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Batman: The Adventures Continue#1
We open on Batman battling Bane, he uses tranquilizer darts to knock him out. A giant robot is loose in Gotham, it goes after Waynetech and steals what is later revealed to be alien hardware. Someone is watching from the shadows as Bruce battles the robot. Bruce fails to stop it making off with the technology. Bruce later attends a social function, where he meets old flame Veronica Vreeland. Veronica wants to be more than friends to Bruce, and wishes to mother his latest adoption Tim. Bruce politely declines, and starts conversing with Lex Luthor. He learns Superman is missing in action following a fight on the far side of the moon. Bruce finally tracks down the robot to a warehouse and investigates as Batman, but he is attacked by Lex in his classic armour
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Batman: The Adventures Continue#2
Lex reveals to Bruce that he had observed Brainaic's recent fight with Superman from an orbiting sattelite, from this he realised that Superman had his hands on what remained of Brainy, and knew when to strike when Wayne acquired it. Batman tells Lex he'll find nothing in the remains, as Wayne's technicians had already gone through it....however, what he neglects to tell Lex is that HE personally went through it , and found a way to hotwire it using Batarangs. He uses a Batarang to trigger the head's defence systems and it blasts Lex out of his hanger lair.
Bruce briefly returns to the manor to recover, Alfred notes Lex's giant robot seemingly has two cockpits, but Bruce reckons the second slot is storage for a battery. Bruce returns to Lex's hideout in a new aerial outfit, and finds Lex trying to leave in a plane with Mercy. Lex and Bats battle in the air briefly before Lex attempts to use the robot again, but Bats gives the robot's storage battery an electrical KRYPTONITE charge, sure enough, it's revealed that a captive Superman was the battery the whole time! Clark breaks free and takes Lex into custody, Bruce asks him to dispose of Brainiac's head.
Our epilogue is Jason Todd being yelled at by someone in a Gotham apartment complex, accusing him of loitering. Jason pulls out a gun and intimidates the apartment dweller, before he walks off into the night.