Very non-serious chapter, with lots of pranks and reminiscing and stuff. Actually, slightly crackish if you go with my friends view point after she had read it.
So yeah, pranks, and a paintball match that takes place all around the condor.
Hope you guys enjoy!
Oh, and the next two chapters were going to be one, but it was veeeeeeery long, so I split it, for easier reading :D
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Aerrow opened his eyes, and yawned, stretching and running a hand through his hair as he sat up.
Radarr seemed to have already gotten up, and a quick look at the clock told him it was nearly eleven. Aerrow blinked. He hadn't had a lie-in past ten o'clock for years...
Within a few minutes, he was changed and pulling on his boots, feeling more rested than he had in quite some time. He left his room, heading up to the console room, where Condora told him that the others were in the small lounge on the Condor. Aerrow was fairly confused as he head there... They hardly ever used the room unless they were watching a movie or something...
He entered the room to see that it was dark, but within an instant, the lights flipped on, and he was met with the sight of Finn, eagerly waving his arms around, with the others all grinning as they stood around the table with a huge cake on it.
"Happy Late Birthday Buddy!" Finn called, and accidentally slipped on Radarr's tail. He fell back into Junko, who was knocked off balance and went tumbling to the floor, catching Ace's side as he did so and pulling both him and Finn over too. Radarr went flying from Finns foot, and landed on Junko's face, causing the wallop to give a startled cry and send Ace flying into the opposite wall, colliding with a bookcase and sending the whole thing tumbling over onto him. That started a chain reaction, as the books hit the swinging light, which hit the huge fan, which shuddered and sent a box of wrenches and spanners onto Finn and Junko, Radarr just leaping out of the way in time, only to land on a chicken and have to grab on as the bird ran around the room, squawking.

Aerrow looked from where Ace was getting to his feet, then to Finn and Junko, then to Radarr, still being thrown about by the chicken, then to the shocked, yet amused, faces on the two girls, and he burst out laughing.
He sank down against the wall, clutching his aching ribs as he tried to get his composure back. But when Finn got to his feet and slipped on another wrench, pulling Junko over again, he only laughed harder. His laughter was renewed yet again when they all finally got to their feet, but the crazed chicken ran beneath Junko's feet, sending him falling again, and tripping up Finn. Radarr took his chance to leap from the chicken and landed on Ace's shoulder, sending them both falling into the books again.
Aerrow couldn't stop laughing as they all finally managed to get to their feet, and it took several minutes for him to be able to choke out anything coherent, as he wiped tears of mirth from his eyes and tried to stop himself hiccupping.
"That... was brilliant..."
Aerrow caught sight of the scowls and was set of into another bout of laughter, this time with Piper and Arya joining in. The guys couldn't help but grin, aside from Radarr, who was busy picking chicken feathers out of his fur with help from Glitch.
It took nearly half an hour for Aerrow to stop chuckling, though he still had a huge grin on his face as he helped them clear up.
As he slouched down onto the sofa, hands behind his head, he shook his head.
"That was even better than that April Fool's day when I covered the corridor floor with grease..."
The others all groaned, and Finn snorted.
"Fun for you maybe... There we were," he said to Ace and Arya, "slipping over everywhere for almost an hour with the floor covered in grease, and him and Radarr were filming the entire thing from an opening in the vents. Bloody idiot spent the whole night setting it up..."
"Best April Fool's prank ever," Aerrow said, grinning, and Arya laughed.
"Do you still have the recording?"
"Nope, we found it and trashed it-" Finn started to say, then Aerrow butted in with a smug grin.
"Actually, they threw out a blank tape. I have the actual one locked away nice and safe."
"What? Why you-"
"You sneaky little-"
"No fair Aerrow!"
"Don't you dare-"
The others protests were cut off as Aerrow grinned, tapping the table in front of him, letting a small section of the metal fold down to reveal a secret compartment. He reached in and pulled out a series of tapes, reading from the labels.
"Hmm, let's see... April Fool's day number one... Taking the bolts out of Finn's ride... Two, replacing the cocoa powder with chilli powder and the chocolate cause with Terra Saharr's signature hotsauce... That was a good one... Then there is three years ago, setting it up to look like there was a ghost and hoard of mind-worms taking over the Condor-You remember that, Stork?"
