A.n I own Nothing
A short fun filler Chapter that is shorter than normal however with things going on in my family and the start of the Christmas season, I don't have much time to write.
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It had been a slow week on the watchtower, no big threats or natural disasters had cropped up, and there had been no prison breaks or any sighing of an invasion from space. Most of the members of the Justice League were content to patrol their own cities and check in with the tower every now and then.
J'onn and Wonder Woman took turns in monitoring the communication lines between league members as neither had a city to protect. But even this was dull and uneventful. Alucard had not been seen on the watchtower in a while; however, no one bothered him about it or went down to his castle to check on him. The rest of the league assumed he needed some space after the events with Lyudmil.
Flash, however, was bored out of his mind, his own city was fairly safe compared to other cities, but for some reason, all of his villains had decided to take some time off. Captain cold had gone on a beach holiday to Hawaii, The Trickster had been hired to build some fun props for an upcoming theatre production of Beetlejuice, Mirror Master had left central city to go to some Magic and Illusionist convention in LA; apparently he had been invited to run a panel on the use of mirrors in magic shows.
Zoom and Reverse flash were in an intense high speed monopoly game that had been going on for two weeks now and neither speedster was willing to let the other one win. The minor other villains were either lying low or just not in the mood for some crime.
Flash wished Alucard would come up to the watchtower, then he could at least pester the vampire about Dracula, watch a movie or drag him somewhere fun claiming it would help him understand humanity and the current time.
"Uh….So bored," Flash moaned. He was sitting on a bench in central city park sprawled out and staring at the sky, a few people stopped to look at him or take a photo but otherwise left him alone "I need something fun to do,"
"Hi flash," a cheery voice said.
Flash looked up and saw it was Captain Sing, the chief of Central City Police force. The man was tall and had a professional aura about him. He wore dark pants a white long sleeve shirt with a red tie, he held his matching jacket with his hand over his shoulder and takeaway coffee in the other.
"Hi sing," Flash said with a small wave "don't suppose you've got any bad guys that need catching?"
"Nope, sorry," Sing apologised "We're fairly quiet at the station,"
Flash groaned and then looked back up at the sky.
"You look down," Sing observed.
"I'm bored. Half of the rouges are out of town and the other half are too busy to commit any crime," Flash complained "and the rest just aren't feeling it,"
Sing sighed and shook his head; he sat down next to the cities hero.
"Isn't that a good thing though?" Sing asked.
"I guess…just wish a bank robbery or something would happen,"
"If you're bored why not go visit your other hero friends?"
"I would but…Supes is hard to pin down unless there is an emergency, GL usually leaves earth to patrol the outer reaches of the Milky Way when he has nothing to do and the last time I went to visit Hawk Girl in her city, she hit me with her mace," Flash claimed.
"She hit you? Why?"
"I raced past some painters helping her catch some crooks, however the wind I produced blew the paint cans over and they landed on Hawk Girl…she said I did it on purpose,"
"Did you?"
"No…at least not the first time," Flash admitted.
"Ah…" Sing said in understanding.
"I mean how was I to know she didn't like neon colours or that dried paint made it harder for her to fly or that it wouldn't come out for three days leaving her wings rainbow coloured?" Flash reasoned.
"What about the Leagues Space station?" Sing asked "dose anyone or anything up there need doing?"
"J'onn and Wonder Woman don't need help monitoring the planet or communications. It's pretty dead up in space too at the moment," Flash sighed.
"What about Batman? Why don't you contact him?"
Flash looked at Sing in horror.
"Go to Gotham without permission…are you nuts?" Flash asked "I'd rather get cornered and roasted by Cicada,"
"Why don't you go see what he's up to," Sing suggested.
"I did, he's on a Netflix binge," Flash said.
"Oh,"
"Yeah won't be seeing him for at least a month. So what are you up too, shouldn't you be in the office at this hour?" Flash asked, in an effort to pass the time.
"I just came from my sons' school; I had a meeting with the principal and his Computer teacher,"
"I thought David was a good kid. Everything alright?"
