The Jokes On You

She moved through the crowd slowly, bumping against them, and pushing them aside. The noise was unbearable...cellphones ringing...children crying...everyone else just talking and talking.

Her head pounded as she crossed the plate from, not knowing why she was there. The only thing he really remembered was sitting with her asthmatic friend then being whisped up from the couch and into the van....that high shrieking laugh piercing her ears...then the screeching tires.

Then she was pushed out into the sun and told to walk to the train. Maybe he was done with her? Maybe she was free to go? No...he was up to something else... maybe this was where she was meeting her death.

She stopped a few feet from the platform edge. It was freezing today and her standing with out her coat made it worse. It attracted attention to herself. She glanced up to the camera for some reason, staring at it for about three seconds before turning around.

She stared towards the entrance, she didn't see him at all. Was he still up there? Or had he gone? "What's wrong with you?" She whispered to herself as she was starting to fall in to that void of emptiness again.

Joker walked next to her his face covered by a hat hanging over his eyes, though his makeup still stood out noticeably.

She hugged herself slowly as she stared at all the people shuffling around her. She glanced to Joker slowly. Why was he wearing that bloody thing? She thought as she looked away quickly. Never seemed to mind showing himself off before.

A woman across the platform was staring at her. She stared back. Did that woman know her? ...no...she was just an old lady. she then smiled and waved to her. She mimicked the gesture and turned her attention elsewhere. Elderly folk gave her such uneasy feelings.

"What are we doing here?"

"You shall see." He said moving towards one of the trains.

She moved her jaw slightly lopsided as she took a step forward. All seemed well as she moved up next to him again, staying silent.

He signaled to six other guys that made their way into other compartments before he stepped into the one closest to the front, the one just after the engine car and motioned for her to join him. He had a large black bag slung over one shoulder.

She eyed the bag and stepped into the train car. She had a strong feeling this was where she was going to die. There was probably a bomb in that bag and she would be left on the train with it ticking.

Joker made his way up to the front car, the engine room. The conductor was already there preparing for the journey. Joker pulled out a gun and held it to the back of his neck.

"Hello." Joker said slowly.

The conductor froze and turned around slowly. "Oh my god..." He wheezed and backed into the control panel.

"Oh shush shush shush." Joker said moving the gun down to his chest. "Everything's going to be alright." He laughed as he put the bag down with a loud clank.

Please don't shoot me!" He begged as he began to tremble. Tabatha came into the car slowly and blinked at him. "Oh miss go back to your seat! It's dangerous in here!" He said quickly to her.

Joker laughed and moved away from him with the gun still aimed at his chest. He back up half way between the conductor and Tabi.

She stepped over to him, standing at angle behind him as she slipped her arms under his. One slid up under his shirt, lightly scratching his muscles and the other into his pants. "How's your fever?" She whispered softly to him as she watched the color fade from the Conductors face.

"Better." He whispered back. He liked the feeling of her hand on his skin much to his dismay. He had things to attend to but didn't want her to stop.

She watched him careful, she could tell he liked her hands right where they were. She leaned up onto her tip toes and licked his earlobe as her hand rubbed over his flaccid cock.

"Tabi I have work to be doing." He said in a sing song voice as he cock began to harden.

The conductor groaned slightly as he felt himself hardening at the sight but quickly tried to mask it. She smirked as she pulled her hands from him. "I guess I'll have to find something else to do while your working." She purred and turned back to the doorway.

"No you'll stay right here." He said. "Get this train moving." He said to the conductor as he moved towards the bag.

"Oh god..." He turned around and quickly pushed the necessary controls to get the train moving. Tabi blinked then leaned against the door frame. The conductor nudged the train forward as he mumbled a sort of prayer under his breath.

Joker opened the black bag and moved the sides down around it's contents. Inside was a large black box with a bunch of wires on it.

Tabi averted her eyes quickly from the object. When that thing went of it would take out the train, passengers, and half the tunnel. She stayed silent as the Conductor happened to glace back and let out a whimper at the object.

