Predator at the Docks (Joker & Harley Quinn)

[Animal]

Gotham Harbor
Warehouse nr. 10563
18:45

Animal walked slowly towards a tied up man. The only light in the warehouse was highligting the chair and the man. the man was asleep, had severe injuries around his body and his clothes were torn almost to shreds. he was ducktaped, unable to talk and move.

animal carried a bucket of water, and a few meters away from the man he threw the water from the bucket at the man.

''i believe you have slepped enough for now'' Animal said while he walked up to the man and removed the ducktape quickly and harsh from the mouth. ''Look, whoever you are... just set me free already, i have done nothing'' the man replied.
''I'm not done with you yet William''
''What do you want from me, please i will do anything if you just will set me free''
''you can actually go whenever you want, but if your not going to serve your purpose then im not seeing any reason for me to keep you alive''
''I send the message as you told me to, what more can you ask of me!?''

animal drew one of the katana's from his back and pointed it towards the face of William, while he took out a photo from his pocket. the picture showed a happy little family. A father, A mother and a daughter. he showed the picture to William.

''i will give you two options then. you can sit here and wait for them to arrive and serve your purpose or you can go now and i will kill you on the way out and afterwards the two girls on this picture''

William had chills down his spine ''that's my family, look if you do anything towards my family i will personally...''

''However!'' animal replied in a commanding and harsh way. ''if they do not show up at the time you told em to... either you or your family will feel the sharpness of this sword''

Animal looked coldly at the beaten man... ''So... William McTavish... What is it going to be? are you staying and taking the consequenses if they do not show up or are you walking away now, unknowing wether or not i am coming to kill you and your family?''

William looked at the floor... his blood covered a small pond on the floor... he wished this only was a nightmare but unfortunatly it wasn't. he should never had taken that job long ago, he knew it did put him in connection with something bad but it was good money. if he just hadn't said yes he would never be sitting here... sitting infront of this coldblooded predator. he knew he was scarred for life, he would never be able to forget that mask ever again... He looked up into the eyes of the mask. ''Im staying''

Animal dropped the photo of William and his family down at the feet of William and turned around. ''Then pray that they show up 19:00 exactly, one minute late and your family will have to buy you a coffin'' Animal said as he walked out into the shadows, completely disappearing out of sight without making any noice at all.

Animal looked at the text William had send from the phone.

19:00, Warehouse 10563 at the docks, highly important, be on time, bring your ''boyfriend''.
sent to: Harley Quinn

[The Joker]

The Joker’s Ha-Hacienda
Location unknown
17:56

Harley giggled as she threw another bone at her two babies, Bud and Lou. The two hyenas “chuckled” as they ran for the bone like two oversized dogs, playfully snapping at each other before Bud wrestled the bone from Lou, proudly bringing it back to mommy, if not for the tackle delivered from his brother, making him loose the bone. Harley simply laughed and hugged her babies, kissing their foreheads. Suddenly, her cell chimed, signalling a message had been received. As she read it, she blinked a couple times, surprised that “Willie” had actually texted her. She then frowned, glaring at the text. She didn’t like the tone Willie used, as if he could command her around. She was just about ready to throw her cell into a corner and forget about all of it, but then a thought hit her, what if it actually was important? She wouldn’t want her pudding to be angry with her, now would she?

Thus, she hurried into the next room; cell in hand as she called. “Mistah J! Mistah J! There’s a message from lil’ Willie, he want to meet us at the docks, he say it’s important!” The Joker glared at her from across the table he was working at, covered with blueprints of his next plans. He had started a gang war between Bane, Falcone and the Penguin after all, and he had made sure each believed that the other two had ganged up on him. Now all he had to do was keep dousing more gasoline on the fire so to speak. Harley nervously approached him as he beckoned her forward until she was next to him. ”Y… you aren’t mad at me for interrupting you… are you pumhrck!” Harley was cut short as the Jokers fingers tightened around her throat like a vice. He then leaned closer, grinning as he looked into her eyes. His own revealed nothing, for all Harley knew, this was when end and she’d be dead in a moment.

