2124... Stickville.
Hope City...
A young rookie cop, Frank Miller, goes on a solo mission in an abandoned orphanage in the bad side of Hope city. He discovers the owners of the home killed themselves and demonic symbols written in their blood everywhere.
He hears wearing from their basement and finds a young girl. A mutant creature similar to a demonoid but with stone-like skin and glowing red eyes.
He takes the child in but hides it from the police. He and his wife Carla, raise the little girl and name her Gara.
2130..
Frank seeing the rise in crime across Hope City, trains Gara to use her demon like abilities to fight crime and protect the city.
2145, Gara makes her debut as Gargoyle by stopping an attack of an apocalyptic cult called the Doomers.
2146, Gargoyle is recognised by the police as a vigilante when she takes down a local drug trade by two of the most elusive crime families in the city, the Lion and Tiger clans.
2148, Gargoyle declares war on all local crime families in Hope City.
2149, Gargoyle takes down all famous crime families in the city, leaving only the Dog family, led by owner of the Bone Casino, Apha Parkinson.
2150... the year of Chaos...
A new group called Shockwave attacks a local bank and holds people hostage, preventing the police from interfering. They use powerful technology called Shock gauntlets which allow them to shoot concentrated air at their opponents.
The leader, Maxwell, tries to get his little brother Finn, to murder some hostages to prove a point to the police bit Finn hesitates. Maxwell, annoyed, takes the gauntlet and tries to do it himself but suddenly, Gargoyle arrives and takes the group down.
The police commissioner, Roy, uses the robbery as a way to stop Gargoyle but Frank hears of this and warns her in advance.
Thanks to that warning, Gargoyle escapes right when the police invade the bank.
The next day...
The prison truck carrying the Shockwave group is attacked by a mysterious entity called the Phantom. Luckily, Gargoyle who had been watching over the truck, stops them before they kill the prisoners.
Phantom's henchmen arrive and distracting Gargoyle for Phantom to kill most of the criminals except Maxwell and Finn. Maxwell sacrifices his life to save Finn and Gargoyle uses the distraction to rescue him.
The next day...
At their secret base, Gargoyle interrogates Finn and finds out Shcokwave isn't just a group but a criminal organisation operating across all of Stickville and using various crime families to distribute their services. Gargoyle realises that the Dog family is involved in this and uses her powers to connect herself to Finn.
She then sends Finn to the Bone Casino to talk to Alpha. When Finn gets there, he meets Alpha and Alpha reveals he sent an assassin to murder his group. He then ordered for Finn's execution.
While Finn hides in a bathroom, Gargoyle arrives and takes out a good chunk of security until Alpha meets her and offers to talk.
He thanks her for getting rid of all his competition and offers to give her info on Shockwave's next business deal in exchange for Finn's life.
She agrees to the deal, much to Finn's horror as Alpha's men take him away to be executed.
Alpha reveals the mayoral candidate Victor Shane, is having a business deal with Shockwave to murder the current mayor Emilia Harcort. Once she hears this and the location of the meeting, Gargoyle attacks Alpha, heads to stop Finn's execution and the two escape the Bone Casino tanks to Frank appearing as their getaway driver.
The trio find where Victor is having the deal with Shckwave and crash it. As Gargoyle and Finn face Shockwave soldiers, Frank chases down a retreating Victor.
Frank crashes into Victor's car and is about to arrest him but suddenly, Phantom arrives on the scene and kidnaps Victor. They then warn Frank to stay away from their business and leave.
Gargoyle and Finn, who stole some Shock gauntlets from the soldiers, battle it out but retreat when they hear police on the way.
The trio meet back at the base and Frank tells them of Phantom's interference. They wonder why Alpha would send Phantom to kill Victor.
Meanwhile, Alpha, furious about Gargoyle's betrayal, is met by his assassin Sureshot who tells him he never went to assassinate Maxwell's group sp the two wonder who the hell sent Phantom there.
A week later...
Mayor Emilia gives a speech to the city on the death of her running opponent and suddenly Victor's body is hanged across the building she is in. Phantom then appears on a giant screen and warns the ciry and Emilia they and their group are coming to cleanse it.
Gargoyle hears of this and begins her investigation on Phantom. Finn offers to help to get revenge gor his brother and friends...
At night, Frank is visited by a scared Emilia who takes him to meet some friends who might help her and wants to know his judgement on them since she trusts him. Frank reluctantly agrees and contacts Gargoyle to stay ready for trouble.
The two arrive at the docks to meet Shockwave soldiers led by Alpha. Alpha tries to convince the mayor to use Shockwave to hunt down the Phantom but Frank warns her against it.
Suddenly Phantom's soldiers arrive and try to murder everyone there. Frank tries to protect the mayor while Alpha escapes in his car. Gargoyle and Finn arrive and try to protect Frank but he orders her and Finn to go after Alpha and she reluctantly obeys.
The duo chase down Alpha and crash his car and are about to capture him but suddenly Finn turns his gauntlets to Gargoyle and takes her down.
Gargoyle wakes up the next day to see Finn, Alpha and Sureshot standing over her. Alpha reveals he made a deal with Finn during the execution through his men and knew she would betray him the whole time. He orders Finn to kill her and he agrees.
