AN: Hey all so here is the next chapter, I hope you all enjoy it! It's been a week or so, but that was because I was on holiday. Plus I was still grieivng after the disappointment that was the Game of Thrones ending. I mean come on that was not cool! Plus I was catching up on a few new anime and tv programmes etc.
But yes, now I am back and keen to get back to writing and what not.
Hope you all enjoy the chapter and leave a review!
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(Last Time)
"Right, we've received the coordinates for the rendezvous." Kaldur called out from a nearby console, looking to Percy for instructions.
Meeting his gaze, Percy withheld a sigh as he instead nodded. "Fine, everyone gear up, it's time to move out."
With that said the team all turned and broke apart, all of them heading off to get ready for their latest mission.
It was as they were doing this, that Black Canary reached out with her good arm and grabbed Superboy's arm. "When you are ready Superboy, I will be here."
With that said, the heroine let him go, and then stood back and watched as all the teens began darting about, readying themselves to head off on their latest, dangerous mission.
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Chapter 10
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(With Percy, on a large, rural Highway)
Currently Percy was riding down a wide asphalt road, on a large motor bike, one which was far more high-tech than what he was used to seeing. In spite of this though it was still surprisingly easy to operate.
At present, Percy had decided to wear his standard civilian clothes for the mission. With his outfit consisting of a pair of brown, leather boots, black jeans, and his Nemean Lion hide jacket, as well as his usual kit he was also wearing a new motorbike helmet, one which had a blacked out visor. Along with this, Percy also had his nameless, drakonbone sword sheathed at his right hip, and had attached a large, plain, round, Amazonian shield to his back.
On either side of him, wearing full-body motorbike leathers and helmets, were two others, both of whom were riding identical motorbikes to him.
One of them, the taller one with the broader shoulders, he knew was Kid Flash, who he likewise knew was pretty irritable at the moment, as Percy had told him to ride the bike as oppose to running like he wanted to do. All so the speedster could conserve energy, just in case they needed to use their powers.
Likewise the other, slimmer, shorter figure on Percy's other side, M'gann, was also riding a bike for the exact same reason. Though at the same time M'gann was still using her telepathy to communicate with the other two, and to keep the Bioship on their tail, just in case they needed it.
Together, the three 'young' heroes made up Team A, and currently they were driving in a convoy, following after an innocuous looking, unmarked, Star Labs truck as they provided protection for what lay within.
With the truck that they were currently protecting, containing the mangled head and upper body of the recently destroyed, power stealing, android that had been called Amazo.
The rest of the team meanwhile, Superboy, Robin and Aqualad were all protecting another truck, which contained the rest of the android. With the three of them also riding bikes. All so they could follow through with Batman's overly convoluted plan, which involved the two trucks they were following, and three other decoy vans guarded, each of which were guarded by other heroes.
Due to the apparent need to split the team in two, Percy had put Aqualad in charge of the second squad. With this being due to the simple fact that he, unlike the rest, was the only other member of the team that Percy deemed capable, experienced and mature enough to be entrusted with a leadership role.
Superboy meanwhile had been placed on the other team to act as a tank/ the muscle. Whilst, well Robin was there because Percy didn't want boy with him. Plus dealing with the prickly, younger boy would be a learning experience for Aqualad. Or at least that is what Percy told himself.
'Kid Flash, I want you to drive ahead. Go fifty or so metres out in front and see if you can scout out any potential ambushes or blockades.' Percy thought, with the three of them using M'gann and her powers in order to establish a telepathic connection for communication purposes.
'On it.' Kid Flash replied, breaking his silence as he revved his bike and shot off further up the road. This was not the first time Percy had asked him to scout ahead like this, so he could look for trouble. In fact the older teen had had Kid Flash scouting up ahead every ten minutes or so, using the boy's abilities to his advantage, as he, unlike the other two, could process what he was seeing better than them, even whilst they were travelling at high speed.
'M'gann, have you been able to pick up anyone with your telepathy?' Percy continued, as the two of them shifted along the road so they were ride side by side just behind the truck.
'No, not since that farmer and his son twelve or so kilometres back.' M'gann thought back, shaking her head as she looked over to Percy. 'What about you, have you been able to pick up anything with your sensory abilities?'
