that they both knew his secrets since the street but if she has to tell him that she showed someone the secret way to the manor well there might not be much of a wedding after that selena takes off the blindfold and as holly looks around she asks this is his house wait this is your house over in the east wing the grandfather clock whips open as bruce and alfred walk through alfred asks if there's a time set for the event bruce pulls back the cow telling him it'll be a dawn we'll grab a witness and judge wolfman will preside to avoid risking the wayne identity the marriage has to be kept secret from the public by dawn wolfman will be too drunk to even remember what he said or signed alfred then says that's romantic and the location bruce takes a bite of his sandwich stating a rooftop in the south gotham before you ask it's where we were and where we'll always be later in the bedroom holly fixes selena's purple and black dress and selena says that it's not supposed to do that she should have gotten something less complicated holly continues straightening the other parts out telling her to just relax it's almost done and selena says then maybe she should just go get another dress and holly tells her that she already said wait there take a look because you're just lovely over in the other bedroom alfred fixes bruce's tie and bruce says that he really hates these things it's too tight how am i supposed to move in this alfred straightens out bruce's jacket telling him that every night he wears molded the leather bat suits as he performs feats of astonishment he'll be fine bruce then says it's just i look like my father and alfred steps back and smiles telling him you most certainly do once the two get ready and they step out of their bedrooms bruce and selena see each other but before selena could even say that they shouldn't see each other they run down the hallway and they kiss after finally going back to the rooms holly takes a sip of her wine stating that she can't believe it that's him batman selena asks what not what you expected and holly tells her that it's just so crazy they've both known him since the beginning it's just strange to see him like this selena that asks what do you mean and holly says you know happy he always seemed to need his misery to do what he does selena pauses for a moment and then she asks what over in bruce's room alfred asks as for a witness should i call master dick or perhaps master clark bruce looks at his phone telling him no i was thinking it could be you if you're free since it's always been the two of us i can't really do anything without you really never could nor will i ever alfred stares for a moment in silence and that he sits down next to bruce and he hugs him once the two finish getting ready holly drives selena's of the location and holly asks if everything's okay selena sai stating that she wrote him a letter but she never finished it she hasn't written to him since arkham when they confessed there's so much that she needed to tell him and it's so hard to say it they've always been so tired and when they aren't tired they're out there selena waits for a moment and then asks am i a hero now holly smiles telling her of course right after all that's happened don't you have to be over with bruce alfred asks if everything's all right and bruce looks out the window stating i wrote selena a letter we never have time anymore i wanted to tell her everything bruce looks at alfred and he asks can i can i be happy alfred tells him after everything that he's done everything that he's endured and suffered to go another day don't you have to be later as selena sits on the rooftop she thinks about the letter that she left on bruce's computer as the makeup starts to run she stands taking off her veil and she jumps meanwhile over at finger tower bruce waits with alfred and wolfman and wolfman says that if they wait another hour he's gonna need another drink bruce thinks back to the letter that he left for selena on the bed and he takes off his tie and he jumps later back at arkham holly makes her way down the hall stating that selena brought her back and locked her up just before leaving she was devastated but determined as you said that she would be but him she didn't get a chance to see him bane sits on a mound of skull surrounded by gotham's most feared villains and he tells her not to worry the butt is broken and that's the wedding of batman and catwoman a simple letter a simple thought ended everything because batman can't be happy and catwoman realized that after talking to joker the final words the words that she left to him on his computer the letter towards the end of it she stated you're still the child bruce or her child these past months the desert the boy superman wonder woman ivy but what you do with that hurt i saw the hero that made you and then as if to prove what i saw booster a world of horror because you were content joker knowing if you had settled you couldn't stop him you're an engine that turns pain into hope if we're happy and we could be so happy if i help that lonely boy with those lonely eyes i kill that engine i kill batman i kill the person who saves everyone and how can i do that how can i love you so much and look into your eyes into that endless blue that gorgeous blue that blue that calls to me knowing to save the world hear us make sacrifices that's the lesson of every story i wish i could give my life but i can't i have to give more my sacrifice is my love it's you as bruce's limo pulls up to gotham south courthouse reporters swarm around him asking what does he make of the situation he waves to them as he heads up the steps stating that he's just here to do his civic duty like a lot of them he's a citizen of gotham too but this case is a little different it isn't about some random thug that he would be on the jury for this trial is for freeze and how batman brought him to justice or is it the court goes through the juror's selection and just as bruce thought he was picked to attend the trial as juror number four the jurors head to their hotel rooms for the night and they wake up bright and early for the first day of the trial frieza's lawyer tells the jurors that out of the opening statement the best prosecution the d.a has is flimsy at best there are only three dead women elizabeth maureen and christy tragic but let me be clear there is not one piece of evidence that the police have gathered in fact the coroner based all of this evidence collected by the city ruled that these women sadly suffered from a random blood clot that entered their brains they died of natural causes that was the ruling not murder that was until batman came along jim gordon takes the stand and the lawyer asks so this case is all based on batman's theory and not the city's theory that these women were killed by freeze correct jim says well yes but the lawyer speaks over him telling him batman told you that there was a slight temperature drop in each of these women's brain stems correct jim tells him yes they were able to confirm that with an independent the lawyer then speaks over him again stating yes yes but that was after batman had inspected the body correct and is batman licensed to perform autopsies before the gcpd jim begins to get frustrated by the lawyer's wording stating the coroner missed what had but the lawyer stops him asking please answer the question mr gordon so jim size and sits back telling him no batman is not licensed as the court breaks for lunch bruce sits with the other jurors as they sit and discuss their current situations with their families and bruce remains quiet one of the women then says that her husband is going to be mad if they're going to be a while and another woman says to tell her husband that if he wants a fight he'll have to pick it with batman the table laughs but bruce gets up and excuses himself as he stands in the men's room he looks at one of the urinals and begins to rip it off the wall he takes it and throws it against the other side of the men's room and he screams and soon after the court resumes and harvey bullock is brought up for questioning the lawyer asks when mr freeze was found there was a note pinned to him it read he did it ask him but there was no signature did the gcpd know where this note came from harvey says that no there was no signature but they knew who this came from next mr freeze himself takes a stand and his lawyer says that he confessed after the doctors had to revive him right and free says yes the lawyer then asks what did he confess to and frieze tells him that he murdered three women as a part of an experiment he has fought batman many times before he did not hesitate to admit that but this time he was a different man that night on the roof he didn't care that he hadn't done it that those women had nothing to do with him batman just kept hitting him so much that he thought batman was going to kill him as closing statements end the jurors head into the next room to deliberate and one of the jurors says that now that that's over seems pretty cut and dry any initial thoughts everyone begins to discuss times that batman had saved the city and even themselves the juror then says okay seems pretty clear where we all stand so let's take a vote on who thinks mr freeze is guilty everyone begins to raise their hands and the juror says okay since this needs to be unanimous anyone think that he's not guilty no one in the room raises their hands except bruce one of the female jurors says okay then how about we go over the three key pieces of evidence first three deceased women all had lowered brain temperatures that was the cause of death the police missed it and batman caught it and then it was later confirmed by a third party secondly the police found mr freeze defeated by batman while wearing his suit and in possession of his freeze gun something his probation specifically prohibited third and the most damning he confessed to the police after he was caught he said he was experimenting on the women which was a part of his plan to revive his wife everyone else begins to call out that there's no way that this couldn't have been freeze so how about they hurry this up and just go home considering some of them have actual jobs and they don't live a playboy lifestyle mr wayne this should already be over the facts are the facts it's what happened isn't that enough bruce leans back and he says no that's not enough there are three facts i don't disagree with them but maybe we need more context why don't we go over these three facts each in turn and give the context give me an hour or two and at the end if we're still here i'll change my vote fair one of the female jurors says that that's fair better than a hanging jury how about they take a five minute break when they get back they'll get started once everyone leaves and comes back bruce goes over the moment in the trial when jim took the stand he wasn't happy about how clearly the lawyer pointed out that his own people didn't catch it then comes along batman hours later they re-examined the bodies at that point batman noticed the temperatures and he saw a pattern three women around the age of frieza's wife all killed in a manner that suggests an experiment batman made his own conclusions which are now the police's conclusions and he starts his hunt question is why did the gcpd miss something that batman caught one of the jurors says that that's because batman is batman he's better than the gcpd he just does it better right and bruce says right but maybe there's something else these women what if they died because of the clots and later someone created the remnants of a decrease in temperature your explanation is that batman saw something that gordon's people didn't why did gordon miss it why did batman catch it bruce slams his fist down shouting why you're convicting a man on assumptions if there are alternative assumptions that make just as much sense then what is the actual simplest explanation that actually makes sense the corridor was good gordon confirmed it he should have seen it so maybe the corridor missed something that wasn't there and maybe batman says it because it was but if it wasn't there then freeze didn't do it and batman went after the wrong man then there's the costume freeze claimed on the stand that he was told by an underground source whom he refuses to name that he was told that batman was coming for him so he went for his costume rebuilt his freeze gun and he risked his parole going back to arkham because he's afraid of batman so he leaves his house where he's under house arrest to basically find batman before batman can find him to defend himself so he says another juror says that it's all bullcrap he was up to something if he was scared of batman he should have stayed in his house but bruce tells him because a guilty man runs he should have let batman come to him to talk to him about the crime but have we actually ever seen anyone talk to batman for years these two have been fighting not talking fighting the prosecutor not even in the defense noted this we've seen pictures frieze has had dozens of plans for gotham and all of them have ended the same way a punch a kick a knockout blow now freeze gets information that batman suspects him again what do you expect freeze to do to wait to talk to batman they don't talk what evidence did freeze have that batman was coming over for a friendly chat and not another fight we're here to convict a man beyond reasonable doubt we can't convict him of putting on a suit not if we doubt that frieza's lying about the information finally his confession if frieze was so scared of batman why did he confess and keep confessing long after the threat was gone why when i was young a man killed my mother and my father we were coming out of the movies and a man with a gun appeared my father shouted and the man shot him he then tried to take my mother's pearls and they got tangled up so he shot her i watched the man ran and