The brothers gathered at the quiet park a few moments later, waiting around until Chen would give them instructions for another plan to trick Jae.

"You know, I've been thinking," Chanyeol started, while waiting for Chen to arrive. "Why is Chen-hyung going through all this trouble to prank Jae-noona? Doesn't make sense, right? Until I figured out that if he pranks Jae-noona today, she'd have to do whatever he says."

"I know! It's brilliant, damn it," Baekhyun blabbed. "What?" he asked when his brothers stared at him. "It is! If I would prank Jae-noona I'd have her pamper me the whole day," he mused dreamily.

"I'd have her listen to me making music," Chanyeol added.

"All the bubble tea..." Sehun nodded absently, as if he was already imagining it.

"It'd be nice to cook with her or something," D.O. said quietly and shyly.

"I'd make her model for me while I draw," Kris said with a goofy grin.

"Whoa, wait! Imagine all the stuff Chen is thinking up though? Knowing him he'd probably have her do all sort of humiliating stuff!" Suho suddenly exclaimed.

Tao gasped out loud. "He wouldn't! Would he? Oh no, what if he'd treat Jae-noona like a slave?"

"And prevents her for going to the ball!?" Lay suddenly added as he nodded seriously.

"Seriously hyung," Kai patted his older brother on the shoulder. "Sometimes I really worry for you."

"We can't let that happen, though, can we?" Suho prompted. "We should protect Jae!"

"Or at least ask him what he means to do," Xiumin interjected. "He didn't really say why he wanted to prank her specifically."

"You want to give that villain a chance, Umin-hyung?" Sehun asked, bewildered.

"Just because the rest of you want to put that poor girl through torment, doesn't necessarily mean that Chen has the same idea," he shrugged, laughing when he heard his brothers protesting.

"Fine, we'll confront him about when he gets here! And then overthrow his government, or something," Kris prompted, riling up his brothers.

Not too long after, they noticed Chen dragging a strange, rather large contraption behind him when he arrived at the park.

"Yah, what are you staring around for, minions? Help me!" he shouted at the pack. They slowly came into action and pulled and pushed the big contraption to Chen's liking.

"Okay! I little more to the left- little more, yes! That's it! Perfect!" his laughter rang in the air as he stood proudly staring at it. "This will definitely work, guys! Third time's the charm."

"Chen, we need to talk first," Suho tried, but when he stood frozen and wide-eyed when Chen briskly removed the veil that covered the machine he had been dragging along.

"Tada!" he sang happily, revealing the cannon that could easily fit a human in the barrel. "Human cannon, anyone?" he smiled brightly.

"Okay! Hold on! This has gone far enough, Jongdae," Suho reprimanded. "Whatever your plan is with this thing, I don't want to hear it! Why are you so adamant to prank Jae, huh? You wanna dress her in a dwarf costume too? What's going on in that diabolical head of yours?"

"Yeah!" his other brothers replied angrily.

"Yah! Come on, I'm the King today! Minions don't ask questions!" Chen defended himself, whining, though the tips of his ears burned red.

"You're gonna make a maid out of Jae-noona?!" Baekhyun accused, pointing at him.

"What?" Chen asked in confusion.

"Make her model for you?!" Kris added.

"You're gonna make her feed you bubble tea, aren't you, you peasant-hyung?!" Sehun suddenly voiced angrily.

"What?! Wae?!" Chen retaliated. "First of all, you cannot feed someone bubble tea, Sehun," he started.

"You can with a spoon!" the maknae retorted. Chen shook his head and sighed.

"Second of all," he ignored him, "what are all of you talking about? I'm not planning on doing any of those atrocious things to Jae-noona! What are you thinking about?!" he asked, sounding genuinely appalled.

"Oh, yeah? Well, another thing-! Wait. What?" Luhan asked when he processed what Chen just said. "You- you're not planning on doing anything like that to Jae?"

"Of course not, hyung! That's ridiculous!" Chen pouted, shuffling his feet.

"Well, then- what's all this about?" D.O. asked gesturing at the cannon. "You just enjoy pranking her?"

"Aha! A sadist!" Baekhyun exclaimed, pointing at Chen in accusation again. Chen smacked his finger away and shook his head.

"Yah, get real! I want to prank her because- well, because I just do, that's all. Now, you're my minions so help me!" he tried to change the topic but Suho gently placed a hand on his shoulder.

"What's this really about, Chen?" he asked calmly, a smile on his face.

Chen sighed deeply and looked at his brothers. He lowered his head in defeat. "Fine," he muttered, taking a deep breath. "But if any of you laugh, I'm making you wear you Hello Kitty outfits! Don't think I can't get them in your sizes!" he threatened.

"It's okay, hyung. You can tell us," Chanyeol encouraged.

Chen sighed once more and then nodded to himself for encouragement. "I wanted to prank Jae-noona today because, yes, I get to tell her what to do and she'd have to do it - unless she pranked me back, but we all know that's impossible," he chuckled a moment before continuing. "Anyway, I wanted to take her to the fair by the bay, and I thought that if I pranked her and told her to come with me, she couldn't reject me," he mumbled. "I just want to spend the day with her, that's all," he muttered shyly. He looked up carefully at his brothers who fell silent.

"That's it?" Xiumin asked, though a smiled played on his lips.

"Yes, of course! I'm not a weirdo!" Chen protested, making his brothers feel a bit guilty, since their thoughts were not as sincere as his.

"So...are you still going to help me, or what?" he then asked, trying to stand straight and tall to show them that he was still King.

"Fine, but not with this thing," Suho answered after exchanging looks with the rest of the pack. He gestured at the cannon. "I don't even want to know how you got by that thing. I'm sure we can think of something else," he reassured.

"Interesting," Chen mused. "I'm all ears," he grinned widely.