'No, it's still not working. We're moving too fast, by the time I spread my senses through the water molecules in the air we're too far away for me to actually sense anything. My sensory abilities require time for me suffuse the surrounding atmosphere with my power, it's not really suited to fast travelling unfortunately.' Percy replied, scanning the surrounding area with his sea green eyes as he did so, but to his eyes the landscape was flashing by so fast he had trouble focusing on anything.
'We all have our strengths and weaknesses.' M'gann replied kindly, only to get a wave of amusement from Percy flooding over their psychic connection in response.
'Yeah, plus the fact that you're not good at everything, kind of makes you seem a little more human.' Kid Flash tagged on as he decelerated his bike, allowing the truck to move past, as he instead moved over so he was on Percy's other side. 'You know, instead of you coming across as some kind of weird cross between Aquaman and Wonder Woman.'
'Excuse me?' Percy replied dryly, even as M'gann stifled a giggle at the mental image of just what a cross between those two heroes would look like.
'Hey, I'm not saying it to offend or anything man. It's just you have the whole weird, male Amazon thing going on with your weapons, accent and stuff, and the abilities of an Atlantean on crack. I'm just saying, at times it feels like you're some superhuman, cross between an Amazon and an Atlantean.' Kid Flash said quickly, attempting, and failing, to defend his previous comment.
'You think I'm some Atlantean/ Amazon hybrid?' Percy asked, his tone now somewhat bemused.
'So I'm guessing that's a no then.' Kid Flash replied awkwardly.
'It's a no of sorts. I suppose you could say that I do hold some similarities to the Amazons, but no direct familial relation, or at least to any save Wonder Woman herself and maybe a couple of others. And even then it is a distant connection.' Percy paused here. It was true that he and Diana were cousins, even if their respective parents were from different realities. After all their realities or worlds, or whatever you wanted to call it seemingly shared the same Tartarus and therefore possibly the same Primordial gods, which in turn meant they probably had a common ancestor, Gaia.
Kid Flash and M'gann didn't reply to that, though Percy could sense their surprise through the psychic link. On top of that he could feel their curiousity intensifying.
Percy had to withhold a smile as he felt this, he would answer their question, or at least in part. After all, in order to create strong bonds you needed to give and not just take. That being said, by no means was he about to get into an in-depth conversation/ interrogation, nor was he going to give them his whole, very long, life story.
'As for the Atlantean thing. Again, I suppose you could call me an Atlantean of sorts, only a different kind of Atlantean. A more exalted one, I guess you could say. Not that I'm an arrogant prat or anything, it's just the race that calls themselves Atlantean that you know, they are not the ones I recognise as being true Atlanteans. No, to me they are little more than pretenders, a diluted race that lays claim to a heritage greater than themselves.' Percy continued slowly, irritation leaking through the link as he tried to think of a way of phrasing what he had just said in a way that didn't come across as conceited. Suffice to say he did not think he had succeeded.
'Right, I don't have a clue what you're talking about.' Kid Flash replied, confusion flooding across the connection now as he tried to work out just what Percy was, and what he was eluding too with the bits and pieces he had let slip over the weeks he had known him and interacted with him.
He had a feeling like he should be able to infer, from all that had just been said and what he already knew of him, what Perseus actually was. But somehow he hadn't quite made the connection in his head yet. Honestly it was a terribly annoying feeling, like he was grasping around in his mind for an answer that he knew, he knew, but was not quite able to remember.
'Also Perseus, despite what you said, that did sound a bit arrogant.' M'gann added on, her tone holding a certain note of reprimand to it.
Percy blinked as he heard this, this was the first time the green skinned girl had shown even a hint of negativity towards him. Somehow his comments over the Atlanteans had hit a nerve with her.
'I know, but I don't know how else to describe it. I don't have anything against them personally. It's just it makes me feel a bit weird and awkward to call them Atlantean, especially when they don't match up with Atlanteans as I know them.' Percy trailed off lamely.
'I see, well I suppose that's understandable in a way. But really you shouldn't just jump to judgement about an entire group of people based on their differences. It isn't right!' M'gann continued, her tone still holding a certain note of anger to it, though this time Percy suspected it wasn't directed at him.
'Yes you're right, absolutely right. I think I might have badly phrased what I previously said, it's not that I'm judging them unduly, I just have not gotten used to the idea of the Atlanteans as you know them, and what they represent.' Percy replied, his tone softer now.
