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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here that belong to Sin City or do I own any of the other characters that I put into this story except for my own OCs. Neither do I own any of the character in any of the crossovers I do. I'm just using them in this fanfiction and I have no money so don't bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any. And remember to leave a review!
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DarkHat City –
Basin City, almost universally referred to by the nickname Sin City, is a town in the American Northwest, located somewhere 30 minutes outside of Seattle, Washington, in an area called Kitsap County. The climate is hot and arid, although the rich part of the city, Sacred Oaks is characterized as being heavily wooded thanks to landscraping. A major river runs through the city, which has an extensive waterfront. Usually twice a year, a major downpour comes, and the city gets heavy snowfall in the winter. In the comics, Basin City has a surreal, pan-American feel. Desert lizards and palm trees are common, while tar pits, desert areas, mountain ranges and flat farmland make up the landscape around the city.
The Basin City Police are more or less along the lines of paramilitary or SWAT, as they have to deal with incredibly high crime rates among criminals and civilians alike, which is why they have access to what most would consider "heavy weaponry" and full body armour. Those who make up the force have been described as commonly being lazy, cowardly and/or corrupt. Only a handful of the cops are honest, though frequently the wealthy of the city bribe the corrupt members of the police into performing their duty (usually as a result of some crime being committed against a member of their family).
During the California Gold Rush, the Roark family 'imported' a large number of attractive women to keep the miners happy, making a fortune and turning a struggling mining camp into a thriving, bustling city. Over the years, as the Roark family migrated into other areas of business and power, these women ended up forming the district of Old Town, the prostitute quarter of the city where they rule with absolute authority. In addition, the people charged with governing the city, most of them from the Roark line, remained in power for generations, running it as they saw fit.
A man name Marv stood in front of a judge as he stood on the charges that he signed that he had done. The room was packed as he had done something that no one who grew up in Sin City shouldn't ever do. He had gone against the Roark family and killed one of them. Patrick Henry Roark, (A Man of the Cloth) otherwise known as Cardinal Roark, the brother of Senator Roark who was also in the room. He was once a doctor and priest serving in the medical corps during the Korean War. He earned significant praise as a result and later became a Cardinal, earning important political influence and extending the corruption within the state. It is also implied that his influence is what allowed his brother to be become a United States Senator.
While serving the clergy, Cardinal Roark met a man name Kevin, a cannibalistic serial killer who consumed the bodies of Old Town's prostitutes, believing he was inheriting their souls. Convinced that Kevin has been spoken to by God, Cardinal Roark joins Kevin in his practices and shelters him at the Roark family farm, located at North Cross and Lennox. The woman who had set Marv down this path was Goldie who had learn of their bizarre rituals and prepares to inform the other prostitutes; she spent a night with Marv to gain protection, but Kevin nevertheless murders her and frames Marv for the crime. Marv then begins murdering others to gain knowledge of Goldie's killer, eventually killing Kevin and then visiting Cardinal Roark. Cardinal Roark explains the story to Marv, who then proceeds to violently kill him.
As Marv stood there as the female judge made her face glow red from shouting at him in fire and hell, he through of how everything had happen from that night.
The story started when Marv was approached by Goldie in a saloon and they have sex in a hotel, three hours later when Marv wakes up he finds Goldie dead. He gets ready and thinks about what happened and how he was stone drunk when she was murdered but then he hears cop cars coming which tells him someone else knows she's dead.
The Police are running up the stairs to the room Marv and Goldie's dead body is in. Though the cops are more like SWAT with body armour and shields, they only use them because of Basin City's high crime rate. He takes his medicine and the Police knock at the door, he bashes the door down knocking over about 2 cops and as they are attempting to shoot him he jumps down the gap in the middle of the winding stairs then grabs a banister and swings himself onto that corridor then runs until jumping out the window. Luckily he lands into a huge pile of filled garbage bags but a cop car is approaching and Marv jumps onto the hood, breaks the window with a kick, gets the cops out the car and drives it away, he drives it into the river and gets out, left swimming in the river, while doing this he decides to kill Goldie's murderer.
Marv knows the cops will be waiting for him to re-surface so he swims into a giant pipe and surfaces in the sewers, climbs out via manhole and sneaks through the city, avoiding cops, until he reaches Lucille's apartment, Marv's lesbian female friend/parole officer. She is only wearing panties as she has been in bed but Marv breaking in through the window woken her up, she has her gun in case it was a burglar but then realises it was Marv, he tells her everything that happened mainly and gets angry when she says it's just very small he then shouts at her telling her its very big and he's in the middle of it.