“Of course I’m mad that you disturbed me! I am in the middle of something important! But…” the madman paused, licking his lips. “… but I can’t stay mad at you for long pumpkin. Besides… I feel rather, fresh… and who knows, once we’ve checked what it is Willie-boy want… that freshness may even turn frisky… We haven’t had some alone time in a long time, have we?” At his words, Harley started blushing as her pumpkin lessened the grip. “you… you’ll bring the whoopee cushion?” she asked, breathlessly. “You bet…” The Joker answered with a quiet chuckle as his breath tickled her neck, making Goosebumps emerge all over her skin. He then let go of her, Harley in turn sinking to hear knees as she tried to get her blush and breathing under control.

Gotham Harbor
Warehouse nr. 10563
18:55

The sound of a car approaching was the only thing breaking the silence, and soon that sound too was cut off as the car stopped in front of the warehouse. The Clown prince of crime and his lovely henchgirl stepped out and looked around. The Joker was grinning as usual as Harley looked around, a curious expression on her face. They both then entered the warehouse, looking around. “Oh Williee? You have ten seconds to tell me what is so important that you disturb me in my plans and have me dragged out here, and if you don’t I’ll have you cut up in so many pieces that sand seems lumpy! ” The Joker yelled, his voice dripping with anger.

[Animal]

The voice of anger, almost like it could kill you if you heard it, made William shiver in fear. William quickly looked at the clock. 18:55 it said. he then became overjoyed by happiness, the Joker, funny enough, just saved his life from being killed by that lunatic of a masked man.

''Im in here Mr. Joker!'' William replied, trying to cover the fear in his voice. ''Im sitting in the Spotlight''

Animal looked in the direction of the angry voice. looked on the clock, 18:55. ''He's here sooner than expected'' Animal thought to himself.

He heard William reply the Joker telling him where to go.
Animal looked in his hands. 1 pound of C4. he attached it to one of the collumns in the building, and made sure it was connected to the detonator. he looked around, the building was rigged to completely dissappear with all of the explosives in the building. ''All set'' he said to himself, very quietly so both the Joker and William wouldnt hear him. he grabbed the katana he had left on one of the boxes in the werehouse and unsnapped the holster for one of his USP's and then silently moved to a lookout where he could easily interupt if things got out of hand.

he then just stood there and watched William, ready with his weapons to go for the kill.

[The Joker]

The Joker turned his head in the direction of the voice, standing before William soon after. As the man known as The Ace of Knaves saw the poor man tied up he sighed.

"Hmm...It seems like you have been turned into bait, Willie. This means I’ve been bamboozled!" A sickening laugh rose from his grinning mouth as he turned around in a full circle as he looked around. “Come out, come out wherever you are! I know you guys are around...I mean, who would go through all this trouble without staying around to see the result?”

As The Joker Spoke, Harley remained at the door, looking around, feeling rather nervous all of a sudden. Something was wrong, she was sure of it, and as a result, Harley headed back into the van to fetch mommy’s little helper, who knew when she’d need it? While Harley was outside, The Joker turned back to William with a grin once he finished his circle and grabbed him by the cheek. “So, Willie…tell me…who is it? Who is it who made you call me...Who is it you fear more than me?” As the Joker spoke, his voice fell to a cheerful, yet menacing tone, his eyes glowing with rage and madness, a very horrible mixture, spelling horrible consequences for the poor man if he did not answer his boss.

[Animal]

William remembered that tone. he had seen it dozens of times before, when the joker started to smile, something bad was going to happen. the fear for the joker spread like a fire inside of him and the only thing he could see before him was his own death if he made just the smallest mistake.

with a shivering voice, William managed to answer the joker's question ''I... I... I d-dont know, Mr Joker.''

Animal saw Harley walk out from the building again, she seemed a bit afraid of the situation. he switched the katana to his right hand and grabbed the remote gate control device from his pocket, and made himself ready to close the gates as soon as Harley had entered the building. but she needed to be back soon, he knew that it could only be a matter of minutes before joker would kill William, which would ofcourse help animal, because that would mean one less witness, but a promise is a promise.

He tightned his grip upon the katana and intenssively watched the gate for harley to come back into the building, while he carefully listened to what Joker and William was talking about.

