Hello everyone, GUNdaiRANGER here and welcome back to Joker in Remnant, I know it's been a long time since I put up the first chapter and many of you were waiting for the next chapter, well wait no more because this is the next chapter of Joker in Remnant, and also I noticed some of the comments you guys posted on the first chapter and I have to say I'm touched that you guys liked and favorited the story, it's certainly uplifting knowing that someone had favorited your work, and yes, someone asked me if I was using Mark Hamill's Joker and the answer is yes. So without further ado, this is Joker in Remnant, chapter 2! Hey that rhymed, lol.
Chapter 2: The Starting Joke
[Undisclosed location]
Roman begins to wake up after what seemed to be a longtime as he slowly gets up, removing his bowler hat and rubbing his head to try and relieve a massive headache.
"Ugh, what happened?" "You were knocked out by a clown in a purple and green tux, pretty pathetic actually."
Angered by this blatant comment, Roman turns around to see a girl with dark brown skin, red eyes, and green hair standing behind him.
"You are going to wish, you hadn't said that, brat." Roman said as he grits his teeth.
"The name is Emerald, and last time I checked, you were the one that got outsmarted by a clown, so of course I'm going to say you were pathetic, it's hard not to say it."
Roman steps closer to Emerald as he continues to grit his teeth, still massaging his head. "Listen brat, if it weren't for this headache of mine and Cinder, I'd…."
"You'd do what, Roman?" Roman turns around and sees Cinder walking towards him, Emerald looks over Roman's shoulders and also sees Cinder.
"Cinder." Emerald says excitedly as she walks towards them. "Need I remind you of what will happen if you point your unwarranted anger to me and other members of our group?"
"My apologies but wouldn't you feel the same way if you were knocked out by some clown? Speaking of clowns where is he? He owes me an apology."
Roman looks around and sees no sign of the Joker. "Our newest 'compatriot' is talking to some of our guys in one of the warehouses; you'll know it when you see it." Cinder says as she walks towards Emerald. "And Emerald?" Emerald stiffens up as she hears her name. "Yes Cinder?" "Try not to make fun of Roman; otherwise it'll be your turn to deal with the clown."
Cinder coolly says as she walks off calmly, leaving Emerald and Roman alone. "I'll go see to that clown, I'll catch you later Emerald." Roman says as he leaves in a huff.
[Beacon Academy]
Team RWBY is sitting in Professor Port's class listening to one of his tales of his so called "Adventures" which was supposed to motivate his students to become better hunters, or so he thought, but the reality is that, hardly anyone was paying attention especially for teams RWBY and JNPR, Pyrrha is sitting still with a forced smile as to seem polite to the teacher, Ren appeared to be paying attention, but unknown to everyone else besides his teammates, Ren had mastered the art of meditating with his eyes open, Nora appeared to be taking notes, but in reality, she's just doodling pancakes and drawing a chibi version of herself fighting Grimm with her hammer, Magnhild, with bolts of lightning hitting the hammer. As for the leader of Team JNPR, Juane Arc had knocked out.
Team RWBY was off in their own thoughts, just two of them anyways, from anyone else's point of view, it would've looked like they were listening intently to Port's tale, in reality, their thoughts were still concentrated on the murder of the old man and who the murderer could be. Weiss was troubled indeed, but she wouldn't let anyone see it, nor would she show it. Blake was looking at Port as if listening to him, and every so often, she would jot something down into her notebook. Yang was asleep and Ruby was drawing cookies as the bell rang for them to be released.
Juane and Yang immediately woke up as Ren simply blinked his eyes, only to be dragged by his bubbly childhood friend to the cafeteria for lunch along with every other student in the classroom with Team RWBY the last to leave.
Yang gives a loud yawn as she wipes one of her eyes in an attempt to stay awake, while the rest of her team are steps ahead of her.
"Hey guys wait up; I'm still trying to wake up here." Weiss stops and turns for Yang to catch up and turns to her with a look of disappointment. "Well, if you had gone to bed early instead of playing games with some of the other students in this school, you'd have more energy and could catch up to us."
"Hey, in my defense, Port is probably the only teacher in all of Beacon that could literally put anyone to sleep with just his lectures alone."
"Only two people were asleep in class until just now and that's you, and Juane Arc." Weiss snapped. "Whatever, let's just get to the cafeteria, I am starving." Yang says as she yawns again. "Agreed, I'm also feeling a bit hungry." Blake calmly states as the rest of the group moves forward to the cafeteria.
[Cafeteria]
Team RWBY enters the cafeteria through the doors and noticed that the students weren't sitting at the tables but instead looking out the windows, chatting amongst themselves about whatever they were seeing out the window.