when i fell to my knees i screamed as time went on i tried to reach the very top i was as happy as i could be great friends and i'd even had love but then something happened you lose something and then you're ten against screaming for your parents you would do anything to get away from the fright what batman did to freeze that level of violence that cruelty it didn't leave when batman left it stayed and after that freeze said it himself he wanted to get the hell out of there this confession it's after the beating whatever freeze said whoever freeze said it to that confession doesn't mean a damn thing one of the jurors stands up and says that she can tell what he's trying to do he wants them to doubt each one of the three pieces of evidence have them believe that batman was wrong bad incompetent horrible or out of control he's saying that batman is not the hero that they gotham think he is now if he wants them to go along with that theory he's going to need to prove it can he really truly prove that bruce stares at the woman and tells her yes yes i can he points at her blouse and he says i notice you're wearing a cross the woman says that she believes in god attended church for 20 years is that a problem mr wayne bruce tells her no never but you've asked me here to show you today that batman could have made a mistake that perhaps that mistake has led to frieze being falsely accused so i find your cross your belief interesting vital perhaps the woman asks do you believe in god mr wayne bruce tells her yes that's just it i used to my father was a christian i believed that the lord would protect him talked about things that we could control the things that we can't later after that i was upset i put aside believing in a deity it started believing in something that could save my father so i loved gotham for a while searched for something to put my faith in but ultimately i couldn't find anything instead of looking for something to believe i wanted for something to come and find me we all live here and we all know that this is a place for monsters for demons there he is every shadow is met every horror put down as citizens of gotham we watch as batman beats back the bullies a man with a bat on his chest is keeping us safe after my parents died i sought transcendence i found batman the woman then asks your argument for why batman may have made mistakes of freeze is because you think batman is god and bruce says if we define god as the infallible the responsible the one who determines life and death then yes that would be my argument i thought batman was god how many of you here are here because of batman without his help in this city how many of you would be in a grace all of the jurors remain quiet and then all of them raise their hand including bruce bruce goes on stating based on that belief you have no right to sit here in judgment of batman he is perfect you are not your lives are his and you worship him you let freeze go and rot and ignore any doubt all because batman decided and his will is your law god is above you he wears a cape you trust him and trust that he was right and he's so good he's the world's greatest detective right bruce walks over to grab a cup of water and after taking a drink he looks back asking who are you he takes a seat asking everyone have any of you have read the book of job because that's what god said to him right god tore this man's life away burned his farm and his children and job gets angry and asks god why and god tells him i created the mountains and the miracles and you're questioning me you who are you bruce hangs his head stating that was hurt recently i had for years but every fiber of my being into batman because he was good good enough to protect me from all of the pain my mother my father this city my life everything it worked after many years i had something that i never thought i could have and i was happy then it all fell everything falls and so did i i screamed as loud as i could and my scream was a prayer to batman to catch me i fell and i begged and now i'm still waiting and i'll always be waiting batman is not god he tries but he fails and then he tries again but he can't he does not provide solace from pain he does not give you an eternity he cannot comfort you for the love you've lost god blessed your souls with grace batman punches people in the face the 12 of you sit here with power over frieza's freedom that is god-like power you know still that you yourselves are not sovereign that you are righteously constrained by your own humanity you must approach this sacred task with some humility knowing that your wisdom will forever be scarred by your perspective you know that then you know him he's not perfect he's just you but in a leather bat suit your decision here must be made beyond a reasonable doubt and the facts show that we doubt batman and therefore we doubt this case so my argument is this no matter what he does behind the cape behind the cow the bat and everything he is a damn person and because he is a person a man batman can make mistakes we are not job talking to god we are the citizens of the city speaking to another citizen however good he is we can be just as good however flawed he is we can be just as flawed don't turn batman's mistakes into a damn nation of an innocent man if you condemn freeze for batman's error you condemn batman you say guilty and you put the bat into the same cold cage you all raised your hands when asked if he saved you now it's your time to save him and so the jurors take another vote and it was unanimous freeze was set free as bruce leaves the court he talks to alfred stated that he's going out prepare the original suit he doesn't want to wear the suit that he was in when he huffer tells him yes bruce then says that he needs to get back to he was he is lost he needs to remember who he is who batman is as the next person in line walks up to the gotham airport immigration desk the woman at the counter asks the man coming up for his passport the man hands it over and the woman looks at it and she says mr zimmerman welcome to america and welcome to gotham what is the purpose of your visit mr zimmerman says business and he holds out his prosthetic arm stating that he works for foundation it helps country people who have lost limbs there is a fundraiser that he'll be attending the woman stamps the passport stating that that's great to hear that's a really good thing to do mr zimmerman takes the passport and he says that he hopes so but as the bass signal shines over gotham batman and nightwing get to work patrolling the streets as the two sit on top of a nearby building nightwing says mamma mia mamma mia mommy daddy and me all of which bruce says no no no the two jumped down to fight back the rise of the mummy creatures and nightwing says you were never one for puns that all you do is grunt and looks sad batman knocks out a mummy telling him do not grunt and look sad i just don't want to say funny things when i fight nightwing says okay for the sake of argument how about you just grunt instead nightwing hits a mummy and batman grunts and the nightwing grunts stating see boring but while batman and nightwing make sure that gotham is a little safer mr zimmerman stops by a gun store telling the clerk that he would like to buy a rifle the clerk says they have a lot of rifles he's gonna have to be a bit more specific mr zimmerman reaches into his coat and he takes out a small photo and he slides it to the clerk clerk picks it up and says oh that's very specific i can do it but it's not going to be cheap mr zimmerman tells him that he understands but he has the money the clerk finishes a cigarette and he blows smoke through his nose dating hip hip hooray so he want to wait for the government checks to come in or would he rather pay the late night expedited special mr zimmerman tells him expedited please next mr zimmerman goes to an all-night diner and he orders a hot dog while sitting and listening to the people coming and going he takes out a pen and he begins to write down something he then pays his tab and he heads out leaving behind the note as the rain starts to come in mr zimmerman heads to an apartment and he knocks on the door ringing a random person a short while later the man opens the door up shouting at three in the morning how many times is he going to ring the damn bell mr zimmerman tells the man that he's sorry but his mother lives in the eighth floor and she isn't answering he wanted to make sure that everything was okay the man sighs and he lets mr zimmerman in and as he gets to the eighth floor he knocks on a door to his mother's apartment moments later mr zimmerman grabs a man by the throat and he squeezes as he holds him down the man struggles to try and pull the hand off of his neck but slowly he loses his strength and he lets go with no more distractions the man walks over to the window and he unlocks it he drops his duffel bag taking out the rifle and he begins to set it up perching himself at the window as he takes aim meanwhile back with batman and nightwing they respond to a signal that gordon put out and the two ask how can we help gordon lights his pipe stating that he found something at a diner over in midtown a napkin left on a table the message on it read who's afraid of the joker the question mark at the end was oversized batman says that it's the anniversary of the end of the war but joker and riddler are still in arkham or at least they're supposed to be being checked out nightwing danielle's that's the problem for napkin man i just don't but before he could finish there's a sound and nightwing reacts to a shot in his head his head falls back and the blood splatters and from across the way mr zimmerman lowers his rifle as gordon shouts to get a medical team up there mr zimmerman shuts the window packs the rifle and he leaves the next day a man sits on his couch slowly nodding off when he suddenly hears banging at his front door a voice in russian calls out that he can hear his fat wheeze through the wood put the gun down and open the door the old man grabs a shotgun and fires at it blowing a hole through it stating that it's open the doors then kicked in and the old man looks upstating talia mr zimmerman says father back in gotham at the same store that mr zimmerman brought his rifle from batman simply tells the man run the clerk runs and jumps out the front window as he gets back up batman stares at the glass throwing a battering that wraps around the clerk's neck pulling him back in later at the bat cave batman says that the clerk confirmed his suspicion the shooter isn't totally kg beast alfred asks can you find him and batman says beast is a professional killer unlike any other perhaps the best alfred size and says master dick sir can he be found and batman says he can and i will back in the cabin in russia beast asks his father how long has it been since his last drink and his father says 26 years beast picks up a bottle looking at it asking that long huh whenever i could remember you you always had a drink always raging through the house face red with a bottle in hand they had a name for it when you started the hard beatings the beast forced two shots and he goes the beast beast then picks up his glass dating to the beast his father looks at the glass and with shaky hands grabs it stating the beast and he drinks it as beast's father pours another glass he asks what happened to his arm and b says you know the batman yes beast's father goes to the drink asking did he take it and beast tells him no he tried though beast emotions like he has a knife stating i had to cut it off to escape b's father asked so batman had two arms and you have one and b strings against dating i escaped beast's father smacks the glass out of his hand stating i raised you to be a man but i can see you're still a little boy beast then pours the last of the bottle for his father asking more and beast's father tells him if you have more than why not his father sighs telling him you were always prepared but i would have figured that you would have taken the man's arm beast himself reaches into his back saying well i did take something else recently i took batman's son and a lot of money for the privilege of doing it his father says the sun and the money that's good but an arm would still have been better beast pulls a gun out of the bag and he says an arm is important to a man what good really is a son but a short distance away from the cabin against being told not to batman marches in the storm over the radio alfred tells batman that he should come back he's beginning to lose signal please respond master bruce please but as the radio goes silent all batman can hear is the sound of crushing snow beneath his boots as he continues to walk over in the cabin beast's father takes another drink asking why do you keep me alive you killed the rest your brothers your sisters your mother why not me peace tells them because they were weak and you were strong i loved you i still love you beast father scarves telling him for that you are weak but that is my fault i let you be weak because i love you too his father finishes pouring the next drink and subtly there's a loud bang as he's shot in the head beast lowers his gun picks up the glass and takes the drink and as he finishes he hears the sound of crushed snow getting louder he sets his glass down and he takes aim with his gun at the boarded up door as batman reaches the cabin he reaches for the door but suddenly ducks as a bullet is shot through at him beast unloads the rest of his clip at the door and with one of them hitting batman in the shoulder beast then pulls the trigger until he hears it clicking he looks out the window and hears the sound of crunching snow and then a batarang is thrown in hitting the prosthetic arm the two men groan as they look at each other and batman throws another batarang with beasts jumping through the window at batman beast pins batman to the ground and