Joker smiled as the car drove through Gotham City like it was driven by a F1 racer. Harley always had a tendency to drive like a mad woman. Of course that was true. She was completely mad. Though tonight Joker decided to put up with her if what Strange had promised would actually happen. A happy lucky shot at the Batman. Joker was of course not planning on killing Batman, instead he would kill Strange, take whatever he build and then hurl himself and Batsy into it just for the fun of it. If Harley or whoever decided to come along as well he would just as well take it but he rather would she kept out of this. It would mean that wherever they would end up, they would be alone. No games, no jokes, nothing. Just him and the Batman and a fight to finally break him and put a smile on his face.
As he was wildly fantasizing he suddenly noticed that Harley had stopped the car. Jumping up from the backseat he looked at why on earth she would've stopped and if it wasn't something they could just race over. In front of them stood a guy, dressed in baby blue armor, adorned with weird little trinkets. Apart from carrying a huge sword it seemed he was just looking around at his surroundings and taking in the views… at a very, very, very slow pace. Joker grabbed the hair of Harley yanking it violently towards the back. "Harley! Why'd you stop the car for this bozo?" he asked angry and spiteful. The last thing he could use was a delay.
"Sorry Mr. J. This guy doesn't seem to budge. Blaring my horn at him doesn't do a thing." She remarked timidly. Even if she was madly in love with him, upsetting the Joker was never a good thing. She had been asking the entire time as they walked out of Arkham why they had to drive to Strange's place. It didn't add up to her. Well, not yet and perhaps that had to stay like that. If she would jump in after him… well, he at least had some happy company alongside him. "You should know better than anyone Harl. If they don't decide to get off the street…" he said with a vicious smile. Harley answered him back with just as vicious a smile understanding completely what he meant. Grabbing a pie from the seat behind her she whistled at the armored stranger and threw it right at his head.
Bulls eye. Right where the eyes should be located the pie hit front and center as it suddenly also went off with a bang. Both Harley and Joker began to laugh at the scene hoping to have even blown the weird stranger's head off. It was however Harley that stopped laughing first, followed quickly by the Joker as the stranger still stood there. Apart from his helmet smeared with pie and traces of ash and dents where the blow impacted he seemed perfectly fine. Looking right at them the couple only had time for a small nervous laugh as Harley finally shifted the car in reverse and raced it back down the street. It was so sudden that Joker was thrown back in his seat, not having time to even react. Angry he yanked Harley away from the wheel and took place behind it himself. Who, or what that stranger was, he was going down.
Hitting the gas, the car started to race forward with incredible speed at the stranger. Harley, now in the backseat closed her eyes and braced for the eventual impact. Joker smiled from ear to ear and laughed again as he blared the horn one last time at the armored man who stood watching at they came at him. At all of a sudden things moved in such a way it was unbelievable to comprehend. The stranger crashed his sword into the ground and waited for them to come at him. As they neared towards him the car crashed right in front of the sword denting all the way into it. The motor was crushed, the front of the car crushed itself into the front seat where then Joker's smile disappeared as he jumped away from the seat and onto the street, quickly followed by Harley who at the last moment had opened her eyes to realize things weren't going as they would've gone usual.
Before Joker could even react the stranger was gone. Well, not exactly gone but he had finally decided that playtime was over and went walking again to the other side of the street. The only thing he earned from his spectacle was a few well-earned curses from Harley who shouted him out for idiot and crazy oaf for crashing the car she had stolen not even a few minutes ago. Joker on the other hand was more angry that now they would need to walk to get to Strange. Walk. They could never make it in time this way. Trying to force himself to smile just to keep Harley from getting curios and starting to ask stupid questions he shrugged finally and went walking. This however earned him the complete opposite from what he wanted. Harley immediately started to ask why he acted so strange and if he would blow the man, if it was a man after all, his head off for crashing their car. She only earned a sneer for her curiosity.
As the two finally went around the corner they realized something had gone really wrong. Staring through the shop window the tv's showed the latest news. A man, dressed in rag like clown clothes and bearing a smile on his face was giving chase to Batman. Joker stood with his mouth nearly hanging in complete astonishment. Another clown was after the Bat and it wasn't him. Something had definitely gone wrong here.
"Damn that clown." was the first thing the armored man thought to himself. Exdeath had already dealt with Kefka in the past and those endeavors where nothing to write home about. This one was very much so the same. If he had that fool Gilgamesh along with him he would've had him deal with them but as it was he was once more wandering around playing the heroic fool. A thing that annoyed Exdeath just as much. All of this night so far had served nothing to more but to annoy him. Why had he come here? He was just wondering that to himself nearly aloud.
Passing through a dark street he finally stopped once more taking his surroundings in and tried to memorize why he was here. The dimensional rift had sparked his curiosity but upon entering it he had lost most of his memory and was completely lost. Lost. Something he had never been before. Again he became irritated and to relief himself somewhat of it, he punched the wall angrily. As he turned around he suddenly saw himself surrounded by man, carrying those devices that Kefka had used to kill Seymour with earlier.
With nothing to do, he just stared at them. They stared back and started to insult him, irritate him and asking what the hell he was to begin with. Keeping silent and not answering a single question, Exdeath just wished he had never set foot in this world to begin with. A sudden sound from behind the man was suddenly distracting them as he took the opporturnity, cutting one of them clean in half. The others began shooting, the armor keeping most of the bullets from hitting Exdeath but he felt the armor denting and giving way. It was at that moment that a giant green being, looking very much so like a crocodile, reared up behind the men. All Exdeath could think off was that this night was going to be one of surprises and one of many annoyances.