Hello my peeps!
So here we go with the first chapter and a happy new year to one, to all! So i planned to make this chapter much longer and more in depth, ultimately i figured this be a good start too it. Plus with the new year, just a couple of hours away, i'd wanted to finish the year right, with a new chapter out.
Just something to usher in the new year with a big old, HELLO!
Cause honestly, god knows 2020 fucking SSSSSUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDD!
Fuck 2020!
So i'll stop ranting and just let you all get to reading. As always i don't own Fate-series or DC.
So please read, review and "What the fuc-BOOM"
Chapter 1: Hello Gotham City, Thy Name Is Chaldea
Gotham city.
It was a city, like most have crimes that riddled it throughout the years but never once, has there been a city that was plagued with so much crime. Gotham, for all intents and purposes, was a hellhole. One might even go far, as to call it a killzone.
Where people be they men, woman, elderly, young, adult, child come to die in the most brutal and horrific ways possible. In Gotham, the leaders turn a blind eye to the people's suffering. Either to fill their own pockets or to protect their own hides from the monsters in human form. Crime run rampant without restraint, without care, without fear of anyone stopping them.
A city build not on concrete and stone, but the bodies of thousands of people.
As cops are either corrupt and abide by the criminals they were suppose to detain or they and their families die a most horrible death. All those who have tried to change this corrupt city, have been killed without mercy or remorse, making many believe the city was a lost cause. Death happened daily and when a woman cry for help from rape, many don't even bat an eyelash at it.
In Gotham city, it was nothing more then a normal day.
Kill or be killed.
That was the unspoken law within Gotham.
You kill for pleasure.
You kill for fun.
You kill for business.
You kill for friends.
You kill for family.
You kill to stay alive.
You kill for survival.
That was the law in Gotham. The rich and power do as they please and everyone else suffers for it. Sometimes, that suffering pushes a person so far, they become something else entirely and in turn, make the common folk suffer even more. One prime example of this fact, was a man once known as Harvey Dent and once called:
Gotham's White Knight
A man that threated to destroy everything the criminals had created in Gotham. While it's true, the city had it's Dark Knight, the Batman to protect it, it wasn't enough. Dent was a beacon in the darkness that is Gotham and if tragedy hadn't struck, he may very well have changed Gotham for the better.
Sadly, life is cruel and unfair. Life does not care who suffers, nor does it care for what they stand for, it fucking takes it. It can take the life of a man that can change the world for the better and just as easily, take the life of a madman, hell bent on world destruction. More then often, it's the latter rather then the former, with the good ones being made to suffer.
The guilty ones, the evil ones?
Barely and if you're lucky, once in a lifetime does life take a madman and it's not just there life. More often, life takes and shatters the mind of good people and recreate them into blood thirsty monsters.
A fact that kept recurring in Gotham.
A madman, one that has been terrorizing Gotham for years now, the Joker got his hands on Dent. Much like everything else he touches, Joker twisted Dent to the point, Harvey Dent died. In his place, was a man born from the madness of the dark reality of Gotham and the pain of loss. In his place was the criminal master mind known as:
Two-Face.
A criminal that leaves the fate of his victims, with a coin toss, allowing the fates to decide if they should live or die. All this has done, is show everyone that Gotham will tear all good things to pieces, drag it through the mud, stich if back together and left the new creation run rampant. Even the purest, most earnest person could become a monster, under the right circumstances.
This twisted city, all it takes is a day, to get a man that could have turned this cesspool into, not a haven but something of a more respectable city. But because of one madman's desires to hurt the city's silent protector by destroying his replacement.
Gotham is a place, where innocence goes to die.
Many people, both good and bad, human and inhuman knew this for a fact. One might call it a pointless battle, that Gotham is beyond hope or redemption. Even so, Batman aka Bruce Wayne and James Gordon, have not given up on the city, They still believe it could be saved, to be a city that many hoped for.
A city that Harvey Dent died, trying to change.
One that many have died, trying to change or worse. In Gotham, crime ruled and no one, not even the Batman could change that fact. But now, Gotham and the rest of the world were about to get a very rude awakening.
Cause a new player has arrived and they won't show mercy and why should they? Gotham's criminals never showed mercy to any of it's victims, so why should the guilty be shown mercy? So how should these new players handle the criminals, should they be naive and show them mercy or handle them like they've always handle their enemies?
The answer:
No More Mercy.
