Hello everyone, my name is GUNdaiRANGER and welcome back to Joker in Remnant, sorry for taking a crap load of months to get this out, as I said in the previous chapter I'm easily distracted. Seriously, like take fly that's distracted by an electric bug zapper because it's bright, and multiply that by cancer, not to mention I have to take care of my nephew, and my dad is always on the laptop which makes it kind of hard to get on the laptop, that and I've not been feeling creative these last few months, I apologize deeply, regrets as big as mountains and deep as the oceans, but know I have not abandoned you guys, I kept telling myself that I have to get back to this before the end of the year, put out at least one chapter before the year ends, and let me tell you it's been one crappy year, but regardless this chapter is now out, I'm sorry if the quality doesn't stack up to it's previous chapters, and mind you when you read this, it was already 3:20 in the morning so I'm not thinking straight. And yes I will continue to roll out new chapters whenever I have the time in any case, let's get down to it, the newest installment of the Joker in Remnant series!
Chapter 3: "Smiles" for Days….
[Undisclosed Location – Joker's Fun House]
Joker is pacing around back and forth, hand clasped behind him, a concerned look on his face as Mercury and Emerald are sitting on colorfully painted blocks watching him pace as Emerald attempts to grab a nearby stuffed bear, Joker sees Emerald and quickly grabs her wrist. "Don't do it! You're going to blow us to smithereens!" The look on Emerald's face widens with fear as she quickly jolts her hand back towards her. "Are you for real?! There's a bomb in that bear!" As Emerald panicked for a bit; then Joker and Mercury looked at each other and starts laughing loudly as Emerald's confusion quickly grew to anger. "What's so funny?! There's a bomb in that bear!" Joker calms himself as his and Mercury's laughter dies down. "I was only kidding my dear, there's no bomb in the bear." Emerald couldn't help but give a cynical look at the Joker; then turns her head to glare daggers at Mercury.
Mercury gave a snarky smile in return towards Emerald as Emerald turns her attention back towards the Joker. "Alright Jok—" As Emerald was about to finish saying something, Joker quickly places his gloved finger upon her lips to keep her silent. "Tatata….No need to be so formal with me, call me "Uncle J," everyone does, so please refer to me as such." Emerald nods her head slowly as Joker removes his finger from her lips. "So back to what I was trying to say before, So Jo—I mean "Uncle J," what are we going to do with this big plan you have that you'd have to involve Mercury and myself in this plot?"
"I'm glad you asked my dear, you see, Roman boy and I have a slight problem for you see we plan to steal some big toys from a very grumpy general over in Atlas so I'll nee—" Emerald was quick to cut him off mid sentence with a look and tone of shock in her voice. "General?! You mean General Ironwood of the Atlas Military?! What do you want from him?!" Joker goes into his coat and pools out a print out of the what appears to be a robot with an open cockpit, Emerald grabs the print out and looks it over and off the corner of her eye at the top left corner, she sees the words 'Atlesian Paladin' then shock came over her as she looks at the Joker, now madly grinning of delight.
"Are you mad? You actually plan to steal this machine from the Atlas Military?! How in Remnant are you going to do that?" Mercury stands up from sitting on his separate block, dusting off his rear end. "It's simple Em, we go in, make a little noise, they're distracted and we steal the merch, no big deal." "No big deal? This is the Atlas Military we're talking about here, it's a pretty big deal that we're talking about here, and you casually say that it's nothing? I don't know who's more crazy here Merc, you? Or the Clown?" Joker mocks a saddened frown on his face as he walks towards Emerald. "Why Emerald, I'd have thought that you would've jumped at the opportunity for a heist this big."
