Dark Knight

The Night Centurion

Anthony Wayne was born in the wealthiest family of New Gotham City: son of the inventor and manufacturer Howard Wayne and Maria Wayne, owners of Wayne Industries. Nevertheless, one night, after seeing a movie in the cinema, they rose to their car and, before starting, the thief Hugo Chill assaulted them and murdered Howard and Maria to shots, leaving the small defenseless Tony inside the car, remaining an orphan, only protected by Alfred Jarvis, the butler of the Wayne family.

Tony grew solitarily, having sworn in front of the tomb of his parents that he would not allow that any innocent one should suffer a loss as him. He attended to the bests schools of the country demonstrating a great scientific and inventive genius, like his father. To the age of 15 he managed to enter to the Massachussets Institute of Technology, graduating at the age of 19, age to which he returned to Wayne Industries, but not as President, but as engineer and designer in the area of medical technology, area in which his father had strained so much.

Later, believing that if he was inventing weapons he would help to eradicate the malefactors in the streets, he developed several works in military technology. Nevertheless, realizing that it was not sufficient, and yet suffering the fury for the murder of his parents, he made a trip around the world, seeking to develop his decrepit body as his mind. He learned several types of martial arts and hand-to-hand combat, meditation, healing, and many other disciplines that turned his body a perfect machine, as different, theoretical, that would help him to fulfill the oath that he made in front of the tomb of his parents.

But, during his trips, he came to China, someone told him that a groups called The Assassins Hand could train him to be the perfect warrior. There, their leader R'as Al Khan, better know as "Longtou", acceded to train him as other one of his ninja warriors. Nevertheless, after several months, R'as discovered Tony's identity. Khan, which had in his power the extraterrestrial technology of the Maklazar Rings still without deciphering completely, that were allowing him to create Lazaru's Pit to rejuvenate him and to save him from the death, beside giving him tremendous powers.

He supposed that a mind as brilliant as that of Tony might decipher the mysteries of the technology Maklazan, but, first he had to prove Tony's intelligence before showing him the technological marvel that they were the

rings, for what he ordered Tony in a false mission to eliminate a military leader who was flogging several villages, "Sensei" Wong Chu, which was actually a servant of Khan and leader of a great part of the Assassin's Hand.

Wayne infiltrated like ninja to Sensei's base and approached to murder it very much, until he realized that it was Khan's trap and, in the moment of surprise, activated a trap that made explode a land mine. A metal fragment wounded his chest, giving him just a week of life. Sensei saved Tony for Khan's mandate, and put a task: to create the most powerful weapon of the world or, if Tony refused, he would leave Tony to die in the workshop where he was captive.

Inside the workshop were also a young kid with a great intellect, Hiro Yinsen, who helped Tony. Tony, discovering that the majority of the firearms that the army of Sensei had was of Wayne Industries, and that Khan only wanted to create the most powerful weapon of the world, realized that he was giving more power to the evil. Suffering fever for the metal that was damaging his heart and nightmares where he reminded the murder of his parents, Wayne decided that he would create the most powerful weapon of the world, but it would not be for Khan, but for himself.

Bound to do bomb his heart artificially or if not he would die, Wayne came with the idea of creating an armor to do that for him, placing a magnet on his heart, preventing the metal fragments from going in, and, inspired by the nobility of the samurais, he design the armor to their form to destroy Sensei and his army. But there was something more than it illuminated him: a bat entered by the windows and the soldiers out got in panic for a superstition that they believed the bats a malignant beings who were bringing bad fortune. This way, Tony decided that he would add some things to his armor.

When the time that Sensei had given them finished, he gave the orders to his men to look for the weapon. Hiro wanted gain time for Tony, so, he ran out looking to take all the attention of the soldiers. They shot. Tony believed Hiro dead. Then, Wayne went out of the workshop wearing his black armor of iron with details of bat, and an old black cape that was simulating wings, the soldiers fled scared, achieving nothing with their sub-machine guns, calling it Dark Knight.

Only remaining a handful of the ninja warriors of the Assassin's Hand and Sensei Wong Chu, Tony managed to conquer them skilfully and his devises, supported with his tools lodged at his belt; though Sensei managed to escape. Wayne destroyed his haunt discovering Khan's plans: to infiltrate North American's industry to executive levels to destroy the economy and then to untie a virus that would destroy most of the world's population, only stopping to the most suitable alive to create a perfect place led by R'as Al Khan. Then Wayne went to America where Jarvis was waiting for him.

