?Tony's POV:
We had just landed, and everyone was preparing to go outside. "Why do you need five knives, Natasha?" I asked.
"You never know," Natasha responded.
"I think that's a little much," I said.
"Again, you never know," She stated.
I rolled my eyes. "This is kids we're talking about Natasha," I said.
"I was an assassin when I was a kid, and a good one too," Natasha answered.
"Well. . ." I said, but I stopped myself. She had a valid point.
Suddenly my phone dinged.
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Joker Blowtorch
I found a secret room in Piper's cabin when I was sneaking around looking for inspiration for my next prank.
Look what's inside of it:
Who even needs that much makeup?!
CGB
Piper's psychotic, gossiping, mascara loving, half-siblings who live with her
Joker Blowtorch
Lmao, you got the psychotic part right
Even Lacy wanted to murder me once they found out I found their secret makeup room
CGB
Well it's your fault for sneaking into their cabin
I swear you're almost as bad as the Stolls
You
I have a question
Joker Blowtorch
Okay, cool
You
Is your camp by any chance near a rundown barn?
Joker Blowtorch
?
Ummmmmm
CGB
No.
Absolutely not.
Where would you get that idea?
Archery Pigeon
It's totally by a rundown barn, isn't it?
Joker Blowtorch
No?
CGB
IF YOU'RE TRYING TO LIE TO SOMEONE YOU DO NOT USE A QUESTION MARK LEO!
You
Okay, thank you for the information, we will be saving you now
Joker Blowtorch
NO!
CGB
Ugg, this is your fault, Leo!
Joker Blowtorch
No, it's your fault for saying I was lying!
Well shoelace
It's both of your faults
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"Okay, so they confirmed it's by a rundown barn by doing a terrible job at lying. We should look around the area, for the camp, or any signs of it," I said.
"Right, let's split up, so we can cover more ground, Tony, Clint, and Peter can go that way, Steve and I can go that way," Natasha suggested pointing in different directions.
"Sounds like a good plan," Steve agreed.
"Alright, let's do this," I said.
?Nico's POV:
I sighed. Why do I get the feeling the fates are laughing their heads off watching me right now? I thought.
I ran over to Leo's cabin. "Leo," I said when I burst through his cabin door.
"Ever heard of knocking?" Leo asked.
"You need to go make booby traps for when 'Metal Man' and his friends come," I said.
"Uhm, why?" Leo questioned.
"Because 'Metal Man and his friends are coming to save us! Did you read our texts?"
"Wait, really?" Leo exclaimed.
I sighed. "Yes, and you need to make booby traps to stop them," I said.
"Right, I'll head to bunker nine right now, in the meantime, you should keep watch on the outside of the border, we wouldn't want 'Metal Man' and co. getting eaten by any monsters," Leo suggested.
"Right, I'll do that, you make the traps," I said.
"Yep, okay bye," Leo shouted running out the door to bunker nine.
I headed out to the border, and crossed it, with my sword in hand. Hopefully 'Metal Man' and his friends won't get here before Leo makes the booby traps. I thought.
?Tony's POV:
Steve and Natasha went to explore the fields and the road by the barn, leaving Clint, Peter, and I to search the barn and the hills.
"That barn looks kinda creepy," Peter said.
"Maybe we should search around the hills first?" Clint suggested.
"Sure," I said, nodding my head. The barn kinda creeped me out too.
"Look, there's a forest, beyond the hills," Peter pointed out. "Wow, for some reason that sounded really fairytale-ish. A forset beyond the hills," he repeated.
I rolled my eyes. "Should we check out this 'Forest beyond the hills'?" I asked.
"Yeah, sure," Clint said.
time skip to when they reach the edge of the forest 'cause Sundew doesn't want to write about three avengers taking a stroll through the hills
"Alright, so the question now is: do we go into the forest?" Clint asked
"I think we should explore the forest, if they're trying to hide the camp, they would probably hide it in a forest," I said.
"Okay, let's go explore a dark and scary forest!" Peter exclaimed.