"Soooo….what's going on here? Why is everyone looking out the window?" Ruby asks as she scratches her head, trying to figure out what's going on. "I don't know but—" As Yang was about to finish her sentence a few of the students quickly turned around with a panicked look on their faces.
"Run! Get out of the way, the bullhead is going to crash!" Upon hearing this Team RWBY quickly ran out of the cafeteria and drops to the ground as well as the other students as one of the school's bulkhead carrier planes crashes into the cafeteria causing destruction and rubble as it crashes into several walls before it stops completely.
"What the hell?! What the hell was going on here?! Why would one of the school's planes crash like that?!"
Yang yells as her eyes turn red as her and her teammates get up from the ground and start dusting themselves off. "Is anyone hurt?" Ruby asks as she finishes dusting off her school skirt.
"I'm fine." Says Weiss as she's dusting off her skirt and sleeves. "I'm okay here." Blake says as she's dusting off her bow, and sleeves. "Yeah, yeah. I'm fine Rubes." Yang says as she's cracking her knuckles.
"We have to go back in there, there might be students in the rubble and in the plane." Ruby says as she's dashing into the cafeteria using her semblance, leaving only Rose petals in her place.
The rest of team RWBY looks at each other once and follows Ruby into the destroyed cafeteria, as they enter they see her zipping across the room hoping to find anyone that was trapped under the rubble.
"Ruby has the cafeteria covered, let's see if anyone is stuck inside the bullhead." Blake suggested and both Yang and Weiss nodded their heads in agreement, the three girls went straight to the bullhead's hull, Blake tried to open the hull's door but the door wouldn't budge.
"It's stuck, it won't move." Blake says as she backs away from the door. "Alrighty then, let me handle it." Yang says with a smile as she once again cracks her wrists and also cocking Ember Celica, she throws a punch, Ember Celica fires it's shell, causing an explosion to cause a small enough hole in the door for Blake and Weiss to try and open it.
"Did that help?" Yang asks. "Perhaps the next time you decide to open jammed doors in an emergency situation, you might want to use less red dust." Weiss retorted as she and Blake slowly open the door, until the door finally gives way and falls off the plane, causing both girls to jump out of the way.
"So I did help, go Yang!" Yang starts throwing her arms up in the air as if saying Bonzai! As Blake and Weiss get closer to the door, a hand suddenly shoots up and they hear groaning from inside the hull.
"He-help….we need….help…." the voice says as the hand collapses, Yang, Weiss, and Blake look at each other and once again nod in agreement and all three pulls on the hand and drags the person out of the plane, the second they pull the bloodied body out of the plane, they instantly recognize the person.
"Cardin Winchester?" Then the three girls quickly rush inside the hull and drag out the other members of Cardin's team, also in the same condition. The three girls then check Cardin's team members' pulses and luckily they were all still breathing and alive, Ruby finishing her sweep of anyone trapped under the rubble makes her way back to her team.
"There was no one under the rubble, looks like everyone made it out okay." Ruby reports to her team as they look at her. "Well almost everyone." Weiss says as she points to team CRDL. Ruby then checks on Cardin to see if there was anything he knew. "Cardin, hey Cardin wake up." Cardin's eyes begins to move and the first thing he sees is Ruby's face as tears of relief are shed from his eyes.
"Oh thank god….I thought we were going to die…." Cardin's eyes begins to close slowly. "Come on stay with me Cardin, do you know what happened?" Cardin's eyes then slowly opens back open. "I….don't remember….I"
Then Cardin's eyes shot wide open in shock. "Wait. I remember….we were coming back from a mission….then the plane started going haywire….then….then….no….no….No! Make it stop! Make it stop!" Ruby shakes Cardin even harder as the rest of Team RWBY stand behind her in shock of what was going on.
"Cardin snap out of it! Tell me what happened!" Cardin's body begins shaking as he grips his head as if trying to forget something.
"There was laughter, not normal laughter, it was sick, sadistic, and then….and then….No! Stop it! Stop the laughter! We're going to die! Stop the plane! Stop the plane!"
Ruby slaps Cardin to calm him down. "It's over Cardin, you're alive and at Beacon." Cardin looks at Ruby. "It's over? I'm alive?" Ruby nods her head as she gives him a warm smile. Then Cardin looks behind her and sees the rest of team RWBY.
"Yes that's right Cardin, you're going to be fine." "What day is it?" Cardin asks Ruby. "It's Tuesday, why?"
Cardin closes his eyes with a smile. "Sweet….Taco Tuesday…." Cardin slips onto unconsciousness as Ruby gently lays him on the ground, she gets up from the ground and turns to her team.
"I think he's going to be fine, he seems a little shaken up." Ruby says with a hesitant smile. "I'm not really sure, I've never seen anyone that shaken up before. I wonder what happened up there." Blake says as she looks at the unconscious bodies of team CRDL. Then the doors swing open and then comes a grown woman with blonde hair, green eyes, a ragged cape and a riding crop barges in and sees the destruction that had taken place and her eyes are shot wide open.
