Leo Joins the Bat Brigade

Leo Does a Dare

Leo Valdez was bored. This was by no means a good thing. His girlfriend and favorite person in the whole wide world, Calypso, had gone away to high school. Sure, she was wanting to get a taste of a normal human existence because she had been stuck on a deserted island for ages (and Leo understood that), but that didn't change the fact that things weren't as fun without her there.

Leo was currently hanging upside down off the side of one of the many bunk beds in the Hephaestus cabin, fiddling with a handful of metal pieces, screws, wires, and other miscellaneous items that he had pulled from out of his toolbelt. After he had already made one for himself and Calypso, all of his friends had asked him to make them a monster-proof phone as well when he had the spare time. He was in the middle of working on Piper's when his head jerked up at the sudden bang of the door slamming open and the chatter that followed of a pair of teenagers that he vaguely remembered to be one of his half-siblings and their friend from the Hecate cabin.

"Oh come on, man. Don't do it. That's suicide." One of them said, Leo recognized him as Tyler Black, who was a few years younger than him but still somehow managed to be taller than him, a fact that irked him to no end. 

Leo's younger half-brother spoke up next. "I have to do it. You can't just back out of a dare, Ty."

That's it! Leo grinned and dropped down from the bunk bed, his latest project long forgotten. Now all I have to do is find someone to give me a good dare.

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Turns out, finding someone to give good dares was harder than actually doing the dares. Over the course of ten hours, Leo had not only set the Ares cabin on fire, but he had also belted out the lyrics to several Taylor Swift songs dressed up as a Miss America contestant on the roof of the dining pavilion (after which, Mr. D punished him by giving him dish duty for a week), Created a french fry statue that he bolted to the roof of the Big House (Chiron wasn't pleased), skinny-dipped in the lake (the water nymphs are still mad at him for that one), let the Aphrodite cabin magically dye his hair red for the rest of the day (he's skeptical of whether or not it will actually turn back to its original color by tomorrow or not), written an (admittedly very bad) song about chocolate and sang it to the Apollo kids, and made a catapult to launch almost 50 gallons of ice cream at the other cabins. All of which may seem like things that any sane person wouldn't do, but Leo had pretty much no sense of dignity, so they were easy for him. All that aside, Leo still wanted a dare that would be able to give him a challenge.

Leo was on his way back to his cabin to finish working on Piper's phone when a small boy ran up to him and nearly collided with him.

"You're Leo, the one who's doing the dares, right?" The kid asked as he gasped for air.

"Uh... yeah?" Leo replied with an air of uncertainty.

"Um... well... I, uh... I-I've got a dare for you if you think you could... do it?"

The puppy dog eyes alone could have convinced him. Leo smiled, "Of course I can! If anyone could do your dare, it would be me."

The boy burst into the biggest grin that Leo had ever seen. "Great! So, I'm a super big fan of Batman and the Gotham heroes, so I was wondering if you could somehow get Batman to let you ride inside the Batmobile? And could you take a video?"

>Time skip<

Leo's face still hurt from Piper slapping it. She had yelled at him for about an hour and a half telling him how badly this could end and how he could expose basically every half-blood in existence to the world's best detective, thus destroying their way of life as they knew it. To which Leo responded by telling her she was just overreacting. Leo winced as another sharp sting of pain shot through his face for his comment.