During the way into the jungle, Wayne met Sensei's small military camp, in which the soldiers were on the verge of shooting a North American soldier. Dark Knight entered in action and saved the american soldier and destroyed the camp. The welded young man identified as Jim Grayson, who, of child, had been employed at a circus with all his acrobats' family, but they were murdered by a gang boss who was asking for money to allow them to be in the city. Jim grew in houses until he was adult and joined the army. There, they took advantage of his acrobat skills turning him a spy. Then they sent Jim to infiltrate into the military group of Sensei to prevent them from attacking a North American base.

Jim took Tony in a helicopter stolen of Sensei up to the military base, where they helped them to return to America. Tony, estimating Jim's skills and having entrusted to him his secret identity, he offered work to Jim as bodyguard, to what Jim acceded.

Tony, believing that he had found the best form to prevent another person from suffering what he suffered with the death of his parents, or the eternal wound in the chest that now he had and the pectoral that was working like his heart, he would use the Dark Knight's new identity to take justice even in the darkness, whereas, by day, he would lead Wayne Industries.

Wayne used his armor, but he decided re-design it with top technology, which was more resistant and, in turn, more light and which should allow him the hand-to-hand combat like it he had learned, beside he added new attachments and weapon of long scope. Tony came to the creation of flexible metal stimulated by nano-technology, which was allowing him to guard his armor in a small bulletproof and X-rays-proof briefcase. As weapon of long scope, Tony designed the Iron Bats, boomerangs equipped with sensors to prosecute the enemies.

Tony created also an underground laboratory under his mansion, endowed with everything what he needed for the development of armors and housing, to which he called Workshop Cave.

Wayne created the whole image that was helping him to confuse the suspicions that he was actually the watchman in armor Dark Knight, becoming a philanderer and showing off to be alcoholic. Nevertheless, the trauma of the death of his parents and the constant pains of chest for the splinter were harassing it constant, so he started drinking really.

The armor, which was powerful and very effective, had a fault: the energy was finishing soon during action. Tony designed a good solution: The Batmovil, a car perfectly conditioned with shielding and tools of all kinds for the war against the crime, beside working as battery of the armor. Then he would design alternate ideas, as the Batjet, with the same function.

Then, he met Vic Gordon, the respected New Gotham Police Commissioner, with which he was adding efforts to eliminate the malefactors of the streets.

During one of these first nights, Victor called him by suspicions of a theft to a company of mechanical games and toys. A couple of thieves had entered to the offices, looking for the son of the owner, a thin red-haired boy. They found a young man being employed at one of the offices of design of games of fair, nape they could verify that he was the son of the owner, but they forced it to take it to the strongbox. While they were taking it, Dark Knight entered the window and ordered the thieves who gave up the young man. The thieves threatened to throw the red-haired one to the river aside of the factory.

Dark Knight tried to talk, but a sniper of the police did an erroneous shot, killed one of the thief and the red-haired man fell down for the window up to the river. The water, full of toxins and chemists of the factory bathed the boy, but the help came in a few minutes and they saved the boy, taking it to the hospital.

When he woke up, the man found his skin pale, his eyes yellowish and his hair green. Something happened in his mind and the sanity of the boy broke. He escaped of the hospital.

The owner of the factory, being afraid that they would close his games factory for his chemists spilt in the river and everything happened, committed suicide. He never revealed if the boy was really his son.

The boy reappeared, in a white suit, exhibiting his deformations and madness, assaulting the First Bank de New Gotham City. Dark Knight tried to detain it, but he escaped. The boy was making be called now Carnivale.

Some days later, Carnivale claimed the inheritance. He never verified that he was the son of the owner, but he used his madness and the irrational violence. Carnivale murdered all those who tried to separate it from the money and one took the millions.

Obsessed with the games, jokes and the destruction of the society as such, Carnivale there would become the eternal and perfect enemy of Dark Knight, using his Murder Fairs, money and contacts in the mafia, he created chaos in multiple occasions using his extremely high I.Q.

Meanwhile, Tony Wayne, seeking to help the commissioner Vic Gordon, gave opportunity to his daughter Pepper Gordon, to entering Wayne Industries, as one of his secretaries. She, having a acute mind in deduction and expert in computation, traced certain fugues of money directed to secret experiments directed by the very same Tony Wayne. Observing in the occasions that the millionaire was disappearing and appearing Dark Knight, he discovered that both were the same person. Nevertheless, with the time, they fell in love and and initiated a relation.

