➵ Sticky Hands Part I

"Nevah, whatcha working on?" Connor Stoll stood above me as I was sitting under a tree. I glanced up at him before flipping to another page in the case file.

Well...a copy of a case file that Stiles has managed to sneak me. Noah was having a hard time with a case that seemed more in my experience than theirs. I had just recieved it not to long ago and I was reading the information of what they already know.

"Something." I replied, looking at the photo of a warehouse of sorts, located at the top of the page.

"What's that something?" He asked, sitting down next to me. He peered over my shoulder to try and see more information.

"Something." I smirked, shutting the case file shut. Connor sighed in defeat. Suddenly, the case was ripped away from me followed by a cackle. My eyes widened, stumbling to my feet. "Travis! Travis get back here with that! That's classified!"

"Nothings classified to me!" Travis sang out, running past campers. Grumbling curses in Ancient Greek, I ran after the Stoll. Connor wrapped his arms around my waist, holding me back.

"Run Travis!" Connor encouraged.

"You little..." I thrashed around in his hold, seething. Travis was now in the woods. Huffing, I threw my head back and stomped on Connor's foot before elbowing him in the stomach. He groaned in pain, letting me go.

Shoving past him, I ran in the direction Travis went. Entering the woods, I saw a glimpse of the Stoll climbing Zeus' Fist. I clenched my hands and stomped towards the large rock.

"Travis!" I yelled, now standing in front of Zeus' Fist. Scowling, I looked up. Travis was sitting at the top, his legs dangling. His brows were furrowed as he looked through the case. "Travis, give that back! It isn't meant for you to read!"

Travis waved me off, continuing to look through the files. Stiles is going to kill me. After Noah kills him first. Connor jogged up next to me, looking up at his brother. Travis was in the middle of flipping a page before he stopped. Looking down at me, he stood up with a grin.

"I know what the criminal is!" Travis exclaimed, closing the case file shut and quickly climbing down.

"What?" I asked. I haven't even finished looking at it.

"What do you mean, Travis?" Connor looked at his brother. Jumping down into a crouch, Travis walked towards us. He opened the file and pointed to a page that held a blurry picture of a man and the paragraph underneath it.

"This guy, Alexander Stone, he's a demigod. Sounds like he may even be either a son of Hermes or Mercury." Travis further explained. I looked at the paragraph and read it aloud.

"'Stone is known for theft. He first started off stealing from stores and shops. Now he is stealing important objects from major corperations. His last heist was at Pym Technologies. Leads have given us that his next target is Stark Industries.' Thats here in New York." I frowned and looked at the brothers.

"Continue reading." Travis nodded, crossing her arms against his chest.

"'Alexander Stone is known to be sly, a trickster, cunning, mischevious, having enhanced "toys", etc. There needs to be extreme caution when around him. His weapon of choice is an unknown weapon that is similiar to a sword.'" I finished reading.

"Well, he's definately related to us then." Connor rubbed the back of his neck. He looked at me. "What are we going to do?"

"Well, I have to IM Stiles and tell him what we know. If you guys wany to help on taking this Stone guy down, then I'm all for it. The more the merrier." I told them.

"We're in." The Stolls chimed in unision, their usual smirks on their face.

"Great." I smiled, grabbing the file from Travis and shutting it closed. "Let's head back to my cabin."

As soon as we existed the woods, there were chatters coming from the campers. They were crowding around someone, but I couldn't see. The Stolls and I looked at each other in confusion. Pushing past some of the campers, we arrived at the front of the crowd. There was a guy standing in front of with his back facing us.

"Stiles?" I said in shock. He turned to face me, a grin on his face. I jogged towards him, wrapping my arms around him. "How in the Hades did you get in here?"

"Percy let me in. Totally weird and amazing system you guys got there by the way." Stiles replied, pecking my lips. The campers whistled and clapped at the sight. Blushing, I hid my face in Stiles chest. "Found out yesterday that our criminal must be a demigod. Figured you caught on too. So, I drove here."

"You drove Roscoe across the entire country?" I perked an eyebrow in amusement.

"He isn't in that bad of a condition!" Stiles defended.

"Stiles...that poor jeep has duct tape keeping it together."

"So?" Stiles grumbled.

"So this is your boyfriend." Travis smirked, interrupting. The Stolls stood next to us, taking in Stiles apperance.

"Nice to meet ya." Connor extended his hand out toward Stiles.

"And who are you?" Stiles asked, wearily glancing at his hand. He flickered his eyes around before landing them on me, perking an eyebrow. I nodded. "Okay, which Stoll are you?"

"Aw, come on Nev!" Connor whined, dropping his hand. "You just ruined the fun."

"She didn't need to tell me. Your brother, Travis, right?" Stiles pointed to Travis who froze in his spot beside him. "Yeah, you, were trying to pick pocket me. Nice try."

"I-you...how?" Travis stuttered out in shock. I grinned, slipping my hand into Stiles'.

"I'm the son of a cop. I pick up on things." Stiles shrugged.

"And you do the exact same thing. Don't try to sell yourself as some saint, Stilinski." I rolled my eyes.

"They didn't need to know that." Stiles huffed.

