Chapter 1: A Threat is Built
It was a peaceful day at Camp Half-Blood. It had been ten months since Gaea's attempt at destroying the world, and life was as normal as it could be for the demigods. The campers were enjoying their activities, dueling one another for practice, perfecting their archery, or just relaxing.
Percy was sparring with Jason to keep in practice. Their swords clanged as the duel progressed. Jason feinted a slash, step forward, and shoved Percy to the ground.
"Looks like I win this one," Jason mused. He helped Percy onto his feet.
"Lucky break," Percy smirked. He capped his sword, Riptide, and slipped it in his pocket. "Let's go check on the girls. No doubt their bored of archery." The two left the arena and headed for the archery range as the mess hall exploded.
Percy uncapped Riptide and rushed to see the damage. Approaching the ruins of the former dining pavillion, a machine rose from the rubble. A black and golden finish with beady red eye-like lights. It had a pointed cone where a face would be, and a mace type weapon for an arm.
"What in Hades is that?" Percy stammered. He'd never fought anything so mechanical. The machine attacked, forcing Percy to roll out of the way. He slashed at the enemy, his blade bouncing off it.
"Percy, get out of there," Jason cried out as another machine dropped in behind him, this one with a three pronged claw. Jason, having noticed Percy's ineffectiveness with his sword, called for a lightning strike, overloading the innerworkings and shut down the robot. More like it came into view. "I can't do that for all of them."
Campers took up arms, despite the ineffectiveness of their weapons. Jason used his lightning sparingly, though this didn't help even out the fight. His energy was being sapped more and more as he mega shocked the robots. He prayed to his dad for a miracle.
The machines tossed campers aside with no mercy, only to make way to new victims. Jason started to lose hope when one of the machines was destroyed. In it's place was a blonde kid with green eyes. In his hand was a sword colored just like the machines.
"Who are you?" Jason asked. "And how did you do that?" The kid was about to answer when he was interrupted by another killer bot. He dodged and sliced up the metallic body, making two halves of a robot.
"Tell you later. Let's not lose our heads now." The kid went to cutting down more of the metallic onslaught as Jason watched in awe. He noticed there was a bulkier kid also destroying the machines as well. Within minutes, the field was littered with limp bodies and robot parts. The fallen demigods were gathered, and Jason went over to the two heroes.
"So who are you two?" Jason asked. His girlfriend Piper came to his side, with Percy limping over, his girlfriend Annabeth helping him walk.
"Well, I'm Sheldon," the blonde kid said, "And this is Ron."
"How did you guys manage to take them out now problem?" Percy asked. "Our weapons did nothing to them."
"Our Machina weapons are made just so we can get the drop on them," Ron boasted, sporting a tame British accent. "Honestly, if we hadn't shown up, this whole valley would be wrecked."
"Machina?" Annabeth repeated. "So that's what these robots are called."
"Actually," Sheldon intervened, "those are Mechon. They have no conscience. They just kill."
"So wait," Percy added, "is there any way we can deal with these things?"
Sheldon looked at the wreckage. "There's a lot of Mechon here. You could make some Anti-Mechon weapons out of all this."
"Yeah," Ron agreed. "Some blades would really help you here."
"Alrighty, lets get Hephaestus cabin on making the new weapons. Jason, Piper, take Percy to the Big House to get treated. I have some questions to ask these two."