Also, these days, Dark Knight saved Harold "Mute" Hogan, an excellent mechanic and ex-boxer, of the hard labor that there was arranging him the mafia boss Owlsley Cobblepot, known in the low world for his physical deformity and obsession with the warm clothes as The Arctic Owl. "Mute" realized designs and productions of diverse devices of destruction, Tony took it to Wayne Industries, like private mechanic and chauffeur. "Mute", having known Pepper, he fell in love of her, but she never corresponded to him. When he knew that Wayne and Pepper had a relationship, he turned a more solitary and silent figure.

Then, Wayne Industries was threatened by the scientist Victor Shapanka, who, obsessed the stretching of the life, realized cryogenic experiments. During his researches, his dear wife and assistant Nora Shepanka contracted a strange disease that put her in a coma. Trying to avoid her death, Victor put her in a cryogenic pod until he found the cure, but he used all the Wayne Industries's available resources for his research. His Superiors, believing that Tony would fly into a rage for so selfish reasons, dismissed Victor and he swore revenge against Tony Wayne and his old bosses.

During his experiments with cryogenic, Shapanka obtained a very high resistance to the low temperatures and developed a suit that was helping him to create immense quantities of ice. He devoted himself to the crime seeking to sustain his experiments to save his dear Nora under the name Mister Blizzard, who would turn one of the major enemies of Dark Knight.

Tony Wayne, worried by that his heart might kill it at any time, trained Jim Grayson to be his successor at any time. James, stimulated by the desires of justice for the assassinations of his parents, as Tony, agreed, and provided to him an extremely light and coloring armor that could help Jim to realize all his skills as acrobat and spy, but with sufficient protection, tools and power to face the worst threats. Jim took the codename War Bird and joined Dark Knight in his night rounds against the crime.

In his investigations for the crime of his parents, Jim managed to discover that the killer was Vincinte "Don" Zucco, who was being judged by the aggressive district attorney Harvey Lincoln. Nevertheless, driven to despair for destroying Lincoln, Vincente threw him a chemist that he expected poisoning Lincoln and killing him. Nevertheless, the chemist, who only bathed Harvey's left side, bleached his Afro-American skin and hair in a horrible white, and provided him with superhuman strength besides a skin extremely resistant to the wounds. The fact that only the half of his body was whitened made explode in Lincoln a mental problem not known for him: his double personality "The Tomb", created by his subconscious for Harvey's need to be a good child when he was with his mother and to be a merciless person who takes unfair advantage when he was in the streets of his neighborhood. This way, Harvey Lincoln transformed in the best of his class, whereas, in the nights and with his band, we was a delinquent. The disorder lasted per years, allowing that The Tomb there should become an important gangster whereas Harvey managed to be Attorney of New Gotham's District City.

Turn divided in two, in black and white, he did that Harvey and The Tomb were emerging at the same time and were coexisting in the same entity that now was making be called "Tomb-Face", who, obsessed with the duality, used a double faced coin to guide now his decisions divided for the morality, guiding this way his kingdom of mafia and his imparting of justice out of the law. In several occasions, The Dark Knight sought to save and to detain The Tomb Face, but his superhuman force, savagery and strategic formidable capacities, have turned Tomb into a dangerous enemy.

One day, nevertheless, Tony received a call warning that Fallout and Thunder Woman 2 were facing against a foreign star telepathist in the center of Metro York. Deducing that there was slightly more, Dark Knight went out in the daytime and sought to solve the mystery together with other superheroes, as Ray "Atom-Man" Pym, The Spark, The Manhunter and Green Marvel, until, with Thunder Woman's help, he discovered that everything was Lokes's elaborated plan to destroy his sister.

This way it was like Dark Knight joined the group of superheroes known as the Avenging League of America. Weeks later, seeking for Namorin, the Avenging League found an iceberg with a life form inside. Dark Knight melted the ice, founding that the life form was actually the original Super Soldier, who joined the team and became field leader.

Tony, seeing that the group would have potential, he turned the sponsor of the team, providing it with a base, technology and monetary resources. Nevertheless, Dark Knight did not feel completely comfortable being employed at such a big team and in the light of the day, so he remained as reserve member and in constant communication, but accompanying them rarely in his adventures.

In his personal life, Tony, being afraid that his relationship with Pepper could put her in danger, he decided to finish their relation. Harold approached her and, Pepper, distressed, accepted him. Within a few months they initiated a relationship. Trying to conquer his problems, Tony became furthermore dark and solitary, protecting the streets of New Gotham with more violence against the increasing wave of crime.

