A/N: Double update to make up for my missed day ^ ^

Chapter 12: Challenge Accepted.

"Did you guys see this fucker move?!" Bucky shouted, gesturing to Steve before falling back onto the bed he and Steve shared in their hotel room as their friends found various places to sit or lounge, "it was impressive" Natasha commented idly inspecting the state of the other bed in the room, deeming it acceptable and sitting down.

It was hours after their game, they had one more match to attend afterwards, that was Clint's first match off, he came out as the single most scorer in the entire match, taking medalist, having been able to hit targets further than anyone else on either teams.

It was now just after dinner and the group decided to have a little get together to celebrate their victories, "it wasn't that great" Steve mumbled sheepishly, "I had no idea you could move that fast" Clint said lounging on the floor and kicking off his shoes.

Tony frowned when the landed near him, "that's disgusting" he commented pushing the shoes away from him with his foot before sitting on the floor at the end of the bed where Bucky lay.

"They're shoes man," Tony rolled his eyes, "not what they are, the smell. Ever tried gold bond foot powder? Stops that from happening" he retorted, making a show of pinching his nose and waving his hand in front of his face to ward off the smell, smirking at Clint.

Clint laughed, "Okay princess, let's see you walk around all day and have nice smelling shoes after." Tony grinned cheekily, "I do, I work 5 hour to 10 hour shifts that involve constant movement in the sweltering Malibu heat, and my shoes never smell as bad as yours do."

"Where do you even work?" Bucky asked tilting his head up enough to see Tony, "coffee bar called Surf's up" "how long have you been working there?" Steve asked sitting down beside Tony, keeping a respectful distance.

"Since I moved out to California, got the job my first week living there, coming up to my three year anniversary." Tony answered leaning back against the bed, "pay decent?" Tony shrugged, "pays enough, I only work part time during the school year, 56 hour pay checks, summer I'm full time so it varies from 77 to 86 hour pays."

"You really live on your own?" Clint asked genuinely curious, Tony nodded, not that Clint could see it as he was laying down and staring up at the ceiling. "I actually prefer it, no one's around to bother me unless I invite them over, the only ones that have actually even seen the inside of my house is Rhodey and Mike, Rhodey is my best friend, and Mike, well we were… I can't even say dating with a straight face; we were fucking, and not having parents living with you made that easy."

"I have to ask, why weren't you furious when Mike cheated on you?" Natasha asked, face blank as it usually was, but a certain glint in her eyes belayed her curiosity.

"Well to be honest, I was never actually emotionally attracted to Mike, I was more flattered by how we first met, and after a while when he asked me out, I figured, fuck it, why not?" "How did you meet?" she pressed on, wanting to know more about this boy they'd tormented not so long ago.

"He came up to me when I was done practice one day, said he thought my eyes were beautiful and had to come talk to me just see them up close, which is about the sweetest thing anybody has ever said to me. He kept making comments like that for a few months then we crossed paths in the gym, I was just starting practice he was just finishing and he says 'hey I reckon we should go out sometime' I was flattered so I said yes. But really our entire relationship wasn't normal, we went on one solo date, the rest of the time we were in group settings, we were more friends that occasionally slept together than an actual couple."

Tony paused to take a breath, "because I wasn't emotionally attached to him it was easy to forgive him for the whole sleeping with Shawna thing, I honestly didn't mind, they make a good couple, and I wasn't possessive or jealous about it so why not let them be together? I knew Shawna had a thing for Mike for ages, it broke her heart when she found out we were 'dating' now if we'd been a serious couple then yes, I'd have been undeniably pissed and would never forgive him, but we weren't so I let bygones be bygones and we stayed friends."

There was a bit of a silence after Tony explained himself and his relationship with Mike, "can I ask you guys a question?" At their nods Tony brazenly asked, "it doesn't matter now, I'm over it, I'm just curious, back in freshman year, who took that picture and posted it in the cafeteria?"

"Oh, awkward" Clint joked at the silence that followed Tony's question, Tony rolled his eyes, "really though, whoever took it misread the situation, I wasn't trying to sneak a peek at Steve's dick, I was serving detention and got asked to get the dirty laundry from the lockers, I didn't like going in there, so when I heard the door I hid, I went to check if the coast was clear and there's Steve getting naked. I didn't see anyone else in there, just saw you." Tony directed the last part to Steve who shrugged, "I didn't know anyone else was in there with me, they had to have to been coming out of the showers from the angle the picture was taken."

"We honestly don't know, nobody took claim to it," Natasha finally answered, tilting her head apologetically at Tony, "speaking of showers, I'm going to get you back for that stunt you pulled this morning" Rhodey warned, pointing a threatening finger at Tony who burst into laughter.