batman gets his foot into beast flipping him over as the two get back up beast swings his prosthetic arm cutting into batman's face with a hooked end as batman gets back up beast punches him down again and he kicks his body across the snow beast then walks over looks down and starts to kick batman in the head as beast gets ready to end it batman reaches for his belt taking out his grappling hook firing it upward hitting beast in the chin a loud snap can be heard and beast falls backwards onto the ground motionless as the snow begins to settle around him he tells him my neck is broken and batman tells him yeah beast goes on telling him if you help me i'll tell you who hired me to shoot the boy batman looks back telling him i've got a bullet in my arm and a body of hurt and there's a 300-click walk ahead of me through nothing but snow and ice he spits a mouthful of blood and he has to walk away stating i'm the world's greatest detective i'm gonna find out who hired you and break them too you can get your own damn help [Music] oswald cobblepot the penguin a man who has built an empire from nothing many would say that he wouldn't know what it feels like to feel loss or what it would feel like to answer to a higher being but as we watch the penguin fight batman and be placed into arkham we see that the penguin does in fact answer to someone and those men are bane and batman as penguins men clap and cheer for the return of their boss penguin's mind is more focused on something else the clapping slowly dies down and penguin asks where is her body i think once men bring him to the morgue and they state that they didn't want to bury her yet they didn't know what to do so they waited for him to return penguin looks down at the coffin telling them sunday at gotham gardens get two plots near my grandfather one for her and one for me as sunday comes the penguin stands before the grave of penny cobblepot penguin bends down and he tosses a handful of dirt stating that they all thought that she was small and silly just another thing to be passed around from man-to-man the way that she was treated as if she was less than human they never understood they never even considered that maybe just maybe she had a soul as the rain follows penguin walks back to his car telling his men that their friend has expressed his disappointment with the free situation fortunately we put some blame on bruce wayne claiming some of how gotham's first citizen manipulated the jury to help his pal the batman we are to punish mr wayne should we fail in this assignment we are to be perceived as having failed with freeze and we will bear the next punishment one of penguin's men asks what are we gonna do to mr wayne then the penguin tells him no nothing as dramatic as that our friend has plans for mr wayne but for us to earn back our lives we'll have to kill wayne's a man's servant later atop the roof of the gcpd gordon lights his pipe asking how's the kid because if you remember my dear viewer nightwing was recently shot in the head and presumed dead at first not answering batman asks what do we have here gordon goes on stating we had an officer like that one he came back all the way it was hard batman asks again what do we have here gordon takes a puff of his pipe telling him yeah okay same as before clot drop in temperature one difference scene of the crime on our third search we got lucky and found something underneath the floorboard turned out to be a feather meanwhile at the mansion alfred tends to his cleaning duties when he hears an alarm going off that there is an intruder he heads over to the simonson suite to find a small bird laying amongst a pile of broken glass he kneels down to examine that bird and as he looks up he notices a red dot aimed directly at his forehead later inside of penguin's office batman tells him i know about but before he could finish penguin holds up his hand to quiet him over the intercom a man says that they have the wayne butler in their sights are they to pull the trigger penguin says no i think not instead kill yourself in the pilot now the man tells him you got it and there are two gunshots penguin looks back at batman and tells him please sit we have much to discuss a few moments later batman slams his hands down on penguin's desk telling him i don't believe you penguin likes a cigarette telling him i have the evidence how he's killed those three girls tampered with the bodies batman tells him no you knew about the four women that he killed penguin tells him my actions are irrelevant bane is essentially running gotham from inside arkham and this capacity has asked me to on several occasions help with several projects these women the wayne manservant some minor trifles here and there likely he has others doing other projects batman batman stares at penguin or tells him no beanie is an arkham in a cell he is incapacitated penguin laughs what a pathetic little man you are in a pathetic little costume you have no idea what bane is believe me or not it is the truth meanwhile over at arkham asylum bane curls up in his padded cell asking help you batman looks at him and tells him get up bane covers his head please don't please i don't want to hurt please don't hurt me anymore mommy the waters are coming batman reaches down grabbing bane asking him did you not hear me i know batman slams bane against a wall and he tells him please don't hit me batman throws bane across the cell telling him this deception is over you've lost as batman begins to beat on bane he says i know how you framed freeze killed those women tried to kill alfred pennyworth bane tries getting back up begging batman to stop but batman tells him it's not hard to see that he worked with the beast you shot my boy and a loud crunch can be heard as batman's boot kicks into bane's face bane falls to the ground and batman tells him get up bane slowly gets back up telling him yes please just don't but before he could finish batman punches him again batman grabs bane by the head telling him say it shout it proudly i am bane say it so i can tell you i'm batman batman grabs on to bane's head and as hard as he can he headbutts him in the nose gordon kicks the door open yelling what the hell are you doing here and bane starts to ask for his mommy batman turns back shouting bane has captured arkham he is using it as a base to launch attacks against me this this is all an act gordon runs in pulling batman away asking are you insane bane has been under my watch ever since you put him into a catatonic state bane can't walk he can barely talk he hasn't even left this damn room you need to calm down this man is but batman he turns punching gordon yelling i know what he is gordon wipes the blood from his mouth telling batman get out you are trespassing on city property i will let you off with a warning if you leave now but if you don't all of the gotham pd will descend upon you and if that doesn't work i'll just call the damned justice league you think you know better than us well i'm getting pretty sick of you get the hell out of my sight batman leaves bane is taken out to be treated for his injuries but as he lays there he opens up an eye and he smiles with no other clues to go on batman takes to the streets tracking down all of those who have recently been in arkham asylum first is maxi zeus but as batman beats him down he doesn't get the answers that he's looking for to make sure he didn't get out of hand batman captured penguin and alfred has been watching over him next on batman's list is firefly batman throws firefly out of a building without his jet pack and as firefly screams batman slowly loads his grappling gun with one carefully aimed shot batman begins to reel back on the wire with firefly screaming firefly shouts that he's only been in arkham for months he saw everything bane was just in his cell the whole time he didn't even come out whatever you heard it isn't true you've got to believe me batman presses the button and let's firefly free fall asking do i following him was kite man but all batman could get was a hell yeah and finally with the last victim batman looks down at him telling him to talk and he doesn't say anything but on the life of his child stop hitting him yeah he had a cell next to bane saw him every day but he was broken just talks himself into a corner crying all night that's the truth oh my before he could finish batman kicks him in the face after not getting any of the answers he wanted batman heads back to the bat cave and as he arrives it's pitch black then he hears a groan coming from where a penguin was being kept batman hurries over and he finds alfred on the ground asking him what happened and alfred says that he's here batman shouts asking who and alfred tells him you're your father behind batman standing tall is thomas wayne as blood rushes to batman's head he tells himself to open his eyes he needs to open his damn eyes soon his vision comes back and it's still fuzzy but that's good he needs to evaluate and reassess the situation what is it that he's seeing pig the enemy okay now what is he doing he's hanging tied by ropes how did he get here how does he get out of here he could see pig talking they always talk let them let the villains talk but why can't he hear pig it doesn't matter he needs to work on the ropes the rope hates the knot the knot wants to be straight to be free listen to the rope let it guide you feel the movement warm the fibers let it stretch work the rope let it give away good after blinking batman sees blood splatter why does he see blood why is he screaming why can't he hear anything what is going on blood it's in his nose it's in his mouth gathering in his throat stop screaming swallow the blood breathe the blood forget the blood focus on the rope the rope is giving way one finger is free that's enough reach for the battle ring tucked under your shirt now pull it carefully and then saw the rope it's it's talking now it's screaming understand it sympathize thank it for its help and cut alright now he's free evaluate reassess pig is attacking he is shouting he is grunting why can't i hear him doesn't matter pig is getting closer and now good knocked pig away with a headbutt this gives me time to cut the ropes and get my feet on the ground pig is still talking as he holds his knife what is he saying doesn't matter they all want the same thing day after day week after week year after year i can't give it to him i have to stop him jump on him tackle him but no jumping was foolish that allowed pig to stab me that gave pig an opening now there's a knife in my gut it's okay it'll be fine i've been stabbed before i'll survive stop moving gently grab the handle and pull not quickly though can't let it break off every inch of the metal slipping through the flesh feel it because it means i'm alive pig bows good he surrendered his weapon all he's lost is blood pig lost his weapon feel the balance of the blade judge it master it throw it batman throws and as the shiny metal spins through the air the handle hits pig square in the forehead good pig is stunned but he's laughing pig loves to laugh everything's a joke everyone's a joker everyone but me i've won this fight press the boot on his chest apply pressure break a rib threaten to break his heart find out his plans find his helpers solve the mystery he has to talk no one wants pain they ask for it but they don't really want it press harder bend the bones under the boot wait wait anymore and you'll kill him step back something's wrong why can't i hear pig reassess evaluate the information understand what is happening we're in a butcher shop blood tied up by a rope a man in a mask pig a knife the knife pig has the knife he traded the blood for the knife now pig has the knife and all i have is blood okay pig is talking plan ignore the smell rancid corpses of all the slaughtered pigs evaluate reassess how did i get here how do i get out bane it all started with bane bane is running arkham running the city he put up an act made me hit gordon talk to the inmates they all denied it returned to the cave alfred was there on the floor wounded he said something your father and then master bruce why forget bane focus there's a fight right here throw something batarangs two of them twist the fingers let them spin but pig catches them how am i that weak focus i need to fight what is pig a metaphor a myth a story a dream an ancient cyprus there was a sculptor named pagamalayan he took a brick of marble and created the most wondrous woman she was so beautiful that he prayed for her to be real and that he kissed her lips he was met with her warm lips he broke away from the kiss and the woman smiled they loved they lived happily ever after wait that's it it's just love i fell in love i saw the ideal i saw his ideal he built his ideal from nothing from a boy in an alley to now i prayed for the second time in my life i prayed i went to the rooftop but dick grayson was shot alfred alfred isn't safe bane gordon no one is safe let go of pig ask him ask him batman let's go and pig stands up and batman looks him right in the eye how did i get here how do i get out pig stairs and after a few moments he says little pig little pig let me in no no not by the hair in my chinny chin gin he reaches for his mask and he takes it off it's not pig it's damien reevaluate reassess a metaphor a myth a story a dream everything changes finger tower he was going to leave then selena appears it was perfect they kissed and then there was constantine he said something you're just another dream at the end of this she's going to die no he can protect her constantine worries too much go home rest be with selena but then he hears constantine's voice again a few more days she'll be bleeding no matter what you do she's dead and you know it it doesn't matter it's none of his business constantine shrugs while sitting in batman's bathroom stating no it's not i'm just trying to help i need to show selena how to get to the