Here it is, the hilarious prequel to Pranks & Sweets (if you haven't read it, go NOW and laugh your butt off). Or maybe it's better to just read this first?Anyways, Enjoy.

Camping trip? With this gang? Yeah, someone's gonna screw up...

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Matsuda had just gotten the group lost for the fifth time that morning. Apparently, for a Japanese Police Department officer he didn't know how to read a highway map. I've must have took a wrong turn at Exit 243, maybe that was it...thought Matsuda pensively as he glanced at the map again for a longer study. Or maybe it was 324? That was it...or maybe...

Suddenly the map was snatched gruffly out of his hand. "I can't stand it anymore! Tried to let you read the map like a big boy and you take the same wrong exit TWELVE FUCKING TIMES. Pull over, I'm driving." Matsuda was unfortunate enough to have Light up front with him in his BMW. And he was grouchy about having to go on this trip. Camping of all things.

"You can't drive! I already told you that because it's my awesome car. And your driver's license was suspended for trying to hit that old man crossing the street." Matsuda pointed out as he took both hands off the steering wheel for a minute to snatch the map back.

Light growled and snatched at the map again. "The old bastard was moving negative three miles per minute. How long does it take an old codger to cross the damn street?"

That's when a new voice joined the mix. "Well, since I have an IQ superior to both of you two combined, how about pulling over and letting me drive?" L asked, sticking his head in between the two from the middle seat. "I think I'll manage not to hurt anyone. And still eat my doughnut at the same time."

"You don't have a license either, Mr. Chaperone. I don't want to die on a useless camping trip, so let's not let you behind the wheel of the car." Near piped up from the seat beside L. "Also it would be nice if you sat down. Your derriere is in my face."

Matsuda turned around in his seat while struggling with Light for the road map. "L, I told you no unknown objects in the car."

"Derriere means Ass, DUMB FUCK!" Mello shouted angrily from the very backseat of the BMW. "ARRRGGGHHH! What is the real reason I have to go on this damn trip? I mean really? The director says "quality team building exercise". I call bullshit! Bullshit, I say!"

"Stop using dirty words for poop in my car!" Matsuda said while shoving at Light. "It will soil her innocence."

"Shit, shit, shit, shit, SHIT!" Light said tauntingly as he tried to take the road map again. "And the car is just a car, not a 'she'. I just hope you wreck the damn thing so we can go back home."

Then screaming started from the back seat of the car.

Near sighed dramatically and rubbed both hands over his albino face and silver hair. "Great, just great. Now you guys have woken up Matt. And he was sleeping peacefully after learning he wasn't going to have video games for two weeks. I'll have to give him another sedative."

Matt was gibbering away in the back seat shaking Mello back and forth. "I don't have my DS! I DON'T HAVE MY DS! How am I going to play Pokemon X & Y! It'll get dusty! Or what happens if someone steals it while I'm gone!? WHAT HAPPENS THEN, HUH!?"

"Get the psycho off me, Near! Plunge the syringe into his shoulder already before I choke to death!" Mello cried, trying to peel Matt's clutching fingers from his neck.

Near was having trouble trying to locate the syringe and Mello's face was turning blue. L, deciding to take swift action, angled his body in the seat and kicked Matt in the back of the head. Very hard. "Ah, crisis averted. Now will everyone kindly shut up so I can eat my strawberry cake in peace?"

Light turned around a split second and took a look at the slumped figure in the back of the car. "L, did you just kill him? Dammit, I was going to do that! Stop taking my victims!"

"L, I told you no food in my Shelia! Toss it out!" Complained Matsuda worrying over the new interior.

"Matsuda, you are thoroughly insane if you think I'm throwing an eclair out the window."

"You just had a piece of cake! Where the hell did it go?" Light said turning around to look in the back of the car while wrestling Matsuda.

And the shouting, arguing, and random, unsettling arguments resumed until Matsuda shouted triumphantly, "FOUND IT! We're here! The Hanabi Campgrounds, home to the wildest fireworks party of the year! Come one, let's get out and set up- wait a minute, where the hell are you two going!"

Mello and Light were making a mad dash back to the highway. As Matsuda took after them and Near tended to a comatose Matt in the backseat, L got out of the car to stretch his legs while eating a candy bar.

I have a bad feeling that this isn't going to turn out well...

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This is going to be great.