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Prologue: The Jester's Mask
"Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the Jester." -Unknown
"Hello citizens of Gotham! The name's Jester and I'm here to create some havoc for the Batman!"
The police all looked up towards the large television resting in the police headquarters where a man, possible a teen close to his early twenty's wore a jester's mask covering the top half of his face by the hat that had three different colors, them being black, white and red, while the mask was that of a skeleton's face. He wore black tank top that bore different zig-zag patterns across it while a red leather vest rested on his bulky muscles and his feet bore black steel toed boots and baggy green pants rested on the table where the teen was recording himself.
He grinned, large and wide, very much like the Joker's but it held more sanity to it and tapped the camera.
"I'm hoping this thing is on 'cause it cost so much money!" he announced before chuckling again, "Actually, I stole this thing! I'm just borrowing it so you idiots can watch the magic go into action!" Many cops stared at the teen before one turned to see the legendary Dark Knight watch the video, causing the cop make a silent gasp. The Dark Knight noticed Commissioner Gordon stare at the video with confusion written all over his face.
"Well, ladies and gents! I would like to introduce the magic to the show as I now open the vault door to Wayne Enterprise with just the snap of my fingers!" the villain exclaimed as he snapped his black gloved fingers together and the vault opened without any use of equipment, clapping his hands together.
"Glorious work! Now you see, pathetic pieces of shit and Batman, the trick to this magic is the fact I know the numbers to the vault! No, I do not have mind reading powers and simply asked kindly to the numbers, I used a great resource to achieve this trick!" the man said with a sly grin before grabbing a couple of bags full of money, rushing back to it. He pushed his gloved finger on the lens and whispered, "The intel I used is one of the Bat's little birds who flew off the nest! Now, Batman, you have to guess which little bird it is before I decide to steal something else but from Officer Dick Grayson in Bludhaven since it would be great to give a new fright in Bludhaven! See ya later, dumbasses and Bats!"
The video suddenly stopped and Commissioner Gordon looked to Batman who scowled at the fact of a new villain appearing in Gotham along with the fact the man seemed to be targeting all the Wayne family members.
"You know anything about this guy, Batman?" Gordon asked and Batman walked over to the cell phone that had recorded the incident, examining anything that he could pick up but no DNA scans could be pulled out or any traces left to grab from.
"The camera," he said and the Commissioner sighed, "I'll give back to you tomorrow." Gordon nodded as the Dark Knight grabbed the camera and left without another say, leaving many of the cops to question what Gordon was even thinking.
"Alfred, would you mind calling the boys? They all need to see this." Batman asked Alfred, his butler and greatest friend, who raised an eyebrow at this.
"Of course, sir, but on what occasion?" Alfred questioned and Batman pulled down the cowl to reveal Bruce Wayne under the Bat. Batman pulled up to the computer and plugged in the camera into it, slowly the data started to download.
"Someone managed to steal ten thousand dollars for Wayne Enterprise without anything to open it by. The camera recording everything from the beginning of the robbery to the end of it with the man proclaiming that he would go after Dick next." Bruce replied and Alfred's eyes grew large before quickly dashing off to the phone to call the brothers down.
"Why the hell was I called here for?" Jason Todd, the second Robin and now known as Red Hood, asked Batman while eating a donut and Batman scowled at him before pulling up the video that finally finished downloading. Dick Grayson, also known as Nightwing and once Batman and the first Robin, stared at the video of the man before also grabbing a donut and waited for the video to play. Damien Wayne had his arms crossed over his chest and scowled at the fact that they had to wait for Timothy Drake, the third Robin or now known as Red Robin, to come down with all his equipment to figure out who the mystery man was.
"Why must we wait for Drake, Father?" Damien asked Batman and glanced around the room to notice Tim finally stumble down the steps to the computer with his own red laptop in hand and muttering multiple curses.
"What took you so long?" Batman asked and Tim sighed while plugging in his laptop to an out light before synching it with his laptop.
"I was burning more files onto the laptop for protection against hackers." He replied before clicking the play button and the video began to play.
"Hello, citizen of Gotham! The name's Jester and I'm here to create some havoc for the Batman!"
As soon as it pops up, the different video began to play with the same teen but at a different time.