[The Joker]

"You don't know Willie? Really? no idea what your abductor looks like, the voice, a gender..NOTHING?!" As Joker spoke, his voice went from being soft, almost sugar coated, to the kind of angry, acid dripping outburst that usually resulted on someone's horrible demise. "You know Willie..normally I'd use my happy gas or Joker venom.." and with a flick with his wrist, a knife appeared in the madman's hand. "But I don't really feel up for it..so I'll just go ahead and stab you to death.."

Harley soon returned, carrying something covered in cloth. She entered the building, looking around, alert. She had heard her Puddin's words though, and they made her smile. It was pretty clear she didn't want to be here, much rather back home with her Mistah J, but as always, she'd follow him dutifully, even to the gates of hell if necessary.

"Puddin? I don't want to interrupt your playtime..but can you kill him quickly? I wanna go home.." Harley said, nervously. The Joker looked at her, suddenly grinning slyly. If you're referring to your.."revving" don't fret pumpkin, I haven't forgotten." The result of his words though, was one of the rare moments, Harley's cheeks actually blushed enough to be seen through the paint. "O..okay Mistah J.."

[Animal]

William was terrified in fear and responded The joker in a very nervous and almost shouting voice. ''No Mr. Joker! i... i... just dont know who he is, but i know his voi..'' and in the same second a quiet sound was made and a bullet pierced the middle of his forehead, instantly killing him.

5 seconds earlier

Animal looked at the gate and saw that harley had entered the building once more and was just about to press the gate controls to close the gates when he heard the joker starting to ask into him. Animal knew that william wouldnt be able to shut up, so he quickly drew one of his pistols and in the same second as William started to describe the looks and the voice of him, Animal planted a bullet right in the middle of the forehead of poor william with his silenced USP.45.

as soon as he had fired the bullet, Animal quickly hit the gate switch so the gates shut down and there would be no way out from the warehouse unless you were able to break down metal doors.

soon after closing the gates, Animal put the gate controls into one of his pockets so it was safely hid away and grabbed the katana he had had to put under his arm so he could shoot william. Animal didnt walk out into the light, he waited a little bit to see the reaction of the Joker now that Animal had shot his ''prey''

[The Joker]

The Joker looked at William, grinning as he started his little rant, describing his assailant, listening carefully. The Joker's expression turned into a frown as William's head and body slumped forward, dead as dust. The Joker then stood, looking around, the frown still on his face as he muttered in a low voice. "Spoilsports.."

Harley looked around once she saw that William had been shot, a panicked expression on her face. it was clear she didn't like this at all, and when the gates closed, she made a squeaking sound loud enough to be heard throughout the building. "M..M..Mistah J?..I..I don't like this at all.." She said as she looked around, trying to open the gate with little success. The Joker looked at her, a smirk starting to spread across his face. He then looked towards the direction the bullet had been fired from, chuckling eerily.

"Alright! Well that certainly put a damper on the fun! Now, tell me, Mister gun in the dark, is this really the right time to play kill stealer? I mean, come on, this isn't some lame multi-player game, this is as real as they write it to be!" He then rummaged through his pockets as he looked at the darkness where the killing shot had been shot from. Rather suddenly he grabbed something from a pocket, lobbing a small metal object towards the darkness where his foe was hiding, the thrown object rather quickly turned out to be an grenade, swirling through the air on it's way towards Animal.

[Animal]

Animal stood quietly and watched Harley and Joker. He saw the fear spreading, mostly on Harley. The Joker didn’t seem to take any notice that William just had been shot. He actually seemed rather disappointed than terrified.

Animal felt a chill run down his back. Something was wrong. The joker was shouting something about Multi-player games, a kill steal… Well if William had to die anyway, it was best he didn’t tell anything. Animal got distracted in his own thoughts for a few seconds thinking of the ''kill steal''. Animal recovered soon his focus again, but only to see Joker throw something in his direction. It was small and round, it wasn’t completely round it had a little top on it. It was a grenade!

As soon as Animal noticed it was a grenade, he realized why he had felt threatened. Joker tried to harm Animal and therefore get the upper hand in this ''game'' as Joker nicely would refer it as. Animal quickly noticed himself of the surroundings, any escapes, where could flee?
The only escape was out. He had to jump into the arms of the Joker. Not the smartest idea, Animal knew that, but if he wanted to live, he had to do so.

