This is my second oneshot for my Fanfiction account, I filled it out more since it's being posted on here. Since all the Coronavirus stuff I thought I may has well get back on the writing wagon, I'm one of the at risk people so it will give me something to do while I quarantine myself away from the world for 12 weeks lol I'm going to try and write at least one oneshot each week if I can, keep safe everybody!
So I hope you enjoy it, I have more to come in the future!
April Fools Day - 1969
Peter woke up in a cheery mood, it was one of his favourite days of the year. It was the 1st of April and that only meant one thing, it was April Fools Day. Sitting up in his bed he yawned loudly and looked over at his Peanuts Snoopy yellow wall clock, it was only 7:30am. He normally got up around 8am since he had been suspended for three weeks from his school, it wasn't even his fault anyway. He didn't mean to set off all the fire alarms in the school which caused the sprinkler system to go off, one of the jocks had dared him to do it.
Jumping out off his bed he zoomed around his basement, he picked up his comics and put them in a pile. He made his bed and threw all of his junk food wrappers in his trash can, he did this every morning. After he had finished tidying his room he got dressed fast and zoomed upstairs for breakfast, his Mom jumped has he took a seat at the table.
" Peter, what have I told you about doing that?!" She asked.
" Sorry Mom..." He replied.
Peter's Mom was already awake and feeding his Baby Sister Lorna, his Sister had arrived two weeks early. He had to stay with his Grandma Maximoff while his Mom was giving birth in the hospital, the guy his Mom had been seeing had dumped her after he found out that Peter was a mutant. It didn't matter though, he planned to be the best big Brother to his Sister and her role model until she was sixteen.
Peter poured himself a bowl of Trix cereal and placed the box back in the middle of the table, next he added milk and sprinkled a spoon full of sugar over the top of his already fruity sweet cereal. Spooning some of the cereal into his mouth his full attention was drawn to his Sister, she was gulping her milk down fast.
" Someone is thirsty, do you need me to get you anything from the store today?" He asked has he spooned another spoonful of sugary cereal into his mouth. " You know like baby formula or more cereal, I could get you something sweet. How about a box of chocolates or a loaf of bread? I can get you anything, just name it and it's yours."
" I want you to stay at home today." She said.
" What? Why?" He asked. " What did I do? I've done nothing, I swear it!"
" You do know what day it is, right?" She asked.
" Yeah, it's Tuesday." He replied.
" Don't be a smart alec, it's April the 1st." She said.
" Oh yeah, today's date didn't even cross my mind." He said.
" Oh I bet it didn't." She sighed to herself while she looked down at her baby in her arms. " No April Fool jokes or prank pulling this year, okay? I have enough to be getting on with today, I don't want to get home after work and find angry messages on the answering machine again."
" Are you talking about the time I put sunglasses on the baby Jesus last summer?" He asked.
" That and many other things." She replied.
" Oh, can you be more pacific?" He asked.
" No!" She replied." Just eat your cereal."
" Fine then..." He sighed.
" Peter, I'll be dropping your Sister off at your Grandmas's house very soon." She said. " I'm doing a lunch time shift."
" Work? Mom, you should be resting!" He frowned.
Peter wasn't happy about his Mom having to go back to work early, but she needed the money to pay the bills. Also it didn't help much with all the illegal things Peter had been doing lately, it had only happened twice and his Mom had to pay for two things he had stolen from the local toy store last month.
" I've got no choice, I've got bills to pay." She said. " Just try to stay indoors and watch some television, you could even clean your basement if you get really bored."
" This is bullshit!" He sighed.
" Language!"She said.
" But it is!" He whined.
" Peter!" She said.
" Mom!"He said.
" Do you want me to send you to your Grandma's house for the day?!" She asked.
" Hell no!" He replied.
Peter's Mom gave him one of her " behave yourself or you''ll be sorry " looks, he knew he better keep his mouth shut or he could face a grounding. He sighed and continued to eat his cereal, stirring his spoon around in the bowl now and again. He had no idea what he was going to do today, maybe he could go out when his Mom left to go his Grandma's house.
Peter sat at the kitchen's table while his Mom got Lorna's things together, he watched his Sister over his shoulder from where he was sitting. She was lying on her baby play mat outside of the kitchen's doorway, she was wiggling around and whimpering. He slid from his chair and zoomed over to her side, he knelt next to her with a smile on his face.
" What's wrong with you, huh?" He asked, his tone was gently. " You're lucky you know, you're too young to be yelled at yet by Mom."
" Okay Peter, I'm leaving now." He heard his Mom say. " Are you sure you don't want to go to your Grandma's house?"
" Nah, I'm good." He replied. " She'll probably just teach me how to play cards again, there's only so many times I can let Grandma win at Gin Rummy. Besides, she running out of dimes. She's old, she needs her finances."
Peter's Grandma had been teaching him to gamble, it was a secret between him and his dear old Granny. He watched his Mom pick up Lorna from her play mat, she kissed him on his cheek before she left the house. And with that Peter was on his own, he zoomed down to his basement and grabbed his Walkman. He clipped it onto his belt and put his jacket on, but his attention was soon caught by somebody whistling outside of his house.
