I groaned as I waited in line at Gotham's national bank. I swear to god I dont work enough hours at my job for them to not have direct deposit for my paycheck.

Finally when it was my turn in line, I pulled out my check from my purse. But before I could do anything else the sound of a gun going off made my blood run cold!

"Everyone down now!" screamed a man in a happy clown mask, running through the bank fallowed by another man in a similar clown mask only his was frowning.

Doing as they said, me and everyone else got down and cowered in fear.

The man continued to shout out threats, but the other man stayed quiet and began putting strange devices in the scared customers hands.

But as he approched me, he just tilted his head like that of a dog and just stared at me.

"Please don't hurt me" I whispered to him.

I covered my mouth to hold back a scream when a gun shot went off again. But as I looked up I saw that it was coming from another part of the bank.

The owner came charging out of his office with a big shotgon!

"Do you have any idea who your stealing from!? You and your friends are dead!"

He called out as the two men in clown masks hid from him.

Shots continued to fire, until the bank owner got shot in his leg and fell to the ground in pain.

The two men picked up bag after bag filled with money to the entrance.

"That's alot of money, if this Joker guy was so smart he'd of had us bring a bigger car."

"The Joker?" I thought to myself. I mean I had heard about him on the news but I never took his threats seriously... until now.

I gasped as the happy clown pointed the gun at his companions head.

"I'm guessing the Joker told you to kill me as soon as we loaded the cash."

The man in the frowny mask sighed and replied with a raspy voice "No No No, I kill the bus driver."

"Bus driver? What bya driver?!"

Suddenly as if on cue, a school bus drove through the bank and ran over the smiley faced man.

The frowny faced man loaded the back of the bus with the bags of money. But before he could get on, the bank owner began to yell at him.

"Think your smart huh?! The guy who hired you... they'll just do the same to you!"

I watched as the frowny man walked up to him, at this point I was both curious and scared to see what would happen next. I just couldn't bring myself to look away.

"Criminals in this town used to believe in great things. Honor.. respect...What do you believe in huh?! What do you believe in?!"

The frowny man kneel down and place the device in the bank owners mouth.

"I believe.. whatever doesn't kill you.. simply makes you... Stranger."

With that said, he took his mask off and there stood the Joker himself!

Before he got up, he smiled at me and left with a wink.

I continued to watch as he got onto the school bus and as it pulled away.

And as it did the device in the bank owners moth activated and smoke began to go everywhere!

Getting up as fast as I could, me and the rest of the othet victims in the bank ran outside to safety.

Not wanting to be bothered by news reporters or end up on socal media. I ran as fast as I could back to my apartment and slammed the door behind me.

Heavily breathing, I walked into my bathroom and locked myself inside.

I kept repeating, "You're ok, You're ok" over and over again.

But I couldn't get the jokers face or voice out of my mind. And I couldn't help but wonder why he didn't hurt me when he had the chance!

Turning on the shower, I undressed and let cold water run over my body.

But little did I know that there would not be any time to relax. Because soon our paths were abour to cross in a way I never expected!