"Now what's this I hear about a heist from the Atlas Military?" All three turn around to see who had asked the question only to see Cinder standing in the entry way of the Joker's Fun House.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't Cinder, how nice of you to drop by on our little meeting, so what is it that you've come here for?" Cinder walks over to Joker, Emerald, and Mercury in the way that she usually does until she reaches them. "I heard that you're planning something and that you need Mercury and Emerald's help for it, I need to know why you need them." Then without wasting a moment, Emerald hands Cinder the printout of the Atlesian Paladin that Joker handed her. Cinder looks at it thoroughly for a moment then hands it over to Joker. "So tell me why would we need something like this? We've already amassed an abundance of resources, what more could we get? Or better yet, need?" Joker chuckles a little then gives off his famous, or rather infamous smile.
"I can already tell you've got some big plans for a party in Vale, I'm just doing my part to help and gather some party favors, and trust me, these party favors are to die for." Joker swings in and wraps his arm around Cinder and pulls out toy horn and toots it.
"Cinder, think about it, can we really trust him to pull off this big a heist? Not even Torchwick can pull off a heist that big!" Cinder shoots Emerald a look of "Stand down" and shuts Emerald from making any more statements, that's when they hear the sound of clapping from behinds and chuckles from a familiar person. "Now that's where you're wrong sweetheart…." They turn around and see Roman Torchwick standing at the entry way. "Roman my boy, glad you could make it our little party." Roman sighs as he walks towards them, spinning his cane once and stops right in front of them. "I'm not here to party, popular to contrary belief; in fact I came here to tell you that one of our informants told me that Atlas is going to be dropping of supplies at the Vale docks soon, and he's seen what's inside those supplies too, and they're exactly what we're looking for, and they're being shipped off in Vale in two days time, so I'd suggest we come up with a plan and strategy to get those supplies back here." Cinder removes herself from Joker's arm and coolly walks away and out of the group. "In that case, I'll leave the planning to you four, and Joker, you'd better be sure this is worth the trouble." Cinder leaves the four amongst themselves as she leaves the "Fun House."
"Alright then, let's see what we can do to get those supplies here, anyone have any suggestions? The security is going to be tight so we'll need a clever plan to get inside the docks and steal what we need." Roman then takes out a cigar from his coat, lights it, and then smokes it for a bit. Joker, Emerald, and Mercury thought about this deeply as Joker continues pacing back and forth pondering his next scheme, as he's pacing he sees empty containers with the Schnee Dust Co. logo on them and that's when an idea popped into his twisted brain and begins chuckling to himself. "I've got it! We'll use the empty containers to sneak some explosives inside to create a distraction, then that will be the opportunity to steal those wonderful toys!"
Mercury couldn't help but clap at Joker's proposed plan, knowing that it would definitely annoy Emerald since she would definitely think that this idea that the clown had proposed was just out right idiotic, and he was right, Emerald did have an annoyed look on her face and Mercury could feel the annoyance radiating off of her, which pleased him greatly.
"Okay clown, how do you suppose we sneak explosives inside? Security is going to want to check what's inside those containers how do you think we'd get them through?" Emerald asked, voicing her disposition on the idea, only to have Joker smile at her with his classic Joker grin as he walks towards her, making her lean back away from him as he steps closer and closer until her back hit a wall and Joker is practically in front of her face. "Simple my sweet lass, we'll simply use your abilities, this so called "Semblance" of yours, and before you ask on how I know about it, Mercury brought it up during one of our many joyful conversations." Emerald then looked towards Mercury with a more than annoyed look on her face as Mercury smiled smugly and slowly lifted his arms into the air, as if embracing and relishing Emerald's annoyance.
Emerald knew she couldn't win here and let out a sigh of surrender. "Alright Jo—Uncle J, you win, I'll go along with this crazy scheme of yours, just tell me what I need to do." "Emerald my dear lass, you've made your dear sweet Uncle J proud today." Then Joker turns to Mercury as he clasps his hands behind his back. "Oh Mercury my dear lad…." Joker calls as Mercury looks up with an acknowledging smirk on his face. "Mercury my dear lad, I need you to gather some of our boys and girls for this operation, we're going to have one heck of a party, and don't forget to make sure to pack some of our party favors inside the containers." Mercury then jumps off the block he was sitting on and gives a thumbs up to Joker as he walks off to do as the Joker asks, Roman then turns around and follows Mercury as he spins his cane around. "I'll get some of the guys to prepare the aircraft then." Joker watches them walk off for a bit, then he turns his attention towards Emerald as she once again leans back against the wall again. "Now Emerald my dear, you have an important and simple job…."