Zooming over to his basement's window he climbed up onto a chair to look through it, he saw the Postman delivering their mail. A smile began to creep across his face, it wouldn't hurt just to do one little joke since April Fool's Day was an old tradition. He thought for a moment and smiled to himself when he thought of the most awesome trick to play on the unsuspecting Postman, he knew what to do.
Peter hung his headphones around his neck, he zoomed upstairs to the kitchen and grabbed a mouse trap from beneath the kitchen's sink. They had a mouse problem in the kitchen lately, but unknown to his Mom Peter had been catching the mice and setting them free in the backyard.
" Beware Postman!" Peter said to himself while he held the mouse trap in front of his face. " I heard post boxes can bite, they're more dangerous than dogs."
Putting his goggles on time slowed down for him, he zoomed out of his house and made his way over to his neighbour's steal post box. He carefully placed the mouse trap inside his neighbour's post box, he then zoomed behind a nearby tree and watched the Postman walking along the sidewalk. He held back giggles while the Postman opened the post box's door, the poor guy had no idea what was going to happen to him. Taking some mail from his bag the Postman placed them inside of the box and that's when it happen, the guy's face twisted in pain.
Peter covered up his mouth has the Postman yelled out in pain, he did his best to hide his laughter but it didn't work. He quickly zoomed away to a nearby park and sat on a swing, he had no idea what prank he should pull next though. He thought for a few minutes before he clicked his fingers, he could raid the local convenience store. The shopkeeper wouldn't even notice, he'd be in and out of there before the store's owner even knew about it.
Zooming out of the park he made his way to the convenience store his Mom shopped at sometimes, he stopped outside of the store's window when he finally got there. Pulling his goggles away from his eyes he pressed his face against the window, he could see a few customers in the aisles doing their shopping. The shopkeeper was sweeping the floor by the counter, this was the perfect time for him to strike since the owner was busy.
" I better just pull little April Fool jokes this year, nothing too big though in case my Mom finds out." He said quietly to himself. " Also I need some snacks."
Putting his headphone on and pressing play on his Walkman the song Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles started to play, turning the volume up on his Walkman he checked out his surrounding before he pulled his goggles back over his eyes. Time slowed down for him, the customers of the store were frozen into one place and the shopkeeper looked like a statue with his broom in his hand.
Zooming forward Peter maneuvered himself around the people shopping in the store, he placed unneeded items into some customer's baskets like boxes of chocolate laxatives and sanitary products in one man's shopping basket. He took a can of peas from one woman's hand and replaced it with a can of hot dog sausages, he even put two packets of Twizzlers in one kid's pocket. Stopping for a few seconds he rearranged a shelf of canned fruit, he mixed them up with canned potatoes and balanced a creepy looking Tammy doll on a box of Ritz Crackers.
Moving his feet to the rhythm of the song playing on his Walkman he kept going, he shook up bottles of soda and ate three apples from one woman's shopping basket. After that he grabbed himself three boxes of Hostess snacks and stuff any kind of candy bars into his jacket pockets, he even had time to shake a can of soda in one guy's hand between the trouble he was causing. Peter did one more lap around the store before he returned back to where he had been standing before he had unleashed his tricks upon the store.
Time returned to it's normal pace, he watched through the window has one of the customers noticed a box of chocolate laxatives in their basket and the guy's soda can he had shaken up squirted everywhere, their expressions of confusion were priceless. Peter chuckled to himself before he zoomed back home to his basement.
When Peter arrived in his basement he placed all of his stolen snacks on the coffee table, he opened one of the boxes of Hostess snacks and jumped onto his couch. He switched on the television set with the tv remote and relaxed, resting his head on his hand while he ate his chocolate cupcake. His Mom wouldn't be back for hours yet, he had plenty of time to eat all of his stolen snacks in front of the television and then hide the evidence when he was done.
Flicking through the television channels he finally settled on the news, Peter actually liked watching the news. He'd been checking the news out more often lately, he was interested in all the mutant updates about his kind. He'd only ever met one other mutant, there was a teenage girl at one of the hippie communities his Mom use to take him to before his Sister was born. She was pretty cool, she had the ability to make plants grow and she could even control their movements too.
Grabbing another cupcake from the opened Hostess box he opened the cupcakes packaging and licked the chocolate topping while he continued to watch the news, but without warning there was a special news report. Peter turned up the volume on his television and sat up straight on the couch, there had been an incident in a local dive bar last night.
" Reports says that a mutant was behind the disturbance..."
" Whoa, not cool..." He sighed.
Peter listened to the witness reports, one man said the mutant was like an animal and others spoke about bony claws coming from his knuckles. Luckily no one was badly hurt, but the dive bar had been trashed. But this didn't look good for mutants once again since they were already being discriminated against. Sighing to himself Peter settled back down on his couch, he would be safe has long has he stayed in his Mom's basement.