Percy was, once again, very depressed. That whole tournament thing was supposed to improve his standing in society, and all it did was do the exact opposite.

Sure, once he had been the hero of Camp Half-Blood, but now pretty much every single camper thought about him way differently.

It was while he was ruminating about this that Jason and Leo approached him. Jason looked confused, while Leo looked... weird. Not like his usual carefree self.

"Um Percy," Leo began. "There's a favor I have to ask Jason and you for."

"What?" Percy asked. It didn't look like Jason knew either, but Leo was acting suspiciously strange about it.

"The thing is... Lady Hera sort of asked me to build this, um, thing, you know, kind of like virtual reality simulation and stuff, so," Leo said so softly he might have been whispering.

Jason and Percy thought it was weird, so they just followed Leo to a small building he had set up for the project. The inside was surprisingly clean, they had expected to see tools and whatnot scattered all over the place, but it was neat and orderly except for something which looked like a typewriter fused with a Nintendo DS.

"You see, I was working on this whole virtual reality thing for a time," Leo said. "And then just then a goddess comes up and pops up and asks for some adjustments to be made and..." Leo kept on ranting on, mostly to himself. Not quite like him. Percy wondered if Leo had been sleeping lately.

"So what do you want us to do?" Percy asked.

"Urm, just stay put," Leo said. "I just need to choose two people and then the system will create a virtual avatar... you know what I'll just show you it."

Leo selected Jason and Percy using the machine and flicked a few more buttons.

An array of patterns appeared on the floor, and something flickered to life on the floor.

It wasn't bigger than a three-year-old, and it had blonde hair and blue eyes that somehow looked familiar. It began clapping and running around.

"Wait, it really is a kid," Percy said.

"Yeah," Jason added.

"It's not just any kid," Leo whispered to himself.

"What?"

"Um, I don't know how to say this, but that's just not any kid... it's your kid," Leo said.

At first Percy and Jason had no idea what Leo was saying, and thought he was just joking or delusional, but that was when they noticed how the blonde eyes and blue eyes looked so familiar.

Jason grabbed Leo by the collar. "What is this?"

"Um, yeah, it was supposed to be just a normal virtual simulation, but then that freaky Hera just came and told me to make all these adjustments and said that she wanted data for some project, and that's pretty much how we ended up here," Leo explained.

"I'm bored! Let's play!" a voice called out from somewhere. Jason let go of Leo and everyone started looking around for where the voice came from, and it took them a minute to realized that it came from the 'kid'.

The kid came up to Jason and began punching him in the knee. "Play! Play!" he kept repeating.

"Ouch!" Jason said. "I thought virtual things couldn't touch actual objects."

"There might be a glitch," Leo said. The kid walked up and did the same thing to Percy.

"Look at this Percy!" Jason said. "The kid only knows how to talk with his fists. This is clearly inherited from you!"

"Shut up Jason! He's clearly inherited your sadistic personality!" Percy screamed back.

"Stop fighting!" the kid said and began kicking them. He was trying to get them to stop fighting by using more violence.

"That's just wrong!" Percy shouted. "This is all from your side of the family Jason!"

"No! He's clearly inherited his violent side from you!" Jason shouted back.

"Come on guys, it is the couple's responsibility to raise the kid," Leo said with a smirk. He seemed to have regained some of his original composure.

This just made the kid kick them more, until Leo switched the system off.

"Sorry guys," Leo said. "The thing is that I had to collect data from someone, and you were the only ones who I could possible fool."

"It's okay," Percy said. "At least it's over."

Just when Percy said that, as if on cue, that Aphrodite girl (whose name is Vanessa, by the way) crawled out of a hidden alcove holding a camera.

"Finally," she said. "I just had to record that moment of you two and a child together." Annabeth and Piper also walked out.

"How did they know what was going to happen?" Percy asked.

"I may have been wandering around the place muttering things," Leo said.

Vanessa ran out the door. Percy and Jason followed, they just had to get the tape back. Annabeth and Piper followed too.

