"Oh, come on!" Carver grouched as he picked himself off the floor. "Like [i]you[/i] guys have never messed with each other's tricks for the lulz, before. And besides, sometimes the best trick is letting someone else think they're the one [i]playing[/i] the trick."

He finally managed to get the knot untied, but that entire vine was now burned practically numb. The second he got it loose, he lost his grip  on the pepper and it tumbled down into one of his legs. He tried pulling it up to throw back at Shock, but felt the burn creeping into the vine he was using and he had to drop it before he could get it to his mouth. Perhaps if he used a leg vine and passed it to an arm vine at hip level...

He fumbled at the pass, and it fell back down again. Screw it. The pepper was just gonna have to live in his foot for a while.