Alright he heard it. He knew he heard it.

Dusty rolled around the parameters outside his hanger trying to spot whoever it was walking around. It had to be a human, since it was footsteps not the rolling of tires.

Now which human he wasn't sure. It could've even been another person staying at the lodge.

"Come out, come out wherever you are…." He called quietly passing a bush. "Olly olly oxen free…"

Olivia who was inside the bush willed herself to stay put. She didn't want him mad at her, even if it was funny to play a few tricks on him.

Please go to bed! She silently pleaded peering out, seeing the familiar orange and white plane circle around one more time. She vaguely wondered if this was how a fish felt before a shark gobbled it up. The thought made her curl up more.

Outside Dusty peered into the bush, unbeknownst to Olivia there was an opening that he could see into. He was genuinely surprised to see the little girl curled up into an upright ball inside it.

OLIVIA was the prankster? Olivia Rebecca Hayes, Livvie, his little sister!

Then he started to wonder just what made her decide to prank the firefighters of all things.

Even if Blade looked pretty funny with a big yellow smiley face doodled on his side door.

Quietly he went around and aimed carefully before swooping in.

Olivia let out a squeal as his wing caught the underside of her vest as she was hoisted up into the air. "H-hey!" She protested squirming before it dawned on her just who had caught her. "Uh...Hi?" She said lamely.

Dusty looked unimpressed. "You and I are gonna have a little chat young lady."

She pouted and just let herself be carried off. "I'm sorry."

The plane sighed. "As funny as a lot of those shenanigans were…" He said setting her down gently once inside the hanger. "I have to ask...Why?"

Olivia sat down on the ground looking up. "Cause it's war." She grinned.

Dusty blinked. "What? War?" He echoed. "What do you mean by that!?"

"Well...You pranked my big brother…" She got up and dusted off her jeans fixing her vest. "So he asked me to help prank you guys...I just got the others cause it was funny." She grinned.

And there it was. He was sure she would NEVER prank him at least but the seven and a half year old proved him wrong. Dusty sighed, he knew that there was only one way to get the shenanigans to stop...At least on him.

Olivia got a look of horror upon her face as she realized what he was getting ready to do. "No! No no!" She bolted for the door but Dusty was blocking it easily. "Dusty!" She gave a whine. "That's not fair!"

He was giving her the saddest puppy dog face he could manage. And it broke her heart to see that look. "Please switch sides little sis?"

"DARN IT! ...Okay!" She jumped up trying to hug him, he lowered himself a little to give her leverage. Olivia then proceeded to "hug the paint off" the cropduster.

Haha she's on MY side now Andy!

"Are we cool?" She asked curling up a little. He nuzzled her a bit.

"Of course Olivia...Now… What's Andy's biggest fear?"

She blinked. " Uh….."

Andy couldn't shake the feeling of being watched. When he was hiking with Maya he got that feeling, when he was swimming (and trying his darndest not to drown thanks to the built in anchor that was his leg) he got the feeling.

Now he was just relaxing in his room enjoying the air conditioning, dozing a bit. He was tired, was in no mood for pranks right now...Although the pranks on the firefighters had stopped. He guessed Olivia felt guilty for pranking Dusty and called it cold turkey. He couldn't blame her.

He was just about to fall into a deep sleep when he felt something on his face.

The distinct feeling of tiny legs moving.

Oh no… A feeling of terror overcame him as he tried to swipe it off..Only to have that feeling transfer to his hand.

OH NO!

He opened his eyes…

To find a large black spider on his hand.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He flung the critter across the room and got up bolting out of it like a bat out of hell. "GETITAWAY!"

He didn't notice the flash and snap of a camera.

Nor did he realize the spider was actually a remote controlled toy.

All he registered was one thing.

SPIIIIIIDDDEEEERRR!

HEAMIC? Could handle it.

Brody being next to a bottle of wine? Could handle it.

Olivia being hurt? Terrifying and worried but could handle it as long as she lived.

His mom, Dottie and possibly any other authority figures angry? Terrifying but again handle it.

Spiders?

Never in a million years.

"GETITAWAY!" And that's when he ran into it.

A spider web. That got all over him. And the screaming began all over again as he ran through the lodge and out the backdoor to the patio trying to find some way to wash it off.

Unaware he was being filmed for "The Greatest Flewtube Video ever." and being laughed at.