Then, a new enemy appeared: Cat-with-Nine-Tails.

Selina Scarlotti was a young woman who had a dark past: being a girl very poor and ignored by her parents, she passed the time playing with cats. When her parents died and she had no home, began a life of crime as a Cat burglar. During her teen age, she joined the Maggia Family, the biggest group of mafia in the New Gotham City. They taught her martial arts, gymnastics and helped her to improve her skills of theft; also, they found her great skills with technology, and paid her studies in Massachusetts's Institute of Technology, asking her to create many weapon for them.

Selina created a powerful combination of steel and technology, and invented a few whips that could cross any thing. The Maggia Family asked her then to finish The Dark Knight, one of their major enemies. Selina being a great lover of the cats, was sheathed in a feline suit and became thieving seeking to call the attention of the Dark Knight. When the two knew themselves, there was an almost immediate attraction between the two, but they concealed these reactions and fought several occasions.

Time passed and Tony fought many villains, as Carnivale, Mr. Blizzard, Arctic Owl, Dragon's Head, Mad Puzzler, Black Seed, The Crow, Cyber Ghost and other, even the new Communist villains like Crimson Beast and the Titanium Demon. During this time, Tony tired by the poor decision of the Avenging League of realizing precaution activities out of the country, he decided to create his own team of superheroes with young people with potential. He called the team Wildsiders, and the members were Silver Stone, Moonshifter, Cat Sword, Lightning, Halobright, Technoseige and Wild Man.Nevertheless, the inexperience of the heroes and his own rejection to being working at big teams led him to stay just as reserve member. The Wildsiders still see him as guide of the team. Dark Knight returned to his loneliness in New Gotham City.

A New villain threatened both identities of Dark Knight, a mysterious businessman known as Roman Hammer.

Roman had been the sickly son of the owner of one of the most important companies of the country, nevertheless, the parents of Roman died in a strange fire. Roman inherited the company, but a bad squall, as well as Wayne Industries's powerful competition, did that almost he went away to the bankruptcy. He initiated to investing little money that he still had in the organized crime, earning millions and specializing his company in armament.

This way, Roman, wishing revenge for the almost loss that suffered for Tony Wayne, Roman assembled his own army of supervillains, that he called the "False Face", for the rejection that received of New Gotham's elite when he almost went to bankruptcy. And he began to attack Dark Knight and to commit crimes against Wayne Industries.

During this time, Wayne confessed to the media that Dark Knight acted as the protector of Wayne Industries and, even, as his bodyguard, whereas the armor Dark Knight was a proof of their quality. Knowing this, Roman focused in defaming Dark Knight to reflect Wayne Industries' mediocrity. He created a device that was allowing him to take control over Dark Knight's armor. In several occasions, of discreet form, Dark Knight suffered system's problems in his armor, but when he was checking it, everything seemed to be perfect.

During a very important investment of an ambassador of the UN, Roman attacked again and Dark Knight almost killed the ambassador with the Iron Bats. Tony discovered that was about a boycott and threw to investigate in New Gotham's streets under his secret identity of "Matches" Stark. There, he discovered, with Cat-with-Nine-Tails' help, that the person in charge was Roman Hammer.

Selina and Hammer had old rivalries, so she helped Dark Knight to look for Hammer and to stop him. After an intricate pursuit inside the facilities of Hammer, Dark Knight and Cat-with-Nine-Tails caught him and sent Roman Hammer to Arkham Vault. The pressure of so many battles, stress, pain and the nightmares edged increasingly Tony towards the alcohol, until there weakened so much that could not use even Dark Knight's armor, for fear of which his heart could not support it.

Jim took the Dark Knight mantle for a couple of months until he realized that he was only helping to Tony's alcoholism. Jim resigned the mantle of Dark Knight and War Bird, making Tony alone, while he constructed a new model of much more powerful armor and created Night Weapon's new identity.

In a superhuman effort, Tony focused in training his body and mind again to move away from alcohol. With the time he managed to clean completely his body and, even, he obtained a heart transplant. Focusing in showing this new age of his life, he developed a new and better armor and armament that was helping him to defend New Gotham City. One night during his round, Dark Knight left his batmobile in a dark alley. The young and stray Kevin Todd, who recently had suffered the death of his mother and the unjustified dismissal in his last job, he found the vehicle and simply he took it as a sign. When Dark Knight returned, he found Kevin analyzing the exterior of the vehicle.

