We now resume our original fanfic (which was already in progress).

Our heroes made their way into the Lotus Casino. It is the only place in this entire fanfic which even remotely resembles the real place in the book.

Grover was still carrying his poodle. Percy was sure it would be a vital plot device later on, so he stuffed the poodle into the backpack Apollo had given them because animals weren't allowed in the casino.

"Why did we come here by Knight Bus? Wasn't Apollo supposed to give us a ride?" Percy asked.

"He's conductor of the Knight Bus as a side job," Grover said. "Says 'e needs 'ze money."

Inside the casino, Percy began taking photographs, and he found an old stash of them in the corner somewhere. When no one was looking, he pocketed them. Grover was busy being French.

It was Annabeth who went towards the Karaoke machine. The moment she took the mike up, all activity in the casino ceased.

Lettuce eaters stopped eating lettuce. Percy stopped clicking random photographs. People stopped playing games. Grover momentarily forgot to be French. The music stopped abruptly.

Annabeth sang so horribly that the Lotus Eater's spell was negated and all over, people came to their senses. Percy and Grover eventually got migraines, and they were all thrown out of the casino and into Hades.

Now, the only thing they had to do was get past Charon. They tried bribery.

"Five dollars," he said.

"Five dollars!" Percy gasped. "Who carries around that much money? It looks like bribery won't work, so let's blackmail him."

Percy handed him one of the photographs he had picked up from the casino.

"Where on earth did you get that?" Charon said in horror.

"Now, take us to the Underworld, or that photo will be on the internet tomorrow," Percy said.

After arriving in the Underworld, the only other thing they had to get around was Cerberus.

"He's a three-headed dog, so we should play music and he'll fall asleep," Percy said.

"That only works in Harry Potter," Annabeth said. "Still, let's try it." Annabeth started singing 'Row, row, row your boat'.

Surprisingly, Cerebrus did fall asleep. Either the dog had a very loose definition of music, or Annabeth's singing was so bad that he was knocked unconscious.

Along the way to Hades palace, they encountered a zombie who said,

"I will eat your brains,"

"You will starve," Percy replied. The zombie walked away. That was easy.

The moment that they entered Hades' palace, Hades spun around in his swiveling chair and said,

"At the risk of sounding clichéd, I've been expecting you. Now hand over the lightning bolt,"

"I don't have the lightning bolt," Percy replied.

"Check your backpack, idiot," Hades said. Percy did and saw that the lightning bolt was there. Thinking fast, he pointed it at Hades and tried to fire it. It didn't work.

"Didn't you read chapter one, Percy?" Annabeth asked. "The bolt doesn't have its batteries."

"Didn't you read chapter two? I only read the part of chapter one that was about me," Percy replied. "And why does the lightning bolt run on batteries?"

"It has to work on something," Hades replied.

"So what? There's like this law that says if you steal something from the gods, they can't come after you, right?" Percy asked.

"You're thinking of Artemis Fowl. And that's if you steal from the fairies, and if what you steal is gold," Hades pointed out.

"Quick Percy," Annabeth said. "There must be something in the script that can help us."

"But I've never read the script," Percy replied.

"That actually explains a lot," Hades said.

And so, Percy read through the entire script for this fanfic. "I hate this script," Percy said. "It makes me look stupid."

"I wouldn't blame the script, kid," Hades said.

"Here it is! We're supposed to get out by using those pearls that Poseidon gave us," Percy said.

There was silence. Dead silence.

"Percy, Poseidon was too busy partying to give us the pearls," Annabeth said. "So I guess that we're all doomed."

Just then, the pink poodle that Percy had hidden in his backpack jumped out.

"My poodle!" Hades exclaimed. "I lost you, and I've been missing you so much!" After crying for five minutes like a little girl, he finally said, "Okay, you've brought my poodle back. So I'll help you escape to the outside world."

"I knew that poodle was going to be important," Percy said.

And so, our heroes escaped the Underworld. Little did they know what would be waiting for them outside.