25th April 2017

There had been peace for a few days and the boys were restless. Winn had been catching up on learning Martian, while Mon-El was learning more about Earth culture after being fooled on April Fool's day he was not keen on it happening again. Kara was frustrated as her romantic down time from being Supergirl was peppered with Mon-El asking questions about pranks. Whilst she actively encouraged him to learn about Earth and integrate with humans, she was less keen on Pranks. And totally against them when she was trying get frisky and he would stop to ask her what various pranks involved.

And so it began…..

Winn had been working hard setting up new systems to detect ships approaching Earth from further distances. It was monotonous time consuming work, typing in detailed code and double checking. He was feeling bleary eyed and sleepy. A quiet day in the DEO meant he was limited to a few staff members, so his lunch buddies were limited. This resulted in him being delighted to see Mon-El stroll in, arm in arm with Kara.

"Have you eaten?" he called to them.

"Just about to" Kara beamed gesturing to a large bag of takeway Mon-El was holding.

"See you in the break room" Mon-El smiled, a twinkle in his eye that passed Winn by.

They walked along, and Winn typed in the last few lines of code and locked his PC as he went to join them.

In the break room the love birds were sat at a table that housed 6, squeezed together as though it was full. Winn grabbed his two boxes from the fridge, putting one in the microwave, picked up a plate and knife and fork, and headed to the table. He sat down and greeted his friends.

"I wasn't expecting to see you two today"

"J'onn wanted us to brief him on a meeting he's having" Kara replied

"Cool, It's good to see you, today is boring" Winn, opened the box of salad and started tipping it onto his plate. Promptly he let out and ear piercing scream. Leaping from his seat and standing a good distance from his meal, pointing unable to speak.

"What's wrong" Mon-El had a sense of panic in his voice, tinged with concern.

"S-S-S-Snake" Winn stammered pointing at his salad. Shaking.

Kara leant forward to look at the meal, and started to laugh. Fishing out a plastic toy snake, she started to laugh. A huge smile broke over Mon-El's face, Winn looked relieved then cross. He huffed like an annoyed kitten.

"I Hate you Mon-El of Daxam" he shook his head, "This is war"

Over the next 2 weeks the boys played daily pranks on each other, mostly silly.

On Monday Winn photo'd Mon-El's lock screen on his phone and sets it as his home screen, meaning it took him ages to unlock his phone.

On Tuesday Mon-El brought in Toffee apples (Toffee covered apples) but used Onions not apples, Winn had taken a huge bite before he noticed.

On Wednesday Winn put tape over Mon-El's computer mouse so that it wouldn't move correctly. Dana took pity on him and fixed it.

On Thursday Mon-El put googly eyes on all the food in Winn's home fridge, which creeped him out.

And they carried on simple silly tricks on each other

Then it happened, the feathers scandal as it would be known around the DEO, whispered in corners by newcomers. The day that J'onn Jonzz was covered in feathers due to the boys playing pranks.

It was a normal morning, slightly busy, both Kara and Mon-El were out fighting Alien Bounty hunters who were trying to collect an Alaroian who was under DEO protection, J'onn had got involved as they had the power to affect thought.

The three of them had returned to the DEO covered in dirt and fluids they didn't want to consider. They went to get clean.

That was when the sound boomed around the DEO "MR SCHOTT!" it echolled in the shadows alerting all in the building that something very bad just happened.

Winn who was dozing at his desk bolted into action. Fear and panic and too many other emotions flooded him. Dashing at super human speed to the shower room where J'onn's voice came from.

He entered the room, and a pot of bright orange paint fell on him, followed by shredded pink glittery paper. Before he had a chance to curse he caught J'onn's eye and all words vanished from him. J'onn had clearly entered the bathroom and another pot of paint had been poised above the door and once the door was shut it covered J'onn followed by feathers.

"Come with me" J'onn boomed leading the way to his office. Winn quietly obeyed.

As they exited the bathroom, Mon-El and Kara were stood outside, J'onn glared at Mon-El. "Prince with me" he demanded. Mon-El glanced at Winn looking confused, yet followed calmly.

Kara beamed, Alex walked up beside her. They hi-fived each other.

Inside the office J'onn was fuming, he was certain that Winn was to blame, given that the only people who would use that bathroom to clean up were Mon-El, Kara or himself. So it seemed more likely that Winn was taking his turn in their strange game.

Yet Mon-El took the blame, J'onn could read the human's mind but not the Daxamite's. Yet something interesting happened, Alex entered the room, with her fake reason, and he caught a glimpse of her mind. And smiled.

"You two, no more pranks, if you try anything else in your work place I will separate you" he scolded, "Now go before I change my mind" he stifled a laugh, the boys always amused him.

Winn and Mon-El dashed out of the room. They exchanged glances "Did you?" they both asked at the same time.

A short while later once both were cleaned and dressed Kara approached them at Winn's work station.

"So what happened" she asked

"Nothing serious, just no more pranks" Mon-El replied, pulling her in for a heated kiss.

"I'm getting you home" Kara insisted, dragging Mon-El with her, behind her back he and Winn fist bumped and Winn smirked at the "Kick me" sign he had just stuck on her back.

Yes the pranks ban was clearly in place.