At the edge of the battlefield, atop another high-rise, a black cat and a white cat stood side by side. The black cat said, "I told you, whenever I was around Bat-Cat, I always smelled something strange. But I've never kept birds, so I didn't know it was the smell of bird droppings."
He turned to the white cat and said, "Gordon-Cat, you never told me Bat-Cat was one of them too."
The white cat wore an equally shocked expression. He said, "No, Bat-Cat shouldn't be... Oh my God! They even replaced him! Things are worse than I imagined."
That was right. This white cat was Gordon-Cat, commissioner of the Cat City Gotham Police Department, and Schiller had met Gordon-Cat far earlier than anyone could have imagined.
It was easy enough to figure out. When Schiller's Mind Tower landed in the center of Gotham City, the first to arrive had to be agents from the Police Department. And Gordon-Cat was the cat Bat-Cat trusted most, so he naturally took full charge of investigating this strange building.
After being thrown out by the Superego, Schiller immediately found somewhere to hide and observed the situation nearby. Once he determined that this cat represented Gordon, he knew the cat could be trusted.
In the vast majority of the DC Universe, Gordon was one of Gotham City's few symbols of light and hope. He might become discouraged, suffer setbacks, face countless hardships, or hover on the brink of death, but in the end, he would overcome every difficulty and become Gotham's last conscience.
Another important reason Schiller decided to contact Gordon-Cat first was that Gordon-Cat's investigation seemed rather perfunctory. Many times, he tracked down scent clues, only to stop pursuing them halfway through.
His command and deployment were equally erratic. Whenever he spotted a