Percy works with Tony Stark

24. We want to hear!

Although it took a while, thanks to Nico considerably shaving down their numbers for us, nobody got hurt.

"Pftt," I laughed looking around at everyone. Clint also joined in.

"We look like we just got back from a party, not fighting monsters," he joked. The mood lightened after everyone was safe and we went back to the tower.

"See? We did great, nothing to worry about!" Tony said confidently.

"Don't get your hopes up, those were the small fry."

"Then what's the big fry?"

"Monsters that you know the name of," I answered grimly.

"Name?" Natasha asked.

"Yea, like from the myths."

"What??" Peter exclaimed. "Like the minotaur? Medusa?"

"Yea, sure," I chuckled.

"Wait doesn't this mean that Hercules is real too?" Banner asked.

"Yep, all the myths are true, didn't we go over this already?"

"But you only glossed over everything," Clint complained. "You didn't even tell us anything about what you did! What else happened besides Kronos, the other Roman camp and gods, and Gaia and the giants?"

"Well, you get the gist, right? That's basically everything. Incompetent gods push their troubles on their kids," I summarized.

"Well not all of them can be bad right?" Steve wondered aloud.

I gave him a long hard stare before answering. "Sure, but under that Zeus &@$\@^#! Arghh," I complained. "They all suck," I concluded.

"Does this have something to do with the two years that you were missing?" Tony guessed.

"How'd you guess?" I grumbled.

"You know you can tell you what happened right? We can help." Steve assured.

"Yeah!" Peter agreed.

"Thanks, but no thanks."

"You'll have to open up someday," Tony protested.

"Then I'd prefer later rather than sooner. We don't need to get all sappy."

"I think you have it flipped-" Bruce corrected.

"Hmm... I wonder when Thor and Loki are gonna come back," I said trying to change the subject.

"Oh look! They're here!" 

The topic was expertly avoided when everyone's jaws dropped at the sight outside the window.

"How did you-?" Tony asked in shock.

"Don't ask me, I just felt it?" I answered unsurely. We went out to greet them and welcome them back.

"Why is he looking at me like that?" I asked Loki.

"Like what?" he feigned ignorance.

"Like he's a crazy fan!"

"Maybe he is," Loki snickered.

"What do you mean?" my eyes narrowed in suspicion.

"Your little Greek friends paid us a visit and Thor realized you were the Percy Jackson from the tales," he laughed. "Or should I say Perseus?" he added.

"Nothing good comes with that name," I grumbled.

"Oh stop it, you're a sensation back in Asgard," he teased.

"Please tell me you are joking." I sincerely hoped.

"Nope, all the little kids grow up hearing about your gallant tales."

"But why is he just staring at me?" I whispered uncomfortably. We already made our way back upstairs, but he was staring at me the whole way here.

"Why are you so nervous?" Steve beside him finally noticed.

"Yea, just spit it out," I grumbled.

"I want to personally hear your stories!"

"Percy, you're a storyteller?" Tony laughed.

"Once upon a time...," I started.

"Oh!  Oh! The time you switched camps!"

"Why do I need to tell you if you already know?" I questioned.

"Wait," Tony noticed, "'you'?"

"He hasn't told you?" Thor asked surprised.

"Tell me what?"

"His heroic deeds!" Thor pointed at me.

"What heroic deeds?!?" I yelped.

"The hero is too humble," Thor looked at me sadly.

"Oh settle down brother, look how red he's getting," Loki said.

"Shut it, both of you," I grumbled.

"No, no! I have to hear this!" Tony pleaded.

"Me too!" Clint exclaimed. 

"I think we need to know more about these monsters that we gotta fight!" Peter joined in.

"Wait so YOU fought the Minotaur?" Peter exclaimed.

"You'll probably get to fight the minotaur too."

"You did WHAT with Medusa's head?" Tony yelped.

"Even Scylla and Charybdis is real? I wonder what you hear from the Sirens...." Natasha mused.

I moved on to when I got kidnapped and dropped off at Camp Jupiter.

"HAHAHAH," Thor boomed. "That Nico kid is interesting."

"Almost as slimy as Loki!" Clint joked.

"Very funny."

Tony's eyes widened in relief when I finally reassured him that Leo was still alive.

"Ohh thank god," he relaxed. "How's he doing these days?"

"Fine," I said. Looked like he still liked making things at least.

"So that's how he outdid me!" he argued. "He had a genetic advantage."

"I mean wasn't your dad-" Steve tried to say.

"But he wasn't a GOD!" Tony interrupted like usual.