Author's Note: Another short story! I have tons of these going around in my head and will be writing them out whenever I have writer's block for my current story. Which is often. Next chapter for "Original Heroes" will be up soon, I promise. Until then, enjoy this. It's not a shipping, merely a fun little story. However, there may be little snips romance throughout it as well as the end. Also, it has a song's name but it isn't a songfic. It's not going to be a long story, just a few chapters until I get more ideas for "Heroes".

Disclaimer: Still don't own Class of the Titans!

"Archie, you're going to have to admit defeat sooner or later," Atlanta laughed as she did another turn on the virtual car game.

"Never!" Archie told her as he pulled in front of the red-head's automobile.

Behind them, their friends were cheering, the boys for Archie and Theresa for Atlanta.

It was a cold Saturday night, and the team was spending their time inside the local arcade, much to the dismay of Theresa and Neil. Theresa thought video games, "taught bad values", while Neil complained that the flashing lights made it impossible to see his mirror in the event of a hair out of place. But apparently they were having fun shouting words of encouragement at their competing friends.

"Show him up, Atlanta!" Theresa screamed as Atlanta took the lead again.

"C'mon, Arch. Don't let a girl beat you!" Herry begged.

Theresa glared at her friend and punched him in the arm, which wound up hurting her more than Herry due to his large muscles.

"Christ the Lord," Theresa muttered, shaking her hand in pain.

A few minutes later, the race was over. Atlanta had won.

"Oh yeah, that's right," Atlanta laughed, getting off her seat and beginning to do a little victory dance, "In your face, oh ye-ah. Atlanta rules!"

"Is that right?" Archie asked, standing up and running over to her. He lifted up the skinny girl and began to spin her around above his head.

"What are you doing?" Atlanta screeched, "Archie, put me down! Archie! If you don't drop me right now….."

Archie continued chuckling at her dismay and continued twirling in a circle. Atlanta huffed in annoyance and fired her laser crossbow near his feet.

"What the hell was that?" Archie asked, dropping Atlanta on the floor.

"That's what you get," Atlanta smirked, blowing the smoke away from her weapon.

The rest of the group started to laugh hysterically, so much so that they didn't realize what time it was. Finally, Jay was able to stop for a second to glance at the clock.

"Oh no," he said.

"What is it?" Theresa asked, touching his arm lightly.

"It's ten 'o' clock," he said, "We had to be back at the Brownstone a half-hour ago!"

"Oh man," Odie groaned, "Athena's gonna be so pissed!"

"Then we better get going," Archie said. The others nodded and raced out the door towards Herry's truck.

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"Everybody shut up," Jay warned as he slowly opened one of the dorm's windows from the outside. They weren't using the door in case the noise woke up a most-likely sleeping Athena.

Theresa and Atlanta both stifled giggles as they watched their leader try to boost himself through the window.

Archie went next; his ankle brace making a loud screeching noise as it scraped against the window pane.

"Will you be quiet?" Jay whisper-yelled. Archie responded with a gesture that looked like he was going to flip Jay the bird, but before he could, Atlanta kicked him in the back as she too slid through into the dorm. She turned around and pulled Odie in.

Neil and Herry both boosted Theresa up. The two boys then tried to go in at the same time, but, unfortunately, got wedged in too tightly to move.

"That looks cozy," Atlanta laughed.

"Shut up and get us out of here!" Neil told her.

Atlanta and Archie both grabbed Herry, and Jay and Theresa did the same with Neil.

"Oh my God, Herry! You weigh a ton!" Archie said, pulling as hard as he could on his brunette-haired friend's arm.

"Well, Neil ain't no feather either!" Jay grunted.

Finally, the four teenagers managed to get their friends out, but in the process sent Neil and Herry flying towards them and sending them all crashing to the floor.

"Jeez, Theresa!" Atlanta wheezed, "Get off my back!"

"Sorry," Theresa whispered, standing up.

All of a sudden, the light of the living room switched on. Everyone in the team swirled around to see Athena sitting in a big easy chair, wearing a blue bath robe and fluffy pink slippers and tapping her foot angrily.

"Where HAVE you been?" she asked, a furious tone rising in her voice.

"S-sorry, Athena," Jay stuttered, "We were at the, um…."

"Library!" Neil piped in, knowing that the goddess of wisdom wouldn't get them in trouble if she thought they were studying.

"On a Saturday?" Athena asked; her eyebrow's rising in an "You really expect me to believe that?" kind of way.

"We just lost track of time," Odie admitted, scratching the back of his head.

"Up to bed now!" Athena snapped, pointing a finger up the stairs. The seven muttered in annoyance and went to their separate rooms.

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The next morning, the teenagers were sitting around the kitchen table, waiting for Athena to issue their sentence.

And speak of the devil, in walked the goddess, still looking mad.

"I've decided what your punishment is going to be," Athena said flatly.

"Um, okay," Jay said.

Atlanta snapped her chewing gum and Archie leaned back in his chair.

"I've decided to leave the dorm for a week," Athena told them.

"Ha!" Neil laughed, "This is your punishment?"

"I wasn't finished," Athena said calmly, "As you know, I'm the substitute for your parents while you're staying here, so I accept all responsibility for you. I cook, clean, and do all other things only your mothers would do for you. And you broke my trust by going back on my rules. Therefore, you are to take my responsibilities while I'm gone."

"So we're supposed to clean and make food and junk for ourselves while you're not here?" Archie asked.

"Oh, it's not just that," Athena smiled in a rather questionable way. The goddess snapped her fingers and a cloud of smoke appeared. Seven small outlines could be seen through the haze.

"Have fun," Athena winked, disappearing right before their eyes.

The seven forms in the smoke stepped into the group's view.

They were kids.