Aerrow wasn't put off by the silence that greeted the question, or the fact that his team were shocked into silence by the fact that he still had the tapes that they thought they had managed to throw out. Ace and Arya were grinning, As Aerrow continued.
"Long-lasting Ink on weapon's handles...Talking gibberish... Replacing fruits with sour versions- Still remember those expressions- Entering Junko and Finn into a ballet competition... Covering them with glue and feathers... locking Finn in the bathroom with a dozen chickens... Ah, here we are. Grease on the corridor. What's with the faces guys? You didn't really think I would give you a chance to throw them out?"
"Why you-"
Finn pounced on Aerrow wrestling him to the floor, but the result was Aerrow having Finn in a headlock.
"Ah, calm down Finn. You know, if you guys tried harder, you may actually have been able to fool me!"
Finn wrested himself out of the headlock and ran a hand through his hair, tweaking it.
"Well every-time we tried, you managed to avoid it and fool us into falling into our own traps..."
"Like the new escape hatch!"Stork said, glaring, "And the boxing glove I spring-loaded into the Condor."
"I told you it would never work, Stork," Finn defended, "And that it would never come in handy..."
"Well, It's knocked out a raptor when we were with the Absolute Zeroes last year..."(1)
"But its purpose was to actually get Aerrow. Instead, you managed to knock Junko out, who then collapsed onto me and flattened me to the floor, whilst Aerrow was hiding in a corner filming the entire thing. I don't get it," Finn turned to Aerrow, who was still sorting through the tapes, "We stay up every year, on the last day of March, to find out what you're up to. We never manage it, but you always know what we are getting up to... How do you do it?"
Aerrow grinned.
"I guess you'll just have to wait and see... Maybe this year, you'll figure it out..."
"But there is still nearly five months to go..." Finn whined, and Aerrow's grin widened.
"And I already have a plan in the works..."
The others all gulped and backed away slightly as Aerrow handed a tape to Radarr.
"Hey buddy, go play this one, would ya? It's our top five pranks tape..."
Radarr gave a chirp and ran off with the tape, plugging it into the contraption the back of the room whilst pressing a switch to lower the screen down and dim the lights.
He pressed play, and the film started.
A big number one appeared, with a countdown, and the others all groaned as they recognised the occasion.
Arya and Ace had sat down, very eager to see this, and both couldn't stop laughing as the tape played through.
1... The camera was still, giving them a clear view of Radarr and Aerrow setting up a projector behind the vents, then running back to the camera. A few minutes later, Stork walked past and Radarr pressed a switch.
All of a sudden, an image of a ghost appeared and Stork gave a strangled cry, falling backwards, where Aerrow projected the image of a hoard of mind worms crawling along the corridor. Radarr made a series of strange noises and played a sound recording, and Stork legged it back up the corridor, yelling about invasions and ghosts.
Aerrow and Radarr's laughter was evident on the tape, but it quietened down as they heard voices, and Stork reappeared with Finn and Junko. Finn was sighing.
"But mind worms aren't invading the Condor, Stork..."
"But I saw... Oh..." Stork looked around, realising that there was nothing there, and blinked, then span around and grabbed the neck of Finn's outfit, "They were there, man... They must be hiding... Like the ghost..."
With that, Radarr gave a small howl and Stork shrieked, leaping into Junko's arms, and Aerrow pressed a switch, making the ghost image reappear.
Now it was Finn's turn to yelp and jump onto Junko, who fell backwards, just catching his balance before legging it up the corridor, the others still clinging on.
A few seconds later, they were being shoved shamefaced, back down the corridor by Piper, who was going on about them being big babies and that they knew Aerrow would likely be playing pranks thismorning. She stopped by the wall, and sighed, considering, before she looked up at the vents... Directly at the Camera, where Radarr chattered and sent a bucket of flour down over them, as Aerrow sent downa torrent of water from a hose. All of them were covered from head to foot in a white, sticky mixture, and they were all glaring.
It was at this time that Aerrow and Radarr, both on the recording and in real life, burst out laughing.