"Oh hush now man." Joker said. "This little thing here is the least of your problems. You're biggest problem is the other fourty eight of these on the rest of your train." Joker laughed. "Course then again this one is closest to you.... so I guess this one would be you're biggest problem." He said looking down the thing as if thinking out loud.

"Forty-eight? How the hell did you get a hold of that many?" Tabi blurted in a shocked tone then quickly bit her tongue.

"You don't have to do this...I'll give you anything you want please." He begged as he looked to the tracks again. "I have a family..."

"Don't we all..." Tabi mumbled.

Joker licked his lips. "No we don't." He said plainly. "But frankly I don't care...." He paused and pulled out a knife. He grabbed onto the conductor. "You wanna know how I got these scars?"

Tabi shot him one of the oddest looks he probably would ever see from her. Just how many stories did he have for those scars of his? The Conductor whimpered again and continued trying to drive the train.

"You see.... I had an older brother once..... named Ronny." He paused and shifted slightly. "Ronny, was almost twelve years older than me. He was good at everything. Sports, Art, Acting, School..... you name it he was good at it. He used to pick on me all the time. Call me names. Call me stupid cause all I wanted to do was tell jokes. Called me his little joker." He laughed at the irony in the name. "One day, he was with his friends, he asked me.... 'do you wanna play basketball?'" he said trying to imitate Ronny's voice. "I said no of course I didn't like sports. He started picking on me again. But this time, I fought back. Ronny didn't like this. He threw me into the group of trash cans. I landed face first in one of them. Two nails, caught in my face, on each side of my mouth. Ronny came and ripped me out of the garbage can ripping the skin." He paused and put the knife against the conductors lips. "Do you know what he asked me when he was what had happened?"

The Conductor couldn't speak, he was terrified of the man and the knife against his lips. His hands were shaking uncontrollably as he glanced helplessly to Tabatha, silently begging her to stop him.

Tabatha on the other hand had squirmed a bit through his story, this version of his scars was more gruesome then the first but she kept her wits about her. She caught his eye and shrugged her shoulders lightly. "Answer him and he'll stop..."

The conductors eyes closed as his pants suddenly felt wet. "Aww...he pissed himself...." Tabatha said in a low tone then giggled.

The Joker looked down disgusted and pulled away from the man. "Do I scare you?" Joker asked. "Am I really, that, scary?"

Despite the mans humiliation he tried his best to keep his composure. Tears were starting to prick his eyes as he leaned against the control panel. "...yes..."

"Oh." Joker looked honestly hurt. "What's so scare about me?" He asked. "Is it the scars? It's the scars isn't it?" He turned away feinting shame.

Tabatha pouted at him. Once again he was a puzzle...she thought he wanted to be feared...then she remembered the first few moments when she first met him... he was nearly or was turned on by her un-threatened manner towards him. She shifted her weight and took a deep breath. The man on the other hand was genuinely horrified, so much she thought he might have a heart attack any second.

Joker laughed and went back into his usual attitude as he practically skipped back over to the bag.

She sighed and rolled her eyes as she put a cigarette into her mouth and lit it.

Joker paused and looked over to her hearing the click of a lighter. "What are you doing?"

"Giving myself lung cancer." She said through the cig as she puffed it and blew out the smoke, slipping the lighter back into her pocket.

Joker pulled the cigarette out of her mouth and threw it out the train window. He moved over to the bomb and set the thing. He pulled out a small detonator.

She held a blank look for a moment then grumbled softly. "I wasn't done with that."

"Yeah? Well now you are."

Tabi opened her mouth to protest but was immediately interrupted when the window next to her shattered and a billowing streak of black flew through it. She fell to the side with a few cuts on her arm and cheeks as she stared up at the tall dark figure.

"Joker...this ends here." Growled a deep voice. The Conductor fell into tears as he saw who stood with him.

"Oh thank god!!"

"Well, well.... if it isn't the Batman." Joker said laughing.