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"Mister," the tallest of the children said, tugging on Jay's shirt, "I'm scared."

The boy had thick brown hair and brilliant emerald-green eyes. He had on a blue sweatshirt and a pair of beige pants. One of his tiny fingers was stuck up his nose.

It wasn't long before each of the toddler's walked over to each member of the team.

"This isn't very fun," an Asian girl with short hair and pale skin complained to Herry.

"I'm hungry," a ginger-haired boy with dark eyes and freckles announced at Theresa.

"I don't like you," a blue-eyed girl with long chestnut hair told Atlanta.

"I want my mommy!" a dark-skinned girl with a black pixie cut bawled, clutching a very uncomfortable Odie's legs.

"I made a poop," a blonde-haired boy with a green cap told Neil.

A small baby with a sprig of blonde hair crawled up to Archie and began to chew happily on his brace.

"Um, not to be rude or anything…but who are you?" Theresa asked the group of toddlers.

"My name is Danny," the boy near Jay said, "That's Christy, Josh, Tara, Lily, Scott, and Tommy."

"Hi," Jay said, reaching his hand down to Danny. The kid reached out and shook it with his booger-incrusted fingers, "I'm Jay. My friends' names are Theresa, Herry, Atlanta, Odie, Neil and Archie." When Danny wasn't looking, Jay quickly wiped the snot on his palms off onto his jeans.

"Atlanta is a stupid name," Tara (the red-haired girl) told Atlanta, sticking her tongue out.

"Excuse me?" Atlanta snapped. Tara laughed and ran into the next room with inhuman speed, much like Atlanta's.

"Come back here you little monster!" Atlanta yelled as she darted after her.

The little girl beside Odie was still crying her eyes out.

"It's okay," Odie said kindly, patting the girl on the shoulder, "My name is Odie. You're Lily, right?"

Lily nodded, tears still streaming down he face.

"Do you like games?" Odie asked.

"Yes," Lily said, a smile on her face, "My favorite's Scrabble, but I like Monopoly, Tic-Tac-Toe, Yahtzee, and Boggle. I also like chess, but my daddy won't let me play it anymore with him because he says it gives him a headache. But I think it's 'cuz I keep beating him!"

"That's great," Odie told her, taking the girl's hand and leading her over to the games cupboard.

"I'M STILL BORED!" Christy (the Asian girl) shrieked.

"Well that problem can be solved, can't it?" Herry asked, "We'll just go and play a game with Odie and Lily."

"Noooooooooooooo!" Christy cried, "I don't like playin' games with Lily. She always wins!"

"Well….." Herry thought aloud, "Do you want to go over and meet my Granny?"

"No!" Christy snapped.

"She's got a dog," Herry said.

Christy considered for a minute. "Fine."

"What am I supposed to do with this one?" Neil whined, pointing at Scott, "He…..he….."

"Made a poop?" Theresa offered. Neil shook his head up and down.

"Well change him!" Theresa told the blonde.

Neil stared at her in pure horror.

"I'll help you," Theresa groaned. She turned down to look at the ginger-haired boy in her care. "Josh? Do you wanna come with me? We can get you something to eat after, okay?"

"Okay," Josh sighed. He let Theresa scoop him up and take him up the stairs. Neil followed, the very smelly Scott close behind him.

"I'm not that great with kids," Archie admitted, watching Tommy the baby still gnawing on his brace.

"Yeah, me neither," Atlanta told him, walking into the room, carrying Tara by the straps of her overalls. Tara looked angry. She reached her head over and used her small teeth to nip Atlanta's hand.

"Yow!" Atlanta shouted, dropping the girl, who ran off again laughing. "She bit me! The tiny mutant bit me."

"Catch me if you can!" Tara called from somewhere far off.

"That's it!" Atlanta screamed, sprinting out of the room, "It's naptime!"

Archie smirked at Jay and picked Tommy up from under the armpits. The baby instantly began to cry.

"Crap! What did I do?" Archie asked nervously.

"Oooooooh! He said the 'C' word!" Danny gasped.

Archie shot Jay a look that said, "You can deal with this kid being permanently scarred for life" and then sat down on the couch with Tommy. Atlanta walked in the room yet again, carrying a now silent Tara.

"Dang, how'd you get her to shut up?" Archie asked as Atlanta plopped Tara into the computer chair.

Danny shrieked again at Archie's use of "curse words".

"I told her the boogeyman comes here at night to gobble up bad little girls," Atlanta announced proudly.

Tara was shaking in fear.

"You're mean," Archie told her, cradling a whimpering Tommy.

"What's wrong, honey?" Atlanta asked, walking over to where Archie and the baby were sitting and wiping Tommy's hair out of his face.

"I don't know what's wrong with him," Archie said, shaking the infant.

"Try burping him," Atlanta suggested.

Archie put Tommy's head on his shoulder and made rubbing motions on his back. The baby instantly calmed down and put his hand in his mouth.

"He's pretty cute when his face isn't red," Archie murmured.

"Guys, we've got a serious issue here," Jay said to them.

"Yeah, I'm not the world's greatest baby-sitter," Atlanta said, jerking her thumb at Tara, who was now curled up into a tight ball on her chair.

"No, I mean this whole thing," Jay told her, "Where did these kids come from? Who are their parents? Do they know they're children are here?

He looked down at Danny, who was sitting on the wooden floor staring thoughtfully at his green sneakers.

"Relax, Jay," Archie assured him, "I'm sure Athena wouldn't go all psycho and kidnap seven kids just to teach us a lesson!"

"You're probably right," Jay muttered. But then again, all of them knew just what the immortals did to punish the ones who disobeyed them.

It was at that moment that Tommy decided to spit up all over Archie's hoodie.