

- Cats steals a pair of WayneTech binoculars (to help her in her next heist) from crowded Buddingdale's store.
- While she is sneaking in an elevator shaft, the quake hits.
- She crawls through the debris and sees a security guard helping an injured little girl (Elise) on the eighth floor. She tends to Elise while the guard searches for survivors.
- Elise dies, Cats is upset and feeling claustrophobic. She begins searching for a way out and finds a window she can look out from, but when she lays her eyes on Gotham, she is shocked to see that her entire city has been destroyed by an earthquake (they thought just the building was bombed or something).
- Cats returns, to the guard's surprise. Cats uses her whip to carry the survivors, one by one, across to the fire escape to another building that they can climb down from.
- Afterwards, Catwoman sits on the ledge of a building and mourns her city as it goes up in flame.


Part 6: Claustrophobia

#56 - Part 6: Claustrophobia



- Catwoman is patrolling the city, stopping looters. At the WayneTech building she finds Poison Ivy and a scientist who has been secretly serving her as she spreads her special fertilizer across the city.
- Catwoman leaves them to it since it's none of her business, but as she's leaving, Ivy decides the scientist is no longer useful to her. Ivy gives him a poisonous kiss and walks away. Catwoman tries to save him, but it's too late.
- Catwoman and Ivy fight but Ivy easily gets away.
- Poison Ivy arrives at the GCPD and plants a seed on the street. Harvey Bullock tries to stop her and calls for backup. Ivy tries to fatally kiss him, but Catwoman stops her and Ivy runs.
- Her fertilizer is already working, a giant tree grows in front of GCPD. Catwoman and Bullock work together to rip the tree out by the roots.
- Catwoman searches for clues to where Ivy will strike next. She remembers Ivy's dead accomplice mentioning that WayneTech had already delivered their fertilizer across town, and she steals a list of delivery sites from his corpse.
- Catwoman finds Ivy at Reservoir Park.
- Ivy drops her hyperseeds into the water, which will carry them citywide. Cat jumps down and manages to catch the seed vial w/ her whip, but she is left hanging by one hand from the observation deck.
- Catwoman throws the vial at Ivy's face. She screams as the seeds start to sprout in her face, but she begs Catwoman to swear that she'll keep them growing even if it kills her. Cats takes Ivy to the GCPD, and she tells herself that Ivy will be fine and the city is safe.


Part 15: Reap What You Sow

#57 - Part 15: Reap What You Sow



- Catwoman learns about a valuable cat-gem on display in Manhattan. She steals the gem, but then it transforms into a communicator and a hologram of Oracle appears. Oracle tells her "the boss" will be waiting for her in Robinson Central Station Main Lobby in twelve hours. Then the gem vanishes, to Catwoman's annoyance.
- Catwoman finds her way into Gotham, evading US Marshalls and the navy. She is furious and determined to make Batman pay for what he did.
- She reaches Gotham's shore and is shocked to see her beloved city completely destroyed.
- She meets with Batman, who tells her he needs her to steal some computer discs that hold vital information for restoring Gotham. The discs are in Manhattan, where Catwoman just left. She's pissed. Batman argues that this conversation was too sensitive and had to be face-to-face, and he needed to be sure she could get in and out of Gotham.
- Catwoman demands to know why she should do anything for Batman. He answers, "I need you," and pulls her in for a kiss. Catwoman agrees, provided he find her an alternative route in and out of the city.
- Catwoman takes the old steam tunnel he recommends to her, which he believes is abandoned, but Catwoman finds herself up against the three henchman--Al, Lewis, and Mookie. They fight for a while, but when the henchman can't shoot her directly, Mookie shoots a crate of explosives. The tunnel beings to floods and they are all swept away by the water.


