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Marvel's Percy Jackson

Volume One – Avengers

Chapter Six – The Avengers Assemble

Percy Jackson zoomed the streets of New York on a sweet motorcycle he'd grabbed off the street some blocks earlier. The wind whipped through his hair as he exhaled, feeling completely at ease. It may seem weird that he would be feeling like that in the middle of a warzone but he'd been fighting for most of his life and this was the first time in a long time that he was fighting for something other than a paycheck.

He spotted a single Chitauri terrorizing a young man dressed in a pink button up shirt and khaki shorts. Aside from the dude's wardrobe he hadn't done anything to deserve the treatment he was getting so Percy uncapped his sword and sliced through the alien, its body practically exploding after the impromptu high-speed killing.

The guy's glasses fell off and certainly would have hit the ground if it weren't for his weirdly good reflexes. He was probably used to them falling off or something, Percy reasoned as he resumed his journey to the Hudson river.

A minute or two later, thanks to the least traffic New York had seen since the first battle of New York, Percy arrived on the banks of the polluted river. He parked the motorcycle and got off it, seeing immediately why Cap had asked for someone's help.

Only a few feet away from the river was a very big group of Chitauri gathered around another group, the second one made up of humans. The Chitauri were . . . playing with the people, for the lack of a better word. There were men, women and even children being pushed around and cut by the aliens.

In the group were a couple of cops, both of them with bruised faces and the remnants of their smashed and blood-smeared walkie-talkies on their shoulders. So that's how Cap knew. He must have been working with the police and heard about the trouble from one of them.

Percy knew he had to do something so, without giving it a second thought, he yelled at the aliens.

"Hey! Hey, you! Predator rip-offs!" The aliens all looked up from their sick game to check out the mercenary, their heads tilted slightly to the side as if they were wondering what the Hades that human was screaming about.

The Chitauri didn't seem very concerned about him at all and there was only one of them who broke away from the group and that one seemed pretty bored. Percy growled and pulled out a gun, sliding in a new magazine after emptying it earlier. He hated being thought of as inferior by his opponents.

The demigod mercenary cocked his gun and fired it at the alien, getting five shots into its body before it touched the ground completely devoid of any life, catching the other Chitauri's attention for real. They all looked very angry and seemed to completely forget about everyone else there. None of them gave so much as a glance at their fallen comrade so Percy figured that they were angrier about his ruining their game rather than killing another of their kind.

The Chitauri suddenly charged at him with their weapons at the ready. They seemed to know that they held a powerful firearm in their hands – unlike the aliens Percy fought earlier that day – judging by the fact that Percy had to jump as far away as he could to avoid a barrage of lasers.

The motorcycle he had arrived on wasn't lucky enough to be able to move independently and was thus destroyed in a fiery explosion along with pretty much every other thing that could blow up in the general vicinity.

"I really liked that motorcycle," Percy muttered angrily. "Why are you always trying to ruin things I like? Not to mention that you're invading my planet which is a dick move, by the way."

"GAAARRRRRRGH!" or something like that was the only answer Percy received from the Chitauri. Well, that and the unbelievable stink coming from the alien's mouth, somehow managing to travel the entire way from where it was to Percy's nose. Nobody knew any manners these days.

Percy jumped and did a ridiculous twist thing in the air to avoid dying before landing on the head of a Chitauri. From there he jumped straight up and watched as four Chitauri killed that unfortunate on and each other while he pulled out Riptide and uncapped it. He landed in a crouch and slashed at the aliens' feet. The ones closest to him fell down and more accidental friendly fire occurred while Percy himself kept slaying the aliens.

The pure numbers of the Chitauri meant that they had to get at least one hit in, however elusive Percy was, and that happened when he got an alien foot in his face, causing him to fall ungracefully back on his butt. He was back on his feet in two seconds but those two seconds were more than enough for the Chitauri to aim a gun.

At least three lasers hit Percy in the chest. He was thrown backwards and, tripping on something, fell into the polluted Hudson River. His mind was muddled with pain but still he could practically imagine the look on the civilians' faces as they watched him, their only hope, plummet into the water.

