Chapter 3

Leo Valdez

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They all stared at each other for a few minutes before Calypso's voice rung through the room like a shrill bell. "Excuse me?!"

They all looked slightly shocked, except the red head. She looked to be pretty skilled at hiding it if she was.

They glanced at each other and Tony put the rest of Leo's pizza in his mouth. "Listen short stacks," he said which didn't make any sense since Calypso was the same if not taller height, "You two did something bad so we're taking you in. Capishe?"

They didn't give them much of a choice. Steve already had Leo constrained and the Natasha put a hand on her arm as a way of saying 'you're caught'.

The two exchanged a look. They'd become quite good at communicating without words during nightly excursions when they couldn't to afford to verbally communicate. They both knew some sign language and morse code as contingencies.

They allowed themselves to be taken in... For now. More for the sake of learning about their enemies than anything.

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Turns out young adults can be extremely uncooperative and difficult. Especially villains who act like children and didn't seem to care that they were in the Avengers Tower, in an extremely fortified cell capable of holding Hulk, sitting across from a dangerous ex-assassin who was trying- keyword trying- to interrogate them. In fact Tony was only half listening to the recordings but he was pretty sure they were listing off plans for their next date! How old were these guys?

He didn't even notice when Natasha, looking frustrated, stepped out of the room rubbing her hands over her face. "Nothing!" She whispered harshly coming to stop near the monitors that watched the interrogation rooms.

Clint, who knew her best and this was more than annoyance, moved closed and rubbed a hand on her back.

"It was like being a ghost around those two. They're skilled at ignoring and deflecting, I'll give 'em that," she crossed her arms in thought. "Has Fury been called?"

Clint shook his head. "Uh, not yet. I'll do th-"

"Not yet. I want to know who these two are. Fury has to know more than us or he would have investigated long before now. I don't like secrets," Tony interrupted

"Yeah the kid managed to hack into SHIELD, delete his files, and no one knew. We only found out by chance," Clint began. "I admit it, I'm curious. There must be more going on with them than we thought. If we call Fury he'd just take them in and put them away for good. Like what other crimes have they done?"

Natasha didn't say anything but Tony took that as an agreement. Steve and Bruce nodded as well.

"We'll watch them in turns, there's no telling what they're capable of," Natasha said.

"You think those kids are capable of breaking out of a Hulk-proof room?" Clint asked.

"Unknown threat," Bruce started, "unknown strength. Now we just need someone to-"

"Not it," Clint said.

"I'll do it," Tony said leaning against the wall. At their stares he huffed. "Why not? I can watch them. It'll be easy. They act like children for god's sake."

"Fine, I'm going to bed," Clint said, leaving the room. The others followed after him with similar missions and Tony went to his lab.

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"It's wrong," Leo said looking up at the camera from his chair. He had a small machine in his handcuffed hands as he leaned back.

Tony stared, momentarily surprised speechless at Leo's sudden words. He turned on the speakers. "Um, excuse me. But what?"

"You're doing it wrong, Stark. The wiring, it's all sorts of messed up," Leo shrugged then snickered. Calypso looked both amused and bored out of her mind. This must of not been new then.

Tony looked at the circuits of his rocket booster and was both shocked and not to see he was right. But how did Leo see him to know?

"How did you know that?"

"Magic," Leo wiggled his left hand which wasn't holding his 'project' that Tony couldn't see.

"Yeah and I'm Hulk. How did you do that?"

Calypso seemed to be snickering, not so bored now.

"Come here and find out," Leo wiggled his eyebrows in a challenge of sorts.

Tiny paused. "I will," he put down his tools and started walking towards the duo's cell ignoring the latino's look of momentary shock.

Calypso was full on giggling while Leo was complaining. "Oh, come on. I didn't think he'd actually do it."

Tony opened the door and casually sat down besides Calypso. "So, how'd you do it, string bean?"

"First, don't call me that. Second, mind your own beeswax, tin can," Leo responded with an eye roll as he kicked his feet up onto the table.

"Calypso?"

"He's spying on you," Calypso said and looked boredly at her fingernails.

"Traitor! I thought we were in this together!" Leo screeched dramatically.

"That's called marriage, Leo," Calypso said coolly, "til then, I owe you nothing." Leo glared lightly but it went unnoticed.

There was a story to that, Tony was sure, but he could ask later. "So, how'd you do that?" Tony asked, mind going back to the task at hand.

Leo held up a small device that looked like phone screen except it was showing a live feed from Tony's- his- workshop. Tony put his head in his hands. Calypso patted his back. "We searched you though! You had no devices or supplies whatsoever," Tony said. He looked truly befuddled.

"You're not the first and certainly not the last to have this happen," she said, though with a small smile. "People are often confused, annoyed, or both with Leo, in fact Leo is the same way often times."

Leo just glared at Calypso like 'Why?' Then he turned back to Tony. He smirked as the confused older man try to make sense of the situation. In truth how he did it was his magic tool belt. It was spelled to never show anyone what it was and to be unrevomable- too many bad experiences with that...

