? ﾟﾧﾱJason's POV:
Leo and Percy were trying to get me, Nico, and Frank to enter the Camp hot-dog eating contest. Personally, I think it's disgusting to shove thirty hot-dogs down your throat without even looking at them, much less chewing them, but each to their own. And that was not my own
"Come on, it'll be tasty!" Leo exclaimed.
"I ran at full speed back to this camp only to get caught up in this," Nico said, disgusted.
"Come on Nico! Let's Nic-go!" Percy said.
Leo smiled. "Yeah, go with the Nic-flow," he laughed.
Nico groaned and rolled his eyes. "Nic-out," he said, as he shadow-traveled away.
Percy and Leo high-fived.
"I guess that just leaves you two," Percy said, smiling at us.
"I really don't think swallowing five hot-dogs per-second is a good idea," Frank said.
"I really don't think swallowing five hot dogs per-second is a good idea," Percy mocked Frank in a high-pitched voice. "See Frank, this is why you don't have any friends at school in the mortal world, you're no fun!"
"Hazel is my friend," Frank mumbled quietly.
"I don't think your girlfriend counts," I said.
"Oh come on!" Frank exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air. "You're supposed to be on my side!"
I shrugged. "I'm just stating facts," I said.
"My feet are cold," Leo suddenly said, out of the blue.
"Good for you?" Frak said, but it came out as more of a question.
"I HATE YOUR COLD FEET!" Percy yelled.
"I HATE COLD SOUP!" A random camper yelled from across camp.
"I HATE COLD ENCHILADAS!" Grover yelled.
"I HATE COLD LAVA," another random camper yelled from the Hephaestus cabin.
"I HATE COLD EVERYTHING!" an apollo kid yelled.
"I HATE BEING ORDERED TO GO GET THE SEVEN AND WILL AND TELL THEM TO GO OUTSIDE OF THE BORDER AND STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF FOUR OF THEM FOR FIVE MINUTES AND HAVING THEM NOT NOTICE YOU," Conner yelled.
"AGREED," a camper shouted from arts and crafts.
"Ah! That was right in my ear!" Frank exclaimed.
"I know," Conner said, smirking.
"Is what you said. . . err- shouted what you were doing?" Percy asked.
"Yup, and I still am doing it, you're supposed to meet Piper outside of the border," Conner said.
"Why?" I asked.
"I dunno," Conner said. "Probably because Zeus gave Piper permission to introduce the Avengers to our world."
"WHAT?" we all exclaimed.
"I said Probably because Zeus ga-"
"I know what you said, just. . . why?" I asked.
"Don't ask me," Conner said, shrugging. "Now, Travis probably already got everyone else, so you should go before they get ansy-in-their-pantsy."
". . .Right," Frank said, but we still just stood there.
"You're not moving. GO, GO, GO," Conner said, pushing us.
"Okay, okay," Percy said.
We ran over to the border, and sure enough, there were the Avengers, standing there in all their annoying, kidnapping, stubborn, small-minded, extreme, glory.
"The rest of the seven and Will were also out there, most of them were glaring at the Avengers, and (unsurprisingly) they looked terrified.
"What the heck have you kids seen for you to be able to glare like that?" Iron Man asked, clearly concerned.
Annabeth smiled. "Trust me, you don't want to know," she said in a sweet voice.
The Avengers' eyes' widened, and they all looked very concerned. It was kind of funny.
"Annabeth, you're scaring them," Hazel said.
"They should be scared, they kidnapped Nico," Will said.
"Are you guys gonna actually go out there, or are you just gonna stand there?" Conner asked.
"Oh, right," Percy said. "Yeah, we should probably do that."
We walked through the border, and no one noticed us, Will, Annabeth, Piper, and Hazel were arguing about whether the Avengers should be scared. And the Avengers were just standing there, with fear and concern written all over their faces.
"Watch this," Conner whispered, pulling a knife out of his sleeve.
We all looked at him. I raised my eyebrow. "What?" he asked quietly. "Sleeves are very good places to hide things." He then proceeded to pull a hockey mask out of his pant leg and put it on.
Knowing Conner, I didn't even question it.
Frank rolled his eyes. Conner quietly snuck up behind Captin America, mask on, and knife in hand.
"WHO DARES TREASPSS IN MY WOODS?" Conner yelled in a raspy demonic voice.
"AAAH!" Steve yelped, jumping up, and turning around to look at Conner, looking very alarmed.
"Who the heck are you?" Clint asked.