"This isn't some bar room brawl or some creep with a gas can looking to torch some wino. This is big and I'm right in the middle of it and there's no place I'd rather be."
"Settle Down, Marv. Take another pill."
"There's no settling down. It's going to be blood for blood and by the gallons. It's the old days. The bad days. The all-or-nothing days. They're back. There's no choices left and I'm ready for war."
However, she doesn't believe him because he is known for his delusions. Marv then tells her what he's going to do before running out to his Mom's house to get Gladys, his first gun, named after the toughest nun at his school, but his Mother catches him. She tells him that people were looking for him and Marv starts to tell his Mom what happened.
He's thinking about how none of it fits together and why anyone would kill Goldie, he walks down a back alley and is confronted by someone who is not letting him in this place so he knocks him out and is greeted by Kadie who says that he is new. He enters Kadie's Bar, where he receives free drinks. Nancy Callahan is dancing and he finds Weevil, who threatens him into spreading the word that Marv has been hanging around bars mourning Goldie's death and gives him cash for it. He is then offered a drink by Shellie.
Marv watches Nancy Callahan dance passing the time and then someone puts a gun behind his back, it's two hit men but Marv takes it as a joke saying he has a nice coat as they put the gun up to him and make him exit the bar. He whacks one of them into a wall and steals his gun then shoots the other one's hand. He threatens one for his coat, one called Stan then shoots his stomach or chest and asks him who sent them because he knows they didn't kill Goldie. Marv has to resort to also blowing the man's testicles off before he admits that Telly Stern sent them. Marv then shoots him through the head, killing him. He thinks he sees Goldie but it's just because he hasn't taken his medicine, without it he gets confused.
Marv tries to sleep but he can't so he decides to follow up his leads and while trying to get information kills three people, punches one to death, drowns one in a toilet and bashes the other's head off the ground. Then he goes to church to make a confession, in the confession stand he confesses about his murders and threatens The Priest to tell him about the other confessions and if he knows anything. The priest says "Roark" (referring to Cardinal Roark but Marv doesn't believe him) and The Priest tells him that if he doesn't believe he should check out The Roark's family Farm at North cross and Lennox. The Priest is now angry and asks him if the corpse of a slut (referring to Goldie) is worth dying for. Marv shoots him and says 'Worth Dying For', shoots him again and says 'Worth killing for' and after the last shot says he says 'Worth going to hell for' then after he is sure The Priest is dead says 'Amen.'
Marv has stolen The Priest's Mercedes keys and he walks out the church but as he is opening the car door, he hears a loud approaching car and pulls out his gun but then hesitates when he thinks it's Goldie and then gets ran over, sending him from the bonnet to the boot of the car, the car turns round quickly and runs him over again, sending him from the bonnet onto the road, as he repeats 'Goldie?' and then runs him over for a third time sending him flying in the air and the person in the car shoots him three times as he moans in pain and leaves him for dead. Two minutes later, after Marv recovers, he realized it wasn't Goldie but just that he got confused again, so he takes his medicine.
Marv left the Priest's Mercedes in a Diner parking lot about two miles from The Farm. He travels through the woods until he reaches 'The Farm' where he can tell is a bad place, where people have died. He is approached by a wolf and Marv tries to calm it down but the wolf bites him and he hits it and smells blood in its breath which makes him wonder who its owner is. He then tries to see what's buried as a man approaches behind him he finds a bone and a high heel shoe but still doesn't know there's no-one there until he sees a pair of Chuck Taylor All-Stars as he turns around the man kicks him then whacks him off a fence, and kicks him again then his hands go numb and then the man scratches Marv's eyes until he can't see. He thinks to himself that nobody is that quiet except the person who sneaked into the hotel room two nights ago then he realizes he killed Goldie and exclaims 'It was you, YOU killed Goldie!', just as The man knocks Marv out with a sledgehammer.
Marv is lying somewhere, and at first thinks he has died, as he sees a bright white light. After diving toward the light, he finds himself lying on the floor of some sort of tiled jail. Upon opening his eyes, the first thing he sees is a rose, a tattoo on someone's face, and realizes it is a disembodied head, pinned on a wall along with many more. Then he sees a naked Lucille curled up in the corner, in shock. She keeps on saying that "he" eats people and gives the wolf the scraps. She continues about how he cooks them, and then tells Marv that "he" severed her arm and ate it right in front of her, making her watch. Marv keeps her warm by putting his coat over her. She screams and cries before telling Marv that Goldie is a high-class hooker. Lucille gives details about what happened to her and then Marv, at the bars on of the walls, where he can see outside, hears a V-8 pull up and hears 'Come quick, Kevin.' So he knows his name is Kevin and says 'see you soon Kevin...'.
