Chapter 7
I am back yay. Sorry it took so long I had no ideas of how to continue this but I have gotten some ideas that work so here it goes.
Fury was a man who did not like failure and to him it was not an option, but failure was what happened back at the lab. Now he was sitting in a black SUV on the way to Starks tower. After the aliens invaded, the avengers decided that they would need a base of operations, and since part of Starks tower was already destroyed he decided to redesign it. Fury patted the case next to him whatever this red stone was it was powerful. He had decided after repeated failure from his scientist that it needed to go Starks tower to be tested on. Banner and Stark had agreed but who were they to say no to an unknown object.
Finally after what felt like hours on the busy New York roads Fury pulled up in front of Starks tower. The door was opened by a young man barely into his twenty's with military style haircut and civilian clothing.
"Sir" he said while holding open the door. Giving him a nod Fury got out holding the case closer to him while the other agents stepped out of their car. Fury walked into the lobby of Starks tower getting a nod from the receptionist he headed to the private elevator with the agents following close behind. The elevator headed up to the eighty first floor where the lab was situated. Stepping out of the elevator he headed towards where two voices could be heard.
"Ouch, seriously Stark it's not going to work." Said Banner
"Just trying to surprise the other man, does he even get surprised?" said Starks cocky voice.
Fury walked into the room with the agents following him, he laid the metal case onto one of the empty worktops. The clanging sound made both of them jump as they looked over at Fury. Fury ignoring their stares opened the briefcase and a faint red glow came from within.
"What is that?" Stark said his voice full of wonder. He reached out a hand to touch it. Fury slammed the briefcase shut again. "What was that for" stark said clutching his hand.
"No touching, this is an object that one of our senior agents picked up on a mission." Said Fury.
"Senior agent?" Banner said a bit confused.
"He means assassin, and what the heck is that" said stark.
"Oh" said banner remembering the two other avengers who live here from time to time.
"I want you and Banner to do some tests on this" he gestured at the briefcase "this is an object that we have not seen before. It does not seem alien but we cannot rule out that possibility till Thor returns from asguard ."
"So you are permitting me and Banner to do whatever tests we like on this object" Stark said carefully, Fury nodded and a smile broke out on Starks face as he eyed the briefcase as though it was an early birthday present.
"Is it dangerous?" Banner asked a lot less excited.
"Not sure, but that is what I want you to find out." Fury said nodding at the agents as they brought out a tablet with all the information they had already gathered on the object. "Remember don't touch it skin to skin and report any findings immediately." Fury gave Stark a pointed glare while he just rolled his eyes. Fury said goodbye whilst he left one of the agents to stand guard out front of the lab.
"Right let's get this little mystery cracked" Stark said whilst rubbing his hands together in anticipation. All Banner could do was nod, it was going to be a long night for both of them. Banner cleared a lot of workspace and gathered all the equipment that he needed, Stark got Jarvis to work on scanning the object to find out what it was and what energy it was running on.
After what seemed like a couple of hours of running tests Jarvis said it was made up of an unknown element and was a self-sufficient energy. Now that got Starks attention. They were carefully moving it with a long pair of prongs when Stark tripped hitting his arm on the table. This lead to the object flying out of his prongs. They both stared at it stunned as it flipped in the air before it bounced and hit Banners exposed hand. There was a split second where nothing happened and then banner started turning green and increasing in size.
"Code 47" shouted Stark as he ran to get his suit.
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Percys POV
Since he had announced Pandora's box had been stolen the attention was no longer on him and a counsellor session had been called. That was where he was right now and had been for the last couple of hours. He let them argue it out but they had no control over what happened it was all up to him. He would not use the oracle even if he wanted to which he did not. Rachel was away on a vacation to the middle of nowhere with no cell phone access and had asked the rainbow goddess to not disturb her. He had about enough and looked over at Barton who just raised his eyebrows.
Putting two fingers in his mouth he let out a long wolf whistle which shut everyone up but they were now looking at him.
"What do you want?" Annabeth asked with venom in her voice.
"One for you guys to stop arguing and two what does Pandora's box do?" He said to all of them. Piper was the first one to answer.
"Apparently it was a box that held all the evil of the world within it." Said Piper "Pandora opened it and out came greed, pride, envy, wrath, lust, sloth and gluttony till only hope was left inside. I thought it was a myth."
"If they are already out then why does it matter that it has been stolen." I asked. Annabeth rolled her eyes like I should know the answer.
Chiron spoke for the first time in the meeting "The evil was too much and the gods and goddesses work together to put them back in. However once it's been opened it cannot be fully put back, they were able to use crystals to absorb some of the power and minimise all of the effects and put them back into the box. They cannot be fully released again but if the crystals are used on others they gain the attributes of that stone."
"What would the stones look like?" already fearing the answer.
"They should be a glowing red colour and about the size of my fist" said Chiron thoughtfully.