"Conner," he said, pulling off his mask. "Nice to meet you! like my knife?"
Conner put his knife up close to the Captin's face. "Oh, uhm. . .yes. It's very. . . shiny," he said, in an attempt to be polite.
"Jeez, what is it with kids pointing deadly weapons at us in the middle of the woods?" Tony asked.
"I'm not pointing at you, I'm just showing it to Mr. Flag dude. Wanna see it?" Conner asked.
"I can see it just fine from here kid," Tony said.
"You sure?" Conner asked, twirling his knife around in his hands.
"Stop twirling that around, you might take someone's eyes out," Frank said.
"I said it once, I will say it again: You're no fun Frank!" Percy said.
"Oh! Hi Frank! I didn't notice you!" Hazel said.
"No hi to me?" Percy asked, clutching his heart in mock sadness.
"You are such a seaweed brain," Annabeth said, rolling her eyes.
"Seaweed brain?" a boy in a spider costume asked, I hadn't noticed him until then, because he was sort of hiding behind Iron Man.
Annabeth screamed and ran up a tree. "HER MINIONS HAVE COME TO KILL ME!" she shrieked from the top of an oak tree.
"What? No! First of all, I'm not a minion, and second of all, I'm not going to kill you," the boy said.
"THAT'S JUST WHAT YOU WANT ME TO THINK! YOU WANT TO LURE ME DOWN AND MAKE ME LET DOWN MY GUARD SO YOU CAN MURDER ME ONCE I GET DOWN! WELL I'M NOT FALLING FOR YOUR EVIL DECEPTIONS!" Annabeth yelled.
"No! I- I don't want to kill you! I promise! I'm not evil! I've never killed anybody! Even bad guys," the boy said.
"THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY!" Annabeth yelled.
The boy sighed helplessly. I looked over at Percy, who was now glaring at the spider boy.
"Come down Annabeth," Percy said.
"NO!" she yelled.
"Pleeeeaaaaaase?" he asked, giving her his signature baby seal eyes.
Annabeth sighed. "Fine, but I'm keeping my sword with me," she said, climbing down the tree.
Percy put two fingers up to his eyes and pointed them back at the boy, gesturing that he was watching him. Spider-boy just put his hands up helplessly.
"Now, I believe we were called here for a reason," I said.
"Right, do any of you know the Greek and Roman gods?" Piper asked the Avengers.
They all nodded, except for Hawkeye, who looked around, saw everyone else nodding, and decided to nod along, although I doubt he even knew who Jupiter was.
"Well. . . what would you say if I told you those gods were real," Piper said.
"Excuse me, but WHAT?" Iron Man exclaimed.
"You have got to be kidding me," the Winter soldier mumbled.
"Please tell me you're not serious," Captin America said.
Leo chuckled. "Hehehe, nope."
"B-bu-but those are just myths," spider-boy stuttered.
"Don't we wish," Hazel muttered.
"But I'm not finished," Piper said. "What if I also told you, that the gods had children with mortals, resulting in demi-gods, half-gods, half mortals."
"No. Nope. No, no, no, no ,no, NO! This is not real." Iron Man said.
"Heh heh. heh. I'm still not finished," Piper said. "And what if I told you that Greek and Roman monsters were real too, and they hunted demigods and could smell their blood, and the only safe places on earth for demigods were to camps, and those camps taught children how to fight, so they might have a chance at surviving in the real world."
"You guys are demigods aren't you?" the Black Widow asked.
"Yup," Annabeth sighed.
"So, the camp that we wanted to save you from is actually good?" Tony asked.
"YES! THANK YOU FOR REALIZING!" Will shouted.
"This still isn't right, that children have to fight for their lives," Steve said sadly.
"Yeah, and that isn't even the worst part, most of us don't even make it to twelve, a lot of the time monsters kill demigods before they can get to camp," I said.
There was kind of a sad, awkward silence for about a minute then, the Avengers looked really shocked, honestly though, they took it better than I expected though.
Finally, Spider-boy broke the silence. "Sooooo, where is the camp?" he asked.
We all looked at each other and smirked. "Oh yeah, we should show you our camp," Percy said.
"I Will Solace give . . . Umm, what are your names again?" Will said.
"Steve Rogers."
"Bucky Barnes."
"Natasha Romanoff."
"Peter Parker!"
"Clint Barton."
"Tony Stark, but I'm sure you already knew that."
"Bruce Banner."