Animal ran towards the grenade and jumped, head diving into the concrete, where he landed and made a somersault, and quickly got back up on his feed. Animal knew he had to get the upper hand in this situation as quickly as possible. Animal pointed his katana towards the chin of the joker as soon as he stood up on his feet again. As he was pointing the katana towards the Joker, Animal blindly pointed his USP.45 in the direction of Harley, only knowing where she stood and not looking. He watched joker intensively, the Joker tried to get the upper hand one time before, it would be a shame if he got it, it would his death.

The red eyes in the mask were switched on when he stood up, so Joker was looking into the fiendish eyes of the Animal. ''My game, my rules'' Animal said coldly to the joker with no tone in his voice.

[The Joker]

The Joker looked on in anticipation as the grenade sailed through the air, heading towards the direction of the shot. The reaction he got was rather surprising as a masked person came head diving out of the shadows before the apparent male had his sword pointed at the Joker.

The Clown Prince of Crime chuckled as he looked at the the man in front of him, actually keeping eye contact with him through the lenses of the mask. How the mad man did this was unknown, but it should be clear he was doing it. For some reason, the grenade didn't explode when it was supposed to do so, instead making a sound like a whoopee cushion. The Joker kept the eye contact, ignoring the grenade. "Well sonny..your game isn't really all that fun..though this whole thing is a pretty good idea..just a shame your author have such nasty ideas about irony and family, eh?" All of a sudden the grenade went off behind Animal, the explosion sending debris in all directions.

This of course, was what the Joker had waited on, using the moment to move out of harms way, squirting the contents of his flower towards the mask of his opponent, if it struck, the acid would hiss aggressively as it ate away at the material. The Joker naturally knew that if his opponent acted quickly and removed the helmet fast enough, he would leave unscratched from the acid. The same couldn't be said for his fight with The Mirthful Menace, that fight, would most likely get much more dangerous now that his opponent should realize, when you played with the Joker, you played with a wild card.

[Animal]

Surprised by the sudden attack by the joker, he dropped the katana to the floor and quickly removed the mask. The acid had within seconds nearly digested itself all the way through the mask and into his face. this was a concentrated acid, stronger than he had experienced before. Normally his mask would be able to withstand all kinds of acid, but this was something else. Probably something the joker have mixed himself.

After had removed the mask, Animal bend himself over, making it look like the acid had reached his face. But he was actually just covering his face so the joker wouldn't be able to see it.

Animal thought to himself for a brief second... what should he do? The joker was playing dirty, he could easily feel that. Well if he plays dirty, Animal might as well play along. Animal made a quick spin while crouching down. While he did that he stretched out his left leg, to sweep Jokers legs so he would fall to the ground. Right after hitting the legs of the joker, Animal quickly aimed his gun towards Harley and shot a very precisely aimed shot towards her right shoulder. After shooting after Harley, Animal grabbed his katana once again, but instead of chopping the joker up with it, he did a backwards somersault and disappeared into the shadows once again.

[The Joker]

A Sick and twisted cackle escaped the joker as his opponent dropped his weapon and removed his mask as the acid ate through it. Now the lad was at least crippled in one of two ways, either he had to cover his face if he didn't want to reveal his identity to The Joker and thus, could only use one arm, or he had been at least partially hit by the acid and was now fighting with the pain while fighting the mad man. Or, if The Joker was really lucky, the boy was right now dying from the acid eating his face.

An insane grin spread across the face of The Mirthful Menace before he started to laugh as his opponent bend over, the acid seemingly burning away at his face. He then, in the very next moment sent a swift kick to Animal's head, most likely sending him to the floor if he hits. "Aww..my bad, I didn't know you were allergic to flowers!" The Joker said as he started cackling before he pulled a pistol, aiming it at Animal. "Now boy..are you ready to talk? or do I have to start hurting you?" he asked.

As her puddin and the strange dude in a mask had fought, Harley had been ready to help until he had pointed a gun at her. as he hadn't looked at her, she had jumped behind a crate, preparing to fight this lunatic who were trying to hurt Mistah J. She looked at them, observing the result of the fight, waiting for now, Mommy's little helper ready to be used if necessary.

