Victoria was immediately on her feet, already walking down the alley.

"We are in Gotham City?" Briar spoke slowly and her eyes were wide with shock, as she got up herself.

"This is too weird." Sophie sat up. "Tori were you going?"

Victoria turned to her friends, her grin wider than it had ever been. "Dared to dream did I? Completely insane am I? Well welcome my friends to the deepest pit of insanity! Welcome to Gotham City! And it's all thanks to the spoon that you shunned isn't that right Mr. Sebastian Wetherspoon?" Victoria took the spoon out of her pocket and cradled it in her hands.

"…Mister…Sebastian…Wetherspoon?" Ally asked bemused. "Seriously?"

"Why can't I name the magic spoon of epic?" Victoria looked at her best friends. "You're all looking at me like I was sane before this."

"She has a point," Matthew dismissed the naming of the spoon in a matter of seconds. "But I think we are kind of missing the point here, we are in Gotham City!"

"I do believe we have in fact established that Matthew!" Victoria laughed as she pulled Sophie to her feet. "But yes, what shall we do in one of the most crime ridden cities in the DC universe, scratch that, THE most crime ridden city to my known knowledge of which there is a lot of," Victoria stopped and looked up for a moment before continuing to help Ally to her feet. "Did that make any sense at all?" She asked Ally.

"Not a bit," Ally shaking her head as she brushed down her trousers and looking at Victoria. "But you do realise what you are wearing in Gotham City."

Everybody looked at Victoria's t-shirt. There in messy purple and green writing it said quite clearly 'Team Joker'

"Well damn do I dress for the unexpected occasion," Victoria looked up grinning. "But yes let's go." Victoria turned and ran to the end of the alley and glanced around the corner. "There's hardly anyone there!" She yelled to them. "Come on! I see a shopping centre!"

They shrugged and followed their hyper friend as she danced happily down the street towards the 'Gotham City Shopping Mall' as a few late evening shoppers turned their heads and looked at her strangely.

Sophie blushed again, as Ally and Briar grinned after her and Matthew ran to catch up with her and join her in her frolicking. Their cheerful singing could be heard through the whole street. "We're in Gotham City! We're in Gotham City! Tra la la la la la la!"

Sophie's blushing intensified to a bright red and Ally and Briar's grins grew as they joined in on the chant, each hooking an arm around Sophie's shoulders to hurry her along.

As they crossed the road to enter the car park of the shopping centre Sophie, too, finally joined in the chant and laughed as her blushing began to fade slightly. Finally they stopped as they came upon the large automatic doors that slid open silently to reveal a large shopping centre.

The kids moved forward to the centre where a large, ornamental fountain stood. Sophie and Victoria sat down on the edge of the pool, a slight spray flicked onto their backs. Ally balanced herself on Victoria's knee and Briar upon Ally's.

"OW!" Victoria yelled pushing Ally off her knee. "You have the boniest ass in the world Squirrely-girl! And you're not helping Kitty!" The two girls landed on the ground with a thud.

"Ouch!" groaned Ally. "Not cool bitch!"

"Oh get over it!" She laughed back, putting out her hand to help up her friend, "But it's not my fault you ass is unbelievably bony!" Once Ally was on her feet Victoria hugged her tightly.

"So what now?" Matthew asked.

Behind them Sophie's stomach growled loudly. Victoria turned as her stomach growled back. "Food court?" suggested Sophie.

"Good plan!" Victoria grinned

"That would seem a good plan, but you're missing something big," Briar turned out the pockets of her second hand leather jacket, they were empty. "We're broke."

Victoria's hungry face fell, "Oh right…well what – " A large explosion behind them sent them flying into a pile halfway across the shopping centre. "Was that!" Victoria yelled the end of her question as an eerie laugh filled the shopping centre.

The five friends turned to see a familiar pale white face, complete with a blood red grin and green hair.

"Oh my god!" Ally breathed as she pushed Victoria and Sophie off of her.

"Sorry Ally," Sophie said quickly getting up.

Silently Victoria scrambled to her feet and edged a little closer to where the man she loved stood; a smile full of awe on her face.

"Victoria, are you all right?" Matthew asked walking up beside her.

Victoria nodded and her smile grew wide. "It's him! The Joker! The funniest, sexiest, most sadistic man in the world!" As she said this, a woman in a red and black clown leotard appeared at the Joker's side.