"Professor Goodwitch." Team RWBY says as the professor stands there silently for a while. After sometime had passed, she speaks. "What happened here?" Team RWBY stands still silent, thinking of something to say but that was cut short when they were asked again. "What. Happened. Here?" Goodwitch asks in a more angered tone, then Ruby decides to speak. "We don't really know for sure, but it seemed the plane lost control and crashed." Ruby says as she looks down and rubs the back of her head.
"Professor Goodwitch, we have a problem." Weiss states as Goodwitch turns to them. "Team CRDL is pretty banged up since they were in the plane that crashed, we need to get them to the infirmary." Yang says as she points to the unconscious team. "I'll have them sent to the infirmary everyone just go to your room, except for you Ruby Rose, I'll have a word with you."
Weiss, Blake, and Yang look at their leader with a worried look on their faces as Ruby turns to looks up at them. "Go on guys, I'll tell you what happened when I get back."
Ruby's team nod their heads in agreement. "I'll see you when you get back." Blake says as she leaves. "Try to keep calm, okay Ruby?" Weiss says as she leaves soon after. "Be careful Rubes." Yang says as she hugs her sister then walks off to join her teammates.
Ruby watches her team leave for a moment then she turns to Goodwitch who appears to be examining team CRDL's unconscious bodies.
"So what did you want to talk to me about?" Goodwitch continues to examine the bodies then she looks up at Ruby. "Were there any others?" "No there wasn't I checked under every rock and rubble to see if there was anyone trapped or hurt, but it seemed most of everyone got out fine." Then Ruby takes a look at team CRDL then a frown forms on her face.
"So how's it looking for them? They're going to be okay right?" Goodwitch looks down slightly as she fixes her glasses. "I don't know, it seems their aura protected them from the initial impact, but these injuries look quite severe, I don't know the full extent of their injuries, but if we don't get them out now, it could be life threatening, I'll call the schools infirmary and let them know what happened, and hopefully their injuries are nothing too serious." Then Goodwitch stands up fixing her glasses and looks to Ruby with a concerned look on her face. "Did anyone on team CRDL mention anything about what might've happened from before or after the bulkhead crashed? Anything at all?"
"He did mention about the bulkhead's systems going haywire, and then something about laughter being heard." Goodwitch's eyes narrowed upon hearing what Ruby had mentioned just now. "Laughter you say? Please elaborate Miss Rose, tell me about this laughter?" "Cardin said that while the bulkhead was going out of control, he heard laughter coming from the com, and that it was sick and sadistic"
"Sick and sadistic laughter? Hmmm…." The academy's infirmary team arrives momentarily to pick up the injured team CRDL as Goodwitch tries to piece things together but to no avail as she turns to Ruby. "Thank you, that will be all Miss Rose, I must report this to Ozpin immediately."
[Vale-Undisclosed location]
Roman and Joker are watching from a distance, watching the plane crash into Beacon, causing the Joker to laugh hysterically as Roman simply lights his cigar and smokes into it, with a pleased smile on his face.
"Even though I hate your guts, and utterly despise everything about you, I have to admit, I never thought you little device would work." Roman says as he points his cane, Melodic Cudgel to a strange machine.
"Why everyone needs their own handy dandy radar disruptor. Imagine what we could do if we had more of these disruptors, we'd have all of Vale, right in the palm of our hands!" Joker then gives off some more of his sick laughs. "And to think you wanted nothing to do with my little toy…." Roman gives off a disgruntled look. "Don't push it clown."
"But my dear Roman, this is the kind of tool you need if what you and that scrumptious morsel Cinder have in mind in your little scheme of yours." Joker chuckles a bit causing Roman to scoot away from Joker while smoking his cigar.
"Listen clown, the only reason I'm here is to see if that crazy contraption actually does what you said it'd do, don't expect me to get all buddy buddy with you. Ugh, I can't believe I have to work with this crazy clown." Roman says as he wipes some sweat from his forehead.
"And what's wrong with crazy? It's done wonders for me." Joker says as he gives off his trademark smile with a small chuckle in between.
[Flashback-Undisclosed location]
As Roman left the building he was in, leaving Emerald alone, he wonders around the area until he stumbles upon a certain warehouse that's been redecorated to look like some kind of fun house.
"Oh you have got to be kidding me…." Roman says as he heads towards the fun house and as he enters, he sees many of the White Fang soldiers working on a strange device as he hears Joker laughing from an office structure up top. Roman looks around and upon closer looking, he sees many of the said White Fang faunus soldiers not wearing their standard uniform but wearing things that only circus people would wear, even the masks have been altered.
