Two months past when Red hood arrived on the Milano, and Rocket and Jason became best friends and best partners in the field to hunt the Joker and their latest attempt ended in failure.

"At this rate we'll never find him"

"relax Jason we still have time" said Rocket

Jason yawned

"I'm beat, I need some sleep" said Jason as he went to his room and fell to sleep

Gamora appeared from behind

"hey Rocket"

"hey Gammy"

"where's Jason?"

"taking a nap….he needs one too, he's been up for days trying to find this Joker guy, come to think of it, we don't even know what he looks like"

"I do" said Quill from behind as he took out a comic book on the Joker called Batman Assault on Arkham and flipped through the pages until he found the pic of the Joker and showed the team

Rocket shivered

"that's the Joker? He's creepy"

"way more than that"

Quill took out a video on the Joker and showed the team and after they saw what the Joker was capable of they realised why Jason was so hung up about this guy and Quill,

"what'd you mean when you said 'so you survived'? to Jason when he first came" Rocket asked

Quill's mind drifted back to the the comic, Batman:death in the family which featured the Joker torturing and eventually killing Jason, how he survived Quill didn't know

"I don't know Rocket I shouldn't say what the Joker did….I..I cant say it, you should ask Jason although I doubt he'd tell"

Rocket growled "what'd he do?"

Quill held his hands up

"sorry Rocket I can't, It's personal" said Quill

"alright Quill".

Meanwhile in Jason's room he twisted and turned as he was having a horrible nightmare.

Nightmare starts:

"Where am I?" he said when he heard the door open from behind

"Batman? Is that you?"

"oh no,no,no he's gone"

"joker! What do you want!"

"let's just keep that between us pumpkin" said the Joker as he took a power drill and started to torture him

"no,no,NO!". Nightmare ends

Jason woke up in cold sweat and panted heavily, he put his hand on his face and looked at his mask across the table, he went towards the sink and splashed water on his face and went to his punching bag and started punching it,

'I will kill you Joker mark my words' he thought

Jason's door slid open and Rocket was at the door

"hey jase"

"sup Rocket"

"ok..so I know you want to hunt the Joker and Quill showed me what he does to other heros but question is, what'd he do to you?"

Jason stopped punching the bag and sighed

"you don't wanna know, plus it bring back bad memories"

"you don't think that going to Half-world is easy for me? You of all people should know what I went through down there"

"yeah…I know"

"so what's your deal with this guy eh?"

"you know what, I wont tell you but I will show you and ONLY you, I'll tell the rest later"

"reasonable enough"

Jason grabbed his helmet and a pair of goggles and gave the goggles to Rocket to wear, he lay down on Jason's bed and he activated his helmet and played the recorded video on his helmet it's content? The opening scenes of Batman:under the red hood which was technically a summary of what the Joker did to him. Rocket found himself in a dark warehouse

"where am I?" he asked himself when he saw a boy in a red suit on a chair, his hands were tied up and in front of him was the Joker

'the guy in the red suit must be Jason' he thought

Rocket saw the Joker take a crow bar and hit Jason right across the face and Jason fell on the floor. Rockets eyes widened and he ran to Jason's side, he was surprised to see how young Jason was and at that moment looking at Jason reminded him of himself

"wow, now that look like it really hurt" said the joker as he smiled and he hit Jason again but this time while he was down

Rocket was helpless to do anything but watch as his best friend was beaten up

"now hold on that looked like it hurt even more"

"SHUT UP WHY DONT YA!" screamed Rocket

But he knew this was only a dream and he was powerless to do anything

"so let's just try to clear this up ok pumpkin...what hurts more" said the Joker

"A?" the Joker raised the crowbar and hit Jason hard on the face

"or B?" he said again as he smacked Jason on the head again

"STOP IT! HE'S HAD ENOUGH!" said Rocket

"forehand?" said the joker as he smacked Jason across the cheek making him spit blood and Rocket started to cry

"STOP IT!..." said Rocket as he screamed again

"or backhand?" said the Joker again as he smacked Jason on the chest and face hard showing no mercy

The Joker laughed at this while Rocket just watched as Jason got beat up...

'this makes what the robots on half-world did to me MERCIFUL' Rocket thought as tears continued to fall.

