↳ CHAPTER ZERO :

LIFE WILL CHANGE ↲

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THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION.

ALL OF THE CHARACTERS, IDEOLOGIES, AND PHENOMENONS ARE DOUBTLESSLY UNRELATED TO THOSE IN REAL LIFE.

ONLY THOSE WHO AGREE WITH THE STATEMENT ABOVE WILL BE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GAME

➡︎ AGREE
⇨ DISAGREE

... CERTAINLY. THE WORLD THESE DAYS IS UNABLE TO MAINTAIN ITS IDEAL FORM ANYMORE. IT IS FULL OF DISTORTIONS AND IT WILL CERTAINLY COLLIDE...

PEOPLE WHO ARE EAGER TO REFORM THE WORLD AND RESIST THEIR FATES... ARE SOMETIMES CALLED "TRICKSTERS"

THOU, TRICKSTER... NOW IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO STEP FORWARD AND FACE THE ABYSS OF THE DISTORTIONS.

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THE CASINO WAS IN AN UPROAR.

The people inside of it were in a panic, but most of them didn't even have a clue about what was happening when men in suits stormed in searching the place from head to toe.

Above the crowd, on the ceiling, a mysterious figure was running and jumping from light to light with a silver briefcase in his hands, avoiding to get caught.

The mysterious person landed on one of the many ceiling lights, which one of the guests noticed.

He pointed towards the mystery person, making everyone look up to the ceiling to see a male looking figure standing there in a ridiculous outfit, smirking confidently and looking down at them before taking off again.

"Good. Now get running!" An unknown boyish voice said.

"This is our only chance!" Another unknown male voice yelled.

"Stay calm! You can get away now!" An unknown female voice said.

"We'll retrieve the briefcase on our end," another female voice said.

Suddenly a mysterious transmission interrupted them, "suspects ... not ...confirmed ...hold ... your... positions..."

"Hm..? What was that...?" The female voice from previously asked.

"Don't worry about us. Just concentrate on getting away!"

The mysterious person continued his escape through the bright casino with ease while his teammates continued talking.

"But I have to say, showing yourself above that crowd earlier was an excellent move. Nice work as always, Joker," the familiar boyish voice complemented. 

"I bet Skull wouldn't pull it off that smoothly," another female voice commented.

"Yup, yup, gotta agree with you on there."

"This happens because you have no sense for aesthetics."

"Nobody asked you, Fox!!!"

"But he's kind right though, isn't he?", A new female voice added.

"Oh, come on! Not you too!"

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Joker safely made his way through without any real complications. He ran down the stairs case with a few agents on his tail.

He pushed open a door and thought he finally arrived at the exit, when he was greeted by a giant stained glass window in front of him and the realisation that he was on the balcony, which overlooked the first floor.

"Is something wrong? The exit should be up ahead."

"Through there?" Joker asked while staring at the beautiful, yet giant window.

The female voice sighed, "It's just how it is. After that commotion, the bottom floor is completely closed off. Hey, can you make it !?"

Joker just smirked at that question, knowing that him and his teammates probably already knew the answer to it.

Agents started swarming through the door he came through, "Over there!! There's nowhere to run!" They yelled while pointing their guns at him triumphantly.

But to their surprise, Joker jumped onto the ledge of the balcony they were on and started to run across it to get to the other side.

They stared at him in surprise and disbelief, as he ran to the giant stained glass window and stopped in front of it. He crouched down and turned around again one last time to see the agents with a smirk, "See ya!"

From one moment to another the mysterious boy threw himself against the window. The guests and guards alike gasped upon hearing and seeing the expensive colourful glass shattering.

He turned in the air, making sure that he would be landing on his feet, while smirking to himself, proud that his plan worked.

"What a show-off, you're so reckless, you know that," a girl complained, "Blossom shouldn't you say something about this?"

"She can't, she's to busy staring at him and drooling over it," Skull answer with a snicker.

"Oh, shut up!" Another female voice, probably Blossom, yelled.

Joke smiled at his teammate's silliness and rolled safely on the ground, having finally landed. He triumphantly stood up from his crouching position, having finally escaped the casino.

But then suddenly, when they all finally thought he escaped, multiple bright white lights turned on all around him.

The blinding lights caused him to squint his eyes together behind his mask, but soon enough he could make out about a few dozen agents surrounding him.

Panic quickly spread through the team of teens. Them mostly being concerned for the well-being of their leader and the success of their mission.

"Enemies here!" "What's wrong?!"
"These readings, it can't be!!"
"What happened?!" "An ambush."
"Joker, can you handle this?!" "Joker!" "Oh no!"

"Capture him!" One of the agents yelled, while Joker silently analysed the situation and listened to his friends talking. The masked thief quickly snapped out of his trance and turned to his right, running away from the scene as fast as he could.

He eventually arrived at a nearby building and jumped on to a red metal latter that was hanging from it with a smirk on his face, thinking that he escaped them once again.

He started climbing the short latter, only to be greeted by more officers and agents at the top. He was caught off guard, which gave one of the men the opportunity to hit him with the back of his gun, leading to Joker falling of the latter and on to the cold hard ground.

"Suspect secured!" Exclaimed one of them, while another one walked up to the helpless Joker om the ground.

"Didn't expect to find some kid," the guy said kneeling down in front of Joker, "You have your teammate to thank for this," he roughly grabbed Joker's head and continued, "You were sold out."

The man dropped his head as harshly as he grabbed it and stood up, walking towards his colleagues.

"Suspect confirmed, cuff him."

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