Chapter 1: Prologue

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Casino, interior.

"What's going on?", a woman asks her wife.
"No idea", her wife responds, clearly just as confused.
Alarms are going off in the casino, everyone inside looks around expecting to find what's causing the alarms but finds nothing.
However, some people catch a glimpse of something above. Something dark seemingly jumped across the lights and chandelier hanging above.
"There's something here!", someone exclaims, catching another glimpse of whatever it is.
Men in suits enter the room and start pushing past people, clearly looking for something or someone.

The black mass jumping above lands on a big chandelier and turns to look down at the crowd, grabbing onto one of the wires holding the chandelier up. He's a tall slender person, wearing a black trench coat with a big collar, black pants, and a dark grey dress shirt underneath, with red gloves. He has curly brunette hair, big white bunny ears, and is wearing a white and black mask over the top of his face.
He smirks, seemingly happy that his plan has come to fruition as he holds a metal suitcase of sorts under his left arm.

"Hey... Up there!", someone yells, pointing to the masked figure.
The men in suits look up at him and start moving his way, shoving and pulling people out of the way. "He's here. Move in immediately.", one of the men says into his earpiece.

"Heh", the masked figure chuckles, turning and jumping away.
He lands onto another chandelier, as his walkie-talkie goes off. "Good. Now get running!", a 'boyish' voice instructed through the device.
"This is our only chance!", a slightly older male voice mentioned.
"Stay calm! You can get away now!", a slightly younger girl's voice pointed out.
"We'll retrieve the briefcase on our end!", a voice that sounded sorta like a bird's chirp reassured.

Soon after something cut through their voices, "...suspects...not...confirmed...hold...your...positions...", confused the masked figure inspected his walkie-talkie.
"Hm...? What was that...?", the younger-sounding girl's voice questioned.
"Don't worry about us. Just concentrate on getting away!", the boyish voice said, trying to get the masked figure to refocus.
The masked figure nodded to himself as he put the walkie-talkie away and began running and hoping across the lights again.
"But I have to say, showing yourself above that crowd earlier was an excellent move. Nice work as always, Joker", the boyish voice commented.
"I bet Skull wouldn't pull it off that smoothly.", a snarky girl's voice taunted.
"Hey! Cut me some slack!", a roguish boy's voice argued back.
"This happens because you have no sense of aesthetics", a British sounding boy's voice comments.

The Masked figure, now known as 'Joker', stops as more suited men block his path.
"There he is!", one of them calls out.
"Just run! Get out of there!", the younger-sounding girl calls out.
Joker then turns to a different path and begins to make his way to a balcony.
"Okay, the enemy's focus is on him. Looks like the rest of us can slip away.", the boyish voice informs the others quietly.
"Everyone remember where we're meeting up?", a more sheepish girl's voice questions.
"No worries, I can guide you all." The younger sounding girl reassures.

As Joker reaches the balcony, more suited me block his path but then they twitch violently and turn into Shadows, the human-like enemies of the Metaverse realm who have big masks on. One appears behind Joker, falling from above.
"No way to run... Fine then", Joker says, clearly had a plan if this were to happen. He turns towards the foe behind him, giving it a devilish smirk.
"Take 'em down, Joker!", the snarky girl yells out.

Joker leaps into the air, flipping about toward his opponent. He lands on its back, grabbing a tight hold of its mask. "I'll reveal your true form!", Joker yells out as he rips the mask off the shadow's face before kicking it away.
The shadow shakes violently before bursting into a wet-sounding mess of black and red ooze. The ooze then quickly forms into a new, way bigger creature.

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⏰ Last updated: Jul 18, 2023 ⏰

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