So now we have the return of Annabeth. We might have a few more make appearances. You'll just have to wait and see. I do not own PJO, Marvel, or the DCU.
Annabeth pov (After the Giant War)
As I sat in the throne room watching everyone get their rewards for fighting in the Giant War, I sat and thought to myself about how horrible a person i've been to Percy. After all he has done for me, all I've done was cheat on him with Apollo when we were supposed to be fighting. My dumb pride and I didn't want to die a virgin and Percy the honorable man he is wanted to wait until marriage. It wasn't supposed to continue. As I continued my train of thought, I heard my mom in my mind say," Tell them you accept. Do this for your dream." I looked up and said," I accept, Lord Zeus." I looked around and saw expressions of disbelief. I was curious as to what was going on as Zeus looked around. He turned to my mother and then me. "Annabeth Chase, we bestow upon you Godhood."He spoke. Wait what?
Next thing I knew, I was being blasted with energy and I saw the 3 fates. They spoke as one," All hail Annabeth Chase. Goddess of Books, Text, and Betrayal." In my mind I heard them tell me that they had much bigger plans for me. Afterwards they disappeared. As I sat their in shock, I didn't even notice what Percy asked for. Probably something for other people like his last wish. Just like the honorable seaweed brain I knew and loved. As the reward ceremony died down, a party was started all over Olympus. I just walked around until I bumped into someone. " Care to watch where you're going?" I basically yelled out. The person turned around and I saw it was Apollo. "Ugh, why now?" I basically said to myself. "Hey Annababe, want to go back to my palace? Now that you're a goddess, I can show you a few of the perks."Apollo said so self assured that I'd go with him.
I looked him dead in his eyes, not knowing my mother was behind me the entire time. "Apollo, I don't want to go anywhere with you. Because of my pride and weakness, I let you take the one thing I promised to the person I love. I cheated on the man who went through Tartarus for me so that I didn't have to go alone. A man who is more of a man you will ever be. Please do not talk to me unless you have to Apollo. Whatever we had, is over." I said to him watching his smile turn into a frown. He started to glare at me. "You say this now, but always remember. I didn't make you cheat on Percy. I wasn't the one who forced you to beg for me to take you again and again. You did it to yourself." He told me as he walked away. I shook my head. I already knew that. I turned around and saw my mother. I sighed and said," How much of that did you hear?" She shook her head at me with disappointment. "Enough to know that my daughter isn't the girl nor the woman I thought you were." She spat at me. That's when I heard the Fates again. " We have much bigger plans for you. He will need you in the war to come against the Titan." I stood straight up. More Titans? What did they mean? Next thing I knew I saw multiple black and blue portals appearing before everything went black.
Universe-1266 (Earth 1942)
I shook my head and stood up to see where I was. It looked like a war zone. I thought about it and it looked like I was displaced in time during one of the world wars. Which one, I don't know. I started walking when all of a sudden, a portal opened up and a person shot out at me. The person knocked me down and landed on me. "Get off of me!" I shouted out. The person grumbled,"If I had a choice, I wouldn't have landed on you." But he got up anyway. As I dusted myself off I took a good look at him. Long black hair, pale skin, and a sword at his side that looked really familiar. He looked up and gasped, and so did I when it clicked. "Nico!" "Annabeth?" We both nearly shouted at each other.
He looked around, asking a silent question. " I don't know where we are, but I at least know we are in the past." I told him. He stopped and gasped. "Annabeth, we seriously need to leave. Right now." He told me. I was about to ask why before we were surrounded by men with energy guns. Nico was about to pull his sword out but I spoke to him in his mind. "Do nothing for now. They may have information that we need. Try to use the mist to hide your sword or at least put it in a shadow." He did as I asked and stood down. As the men walked toward us, he hid his sword in a shadow. The men took us to a base of sorts. It looked like a German base. Which would most likely put us in World War 2. Great. Just great.
Once we were in the building, we were next to a man in what looked like a flag suit made for battle. He wore a blue suit with a white star on the chest with wing tips where the ears go. He looked at us in confusion before we saw the shadow of another man start walking toward us. "Arrogance may not be a uniquely american trait, but I must say you do it better than anyone Captain America." He man said. As he got closer, Nico stood rigid. The man, where he should have been flash and bone...was just a red skull. " But their are limits to what even you can do. Or did Erskine tell you otherwise?" The man continued. 'Captain America just stared at him. " He told me you were insane." He said just staring blankly at him as if they had met before.
The red skull guy gave him a minor glare. " He resented my genius and tried to deny me what was rightfully mine, but he gave you everything. So, what makes you so special?" He asked him. I looked to Nico and nodded my head. We wouldn't get a better opening than that. Nico summoned his sword, while I slowly made a knife appear. Captain America chuckled a bit and said,"Nothing. I'm just a kid from Brooklyn." Red Skull growled a bit before hitting Captain America. Once on his knees he just looked up at Red Skull and told him," I can do this all day." Red skull looked down at him with disgust. " Of course you can, of course you can. But unfortunately, I am on a tight schedule." He told him as he pulled out a gun.
Next thing we know, we see people swinging towards the room we were in. Red skull also saw them, and we took advantage of him being distracted. I shouted, "Now!" and Nico stabbed the guard holding him, while I punched the guy behind me. As Red skull went to shoot Captain America, he pulled a guard in front of him so that he'd take the hit. The other men busted in through the window, and Red skull turned and ran as the men started shooting the rest of the guards. One of the men ran to Captain America, "Rogers, you might need this." and tossed him a shield. He said thanks and ran behind Red skull. " Nico, we should help him. They are Americans, and they might need our help." I told him starting to follow behind the captain. He just looked at me and ran ahead to catch up. I guess we aren't on speaking terms.
