Disclaimer: Not my characters, they belong to the people who created Inspector Gadget 2015 (you know, the Netflix Original reboot)
Summary: Penny finds herself in quite a compromising situation with none other than a certain MAD agent, as a Truce Day prank.
Underline is Penny tapping and Talon's thoughts
Italics are Penny's thoughts and Talon's tapping
A/N: I suck at writing so this fic sucks too, as well as being a random mess. I also started running out of synonyms, so some of the words get really strange- accurate- but strangeā¦.Enjoy! Criticism is always appreciated.
Prologue
For a really long time, there have been agencies, spy agencies specifically. These agents could either be good or evil. After a couple hundred decades, nearly all of the "good" agencies combined into a major spy agency, with branches all over the world, and named itself "HQ." However the "evil" groups decided to stay divided in their own separate agencies, rivals with each other, yet allies against HQ. After this change, evil started creating sinister plot after sinister plot every single day, which caused HQ to run with barely a wink of sleep for any of their many agents. Finally, they decided to create a Truce Day (misnomer, since it has been extended to a week a long time ago) with the evil groups. It would stretch from a day before April Fool's to five days after, to prevent all "evil" from wreaking havoc everywhere on that day and being justified (originally it used to be only on April first, but as time went on, the truce got extended) The evil groups would do nothing to the outside groups during this truce, while in return HQ would be the target for all pranks on that day (week.) The only rules were a) no fatalities b) no damage to any buildings whatsoever c) no injuries and d) any embarrassment pranks must be for a good reason and long lasting (mentally, not physically.) This truce also allowed the young people to mingle with their enemies, forge new friendships- and of course, become pranking buddies against each other...
It was the beginning of the Truce Week, let's call it.
A crisp spring breeze sent freshly mown grass into the air, twirling onto the two girls walking on the sidewalk. One was a pretty African American teen -with curly red hair pulled up into a bun, a green cashmere sweater and a mouth twitching like she was holding back a tremendous stream of words- who looked severely disappointed while the other one, a blue-eyed beauty with a spray of freckles, a black hoodie and blonde hair pulled into two pigtails had a "I don't want to do this but I have to so I'm going to suck it up and do it" face on. One thing was certain: neither wanted to do their job. The job mentioned was to invite all the teenagers from all the other spy agencies to the HQ Annual Truce Day Slumber Party. It's not as if they didn't want the others to come; they actually were a really looking forward to mingling with their rivals. Tradition was that they had to deliver the invitation in person. It was just that to invite them, they had to go door to door from evil lair to evil lair, and that meant always being wary of booby traps and whatnot. And yet, the traps would catch Kayla by surprise (the disappointed one) leaving Penny (the perseverant one) to have to rescue her every time. Eventually they got through all the lairs and dorms for the evil schools.
The duo had two eventful stops that day. The first one was at one of the dorms. Penny and Kayla decided to split up and take different floors of the two story dorm house that Penny had previously resided in, undercover obviously. When she reached her old dorm room, she didn't expect her old dorm mate to have gotten a replacement already, but a heated conversation about the law of gravity? proved her wrong. Suddenly the conversation stopped. Penny knocked on the door of her old dorm room and was treated to a quite... intimate scene let's say. A guy with a blue hoodie and green glasses and scrawny limbs was currently getting the hell kissed out of him by a girl in navy booty shorts, a purple spaghetti strap top, and hot pink hair swept up in a sloppy bun at the top of her head. She held out a finger and pulled away from her previous engagement.
"How's that for fun studying?'" Malicious, for that was the name of Penny's previous roommate, asked the guy, who was in a daze on the floor from the intense kiss he had received a few minutes ago. "Nevermind," she said after realizing he was in no position to answer. "What do you-DOLLA, I MEAN PENNY!" Mal finally turned to look at the interrupter of her steamy make out session. Penny was instantaneously enveloped in a bone-crushing hug, courtesy of Mal. Mal held Penny in front of her. "What are you doing here?"
"Um," Penny tried to wrap her head around what happened just then. "I'm here to invite you to the HQ Annual Truce Day Slumber Party! Dress must be pyjamas. Uh, I guess that," she gestured to the guy, "means you're over Talon"
"Girl, I got over Talon the moment I knew you liked him."
"You knew I liked-I mean I don't like him!"
"I knew it from the moment I saw your face light up just by talking about him. Believe me he needs someone like you. Besides, he doesn't like me in that way, because of a certain someone he talks about all the time."
"He talks about me? Wait how do you know that? And I said like two sentences about him, and you barely looked at me, how could you have known-um, something that is just hypothetical in this situation?"
Mal laughed, "Yes, he talks nonstop about his 'Pretty Penny,' I know because I became good friends with him after you left and we started hanging out. For that last question, I'm much smarter than I appear. Believe me."
