"Them? Masterminds? Do not make me laugh. I'm the one who comes up with the plans here," came an irritated voice from just above them. Purple, it seemed, had decided to follow them up after all, and was now hanging precariously from a pipe on the roof, aiming his weapon with his other hand. White looked up and subsided into a fit of laughter, not noticing any of Joker's strange behavior. He recovered enough to speak after a few seconds.

"What happened to you? Spell give out?" White said, trying not to chuckle.

"Before I answer that, you may wish to look up."

White looked up just in time to see Joker's form descending out of the portal. Unable to get out of the way in time, he ended up pinned against the walkway, and it was Purple's turn to suppress a chuckle. Green, however, was too busy concocting a counter argument to Joker's supposed cheating allegations to pay any attention to the sudden tackle.

"I don't believe either one of us count as having cheated. If you'll look at the official regulations, there is no rule against a single participant using a pair of weapons given that this provides an inherent disadvantage because another team member must forfeit their equipment. In addition, we have taken extra balancing factors to counteract various other actions performed during the course of the-"

"Umm...how about you stop arguing and get this goon off me!?"

"Huh? Oh yes, of course..," Green muttered in a rather sheepish voice before aiming his gun at Joker and firing. Unfortunately, Joker was far too fast for him and jumped off White at the last second, meaning the laser struck White instead. As Joker dashed off with a gleeful exclamation, Green noticed a message scrolling across his helmet's visor in bright, red letters : "PLEASE DO NOT SHOOT YOUR TEAMMATES".

Slightly angry at having been tricked, Green offered White a hand in getting up and set off in speedy pursuit of Joker. White followed quickly, failing to hear the increasingly annoyed voice coming from the roof... "Hey! What about me!"

"Sucker..."

The two of them charged ahead for a while before realizing that they had taken several turns without noticing, resulting in them becoming hopelessly lost. Anger, it seemed, could be a dangerous thing. White smirked at this thought, wishing Red were with them, then stopped to take a look around.

They seemed to be stuck deep in a maze positioned somewhere near the center of the laser wars area. The walls were unusually smooth and featureless, the roof had none of the usual pipes and other handholds on it, and the floor was almost like stilled water, completely free of any marks or scratches and slightly reflective when viewed from the right angle. It was a little too dark to tell properly, but the surfaces looked almost shiny...

The lighting was poor at best, making aiming difficult and putting both Green and White in a tense, highly strung state. Somewhere up ahead, Joker seemed to be enjoying himself judging by the eccentric sounds that seemed to come from all directions at once. Reacting suddenly to the noise, the two of them fired their weapons in opposite directions, only to duck as they bounced off the walls and roof to come flying back towards the two. One of the shots hit White in the eye and dazed him even through the helmet's visor. At this White lost control, saved from total rage only by Red's absence.

"Gah! What is this, a funhouse!? This is ridiculous!" he yelled, pounding his fists against the walls in frustration.

"Whoa calm down, it's only a game...you're taking this WAY too seriously."

"...yeah, I guess..." he replied, seeming to calm down until more jubilant exclamations wafted down the corridor. Upon hearing the word "funhouse" repeated a couple of times in an exaggerated happy tone, White lost it again and started firing madly a the source of the sound. Only he couldn't tell where that was, so he ended up firing pretty much everywhere until "PLEASE DO NOT SHOOT YOUR TEAMMATES" showed up several times on his helmet.

"...wow...if Red was here, that would have gotten ugly..."

"Come on, we need to get out of here...somehow."

"Bah, what am I doing? I signed us up for a spot of fun...now look at me! Going nuts at the word "funhouse"...you're right, let's just blunder around until we see something a bit different. At least until we come up with a better plan."

With that, the two of them headed off down the nearest corridor, trying to ignore the sounds of footsteps echoing through the maze. It seemed that Joker wasn't the only other person in there with them...White thought with a smile that if he could tone down his intensity a bit, this was going to be a lot of fun.

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Nicknames : Ran, ran ran, McRan, Ranman, Random, Mr R, Mr Ran, Lord Randomness, Lord Ra, Sir Random, McRandom, Random McRandom, Randomonium, Randy, Rando, or RandomMr.

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Falenor
White
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world conquest division commander.