The Dark Knight tried to banish it, but the young and slovenly Todd demonstrated great technological knowledge giving him a list of improvements that might do to the vehicle. Dark Knight, amazed, decided to help after listening his history. He contacted Wayne Industries, where, under his Tony Wayne's identity did diverse tests to Todd until it was decided in placing him as Researches Chief.

Throughout the months, Dark Knight and Tony Wayne requested his help in multiple occasions, until Dark Knight, surprised by Todd's mind, asked him to create a reserve armor. Kevin developed the project with the whole Wayne's support. When he finished it, Dark Knight decided in revealing his secret identity and offeredto Kevin being his new partner. Kevin agreed at once. Using his own armor, and after months of arduous training trying to expire his internal fury, Kevin became War Bird II.

Nevertheless, during his time as War Bird II, Kevin discovered that his father had been a delinquent that left them and had died in a bet with Tomb Face. This only made grow the fury inside Kevin, who was projecting it against the criminals that he was capturing, beating them unnecessary. This worried Dark Knight, but Kevin was rejecting his help.

During a battle between War Bird II and Carnivale, an explosion damaged the internal system in Kevin's armor, which produced to him a disorder of paranoia and anger. War Bird II entered in berserker and, annoyed by how much Dark Knight was limiting him in his fight against crime, Kevin tried to destroy Wayne Industries. Dark Knight tried to detain it, but he was not but the same Carnivale who killed Kevin with other traps, making him believe that his mother was still alive and trapped in a Murder Fair.

Dark Knight suffered Kevin's death. Tony placed his armor in the Workshop Cave to honor him. It was a terrible loss for Tony. Not even Alfred, Jim, Virginia and Mute could help.

There came untied the event known as the Secret Crisis of the Infinite Wars, where all the superheroes were transported to a planet where they had to win a fight between multiverses to save their Earth. Dark Knight took part supporting Super Soldier to organizing the teams and solving the mysteries of the Beyond Monitor.

When they sent him back, the crime was striking New Gotham without mercy. Tony became a dark and violent figure. In his fight against the corrupt police, the organized crime, the madness and super villains, he meets the young policeman Michael Drake.

Michael had followed the career of Dark Knight and War Bird since he was nine years old, age from the one that demonstrated great detective's skills: When the circus came to New Gotham, he observed how the young man Jim Grayson realized a triple jump. Years later, he saw for himself as War Bird I realized it to stop a few assailants after stealing a bank; then, how War Bird I disappeared and Night Weapon appeared. Years later, he knew about the death of War Bird II, as well as of the death of the valuable Chief of Research of Industries Wayne, Kevin Todd. For him was very clear that Jim Grayson had been War Bird I, now Night Weapon; and Kevin Todd had been War Bird II up to his death.

Drake also noticed The Dark Knight's new fearsome phase: a beast hungry of revenge. Michael, wanting to help Dark Knight, used his contacts in the police to trace Jim Grayson up to Hell's Heaven. He came to him and asked for help to save Dark Knight. Jim acceded, but informing that in that time he did not possess an armor, only he could do it as friend and not as a partner. Michael said to him that he needed an armor, which was in the missions where Dark Knight needed him. Jim and Michael went to Wayne Industries, where they found two War Bird prototype armors that Todd created, nevertheless, the armors were done for someone much smaller than Jim, for what Grayson suggested that Michael was more suitable to take it. Michael agreed wanting to help Dark Knight, for what he surrendered to an intense physical and mental training to be able to take the best the armor and War Bird's legacy.

Dark Knight found out about the plan of Jim and Michael, to what at once he said not, nevertheless, Michael helped him to fight against Dragon's Head, demonstrating an enormous capacity and control that enclosed was rivalling with that of Jim. Dark Knight accepted Michael's company after a time, but he determined him that he must train physics and mentally much more, in order to avoid the same destiny of Kevin. When Michael earned all the Dark Knight confidence one month later, Dark Knight revealed his Tony Wayne's real identity and gave to him a place in the Workshop Cave.

In these days, Tony discovered that someone was guiding D.I.A.M.O.N.D. in the purchase of many Wayne Industries' shares to support the production of weapon for his own armament. But this was not but the first step of the malignant plan of a new enemy of Tony: Obadiah Hellfern, owner and leader of Hellfern Industries, Wayne Industries' competition. Obadiah was a child too intelligent for his age. His father committed suicide in a game of Russian roulette. From then, Obadiah developed an obsession with the death that led it to turning into an obsessive competitor ready to kill. Hellfern grew up to turning into a multimillionaire owner of the second most important company in the development and sale of weapon. The first one, his principal rival, was Wayne Industries.

