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#0934 -- Detective Comics -- Rise of the Batmen, Part 1: The Young and the Brave
On a rooftop, Azrael battles a Batman-like figure and gets tossed through the ceiling. As the figure goes to finish Azrael off, he receives a message through his headset and disappears. As Azrael lays in a pile of wreckage, Batman shows up and begins to aid Azrael but when he asks who did this to him. Batman is shocked when he says that he was the one who beat him to the edge of death. Batman then suddenly spins around and destroys a drone that was following him.

Two days later Batwoman (Katherine Kane) glides across building tops as she talks to her father over her headset. As she returns home she takes off her outfit and ends her conversation with her dad. Moment later Batman flies through her window and grabs a drone similar to the one he destroyed two days earlier. He says that he has a new plan for the vigilantes of Gotham, and wants her help to complete it. To get her to fully trust him, Batman removes his cowl and revives his identity to be her cousin Bruce Wayne.

The first recruit they head to get in Stephanie Brown, better known as The Spoiler. She is at the Bay Street Seaport stopping a group of Penguin thugs, when she is saved by The Red Robin, Tim Drake; the second recruit. After the dust had settled with just the two of them standing, Batman and Batwoman appear and explain the plan. The third recruit is Cassandra Cain, The Oprhan. She is at The Cauldron defeating some children from being sold into labour, once she defeat the attacks, Batman and Batwoman approach and explain the plan he her as well. The last recruit is a bit of a wildcard, Batman wants to recruit Basil Karlo, The Clayface who at the moment was at a Midtown theatre scaring people away as he tries to watch a movie he stared in back before his accident. And as much as they are unsure if he is willing to change, the Bats ask if he wants to join the team.

Later that night the team met at the Bat-signal where head off together to train. Elsewhere at some sort of military comport an army stands ready in Batman-like armour.