Chapter Summaries

Miao Mu returned to Gotham with stolen S.H.I.E.L.D. data and learned how much had changed while he was away. He reunited with Brucie, who revealed that she had become a major shareholder in Wayne Enterprises and was dealing with an ambitious executive.

• Miao Mu found the overgrown police car, drove it back to the city, and took a taxi to the Arkham Police Department.
• Miao Mu learned that Croc-Man had become WM Security Company's spokesperson and public hero.
• Miao Mu found his villa under reconstruction and encountered Brucie in her limousine.
• Miao Mu showed Brucie his exoskeleton, Arc Reactors, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. database chips he had brought back.
• Brucie told Miao Mu that Bruce knew his identity and that she had become one of Wayne Enterprises' ten core shareholders.
• Brucie explained that she wanted to remove William, an ambitious executive who threatened to cause trouble.

Miao Mu returned to the villa in Arkham District, where Brucie welcomed him home and urged him to clean up. Meanwhile, Bruce investigated the two months he had been missing, visited his parents’ graves, and heard that Superman had seen a troubling future for Metropolis.

• Miao Mu arrived at the rebuilt villa with Brucie and found its hidden workshop, weapons warehouse, and shelter intact.
• Brucie gave Miao Mu a WM Group tracksuit and checked that his old scar was still there before sending him to shower.
• Bruce asked Alfred to investigate the events of his absence and gather detailed information on the WM Group.
• Bruce visited his parents’ graves and found signs that someone had been there before him.
• Superman told Bruce he had seen a future in which Metropolis faced disaster and asked whether Bruce could help if the city was attacked.

Jason returned home and found Miao Mu asleep in Brucie's bedroom, then accidentally struck him with a baseball bat before recognizing him. After catching up on the two months Miao Mu had been missing, Jason agreed to take him to see Nygma and the others.

• Jason found a cheap electronic watch in the hallway, checked that Miao Mu's sealed study was undisturbed, and suspected an intruder had entered the house.
• Jason called Brucie, kicked open the master bedroom door, and struck the sleeping Miao Mu with a baseball bat.
• Jason recognized Miao Mu, explained that Gotham was still searching for a shapeshifter, and told him how Brucie, Otis, and Nygma had reacted to his disappearance.
• Miao Mu asked Jason to guide him to Nygma and the others, and Jason fetched the keys to his birthday motorcycle.
• Miao Mu put on a coat and shirt and asked Jason where the garage was.

Miao Mu and Jason rode to the transformed Arkham Asylum, where Miao Mu reunited with Otis and saw that he had become a respected figure overseeing the institution. Miao Mu arranged to meet Otis for steak at the Zeus Grand Hotel before leaving with Jason to visit others.

• Miao Mu rode Jason's custom motorcycle through Arkham and learned that Alberto's overseas investment group had funded WM Group's development.
• Miao Mu and Jason arrived at the expanded, modernized Arkham Asylum and met Otis's oversized rat, Bastian.
• Otis told Miao Mu that his work at Arkham was going well, and Miao Mu saw how firmly he controlled the guards, staff, and patients.
• Miao Mu thanked Otis, invited him to dinner at the Zeus Grand Hotel that month, and left with Jason to visit others.

Miao Mu and Jason rode to Gotham Old Town to visit Nygma, picking up a black card from three rich heirs and leaving them stranded after shooting out their tires. At Nygma’s house, they found him working at his computer, where he revealed that he had found a god.

• Miao Mu and Jason rode toward Gotham Old Town, where Nygma had bought an old house.
• At a traffic light, a rich heir offered Miao Mu a black card for his motorcycle, and Miao Mu took it and challenged the heirs to catch him.
• When the light turned green, Miao Mu shot out two tires on the convertible and sped away with Jason.
• Miao Mu and Jason entered Nygma’s house and followed a secret passage into his basement.
• Nygma greeted Miao Mu at his computer and said he had found a god.