"Victoria?" Sophie placed a hand on her friend's shoulder.

Victoria's lips were clamped shut.

"Tori?" Briar shook Victoria by her shoulders. "Please speak Victoria, at least give us some sign that you're alive!"

Victoria nodded, lips still shut.

"Speak Tori! Speak!" Ally commanded.

Victoria's body shook with the efforts she was taking to not make a noise.

"Tori!" Matthew yelled, barely audible above the screams of fleeing shoppers as the Joker tossed about his gas bombs. "Make a noise!"

Her body continued to shake more and more until finally she started to giggle quietly, a nervous habit she had gotten into, whenever Victoria got into as situation where she couldn't be happier she laughed.

"She's alive!" Briar shouted victoriously, pulling Victoria into a hug.

But Victoria's laughing didn't stop there, it grew into a hearty chuckle which then developed into a shrieking, psychotic laugh to match the Joker's.

All too suddenly the laughing of the clown stopped as his head turned to look at the laughing girl. He then grabbed Harley and began to walk over towards the group of children that surrounded the girl.

Sophie looked up immediately and started poking Victoria nervously, "Guys how do we make her stop?" She asked her friends.

"Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap!" Ally violently shook Victoria. "Tori shut up!"

"But…why?" she asked through fits of giggles.

"Because your beloved is," Her voice was a whisper but suddenly change to a high pitched squeak. "Here."

Victoria looked up, tears forming in her eyes from the amount of laughing. She clapped a hand over her mouth to stifle her giggles.

"Little girl," The Joker looked down at Victoria with a grin. "Why are you laughing?"

Victoria met his gaze with an equally insane grin. "Because you're the funniest guy I know!" She put her head back a roared with laughter.

The Joker's face looked surprised, "Really?" he asked.

"Of coarse how could you not be?" Victoria replied happily. "I mean you're the Joker! They love you too," She turned and pointed to her friends, who were looking at the Joker in complete terror. "Except I love you the most." She grinned like a young child on Christmas morning. "And I love Harley too! She's a lucky girl." She turned and smiled politely at Harley Quinn who stood beside the Joker smiling sweetly.

"Aw Mista J! She's so cute! And so's her little friend!" Harley chirruped happily and scooped Matthew up into a hug. "He's so tiny! And this one has cat ears!" She fiddled with the felt cat ears on top of Briar's favourite hat. "Oh puddin' can we take 'em home, please!" She looked up at Joker with pleading eyes.

Victoria snickered at her friends being cuddled by Harley before copying Harley's puppy dog face. "Yeah please?"

"Tell you what kiddo!" Joker bent down to look Victoria in the eyes. "I'll give you kids a ride around Gotham until you decide what you want to do, because it makes my Harley-girl happy." Harley swooned at his words and then he added in a whisper to Victoria. "And because I like you shirt!"

Victoria laughed happily, "You should see my 'Down with the Bat' one!"

As the Joker got up and started to walk out the hole in the wall that he had made, Briar pulled Victoria back by her arm, "Are you crazy?" she hissed into her ear. "What are we going to tell him if he asks where we're from?"

"We'll tell him the truth, that we're from an alternate universe," She grinned happily. "I'm sure his insane mind will be able to take it!"

"This isn't a game Victoria," Briar was serious. "We don't know what will happen if we get hurt here, we don't even know what the time difference is, it could've already been 6 years in our universe."

"Or it has been 6 seconds, like in Narnia!" suggested Victoria. "Come on Kitty lighten up! What if we get to meet Jonathan Crane?"

A dreamy smile appeared on Briar's face, "Maybe we can start for a little while," She then stopped and looked her best friend straight in the eyes. "But you have to promise me if anyone gets hurt then we'll go home immediately. Promise me."

"Kitty dearest, I swear to you on my life that if any harm comes to anyone of you we will go home immediately, alright?" She smiled at Briar. "You know you can trust me oh frabjous voice of reason."

"I know oh Squiggle of insanity, I know." Briar hugged Victoria tightly before they ran on to catch up with them.

Coming out of the giant hole in the wall they saw a bright purple car with bright green upholstered seats. Joker was seated shot gun and was waving for the kids to sit in the back.

"Come on then!" He laughed.

The five kids jumped in the back as Harley started the car as it tore off down the road.