Tom swallows as he puts his phone to his ear to make the call to Frost. He already knows that the boss isn't going to be happy with them for the disturbance they made at the airport. Especially when they were going to have to fly somewhere else it appeared.
Frost answers on the second ring, "Did you find them?" He asks.
"There were... complications..." Tom hesitates. The next thing he knows another voice is on the other end of the line. He's heard the voice before. Everyone in Gotham City has at some point. It was the Joker.
"What do mean by complication?" Jason growls.
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"Boss? S-sir, it that y-y-you?" Tom asks and can feel his hand quiver at his ear.
"Quit changing the sub-ject! What the fuck happened?!" He screams in Tom's ear.
"L-language barriers s-s-sir," Tom says, his throat incredibly dry.
"Language barriers?! FUCKING LANGUAGE BARRIERS?!?! YOU STUPID MOTHER-...." Jason stops himself and draws in a breath. He did specifically request clowns who spoke German...not other languages...his bad. "No...no, it's not your fault you can't speak Czech, is it?? I requested German, right?"
"Ye-...right sir..." Tom breathes a sigh of relief, "But we did get the security footage sir. Mark has translated and gotten into the footage. We're trying to find out where they went once they got here to Prague..."
"Good. Keep me posted," Jason says in a droll voice.
"Yes sir...but before you go...t-there's just o-o-o-one more thing..." Tom swallows.
"What?" Jason sighs as his palm sweeps down his face.
"S-s-sir...the man we're after is y-y-your twin..."
Jason quickly cuts him off, "There's no love lost between my twin and I so you needn't worry about me being angry with you if he gets roughed up a little."
"N-no sir, that's not it," Tom says.
"Then what?!" Jason asks quickly, his temper growing thin.
"Well sir... We ain't hunting some two bit crook here. We're talking about the Jester. Twin brother of the Joker. A man who took out an entire Mafia..." Tom sees fit to mention.
"What's your point?" Jason asks, "Are you saying that you're afraid of him?" He seems surprised.
"Well... honestly...yeah," Tom confirms, "We're just two clowns going after... well basically y-y-you sir..."
"Jester isn't shit!" Jason hisses. "How dare you compare him to me?! I'm the fucking Joker!! He is but a copy!! He hasn't even been a copy long enough to be in my goddamn league!!!" His blood boils.
"B-b-but h-he's above our league s-s-sir..." Tom stutters, knowing he's offended the Joker. That was something you simply didn't do. It was a direct violation of the only rule. Don't fuck with the Joker.