We walked through the forest for about fifteen minutes, just wandering around, and I have to say, it was creepy. I felt like I was being watched all the time, and on multiple occasions, I thought I heard movement behind us. But it was probably just my imagination.
Suddenly I heard a sneeze coming from a couple of yards in front of us.
"did you guys hear that?" Peter asked.
"Yeah, should we check it out?" I said.
"Sure," Clint said nodding.
"We should get out our weapons, you never know if the sneeze camp from something that might want to hurt us," I said.
"Right," Peter agreed, putting on his web-shooters.
Clint took out his bow and arrows, and I put on my iron man suit. We walked over to the spot where we heard the sneeze come from (or flew in my case).
When we got there we saw a short, black-haired, brown-eyed boy holding a baseball bat.
"CGB?" I exclaimed.
CGB jumped. pointing his baseball bat at the tree we were hiding behind. "Who's there?" He asked.
Clint and I stepped out from being the tree. "CGB, relax, it's just me, 'Metal Man', and Archery pigeon," I said, de-activating my suit.
"What?" he said. "Why are you here? And why do you look so familiar?"
"We're the Avengers, you've probably seen us before, now is your camp around here somewhere?" I asked.
"Umm, yes, and no," he replied.
"Well, we're gonna save you now, so if you would just come with u-" Clint started to say, but Nico cut him off.
"No, I'm not going anywhere with you, I'm staying right here, and you're not going to move me," CGB said defensively.
"CGB-" I started to say.
"You can call me Nico in real life," he cut me off again.
"Nico," I amended. "Please just come with us, we are going to help you."
"No, no you're not," he said, still pointing his bat at us.
I sighed. I activated my suit, and shot a repulsor at him, not enough to kill him, but enough to lock him out.
Nico fell to the ground. "What did you do that for?" Peter screeched from behind the tree.
"He might not understand it now, but we're saving him," I said picking him up. "Let's go back to the hellicarrier."
We started walking back through the woods. "Is this kidnapping?" Clint asked.
"No, it's saving," I said.
?Will's POV:
I was teaching a class of younger campers on how to wrap a sprained ankle correctly when Leo burst into the infirmary.
"Will," he said panting. "You need to get out here."
"Can it wait? I'm kinda teaching a class here," I said.
"It's about Nico," Leo said.
"Class dismissed, we will continue this tomorrow," I announced. I got up and walked over to Leo. "What's about Nico?" I asked.
"You know 'Metal Man' and his friends from the group chat?" he asked.
"Yeah?" I replied wondering where he was going.
"Well. . ." he said. "I think they kidnapped Nico."
"WHAT?!" I exclaimed.
"Yeah. . ." he said.
"Oooooooh I told them not to hurt my boyfriend. They hurt my boyfriend. AND I'M GOING TO GIVE THEM TARTARUS FOR IT!" I yelled.
"Well, they might not have hurt Nico," Leo said.
"Wait, who hurt Nico?" Percy asked.
"Why are you in the infirmary?" Leo asked.
"I came to ask Will where Nico was so I could embarrass him by showing him a Mythomagic card I found in his cabin," he explained. "But now I wanna know who hurt Nico."
"Just read the texts," Leo said handing Percy the phone.
Time skip to ten minutes after Percy has finished reading the texts
"So they kidnapped Nico huh?" Percy said.
"Yeah, and now we need to go save him," I said.
"Yes, but first I need to hack into Metal Man's phone and track it," Leo stated.
"How long will it take?" I asked.
"Depends on how protected his phone is. But I'd say about half an hour at most," Leo replied.
"Can I come with you?" Percy asked.
"Sure, you can bring the rest of the seven and Reyna too," I said.
"Great, I'll go get them," Percy said running off.
"Hey, you still have my phone," Leo shouted running after him.
I sighed and rolled my eyes. "Don't worry Nico, we're gonna save you," I whispered.
