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Chapter 12 - Losing A Role
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Joker, the jester part, was poking the little beast with a stick but it wasn't trying to play or swap at it in annoyance or anything even though it was basically free and out of the crate. It had become miserable and non responding while caged and it had become clear that that captivity would kill it.
Joker was running out of ideas and out of time.
The feline suddenly perked up, noticing the vibrations before Joker did. The world shook. It was like many small earthquakes hitting different points of the territory at the same time.
Next, Joker felt the explosions. They were not normal. These explosions couldn't be achieved with the average means of Wonderland. She was finally here.
The holder narrowed his eye. He didn't expect such a direct attack given how sly she had been in the other territories. But she was here and surely on her way to him. That gave him some minutes until she discovered he had relocated the mirror that connected the prison and the circus, and she made her way via the long route.
He looked around, the mirror was in the back of he room, the other end hidden safely at the edge of the territory; although he didn't have much of anything useful here except for some of her leftover grenades that were not even the explosive types, and his own trusty weapons. The whip, pistol and sword. No more. At his feet, the cat was scared, looking around and with its back arched. He was as ready as may come, which wasn't much.
He was facing the door when he suddenly jumped aside to evade something falling over him. It was his counterpart dropping from a portal. White had a fraction of a second to see into the nightmare realm before the portal closed.
"Good timing Joker. She just came to visit our territory."
His counterpart didn't answer. Black was rolling on the floor, spasming and clearly disoriented, breathing hard, with his eye wide, and his skin pale as a corpse but with no visible wounds.
"What happened to you, Joker?" White was not going to connect fully with his other and risk ending too in such a state, whatever had caused it. "Get up already! We are being attacked!"
The warden's heavy panting breath was the only sound for some time until a new bigger explosion resounded nearby, causing dust to fall from the shaking.
"I said get up, Joker!" White kicked his counterpart on the ribs and tossed him back down, but it served to put the warden back into focus.
"W-what's happening, asshole?" Black rolled on the floor, incorporating himself up.
"She is here. We are being attacked. She has a whole army by now and decided to bring it all. I'm flustered. " The jester smiled feraly, looking at the door. "By now all the prisoners have probably been released and I don't doubt that the circus is in flames ... where were you, Joker?"
"Why don't you connect and see for yourself, Joker?" The warden took upon the room as a new quake shook the place, making the sealed heart meow in confusion.
A couple moments later, the door was blown from its hinges and fell inside the room. From the dust and smoke that began invading the room, a dark figure with 2 black blades protruding from her forearms rushed inside.
White changed his whip into a sword and met her while Black jumped to grab the meowing sealed heart.
The smoke was slowly invading the room; it wouldn't be long and she had the advantage given the strange lenses in her eyes even under her helmet. At least he could counter. She had been the one to attack, so technically he had not been the one approaching her. "Aiming directly for the kill, Aria? I should feel honored that you came for me personally and so directly."
With a fast slash, White tried to cut off her arm, but the sword phased though his opponent as if the arm had been made of smoke. This was not the real Aria!
The real Aria appeared behind the figure with a gun, shooting through the head of the copy of herself, but White fell backwards and kicked up the gun out of her hand. Giving his counterpart a chance to toss the feline towards Aria and reunite her with her heart, but she kicked the cat away and slammed it against a wall.
"No!" Black looked at the cat. And seeing where his gaze was directed, the foreigner took out another gun and shot the creature.
The bullet passed through the creature.
She shot again, but the bullets never harmed it. It stood up, meowing pathetically.
"Interesting." Aria said, looking at the feline but not losing sight of the Jokers. There was clearly no recognition of any previous relationship with her now enemy.
Joker knew that the critter should be dead. He realized the obvious. She can't kill it. Because her heart is sealed away from her grasp, she can't kill it. Not yet, at least.
A mechanical emotionless distorted voice came from the general darkness, interrupting Joker's thoughts. "I came to get the seal of my heart…. Well. I initially came to bury you in here but the place is sturdier than I expected." She looked at the weird feline creature and took a step forward.
The warden dashed to pick the creature up and the jester stood in front of them to stand in her way. They noticed that she was far off in her time than they assumed. Even though she was wearing her full armor so that nothing of her flesh was exposed, it was off. Closer to her real time. More technologically advanced; more akin to what they saw during the fight with the Jabberwock in Diamond where she was almost at the end of her time.
