A/N: Thanks for all the reviews guys, CrazyBlueOwl, Calefe, Neutrino 2000, Suzubells (maybe the Hermes Cabin would be interested, but it'd still be a tough sell), and SkyTheGreat, I'll try changing the 'said' to other words but I'm not sure how well that will work out. Also, I know in the original show everything is done on strangers, and some of the pranks will be done on strangers, but I'm also going to invite in the other characters because I think it is great if they also join in.

"So I'm up next then," Frank mumbled as Jason returned, defeated.

Frank looked around, wondering just who he should go to.

"You should try Hazel," Leo suggested. "I mean, she can make gemstones appear out of the ground and does care about you."

But Frank wasn't stupid enough to try that.

Instead, he walked over to a guy who looked about fourteen and was watering some flowers. He looked about done, so Frank said, "Can I talk to you for a minute?"

The guy stopped working with the flowers and wiped his gloves on the ground, which meant that they were pretty much as covered with dirt as they had been before. "Sure. Hey, you're that new Praetor of New Rome, right?"

"Yes," Frank said. "And, I've volunteered to sell books for charity. Would you like to hear about one?"

"Sure," the guy replied.

"Awww," Percy cooed. "That guy looks so helpful, like, 'Sure I'll help you with your charity and all.'"

"That will change once he sees the book," Leo declared.

Not knowing what to expect, Frank pulled the book out from his satchel. His book was titled: Watching Grass Grow As a Hobby.

"Yeah, so the book is 'Watching Grass Grow as A Hobby,'" Frank said. He opened the book flap and began reading, trying to keep a straight face. "'As we all know, watching grass grow is the oldest of human hobbies, and has been cultivated from times even when humankind leisurely spent its time in caves. This book contains a guide on watching grass grow as well as several blank spaces for the observer to record his obser-'"

"I'm going to stop you right there," the guy said. "First of all, I'm a child of Demeter, and watching grass grow is still not an acceptable hobby, for anyone for that matter. Also, when men where living in caves, I think they were more concerned about not dying than having leisure."

"Whoa," Leo said. "This guy's actually using logic and reason against something so ridiculous."

"Hmm," Percy wondered. "He said 'men' while Frank said 'humankind.' Is there a hidden element of sexism here?"

The others looked at Percy with confused looks.

"That's all true," Frank admitted. "However, this is all for a good cause." Frank took out the card explaining his charity:

'The American Society for Slapping People believes that we all get frustrated at each other at one point in our lives, and sometimes the best way to get all of that out is to slap someone. Therefore, we're raising funds in order to pass a law letting each person have a free slap a day, that's right, under this new law you'll be able to slap one person a day without fear of any retaliation.'

Frank read the card out loud, surprisingly again with a straight face.

"So, we can slap one person a day," the guy said. "How does that work exactly?"

"I think that's pretty self-explanatory," Percy said. "You get to slap one person a day. How cool is that?"

"You basically get to take out your frustration by slapping one person a day," Frank answered.

"So, everyone gets a free slap a day?" the guy asked. "So anyone can slap me if they wanted to?"

"Yes, but then you'd also be able to slap them in retaliation using your own free slap," Frank said.

The guy rubbed his hands. "I'll be honest, there are quite a few people I'd like to slap right across the face."

"I think he's actually considering this," Jason said.

"But there's a problem," the guy said. "I mean, everyone is allowed one free slap a day, right? But there's no limit to how many times you could be slapped. So people like Octavian, you know, if he'd still been around, would be getting slapped like fifty times a day."

"I'd have loved to see that," Leo said.

"I can't believe this guy," Percy said. "I mean, it is pretty obvious by now that this whole thing is so ridiculous it has to be some sort of prank, but he's still trying to use well, reason with a perfectly straight face."

"Yes, but they do kind of deserve it right," Frank replied. "And let's be honest, a system like that would prevent a lot of wrong from happening."

"Yeah, but that's kind of like mob rule, right? Because the people who would be slapped a lot would be people who society doesn't like that much, thereby placing punishment into the hands of the majority and out of our traditional judicial institutions and thereby facilitating mob rule and anarchy," the guy replied. "And that's something that our new civilized democratic societies can't possibly accept."

"Come on man," Leo said, almost slapping the screen. "This is a joke! Stop taking everything so seriously!"

"So, would you like to buy the book?" Frank asked.

The guy paused for a few minutes, scratching his chin. It was clear that he was at least, on some level, considering it. He then said, "Sorry man, I just don't think that any of that is something that could possibly work."

