DC & Marvel: Overpower Issue #1 -
Bruce Wayne arrives in New York City to investigate the possibility that someone within Wayne Enterprises is secretly funding a top secret military along with what appears to be Oscorp.
Bruce Wayne arrives to LaGuardia Airport along with his trusty butler Alfred Pennyworth and CEO of Wayne Enterprises and good friend, Lucius Fox. Secretly arriving in New York City with them is his newest partner in crime, Barbara Gordan but better known as Batgirl. Bruce Wayne encounters numerous reporters as he quickly answers there questions and one of them is Peter Parker, high school student and photographer for the Daily Bugle.
Upon walking to his limo Bruce was attacked by a group of hired hitmen along with a powerful mutant named Electro, who can harness the power of electricity for his bidding. Batgirl and Peter Parker (under the guise of the amazing Spiderman) clashed briefly due to there differences but Spiderman arrived to assist Bruce as he tried to save himself from the clutches of the hitmen. Spiderman made quick work of the hitmen along with Batgirl using there amazing array of fighting skills. Electro proved to be a difficult opponent as he unleashed a blinding fury of electrical blasts at the two heroes. He then took a nearby civilian as a hostage as Batgirl used her grapple launcher to pull the civilian out of his grasps and Spiderman quickly tied him up with his webbing and delivered the final blows to Electro.
A few days later, Bruce Wayne along with Lucius Fox has a long meeting with Norman Osborne as they discussed merging stock bonds and Norman offered him a spot in there weapons-development program along with QUEST Industries.
Bruce disagreed with his methods of the development of weapons due to his hatred towards guns but shook hands on the idea of continuing there successful partnership. Bruce left the building a bit suspicious about what Norman's secret agenda could be but quickly arrived to a secret hanger owned by Wayne Enterprises where he picked up a new and improved Batmobile to assist him in his battle against evil.
Much later that night Bruce Wayne (under the guise of Batman) along with Batgirl stormed down the streets of New York City trying out the new Batmobile. Batman and Batgirl split up as Batman went to go investigate the Oscorp building as Batgirl went to go patrol. The Dark Knight left a tracer on Norman Osborne's limo and ran into a strange brutish creature who referred to himself as "we" who appeared out of nowhere. The creature disappeared as Batman's com-link went off as Batgirl was in trouble.
Batgirl encountered John Rhodes aka The War Machine who was attired in a powerful prototype silver-like armor. War Machine mistaken Batgirl as a threat to his city as he and her fought for a few minutes until War Machine dangerously put Batgirl in a grapple hold but was saved as Batman arrived from the shadows. Batman tried reasoning with War Machine but his reasoning failed as he and War Machine engaged into hand-to-hand combat. Batman proved to be the superior fighter as he and War Machine reasoned and talked things out after the brawl.
Peter Parker roamed the night dressed up as Spiderman as a strange alien-like life form has attached itself to him transforming his traditional red and blue colors to black and white. A new and dangerous threat appears in Spiderman's life...its name is Venom. Venom is actually Eddie Brock....a scorned journalist who has a deep score to settle with Spiderman. Venom and Spiderman's "suits" are one in the same as Eddie's costume is a spawn of Spiderman's as Venom's "suit" shares the same powers that Spiderman has.
The two of them clashed ontop of the Daily Bugle building as Spiderman fought for his very life using all of the strength in his body and in the life form that has taken over him. The battle took place in an amazing aerial battle but it quickly took to the streets. Spiderman and Venom waged in a brutal hand-to-hand combat contest. The fight then took place in an alley as Venom and Spiderman delivered the final blows. Venom then brutally slammed Spiderman into a brick wall as the wall violently came tumbling down upon the web-slinger.
Meanwhile as Batman and Batgirl traveled the streets of New York to the location of Norman Osborne, Venom struck yet again, as he ferociously tore apart the roof of the Batmobile and grabbed the Batman violently but Batgirl quickly escaped. Venom brutally beat Batman using his amazing strength as Batman tried fighting back as best as he can but the brawl took a turning point as Batgirl tried to assist the ailing Batman but Venom bounded down Batgirl with his webbing and interrogated her.
Venom also webbed up Batman as well as Batman slowly tried to cut himself free while playing mind games with the schizophrenic beast. The Batman freed himself angered by Venom’s cowardly actions as he took on Venom yet again. Batgirl managed to free herself as the Dark Knight commanded her to leave and she did so. Venom was too much for the weakened Batman as he slammed him continuously into the walls of the alleyway and threw him into a window. Venom then questioned the bloodied and battered Batman on what was his purpose for being in New York.