Aria's shadow clone stood beside her, ready for a double attack. "That was too obvious. Joker was supposed to be more sly than to tell me straight up what my objective is." Aria's clone melted down on the floor and crawled as a wave of liquid darkness towards her, crawling over her armor to reinforce it. "This world was clever disguising it as a living creature. But this trick was documented in the past, so it was easy to learn about it."
"You can't kill your own heart." White had no idea what she was planning, but they had to protect the little heart until they figured out how to unseal it. "Must be disappointed, hm?"
The smoke in the room began expanding as the sound of rushing footsteps was heard approaching.
The heartless foreigner straightened up. Her tone of voice was mechanical and without inflections or any remnants of emotions. "If I capture that creature I can endlessly experiment on it since I can't kill it. So surrender it and I might kill you fast rather than letting everyone in Wonderland have their fun with you."
Joker also straightened up, grinning. "Unfortunately, dear, we wish to unseal your precious heart and get your lovely self back so that we can apologize to you. it would be meaningless to try such a thing if you can not even get a sense of our deep regret for losing our best friend."
"This time I might keep one of you barely alive to experiment on." She ignored his words and took another step forward, making space for all the faceless that came to stand beside her, knowing that there were many more behind them.
"Numbers are not your advantage here." Black said from the back of the room as he held tightly the hissy creature, holding it by the neck with one hand and snapping his fingers with the other. His smile however dropped when he realized that his afterimages were not coming and it was Aria's turn to grin under her helmet, but the grin was just a tilt of her mouth, as if her face had forgotten how to properly do such expression.
"Maybe our explosives were not able to collapse this structure, but they had enough mana and power to erode most afterimages." She pointed her blade at him. "And if there's any left, they should be busy with the prisoners and the space distortions that I created with some of the clocks I've taken. You are trapped."
The men and women besides her laughed, quite eager to kill, capture and torture Joker as he tortured their own, but Joker knew she was stalling this for some reason. She wanted something else, and given how she was looking at the cat he knew what. Otherwise she wouldn't have even spoken to him. That was not her style.
"I don't like this version of yourself, Aria. Can't wait to have you with your heart back," Black sighed.
Aria raised her hand to stop the faceless form attacking. "I have a fun idea." She spoke for her accomplices. "It shall be fine since this joker has reached his end. A nice reminder of what it is to be a faceless would serve him right."
Joker's eye widened. One of them looked at her with anger and the other with actual fear.
"Joker!" She spoke to the role, not the holder, and the role listened. "Change host! Choose a new holder. Take one or two of my most loyal men who had been among the prisoners!" She proclaimed loudly, commanding the power of the promise the role had made with her.
The holder of the role of Joker felt his clocks stopping for a second as his power began leaving him. His vision began blurring and his senses began dulling. His strength was faltering. But he couldn't just stand there in shocked stupor. His body trembled, but using the chance of the smoke filling the room and the shock of the faceless listening to her, White tossed forward a flash grenade as his other self crossed the mirror behind them. White used the last of his skill and strength to use his whip into deflecting the bullets that came his way and then to grab the mirror's edge, pulling it forward as he fell back through it, making it hit the floor and break, stopping her and her forces from chasing him.
At the edge of the territory, where he came out, he was not Joker anymore. He was just a couple of faceless.
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Both ex-jokers were running in the woods towards the forest of doors, escaping from his ex-territories. Without his power he was weak. He couldn't push branches as easily or resist their hits back from the push, he could not call the elevator or use any of his role abilities. And he was tired. He couldn't remember being tired. At least he was still two persons but he wasn't technically a holder anymore.
He felt the dread and direness of losing his role. And they couldn't keep going.
"Let's… fucking… stop!" The ex-warden stopped, panting as he could barely keep his grasp of the trashing feeling that had kept on meowing and trying to escape. Without waiting more, Black not only stopped, but he dropped himself over the creature to try to keep it trapped under his weight.
"I feel so damn weak." The ex-jester sat down against a tree. "What do we do now, Joker? or…Ex-Joker? Dammit! What are we, now?"
"Like fuck, I know. We don't have a duty now. I don't even have a name, much less a purpose. Even faceless have a purpose but I don't have one now." He looked at his counterpart. He feared. "We can't exist without a purpose…I don't know how long we'll exist separately."