Jason's head turned and muttered something to the Joker who came nearer to Jason and knelt near him and gasped playfully

"a little louder lamb chop I think you may have a collapsed lung, that always messes with your voice"

Then Jason spat blood on the Joker's face making Rocket chuckle, Joker held Jason's hair and slammed his face on the floor

"now that was rude...at least the last boy blunder had some manners"

Jason turned and smiled at the Joker and Rocket saw the blood on his teeth

"I suppose I'm going to have to teach you some so you can better follow in his foot steps"

then he spoke again "nah...I'm just going to keep hitting you with this crow bar" said the Joker as he placed his foot on Jason's back and started hitting him.

After that Rocket saw the Joker torture him all sorts of tools that just made him look away..but he couldn't, he saw Joker use knives and other tools of torture until Jason lay on the floor, unmoving, then the Joker opened the door and stepped outside

"ok kiddo I gotta go, it's been fun though right?" the Joker looked back to see Jason unmoving

"fun? he thinks that was FUN? he's more sick than I thought" said Rocket

Then the joker continued "well maybe a smidge more fun for me than for you, I'm just guessing since you're being awful quiet. Anyway be a good boy, finish your homework and be in bed by 9:00, and hey! please tell the big man I said hello" the Joker laughed and closed the door with his hood on and went away

"wait a sec! that sounds familiar" said Rocket as he recalled his last mission where the Guardians thought the Collector would know where the Joker was

At the end he said the exact same thing with the exact creepy smile

"the collector WAS the Joker he stood right in front of us and we missed him! question is where's the real collector?" Rocket wondered

Then he heard Jason groan and flip back slowly on his feet

"that's it Jason just a little more and you'll get outta there"

but as Jason stood up and took a step he fell down, unable to bear the pain. So Jason crawled all the way to the door, once he was there he tried opening it but it was locked from the outside, Jason frantically tried to open it but he failed and backed himself up against the door then both Jason and Rocket heard a beeping sound towards the right and turned to see what it was, it was a bomb left by the Joker and it was counting down form 9 till 0

"oh no.."said Rocket with a worried face

Jason's eyes widened but then squinted as the timer reached 2. Rocket heard a bike outside someone came to save Jason but then the whole warehouse exploded and the debris fell on Jason, Rocket saw a man in black unearth Jason and hold him in his arms

"oh no! Jason..."

Rocket fell to his knees with tears dripping uncontrollably

'how...how could Jason survive that?...and how could the Joker do this to a young boy?! he's crazy fucking Crazy is what he is' Rocket thought.

In reality Jason saw tears on Rocket's cheeks and decided that he'd seen enough, he took off the glasses and Rocket woke up and looked at Jason

"how? how'd you survive THAT? you're supposed to be dead! not that I'm complaining" said Rocket as he wiped his tears from his eyes

"now do you know why I want to catch this guy?"

Rocket nodded "and btw Rocket I WAS dead"

"then how are you here now?"

"I was brought back to life"

Rocket looked surprised

"brought back?! how?!"

"that's a tale for later" Jason smiled

"yeah I've seen enough for one day"

then Rocket remembered

"Jason wait! I just Realised something!"

"what is it?"

"remember the recent mission we went on?"

"yeah we went to knowhere to ask the collector if he knew where to Joker was..why?"

"you mean you haven't noticed?"

"noticed what?"

"what the collector said in the end that gave me the creeps"

"yeah he said tell the big man I said hello"

"sound familiar"

Jason realised the connection and his eyes widened

"Joker..."

"yup he fooled us!"

"ARGH! I CANT BELIEVE HE FOOLED ME AGAIN!" growled Jason as he slammed his fist on his palm

"we gotta go tell the others".

Rocket and Jason rushed to the cockpit and told the other guardians

"hold on guys we're going back to knowhere" said Quill

He engaged the hyperdrive and the Milano went speeding to Knowwhere. Meanwhile on Knowhere, the Joker went to the place where he kept the real collecter

"I'm going to ask this again, where's the seed?"

"I told you I don't have it!"

The Joker knocked him out with a crowbar and shut the closet door, then the main door behind the Joker burst open

"can i help you Guardians?" asked the Joker in his best collector impression

"you're not fooling anyone Joker where's the collector?!" Jason demanded

"WHERE IS HE?!" he said again

The Joker smiled and wiped his face paint off revealing a demonic smile in red

"why Jason..WHY SO SERIOUS?"

Drax had enough of Joker's talk and charged at him

"Drax wait!"

"Drax the destroyer does not fear a clown!"

