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She didn't like the plan. To be perfectly honest, she thought it was highly stupid. But these thoughts could have just be last minute jitters. There were so many variables that could change at any given moment. But Joker insisted, and so rest of the thieves followed. The casino was filled to the brim with well-dressed bystanders and threatening security. And they didn't seem like the Shadows the Thieves fought before. As the leader of the Phantom Thieves landed on a chandelier, a group of the occupants noticed the masked man above them and screamed, alerting security.

"Now get running!" a boyish voice alerted the leader through the tiny headset that all of the Thieves wore. The security coms could barely be heard with their bugged transmission, but what could be heard confirmed that security did not know how many Thieves were present in the establishment.

"I have to say, showing yourself above that crowd earlier was an excellent move." The same boyish voice spoke to the currently escaping Joker. "Nice working Joker."

"I bet Skull wouldn't pull it off that easily." A girl's voice rang through the com. She was eager to egg Skull into an argument that she would undoubtedly win.

"This happens because Skull has no sense of aesthetics." A smooth, articulated, male voice interjected to the conversation through the communicator.

"Hey! That actually hurts guys. Can we focus on the goal at hand instead of attacking my ego?" Skull's rough voice interrupted any further discussion about him. Skull and the girl began to bicker through the coms until another Thief entered the verbal fray.

"Can you guys just stop? Save it for when we're out of here!" A female voice that demanded respect interjected the conversation, making the two Thieves stop their argument.

Just as Joker was about to approach an exit, a group of security guards burst through the door, blocking said route of escape. It seems like the security was focused on apprehending the masked man, so the other members had had a chance to escape from the casino. As the rest of the members slipped away to their meeting place, Joker was stuck with security following his tail. Sounds of of a scuffle could be heard through Joker's communicator as he dealt with a Shadow.

"Be safe, Joker." A new girl bluntly cautioned through the com. "Hurry up and get your ass out of there! Backup is coming quickly in new droves!"

As Joker found a new route out of the casino, the rest of the group grew tense, waiting for their leader to emerge from the casino safely. The group unknowingly let out an unanimous sigh of relief as Joker broke through the glass to the supposedly safe outside.

"You're so full of yourself." The first girl seemed to gawk over Joker, obviously relieved that he got out safely.

But the relief soon turned to horror as a multitude of police cars revealed themselves in the darkness. Each of the thieves voiced their concerns for their leader as he tried to escape. But he was quickly swarmed as police seemed to be in every possible escape route. Joker was soon thrown to the unwelcoming ground as he was roughly cuffed and brutally pushed into a police car by the swarm. But one sentence a policeman proclaimed to Joker made the team prickle in anger and realization.

"You were sold out by your own teammate." The cop almost seemed to be gloating at the fact, eager to get rid of The Phantom Thieves once and for all.

'So it was true. We were sold out. By them…' The blunt girl from before didn't want to believe it was true, but the evidence was stacked in front of her. 'How did we even get this far?' She asked herself as the police cars drove away with an apprehended Joker. 'Oh...right. It all started on that day. The day I met him. The day my life changed.'