"What the hell!?" Jim shouts as he sees Selina walking into the Batcave, looking at her dead body on the gurney.
"How are you—" Barbara shouts, shocked.
Selina puts her hands up defensively. "It's a long story." She starts. "How'd you find my body?"
"I've been monitoring the CCTV cameras around the city and I brought you back." Barbara answers. "How'd you get into the Batcave?"
"I've been around Bruce long enough." Selina replies, smirking.
Jim lowers his gun and asks her, "What are you doing here?"
Selina puts her hands on her hips and answers. "I was about to hide from all the chaos in the city when I saw the Batmobile. So, I followed it. Is he really…?"
Selina stops as she waits for an answer. When she doesn't have one, she assumes he really is dead. She leans over a railing, staring into a deep abyss, trying to keep herself together. "He's dead?" She comments, repeating what she already knows, but she can't believe it.
She shakes her head, shocked. "I thought nothing could kill him." Her voice cracks at the end of her sentence.
"Me too." Jim says as he gets out a cigar.
"Did you really love him?" Barbara asks.
Selina wipes away a tear before it falls from her eyes, trying not to appear weak. She takes a deep breath and a long pause before she answers. "I did."
"I'm sorry." Barbara replies, giving her condolences.
Selina shuts her eyes as she tries to keep the tears from falling, answering. "Me too."
"How are you alive?" Barbara asks.
Selina tries to pull herself together as she wipes away some tears and looks at Barbara, composing herself. "Well," She starts.
She zips her suit down a little to show a cat-shaped diamond etched to her chest. Barbara and Jim are awestruck. "I got this at an auction. They said it came from Khandaq. They called it the Amulet of the Sphinx."
"Khandaq?" Jim questions.
"Some Egyptian place." She remarks nonchalantly.
She sighs and asks, "What are we supposed to do about Bane?"
Barbara turns to the computer as she opens up the CCTV cameras. "We've tracked down some soldiers carrying ammunition to one of their bases at the pier. Some more in Chinatown. And some prisoners have broken into a hospital."
"Are those CCTV cameras?" Selina asks.
"Yeah, why?" Barbara asks as she turns back to face Selina.
"Cuz when everything went to shit, I went to a place to hide and ended up in one of Bane's bases. They're planning to take back the surveillance feed." Selina answers, still upset about Batman being dead.
"Thought they would." Jim comments, shaking his head. "Bet this time they're gonna have it locked down hard."
"And I saw a bomb." Selina adds in a quieter voice, worried.
Barbara scoffs and covers her face with her hands. She runs her hands through her hair as she displays a face of utmost fear. Jim puts the cigar back into his mouth and puffs some smoke, admitting a terrible truth. "I don't think we can do this."
Selina and Barbara don't disagree as they hang their heads in shame. "I don't know what we're thinking." Barbara comments, repeating her worry about this whole situation. "Batman, he—"
She starts off, taking a moment to finish her sentence. "He never gave up, but—"
Her voice trails off, unable to finish. "Is this how it ends?" Selina asks, knowing she knows the answer.
Silence persists between the three for a good while before Selina breaks the quiet. "It doesn't have to." Her voice scared, but she tries to stay strong.
Jim and Barbara look at Selina, puzzled, but waiting to hear more. "Batman watched his parents die right in front of him, but he never gave up. He's been through everything, and he kept fighting back."
Selina takes a moment to contemplate her next words "He wouldn't want us to quit."
Before anyone says anything, the Batcomputer's screen goes from the CCTV cameras to black. The three turn to the computer and Jim is the first to speak. "Oh crap."
Barbara tried to get the computer back on, but it's no good. "I think they hacked this computer." She says, frazzled.
A loud bang sounds behind the door and the three know exactly what's going on. They're going to break in. "What'd we do?!" Selina shouts, trying not to panic.
Nightwing, still on the gurney, tries to sit up and says, "I'll hold them off!"
"No! We gotta get out of here!" Barbara shouts back.
"Elevator!" Dick shouts.
Barbara rushes towards him, trying to carry him as Jim helps. Barbara directs Selina towards the elevator as she is occupied. The door starts to show signs of breaking, and fast. Selina activates the elevator as the car shoots down to their level.
The door bursts open and Jim tells Selina to carry Dick as he starts firing his gun at the intruders. "GO!" Jim shouts.
He gets shot in the arm and then Barbara yanks him back into the car and the door closes, ascending to ground level. Gordon puts a hand over his bullet wound, wincing.
As they reach ground level, they open the elevator car to a wall of debris. Selina pushes away the ashen debris and the group are met with something terrible at the other end. Soldiers. Guns pointed towards them, ready to fire.
They freeze in their tracks as one of the soldiers whispers into their comms. "We got em."
They are faced with no choice but to surrender. "Affirmative." The same soldier answers back as he orders the others to get ready to fire.
As soon as the four are ready to accept their fate, gunfire sounds nearby. The soldiers turn to the direction of the sound and one of them is shot in the head.
The soldiers start firing and then Jim fires bullets of his own at one of the soldiers' arms, disabling his arm, unable to hold a machine gun properly. He reaches for his pistol but Jim fires first, aiming for the head. The last soldier is hit with Batgirl's Batarang in the arm, then the mysterious hero leaps forward, tackling the attacker and aggressively beats his face in. He stands up, fists dripping a small amount of blood. He pulls back his hood and reveals himself as Jason.
"Jason?!" Barbara blurts out, thinking he was dead.
"I heard their comms." Jason explains himself. "I made it as fast as I could."
The group breathe a sigh of relief as Jason makes his way towards them, delivering some dark news. "Don't relax just yet. They blew up all the Batcaves."