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While the irony of asking a costumed superhero why he's dressing up in the first place doesn't escape me, haven't we already gone through Halloween once this year?

eep.

[You weren't supposed to see this, Pietro.]

Class project?

[Oh, that was a great way to throw him off your scent there, Billy.]

Class Project? Go ahead, pull the other one now. [His nephew's...well....fanboy predilections were well known to Quicksilver.]

Serious! We were studying Ancient Greece in class, and...well, I decided to...do mine on mythology? [Youwillbelieveseethisismagicalwishspeakupinhere]

And that shameless gore-fest playing in the theater at the moment has nothing to do with your....choice of attire, right?

Let the class see something they can relate to.

I'm sure your history teacher will agree. [Did Pietro Maximoff have any other mode but scathing sarcasm?]

My history teacher is a terrible person if I don't get anything less than an A. [That trait seems inherent in everyone that belongs to the house of Magnus.]

History teachers for the most part of miserable human beings. If you want to impress them, you might as well get it right. [Quicksilver finally stated with an exasperated sigh.]

I'm not basing my report off of that movie. [There is no report, but what he doesn't know won't hurt him.] This is to grab peoples' attention.

Your armor is all wrong. The breastplate is obviously supposed to be Spartan in design whereas Theseus was Athenian. [It looked like Billy wasn't the only fanboy in the Magnus line. It just depended on what you decided to fanboy over from the sound of it.]

This is the Age of the iPod. Do you think people are going to care about my historically accurate armor, or that they just saw a kickass movie and what I'm wearing doesn't even look like what they saw in the movie?

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. [Quicksilver reminded him coolly before blurring briefly from view as he raced to get a book on ancient Grecian armor.]

Here, read this and then you'll be even more prepared for your presentation. [Pietro apparently was determined to make him learn something, it would seem.]

[He grumbles, but at least Pietro's finally treating him like family. Enough, even, that he cares about Billy's studies. In a flash of blue light, the armor dissolves. When it's gone, he grabs the book and offers a sheepish smile.] Mom doesn't like it when people use powers in here.

How much about Theseus do you know?

I can't say that I blame her if your powers are as unpredictable as Wanda's. [He drawled sarcastically.]

And I know enough. Supposed son of both Poseidon and the Athenian king Aegeus. When he sought out his human father, his stepmother tried to have him killed. Thesusus is the one who went to Crete and slew the Minotaur and escaped the Labyrinth built by Daedalus.

It had more to do with the Skrull attack that blew up her living room, I think. Which I had nothing to do with initially, by the way.

With the help of Ariadne and her thread, right? And when he returned from Crete, he brought her with him. Only Dionysus wanted her as his bride, so they left her on Naxos. When they did that, she cursed Theseus to forget to change sails, and when his father saw black, Aegeus committed suicide.

I've lost count of how many buildings Wanda accidentally and not so accidentally destroyed while learning to master her powers so she has my sympathies.

[A minuscule smile twitched at the corners of Pietro's mouth.] Precisely. And then he went on to remarry Phaedra who was Ariadne's younger sister. Don't tell Ares or Hercules I said this but they are not the best of examples on interpersonal dynamics and marriage if you ask me. Personally, I was always fond of Odysseus from the Greek myths myself.

[And Kitty's dressed as Princess Leia. Because superheroes love conventions, too. The real question is... how did she get Lockheed into the little Yoda suit? As for how he got past con security... he has his own deulxe pass around his neck.]

[Seriously Lockheed doesn't know if he's happy or annoyed at being told to don this Yoda garb. Star Wars is awesome but he feels very... well.]

[Billy doesn't even recognize her. He knew there were other supernerds out there, but Kitty Pride never seemed to be in that equation. So you'll forgive him if he just passes both of you by.]