A/N: Okay guys, thanks for your support as always, we've crossed 700+ reviews in number and that is a big deal for me.

So, I want to thank all of you as always and answer a few questions. Bunearybunny (yeah, sorry about that, there probably won't be more chapters like that), Verteller (I actually have never heard of that before, which means that none of the Jokers know about it either. They only know stuff I know, except for Leo who knows the meaning of life but refuses to tell me), 64Felicity, Annabeth and Percy Jackson (some of them were Gross Foods from Neopets, yeah, if you've ever played the site you'll know there are a lot of them), Sage Nicholson (again, the chocolate and mayo is from Neopets, and if you'll ask them, the team that runs Neopets has said that they get most of the ideas on Gross Food based on the staff refrigerator they have in their office, if you'll believe them), Thrawn13 (Poseidon and Neptune are essentially the same so I mentioned him like that, plus he's literally called 'The Son of Neptune' in well, you know, The Son of Neptune so I thought it'd be alright. And the thing with them winning is again, decided by an RNG. As a matter of fact the order in which they are taking up this challenge is also decided by an RNG. So if Percy loses more than normal, yes, that's the RNG being mean to him), Oceanpaw (I will admit to never having tried it, but I'm guessing based on other people's reactions that it isn't that good. If you like it though, fine with you), and gerky.

Task Three: For this task, the contestants will be working as waiters in a restaurant. They will be assigned a table and this is a 'refuse you lose' round and I'm assuming everyone knows what that means by now. What they are expecting is a tip, and if you can't get a tip, you lose, and the two contestants with the lowest tips amounts (or zero) get a penalty point each.

First up at the plate was Jason.

"Ah yeah," Leo said. "I always remember back in school- they all said we'd get to do nothing better than serve food to other people. Remember that Jason?"

"Leo, you're forgetting that that never happened," Jason whispered as quietly as he could.

"Oh yeah, stupid Mist," Leo said. "Then again, at least I was told that no one besides McDonalds would be hiring. Okay I'm pretty sure of that in that someone said it to me, but I'm not sure if you were there too."

The restaurant was not exactly a very fancy one. It seemed more like a casual dining place than anything else, and by now there weren't more than a few tables filled.

"Okay, so see the table with the two guys there, you're up," Leo said.

"Hey there," Jason said. "My name is Jason and I'll be your server for today. You guys ready to order?"

"Yeah," one of them said.

"Hey Jason, grab a chair and sit with them," Percy said. "You know, like you're also sitting with them at the table, and then take their order."

Jason grabbed a chair and sat down along with them. "So what're you having?"

The two of them stared at Jason oddly- this certainly wasn't normal behavior, and so Jason felt like he had to justify this.

"Oh, sorry, but I can't really stand for too long or my uh, arthritis acts up," Jason said and began rubbing his knees.

All three others guffawed.

"Are you feeling old again, Jason?" Frank asked. "Because I think there are some kids in the restaurant who you can tell to get off your lawn."

"No, but you're telling me you couldn't think of a better explanation than arthritis?" Leo asked.

"Uh, okay," one of the guys said. "So I'll have a strawberry smoothie and uh-"

"While they're giving their orders, like, don't look at them at all," Leo said. "Just turn your head around- no wait, turn your chair around so your back's facing them and just start nodding to whatever they say."

"Uh, yeah, just excuse me for a minute," Jason said and then turned his chair around so he was facing in the opposite direction. "Yeah, so what were you saying now?"

"Uh, one strawberry smoothie-" the guy said yet again.

"Ask him if he wants strawberries in it," Frank said.

"Right, one strawberry smoothie- you'll want strawberries in that, right?" Jason asked.

The other guy said, "Yeah, yeah, I think having strawberries in a strawberry smoothie would be a good idea."

"Just look at the looks they're giving each other," Leo said. "Hey Jason, I'm telling you this because you can't actually see them the way you're facing, but I think you should know that they both think that you're crazy or something."

"And I'll also take a salad, and my friend here'll have some soup and a-" the guy added.

Percy on the other hand wasn't even listening to the conversation. He was instead flipping through a copy of the restaurant's menu that was lying around and was looking for something that he could use.

"Hey, Jason, once they're done with their order, ask them if they want fries with that," Percy said.

"Why?" Frank asked.

Percy grinned. "You'll see."

"Right, I think I've got everything," Jason said once he had written it all down. "Would you like some fries with that?"

"Uh, y'know, I think I might," the answer came.

Percy snorted before he even began talking. "Hey- Jason, the restaurant doesn't serve fries. How'd you forget about that?"