The other shuddered. "We can make our purpose to reclaim our role and to save her… or kill her. .. At least stop her. We don't have anything more."
"That..that should work for a while…if not, the world will probably end sooner and we'll be caught."
"It'll have to do. We need to turn back time. There is no other way. She is too far gone to bring back and the damage to Wonderland is too much already. If she is stopped or dies it's still going to be the end of the world."
"Meow!" The sealed heart finished its rest and thrashed again, rolling and scratching at the ex-warden on the belly and making him flinch at the sudden pain, gaining the chance to escape.
"For fucks sake! Aria, come back!" The ex-holder half groaned as they both stood up to chase after the critter. They couldn't lose it.
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In the hatter's mansion, Blood had left Alice in his office as he went to meet with the dormouse. Alice had wanted to come but he had insisted she didn't. That he'd prepare a tea party afterwards if she wanted to entertain some other men. Predictably, she had gotten angry at him and stormed off. It was better than letting her hear whatever dreadful news the undertaker brough.
"So, the second foreigner is maddened and she tried to kill you by burning and flooding the areas where she knew you had houses." Blood tapped his fingers on his crossed arms.
"Y-yes, chu… Things are really bad." The tiny adult was clearly shaken. More than normal. His clothes were both charred and wet. "Where are the others? Where is Elli?"
The hatter frowned. "Elliot went to Clover." He couldn't contact his second in command and he needed him back before she found a way to kill the march hare too.
"I'm worried about Elli… but at least some are still alive." He tried to force himself to smile, but he was in some mild shock even for someone with his job and from this world. "I found Gray and Nightmare. They are in one of my homes in the forest of doors, but the clover tower is destroyed, chu."
"Are they?" Blood was, despite himself, pleasantly surprised. Although he wasn't sure if he was surprised that they were somehow alive or to the fact that they had been unable to stop a crazy foreigner. He sighed. "As terrible as the prospect of cooperation is, we need to work together with whatever holders remain." He stood up. "How are they?"
"Pierce closed his eyes and trembled. "Gray is hurt and Nightmare is not waking up, but he is alive."
Blood nodded and accommodated his hat; his cane already in his hand. "I suppose I'll have to meet them in person to ensure their cooperation." Or rather to find a way to use them and direct them to whatever purpose he found more useful. "I'll make sure Alice stays safe while we go have a little reunion."
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Once Blood had confirmed that Alice was safe in her room, still angry at him, he took a secret exit from the mansion and joined Pierce, who had gotten out in his small size and scurried away unseen.
He wanted to do this fast and come back to Alice, but at least at the moment it was safer if no one knew he was out and it seemed as if he was in the mansion. It too would be faster and less dangerous to go himself than trying to bring the surviving holders into his territory. It could be a trap of some kind.
"This way, chu…" Pierce guided the hatter, but they suddenly stopped, hearing a barrage of insults coming their way.
"Stop right there, Aria, you fucking little heart!"
Blood immediately recognized the voice and the name it had called. He dashed forward, seeing a feline creature running towards him, and before the feline noticed him, he pinned it to the ground, staring at its green eyes before the men that came behind it appeared in view.
"Dupre!?"
"Hatter!?"
They called him in unison.
"C-Chu!?"
Blood was about to say something smug but his smile dropped when he noticed that these men were faceless… however, the tone, the voice, the insults, and the clothes identified them as to who they had been. "Joker?...or rather..ex-Joker?" He now knew that everything was way worse than he had imagined.
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Not too long after, Blood, followed by the ex-jokers, managed to arrive at one of the hidden hideouts of the dormouse. Pierce gave them the minimazing potion and left them in before he went back to the mansion to check on Alice and keep the farce of at least some holder remaining at the core of the territory.
As soon as they appeared and even after the mouse had called out, Gray was ready to meet them with a knife in hand in his remaining hand.
The lizard looked at the two faceless and cussed. "So even Joker was taken out."
One ex-Joker, the one with the warden outfit, spoke while firmly holding the feline in his arms. "Worse, that stupid foreigner ripped out my role and gave it to some asshole that happened to be there."
"And how did she manage to do that?" Blood came in, looking at the damaged state of the lizard and wondering about the sleeping caterpillar.
"Remember the singing event at the amusement park where the price to save your precious Alice was a promise extracted from all roles?" The ex-jester managed a sardonic smile. "She used that promise to order all roles. So if you even manage to get close to her, you are done anyways."
