(Based off of MacGyver, 2016 version. Just letting you know that I'm using the PJO and HOO as the main characters of this Tv show drama/action story. I also put my own twist into this, so don't get mad at me when I put something in the story that doesn't match up to the show .)
Annabeth's P.O.V
How do I explain my life? Well, it basically started the day they recruited me. Me, a basic white girl who nobody really liked because I was a little off. August 19th was the day that my boss decided that I was good enough for them; all I had to do was prove to them that I was strong enough. I was tested physically and emotionally since what I was doing was really hard, maybe, even almost impossible for an average human.
The test was easy for me, but then again, I'm not average. They started out with physical. Push-ups, crunches, anything to help me build up strength. After about a week of training, I was too sore to get out of bed. I knew that if I didn't, I would get kicked out of whatever this was. It took two and a half months to finally be able to handle that pain of your muscles aching.
"Annabeth?" I heard my best friend, Piper, call.
"Piper?" I called back. Piper and I became close friends the minute I walked into the facility. She walked up to me and asked if I needed anything. Me, being me, said that I was fine, but as I was walking away, I realised that she wanted to become my friend. "What do you need?"
"Well, my family is coming from LA, and I was wondering if you wanted to meet them?" Piper asked. Piper is actually quite scared of her mother. Her mother, Aphrodite Mclean, is a fashion role model for many people in the world. Her dad, Tristan Mclean, is an actor based out of LA. She ran away in hope that she could get out of the popularity of being the daughter of two famous role models.
"I guess," I was questioning myself because I'm not good with people. It took me a month to fully trust Piper. I truly regret not trusting her sooner because she's such an amazing person.
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Later that day the academy found out that we were going to get a new recruit. Nobody knew if the recruit was going to be a boy or a girl, but we all knew that someone new was rare. I was the last recruit that showed up. I honestly didn't think that we were going to get a new recruit because I was the first recruit in over 2 years. I've only been here for about eight months, and there's already a new recruit.
I took about three hours for the recruit to showed up. We found out that the recruit was a guy right around the time that he showed up. If I have to be honest, he was quite handsome. He's raven-haired with unusual green eyes. He was wearing dark blue jeans with a black Adidas sweater. I've never seen anybody as ….. Shut yourself up Annabeth, Stop drooling.
Sorry, I guess by that you could tell that I kind of has a …. ANNABETH! (Weird comments are from me in the story. Just thought that this would make the story more interesting.)
Sorry. After he got here, I had to go to the training room and spare with Piper. Piper has a little bit more experience than me, so I have to work a little harder to beat her. Once, about two months ago, Piper and I were sparing and I accidentally hit her in the face giving her a black eye. It was kind of funny, but I said sorry after it happened because I love Piper, she's my best friend.
Nobody was supposed to address that this new recruit until he started classes. He's supposed to join us in classes tomorrow, but we think he won't because we all get a week to get used to the location. I mean, I was given a week to get used to the facility.
In the middle of a class, Piper and I were called into the big gal's office. Usually, if you get sent to his office, you're most likely to be sent home; you can also get an assignment to go on some sort of mission. As we were walking to the office, we walked by the new recruit.
"See you in class," He said. I was kind of confused because how could he know that he was going to be in my class.
We kept walking. Once we got to the office, I got this uncertain feeling in my stomach. I didn't know what was going to happen. We walked into the room and saw her in her huge ass chair. When she saw us, she just smiled and waved us to come to sit down. I wonder what was going through her head.
"I have a mission for you," was what she said. I was surprised. I have never been given a mission in my couple months of being here.
"What about?" Piper asked.
"Annabeth, you, Piper, Zoe and Percy, the new recruit, will be going to a party to steal a biological weapon," the big gal, Athena Chase, AKA my mother, told us.
"When do we departure?" Piper asked.
"In two hundred hours," Athena said.
As we walked out I was super confused. Zoe, working with her is something that nobody really gets to do. She's one of the higher people in the organization. She's supposed to be an amazing person to work with. I'm excited yet nervous about this.
