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Solar was 𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥. It took him Three. Fucking. Hours. To get the slime out of his hair. He also ran out of shampoo, and had to borrow Lunar’s shitty one. When he got out of the shower, he wanted some peace and quiet. It had been a long day, and the slime didn’t help that. Sadly, not a single one of them thought to put something down on the carpet to protect it. They only had until Sun and Earth came back to clean it, and they were yelling and freaking out. Eventually, Jack was sent out to get a brand new carpet because they had lost hope and had a better chance of installing a new one than they had of getting the slime out.
That would’ve been fine, but it was happening 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮. Exactly where he wanted to be. So, he just went to watch TV. He wasn’t joking about getting them back, and he needed to plot revenge. He already had some ideas.
He was going to prank them all individually, and over several days. Solar was petty. He didn’t want the things to be huge, but he wanted things to be as inconvenient as possible. He was smart, definitely smarter than to dump two gallons of slime onto a carpet, he was going to be subtle and annoying. Maybe something bigger, too. He didn’t decide yet.
Later, at dinner, Solar was sending glares at Jack, Moon, and Lunar the whole time. They convinced Sun and Earth that they protected the carpet, and made sure they didn’t know that they destroyed it to the point they got a new one. Solar might use that as blackmail later.
After about a week, everyone forgot about it. Exactly what he wanted. He had a mental list of everything he wanted to do. He was ready now, and it was everyone’s problem.
He had a three day long plan. It’s day one, and the first target for today was Lunar. While he was asleep, Solar set the language on his phone to Japanese. Nothing too bad, but for as addicted to his phone as Lunar is, there was no way he’d be able to get into settings to change it back if he couldn’t read it. Harmless, but annoying as hell.
Moon was next. He liked to watch TV for background noise. So obviously Solar hid the remote in increasingly absurd places throughout the whole day. These places included: the top of the TV, the bathroom sink, in the fridge, and even Moon’s own pocket. He went 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘦. It took everything in him to not start laughing in front of him.
Jack’s was a little harder to pull off. When Jack was asleep, Solar took his gloves to do some work on them. After about an hour, it was done. Now, 1/3 times that Jack used his dagger hands, they were dull plastic. Again, more annoying than anything. Because it could potentially be dangerous, not being able to defend himself is bad, so he’d reverse it tonight. Just one day was fine though.
~𝗟𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿~
Lunar woke up at about eight, a bit early for him. The clock on the wall told him that, but when he went to check the exact time on his phone, he couldn’t read it. What the fuck? What language even was that? Fuckkk. He knew that the language settings were 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, but where?
Since he couldn’t call him, Lunar went upstairs to find Moon. He eventually found him, he was tearing apart the room, looking for something. “Moon!”
Moon looked over to him, a couch cushion being held above his head. “What?”
“Can you fix this?” Lunar showed him his phone screen.
Moon sighed. “Sure.” Moon walked over and grabbed his phone from him.”Could you try to find the remote? I couldn’t find it earlier, but I finally found it. Now I need to skip some stupid ad and it’s gone again. It’s one of those ads that is a whole ass interview and multiple minutes long, so I can’t wait for it to be over.”
“Sure, I’ll try.” Lunar walked over to the couch and started to look through the cushions.
In about a minute Moon held Lunar’s phone out to him. ”Here, it’s back to English."
“Thanks.”
“Did you find the remote?” Moon asked.
“Nah, sorry
Moon ran a hand down his face and groaned. “Okay.”
“I’d help, but I gotta go to the daycare.”
“It’s fine.” Moon cracked his back. “I’ll find it.”
~𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻~
Five minutes later, Moon finally found it. He’d been looking for 20 minutes, and went to the bathroom to splash some cold water on his face. He’d been running around for a while and was hot. Right as he went to turn on the water, he saw it. 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬? When did he put that there? Was it even him? Whatever. He needed to skip that dumbass ad.
~𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸~
Jack woke up a while ago, nothing unusual happened yet. He went to cut an apple for Dazzle. They’d been playing for a while and both got hungry, they wanted apples and peanut free peanut butter. He didn’t want to get a knife, so he went to use the daggers in his gloves and they were… plastic? “Huh?”
Dazzle looked up at him. “What happened?”
Jack showed her the dagger. “It’s plastic for some reason.”
Dazzle seemed confused. “How did that happen?”
“I dunno.”
~𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿~
Day one went well. He changed Lunar’s phone language about three more times. They still didn’t know that it was him. How neither Lunar nor Moon noticed being pickpocketed, Solar didn’t know. He put the remote in Moon’s pocket and took and put back Lunar’s phone. He’s either a lot better at it than he remembered, or they were a little dumb.
Watching them all go insane was 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨. They deserved every single second of this. This was payback and he planned to give it back worse. His goal was for them to feel like they were going crazy. Don’t fuck with him if you don’t want something back.
Now it was time to do things for the next day. For Moon, it wouldn't be too awful for him. Moon just bought this ice cream, it wasn’t available online and he had to drive 45 minutes to get it. As soon as Moon put it in the freezer, Solar took it out. This repeated several times throughout the day.
Lunar was up next. Solar went around the house, and got all of his Nutella. It was less than he used to have as he was told to cut down on it, but still about three too many jars for one person. Solar took hot sauce, put a bunch in each jar, and mixed it in.
Keeping the pattern of messing with food, Solar messed with Jack’s candy. Peach rings? Add some citric acid. Skittles? There’s M&M’s in the package now. Lollipop? Replaced with his least favorite flavor.
This was the calm before the storm, as Solar called it. He teamed up with Sun and Earth for tomorrow. It was gonna be 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥.
~𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻~
Moon just got his favorite pumpkin ice cream. It melted a bit on the way home, so he put it in the freezer. About an hour later, Moon went back to get some of it to eat. Pumpkin spice Cheerios just came out for the year and some of those with the ice cream would be delicious. When he walked into the kitchen, it was already on the counter. Maybe Lunar had some and left it out. Moon opened up the container and it was completely melted. Annoyed, Moon put it back in the freezer.
Moon called out, “Lunar!”
“What?!”
“Did you leave my ice cream out?”
“No? When did you get ice cream?”
Moon sighed. “An hour ago, nevermind, it’s melted anyway.”
Lunar peeked his head in. “How?”
Moon shrugged, “I dunno.”
~𝗟𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿~
At 8AM, Lunar was making himself some Nutella toast for breakfast. He took a bite. “Ew! What the fuck?” He threw the piece of toast back on the plate. He gaged. “I gotta go wash my mouth out.”
~𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸~
Jack was with Dazzle, watching Barbie and eating snacks. Jack grabbed his peach rings, the one specific brand he got that wasn’t sour at all. He took a bite and… Eugh. Was this the right brand? He took a better look at the package. It looked the same. “Dad!”
Solar walked into the room. “What?”
Jack held up the package. “Are these the right ones? They’re sour.”
Solar looked at it. “Yeah, those are the right ones. Maybe they changed the formula?”
Jack looked a little sad. “That sucks. They’re still good but I like them better when they’re sweet. I get sour candy when I want sour candy, I want these to be sweet.”
“Sorry, bud. Maybe have some other candy? The rest of us are fine with the sour ones, so they aren’t gonna go to waste or anything.”
“Aw, ok.” Jack frowned for a second but grabbed a lollipop excitedly, seeming to forget about the peach rings immediately. “Ew.” Jack took it out of his mouth. “Why is it the butterscotch one? I swear I picked a blue raspberry.”
“I don’t know, maybe you just picked the wrong one?” Okay. Solar felt a 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘵 bad, but it took him three hours to get the slime out of his hair. He’d apologise after, it was fine.
~𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿~
It was day three now. Today was where things got good. He told Earth and Sun what happened and they agreed to help, they even got Dazzle in on it.
They all agreed to go to the park as a family. What their victims 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 know is that they set up a trap in the park, one that would get all three of them. They were also going to make sure that they got it on video.
At about noon, it was time for the plan. He, Earth, Sun, and Dazzle arrived before them. They took separate cars to avoid someone spoiling something on the way over. Solar sat down on a bench nearby while the rest went to follow a butterfly while they waited for the rest of them to arrive.
In about 5 minutes, they showed up. Dazzle got excited and waved at Jack. “Jack! Come over here!”
“Coming!” Jack ran over to her, but set the trap off before he got there.
Suddenly, the floor opened up, dropping them all into a giant pit of green slime. The last things that they heard before the giant splash were Moon shouting, “What the fuck?!” Lunar just screaming, and Jack yelling, “Huh?!”
After that, the only things they heard other than laughter was the dinging of everyone’s phone as Sun posted the video he recorded of it.