"So...are we getting this Stone guy or what?" Connor asked, placing his arm on his brother's shoulder.

"Yeah, is there any place that's quiet and uh," Stiles glanced at the nosey campers, "more private."

"I know a place." I smirked.

"Great. Awesome. We might even need some more team players. Any ideas?" Stiles asked. The Stolls looked at me with a grin and I nodded.

"We got the perfect team for you."

Annabeth, Percy, Leo, Nico, Will, the Stolls, Stiles and I were in the meeting room. With permisson from Chiron and Mr. D, we were all around the ping pong table with snacks and juice boxes laid out. Most of us were seated at the tabled.

"Okay, my father got news that Stone is attacking Stark Industries tonight. More specifically, Stark Tower. We still don't know what Stone is trying to get, but I'm pretty sure it's a Stark invention." Stiles explained as he was standing. He set a blue print of Stark Towers on the ping pong table, smoothing it out.

"So what's the game plan?" Connor asked, his fingers tapping against the table.

"We're gonna need to use both," Stiles pointed to each Stoll, "of yours and Annabeth's brains to see all the possible outcomes this guy can do in a place as advanced as this."

"Alright, sounds easy so far." Annabeth said.

"What else?" Travis nodded along, leaning against the wall.

"More like how do we get in and when does the action start?" I questioned, looking at my boyfriend.

"Glad you asked Nev." Stiles uncaped a red sharpie and started marking x's and o's. " The x's are the areas where people can easily break in and out of the tower. The o's are the rooms where Tony Stark has his inventions."

"That room says 'Tech Room'." Percy pointed out, leaning forward in his seat. "What could Stark have there that Stone would want?"

"It's basically in it's name." Annabeth explained. "Stark could have plans, blueprints, prototypes, codes and who knows what in that room. Maybe even access to parts of the building. Maybe even more."

"So what can I do?" Leo asked.

"Well, from what I know, you can build stuff right?" Stiles licked his lips.

"Of course I can." Leo smirked. "What do you need me to build?"

"As of right now, some toys of yours might be nice to help us out in case things go south." Stiles told him.

"Got it. So things that can go boom?" Leo perked an eyebrow, a mischevious smile now playing on his lips.

"Just not a big boom." Stiles licked his lips. Leo nodded, rubbing his hands eagrly together. He immediatedly dug some things out of his tool belt and fiddled with wires.

"Okay, now how do we sneak in?" Will questioned. Nico went to say something but Will shot it down quickly. "You are not shadow travelling all of us in there."

"But-"

"Doctor's orders." Will beamed. Nico pouted, slouching in his chair and crossing his arms.

"Well, according to the blue print, the best bet is through the vents." Annabeth started.

"I sense a but." Percy sighed, tilting his head back and stared at the ceiling.

"But," Annabeth continued, "this is Tony Stark we are talking about. He's going to have sensors amongst high tech. He will know if someone breaks in."

"So we are going to have to use shadow travel then." I stated.

"Mrs. O'Leary can help." Percy added.

"And I can probably hack into his systems." Annabeth inputted. "He will most likely have motion sensors or something."

"Okay, so entering is covered. Now we need to see who goes where and what to do from there. Annabeth, Connor and Travis. You guys got ideas on what can happen with this guy?" Stiles asked. They all nodded. "Awesome. Okay. Now, let's hear them and talk strategy from there. Annabeth, I assume you already got that in mind?"

"Yeah, plenty of them." Annabeth nodded. "Okay, Stolls lay it on me. What are your ideas on what may happen with this guy and what he may pull?"

"Well going off that he is a demigod and either a son of Hermes or Mercury, Stone is going to have some tricks up his sleeves." Travis informed.

"And, he is known for his trickster ways." Connor added. "So, maybe he has magical items that he relies on."

"Exactly. That meaning, he most likely got these items from Hermes...or Mercury. Either way, we can ask Hermes what he knows." Travis continued.

"So, we best go ask him through IM right now while you guys finish strategizing." Connor finished.

"Alright, hurry up." Annabeth bit her lip. The Stolls ran off to go IM their father. "Okay, now lets talk battle. Percy and Nevah, you two are our strongest fighters. You will most likely go in first in case things go wrong. As soon as I give you two the go, you enter the vents, got it?"

"Yeah." We both nodded.

"What do we do next then?" I inquired.

"You guys will go straight to the lab. Nico and Leo will follow suit and go to where he stores all of his toys. Will and the Stolls will go to the Tech room." Annabeth turned toward Stiles. "That leaves you and me to hack and keep an eye on surveliance."

"Guys," Connor ran in with Travis right behind him. "Stone has two magic toys with him."

"The others are bombs of sorts." Travis added.

"Like explosives?" Leo furrowed his brows, stopping his tinkering momentairly.

"Yeah, like explosives."

"Think you can make something to stop that?" Stiles asked Leo.

"Easy hermano!" Leo laughed and waved a hand in dismissal.

"What are his magical toys?" Nico looked at the Stolls.

"Besides his sword, one is a metal ball that spits out sticky goop." Connor informed.

"The other is kinda like a firecracker," Travis continued, "and follows it's enemies until it hits them."

"We can so kick his ass." I grinned.

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