2 days later….
[Vale Docks, nighttime]
Emerald is keeping her distance at a building top nearby the docks as she sees the five stolen cargo trucks driving towards the docks through binoculars as she sees Joker driving the lead cargo truck, then she's getting static from her radio comm. "Emerald here, I'm in position. Over." Her radio comm. then replies back with Joker on the other line. "Good when we stop at the gate, I want you to cast your illusions disguising Mercury and I, alongside our party favors and our people, otherwise it could blow the entire event. After we've snuck in and planted our tiny surprises, you can either be a party pooper and leave, or you can stay and have fun with us. Ta-Ta." The line cuts off as Emerald shakes her fists in anger as her teeth grit together. "That clown is really getting on my nerves…."
Then another line comes in from Emerald's radio comm. "How do you think I feel little green? Bet you wished you hadn't called me pathetic now huh?" Emerald sighs as she looks through her binoculars. "Sheesh sorry Roman, there I apologized now can we get stop this chatter and get back to the mission? Where are you now?"
"The boys and I are in position, waiting on the clowns signal, I'm going to cut the coms soon, where's the clown?" "Joker and Merc are approaching the gate, best we get off coms now." "No need to tell me." The line to Roman cuts off as Joker's line comes in. "Okay Em my dear, work your magic." The line cuts off again as Emerald looks at the guards standing at the gate as they halt the convoy, then she begins squinting her eyes as the guards are looking into each of the cargo trucks.
'This better end fast, I can't hold my illusions for very long, hurry up and give them the all clear already!' Emerald thought as her breathing begins getting heavy through extended use of her illusion semblance, then the guards gives the convoy the all clear despite the fact that it was her semblance that disguised everyone into dock personel. The trucks drive into different parts of the docks as the coms from Joker's line comes on. "Emerald my dear congrats on a job well done, you can drop the illusions now, the boys and I will sneak around and plant our little party favors for everyone to see." Joker cackles as the line once again is turned off, then Emerald falls backwards onto her rear, then lays on the ground, trying to catch her breath from using her semblance. 'You didn't need to tell me that, you stupid clown.' Emerald thought to herself as she's rubbing her head.
Meanwhile, the Joker, Mercury, and other members of the White Fang gathered in the back of the truck that Joker was driving earlier and open some of the crates that they had brought with them before the operation started, finding the bombs they had crafted as well as stolen uniforms for dock workers with falsified I.D. tags. "Come on boys, we don't have a lot of time before the Atlas Military finds out something is afoot about our little convoy disguise." The White Fang soldiers follows the Joker's orders and quickly change into their disguises and walk out of the trucks with wheeled carts with crates that carried the explosives, and walks towards different warehouses.
After several minutes of scouting the area and finding out where the best place to hide the explosives, the Joker takes out a pocket watch from inside his disguise to look at the time and gives off his classic Joker grin as the clock read 11:59 on it, he then goes into his pockets and pulls out a small hand held remote with a big red button at the top, after a few seconds of waiting, and watching the last of the cargo being unloaded onto the docks, the clock struck 12:00 midnight, then Joker gleefully pressed his thumb on the button, a few seconds later, the bombs around the different warehouses explode, signaling the disguised White Fang Soldiers to reach into their disguises and pull out whatever firearms they had on them and start shooting at the guards.
The sounds of the explosions caught Emerald's attention as she quickly gets up and sees that the docks are on fire, buildings burning in the inferno as she tries to contact Mercury through her coms. "Hey Merc, where are you? I can't see anything through the fires, respond!" At first there was static, then Mercury's voice becomes clear through the static. "Hey Em, everything is going smoothly, we completely caught the Atlas Military off guard with the diversion." "I'm also hearing gunfire in there, this wasn't part of the plan, what happened?" "Uncle J changed the plan while we were on way to the docks, no survivors." Then Emerald begins to hear a low humming sound coming from beyond the docks and squints her eyes to see through the smoke and sees that it's Roman's carrier aircraft hovering above ground.