Blood kept his gaze on the sleeping silkworm. "And what happened to Nightmare? This doesn't seem like a simple nap." He looked again at Gray, focusing on his missing arm. "Rumor had it that you went into the Clover tower soon before it was blown up and didn't come out at all afterwards."
Gray set his knife away and opened an empty cigar case that he put away with annoyance. "Aria did something to Nightmare in the dream realm so he wouldn't wake up while she went to kill his physical body, but I arrived before she did. She set an ambush and exploded the tower. I managed to pick Nightmare and cross towards the clock tower. There is not much left of it either."
"Is there anyone else left alive?" The ex-jester asked. "She's been messing with the dead so much that the bodies are remaining for a long time, so even I didn't know who was in need of being replaced.. Not that there is anyone to repair them either. "
"I'm not sure. But I doubt there's anyone left but us. I at least know who was certainly dead by the time I went into Clover tower." Gray leaned back against a wall, his yellow eyes seeing the tired cat in one of the ex-joker's arms. "The queen and king were beheaded by a mob, the white's rabbit body hangs dismembered from the castle walls, the knave killed the cat and I killed him … at the cost of an arm, as you can see."
Blood crossed his arms and went to another wall in order to keep everyone in his full view. "I heard the mortician was the first, his head impaled on a pike and his eyes plucked out; Mary is dead too and it seems the twins were forced to kill each other for the entertainment of a crowd. Elliot was on his way to Clover…and as much as I trust him and his skills, I will count him out." He then pointed his cane at the ex-holders. "Now, I want to know how this came to be."
The ex-Joker that wasn't holding the critter crossed his arms for a moment before pointing to the hissy feline. "She sealed her heart, that's why I was chasing this little heart."
The other Joker for a moment lifted the critter up for them to see. "Yeah. This stupid critter is…" he then shut up. Blood raised his eyebrow and Gray narrowed his eyes.
The ex-jester then perked up and looked at his counterpart. "Wait, we are not subjected to the rules of our role anymore. We can say whatever we want, really."
There was a moment of silence.
"Fucking what? Then we can tell them." The realization was obvious now. They were free of Joker's duties. "There's also no one to enforce the rules. That new Joker will take time to adjust to the role and the executioner is dead already."
"Let's tell them." The first Joker turned to the remaining holders. "Given the unfortunate situation, we can at least take advantage of it and cooperate with you. So listen well. All this mess will be undone once we unseal her heart. That's the only way, really."
"And this cat is the key. This fucking cat is her sealed heart." The ex-warden agitated the cat and it meowed in discomfort. "Time and shit will turn back to before she sealed her heart. If we don't, she'll reach her real time from her world and die or get killed and then all she's done will remain as true and the world will end anyways. Most likely."
Blood lowered his cane. His expression was a mix of amusement and anger. "Under the current circumstances, I guess there is no choice but to cooperate with you. Even if only to restore Wonderland before all this destruction reaches Alice. But first…" He inhaled, controlling his desire to shoot both ex-jokers. "... what prompted a foreigner to do something as stupid as sealing her heart, anyways?"
"And why would you care when you already have your own foreigner?" An ex-joker spat out.
"I am curious too." Gray stood up. "The last thing we knew was that you took her to the prison and next she is off sealing her heart."
"Of course I took her to the prison. That is..was my duty as Joker. Where were you then?" The ex-jester pointed out to the lizard in an accusatory way.
His counterpart didn't react as calmly - rather, Black exploded. "It's all your fault, fuckers! What did you expect? I have to be the villain so some imbecile comes to save the foreigner and be the hero and wins her heart and favor and ends the stupid game! Do you seriously think Alice didn't react to Blood saving her from me? That she didn't get all heated and shit getting saved? I bet the two of you fucked like bunnies once you took her home - you have my ass to thank for that!"
"Oh yes. We'd like to know where the fuck where you when I took Aria away. I took her to the prison in front of everyone and absolutely no one went to save her. You knew what was happening. No one ever came to get her at all. You can imagine both her and my disappointment to see that." White, the ex-jester added, jabbing a thumb towards the hissy feline.
"None of this would have happened if any of you fucktards would have played the hero." Black hissed. "I had her right there in the prison ready for you to come and save her!"