The real Aerrow got up to let Stork sit down, and made his way over to Radarr who had paused the tape.
"Go on Radarr, next one..."
Ace and Arya, still laughing, managed to quieten down as the next part began playing.
Junko groaned and slumped to the floor, leaning against the sofa, and Finn followed suit as they realised what Prank this was...
2... The screen made a quick countdown and then an image appeared. Looking closely, they could all see that it was a form for entering competitors in a ballet competition. Finn and Junko's names were at the top, and they all watched as Aerrow posted it.
The image changed into Aerrow, holding an hypnosis crystal, and shushing Radarr as he hypnotised Finn and Junko to want to be great ballet stars. Nothing else, just giving them a new number one dream.
The image changed again, this time to Finn and Junko in Leotards... Fluffy Pink ones. (At thispoint, Aerrow and Radarr were laughing too hard to pay much attention to the recording, as they were remembering what happened. Ace and Arya were laughing at the sight of the two in baby pink, and Even Piper and Stork were smirking, both at the sight and at the relief they remembered feeling as they discovered that they would not be part of Aerrow's prank that year.)
They were both dancing around the hangar bay, and were actually surprisingly good...
The recording of them dancing went on for a few minutes, then the image changed yet again, to then being on a stage.
(The date stamp was the same day, and both Ace and Arya were marvelling at what Aerrow was capable of doing in a single morning.)
Both Finn and Junko were doing ballet, much to the audience's delight and amusement, realising that this must be some form of April Fool's day prank, and the recording went on for a while.
Then it was the results, and the pair won third place.
The recording zoomed out, to get Aerrow in the frame, as he halted the hypnosis. The resulting yelps from both Finn and Junko, coupled with their hasty escape from the stage had everyone both on the screen and in the Condor laughing, aside from Finn and Junko, who were both burying their heads in their arms.

Aerrow grinned and jogged forward, reaching into the compartment again and drawing out a trophy, which he handed to Finn.
"I went and collected it afterwards... That way, you could always have a reminder of that day..."
Finn and Junko looked as though they didn't know whether thank or hit him, and he backed away calling to Radarr
"Play the next bit, Radarr!"
Radarr gave a chirp, and the number three appeared on the screen.
This time, Stork, Finn and Junko groaned.
From the image, they realised that the camera was positioned in the corner of the console room, behind the shelf unit.
The video started with Finn and Junko, staring at Stork as he struggled to shove a spring loaded boxing glove into a small compartment in the wall.
After a few minutes, he managed it and grinned.
"Oh yeah... After this, I simply have to press a lever and it will blast from the wall, hitting someone before retreating back in."
Finn's look was one of complete bemusement.
"It'll never work Stork..."
"Yeah!" Junko agreed, "And it'll never come in handy after this..."
Stork glared at them.
"We'll see..."
He head over to the controls and placed a hand on a lever.
"As soon as he walks into that spot right there... Kapow!"
What he didn't realise what that Radarr had been sneaking up behind him. The sky-monkey gave a huge cry, waving his arms abut, and Stork gave a yelp, falling over his own feet and hooking his arm around the lever, pulling it down.
The Merb only had time to say 'Oops...' before the glove burst out and ht Junko in the face, sending him falling on top of Finn, who gave a yell as the Wallop flattened him to the floor.
Aerrow got up from the corner, laughing, and giving Radarr a high five.
The video faded to black just as Finn managed to pull himself out from under Junko, and Stork accidentally caught the lever, sending the glove at Finn, and sending him flying into the window across the console room, sliding to the floor.

All of them, aside from Finn, was laughing at the scene, and Aerrow nudged Radarr,
"Keep it going buddy..."
4... The scene started with Aerrow and Radarr tipping powder from a tin marked cocoa, and replacing it with some of an identical colour, marked 'Saharr Special Curry Mix'
Then they emptied a tube of chocolate sauce and filled it with another mixture, labelled 'Saharr signature hot sauce'
Then they put everything back in place and began sipping on premade cups of cocoa as the others walked in, looking suspicious.
Finn spoke up.
"Aerrow? You know it's the first of April right?"