The Mission

#72 - The Mission



- Catwoman and two of the men, Al and Lewis, reach a gate at the end of the tunnel. They work together to open it and are swept outside.
- Catwoman threatens Al, Lewis and Mookie, forcing them to be her crew for this job.
- They travel to Manhattan. Unfortunately Selina is known as both Selina Kyle, dead mayoral candidate, and Catwoman, Selina Kyle's murderer, in New York, so they must disguise themselves. Mookie is dressed up as the Countess Angora while Selina becomes Miss Venite, her traveling companion and secretary, and Al and Lewis serve as their bodyguards.
- Selina studies the info Batman gave her. The discs she is going to steal were meant for Bruce Wayne, but after he was embarrassed in Washington, D.C., he took off to Europe and no one can find him to pick the discs up.
- The discs are protected by a new security group called Hardcases Inc. The organization comprises of ex-U.S. Armed Forces with low-level metahuman abilities. There are five members, each with a unique power and trained in different areas.
- The next day, Selina goes to the Jordan Building where she is confronted by Natasha White and Vincent Nastacio of the Hardcases. She pretends to be a Wayne Enterprises employee trying to pick up the discs, but Natascio tells her that only Bruce Wayne is allowed to see the discs.
- Selina claims she was only testing them because Wayne Enterprises has reliable information that Catwoman might try to steal the discs. She leaves, and Nastacio admires her moxie. He knows she's Catwoman, and while he doesn't understand why she warned them about her upcoming attack, he puts the building on full alert.
- That night, Al, Lewis and Mookie attack the Hardcases building to distract the vault guards from their posts.
- Catwoman sneaks to the vault and takes the disc.
- Nastacio watches her through the security cameras and says, "Good. You went for it." Later, Nastacio explains that he switched the discs in the vault for fake ones. But they soon discover his paln didn't actually work - Catwoman snuck back after Nastacio stopped watching the cameras and took the real discs.
- Nastacio say "We're going to find her, and the discs, and then nail her hide to the wall."


Ms. Direction

#73 - Ms. Direction



- Catwoman's henchman, are angry with her for letting Mookie sacrifice himself in an explosion. Catwoman reveals that Mookie is actually alive - he has a superpower, kinetic energy passes harmlessly through him. It does make him feel high, though, which is why he enjoys explosions so much.
- In Gotham City, Oracle still can't believe Batman trusts Catwoman even after she murdered Selina Kyle. Batman knows the truth behind that, but doesn't tell her. Instead he proposes scenarios to explain that its possible Catwoman never killed Selina Kyle.
- Oracle finds out Catwoman stole the discs, but is offering them to the highest bidder online. Batman isn't surprised.
- Elsewhere, Mercy Graves's employer tells her to buy those discs at any cost. He knows the discs might be copies of the originals, but that won't matter if Catwoman is dead.
- Maxi Zeus is also interested the discs, and he plans to steal them from Catwoman using information his henchman Mr. Mercury has learned from his sister's second cousin, Catwoman's henchman Al.
- At their headquarters, the Hardcases, Inc., use their abilities to learn of Catwoman's next step. They learn that she is going to make the trade with the buyer at the top of the World Trade Center at midnight.
- Catwoman and her crew are already at the World Trade Center. She tells her crew to stay on one tower and watch a package, which she says holds the discs, while she goes to make the deal on the other tower.
- Al distracts Lewis, so only Mookie notices Maxie Zeus and his followers arrive. The Hardcases also make it there then and demand the discs in the name of their rightful owner, Bruce Wayne.
- A firefight breaks out. The Hardcases overpower Maxie Zeus's crew, and a Hardcase kicks the package out of Mookie's hands.
- The Hardcases find a tape instead of the discs inside the package, and Nastacio presses 'play' and listens to a recording of Catwoman telling him he fell for her bait. The real exchange is happening in a small vehicle impound under the Brooklyn Bridge. She tells them that if everything has gone right, she's already gone, but if something goes wrong... perhaps they can catch something.
- Catwoman and Mercy have already exchanged the packages. Catwoman opens the case Mercy gave her, and a blast of phosphorus temporarily blinds her as Mercy aims her gun. They fight.
- The Hardcases arrive, but Mercy easily takes them out. Catwoman is still blinded and tries to move herself out of the way, but she is shot by Mercy and falls into the East River.
- Mercy jumps into her car and calls her employer and to tell him that she has the discs, but Catwoman might have survived. Her employer tells Mercy to forget her because they have more important matters to deal with.


A Slight Detour

#74 - A Slight Detour



- Catwoman is floating in the East River after she was shot and left for dead by an unknown woman.
- She remembers her childhood: She had just run away from the orphanage, and she was pickpocketing at a carnival when the owner caught her and invited her to join. Selina began training in gymnastics, magic, and trickery, and she used those skills to become a better thief. One day, Del was deadly injured during a performance, but he smiled for the audience regardless. She wouldn't forget what Del told her that night: "Never let them see you cry. Never let them see you're hurt. Never."
- Catwoman swims out of the river and heads to Gotham to deliver the original discs to Batman.
- Elsewhere, Vincent Nastacio, leader of Hardcases Inc., receives a phone call from the hospital. Eddie Conway (other hardcase, telepathic) came out of anesthesia long enough to report a vision of Catwoman in Gotham.
- Catwoman hijacks one of the helicopters patrolling the Gotham skies, and she forces the pilot to take her to Gotham. Catwoman's pilot decides to crash the chopper. Catwoman emerges from the crashed helicopter, injured, just as Nastacio arrives. He tells her that she's coming with him, but Azrael steps in between Catwoman and Nastacio. Catwoman escapes the scene.
- Catwoman makes it to the cathedral to deliver the discs. Catwoman hands over the discs and hurries to leave when Batman shouts after her to take care of herself. She realizes he knows about her injury. Batman warns her that if she steals in Gotham, he'll take her down, and she replies, "Good. Come and chase me, Batman."
- Somewhere in Gotham, Catwoman feels sick, tired, and weak. The river water must have polluted her bullet wound. She tells herself to never let them see her hurt and never let them see her cry. She faints.


