Thanks for the amazing reviews, follows, and favorites! This request is from Abby, where Daniel is scolded for his womanizing ways. And this chapter is a request from Emily, where the Horsemen pull some pranks on each other. Oh dear...
Disclaimer: Don't own Now You See Me
Prank
When Dylan chose people for the Eye, he really tried to pick people that would excel above and beyond the expectations. That's what drew him to the Four Horsemen when Dylan first encountered them individually.
But one of the things Dylan often forgot was that sometimes, even adults are immature. So immature that they can be worse than kids.
If the Four Horsemen were kids, Dylan supposed that he was the parent.
And in most movies, the kids will get arrested at least once, so Dylan supposed that these turn of events were somewhat normal?
Or at least that's how Dylan reasoned it to keep from having too severe of a headache.
Dylan entered the police building and approached the front desk. He told the front desk who he was here for and a policeman lead him to the Four Horsemen, whom were soaking wet and waiting inside a prison cell. The policeman used his keys to unlock the door and let Dylan inside. Then he left to give the group some privacy.
Dylan ran a hand through his hair in agitation, "All I wanted was for you all to lay low. And I thought we agreed on what laying low meant."
"We did," Jack mumbled.
Dylan laughed harshly, "Really? Because I got a call about four young adults having a water fight in the middle of town! And those four young adults just happened to be my Four Horsemen! I was tempted to just leave you all here and not pay the bailout money!"
The magicians looked down, ashamed.
Henley wringed her hands nervously. "We're really sorry," Henley apologized quietly.
Dylan sighed, "All I want to know is what happened."
"From the very beginning?" Merritt asked.
Dylan looked pointedly at him.
"Well, it was really Jack's fault," Merritt said defensively.
"How was it my fault?" Jack demanded. "You all are the ones that decided to saran wrap my clothes to my bed!"
"You what?" Dylan exclaimed.
"Well," Merritt replied, "It was only to teach Jack a lesson."
"Jack has this habit of leaving his clothes all over the place," Henley began.
"And really? Is it that much work to keep your clothes in your room? The only time where clothing can be freely scattered is during heated, passionate sex," Merritt stated.
Daniel rolled his eyes and continued, "We all were annoyed of Jack's habit and wanted to teach him a lesson. So, Merritt came up with a plan. We took all of Jack's clothing and placed it on his bed while he was gone. And then we took twelve rolls of saran wrap and wrapped his clothes to his bed."
"Which was brilliant," Merritt added proudly, but quickly stopped talking when he saw Dylan's glare.
"Do you know how long it took me to get my clothes? FOUR HOURS! They put so much saran wrap that I couldn't even use scissors to get through!" Jack yelled.
"It was a valuable lesson," Henley admitted.
"But Jack was the one who officially started the prank war by striking back," Merritt defended.
"And eventually, we fought over credit for the prank, and turned against each other," Daniel explained. "Though now, I can give all the credit to Merritt since Dylan looks like he is going to kill us."
Dylan rubbed his temples. "I'm afraid to ask, but what else did you all do?" Dylan questioned.
One by one, the Horsemen explained to Dylan the pranks that had occurred during the prank war between the four.
Duck Tape…
War was declared and now it was every Horseman for themselves.
Jack walked over to Merritt's room in the middle of the night. He brought with him heavy duty duck tape as well as pieces of trash. Quietly, Jack worked on his prank and when he finished, snuck away before anyone noticing.
The next morning, Merritt woke up and opened his door as usual. He also went to the bathroom and performed his daily routine as usual.
But when he came back, he gasped at his door.
There was trash taped all over his door. Beer cans, used tissues, candy wrappers, used razor blades, toilet paper, banana peels, and other disgusting trash was all duck taped onto Daniel's bedroom door.
And the criminal didn't even bother to hide his deed. The chewed up gum wads in the middle neatly spelled XOXO – JACK on the door.
"JAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!" Merritt fumed.
Desktop…
Henley made her way over to Jack's room and noticed it empty. Casually, she slipped inside and made her way over to Jack's laptop, which was on his bed. She turned it on and waited.
Henley took a screenshot of Jack's desktop. After saving the screenshot, she deleted all of the icons on Jack's desktop. Then she changed Jack's desktop background to the screenshot she just took. She saved all the changes.
After finishing, she slipped back out before Jack returned.
Later, Jack returned to his room to look up a funny video about cats singing to llamas that someone texted him to see. Jack opened up his computer and clicked on the INTERNET EXPLORER icon to go online.
Unfortunately, nothing happened.
Jack crinkled his eyebrows in confusion and clicked on the icon again. But the internet didn't open.