"Yeah he just took a few pranks too far,"
"Really, what kind?" Flash asked interested.
"One of his friends gave him a list of pranks to do with a computer," Sing explained "David pulled them all in his computer class,"
"You don't say," Flash said with a grin "No one lost their work right?"
"Nah, and the computers weren't damaged either. They really were harmless but the teacher doesn't have a sense of humour," Sing claimed "some of them were quite brilliant,"
Flash nodded.
"Well I better get going, good luck trying to find something to do," Sing said and he stood up and walked away.
Flash watched him go and then he stood up with a big grin on his face and raced off. It did not take him long to find Captain Sings son David or much convincing to give him the list, once Flash had it, he read over it and grinned.
"Oh this is going to fun," he thought wickedly.
Over the next week, Flash came up to the watchtower every day and hung around the Monitor Womb with a big smile on his face; eager to try everything on the list.
1. Log on, wait for a second, then get a frightened look on your face and scream, "Oh my God, they've found me!" and run away as fast as you can.
Green Lantern wondered what Flash had done to piss the Bat Family off this time.
2. If anyone happens to leave their computer unattended while their email is up, send out a mass love letter to everyone on their contacts.
Clark was surprised to get a love letter from Wonder Woman, he promptly deleted it pretending it that had never happened and prayed Lois or any of the other Daily Planet staff never found out. He then began to wonder when Diana had set up an email account.
Green Lantern spat out his coffee upon reading it, Hawkgirl ignored it and when Flash tried to send it to Batman the email got redirected to Alfred. The butler while flattered assumed it was meant for Batman and gave the Dark Knight his encouragement to pursue a relationship with the amazon warrior.
Batman scowled and changed his email address.
3. When anyone gets up to leave the room beg them not to go.
Flash wrapped his arms around J'onn and pleaded with him not to go. J'onn raised an eyebrow before phasing out of Flash's grip and the floor.
4. Before anyone else is in the lab, connect your keyboard to your neighbor's computer and disconnect theirs.
Since it was not practical to use the Monitor Wombs computers for this particular prank, Flash settled for "the Research terminal". It was the only computer in the Watchtower that was not connected to key functions or systems; nor did it monitor the planet below. This particular computer was out of the way and was mainly used by Alucard in his effort to catch up on what he had missed.
Flash had to wait until Alucard came up to the Tower and when he did Flash set up a separate wireless keyboard and hid outside the room. Once Alucard turned the computer on Flash started typing various things on the screen.
Everything from a polite greeting to odd comments on what Alucard should research and why appeared on the screen as if the computer had a mind of its own. Alucard panicked and thought the computer was possessed, he was fully prepared to exercise the computer of its demon with a powerful spell. The vampire had to be held back by the rest of the League and when Superman discovered Flash nearby and the wireless keyboard, it did not take long for the League to figure out the mystery behind the possessed computer.
Alucard used the spell he would have used on the computer on Flash instead.
5. Work normally for a while. Suddenly look startled by something on the screen and crawl underneath the desk.
Flash couldn't do this one as none of the computer terminals in the Watchtower were on a desk. So he brought up his own for the occasion.
Diana didn't understand what Flash was doing. She just assumed bringing up a desk to hide under was one of Mans Worlds' stranger practices and joined Flash under the desk.
6. Bring a chainsaw, but don't use it. If anyone asks why you have it, say "Just in case..." mysteriously.
Batman very quickly confiscated it. He did promise to give it back when Flash grew up and gained some maturity.
7. Offer terrible technical advice.
Flash once again had to wait until Alucard came up to the Tower.
"So the Mouse isn't working?" Flash asked as he stood next to Alucard.
"Yes, I have already tried turning it on and off again," Alucard answered "however that did nothing to aid the situation,"
"Did try feeding it some cheese?" Flash asked.
"Will that fix the problem?" Alucard asked, looking up at Flash with a curious expression on his face.
"Oh yea, that's what you're supposed to. Mice love cheese after all," Flash assured.
