„My, my, guys... Look who wants to play with good, old uncle J?" A cheerful voice echoed towards them, as the dark Clown separated himself from the shadow's, followed by Harley Quinn on one side, his little hyenas on the other and a bunch of second rated henchmen behind him.
White face-paint smeared over his visage, framed by green oily hair. A M16 hung causal over the purple suit he was wearing and the never fading smile on his face was painted in red.
They stood face to face with the Joker, an experience Kaldur rather did not want to make twice. Not in this lifetime.
"Joker." He hissed.
"And here I was hoping Batman would personally show up to our little play-date! Oh, cruel fate! I thought he loved me the most~!"
Joker dramatically threw his head back and placed the back of his hand on his forehead.
"Well, I really should ask him for the number of the agency he gets his sidekicks from...Hahaha"
"We are not sidekicks!" Artemis proclaimed more out of reflex than anything else.
"Oh, of curse not, Dear, of curse not~... I bet Robby's little come-along-together will still be fun, don't worry! So, how do I get a club card?"
When nobody was responding his mode switched from weird to dangerous. His eyes became cruel.
"Get them guys!"
The hyenas smashed immediately forward, obeying blindly the command of their master. The fight was on.
Artemis shoot some explosive arrows in their direction. The huge animals could not been taken lightly as they quickly dodged each of them. Well at least that got their attention, the blond archer thought, while she looked at the now angry growling beasts in front of her.
"Leave them to me!"
Kaldur raised an questioning eyebrow. A cocky smile graced Artemis face.
„What? I am more of a cat person."
Aqualad hadn't time to question, how this comment was in any way relevant, instead he decided to avoid a razor sharp joker card that was flung at his head, while Megan stopped the other three in midair.
"Hihihi..." Harley giggled mischievous, like a kid that was caught with one hand in a cookie jar.
"I wanna dissect the frog girl! Can I, can I?"
Without waiting for an answer she throw more joker cards at the Alien girl.
"Your welcome to try." Megan replied, blocking the attack as easily as before.
Joker lifted his gun to use the momentary distraction, Harley had created, ready to fire, when Kaldur stormed between them. He kicked the deadly weapon out of his hand and the clattered sound from cold steal hitting the ground was way to loud for his taste.
"Looks like you gonna play with me."
Batman's arch enemy scowled at the Atlantean for a moment.
Instantly the hair on Kaldurs neck stood up under the pressure of the intense gaze, as the madman's anger turned into annoyance.
"Didn't you have a dolphin to save?" The clown teased.
Okay, that was it! That was Kaldurs once-in-a-lifetime chance! With this answer he could give the Joker the ultimate verbal beating he deserved. It would crush him from the inside, destroy his eternal soul and would make sure the crazy clown would never forget the Atlantean again. Come on Kaldur'ahm, you can do it. Think of something smart! Think...anything...*think*think*think* Ok... just say something!
"Huh? No witty comeback on that? How disappointing."
"Whatever..."
Damn it!
Kaldur lunged for a punch, but missed. The Joker was fast and had excellent reflexes, what made it difficult to aim. His erratic movements didn't help either. It made it even harder to predict the clowns next action.
"So what did they call you?" Joker asked while doing a back flip to doge another of Aqualads kicks.
"Oh, oh,no! Don't tell me! Let me guess~! Its Water Boy, isn't it?"
This time Aqualads fist found it's target.
"Fish Boy?"
Another blow into his stomach made the Joker stumbled back. Still smiling. Did he let him hit him on purpose?
"Gill Head?"
Kaldur aimed for his face. Hard. Was that a joke to him? He didn't understood.
"No, wait! The living flounder!"
Joker said, after spitting some blood out. He didn't seemed bothered by it at all. Was he enjoying the pain?
"How about Arielle? Hahaha"
With a final strike, the Atlantean slammed his opponent into the next wall. The clowns head crashed against it and little bricks from the impacted covered his suit.
"It's Aqualad and its over. You lost Joker." he said pressing the psychopath with his hands against the cold stone, with no chance to escape.
"Oh, but the fun just begins! Should I tell you a secret Fish Boy?"
The clown prince of crime leaned closer. Eyes filled with madness, nearly beyond the point of hypnotizing. His sweaty face almost touched Kaldurs and his bloody lips pressed against his ear made him shiver in disgust.
"You hit like a little girl." He whispered and started to giggle like...well, like crazy.
"Your insane!"
"Depends on how you look at it. I would call it super sane hahaha~"
A new mental link was formed, as Kaldur connected this statement to the habit of creating weird new words, by a certain team member... The joker was indeed evil! Corrupting the innocence mind of a young boy.
The trickster of doom longed into his right pocket, pulled smoothly a remote control out and pressed the big, round button on it, before Aqualad could even blink.
"Hehehehe..."
Nothing happened.
"Huh?"
Joker shook the innocent device angrily and pressed again, this time stronger.
"If your talking about your little bombs, we already defused them..."
The serial killer pouted.
"... Party popper..." He grumbled, throwing the useless toy away.
Than he reached in his left pocket, pulling out another remote with an evil smiley-face in the middle.
"Nah~, Never mind!"
A truly sinister laugh escaped him as he pressed it.
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