The sky was still dark at Camp Half-Blood. The white stars and cloudless sky reflected in the smooth surface of the camps lake. All the cabins were motionless and the windows blank except for two who's windows were glowing with golden light that cascaded onto the lawn illuminating the grass that was beaded with water from the rain that had fallen the earlier day.

Inside one of the cabins -a gray one with an owl above the door, was filled with the hustle and bustle of it's inhabitants plus one who was sitting in a chair trying to give them as much space to work as possible. In the center of the back wall, between the two bookcases on each side crammed full of scrolls and books and other random assortments of paper there was a desk. A figure with long blond hair sat in the chair across from the desk. Her fingers flew across the keyboard and her eyes darted across the screen as she worked to absorb as much information from the web as possible.

The boy beside her rested his cheek on his fist as he watched her quietly work. His eyes slowly began to close as sleep slowly reached it's black tendrils inside of him to fog his brain and lure him into unconsciousness. It was only after his eyes had fully closed and his brain began to become a black abyss did he realize that the girl next to him was shacking his arm and calling his name.

He bolted upright with a start as his eyes flashed open to allow the bright light of the room reach him. He winced and massaged them as black dots danced in his vision. "Percy, are you awake now?" The blond sighed although her eyes glinted with amusement at her boyfriends actions.

Percy nodded with a yawn that stretched his jaws wide."Yeah?" He asked softly.

"Have you not been paying attention this entire time?" She asked. He shook his head, his messy black hair swishing back and forth across his forehead.

"Sorry Annabeth." He said. "I started falling asleep." Another yawn accented his words and he sat back down in his chair.

"Well, as I was saying, there have been massive amounts of monsters moving north recently and the activity is highly unusual especially since the larger groups are mainly filled with monsters that stay on their own, but are moving together like when Gae brought them together as an army." Her eyes flickered to Percy as she said that and she saw his eyes flash with an indistinguishable emotion. She knew the thought of Gae angered him though he worked hard to hide it.

Annabeth returned her attention back to the computer as she started typing furiously again. "As much as I would love to send someone out to gather data it's highly dangerous. The only other way is to use technology and you know that options also out of the question." Percy nodded thoughtfully as he listened to her speaking.

"So you've come up with a third option?" He asked.

"Kind of." She told him. "There's only one place with a large enough amount of computers and data for us, but there's no way for us to access it." She told Percy who just looked at her curiously.

"You mean, we can't just go to the library?" He asked. Annabeth rolled her eyes but didn't say anything. She was used to his stupid comments so she continued on.

" The problem is that the only person who owns those computers is surrounded by security all the time. We wont' have the chance to break in." She finished typing and pushed back from the desk and got to her feet, walking smoothly through the crowd of her siblings to get to the door with Percy tailing after her.

"But there was a recent opening for a job. Apparently he had promoted his previous personal assistant so he has an opening for that." Percy perked up his ears. This is starting to sounds interesting. Annabeth opened the door to the cabin and slipped outside into the dark and quiet night.

"So we signed you up for the job."

Percy froze with one foot out the door. "What?"

Annabeth laughed. "Don't worry, they won't know who you are. The Hephaestus cabin is working on something right now." Percy hurried his steps and fallowed her into the only other lit cabin. Knocking on the door it was opened by a completely covered in soot Leo. He grinned at them.

"We're ready!" He laughed and he held up a simple plain looking bronze ring. Percy stared at the ring dubiously.

"Whats that supposed to do?" He asked. Leo grinned mischievously.

"Try it on and see." He said and he handed Percy the ring. He slipped it over his right hands ring finger and immediately felt tingling all over his skin.

It wasn't a bad feeling. As he looked down he saw white lights spreading from the ring. As it passed over his skin the usually tan complexion turned pasty white. He felt as though he was putting on weight, the ground was closer, not too close, but he definatly wasn't as tall as he had been. He ran a hand through his hair...wait. His fingers were only touching skin. He looked over at Leo and Annabeth who was holding back laughter.

"You. Snicker. Look. ." She tried to pull a straight face but she kept cracking a smile. Leo handed Percy a mirror. His dastardly trade mark 'I'm up to no good' smile plastered on his face. Percy glared at him and held up the mirror. He promptly felt his jaw drop.

He was a pasty white color, but his face was covered entirely with freckles on his face. His earlier assumption had been wrong. He actually wasn't entirely bald. He had hair around the side of his head but the top was entirely blank with a few strands combed over. He was as well, shorter. And with a rather larger middle. He pursed his lips.

He wasn't going to entirely pretend how Leo had done this what with all the magic and mechanics involved. "Who ever I'm working for definatly won't recognize me without this on." He said as he took the ring off. The tingling sensation started up again until he felt back to normal. "By the way, who am I working for?"

Annabeths smirk faded from her face. "His name ins Tony Stark. But he's more often known as Iron Man." Percy frowned.

"Isn't he the guy with the hug ego that could rival Zues's?" He asked. Thunder rumbled in the sky but he ignored it just as a thought suddenly hit him. "Hey, how is an eighteen year old kid with ADHD going to keep a grown and irresponsible man out of trouble?"

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