A/N: Thanks everyone who's reviewed this story so far.
One reviewer (I'm afraid I can't remember who, I didn't have access to the site when I wrote this) wanted to know how John and Aiden convinced all those people to help them with their prank in the last chapter: Just think of it this way Rodney's not exactly Mr. Popularity and well Carson was just an added bonus. The people on Atlantis have a very stressful job, they need to vent some how.
It wasn't long before Rodney and Carson came up with a plan of retaliation. After taking a couple of days to get their supplies in order and work out any bugs that there might have been the two were ready to put their plan in action.
While John and Aiden were off doing their various duties around the city Rodney and Carson snuck first into Aiden's room.
"Ok I got the buckets of hot water and liquid detergent." Rodney verified.
"And I got the dry ice." Carson answered.
Putting two buckets of warm water in the middle of Aiden's room Rodney quickly dumped a whole bottle of liquid detergent in each bucket, while Carson crushed up some of the dry ice. Once the dry ice was crushed to satisfactory size some of it was placed in each bucket.
Standing back the two briefly watched as soapsuds began rising out of the buckets and start filling up the room, before leaving and entering John's room to repeat the process. Pleased with themselves Carson and Rodney went their separate ways returning to their own work acting as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
After a long hard day John and Aiden returned to their rooms wanting nothing more than to just lie down and sleep. It was much to their surprise and irritation when they opened the doors to their rooms and had a mountain of soapsuds flow out into the hall all over them.
"McKay." John muttered in a low tight voice.
"Beckett." Aiden muttered in a low tight voice as well.
Finally finished with all her paperwork for the day Elizabeth left her office headed for her room. Along the way she passed the common room and briefly glanced inside before continuing by. The fact that something was off about the room at this time of night registered with Elizabeth seconds later and had her back tracking.
This time looking more closely Elizabeth noticed a pair of feet hanging over one side of the couch and a hand hanging over the other side. Investigating closer she realized that it was John sprawled out on the couch trying to sleep.
"Do I even want to know why you're trying to sleep here instead of in your room?" Elizabeth questioned as she came to the front of the couch, where she spotted Aiden trying to sleep on the floor.
John just glared at her and pointed towards the opposite hallway she'd come from, that led to his and Aiden's rooms. Looking down the hall Elizabeth noticed the huge mound of soapsuds that came out of John's room as well as Aiden's and filled the space between the two rooms.
"All I'm going to say is you two started it." Elizabeth walked out of the room leaving the two very tired and very unhappy officers to sleep; dealing with this latest prank could wait till morning, it was late and Elizabeth was tired.
The next day with the help of a few good Samaritans John and Aiden had the soapsuds pretty well cleaned up. For the next few days afterwards Rodney and Carson silently gloated over their prank, but also at the same time, out of pure survival instincts, stayed out of the Major and Lt.'s way.
When several off world missions and others things came up the guys all got swamped with work and their little war was pushed aside, but not forgotten, for the time being. It was weeks before the next prank was pulled.
In the early hours of morning two shadowy figures silently crept down the deserted hallways of Atlantis headed towards the sleeping quarters. The silent figures were on a mission and nothing would deter them. Entering the room of one of their unsuspecting victims, who was currently in the shower, the two figures carefully, for being caught would lead to disaster, went about fulfilling their mission. Done in the first room the figures continued on to the next until their whole mission was complete.
Soon their victims would discover what had been done and then the war would be over and the shadowy figures would have the last laugh.
A/N: All right one more chapter to go and maybe an epilogue and this story will be finished.
So who were the shadowy figures? What'd they do? Who won the prank war? To find out the answers you'll have to keep reading.