Joker dodged Draxes attack and gave him a sweep kick making him fall

"ouch that looked painful, here I'll help you up" said the Joker as he extended his arm

"why thank you" said Drax as he mistook it as a sign of help

"NO DON'T!" Jason warned but it was too late the Joker still had his joy buzzer and Drax grabbed the jokers palm got electrocuted and was knocked out

The Joker laughed hysterically and Gamora charged

"you'll pay for that!"

Gamora swung her sword three times at the Joker but he evaded it and withdrew his pistol and pulled the trigger making her step back, but instead of a bullet coming out a flag with the word BANG written on it came out instead

"huh?" said Gamora

Then Jason realised what that was but he was too late to warn her, the tip of the flag dropped and green gas came and engulfed Gamora making her cough,

"oh no..." said Jason

"uh oh?" said Rocket

Then Gamora started laughing uncontrollably and fell to the ground laughing

"laughing gas" said Jason

"any cure?"

"yeah..I have some"

"great now get to her! Groot cover Jason!" said Rocket as Jason leaped over a turned table and Joker takes out his gun to shoot but Groot slaps the gun out of joker's hand

"hey! why'd you do that for?"

"I am Groot" he said as he moved to attack the Joker

"why hello Groot I'm the Joker stop me if you've heard this one" said the Joker as he grabbed the flower on his shirt pocket and pressed a button on it which released acid that unfortunately caught Groot's arm

"I AM GROOT!" he shouted in pain

"NO!" shouted Jason

the Joker then withdrew his portable bazooka and shot Groot while he was injured, blowing the Guardian to pieces.

"GROOT!" said Starlord and Rocket together

"Jason...get..to...Gamora...NOW!" ordered Rocket

"Rocket you don't know what you're up against don't be reckless!"

"just get to Gammy!"

Rocket ran to the Joker shooting plasma rays at him, unfortunately the Joker avoided it

"miss me! hahahahha"

"shut up already!"

Rocket jumped in mid-air and tried to punch the Joker but he took out a pie filled with laughing gas in it and threw it to Rocket but he avoided it and hit the Joker in the face and the pie hit the wall behind him

"nice try clown" smiled Rocket as he raised his fist to knock out the Joker

But the Joker laughed

"now now let's turn that frown upside down now shall we"

"huh? what do you mean?"

The Joker pointed to the pie behind him that exploded and released Laughing gas that caught Rocket, now he to was on the ground laughing uncontrollably.

"Jason! hahahahahaha help me!" Laughed Rocket.

Star lord tried to take the Joker out but he to underestimated the joker he withdrew his pistol and pulled the trigger but star lord didn't fall for it the joker pulled the trigger and again a flag with the word BANG written on it came out again and Starlord put his mask on

"nice try Joker"

the tip of the flag dropped and this time a real bullet came out and hit Starlord on the chest. The Guardians were defeated, the Joker walked over to Starlord and took the crypto cube

"ho ho big man's gonna be pleased" the Joker laughed

But what he didn't know was the Jason had finished injecting Gamora and Rocket with the antidote

"Rocket are you..."

Jason shook Rocket's shoulders and he groaned, Red Hood with drew a knife and attacked the Joker who skilfully avoided the knife swings and withdrew a crowbar

"remember this?" said Joker as he charged at Jason

Red Hood dodged the blows and cornered the Joker

"it's over Joker, now you die!"

"party pooper, no cake for you" the Joker secretly unsheathed his knife and stabbed Jason in the front.

Jason pushed the Joker back and managed to switch the crypto cube with a fake one, the Joker then shot Jason three times on the chest, luckily Arsenal bulletproofed it, the bullets stunned Jason and the Joker swung the crowbar at Jason and continued to do it for the next ten minutes, laughing at each blow. Jason was badly injured and the Joker found a weakness in Jason's promethium armour and shot Jason there. The bullet went through the armour and Jason screamed in pain, Rocket woke up, but he could barely held it together

"Jason...no.." he whimpered

. "well this has been fun but I gotta go, the big man's been expecting me"

"b...big..m.m..man? y..you..mean..R...Ro..Ronin?"

"yeah him. searching for something called the cosmic seed and this map" the Joker flipped the crypto cube and an explosion occurred and Ronin's flagship was visible

The Joker was teleported on board the flagship and jumped to hyperspace. Drax recovered from the shock and took the Guardians and Red hood back to the ship in defeat.

To all the people that read this, Thank you so much for reading this I really appreciate the attention, so please by all means leave a comment and a like and if you have any suggestions that you'd like to seen then by all means pls tell me. oh and by the way, chapter 6 will be posted shortly by sometime today