Chapter 18- After the Shadow Games (III)

"Shut up!" Aneisha shouted into Tom's jacket and everyone tried to stifle their giggles. Once everyone had calmed down (again) there was an awkward silence between them until Rose broke it with a question that had been troubling her for a while now:

"What are you guys doing here?"

"The question is what are you doing here?" Tom was stroking his chin as he said it and his team tried to stifle their giggles.

"I asked you first."

"Fine! Do you know Chief Agent Knight?"

"Of course I do! Every M.I.9 agent does! Why?"

"And you know how she and Frank got back together after 10 years a few months ago?"

"REALLY?! OMG! Everyone has been waiting for this since forever! I guess I haven't realised because I've been stuck into work so much… anyway, continue."

"Thanks. Well… we pulled a few pranks on them and-"

"What? Which ones?"

"Well, first we jumped from behind the pillars when Frank came down the lift…" Rose giggled a little at that; Frank had always been courageous, but he was sometimes easy to scare.

"Um… we put salt in Stella's coffee…" Rose laughed harder at this; the one way to make Stella angry is to ruin her coffee.

"…I swapped the names of the files on the M.I.9 website and Frank got really pissed at that…" Rose was now clutching her stomach because she was getting cramps from laughing so hard. Dan, Aneisha and Keri started to giggle a little at their pranks as well.

"…I raised the alarm that KORPS were in our school base and Stella had a massive panic attack. And to think she's usually so good under pressure…" Tom sighed and laughed a little before continuing.

"…But the best prank that we pulled was that Dan dressed as Frank in a suit and Keri dressed as Stella in a very fragile, white dress so it looked like they were getting married when they had only got back together, I reprogrammed the tape so it looked like it actually was Frank and Stella and then I sent the video off to every agent in M.I.9, including that one agent who used to have a crush on Stella, I think it was the old head, Horatio Stark." At this point everyone was clutching their stomachs because their laughing had formed cramps that hurt like ever before. Rose had even collapsed on the floor, rolling with laughter (ROFLing! Haha…no? ok…).

Keri and Aneisha had to pull Rose off of the ground because whenever she tried to pull herself up, she would remember what Tom had said and collapse all over again.

"After all those long years working with Stark as chief agent, I didn't realise he had a heart until I saw this." She walked over to a table, still laughing and picked up a photo fitted into a pink, fluffy heart-shaped frame. When she showed them the photo, tears started to stream done Keri and Aneisha's face.

"No way! Who would anyone have a crush on him?!" Keri was fanning her face.

"The other woman that worked at S.C.A.B, Andrea Ivanovic, was Stark's girlfriend." Everyone burst out laughing.

"Well then she's an idiot." Tom whispered to Aneisha and she stifled in her giggles.

"When Stark dumped her and shut down Operation Looking Glass, she was furious and she reprogrammed the cybernetic bio-forms of me and my two other teammates at the time, Oscar Cole and Carrie Stewart, into raving, killing machines."

"Wow! She has problems and all because she got dumped!?" Keri asked, shocked.

"By him?" They started to laugh at Tom's comment again. Tom tried to explain the rest of the story to Rose but he was laughing too hard. Once Aneisha had calmed down, she was trying to help him breathe. Tom thanked Aneisha and kissed her on the cheek before continuing.

"So Frank and Stella pulled this massive prank on us that they were fighting, wouldn't make up and couldn't stand the sight of each other. They actually did have an argument but the rest they made up. We literally had to drag Frank and Stella into the same room so they could stop fighting but when Stella hesitated; Dan had a huge rage about how he couldn't complete missions and stuff like that and was on the verge of swearing in front of them when they burst out laughing and sent the footage off to every agent in M.I.9." Rose couldn't keep her laughter in any longer; she had laughed a lot more today than a whole month and she just keeps on laughing.

"So now we have to pull an even bigger prank on them so we win. Keri has actually faked her own death and convinced Stella to not fire her with The Voice." Keri beamed with pride while Rose looked confusingly at Tom and Keri.

"The what? The Voice? What the heck is that?" Tom sighed.

"One of the world's best assassins, Thalumus, uses The Voice the convince people to do as he says. And Keri used it on Stella so she could keep her job." Tom explained.

"Oh! That makes sense. So what prank were you thinking of?"

"Well we-"Dan nudged Tom. "Dan thought of this cool idea where we replicate ourselves so instead of Frank and Stella seeing us, we use out doppelgangers!" Dan seemed proud of his idea and Rose seemed impressed with him.

"Well, this sounds pretty good! Can I help in any way? I used to love to pull pranks on Frank-"

"Hey, that rhymes!"

"Thanks for stating to obvious, Keri!" Tom said sarcastically and rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, anyway… I used to joke around with Oscar and Carrie a lot and I would love to see Stella's face when we tell her they are doppelgangers!"

"Yeah sure you can help! I'll need help reprogramming the 'robots' so that instead of being 10x better at everything that we usually are, we need to reprogram them so that they are exactly like us." Tom explained. Rose nodded and clapped her hands together.

"Right! Who's ready to kick ass in this Prank War?!"