He nodded. "Yup. Oh, there's cocoa on the side for you guys..."
The cocoa was actually normal, but the others all exchanged glances and tipped it down the sink, before grabbing the tin that was now full of curry powder.
"No Offense, Aerrow," Finn said, "But we're gonna make our own."
"Suit yourselves..." Aerrow said, and acted irritated as Finn and Junko made themselves a drink. Piper however, after looking suspiciously at Aerrow, apparently decided on just drinking water.
Wise desicion.
Both Finn and Junko, as per tradition, squeezed a healthy dollop of chocolate sauce into their mugs, on top of the cocoa, and clanged cups, before downing it in one.
It was chaos.
They both blinked, then glanced at Aerrow just before the heat kicked in.
He grinned evilly, and they both rushed towards the tap, but it was too late.
With gasps and yelps, they both gulped down glass after glass of water, then Junko took the shortcut and held his head under the tap.
They were both randomly running around the kitchens, throwing open cupboards in an attempt to find something to help, whilst Radarr, who had put down the camera on top of the fridge to film the entire scene, Aerrow and Piper were laughing their heads off at the sight.
Stork chose that moment to enter, and sighed as he caught sight of the two, who had just knocked into each other and sank to the floor, fanning their tongues. He grinned, realising that the prank was clearly over, and head for the chocolate sauce, which he had long since enjoyed on toast.
The others, aside from Aerrow who was grinning evilly, and Piper, who was too focused on Finn and Junko to pay him much attention, only just caught sight of him as he took a bite, and their cries of
"NOOOOOO!" were too late, as Stork swallowed.
He was okay for a couple of seconds, until he realised what had happened, then he turned to glare at Aerrow.
"You!"It was all he could manage before the heat took over and he started running manically around the kitchen. He accidentally knocked into the open tin of curry powder, and it fell. The other two, who had their mouths open, were right in its path, and the powder landed right on their tongues.
After the next ten minutes of random running and shouting, Aerrow seemed to have got his conscience back, and grabbed a can of cream, grabbing Finn's head, then Junko's he proceeded to squeeze a load of it into their mouths. Then, leaving them to it, let Radarr clamber up onto his shoulder, high fived him, grabbed the camera and walked out, turning it off.

Piper and Arya were shaking with silent laughter, clutching their sides as Finn, Junko and Stork subconsciously started fanning their faces as they remembered.
Ace was chuckling in admiration at the ingenious plan, and Aerrow and Radarr were laughing openly, high-fiving.
After a few minutes, Aerrow whispered to Radarr to start the last part of the video, then grabbed the sky-monkey and escaped to the relative safety of the vents above the room.
After he showed this one, he had no doubt his team would be hunting him down.
5...The recording started with Aerrow and Radarr covering an entire length of the corridor with 'easy slick' grease. One of the most slippery substances in the Atmos. They were both wearing studded boots, meaning that they weren't slipping over the odd time they did step in the grease.
Then they climbed up to the vents, positioning the camera to capture the entire corridor, and Aerrow set off the Condor's alarm.
The speed by which the team reacted, was comical, But not as comical as what they were wearing. The past few years of pranks seemed to have taken their toll, and they were dressed in a variety of things.
Stork was covered in saucepans and had a duck shaped swimming floatation aid around his waist.
He held a giant saucepan in his hands and another on his head.
Finn was dressed in a camouflages styled suit, and had a band of fabric wrapped around his forehead with belts of stun grenades, smoke bombs and a paintballing gun with two strips of ammunition wrapped around his chest.
Junko was dressed in what looked to be some kind of chainmail, and had several more smoke bombs and a paintballing gun with even more ammunition.
Piper was... well, Piper.
But she had a belt stuffed with crystals of all kinds, as well as a powerful paralyser stone in the staff she had on her back.
The results of the grease were fantastic.
Junkowas the first to fall over, and as he yelped, he sent off a series of paintball shots, which smashed into the walls, but one hit the saucepan on Storks head, splattering the Merbs face with bright pink paint. Stork flailed around and went smashing into Finn, who sent off another hail of paintballs, which Piper only managed to dodge by sliding on the grease.
