James POV
"And then you pour it in, you mix it, you make sure it looks exactly how it did when you found it, and you meet me out here," Remus said as they huddled in the backyard. If they got caught they would get into so much trouble for this. But it will be worth it. Snivilous had been a huge asshole all week after he had made fun of Remus for walking with a cane. So, the Marauders, recently named by Sirius, decided it was important to show him who's really in charge. And it will be so funny, "Okay." James said.
"You have the game plan?" Remus asked. Remus was really good at coming up with pranks. Without Remus, the group would be completely lost.
"I have the plan," James confirmed.
"Plan for what?" a small voice said beside them.
"Oh crap,” Sirius said.
"Hi, Regulus!" James said enthusiastically.
"Hi, James!" The eight-year-old replied with almost as much enthusiasm.
"I guess we should abort the mission," Sirius sighed, glaring at his little brother.
"Why?" James asked curiously.
"Because he heard us?" Mark said pointing to Regulus who was sticking his tongue out at his older brother.
"So?" James asked questioning.
“Yeah, so?” Regulus asked.
"Little kids ruin everything," Sirius sighed.
"Not Regulus," James said and Regulus grinned.
"Yeah not me," Regulus agreed with a nod.
"Regulus is cool," James said.
"Like Batman" Regulus nodded again.
"Exactly," James smiled, "Just like Batman."
"Fine, whatever. Baby Black, you can be a lookout," Remus ordered.
"Sit in front of the house and yell..." Peter paused trying to come up with something for him to yell.
"Yell Superman," James said.
"James!" Regulus gasped. "It's your..." Regulus leaned in to whisper, "Secret identity."
"I know," James said solemnly. "Yell it so only we know you are talking to me."
"So yell 'Superman' if you see anyone coming towards the house, okay? If they ask you why you are there just say you lost a ball in their yard," Remus instructed.
"Okay,” Regulus agreed
The four boys crept into the dark house while Regulus waited outside. Sirius and Remus were going to go into Snape's bedroom a put this morning's bacon grease on his pillow, while James and Peter were going to sneak into his bathroom. Once they found which bedroom and bathroom Snivilous used, the boys scrambled to do their respective jobs. He found what looked like abandoned shampoo and opened it. He pulled the hair dye from under his shirt and carefully added it to the shampoo. After shaking the bottle and making sure the bathroom looked untouched, he crept back towards the door.
"SUPERMAN" He heard Regulus yell.
Crap! James walked quickly outside using the back door to meet Regulus who was being questioned by Snape's mom.
"Why did you just yell 'Superman?' the stuffy-looking woman asked.
"Hi, Mrs. Snape." James interrupted with his best polite voice as Regulus looked at him with wide eyes. "How are you doing?"
"Hello," She greeted with a glare. She had been called into the school enough times because of James and his friends fighting with Snivilous that James thought it was possible that she wasn’t James’ biggest fan. "What are you doing here?" She asked suspiciously.
"I'm looking for a ball we lost. What were you asking Reg?" James asked while putting a protective arm around him.
"Why is the boy yelling weird things?" Mrs. Snape asked.
"He's not. Superman is not weird." James frowned at the woman. It was ridiculous to think that Superman was weird. "Superman is the coolest superhero. He is an
alien, who can fly, has super strength, can shoot lasers out of his eyes, and is bulletproof." He explained.
Mrs. Snape did not seem like the type of woman who wanted to hear about Superman, which was what James was counting on. He was hoping that she would eventually send him away. He also was hoping that this was enough time for the other three boys to escape through the backyard.
"Okay, but why did he yell 'Superman'" Mrs. Snape asked.
Crap, she wasn't getting bored.
"James." Regulus turned to him. Oh god, please let him not ruin this. If Regulus blew their prank after James had convinced the rest of the boys he was cool, James would never hear the end of it. "What superpowers does Batman have?" He asked. That's his boy.
"Batman doesn’t really have superpowers," James answered, before he could continue, Regulus looked at him with a horrified expression.
“You told me he was cool! He doesn’t have any superpowers?” Regulus exclaimed.
“He is cool!” James responded, trying to calm Regulus, “He just doesn’t have any superpowers himself. But he has a crap, sorry Mrs. Snape, a top of money and he has a cool suit and car and he’s really good at fighting. He’s like a dark and mysterious guy who fights all on his own and almost always wins. He beats people with superpowers all the time.
"Oh." Regulus thought for a second. “Batman sounds even cooler than Superman."
"Okay, I'm going to ask you two to leave my property, I'm going inside." Mrs. Snape rolled her eyes and went inside.
After the door shut James grinned at Regulus.
"Great job!" He said as he held out his hand for a high-five.
"Thank you." The other boy smiled proudly. Once they met up with the other boys, James told them all how Regulus did an amazing job distracting Mrs. Snape. The prank wouldn’t have been successful without him. Sirius, even though he was initially against letting Regulus help, put his arm around Regulus’ shoulders as a proud brother
“I think we could make a Marauder out of you,” Sirius laughed.
“No thank you,” Regulus responded with his chin up.
“No, thank you?” Questioned James. What did Regulus mean by no thank you? You don’t turn now being a Marauder.
“I’m like Batman, I work alone,” Regulus responded.
“What about Robin?” Remus asked, “Or Alfred.”
“Who’s Robin?” Regulus asked.
“This conversation doesn’t matter, because you’ve been disinvited,” Sirius said suddenly.
“But now I want to join,” Regulus whined as James laughed at the brothers' antics.