Alucard spent the next hour trying to not only find some cheese on the watchtower but also feed it to the small electronic mouse.
8. Change the auto-correct feature so common words are automatically changed to misspelled versions.
"Batman," J'onn spoke up as he looked up from the screen, "I think the Computer needs repairing. It spelled Weather wrong three different times,"
"Oh?" Batman asked and he leaned over.
"Yes, I am trying to spell 'Weather' as in weather patterns but it keeps changing it to 'Whether'. Also, it frequently uses the word 'Turtle', when I type in 'the', and a Smile face appears when I hit the full stop button at the end of a sentence," J'onn explained.
"I'll fix it," Batman assured and then started muttering about Flash under his breath.
9. Turn the brightness on the monitor way down. Pull out a flashlight and shine it on the screen. Act as if it helps you see the text on the screen.
"He's just not that bright," Hawk Girl commented to Green Lantern. Green Lantern had to agree.
10. Put a straw in your mouth and put your hands in your pockets. Type by hitting the keys with the straw.
Superman wondered where he got the straws from and why they were on the Watch Tower, to begin with.
11. Bring in a bunch of magnets and have some fun.
The backs and sides of the Monitor Womb terminals were decorated, with emoji magnets. Superman brought up some later and joined in the fun.
Batman was not impressed.
12. Take a typing break, look for split ends, cut them, and deposit them on your neighbor's keyboard as you leave.
Since Flashes mask covered his hair he tried to cut Hawk Girl and Wonder Woman's long hair. It did not end well and he wound up in the infirmary for two days.
13. Assign a musical note to every key (ex. the enter key is A flat). Whenever you hit a key, hum its note loudly. Write an entire paper this way.
Green Lantern created and trapped Flash in a soundproof bubble until the speedster promised to stop.
14. Borrow someone else's keyboard by reaching over, saying "Excuse me, mind if I borrow this for a sec?" unplugging the keyboard, and taking it.
Superman did mind and pointed out the keyboards in the Monitor Womb could not be borrowed.
15. Abuse your access to the printer.
There are no printers on the Watchtower and Batman would not let him bring up his own. Flash was disappointed.
16. Steal the letter "E" off everyone's keyboard.
It was a very un-productive day on the tower.
17. Stare at the screen of the person next to you, look really puzzled, burst out laughing and say "You did that?" loudly. Keep laughing; grab your stuff and leave, howling as you go.
J'onn didn't understand why the Weather Pattern he was monitoring was so funny.
18. Point at the screen. Chant in a made-up language while making elaborate hand gestures for a minute or two. Press the mouse, then leap back and yell "COVEEEEERRRRR!" After a few seconds come out from under the table, walk back to the computer and say "Oh, good. It worked this time," and calmly start to type again.
The rest of the League instantly got on the defensive when Flash yelled for cover. Flash got a stern lecture from Superman about triggering false alarms.
19. Come into the computer lab wearing flowers in your hair. Smile incessantly. Type a sentence, then laugh happily, exclaim "You're such a marvel!" and kiss the screen. Repeat this after every sentence. As your ecstasy mounts, also hug the keyboard. Finally, hug your neighbor and then walk out.
Batman did not appreciate the behavior or the hug but was extremely happy when Flash finally walked out.
20. Open up Word and type strange cryptic messages. Show them to everyone and insist that the computer typed them itself.
Alucard nearly destroyed another possessed Computer and Superman dragged Flash to Star Labs for a mental evaluation.
21. Run into the computer lab, shout "Armageddon is here!", then calmly sit down and begin to type.
At this point, the rest of the League had learned to ignore him and Flash inserted the Armageddon DVD into the computer and watched the movie.
A.n I did not write this list, my sister found it online and thought it would be a fun addition to the story. The list originally 50 fun pranks on it but I had to cull it to those that would be safe to do on the Watchtower, considering that the Watchtower is in space and this list was originally meant for a big Computer lab with many computers and people working in it at the same time.
Let me know which one was your favorite in your reviews.