Xisuma's POV

"PEARL?!" I yelled, as she pulled off her mask. The other two pulled theirs off too, revealing themselves to be Cleo and Gem. Gem gently took off Scar's blindfold and Cleo removed False's ropes.

"Yep! It's us!" Pearl said. "You've been pranked!"  She laughed and high-fived Cleo and Gem.

"So... this was all... a prank." Grian breathed.

"You should've seen the looks on your faces!" Cleo laughed. "It was worth it to see those looks!"

"Woah, when did Cleo get here?" Scar asked, blinking rapidly. 

I glanced at my hands, and then I looked up to the girls again. "How did you do that?!" I asked.

Pearl smiled. "Well, my "friend" I had hired tried to kill me. Cleo rescued me at the last minute, I still don't know how and why she was in my house then, but she saved me and took me here. We've been training, the two of us, for dramatic effect. And we- Grian, why do you have your camera out?!"

"Content!" Grian whined. Mumbo and I laughed.

I cleared my throat. "Pearl. Continue, please."

Pearl coughed. "We got Gem and told her to train with us. She had this super cool idea to "poison" the donuts, but really, she found some of this weird stuff from a turkey that puts you to sleep. Safe and delicious! Anyways, after that we got False and Scar for more dramatic effect, and boom! Here we are."

I sighed. "So, what I'm hearing is, you trained for literally over two weeks, got on the news, kidnapped three people, for a prank?!" 

"Anything sounds stupid if you say it like that." Cleo retorted, causing Scar and Grian to burst into laughter. Gem walked in again with a small plate. "Tea, anyone? I made honey-lemon!"

~ three minutes of drinking tea and eating biscuits later ~

"So..." Scar took another sip of his tea.

"What do we... tell the public?" I asked, taking a biscuit and a plate. 

"I know!" Gem said excitedly.

"We can tell them one thing. Pearl has problems."