A/N: Thanks Thrawn13 (if you thought that was long, well, sorry for all the wait up till now), GoldenRacehorse (thanks, I also had a lot of fun writing that chapter), Mickeyo14, Verteller (oh, I didn't know that actually), TheBookFiend, theawesomest5 (yeah, this fanfic has gotten pretty long by now), Annabeth and Percy Jackson (penalty and lose mean the same thing actually. It just means that they don't get a single point, that's it), Bellatricus, FanBoyFanatic, ArtemisOwl910, Guest and the other Guest.

Yeah, it has been a long while since I was away but now I'm back finally. Sorry for the long wait.

Task Three: As we all know, people of all age groups have all sorts of associated problems. Young adults in particular need fine, caring, and patient people to listen to their problems…

Too bad that all they're getting are our four contestants. Each of them is volunteering to become a counselor at a local high school and are so going to be answering questions in front of a panel of judges. Now, most of the questions were written by normal teenagers, but Leo also helped make sure that half of them are questions written by our Jokers. He also assures us that this was all perfectly legal and that nothing needs to be reported to the authorities.

As such, this isn't a 'refuse you lose' round. The contestants are free to say their own answers. But, in case the question is of the sort of yes/no, the others will flip a coin to see if the answer is yes or no, and the contestant must answer using that word and justify it later.

If they can't get selected by the judges for the next round, they lose. In case they break any of the above rules, they also lose.

Frank made sure that his shirt was tucked in. He didn't think that it would've mattered, but the panel of judges were three teachers and not one of them was below forty so he guessed that they would be pretty old-fashioned.

They explained how the process would go and Frank nodded as the head judge put his hand into a jar filled with white slips. On there were questions, half of which had been written by the others.

"Alrighty then, here we go with the first question. You ready?"

"Yes," Frank said.

"The first question is…" the guy frowned and squinted, "What does the fox say?"

"Huh," Leo said. "Did any of you guys write that?"

"Nope," Percy said.

"Nope," Jason said.

"Why didn't I think of that?" Leo asked.

"Uh…" Frank said for a minute before he said, "Meow?"

"Aw come on Jason, do you think foxes meow like a cat?" Leo asked.

"And you of all people should know what foxes sound like!" Percy said. "You can literally turn into one!"

"Uh, that was a weird question," the guy said. "But I don't think foxes make sounds like cats."

"I do," Frank said. "I am a zoology major."

"Liar," Percy said.

"Right, right, then, let's move on to another question," a judge said. She took out a slip of paper and said, "Was Abraham Lincoln really a vampire slayer?"

"Did any of you guys write that?" Leo asked.

"Nope," both Percy and Jason said.

"Aww, darn," Leo said. "How is that random teenagers make more funny questions than the four of us combined?"

"Anyway, it's time for a coin flip," Jason said. "Okay Frank, heads is a yes, and tails is a no." He flipped the coin. "Oh, it's heads. Answer yes."

It was then that Frank realized that there was a huge, smoldering, gaping flaw in this whole idea: that Frank had no clue as to what was really going on back at HQ. The guys back there could be flipping a double headed coin or not even flipping one at all for all he knew and just telling him what they wanted him to say.

Sadly, there was no way that he could possibly correct this at the moment and so his only option was to hope that the other guy's sense of fair play would stop them from cheating like that… okay who was he kidding?

"Yes," Frank said. "Abraham Lincoln, was indeed, a vampire slayer."

"No he wasn't," the judges said in unison.

"Uh, he was," Frank said. "I also major in history, and while it's not like anything that you see in the movie, but it is a little-known fact that he did dabble in what people would call 'hunting vampires'- it was more of a superstitious cult actually of course, because of course vampires don't actually exist.."

"You know, Frank's gotten much better at lying," Percy said. "I could swear that that almost sounded genuine."

"Which movie is he talking about?" Jason asked.

Percy and Leo both turned to him. "You haven't heard of the movie? Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer?"

"Someone made a movie called that?" Jason asked. "How? Why?"

"Well, maybe," one judge said sheepishly. He was choosing to maybe play it safe and assume that Frank did in fact, know what he was talking about.

"Come on, when's one of our questions going to come up?" Leo asked.

"Here's the next one," the guy said. "There are two kids, one who always tells the truth and another one who always lies. Which one of them should I make my best friend?"