Miao Mu reunited with Nygma, who told him about meeting the Dream Lord Morpheus and warned him about political efforts to curb the police faction Miao Mu had built. Nygma suggested Miao Mu could take over Gotham’s underworld, but Miao Mu rejected the idea and left his own plans undecided.

• Miao Mu joked with Nygma, who showed him Female Two-Face’s coin and described meeting Morpheus in a dream after drinking the Blissful Dream Potion.
• Miao Mu invited Nygma to dinner, and Nygma agreed while urging Miao Mu to visit his brother Jerry, who had become head of Homicide Division Team Two.
• Nygma explained that the precincts Miao Mu had rallied formed a powerful faction under Jerry, while election candidates and newly appointed superintendent Nathaniel Barnes moved to restrict police enforcement.
• Miao Mu proposed drowning Barnes, but Nygma warned that he was not an easy target and asked how far Miao Mu intended to go in Gotham.
• Nygma suggested Miao Mu could become Gotham’s next Falcone and wipe out the underworld, but Miao Mu rejected the comparison and said he wanted to do something else.

After Jerry was attacked by Robert of the D.E.O. Crime Corporation, Miao Mu returned to the Gotham Police Department and reunited with Gordon. Gordon explained his plans to use old case files and build a new police database, then revealed that Barbara worked as a secretary for WM Group, prompting Miao Mu's surprise.

• Robert confronted Jerry in his apartment, questioned Gotham's falling crime rate, and injected him with a green substance.
• Miao Mu returned to the Gotham Police Department, where officers gathered around him and Gordon called them back to work.
• Gordon took Miao Mu to his office and explained how old case files had helped keep a robber with an unsolved murder in custody.
• Gordon described his plan to build a new police database and told Miao Mu that Barbara worked as a secretary at WM Group.
• Miao Mu reacted with surprise when Gordon mentioned Barbara's job.

Miao Mu and Gordon discussed the police purge and how to protect trustworthy officers while removing corrupt ones. Miao Mu then went to find Jerry at the Homicide Division, where officers joked that Jerry was still in bed with a woman and offered his new address.

• Miao Mu questioned whether the police reorganization was meant to reform Gotham or eliminate political enemies, and Gordon defended his faith in justice.
• Miao Mu urged Gordon to recommend Harvey Dent as district attorney, prepare a drug-and-vice squad, and investigate corrupt officers while protecting those who had served Gotham.
• Miao Mu offered to remove the corrupt officers in Arkham District and told Gordon to prepare trustworthy newcomers to replace them.
• Miao Mu left to find Jerry and passed the newly appointed superintendent Nathaniel Barnes without speaking.
• Miao Mu found the Homicide Division Second Squad's office in disarray and asked where Jerry was.
• An officer joked that Jerry was still in a woman's bed and offered Miao Mu Jerry's new address.

Miao Mu found Jerry transformed into a terrified, ratlike figure and rushed him to the Arkham bunker for examination. He called a Japanese scammer for help, offering the Spear of Destiny in exchange for handling whatever had happened to Jerry.

• Miao Mu reviewed a murder case file and advised the officers to investigate the victim’s accounts and home.
• Miao Mu went to Jerry’s apartment, broke down the door, and found the ransacked rooms stained with blood.
• Miao Mu discovered Jerry shrunken, covered in fur and whiskers, and trembling beneath the bed.
• Miao Mu hot-wired a sedan and drove Jerry to the Arkham bunker, where Dr. Milo began examining him.
• Miao Mu called a Japanese scammer and offered the Spear of Destiny if he came to Gotham and helped Jerry.

Miao Mu learned that Jerry’s body had undergone a dangerous genetic alteration and traveled to New York to find a way to save him. Meanwhile, Batman received reports of a gang shootout and a possible Clayface sighting in Gotham.

• Nygma told Miao Mu that Jerry had undergone stable genetic modification and might not survive another attempt to restore him.
• Dr. Milo said he could develop a reversal serum using samples, and Miao Mu asked him to confirm the details and identify the biotech company.
• Miao Mu flew to New York with Deadshot and Waylon Jones, carrying documents about Otham Biotech.
• Batman asked Alfred for updates, and Alfred reported a robbery, a gang shootout with explosions and fires, and two likely Clayface sightings.

