"THIS SEBASTIAN," Thor boomed in his regular, well, booming voice. "I DO NOT UNDERSTAND. HE COMPETES FOR THE AFFECTIONS OF BLAINE, YET BLAINE BELONGS WITH KURT. IS THIS SEBASTIAN UNAWARE OF THEIR INTIMATE RELATIONS?"
Tony was watching this whole scene unfold silently from the hallway. Bruce, Steve, Clint, Nat, and Thor were all squished on the small couches in the media room on the sixty third floor of the newly named Avenger Tower. And they were watching Glee.
Tony had been looking for them for at least twelve hours, not that he was counting, and no matter how much he begged JARVIS, the traitor wouldn't reveal their location. They'd been sitting on that too small couch ever since Clint had made a Glee reference that Steve and Thor didn't understand. Clint and Bruce had insisted that they watch ever episode. Natasha had nothing better to do. Tony got bored with their conversation so he decided to end it with a simple command for his AI.
"JARVIS, pause. Now shut the TV off." He got angry glares from four people. Thor was too busy wondering aloud why the moving picture box had died. After they got over the initial shock, he got a chorus of "What the hells" and "Tony I swear to Odin, if you do not turn the TV back on I will cut off your testicles and let Clint use them as target practice" Okay so he only got one of the second comment, but it was from Nat. He replied with "You guys are addicted, I'm cutting you off. JARVIS, from now on, block anything and everything related to Glee in the entire Avengers Tower." Shock covered all faces but one. Steve just looked pissed.
"Tony," he said faking calm, "unblock it." Tony hid a laugh. Boyfriend or not (definitely boyfriend, but that's beside the point) Steve had no control over what Tony did. Tony did what he wanted and faced the consequences when they came. He smirked.
"Or what? What are you going to do about it, Spangles?"
"Or I'll move out." Tony really wasn't expecting that.
"You wouldn't." Tony knew that he would. Only one person was more stubborn than himself, and that was Steve. He just stared at Tony, with the best poker face that Tony had ever seen. "Alright! Unblocking! Happy?" the television turned back on when Tony heard a noise. It was, no it couldn't be. Not this high up. There was no way that a horse could be heard all the way up here. "Uhh, guys? Did you hear that?" They continued staring blankly at the teenage characters dancing across the screen. Tony walked to the door that lead out to the small (for Tony) balcony. He slid over the curtains covering the glass door and without looking he stepped outside and closed the door behind him. He walked a couple steps, looked down over New York, acknowledged the boy on the jet black horse sitting on his balcony, sat down in one of the lawn chairs that Pepper had bought him for some kind of special occasion and... Wait... Boy on a horse...
"Took you long enough." The boy said with a smile. "I thought I'd be out here forever." The boy was young, seventeen, maybe eighteen by the looks of him. He had raven black hair and he wore an orange T-shirt with the words 'Camp Half Blood' written across the front. He wore jeans and his hair was a mess, and Tony noticed the leather cord tied around his neck with 5 beads with cool little designs on them.
"Who? What? How?" He stammered, for once at a loss for words. The boy just smiled like this happened all of the time.
"As for who, my name is Percy Jackson. I've kind of saved the world a couple times, no big deal. As for what, I'm a half blood. A demigod. But then again so are you. We'll talk more about that later. And last but not least, the how question. I assume that you're asking how I got up here with, well, a horse. Well it might be easier to show you than to tell you. Hey, Blackjack! Show Tony how you got us up here buddy." He paused for a second. "No he won't think that they're ugly. Just show him!" Great, Tony thought. Not only is he going crazy, but apparently, so is the figment of his imagination. His thoughts got cut off when the horse, Blackjack apparently, spread it's wings and tossed it's head back. Back up for a second. Wings? 'I really am going crazy' Tony thought. He got up and was about to go tell the other avengers that he was schizophrenic and needed to be admitted into some kind of hospital immediately when Percy hopped down off of Blackjack and put a hand on Tonys shoulder, restraining him. This kid was stronger than he looked.
"Not so fast. You aren't going anywhere. Not yet at least. Just wait a little bit. Annabeth and Piper will get here soon. They're gonna be your ride to camp," he said with a smile. "I would escort you myself, but I only have one horse and I have a feeling that you guys will need a little persuasion."
Tony shouldn't have been scared. This kid was just a teenager and he had the entire team a few steps away. But then again the kid had a flying horse, and apparently back up. He had to warn the others, prepare them. "Just let me warn them." He swallowed every ounce of his enormous pride. "Please."
"And let them run? You know very well that that's what they'd do. No. I'm sorry, this must be really weird for you, it was for me. Trust me, I've been through this. We need you. All of you."
"You couldn't have gone to Fury?"
"The mortal? Mortals can't know about us. And to go to Fury I would have to know what it is that we need you for. This is confusing for me too, I'll explain as much as I can when we're at camp okay?"
Tony got distracted halfway through his sentence. Two more of these flying horses were headed for his tower, and behind them he dragged a cart like thing, carrying two very beautiful and dangerous looking girls, about the same age as Percy. One had curly blonde hair tied back into a ponytail with strands hanging down in her face and she held in one hand, an old Yankees hat and in the other, a bronze dagger. The other was arguably the most beautiful girl Tony had ever seen. Her beauty was evident even with her short uneven brown hair and lack of any makeup whatsoever. One hand held the reigns to the winged horses pulling the cart and the other held a dagger, similar in color but smaller than that of the blonde. They wore the same clothes as Percy. They landed on the balcony next to him.
"Porkpie! Guido!" Percy said excitedly, addressing the horses before the humans. Tony just stood there in a state of shock. The blonde noticed Tonys blank expression.
"Hi, I'm Annabeth, this is Piper. You've already met Percy. Sorry, he's a bit of a seaweed brain. Are you Bruce? I expected you to be bigger. And greener."
"Alright, Wise girl. That nickname is getting kinda old don't you think? And this is Tony, and he doesn't think that I'm a seaweed brain. He loves me, right Tony?" Tony was actually contemplating jumping over the edge and falling to his death when the brunette, Piper, spoke up.
"You and your team should come with us, Tony. Doesn't that sound nice?" Tony found himself nodding. Suddenly, this going to mysterious camp that they were talking about didn't sound like such a bad idea.