Kaitou Joker : The Time Crossing Phantom Thief
For those who seen the 3ds game trailer, I'll be making a story about it, I'll give you a briefing through it, okay? I'm making an AU (Alternative Universe) of it.
Original
Joker and Hachi turned on the television one night, only found it to be hijacked by an unknown source, the spokesman looked weird, there were phantom thieves from all across the world were there. He introduced that this is the gathering of the phantom thieves.
They were shocked- because they didn't know. Something was off- the phantom thieves there looked lifeless, their eyes were a mixture from black to red, it was obvious that they were in someone's control.
The screen turned, to the most famous phantom thieves in the world, Queen, Spade, and Shadow Joker. Joker was petrified to see his friends in someone's control.
He decided to save his friends from the unknown control, he meets a phantom thief not from this timeline, and he admits that he is the culprit behind all this, Arsene Lupin.
They end up in a fight, Arsene getting the upperhand, pins Joker down to start to hypnotize him with a glowing red pendant, which it powers come from a red jewel.
Hachi saves Joker, so he gets hypnotized instead of Joker, but that didn't stop Arsene from trying to control Joker.
He started to get hypnotized, but tries to fight, he saw Hachi. Knowing that he has to make his friend's sacrifice count, he pulls a Straight Flash trick to escape.
Eventually, he made it to the gathering area, but to enter, he has to fight Spade, Queen and Shadow.
Beating all of them, he meets Arsene again, he gave a deal to trade himself for the world's phantom thieves, Joker said no, ending them in a fight.
Using a slight chance, he uses that chance, to use the jewel to break Hachi out of the control, helping him, in resulting of the jewel in Joker's hands.
Joker uses the jewel to free everyone, and sending Arsene back, he swears he will get revenge.
But what Joker didn't know, using the jewel's power too much will end in a result of draining the user, Joker collapsed from exhaustion, which his friends managed to save him just in time.
Okay, so that was the original story, so here's my AU!
"Joker, let's make a deal, you surrender to me, and I'll let all of them go," Arsene said.
Joker is in a tight pinch, fight him, he may lose himself and the others, but if he surrenders, the rest goes free, and he'll be in his control. Which one?
"Time's ticking, Joker," Arsene continued, tapping his staff on the ground.
Joker glanced at his friends once more, and gets a very bad idea.
He couldn't let him hurt them; his skills were higher than any of them.
"Guys, I'm sorry…" Joker said mentally to his controlled friends, none of them making any movement, taking one last glance at them. "I surrender, let my friends go."
"Are you sure?" Arsene asked.
"Life is the greatest treasure anyone could have, a phantom thief never gives it up," Joker said determinedly. "Let my friends go."
Arsene pushed Joker to a table nearby, metal straps appearing on the table, pinning Joker to the table tightly, "Hah, it's a deal, but for extra insurance…"
He held the jewel high, lights coming out of the jewel, it was bright, blinding Joker temporarily, closing his eyes, he can't turn his head away because of one strap holding his head in place.
And they were beginning to stir, one by one.
"W-what… happened…?" Queen rubbed her head. "The last thing I remember is- King!"
"I'm fine, Queen," Spade groaned. "Where… are we…?"
Hachi shouted right after he came to his senses, "Mr Joker!"
"... I'm not going down without a fight-" Shadow yelled, then turned his head left and right, a confused look on his face. "Where are we?"
"Where's Mr Joker?!" Hachi yelled.
"I don't know…" Spade said, turning his head everywhere, and saw a table strapping Joker on it. "Joker!"
"King?" Joker asked worriedly. "You're okay! That's a relief!"
"How can you call yourself relieved?! We have to get you out of here!" Queen said.
"You guys go," Joker said. "I can't go with you, just leave me!"
"You're the one who said 'life is the greatest treasure'!" Shadow said, running forward, but an invisible force field prevented him from doing so.
"Now a deal's a deal," Arsene said, making the table Joker's strapped to facing up, making Joker at eye-level.
"Stop it! Hey!" Queen tried slicing the force field with her sword, but all her tries were in vain.
"Mr Joker!" Hachi pounded on the force field, throwing everything he's got at it.
"Guys, I'm sorry I can't go with you," Joker smiled bitterly. "Take care…"
"Joker!" Shadow yelled, pounding on the force field with his Bloody Rain.
They tried everything, but they can't even get a crack out of that force field, all they could do was watch- which hurt them more than ever.
The purple haired man(Arsene) waved a glowing pendant in front of Joker, he didn't resist, not this time.