Venom left Batman…lifeless as Batman slowly raised up with all the momentum left in his body and slammed his fist into a broken reflection of himself as it seems there are biggers things at stake other than him and Osborne...
A few nights after the encounter with the creature know as Venom, Barbara Gordan awakens to see Bruce Wayne concentrating and preparing himself after his defeat by Venom. Batman plotted a plan to obtain a sample of Venom's strange living suit as he will use a pistol/needle-hybrid to obtain it as Batgirl volunteered to obtain the sample from there dangerous new enemy.
Batman decides it's time to do a little sneaking and entering at Oscorp as they will search for any information who who is secretly funding this top-secret military project. They rode off into the night in a repaired Batmobile has Batman is more concentrated and more ready for what might come. Upon on there way infiltrating Oscorp they finally meet New York's resident Spiderman who has been secretly watching them from the shadows as Batman is alarmed by his pressence (due to the fact his costume is similar to Venom's) the two realized that they were on the same side as it seems. Spiderman thought of Batman as ''typical" superhero who fight for "truth, justice, and the american way" and see younger heros like himself as rookies but Batman explains that unlike "typical" superheroes who fight for "truth, justice, and the american way" Batman believes that America has lost it's sense of truth and justice...Batman fights his own fight.
The two express different idealisms as they deicide to work together to take out Oscorp. Spiderman quickly took off and easily snuck into the complex knowing much about the complex as he quickly sneaks into Norman Osborne's office and letting Batman and Batgirl in. Batman discovered many secret documents hidden in his office that even grabbed Spiderman's attention. Mr. Michael Earle a senior member of Wayne Enterprises' board staff has been secretly funding (along with Oscorp) a man named "Trask" in building giant robotic humanoids called "Sentinels" who are programed to search and capture mutants...and even possibly kill them. Spiderman knows that he is a targer as well as his teammate Superboy, as well as millions of others...
The next night, Batman and Batgirl embark on there hunt for the Sentinel base which is rumored to be hidden in different locations all across Manhattan island as they also paired up with the Teen Titans so that they may asist them as well. Batman decided to go to look for a man named Trask who seemed to be the mastermind behind all of it with Norman Osborne missing. Little did they realize that Venom hid in the darkness watching over them.
They find Trask but as Batman began to interogate him it slowly developed that he really wasn't Trask at all but rather a shape-shifting mutant called Morph who would become a thorn-in-the side of the Dark Knight as well as the Titan Titans. Venom quickly made his pressence felt after knocking Morph off of a building but he was quickly saved by Batgirl. Around the same area of the city, Spiderman and Superboy looked around as well asisting Batman in his search to put an end to the corrupt government project.
Batman was prepared for his rematch with Venom as he and the alien dual-persona fiend duked it out in an even brawl in Times Square and Batman sucessfully obtained a sample of his symbiotic suit. Batgirl and Morph fought eachother as well as Batgirl tried to fend herself off from the shape-shifting enemy. Suddenly Spiderman and Superboy ran into big trouble...the Sentinels have been activated. The huge and towering mechines wrecked havoc upon the Titans as another was sent after Morph and Venom as well. The deadly Sentinel quickly stepped into the brawl between Venom and Batman as they set all differences aside as Batman and Venom teamed up against the deadly mech.
Batgirl quickly averted the defeated Morph out of the way as the Sentinel unleashed a large amount of pulsing laser cannons upon Times Square as citizens fleed for there lives. Superboy quickly tried to take out the legs of the mechanized beast as Spiderman used his agility to advoid the various attacks from the Sentinel. Spiderman quickly hog-tied the legs of the Sentinel and Superboy quickly attacked the head of the humanoid robot using it like a punching bag for his powerful strength. Meanwhile Batman launched himself onto the shoulders as he tried to disable the Sentinel as Venom tried to web it up in order to contain it.
The battle with the Sentinel quickly caught the attention of Superboy and Spiderman as they assisted the Dark Knight and Venom in battle. The Sentinel quickly captured Batman using a steel cable and slammed him hard into a building window, but it wouldn't stop there as it quickly took out Superboy with a plethore of missles as Superboy was blasted out of the sky but was saved by Batgirl before he could hit the ground. Spiderman and Venom quickly tried to web up the Sentinel as Spiderman quickly tied up his legs but it quickly set it's targets on the amazing Spiderman as he took him out with multiple pulse laser blasts. The Sentinel then quickly set it's legs free as it slammed it's bionic foot right into the stomach of Venom sending him flying into a building wall. The Batmobile quickly charged into battle as it speed toward the Sentinel as a newly healed Superboy marched into battle as well.
