"No-killing rule is suspended..." Jack heard her words, but couldn't quite process them. Although they were words he'd almost longed to hear, his mind was elsewhere. She teleported them out of the way as another card flew toward them. He held the first card loosely in his hand still. [i]Joker...[/i] "You wanna tell me what this one does?" Lexa questioned Jack. This time he hadn't heard her at all. 

Jack, seemingly fearless Jack, was actually terrified of Joker. He wasn't like the others. He was the first card experiment but was the last to escape. Jack and Ace had agreed that Joker was far too dangerous to be unleashed so they left him behind. It would seem, someone had let him go. Undoubtedly it was Queen. Hopefully Joker wasn't still upset that he had been left to rot. But then, why else would he be trying to kill Jack and Lex? 

Joker had had the worst time in the project, he was the first and was there the longest, so he was the one who had the worst stuff done to him. He had lost every ounce of sanity he had in there and couldn't feel anything at all, not mentally or physically, by the end of it. 

"Wh-what?" Jack spoke to Lexa in a small, stuttering voice that mirrored his fear. "Lex, I told you we have to get out of here, we can't fight this guy." 

[i]If he's here, Queen isn't far.[/i]

Then there was that voice... It was right behind him. A terrifying, sadistic sounding voice. "What's the matter, Jackie boy? You're not excited to see a friend from the good ol' days?" 

Jack's eyes widened, he froze. [i]What's the matter with you? You're not afraid of anything. C'mon. get it together.[/i] He turned quickly and slashed with the card in his hand. Joker was behind Jack in a second, he grabbed him in a headlock with a razor sharp card at his throat. "Ohhh how I've missed you." 

Jack winced as the card cut into his neck slightly. "Lex. Get the hell out of here!!"