PLOT:
Facing off against a hovering Bat-Copter that is ready to fire at her, Catwoman quickly evaluates her situation. Abandoned on a dangerous Hell Planet she has somehow ended up in a world very much like her own
that is (unbeknownst to her) actually a virtual reality matrix slowly sapping her life away. Deciding her course of action in an instant, Selina leaps in the air, crashes through the windshield and brings the entire Bat-Copter down.
After the crash landing, Selina rescues the unconscious Batman and steps inside an
surreally placed coffee bar. The patrons all seem to be terrified of her and
giver her whatever she asks for just to get her to leave.
While Catwoman is enjoying her java, the Justice League (summoned by Batman) prepare to take her down. This being her
ideal dream world, Selina simply uses
Bruce's kryptonite ring from his utility belt to knock out Superman and Green
Lantern and uses Green Lantern's power ring to take off the charging Flash. Pleased with herself for effectively taking out the Justice League,
Catwoman takes a moment to enjoy the cigar that Joker gave her back on Salvation Run.
Meanwhile, back in reality, Luthor is watching Catwoman hover in midair, reduced to a vegetative state by the life force stealing machine. After determining Selina to be a lost cause, Luthor leaves her to die. Hiding in the shadows, Martian Manhunter stays behind and taps into Selina's mind to beg her to let herself free from her own virtual prison.
Back in the machine, Catwoman is standing in a phone booth, perusing a phone book looking for her family members when she comes across the name of her daughter. Before she can dial the number she is called upon by Batman who now has nearly every hero of the DC Universe standing behind him ready to attack
her. At this point, Martian Manhunter steps in and tells her that if she doesn't free herself she will die in the machine creating this fictional world.
Still tempted of the possibility of a perfect life with her daughter, Catwoman takes a moment to look back at the phone booth.
Martian Manhunter then points out to Catwoman that while her attention was diverted, all of her enemies surrounding her have frozen including Batman. "Look at what happens when you're not focused on him. Nothing.
Absolutely nothing happens because without you he doesn't exist. None of this does. She doesn't either. No matter how much you want her to."
Catwoman reaches out to test this theory and taps the frozen Batman in front of her. Batman falls to the ground and shatters into a million pieces. Catwoman pulls herself together and finally wills herself out of the machine. She crawls out of the bunker that was housing her and pauses for only one moment to realize that the cigar
that she was able to enjoy in the machine has by now become busted in real life. Tossing the cigar and her ideal world behind her she makes her way back to the camp only to find a battle raging on between the Luthor and Joker factions!
NOTE:
See this battle and find out where Catwoman goes from here in Salvation Run #5
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