"Right, well I Will Solace give Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Natasha Romanoff, Peter Parker, Clint Barton, Tony Stark, and Bruce Banner permission to enter Camp Half-Blood," Will said.
"Prepare to have your tiny minds blown," Leo said.
"Woah," Hawkeye said in a quiet high-pitched voice.
?Clint's POV:
When Will said our names, and supposedly 'gave us permission' to enter the camp, I didn't think anything would happen. . . I was dead wrong.
The invisible wall disappeared right before our eyes revealing what looked like a summer camp, but there were kids chasing each other with swords, an archery ring, a climbing wall spewing lava, and creatures that I thought only existed in myths walking around.
"This can't be real," Natasha muttered.
"Oh it's real alright," a boy with black hair and sea-green eyes said.
"Welcome to Camp Half-Blood!" Leo exclaimed.
"This camp doesn't look safe," Steve said.
"Oh, trust me, it's not. But it's fun!" the hockey-mask boy said.
"And if you don't mess with the wrong campers, and you steer clear of the forge, you shouldn't get hurt that badly," an Asian boy with a bow said.
"Hey! The forge is very safe!" Leo said.
All of the kids raised their eyebrows.
"Well, I mean, there is the occasional explosion, and machine turned evil, but it's not too bad," Leo said.
The blonde girl who ran up the tree shook her head and rolled her eyes.
"So, are we just going to stand here, or are we gonna actually go inside?" a boy with electric blue eyes asked.
"Right, let's go!" the boy with Leo said.
We walked into the camp, and right as we did, an arrow flew straight at the boy with sea-green eyes. He caught it in mid-air right before it hit his arm. If it was even possible, my eyes got wider than they already were.
The rest of the Avengers were also looking at him with wide eyes. "What?" the boy asked, looking at us like he didn't just catch an arrow heading straight for his arm at thirty miles per hour.
Will rolled his eyes and the girl with kaleidoscope eyes facepalmed.
"You do realize it's not normal to have reflexes as good as that?" I asked.
The boy shrugged. "Right. . ." I mumbled.
"Welcome to Camp Half-Blood! Where activities as simple and safe as arts and crafts can turn into duels to the death," Will said.
"Although killing fellow campers is frowned upon, so we just break each other's bones instead," the blonde girl added.
"Yeah, which is why the infirmary is always full," Will said.
"I like this place," Natasha said, smiling.
"I still stand behind my statement that this camp isn't safe," Steve said.
"Just wait until you hear about capture the flag," the Asian boy mumbled under his breath.
"What's so dangerous about a friendly game of team building and healthy competition?" Tony asked.
The boy with electric blue eyes chuckled. "Right. . . friendly. . ." he said.
Steve's expression just got more concerned.
Suddenly a girl who looked to be about nine years old walked out to us, arms crossed.
"Hello," Steve said to her, smiling.
"What are you doing here?" She asked, glaring.
"Okay, this is freaking me out, how are all you kids able to glare like that?" Tony asked.
"Umm, long story, but these kids brought us here," Bucky said, motioning to the kids.
The girl raised her eyebrow at the kids. They nodded. She rolled her eyes.
"What's happening? Are you guys having a telepathic conversation or something? Is that something demigods can do?" Peter asked.
"No, that isn't something we can do, well I mean, fish fillet over here can communicate with fish telepathy, and the Demeter kids can talk to plants, but other than that, no. We can't," the little girl said, gesturing to the boy with sea-green eyes.
"Hey! Since when did you start calling me fish fillet?" the boy with green eyes asked.
"Since now," the girl said.
"Wow, you've got yourself quite the attitude," Tony remarked.
The girl glared at him. "What? Just stating the facts," Tony said.
The girl tackled him, and pinned him to the ground, then walked away as if nothing happened. Tony just laid there in shock.
"HA," I laughed. "A nine-year-old is stronger than Tony Stark!"
"Shut up Legolas," Tony said, glaring. I smirked at him.
"Why do all Ares kids have to be so violent?" Will asked.
The blonde girl with grey eyes shrugged.
"Can you guys maybe tell us your names because I'm getting a little tired of trying to make up names for you," Bucky said.
"Oh! Right, I forgot you have no clue who we are," the boy with sea-green eyes said. "Well, I'm Percy."
"I'm Annabeth," said the girl with blonde hair and grey eyes.
"Jason."
"Frank."
"Piper."
"Hazel."
"Conner."
"You already know I'm Leo, and that's Will," Leo said.
"Right," Natasha said.
