rhodey and tony being the pranksters of MIT, running around and just doing the nicest little pranks, like giggling as they move someone's clothes from the washer to the dryer so they'll be confused when they come through later, and tony running through the caf to pay for a bunch of people's lunches, and going to the library and providing anyone they saw with some sort of snack and a note, but always given when they're not looking so it kinda spooks them and yeah - sweet pranksters tony&rhodey
He’s very careful not to get caught.
He doesn’t want this to be a publicity thing, he’s not trying to buy friends, or get goodwill. That isn’t the point.
But Jarvis and Ana taught him how to bake, and he stress bakes a lot so he..ends up with a lot of cookies. So the first time he sticks a “take one!” note on a plate of 4am chocolate chip cookies and leaves it in the common room, he feels…weirdly nice (even if the engineering students descend on the plate like starved chihuahuas).
It builds from there really, he slides a couple hundred dollar tips into tip jars and sometimes just gives another couple hundred to pay for the drinks of everyone coming after him in the coffee store and…it’s nice.
When DUM-E is born, he takes to making smoothies with the grace of a chicken riding a dog (he’s terrible), but he’s surprisingly good at baking. He’s terrible at sneaking, but serves as a distraction while Tony drops cookies on library study tables and in communal areas.
Even if he does try to chase a squirrel and ends up knocking James Rhodes out in his flailing.
But Tony somehow gains a much better partner in crime that he dubs Rhodey so that’s fine too.
(Even if DUM-E tries to wolf whistle any time Rhodey and him are within 5 feet of each other. He knew it was a mistake to let him try to read those matchmaking magazines.)