Roman's com line then cuts to Emerald's line. "Whoa, I have to hand it to the clown, he knows how to make a show of things!" Emerald begins to grow annoyed at the fascination that Mercury and Roman has for Joker's explosions and couldn't help but face palm herself. "Alright I get it, it was a big explosion, now if you and Mercury would stop fanboying for a moment, we have a job to do so I suggest you get to it before reinforcements arrive, let's just take what we need and get out." Then Joker's line cuts in. "Pft. Party Pooper, you're no fun Emerald." Then Mercury's line cuts in. "She's never fun, although it is fun to mess with her though." Veins start popping up on Emerald's forehead. "Damn it Merc, you're just saying that on purpose!" Emerald then cuts off her line from the rest of them. "I can be fun if I want to be." Emerald mutters to herself and lightly pouts as she watches the supplies being boarded onto Roman's aircraft.
[Undisclosed Location-Joker's "Fun House"]
Joker is laughing crazily as he marvels at the sight of the Atlesian Paladins that he, Mercury, Roman and other members of the White Fang that had taken part of the operation had stolen alongside with more DUST that was taken from the Atlas Military as well. After a good while, the Joker finally calms his laughter down and lets out a deep exhale and remained silent for a moment. "Well that was fun, who's for Mistralian?" Emerald just looked on to the Atlesian Paladin that stood before her to busy to care what the Joker had said, then a sudden tap on her shoulder snapped her out of looking at the machine, turns to whoever tapped her shoulder and sees Cinder standing behind her.
"Cinder, we came back with the machine's Joker mentioned." Cinder then looked up to see the Atlesian Paladins and smiles with a slight wickedness towards the machines. "They truly are an impressive piece of work, we could do some massive damage with these machines…." Then Joker's classic laugh chimes in as he wraps his arms around Cinder as he toots a party horn. "Come on Cinder dear, think about it, we've more than enough to throw the party you wanted, why not set it off now?" Cinder's eyes lit up as she removes the Joker's arm from her shoulders as she turns to face him. "That part of the plan is still too early to bring up, and besides don't you want everyone to enjoy the grand festival that we've got in mind? Cinder says seductively as she runs her hand through Joker's cheeks. Joker then grabs Cinder's hand as he quickly gets in her face, which somehow catches Cinder Fall off guard. "Cinder, Cinder, take it from someone who knows…." Joker then leans in closer to whisper in her ear. "Don't wait, do it now."
Cinder then frees her hand from Joker's grasp and backs up while igniting a fireball in said hand as her eyes begins glowing intensely. "Lest you forget that it was I that let you join us because you have proved your usefulness, so unless you want to die here and now, you will do exactly as I say or perish!" The anger in Cinder's voice caught everyone in the room off guard, practically scared except for one Joker who remained unphased by Cinder's threat. In fact he smiled in return of her threat to him for he had quickly recounted in his head all the times he's tangled with beings that were worlds beyond her, more specifically, the Justice League. Superman can easily liquify her with his bare hands if he so wished, Wonder Woman could also do that too if she wanted to as well, Flash could easily run circles around her to extinguish any of her flame based abilities heck, she'd never even get a chance to ignite her fires, or even breathe for that matter. She couldn't do anything against Green Lantern and his ring of power, as long as he had his battery, then maybe, but that's neither here nor there, the Martian can make himself incorporeal and he practically can read minds along side some super strength and his abilities to shape shift and stretch. Hawk Girl has her mace and she could fly, and some super strength as well and last but not least, Joker's favorite/least favorite member of the Justice League, the Batman. From experience Joker knows how the bat thinks, how he can come up with thousands of ways to beat someone on the spot in practically split seconds, not to mention an expert hand to hand combatant with tools for practically every situation, in fact it is Joker's belief that Batman wanted to, he could literally take down the Justice League, even the mighty Superman could fall to Batman, and what makes Batman so interesting to Joker, is the fact that Batman has no powers, but nonetheless, Joker actually has fought against the Justice League and come out standing at times, even he took down Superman at one point.
