CHAPTER 24: JOKERS IN THE DECK
Bobby was bored this day and a bored Bobby meant trouble for everyone else. He was just sitting in his room thinking of what to do. He hadn't really pulled any pranks lately so maybe it was time and the fact that so far he hadn't managed to nail Peter with one yet, that spider sense of his kept getting in the way and warning him.
'Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way? I mean I've been trying to get at him directly, maybe I need an indirect route?' He sudden started to get a few ideas and a grin started to form on his face. 'Oh this might be good.'
He jumped from his bed as he would need to borrow something from someone else. He ran out of his room and went down the halls to another room, he knocked on the door hoping they would be in at the moment or else he could try someone else.
The door opened up as he smiled to see Jubilee there, "Hey there can I ask you for a favor?"
She raised an eyebrow knowing that look on his face that was the 'I got a prank' look. "Depends on what it is."
"I want to borrow some perfume."
"Okay…Is there something you want to tell me?" She asked him slowly wondering why he would want that and wondering if there was something about his life that he had been keeping secret for everyone. "I mean you're not going to ask for my bra and stuff and I find you wearing it later am I?"
"What? No it's not for me, well it is but not like that,' He shook his head and held up his hands, "Look I'm going to use it on Peter."
"Bobby what are you planning exactly?" She narrowed her eyes a bit now.
He just grinned and shrugged, "Just going to make him smell nicer."
She thought about it and it would be kind of funny with him walking around smelling like a girl. She disappeared back into her room and came back out with a vile, "Don't use all of this okay?"
"Thanks Jubes, I owe you one." He thanked her taking the spray vile in his hand.
"Uh huh and I plan to collect one day too."
With this in hand Bobby just waited for Peter to go into a Danger Room later that day. The X-Men were up for training and with luck Peter had changed in the locker room. He quickly made his way there after waiting a bit to make sure they were all gone snuck into the locker rooms. He quickly found Peter's clothing and gave each piece a shot of the perfume.
He had to stop himself from laughing and then ran back up to Peter's room to get a few other things as well.
After another DR session all the members of the main team went to the locker rooms to change. "Man vas it me or did Logan made zhis a bit harder?" Kurt asked as the boys went into the locker room.
"Yeah tell me about it," Evan was rubbing his arm knowing that there was a bruise going to be there later that day. "At least it's over man."
"Come on guys it wasn't so bad," Scott said to them hearing this.
"Dude you've been doing zhis longer zhen us and even zhen you're usually not as upbeat after somezhing like zhat." Kurt said to him pulling off his top he was thinking if she should shower first down here or wait given that his fur took him forever to dry.
Peter grinned then as he was putting on his pants, "Yeah I know why he's so upbeat he's got that hot date with Jean tonight."
Scott was caught off guard by that at first, "Yeah so? Can't I be happy with her?"
"After it only took like what? A few years for you two to get together I guess not." Peter said back pulling on his shirt.
"He's got you there man," Evan snickered tying up his shoes.
Scott rolled his eyes having just put on his shades, "Yeah like you and Rogue where any easier."
Evan looked over at Peter, "Now he's got you there, you two danced around almost as much as they did."
Peter scowled at him for a moment, "Whose side are you on anyway?" He asked the blond haired teen although he hadn't noticed the aroma just yet.
"My own," Evan grinned and then sniffed the air, "Hey anyone smell that?"
Everyone stared to sniff the air and so by now everyone was starting to smell it. It smelled like a girl actually and no one knew where it was coming from until Peter thought it was particularly strong wherever he seemed to be and then sniffed his shirt. "What the hell…"
Kurt took a sniff near him and nearly laughed, "Dude vhy are you smelling like a chick?"
"I don't know it wasn't like this before." Peter exclaimed wondering the same he really didn't want to spend the day smelling like this at all. Thankfully it was in the afternoon and school was out but still with everyone in the mansion it would be hard no to get some strange looks.
"Three guesses who finally pranked him," Evan said trying not to laugh at this. Peter didn't need it as he guessed who it was. Bobby had been trying to get him for months but so far no luck thanks to his spider sense but apparently he had found a way around that.