The Rules

#75 - The Rules



- Selina wakes up at the Penguin’s hideout with no memory of how she got there. Penguin tells her that one of his henchmen found her unconscious and brought her in.
- Penguin wants Selina to do something for him, and she reluctantly agrees. Recently his activities have been threatened by Lex Luthor and his rebuilding efforts, and he wants her to steal from Luthor in order to balance the scales on his favor.
- Catwoman studies Lex's compound, and she realizes that she's going to need help to get inside. She discovers that her trio of henchmen are working for LexCorp now and she decides to recruit them again.
- She tries to steal an armored battlesuit from the compound, but she is apparently unable to make it work. A security camera records her, but the guards decide to let the armored guards take care of her.
- The armored guards try to stop Catwoman, but she was just pretending that she couldn't activate the suit. As soon as the guards are within her reach, she activates her suit and triggers the slave units in the guard’s suits, putting the guards in her control.
- Catwoman escapes the compound with a little help from Al and Lewis.
- Penguin is waiting at his hideout when Catwoman arrives with a dozen armored men carrying all sort of stolen goods from LexCorp--including a bulldozer, a power shovel, and other construction equipment. Penguin is pleased.
- Luthor receives the bad news when he arrives at the compound. He is angry at his people for their incompetence.
- Mercy passes Luthor a call from Penguin. Cobblepot acknowledges Luthor's reign over Gotham, but he demands control over the city's underworld or else he will send Catwoman to steal more. Luthor hangs up the phone and tells Mercy to get rid of Catwoman.


Strange Bedfellows

#76 - Strange Bedfellows



- Catwoman plans her revenge on the people she has dealt with lately. First, she destroys the LexCorp compound using the battlesuits she stole.
- Luthor contacts the Penguin to make a deal--if Penguin returns Luthor's stolen goods and gives him Catwoman's head, then Penguin will have free reign over Gotham's underworld activities.
- Penguin’s goons try to take her down, but she beat them and blows up his base.
- Luther tells Mercy to focus on killing Catwoman.
- Catwoman continues her rampage against LexCorp's building bases. Eventually reconstruction stops completely because of her activities.
- Luther decides to make a deal with Catwoman. At the meeting point, Luthor asks Catwoman what it will take to stop Catwoman from targeting his operation. She tells him all he has to do is ask and say please; Luthor hesitates, but grudgingly does so. Catwoman says that's the only thing she ever wanted (…and she gets to rub it in Mercy’s fail that she failed to stop her). She knew she couldn't take Mercy on physically, so she went after her where it hurt the most: her pride.
- Catwoman gathers her trio of henchmen. She gives Al and Lewis two passports and passbooks with a million dollars each in their accounts on the Cayman Islands. She then explains that she discovered why Mookie unharmed in explosions or when hit by bullets. Mookie is dead, and he has been ever since he was working for the Joker and his boss killed him. Ever since, he has gathered kinetic energy to create enough mass to make it seem as though he were alive. Mookie says it's all true.
- Deadman then appears to take Mookie to the other side. Mookie wasn't sure about it, but Catwoman tells him it will be fine. Mookie goes with Deadman, and both move to the afterlife.
- Catwoman leaves, knowing that word will get out and people will know that Catwoman takes care of her crew.


Pay Back

#77 - Pay Back



- Despite her injury (she was shot by Gordon accidentally as he was shot), Catwoman desperately races across the Gotham rooftops to escape the  vigilantes pursuing her.
- When the Batfamily finally captures her, she tells them that she saw Gordon's attacker - although she wouldn't be able to identify him, it was definitely a cop. She is even able to give them the location of the gun used to shoot the Commissioner, which she saw the cop in question hide
- The heroes find it and let Catwoman go, vowing to get the gun traced.
- Meanwhile, doctors perform surgery on Gordon.


Smoking Gun

#90 - Smoking Gun



Catwoman was deemed popular enough to get her own book after the success of a Catwoman mini-series titled Her Sister's Keeper. This series has crossover issues in Contagion and Legacy.


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