The next morning Diana woke up and stretched preparing herself for the questions her brother would no doubt have. She just hoped that he wouldn't ask anything that had to do with that incident. As Diana headed out of her room a bucket dumped red paint on her. She glared up at the offending bucket before a smirk spread across her face.
Diana saw Loki and Thor up on the catwalk so she headed up there. When she saw Thor she had to bite her lip to keep from laughing. "Is your hair naturally that shade of hot pink?"
Thor looked thoroughly irritated, "No it isn't. Either Tony or my brother thought it would be funny to put hair dye in my shampoo. I see they got you as well." Diana nodded fighting a smile.
Loki grumbled, "I already told you it wasn't me. Tony got me as well." He held up his helmet which was painted brown with the horns a cream color as Bruce walked up his hair bright green. "He also had the nerve to stick a red ball on my nose."
"Let me guess Tony was the one who made you look like Rudolph?" Bruce asked.
"Who?" Thor and Loki asked confused.
"A reindeer with a red nose," Diana answered for Bruce. "Let me guess shampoo with hair dye?" Bruce nodded annoyed.
Clint and Natasha walked up swearing and cursing Tony. Natasha's suit was bright orange but Clint didn't appear to have anything wrong with him. "What's got you so annoyed?" Bruce asked him. Clint's only response was to glare and pull his bow out. Diana couldn't help but chuckle at the sight of his bow which was now bright sparkly purple.
"I see Tony got all of you too huh," Steve said walking up. Everyone gaped as his normally patriotic colored suit was red and gold and his shield was red with a white triangle pointing down in the middle much like the spot that the arc reactor glowed through in Tony's suit.
Will and Epps walked up eyes narrowed at Diana as their uniforms were dyed a spectacular mix of pastel and neon colors respectively. "Oh look two more of Tony's prank victims," Clint said dryly. Will and Epps looked at them in slight surprise just before the prankster himself joined them.
"What happened to all of you?" Tony asked staring wide-eyed.
"Like you don't know," Natasha replied crossing her arms as all the Avengers stared at Tony angrily. Steve opened his mouth to speak but was interrupted by a roar.
"SIDESWIPE!"
"What the-" Clint started trailing off in confusion.
"That sounded like Ironhide," Steve said curiously.
"It was Ironhide," Will replied as he and Epps turned to glare Diana who started to look innocent but then groaned.
The Avengers stared at her in surprise as she yelled surprisingly loud, "Damn it Sideswipe! I thought I told you not to get caught! It was going so well too!" She grinned and started backing up towards the rail. "Well that was fun and Tony thanks for rigging that bucket of paint, it really helped with my innocent image." She jumped up onto the rail as her teammates stepped forward. "Sorry boys I have no intention of going to the brig today." She grinned, waved and jumped just as Sideswipe came by in his bipedal form. He caught her and transformed around her before speeding off away from the pissed off once black GMC Topkick now hot pink with bright sparkly purple flowers that was in hot pursuit of the two pranksters.
The Avengers started after the rapidly disappearing cars in stunned silence. "Well that was unexpected," Bruce said breaking the silence.
"For you lot maybe," Epps said shaking his head but smiling.
"It happens around here a lot," Will explained. "Those two are in the brig at least twice a month for pulling some sort of prank on Ironhide, Ratchet or the soldiers.
"We really should've seen it coming though," Epps told Will. "After yesterday."
"True since it was either this or the targets taking more of a beating than they did."
"Yeah there was the equivalent of at least twelve clips when I went just after she left."
"Sorry but what about yesterday set her off?" Bruce asked.
"It wouldn't have anything to do with Sector 7 would it?" Natasha asked as she and Clint watched the N.E.S.T. soldiers carefully for their reactions.
"What sorry I didn't catch that," Will asked pretending to have gone temporarily deaf. That wasn't a question he or Epps would ever be answering. It was for Diana to explain when she was ready.
"What I don't get was what was going so well," Tony grumbled still miffed about being blamed for something he hadn't done. He'd only pranked his sister that was it and only because she'd seemed kind of down after their discussion yesterday.
"Probably her innocent act," Loki suggested having enjoyed Diana's pranks even though he was one of the victims since he was the God of Mischief after all.
"That was part of it," Steve chuckled having figured out what she was doing. "But it was mainly her main prank."
"Excuse me" Tony asked confused.
"Come on it's fairly obvious once you think about it. She thanked Tony for dumping a bucket of red paint on her which most people probably wouldn't do, and the pranks were almost all tailor made to point to one person as the culprit. The only person who was apparently not pranked."
"Tony," Will, Epps, Clint and Loki realized. Said Avenger's mouth dropped open.
"Why that little- She wanted me to be blamed." Tony said surprised before smiling. "I have to admit it was genius but then she is a Stark."
"So since it happens around here often how long will it take to get this stuff out?" Natasha asked.
Will thought for a moment before answering, "Hair dye usually fade after twenty-four hours. It tends to take about three to five washes for the dye to come out of clothes or paint to come off."
"Wait how come you guys didn't notice the dye in your clothes when you got dressed," Epps asked curiously.
Natasha grumbled in irritation as Steve replied, "Didn't notice until I'd already left my room."
"Same here," Natasha grumbled.
"Wait what about you two?" Clint asked.
Will and Epps made faces. "She got our entire wardrobe," Will explained.
"And when he says entire, he means entire wardrobe," Epps clarified causing to Tony to laugh loudly and the rest of the Avengers to chuckle.
That night Diana and Sideswipe were laughing together in the brig. "That was awesome! We should do it again," Sideswipe said grinning manically.
"Pranking them definitely," Diana agreed grinning as well. "Putting the blame on Tony though would require more careful planning though."
Sideswipe nodded in agreement. "Hang on I thought you told Will and Epps that you had no intention of going to the brig today."
Diana smiled a Cheshire cat smile. "I did but when Ironhide and Ratchet finally locked us up in here it was a minute past midnight the day after I said that." Their laughter echoed off the walls of the brig.
This chapter was fun to write and only took me a couple hours surprisingly. Anyway I still need your opinion on what story I should start writing to get the ideas out of my head so either go to my poll on my profile and vote or let me know in a review what you would like to see. The options are:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians/Harry Potter - set during Harry's fifth year and after the whole ordeal with Gaia and the giants. Percy, Annabeth, Thalia and my OC a daughter of Apollo and granddaughter of Hermes are given a quest by Hecate to go to Hogwarts for the year to get to know the wizards in order to help them with the fight against Voldemort. Would probably turn into a Fred/OC romance.
Harry Potter - Starts just after Harry's fourth year and is a Regulas Black/OC romance. My OC is Remus Lupin's younger sister and a Marauder. She is an Auror and joins the Order. She loves Regulus but hasn't told any one except her brother when she'd heard of Regulus's death which he ended up having faked to get out of the Death Eaters. She hasn't forgiven him though for joining the Death Eaters and apparently dying.
BBC Sherlock - Moriarty's younger sister (OC) meets Sherlock and John during her brother's (who she hates) bombing spree. She becomes friends with them and solves a few cases with them as she's as brilliant as Sherlock and her brother. Sherlock can get a read on her but a lot of what he learns about her tends to be an act such as what her profession is. She falls in love with Sherlock and they start having a relationship but don't tell anyone. After the Fall episode will turn into either a crossover with Avengers or NCIS Los Angeles
G.I. Joe - inspired by the new movie would either be a Snake Eyes/OC or Storm Shadow/OC romance. Either way my OC would be a ninja who grew up with the two of them and joined the Joes.