Percy then high-fived both Frank and Leo.

"Oh, my apologies," Jason said. "It seems that ah- we don't as a matter of fact serve fries. I'll have what you need in about fifteen minutes."

The two guys looked at each other, and you could clearly tell that they were confused.

Meanwhile, Jason was unsure of what he should be doing in the meantime. There didn't seem to be, at that very moment, any other customers who needed his help- they were being handled by other servers. Who were actual waiters unlike him.

He mainly just fiddled with his thumbs.

"This is boring," Leo said. "Let's get him to do something."

"Why?" Frank asked. "What's the point? If the customers aren't watching then it probably won't even affect the tip he gets."

"That's the difference between you and me, Frank," Leo said. "I know that all of you mainly go along with all of this because you want to feel victorious and laugh at the humiliation of other people… but I have far purer motives. I don't do this for the high of winning- I do this for the LOLs Frank. And that's why we should do this, for the LOLs."

"I can't take you seriously if you actually say the word 'LOL' you know," Frank said.

"But hey, Jason," Percy said. "You know how the dishwashers must be busy washing dishes and not looking behind them? Just walk up to one and tell them that you've managed to slip in whatever they wanted into the customer's drink and that they should send you the money in cash in an unmarked briefcase."

"You do know you're going to get all of us arrested one day, right?" Frank asked Percy.

"And after you do that, be like 'Oh, I don't know you at all. Forget about everything I just said.'" Leo added to Percy's idea.

Jason sighed. Well, at the very least this wasn't going to impact his overall performance.

He saw one guy bent over trying to get something off a plate and Jason walked up to him and whispered, "It's done- I slipped whatever it is that you gave me into his drink. I don't want to know what it is- but remember to pay me in full- all cash, and in an unmarked briefcase."

Now, to Jason's good fortune, it appeared that the guy didn't hear him, turned around and asked, "What?"

Before any of the others could ask him to repeat what he had said, Jason replied, "Oh sorry, I thought you were somebody else. Never mind."

"Aww… that was disappointing," Leo said. "Hey Jason! Let's-"

Whatever Leo wanted Jason to do next was cut off as the smoothies and salad arrived.

"Hey Jason," Frank said. "When you go give it to them… give it to the wrong table. Like, but at a table which is near them so they can see your mistake."

Percy laughed.

"And I mean before you do that, like really bring the tray near them," Frank said. "You know, make it look like you're giving it to them, but then at the last second just like turn and give it to another table. Like I mean, almost literally wave it around in front of their faces."

"That's happened to me before," Percy mused. "Do you think that maybe there are other people in the world and they're just playing this game too and we don't know of it?"

Jason however, had no time for Percy's weird philosophical ruminations and so approached the table, and like he had been instructed, made it look as if he was going there. It was only when he was next to the table and about to set it down that he suddenly turned around and went to another table.

"Great, now realize your mistake," Frank said. "But not before almost putting it at that table."

Jason approached the other table but was immediately told by them that this wasn't what they had ordered and Jason pretended to be embarrassed and handed the order to the right people.

To his credit, he managed to maintain a straight face and apologize very believingly up till the very end. But, if you were to take the footage of this and then analyze it frame by frame, then you could see the cringe on his face very nicely.

Funnily enough it didn't seem to affect the customer's moods too much.

And Jason was back with the soup as well without much incidence.

"Oh, okay, you know the 'fly in the soup' joke and the 'he's doing the backstroke' thing?" Frank asked.

"Yeah, it's super old and the fact that you even thought of that makes you super lame," Leo said.

"Yeah, well, Jason's the one who's about to look lame," Frank said. "Hey Jason, ask them to ask you why there's a fly in the soup. And then make that joke, but it'll be as forced as possible."

"Hey- there's this new joke I heard," Jason said. "This is a bit out of the things I normally say… but you know, ask me what a fly's doing in your soup."

"Uh… what is a fly doing in my soup?" the guy asked.

"I believe it's the backstroke," Jason said. Now, he tried smiling a little but the truth is that part of him died the moment he said those lines, and it got so awkward that none of the other guys decided to even mention doing something else for the rest of the deal and left Jason alone.

In the end, Jason did get a tip. A tip of $8.

Percy decided to go up next. Today, much like when Jason had been there, the restaurant had been mostly empty.

"Hey Percy… we have a surprise for you…" Frank said.

Percy was not pleased, a 'surprise' was never a good thing. At all.

It was then that he heard something… something very loud pull up near the restaurant. And it was then that the door opened.