Then Finn and Stork Collapsed on top of Junko, who gave a loud 'Woah'.
Piper tried to get to her feet, but her shoes couldn't get a grip on the floor and she went flying into Finn, who was using Junko to get himself upright.
They all heard Aerrow and Radarr laughing and cursed, spending the next ten minutes trying to get to their feet.
Eventually, however, they manages it, and went to give Aerrow a series of smug grins, but then Aerrow raised his link to his mouth with an evil smile and their faces dropped.
"Now Radarr!"
The ship suddenly lurched and they all went flying again, splattering the walls with grease.
The Radarr steered the ship in the opposite direction, causing them to fly into the opposite wall.
It was amusing to see that Piper never landed first, and always landed on top of the others, the crystals in her belt sending off sparks and small shocks that did everything from momentarily freeze Finn, to cause a mini hurricane that only lasted a few seconds. The ship eventually straightened out as Radarr landed it, then a few minutes later, returned with a box of chickens, which he started throwing at the others.
It was nearly an hour before the chaotic scene came to a halt, as Piper managed to freeze the grease with a crystal, then blow it out of the nearby window with a controlled hurricane.
(Ace and Arya were in helpless gales of laughter by this point, and the others were flicking between humour and irritation)
When it had all left, Finn picked up a paintball gun, intending to blast at Aerrow, but the sky-knight and Sky-monkey had already vanished through the vents, turning off the Camera as they went. The last thing they heard was Finn's voice.
"We'll get you for this Aerrow!"

Aerrow lowered down Radarr to grab the tape, and then hid it in the back of the vent, just as Finn spoke up.
"You know, we never did get him for that... We had that fight with the Talon's straight afterwards, remember?"
"And we forgot about it..." Junko finished.
They all turned to try and see Aerrow, but he was already clambering through the vents. They heard him land on the other side of the wall and Finn jumped to his feet.
"Junko! Get the paintball guns! I'll get the ammo! Piper, sort the uniforms, Stork... Track him."
The Merb's face morphed into an expression of evil and he nodded.
"With pleasure."
He rushed off at the same time as Junko and Piper, both of whom were looking very gleeful, and Finn grabbed Ace and Arya by an Arm each, knowing Glitch would follow, and dragged them out.
"You two are going to help. We catch him and we blast him. Any questions?"
They both shared a look, and shrugged.
"Nope."
"Nada..."
"Good. Then let's get you kitted out. No doubt Aerrow is already doing so..."

Aerrow was indeed doing so. Within minutes, his armour was on, over the top of a black suit with a red back across the shoulder marking his team, his weapons were at his back and he and Radarr were armed with small paintball guns, which they could strap to their waist.
Both had spare belts of ammunition (red classically being for their team with blue for the others) wrapped around their torsos, and they were running for their usual base.
The Hangar bay.
There was only three ways of entering the area. The door, the chute, that they were currently sliding down, and the bay doors. Well, three that the team were aware of. As far as Aerrow knew, they didn't know of the small hatch above his head, now that he and Radarr had hidden behind a load of crates, and it was the way he always managed to escape without them realising how.
He had no doubt that Ace and Arya had been roped in by the others, and he knew that Stork would be tracking him.
Speaking of which, Stork's voice echoed through the tannoy.
"They're in the Hangar bay!"
Aerrow grinned.
Not for long... He motioned for Radarr to stay, and leapt out, hiding behind his ride, next to the door.
The rules were simple. If you were hit three times, you were out. Hits on armour didn't count, and no shots were allowed above the shoulders. And no attacks allowed if someone was reloading. Yet again, Aerrow was glad they had thought to stock up on ammo after the last time. One of the store rooms was full of both Paintball pellets, red and blue, and spare outfits, from jet black ones to camouflage, to just plain old spares.
Aerrow grinned. They hadn't played this game in a while, and he was looking forward to it.
The sound of footsteps echoed from the passage way, and someone was coming down the chute.
Aerrow grinned.
Let the game begin...
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Referencing the episode there (absolute zeroes). Stork says the others told him it would never work etc, but I've always wanted to write about why he installed a boxing glove :D
What do you guys think?

Next chapter will be up soon! :D