cave 10 48 changed the time to 10 48 the time it showed up constantine he's here he needs to leave get out constantine takes a drag from his cigarette asking what did you say and what was the point be married have fun enjoy her while she's here enjoy all the beautiful if temporary comforts of love have a bloody ball live the dream hit him stop him from talking constantine could have been one of the greats if he wasn't such an idiot later constantine steps onto the roof batman holding selena she was shot it could have been the beast again just like he shot dick constantine lights his cigarette you know that this is a dream right they have you strapped to a machine using scarecrow gas to induce this all of this batman whatever came before whatever comes next they're trying to drive you mad batman asks are you here to help to get me out and constantine tells him no i'm here because you can't get out you'll never get out you will go mad not that you'll remember it but maybe next time batman says you're not real and cassidy tells him no no i'm not no one's here in fact you're quite alone just like everything else around you just another dream becoming a nightmare batman blinks and everything changes again now he's in a ballroom with selena and he asks her to dance everything keeps changing he's been having these dreams these nightmares children killing children damien and a pig mask joker in a sewer her her dead her talking her laughing selena tells him you're trapped how batman says a while back i exposed myself to every variation of the scarecrow toxins i memorized the effects how they work and how they feel but this this is different my last memory before these effects took place was in the cave alfred my father coming for me just as i was coming for bane bane controlled arkham controlled scarecrow one would assume that bayonet and my father were working together they isolated me captured me and injected me with the serum to try and drive me mad selena asks why and batman says before this the last time i saw him was during the button investigation the last thing my father said to me before he died was don't be batman that's why they're together bane and my father share this motivation to stop me selena asks will they and batman thinks and he says i need to get out of this dream it took me some time to remember but the first clue was when constantine came to warn me constantine was part of me fighting back and then i was struggling to get free they must have increased the dosage and experimenting with toxins i found the solution the toxin induces fear but too much fear can overpower it i just need to find a fear greater than this selena asks what is your greatest fear and batman says you left me i read your note it was a lie i couldn't ask i should have asked but i was afraid i should have asked you why she asks him why isn't it obvious can't you see it's your vow your suicide and that moment you foresaw love and chose war you can't love anyone or anything other than the vow your greatest fear is your simple truth you don't love me batman says no no it's not true selena tells him that she's sorry he doesn't know how sorry she is he tries to think of something and he says i love you i have to she pulls him close telling him no my love you don't she kisses batman on the cheek stating thank you for the dance it was lovely but the dream is done it is time to wake up bats flutter and batman calls out for her shouting no cat cat everything is a dream everything that batman has seen everything that he's been through it's all been a dream no it was a nightmare a nightmare caused by scarecrow's fear toxins focus on that this is a dream this is a dream and it is time to wake up and batman screams as he breaks free from all of the wires and tubes connected to him but as he does he hears a voice director of the company wakes early for a morning flight he realizes that he forgot some papers at work and he goes there in the office he meets the night watchman who is leaving for him the watchman stops the director and tells him that he shouldn't fly i had a dream last night he says i saw you crash i saw you die the director heeds the advice and sure enough the plane goes down the next day the director returns and gives the watchman a generous bonus then fires him why did the director fire the watchman batman stumbles out of his mechanical prison without saying a word grabs the riddler by the head and slams it down onto his knee with all of his strength sounding off a loud crunch the riddler falls to the ground gasping for air and batman leaves as he says the night watchman said he had a dream last night that meant he was sleeping on the job batman continues to walk through arkham asylum brutally beating every villain that bane has released calling out to him batman asks do you think this is enough nightmares do you expect me to curl up into a ball and cry for my mommy is this the marvelous plan after all the years of being humiliated time and time again being broken down and your answer to it always give me bad dreams do you even know what my life is do you have any conception of what i've been through you challenge me with nightmares i live the nightmare don't you understand i'm batman i am the nightmare and the next room mr freeze points is freeze gonna batman stating f f f f batman grabs the gun from frieza's trembling hands telling him you were a great professor a smart man so consider this and let me ask you this wasn't it all the waste speaking scientifically free slowly steps back stating but before he could say freeze batman punches him asking isn't this easier the next area that batman walks into his shouts scarecrow show yourself you smell a fear scarecrow jumps down from the ceiling spraying batman in the face with his toxin but batman throws him off his back and into the wall the hallway feels of the toxin clouding scarecrow's vision and as he gets back up he asks batman through the haze batman tells him it was your formula and scarecrow tells him you just took enough gas to panic or heard of elephants as your doctor i would strongly advise lying down i would advise you surrender batman tells him i owe you for the insight on the new formula i owe you for all the fun he then raises up through the smoke in seconds later scarecrow screams can be heard all throughout arkham after that batman looks up at amiglita and solomon grundy the two men loom over batman and he cracks his knuckles yeah okay but he doesn't groan as he gets up he laughs he laughs as he walks away from the knocked out bodies of the two hulking monsters after that batman punches two-face into the ground and the harvey side cries out please no more i surrender but the two-faced side shouts touch me i get it i'll kill you batman punches again telling him look i've always liked you harvey i can trust you so i'm gonna trust you to deliver this message he throws two face against a wall and he asks again can you do it harvey tells him yes please stop and two-face yells go to hell batman grabs two-face by the collar slamming him into the wall yelling i was talking to harvey batman gets close and through his teeth he tells harvey to give him a message tell him that i wish to speak to him today but i just woke up so i'm a little tired i'm going home my home in my city but tomorrow tomorrow i'm coming back and i'm coming back with my army so tell him harvey tell him tomorrow tomorrow we will talk batman releases his grip and he lets two-face slide to the ground he walks out the doors but later that night as batman sits at his computer he hears the same words over and over again intruder intruder intruder he rubs his head as he looks up and then reluctantly grabs his mask putting it on before walking upstairs as he walks into the dining room bane sits at one end of the table raising a glass will come home bruce however it isn't just bane right behind him in his own cowl and mask is thomas wayne batman's father from another world standing there with his arms folded bane tells him please have a seat but batman stands there telling him i'm gonna break your damn back bane grits his teeth but he holds himself back telling alfred maybe bruce would feel more comfortable if we served him some food alfred says yes master bane as alfred walks over to batman he asks would you care for some soup batman doesn't answer smacking the tree out of alfred's hands he then grabs the table throwing it calling out to bane i'm gonna break your damn back bane laughs and batman punches him with bane punching back the mansion wasn't the first place batman went to no he made good on his word and he assembled an army and they struck except the hospital they attacked it wasn't arkham at least it wasn't the arkham that bain had built up after the attack on the hospital batgirl says that she saw it with her own eyes she got into their servers deep into their servers there's no record of anyone getting out of their cells brain was a wreck before he was beaten now he's comatose everything that batman saw everything that he claimed in the nightmares never happened batman tells her i saw my father my father hurt alfred talk to him he'll tell you that girl tells him she did at great length even alfred never saw thomas wayne he never got hurt he said after coming home he was worried ever since catwoman and batman shouts this is not about her tim steps back telling him you're in a lot of pain right now we get that it's okay that's just who we are tim reaches out and he places his hand on batman's shoulder telling him you have to let us in let us help bruce batman stares and tells him i don't want your help i don't need a damn thing he pushes tim's hand off and he punches him right in the face but back in the current timeline at the mansion lightning strikes and batman jumps into attack he punches bane over and over again each punch hitting harder than the last bane grabs batman by the neck but batman breaks free head-butting bane with enough force to even knock him down blood begins to drip from the wound on his forehead and his being lays there he opens his eyes he allows batman the small victory and he gets back to his feet wrapping his arms around batman's neck he drags him through the house throwing him into the portrait of him and his parents and it shatters batman gets up wiping the blood from his mouth putting his fists ready to get back into it he charges forward knocking bain into the next room but bane punches back punching a harder with each and every punch the two go back and forth for what feels like hours until bane kicks batman in the head bane picks him up by the cape slamming him head first into the wall stunning him payne then picks up batman's lifeless body and he brings him down to his knee with a thundering crack as baine tosses batman's body to the ground thomas steps out of the shadows watching every second of what just happened the following night batman is strapped to the back of a horse while thomas checks the lines to make sure that he's secure he sings to himself as he hops up on the saddle and he pulls on the reins to get the horse going they begin to walk forward over thomas's singing the sound of a coffin being dragged in the sand can be heard behind him the next morning thomas wakes up to a figure standing over him and he tells him morning the ninja helps thomas up and he tells him good morning we are the death of the desert thomas tells him yeah yeah i know who you are there's only five of you do you think that's enough the ninja tells him you aren't a batman and thomas punches him telling him i am now thomas continues to sing to himself beating the ninjas until finally the last false and he carries on with his journey night falls and thomas stops to eat listening to the crackle of the campfire he eats his beans when suddenly bruce's eyes open up and he shoots up screaming thomas places his hand on batman's shoulder telling him it's all right you've been through a lot just remember what you've been taught batman turns back swinging his tied up arms shouting bane and thomas grabs the punch punching him back telling him it's okay you can be scared it just means that you have to fight that fear batman stumbles back and thomas kneels down telling him look it's over you've been defeated broken body and soul but that's behind you now it's time to rebuild we're gonna show them how strong you really are there's nothing to worry about father's got you the sun begins to rise and thomas readies the horse stating that he did his best to put the spine back together so that they could ride for now batman rubs his head asking where are we and thomas tells him the middle sands about 100 miles out from kadam batman scratches his head wondering why and thomas tells him you're the world's greatest detective when the drug wears off you'll understand batman climbs onto the saddle asking what's in the coffin and thomas tells him you'll understand that too the two travel day and night each morning tom is fighting off another group of ninjas and as they get closer and closer to their destination one morning batman asks those ninjas those are razal ghoul's personal guard that means that we're going to the name pit the only reason why al ghul would send the death would be to prevent people from ever going to the pit thomas laughs you're getting it now i'm so damn proud of you my boy then it hits batman the coffin it's his mother they're dragging martha wayne thomas stops the horse and he turns back telling him we have come a long way we've bled we've burned we've earned some rest a right to go home and when we do we're going as a family batman stares for a moment and then asks where is it thomas tells him the saddlebag so batman reaches down putting on his mask once he's done fitting it he says i remember the blood the pearls knowing that i would never see you again i forsook my life and surrendered to a vow and now what was it worth where did it get me thomas tells him you made your choices and