'I am so going to get him back for this,' He thought as he made his way to his room he would need a change of clothing. And of course while walking the halls he had to pass by several people who took noticed of this and just had to make a few comments. Tabby's comment on 'You know they do have stuff for guys it's called cologne look into it spidey.' Oh yeah that had been fun.
Unfortunately when he got to his room he noticed the smell there as well it was feint but it was still there. Searching it he found his bed sheets and pillow smelt of it and all his underwear. Now he had to do laundry on top of everything. 'Oh yeah I am so getting you back for this Bobby.'
The next day Bobby was very proud of himself and his little prank he had to admit the jokes on Peter all yesterday on his smell had been funny. He was heading to his room with Jubilee, Ray and Rahne at the moment. "Man aren't you at all worried that he might retaliate in some way?" Ray asked him they knew Peter had a sense of humor but they weren't sure if it included pranks.
"Aye, ye got nea idea what he might plan," Rahne offered although she was kind of looking forward to seeing if Peter could take him down a peg mostly Kurt could match him prank for prank.
"What's the worst he could do?" Bobby asked in full confidence.
Jubilee just shrugged, "I don't know but you can't tell he's as smart as Kitty maybe more so he did make those web shooter things all his own. What kind of teen can do that?"
That made Bobby pause a bit he knew he couldn't match brains with Peter but he figured he was more crafty anyway. He just shrugged it off as they got into his room, "Well anyway there's no way he can get the drop on me, I also locked up all my clothing now when we train just in case he tried to pull the same thing on me."
He jumped onto his bed and laid back as Jubilee sat down on the edge, "Okay if you say so but do you have that stuff for the library for that report in our class?" They had the same history assignment and when Jubilee went to sign out a book she needed she found Bobby had already got it but he agreed to let her use it as well.
"Sure it's right over on my desk," He pointed and as she went to get it the covers of the bed went with her making both her and Bobby fall. Her from the extra weight that seemed to be stuck to her ass and Bobby as he had been close the edge of his bed when the shift happened it caused him to fall onto the floor. The other two were quick to respond.
"What's going on?" Ray asked trying to get Bobby out of the covers but soon found his hands were not stuck to the covers as was the back side of Bobby. Rahne luckily hadn't touched the cover and only Jubilee herself.
"What is going on?" Bobby said as he tried to get untangled but couldn't.
Jubilee was trying to pulling if off her butt with on hand but now only got her hand stuck to it. "The whole bed cover is like fly paper!" Rahne was trying not to laugh seeing the three of them there stuck like this.
There was a flash as they all looked to see Peter there by the door with his camera, "Oh this is just so good. Oh and Bobby never mess with the master." He licked his finger and made a stroke in the air like he scored a point. "Sorry guys guess didn't mean to get you three, but you got caught in the crossfire and don't worry I just placed a very thing and translucent version of my webbing on there you'll be good in about an thirty minutes."
He waved to them leaving them there and the three of them steaming at being stuck like this. "Okay I'll admit that was good but I am not letting this go unanswered." Bobby said figuring he might as well get comfortable. He didn't want to ice up and break this since he didn't want to ruin this and then explain it to Xavier later.
"Yeah and count me as well," Jubilee stated as she just sat down glaring at the giggling Rahne at the sight of the.
"Me three," Ray said trying in vain to get his hands free. "Guys are you sure there's no way to get out of this stuff."
"Not without wrecking the sheet which we will not do." Bobby said to him.
"I really think we should."
"Why?" Rhane asked him getting a hold of herself for the time being.
Ray was silent a moment, "Well I had a lot of soda and well…I need to go to the bathroom."
"Hold it!" Bobby said since Ray was stuck over him this sending Rahne laughing so much she had to hold her stomach.
And so for the next few days, pranks seemed to run rampant around the mansion as Peter soon found himself being outnumbered by the trio. But thankfully he managed to enlist Kurt into his own little 'army' after all they were friends and he was dating his sister so he had said he was honor bound to help.
