Thor could barely keep his voice stable, he was nearly shaking with excitement when they pulled up to Sea World.
He was going to meet Percy Jackson! Finding out that he was alive was incredible news, he almost couldn't believe it.
"How much longer?" Thor asked and Tony sighed,
"I told you, there's a little traffic, just wait and we can get through this in no time, ten minutes at most,"
"You midgardians have such slow time, it would be twice as fast on Asgard,"
"I highly doubt that," Bruce cut in, he was just as excited as Thor, "but meeting Percy Jackson is an amazing opportunity that we can not pass for anything, you'll just have to wait."
Bruce sat back into his seat in the huge car Tony had, big enough for Thor, Bruce, himself, Natasha, Steve, and Clint, with Happy driving.
"What should we know about Jackson before we meet him?" Tony asked he was barely containing giddiness.
"First," Natasha started, "he hates being called Perseus, can him that and he is instantly put off," Bruce was taking notes, "Second, he has a child, a kid named Luke, he's protective so he probably has Luke with him," Bruce nodded and added that to his list.
"Third, and final, he is extremely protective of his family, his cousins to be precise, Nico, Jason, and Thalia. Don't expect them to be there though, they have different lives they are leading,"
"How do you know all this?" Tony asked and Annabeth panicked slightly, but Natasha kept her cool, Clint gave her a wary eyebrow raise.
"I'm a spy/assassin, I know more about you than you know about yourself," she really hoped this worked.
They both seemed to buy it, and just in time, they were pulling up to Sea World.
Annabeth sucked in a big breath before stepping out of the car followed by Bruce and Tony, they stayed next to Natasha, presumably because she already knew the marine biologist.
Before they could even enter the building, however, they caught sight of the man they had been looking for.
"Is he just… sitting in a shark tank?" Bruce asked and Natasha nodded, rolling her eyes slightly, silly seaweed brain.
"He can hold his breath for extended periods of time, his record in eight minutes," Natasha made up the lie on the spot and was honestly quite proud of herself.
Master assassin or not, anyone can appreciate good lying skills.
"He's coming up," Tony exclaimed, and indeed Percy was kicking to the top of the tank, looking as though he had nothing impressive.
Once he got out of the tank a tiny black-haired boy ran up to him, squealing and laughing, evidently his son.
Tony cleared his throat, making Percy turn to them with a big smile.
He looked a little confused for a second at the sight of Natasha but eventually got over it, "Hello, I'm Percy Jackson," he held out his hand for them to shake, Tony was the first to get there,
"Hello, I think you know who I am," he gave Percy his dashing smile which only got him a confused eyebrow.
"I don't, sorry, am I supposed to?" Tony looked shocked, then embarrassed, Percy was going to think that he was self-centered, which he was, but that's beside the point.
"I'm sorry, you've probably been too busy to notice anything happening on the news right now," Bruce quickly cut in to which Percy shot him a smile.
"Nah, I'm just joking, I know who you guys are, Luke went as Captain America for Halloween so my wife gave me a presentation about you, she does all the planning in the family," he laughed and winked at Natasha who just rolled her eyes.
"Oh, thank god, I thought you thought I was an egotistical ass," Tony laughed and Clint just rolled his eyes.
"We all already think that Tony, you just cemented it," Tony faked being offended and Percy laughed.
"Do you guys want the tour?" Percy asked and Bruce nodded vigorously,
"This guy hasn't stopped talking about you for the whole car ride," Clint pointed at a blushing Bruce while Percy laughed good-naturedly.
"No worries, it's great to meet a fellow scientist, do you have any topics of discussion?"
"Yes!" Bruce hurried to get out a second notebook of notes and began talking rapidly with Percy about different ways to lower ocean temperatures in the arctic.
While chatting with Bruce, Percy somehow managed to get the whole group inside of Sea World and sprouted interesting facts about the marine life as they went.
"So, Percy," Tony interrupted Bruce who was excitedly making gestures with his hands, "I heard you say something about a wife, who's the lucky lady?" Tony wiggled his eyebrows and Percy just gave him his charming smile. /p
"Well, she has a pretty high stakes job so she doesn't like people knowing who she is, I'm not allowed to give away anything about her identity unless I have her explicit permission," Tony and Thor - who had been listening - both looked a little disappointed while Natasha just smirked.
Clint eyed her and rolled his eyes. He had met Percy a few times and they got along well, mainly talking about what it's like being married to/working with a badass woman like Annabeth.
"Leave the guy alone, Stark," Clint spoke up and Tony huffed, "I've worked with his wife before and she does have a very high stakes job, director Fury himself barely knows anything about her," Tony's eyes bugged out a bit, not believing that last part.
Percy checked his watch and his eyes widened, "Sorry guys, lost track of time, Luke has a doctor's appointment and we need to get there on time," he quickly showed them out, gave Annabeth a discreet hug and ran to fetch Luke (who was probably talking with the dolphins).
As soon as Percy got out of earshot, Thor squealed like a fangirl, "I just met Percy Jackson! He knows who I am!" Everyone smiled a little and rolled their eyes, Tony and Bruce talking over the suggestions Percy had given them for conserving marine life.
'Thank the gods, no one noticed,' Annabeth breathed out a sigh of relief and walked to the car.