"MOLY MOTHER OF PIZZA!" exclaimed. . . well, I bet you already know who said that.
"What?" Annabeth asked.
"We forgot to tell Chiron and Mr D that we told the people about our world and invited them into camp," Leo said.
"You're right, we should tell him," Hazel said.
"The people? Really?" Tony asked.
"I dunno," Leo said, shrugging.
"We must take you to our leader," Percy said, in a weird voice.
"Yes, he shall decide your fate," Leo said, copying Percy's voice.
"If you want to live, I suggest you comply, for taking Nicolas was not coming in peace," Percy said.
"Yes, although we would have preferred it if you came in pizza, not peace," Leo said.
Frank facepalmed.
"You're very weird," Bucky noticed.
"Just wait until you see them on a sugar high," Will mumbled.
"Follow us, we'll show you to the big house, then we can get this sorted out with Mr. D and Chiron, or as Percy said it: 'We will take you to ur leader'," Annabeth said.
". . .Right," Natasha said.
We walked on a small dirt path past things like a dining pavilion and a sword training arena. "Woah, is that an archery ring?" I asked.
"Yeah," Frank said. "It's pretty nice, and the targets move around forward, backward, left, right, up, down, and pretty much every direction since we aren't allowed to use moving campers as targets."
"Why would you even think of using campers as targets?" Steve asked.
"You'd be surprised," Conner said.
"That is cool, but also very concerning," Bucky said.
"Like how Percy blew up the bathrooms," Will said. "It was cool, but it caused some. . . damage," Will remembered.
"Nah, it was all cool, plus I got the cool title of 'bathroom lord supreme," Percy said, doing jazz hands when he said 'bathroom lord supreme'.
"Umm. . . what?" Tony said.
"Long story short, I blew up the bathrooms with my awesome powers," Percy said.
"You have powers?" Peter asked.
"Yup, we'll show you them after we see Mr. D and Chiron," Jason said.
"Speaking of Mr. D and Chiron, we're at the big house now," Piper said.
I looked in front of me, and I don't know what I was expecting when I heard the words: 'big house', but I definitely didn't imagine that it would actually be a big house.
"I'll knock," Annabeth said.
Annabeth went up to the big brown door and knocked three times, then stepped back.
A man in a purple Hawaiian shirt opened the door. "Annabelle Casserole! This better be important!" he said.
Annabeth sighed. Then I remembered. This was Mr. D. The weird man who ran this even weirder camp. "Well you see-"
"Who are those people?" Mr. D cut Annabeth off.
"Can we come in?" Annabeth asked.
?Tony's POV:
"Why do you need to come in? Can't you talk to me in the doorway?" the dude, who I recognized as Mr. D from the camera/tracker.
"Well, this might take a while to explain, it would be easier if we sat inside," Annabeth explained.
Mr. D sighed. "Fine, whatever, come in," he said.
The two walked inside, Annabeth motioned for us to come in, so we all followed her.
We walked down a hallway and entered a room with maps all over the walls, a few couches, a ping-pong table in the center, and a stuffed leopard head mounted on the wall. I thought I saw the leopard blink, but then I brushed it off, my eyes were probably playing tricks on me.
There was also a boy sitting on a couch reading. "Nico?" Percy said.
Nico looked up from his book, clearly annoyed that someone had disturbed him. "What are you doing here?" Percy asked.
"Trying to hide from you and Leo, but apparently it didn't work," Nico grumbled.
"Oh! Jellybeans!" Percy exclaimed, running over to a small table next to the couch that had a large bowl of skittles on it.
Nico rolled his eyes.
"Alright, so if everyone could sit down, that would be great," Annabeth said. "And Percy, don't you dare eat all those skittles," she added.
We all sat down on the couches and Leo mumbled something in greek, which Percy snickered at.
"Okay, are you going to explain why there are seven mortals dressed in spandex at my camp?" Mr. D said.
"Yeah, so basically Nico accidentally texted Tony," Will said, gesturing to me. "And then Leo stole his phone and started talking to him, but while they were talking, Leo said that we tried to kill each other here so Tony decided to come to save him, and along the way, I started talking to them, and so did his friends so they also came to save him. But instead of saving him, they kinda kidnapped him, so Reyna, Thalia, the seven, and I went to save him, and take him back. We took him back, but then he decided to come here with even more friends, and we didn't want them to take Nico again, so Piper asked Zeus if we could tell them about our world, and he said yes, and so we told them and then they asked to see the cam so we showed them. . . and that's why they're here."