"Good job, Bats! I'm surprised you simply took the camera without the dumbasses saying anything!" The teen said and clapped his hands together, a small smirk appearing under the Jester's mask, "Now, let's get down to business! You see, I'm quite annoyed with the vigilantes around here due to some personal issues. Batman, you're the third person I hate in this damn city, so I thought it would nice to steal some money to fund my little project for revenge from Bruce Wayne's bank account. Red hood, you are tied with Nightwing for fourth place of who I hate; you both don't know what great stress you two cause me. Robin, the fifth one, the once assassin now changed ways, you are actually quite low on the list due to the fact you helped me figure out what to do with my life and that you're kid, you're the tenth person I hate." The man said and paused before taking out a picture of Red Robin, moving it close to the camera.
"And, you, Red Robin, I hate you the most! You are the main cause of this mess that you created!" he exclaimed and crumbled the picture tightly in his hands, "That's why I can't wait to break you and ruin your life before your very eyes and shatter those you care about most.
"But you will not be the most to suffer, oh no. One will suffer the worse of fate than you. He will be the one begging for mercy once I'm finished with him. No more funny business! His death will be the most pleasurable experience in my life…well, it could also be once I find the new Batgirl. She's quite a looker, right, Red Robin?" the man grinned big and Tim's face seemed to drain color but burning hatred was replaced with it. The man laughed and the chuckle surrounded the Bat family, he swirled around in his chair before his laughing stopped.
"The main problem is that I have limited time to commit my crimes with losing myself in the process of doing them. I do not want to be branded psycho because I am not insane. No! I know I am not insane because if I were insane how could know so much? Creativity and insanity are blurs in the mind; that is why I know I am not insane but creative! So do not think of me insane vigilantes; just in between the crossfire of creativity and insanity.
"Now, I'm going off topic, but I'll make this short. As time goes by, I'll increase my crimes for thieving to let's say, going into drug dealing and I know how much Red Hood hates them giving to kids! It will be good to piss you off!" the man paused and turned around, playing with a switch blade and seemed to have a feeling of nostalgia. Then he patted the blade on his hand and brought it up to the camera, tapping the lens.
"Time to head off before someone finds out that I broke into their hotel room. See ya later, losers." He said and got up, the video finally ending and Tim glanced back down to his computer which happened to have a Jester's mask with multiple lines going through it along with saying 'Thank You!'.
"Who the fuck was that guy?" Jason hissed and Tim continued to stare down at the computer, a glaze moving over his eyes that no one seemed to notice. Bruce sighed and unplugged the device, staring at it while trying to figure out who the teen was.
"Tim, do you know why he dislikes you so much?" Dick asked and received no reply, all of them seeing his blank face.
"Tim?" Bruce asked and slowly concern started to seep into him.
"A Jester…" he mumbled before his laptop fell off his lap, crashing to the floor and anger boiled over on his face. He scowled and stood up before grabbing his chair to swing at it.
"Woah!" Dick exclaimed and rushed over to him to hold him down. Jason blinked at Tim's response and took notice of how hate filled his actions were. Once Dick started pulling him away, Tim quickly dropped the chair and blinked as if he had woken up from a bad nightmare.
"Jeez, Tim, you ok?" he questioned his younger brother and Tim glanced around the Bat Cave where all seemed to be staring at him in question and concern. He looked down to the ground to ignore their gaze and stared at his broken laptop now nothing but remains of it.
"Yeah…just a rough day." he replied and rubbed between his eyebrows. Bruce narrowed his eyes and Jason stared at Tim, wondering what went wrong with the 'Replacement'. Damien 'tt'ed before looking back at the ending scene of the video and took notice of the man's outfit, something the joker could possibly wear if he ever wanted to change his style.
"Father, do you believe he could possibly be related to the Joker?" Damien questioned and they all blinked at his observation. Dick thought about it and released Tim, letting him slowly gather up the remains of his laptop.
"Good observation, Damien." Bruce said and Damien smirked at the compliment, "Tim, are you sure you're ok?" Tim narrowed his eyes at the comment and continued to grab the pieces of his laptop.
"I'm fine. I'll start searching for the guy." He replied.
"How can you when you just went bipolar on us?" Jason stated and Tim narrowed his eyes, biting his lip to hold back a snarky reply.
"I just had a really bad day, Jason. Now stop questioning me like I'm a suspect." He replied and stood up, all the pieces in his hand, "I'll work from down here and check to see if the guy left something on the computer to track us down then I'll go searching for possible subjects." Dick and Bruce held worry in their eyes but left Tim to himself and all of them left, leaving Tim alone to deal with the video and figure out what caused him to snap.