The last thing Joker mouth to them was…
Thank you.
"Joker!"
That was the last thing they said to him, before he fell in control; before his eyes turned from blue to black and red.
He was just like a robot now…
He didn't move, just like the rest before.
Other phantom thieves watched in horror as the person who saved them fell in control himself, to save them.
"Mr Joker…" Hachi was in tears, how could someone do this to the world's greatest phantom thief?
The man just chuckled, raised the crystal once more and everything went white for the group.
"Queen?" Spade woke up, and found out that he was in his zeppelin. "That was the weirdest dream ever."
Spade phone then rang, "Oh hey, Queen."
"King! I just had the most disturbing nightmare ever!" Queen yelled, making Spade half deaf.
King, now rubbing his poor ear, replied, "What nightmare, Queen…?"
"I don't know there was this mansion, us getting mind controlled, and someone named Joker…" Queen thought.
"Yeah me too, who's… Joker?" Spade asked.
They forgot about Joker, the person who saved them!
"Arsene, one more thing," Joker said.
He turned around, "What's that?"
Joker sighed, "Make my friends forget about me, I don't want them hurting themselves finding me."
"Fine, Joker, geez, you have a lot of requests," Arsene said.
"I don't know, maybe it's just a dream," Queen said. "Where are you at the moment?"
"In my airship," King said.
Dark Eye came over to check if Spade was alright, "Master Spade, are you alright?"
"Why, yes Dark Eye, why'd you ask?" Spade said.
"Because you were mind-controlled by someone earlier, but Joker didn't make it… did he…?" Dark Eye said softly.
"Mind control? Dark Eye, what are you talking about? And who's Joker?" Spade asked in confusion. "Don't tell me you had the same dream."
"Y-you don't know who Joker is…?" Dark Eye asked in shock. "H-he's the world's great phantom thief; the miracle maker."
"Well, Dark Eye, I haven't heard of him, maybe you should get some rest," Spade said.
Roko pounced on Queen, "Queen!"
"Roko! What happened to you?" Queen chuckled.
"Is Joker alright…?" Roko asked.
"Joker? Who's Joker? Do we know him?" Queen asked.
"Don't you remember? He saved you by sacrificing himself!" Roko said.
"Oh, you mean the nightmare I had, well, Roko, I don't know," Queen smiled. "Come on, let's get you something to eat."
Queen turned on her heels and walked away, leaving Roko by the window. "Joker…"
"Big brother! You're okay!" Rose tackled Cyan when he just woke up.
"Argh! Rose! What happened?!" Cyan struggled to get the pink haired girl off of him. "It's just a nightmare!"
"Nightmare?! Where's Joker?! Is he okay?!" Rose yelled, worriedly, everyone get to cover.
"Who is Joker?!" Cyan yelled, his sister finally settled down a bit.
"What do you mean 'who's Joker'? He saved your butts!" Rose yelled.
"It's just a dream! He's not real!" Cyan yelled. "I need a rest!"
"But…" Rose lowered her head. "He is real…"
"Hosshi-hosshi-hosshi-hosshi-hosshi!" Hosshi jumped all over his sleeping owner, trying to wake him up.
"Hosshi… get off me…" Hachi said in annoyance. "Just had a nightmare."
"Hosshi?" Translation : "Where's Joker?".
"Joker? Who's… that?" Hachi asked.
Hosshi slammed his face with a picture of Joker and Hachi together. "Hosshi! What-"
He looked at the photo, "Who's this?"
Hosshi facepalmed, wait, he slipped away.
"Roko!" Rose called Roko, yelling into it.
"R-Rose?! What happened?" Roko asked.
"Big brother doesn't know who Joker is!" Rose yelled.
"Queen said the same thing!" Roko gasped. "What happened back there?!"
"Didn't you watch television?" Rose asked.
"I did!" Roko yelled. "But they just think 'Joker' is just a legend!"
"What are we going to do?!" Rose grabbed her hair. "Wait, someone's at the other line…"
"IS EVERYONE ALRIGHT?!" Ai yelled.
"Does King know Joker?!" They two asked.
"No!" Ai panicked.
"Queen and Shadow doesn't know too!" Roko yelled.
"Wait, does Hachi know?! He was there!" Rose asked. "I'm calling him!"
"Oh, Mrs Rose! What's up?"
"Hachi! Where's Joker?!" Rose yelled.
"Who's Joker?" Hachi asked. "Do I know him-"
Rose cut the line, this was serious, they had to find Joker and make Spade, Shadow and Queen remember.