When Yeager's victorious fighter is killed in his apartment shortly after the bout, Batman is called in to help investigate the crime.

Batman's main goal initially is to avoid a battle on the streets of Gotham between the two mob bosses – the subsequent death of Brodin's losing boxer only making matters more complicated.

Clues lead Batman to the killer's hideout in an abandoned scrapyard, but in a deadly duel, he comes close to losing his life to the Predator, who escapes.

Bedridden and encased in an orthopedic cast, he begins the slow process of recovery and to plan for another match with the Predator.

Over the next few days, and in the absence of the Dark Knight, the Predator targets Squires, Brodin, and Gotham City Mayor Lieberman in a series of calculated assaults.

Batman, nowhere near healed yet just able to walk, uses a custom-designed powered sonar exoskeleton suit to increase his strength, compensate for his recovering blindness, and counter the Predator's stealth technology.

The battle begins on the roof of the Gotham City Police Department (GCPD), continues in the Batcave after a chase on the Batmobile, and ends on the outskirts of Wayne Manor.

The criminal reveals that his boss, a drug lord named Terraro, has put a price on Batman's head and hired seven of the world's best professional assassins to hunt him.

Instead of donning his exoskeleton, Batman develops a gauntlet to generate an electromagnetic pulse which can nullify the creature's stealth technology.

When another alien retrieves his fallen comrade in plain sight of him, Batman deduces that these two are not tracking him, but rather the Predator rampaging through Gotham, who seems to have no qualms in killing members of its own species.

It overpowers the both of them, but Lt. Stocker sacrifices his life, impaling the Predator with its own spear, though the creature lives long enough to activate the ship's engines.

Indeed, not one, but two beasts are prowling in Gotham: an elder creature who seems to tell stories of previous hunts to his younger partner.

Batman attacks one of the aliens with an advanced helicopter prototype from Wayne Technologies, inadvertently saving Catwoman's life in the process.

Meanwhile, at the advice of Oracle (Barbara Gordon), Robin learns details of previous "hunts" through computer research in confidential government files.

Responding to Batman's confusion, and using Tim Drake's voice, the Predator indicates that it is now tracking Robin at a drive-in theater with friends, where he is watching old science-fiction films.

Alfred contacts Robin, who immediately accepts the truth and returns to the Batcave when he sees the creature's silhouette.