Batman tracked down the impostor posing as Bruce Wayne and confronted him at a fundraising dinner where Bruce relaunched the Gotham Reconstruction Fund. Brucie exposed the impostor as Clayface, who revealed his mud-like form before the shocked crowd.

• Batman asked Alfred where the impostor was and headed for a safehouse to change clothes before going to the Sivers Grand Hotel.
• Cassis Lank introduced Bruce Wayne at the fundraising dinner, where Bruce announced the relaunch of the Gotham Reconstruction Fund and criticized Gotham's corrupt officials.
• Brucie and William Earle discussed WM Group's planned move into real estate and its potential partnership with Wayne Enterprises.
• The real Bruce Wayne arrived and accused the other Bruce of impersonating him, leaving the crowd unable to tell them apart.
• Brucie threw a glass of wine at the Bruce onstage, melting his disguise and revealing Clayface as a mud-covered humanoid monster.

Brucie stopped Clayface by using fire and the hotel sprinklers to weaken his mud body, then escaped with Bruce as police arrived. On the rooftop, she told Bruce she had retired and that he could continue as Batman.

• Clayface attacked the charity fundraiser guests, and Bruce began evacuating them while Brucie confronted the raging villain.
• Brucie used burning curtains, electrical wires, and the fire sprinklers to soak Clayface until he could barely reshape himself.
• Bruce offered Brucie a handkerchief and asked about her identity, her world, and her connection to Miao Mu.
• Brucie described her flood-ravaged world and climbed the hotel exterior to the rooftop with Bruce as police approached.
• Brucie told Bruce she was no longer Batwoman and had retired, leaving him free to keep being Batman.

Barbara, acting as Batwoman, rescued women from a trafficking den before Gordon summoned her to investigate surveillance devices at the Gotham Police Department. She discovered the bugs tracked a specific person’s name and voice, but the chapter ended before she identified who was being monitored.

• Bruce questioned Brucie about Batwoman and refused to leave Gotham.
• Batwoman broke up a snakehead gang’s trafficking operation and helped the captive women escape, though she could not prevent their likely deportation.
• Barbara gathered evidence from a nearby shooting and answered Gordon’s coded call to meet him at the Gotham Police Department garage.
• Gordon showed Barbara listening devices found at the station, and she identified them as equipment commonly used by agents.
• Barbara analyzed a bug and found that it activated in response to one person’s name or voice.

Miao Mu interrogated Purple Dragon Gang members to find the Bigfoot Ninja Clan and tracked their lead to Casey Jones Auto Repair Shop. There, he and Croc-Man encountered the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Miao Mu challenged all four to fight.

• Miao Mu beat Purple Dragon Gang thugs beneath the Queensboro Bridge until one gave him the address of Casey Jones Auto Repair Shop.
• Miao Mu and Croc-Man broke into the repair shop to find Arnold and ask about the Bigfoot Ninjas and the turtles.
• Raphael and Leonardo attacked Croc-Man, but their weapons failed to penetrate his armor.
• Miao Mu punched Leonardo through the furniture and into a wall, then challenged all four turtles to fight.

Miao Mu and Waylon fought Arnold and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles after the group confronted them in Arnold’s house. Miao Mu challenged all four turtles and fought them off, leaving the battle underway as he kicked Raphael.

• Arnold armed himself and charged, but Croc-Man grabbed and threw him before Donatello caught him; Arnold was knocked unconscious in the ensuing confusion.
• Miao Mu gained the upper hand against Leonardo, then knocked Michelangelo down and used him to throw Leonardo into a wall.
• Miao Mu challenged all four turtles to attack together, and Croc-Man escaped through a window.
• The turtles launched their attack, but Miao Mu disarmed Leonardo, caught Raphael’s thrown sai, and blocked Michelangelo’s nunchaku before stomping on his toes.
• Miao Mu blocked Raphael’s remaining sai, flipped him onto the floor, and kicked him.

