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Return of Batman.
Commissioner Gordon leaned back on his sofa as he rewatched the footage taken from different sources showing the police chase of Batman, who had returned after eight years, following the three years he had been running, keeping a couple of steps ahead of the police after Harvey Dent's death. The last time he had actually met with the vigilante had been a few months before he had 'disappeared,' despite the risks towards them both, seeing as in the eyes of the law, Batman was a criminal, a murderer.
From the moment it was 'announced' Harvey Dent was murdered by the Batman, Gordon was forced to hunt the vigilante down, but he knew it wouldn't work. While he would never truly understand all of Batman's training and where he got the gadgets and tools he used, Gordon knew that Batman had the resources and the skills to stay several steps ahead of the curve and outwit even the best police plans so Gordon could have kept him appraised on potential hunts or plans, it wasn't really needed; Batman wasn't like everyone in Gotham since he had the skills and the means to evade the best plans. And despite the risk, Batman had still come to him to provide help and advice on any cases that cropped up.
But the hunt for Batman had given him the means to do some real good in the police. Thanks to the hunts, Gordon was able to focus the police's attention elsewhere, and he was able to conduct private investigations to see who was on the level and who wasn't.
And then the visits had ended and the sightings had vanished. Everyone had gotten on with their lives. But Gordon was unable to go a day or a night while he committed himself to the police after the breakdown in his marriage since Barbara had urged him on many occasions to tell the truth about what Dent had tried to do to them without thinking about the Batman.
What was he doing?
Was he okay?
Had he died and he had no idea about it?
Now he had his answer to that question. Batman was still very much alive, and judging from the way he effortlessly flew off in that weird helicopter-like aircraft that looked like something you'd get from a Marvel comic, something made by Doctor Doom or something weird like that, or maybe one of those Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle things his son loved (his heart ached for his family) he was still on top; Foley was a good man, but if he and that idiot who passed himself off as the mayor of Gotham thought for one moment he was unaware of their p[lans to get rid of him, they were in for a shock.
Jim had come to the conclusion the man who wore the Batman suit had trained as a ninja after he had found some of his son's forgotten Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comics, and he had realised some of their moves and abilities were close to those used by Batman, although that the was the popular culture view of ninjas; it had taken him some time and a lot of self-study, but Jim had learnt one or two tricks, but really he would need to be foolish to now realise Foley's ambitions and the mayor was getting tired of some of his activities. Jim had been trying to keep law and order in the city for years.
He had seen the sorry excuse for law during the days when scum like Falcone had ruled the police and had many cops in their pockets.
Loeb and Flass had been two of the worst examples, and since Loeb had been Gordon's predecessor as Commissioner of Gotham City's Police Department, he had turned a blind eye to the crime and corruption infesting the city like a disease while Flass and those like him had used him for protection while they became enforcers protected by their shields.
Gordon did not want to see the work he had put into rebuilding the GCPD suddenly disappear in a flash of smoke, but that was what frightened him the most; while he knew Foley was a good cop, the man's ambitious nature could be detrimental; it would only take one cunning criminal a few moments to see how Foley could be exploited, and then that would be it, and the mayor didn't have any common sense full stop.
Gordon had been able to keep on top of everything so far, and from a certain perspective, the return of Batman would give him the means to continue working on the police while trying to work out what had happened at the stock exchange floor to find out what it was about that particular case that would attract Batman's attention since there had been so many more interesting crimes over the years.