'Wow, things seem to have gotten very deep all of a sudden!' Kid Flash interrupted awkwardly. 'How about we lighten the mood a little. We are kind of on a mission at the moment after all!'
'Oh, right, yes, you're right!' M'gann replied, seemingly shaking herself out of her funk. 'Sorry Wally, you're right, we should keep our minds on the mission!'
'Yes,' Percy nodded, looking back ahead now as the truck and the three bikes continued to shoot down the highway, passing in between two large corn fields as they did so.
It was as they were doing this though, that a strange sound suddenly sounded out, a grating, high pitched sound that immediately attracted Percy, M'gann and Wally's attention as they immediately looked to the side to see whether they could find the source of the disturbance.
Almost immediately the three found the source, even if said source caused all three of them to stop and stare for a few moments.
Green and silver, robot monkeys, with jetpacks. That was the only way Percy could describe the things, and there were dozens of them. All of which seemed to be moving rapidly, exploding out of the surrounding corn field with metallic shrieks and giggles, courtesy of their jetpacks. With each of the animalistic robots standing at around half the size of an average man, with glowing green eyes, metal bodies and prehensile tails.
"The fuck…" Percy muttered out loud, completely taken aback for a few moments as the robot monkeys swarmed the truck on mass, their sharp, bladed hands tearing into the metal sides, even as some of them went to destroy the wheels and attack the driver.
Opening up their communication with Team B, Percy pressed a button on the side of his helmet, his gaze steady as he eyed the swarm of robots, strategizing all the time as he did so. "Aqualad come in, we are under attack."
"Yes, I had assumed as much. It is the same over here."
"Ok, go on the defensive, try to drive off the attackers and protect the trucks." Percy replied.
"We're on it, good luck."
"You too." Percy replied, before he turned off the communicator in his helmet. 'M'gann, Kid Flash, the others are under attack too. We need to defend the truck. M'gann take to the air, try to use your telekinesis to get those monkey things off of the truck. Kid Flash use your speed, get the driver to safety first, and then help M'gann clear off the attackers.'
'Got it.' Kid Flash replied mentally, before without another he leapt off of the motor bike and began running, seamlessly transitioning from the bike to the road with ease. With his motorbike swerving the moment he left it, before it then fell rolling several times before it slid off of the road. The time for conserving energy by riding the bike was over, it was time for him to use his abilities.
Similarly Miss Martian abandoned her bike, choosing to fly instead as she allowed the bike to fly off into a nearby cornfield too. With the red haired Martian shooting forwards through the air, even as Kid Flash shot past her along the ground, little more than a red and yellow blur as he shot to where the driver was currently being besieged.
M'gann meanwhile used her telekinetic powers to smash the monkeys into each other. With two of the monkeys exploding in a shower of debris. After which she continued trying to blast the ever growing swarm of robot monkeys away, even as some of them leapt into the air towards her, one or two grabbing a hold of her for a moment, before she blasted them into pieces.
Seeing this Percy accelerated forward on his bike, thinking all the time about what he could do to help.
Unfortunately since he didn't have Kid Flash's super speed, or M'gann's ability to fly, he had to instead find other ways to fight in this high-speed battle. On top of that, with the speed at which they moving he did not have the time or the opportunity to pull the moisture out of the air, which meant nearly all of his hydrokinetic based abilities were out. Nor was he in contact with the ground, which meant that he couldn't effectively use his geokinesis either.
This all meant that in a fight like this Percy was limited, all he had at his disposal was his seismic abilities, which in a fight like this would be just as dangerous to his allies as to his enemies. On top of that he had the Domain of Storms, though the abilities related to that were weaker than his others, and were ones he had less control over, and as such could be dangerous to both Miss Martian and Kid Flash as well as his enemies.
This only left on option.
With that in mind, whilst both Miss Martian and Kid Flash were fighting off the monkeys, Percy jumped up so he was standing on the seat of his bike, shifting his feet to keep his balance as he did so. Before, with a deep breath, he bent his legs and jumped, releasing a blast of seismic energy from the soles of his feet.
In response to this, the bike beneath him shattered, whilst Percy was propelled through the air in a large arc, before he rapidly descended with a controlled roll onto the roof of the truck.