Jack wondered if his computer had frozen, but he could still move his mouse and all the programs were okay when Jack checked. He clicked around in his computer until he found a photo titled DESKTOP SCREENSHOT BY HENLEY.
Jack angrily slammed his laptop screen shut and roared, "HENLEY REEVES YOU ARE SO DEAD!"
Cooler Than You…
Daniel waited until Merritt left his room. Daniel stayed in the living room, casually glancing at her magazine but focusing on Merritt's bedroom.
Eventually Merritt left and Daniel went to work. He snuck in and proceeded over to Merritt's laptop. He quickly opened Microsoft Word. Then he clicked on autocorrect and added an entry.
Daniel made it so that every "the" that Merritt typed would be replaced with the words J. DANIEL ATLAS IS COOLER THAN YOU. After he clicked save, he closed Merritt's laptop and left things the way they were.
Later that day, Merritt was typing up a rough draft of a script for one of his mentalist acts. Unfortunately, every time he typed the word "the", J. DANIEL ATLAS IS COOLER THAN YOU would autocorrect in its place.
At first Merritt would try to ignore it. After all, Daniel basically says the sentence in person all the time in all forms during conversations. So every time it autocorrected, Merritt would hit backspace and delete the text.
However, Merritt didn't realize how many times he would use the word "the". Eventually, he found himself reading that Daniel was cooler than him in every sentence. Merritt tried to fix it, but then his computer froze.
Merritt knew Daniel was responsible for the autocorrect. Whether Daniel was responsible for his computer freezing he didn't exactly know, but Merritt was pissed.
"J. DANIEL ATLAS GET YOU OBVIOUSLY UNCOOL SELF IN HERE THIS INSTANT!" Merritt shouted.
Forks…
Merritt came into the backyard carrying a box of 1000 plastic forks that he bought from the grocery store.
Henley watered her trumpet vine flowers at the same time everyday. Something about consistency encouraging plant growth. Merritt checked his watch to see that he had half an hour before Henley came to water her flowers.
He looked around to make sure no one saw him and began to stick forks into the soil all over the backyard.
After he finished, he quickly went back into the house. His task was done with five minutes to spare.
Henley had just finished updating her website and found it time to water her plants. She happily walked over to the backyard and stepped outside.
Unfortunately, she could only take one step. The entire backyard had forks sticking up from the ground. Henley fumed as she tried to step around the forks.
But the forks were to close together and would prick her foot. Angrily, she began to pull a few out. But she only took out about ten forks. And from the looks of it, Henley estimated there were about a thousand forks between her and her trumpet vine flowers.
She noticed that one of the forks had a note attached to it. Henley hopped over, getting pricked by a few forks along the way, and picked up the note.
The note was written in scrawl and said MIGHT WANT TO GET A FORKLIFT – MERRITT.
Henley angrily stormed into the house and screamed.
Womanizer...
Jack casually walked over to Daniel's room while Daniel was busy showering. He dug around in Daniel's desk until he found Daniel's cell phone and took it out.
Jack quickly went to the settings on Daniel's phone to change the ringtone. After he was done, he click save and placed the phone back where it was.
The next day, Jack and Daniel were in a restaurant ordering food to-go. They had placed their order and were waiting for the food to be prepared before taking it back to the house.
"Daniel, I have to go pee," Jack excused himself to the restroom. After he was out of sight, however, Jack didn't go to the bathroom. He instead turned on his own cell phone and called Daniel's cell phone.
Daniel, meanwhile, was idly waiting around near the pick-up area for the food. He wondered why Jack took so long to pee.
All of a sudden, someone's phone began to ring. And it was playing Womanizer, by Britney Spears. "Boy don't try to front, I know just what you are, Boy don't try to front, I know just what you are, You, You got me going, You, You're oh so charming, You, But I can't do it, You, You womanizer" the ring tone played repeatedly.
Daniel stared accusingly at the people around him. "Okay, whose cell phone is that. First of all, it's very rude to leave your cell phone ringing in public areas. Second, it's rude not to pick up. And third, womanizing is so not cool," Daniel said. He scanned the room and noticed a teenager that looked extremely handsome.
"You!" Daniel pointed.
"Me?" said the handsome boy.
"It's your phone isn't it? You womanizer!" Daniel accused.
"What? I don't even know you!" the boy replied.
Daniel looked pointedly at the boy and said, "Yeah, sure. You probably think you're so handsome and so attractive that every girl falls at your feet. And so you play around with girls, you player. Womanizer." Daniel turned to the ladies in the waiting area. "What do you think? Should we get him?"
The woman all nodded and glared at the boy.
