Ai: An April Fool's Day chapter! It's full of pranks that my friend and I spent an hour thinking up of, so enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, because if I did, Riku would be the main character. Awesome.
Time to do this again, and this time even better. Guess what? It's April Fool's Day! And April Fool's Day means pranks, pranks… and more pranks!
"Okay, Ray, I've got big plans today. Grand ones. Even better than the previous time's. And this time, we're not gonna screw up on even one prank. Got it, assistant?" We were crouched down behind a wall, hidden from anyone who might walk past, discussing how to go about pranking everyone else.
"Umm, yeah. Let's not waste anymore time if you're absolutely certain about this. If we dally any longer, we're gonna get caught installing our traps."
"Xemnas first? He's the easiest one on the list."
"He's not in his office and I have no idea where he is right now."
I scowled. "Fine, we'll skip him first and go on to the next. Onwards to the shooting range!"
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I poked my head out of the dark portal cautiously, in case Xigbar was around. According to my plans, he wouldn't be, but it was just to be safe. He wasn't. As expected. Great! I hopped out and Ray followed me.
"Okay, Xigbar-senpai trains with moving targets. We know that. But I'll bet he can't shoot targets that move at the speed of light. So the plan is to modify the program to make all the targets crazily fast. Get out the computer."
Ray materialized a small laptop and plugged it into the speed control machine.
I grinned evilly. "Right. Time to hack." The program was protected by a password, but after randomly tapping a few keys…
"PASSWORD CORRECT," an electronic voice rang out.
I gave my brother a thumbs up as his mouth fell open. "Just change this, and…" I mumbled to myself. "Enter!"
Multiple images of the targets appeared. Apparently, they were moving so fast that we couldn't see them moving at all, only the images they left behind. I turned the program off and the targets stopped moving, the images disappearing as well.
"Prank Two complete? Seeing as Target One isn't anywhere to be found."
"Prank Two complete," I affirmed, " seeing as Target One isn't anywhere to be found."
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"Prank Three involves an Install-and-Run. Xaldin-senpai controls wind. He wants wind, I say we give him wind," I said, struggling to carry a huge fan more than three times my size, with Ray helping me. When it was right where I wanted it to be, we dropped it to the ground with a loud bang. To be honest, I found it strange why no one had heard the noise and came to catch us red-handed. Hmm… Not that I'm complaining.
"You know what?" Ray panted and wiped the sweat away from his forehead.
"What?" "I was originally going to suggest installing more fans, but after carrying this, I've changed my mind. I'd say one is more than enough."
I opened a portal and Ray looked at me, puzzled. "Aren't we gonna switch the fan on?"
"We dive in first. Do you REALLY want to stick around the find out how powerful that fan is?"
Ray gulped.
I stretched my hand out and a pale purple light enveloped the 'ON" button.
"Count of three. One… Ah, who cares. THREE!" I yelled and we both dived into the portal just as I pressed the button using my psychic abilities and a tornado started.
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"Prank Four is good. I like Prank Four."
"Lab's here."
Y'wanna know what I mean by 'good'? Of course you do.
I picked up a large empty flask. Then I went around pouring every single chemical I saw into it. The contents of the flask began boiling.
"Ouch. Do something quick. My hand is burning. And I'm wearing gloves, mind you."
"Okay, okay! What do you expect me to do?! And stop speaking so tonelessly."
"Freeze it, what are you waiting for."
"I said, stop speaking like that," Ray snapped, but he used a Blizzard element to cool my hand. When I felt that it was no longer boiling, I placed the flask on the table and looked at the hand I had used to hold it. My glove now had huge amounts of what looked like black soot on it.
"Look what you did. Because you took so long to cool my hand, my glove is now dirty."
"I told you…" Ray started to say angrily but cut off as the flask started vibrating violently. "…Forget what I told you. Run!!!"
We made it out of the lab in time, but that didn't stop the flask from exploding with a force enough to put a volcano to shame. I still find it unbelievable how the Castle actually withstood the explosion. All that happened was that a few cracks in the wall appeared. And please note that I wasn't exaggerating about the force of the explosion. …Nah, actually, you know what I find the most unbelievable? It's that no one even came running to see what the equivalent of the second big bang was caused by.
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Prank Five would be soooooo easy. It was almost laughable. Uhh… Okay, it IS laughable. All it involved was glue. Lot's of super-strong glue, but still glue. Break and enter, than put layer upon layer of extra-strong cement glue on the edge of Lexeaus-senpai's tomahawk. Seriously, I would have liked to see the results the next time he whacked someone with it. Laughing so hard that I could barely stand, thanks to the mental image of how said result would look like, we fled.
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"Prank Six… Prank Six… Here we are."
I threw open the library door and walked in.
"Assistant! Where're you?" I said, ignoring the fact that Ray was right beside me.
"…"
"ASSIIIIIIIISTANT!!"
"…Heeeeeere."
"For Prank Six, we are officially thieves. Nah, scratch that. We're not thieves, since we're merely hiding the books. NOW GET CRACKIN'!"
"What?" Ray asked confusedly.
"You know what to do!"
"No, I darn well don't!"
"And you call yourself my assistant?! Open a portal to an empty room or something and throw every single book in this library into it, you foolish, foolish assistant!!"
"YOU'RE the one who started calling me your assistant!" Ray retorted angrily, but he began throwing books into a portal by the armloads.
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"What about Prank Seven?" Ray asked me as we stepped out of a portal and into Axel's room.
