The next thing Aqualad heard was the merciless clicking noise the gun made...actually... it sounded more like a Batarang hitting metal.
Wait, what? Aqualads eyes shot open.
And there he was, the big dark shadow of the Bat jumping at the Joker. Driving the lunatic away from Kaldur, who was letting a breath out he didn't even know he was holding. And for the first time since the mission started the Atlantean felt the constant weight on his shoulders lifted.
"Batman!" Joker exclaimed surprisingly happy for a guy who was just about to get owned by one of the greatest heroes ever.
"I was wondering when you'd show up."
The clown licked his lips in a thrill of anticipation, craving for the Caped Crusaders attention. And forgotten was Kaldur, as if he didn't exist in the first place, completely wiped out of Jokers mind. He had just eyes for the dark knight. Creepy, maddening, merciless eyes of a psychopath, though, which would pierce through the soul of every normal human being. Kaldur knows, they were fixed on him just a minute ago.
Well Batman wasn't normal. He was...Batman. That had to be enough.
The Bat glared for a brief moment over his shoulder, searching for Aqualad. When their eyes met, Kaldur cringed inwardly. The obviously disappointed look he received from the older hero screamed plainly: I expected more from you.
It was all it needed to let his self esteem shatter into 1000 tiny pieces of shame. Never before had he felt that his super hero name was so fitting. AquaLAD.
Kaldur couldn't stand it any longer and lowered his eyes. Was Robin feeling all the time like this?
Of course Joker noticed the small exchange between them, what brought the Atlantean back into his rather limited attention range.
"Told ya he liked me the best!" The villain twinkled suggestive toward Kaldur's direction, like they were BFF's, who shared a diary since Kindergarten.
He followed in silence the duel of the dark knight and the clown. It was at least to tell fascinating. They moved on pure instincts mixed with adrenaline. Batman made it look so easy to beat the Joker. How comes Kaldur himself had so much trouble with Gothams villains? First Clayface and know Joker.
In a weird dance fists were flying, punches and kicks exchanged. They knew every single move of each other, like an old, married couple. That thought alone was scary.
As soon as it begun, it was over, with the dark knight standing in all his glory and pride victorious over his enemy.
"Smuggling weaponry is not your style." The bogyman of evil doers stated.
His arch enemy doesn't seemed to mind the lake of an introduction. He most likely was used to it.
"Just making some small delivery's here and there. I am like Santa." The maniac proclaimed in a childish way.
There was a low growl escaping from Batman, but otherwise no reaction.
For a moment or two the clown just looked at his counterpart in an awe, before he suddenly burst out into a gained laughing fit.
"You don't get it, do you?" He asked between laughter.
"The great detective didn't get the joke! Hahaha. Oh~ my poor, poor delusional knight. Its too late, its too late! This round goes to me!" The clown repeated hysterical over and over, giggling in sickening pleasure.
The nerve wrecking sounds were barley to bear, even for the Bat, who pulled him abruptly up and interrupted the shrill noise.
"Talk."
" Hihihih...Oh Batsy, aren't ya missing something? I wonder if they still make the kiddy sized coffins on 5th avenue. You know, I think Hank would give me a discount. I am his favorite costumer after all! Hahahahaha"
"What did you do?"
"ME?" Joker snapped out of it.
"I didn't do anything! It was Fish Boy here who deserves the honor!" He pointed gleeful at Kaldur.
"Wha- No!" Aqualad didn't understand what was going on.
"Your the leader of this little fight club aren't ya? You send them into there death, didn't you? You made your choice. And a bad one if you allow me to comment. I'll terribly gonna miss our little Baby Bird!" He whipped an imaginary tear from his eye.
"What do you mean?" Kadur'Ahm burst out.
Laughing filled again every corner of the room.
"It would be better if you had stood in your pond." He said unsmiling, poisoning the young man's mind with every spoken word.
"At least then-"
A fist was colliding with Jokers temple, which left the room in a bitter-sweet silence.
The Dark Knight let the criminal fall carelessly to the ground and took automatically his communicator out.
"Robin are you there?"
Batman was greeted with static.
A/N:
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