"Nobody likes a womanizer," one old lady said angrily.
"Wait! Don't hurt me! I've never even had a girlfriend!" the boy cried.
"Then whose phone is it?" Daniel demanded.
A little girl tugged on Daniel's sleeve, "Excuse me mister. I don't know what woman...womanizering... well, whatever you said. But your phone is ringing. I see it in your back pocket because the screen lights up."
Daniel suddenly understood. Someone had changed his ringtone. He reached into his pocket and sure enough, it was his cell phone ringing. And Jack was calling. "Jack," Daniel muttered angrily.
And now, every female in the waiting area was glaring at Daniel so hard that Daniel could've melted right there.
Mentos...
Merritt quickly took the truck out to buy some Mentos. These Mentos were hard candy mints that Merritt didn't particularly like.
However Merritt bought them to get back at Jack. Jack loved soda as much as Merritt loved beer. Which was a lot.
So, Merritt returned home and quickly put one Mento into each hole in the ice tray. He poured water into each of the holes so that a mento was sitting in water in each hole. Merritt then placed the tray into the freezer and waited for the ice cubes to form.
After the ice cubes formed, Merritt pulled them out of the ice tray and snuck behind Jack.
Jack was watching TV on the sofa with a glass of soda in his hands. He was very into the game and didn't notice Merritt.
Merritt slipped as many ice cubes containing Mentos as possible and snuck away.
Once the ice cubes melted and the Mento touched the soda, Jack's drink blew up in his face.
Merritt chuckled as Jack shrieked and jumped up off the couch.
Shorts...
Henley waited until Daniel was in the shower before she carried out her plans.
Daniel showered with lots of hot water, causing lots of fog to hide her, and he liked water to be on high power, making lots of noise to cover for her as well.
Henley picked the lock, skills courtesy to Jack's training, and quietly crept in. She took Daniel's clothes and towel, and placed a pair of her shortest shorts. She also left a note that said YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS: COME OUT NAKED OR COME OUT WEARING THESE (LOVE, HENLEY).
Daniel got out of the shower and reached for a towel. He blinked in confusion when he couldn't locate one. He looked around and sure enough his clothes were gone as well.
Daniel picked up the note and after reading it, looked down in horror at the jean shorts placed underneath. Daniel couldn't believe that these were even shorts.
He was really conflicted about what to do. He wanted to just make a mad dash to his room, but it was still far away. He would be stark naked for at least fifteen seconds.
Daniel sighed and wore the short shorts.
He opened the door and started bolting towards his room.
Sadly, Henley was positioned in the middle of the hallway with a camera and a smile. "Work it Danny! Show them your sexy legs!" she laughed.
"HENLEY! GIVE ME THAT CAMERA RIGHT NOW!" Daniel demanded. He could not let anyone see him in short shorts and only short shorts. He couldn't even begin to imagine the horror of his fans seeing the photos.
Water Fight...
The Four Horsemen were at the mall together. Things were very tense because no truces or surrenders had been called in the prank war. No one knew whether public places were off limits.
And yet, all of them were planning to attack each other that day.
They just didn't know they were all going to do the same prank.
Jack was the first to attack. He waited until all the Horsemen were gathered in the center of town and pulled out his water gun. "TASTE THE AWESOMENESS OF JACK WILDER!" Jack roared and fired his water gun on his teammates.
Henley ducked and pulled out her water gun. "NOT SO FAST!" she cried. She too began to fire at the other Horsemen.
Merritt pulled out his bag of water balloons and began to throw them while laughing evily, "Ha! Ha! Ha!"
And Daniel's attack really brought on the water onslaught. He connected a hose to the fire hydrant and attacked. The hose wasn't as high powered as firefighter hoses, so it wouldn't hurt his teammates, but they were certainly going to be wet. "EAT MY WATERY DUST!" Daniel yelled.
"THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE!"
"YEAH DANNY! COME UP WITH BETTER ATTACKS!"
"SHUT UP YOU GUYS! YOU'RE SCARING CHILDREN!"
"JUST YOUR FACE SCARES CHILDREN!"
After the Horsemen finished explaining, Dylan felt like his head was about to explode. He didn't even say anything, but opened the cell door, got out of the cell, and closed the door again.
"Hey, wait! Dylan – aren't you going to get us out?" Daniel asked.
Dylan didn't say anything but talked to the policeman instead. "If I pay the bailout money, do I have to take them back right away?"
The policeman shook his head, "Nope."
Dylan paid the policeman and then waved goodbye to the Horsemen, "I'll pick you guys up on Monday."
"But today is FRIDAY!" Merritt yelled back.