you saved who you could you're a good man and you made your father damn proud bruce but now it's time for the resurrection for the final end of our plan the next morning batman helps fight off the next group of ninjas and thomas makes sure to leave one alive as he takes up one of the horses he readies it and asks batman if he remembers the book that he used to read him back when he was younger the one about the little animals batman stands up telling him the animal's in the pit thomas goes on telling him yeah it was a strange book a horrific thing all those friendly animals on their way to the church but they all fall into the pit they had little contests meaningless things but whoever loses they ate when there were only two left one of them tricked the other into killing himself and in the end we never find out if that one animal got out of the hole never understood why you enjoyed that story so much bruce later that night the two stopped before the giant hole on the ground and thomas says this is it the pit the demon's proudest secret where you can trade one life or another batman gets off his horse asking how did mother go in your world how did it happen thomas tells him she didn't die easily but that's not important we're here and soon she will be as well we will be a family once again thomas secures the ropes and the two slowly climb down carrying the coffin in the body of the ninja as they reach the bottom thomas picks up the flare that he tossed down stating i needed you at a low point to be broken after being after the nightmare after her we have a way out you can have the love and the sympathy that you deserve you can have back what we've lost we can be a family bruce we can live a life without the cape together batman pauses and then tells him the reason i like that book so much was because i idiotically thought that maybe it would change i was waiting for someone to get out of the pit i knew that it was impossible but still i couldn't give up the hope and with that batman punches his father they fight they punch they bleed to bat men fighting for what they believe in for hope and as that struggle rages on batman throws thomas into the coffin as thomas gets up he notices the coffin is filled with stones and he quietly says no when batman tells him while you were sleeping mother is buried in the desert and you will never find her thomas asks him why and batman says i wasn't sure that i could best you but i thought at least here in this hole i could hurt you enough that we both never would get out thomas runs at batman throwing a punch but batman hooks his arm underneath landing one right into thomas's face he swings again shouting you're broken we've broke you you can't be batman all you can be is my son morning arrives and the horse's nay shaking loose the sand from laying down on the ground one of the horses walks forward as the line leading down tightens and a hand reaches out of the pit as the rain beats down in the city of gotham a comp car speeds through the streets as dispatch tells them that they have a 3773 at 2020 spring apartment number two one of the officers response to the dispatch stated that they are six minutes out let the commission know the first officer asks the other if they got all that and the joker responds with 20 20 sprang apartment two got it later as the joker and riddler arrive on the scene they look at the two bodies of dr double x littler says that they are both shot in the head twice can't really help himself huh joker looks in disgust telling him he never could my guess is that if you looked hard enough you'd find the damn coin a few moments later riddler calls back to the commissioner telling him that it's confirmed but they have no clue what he is doing the commissioner tells him that he appreciates the updates they know what to do canvas and witness interviews asap and if they kill anyone who'll want their papers in the morning riddler asks are you gonna light it up the commissioner says yeah he doesn't really have any other choice the commissioner heads outside turning on the bat signal and just as always batman comes except it's not bruce wayne it's thomas wayne thomas goes back to the batcave to go over the case stating that the double had enough super strength to go up against superman harvey couldn't have done this alone he would have needed someone the ventriloquist holds up a pot of coffee asking would you like some and thomas ignores his butler as he gets ready and leaves once thomas is gone the ventriloquist sits down and begins to hear a voice and the voice tells him yeah it's just one of batman's little servants how adorable you are where's my cape where's my coffee where are my slippers such a pitiful waste of good skin and bones if they has you they have the world later in an abandoned warehouse harvey says as long as the numbers are right and they are everything will be good there's two of him and there are two of them amygda says that sometimes that man worries him and then grundy shouts solomon grundy bored on monday just then the batmobile crashes through a wall and two-face because to yell no no no inside the car thomas asks eta and a woman tells him seven seconds thomas springs out of the car telling the woman that she has three and a solomon grundy breaks the batmobile in half thomas starts counting down three and when he says one gotham girl shoots through the wall punching solomon out gotham girl looks back seeing amyglidda coming at her and she says that she's got a lot of drama in her life recently and this this isn't drama she then picks up amygda throwing him into the ground and as he gets back up he asks is that all you got he charges at her and she dodges telling him well i do have laser beam eyes that's something else trueface points a gun at the harvey side of his head shouting that's enough if either of you move harvey gets it i know you got orders and i know you need me alive this isn't your city it's my city thomas pulls out a batarang telling him the joker told me a story once the joker held a gun to his own head and he threatened to pull the trigger and with that threat he got the false batman to do whatever he wanted but that that was the false batman he was a child i am not and with that he throws a batarang into harvey's eye later as two faces body is thrown on the ground the commissioner looks at him telling him he's dead thomas tells him no i just severed some nerves separated the sides of his brain one side is damaged the other is not he wanted to face alive so here's two-face alive thomas then returns to the bat cave and the ventriloquist asks didn't you leave in a car earlier thomas begins to change not answering the question and then he asks what's for dinner the petroliquist tells him that it's all laid out he cooked it himself and uh their guest is there too back at the jail psycho pirate walks into the interrogation room stating hello two-face i am here to cure you and back at the wayne mansion thomas wayne sits for dinner telling alfred i apologize for being so late things have been busy alfred tells him i could imagine in my experience it normally is shall we alfred then tells him that he knows that he will return right and thomas tells him no he won't not this time and gotham girl is currently watching the city to make sure that none of your fancy friends come sorry to disappoint alfred stairs no thomas i'm sorry for what he's going to do to you when he returns and so it is another night in gotham city where the criminals patrol the streets protecting and serving the community well not so much protecting but all while this goes on a small little drone comes to visit bain and bane tells him i don't care about your multiverse i have this city something that no man has ever claimed and lex says i understand this is your city after all all can be doubted all but bane but up above gotham captain adam tells gotham girl i have orders from the president that all superheroes are forbidden from entering gotham a lot of folks are listening probably because they've never gotten an order before however i myself have gotten plenty and i can tell the good one from a bad one gotham girl tells him that's cool now get out captain adam laughs asking do you know who i am she cracks him across the face dating not really and honestly i really don't care but over at arkham the tweedle brothers begin to make their escape with scarecrow and kite man suddenly one of the brothers is shot and kiteman yells we don't have time for this we gotta move thomas lowe is his smoking gun telling them stay where you are you're not going anywhere kite man tells everyone to run on the three jump out of the window as kite man glides holding scarecrow and the other tweedle he said you're too much weight we're not gonna get far like this scarecrow holds at his arms dating basophobia the fear of falling a gas is sprayed into the remaining brother and he screams kite man then releases them stating oh good grief but back with gotham girl she holds captain adam's body up in the air stating i took care of our problem here should we give him the old pirate treatment and thomas laughs no that's not the deal we negotiated just like last time the villains go down the heroes go out gotham girl uses her strength and throws captain adam's lifeless body out of the city stating and he's gone later a scarecrow looks around a room full of kites he asks is this safe and kite man tells him this is kite quarters i built it myself of course it's not safe when batman comes and he is coming we're gonna turn out just like all the other villains he's gonna torture us enslave us and use us for whatever he wants scarecrow that asks are you scared and kiteman shouts it's batman i'm kite man hell yeah i'm scared elsewhere a defeated and broken captain adam tells damian that he fought for his country against everyone he fought with the league against everybody that girl he's never fought anything like her before after that he's arrested for going into gotham lex tech dampeners have his powers in check however gotham is peaceful and that's all they care about not who's running it or how not the bad being done there just as long as they get to brag that the villains are gone they should get out while they can doing good's criminal now no one cares anymore no one gives a damn and back with kite man he looks out the window telling scarecrow maybe there is hope out there maybe we can get through this maybe we can help him yeah maybe and that's when the glass shatters as the batarang is thrown into his chest thomas burstler kicking him with scarecrow shouting oh my thomas stands up and looks right at him easy or hard and scarecrow tells him very well hard please but later on the outskirts of gotham damian asks tim if he's heard yet he says yeah gotham girl down to the league in minutes but the issue for her is that the more she uses her powers the more that she loses it will kill her eventually damien tells him i don't care about her i would deal with superman if i needed tim says right fine i don't care but what about alfred damien goes on telling him that's not my problem and tim asks is it though if you go into the city you violate the law if you get caught you know what he said any member of the bat family found in gotham means alfred's dead damien then asks since when do we care about what a villain says lightning strikes and tim shouts since he came since he hurt us since he took over our city and broke our father damien grits his teeth kicking a stack of bricks and he falls silent and after a few minutes he says i don't know what to do we have to do something though don't we later damien sets foot into gotham with gotham girl greeting him stating oh hey you know sneaking in here is useless right you're gonna get caught she fires off her laser vision forcing damian to jump and then she asks you know i can hear everything right super hearing did you hear you probably should just stop damien lance telling her yeah i heard i just needed to get a little closer the wand of clarion can only be used once didn't want to miss he holds up the wand and he simply says sit that's and just then the magical chain shoot out from the ground wrapping themselves around gotham girl damien tells her i know how to deal with super people draw a circle on the ground then a pointy star chat with some demon blah blah blah blah presto you're done later detective zazz and scarecrow stop a man walking his dog telling him that the maximum allowed leash it's three feet are you aware that you're using one longer than that the man looks back and zazz goes on telling him you may not have heard of us we used to torture people for fun but now we do it mostly to enforce the city ordinances zazz then punches the man down stating that they will take care of the dog for him scarecrow might be a fair shot she should die quickly but before scarecrow can pull the trigger damian drops down on top of him with zazz pointing his gun stating oh this is going to be fun he fires up a few shots stating that they should put a slash under his right eye so that every time he looks in the mirror he can remember and damien dodges the bullets kicking zazz in the face dating you really should just shut up a short while later as thomas looks over the city he says let's not make the same mistake i'm not some silly villain or a bumbling police officer i'm not a pretender to the throne destined to fail i'm batman damian walks up no you're not i know exactly who i'm dealing with this is the man who let his wife become the joker in his timeline this is the man who let his whole universe collapse because of a button this is the one who gave up gotham to bane thomas and deals down please but before he can finish damien punches i'm shouting you are just pathetic thomas wipes the blood from his mouth telling him you must be my grandson damien as the two begin to fight thomas asks you've heard the cost of bat family members coming into gotham right the warning