The Battle Of New York

In whole, the battle lasted about two hours. The monsters weren't Greek as far as Percy could tell. He had come across almost every beast from Greek mythology at least once, in some cases twice, and had never seen anything like these creatures. No, these were not of earth that much he could tell. Of course as soon as I leave one world of crazy monsters and wars behind, another one pops up to take its place, he thought.

Then it got worse. A bone chilling roar erupted from the hole and then crawled out the ugliest flying worm Percy had ever seen. Well that's new. Thankfully his mom and Paul were out of town for a weekend getaway so that was one less thing to worry about. Percy went ahead and began moving off the streets. The aliens began to take strafing runs down the street shooting anything that moved. Someones got to do something about that portal. So that's what Percy did, slowly making his way down the street ducking into buildings and back alleys when the assholes flew over.

Now and then he would catch a glimpse of a red and gold streak laying waste to some beasts with extreme prejudice. Must be Stark in his Iron man suit. Then the lighting came. The sky over the Chrysler Building began to darken and the biggest bold of lightning Percy had ever seen struck the tower and began to gather around it until it finally redirected itself towards the hole in the sky. Zeus must be pulling out all the stops.

The tower was only 5 city blocks away but it took near an hour to move three without being noticed. Now and then Stark would pass over chasing down the aliens or one would fall off of their Chariots with an arrow sticking out of its head or be blasted by lightning. I guess the Gods are something to stop this, or most likely the campers. That was until Percy spotted the Hulk jumping around smashing any creature he could get his hands on. There was something else going on, but Percy didn't have time to think about that. The portal was still open and someone needed to get to the top of the tower close it off and stop the flow of enemies.

Percy was at about half a block away from the tower when he began to run into ground troops. He was hiding in small coffee shop when they bust in through the front door. They must have spotted him ducking in and came to dispose of him before moving onto the next victim. He didn't even have time to think, before they rushed at him swinging their long barreled guns around like a spear, trying to open Percy up like a pinata. Riptide was already out and swinging before he even thought about it.

Percy didn't even have time to register the fact that the celestial bronze didn't phase through the creature like it would on anything not pertaining to the Greek pantheon and its myths. He was only worried about the next target. Percy cut through them like a hot knife through butter. In a matter of seconds they were on the floor. Percy then go a real look at the otherworldly visitors.

They were large and muscular. Their ash gray skin was rough and leathery. They had flat, bug like faces with beady murky eyes. Definitely alien. And, it would seem, that celestial bronze works just fine on them.

When Percy stuck his head outside he saw that the entrance to Stark tower was only a couple hundred feet away. The street was also crowded with about 15 to 20 hostiles. Percy's eyes darted up and down the street, looking for a way around them when he spotted the fire hydrant just ahead of him. Percy couldn't believe his luck. Time to bring the rain. He reached out with his senses and felt the familiar tug in his gut when he commanded the water. He thought back to his battle with Hyperion 3 years ago in the second Titan war, focusing on the same feeling he got when he commanded his own personal hurricane.The wind began to pick up and the hydrant began to rattle. Then it burst, sending a continuous stream of water high into the air. Percy started down the street while he used the now moistened air around him and begun to form his hurricane.

It was bigger this time. Small clouds began to form and gather, and wind began to push them in a circle creating a funnel right above Percy's head. The aliens finally noticed and began to call out their friends. Percy picked up his pace to a run and charged the creatures the wind now howling around him. And rain pelting down in cold, hard, sheets, reducing their visibility.

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Clint had seen the kid duck into the coffee shop with a small squad of Chitauri foot soldiers close behind him once he got up and moved to the window had just came flying through. After this, I think I'll take a few months off to be with Laura and the kids. I'm getting to old for this shit. A wave of dread filled him when he saw the kid surrounded by himself. He was about to call it in when he saw a flash of golden bronze and a quick fight broke out.

Clint narrowed his eyes and looked closer as the kid poked his head out like it was a regular Wednesday afternoon. Who the hell is this kid. Then the storm came out of nowhere. "Thor is that you at the tower entrance?" Stark called out.

"Negative, he's with me on the bridge." responded Captian Rogers.

"Then why the hell is there a god damn hurricane the size of a city block on my front porch?" But before anyone could respond it was gone, just as soon as it had appeared.

In its wake the street was flooded with about half a foot of rain water, card were overturned and lamp posts and street lights were blown down from the wind. And 23 Chitauri lay scattered across the street. Some covered by cars or killed by other debris from the high wind speeds. The rest lay in pieces across the street. Most missing a limb or three. Clint knew of only one place that used such brutal killing methods.

Who the fuck is this kid and what the hell is he doing so far from camp.

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So this chapter was going to be longer and cover the whole battle to the very end. But I saw how many people started following my story and got kinda excited to see what everyone thought about where I was going with the story, specifically Barton's arc. Let me know what you guys think and thanks for following!