"Wait, Frank," Percy said. "Don't answer that yet… that isn't a yes or no question, but it is one that has only two answers to it and so we can use a coin flip to decide on it. Heads is for the kid who tells the truth, and tails will be for the one who tells lies."

Leo flipped the coin. "Landed on tails, Frank."

"The kid who only tells lies," Frank said. "Let's be honest here, being truthful all the time is actually not that good."

"Ah, the irony of that sentence," Percy said.

"And so, when you look for a best friend you want someone who can lie to your face without giving it away," Frank said.

"That sounds like terrible advice to give people," one of the judges said.

"Yeah, but it is true," Frank said. "Plus, most people are going to hate the kid who always lies and so therefore he or she will have no friends and you will therefore be nicer for doing that."

"So, here's another one," the judge said. "My flowers keep dying. What should I do?"

"Water them on alternate days and add Doritos as fertilizer," Frank said. "Trust me, I'm also a horticulture major."

"Just what do you want to be when you grow up, Frank?" Leo asked.

"And how many fake majors are you taking?" Jason asked.

"Next question," the judge said, clearly getting bored with this. "Alright, this one says, 'I think that my teddy bear is being possessed. What should I do?'"

"Frank, you're an expert in this thing," Leo said.

"And for that matter, if you look into your bag, you'll find something that we left for you," Percy said.

"And by the way, I wrote that question," Jason said.

Now, Frank had no compulsion to open his bag but he decided to check what it was and pulled out that same weird bear that had been plaguing him for far too long.

"Well, you see, I have a similar problem, so I can relate," Frank said, waving the teddy bear around.

The teddy bear, surprisingly, didn't say anything.

"I would advise that the person throw the bear away," Frank said. He didn't know this, but the teddy bear's eyes glowed red as he said this. He then put it back in the bag, and from the teddy bear, came the voice, just barely audible, "I will find you Frank. I will find you..."

"I have to say that these questions are weird," one of the judges said. "We usually get a much richer variety of questions but these seem to be mostly pranks."

"Yeah, but I'm fine answering them," Frank said.

The judge sighed. "But let's hope the next question is a good one." He pulled a scrap of paper out and read, "If I were to eat myself, would I become twice as large, or cease to exist? My friend asked me this and I couldn't find an answer, please answer."

"Yeah, well, neither would happen, you'd have the same mass," Frank said after thinking for a while. "Based on the law of conservation of mass, it wouldn't be possible for any other outcome."

"Right, well, next question," another judge said. "This is a situation that happened to me. I was on the bus and a pack of… Pokemon? Am I pronouncing this right- right, Pokemon cards I was carrying fell out and then the other kids started making fun of me for carrying them around and started singing the Pokemon theme song. I was too embarrassed to tell them that they were mine and so I told them that I had beaten up a kindergartner and took them when he wouldn't hand over his lunch money quietly. But then someone on the bus told the principal what I said and now they've taken the cards away and I have a meeting schedule with him now. What do I do? Now, I know where my cards are hidden so I can sneak into the gym next morning and grab the cards and say that nothing happened or should I not?"

"Now this is a real problem," Percy said.

"And, given that this technically counts as a yes or no questions," Leo said and flipped a coin. "It landed on no."

Frank sighed out of relief. Well, this probably meant that they weren't cheating and calling out whatever suited them best (or to be more accurate, what suited him worse).

"Nah, don't do that," Frank said. "Just go and tell people the truth."

"This kind of completely contradicts whatever you just said earlier,' Percy said.

"I mean, it's not that they can find a kindergartner who you bullied since you didn't, and perhaps they'll understand," Frank said.

The judges discussed among each other for five minutes before telling Frank that he was in.

Result: Frank passed.

"Okay guys, I want to know something," Frank said. "Were you all really flipping a coin when I was there? Or just calling out whatever you felt like?"

Leo looked shocked. "Really Frank? You would doubt us, your friends? Your amigos? You think that we could ever cheat you?"

"Yes," Frank said.

"Wow, he didn't fall for it," Percy said.

"And for that matter, how is any one of us going to be sure that the others aren't messing around with him regarding the coin tosses?" Frank asked.

"Oh, that's simple, you can be with us for the rest of the rounds and watch us," Jason said.

"But then how do I know you guys didn't mess around when it was my turn?" Frank asked. "Show me the footage when I was out there."

"Really, people don't trust people these days," Leo said. "That's rather sad."

"Leo, stop trying to act like you wouldn't do anything wrong," Frank said. "It's about as convincing as a Rottweiler trying to act like a Chihuahua."