Everyone was silent after he said that, taking in how crazy and messed up our situation sounded out loud.
"Did I mention they're also superheroes?" Will asked.
Mr. D sighed and rubbed his temples. "Why can't I just get one normal year?" he asked, looking up at the sky.
"Lawyers hope you get sued, doctors hope you get sick, cops hope you're criminal, mechanics hope you have car trouble, but only a thief wishes prosperity for you," Percy randomly stated out of the blue, holding the now half-empty bowl of skittles.
"Oh my god, you're right. . ." Clint said.
"Shower thoughts 101," Peter said.
"Okay, I'm taking the bowl now," Annabeth said, grabbing the bowl from him.
"Noooo!" Percy exclaimed dramatically.
Leo stole the skittles from her while she wasn't looking and started eating them.
"So, what is this room used for?" Bucky asked, attempting to start a conversation.
"This the meeting room," Hazel replied.
"A meeting room with a ping-pong table in the center, couches, skittles, and crakers and cheese-whiz?" I asked.
"This camp is filled with kids, what do you expect?" Travis asked.
"We aren't allowed to have spinny chairs though," Conner said.
"Why?" Bruce asked.
"Try imagining a room full of ADHD kids trying to talk about something serious on spinny chairs," Frank said.
"That doesn't sound like a good idea," Steve said.
"Exactly," Frank said.
"TASTE THE RAINBOW!" Leo shouted, literally vibrating.
"Leo!" Jason exclaimed when he saw that Leo ate the rest of the skittles except for about 20 of them.
Leo pulled out a gun from his toolbelt that he wore around his waist. How he managed to pull something like that out of such a tiny pocket is a mystery to me, but he did. Then Leo loaded the 20 skittles that were still in the bowl, into the gun that he pulled from his toolbelt.
"I SAID TASTE THE RAINBOW!" he yelled, shooting skittles at everyone in the room, still vibrating.
"Give me the gun Leo," Piper said.
"Noooooo," Leo said, running around the room.
"I SAID GIMME THE GUN!" Piper yelled, chasing after him.
"AAAH! SCARY GIRL!" Leo yelled, sprinting out of the room, with Piper close in pursuit.
The rest of the kids barely even blinked, as if this was a regular occurrence, but the Avengers and I were just watching with wide, surprised eyes.
"Is this normal?" Natasha asked.
"Definitely. Leo's sugar rushes are nothing new. You should've been here for the ice cream fiasco last summer," Will said.
"Oh yeah, that was hilarious, he ended up covering half the camp in gold glitter, wrapping the big house in toilet paper, and almost starting a forest fire," Percy laughed.
"That wasn't funny at all, on the contrary, it was pretty scary. Leo hyped up on two tubs of ice cream is not something you want to see," Hazel said. "He looked like he was possessed by some evil psychotic spirit."
Frank snorted. "Leo on a sugar rush is an evil psychotic spirit," he said.
"What if Earth is like one of those uncontacted tribes in South America, like the whole Galaxy knows we're here but they've agreed not to contact us until we figure it out for ourselves," Percy said, again, completely out of the blue.
"Aw man, you're making my head hurt," Clint said.
"Again, another wonderful shower thought that makes you question life," Peter said.
"I can't tell if your behavior is influenced by the skittles, or if you're just being weird," Annabeth said.
"Error code 304, not modified," Percy said, in a robot voice.
"What does that mean?" Steve asked.
"It means I'm gonna slap Percy in the face if he doesn't stop being weird," Annabeth said.
"Ma'am, yes ma'am," Percy said loudly, saluting her.
"Leave." Mr. D ordered. "Preferably now.
"Yeah, that might be good," Nico said. "Because I'm staying."
"As long as your quiet I don't care," Mr. D said.
"AH HA! SO MR. D DOES HAVE A FAVORITE CAMPER!" Travis shouted.
"Yeah, it was no secret Tuna Caviar," Mr. D said, rolling his eyes.
"That's not even close to my name!" Travis complained.
"I don't care what your name is, just get out so I can have peace," Mr. D said.
"Bu-"
"Let's just go please," Hazel said, cutting Travis off.
Travis let out a huff and reluctantly followed behind us as we walked out of the house.
"So, since you're demigods and all that, do you guys have powers?" Peter asked as soon as we left.
The kids all smirked at each other. "Should we show them?" Jason asked.
"Oh yeah, totally," Percy said, nodding his head.
"Follow us to the beach," Will said. "This is gonna be fun."