Peter just thought it was an excuse to pull pranks on Bobby since the two had an unofficial rivalry for the number one spot of top prankster. And of course Spyder just had to get involved and when she was in Jamie wasn't far behind. Lately Peter had noticed how Jamie always supported and was with Ollie and of course him stealing little looks.
He had to admit it was kind of cute seeing him crush on her but he just hoped that Spyder didn't break his heart with a rejection. He may have to think about getting a bit involved but that was later. Right now they were having another meeting together in Peter's room. Kurt was there with Jamie and Spyder and Rogue was also there but not for the reasons you would think.
Ray when he had been trying to switch the shampoo bottles Rogue accidentally picked it which was why she was sitting on her chair glaring and promised death to anyone that made more fun of the fact her hair was now pink. Even the white part was pink and she had spent over two hours trying to get it out but it only went to a lighter shade.
Kitty said that it might last for a few days and then made the mistake of saying she looked like a goth troll doll. Well Rogue had woken up early that morning and very patiently and gently put as much goth makeup as she could on Kitty's face.
She hadn't noticed it until she came down for breakfast which when someone commented she looked in a mirror and screamed out and ran to the nearest bathroom. So now Kitty was on Bobby's side as well. "Okay so what's up today?" Peter asked around.
"Well we stole all the shoe laces, put itching powder in the underwear, switched the good cookies with Kitty's and replaced all the makeup with different colors and stuff." Spyder reported to him with a huge smile on her face.
"Wow zhat's a lot done today." Kurt was impressed with how much they had done.
"Actually that was the last hour," Jamie said grinning especially at the sight of the older students at that. He just shrugged, "Being in twenty different places at once comes in handy."
"Yeah I'll say," Peter stiffened a yawn at that moment as he had hardly get any sleep that night.
"Ya didn't stay out late again did ya?" Rogue asked him knowing full well sometimes he would push that limit when he was supposed to get back to the mansion more then he should.
Peter shook his head and pointed to some device on his desk, "Found that under my bed this morning, I'm guessing Kitty helped them make it. It kept making this large electrical shot building up but then cut out at the last second. So every hour my spider sense went nuts waking me up."
"Oh zhat's a good von, never knew she had it in her." Kurt smiled at that prank he had never thought of actually using that spider sense against Peter like that. "You got somezhing planned I bet."
"Oh yeah let's just say she'll get it with a little help," Peter looked to Rogue who nodded her head given that she shared a room with Kitty it would help things out.
So over the course of the week things just slowly built up at the mansion as the pranks started to get more elaborate and even sometimes some people decided to play one on someone that wasn't even on the other team. Either it was for revenge and/or to frame the others, as well as the occasional by stander that got hit as well.
Wanda had unfortunately gotten hit with silly string and spent the day running after the guilty party. Lance even got into it teaming up with Kitty to spend more time with her and to prank Scott. Plus someone later put toilet paper all over his jeep and that made it personal. Tabby of course joined in the fun not one to be left out as well.
By the end of the week everyone was on their toes. Scott and Jean were currently in the kitchen with Taryn and Paul as they were getting more used to coming over now. "I really think you guys should wait until this little prank war was over," Scott signed as they walked in.
"Oh come on how bad can it be?" Paul asked him, by now he was more used to the idea of people with powers and it was really weird and funny about all the stuff Scott had to deal with now.
"Well we are in a mansion where everyone has powers so they can get a bit creative," Jean told them how Ray had overloaded the electricity somehow and every appliance went nuts for a few minutes, although Ray had been wiped out after that from overuse of his powers.
"Still, it's not like it's dangerous," Taryn told him as Scott open up a cupboard to get a few glasses only to hear a bang noise as his face was now covered in whip cream. Everyone had jumped as Scott was too shocked for the first couple of seconds to think before turning around. He wiped clean his eyes and glared at her.
The girls were trying not to giggle as Paul was close to laughing. "You care to revise that statement?" Scott asked her.
By now the adults were talking about this at this time themselves it was hard not to notice all the strange things that were going on at the mansion. They were in Xavier's office at the moment sitting around talking about what to do about this.