There are loud noises coming from The Farm as Marv is trying to ram down the locked steel metal door by running at it, head first, hurting himself as Lucille watches. After about the tenth try, he almost does it and then on the next he does. He keeps Lucille close and they hear helicopter wings and as they run along the farm, Marv finds Gladys, his gun and Police get out of the chopper, including 'The Painted Cop'. Lucille and Marv hide in a bush, out of sight. Marv gets his gun out and readies to shoot at them, but Lucille doesn't want both of them to get killed so she hits him over the head with a rock and runs over to the cops and tells them not to shoot him. They ask her where he is and then shoot her. Marv then gets very angry and comes at them with a hatchet he found. Then he charges head first into them killing every last one of them, getting shot in the process. Then tells The Painted Cop who had emptied his gun into Lucille it's a fine coat he's wearing before killing him as well not before he made him talk.
Marv is walking along a bridge working out that it was Roark because even the cop said it was and he realizes that Goldie was just looking for someone who could protect her because she knew someone was coming for her and she found Marv. He knows he might have to die for her, and he doesn't care. But first he needs to find out the connection between Goldie, Cardinal Roark and Kevin, then he'll know what to do. Then he begins to talk about Cardinal Roark, or by his full name Patrick Henry Roark and that The Roark Family has owned Sin City for a long time and their money has grown from millions to billions. He is at a statue of Cardinal Roarke as he is thinking that Roark is the most powerful man in the state and that he's going to get killed just over some dead hooker as Marv shoots the giant stone statue in the middle of the head. He then suddenly wonders if he's wrong, sometimes he gets confused and wonder's if that's it and with Lucille dead, he can't get his medicine. He then wonders if he's turned into a maniac, a psycho killer. He then knows that he's got to know for sure. Five to ten minutes later he's in Old Town, asking around for Goldie. Then someone shoots him and he looks to see who it is, thinks it's Goldie again, and is shot once more, falling to the floor unconscious.
Marv wakes up strapped to a chair and sees who he believes to be Goldie and thinks he's dreaming so he's saying to her that he is probably lying in a gutter talking to himself. Then the woman pistol-whips him, he then realizes more girls are around him, The Girls of Old Town, one of the says 'Hit him, harder', Wendy, Marv laughs the strikes off and tells her how to pistol-whip correctly, then asking why she was called Wendy and she says that it's her name, AND that Goldie was her twin sister. Then Wendy asks Marv what happened to her and the other six girls (who were killed by Kevin.) And Marv says that no-one would go near an ugly mug like his, he continues elaborating by saying he was supposed to protect Goldie but failed because he was too drunk, and that he's been killing his way to the truth ever since. The four girls realize they were wrong and Marv breaks out of the ropes with ease. He sat there and took it so he could talk some sense into them.
In a room that The Old Town Girls gave him, Marv is thinking about fear, and about dying. He throws up a couple of times, then gets his coat, Gladys (his gun) and the hatchet from the farm. Gail gives him a pair of handcuffs. In the car with Wendy, he keeps on reminding himself that she's not Goldie. Wendy is speeding with the same car she previously drove over Marv. As they drive, Wendy informs Marv that Goldie and the other dead girls worked the clergy, giving Marv a huge piece of the puzzle as to how Goldie and Roark are connected. After a night sleeping in the same room, Marv keeps getting confused, thinking she's Goldie. They buy rubber tubing, gas, a saw, razor wire and gloves. They stop the car near The Farm and Marv makes Wendy stay at the car. He stretches the razor wire out with the gloves, primes a petrol bomb, and throws it through a window to flush out Kevin. Marv then catches his attention with some gunshots, and watches Kevin run toward the razor wire and clear it as he puts one cuff of the handcuffs on and gets his hatchet in his other hand. They fight, Marv losing his hatchet. He continues to fight on, kicking and punching. He gets close, but Kevin again scratches his eyes out. With his eyes scratched up, Marv manages to put the free cuff on Kevin's wrist. After he gets a kick, Marv punches Kevin and knocks him out. Wendy is behind him; he tells her to go, but she wants to kill him. Marv knocks her out and takes her back to the car, which was hard for him as he doesn't like to hurt women.