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Let it be known, police commissioner James W. Gordon of Gotham city has seen A LOT of wired and down right, strange things in his life. Then again, when you work so closely with one of the founders of the Justice League, the Batman, you're bound to see strange things.
Even more then most people, in a world where superheroes and supervillains, aliens and dare he say, gods live among men.
It didn't help that the world nearly ended on a weekly bases form either, a super villain or alien invasion of some kind. Hell, he's even see alternative versions of both, heroes and villains coming to HIS version of Earth to do bad things. All that is just in the general world alone, as for some wired reason, all the craziest seem to happen in Gotham alone.
Meaning, he was the one that often had to deal with it and he wasn't sure if that was a good thing or bad thing, as his job probably drive most people nuts.
Though in hindsight, if it were anyone else that had to deal with an undead zombie brute, a woman that had plant like powers and a clown that wasn't so funny on a daily bases, they'd probably go insane.
"Or maybe i have gone insane and i just don't realize it yet."
It wasn't impossible and this thought crossed Gordon's mind more then once in his very long career of dealing with wiredo's. But that wasn't what was important right now. What was important, was the pristine white and towering building that just suddenly appeared on one of Gotham's main method for getting supplies:
The Docks.
It happened without warning, without any sign. One minute there was nothing, the next a bright flash of light and then "Poof" it was just...there.
It's only been a week since it appeared and while they have no knowledge of the structure or who owned it, it was a blessing in disguise. The docks was often fought over by the criminals of the city and how many supplies got into the city regularly changed. The most recent crime family to hold the docks, was the Falcone and if what Gordon heard was right, on the third day, they were all but wiped out.
It was reported the crime family tried to take over the building, planning to kill everyone inside and before either Gordon or Batman(And the rest of the bat family) could try to stop them, they were repelled by an ARCHER of all things.
Just one Archer, cloaked in a red jacket, that fired not arrows but swords at them.
They didn't even get within ten feet, before they were ruthless shoot down. Each one shot was quick, accurate and not one was wasted. Each "Arrow" was aimed at a vital point that would kill someone instantly.
Whoever that man was, his skill with a bow could give Green Arrow and the Dark Archer Merlyn a run for their money.
That was day one and form there, Gordon has received reports of gunfire all over the city and when the police got to the sights, all they found were bodies of the now butchered crime family, all ripped to pieces. The bodies were cut and gutted in such a way, the people of Gotham, both common and villainy believed that someway, somehow Jack The Ripper came back from the dead.
Others believed either a new villain or vigilante had risen up to kill the crime family. It wasn't too far fetched to believe, as Gotham city seemed to produce the worst kind of villains. Some thought the Falcone family had finally pissed off the wrong person and paid the price for it. But people like Gordon and Batman, ones who aren't allowed to believe in coincidences. This new "Jack The Ripper" was connected to the building that just suddenly showed up.
The question was this:
How?
Now, one might this it wouldn't be that big of a deal, as it's just another crime family that got in over there heads and paid the price for it. But you would be wrong, as The Falcone Crime Family operated in Gotham since the days of Carmine Falcone's father Vincent Falcone. Back then the Falcones were engaged in ruthless crime-wars with the Maroni Crime Family. Once Carmine became head of the family he used brilliant warfare and ruthless tactics to completely conquer Gotham's criminal-underworld, made the Maronis submit themselves to him, and got nicknamed "The Roman" for his strategic brilliance. Gordon knew for a fact The Falcone's also had Gotham's mayor and many cops on their pay-roll.
Meaning he couldn't touch them and sadly, his "Friend" despite catching them in the act and giving him the evidence to stop them, it made little difference.
No matter how much Batman and his "Bat family" took a run at them, nothing ever stuck and Gordon was forced to let them go. So really, the people in Gotham's new gossip, had done him a HUGE favor. Though the mayor threw a hissy fit over their deaths, he couldn't really justified their actions either, as they clearly tried to commit forced eviction.
With guns and knife's.
Lots of guns and knife's, that were met with their own blades. And if Gordon was mistaken, there was talk of a giant wolf thing? rampaging through the Falcone's territory, biting and ripping people apart, while guns, knifes and even vehicles did nothing to stop the monster. Truth be told, Gordon personally thought the crime finally was getting what they rightful deserved.
He wasn't going to lie, while he didn't support what the wolf did as it went against the law, a small dark part of him was laughing at how the family, one that has destroyed countless others, was getting what was coming to them. After all, Karma is a bitch.