"Hey, if you're so smart, what did you need me for?" said the then forgotten boy on the floor.
"Because I thought you were cute," Malicious responded with a gleam in her eyes. "Why else, Sam?"
Sam flushed in response and drew his hoodie close. The two girls hid their snickers and resumed their conversation.
"You definitely picked a keeper. He's such an adorable dork. Did you ask him out yet?" Penny asked.
"Wait, SAM!" Mal shouted to him, "YOU WANT TO GO OUT WITH ME?" The closed hoodie made a up and down motion that passed as a nod.
"So can you and your new boyfriend come to the Slumber Party tonight? It'll be from the afternoon til the next day," questioned Penny.
"Yes! We'll be there, see ya tonight!" Mal yelled, shoving her outside and slamming the door behind her.
The next only other eventful stop was the MAD lair. Penny and Kayla trekked up the side of the volcano in the middle of the neighborhood (seriously?) and jumped down three feet only to land on a metal roof with a hatch leading inside. The girls, now sweating from the heat, and hazmat suit less, decided to take off their sweaters to reveal athletic graphic tank tops. Penny's had Deadpool enthusiastically leading a very reluctant Spiderman in the tango, while Kayla's was a classic Nike "Just Do It" tank. They both knocked on the hatch and out came a camera from a hidden panel on the side of the metal building thing.
"Well, well, who do we have here?" said a rather familiar voice coming from a hidden speaker somewhere on the roof. "Pretty Penny and, what's your name again? Ah, Kayla. So what brings you two to my, well my uncle's, humble abode?"
Penny called out, "We're here to invite you to the HQ Annual Truce Day Slumber Party, but we can't formally invite you unless we meet you in person."
"Well, that can't do, can it? Come on in."
And with those words the hatch popped open. The two girls slid down the hatch, through some sort of slide, and into a room with a game console set up, a huge TV screen, and a girl crashed on the couch.
The girl had fiery red hair, and pale green eyes, and a contagious smile.
"Who are you?" asked Penny at the same time as Kayla blurted out,
"Y-you're stunning"
"Why, thanks! My name is Alex, short for Alexandria, Talon's resident lez BFF. You must be Penny, and her best friend, Kayla?"
"Yeah, how do you know?" asked Penny.
"Dude, do you not know how many times a day he talks about you?"
"W-well," Penny stammered out, all flustered with her cheeks red.
"Anyway, I assume you're here to invite him to the HQ Annual Truce Day Slumber Party, am I correct?"
"Yes, um, you can come as well! We're trying to get a lot of people to come so we'll have an EPIC party!"
"I'll be sure to come. Will the gorgeous lady next to you," cue flirtatious wink from Alex to Kayla, "be coming as well?"
"Yes!" Kayla said a tad too loud, and clamped her mouth shut and covered her mouth.
"Well, I'll be sure to see you then. Talon is in the next room, you can talk to him there."
"No need, I'm already here," drawled none other than Talon himself walking in through the doorway. He stopped just a tad too close to Penny, and took a closer look at her.
"Ha! Nice tank! Now whatcha here for?" Bouncing his eyebrows, he stepped forward again.
Poor Penny was in a daze from a) Talon being cordial throughout an entire conversation and b) his proximity to her. She shook her head and focused on his shirt, which featured fanart depicting the two guys from the movie 'The Road to El Dorado' and remembered what she was going to say.
"We would like to invite you to-"
"Oh right! That! You mentioned that when you asked to meet me in person. Yeah, I'll come. I assume you ready invited Alex?"
"Yup!" Alex chimed in dragging a very flustered Kayla to the couch to play Mario Kart.
"Okay," said Talon, drawing Penny's attention back to him, "anything else?"
"Hmm? Oh yeah! You must bring pyjamas, that's basically it. Nice shirt by the way." Penny said startled.
"Thanks!" Talon burst out into a wide, genuine grin. Penny wished he smiled like that more, it made him seem that much more alive. He grabbed her shoulders, pulled her towards him, and whispered, "I kinda ship them, strange right?" Penny stiffened and impulsively bear hugged him.
"Woah!" Talon exclaimed, surprised by her motion. Penny slowly released him, as if realizing what she had done. She sheepishly smiled at him.
"You ship 'em too?" He asked excitedly.
She nodded, cheeks flushed a bright red from her earlier motion.
"PENNY!" called Kayla from where she was conversing comfortably with Alex. "I don't want to leave, but we have to go now!"
"Oh, shit!" Penny pulled up her Codex and checked the time. "We really do have to go bye!"
Talon looked confused, "You cuss?"
Penny smirked, "Don't you?" and left.
