The Clown Prince of Crime. The Ace of Knaves. The Harlequin of Hate. Murderer. Clown. Sadist. Maniac. He has been known by many names in many places, but most of his enemies and his...acquaintances knew him by the name he used most of all, the very name of his 'calling card'...The Joker.

Ever since the day he fell into the vat of acid that left his skin chalk white, his hair clover green and his sanity snapped like a twig, he had become fixated on the very Dark Knight that had foiled the robbery he had led in the 'Red Hood' guise. Ever since the ruined robbery attempt, he had committed all sorts of heinous acts in his insanity. Some of these were downright brutal, like shooting the police commissioner's daughter which severely damaged her spine, stripping her naked and taking pictures of her while she writhed in pain, and forcing the commissioner to look at the pictures of her naked, writing body in an attempt to make him utterly mad, while others were just downright strange, like dumping his chemicals into the ocean so that the fish would have a permanent smile so that he could copyright them, killing off anyone who didn't let him get his way.

Through all of this, there had been Batman, the thorn in his side that usually always ruined his plans. He always enjoyed the struggles with the Caped Crusader, for he was the only reason he enjoyed what he did. Without the Batman, his acts of cruelty would have no punch line, and everyone knows that you can't have a joke without a punchline. He noticed when the Bat began to age, smiling at the fact that he was very close to bringing about the death of his adversary, since Joker was still the same feisty maniac that he was, his raging madness keeping him going.

However, his world nearly fell apart when Batman's son replaced him. Unlike most of his fellow cellmates at Arkham, when he first encountered Bruce Wayne's son, he knew immediately that the 'Batman' he faced when Michael took the mantle was not the same Batman he had faced all the years that he had faced him. Needless to say, he had become extremely angry when the new Batman appeared on the scene. How dare his adversary cop out of their rivalry?! He had felt cheated out of the victory he had planned for so long, his winning strategy taken from him by this imposter. But then...his frown turned into a smile, which then turned into a laugh as he figured out how he could still have his match with his rival...he'd just lure this new replacement into a trap, forcing his rival to face him once and for all!!

So he resumed his usual insane schemes, forcing 'Batfake' as he called him to come out so that he could ensnare him. However, Bruce had taught Michael well, who foiled his plans and turned him in back to the authorites, which placed him back in Arkham, angering the Joker even more. As such, the Joker became fixated on this new Batman as well, making his traps even deadlier to try and get his old rival to come out and face him again. All such attempts failed though, as the new Batman always bested him.

This trend continued for some time now, the new Batman continuing to best the Joker at every trap he set, leaving the Joker to come up with a new plan that would most likely fail. Despite all of this, though, the Joker never gave up, hellbent on attempting to face the 'true Batman', refusing to acknowledge that he was long gone now. Still, he had grown some respect for Batman's replacement, even dropping the 'Batfake' moniker, but still not acknowledging that Bruce would never come back. However, the new Bat could still give him quite a run for his money, he always made sure that his plans were the same top-notch quality that they always were, spending night after night planning his next move. It was on a night such as this in his warehouse that he had fallen asleep while drawing the blueprints for his latest scheme to capture the new Batman to make his true rival come out and face him again.

When he woke up, he found himself lying out on the jungle floor, his face contorting to one of confusion as he stood up, dusting off the purple suit that he wore. After he looked around for a bit, he just shrugged to himself and said, "Well, guess I'm not in Kansas anymore, eh, Toto?", chuckling at his own joke.

"Hmmm...doesn't look like this is something Ivy did. She'd have to KILL Batsy before he'd let her run the place down with plants." he mused, looking at his surroundings. "Who knows, maybe I'm in a different dimension altogether!! This should be fun!" His face faltered for a moment when he mumbled, "No doubt the replacement'll try and catch me..." His devious grin began to light back up as he thought to himself, "Wait...this might be the opportunity I've been looking for! If I can somehow trap him here, I can just head right back to Gotham without that ol' sourpuss following me, and the TRUE Batman will have no choice BUT to face me, and we'll have the fight of our lifetime!! And hey...why not have a bit of fun here while I'm at it?!" His plan humored him so much that he reared his head back and let out his trademark laugh, it's demonic sound echoing through the canopy as he did so.

Batman was about to reply, but the maniacal laughter that echoed through the forest made chills run down his spine. He looked to the direction where the laughter was coming from, and he gritted his teeth. "Joker." He took out his grapple gun, shot it at a high tree branch a yard away, and Batman used it to swing away, looking for his father's arch nemesis.

T'Lani listened to the laughter and shook his head "Sounds like Felarya got to someone...", before casually flying after Batman, curious about the strange laughing. Flying level with Batman, he asked "Who is this 'Joker' person?"

"The Joker is a madman. You don't want to know who he is. My father, the Batman before me, always had to figh the Joker." Batman replied.

"A madman? I'd be surprised if he was any worse than Frieza..." T'Lani said, activating his Scouter "If he's a Human, you should try turning to the left a bit."

Batman turned as instructed, and landed softly on a branch, crouching instantly. The Joker was five yards ahead of him on the jungle floor. Luckily, Batman was in the shadows, and had the element of surprise on his side. "Don't move." Batman whispered to T'Lani.

T'Lani floated silently in place, watching the Joker and thinking to himself 'Going by his strength, I'm guessing he must use technology and intelligence...'

"What the hell is he doing here?" Batman asked to no one in particular. More than anything, he wanted to stop Joker at that moment, but he felt it was best if he waited.

(omg.... Always wanted to find a way to torment someone like the joker in RP.... if he's still away.. Could give him quite the intro with an upset Natsume early in the morning ^_^... me thinks... that I have a fairly interesting post o-o... chu guys wouldn't mind if I joined in the fun would you?)

Emma smiled following the two of them leaping from branch to branch but she slipped and soon found herself hurtling towards the ground she skidded rolling backwaords and landing at the Jokers feet she groaned getting to her knees holding her slightly bleeding head from the fall.

Batman made a heavy sigh, shaking his head at Emma's clumsiness. "So much for the element of surprise..." Not wanting Emma to get hurt, Batman glided off of the branch toward Joker.

(I doubt people would mind, Natsume)

T'Lani frowned as Emma landed by the Joker, then shook his head "It's probably better to leave this guy to the one who actually knows something about him..."

((let's wait for Joker))

After he had his laugh, The Joker then pondered what exactly he could do first on this strange new world as he walked along, whistling a random tune to himself as he did so. 'Well, assuming Bats is here, I'm gonna need to do something CRAZY to get his attention. Maybe gas a few of the locals? That's sound good! A nice pile of corpses with smiles on their faces!' he thought to himself, chuckling as he started to form his plan.

Emma dropped in front of him before he could process another thought, however. He was about to reprimand her for breaking his concentration when he heard something jumping off a branch. A devious grin forming on his face, the Joker quickly pulled two Joker cards out from his sleeves, quickly turning around and throwing them at Batman, one grazing his cheek as it flew past, the other tearing into his costume.

The first card grazed Batman's cheek, however, the second bounced off of his reinfoced abdomen. He swung his legs forward, using his own momentum to tackle Joker to the ground. Bantman went to the ground with Joker, and leaped back a feet to gain soime ground between them. "Emma, run!"