Miao Mu defeated the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, introduced himself as a Gotham sheriff searching for a cure for his brother’s Mutagen infection, and followed the turtles into their sewer home. Croc-Man explained how Ms. Brucie rescued him, prompting Miao Mu to insist that protecting her was not Croc-Man’s role.

• Miao Mu disarmed Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo, then stopped fighting and asked them about Mutagen.
• Miao Mu introduced himself as a sheriff from Gotham City and showed Donatello the test reports about his brother turning into a rat.
• Miao Mu and Croc-Man followed the four turtles through the sewers, where Michelangelo asked Croc-Man about his appearance and origins.
• Croc-Man told the turtles that people had treated him like a monster until Ms. Brucie rescued him, found him work, and helped him gain respect.
• Croc-Man vowed to protect Ms. Brucie for life, and Miao Mu replied that it was not Croc-Man’s turn.

Miao Mu visited the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ sewer home to seek an antidote for the mutagen that was transforming his brother and to learn about the Bigfoot Ninja Clan. Master Splinter agreed to help investigate and gave Miao Mu an iron plaque that could lead him to the martial arts world.

• Leonardo opened the hidden entrance to the Turtles’ home, and Miao Mu gave him a wallet as a token and possible medical expenses.
• Miao Mu met Master Splinter, and the two recognized each other as formidable fighters.
• Miao Mu explained that his brother had been exposed to mutagen and asked for an antidote and help destroying the substance.
• Master Splinter said Shredder had disappeared and offered to have his children investigate the Bigfoot Ninja Clan’s hideouts.
• Miao Mu asked about the martial arts world, and Master Splinter gave him a rusted iron plaque to use if he passed its test.

Miao Mu and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles broke into Sigam Mechanical Company’s production warehouse and fought the Foot Ninjas. After mowing down the guards, they spotted an armored figure watching from the control room.

• Leonardo found the hidden passage to the warehouse, and Donatello opened its security door.
• Miao Mu and Croc-Man armed themselves with light machine guns and opened fire as they entered.
• Miao Mu and Croc-Man swept through the warehouse, killing several Foot Ninjas and forcing the survivors into hiding.
• Leonardo spotted a powerful man in iron armor and a purple cape in the control room above the warehouse.

Miao Mu stormed Shredder’s control room, defeated him, and forced him to reveal where the mutagen and antidote were. After reaching the Foot Clan’s garage, Miao Mu watched Leonardo and the others fight the Foot Ninjas as Shredder’s boar and rhino enforcers appeared.

• Miao Mu charged toward the control room while Leonardo and his brothers split up to fight the Foot Ninjas alongside Croc-Man and Raphael.
• Miao Mu entered the control room, demanded the mutagen and antidote from Shredder, and shot him when he attacked.
• Miao Mu overpowered Shredder, knocked him through the control room’s bulletproof glass, and stomped him into submission.
• Miao Mu threatened to melt Shredder’s armor until Shredder gave in and revealed the supplies’ location.
• Miao Mu kicked open the garage door, where Leonardo and the others fought the Foot Ninjas as Shredder’s boar and rhino enforcers arrived.

Miao Mu left the Turtles with crates of medicine and returned to Gotham, where Constantine prepared to cheat dentist Jeremiah at cards. The chapter ended as Constantine coaxed Jeremiah toward a higher-stakes game.

• Miao Mu pointed out a fake sniper, and Deadshot tranquilized the boar and rhino when they went to investigate.
• Miao Mu gave Croc-Man crates of antidote and mutagen, thanked Leonardo and the Turtles, and hurried back to Gotham.
• Leonardo wondered about visiting Gotham after Miao Mu left.
• Three days later, Constantine planned to win money from Jeremiah, a dentist with a gambling habit.
• Constantine greeted Jeremiah and suggested that they gradually raise the stakes for their card game.