Hoffnar walked the dirt road aimlessly, he didn't have a map, sue him! Still, The clown continued to walk, the cries of a crow echoed throughout the trees. TRicky would have ignored it but…

He felt something rapidly approaching him. So he grabbed his sign and turned around, his sign held like a staff

CLANG!

His sign collided with a long sword, wielded by a man in a red cape, he had a look in his eyes. Tricky then pushed the man off him. The cape wearing man, rolled and stood. "Good reflexes." he spoke, taking out a flask before lifting it to his lips. Hoffnar chuckled. "Not bad yourself, now.." he shifted into a combat stance. "Shall we dance, bird brian?!" Before the man could respond, Tricky charged at him, spinning his sign like a helicopter blade. The man was put on the defensive, until he gave a sweeping lick to Tricky's legs, then striking him with his sword.

The clown flew back with a cry of pain, but landed on his feet. He felt his take bar lose almost half. The crazed clown smiled. Finally, a challenge!

The man looked at him. "You mind telling me why you burned down that village?" the man spoke with an edge to his voice, the clown didn't care. TRicky laughed. "If you MUST know-" he raised his hands. "I'm trying to find VIctims! Play a game! And since i can't find em.." his eyes glinted. "I gotta get em to find ME"

Tricky then jumped and hovered in the air, pulling out his M60 from hammer space, he rained bullets at the man, who rolled and dodged them with trained speed, tricky fell from the air, and Qrow ran towards him. Before his sword landed, the clown disappeared in an explosion of confetti, blinding the alcoholic birdman. "Fuck!" he shouted, then, qrow was hit against his head with the clown's stop sign. He fell forward. Before looking up to see the clown with his signby his side.

Tricky laughed. "That was fun! But sadly, all good things, must.. END!" the swung down his sign-

Only to collide with another sword, turning he saw a woman with long black hair, red eyes, and a scowl. Tricky then used her sword to vault himself over Qrow, he landed and turned back to them. "WELL WELL WELL! A new challenger!" he laughed, voice glitching.

Raven helped her little brother up. Before growling at the maniac. "Nobody hurts my brother but me." Tricky only laughed. "AHAHA! WHAT A FUCKIN EDGE LORD HAH HAH HAH!" Raven scowled. "I. will. Kill. you!" Tricky stopped everything, it went dead silent. Before his shaking ramped up.

Stuipid rat, you don't kill clown…" his voice became deeper and more manic, before he lifted his mask revealing his tattered face. "CLOWN KILLS YOU!" he shouted at teh women, the world shook as he yelled.

System):WARNING!

System):REALITY COMPROMISED

System):THE CLOWN HAS BEEN ENGAGED

System): ERROR. ERROR.

Red static erupted around the clown, words flashing all the while. Tricky flipped his mask back on and charged at Raven. Said woman tried to block the attack, but the clown spun and dodged her counter, then slammed his sign into her gut, she flew back, and Tricky was right on her ass. He swung his sign around. Draining her arua. Before swinging his sign at her arm, shattering her arua, and removing the limb.

Raven shouted as pain expelled from her right arm. She cried as a fist embedded herself against her face over and over. Her aura had shattered. The pain was unbearable through her swollen eyes, she just saw the twisted clown that was going to kill her. Raven had a lot of regrets, mistakes that she would never get to make up. She closed her eyes and she braced herself, but it never came.

Opening her eyes, she saw that qrow had knocked the clown off her. He looked at her. "It.. it will be- Hsss, okay Rav…' before coughing in pain. Hoffnar had calmed down a bit. He laughed. "How cute!" he shouted to the siblings. Qrow looked at him.

"I don't know who- not, what thing you are, but mark my words, you will pay for everything you've done…" Qrow glared at him, and raven closed her eyes, trying to survive the pain. Hoffnar just shook his head. "Poor whittle birdies, sad that yowr guwonna dwie? Wah wah?" he mocked them, before laughing. Qrow growled "and you outta shut it, clown." TRicky gasped dramatically. "Ooh~! Shots fired, oh wait!" Tricky pulled out the M60, before firing a few shots at qrow, who dodged them with a bit of trouble. "NOW shots fired. Hehe!"

Qrow was… well, he was scared, sure. He had been fighting grim many times, but.. He wasn't fighting grim this time, this time he was fighting a deranged psychopath zombie clown that makes reality go nuts. This.. thing wasn't human. Maybe once it was, but it never will be again.

And qrow knew that he really should have chosen the latter choice, maybe then, raven would not- RAVEN! Qrow looked down to see her with eyes closed and blood around her, he went cold, one or two of the bullets must have hit her. Qrow bent down to check her pulse.

Cold, she was cold, and there wasn't a pulse. Qrow just collapsed to his knees. "Raven…" he muttered, still in shock. "Well look dat! The Mocking bird's Dead! Haha!" qrow turned to the clown. And met his eye. In that red eye, it held madness. This thing had seen and done things not even the old witch Salem would think of doing. But, there was something else, a lighter side, trapped in the madness.

Before qrow could do anything else, The clown once more came at him, dual wielding both M60 and Street Sign. The clown Jumped in the air, pelting him with bullets, which he dodged. Then blocked the once scientist's bludgeon. Trick jumped off from qrows sword. And landed a few feet back, Qrow Shifted this weapon into the scythe form and spun it around, before glaring at the clown. Before charging at him. Qrow swung his scythe in a side swipe, being parried by the crazed Zed. The two then were engaged in heated combat, both dealing blows and parrying slash blocking them.

Qrow slammed his scythe down and the clown blacked it with his own weapon, the two struggled to get the advantage, when suddenly a chain flew at them, breaking them up, the both dodged it and looked at where it had come from, their reactions to what it was were very, very different.

Reality had shattered, with a jagged hole that led into darkness. Qrow was gobsmacked, how was that possible, then again, how was that stunt the clown did possible either

Hoffnar, on the other hand, smiled. "Finally. There here…" Qrow turned to him"who is here!?" The clown just gave him a look, before te hole was made bigger, and out came gray men in red sunglasses and suits, along with men in masks with yellow visors. the men were talking in protocol qrow did not with a one lens goggle spoke up "improbable cause found, should we neutralize?" Qrow took a defensive stance. "What the fuck!? Who are these assholes?" qrow shouted. Tricky laughed and prepared himself. "These guys, bird brian…"

" -Are the Nexus Corp."