Percy works with Tony Stark

13. Lookout!

What was even going on at this point.

Nat pushed out the flash drive and held it in the air.

"NO!" the man screamed.

"Do you want to live or not," Nat growled.

"Get out of here," she said to us over her shoulder.

"Come on," I said to Annabeth and the other kid, trusting Nat to take care of herself.

Thankfully the kid followed us again. Annabeth took this as a chance to question him.

"So what was that about," she asked.

"Same old drama," he replied.

"Why weren't you worried?"

"It happens like once a month, he always comes out fine."

"Almost too much," I heard him mutter under his breath.

Annabeth and I shared a glance. This kid was probably going to be trouble.

We were snapped out of our shock when I heard Nat yell, "LOOKOUT!"

What?

Our eyes both snapped away from each other to face the barrel of the gun. The man behind it grinned in victory, but right before he could pull the trigger, I pushed the barrel away from my head. I saw Annabeth do the same then give her attacker a good knee to the groin. I opted for a punch in the face.

"Nice," Nat said, returning with the man, a little startled.

"What just happened?" the demigod said, clearly out of his element.

"I thought you didn't care," I asked.

"I-It's never this bad," he stuttered out.

I'm guessing he means he never gets attacked also.

"Come on, let's get out of here," Annabeth said, urging us along.

We finally got back to the stairs and rushed down. Thankfully almost everyone was already cleared out, and we didn't see anymore people with guns. I heard Nat talking into what I guessed was probably a mic or something similar to ask if the outside was clear to leave. Once again guessing that it was a conformation, we continued and rushed out. 

There were police outside and we blended into the crowd. Thankfully there was a SHIELD car waiting for us so we could avoid the questioning from the police.

Nat drove and the the three of us squished in the back.

"So what was the about?" She asked.

"Oh- uh they were after the information again," the man replied.

"No I'm not asking you," she said.

 "huh?" I looked around.

"Yes she means you," Annabeth said.

"What about?" I asked confused.

"The fighting?" she specified.

"oh- OHH," I said.

"We learned at camp," Annabeth cut in for me, "and we were always pretty good".

"yeah," I added.

"Oh right you told us about that before," she remembered.

"But then if you knew how to fight why didn't you agree back then?"

It took me a while to remember what she was referring to but then I did.

"You mean against Captain America? Someone who's literally enhanced, a big shot of muscles?" I asked incredulously. It didn't take a Loki to lie myself out of this one.

"Besides, it was the adrenaline that took over, they were just some small self-defense classes I took," I added.

"Alright," she said.

We finally got to SHIELD but we still hadn't cleared up things with the kid. But before we could, Nat pulled both of them aside.

"I have to take them into protection here," she said.

"Ok I'll see you later them," I said.

She left and headed towards someone  to report to probably.

"What now?" I asked Annabeth.

She sighed.

"Now we have to wait until they are released and just hope he doesn't talk about what we said," she said.

"It probably won't be to suspicious to ask for updates about him because we already told her we were looking for him anyways".

"Okay," I agreed.

"Now we'll just have to wait"

It took a week of questioning for Nat to even say anything about her mission. One day, we were sitting at the kitchen and Loki was there too.

"Pleasee I've been looking for him, just tell me when he gets out," I pleaded.

"Why do you even need to know so bad," she asked.

"Come on, I have to talk to him," I said.

"I can relay a message," she said.

"It's personal," I said, acting offended. She only rolled her eyes.

"Come on Loki, back me up"

"Why should I, I haven't forgot about your little prank," he said amused.

"What?? You already figured it out? How?"

"You weren't exactly consistent about it," he said.

"Oh your right, I guess," I said, remembering how I literally brought people over Tony didn't know.

"Prank?" Nat asked curiously.

"I told Loki that I was an AI Tony made," I grinned.

"He believed you?" Nat asked surprised.

"Oh look, Loki's embarrassed," I teased as Loki turned red.

"Shut up mortal," he said annoyed and rushed out.

"Looks like old habits die hard," I sighed.