Percy didn't believe what he was seeing the first time. He didn't believe it the second time either.

There was a huge guy- big enough to make professional bodybuilders run for their mommies. And it was someone that Percy had seen before- oddly enough in a dining establishment much like this one.

"Ares?" Percy asked as the God of War took a seat.

"Okay," Frank said. "I'm gonna be honest here- I kind of left him a message saying that if he wanted an opportunity to mess with you he could be here… but I never thought that he'd actually show up."

"Yeah," Leo said. "Y'know, I've kind of asked quite a few gods to see if they'd like to make an appearance on this show, but this is the first time one of them actually did. Like, not even one of the minor ones came."

"Uh… why aren't you Mars?" Percy asked.

"Okay, I know you're a little dumb so I'll go slow here," Ares said. "You see, if I were Mars, well, Mars has no beef with you and more importantly Mars isn't the kind of god to suddenly disappear from his duties just to mess with someone. Me on the other hand- again, on a normal day I wouldn't either, but things have been a bit slow lately. So if I was Mars, I wouldn't even be here punk."

'And what a shame that would be,' Percy thought to himself and the said, "You know what, I'm quitting. This is it."

"Quitting? Quitting what?" Ares asked.

"Uh you know, the game," Percy said.

"Oh, so that's what this is," Ares said. "I assumed when I saw you were a waiter that you either lost a bet or needed the dough. So this is one of your stupid games you play around with."

"Yeah," Percy said, pointing to the ear that he had his earpiece in. "By the way, I'm guessing Frank says hi."

"Whatever," Ares said. "And you're quitting? This is on camera?"

"Yeah," Percy said. "Because the goal of this round is to get a tip. And I know the only thing you carry around are drachmas and the last thing you paid that lady way back when was a show of your knife, so y'know, if I've already lost, I'm just throwing in the towel."

"Wait," Ares said with a malicious grin. "How about if I make you a promise that if you go through with this, I'll give you actual, hard cash? Think about it for a second…"

"I don't know…" Percy said. "What do you want anyway? It's not like you want to eat anything…"

"Just because I don't have to doesn't mean I don't want to," Ares said.

"Yeah, but this restaurant is kind of the wrong place if you wanted something really good," Percy said.

"Now, I may not know much about being a waiter," Ares said. "But I can very safely assume that right now you're being a pretty terrible one and should be fired."

Percy shrugged. "So, what's you order?"

"What's your order…" Ares said.

"What's your order, sir," Percy coughed out. He really wanted to punch Ares' face, and this had nothing to do with the aura that Ares always gave out all the time.

Ares laughed. "Okay, this might just be worth it. What's worth eating around this place?"

"…. I've heard the water's pretty good," Percy muttered.

"Come on guys," Leo said. "Why are we just standing around here? This is a big moment- shouldn't we be forcing Percy to do something?"

"It kind of loses its appeal when he already knows who we are and what we're doing," Jason said. "And what if we say something that really makes him mad and he nukes us or something? I mean, Mars wouldn't but I don't know much about Ares…"

"Uh, he wouldn't nuke us, he's kind of used to banter," Frank said. "And I think Percy's managing to mess up things pretty nicely anyway…"

"By the way, tell your crew that I can hear what they're saying," Ares said. "A good bonus to being a god is having great hearing."

"I guess it is," Percy said. "So, in all seriousness I'd suggest the ice cream-"

"Ice cream?" Ares asked. "Do I look like the tooth fairy to you?"

"Actually I would be under the impression that the tooth fairy would disapprove of eating ice cream as it harms your tee-" Percy said.

"Runt, get me the best steak you have," Ares said. "I'd also order you to kill it fresh with your bare hands, but I'm assuming you're too much of a sissy to do that. Now don't keep me waiting…"

Percy went back to the kitchen and relayed Ares' order. He was pretty sure that Ares still wasn't going to tip him for this in the end.

But lo and behold, Ares actually seemed to enjoy what had been made for him. Reasonably at least.

And for the tip? Percy got $16.

A/N: Thanks for reading. I'd like to ask you guys a question- in the original show, a big draw of it is seeing the guys laugh back at HQ when a challenge is going. Now, I do mention it, but it's hard to capture with writing, and I can only really think of a few synonyms for 'they laughed' before it gets boring. And I'm guessing most of you either imagine the guys laughing when there's something funny anyway, or you don't care for me to mention it like after every single joke. What's your take on it?

And before anyone asks, yes, the tip amounts have also been generated by the almighty RNG from between 2-20 dollars which I thought would be a reasonable range. So I'm in control of not who wins, but only the lines really.