Hades and Carissa were asked to follow Pain and Panic for a surprise they have for them. Carissa stopped when they stopped and blinked at them. "It's a wall."

"Hang on to your flame princess." Panic smiled at her very excited.

"You are in for a big surprise." Pain added. The wall suddenly opened revealing a secret passageway. "Welcome to the Underworld research and development department."

Carissa looked around. "Did you know this was here dad?"

"No." He looked back at Pain and Panic. "So why wasn't I told about this place?"

"Possible deniability sir, and we wanted to wait till Carissa was old enough. Lots of dangerous stuff in here." Pain replied.

Panic ran over to a box. "Ta-da! What we have here will blow the lid off the whole God Squad."

"A box?" Hades asked unamused.

"Pandora's?" Carissa asked.

Pain and Panic lifted the box up just to show another box.

"Bada bing and... WHAT?" Hades asked getting impatient. After breaking a couple more boxes it showed a stone under a glass case. "Uh huh, uh huh, it's a... well it's a... Rock!" Hades start to flame up. "You drag us into your secret lab to look at a lump?"

"Check it out!" Pain insisted before he and Panic put on safety goggles and took off the glass showing the rock was giving off a powerful glow. Carissa fell to the floor feeling weak, Hades started shortly after.

"Oy, hello, what's going on? I didn't order decaf! What happened? Hello!" He fell to the ground asleep sucking his thumb.

"DAD!" Carissa tried to move but she couldn't. "PAIN! PANIC!"

The two imps quickly put that case back on and Hades shot up. "OK!! THAT GOT MY ATTENTION! I'M DOWN BUT I'M UP! BADA BING! YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? WHAT IS IT?" He shouted at the imps before he helped Carissa get up.

"The Cronus Stone!" Pain and Panic shouted together. They started to sing a really annoying song that really flamed Hades up. Carissa somehow understood them. Turns out her grandfather cursed that rock and whatever God goes near it gets put into a deep sleep. Worse part is Pain and Panic kept waving it around making Hades and Carissa feel weak again. "ENOUGH ALREADY!!" Carissa shouted stopping the song and slammed the glass case over it making Hades wake up again.

Hades flamed up. "ENOUGH WITH THE SONG AND DANCE! I got it, thank you, very nice." Hades looks back at the stone.

"So why does it make me feel weak?" Carissa asked.

"Cause you're part Goddess." Panic answered her.

Hades rubbed his chin in thought. "Not sure how to use this exactly but it has potential. Yes, ok good. Boys! You're going to find a little something extra in your paycheck this week."

Carissa smiled at them before she followed her father out of the lab. "I gotta get to school." Carissa told Hades as she grabbed her backpack and kissed his cheek. "Bye daddy." With that she ran out before she was late. Carissa quickly turned into Kareena and headed to class till she saw Hercules dressed like Zeus walk her way.

"Hey Kareen, how are you?" Hercules asked her.

"Why are you dressed like your dad?" She asked.

"Oh, it's for the festival, you know were students dedicate to Gods and the muses, so I choose to do a play about my dad."

Carissa tried not to roll her eyes. "Of course you did."

"Poor Icarus doesn't have a part yet, I hope he finds something, he's running out of time. Plus all the Gods will be here."

Carissa's eyes widened. "All the Gods?"

Hercules nodded. "Yeah, well I better go change, see ya in class."

Carissa got an idea and went to find Icarus who was crying and praying on the stage. "Oh muses of the arts, I oh so humbly turn to you for inspiration. Please, PLEASE! Guide me to a play that will help me win! I'd be really grateful! Really! Really!"

Carissa smirked and turned back into her normal form and setting a fire behind him making Icarus jump surprised. Icarus looked at her. "Hey, you're not a muse, you're Hercules cousin."

Carissa scoffed rolling her eyes. "Just call me Carissa, I don't need to be reminded who I'm sadly related too. Anyway, I'm here to help."

Icarus gulped. "The daughter of Hades is here! Oh well that's just great! Fate is a cruel jester! Now on the verge of my greatest triumph you've come to ship me off of this mortal coil!" He then put his hands on his hips. "Help you say?"

Carissa face palmed at his dramatic act and sighed. "Yes, help."

Icarus tackled her in a hug. "Oh I knew you were a good Goddess?"

Carissa growled and pushed him off her. "Look, you need to play a God, my father should have his story told, it's a match made in... well you know."

"Yeah, well it's just that nobody's every done a play about your dad." Icarus pointed out. "I mean your dad isn't exactly Mr. Popularity."

Carissa flamed up. "Over sharing." She then calmed herself down. "The point is it's the rule breakers, the underdogs or in this case underworlds, who always win those awards."