that you ignored the promise that he made damian tells him no i heard i just chose not to listen damien punches under thomas but thomas responds back hitting damien damien falls to the ground and thomas asks you understand what's about to happen right now right because you defied the warning as damien gets back up thomas sighs and begins to stomp on damien telling him you're stubborn naive you are your father's son soon after damien begins to wake up feeling his arms tied behind him you can hear a voice stating please no and then another stating that he must understand his position in here this was not my choice to make the first voice then asks please please please please just not here and the second says i would have liked to have just sent you on with a solid beating however damien opens his eyes to see who the voices belong to and he screams no and the first voice then asks please not in front of the boy and the voice tells damien this is not your city this is not batman city this is the city of bane and that's when we hear a loud crack as damian watches bane snap alfred's neck damien begins to cry tears pouring down his face asking how and thomas kneels down telling him you would assume now that with alfred gone the rest of the family will come but you're forgetting that we now have a new hostage we have you and perhaps it's good perhaps now they'll listen perhaps now they won't be as childish as you were as the sun shines down on the crystal blue water catwoman asks how do you feel and batman tells him that he's fine cat smiles telling him that she likes how he lies and the two pull their kayaks onto the beach and batman says that he's not sure what she wants him to say he's fine everything's fine as the two lay in the beach cat tells him okay she believes him but then bat smiles telling her that he likes how she lies as the day goes on cat asks an important question what are they and bat says that it doesn't matter in a few days according to the boys that she talked to on the mountain after they well the only thing that can defeat bane is coming here if they can take it they can take back gotham from bain he was hurt he is training and with her help bat is getting better and he's going to be better and that's all that matters and as the night comes the two go to their separate rooms but as cat lays down she says that she can hear him awake over there the walls are thin and if he's awake she's awake so go to bed bat says that everything is fine but cat tells him no he isn't it's his breathing it changes when he's sleeping the tension that he builds up all day fates it's nice to hear him letting go he leans up telling her that it's just breathing he doesn't do anything different when he sleeps and cat says that he does when he's with her now he needs to go to sleep she's tired of worrying about him batman lays back down telling her that he doesn't he's he's fine everything's fine and cat asks him if he ever gets tired of lying so batman says yes all the damn time and the next day the two go out into the forest to continue the training but before jumping off the waterfall batman asks i thought cats were supposed to hate water and she smiles telling him it's about hitting the water feeling it trying to drown you and enjoying that knowing that you'll come back up she leaps off into it state and then she'll raise him to the bottom and as the two jump they swim and they come back up laughing kat swims over to batman pulling back the cow but before he can say anything she tells him to shut up just shut up she moves her lips closer to batman's and she stops no it doesn't matter so batman pulls the cow back over his face telling her yeah and later as the night sets the two sit around a campfire with cat stating that she used to imagine them growing old together and that they weren't all that different they were still the bat and the cat the lion and the knight just older and they had a daughter she was so much like him that it was almost annoying always sullen trouble making friends forever trying to help anyone at night they would talk about the surreal old days the joker and the penguin and all the absurd rest of them and then they'd laugh they'd argue over whether it was a boat or the street where did they meet but that day when she jumped to the future died and she killed it she thought it was fine she was a hero she did what heroes do she sacrificed for the needs of others and everyone needs batman and batman can't be happy she's here to help bruce wayne be happy but she was convinced that if bruce wayne was happy there would be no batman so she did what she had to do and she jumped off the roof she left him and it was fine but it wasn't fine was it he didn't just get over it and neither did she she kept seeing it she tried to forget but there it was the two of them holding each other she spent so much time crying and even stupidly hoping that he'd sometimes she'd sit and wait she'd wait for him to come out at night but then she realized the problem she wasn't a hero heroes don't wait like that they don't cry like that a hero would celebrate the victory the world was saved she wasn't a hero she was a thief so she waited and she wept the wood logs crackle and batman tells her i waited too and i wept too the next morning the two go back to training and cat tells them to throw the stupid batarang and he does but he says that it's not a good idea she snatches it out of the air telling him that she is trying to get him stronger he has to throw it like it's real she's not a teenager out trying to steal her first purse throw it like you mean it like this and she throws the batarang back with force forcing batman to catch it inches from his face and he says this isn't but she stops him yelling throw it like you're angry pretend that you were this close to happiness and i took it from you pretend i made a decision for the both of us pretend that i decided that you needed to be alone forever that you could be batman forever come on bruce you have to feel the weight of it what i did to you put that in there it doesn't matter i'll catch it no matter how hard you throw it with all that anger i will always catch it batman grips the batarang and he drops it no you weren't the one who did this to me i was afraid afraid that i couldn't put anyone above the vow that's why you left you knew me you knew my fear she pushes him away stating that he doesn't know a damn thing and batman tells her we were close and we didn't make it and it broke me but never in all that time did i blame you you believed that i needed to be alone to be batman you believed this because i believed this what if i had to be brought low to see that that i had to die and awake to see it to really see you to see what if it's not true what if maybe we don't live because of hurt we live to fight the hurt cat tries to state that he doesn't know what he's talking about but batman tells her i'm not fine everything's not fine my world is dust without you so batman picks cat up and they kiss and the next morning batman walks out onto the beach seeing cats sitting down stating i didn't notice you leave she smiles telling him that she can be quiet batman sits down next to her telling her you didn't need to do this any of it and she leans back into batman stating that according to the boys on the mountain magpie is selling her stolen venom here in a few days they take it back they take gotham they needed to do all of it and later that day the two sit at a bar listening to the news when a reporter mentions gotham city about how the seemingly endless crime waves have suddenly stopped and only now that the criminals are running the streets there's also reports of a sadistic batman carrying out acts of violence on those unwilling to cooperate another man at the bar laughs good that place is a damn cesspool and somebody's finally doing something guess that batman finally grew a pair cat tells the man whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent the man reaches over a touching cat's leg stating come on what the hell do you know you ever been to gotham i got a cousin and got them he's special forces times are finally changing there so cat punches the guy out of his chair telling him yeah she knows and they're the ones changing them as the sun sets the two suit up and batman says alfred's signaled he's safe i'm sending damian in cat size telling him so we owe some to the endless and batman looks at her telling her i wish we could stay just us here she hugs him stating that people are hurting and he needs to fight he needs her so fight for them with her beside him and she'll fight for them with him beside her the two waits and batman tells cat that he loves her she tightens her grip stating that she loves him too and later as magpie's yacht sails by batman asks are you ready and cat tells him quote kite man hell yeah once in position the two board the ship taking out the guards and as cat kicks magpie to the ground she tells her that it's over they got the venom and the payment but she is lucky that she gets to go back to gotham she says that she's going to guess that she's supposed to deliver a message to bait the cat grabs the diamond necklace ripping it from magpie's neck telling her oh no he's batman i'm catwoman we are the message so the next morning the two walk along the beach with cat looking at the necklace stating that this is a connor diamond from the gotham museum she's stolen it four times and he's caught her stealing it four times she tosses the diamond into the air and batman tells her that she can't keep it she drags the guy out of the cold gutter gives him hope and love set him up join him in the greatest fight of his life and he won't even let her have an itty-bitty teensy-weensy little diamond as batman snatches the diamond before cat can catch it she sighs stating apparently she then walks off asking anyone tells you that you're no fun and batman stands there thank you the two look at each other for a moment and cats smile stating this is what love is it's who takes care of you and that's all it is to it and that tells it at that time on the street before the bet even after when he wore the costume it was he was not fully formed he was not yet batman but when they saw each other again later on the boat he had embraced the identity it was his truth meeting hers for the first time so the truth is of whether or not they met on the street or the boat is both and after what happened maybe he's more than the bat more than the vow maybe he's something maybe they can meet again here now she hugs him stating but they met on the beach and batman tells her yes we met on the beach and after a few moments kat says wait we agreed holy crap bane is in trouble now as rain bores down on gotham a man walks through the streets he turns the corner to go into an alleyway and he's called out by officers pig and two-face asking what does he think that he's doing the man doesn't answer and two-face asks don't you know what city you're in there's a curfew that passed a while ago guess that means we're gonna have to break some of those bones so you'll know not to do it again just as two-face reaches up the man hits pig and two-face in their throats sending them to their knees as the man catches pig two-face takes out his gun and he opens fire so the man throws pig into two-face and as two-faced gets back up he grabs his gun asking don't you know who runs this city and the man finally speaks telling him yes i do two-face pulls the trigger two more times and then he stops realizing who he just shot the man knocks the gun out of two faces hand and he punches standing tall as the smoke leaves his chest from the bullets he looks down opening up his shirt pulling the slugs off of the batman symbol underneath and he tosses them away batman may have lost gotham city to his own father and to bane this may have become the city of bane but batman is not going to stand by later as the bat signal goes up hugo strange the new commissioner tells thomas that the pig and two-face haven't checked in it could be nothing it could be something but it's probably nothing knowing those two thomas wayne looks out over his city and after a brief pause he simply says he's here doping the commissioner takes off his glasses cleaning them telling him no no no no he wouldn't with what that man experienced he was broken he lost love his own son was shot in the head he lost his own surrogate father no one comes back from that kind of loss soon after gotham's police force finds themselves under attack first the mad hatter then kite man hell yeah gotham girl attempts to look for the intruders but as she uses her powers she begins to feel weak and thomas wayne tells her that she should stop and go home without another dose she needs the rest gotham girl grabs on to thomas escaped asking am i gonna die like hank my brother thomas tells her no but for what he's done to you he will while more and more villains are taken off the streets thomas wayne focuses his attention on gotham girl's recovery and as he tends to her wesker opens the door telling him i i apologize but there's a mama message thomas asks what is it and wesker tells him because thomas looks back at gotham girl and he gives her a kiss on the forehead before leaving he then walks down into the bat cave where damien wayne hangs from the ceiling a prisoner ever since he tried to come into the city and resolve this himself thomas wayne takes out his gun and he holds it to damien's mouth but before thomas could pull the trigger his hand trembles and he says to himself i can't not to my family damien scoffs as he cuts the rope telling him we are not family the butler was family father is family but you and i we're not family before thomas has a chance to react he swings around and the entire bat family is surrounding him batwing hits thomas on the side of the head while tim drake cracks him across the face and batgirl swings followed by batwoman