Piper and I share a room, so we go straight there to go pack. We need to pack nice clothes and normal clothes so that we can look like a normal person in society. I put on my sweatpants and a t-shirt so that I would be comfortable on the trip to the place that, I honestly have no clue as to where it is.
I grabbed my bag and waited in the hall for Piper. She's a perfectionist, meaning that her bag has to be in perfect order at all hours of the day. When she finally came out, we walked to the front of the building waiting for the new recruit and Zoe. When they finally showed, it kind of looked like they already knew each other. They were punching each other playfully as if they were siblings or cousins.
"Hey newbies," Zoe said.
"I've been here almost as long as you Zoe," Piper said, "I just realized something, I have to cancel my visit with my parents."
Once Piper was finished her phone call, we got into the van and rode to the airport. Once we got there, we got tickets to Washington D.C, which if I have to be honest, kind of surprised me. The plane flight took about four and a half hours.
Once we got off, I saw Percy run and fall on the ground as if he were afraid of flying in planes. Maybe he was. Anyways, Thalia collected him so that we could go to our hotel. Our hotel was a 10-minute drive from the airport. It was quite large, maybe twenty or thirty floors. It was quite beautiful with glass windows that look like they're all connected and lots of vegetation in the front of the building.
"The party is tonight at six thirty and it's four twenty now, so once we get to our rooms, you should start getting ready," Zoe started, "We have two rooms, I'll be sharing a room with Percy, Annabeth, you and Piper will be sharing a room."
"Alright, let's do this," Percy said. That was one of the first things that I heard him say.
We got our key card and headed to our rooms. Piper started on her makeup once we got there. I put on my dress and also started on my makeup on without caring that I'm naturally pretty. I decided to bring my black knee-length dress that quite bushy and put on a white to black smokey eye with dark red lips. To me, this is a hard look to conquer. It took me years to get the winged liner to look right.
Piper walked out of the bathroom and looked at me, "Wow, you look gorgeous Annie. I wish I looked like you." She said. She's probably one of the prettiest people that I know, but she makes this comment all the time and it pisses me off.
"You look amazing too Piper, you always do," I said, but she just frowned at me, which happens all the time.
We headed into the door when we heard a knock, which must've been the others. And it was. We headed to our cars. We each got our own, I got a Lamborghini Veneno, Percy got a W Motors Lykan Hypersport, Zoe got a Bugatti Chiron and Piper got a Limited Edition Bugatti Veyron by Mansory Vivere. The best part about this is that we get to keep the cars once we're done.
We got in our cars and headed to the address that was put into google maps. The drive took us on an hour drive out of Washington D.C, but I'm pretty sure that this is the right place. And there's a hospital nearby just in case we need it.
Once we got there we used our fake names. Mine is Patricia Martin, Piper's is Carly Stein, Percy's is Peter Straight and Zoe's is Mcquela Berenstein. (In the conspiracy of who Lil Mcquela really is and why The Berenstein Bears are spelt wrong.)
The party wasn't anything like what I pictured it to be. It was larger than what I originally thought. Our names were on the list, thank god, which got us into the party. We parked our cars in the front so that we could make sure that nobody could steal the cars.
We got into the house and immediately spread out to look for this biological weapon that we need to find. I stayed downstairs, Percy went upstairs, Zoe went to the backyard and Piper went to the front yard. We all searched for a good four hours before we had any hints as to where it could be. We all decided to meet up in the front of the building so that we could work from there. What we realized was that Zoe hadn't shown up for our meeting. Again we split up and search for her, all freaking out because there can't be a way that the best agent in our agency is being held captive. Can it?
We were so desperate we all got in our car and decided to leave, we drove until we got to the bridge where a black van was parked. We got closer, realizing that Zoe was there; gagged and looking helpless. It looked like she had been crying like she was completely ornery. We all got out of our cars, pulling out guns out.
"Drop the guns," the man had said, "or I'll shoot her."