He tried to buy Wayne Industries, but Tony refused at once and was grateful for the offer. Realizing that Wayne would never yield, it was decided for destroying it painfully.First, convincing across several agents infiltrated into D.I.A.M.O.N.D. to buy Wayne Industries' important shares, which was forcing to the company to produce weapons, something that was in opposition to Tony's desires. Obadiah sent then Jezebel Moomji, one of his allied ones, to seduce Wayne and to manipulate it in order that he was returning to the alcohol and was doing bad administrative movements, with what Hellfern achieved that Wayne Industries was staying in bankruptcy. During these actions, Jezebel discovered Tony's secret identity, with what Obadiah decided that also he would attack his Dark Knight's identity to destroy him completely and, made himself with the armors to sell them around the world as the perfect weapon.

Hellfern then gave the orders to kidnap the parents of Michael Drake, trying to decentralize the team, but Michael focused in his training while Dark Knight was investigating. Later, taking advantage of the confusion, Obadiah contacted the criminal and mercenary only known as The King in order that he was succeeding the final blow against Wayne.

King penetrated the safety systems of the mansion, knocked out Jarvis, entered the Workshop Cave and Tony only had time to put on the armor, nevertheless, King managed to submit it and to break the vertebral column, leaving paralyzed Wayne. King lit fire to the Workshop Cave after stealing the planes of Wayne's armors. Alfred managed to save Tony of this sure death, but the mind, body and Wayne's soul were destroyed.

Soon, Harold, Virginia, Jim, Michael, Alfred and an injured Tony joined efforts to repair Dark Knight's armor and to yield the post to Jim and this way, to give support to Michael, who discovered that his parents had been victims of a strange poisonous gas that killed his mother but that left his father in coma.

Tony, immobile of the waist for below, lost in alcohol, without his company and with the destroyed soul, decided to go away of New Gotham forever, only accompanied by his faithful friend Jarvis.

Obadiah bought Wayne Industries' remains and renamed it Hellfern International, becoming automatically the most powerful company in the world. At once he began the research and development in Wayne's technology of the armors of the Dark Knight. While, King liberated all the criminals and patients of Arkham Vault to keep occupied to the rest of the Knight Family.

When a Dark Knight and War Bird appeared marauding Wayne Industries' remains and trying to reconstruct the Mansion Wayne, Hellfern knew that someone had replaced Tony, for what gave the orders to King to destroy it. Nevertheless, another dark man in armor appeared to detain him. He was made be call Death's Dark Knight.

Death's Dark Knight was extreme violent and tried to kill King, but he turned out to be only a Life Model Decoy. Nobody of the old friends of Tony could identify Death's and they knew that he could not be Wayne because of his wounds. Death's Dark Knight defended New Gotham of the crime with hand of steel, using extreme violence and even murdering the criminals. Jim and Michael tried to stop him, but it was uselessly. Meanwhile, Obadiah constructed the first armor Dark Knight of his collection.

In his trip for the world, Tony found the remains of a pit Lazarus in Dragon's Head's old base in London. He tried to bath in it to recover of his wounds, but this only accelerated part of the healing. Much more optimistic that before, ready to return to his eternal mission, Tony began to train his injured body and began a new company of technology in Europe called Hemminford Circuits.

After a couple of months, New Gotham City seemed much darker and sad for the big wave of Death's Dark Knight's violence. Jim and Michael it tried to defeat him, nevertheless, Death's malleable armor was much more powerful than any improvement than they were trying. It was not until Tony returned, armed with his new armor called Night Centurion, who could conquer Death's Dark Knight forever.

Obadiah, discovered that the new Hemmingford Circuits was growing very rapidly and gaining market. When he discovered that the owner was Tony Wayne, he did his last move: using a Murder Fair that Carnivale constructed for him, Hellfern kidnapped all the loved friends of Tony and placed them in diverse traps.

Tony, who had suspected that Hellfern was the one who had led everything time ago, he began to confuse him and to manipulate him in order that he was showing him his weaknesses, until Wayne discovered that the armor had to remain near a battery of boxes it. When Wayne demolished the boxes, he discovered that below there was hidden the computer that was helping Hellfern to control his armor, provided that he could not develop Wayne's sophisticated technology.