they tell thomas that they had a debate while they waited whether to tell bruce what he'd done to see what bruce would do they thought it would be the right thing watching bruce get angry but then they thought why let bruce have all the fun they have anger they have pain and he killed alfred don't they get to do a little bleeding they voted and in the end it came down to orphan they all looked at her for an answer should they let bruce do it or just handle it themselves and she looked up and then she said alfred orphan slams her arm down into the back of thomas's neck and continues to beat into him as thomas is gasping for air hunter stands over him with her crossbow telling him they should just kill him it'd be easier to deal with him if he had an arrow in his spine tim tells her no that's not the way the way is they offer him mercy damien says yes of course and when father says no to mercy then we put an arrow in his spine thomas coughs up on blood telling them he made all of you children fighting for him an addict spreading his poison trying to make himself seem normal what is wrong with my boy huntra says that she's had enough this is for alfred the arrow is loosened but thomas catches it he says this is for my grandchildren you ask for mercy so you may have it he takes the arrow and slams it into tim's chest punch after punch kick after kick blow after blow even after sustaining all of his injuries thomas wayne takes out the entire bat family and he wins as the grandfather clock leading to the bat cave ticks tom has a burst through calling to wesker telling him i need some tea now wesker hurries into the dining room to pour a cup and as thomas sits down in this chair he tells him send a word to my boy using their devices that everything went well that his father is gone my boy's clever i'm almost proud of him to sacrifice his man to get all of them to surprise me it was so clever it almost well bruce keeps forgetting he is my boy and i'm batman meanwhile over into arkham bane sits on his throne thinking he unties the laces to his mask and he tells bruce standing in front of him as batman we ought to do this without masks batman reaches back taking off his cow no masks no help bane looks over at catwoman asking and what about her and batman tells him it's not her city not her fight you took my city bane you orchestrated all of this he throws the utility belt to the ground and then takes off his shirt no help baine scoffs pulling the tubes from his neck and hands taking off his harness no venom for him no help bane gets ready to charge yelling i am and batman stops him telling him bane i get it and i'm batman but there's one thing that you keep forgetting she she's catwoman as bane gets ready to swing there's a crack and catwoman's whip wraps around his arm before bean has a chance to pull it off batman punches bane to the ground and bane shouts you said it was your fight you said no help batman reaches for the batarangs taped to his back telling him yeah well i lied the two lunged towards bane with catwoman wrapping her whip around bane's neck while the two batarangs hit their marks on baine's chest and cheek catwoman continues to pull bait to the ground telling him and you said that this plan wouldn't work bane would be too smart to fall for that batman kicks bane in the head telling her hey i never said he was smart as bane tries to get back up batman says the venom will kill you but there's an antidote are we done here bane pulls at the whip around his neck telling them 17 years i was alone forgotten every night the tide came in every night i pushed to the top kicking pushing while the crabs the leeches they all clung to my body cutting me all i wanted was for it to stop stop kicking stop pushing stop stop stop they drown me everyone drowns me you drown me and yet i'm still here so no you pretty rich boy bane gets up grabbing batman by the neck chucking him into the wall catwoman tries to control him with the whip but bane's strength overpowers her as he pulls on the whip dragging her closer she leaves up with her claws out ripping away at bane's face asking what's the matter can't speak cat's got your tongue bane leans back with it launching catwoman across the room slamming her face into the wall and then he shouts as he pulls the batarangs out but before he can walk over to catwoman batman charges into him from behind bane's head hits the concrete floor with a loud crack and batman picks his head back up slamming it down telling him for everything that has happened i could kill you but death would only end your agony so instead i'm gonna break your damn back batman bends a bane over his knee lifting him high into the air but before he could bring him down there's a gunshot batman suddenly feels a sharp pain in his stomach as he calls out to his father and as thomas wayne is standing there with a smoking gun he says son the room fills with silence and thomas turns to wesker telling him we have come to the end fetch the pirate later batman slowly wakes up seeing himself at a dining table in dim light he looks at all the silverware and the plates all nice and neat it looks forward across the table his eyes widening his jaw dropping the person sitting across from him is the lifeless body of alfred pennyworth he quickly scrambles across the table calling out to him but his cries they're met with silence he cries holding his friend his father his mentor for what seems like an eternity and when he can finally move he unties alfred from the charity picks him up laying him on the couch his eyes never leave alfred as he takes off his cape and he drapes it over him and the only question that batman can think of is why why did this happen and when he looks up he finds his answer written in red across the wall he reads the words you are not batman batman stands back up checking all of the doors in the room each of them having been stacked with cinder blocks he does the only thing that he knows and he kicks and he finds nothing so he punches and he finds nothing and punch after punch each with more fury and rage than the last but as the bricks remain intact all batman can do is scream with his anger and his frustration batman turns and he begins to destroy the room he flips the table throws the faces he rips down the portraits why must he go through this why did this have to happen and as he falls to his knees he looks up again at the words written in red you are not batman he stands back up and as he gets closer he runs his fingers along the words and he stares for a moment and then he hangs his head he reaches along the leather mask with tears rolling down his cheeks and he takes it off but he doesn't continue to cry he turns his sorrow into determination and that's when there's a loud explosion he looks back and catwoman tells him he says you're ready so batman gets up following catwoman without saying a word he passes by timothy and barbara kate and luke cassandra and huntress and then damien his son he puts on his mask as he walks through the door and across the room is thomas wayne along with the pirate and wesker thomas tells him what he's heard he killed him is that enough are you finally finished with this batman obsession and batman doesn't answer so thomas says i have your family i took your city your woman is that enough will you finally stop and batman doesn't answer so thomas gets up on his chair shouting is it done and batman takes a moment to collect his thoughts and then he simply tells him it's never done there is no progress another year is another year yesterday becomes the day as quickly as today becomes yesterday his lips curl into a smile and he finishes by telling him you will never stop and neither will i one more time father for out for it a punch is thrown and batman falls to the ground thomas tells him alfred is dead bane is broken take off that goddamn mask marry the girl and settle into a life of warmth and peace listen to a man your own father who chose this life who suffered the consequences of being this this horror for once in your damn life listen do what i should have done stay down bruce however to understand how thomas wayne became this we have to look at things in reverse it all began on a night when a vow was made after thomas read little bruce's favorite bedtime story he told him that he swears on the spirits of his parents to protect his life he'll do so by spending the rest of his life warring against anything that might cause little bruce payne but he couldn't you see in thomas's world his origin wasn't that he and martha were shot his son bruce was shot and it sent thomas down a spiraling path of vengeance he swore that day to never let anything like that happen again no matter the cost and in thomas's anger he found bruce's killer he held him down and grabbed a large rock thomas told mr chill that his son wanted to help people maybe become a doctor like his old man before chill could speak that rock came down again and again and again and it was the first time that thomas took a life however it wasn't the only loss that thomas felt in his lifetime martha had a hard time dealing with bruce's death and became the villain that batman would fight over and over again martha wayne the joker and martha killed alfred after that thomas wore the cowl and punished anyone who would do wrong in his city and the cost was their life first he killed the penguin then mr freeze then bane then riddler and then finally he approached catwoman he held the gun and she told him to do it she has no family no one will care if she's gone anything is better than nothing and thomas began to squeeze the trigger but then he stopped he told her his name and how he had a son about her age and that was how the bat and the cat met in thomas's world the two of them would work together to take criminals down and catwoman would begin to see him as more of a father figure but tragedy would once again strike in the form of the joker aka martha wayne shooting catwoman thomas would often go to bruce's room to talk to him but one night he had something important to tell him he told martha that their son was alive in another world that he had seen him and that he had become that world's batman and he had come to their universe with their flash and she laughed and she killed herself thomas took another drink stating that this world is useless useless to his son useless to him to martha to even selena and because of that he was going to kill this universe and what followed was the flashpoint thomas was supposed to die but he didn't he fought the reverse flash and he won and it didn't stop eobard from coming back and giving him the ultimate revenge putting him in a world where his son was alive and had become batman that was how thomas wayne got to this universe when thomas wayne killed reverse flash he didn't kill him reverse flash is a paradox that cannot be killed and to get revenge he brought thomas here to suffer so thomas watched him afar seeing what kind of a life his son had had after taking up the mantle and he hated it he was disgusted by it and he decided that he needed to put an end to this he needed to stop bruce from ruining his life any further and that was when thomas went to bain he was going to revive martha wayne in the lazarus pits and he was going to stop his son from becoming batman and they were going to live a happy and normal life and that was how we came full circle back to when batman stares in the eyes of his father and he tells him one thing four alfred and batman steps forward as thomas punches him standing face to face with his father from another world he was just about to lose until catwoman saved him she cracked her whip around thomas's neck pulling him back kicking him she tightens the grip and thomas shouts you can't and catwoman stomps on his head telling him oh honey we just did she crawls down telling him you did a good job leaving me here with the pirate of the ventriloquist but the more powerful weapon is controlled by the only person you can't control because no one controls wesker except scarface she opens her hand showing the eye of scarface and scarface shouts weska youtube nothing i told yous that she wasn't gonna give me back if i catwoman goes on asking thomas where do you think the doll that wesker spoke to has been this whole time after batman took him everything to ask what else i fetched from the memory on the mountain thomas glare's back at wesker yelling and as thomas lunges at him batman jumps in the way knocking him to the ground the two begin to wrestle and thomas looks up telling him i pushed my good boy so hard but you won't fall will you we're wings after all and wanes we rise thomas pulls out a gun from beneath his shirt holding it to batman's head and then he climbs up pushing batman to his knees telling him you are a fool this was your chance to be with her to live without your mask to live without pain i showed you you are not batman batman struggles telling him after the alley the pearls i was just a child i thought it was the end i went to kill myself with a knife but instead i took a vow i killed myself with the vow i swear by the spirits of my parents to avenge their deaths by spending the rest of my life warring on all criminals that's what i said i live by that vow i am the vow i am batman and he takes a deep breath and continues telling him and i am no longer a child life is now a trap one makes when we are ten and hurting life is a choice that we make every day every damn day i chose her i chose happiness i chose family and i chose batman the cold gun is pulled away from batman's cheek and thomas tells him i killed the universe i killed so many burned the city killed alfred all of you bruce my boy when will you finally listen to your father batman looks up at thomas and he tells him i listened but right now it's time for you to understand something and he punches thomas in the heart of right and as thomas falls to the ground batman tells him you