"And it's not the first time you've let her to die or get hurt. How many times was she in danger and alone?" White commented with a raised brow.
Gray's eyes looked away for a second. "It wasn't as if she needed the help. She was managing herself perfectly well."
"Like fuck she did. Desperately so - but no one wanted to give any help to her." White frowned. "No wonder she clawed her way in this world."
Blood shrugged. "It wasn't as if it was her turn to play the game, either. Why bother with the second foreigner when they could see the clear star of the game? It was amusing, although bothersome."
Black snorted a laugh. "What a bunch of losers. A foreigner starts playing as soon as she takes the potion, whether there is another foreigner or not. The first foreigner may be the start of the game who garners all the attention, but that doesn't mean she is the only one playing. Aria's game has been going for a long time. It's your fault Blood for not giving your damn connector sooner to Alice."
"And that it's not your business." Blood waved them off. "You played your part and I won Alice's feisty heart. That's all there is to it."
"Not anymore. This whole fucking situation could have been avoided if you had let the others play for the second fucking foreigner, you know." Black hissed.
Gray, looking quite annoyed, took his knife again and pointed it at the now faceless ex-villain of Wonderland. "And what? How were we supposed to play when we never got the cues? We never felt any impulse of her calling to be saved. She never desired anyone to come to her. Her game was broken. You know that her heart would have called to the one most advanced in her game. That never happened"
"What a bunch of fucking losers. She never had even the slightest bit of trust to even think she even could receive help. That didn't mean she didn't need it, but you were so damn stuck on Alice that you missed the obvious available second foreigner right in front of your fucking faces! Fucktards," Black barked.
"You can imagine how bad her previous life was to act the way she does." White commented. "She was so ripe for some companionship. Her heart was so ready for someone to be there for her and not one of you lazy asses was there."
Blood fakely jawned. "After losing to me they surely wished for a foreigner that wouldn't love anyone else and they got exactly that. A foreigner that wouldn't or couldn't even love."
White sighed, looking at his other self but clearly speaking to the others, even towards the holders that weren't there. "Didn't they want to win? If they had made just a tiny bit of effort, they would have gotten a damn amazing and capable foreigner. Amazing sex aside, she fucking unraveled this world! She would have made her chosen one far more powerful, the winner and his territory, and she is utterly loyal if one ever won her trust. Quite the losers indeed."
The hatter wristlet, half amused by the situation. "And wasn't Joker acknowledged as her friend? She said so on more than one occasion. What a friend."
"Role or not, I had my duties, but that's not the point. I could have swept her up to at least work for me more than her casual projects for everyone else, but everyone else was so damn afraid to lose the game." Black shrugged and the cat in his arms complained some more. "Fuck, the Hatter could have swept the greedy bitch up as an underling to work for him so damn easily, and keep her in his territory for his other dogs, but he didn't. Every damn one of you was so damn scared to lose another game that you didn't even try to play Aria's game and left her to survive on her own. She barely did so by whatever means she could, which obviously led her to not even consider she could be helped or saved. You never even tried to understand or get close to her at all. The fuck." He hissed.
"She so easily sealed her heart, all while everyone kept going for my Alice." Blood tapped the tip of his hat with his cane."It wasn't as if it was worth on the long run apparently. "Alice is clearly the best foreigner. So lovable and amusing. So much that the losers never stopped paying attention to her. Unlike the other forgettable foreigner."
"Aria is superior to Alice in both mind and body." White stated as a matter of fact. "She is far more clever, agile, deadly, and beautiful in every way of the word. The way she was able to untangle the world to degrees which even I didn't know or could even explain was amazing. She learned to manipulate life energy - do you have any idea how incredible that is? We may be able to use it, but she creates, directs and manipulates it like we never will. She conquered the jabberwocky, and not just the one in Diamond. She conquered the thing that was devouring the world. Her knowledge is unparalleled and her talents are countless. Didn't any of you see or was she too much for you that you refused to see and play to win!?"
"Too bad that Joker can't even participate in the game, but that would have made Joker an evenshittier loser…but that is exactly what it sounds like happened. you sound quite lovestruck." Blood pointed out with a sadistic grin. "Did you ever even tell her all this? Or perhaps that is what is making you so angry? That you had the foreigner so close but never in reach either?"