Rolling to his feet, Percy spun on his feet, his blade already out as he slashed, once, twice, three times, each strike destroying one of the surrounding monkeys. Shifting his feet, Percy then sent a controlled wave of seismic energy out of the palm of his free hand, and through the air, the wave hitting three more monkeys and blasting them off the back of the truck, even as he twisted back around his blade a blur as he blocked two tail strikes and decapitated a leaping robot in mid-air.
'The driver is out and safe.' Kid Flash's voice rang out in M'gann and Percy's heads, even as the red and yellow blur shot back alongside the truck. 'I've used a seat belt to lock the wheel in place and put the truck on cruise control. The road is empty and is straight for the next couple of dozen miles, we should be fine.'
'Well done Kid!' M'gann replied, even as she swooped down and used her telekinesis to pull him up off of the road and onto the roof of the truck.
Seeing this Percy covered her as he shot forwards, eyeing the two dozen or so monkeys, which by this point had seemingly learned to keep their distance. Not that that would help them, as with a grimace he swung his sword round and cut his palm, his action drawing blood. Blood which Percy then used to form a crimson whip, one which he swung round and used to slash several of the nearest monkeys in half.
In response to this the monkey's eyes began to glow a more intense green, until a few moments later what looked like laser beams seemed to shoot out of them and towards the heroes.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me!" Percy cursed, forming his blood whip into a shield as he back stepped, each laser beam evaporating his bloody shield as they hit and then dispersed.
Grimacing again, Percy reabsorbed as much blood into his body as he could, before clotting the wound. His blade whipping forward as he did so to deflect three of the laser blasts, even as two more struck him glancing blows, one to his shoulder and one to his thigh. The one which hit his shoulder dispersing on the Nemean Lion skin jacket. The strike to his leg though burned through his jeans and singed the flesh beneath.
"Percy!" Miss Martian shouted as she swooped down and back into the fight, using her powers to slam a nearby monkey off of the truck and into the road below with her telekinetic powers.
"It's fine!" Percy shouted as he pulled his shield off of his back and weathered several more laser blasts, scowling as he began to advance.
With Kid Flash also leaping into action now, as he used shorts blasts of speed to knock as many of the monkeys off of the truck as he could, not that they stay off for long, as quite quickly the used their jetpacks to get back on board.
In response to this, several more of the monkeys landed on the back of the truck. With this group using their lasers to cut through the armoured truck, opening up a large hole in the back.
"There are too many!" Kid Flash shouted as he continued to try and knock them away, even as M'gann used her telekinetic abilities to blast them or rip them apart, and Percy hacked and slashed at as many as he could.
'They've cut a hole in the back whilst we were distracted!' M'gann shouted across the telepathic link, noticing what they were doing as she flew overhead to provide Kid Flash and Percy with some support as they continued to slowly but steadily whittle down their attacker's numbers.
'Stop them!' Percy ordered as he twisted to stop them himself, only for one of the laser beams to strike him in the calf, once again burning through his jeans and singing the flesh and muscle beneath. "Ahh shit!"
One of the monkeys had destroyed one of the trucks tires, blasting out the front wheel, and making the entire truck lurch as the front, right side of it sank lower and began to scrape and spark along the road. The sudden angle making the truck veer off course and into the surrounding corn fields, the ride suddenly becoming a lot shakier.
'I'm on it!' M'gann replied to Percy's last order, only for her to then let out a scream as she was forced to dodge a sudden volley of laser beams, even as three of the remaining monkeys flew out of the back of the truck and into the air with the pieces of Amazo's body. Not that she had much time to worry as one of the blasts clipped her in the shoulder and sent her spiralling down to earth.
"Megan!" Kid Flash shouted as he leapt off of the wavering truck, just as another wheel was blown off making it so the front of the truck slammed into the earth, even as he blurred over to help her, catching her just before she hit the ground.
Seeing this Percy withheld a curse, the truck was fucked and they had lost the cargo.
With this in mind he raised his foot and slammed it into the metal beneath him, releasing a seismic blast as he did so that completely crumbled the truck. A blast of vibrational erupting outward from the point of impact, rupturing nearby asphalt, and ripping apart the field below, even as it shattered all the surrounding robots.