?Clint's POV:
We were on the hellicarrier heading back to the Avenger tower. Nico was passed out on a chair. I felt a little guilty about knocking him out and kidnapping him.
There was just something off about the whole situation. I mean, I didn't see any camp or any other kids around, and Nico didn't want to be saved. Who doesn't want to be saved?
"So this is 'CGB'?" Natasha asked.
"Yep," Tony replied.
"Why is he knocked out?" Steve questioned.
"Tony knocked him out because he didn't want to be saved," I said.
"WHAT?" Natasha and Steve exclaimed at the same time.
"Isn't that technically kidnapping?" Steve asked, clearly concerned.
"That's what I said!" I exclaimed.
"No, it's saving," Tony said. "Do you not remember the camp?"
"But there wasn't any camp as far as we could see," Peter stated.
"He was probably just taking a walk away from his camp," Tony said.
"Yeah, that makes sense, but something just feels off about all of this," I said.
Suddenly my phone buzzed.
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Well Shoelace
HOW DARE YOU!
YOU EVIL HEARTLESS MONSTERS!
YOU KIDNAPPED MY BOYFRIEND AND HE HASN'T EATEN LUNCH YET!
Metal Man
Boyfriend who?
You have a boyfriend?
Whaaaaaat?
That's CRAZY!
I'm so happy for you!
Joker Blowtorch
We know what you've done Elmo
And also, do you have any spare screwdriver I could borrow?
Annabeth somehow broke all of mine
Well Shoelace
LEO FOCUS!
MY BOYFRIEND HAS BEEN ABDUCTED AND ALL YOU CARE ABOUT ARE YOUR STUPID SCREWDRIVERS!
Joker Blowtorch
Oh, riiiiiight.
GIVE US BACK NICO OR WE WILL SPRAY PAINT YOUR HAIR HOT PINK
You
NOT MY PRECIOUS LOCKS!
IT WASN'T MY IDEA I SWEAR
Well Shoelace
Who cares about your precious locks!
All I want is my Death boy back!
Joker Blowtorch
My locks are even more precious than yours!
Well Shoelace
LEO FOCUS!
again
sTeEb
Where are you?
We need to save you too
Joker Blowtorch
I learned basic internet safety
Step one: Always make your phone un-trackable
Step two: Always make your phone un-hackable
step three: Never share your address
step four: don't get kidnapped by internet strangers
Step five: I'm hungry. I want tacos
Well Shoelace
Leo, first of all, make your own tacos
Second of all, FOCUSSSSS!
Joker Blowtorch
Look! I can make a whale!
._.
Metal Man
Kids, be quiet!
I'm trying to drive a helicopter here!
Joker Blowtorch
Don't you fly a helicopter?
Not drive?
Also, I'm hacking you
Metal Man
You can't I have very advanced security on my phone
Joker Blowtorch
. . .
I'm in!
Metal Man
What?!
You
HA!
A little kid got past your security Tony!
Metal Man
Shut up Cupid!
I'm driving!
Joker Blowtorch
*flying
sTeEb
He's waking up!
You
But we're not at the tower yet!
Metal Man
I'm not trained in child care!
Wait. . .
I got this!
sTeEb
Don't you dare knock him out again!
Metal Man
. . .
too late. . .
Well Shoelace
Wait who's waking up?
Knock who out?
Again?!
. . .
Wait. . .
are you talking about who I think you're talking about?
You
. . .
Well Shoelace
oh, you're definitely talking about who I think you're talking about
I WILL CAST YOUR SORRY SOUL INTO TARTARUS!
Joker Blowtorch
Wait. . .
Who are you talking about?
Well Shoelace
GIVE ME BACK MY BOYFRIEND!
Joker Blowtorch
YEAH!
I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE, BUT YEAH!
Well Shoelace
LEO FOCUS!
Joker Blowtorch
OKAY!
You
Why are you typing in all caps?
Joker Blowtorch
BECAUSE WILL IS DOING IT AND I'M JUST FOLLOWING WHAT HE'S DOING SO HE DOESN'T GET EVEN MORE ANGRY AT ME AND MURDER ME WITH A BAND-AID!