Icarus thought about it. "Hmm, well villains are the juiciest roles, but I'm an actor. I will need to get inside his head. Learn what he's about, how you feel, what you eat, I mean I'm talking total access here lady."

Carissa smirked. "Oh that won't be a problem."

In the Underworld Pain and Panic kept trying their hardest to please Hades. When Carissa appeared they bowed to her. "Welcome back your all powerful princess." Pain greeted.

Panic stood on Pain's head. "We're just keeping up with our good job."

Hades looked at her confused. "What are you doing home so early?"

"Something more important came up." Carissa told him.

Pain smiled at her. "You figured out how we can use the Cronus..."

Carissa quickly covered his mouth and nervously chuckled. "Um, dad, Pain, Panic." She moved to the side to show Hercules's best friend. "This is Icarus."

Hades got up not looking happy but calmly said. "Um sweetie, he doesn't look very... deceased."

Carissa smiled. "Far from it daddy, at the drama festival at Hercules's school he's going to be playing the role of you!"

"Me?" Hades asked looking at the little weirdo.

"That's right." Icarus changed his voice a little. "It's my name, sticks my game, bada bing, bada boom. How was that?"

Hades gave him a blank stare before putting his hands on Carissa's shoulders dragging her away. "We're going to need a minute." When they were out of hearing range Hades glared at her. "You brought a mortal here? And Jercules's best friend?"

"Relax dad, I have a plan and it involves him." She pulled him down to her height and whispered in his ear.

Hades looked doubtful at first but then a smile made his way to his face as he heard more and more. At the end he lifted her up and gave her a huge kiss on the cheek. "That's my evil little girl." He set her down and put his arm around Icarus. "Hey little acorn, you're going to be a heck of an oak. So what are we waiting for? Time to make you a star!" First Hades showed Icarus the docks where new souls were arriving. Icarus took notes as Hades grabs souls that were trying to escape. Next was minion torturing. "Now you see when roasting minions your gotta really lose yourself, arms extended, head thrown back, a lot of bugga bugga you know? Then you just flame on, watch this, they'll love this stuff. Ok ready?" Hades then breathed fire right at Pain and Panic. Icarus just smiled big and continued to take note.

Later on Carissa and Hades sat on their thrones watching Icarus trying his best to be like Hades. "Boom, puff, here's the deal. The Underworlds the pits right? But I'm like the River Styx without a paddle, you know what I'm saying? I mean give me a flaming break, dead souls check in but they don't check out. I got the concept!"

Pain and Panic who were close by started laughing and Carissa found herself snickering as well.

"Bada bing bada boom bada bing bada boom." Icarus then chuckled. "I'm working on it."

'Ok good." Hades got up. "Acting school is out, take him back boys." He then started talking to himself. "Bada bing, bada boom?" He turned to Carissa. "Do I sound like that?"

Carissa chuckled and nodded.

After taking Icarus home Pain and Panic went back to their lab looking at the stone. "I don't get it." Pain pouted.

Panic agreed. "Yeah, what about all our good work?"

Hades and Carissa then appeared behind them.

"Don't panic Panic." Carissa told him. "You can't just walk up to Zeus and say 'Hey, here's the Cronus stone, take a big nap.'"

"You can't?" Pain asked.

"Try to stay with us here." Hades stepped in. "Because Zeus's precious little Jercules is in this drama festival, hey all the other Gods will be there. Ok?"

"Ok." Pain nodded.

''Ok, so actors wear masks on stage." Hades continued.

"Yeah, uh huh." Panic still looked confuse.

"You see where he's going with this right?" Carissa asked them.

They shook they heads. "Yeahhhh, no."

"Yeahhhh, no." Hades sighed before flaming up and making it more clear. "Ok fine, look you carve the stone into a mask. That pain in my flame kid wears the mask on stage, as my play unfolds all the Gods go sleepy bye. Ok? You got it?"

Pain and Panic then start running circles around him cheering. "Bravo, nice plan, love it!"

"By the time the reviews are in, I'll be moving on up! Finally getting my piece of the sky." Hades shouted happily.

Carissa went back to school just in time for lunch. "Isn't today lima beans?" Cassandra asked the lunch lady.

"All vegetables were offered to the Gods this morning." She explained. "Mutton loft?" She then dumped a scoopful of the mushy meat onto Hercules and Cassandra's tray.

"Thanks just the same." Cassandra mumbled.

"Thank flame I have my own lunch." Carissa mumbled.

"Hey have you two noticed anything different about Icarus?" Hercules asked them.

"I comprehensive list could take weeks." Carissa reminded him before turning back to where Icarus was.

"Sweetheart you look fantabulous, what are you some kind of cheerleader?" Icarus asked while he was dressed like Hades, he was all in black and his hair was now blue. "Nice, name's Icarus lord of the, well nothing currently but I'm in a training program." The lunch lady slam the slop onto Icarus's tray and he glares at her. "I honor you with my presents and you give me MUTTON LOAF?!" He walked away talking to himself. "Memo to me, pox on all food service workers."