I heard one of the men shout, " Assault team, move out." I guess they had other troops outside cause the building started shaking like it was being blasted at. The guards started to overwhelm the men on our side but just before they did, skeletons rose out the ground and started attacking them. I looked at Nico and he just smirked. We kept going trying to keep up with Captain America, I picked up one of their guns and started shooting the guards as we passed them. Along with them being energy guns, they also vaporize whoever they hit. As we caught up to him, we saw him throw his shield to keep a door open. We ran and stood beside him. He turned and looked at us. " Who are you too? I don't remember you anywhere." He asked. " I'm Annabeth, that's Nico, and we need to catch that guy before he gets away." I told him. As I said that, a man with flamethrowers on his arm came out. Captain America got behind a doorway wall as I summoned a shield. "Nico, get behind him." I told him as my shield started to melt.
Nico shadow travelled behind him and stabbed him through his chest. The man fell down and Nico turned to me. "After this Annabeth, don't search for me. I want nothing to do with you." He said to me as he turned around and walked towards the door we needed to go through. The military finally caught up with us and a woman walked up to Captain America. He smiled at her and told her she was late. She looked at him with the same eyes I used to look at Percy with. Love. She turned towards the door Nico walked out of and said," What about-" and Captain America looked stunned like he forgot and ran out with me following him.
We ran into a hanger of sorts when we saw Red skull get on a giant ship. The military guys shot the rest of his crew before they could make it on their. He turned to the woman he was with a moment ago. She kissed him and said,"Go get him." We ran out into the two sides colliding with each other in battle. As we ran, it just reminded me of the Titan war. Demigods fighting demigods because of one madman's pursuit of world domination. We ran, but the ship was moving faster and faster before we knew that we couldn't catch up to it. Nico appeared running next to us. " Captain America, Annabeth, grab my hand and hold on." he shouted. I immediately grabbed his hand knowing he meant shadow travel. Captain America did it reluctantly.
As we made it on the ship, we went to an unpopulated area. I turned to Captain America. "So, what's our plan?" I asked him. He looked at Nico and I. "Well, we need to set this bird before it reaches the United States. Someone also needs to make sure to keep Red Skull busy. Also, just call me Steve." He told us. I nodded to Nico. "Nico and I will handle Red Skull. You try to set this thing." I said. We walked into another room and saw missiles with names on them. Chicago, Boston, and one for New york. " We really need to stop this bird now." Steve said. A few guards came into the room we were in, they kept going but we needed to stop them anyway so that we don't run into them later. Steve kicked one of the ledge he was on, while Nico made one sink into the shadows and fall out the plane. Me on the other hand jumped towards mine and flipped him over before stabbing him in the chest.
We snuck into the control room. I turned and looked around the room. It was awfully quiet. Nico summoned a cloak with a hood and put it on. He suddenly turned around and sent a direct beam of shadows towards the entrance. Steve and I turned around and saw Red Skull. " You don't give up do you?" He asked. We all looked at each other and said together, "Not today." and with that, Nico and I charged him. Nico appeared behind him and tried to hit him with a shadow powered punch, but red skull turned and kicked him in the chest. He went to punch me, but I slid under it and kicked his legs. He fell and Nico tried to hit him again before he jumped back. I tackled him over a machine bumping Steve which made the ship lurch forward, meaning we are going down fast. Nico and I hit the ceiling with Red Skull coming at me.
He flew towards me. I tried to roll away but he was too fast. Once he was close enough, he knee'd me in the stomach before punching me again and again in the face. Nico crawled over and put him in a head lock to get him off me so that I could breathe. Steve was eventually able to get the ship leveled out, so now the three of us are hitting the ground with Nico landing on Red Skull. He elbowed Nico off of him before he stood up. "You could've had the power of the gods, Rogers. But you wear that flag on your chest, and think you fight a battle of nations. I have seen the future and you know what? Their are no flags." He told us with delusions of grandeur. Nico shouted out, " Not my future." before running towards Red Skull. Nico tackled him and they both hit the machine.
The machine sent a blast of energy into the air. Red Skull punched Nico off of him as he looked at the machine. He picked up a glowing blue cube. " What have you done?" I saw the cube start to power up. "Steve, whatever happens. Finish your mission, and live your life." I shouted to Steve as I can see he wanted to come help. He smiled sadly at me and nodded. Nico and I grabbed Red Skull as the cube showed us the stars. Piece by piece the three of us dissolved into what I now know is a portal. Red Skull screamed in rage as he was the first to go. "Nico?" I looked at him. He glanced at me. " I'm sorry for everything." I told him. The last thing I saw on him was a small smile before everything went black for the second time that day.
When I awoke, this time I was surrounded. "I am Sif, Shield maiden of Asgard. Who are you Trespasser? And how did you appear here?" She asked while I was surrounded. I stood proudly, yet not offensive. " I am Annabeth Chase. Goddess of Wisdom, Betrayal, Knowledge, and Text." I told her. She stared me down. I stared back not standing down in the slightest. " We shall see what The All-Father has to say." She spoke, turning her back on me. Wait, if she is Sif, and I'm going to see the All-Father...am I on Asgard?
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Nico pov
I woke up in a place where I felt only the dead, yet one other person. "My, My, My, what have we here." I heard. I turned around and saw a woman in all black walking towards me. "I am Hela. Goddess of Death." She said, smiling at me. Well great.