Metal Man
How do you murder someone with a band-aid?
Well Shoelace
There are 357 possible ways that I've figured out so far
You
Uhm. . .
Who were your test subjects?
Well Shoelace
People who decided it would be a good idea to kidnap my boyfriend
Metal Man
. . .
I'm out
bye
see you later
adios
Well Shoelace
SO YOU ADMIT IT!
YOU DID KIDNAP HIM!
Metal Man
Nope.
I saved him.
Joker Blowtorch
Are you still flying that helicopter
'cause you should probably keep your eyes on the road
err- sky
You
Yeah. . . Joker Blowtorch is right
sTeEb
GUYS, WE'RE GONNA CRASH INTO A BUILDING!
Metal Man
oops. . .
bye!
I gotta go!
You
Yeah, same here!
Bye!
sTeEb
Bye, kids!
We'll be back to save you too!
Well Shoelace
But. . . my boyfriend
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?Nico's POV:
I woke up on a bed in a white room (Well mostly white, one of the walls was a big window). Where in Hades am I? I thought. I didn't remember what happened, or how I got knocked out. I heard voices outside the room. A normal person wouldn't have been able to hear what the voices were saying, but I, being a demigod could listen quite easily.
"Bruce! I was saving him!" one of the voices said.
"By shooting him with a repulsor and kidnapping him?" the second voice asked.
"He didn't want to come with us," the first voice said.
"So? There was probably a good reason," the second voice said.
"You read the texts!" the first voice argued.
"And clearly they didn't want to be saved," countered the second voice.
"Well they might've been threatened not to tell their location or something," the first voice said.
Suddenly it all came flooding back to me. The texts, going outside the border, Archery Pigeon and Metal Man. My eyes widened.
I also remembered that Mr D told me I couldn't go outside of camp because mortals might see me. "Oh gods, Mr D is so going to have my head!" I exclaimed.
The two voices outside stopped arguing.
A man with curly brown hair and glasses stepped inside the room. "So, you're awake," he said. "That's unusual most people don't wake up for at least a day after being hit with a repulsor."
"Who are you?" I asked, trying to change the subject, I did not want to try to come up with an excuse for waking up fast.
"A friend of your friend who decided it would be a good idea to knock you out and kidnap you," he replied, saying the last words very loudly looking outside the door.
"For the last time, I did not kidnap him," the first voice, who I assumed was 'Meatal Man' said stepping into the room.
"You kinda did though," I said.
"I did not, I was saving you! You could have died at that camp!" Metal Man exclaimed.
"Well, I also could have died when you shot me with that lazer thing!" I argued. "For once, maybe Mr D was right," I mumbled under my breath.
"Who's Mr D?" Metal Man asked.
"Oh, he's the camp director, although he doesn't act like it, he was kinda forced to be the director. honestly, I don't think he even likes kids. Or maybe he just hates everyone," I said with a chuckle.
Metal Man gave me a concerned look. "So you're saying that not only do you try to kill each other at your camp, but your director hates children?" Metal Man asked.
"That is correct, and now he is going to have my head," I said.
"What! Why?" Metal Man asked.
"Because he told me not to go outside of camp, and I did. Also, I was exaggerating, he's not actually gonna kill me, the worst he can do is make me wash the dishes for a couple of months. Well, that is, if he doesn't want to get in trouble, with Chiron and my boyfriend," I said. Then my eyes widened. "Oh jeez!" I exclaimed.
"What?" the curly-haired man asked.
"Will is probably gonna make Leo hack you, track you, and he's probably gonna bring a bunch of other kids to try to save me," I said.
"Whatever, we can just knock them out. what can a bunch of kids do?" Metal Man asked.
I sat up, did a backflip out of the bed, and started doing par core all over the room. Metal Man and the other guy were just standing in the middle of the room staring at me with their mouths open.