"Should we tell him the web's really just cotton candy?" Olivia asked munching on a fresh batch of the sweet treat perched on Dusty's wing. Maru and Dusty looked to each other and looked at Andy who dove into the pool out back.

"...Nah."

Later that night Andy crept into Dusty's hanger making sure to leave his shoes by the door. He could tell when he was sticky still after the "spider web" melted off of hm that it was actually sugar.

And he knew only one, plane with enough height to him to give someone small like himself or Maya or even Olivia a boost to do such a deed.

Andy uncapped not a marker, no, that would be too easy.

It was a paint pen meant for model toys.

A permanent paint pen.

He tried not to laugh, as he wrote on each blade of his friend's prop before sneaking out leaving a still snoozing Dusty unaware.

The next morning Dusty lazily rolled out of his hanger giving a brief nod to the firefighters too tired to say anything right now.

Until they all froze hearing a deafening squeal.

Dipper was rolling towards Dusty so fast he thought she might take off. But she only got up in his face squealing: "YES!" Over and over and attempting to kiss him, each attempt he dodged.

"You suicidal!?" Maru hollered over the noise. "With THAT on your prop!?"

Dusty started speeding away from the super scooping plane. His prop!? What the HECK was on his prop!?

He after twenty minutes of trying to get away from Dipper managed to duck into one of the rooms in the lodge. He looked in the large mirror and froze. He started to feel a mixture of very annoyed and pure rage at what was scrawled on his prop in white pen or paint, he couldn't tell at the time.

"Will you Marry Me Dipper?" Was scrawled on each blade with a tiny white heart at the end of the question.

He knew Olivia would NEVER stoop this low, Dipper actually scared her so it was not her. Maya actually liked living.

"...That..Little…" He stormed out. "AAAAANNNNDDDDDDDYYYY!"

The boy enjoying breakfast smirked.

Olivia gulped.

Sarah felt her eyebrow twitch a little. "Andrew...What did you do?" She hissed.

"...It was worth it!" He took off running, as Dusty came into view giving chase.

"I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"

"No ya won't!" He taunted climbing up onto a support beam over the archway in the lobby, being quick to avoid an attempt at his metal leg. "'Sides I thought I was doing ya a little favor. I thought you liked living dangerously." Andy teased, not wanting to admit that right now Dusty was scarier than the spider in his room from the previous day.

The plane snarled revving his engine a little prop spinning. The words couldn't even be seen now.

Andy now realized that this was probably a bad idea when his mother stormed out of the dining hall.

Oh god…

"Come down here and face your execution like a man!"

"NEVER!"

They went silent, Dusty cutting his engine as they heard a loud throat clearing. Slowly they looked and cringed.

Sarah Hayes, still in her pajama's, her bathrobe and looking clearly peeved at the two of them.

"Dustin…" She said in a low tone, her "mom voice". "I will ask you only once to NOT maim my only son. I actually would like him to give me grandchildren one day."

"Dustin?" Dusty mumbled wondering where she got THAT from. "...Fine...But-"

"AH AH!" She cut him off. "No buts mister!"

Andy laughed. "Busted!"

"And YOU!" She roared turning on her son. Andy was suddenly very glad he was high up now. "You come down here THIS INSTANT!"

As soon as he did, he received a swift smack upside the head. "OW!"

"What did you use?" She demanded gesturing to the graffiti. "Sharpy?"

"..Model paint pen."

"...The one your grandfather uses to paint "names" on his favorite guns?" She asked slowly.

"...Yes…"

Sarah groaned running her hand down her face. Andy lowered his head glancing up at Dusty who still looked annoyed. "Andy...You will be paying out of your allowance to fix that…"

"W-what!?"

"Ha."

"And DUSTY! I expected better of you."

"...Sorry." Both looked away now, feeling more then a little embarrassed. Sarah Hayes was a force to be reckoned with.

"Now...Go. March!"

"...Where?" They both asked.

Sarah growled. "You interrupted my morning coffee...Go to your rooms!"

Dusty felt tempted to remind Sarah that not only was he fully grown but that she was NOT his mother. But the look of utter murder in her eyes said enough. "...My hangar. GO!" They ran for it.

"And no more pranks!" She called after them.

"Truce?"

"If we live YES!"

The last few days the Hayes family spent at Piston Peak Andy spent those days playing Guardian Human trying to keep Dipper from declaring their wedding vows while Dusty slept.

Andy learned his lesson, never write on a sleeping plane unless you wanted to die young