He hesitates for a moment and turns his gauntlet to Alpha and shoots him down. Sureshot attacks Finn but Gargoyle breaks free and takes down Sureshot. Sureshot manages to escape with a smoke bomb though, leaving Alpha.
The next day, Commissioner Roy sees Alpha on the front porch of the local police station with a penn drive containing his confession and arrests him.
At the police station, Frank interviews Alpha before Roy gets a chance to and soon after Phantom arrives, attacks Frank and kidnaps him.
The next day...
Emilia hosts a parade to celebrate the last crime family member in the city but the celebration is cut short when Frank arrives and reveals Alpha was kidnapped. Suddenly, just like Victor, Apha's lifeless body hangs on a nearby skyscraper and Phantom sends a message declaring war on the city.
Meanwhile, Finn and Gara watch the celebration and she uses the mood to profess her love for him. Finn sadly rejects her. Before he can explain, Gara silences him knowing the reason. She is a monster. A freak. He is a normal human. It would never work.
Immediately after, Phantom snipers shoot at Emilia and nearly kill her but Frank saves her life and gets her to safety. Gargoyle and Finn, who decides to go by the codename, Roar, attack the snipers and defeat them leaving only one left.
Just when they take down the last sniper, they are ambushed by the real Phantom.
Gargoyle faces them but is no match for their power and is defeated. Roar tries to hold them back with his gauntlets and Phantom powers through them and is about to kill them both until they hear the police coming and leap out of the building.
The police find the duo and arrest them.
The next day...
Gargoyle wakes up in police custody and is interrogated by Roy. Frank takes over and devises a plan for her to escape. Just when he's about to execute it, Emilia arrives and talks to her.
The two end up having a heart to heart and Emilia reveals she is a very big fan but just when she's about to reveal a big secret she has, Gargoyle sees her chance and escapes.
Gargoyle rushes through the police station and sees Finn and is about to save him but Finn tells her to escape.
Just as Gargoyle escapes, Roy declares a manhunt for her and the police begin chasing her down but Frank manages to see her and act as his getaway driver.
Meanwhile at the station, Finn and the men guarding him a attacked by the Phantom and Finn is kidnapped.
At their base, Gargoyle and Frank are randomly attacked by one of Phantom's henchmen who reveals Finn had been kidnapped and Phantom is calling them over to rescue him.
Gargoyle, furious, takes down the henchman, only for him to be a construct made of smoke.
Frank and Gargoyle head out to find and rescue Finn at an old abandoned orphanage.
The duo reach the orphanage and find Finn tied to a chair surrounded by Phantom's men. Just when the fight begins, Phantom arrives and casts their men away.
Phantom then reveals themselves to be Emilia the whole time. The assassination attempts this whole time were all on Roy who was a corrupt official working with Alpha. Her meeting with Shcokwave was just to find their location and attack them. Her war on the city was her plan to snuff out the last of the corruption within.
Emilia also reveals she was an orphan in that old orphanage who had been abused by her caretakers until a mysterious creature appeared, killed them all and hid in the basement, allowing the orphans to escape and be found by the police. Emilia was adopted by a small family and was inspired by Gara to make the city better.
Once she grew up and got into politics, she realised the city's rot was too deep and decided to fight it herself. Seeking the muman criminal, Broker, she got the powers to manipulate smoke and make smoke decoys.
Emilia pleads for Gargoyleto join her in saving the city and wants to start by killing Finn, a former criminal, believing all bad people must die...
Gargoyle vehemently refuses and attacks Emilia and the two have a long battle while Frank frees Finn and the two try to escape.
Emilia defeats Gargoyle and fatally wounds her and heads over to murder Finn and Frank. Finn tells Frank he actually did love Gara but couldn't say yes to her because he felt unworthy of her due to his criminal past. He then pushes Frank aside and sacrifices himself by blocking Phantom's attack.
Gargoyle, filled with rage, gains second wind and attacks Phantom but is defeated after a tough gruelling battle that leaves the two in near death. Frank gets his gun and shoots Emilia as a distraction giving Gargoyle the chance she needs to finish her...
Gara goes to comfort Finn and as he dies, he professes his love for her. The two then share a passionate kiss and he passes away.
In her dying moments, Emilia apologises for killing Finn and tells Frank and Gara she has evidence for Roy orchestrating the Shockwave's continued stay in the city.
Gara makes a promise to her to save the city her way. She and Frank leave the orphanage and begin their war on corruption in the city...
One month later...
Evidence of Roy's involvement with the Shockwave organisations as well as other political figures just as Frank decides to run for mayor.
Roy receives word that Shockwave is leaving Hope City for good and tries to pack up but is suddenly visited by Shockwave himself, the boss of the country spanning illegal organisation.
Shockwave reveals Hope City is no longer a good investment and all connections to it must be tied. Before Roy van ask what he means Shockwave kills him in cold blood. He then gets a call that all the other politicians associated with him are dead as well.
He then makes plans to leave the city but sees on the news the main reason Hope City isn't a good investment.
There stands Gargoyle, stopping one of his assassin's from murdering a politician. She looks at the camera like she's looking at him directly.
Shockwave smiles and declares war...