What none of the people above – including the aliens – knew was that Percy wasn't dead. The lasers had hurt tremendously, yes, but they were still only lasers and apparently Leo was better at fire- and heat proofing the suits than making them arrow proof. That coupled with Percy's natural resistance to fire and heat made sure that the attack was nowhere near fatal.

As the water, disgustingly polluted as it was, dulled Percy's pain, he saw a person appear in the river. The young man was still wearing rags and seaweed like the last time Percy paid him a visit.

"You're back," the river spirit remarked, sounding bored.

"Yup," Percy answered.

"I suppose you want something from me again," Hudson stated. Percy opened his mouth to tell him that he just fell in by accident but thought better of it when he got an idea. He might just be able to help himself.

"Well, there is one thing . . ." he trailed off.

"Yes?"

"I was wondering if you might lend me your river for a bit," the son of Poseidon proposed. Hudson's eyes widened before he started laughing, the first kind of emotion other than greedy, hostile or bored Percy had ever seen from him.

"Why on earth would I do that?" he asked after calming down, though he was still chuckling lightly. Percy started running through things he could bribe a river spirit with.

"I could get you another sand dollar?"

"Nice try, demigod. That earns you a favor from me, not access to my river."

"Then I could, uh, I could ask my dad about cleaning you up. Yes, I could totally manage that." At this proposal, the river spirit's laughter died in his throat and his jaw dropped.

"You-you'd do that?" Hudson asked after a few seconds of stunned silence. Percy knew that the god was hooked and he only needed to reel him in.

"Of course," he assured Hudson. "And the East River too, if he wants in on the deal. You can tell him that."

"Yes, yes of course. Anything you want." With that, the god of the Hudson River disappeared, presumably to talk to his rival in the East River, and Percy could feel his strength increasing rapidly with Hudson's permission to do whatever he wanted. The people above had waited long enough, Percy decided. It was time to see if aliens could swim.

Percy shot through the water and broke the surface a fraction of a second before the water started defying the laws of physics. A large wave followed him up and, at his command, shot forward at the shocked aliens. The awestruck civilians would have to close their mouths if they didn't want to swallow the practically radioactive water.

Riding atop the water while fighting the evil would-be world-dominating aliens, Percy felt more alive than he had in a long time. His water powers had been used very sparingly for the previous years and being able to display them like he never had before was . . . well, it was liberating, to say the least.

He formed a protective dome over the group of people the Chitauri had been attacking and fought the aliens themselves with both water and sword. Percy landed on the ground and decapitated an alien just as he crushed another with a wave. He then turned and stabbed one through the stomach and then sliced the arms of a different one, leaving it to bleed out on the ground.

They were so shocked that he was still alive that they couldn't even think to fight back until he'd killed a number of them. Or maybe they'd just never seen water before and didn't know what to do. Percy decided to take on part of the aliens by himself and use the water to fight the rest. Much smarter to do it that way.

While fighting the aliens, Percy heard a familiar voice yell out, "Behind you!" and without even thinking he formed a wall of water behind him as he parried the strike of an alien bayonet before finishing it off with a well-placed slash through its head.

When Percy turned around he saw a very insistent alien trying to shoot through the wall he'd made. Percy snorted and let the water collapse on the idiot and then turned away to see how the rest of the Chitauri were faring against the massive amounts of water he had called from the river.

As it turned out, they did not know how to swim.

Percy laughed as he formed a giant spear like he had done before and watched as the Chitauri ran away from it like they were being chased by Thanatos himself. Which was actually kind of what was happening.

When the aliens were all nice and hollowed out, he did a head count and found that there were eleven aliens on his water stick. Those eleven plus all the others he'd killed and/or assisted in killing made for at least twenty, maybe twenty five even.

Percy was feeling very proud of himself so when he turned to the civilians he'd just saved after putting the alien kebab down, he did not expect all the frightened looks he got. Though, in hindsight, he really should have. People scare so easily.

Just as Percy was about to try and tell the people to get away and to a safe place, he heard an alien growl behind him and pull the trigger of its gun. With reflexes that transcended the normal ADHD demigod, Percy twisted his body and raised Riptide up in a block. The laser hit the sword's blade and rebounded to the Chitauri, killing it instantly. Percy stood still for a couple of seconds before turning to the group of New Yorkers.

