Nick Fury Adopts Percy Jackson
Chapter 12
Of all the things that had happened today Tony didn't think that he would be any more surprised than he had been after the battle in Manhattan. Tony finally read the files for himself and scolded JARVIS for not telling him about the more detailed parts of the file. Though he had to admit that he was busy becoming an expert at nuclear physics overnight that day it still made him sigh over the fact that he missed the whole revelation of a secret society of gods on Earth on a darn piece of paper (well it was on file for him but it was on paper for the rest so it's basically the same thing). Tony stared at mini agent with an expression as he made a rainbow out of the water hose with his powers, calling some sort of fleece, tossing a gold coin, and rainbow face timing on it. Never mind the fact that the sun was gone1 and it was snowing outside. Was mini Fury immune to the cold? He wasn't even shivering.
Tony then saw a tan Santa elf on the rainbow screen wearing goggles as a wield metal the sparks flying making it hard for the Elf to hear the Mini Fury
"Leo! Leo!" The mini agent kept calling then the kid finally looked up. He took one look at Percy and grinned mischievously. Tony was pretty sure the kid's default was mischievous.
"Hey Perce, wassup?" Leo said pulling up his goggles and face smeared with soot. A familiar look for Tony as a person who spent most of his time in his workshop.
"Hey, Leo, how's Calypso?" Agent Mini Fury said and the kid blushed slightly at the mention of- Tony guessed was his girlfriend.
"Doing great! She's tending to her night time plants in the garden right now."
"Moonlace(2)right?"
"Yeah it was something like that. Want to say hi?"
"Its fine I'll see her when at the annual meeting(3), you're workplace looks great by the way"
"Thanks, we finally decided too-"
Tony fake coughed making Leo stop talking and made him pear over behind Percy with a curious look. Tony stood a little bit forward rubbing his hands together to warm them "Sorry to interrupt your conversation but its like -10˚c out here and unlike mister waterbender who is like Elsa I am pretty cold so can we-"
"Holy Hephaestus! Is that Tony Stark?!" The elf exclaimed "Wow, its so cool to meet you! Well i'm not actually meeting you in person but we are IMing and that's basically the same thing but you know… Anyway! I heard that you're not even a demigod? How did you think to make Ironman, can I see it!? Wait are you a legacy? Or both? Wait I just said he wasn't a demigod? Wait you didn't answer, so are you a demigod living in secret? Percy why are you outside with Tony Stark? I thought you said-"
Percy snickered at Leo's half ADHD and half fan-girling banter "I am so telling Nyssa that you fangirled over Mr. Stark when you said you wouldn't"
"Hey!" Leo groaned. " Wait why is Tony Stark with you?" he said as if it was an afterthought
Tony this time answered "Well, Mini agent here said that you could help us with the AIM problem"
"The what?"
"Oh right you don't know. Long story sort experimentation, and exploding fire people." Percy explained
Tony looked at Agent Jackson-Fury raising his eyebow. "That was very sort" too short but just Percy shrugged and said "It's what matters really for Leo that is."
"You sure you got that kid?" Tony asked and the elf nodded grinning
"You want Bad Boy Supreme, Super Sized Mcshizzle to join you on your quest!" he said pointing his thumb towards him
Tony drawled "And what does that mean exactly?" he said side eyeing Agent Katara
"He's fireproof" with that Leo lit himself aflame with a big smile
Tony's eyes widened startled at the sudden display of pyrokinesis and ignoring the fact fire needs oxygen and the fire was covering his face "Cool. He's a firebender"
Leo beamed "Oohh that means Percy is Katara then!" This time it was Percy who groaned "Oh no"
Tony grinned "I may just like you kid"
Leo laughed a thanks "Say Katara, if you need fire proof help, Tyson said he was near where you guys are?" he said implying something
Tony watched as Agent Fury junior smile softly at the mention of this Tyson who apparently is fireproof too
"Thats great news! I better IM him too. Mr. Stark you are going to love my brother"
"What? Brother? Fury has two sons?" Tony blurted out surprised.
"He's a Cyclops"
Tony made a pensive face "I knew something was off about his one eye. Darn pirate…"
" no…." Percy face palmed
Leo bursted out laughing grabbing is stomach "Oh gods this is priceless!"
Explaining what Tony suspected about AIM was not difficult since both Tyson and were happy to agree to join on the quest and the three bonded over their shared love of mechanics. Percy was glad that Leo and Tyson found other people to be friends with. He knew Mr. Stark is a good person. Maybe he might show Tony around the camp one day.
While Tony and Percy were waiting on the two to join them they investigated and found information. Teaming with Harley, Tony and Percy investigates the remains of the Mandarin-esque suicide bombing. Harley tells Tony about all the rumors surrounding the attack and the "soldier" in question. Tony notices that there are five shadows on a concrete wall, from the five victims who were killed along with Chad Davis. They then meet with Davis's mother at a bar, where they notices she's expecting someone and has a file on hand.