"Half an hour later." Marv sits looking at Kevin, whose legs and arms he's cut off. He feeds the rest of Kevin to the wolf, and then saws off Kevin's head. Marv is surprised because Kevin never made a sound, just staring and smiling. Marv takes Wendy to Nancy Callahan and tells Nancy to take Wendy out of town, fearing that Wendy will be killed. He reaches Cardinal Roark's mansion. He enters via the main gates where he kills Corporal Rivera and others until he reaches Roark's room. Roark tells him Kevin had the voice of angels and eating people gave him religious satisfaction, saying that Kevin felt the touch of God as he did. He knew the police were looking for the killers and he murdered Goldie so they'd think it was Marv. Knowing why Marv came, he asks if killing a defenseless old man will make him feel any better. Marv has to admit that it will not... but "everything gup to the killing is gonna be a gas". He kills Roark slowly, in a gruesome fashion, and when the police see him he gets rinsed with sub-machine gun fire. He comes to on the operating table and is disappointed the cops didn't shoot his head, "and enough times to make sure." He is charged with all of the murders he committed and framed for those he didn't (The Girls of Old Town.) He is beaten for a confession and told by an attorney that, without a confession, they'll kill his mother. Marv signs the confession, breaking the attorney's arm in three places in the process.
"You will fry in the chair," the judge shouted causing Marv to snap back from his thoughts.
Whatever the judge was going to say next was cut off as the doors of the courtroom brust open letting a single man in. Marv knew something was wrong as everything in the room became dead in their tracks. Marv turned around to see who got everyone to shut up and saw why everyone had. With everything that had happen in the past year with that vampire attacking Japan and revealing magic was real. All sort of things had came up that had been hidden away and people who had stayed in the dark were suddenly became known. And the man standing in the doorway of the courtroom was rumored to be so powerful he could order around gods and demons.
He was dressed in a long army-dark green overcoat that only accented his size and is well over 7 feet tall and towered above them all like a mountain. He had the proportionate bulk for his height that they could tell was all muscle. A thick utility belt is wrapped around his waist and though they didn't see any weapons on him they could feel the violence and darkness radiating off of him in invisible waves. They couldn't see his face, not that they wanted too because of the faceless white mask he wore. They could only make out his cold black eyes from the slits of the eyeholes of the mask. The eyes seemed to look into their very souls looking for what made them tick just so that he could break them that much easier. He also wore a pitch black top hat that cast a shadow over his mask that made him seem even taller then he already was.
Marv gave out a small laugh. "So someone went and hired you to kill me." He looks towards Senator Roark is a very corrupt politician with considerable financial power, holding most of Basin City in his grip. "Why bother with this whole court thing if you're just going to hirer DarkHat to kill me. I mean throwing away ten mil when I'm just going to be killed anyways."
"He didn't hire me," DarkHat said. "You're mother did."
"She did?" Marv said lost for words.
"She gave me all that she could to save you. Even if you did kill Cardinal Roark he and his ward Kevin were the ones who killed those women and ate thier bodies," DarkHat said. "I would have been hired to kill them sooner or later anyways."
"I don't care who you are..." Senator Roark shouted but snap his mouth shut as DarkHat turn his glaze towards him.
"On that note there's also the matter of you," DarkHat said. "Senator Roark you killed your wife with a bat and used your position to cover it, did you not? One of the things I'm well aware of, with other list of your crimes. And there's also the matter with your late son. You had hoped for your son to become President of the United States, but Junior presents a serious problem: He was a sadistic pedophile who enjoys raping and murdering pre-pubescent girls. Senator Roark you used your police connections to cover up his crimes, but when Junior kidnaps an 11 year-old Nancy Callahan, Detective John Hartigan tries to stop him, critically injuring Junior in the process to 'disarm' him, by shooting both his hand and his reproductive organs. Senator Roark you then visits Hartigan in the hospital where he was found because of his angina, explaining that you actually has no intention of killing him. Instead, you plan to finance Hartigan's medical treatment to keep him alive; your ultimate plan was to frame Hartigan for Junior's crimes while Junior recovers from surgery. Hartigan was in prison for eight years in until he finally confesses to Junior's crimes, with you personally appearing at his parole hearing. Meanwhile during that time you had recourse to alternative medicines and "Witch doctors" in order to heal your son and restore somehow his reproductive organs and eventually obtain an heir for you dynasty as neither of your brothers have produced an offspring. Junior recovers but not without severe side effects. Junior was now a grotesque mutant with bright yellow skin who smells of rotting garbage, as his body couldn't handle his body waste right anymore. Over the next eight years, he claims dozens of victims, speculating at one point that the total might in fact be 100 which the true number is 123. As for Hartigan, he never confesses to the crime during the trial, but he doesn't say a word concerning Junior's guilt and allows himself to be convicted as a child rapist. Over the next eight years, everyone he loves abandons him — except for Nancy, who writes him a letter every week and thinks of him as her hero. Nancy becomes his only reason to live; he accepts his fate so long as he believes Nancy is safe.