This way, remaining without armor, Obadiah used his last resource to escape of Wayne: he committed suicide with his favorite poison, which turned out to be the same poison that he applied to the parents of Michael Drake.

Dark Knight saved all his friends of the traps, but he never suspected that Carnivale had seen everything that was happening. Wanting to succeed bigger trying to take Tony to the opposite side of the sanity, he planted a bomb in Virginia Gordon's house, giving her internal massive wounds for rubble, besides kidnapping Vic Gordon.

Tony Wayne did what he could to save the wounded Virginia: he created an armor similar to the one that originally saved his life, achieving that the rubble was moving away from his vital organs thanks to electromagnetism and accelerating her healing.

Dark Knight went to Carnivale's pursuit, which he found after saving Vic. Nevertheless, in spite of Carnivale's attempts for maddening him, Dark Knight controlled for the first time all his demons and he only enclosed Carnivale in The Arkham Vault. Virginia woke up terrified by what had happened to her, thinking that she had become a cyborg and she has lost her humanity, but Tony said to her that it was only to support her organs working, she calmed down and accepted the armor.

Some days later, already having saved his company, nominating it Wayne International, Dark Knight discovered that the suit of a malefactor that he was capturing was shaped by Wayne technology. Tony traced the source and discovered that Hellfern had managed to sell lots of technology and planes of prototypes when he destroyed his Workshop Cave, and that Roman Hammer, now free of the Arkham Vault, had bought great part of the technology and Hellfern Industries to take revenge against Wayne. Roman organized a handful of the most dangerous enemies of Dark Knight and equipped them with Wayne's technology; this way he sent them to destroy the Night Crusader.

This way, creating a system that could disable any system based on his technology, Tony implemented it in his Night Centurion armor and nullified everything that had taken his technology, including D.I.A.M.O.N.D's Gundroids, which caused him problems with the organization and Nicholas Steele, but that ultimately, he could correct with an updating of database of the supervillains' community and an improvement of prices on the part of Wayne Industries.

Roman, now ill with cancer, and seeking to escape of Dark Knight's scope, he fled to a space base where he believed that his life would be lengthened. Dark Knight and Cat-with-Nine-Tails, followed it to his space station. After chasing him, and having lost Dark Knight in the ship, Selina struck Hammer, making it badly wounded, then launched him to the space where he remained frozen and they presumed him dead.

With the time, Virginia got better and, even, she asked Wayne to attach tools to the armor. Wayne added tools that should allow Virginia to be connected permanently to Internet, to create and to manipulate electronic information where she is, and the power to connect to the Wayne Communications System. With this technology to her disposition, and her advanced knowledge in computer technology, gave to her the skill of become more useful in the battlefield to Dark Knight.

She took Girl Friday's name, and created an internal network connected to the Workshop Cave, Tony's personal office in Wayne International as well as other Tony's bases and other superheroes around the world. As Girl Friday, Virginia developed an important role, granting information reliable and updated to Dark Knight and allied and then to the superheroic community, as the Avenging League, which Dark Knight joined again of permanent form.

Months later, The Avenging League received a panic call from Invisi-Girl, Rita Storm of the Fantastic Patrol asking for help to found his daughter Dorothy Caulder who was kidnapped by a monster. Dark Knight recognized in the monster elements of Carnivale's mind, for what he knew that this threat would be terrible if not doing anything at once and asked Super Soldier to call to the whole League.

The X-Legion told The League that the monster was Impactator and had kidnapped Mister X too. Knowing this, Dark Knight analyzed the structure of the monster looking for his weak points, finding that the same cells where Dorothy and Mr. X trapped were Impactator's weakness, so they had to save them as promptly as possible to destroy it. Dark Knight, alongside Super Soldier, organized the Avenging League to attack Impactator coordinated. Using his technology, Dark Knight guided the superheroes to destroy the Hunters that were protecting Impactator, then to use the power of Thunder Ring and Thunder Bolt to save Mr. X.

After the liberation of the Savage Fallout against Impactator, that ended in the Fallout's mind separation and the destruction of the Impactator's armor, resulting in the the liberation of the energy Impactator, immune to physical attacks, Dark Knight asked Thunder Woman to use her divine thunder's powers to hurt Impactator alongside other energy based superheroes. Dorothy Caulder was freed in time to create a pocket-universe to save all the superheroes before the complete destruction of Impactator.