He looked to the bomb then back to him before lunging forward and swinging a punch at him. Tabatha got up quickly and moved into the back compartments to one of the goons and snatched his pistol from his belt. "C'mon we've got a bat problem." She instructed as she walked back to the conductors compartment.

By the time she got back Batman had Joker pinned to the floor. But the position only lasted a moment as Joker bucked up and knocked him off of him.

Tabatha glared and pointed the pistol towards him, pulling the trigger several times. Batman was a bit taken a back by her actions, he originally thought she was a hostage but it seemed Joker was taking on special recruits. He dodged the bullets as best he could. A few of them nicking his arm and side.

After the bullets ran out Tabatha threw the gun to the side as Batman pushed her up against the wall. "Joker!!" She screamed as she was lifted up off her feet.

"Corrupting teenage women now Joker!?" Batman growled.

Joker got off the floor and brushed the dirt off of himself. "I have done nothing but.... open her.... uh..... own imagination...."

He made a grunt and looked back to her. "Sorry." He said quickly as his fist connected with her face. Her head slammed back against the wall. He dropped her promptly and turned with a billow of his cape to his nemesis. He lunged forward again, grabbing Joker's jacket tightly. "Your going to Arkham where you belong!"

Tabatha shook her head slightly as she got up to her feet again, standing lopsided. Her lip was bleeding and her jaw ached terribly. Rubbing it slowly she extracted her knife and threw it towards the Batman, the blade cut a few of her fingers.

The knife cut through his armor and lodged into his shoulder blade. He cried out and stumbled backwards, reaching backwards to try and grasp the hilt. "Bats get out of the way!" She snapped and kicked him.

He stumbled forward, falling through the opposite window, landing with a sound similar to a pumpkin smashing against a rock on the gravel next to the tracks. Putting her bloody fingers to her mouth she moved over to Joker, staring at him calmly.

Joker grabbed the detinator where he had dropped it and handed it to the conductor.

"Okay here's what's going to happen." He said. "You have a choice. But your odds aren't too good either way. On you're first five cars you have 27 people yourself included. On the last seven you have 42 people. One of these YOU are going to blow up." He laughed. "You have ten minutes before you reach the next station. If you don't do it by then, I will personally blow up the whole train.

Oh and if you're thinking this decision is a no brainer.... You're young daughter is on the back set of cars." Joker laughed.

"You're going to blow yourselves up for this little ploy?" He asked. Joker laughed hysterically again.

"Do you honestly think I'd do that for a bit of fun? No.... we will not be on the train."

The conductor held the small device tightly, sweat practically gushing down his face. Batman had been defeated and there was no one else around to help them. He knew what he would do, his daughter was the most important thing to him and if he had to sacrifice himself for her then so be it. "F-fine..."

"You're down to seven minutes." Joker laughed grabbing onto Tabi. He jumped out the window the both of them rolling on the ground.

She was snapped out of her thoughts as she was yanked towards the broken window and tossed out. She hit the gravel with a sickening crack from her back , rolling into the tunnel wall. "Oooh ow...." She moaned and flopped onto her side. "Ok...that hurt...." The train continued down the track for some time before there was a roar of an explosion and the tunnel quivered around them.

The back car screeched and crashed into the cars in front of it, the cars catching on fire before the explosives also went off. Joker lay on the ground rolling with laughter.

"Guess he didn't take that into consideration." He said through his fits of laughter.

She cracked her neck then crawled over to him. She moved halfway over him and stared down. "Wanna know a secret?"

"Well.... the fact that I'm the sexiest man in the world isn't much of a secret..... so I couldn't imagine what it would be."

She tilted her head slowly then leaned next to his ear. "Your turning me on." She whispered.

Joker ignored her statement as he stood up brushing her off. "You wanna catch a movie?" He asked.

"You want...to go see a movie?" She said slowly and stood up, her back cracked again, causing her to cringe.

"I do." He said simply.

"Your really random." She brushed some gravel dust off herself then stretched.