We all hesitated for a second before we all dropped our guns. We were all freaking out about this.
"I hear that you're all looking for my biological weapon," he stated, "well, you're not going to get it."
When he said that Percy bent down and grabbed his gun. The man wasn't kidding when he said that he would shot Zoe. He did, right in the heart. You know what else he did, he shot me; That's right, me. I don't really remember what happened after that, all I remember was Zoe getting shot then I was in a hospital bed. We lost our top agent and the biological weapon.
3 months later
"We really needed this," I told Piper. She and I took a trip to Barcelona, Spain for a couple of months. I decided that I didn't want to go back to the agency because I felt that I needed some time away from all that.
"Ringggggg. Ringggggg. Ringggggg," My phone rang. It was my mother.
"Hello?" I asked.
"I need you and Piper to come back to the agency ASAP!" My mother had said. It sounded pretty serious meaning that it can't be good, "I already booked your plane tickets."
I hung up and told Piper what was going on. She looked disappointed, but she also understood what was happening. We ran to our room and packed as quickly as we could. We were probably rushing, but we didn't care. We'd rather be early for a flight then late for a plane flight. We got into our car and drove to the airport.
Our flight was around 11 hours, which wasn't horrible for flying across the world. We landed in Los Angeles at 12:49 pm, which meant that we had an hour to get to the agency that was half an hour away. We drove straight there, making sure that we wouldn't be late for this meeting. We got out of the car and went straight to her office.
"Why is this meeting so urgent?" I asked my mother.
"Well, let me tell you," She started, "we found the biological weapon."
Both mine and Piper's faces fell with terror. We knew what was going to happen next.
"I want you two and Percy to go retrieve it," she said.
Oh god, why. I mean, I'm good at this kind of stuff. I was in the military before they found me, or should I say tracked down, so I can create bombs and fight physically and with a gun.
"First, before you go off, you need to interview someone that's been convicted so hacking. I think that she'd be good on your team," My mother said.
"Okay," was all I said.
We drove to the prison of where this girl was being held. Her name is Thalia Grace. She's been convicted of hacking the Pentagon. Yeah, you heard me, the Pentagon.
"What do you want?" Thalia asked me. She kind of had that mean girl vibe. She also seemed to be a girl that would wear clothes that were rockstar-ish.
"I work for an organization called Department of External Services or DXS. We need you to track down a man named Luke Castellan" I told her.
"What's in it for me?" She asked me.
"Well, if you successfully track him down, you'll be free to go; to get out of this place. And we also would want you to be part of our team.
"Okay, bring me a computer," Was all she said after that.
We grabbed her a computer and she went right into the work. She types crazy fast, almost inhumanly. When she was done, she called us into the room and told us that she had found him.
"Where," Piper asked.
"Well, I've spotted him, somewhere in San Francisco," she told us.
"Go pack a bag, you're coming with us," I confirmed to her.
She looked quite happy, yet surprised that I wasn't lying about taking her with us. She looked genuinely happy. She smiled and jumped out of her seat when we un handcuffed her hands. We took her to her cell to gather her things, then she got changed and we left.
When we arrived in San Francisco, we found a hotel that would fit the description of the last place that Luke was seen. A tall brown building that has lots of windows. We have three days to find Luke or else we're all in deep shit; I actually mean deep shit, that's where they'll put us.
To our surprise, it was quite easy spotting Luke because he also stayed in our hotel, right next door to be exact.
We knocked on his door with our guns at hand, just in case we needed them. He opened the door and didn't look shocked at all like he knew that it was coming. What I was shocked about was that Zoe was sitting there, well and alive. This ultimately confused me because everyone that I know said that she had passed away. She clearly hasn't.
"Annabeth, Piper, Percy and someone new. Cool," Zoe stated, "good to see you."
"Where's the biological weapon!?" I asked Zoe.
"Oh, that old thing," She said, "I sold it."
This got me mad, so I went up to her and punched her in the nose. As she was wailing in pain, I asked her who she sold it too.
