[COMIC] X-Men Forever 2 - Chapters 01-16 (2010-2011)

Batman Eternal
In the near future, Batman is seen tied to the Bat-signal while Gotham City burns around him. In the present, Commissioner Gordon is taking on Professor Pyg before being joined by Batman. The two give chase to Pyg, with Gordon following one of his henchmen through the subway. Gordon corners the henchmen and order him to lower his weapon, though the henchmen states he does not have one. Gordon fires, but the bullet passes through the henchman and hits a transformer, which causes a massive explosion and two trains to collide. In the aftermath, Gordon states he was only trying to disarm the henchman, but Batman tells him that the security footage shows he was not holding a gun. The Gotham City Police Department and Jason Bard, who had just arrived in Gotham, arrive at the scene and Bard arrests Gordon. The GCPD continue to clean up the scene, while Vicki Vale breaks the story on Commissioner Gordon at the Gotham Gazette. Batman meets with Gordon, determined to figure out what actually happened, while the Bat Family begin to learn about the accident. Jim Corrigan goes to the scene of the accident, while at Arkham Asylum, Doctor Phosphorus is attacked by Deacon Blackfire. Batman goes through the footage of the accident trying to identify the henchmen when he is joined by Catwoman. Batman gets a hit on the facial recognition, learning that the henchmen Gordon was chasing, worked for Carmine Falcone, who has been talking to Mayor Sebastian Hady about returning Gotham to the time before the rise of Batman. Batman goes to the Iceberg Lounge to see if Penguin knows Falcone's whereabouts, only to find that Penguin does not know he has returned. Later at the Batcave, Batman attempts to piece together the evidence gathered so far, when he learns of attacks on Penguin's weapons caches by Falcone's men. Learning of the attacks as well, Penguin prepares to go to war with Falcone. Mayor Hady, under the guise of Falcone, promotes Major Jack Forbes to interim commissioner of the GCPD, who shifts the department's priority to stopping Batman. Elsewhere, Stephanie Brown returns home to see her father meeting with other villains. She narrowly escapes when her dad attempts to kill her for being a possible deterrent to his boss and his associates rising to power in Gotham. Stephanie calls her mother to tell her what she has learned, only for her mother to reach out to her father after hanging up with her. Gordon is denied bail for his crimes and assigned to Blackgate Prison until his trial. Batman meets with Falcone in his apartment, warning him that he is keeping an eye on him. Batgirl uses the Batcomputer to recreate the train station surveillance, where she notices a man who spent three hours on the tracks, leaving only just before the trains collided. Red Robin investigates the infected children who were present during Pyg's fight with Gordon, and learns the infection originated from a single building in the Narrows. Red Robin goes to the Narrows and discovers the infection was caused by nanobots, and accidentally activates them in a child. Elsewhere, Vicki Vale follows a lead on potential gang wars in the Narrows, and, upon confronting them, is saved by Harper Row. The gang members follow Harper and Vicki back to Harper's apartment, which is below Red Robin, who falls through the floor fighting the nanobots. The nanobots attacks the gang members before Red Robin is able to stop them. However, Harper's brother Cullen, who was also infected, has the nanobots enter his body. In Tokyo, one of Bruce's teachers comments that the nanobots were activated too early, and that Bruce would not be happy.