So here at this very moment in time, Joker brushed off Cinder's threat as if it were nothing because he actually fought much stronger beings than her, he brushed off her threat and walked off with a disappointed scowl on his face. "And they say I'm crazy." Emerald and Mercury watched as Joker walked away with that scowl on his face and remained silent as they both turned to Cinder whom shot them a menacing yet calm look. "Not. A. Word." was all Cinder told to them as she walked off from the two. "Well that was awkward." Mercury said as he scratches the back of his head as Emerald continued to looking in the direction where Cinder walked off to. "I can't believe the clown stood up to Cinder like that, now I know the clown is insane. I don't it. If he's that crazy, he might turn on us, what do you think Mercury?" Mercury gave a quick shrug. "I don't know, but I'm sure it's nothing to worry about, he got us this great stuff didn't he?"
Then the sound of footsteps are heard as Emerald and Mercury turn to see who it is and see Torchwick with his cane in hand and trademark cigar in mouth. "That's not reason to trust him though, as Emerald said, he's insane, if anything, I'd rather keep my distance from crazy, although that maybe a bit much considering our business relationship, now if you'll excuse me, I've got to prepare this machine for when the White Fang bring in their new recruits and track down some more Dust shops to rob, so if you kiddies can run along, I'd very much appreciate it." Mercury and Emerald stood from the boxes they were sitting on and walked away.
[Elsewhere in Joker's Funhouse]
Joker is pacing back and forth thinking of what to do next with another stern look on his face. "Let's see, there's really not much for me to do here…." He thought about what to do more, then he came across an idea…."Perhaps I'd be better of ditching Cindy and her cronies and prepare for my own little party, but then again I really want to see what kind of party she has planned….sigh I'd better step out for some fresh air…." Then an idea came across the Joker's mind. Since he's stepping out, why not have a little fun? Joker could use it after snagging the Dust and Atlas gear, he deserved to have fun and he knows it. "I'm going to need some friends if I'm going to have some fun in Vale, and luckily I know just the man to see, this is going to keep me smiling for days." Then Joker begins cackling a little to himself as footsteps are heard coming closer to him, Joker calms himself to see who it is only to see Mercury.
"Mercury my dear lad, what a surprise, and what can your dear old Uncle J do for you?" Mercury shrugged. "I overheard you talking to yourself about going into Vale, Emerald and I are going into Vale ourselves for some business of our own and I need someone to help me bother Em, so why not bring our dear sweet uncle?" Joker laughed at the last part of Mercury's sentence. "Alrighty then, you've sold me. I'll tag along after all, the more the merrier, now I know I'll be smiling for days." Joker gives his smile again as he and Mercury go off to where the White Fang keep their transports, board one of the craft, then takes off into Vale, all while Joker is laughing his trademark laugh.
Chapter 3: End
And that was it for chapter 3 of Joker in Remnant, I apologize if the quality doesn't stack up to it's previous chapters, I had tried to get back to this, but that was few and far in between that it affected my creativity, so once again I do apologize, not to mention the rewrites as well since I had to use my local library's computers during those few and far between times. It's been a crap ton of months since I updated this fanfic, for that I can never be sorry enough for leaving you guys hanging. I still plan on getting more chapters out for this series, I've not forgotten you guys. If you've any questions or comments, please PM me or leave it in the review section, and as always I'll see you guys in the next chapter, and also THANK YOU GUYS FOR READING THIS FAN FIC, IF YOU LIKED IT, HIT THE FAVORITE BUTTON IN THE FACE, LIKE A BOSS! AND high fives all around *Insert high fives here* THANK YOU AND I'LL SEE ALL OF YOU DUDES AND DUDETTES, LATER!