"A man that is going to use it for destruction, a man you can't beat, my father." She said, "Atlas Nightshade"
That name is evil in this world. He'll kill hundreds or maybe even thousands of people with this item. Nobody knows what this man can really do. He's already killed over a dozen people, which considers him a psychopath; I'm not lying about that by the way. Apparently, psychopath runs in the family because she's on the wrong side of the door.
"What's he going to do with it?" Percy asked him.
"He's planning on making it airborne through an IED."
I now had a duty to find Atlas and extract that weapon from him, I don't care about how long it takes, I'm going to find this man. All I really need to do is find out some more information and get Thalia to track him down.
"Thalia, I need you to track down Atlas!" I yelled at her.
"On it," she said.
It took a while, but we got some answers out of Zoe and found where Atlas was located. He's located in Los Angeles, funny enough. We have to get the weapon out of the bomb before it explodes at 3:33 am, which I find to be the scariest hour of the night. We only have twenty-one hours left.
We head home to LA and find out that he's planning on exploding that bomb at our facility. We rush to the facility to make sure that he hasn't done anything yet. When we arrive, we see that he's there already.
"Where is it," I yell at him. He just smiles.
"It's too late, you won't find it," were his last words before he shot himself in the head.
We brought Zoe with us. By what she saw, she looked a little traumatized. She probably didn't know that her father was going to shot himself at the crime scene. She looked upset. We sent her away before going into the facility to find that bomb. We set the alarm on so that everybody in the facility, even the recruits would get out safely just in case the bomb did go off.
We all separated. I went to the basement, and to my surprise, he hid it in plain sight. Right in front of me was the bomb that was going to blow up this facility and release a poisonous gas into the air. I got to work, not letting anybody distract me from my work. I had to find a way to take the biological weapon out of the bomb.
When I finally figure out what I'm going to do, I took the biological weapon out of the bomb as carefully as I could. It worked; the bomb deactivated the second I took it out the way I did. The building and the people in it are safe.
"I found it, and took the weapon out of the bomb," I said over my com, "it's deactivated."
All I could hear after that was my friends congratulating me on my victory. Our victory. Even with this, I can tell that we aren't done with Zoe, something's bound to happen.
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2 days later
"We're not safe here," was all my mother said. This confused me because I thought that this was one of the safest places that recruits could be.
"What do you mean?" I asked her.
"Knowing Zoes, she's most likely told people where we are and who we are."
By the look on my mother's face, she was not happy about this. She brought this company to the top. She has worked harder than anyone to make sure that we stay alive and that nobody gets hurt. When she said that we needed to leave, I was ultimately shocked. This was the only place that I felt even a little safe.
"I'll go tell the other recruits," was all I said.
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Back at home, we have a barbeque. I am the one that will be choosing the new name for our new organization. My mother will the "woman in charge" and we'll be on her team. The whole point of this is that we'll find people that have been in trouble or the people that are the trouble.
"Have you figured out what you want this organization to be called?" My mother asked.
"As a matter of fact, I have," I told her, "The Phoenix Foundation."
Everybody agrees, which honestly surprises me a little bit. After that, we all go back to the barbeque that was fun and drink our beers. Tonight was a success.
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Zoe's P.O.V
Nobody expected it. I always have a bobby pin in my hair, just in case. I've been picking at my handcuffs for what feels like forever. Finally, I hear a click. I get my hands out of them and stand up, now all I have to do is figure out how to get out of this FBI transport truck. Then I thought about it, remembering that there's an emergency latch on the inside of the doors. I go to it and open the doors. Then I jump out.
I'm pretty sure I broke a rib or two, but that doesn't matter. I ran into the forest, people not noticing that I just escaped an FBI vehicle. I surprised nobody noticed that I was gone, the doors of the truck were wide open and they must've felt me jump out. While I was in the forest, I found a house to hide out in. It looked abandoned, just the way I like them.
Nobody saw me jump out of the truck, nobody's looking for me, nobody cares; I'm free.
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