"Of course Joker can participate in the game. I can choose to participate in the game and I did. It's just been such a long time that it's been forgotten until Aria discovered it and told me about it. In order to be able to chase her into Diamond, I chose to participate. It's a shame I never got the chance to tell her just yet, but once this is all over, I do plan to ask her to consider myself as a lover for herself, not just as a friend given that all the chances you idiots got to further her game were completely wasted."
Joker felt like an air headed idiot. He had failed to acknowledge before that his clock was ticking for her. Even under the effects of her relic he had fallen for her, and now that he came to this realization about himself he also came to a realization about her game. Obviously no one would feel the impulse of her heart's call. It was he, Joker, the one more advanced in her game. He had been the prospective winner of her game.
Both Gray and Blood were taken aback for a moment upon hearing that the villain of Wonderland could be a player in the game.
"I sure as fuck would be a better lover than you two dumb bitches," Black muttered with a crooked smirk.
"Well, with the world ending, you won't ever get that chance." Blood snorted a small laugh before pulling up his cane, shifting it into his tommy gun, "killing the Joker while he is a faceless isn't very satisfying, but at the very least, now that your usefulness has run its course, it's about time we've ended the conversation, don't you think?"
Both Jokers jolted back, shifting their whips into guns. Without their role, their deaths now could be their permanent deaths - especially if unsealing Aria's heart ended up failing.
"You think so? There's advantages to being a faceless now, you know. Aria can't order me around based on my role anymore. Killing an asset like that now would be terrible mistake." White argued.
"And I'm the one with any clues to how to unseal the little heart." Black agitated the little heart a bit, making it meow again.
"Stop it already." Gray took out his knives. "If I need to stop your quarrels to get this sorted, I will."
White was holding his pistol in his hand already and Blood had transformed his cane into a machine gun. Gray was holding 3 knifes in his hand, ready to intervene.
"Chu!"
The holder's standoff was interrupted and Pierce came rushing in.
"Alice, chu! She disappeared." The undertaker stopped, looking at everyone and then focusing on Blood. "The mansion is still fine, but she isn't there!"
"Dammit!" Blood changed his machine gun back into a cane and looked as if he wanted to rush out.
"Do you think she was captured?"Gray frowned, setting his knives away too.
Blood frowned. "It's worse. I guess Alice was stupid enough to go search for Aria. She wanted to have a heart to heart talk with the clearly demented psycho foreigner that wants to destroy the world."
"And I assume Alice didn't even know what was happening, right?" The ex-Jester crossed his arms.
"Hey, Lizard. Kick the incubus until he wakes up." The ex-warden pointed out. "Nightmare can track Alice or pull her away towards the dream realm. Nightmare was last in the nightmare realm, enjoying some of Aria's past experiences."
"There is no time." Blood also looked at the fallen caterpillar without any hope for the worm's recovery. "Whatever happened to the caterpillar he seems lost already. We can't let Alice fall into Aria's hands. That mental foreigner knows the value of foreigners and will no doubt exploit it."
"Tsk." White shrugged. "Its clear that the hatter is only worried about his bitch, but he isn't wrong. Aria won't waste time using Alice as soon as she gets her, and she will. With how easily she got to everyone else. Aria was last in the prison and circus. She might still be there."
"We have no choice, we need to go get Alice now." Gray tightened his bandages as best as he could, ready to head out too. "As a foreigner she may still be able to do something we cant"
The ex-Jester clapped. "Excellent that you are so ready to move out. Quite late but will have to do. As I don't have my role anymore I will stay here and try to wake up Nightmare and figure out how to unseal the cat. Oh, and if you need to, refer to us but those colored nicknames It will be less confusing. At least it will work while I am still separate in two individuals. Oh, and I suggest you call the elevator directly towards the illumination cabin above the main tent. I don't think that spot is covered white the entire area below will be crawling with her army. It's hard to reach too, so you may have some time to reach back the elevator. "
"Pierce," Blood began walking towards the exit. "Stay here and watch over ex-Joker and the sleeping worm."
Gray began walking too, but he stopped to look at the ex-Warden and the cat in his arms. "Is there any clue as to how to unseal her heart"
"I'm working on it."Black moved the feline away from Gray's reach." Just think that this is my objective too. Otherwise I and everyone truly die too. I will get my role back one way or another and unseal her heart."
For all sounds and responses, the cat hisses and tried twisting to swipe at the ex-Joker.
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