"We'll skip it first and go on to Eight." I replied calmly as I pushed open the door. Time to split duties. I'll do the 'bucket over the door' trap, while you'll install the sprinklers. Operation begin!" Materializing a chair, I clambered onto it and set a newly-materialized bucket over the door until it was at an angle I was satisfied with. Phase one done. Phase two was to use a water element to fill the bucket with water.
"Bllrghgah!"
I looked over my shoulder and was about to hop off the chair but stopped myself in time. More accurately, managed to levitate myself with psychic in time. The room was now full with water at about ankle-height, and the water level was still most certainly rising.
"Ray-nii!" I yelled. "Turn the sprinklers off, man! Are you trying to drown yourself?!"
There was a squeak and the water level stopped rising.
"I never cease to be amazed by your ability of understating," Ray said amidst lots of coughing. "That is not a sprinkler, that is a freaking FOUNTAIN!!!"
I ignored him and busied myself with tying one end of a length of rope to the tap of the sprinkler and the other end to the handle of the doorknob. That way, the trap would be activated only when Axel opened the door.
The next thing to do was to drain off all the water, of course. We couldn't possibly let Axel have any idea of what was going to befall him.
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"Demyx-senpai should stop making water clones in his room. Here's a good way to teach him that." I did the finishing touches to the drainage systems I had decided to install all over his room, then stepped back to let my now dry twin check them. All seemed to be perfect, so we portalled out.
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"Skip Ten?"
"Skip Ten."
"Even so, mind reminding me why Prank Eleven involves REDECORATION?"
"Marluxia-senpai's room is too pink, get what I mean? Of course you do. Now start painting before I decide to paint YOU!"
By the time we were done… redecorating, as Ray phrased it, Marluxia's room was no longer recognizable. Not the slightest bit. Any random stranger you asked would have said that there was absolutely no way the room with black walls and goth-like decorations and furniture could possibly have once been so pink you would have gone blind just taking a look at it.
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I had temporarily replaced my leather gloves for rubber ones. I had no intention of getting electrocuted. I fumbled with the wires connected to the power supply to Larxene's room, then carefully cut them.
Ray was dumbfounded. "What? Knowing you, you would probably have over a thousand other ideas for pranks against Larxene-senpai and all you do is cut off the power supply to her room?!"
"Who are you and what did you do with Ray?!" I said with mock surprise.
"Say what?"
"Is that really my dear twin brother I hear eager to do more pranks?" I removed my rubber gloves and threw them over my shoulder, then put on my Organization ones again. "Just kiddin'. She's probably not gonna fall for the insulating trick again, and I think it's best not to get on her bad side. I dunno about you, but I think twelve is a pretty young age to die."
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I closed my eyes and focused my energy, searching for the whereabouts of Saix. Then I found him. Opening a portal through the floor, the exit right over where Saix was, I turned to my right where there was a huge pile of stuffed hearts I had materialized, but each was torn and you could see the stuffing poking out in more places than one. Grabbing about a dozen of them, I tossed them into the portal and reached for a dozen more. I giggled silently as I heard growls. To Saix-senpai, it must've looked like it was raining spoilt hearts. I closed the portal quickly, despite the fact that there were still about twenty more stuffed hearts beside me, just in case Saix decided to look up and see my portal.
As though he had been waiting for me to do that, Ray ran up and poked me hard in the shoulder.
"Ouch!" I complained. "Anyways, where were you?"
"You didn't look like you needed me around, so I went to accomplish Prank Thirteen," Ray replied nonchalantly.
"You went to swap the labels on the salt and sugar containers?"
"Yeah."
"Then let's consider that Prank Seven and Thirteen done!"
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A bead of sweat rolled down my face. Despite having done this trick several times, it required concentration, or you would be exposed quickly. I slid my pre-prepared card from under my coat sleeve and into my palm, then reached forward and drew a card, careful not to let anyone else suspect what I was doing. Once the card, no, cards, were in my hand, I covered the card I had just drawn with another card.
Then we both played our hands.
There was a pause.
"CHEAT, I SAY, CHEAT!" I yelled loudly and pointed at Luxord. We had both played an Ace of Spades at the same time. Which would obviously be impossible. Usually, at least. What if I told you I had cheated?
"Wha-" Luxord-senpai began, but I quickly cut him off.
"I always knew that you were a cheater!" I continued. "That's such a dirty trick. I'm outta here." Jumping up from my place, I pretended to storm off, leaving Luxord bewildered.
"How DID you know what card to cheat with?" Ray asked me once we were well out of earshot.
"Psychic, my friend, psychic. I could do fortune telling for you, if you'd like," I grinned.
"Hey! Ain't that Xemnas?"
"Heeeeey… You're right! Might as well end the day of pranking with Prank One?"
"Uhh… Sure?"
I grabbed my brother by the hand and dragged him over to where Xemnas was. Standing in his path so that he could not proceed any further until he had heard what it was we had to say, Ray spoke.
"Eh, Superior? Calix sorta has something important to say to you."
Xemnas raised an eyebrow. "What is it?"
"In my dream last night, I saw that Kingdom Hearts was going to fall and crash into the Castle That Never Was."
"WHAT?!"
It was amusing. So amusing that I decided to let him panic for a full five minutes before I added, "We're just kidding. Happy April Fool's Day."
I'm sure that I would still fail to comprehend why Xemnas' anger towards us for tricking him was even more than all the other members' combined together up until the day of my death.
Author's Notes:
Sorry if it was kinda messy, 'cuz I really have to rush it in order to type it out in two days before my brother comes home from school.
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