Carissa couldn't help but laugh, he was acting just like her father.

Icarus came over and pushed Hercules away from Cassandra. "Baby doll, how would you like to flirt with danger huh? I have been a very bad boy."

Carissa stopped laughing and paled. "Please tell me my father doesn't really talk like that." She whispered to herself.

"Ew." Cassandra backed away from Icarus.

"See what I mean." Hercules said getting up.

"And I thought he was creepy before."

Hercules walked over to his best friend. "Icarus, I'm worried about you. I know you're doing Hades in the play and all, but you don't have to be like him."

"24/7, it's called acting Jercules." Icarus replied.

"That's what I mean! You never call me Jercules."

''Oh I'm sorry booboo, that's not my talking, that's my character."

"Yeah, well your character is going to get socked in the jaw."

"Hey hey, can I help it if my mimicking skills are dead on? Or undead as the case may be."

Hercules then realized something. "Hey wait a minute. How are you mimicking Hades?"

"I visualize, I speculate, plus he's had me down into the big basement for observation!"

"WHAT?! Icarus! We're talking about Hades! He's evil!"

"Actors don't judge, we observe, we internalize."

"Then I guess I'm no actor."

"Well your previews have been a little tempted." Icarus told him.

Hercules groans and mumbles to himself. "Hades must be up to something."

"Wait a minute!" Icarus looked at Hercules. "You're playing Zeus right?"

"Yeah. So?" Hercules asked confused.

"Oh I get it! Oh you're tricky, you're a tricky man. You're getting into character huh? Zeus always wants Hades to lose." Icarus gives Hercules a thumbs up. "Good job, we'll make an actor out of you yet."

"Icarus, I'm not acting, I think something's wrong." Hercules insisted.

"Sure thing Zeus, now if you excuse me I got business in the Underworld. Boom, later big bro."

After school Carissa ran home and smiled at her dad. "The kid with the sunstroke is playing the role perfectly! He's going to slay them on opening night!"

"Excellent!" Hades and Carissa looked at the mask Pain and Panic made. Hades actually liked it. "Oh nice! You boys are on a roll."

"Thanks boss." They reply.

Hades picks up the case. "Time to see this puppy in action."

At the festival all the Gods arrived except one. "Hey! Where's Hades?" Ares asked Zeus sounding kinda jealous. "I thought we all had to be here."

''That big baby is probably still upset that no one is doing his story." Zeus said.

Really Hades and Carissa were sitting on top of a far away mountain having a picnic.

"Sometimes things look better from the cheat seats." Hades said looking through some binoculars. "Way, way up here."

"Far away from the Cronus Stone." Carissa added as she ate some of the food they brought before grabbing her own pair to watch the show.

Behind stage Icarus was looking through the curtains before turning to Pain and Panic. "Where's Hades and Carissa? They're going to be here right?"

"They'd love to." Panic assured him. "But you know how it is."

"The king and princess of the dead work is never done, but they did send you this gift for good luck." Pain told him giving him the mask they made out of the stone.

Icarus took it. "Oh man, I'm like all choked up here, hey what's this made of?"

"Funny you should ask!" Panic was about to do the song and dance again but Pain quickly stopped him.

"We don't know."

Icarus put on the mask. "Bada bing, bada boom. Ladies and gentlemen, dwellers of the nether regions Hades is in the house!" He looks back down at the imps. "How's my hair?"

"We better go." Pain suggested.

"Knock them dead." Panic nervously chuckled. "Figure of speech of course."

Pain grabbed Panic and pulled him away. "Yeah, send them into an eternal, deathless slumber."

Panic elbowed Pain to shut up. "More figures of speech."

Unfortunately for them they bumped into none other than Hercules. "Hey, what are you doing here?"

"Just a couple of drama lovers." Panic quickly lied.

"Yeah, the play's the thing?" Pain added before they took off running with Hercules chasing them.

Before Icarus went on stage a chunk of broccoli was offered to the Gods making Ares groan. "Again with the broccoli? YO PAL!! MAKE MINE MUTTON!!"

Hercules quickly caught Pain and Panic before they could escape.

"Is that an elbow or an knee?" Pain asked. "I don't wanna look."

Hercules had Panic by the tail and demanded. "What are you up to?"

Panic smirked. "I'd tell ya, but I'd be 'lion'" With that he morphed into a giant lion making Hercules gasp and back up.

"Like stop fishing for info Jercules." Pain morphed into a fish which was stupid because now he couldn't breath which made him turn back. "I mean, stop badgering us!" He turned into a badger and tried to attack but Hercules just stepped to the side making Pain trip and roll away.