"This I got to hear, what happened?" Clint asked propping himself up on his elbows, "this little shit, fucking gave me a polar bear!"

"That sounds dirty" Bucky commented, chuckling, "it's not sexual!" Rhodey yelled, "a polar bear is when you take a shower and someone dumps a bag of flour over your head, sticks like a bitch to your wet skin and is a total pain in the ass to clean up!"

"You're a bit of a prankster!" Clint hollered sitting up fully and turning, pointing at the still laughing Tony, "you should've have seen his face, priceless, absolutely priceless!" Tony got out between laughs.

"You should try getting Clint" Steve smiled mischievously at his archer friend, "nobody has ever managed to successfully full on prank Clint" Tony blinked, astonished, "really?" he asked grinning at the archer.

Clint nodded, smiling smugly, "I am the prank king, and nobody has ever gotten me good." Tony grinned wider, "challenge accepted" Rhodey groaned, "oh God, here we go, look what you've done Steve, this is going to be a nightmare!"

Steve shrugged apologetically, "I'm sorry?" it sounded more like a question than anything else, "damn right you're sorry, I'm going to be living with the back lash of this! Tony is brutal and relentless with pranks, last year he filled the door way of the drama classroom with quick dry cement and painted the loony tunes tunnel on it!"

Clint laughed loudly, joined by Bucky, the others making sounds of amusement. Tony sat amongst them grinning with self-pride.

"How did you manage that?" Bucky asked once the laughter settled down, "I figured out how to hack the school's security feed to play on a continuous loop so we wouldn't get caught on tape, after that it was easy to disable the alarms on the side where the drama room was, and after that all I had to do was unlock a back door and bring in the cement, took nearly three hours. The next day the drama students show up to the loony tunes tunnel and one of Wile E Coyote's picket signs saying 'you've been looney tuned'. To this day, no one knows it was me that did it." Tony was rather proud of this.

"Why do that though? You have a grudge against them?" Steve asked, stretching out contently.

"No, no, I just did it for shits and giggles, everybody got a laugh out of it, and to clean up all you had to do was hose it down with water, harmless prank really, but totally worth it to see the look on the drama teacher's face, she didn't know whether to laugh or cry."

"A prank war with you is going to be awesome" Clint announced climbing to his feet, " I should warn you, I start small, but it escalates quickly"

Clint grinned, "I look forward to it" he responded heading into the bathroom, "quick!" Tony whispered once the door was shut, "somebody grab me some ice from the bucket" Bucky eagerly got up and handed the metal container to Tony, who took out a few frozen cubes and gave the bucket back.

The others watched as he grabbed one of Clint's shoes, placing the cubes into it and giving it a light shake to get the cubes down to the toe of the shoe before carefully placing it back exactly the way it was.

A few seconds later and Clint came back out, not paying attention to the grin on Bucky's face or the smirks on the others, "I say friends, I am in the mood for the cream made from ice, shall we go find a vendor?" Thor asked standing and watching Clint intently.

"I'm in" Tony agreed standing up and masterfully acting like nothing had happened while Clint was in the bathroom. "Yes, a thousand times yes, fucking ice cream, let me put my shoes on" Clint agreed, he put the shoe without ice in it on first, then yelped when he put the other one on.

"What the fuck?!" he shouted taking his shoe off and shaking out the ice cubes, "game on!" Tony yelled laughing with the others, "ice in the shoe!" Clint laughed, "my foot is soaked," he whined wiping his socked foot on the carpet.

"It's not soaked! It was three ice cubes and they haven't even been in there long enough to melt!" Tony retorted still laughing, "Oh yea? I feel the bottom of my foot-" Clint bent over, lifting his foot and feeling the dampened patch, "it's wet, I feel my shoe-" Clint pushed his hand into his shoe, "it's soaked!"

He held the shoe out to Tony, "put your hand in there" he demanded waving the shoe around, "I really don't want too" Tony laughed backing away, "no come on, you soaked my shoe, you can feel how soaked it is," Clint followed Tony's retreat, "I'm not sticking my hand in your shoe" Tony insisted still backing away until he reached the door to the hall.

"Well played Iron Man, well played, you know this is war right? I'm going to get you back so bad," Clint warned dropping his shoe and shoving his foot in it.

Tony grinned widely, "I wouldn't have it any other way, well come on lovelies, ice cream is awaiting us!" Tony yelled opening the door and stepping into the hall, followed by the amused group of friends.

A/N: A prank war, who shall be the victor?!