The air started to chill as anger spread throughout my body. Clint looked over to me worried as everyone started to see their breath. As soon as I felt myself lose control I reigned it back in and it warmed up again. Clint lets out a breath he had been holding let's say the last time I had released my power I froze someone solid.
"I just found a stone like that" I said to Clint in Russian. "They were using it on children"
"If that's the case we need to leave now to warn them" he replied back. I turned around again to address them. Everyone's eyes were on me full of shock.
"What language was that?" Annabeth demanded.
"Russian, we have a certain red head friend who is Russian" Replied Clint politely before I could. I wonder what Natasha was doing at the moment. I was about to asked another question when both our earpieces crackled as a transmission was coming in.
"Code 47, New York Stark tower." Was all the lady said on the other end. Clint and I both paled.
"Clint grab your stuff if the other guys out it could seriously cause some damage." I said taking charge "What transportation do we have"
"none" said Clint. Uttering some curses under my breath I looked at Nico.
"Nico I hate to ask this of you but can you take us to Starks tower." I said whilst grabbing my gun and checking the chamber for bullets. They may not be able to hurt him but they could be one hell of a distraction.
"YES" he jumped up realising there was probably going to be some action.
"Right lets go." We each grabbed Nico's hand and stepped into the shadows.
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As we stepped out the whole street was deserted not a person in sight. I grabbed my gun stepping round the corner from the ally there was a couple of overturned cars but other than that there was not much damage. Scratch that looking up there was a whole section of Starks tower missing that must have been where the hulk jumped out of.
"Nico I need you to head back" I said seriously.
"Why it does not seem that bad" Said Nico looking excited and not seeing the seriousness of the situation.
"The hulk is out and that's bad, if Loki could not defeat him what makes you think you can. I won't be able to concentrate with you in danger." Nico looked like he wanted to argue with me but thought better of it as he melted back into the shadows and was gone.
"Clint go left I will go right. One block perimeter he can't have gone far keep our ear pieces on. Do not engage unless he is going after civilians got it?" Clint nodded as he started running to the left.
I had been running for about two minutes when I heard a roar to the left down one of the main streets. He had some people backed into a corner; raising my gun I fired a couple of bullets at him. He turned around fixing his gaze on me and roared so angry at me.
"Perce did you find him" Clint crackled to life in my ear.
"Found him, made him angry and now we are heading to the beach." I replied. I really did not think this plan through. Taking off in the general direction with the hulk following close behind. I ducked under a green arm as it swung my way; the hulks face was so full of fury however his eyes had a red tinge to them. He went to punch me again when an arrow flew past his ear distracting him and allowing me to get out of the way.
"Clint you done it now" I said to him through comms as the hulk roared and started charging towards Clint who was looking a little bit scared.
"No shit Sherlock" he grabbed an electric arrow and released it at the hulk it stopped him for a couple of seconds before he carried on charging.
"Crud get out of there now Barton" I shouted at him. Aiming another shot at the hulk whilst Barton grabbed a grappling arrow just in time. With Clint now covering from the roof tops it was essential he stayed on the ground. There was another crackle in the comms like another person was joining in. I did not have time to think on it as the hulk threw a car in my general direction. Managing to dodge with a bit of my demi-god reflex help with no injuries yet bet that won't last long.
"Never fear tony is here" said a new voice in my comms as an explosion hit the hulk.
"What the hell" I muttered to myself.
"TONY!" Clint shouted in my ear making me cringe at how loud it was.
"What he knocked me out first" said Tony who was flying around the hulk in his iron man suit like an annoying wasp.
"Does that mean you try and blow him up" Clint said again a bit softer.
"No but- Oh Crap" he said as a car hit him. Snickering a bit I was about twenty meters away.
"Preparing to engage" I said to Clint. Running I did a leap landing onto the top of the hulk whilst he was still a bit dizzy. Punching him a few times he threw me off and I landed on the pavement skidding a bit on my back. Groaning I sat up feeling a bit sick. Probably not my best idea.
"Whoa, kid leave it to the grownups" said Tony. There was one thing I hated above else and that was being underestimated. The hulk started towards me again no longer bothering with anyone else. I had no gun as I lost it whilst being thrown about by the hulk. Let's hope my idea worked. Grabbing riptide I uncapped it letting the sword out for the first time in weeks. Now this felt as natural as breathing.
Swinging out of the way I went on the defensive rolling and jumping so Hulk could not grab me. I was starting to tire when I somehow managed to end up on the hulks back hanging on for dear life whilst he tried to grab me. I was starting to feel a bit faint and exhausted as I grabbed riptide tightly and managed to bring the hilt extremely hard on the back of hulks head as he crumpled to the ground. Rolling off him I hit my head and black spots clouded my vision.
"Percy" Clint shouted at me as I lost consciousness.