[Animal]

Animal stood in the shadows. The situation had turned to something he had not expected. He should have. It was of course the Joker he was up against. This meant he had to expect some huge resistance. Animal knew that if you had to fight the Joker, you literally had to pin him down for good.

The Joker pulled a gun and started pointing towards where Animal had emerged into the shadows, almost like he could see him. Animal started moving around the facility so Joker wouldn’t be able to just shoot him, making sure he stayed totally invisible and always in movement. His footsteps was silent, his ears was listening after every little sound that was made, and his eyes was intensively watching both the Joker and Harley. This time he had to be focused.

Animal searched once again through his pockets and found a small wireless device. It was a microphone. He had connected it to the speakers he had placed around in the facility, for distraction so that the joker wouldn’t know where he stood. He put the microphone on his left ear, and pointed the microphone towards his mouth and started talking. ''Well Mr. Joker, I’m more than ready to talk with you. But as the situation has turned out, I can no longer stand face to face with you, since I will not show my face.'' The sound of his voice echoed through the warehouse from 8 different places. ''So you will have to listen to what I have to say from a distance. Or both of you have to.''

[The Joker]

The Joker looked around, a sick smile on his face. This young man, and that much the Joker knew about his opponent, was a slippery one. He knew how to hide and sneak in the shadows, but he was no Batman. The Joker had a feeling that this strange one was very different, but perhaps not really intent on killing The Joker, after all, he had had several chances to try and shoot by now, and he had not done so.

Harley was still nervous, but also rather irritated. Just who WAS this masked idiot who tried to kill her pudding? She wouldn’t stand this, and as soon as that ass showed himself she’d give him a present from Mommy’s little helper. The Joker could only giggle at her expression as she wasn’t hiding anymore, standing with her private helper in her hands, a marvelous thing that surprised most people, simply because it was much too insane to use indoors, yet Harley actually knew what she was doing when she used it.

Harley’s head Jerked up as she heard Animal’s voice, trying to figure out where he were, failing due to the amount of speakers all around inside the building. The Joker simply turned in a little circle as he listened to Animal’s words. “So you want to talk? Ha! You have a peculiar way of talking, what with the whole sword thing” Said the Joker in a clear voice. “Well, then tell me boy, what is it you want to talk about? Why kidnap and kill that useless piece of meat that Willie-boy was? You know what…never mind! I wouldn’t have had this any other way..so..come on, talk, or do you want to continue our little game of Cat and mouse?” The Joker asked with a sly grin.

[Animal]

Animal stopped a while from his movement and looked at the joker. The joker knew that Animal didn’t want to kill him, which made the whole situation worse for Animal. The Joker of course wanted to kill him. So he had to get the upper hand once again. Animal walked over to an open crate and collected something he had put in it. He collected two files he had hidden. One for Harley and one for The Joker. ''Harleen Frances Quinzel and Joker... Listen carefully. This building is rigged with C4 explosives, if you try and remove them, they trigger. If you manage to kill me, they trigger. If you do anything stupid, I’ll trigger them. The building is currently surrounded by the Gotham PD who wants the both of you arrested. I have blocked any possible way out of this situation.''

Animal started walking slowly around out in the shadows. It annoyed him that he didn’t have his mask anymore. Even more that he didn’t bring another mask just in case. He walked near the outline of the shadows and threw the two files out to joker and Harley. After he had thrown the files he quickly moved to another position, he didn’t want any grenades to be thrown at him again. ''there’s a bounty on both of your heads, dead or alive. A lot of mercenaries and assassins will try and claim this price. If you look in each of your files you can see all the information that has been given.''

He walked up to another open crate and pulled out a weapon. It was a L11 sniper rifle with some ammunition. He walked up the staircase to get to the first floor with the rifle in his hands, without making a sound. He placed himself in a lookout where he could see the both of them, but they wouldn’t be able to see him. ''So, Joker and Harley... Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t collect this bounty right away?'' and then he loaded the rifle, so the frightening sound of sniper rifle rung through out the speakers in the entire building.