Chapter 27

                                    

                                          
Tony Stark was having a hard time focusing recently; Ever since the incident with Percy and Annabeth he's been unable to stay working on any one thing for longer than an hour, he can't eat more than a single plate of food, and every time he leaves the tower all he can see are the multitudes of monsters that happen to be in the area. Whether it be giant wolves walking around cars and people, or teenagers and young kids with weapons that look like they should not exit. 
The worst part of it. No one believed him: Steve just thought that he needed time to cool off and he would be back to his normal self in a few weeks, Natasha and Clint weren't around for what happened so they've just been giving him space recently, Bruce kept on doing a multitude of tests and he even made Tony wear a Smartwatch that notifies FRIDAY who then notified Bruce if his heart rate so much as goes above 175bpm for more than a minute. 
Pepper was probably the only reason Tony hadn't lost his mind in these past few weeks as she was the one giving him the comfort he needed and even going as far as to clear a week off her work-schedule to stay at the tower with him to make sure he recovers well enough, but yesterday she had to go back to work and when Tony want outside again to see if things had changed he saw a lady with donkey legs and a spear standing in the middle of street looking around. 
Tony decided to stay inside and try to work on one of the many pending projects he had in the waitlist. The most recent being that of a new kind of power-source harnessing energy from the Quantum Realm. Of which he's been unable to so much as study thanks to lacking the correct kind of equipment needed to build such a machine, and the resources. Though the thing that he was doing today had nothing to do with any of his projects...well maybe one or two, but it was research about the things that he's been seeing on a daily basis. 
Several sources were busts and others were nonsense, but a few of them stood out as feasible but not verifiable, so he couldn't get anything else from them. Then he got the idea to search Kids walking around with weapons and that got a few recent hits that he followed and dug through all the way to a conclusion that what he was seeing was the start of some kind of war between the Greeks, Romans, and/or Monsters. 
Nevermind this lead no-where as well. 
Tony sighed and stood up from his computer for a short break, he cracked his back and asked FRIDAY what the time was. 
"It is 3;54pm, and the Director of SHIELD is currently in the elevator up to your floor." FRIDAY said, her voice dripping with mock amusement as Tony scrambled around the area for something moderately presentable.
"FRIDAY Why didn't you notify me about this earlier?" Tony growled and the only response he got was his watch beeping twice to show an angry pirate emoji, and the timestamp of an ten minutes ago. 
"I swear you're going to get me killed someday you faulty ----" Tony was interrupted by the *ding* of the elevator opening. 
"Stark I do hope you aren't in your pajamas again when I see you" Fury's voice came resonating off of the walls and Stark looked at his shorts and greasy T-shirt with a contemplative look before shrugging and heading over. Fury was in the room where he had just been and was looking around the room at the 'research' Tony's been doing on his off time. 
"Interested in a little Greek and Roman Mythology now are we?" Fury said as Tony stepped through a door's threshold. He always seemed to know when a person entered a room even being blind in one eye and selectively deaf. 
"That's just a little thing I'm doing on the side," Tony said closing the screen of his laptop and standing in front of a desk full of printed drawings of the several creatures he'd seen daily. Fury side-eyed him and hummed before moving on to look at the other things littering the room...mainly cans of stimulating drinks. He tapped one with his cane-umbrella and sent it rolling across the floor towards the desk Tony was at. Tony just hit it off to the side where it was sucked through a hole in the floor and went to the other end of the room.