"Ah, a Rottweiler who wants to become a Chihuahua," Percy said. "That's a dream that could truly never be. Disney should make a movie on that- I'd watch it."

Once Frank was somewhat satisfied that the others hadn't cheated, Leo walked out and saw a similar group of old people as judges. They laid down the rules for him, after which they began bombarding him with questions.

"So, someone wants to ask," the judge said, "Everyone keeps telling me that the zombie apocalypse would never happen, but I always worry about it. I heard that there was some weird illness in Los Vegas that was spreading around. Is that true?"

"Got tails, that means a no," Frank said.

"Okay, look, you don't need to worry about that," Leo said. "Because… because… well, as we all know, if there is a zombie outbreak in Vegas, it stays in Vegas."

"Yeah, as much as that might sound gnarly to the kids, I don't think that's a very smart answer," a judge said.

"Did he just use the word 'gnarly' in a sentence?" Frank asked.

"What's a gnarly?" Percy asked.

"It's like the word wumbo," Jason said. "You know Percy, I wumbo, you wumbo, he, she, it, wumbo, wumbology- the study of wumbo?"

"That said, let's get on to another question: Is it possible to make a career out of twerking? I like doing it."

"Hey Leo, it landed on heads," Percy said. "That was one of our questions. And for that matter, we put a little something inside your bag. You might wanna check it."

Leo said, "Yes, it is possible." He reached into his bag to pull out the book that they had made on Leo twerking. "This is one of my personal memoirs detailing me twerking all around the globe. As you can see, twerking is certainly a vibrant and viable career option."

"I'm sorry but what is twerking?"

"This," Leo said, pointing to photos in the book.

"Whatever," the judge said. "Now, on to the next question, 'Why are all pencils number two? Why not some other number?'"

"Because," Leo said. "As we all know, first is the worst, and second is the best."

"That's not even a real answer," the judge said.

"Onto the next question though, some one asks, 'Is it okay to slap your friend in the face with a fish?'"

"No it isn't, why would you do that to a fish?" Percy asked.

Jason flipped the coin. "Lands on tails- Leo, say no."

"No, violence is to be discouraged," Leo said.

"The next question is, 'How do I justify a pro-slavery stance? I accidentally said that slavery isn't all that bad in class one day and now I need to justify myself.'"

"You can't," Leo said. "Just admit your mistake."

"By the way, Frank how would you justify that?" Percy asked.

"Why're you asking me?"

"You're Roman!"

"Yeah, well, you're Greek!"

"Next question is, 'Is it better to be smart or lucky?'"

"Came out as heads, that means we're going with smart," Percy said.

"It's better to be smart, all the time," Leo said. "At least then you can feel that your accomplishments are always your own."

"My friend once asked me if I was food, what would I be. I responded with a burrito. Is this abnormal?" the judge frowned as he read the question as if he was really wondering, 'Kids these days.'

"I landed on tails, that's a no," Jason said.

"Nope, it's perfectly normal," Leo said. "As a matter of fact, I too, identify as a burrito. There is nothing wrong in being a burrito."

"What kind of maid outfits are in fashion lately?"

"Check the other pocket of your bag," Percy said.

Leo checked the other pocket, and sure enough, there was a large frilly maid outfit there.

"This kind," Leo said, holding it up.

"Why do you carry that around with you?"

"In case I get asked a question like, 'Which maid outfit is in fashion these days,'" Leo explained. "It's easier than having to go and search for the photo on my phone."

A/N: In case anyone discovers your maid outfits, well, this is a great excuse to throw them off your scent… except for the fact that it almost never works in real life so don't try it out. In case someone does discover your maid outfits, remind that person that you have photographs of your last anime convention together and you're not afraid to use them. I'd go into the details a bit more, but that's a story for another time. Not that the author has any personal experience in this regard- 'shifty eyes.'

"The next question is, 'Why did the chicken cross the road?'"

"To… get to the other side?" Leo asked. "Like really, do I need to answer all of these things?"

"Well, what can I say, we do seem to get a lot of these sorts of questions," the judge said. "This one might be good, uh, 'Why do peo-' oh forget it, this is just another annoying one."

The judges began discussing among themselves and then finally said, "Alright, we believe you may have the potential to go on to the next round."

Result: Leo passed.

A/N: Thanks for reading. That's all for now folks, and do please review if you liked!