Tony paused and interupted his thoughts. "Stay here."

"No, I was going to go stroll around," Leo replied propping his chin up with his hand tilting his head. Calypso laughed again.

Tony rolled his eyes and left the room but came back a minute later with a part of his older Iron Man armor. As Leo examined it there was a spark of amazement in his eyes.

"I once tried to make Iron Man armor. Caly stopped me before I could finish," he said as he began taking it apart and figuring out how it worked.

"It's true. But he's really bad about leaving his things around. Have you ever stubbed your toe against a metal boot? Not fun," she confirmed.

Tony started laughing. "You actually sound like Pepper."

They chatted for a while. Every time Tony would slyly try and steer the conversation towards them they would deflect. Eventually Tony's phone rang and he finally left.

"Did you find it?"

"Yep, now all we have to do is wait for the perfect time to escape," Leo said, he yawned. "Tomorrow maybe."

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Somewhere in the city of New York, in a chamber underneath the city the Greek monsters were gathering. Gathering strength, ready to strike. There were at least five-hundred.

Several snake-like monsters and reptilian humanoids, including two gorgons and several people with snake tails for legs.

A few legions of undead. Eidolon ready to possess. Hellhounds and other such creatures. Cyclops ready to destroy demigods... And maybe a few buildings. There was a herd of centaurs, equipped with all manners of sharp and dangerous party supplies.

They were a growing army with more species than anyone- even a child of Athena- could name off.

The titans were all standing near three figures and one voice rose above the others and demanded silence from the chattering and sparring crowd. "I believe it is time to begin phase one. Send the warnings to our little godlings. It's time for war."

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BOOM!

Leo jumped in his seat from where he'd dozed off after Tony'd left after the sound of an explosion and glass shattering.

"Caly, what was that?" Leo asked, sleep making his throat croaky.

"I don't know," she said, sweeping a strand of her brown hair which was in a falling apart messy bun. Which she didn't usually allow given that she kept it together with magic.

She quickly released them from their restraints with magic. She summoned a shaky image to see what'd happened. They watched as the Avengers ran out of the tower. Then it adjusted and was showing outside the tower where Tony and Sammy were attacking the harpies while the others were shooting useless mortal weapons at the other plethora of flying creatures. Leo suppressed a wince as Iron man took a particularly hard hit to shield a child.

"We need to help them," Calypso said looking at Leo with urgency in her eyes.

Leo's eyes shot up. "I won't!"

"If we don't they'll die!" Calypso said, crossing her arms. "Think about the pedestrians. It's our fault they're here!"

"I don't know about you but I can't disguise my demigod presence," Leo huffed.

"They. Will. Die." She motioned to the swirling image. One of the only rules they'd had when they started doing petty thefts were to never kill- maim maybe- but no allowing killed at their fault.

Leo groaned because he was not going to win this argument. "Okay, fine. Let's do this," Leo said while taking out a bronze hammer out of his magic tool belt. "I am not doing this for them. I'm doing it because Harpies are pricks."

"That's the spirit," she said back sarcastically while patting him on the back. She then brought out celestial gold throwing knives out of thin air and strapped them to her sides in reach. She unlocked the door with the wave of her hand and they raced out.

As soon as they cleared through the empty lobby, all civilians in the tower had gone for cover, the creatures screeched- there was about fifteen, maybe twenty- and dove towards them. The Avengers let out several shouts of surprise, yelling for them to get out of the way.

Then, to everyone's surprise, except maybe Calypso and Leo, they began to start taking out monsters left and right. Leo smacked any that got close enough with the bronze hammer as a distraction then shot with white hot flames from his fingers. Calypso was throwing around small golden blades quicker than the eye could see. The only thing that signaled her blades hitting their marks was a screech then a puff of monster dust. Then she call them back with her spirit powers to throw again.

Soon after Leo shot the last one he turned around. During the fight they'd managed to cover themselves, the Avengers, and any nearby pedestrians that were still around with the gold powder. Leo thought he saw Tony bending down to take a look at it out of the corner of his eye.

The rest of the Avengers looked at the Duo. Leo his bronze hammer and a few flames flickering within his curly mess of hair. Calypso had golden knives she'd been throwing then called them back to her with some type of telekinesis. Like Thor did with his hammer. Her hair was flying and her eyes shone with adrenaline.

"I guess we have some explaining to do, huh?" Leo said, with an unidentifiable look at having all the Avengers gaping at him. Calypso looked had a darker more protective look on her face as she stood by his side fingering the gold blades. She looked about ready to stab the nearest person, who was Hawkeye.

"Ohhhh yeah," Tony confirmed drawing out the word.

Leo yelped a strangled 'Run'.

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Do you like Calypso's weapons? I do, they're... Fun! If you were wondering she did something similar to the Egyptian thing the Kanes do. Any weapon suggestions for either?

Only one chapter this week. If you want more of the Avengers take a look at my other book. I'm still writing the plot to this one so just hang on okie? I might go back at some points and tweak the chapters a bit even.

Word count is: 1,800

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