Notes: As promised in the prologue, here is the prank chapter *maniacal laughter in the background*

Enjoy!

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~SoN~

Chapter 37-Pranks With Birds and Fossils

Third Person:

Steve has woken up in several different ways. He's had useless limbs because they've fallen asleep. He's had the worst of cramped necks, and the army barracks did absolutely nothing to help with that. But he never, not once, expected to wake up like this.

Steve blinked as he was hit with another flash of a camera and be rubbed his eyes and sat up. He was in his bed but he was nowhere near his room. He was in the Smithsonian at his exhibit, in his boxers and shirt that Beni had gotten him. The one that said 'FOSSIL.' He looked into the crowd and easily spotted her, Sam, and Bucky, getting high fives from both of the men on either side of her. His jaw dropped and he quickly climbed out of bed. He thought about running towards them, but thought better of it, because he's just now realizing the fact that he's behind glass.

That's when Beni stepped up.

And she had a wireless microphone.

She had a crazed grin on her face as she walked up to the glass, winked, and turned towards the crowd.

"Step right up, folks," she said in a really spot on Australian accent. "This here is Captain America. The very really real Captain America. I managed to catch the little stinker while he was sleeping, and thought it would be nice to show you this rarest of rare fossils!"

The crowd cheered and took more pictures as Beni gestured to Steve. He could see Bucky and Sam practically on their knees from dying of laughter. From behind, Beni sure looked proud.

"Beni!" Steve banged on the glass. "Let me out!"

That made Beni laugh.

"Not in your life, Steve-o."

"You ready for this, guys?" Beni asked as she turned in the camera. She bad gotten Steve's prank taped, she was sure as hell gonna get Sam's and Bucky's, too. Bucky chuckled darkly and slung a hand around Beni's shoulder while Steve just nodded, not wanting to get to close to physical contact with Beni at that very moment.

They were standing outside of Sam's house. Beni had put a little something in his soap the night before, and now they were just waiting for him to trip the wire when he opened he door.

As if on cue, the door to Sam's house opened, and the second he stepped out he had a mountain of bird seeds dropped on top of him, but something was off about Sam. He wasn't black anymore, his skin was paper white.

Birds were instantly at Sam's head and shoulders, including Redwing, and Beni couldn't stop laughing as Steve's jaw dropped and Sam started running down the street, trying to get the birds away from him.

"The birds I get, because his codename is Falcon. But why turn him white?" Bucky asked, trying not to laugh to loud. After all these were all going on the Internet. Beni laughed as Sam fell to the ground and started rolling.

"That part was actually unplanned. I put some shit in his soap so the seeds would stick and it would give off a smell that birds are attracted to. I didn't expect to turn him like Casper the Friendly Ghost. But I think it works either way. And Steve," she turned to Steve, and Steve took a huge step backwards. Beni smiled. "You're video I uploaded last week has over ten million hits on YouTube."

Steve paled considerably, probably because Stark was at least a hundred of those views.

"BEEENIII!" Sam cried, running back towards them. They all three side stepped him and he ran right passed them, the many, many birds after him. Except Redwing, who was gnawing out the throat of one of the smaller birds that had been in the flock.

"Well that's just lovely," Beni said as she watched in slight awe.

"You and the rest of the world have very different definitions of 'love,'" Bucky said.

"Which makes it all the more fun when I say it."

Bucky was on edge. It had been two weeks since Steve's prank, and one since Sam's.

He was next.

He just had to find a way to protect himself before she struck. But that was another problem. Beni never gave any sort of hint on when she was going to prank you or what she was going to do for the prank. Hell, her prank could happen ten years from now for all he knew! So now he was jumpy whenever he hung around Beni, who almost always had Thorin wrapped around her arm as she worked or did something with her hands. He was almost surprised that the snake hadn't tried to constrict Beni yet, but that was probably because it might be able to sense the lizard blood in her and therefore thought of Beni as a friend or guardian of sorts.

So Bucky was a little stressed and very overly paranoid at the moment.

But he still deemed it safe enough to take a shower.

Big mistake.

When he got out his hair was completely white, and when he stepped out to get his clothes, they weren't there. It was happening. It was honest to god happening. He ran to his drawers to find them empty, and his closet held the same status. The only clothes in the room was his dirty clothes in the bathroom and the folded pile of clothes on the bed.

It took him a full five minutes to decide which clothes he should take, but listened to the reason in his head and took the clean clothes. If he didn't do the prank right now she would probably come up with a better one later on.

"Hey, Danny Phantom," Beni said with a sly grin as she took a picture. Bucky was wearing black pants with a black shirt, a white belt, whit leather gloves, and boots, and his shirt had the Danny Phantom logo on it. Sam was chuckling slightly as Bucky scratched at his chest slightly.

"Danny Phantom is a kids' cartoon that actually wasn't half bad. I'll have to show you sometime," he explained. Steve nodded.

"I figured since you said he was a ghost story, and Danny Phantom is a ghost it just made sense," Beni said.

"Beni," Bucky said, voice laced with worry as be scratched his arms and legs. "Did you put itching powder in my clothes?"

"Yeah, actually, I did. But don't worry, I got the non-flammable kind. I thought the suit and hair wasn't enough, so why not go with some of the classics?"

"If I didn't like you then I would shoot you."

"If I didn't like you I wouldn't be doing this. Now, Steve, I think I have all three seasons of Danny Phantom right over here..."