"Did you see that?!" he exclaimed. "Tell me you saw that!" Nobody in the crowd of people dared answer him, instead opting to gawk like idiots. Percy sighed and shook his head at them. He turned away only to turn right back, almost getting whiplash from the speed of it all.

His eyes scanned over the crowd, searching for a couple of elfish idiots. They were older, sure, but Percy saw them, he just knew it. But . . . they weren't there. The son of Poseidon looked for a few more seconds before he shook his head and sighed, deciding that he hadn't really seen them, even though he was so sure of it.

Then he dragged some of the water from the river, forming a rough surf board lookalike and leaving. It was kind of like the thing he did when he followed Iron Man and Thor from the quinjet except that was more of a controlled fall with much less water.

The water board air-surfing was the closest Percy could get to flying under his own might and he loved it. While flying, though, he remembered why he'd stopped doing it some years before: it tired him out more than usual water manipulation, probably because he was forcing his father's element into Zeus's domain or something.

"Hey, Cap," he said into his comm. "I dealt with that thing at the Hudson, what now?"

"Well done, Perseus. You should –" Cap cut himself off and sounded like he was fighting for a few seconds. "Get over here,"

"Sure, were are you?" Percy asked. Before he could get an answer he saw lightning suddenly strike the ground and Thor follow after it. "Never mind. I think I've got it." Percy then steered his watery vehicle towards the other Avengers. After only a few seconds he was able to see the Captain, Barton, Natasha, and Thor and dropped out of the sky right behind them.

"Hey guys," he exclaimed. His teammates all turned around and pointed their various weapons at him. Percy mockingly raised his hands in surrender. "Oh, no. Please don't kill me," he stated, not worried at all about startling some of the most dangerous mortals on the planet. And Thor, there was also Thor. The other Avengers exchanged tired glances and turned to other matters.

"What's the story upstairs?" Captain America asked Thor.

"The powers surrounding the cube is impenetrable," the Norse demigod answered.

"Thor is right," said Tony Stark's voice in the comms. "We gotta deal with these guys first."

"How do we do this?" Natasha questioned.

"As a team," Cap said, sounding so cliché but so awesome that Percy had a hard time deciding whether there were grounds to laugh at him or whether he should ask for his autograph.

"I have unfinished business with Loki," Thor boomed.

"Yeah? Well get in line," Barton shot at him just as Percy issued his own warning of "You're not the only one, Princess."

"Save it," the Captain said firmly to the three men. "Loki's gonna keep this fight focused on us and that's what we need. Without him these things could run wild. We got Stark up top, he's gonna need us . . ." Captain America trailed off when the sound of an old motorcycle reached them. Percy turned and saw that Dr. Banner was finally arriving.

"So," he stated, looking around the city after getting off the bike. "This all seems horrible."

"I've seen worse," Natasha said, obviously referring to her and Percy's encounter with the Hulk earlier.

"Sorry," Banner said, looking moderately ashamed at his loss of control.

"No," Natasha stated. "We could use a little worse."

"Stark," Captain America said into the comms. "We got him."

"Banner?" Stark questioned.

"Just like you said."

"Tell him to suit up, I'm bringing the party to you." Almost instantly after those words were spoken, Iron Man rounded the corner of a big building near them and behind him one of the gigantic-worm-alien-things. What should Percy call them? Gigantic worm-alien-thing was way too long, really. An alien Loch Ness monster? No, that's not nearly original enough. Leviathan? A Chitauri Leviathan. Yeah, that's cool.

After Percy had settled on a name, he realized that he hadn't been paying nearly enough attention to the battle when he saw Banner walking towards the newly-named Leviathan and turn into his green alter ego at the last second. The Hulk then proceeded to pop the Leviathan right in the nose, stopping it in its tracks and causing it to flip over.

The Avengers prepared to move out of the falling Leviathan's way when Iron Man fired his missiles at the huge alien. They all hit their mark in the soft alien flesh between the crushed armor plates and the Leviathan roared as it experienced pain for likely the first time in its over-sized life, its huge body ripped to pieces and fell to earth in chunks all around the Avengers.