"I feel that things are going a bit too far," Xavier stated as thankfully nothing major like injuries had happened but when someone had reprogrammed the Danger Room for flying monkeys with laser beam eyes he felt that enough was enough.
"Perhaps we should gather the students together and tell them this ends then?" Ororo offered since one of her flower gardens had been ruined from all of this.
"I don't see the problem," Logan shrugged and pulled out one of his cigars this was one of the only places where he could smoke now these days thanks to May. Or at least when she wasn't around but in this office she couldn't use the kids as a shield. He lit the thing and started to take a few puffs. "They're just kids what's the harm?"
Suddenly his cigar blew up startling him so much he fell backwards off his chair. May grinned at the large man as everyone else had to admit the comic timing of that was pretty good. "So you still think it's okay?"
Logan got up with a growl and unleashed his claws going in search of whoever messed with his cigars not even saying a word. "Well either Logan will now scare them all into settling down or we may have to intervene before we lose a couple of students," Hank said with a chuckle at the image of Logan's face as it blew.
Xavier nodded his head as he would call the students together…Eventually, at least until Logan was interrogating them for an hour or so.
-Acolyte Base-
Gambit was back in the steel covered base as he had been helping Piotr out with getting new things for his little sister. He had to admit it was nice seeing how caring a big brother was although Illyana was still a little weary around him. He guessed it was his red on black eyes that did it, some women were drawn to them and the very few were pushed away by them but he hoped that this might help ease it. After dropping off the supplies he decided to see what to do that day.
Sabertooth was most likely still out which was just as well the large man was kind of hard to be around. The new guy Sandman wasn't much better but at least he was civil enough on the poker games so he wasn't too bad at least. Pyro was well…Pyro, it was hard to get close to someone who wanted to burn everything in sight.
But at least Piotr was nice enough although his heart wasn't in the job. Then there was Felicia now there was a nice woman. Beautiful, sexy, a thief like him oh yes she was a nice way to pass the time and the little flirting game they had going was nice as well.
He found her in the main 'living room' area as it was pretty much called. Sitting on a couch in black leather pants and a matching top as she was bare foot and by the looks of it painting her toe nails. "Remy never understood why women do dat. Not like men can see dem dat often."
She just grinned as she looked at her handy work, "A woman has to accessorize and besides there isn't much to do in this place. The only other female is a bit too young for girl talk but she is adorable." She looked up at the Cajun and leaned back.
"So what does Remy LeBeau do around here for fun other then flirting?"
Gambit grinned as he sat down, "Well you can find a few ways to make life a bit more fun."
"Damn it! Why won't you work!" Pyro's voice was heard from the Kitchen. He was in plain clothing at the moment toying with a lighter. "Come on baby talk to me what's the problem? I put new lighter fluid, polished you, a nice new witch so why are you holdin' back on me?"
He was getting a little whiny at the moment trying in vain to light his favorite lighter. Gambit looked to her and in a low voice, "Like replacing lighter fluid wit grease and de wik in dat don't work."
That got a small laugh from her as Pyro was nearly in tears trying to get it to work. Plus she had to admit it kept him from burning the place down as well. "Den d'ere is de water pipes in Sandman's room dat have a 'nasty leak' now and den and for Sabertooth…"
A large roar was heard and then a crash of a plate as well. "Replacing his meat wit' tofu made to look like meat."
That sent her over the edge as he just started up laughing, "Oh I knew you'd be a fun one you should tape some of this stuff."
Remy gave it a thought, "Dat not such a bad idea."
She moved a bit closer, "You know what else is fun? I found out there is this nice little gem that is in town…Want to take a look at it and see if it's worth keeping for a bit?"
Now that really got a smile to his face it was so nice to be able to 'talk shop' with someone like her. "Oh oui chere dat sounds like a very nice way to end de day."
NEXT UP CHAPTER 25: MESSGAGE OF WARNING
Sorry this took so long I got really depressed last night and even thought about just stop writing all together. Mainly over the fact I may have to stop reading the stories of someone that inspired me to start writing because of how things are going in the stories. I really hurt that after all these years I had to end it like this and it still depresses me today. Hopefully I can move past it and start writing again soon like I used to.