Chapter 9: Reason part-1

"So what's you girl's names?" Joker asked as Rev drove down the dark, vacant streets of lower Gotham. It was unnerving to him, since he usually tried to avoid danger. Now, he was in a car with the most feared man in Gotham, the man's girlfriend, and his own insane friends. Yep, he had diffidently done a great job staying away from danger, alright.

"I'm Blood and this is my sister Diamond." Cory answered extending a hand to the dashing Clown prince of crime. Joker gave it a hard shake and sat back into the seat between Estell and Harley. Rev shook his head wryly. The friends these girls made…he was surprised they hadn't died yet…

"So why'd ya spring us?"

"We need your help…er…pranking someone." Estell murmured. Joker blinked a second, thinking.

"Pranks that are really fun or just fun?" He asked. The girls frowned unable to answer he question. "Pull over, Sonny." Joker ordered Rev, who, from watching the news and hearing rumors, didn't hesitate as he pulled the car over to the curb. There was a man walking steadily on the sidewalk. "You hou!"

The man turned and went pale white when he saw the Joker's face, and immediately broke into a sprint. Joker got out the car and glanced at the girls. "That is fun." Then he took out his gun and shot the men in the back. The man rolled and lay on the ground with a silent thud. Joker broke out into a laugh and Cory blinked in surprised shock (it even freaked her out to an extent) before she too giggled in the car. "And that was really fun." The rest of those in the Gem, besides Harley of course who was used to the random killings of her Pudding, were silent, fear stricken by the sudden display of murder.

"You are amazing; I shall call you King Giggles because just then was royal usage of a gun!" Cory howled, still laughing until Estell nudged her to be quiet.

"Um, we don't want to kill him…yet."

"Oh well, who exactly are we pranking here, ladies?" The girls shifted in discomfort. "Is it someone I know?"

"Lex Luthor…." Cory piped and Joker busted out into laughter once more.

"Lexy? Hmm, well, he is fun to prank, but I like him so killing him's a no no." Joker shook his finger. "But…I can give you tips on how to prank him good." He drummed his fingers together in a devious manner. Cory smiled back at him, completely fascinated with this man and his queer cruel ways. "He likes his stuff, hates the smell of dead thing, and well….he likes sex. Oh and he absolutely hates to be humiliated. Mess with those things and it should do the trick."

"Yay, I know exactly what to do, hehe…sooooo, where you wanna go, somebody's going to probably call the cops and I'm not in the mood right now to shoot 'em wit the machine gun, too anxious to give Lexy a present." Joker rubbed his face to think again. Where could an illegal wanted villain like him go to relax? Why the Iceburg of course.

"To the Iceburg, my good man," he shouted in a dramatic manner and Rev looked slightly lost.

"The what?" Everyone in the car around him gasped, staring at his face in shock. Cory sighed and gave him a sympathetic pat on the shoulder.

"Get in the passenger seat, big guy." She turned to Joker and Harley. "I'll drive us there…the Iceburg, man, I haven't been there for a while…" Estell's head snapped in her direction as Rev got out and went around to the other seat.

"When the hell did you go there?" Cory gave her a smirk as she hopped into the driver's seat.

"Remember that time in twelfth grade, after Mr. Whirly suspended me I stole his car and Joe dared me to drive it to Gotham and back in one peice, even though it got totalled?" Cory went on. Estell blinked a couple times before her eyebrows rose as realization swept over her face. Confusion then replaced her epiphany.

"Ohhhhh, you went there with his Mustang? I thought you went to a crazy party, again." Cory laughed as she put the car in drive and went cruising to the general direction of the Iceburg.

"It was a party…" Rev gawked at Cory.

"You stole your principal's car?" he asked, though he shouldn't have been surprised. The small woman shrugged.

"It was a phase." She answered. "Plus, he deserved it. So what if I almost blew up the bathroom, it would have stopped those weed passers from shrewing around." Rev rolled his eyes not commenting on this new information he just obtained on his disturbing little friend. The car was silent after that for a while. Rev stared out the window at the shadowy buildings passing them by.

"So, what is this 'Iceburg' place, anyway?" Rev went on to ask.

"It's pretty much a bar for villains, very exclusive. Owned by the Penguin" Estell answered, leaning away from the Joker, who was starting to creep her out. And she thought Cory's smile was freaky…

"Okay…" Rev still didn't get the concept completely. Within some minutes the Gem parked out front of the Iceburg building. Joker leaned over the passenger seat to look at the three newbies who hand sprung him.

"Folks wanna come in to join the fun?" he asked and Cory shook her head, wishing she could but she got the feeling that Estell wanted to give Lex the message tonight.

"Maybe some other time, Giggles, we gotta give Lex his 'gift'." Joker laughed, and him and Harley strolled into the Iceburg as Cory backed the Gem up on the curb and turned around. "Okidokee, time to go to Metropolis to pay our prey a little visit,"

Lex Luthor was in his bedroom fast asleep. Or at least he had been until he was grabbed and blindfolded. A flat and sticky piece of duck-tape was tucked over his mouth and he yelled muffled curses and questions, as three pairs of hands hauled him down his stairs and out his house. He wrangled and waggled and felt a sharp pinch in his arm, before he passed out. The three kidnappers smirked at one another as they hoisted their captive into their car.

Lex grunted as his head felt dense and dulled with drugs. He opened his irritated eyes. Then suddenly the situation hit him hard. He was naked and bound by ropes and other restraints to the huge world sphere of the Daily Planet building. He let out a cry of astonishment trying to reach his clothes that lay beneath his heavily tied and tapped feet. There was a snicker to his right. "W-who's there, damn it?" He demanded.

Two shadows emerged from the dark. It took him a while to realize who they were before their forms became evident in the ghostly light of the night. It was that damn pair of bitches who ridiculed him at his party. The short one in red was the first to speak, her voice sinisterly sweet and her smile just as deceiving. "'Ello Lexy."

Lex glared acidly at the women before him as he dangled from the metal outer ring of the Daily Planet globe. There was a draft and he internally felt his body chatter at the cold. He wanted to cover up but the damned wenches had now stripped him of both his clothing and his pride. "Why are you doing this?"

The red one chuckled along with the blue blond one. "Let me ask you a question Lex, what exactly was standing on that property before your little laboratory was built?" Lex's eyes flickered as he remembered, but kept his mouth shut. "Come on, Lex-meh-boy, I know you remember." She taunted. Lex was starting to think his life was offically going to become hell...