Hawkeye jumped behind a car and Captain America put his shield up to cover himself and Natasha while Percy stood in the middle of the road with his head tilted slightly to the side, looking intently at the Chitauri Leviathan. It didn't really bleed, he noticed. There was a lot of blue liquid spilling out of the thing but it was a tiny amount compared to the creature's size.

The son of Poseidon would have been hit in the head by a chunk of the Leviathan if not for his amazing reflexes, a point of pride for him in the mercenary community. He raised his arm and sliced the alien flesh in two, leaving them to flop on the ground on either side of him.

The Chitauri soldiers roared at them but the Hulk just roared back as Iron Man landed and the Avengers stood back to back in a circle, Thor with his hammer, Captain America with his shield, Hawkeye with his bow and arrows, Black Widow with her guns and Percy with Riptide at the ready.

There was almost silence for a few seconds until thousands of Chitauri soldier and even a few Leviathans started streaming out of the portal in the sky. Percy was slowly coming to realize that even though he was used to terrible odds in war the others were probably way out of their element.

"Guys," Natasha warned, looking at the enemy reinforcements.

"Call it, Captain," Stark said.

"All right, until we can close that portal over there our priority is containment." Cap started. "Barton, I want you on that over there, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out you turn it back or you turn it to ash."

"Wanna give me a lift?" Hawkeye asked Iron Man.

"Right. Better clench up, Legolas," Stark told Barton, who really did clench up, before grabbing him and flying him up to the building.

"Thor, you gotta try and bottleneck that portal, slow 'em down," Cap said. "You got the lighting, light the bastards up." Thor nodded and started to swing his hammer. He then flew away all god-like and stuff, even though he was only a fake god.

"You and me, we stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here," Captain America stated, gesturing to both Natasha and Percy before turning to the green goliath in their midst. "And Hulk . . . smash." As soon as the Captain's words left his mouth, a magnificent grin spread over the Hulk's face. He then turned and jumped onto the side of a building, where he proceeded to crush an alien before doing the same on the next building over.

"Well, this is going to be fun," Percy stated as the Chitauri soldiers started advancing on the three Avengers staying on the ground. He decided he'd much more enjoy attacking than defending so he ran at the aliens, sliding across the ground when they started shooting. He jumped up and wrapped his legs around an alien's neck, twisting hard and spinning to decapitate the ones closest.

The Chitauri he'd jumped on fell to the ground dead with a broken neck and the others he'd gotten to fell without a neck. Percy jumped behind a car to avoid being shot and then rolled under it. He got out from under it on the other side, behind the aliens who'd followed him and sliced them down easily.

Percy chuckled, "This is way too easy!" he exclaimed, still laughing.

"If that's the case, you might want to turn around!" Natasha yelled at him, obviously fighting very hard. Doing as he was told, Percy turned around, only to see that he'd been way too lax. There was a literal horde of aliens standing around him, Natasha and Cap, the latter two having retreated towards Percy.

"Oh," was the only thing Percy managed at that moment.

"Exactly," Cap said to him. "Now fight, soldier!"

"You got it, Captain," Percy stated, twirling Riptide in his hand. One Chitauri, presumably the one who had taken command of that group, roared at the three Avengers. That must have meant something to the others as they all charged, the blood lust easily discernible on their hideous faces.

Percy deflected a shot from an alien into another one, killing it, before slicing both arms of a Chitauri and leaving it to bleed out. Then there were two others, trying to attack on both sides of the trained demigod mercenary. Percy slashed at one and cut its weapon in half. Then he turned to the other one and stabbed in twice, once in the stomach and then through the head. He then turned to the other one and shot it four times in the face, using his gun for the first time in a while. Percy decided to risk a second to look at his teammates.

Captain America was amazing, to say the least. His skill, it seemed, had not been exaggerated in the old SSR files Percy had stolen a while back. The Captain threw his shield with unnerving accuracy, hitting up to three Chitauri in one throw and beating up a few others while waiting for it to come back, which it always did. Which begged the question, why didn't he manage to catch it in that earlier fight? Why did it hit that tree instead of Cap's hand? Maybe he was like Percy, did his best work on the bloody battlefield.