The Batmobile quickly tied up the legs of the Sentinel using steel grappling hooks as Superboy tried to take out the arms as he slammed his powerful sun-powered Kryptonian fists into it. Spiderman rejoined in the battle as he tied his powerful webbing around the neck of the Sentinel and pulled back hard on it as Superboy and Batman continued to go to work on it. The Sentinel was quickly taken down using the combined efforts of the superheroes as they all planned a final attack on the rumored Sentinel base as Spiderman added truth to the rumor saying that the Sentinel base could be near Roosavelt Island. Morph listened in on the plan but what part does he play in all of this? And were is Venom? Those questions will soon have answers...
A few days later, Batman and Batgirl met up with Spiderman and Superboy...but strangely Superboy has been acting very strange during the meeting. Spiderman lead the way as he showed them a secret pipeline that would lead them to a vast underground factory. The factory contained seemingly endless amounts of Sentinels as well as other powerful and deadly weapons at the government's disposable towards the mutant threat.
It was right there when "Superboy" revealed himself to actually be Morph in a double-cross as it was revealed that Trask hired him as Trask made his presence know coming face-to-face with our heroes. Trask also revealed that he hired Electro to kill Bruce Wayne so he wouldn’t mettle in his business in a shocking turn of events. Trask double-crossed Morph as he activated three upgraded Sentinels on them as Batman quickly went after Trask.
Spiderman and Batgirl put there differences aside and worked together against one of the Sentinels as Morph quickly ran off away from the battle to benefit his own survival. Batman and Trask quickly duke it out on a steel catwalk as Batman proves to be the superior fighter but a Sentinel violently captures Batman and blasted him with a pulse energy blast sending him flying into ground hard lifeless. Batgirl leaped onto the shoulder of the Sentinel and opened a small compartment in the back of its neck as she tried to disable it but was quickly attacked by another Sentinel as it fired a series of missiles towards her but missed as it slammed into the back of the Sentinel causing it to fall to the ground in a burning wreckage.
Spiderman quickly webbed up the legs of one of the remaining Sentinels as he tried to trip it over and he succeeded for the time being but the Sentinel quickly got up and blasted Spiderman with a plethora of energy blasts knocking him into a chemical container lifeless. Batman slowly awakened as Morph quickly helped him get up but a bitter Batman grabbed Morph commanding him to tell him why he double-crossed them as Morph explained that he was in it for the money and has been also watching them for quite sometime. Batman quickly throws Morph aside as he runs into battle to assist his allies.
Batman quickly presses his feet onto a chemical-filled container as he is between that and a wall as Spiderman recovers and understands Batman’s plan. Spiderman swings into the air and slams both of his feet into the head of the Sentinel knocking him towards Batman’s general direction as the container detaches from Batman’s relentless pressing and falls onto the bionic-terror causing a massive explosion as it falls into a wall causing an even greater explosion as Batman falls to the ground battered and tired. Spiderman then goes after the other Sentinel as does Morph and Batgirl. Spiderman quickly webs up the arms of the mechanical-beast and uses all of the strength in his body to tear off the left arm and leave the right one disjointed and batter. Batgirl and Morph then fight once again on the shoulders of the Sentinel as Morph knocks her off of it but she is saved by Spiderman but Morph opens the small hatch on its neck and disables it as he rides it to the ground. Batman Spiderman and Batgirl gather as Morph shockingly activates the self-detonation of the Sentinel to try and kill them all.
Batgirl and Spiderman quickly try and escape carrying the injured Batman with them. The detonation created a massive explosion wiping out most of the factory as Spiderman and the rest quickly escaped the destroyed underground base as they plunge into the New York Harbor to escape the blaze. After swimming to shore a tired and battered Spiderman falls to the ground as his symbiote costume absorbs back into his body to reveal his true identity in his familiar red and blue attire. Batman, as well as Batgirl, were a bit shocked to see that Spiderman is actually just a teenager. Batman then gave Peter Parker the dignity he needed as he put his traditional Spiderman mask over his revealed face and left him to recover on top of a building. Batman and Batgirl then left New York City into the hands of Spiderman as they left for Gotham City...which is in true need of a hero...