AN: Just FYI the chapters in this story aren't going to be very long. Please be aware that I did that for a reason
What Zeus Did
Contrary to popular belief Rhea was not the best parent either. While Kronos hated all his children equally Rhea played favorites, and that was just wrong.
She always made sure that Zeus got the best toys, the biggest bedroom, and the shortest time out periods. She spoiled that brat rotten, something that caused a great deal of resentment between the other boys of the house. Poseidon was always throwing temper tantrums to get attention, like the Atlantis thing. Zeus had gotten a bigger piece of dessert so Poseidon had gone out and destroyed a civilization. Being the wonderful mother that she was Rhea told him to go channel his energy into something productive, like painting.
Needless to say, it didn't work out.
After Kronos paid off his son's debt to society money was pretty tight. Demeter was absolutely fine with that and made corn husk dolls for all her siblings. There was one small scale incident when Hera thought they were voodoo dolls and threw Zeus's in Hestia's hearth but besides that a time of tentative calm fell over the household.
It was not to last.
On that fateful day Poseidon had been caught skipping school for the eight time, Zeus dunked some poor nerd's head in a toilet, Hera turned one of the more popular girls in her class into a weasel, and Hestia had tried to flambé a dessert in Home Ec. with an acetylene torch.
Those were the last straws.
Rhea tried to persuade Kronos that all they needed was some good family therapy. When that ultimately failed she snuck her favorite son (I'll give you a hint, it's not Hades) out of the house before his father could eat him.
Zeus was thrilled to finally be in the outside world. Everything there amazed him. The stale gray patches of gum on the side walk, the whole art of ding-dong ditching, and the fact that you could bump into people and they wouldn't use crazy superpowers on you. Best of all, when he used the public bathroom, he didn't have to put the toilet seat down.
Zeus would have been content to hang out on the streets with the friendly hobos and the flasher who lived a few blocks away if it wasn't for one thing. Being the youngest of six kids he wasn't old enough to go to bars. This was a major problem for the future king of Olympus. There was only one option; he would have to free his older sibling, or at least one of them, overthrow his father and then Hestia would buy everybody drinks.
It was full proof!
One day it just so happened that Zeus stumbled across the only one smart enough to pull off his hole ridden plan. Metis, the Titaness of wisdom. She gave him a drink that would make Kronos barf up his kids. In addition, Metis told him to free the Cyclopses and the Hundred Handed Ones as they would prove to be great allies.
So that was what happened and once his siblings took showers they set off to (finally) free their extremely ugly uncles.
The Cyclopses and Hundred Handed Ones were so grateful that they gave Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon three magical items. They gave Zeus a gigantic lightning bolt, Hades an invisible helmet, and Poseidon an oversized forky trident thing. It was clear they'd been taking lessons from Rhea.
Now, Zeus decided that overthrowing Kronos would be too much work so in a stroke of uncanny genius he called Social Services about his abusive father. The six of them related their tales of woe and Kronos was arrested.
After high fiving over their triumph the three boys decided to pull straws to see who got what lot in the universe. Their sisters wanted to have a lot to but in the great words of Zeus, "Girls have cooties!"
