Dang, this is the shortest chapter yet. Do you know how hard it is to write a long chapter on a prank video? Prank videos aren't, in nature, very long. At least not the good ones. Oh well. Here we go. Have a chapter.

Chapter Six – On Three!

This was, clearly, not a very professional video. The camera was shaky and zoomed in too closely to Gordon's face. It looked more as though he were holding his phone up and filming, which he very well could be. Gordon glanced over his shoulder and whispered, "John's home for the weekend. Came down for pie. I rarely get to get Johnny, so this is my chance."

"He's going to kill you," Alan said from off camera, his voice hushed.

"Uh uh," Gordon sing-songed. "He's gonna kill us. You're helping, Sprout."

"Because you blackmailed me."

"There was no blackmail involved. You just wanna get Johnny too," Gordon replied with a snigger. He moved the camera a bit and it became obvious where they were. They were on the lounge balcony, lying on their stomachs near the edge. Why the balcony didn't have any railing was a question for another day, but the two boys were clearly planning something nefarious.

"Lies," Alan muttered, and the camera panned over to show him, water balloon in hand. There was something odd about the balloon though, as though it were tinted the wrong color. "Is he down there?"

"Yup. He's reading in one of the lounge chairs."

Alan grumbled, giving a sigh. "Great. We're going to ruin his book."

"I'll buy him a new one. Now on three," Gordon replied, aiming the camera to get a view of John, relaxed on the deck. "One, two, three!"

John looked up at the yell, but it was too late as the balloons had already been launched. They splattered upon contact with him—both Gordon and Alan had impeccable aim—covering him with colored water. Three more balloons hit him before he could recover and dive beneath the balcony for cover. "GORDON!"

Gordon was laughing his head off, but then gave a yelp. Alan shrieked, half laughing, half scrambling to get away as the camera shook and showed them getting soaked with water from up above. Once they were sputtering and water had stopped pouring on them, Gordon aimed the camera at the bedroom balcony above them, focusing on the laughing forms of Virgil and Scott.

"Gotcha kids!" Scott called, placing a bucket at his feet. "Did you really think we wouldn't notice you readying water balloons?" he asked, grin on his face.

"You'd better hope that dye is washable, guys," Virgil said, still holding onto his own bucket. "Otherwise John might skin you alive."

"No," John growled from where he stood in the lounge doorway, glaring fiercely. The camera jerked down to show him, shaking slightly as Gordon tried to muffle his laughter. John was very colorful, the dye having turned his skin varying shades of red and blue, with his hair a lurid green. His once light jeans were now splotched with orange and yellow. "I'll just force feed them Grandma's cookies."

Alan choked. "I'd rather be skinned," he muttered. John's eyes narrowed and he stalked forward. "Uh, hey Johnny. It was all Gordon's idea, I promise. He, uh…blackmailed me?"

Apparently, John didn't care about blackmail, as he grabbed Alan around the middle and unceremoniously threw him into the pool from the balcony. He was careful, of course, not to miss the pool. Alan landed with a giant splash and a yelp and John turned to Gordon, who was backing away slowly. "Gotta go, Space Case. Love ya!" he yelled before taking off, the camera going black as he sped away.

Alexis Lojan 10 hours ago
Holy crap. This was flippin' hilarious ya'll
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ChaoticKitty 9 hours ago
What the heck? I'm laughing so hard. They're so hopeless.
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DerpyDan 8 hours ago
Guys, these are the people like half the world owe their lives to. Seriously.
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ScoobyDoobyDoo23 7 hours ago
But was the dye washable?
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Shawn Parker 6 hours ago
I love the fact that Scott and Virgil saw those two getting water balloons and were just like "yup, we gotta get some buckets of water to dump on them" but didn't try to stop them or anything
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LittleMissyMaypole 6 hours ago
Did they? Just? Use cookies? As a threat?
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CaptainJazzHands 5 hours ago
Did you see how easily John just tossed Alan into the pool? Like, damn, boy!
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NorthernStar2314 4 hours ago
This is the content I need in my life. Keep it coming, boys. Keep it coming.
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Tracy Brothers Take World by Storm with Newest YouTube Channel
by Anna Landrick

In a very un-Tracy-like move, the world's richest sons have allowed themselves to be filmed for YouTube videos. Apparently convinced to do so by Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, who has starred a few of the videos herself, they made the videos to let the world better understand just who they are.

Jeff Tracy moved his family away from the family ranch in Kansas just a year after the tragic death of his wife. The self-made billionaire stated a need for a more family-friendly environment away from the media for the move, and it seemed as though the media would never be allowed access to any of the boys. Seldom were any of the brothers seen in public, with the youngest having been highly protected from the media in general. Since the disappearance/death of Jeff Tracy (a body was never recovered, and although the will has been read some speculate that he may still be alive), and the outing of the Tracys as the pilots of International Rescue, any hope for media coverage has withered. Their privacy has only seemed to grow exponentially.

Despite this fact, Lady Penelope seems to have done the impossible. Never before has there been any coverage of the Tracy household. They live somewhere in the Pacific, on their own private island but before now no one knew just what that island held. Many speculated that, as rich as the family was, they would have a mansion of epic proportions with the staff to match. Amazingly, we now see that it's just a normal home for a family that's doing their best to save the world.

There are only six videos on the channel, named ThunderbirdsAreGo, but it's already offering up a wide range of content. There's a house tour, some interviews, and even a prank video that was recently posted. We still aren't sure if Gordon survived that encounter with the second eldest, but we assume that no bloodshed has occurred.

Even with only six videos so far, the channel has amassed a staggering 9 million subscribers, with each video reaching over a million views within an hour of being posted. While there have been a few comments that are disparaging, the vast majority of viewers seem to be almost begging for more.

This is an insight to the lives of some of the most talked about men in the world, and we're all feeling just a little blessed to be able to watch. As one commenter sagely said in response to the latest video: "keep it coming boys. Keep it coming."