For a very good reason.
Never the less, so far the only good thing about the sudden appearance of the building, was that whoever was inside it, cared enough to let the necessary supplies into Gotham, without the typical "Protection fees".
Something Gordon was very thankful for. They had enough problems to deal with as it was, the last thing they need, is someone making it even harder, for Gotham to gain supplies. In fact, the criminal that usual tried to "Secure" the supplies, namely to get a crack at it first, were quickly learning that shit wasn't going to fly anymore.
The police commissioner became worried when the entire Justice League showed up to investigative the sudden appearance of the building. That did nothing to ease his worries and it only got worse, when one of it's members, Zatanna Zatara took one look at the building then froze. She started shaking, badly and all the while muttering under her breath:
"Oh god, oh god, oh god, so much...power."
That's how Gordon found out the entire place practically bled out magically power. Oh and if that wasn't bad enough, Zatanna felt both normal, demonic, holy and even divinity magically power emitting from the building.
Divinity, meaning godly power.
Just great.
That's just what Gotham needs, a possible pissed off god or goddess, living on it's docks.
Now, Gordon didn't hate magic per-say. As many heroes used magic themselves and even villains themselves. I mean really, it be just too easy if the heroes had access to the seemly limitless power. That aside, it was just that magic had a lot of potential to be very destructive and was highly unpredictable in the wrong hands. Probably the reason why Batman didn't like magic, as you can't counter something if you can't predicate what it's going to do. Case in point, when the magically energy that emitted from the building, healed the arena around it.
The water became more clearer and the plants bloomed anew, with beauty never seen before in this filthy city. Hell, even the air around the docks was easier to breath, then anywhere else in the city.
A blessing in disguise if he had ever seen one.
Despite the good it was doing Gotham city, both Gordon and Batman did worry about the "Demonic magic" that was mixed into the building. Demonic could imply a lot of things, as Gordon has seen actual demons fighting the heroes and other worldy beings and creatures that come from other dimensions, that could be considered demons.
But that raised another question, shouldn't the demonic, holy and even divine magic be clashing against one another? Shouldn't they be trying to either, destroy or overpower one another? Or was it possible, they were all co-existing within the building itself?
So many questions, not enough answers.
It didn't help they couldn't get into the building itself. Batman and his team had tried, but found themselves blocked out by what Zatanna called "Wards". Ever possible entrance was inaccessible. Batman couldn't hack into the security system(That is, if there was one) and none of the league members could get in. So when all else failed, namely the sneaking and brute force way didn't work, Gordon decide a more direct and easy approach would be the best option for the situation they found themselves in. In other words:
He knocked on the front door and asked point blank but politely mind you, who they were and why they where here. While yes that did work out pretty well, all it really did was breed more questions then answers.
"Forgive us, for this sudden transaction Mr. Gordon, as this...'situation' is just as shocking to us, as it is to you and you're city. Rest assured we have no intention of taking over this city or whatever it is, these villains do. We are trying to find answers on how this happened, just as much as you are and while we are open to a possible working relationship with the GPD, it is ultimately up to our shared master to decide on. The director too but she's thought it be best, to let master decide on the matter, as she trust his judgement. Unfortunately he will be unavailable for sometime, as will the director. Make no mistake, while we can respect the Justice League and Batman for all they do. I myself can understand why they do, what they do but it's all black and white. The world doesn't work like that and i'm not going to lie commissioner, I and the rest of my comrades see things in varies of gray, so be warned. If any villain, be they common criminals or super, set foot on our home they WILL die. No exceptions, as any threat to my master WILL be eliminated."
From the way the small blonde woman, with the sliver armor and green eyes spoke to him, Gordon knew she meant it. The only name she went by was "Saber" and even if they had a clear, prefect view of her face, no hits came up in the database.
Whoever the blonde was, as far as the government was knew, she didn't exist. Which Gordon knew, would cause them and possible even worse, Amanda Waller to get involved and things will go from bad to worse. He feared that Waller would pull her old, dirty tricks and piss them off the wrong people, which would lead to their destruction.
Not that the woman would care.
Which is why he forward the information to Batman but even he couldn't find out anything about her. All this did was indeed confirm that either this building, were not from this world or it was that well hidden, it wasn't even on any classified files. Which worried him greatly.
Just who and what were these people and why are they here, in Gotham of all cities?
Sadly, all Gordon could do, was sit back and wait.
Done.
Devil out.