"Am I the only one who's left out again?" Leo asked.

Vanessa ran into the Big House, where the rest of the campers were gathered for a meeting for some reason.

Percy and the rest also walked in. Before Jason and Percy could go into full pursuit, they were grabbed by Annabeth and Piper.

"Percy, let's go back," Annabeth said. "I want to try out that machine."

"Yeah, let me just clear thing out with Vanessa for a second," Percy said.

"Why not Percy?" Vanessa asked. "Go with Annabeth. You already had children with Jason, why not with her?"

Everyone in the room heard that. Loud and clear.

"EVERYONE DROP YOUR PHONES AND FREEZE!" Percy shouted. This was a huge disaster. Every single demigod dropped his or her phone, several had already opened theirs to text. Percy had anticipated that and he knew that this situation had to be brought under control. If those words that Vanessa had said got out, Percy would lose all hope of entering society as a respectable person.

"Now, nobody makes any sudden movements," Percy said. "Slowly, I will begin to explain thing in a very rational fashion. Everything you just heard will begin to make sense so long as- ARGH!"

Apparently Annabeth couldn't wait for such things, and started dragging him away. Vanessa began obsessing over her video tape while everyone in the room began texting.

After five minutes of struggling, they finally got back to the place where Leo was.

"Set us up!" Piper said.

"Guys!" Leo said. "I had to do this once, and only once. I have to shut this thing down now." However, Piper's Charmspeak and Annabeth's nagging turned him around.

But before Leo could fire up the machine, someone knocked down the door. Thunder crackled outside, and Zeus and Poseidon revealed themselves.

Now, normally Zeus wouldn't bother with visiting his children. But he had just been texted the strangest thing, that Percy and Jason had had a kid together. Now, it was true that he had granted their wish, but on hindsight he had realized that he should have waited for them to begin regaining consciousness before granting it.

But still, children were just out of the picture.

"No," Percy began. Thing was, he was getting very bad at explaining things lately, so he just signaled for Leo to show a demonstration.

Leo punched in a bunch of codes and muttered, "I wonder what this will look like."

Another patterned array appeared on the floor and this time another infant appeared. It was a girl this time though, and she was holding a lightning bolt in one hand and a trident in the other.

"I love daddy the most!" she said in a pretty cute voice.

"What is this?" Poseidon asked. He thought that the girl's eyes looked similar somehow.

"It's a virtual representation of a child that you two might have," Leo said. "You know, the system tries to control for various factors like genetics and probable futures."

"Oh," Zeus said. "So that's what I've been texted about. But the thing is that it makes me wonder: who could possible think of up some this sort of odd and weird thing that could only cause people trouble?"

"Lady Hera," everyone answered simultaneously.

"I can believe that," Poseidon said.

The two gods left, and the girl vanished with another "I love daddy the most."

There were several things that were wrong with that. For one, which daddy was the girl supposed to be talking about? And secondly, wasn't everyone to know that it was impossible for two boys to have a baby? Like seriously, what was wrong with society?

Anyway, Annabeth urged Leo so that he could hurry it up. Leo had collected enough data and he wasn't exactly the biggest fan of this machine, even though he had made it, so he just did it so that the whole thing might be over with.

Another small girl appeared. Leo was pretty tired and almost collapsed, so everyone started gathering around him to make sure that he was okay.

Except Percy. He had to admit that the girl was pretty cute.

"Let's play!" the girl said with a huge smile. Percy felt a little weird and took her up. She didn't seem too heavy.

"Higher!" she squealed. Percy obliged and soon they continued alternating going up and down like that. They seemed to be having a lot of fun.

Percy didn't even notice two minutes later when he saw that everyone was looking at them.

"Now isn't that just heartening," Leo said. He removed the simulation. Percy just tried to put his hands down and not too look embarrassed.

"Ah, Seaweed Brain, who knew you were such a sucker for children?" Annabeth said teasingly.

Percy felt his face going hot. "Jason, isn't this now your turn?"

"Okay I suppose," Jason said. "Do your thing, Leo."