"Okay clown, you've got some explaining to do." Roman mouths under his breath as he makes his way to the office structure on the upper walkway. He gets to the top and enters the office, there he sees Joker talking with a silver haired teen with both of their feet on a table, laughing something up as the silver haired teen waves to Roman, causing Joker to turn his head to Roman.
"Roman my dear lad, I didn't hear you come in, come sit with me and Mercury." Joker says as he rolls one of the wheeled chairs to Roman, Roman stops the chair with his foot and sits down on it and rolls himself towards the table Joker and Mercury were sitting at.
"Mercury was just telling me about the time you were stopped by a little girl with a red cape and hood, and I have to say it was quite the entertaining tale." Then Mercury raises his hand to cut in. "Not as entertaining as the time Joker said he nearly got away with placing a copyright patent on fish that had his face on it, now that was funny." Mercury said as he chuckles a little.
Joker chuckles a little himself. "Oh you should've seen it, it was the finest fish anyone could have caught, but then things don't always go as planned, especially when you have people playing hero around." Joker says as stern look grows on his face, then he quickly smiles once again. "Oh well at least there's none of those running around; after all, I've got some big plans for this place, and it's going to leave a great, big, smiling mark on history." Joker says as he starts laughing lightly.
"That's enough clown!" Roman shouts as he stands up, gritting his teeth. "First off, what did you do to the members of the White Fang, they're dressed up as ringmasters in some lowbrow circus! Secondly, what in the world of Remnant are they building?!"
Joker looks at Roman with his trademark smile as he repositions himself as a president of an important company would. "Glad you asked Roman boy; you see, after you knocked out after sniffing my lucky flower, I asked Cinder to lend me some guys, well except for the one that was happy about DUST, because well he's kind of dead."
Joker laughs some more at the thought of his own sick joke. "And also I asked for some materials to build something that would help in the later days to come, and I tell you it's going to be absolutely smashing, my good lad." Joker says as pulls out a party favor and blows into it making a tooting sound as he fixes his tux. "You'll just have to be there when I test the little baby out." Then Joker starts laughing once again, echoing throughout the warehouse.
[Vale-Present]
"So what'd I tell you Roman my boy, I'd say that this little experiment was a rousing success." Joker smiles as he clasps his hands together and rubs them together, trying to contain some laughter as Roman continues smoking his cigar. "I get it, you were right. This radar disruptor test is a success, so now we just need to mass produce these things right?"
"But of course, think of the pretty fireworks show when all the aircraft in the air just suddenly crashes into random buildings such as police departments and business offices. I tell you I'd give my Sunday best for a show like that!" Joker snickers at the thought of the so called "fireworks show" he had envisioned as Roman simply closes his eyes and breathes out the cigar smoke from his mouth.
"Now that would be quite the show, and something that I would personally want to see, and in some small way, it helps out with whatever Cinder has cooked up for Remnant." Roman taps his cigar and smokes into it. "Alright Joker, what do you have exactly planned for these radar disruptors?"
Joker then places a finger on his own lips and shushes Roman with a quirky smile. "All in good time Roman boy, I can't let you in on the big surprise but I'll tell you what, I'll let you know what I have planned next…." Joker scans the room and sees one of the White Fang soldiers holding a laptop. "Oh Perry, be a dear and bring me your laptop."
As Joker calls out for one of the borrowed White Fang soldiers, the soldier named Perry walks over to the Joker and hands him the laptop, Joker then logs into said laptop and works his way into the inner files then he smiles fiendishly as he finds his next plan of action and shows it to Roman as he looks into the plan making Roman drop his cigar from his mouth in shock of the plan. "Listen clown, I've done my fair share of thefts, but this plan of yours is crazy, not to mention security is going to be tight."
Joker couldn't help but smile as he hears Roman's complaint. "Yes you're right Roman boy, but think of the fun…." Then Joker starts chuckling then to a slow, menacing laugh.
Chapter 2: End
And that was it of chapter 2 of Joker in Remnant and I have to say, I felt like this one was rather rushed because I only had so little time to work on this chapter in between computer uses because if I'm not watching my nephew, then someone else is on the computer and they tend to use it all not or so, not that I blame them, since they're doing something important, anyways while I was away from the computer, I was thinking about some twisted ideas for some of the later chapters, also I would like you, the readers and fans of this fan fic to either post in the comments or message me in private about some ideas you might have for the future chapters, and also I was thinking whether or not to use Nora as the next Harlequin, because she fits the profile, doesn't she? Anyways, thank you guys for reading chapter 2 of Joker in Remnant, if you liked it, hit the favorite button in the face, LIKE A BOSS, and high fives all around, thank you guys and I'll see all of you guys and girls, in the next chapter, BYE!