Tony was about to ask her more questions when one of Killian's agents, Ellen Brandt, shows up and suddenly cuffs Tony. She poses as a Homeland Security agent to explain her actions to the sheriff, but she didn't account for Percy being a a SHIELD agent himself and when he starts asking her for identification, she shoots the both of them.
The two managed to escape the bar with Percy making a water whip, making Brandt unconscious, only to be cornered by Savin.
Savin tries to take Harley hostage, making Tony tense up
"Let the kid go" Tony threatened
Percy in the back made a motion to Harley but Tony was too busy to notice
"Surrender Stark and I'll let the kid liv-" but Harley overpowers him before Savin could finish his sentence by stomping him on the foot and knocking his head on his chin and with a final bow- kicking him where the Apollo even doesn't want to see. If that wasn't too obvious Harley just kicked Savin in the balls. At that moment Percy swept forward and Savin sent away to Morpheus, allowing Tony to grab the car keys and escape.
In the car, Harley exclaimed that is was so cool that agent Jackson-Fury had powers. The trio thought they got away but then the Mandarin hijacks the airwaves once more and explains that he's going to brutally murder the CEO of a major oil company on live television if the president doesn't contact them within a specific time frame.
Tony exchanged a look with Fury junior "That's going to be a problem"
Harley snorted "You think? But how will he like capture a CEO? Doesn't he have like dozens of bodyguards? Like the Iron Patirot!" Harley didn't mention Tony who was a CEO but still side-eyed him as he realized that he asked a stupid question. He shrugged not caring.
Tony then registered something making his eyes widen. "You have a phone right Agent?"
Now it was Percy who snorted "You better call Miss Potts too Mr. Stark" making Tony sheepish "Right, thanks"
Meanwhile Tyson riding on Mrs O'Leary went to Leo leaving Ella with Calypso.
"See you soon sunshine!"
Both shadow traveled to Tony and Percy. And Mrs O'Leary left after giving Percy a slobbering hello and goodbye waiting to be called after their quest was done.
"So you must be Leo and Tyson?"
Leo grinned "Yup, nice to meet you Mr. Stark!"
"Call me Tony kid, uh you too big guy. No offense. And I think you're squashing all the air out of your brother."
Tyson quickly let go "Sorry big brother." He said worriedly
Percy breathed in hard as he said it was okay "Nice too see you Tyson, I'm fine"
"So what do we do now?" Leo asked
"We have to find a place so we can research the data." Tony said
"And where are we going to find a place to do that" Leo asked
"A beauty pageant?" Leo laughed "Beauty queen will defiantly win"
"You are beautiful too Leo." Tyson said kindly
"Aww thanks big guy! And of course this Bad Boy Supreme can win. You should have seen me with my fans!" Leo said flicking his hand and his hair back in a confident matter
Percy laughed "Mr. Stark actually had went to a beauty pageant and won before Leo"
"What really?" Leo looked towards Tony
Tony copied Leo's pose and said fake snobingly "Bow down before the queen peasant"
Leo bowed down "Oh queen show me your ways!"
They all laughed. Tony was feeling happy with them it was a good feeling.
They managed to sneak into one of the camera crew vans so they can research the data on the documents he's found. Fortunately for them, the van is being operated by one of Tony's biggest fans, who even goes so far as to have Iron Man's likeness tattooed on his arm - though rather unrecognizable.
Leo whistled and made a remark about Percy's own tattoo as he talked about how he wanted to het a tattoo too. Tony was not so sure he heard it correctly when the Mini agent said it wasn't a tattoo, and that it was burned into his arm and not ink.
"Same thing" Leo shrugged. Tony tried not to be too concerned over it.
Tony hacks into AIM's servers and finds video footage that sheds new light on what is going on: the bombs are the work of soldiers from the Extremis program, an experimental treatment intended to allow its users to recover from crippling injuries like amputations. However, if a user's body cannot properly metabolize Extremis, the user's body heats to an extreme temperature and explodes. After veterans started growing unstable and exploding, their deaths were used to cover up Extremis' flaws by manufacturing a terrorist plot. The test footage shows that a number of early subjects were killed because of Extremis's flaws.
"This this is" Tyson said shocked
"Horrible!" Leo said. Leo always had a trauma about his mother dying in flames and this was almost as worst. "I hate this" he frowned
"We need to report this to SHEILD as soon as possible… this can't go on. Not all of the experiments were volunteers…" Percy said
Just as Tony was going to say something to the kids a sound of a gun shot rang in the air.
Immediately Percy, Leo and Tyson went into a position with Tony in the middle. Tony would have remarked the easiness of the position the kids had (which kids really should have not been comfortable in) but the appearance of Savin and Brandt halted that. Tony does know Agent Mini Fury bar is technically an adult though.