are not my father and that was it time went on batman won again the wrongs were righted the things went back to normal as normal as they could get for batman and later as he took off the costume and stomped by a local sports bar to catch the knights game on a big screen the announcer stated that there was only a minute and 37 seconds left in the game and it all comes down to campbell campbell is over seven on fourth quarter comeback situations over the last two years he's already had two interceptions and a fumble in this game alone and batman asks the man next to him if he thinks that campbell can do it and the man says nah with rio's maybe but campbell no the two watches campbell gets ready to throw a pass and he overshoots it by five yards and the man laughs see and batman smiles back telling him yeah yeah the man introduces himself as chuck brown and batman tells him that his name is bruce and that he stopped by when he heard the game on the radio chuck says that he should have just stayed in the car with campbell in the lead it's just pain and misery all the way down so bruce holds up his glass telling him here's to the knights here's to the pain here's to the misery where would we be without any of it chuck picks up his glass and they toast as he tells him hell yeah chuck takes the drink stating that it's the same thing every time this campbell this is what he does he gets set up and then he loses the ball over and over again just like everything man it's always the same story and bruce tells him stories can change people can change maybe campbell has taken enough hits maybe he knows how to go down and how to come back up maybe that's it maybe it's just enough the ball snaps and the announcer calls out that there's two seconds left in the clock the knights need six to win campbell is in the shotgun five receivers it's a blitz oh campbell dodges his left how did he get away from that campbell launches the ball long he's got a man on the far corner raph and colin both leap on him i can't believe it oh my goodness i can't believe it the crowd gathered beneath the statue of alfred pennyworth the family stood behind him as bruce cut the ribbon finishing the dedication of the alfred pennyworth children's hospital they all think it barb wrote rick damien even jason who ignored bruce telling him not to come and he snuck past security this isn't what should have brought them together they listen to his speech they hear bruce's voice catch on every tear that he refuses to cry he was always good with words when he would want to use them and when night fell the family took off as were alfred's final wishes as the moon rose in the sky our more familiar bat family left to grieve while other friends leaped among the rooftops catwoman batwoman orphan and signal were there gotham would be protected as it always was tim had found a spot a sleazy corner of gotham that even the villains had overlooked he rented the place for the night sweeping it clean of any bugs that might have been put in place and as the door swings open the family entered this place is filthy damien comments as they stare around the dingy interior you have no idea tim tells them be grateful you didn't have to scour the place for bugs i saw things under the tables that i'm never going to unsee barbara looks at him asking if maybe it was overkill but tim disagrees it's important that we talk freely he tells her they all saw him tonight bruce looking rougher than ever jason smiles at all of them from behind his sunglasses ever the black sheep of the family if we're gonna get right into the heavy stuff i'm gonna need a drink he tells them motioning to the fully stocked bar with no one behind it rick leaps over the counter offering the poor what do you want jason right right you know the old dick wouldn't have been so quick to serve me jason smiles at him rick just looks at him letting him know that he was only here because he knows the butler took care of him when he was a kid anger shoots through jason and he points at rick the butler really show some respect why did they even invite you you're not even a part of this family anymore he yells with anger bubbling up within the rest of them and barbara yelling pointing out that neither of them were even in the city when alfred died jason turns on her don't give me that crap barbara i was steering clear because bane said that he'd kill alfred if any of us entered the city not everybody listened he yells waving his hand at the dejected looking damien enough bruce tells them from the door his voice quiet yet authoritative this isn't what alfred would have wanted he crosses the room sitting quietly at a table the others don't quite know what to say offering merely platitudes damien finally speaks up asking for a glass of ginger ale from rick the liquid fizzing as he holds it up to alfred who kept me and bruce from tearing each other apart from the beginning the bar seems to fall away as damian tells a story from years ago they were standing in the cave batman standing angrily over them no night patrols for two weeks he finally snarls turning and racing to the batmobile anger was flashing through young damian as he pauses as alfred puts his hand on his shoulder what you should do is empathize with your father instead of waging a war of wills that pushes you further apart he tells him a dustpan in his hand he ruffles the young boy's hair telling him a time-honored rule of destroying equipment in the bat cave you break it you clean it he tells him walking up the stairs to the manor of course damien didn't listen and later he moved through the streets of gotham on his motorcycle the night was quick with damian saving a bus full of hostages from the mummy gang as he admired his work damien turned to see batman in the shadows beckoning him over but getting into the car damian was surprised to find it was actually alfred beneath the cow my boy you disobeyed a direct order from your father against my better judgment i will not reveal this evening's excursion to master bruce but you are indeed grounded for two weeks he tells him as the car rumbles through the streets of gotham you're the best pennyworth damian told him yes i know the story ends and they all look at damian at the bar tears streaming down his face he knows that they think that this was all his fault he was the one who disobeyed the order he was the one who broke into the city you're right i forced spain's hand to the hand that snapped alfred's neck i can i can still hear it he was a good man he deserves more he tells them and finally he turns and walks out the door telling them don't follow me bruce doesn't move he's not even looking up as his son leaves the room barbara begins to yell at him telling him that damian clearly doesn't know that he still belongs here but tim interrupts her lifting his own glass to alfred our secret agent man the bar seems to fade again and tim is now the new robin having only won the costume for a few months firefly buzzes over his head tossing his shurikens he brings the villain down to his level tying him up with his electric bolo and the gcpd arrives flashing lights forcing tim to leap away before he can regain his equipment he curses himself having ignored one of bruce's rules always be mindful of your tools and tradecraft he never actually learned that alfred had broken into the gcpd evidence locker and then he woke up the next morning to find his equipment gift wrapped for him he stands before the family now finishing his drink he came into their lives when bruce was at his lowest you can do it again help out on the cave move back into the manor i just need you to ask for help otherwise i don't know what good it'll do tim tells him no tim i'm not going to ask you to do that bruce tells him and tim nods moving towards the door he tells bruce that he needs to fight through the demons to bring the family together to be the adult that they all need him to be and another moment passes with jason raising his glass to alfred my favorite pain in the ass jason is sitting in his apartment watching as alfred puts down a bag of groceries that he knew the young man needed as he has done numerous times alfred informed the man that he can always join them for dinner at the manor but jason knows that he isn't truly wanted at the manor as the constant reminder of the sun that bruce couldn't control don't fit into the wayne dynamic never have never will jason tells him alfred doesn't respond instead holding up one of jason's pistols these will fail you in the end he tells him but jason smiles picking up the other one these days my weapons are the only thing i can count on he tells him it was later that the batmobile exploded through a wall and a voice yelled over the speakers put your weapons down red hood looks up from where he was tied to a pole armed goons around him i'd listen to him if i were you the goons raise their weapons and the batmobile begins to fire non-lethal take down charges dropping them and moments later they drive away with jason turning to alfred who was driving the batmobile hell of a rescue al he tells him that's why you can always count on family alfred tells him as they rumble off into the night and jason finishes his drink he refuses to blame bruce for all of this like the others seem to be doing but he knows that bruce needs to fix things as well you need to see how angry the rest of them are but that incredible brain to fixing it or there won't be anything left to fix he tells him walking off into the night barbara now sits across from bruce and she tells him that he needs to understand what the city has gone through in the last year bane evil batman running around and now they've lost alfred each of us we need batman right now we need the man that inspired us to be the best versions of ourselves we need the best of you so that we can heal bruce doesn't say a word anger rolling through barbara again and she smashes the glasses off the table but that anger passes and then she finally opens her eyes looking at him to alfred and how he was always able to find a way to celebrate something special about us a car is moving through the woods three hours outside of gotham and barbara smiles from the passenger seat blindfolded as alfred still wouldn't tell her where they're going finally they stop and barbara looks up at mount kane what are we doing here she asks surprised climbing silly alfred tells her with a smile finally they reached the summit just before dawn and barbara stares at the beauty of the sunrise thanking alfred you're welcome he tells her pulling out a single cupcake with a candle i've noticed this batgirl you've been using your cyclist that is swinging in the city canyons every year at this time to celebrate the anniversary of leaving the spine or rehab center look what you've accomplished after the doctors told you that you wouldn't be able to walk again you're my hero barbara gordon the story ended and barbara walks out of the bar and rick comes out from behind the counter offering bruce a glass i don't drink bruce tells him with a wave of his hand i know it's ginger ale rick tells him with a smile rick finally asks what story did grayson would have told if he was there there's no contest there bruce tells him you see it was a few years ago the nightwing followed alfred into the city and he had noticed that the man was always sad on a specific day he had watched as alfred placed roses on the spot where the waynes were murdered whispering a prayer for them and dick leaped to the streets before he could pull away smiling and waving hey alfred i could go for a chocolate shake it from fenus you he asked leaning into the window it was later looking out over the city as they finished their shakes that alfred finally told him today was the wayne's wedding anniversary i would rather celebrate their union and all the joy and good civic works they brought to gotham along with a baby boy who would do amazing things for his native city don't take this the wrong way alfred but i feel like there's something else and alfred nods looking at the ground he reveals that thomas had told them to take the week off and the waynes could drive themselves into the city that night alfred was at the manor packing when he heard the news and rushed down to the precinct to get bruce i took great pains to hide the guilt over not disobeying thomas's plan that fateful night alfred tells him sitting across from bruce rick nance thinking that dick grayson sounded like a great guy he feels that dick would have been the one to help bring this family back together right now the right you would have said the right thing to keep them from leaving bruce tells him but sadly rick isn't that guy anymore he tells bruce that he knows that alfred was a good man that he spent his life keeping the family together and he reaches into his pocket pulling out a photo and pinning it to the wall amidst all of the other pictures that are cluttering it you have a lot of hard work to fix everything that man built for you to honor him right rick tells bruce as he walks out the door but before he leaves he looks over his shoulder you know you never gave a toast to alfred the one that comes from the heart but i guess bruce sits alone at the bar standing at the table and finally he pushes away standing and crossing the room he reaches out taking the photo that rick had pinned to the wall and as he stares at it in this moment of silence tears brim on his cheeks and sadness overtakes him the photo shows alfred sitting in front of the bat computer the full costume family standing around him the family that he loved to alfred bruce whispers and there you have it a heck of a long full story for batman i hope you guys enjoyed we're going to try to start bringing back some more of the full story videos relatively soon but don't 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Length: 219min 26sec (13166 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 02 2020