Chapter 2: Joker’s Playground

"What do you mean it's gone! we just had the top technician from the board look at it last night!" Shouted a scruffy looking individual with a coarse grey mustache to a lowly young intern as he smacks the younger man's clipboard out of his hand. "S-Sir! We have reports on the location... We can easily track it down and contact the local police force!" He unsure and unsteadily muttered out with a nervous twang to his already semi-high pitched voice, obviously afraid to lose his job opportunity.

"No further action is needed Jimmy. I'll have some of my more.. well versed subordinates deal with it from here, any knowledge of this gets out to police and we'll be finished I'm sure. the protocols we've instilled into this bot have broken many of the city's regulations already." he grumbled as he pulled a small old school looking tech item and flipped it open. "Continue with your work. I have a pest to deal with..." He finished before making his way into his nearby office to make a special phone call to a group of people that owe him a favor.

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"So you're really gonna keep a stupid recon droid?" Joker said curiously while juggling a wrench. "Yes of course I'm keeping it!" Moéru stated with a small frown aimed towards Joker. "Good luck, I would've just scrapped him for parts to upgrade my JacKeT." He said as he referred to his own semi-busted up cybernetic arm.

"Oh shut up, besides. My JacKeT is state of the art anyway since I actually do missions unlike you." He said with fake malice aimed towards his friend. "Oh whateva' my job is to protect our encrypted data anyhow! and you know that." He rambled as he finally goofed up and dropped the wrench on the floor. "Dammit-" he continued before a silent alarm went off, filling the room with a bright and blaring red light that flashed on and off.

"Guess it's time to do my job!" Joker said with a kooky chuckle. "Wait- what does this alarm mean?!" Moéru shouts to joker, becoming quite confused the further Joker walked away. The shouts have already fallen into deaf ears as joker is running into a back room that lead off from behind the lab that he and Moéru were already in. He looked down with a sigh. "This guy never listens, jeez..."

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"Get that lock open now!" A furious large man said, that same man was surrounded by a few goons of his. "That old man really wants this damn robot back as quick as possible, and he's already paid me a large sum of money to come here." He grumbled grimly as his goons ran off in all directions to get into the building.

"Let's see these shitty thieves take on this.." The large man said with a smirk as his left arm glowed a slight purple hue that formed into rings that swirled around his elbow after a few seconds.

"I don't think I can let you get in there." Joker appeared around the corner with his Cybernetic left arm glowing yellow and electrical cracking noises coming from it. "E.M.P!" Joker shouts as an explosion of warping electricity and and air shoots out disabling the other man's cybernetic enhancements. "H-How in the hell did you do that?!" The bigger man grovels as he grows angrier at joker, the mans arm now falling limp as he ground his teeth together out of anger.

"Nothing you need to worry about.." Joker chuckled with malice, murderous intent, and a furious glare to match. "I wouldn't have came here if I were you!" He shouts as he hits the man with a increasingly forceful barrage of blows, all of the punches sounding like machine guns firing when they hit him.

After kicking the man's ass he turned away with a smirk. "Is that it..? I thought you'd have more fight in you if you got paid that much to come here..." Joker murmured as he turned back and kicked the unconscious man's body slightly to see if he was awake. "Guess I get new parts! Now Moéru can't drag on me for being out of date hah!" He says cheerfully as he starts to remove the man's cybernetic arm.

"He couldn't handle Joker's Playground."