In a ploy to trick Hartigan into revealing Nancy's whereabouts (as she is the lone witness to John's innocence), Junior arranges to have the letters held from Hartigan. At first, Hartigan suspects she's simply forgotten about him. However, Junior then sends him a letter containing a human finger, and then visits Hartigan in person. Because of Junior's vastly altered appearance (due to the extensive treatment in an attempt to repair the damage Hartigan originally caused), Hartigan does not recognize the rapist during their meeting. Disturbed by their meeting and by the mysterious letter, Hartigan confesses to raping Nancy at his next parole hearing, in an effort to gain freedom and seek out Nancy. Junior follows him when he goes to visit Nancy, who has now become a stripper at Kadie's Bar. Hartigan sees Junior and flees with Nancy, with Junior in hot pursuit. In the ensuing car chase, Hartigan shoots him in the neck and momentarily loses him. Junior nevertheless arrives at their motel room, reveals his true identity, and ties Hartigan in a hangman's noose. Junior leaves Hartigan to die and takes Nancy to the Roark Family Farm, well-known for the "bad things" that occur there. Junior violently whips Nancy, but flies into a frustrated rage when she refuses to scream. Nancy discovers that Junior is impotent unless his victims are screaming in pain, and mocks him. As Junior is about to kill her, he is surprised by Hartigan, who has escaped and killed all of the local guards. Hartigan stabs him in the chest, castrates him again (this time with his bare hands), and smashes his head into a mess of blood and bone. Then to protect her Hartigan kills himself so that you Senator Roark couldn't get revenge on her."
"You can't prove any of this," Senator Roark shouted, knowing that with this court having a live boardcast across the country. All of his supporters in the goverment will turn thier backs to him as none of them wanted to have the media circus on them as well or having to deal with DarkHat.
"Don't have to," DarkHat said. "You have always thought of yourself of a man with power. But as many have already became aware of, power that you have doesn't impress me. The only kind of power that can impress me is when the one with power can stand without having to blackmail, bribe, or have others do their dirty work for them. All the things that you don't have."
"Do you know who I am!" Senator Roark growls.
"Do you?" DarkHat said as he grabs Roark by his neck. "As you once said to Hartigan you could have killed him as he laid in bed laughing holding a smoking gun in your hand and everyone would say you didn't kill him. I on the other hand will kill you, in front of everyone here and everyone watching. And that's the differences between your kind of power hidding behind lies and half-truths, and mine. For I will kill you and everyone will know I'm the one who done it but nothing will happen for nothing can happen because, I am what you and everyone like you thinks they are."
"No..." Roark chokes out before with one twist his neck was snap by DarkHat's hand. And to the horror of most of the people watching his head hanged like a worn out rag dolls head handing to its body by a thin cloth.
"Nice," Marv said. "But what happens to me?"
"You're going to be working for me from now on," DarkHat said as he used his power to unlock Marv's chuffs. "Come there's work to be done."
"And do what?" Marv ask as he follows his new boss.
"Sin City is the worse in the country and most have given up hope of it ever getting better," DarkHat said.
"You mean?" Marv ask realizing what he had in mind.
"Yes we're going to clean up this city. This city is full of evil, so the only thing that clean this city up is someone like me," DarkHat said as he walks through the halls of the courthouse with Marv following and people starring at wonder and fear. For the underworld watching from their homes all saw what happen to the most powerful man of the city and knew that they were all good as dead. For Sin City was now the haunting grounds for DarkHat. And the city would be known by a new name, it was now DarkHat City.
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Author's Notes –
1 – I had this in mind for awhile now so I'm adding it as a little side-story for my main fic.
Also the movie Postal by the bad director Uwe Boll is coming out soon. You know the one who made House of the Dead • Alone in the Dark • BloodRayne • BloodRayne II • In the Name of the King the bad movies base on videogames. Whatever you do don't watch it, don't buy it and don't rent it. If enough of us gamers don't watch or buy his films he won't be able to make another bad videogame base movie again!
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