"Well, well, well Mr. Stark didn't know you had a habit of making children your meat shields.
"Oi! The only SHEILD agent is Prissy here thank you very much baldy!" Leo mocked making Percy yell out a hey
Savin snarled and glowed red as he heated himself up. He ran towards the two along side Brandt. Leo and Tyson went forward to stop them.
Savin and Brandt didn't look to confident as they were when the two didn't scream in pain or get burned
Leo grinned "What never met a fireproof repair boy before?" and lit his hair on fire as he finished his sentence
Brandt tried to let herself go more hotter, but Tyson did not seem effected at all. He raised his stick which in reality was a club at her. She swiftly moved back before it could hit.
"Hey Percy didn't Tony say something about them exploding if they grew too hot?"
Percy confirmed it
Leo then made his hands on fire and said "Well, get ready for a the fireworks! Well, not really but- hey! I'm talking here!" he said as Savin attacked him
"I like that kid. Not gonna help them Agent?" Tony said not really knowing how to help the fire proof kids against the fire bomb people.
"They can hold themselves a while, I need to protect you as you hack into AIM a bit more. We need to track their IP address" Percy said as held his gun. But then Leo teamed up with Tyson and the air grew hotter "Never mind Mr. Stark change of plans we need to move away."
Tony looked confused before he realized why the kid asked if they could explode
"Won't they get swiped up by the explosion too?" he asked
Percy shook his head "All three of us had experienced an explosion(4), but i'm afraid that without your armor you are more-"
"I get it kid." Tony said. He did not like the fact that he could not help them and Percy noticed it too
"Mr. Stark, you are important to this mission and us. We have a lot of experience, and we are capable. We want you to be safe sir not just as an ally. " Percy softened his expression and assured Tony. "You're our friend Tony."
Tony was moved, he was sort of speechless. It was hard for Tony after the battle. Tony Stark should have had more help after his kidnapping and the battle, but he had no one he could trust. Being with people who could understand him, keep up with his work but still like him for who he was made him heal a bit more. But this was not the time to be all sappy so he let out a small thank you to Percy, who heard and smiled so bright. Tony did not blush, it was the hot air, it did not matter that he was bi.(5)
Percy made sure to make a shield out of water as Leo made a explosion (the magic tool belt must have had something to do with that)
A big explosion that destroyed the van and hopefully stoped the firelord wanna-bees.
"Tyson made bad guys go boom!" Tyson exclaimed proudly
"Hi high! Thanks for the help big guy!" Leo whooped "They couldn't handle my hot looks" he joked
Tony let out the breath he was unknowingly holding back. Tony finally smiled. A small but genuine smile, it was a smile that Percy knew too well on a certain elf. (6)
"Wait, did you just call me by my name agent?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about Mr. Stark"
Tony huffed. He hated those kids. (not really)
Author note
*1* = In PJO Percy saw Nico- who ran away after learning about his sisters death- sacrificing Happy meals to talk to the dead with ghost Minos, it was night time and since Percy didn't want to wake Tyson I believe the light was off and night inside Cabin 3. So iris messaging works at night if Iris wants it too.
*2* = Moonlace is a flower native to Oggyia (the place Calypso lived well imprisoned) its bio-luminescent, glowing silver and sprouting under moonlight. Also, the book hints that it has to be night time for the flower to be planted and grow.
*3*= Camp half-blood and Camp Jupiters annual meeting. They do it for a lot of reasons, to share knowledge between leaders and to set of activities that promote good relation.
*4* = The volcano for Percy, the ship from the sea of monsters for Tyson and Leo from Gaea and another thing that I kinda forgot but is probably the Argo ll exploding.
*5*= We all know that Percy just needs to smile and say his name before anyone kinda sorta has a crush on him. Also my headcanon is that Tony is Bi. I think it sort of goes with his character anyway.
*6*= In the book I think it is implied that Leo jokes around to help with his hurt. From him accidentally killing his mother to all the trouble he had running away from his foster homes and being a demigod. Not saying that he is faking it all, just a thing he does to help I guess.
h-hello... its been a while... um
Soo, I will not bother y'all with excuses of real life( how real it may be) I just didn't have much inspiration for the chapter and time just went by. Though I am sorry for all of you guys who waited so long. I can't promise anymore regular updates as my inspiration comes and goes and I don't want to write a flimsy chapter. Not saying I will not write just saying that I am sad this happened. I really didn't want to be that author but I guess it could happened to anyone. I hope you guys liked this chapter ^^
Anyway~~~ I think leaving explanations to the characters words and thoughts can help you guys understand better. Tell me if anything seems confusing and ill add in a explanation or just comment and if its an okay explanation.
I sort of forgot how Tyson talked and I didn't want to make him sound too weird so don't be too mad that he doesn't say much. I sort of need to reread the books again I hope I have the time. Heheh...
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