During the Counter-Earth life of Tony, he meet again with Lady Talia, the daughter of Dragon's Head, and fell complete in love, even marrying and having a son named War Bird 5, who Lady Thalia nicknamed "Rebel" because Damian was against the nature of both Dark Knight's and Dragon's Head legacies.

When Dorothy thought it was good time to came back to the real Earth, she erased all the memories of the heroes and send them back to their places. Dark Knight remembered almost nothing about the Counter- Earth, but something tell him that there were something wrong about that erased months.

After Impactator's destruction and Dark Knight's return to New Gotham City, he found that Gotham had been flogged by an earthquake that had left it in ruins. Dark Knight guided the Knight Family to save the city of being conquered by the criminals.

Some months later, a new villain estimated in New Gotham City, The Silent Knight. He, manipulating to the perfection New Gotham's mafia, as well as to the criminals like Tomb Face, Arctic Owl and others to attack Dark Knight using the skills of Mad Puzzler's calculation.

With the time, Tony discovered that The Silent Knight was actually Elliot Velsing. Elliot was the son of two very important nobles of Latvuraq, who General Doom ran of Latvuraq to assure his dictatorship. The family Velsing travelled to New Gotham City looking for help, which them granted the family Wayne. Tony and Elliot became friends very soon, always amusing in games of strategy that almost always Elliot won.

Nevertheless, before the possibility that the North American Government was resting to the family Velsing in order to help them to return to Latvuraq, General Doom murdered the parents of Elliot in a strange car accident, very similar to the one that the parents of Tony had later.

Elliot grew abundance of hatred against General Doom, travelling about the world using his fortune and accompanied by members of his servitude who were not tolerating him and were going away.

With the time, Elliot developed a plan to murder General Doom, but the teenager Tony Wayne, made the plan fail, achieving Doom to capture Elliot and disfigure his face and put him a metal mask with form of skull. Elliot hated Tony in the same way as he hated Doom. From then, Elliot swore that some day would destroy both, and that would make suffer them everything what they made to him.

Having grown I fill with hatred towards them two, Elliot managed to enter in touch with Mad Puzzler, who, having hallucinations thanks to his last meeting with Dark Knight, discovered that his secret identity was Tony Wayne. On having discovered this, Elliot saw that it was his opportunity to destroy him, for what using Mad Puzzler's brilliant mind and his contacts in the supervillains' community, orchestrated a plan to finish with Dark Knight, causing conflicts and violence in the streets that were putting stress on the night crusader.

In a moment of the assaults, Elliot achieved that Mad Puzzler was infecting Dark Knight's armor with a virus based on Ultriac, for what Tony's armor failed and almost the armor asphyxiates him. Nevertheless, using Kryptonicus technology of reserve, Tony managed to eliminate the virus and, even, to save his armor giving it own conscience.

Elliot then launched a Masquerade personifying Kevin Todd to bring nightmares and pain to Tony. Later, Velsing used Black Seed's pheromones to control Super Soldier and Cat-with-Nine-Tails: Super Soldier believed that Tony was developing Kraftstein's armament to destroy him, whereas Cat-with-Nine-Tails was in a homicidal attempt for not being able to have a relationship with Dark Knight after so many years of tension. Later, Elliot liberated the savage monster Frankenstein in New Gotham, while he was violating the safety of the Workshop Cave, where he shot "Mute" Hogan, making him badly wounded and staying in a coma per months.

During one fight, Dark Knight suffered a deep wound in the cranium that was going to kill him. The armor reacted and saved the Tony's life, healing the wound with circuits, giving the skill to Tony of controlling much better and faster his armors.

After so many battles and wounds, Elliot appeared before Dark Knight exhibiting his mask of skull, which by chance was looking like Tony's hull, also wearing an armor and tenchcroat. Elliot took advantage of Tony's physical and mental weakness to defeat him, but in a sudden change, Victoria Frankestein and Tomb-Face saved Dark Knight of being murdered by Elliot. Tomb-Face shot Silent Knight twice in the chest, and, in spite of the attempts that Victoria did to save him, Elliot threw himself to the river, agonizing. Everybody believed him dead.

Some months later was revealed that Morgan Le Fay saved Elliot and tried to use him to destroy Obsidian Knight, but Elliot, obsessed in spite of destroying Tony Wayne and General Doom, escaped towards New Gotham City, only to be tortured by Carnivale, then by Cat-with-Nine-Tales and ultimately captured by Jim and Michael.