Result: Frank lost.

"Good try though, Frank," Leo said. "You almost succeeded. Which reminds me, none of you have managed to sell a single book. That means that all of you are in the red."

"Let's see you try," Percy said. "I'll have you know that I made your satchel myself."

Leo was slightly scared inside, but covered it all up with a huge smile. "Nothing the Leo can't handle."

Leo left the base.

"See," Leo said, as no one was around, "I'm thinking about who to go to, but the things is that since all of you have lost, I'm probably going to lose too. So, like a real man, I'm going to go to the person for whom this is probably going to be the most funny."

Leo found Travis Stoll counting some coins, probably stolen, and said, "Hey Travis! Got a minute?"

"Really?" Percy asked. "You're going to as a Stoll to buy a book?"

"Sure," Travis said, quickly putting the coins into his pocket. "'Sup?"

"Everything's all right," Leo said. "Thing is, I volunteered to sell some books for charity. I think you'd like to hear about it."

Travis really didn't care too much about books, but Leo seemed to be eager on this one, so he said, "Sure."

Leo pulled out the book which was titled: Leo Valdez's Travel Journey: How I Twerked My Way Across the World.

"What?" Travis asked, a grin already on his face.

"This is a book, which is basically a travel journal of mine," Leo said. "It's about how I twerked my way across the world." He opened the book flap. "See here, 'This book is a collection of Leo Valdez's travels, as he decided to go around the world with nothing but his clothes, his twerking skills, a notepad and pen, and his charismatic smile.'"

Travis was laughing now. "Okay, tell me more."

Leo opened up the book. "See, the thing is that it occurred to me that you really wouldn't want a book with a lot of words, so this mainly has photos of me. See, there's me twerking in New York, in front of the White House, in Mexico, and in Canada."

Truth be told, all of those photos had been made using Photoshop, but they looked pretty real, which was something for which Leo had to give his hats off to Percy.

"Okay Percy," Frank said in-between laughs. "You really have too much time on your hands if you did all of this. Plus, it looks like something that people will want to buy."

"But," Leo said as Travis was guffawing, "I will have you know that my twerking abilities were not merely used for amusement. As you can see, this is me teaching Kim Jong Un of North Korea how to twerk, thereby improving relations between America and North Korea, so I basically twerked for world peace you know. And this is me twerking for several earthquake victims in South Africa and refugees, for which by the way, I managed to raise over three hundred million dollars for charity using just my twerking skills."

Travis had by now, collapsed to ground while laughing. He said, "Dude, if you're going to lie, do something that is at the very least somewhat believable."

The guys were in stiches laughing.

"Okay, that's great in all, but let's be honest, do you want to buy the book?" Leo asked.

"Sure, but I'm not really sure I have the money," Travis said.

"Come on now, I saw you put some Drachmas into your pocket," Leo said.

"Yeah, but those were hard-earned."

"You stole them and all of us know it."

"True."

"Wait," Percy managed to get out. "You have to mention your charity as well."

"But, I forgot to tell you why I'm selling this book," Leo said. "It is for a good cause." Leo took out his card and read:

"The Society Against Justin Bieber is a society which believes that Justin has completely destroyed all hope of music ever being good and so should be thrown out of this country. Being as that is impossible, we have instead decided to collect funds in order to buy the intellectual rights to his songs, so that we may get rid of his music forever."

Travis got up. "Yeah, this is all good and all, but I'm going to have to say no."

"Why?"

Travis took off his jacket to reveal the 'I Am A Belieber' shirt that he was wearing.

"So close," Leo cursed.

Result: Leo lost.

Current Overall Score: All four have a negative point against them.

Leo returned to the lair. "Hey, I was almost successful at selling my book."

"Yes, but 'almost' has never even gotten someone a bag of gummy worms," Percy said. The others stared at him oddly. "Okay, I forgot what the real quote was, but I tried."

"How did you know that Travis was going to bail when he heard I was against Justin Bieber?" Leo asked.

"I didn't," Percy asked. "I just took a shot while writing it that whoever you got would either not want to see photos of you twerking around the globe, or not like you being against Justin Bieber."

"Too bad we all failed though," Jason said.

"Yeah," Leo said. "Our next task should be something that at least some of us should be able to complete. We got all the footage, right?"

"Yup," Frank said.

A/N: And that ends our first task, with all of our contestants being equally in the red. The next one will be different, but before that, let's all admit it: Most of us want that law about slapping people to be passed.

Thanks for reading, and do remember to leave a review if you liked it or not, and what you thought was the most funny part.