"Don't underestimate someone based on their age," I said. "And that was just what I could do when I'm injured and without a weapon. All the kids Will is probably gonna bring have the same skillset as me, some might even be more advanced than I am, And they're all gonna have weapons." I noticed they were still staring at me with their mouths open. I rolled my eyes. "Close your mouths, you're going to catch flies."
"So how many kids are we talking about here?" Metal Man asked.
"Well, there's Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Hazel, Frank, Leo, Will, and maybe Reyna," I said counting on my fingers. "So most likely nine, but there might be more."
"And you said they all have the same skillset as you, and some might be even more advanced, and they're all going to have weapons," the other dude asked.
"Yep," I replied. "Also, can I get your name? I don't wanna keep calling you 'the other dude' in my head."
Metal Man snorted.
"My name is Bruce, and that's Tony if you didn't already know," Bruce said.
"Alright, thanks," I said.
"Wait. . ." Tony said. "How did you not recognize me?"
"Well, you've never shown me any pictures of you," I said. "How could I recognize you?"
"I'm Tony Stark!" Metal Man exclaimed. "Iron man! The best Avenger of all time! How do you not know me?"
"Sorry, I don't really have the time to know a bunch of celebrities," I said.
"I literally own a 400,000 square-foot tower in the middle of New York!" He exclaimed.
"Okay, now that you say that, I may have heard Annabeth say your name once or twice," I said thoughtfully.
"ONCE OR TWICE? I'm Iron Man, you've had to have heard my name at least twenty times this year!" he exclaimed.
"Wow, your ego is even bigger than your tower," I said rolling my eyes.
"Oh, buuurn!" Someone said from the doorway.
"Shut it, chicken boy," Tony said.
"Oh hey, you're Hawkeye, aren't you?" I asked the dude in the doorway.
"Yep," he replied.
Tony made a noise that sounded like a dying pterodactyl. "So you know Clint, but not me?" he asked.
"I'm becoming more famous than you, get over it old man," Hawkeye said. Tony glared at Hawkeye. "Oh, also, I'm Archery Pigeon," he added.
"Oh no," I said.
"What?" Archery Pigeon asked.
"Don't you dare tell Will that you're Hawkeye," I said.
Archery Pigeon smirked. I sighed.
"So, can we get back to the topic of your boyfriend leading an army of kids into the tower?" Bruce asked. Honestly, I forgot he was there.
"Wait, what?" Archery Pigeon asked.
"Haha, yeah. . ." I said. "My boyfriend is probably gonna lead about nine kids to raid. . .wherever I am."
"You're in Stark Tower, the building Tony mentioned. If you look out the window, you'll see we're in New York City," Bruce replied.
"Okay, thanks," I said.
"Hold up, I don't see how nine kids is a problem, I mean, they're only kids," Archey Pigeon said.
"I wish we were just kids," I sighed.
"What do you mean by that?" Archery Pigeon asked.
Suddenly I saw a glint of Bronze outside the window. "Did you guys just see that, or am I going crazy?" Metal Man asked, pointing outside the window.
"First of all, you're already crazy," Archery Pigeon said. "Second, yes, I did see that."
"What do you think it was?" Bruce wondered out loud.
"I don't know, but we're about to find out," Metal Man said, pointing to the window, I looked over and saw that the thing was coming closer.
I knew what it was, and let's just say, I was not excited about it.
"Ah! It's a dragon!" Archery Pigeon yelped.
"That is the coolest piece of technology I have ever seen," Tony marvelled.
I rolled my eyes. Of course they would bring Festus.
Festus blasted a hole right through the window. Tony yelped, Bruce stood there wide-eyed, Archery Pigeon shrieked, and I just sighed and ducked. All of the seven, plus Reyna, Will and Thalia were crammed onto Festus's back, and he did not look happy about it.
"IT"S TIME TO STEAL SOME KNEECAPS!" Will yelled.
"FRIDAY, GET THE REST OF THE AVENGERS IN HERE," Tony shouted at the ceiling.
I sighed. This should be fun. I thought.