A/N: Thanks for clicking on this fanfiction. This is my first one, so I don't even know if this'll be good, but I hope you have the patience to stay with me until I hopefully get better at writing.
This is a modern AU based on the TV show "Impractical Jokers" where the Hamilsquad are lifelong friends who have the sole purpose of embarrasing each other.
They agree on a task which they have to complete to stay in the game. If they fail, they get a strike. After four or five challenges, the person with the most strikes receive a punishment.
Characters belong to Lin-Manuel Miranda.
"Pass the remote". Alex requested to John. He stretched out his hand to him, who instead gave Alex the middle finger. "The remote is mine. We're watching this Turtle Documentary." He finalized to his three other friends on the couch. Alex figured as much.
It was worth a shot. He said in his mind.
This cycle of Alex asking for the remote to change the channel and John flipping him off has been going on for 2 hours.
What happened to them?
Here they were, in the middle of summer break, and they waste it sitting on the couch watching documentaries about turtles.
Alex was on the left side of the couch, with Herc plopped in the middle and John on the other side. Laf was sitting on the armrest, but after a record three minutes of the documentary, he fell asleep and his body landed on Alex and his head on Herc, who ran his fingers through his hair with one hand and browsed 9GAG with his phone on the other.
Alex didn't have any entertainment aside from watching turtles procreate on the TV, with his laptop's battery drained from finishing his 51st essay in the past six months. Only John was staring intently at the screen.
He has had enough.
"You asked for this, Laurens." He shoved Lafayette off so he landed with his front side facing the floor, despite that, he was still fast asleep, actually snoring even louder.
Herc didn't even notice Laf was gone. He was still brushing the air where Laf's head was. He snickered and said in between laughs "Hey, have you guys seen this musical about a founding father? Ha! What a ridiculous idea!".
Meanwhile, Alex and John wrestled for control over the remote. "No fair! You guys chose what to watch for the last three days!" John complained as Alex tried to take away the remote from him.
"That was because we chose movies that were actually good! I know for a fact that you were about to put on that terrible Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, until you opened the TV and decided that this stupid ass documentary was better than that shit!" Alex vented out his pent up anger. John looked really hurt. Alex was surprised when he actually let go of the remote.
"But, but I thought you guys loved turtles" John looked like a puppy that had been denied a treat. He looked down to the floor.
Alex supposed he might have been a little rough with John.
"Aww, look, babe." Hamilton spoke in soothing tones while aggressively shove Herculese to the other side of the couch, so he sat beside Laurens and rubbed his back. "I'm sorry for saying those mean things about turtles. It's just that, you know, we're not as enthusiastic about them as you are."
John looked at him. "I'm sorry. I know, I just got carried away because they're so cool and awesome!"
They stared into each others eyes for a moment, and then looked away with blood rushing in their cheeks.
"Let's find a new show." Alex scrolled through the channels. He stopped on a show where four guys were taking turns giving powerpoint presentations. One of the slides was entitled "Is it ever ok to say 'Nice Titties?'. "The hell is this?" Alex furrowed his brow. He was interested in this show now. Soon John laughed along him. Herc finally decided to ditch his phone and decided to see what the show was all about, and his hearty laughter awoke Laf as he stretched on the floor, joined them on the couch and laughed so hard he fell on to the floor again.
"Yo, this is amazing, we should totaly do this." He proposed as one of the guys was trying to explain IPO and private equity in front of 50 businessmen and women having no idea what those are.
"I second that, mon ami." Lafayette agreed. Alex checked the time. "Shit, we've stayed up until 5 am. I have to write another essay!" He disappeared behind the door to his room.
"Why does he write like he's running out of time?" Herc asked, amazed at how dedicated Alex is to work.
John sighed. "Ugh, tell me about it. Last summer, he took the pattern of assignments from the last 5 years, did all of them during the break, and did all of them again anyway 2 weeks before they were due."
"Alex is not human."
"If we really wanna do this show, we'll need the earpieces, the cameras, the monitors—"
"Shut your mouth, my friend, let us let our future selves handle that." Laf insisted.
And so they watched Impractical Jokers until they passed out from lack of sleep.
Except for Alex, he never sleeps.
A/N: Well, that was shit.
Don't worry, it gets better the bext chapters when the show actually starts.
One last thing, if some of my challenges are in the actual show, then please know it is unintentional. I've only seen about two episodes of the show so I might think an idea I come up with is original.
Peace out.