Panic charged at Hercules, but he grabbed Panic's tail and threw him right on top of Pain. Hercules grabbed them both, but morphed into screaming girls.

"Oh! I'm sorry." Hercules quickly put them down only for them to morph into snakes and slitter away into a mouse hole.

Hercules forgot about them and ran up to Icarus. "Icarus!"

"Not now Zeusy, I'm about to unleash my personal demons."

"Icarus! I just saw Hades's person demons and I'M NOT ZEUS!!" He looked right at the mask and fell to the floor. "What the? My leg fell asleep."

"Well you better get that checked big Z." Icarus insisted. "Now I have to get into character." He walked away repeating Hades's catch phrase over and over.

"I'd like to introduce our first performer, Icarus! Who will be performing his one man show, Give them Heck! Hades!!"

"Yes!" Hades cheered fist bumping the air.

"Show time!" Carissa clapped her hands.

"A play about Hades?" Zeus said shocked. "Huh, leave it to that kid who flew too close to the sun."

"To be evil! Or not to be evil! That is the question!" Icarus put on the mask and started talking fast and saying everything Hades would say. "It's a no brainier, evil. Bada bing bada boom, of I'm lying I'm dying. Dying! Get it!"

All the Gods that were watching started to slowly fall asleep and trying hard to stay awake. "Kid's good." Zeus yawned. "Just like my little brother."

"Eyes closed." Carissa observed as her and Hades watched the Gods from the mountain.

"Breathing shallow." Hades added. "YES!! Eternal sleep!!"

Hercules looked and saw all the Gods and Goddesses were falling asleep. "Icarus isn't that boring, and why isn't his acting coach in the God's balcony? Lets see, the Gods are asleep, my leg fell asleep when I got near him... Maybe it's because I'm part God! Think, think! Did Pain and Panic give him something.... THE MASK!!"

Some of the other actors came on stage hoping to wake the Gods up but Icarus pushed them away. "Go on, get out of here, that's just rude!"

Hercules ran on stage. "Hades! It is I! Your brother Zeus!"

Zeus woke up a little bit. "Hey, there he is, everybody, there's my boy." All the other Gods yawned and tried to stay awake.

"Well ok, make it snappy Zeus-a-shone, I'm connecting with the people here." Icarus turned to Hercules who fell to the floor after getting close to the mask again.

"Uh, Hades, I know we've had our differences in the past, but you really gotta listen to me this time."

Carissa frowned when she saw Hercules limp up to Icarus. "What is he doing?"

Hercules continued to pretend to be Zeus. "That mask you wear is cursed.. uh little brother, look at the balcony, you're putting the Gods to sleep and I fear it maybe one they'll never wake." He lowered his voice and whispered. "Take off the mask." He then went back to pretending he's Zeus. "Step out from behind the mask and show the world just how big of a God you really are."

Icarus crossed his arms. "Hey, how do I know this isn't another one of your Olympian tricks, Zeus?"

"Trust me." Hercules insisted. "If you win, Olympus will lose big time."

Icarus sighed and gave the mask to Hercules.

Hades flamed up as he watched. "NO! NO! NO! NO! The curtain was almost down!!"

Hercules threw the mask as far as he could and of course it Hades right in the face knocking him out.

"DAD!!" Carissa tried to get it off him but the stone made her too weak. "Pain! Panic!"

The two imps appeared and threw the stone off him revealing that the binoculars were in his eye sockets.

Carissa cringed at the sight and tried to wake up her father.

With the mask gone all the Gods woke up. Zeus stood up and started clapping. "That a boy son! That's my boy! Star of the show you know!"

Carissa kept shaking her father trying to wake him up. "Dad, come on, please wake up." Hades looked dead with him laying still and his flame was out.

They missed the whole show till the end. "And the award goes to Icarus and Hercules on their daring performance on sibling rivalry!"

Icarus went to the front of the stage. "Ok! I'd like to thank everyone that voted for me to give me this award, but I can't except it. No, acting is not about awards, no no, it's about the work. Thank you, but no thank you."

Hercules shrugged and was about to take the award but Icarus ran in front of him and grabbed it himself. "WHO AM I KIDDING?! THIS IS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE! HERC! I LOVE YA MAN!" Icarus kissed Hercules on the cheek making Hercules wipe it away with disgust. Icarus then looked at the audience. "Cassandra! Come on honey, come on down here and be with me!"

Cassandra curled up and covered her face as everyone looked at her.

Icarus kissed the reward and smiled at the audience. "You like me! You really like me!"

Carissa sighed and pulled the binoculars out of her dad's eyes.

Pain walked up to Hades. "Uh about those pay checks.."

Hades flames up so badly that the mountain they were on is now a volcano.