Natasha, as always, was a graceful killer. She practically danced around the Chitauri aliens before she took them down, shot them or electrocuted them with some gear she had on her wrists. The Widow Stings or something, Phil had told him about them. Natasha flipped over an alien, landed on the ground behind it and shot both it and another alien on the other side of her.

Just before she started to fight another alien and Percy returned to his own fight, their eyes met. Percy could see it in her eyes, the joy, the rapture, the thrill of battle. He was sure she could see the same things in his. She gave him a little smirk and a wink, which Percy returned with a smirk of his own. They were both thinking of the last time they'd been together in a fight, he just knew it.

Ah, Budapest. Good times. Percy wondered for a second what Wade, his 'partner' in that particular mission, might be doing, they'd seen little of each other since their run-in at that African senator's birthday party. The bastard almost talked the entire party to death.

Percy rolled under a bayonet stab and then again when a different alien tried to stab him. When a third one tried the same thing the demigod knew that he couldn't keep rolling around, he was a sitting duck. Or rather, a rolling duck. Not that it mattered much in such close quarters but these details should be reported.

Percy back flipped into the air and pulled out a gun to shoot the bastards when he felt immense pain in his back and screamed out as he fell to the ground.

A/N: Sorry for the long wait! To compensate for my idiotic procrastination I have given you a chapter filled to the brim with action and even easter eggs/references, from both the Marvel world and the world of demigods. The Easter holidays, after all, have begun.

It's late, though, so if there are any mistakes in this just know that I don't care. But I will probably care in the morning when I'll inevitably feel like I have to re-read it and then kick myself for not editing it right now. Hah! Fuck you, future me!

Have a happy Easter or whatever. Eat a lot of chocolate, stay awake for the better part of the night, sleep for the better part of the day and don't get eaten by the Easter bunny. I love holidays.

I just have to go a little bit off script here and ask this: Have you seen season 2 of Daredevil? If not, WHY?! If you have, what did you think? I, for one, loved it. I'll tell you my thoughts so if you haven't seen it but intend to, you shouldn't read further. Spoilers, y'know.

POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD (I'll try to keep it relatively spoiler-free but I will mention some scenes so don't say I didn't warn you)

Just remember, I really did warn you.

Daredevil, though he is only really called Daredevil like four times in the entire season or something, is still so cool. I really like Charlie Cox, the Irish did wonderfully in making him. It's a little ironic that the season starts with a bunch of Irish people being murdered.

The Punisher is amazing. Jon Bernthal gives humanity to a man that many might think was nothing but a monster. Not exactly like the Punisher from the comics but accurate enough for me. I don't understand why people whine about him. Then again, people whine about everything.

Elektra is awesome. Elodie Yung, who I had no idea who was before this, does an absolutely fantastic job of delivering this character. Also, she's super hot if that's only what you think about. I'm not familiar enough with the character of Elektra to say if it was comic-accurate but my guess is that it was.

This season was kind of a mix of two seasons, really. The Punisher arc and the relationships between Matt and the people around him wouldn't have worked out the way they did without the Elektra and the Hand arc, though. It was really great to see Vincent D'Onofrio, even if it was only briefly.

I just have to mention, that scene where Matt escapes from the Punisher and knocks him out and fights a horde of bikers in a stairwell with a chain stuck to one hand and a handgun taped to the other? Amazing. Also, the scene where Fisk decides to have Frank killed and makes the prison guards lock him in with the other inmates and then Frank goes full Punisher mode and kills them all with just a shiv as a weapon? A freaking work of art. Last season we got the hallway scene, and this season we get the stairwell and prison scene. Shit, this show is great.

That's not to say it didn't have its faults, but I really should be going to sleep right now and I don't feel like talking about them here. Bottom line: If you haven't seen it and still read this far, watch it! If you have watched it, watch it again. I know I will.

Follow, favorite, review, you know what to do. This story has 99 reviews right now. Who wants to make it 100?

'Till next time,

Manimal