Unfortunately by this point the robots with the pieces of Amazo were far beyond Percy's range and getting further all the time, and as such his last strike did little more than help Percy relieve his stress.
"We failed." Percy said bluntly as he walked through the ruptured remains of the truck. "What a shit show!"
"Hey man, we tried our best!" Kid Flash replied angrily, helping M'gann to her feet as he did so, the Martian looking a little roughed up but not too badly injured as she gingerly held her wounded shoulder.
"I know, and I'm not blaming you." Percy replied bluntly, looking up into the sky as the flying monkeys disappeared into the distance. "I'm blaming Batman, this entire plan was bullshit. We should have just used M'gann's Bioship in stealth mode to transport the pieces of Amazo to the lab. The motorbikes, truck and decoy trucks, it was all too convoluted."
"But how did they know which trucks to hit?" M'gann asked, ignoring Percy's comment as she instead tried to work out what had gone wrong.
"Some kind of hidden tracker with a unique signal I assume." Wally replied shrugged, with the way technology was constantly advancing it was not too surprising that they were taken unawares every now and then. Not that that made it any better.
"Aqualad, we've lost our cargo, what's your situation?" Percy said, withholding an irritated sigh as he contacted the other team to fill them in on the situation.
"It's the same here, there were too many of them and they were too fast. They caught us unawares and overwhelmed us. On top of that Superboy's gone, he lost his temper and went AWOL, ditched his communicator too while he was at it." Aqualad replied, his own voice holding an obvious note of frustration.
"Shit." Percy cursed, sheathing his sword as he did so. "Right we need to rendezvous. This isn't over yet."
"True, Robin managed to put a tracker on the piece of Amazo that they took, we are following them now. Likely they will be moving the pieces to the same spot to resemble it." Aqualad replied swiftly.
"Right, send us the coordinates when they stop. Kid Flash, M'gann and I will get to the Bioship and meet you there." Percy replied, looking to M'gann as he did so, his expression clear 'are you alright to go on?'
M'gann nodded in response, standing straighter as she did so.
"Will do, we'll stay in contact!" Aqualad replied, before signing off.
"Right, we need to get going." Percy nodded, looking around as he did so, his gaze soon falling on the shattered truck. "Let's get to the Bioship!"
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(With Superboy, sometime later)
With a loud crash! Superboy slammed down upon the roof of a train carriage. He had spent the last few hours chasing those damned monkeys that had attacked Robin, Aqualad and him, and he was pissed.
Fortunately, despite the monkeys being airborne, he had been able to use his enhanced vision, hearing and speed to track the robots and find them again.
In the end the chase had led him to where he was now, a large, unassuming train carriage.
Grinning to himself with satisfaction, Superboy managed to punch a hole in the roof, after which he used both hands to tear an opening large enough for him to jump through and down into the carriage.
The moment he did however, he soon found himself surrounded by glowing green eyes, even as laughter filled the air, and it wasn't coming from the chittering, robotic monkeys that were perched on crates all around him this time. Instead the laughter was distinctly human.
"Well what do we have here?" A slightly whiny voice asked, the tone holding the slightest sneer to it.
Looking over to the source of the voice, Superboy immediately found him, after all he was the only other person in the carriage.
The speaker was a small man, one who barely came up to five feet tall. At a first glance the man looked pretty unassuming as he stepped out of the darkness. With the man in question having a frail build, thinning, greying, auburn hair, which when added to his sweater vest over a long sleeve white shirt and black dress pants, made him look like a boring, middle aged science teacher.
"You are Professor Ivo?" Superboy stated bluntly, looking down on the man as he ignored the still chittering robots. "Consider me turbed."
"I didn't know that the Big Blue had a brat." Ivo replied dryly, not a hint of nervousness in his voice as he ignored Superboy's obvious hostility and odd choice of words.
"He doesn't." Replied Superboy roughly.
Professor Ivo gave the clone a searching look at that, before waving his hand at him dismissively. "If you say so."
With that said, the professor looked away and instead smiled as several of his monkeys start to hover behind him.
"How did you like my Mobile Optimal Neural Quotient Infiltrators?" Ivo then continued, before with a wave the robots shot forwards. Chittering laughter erupting from the robotic monkey's mouths as they attacked Superboy.
In response Superboy began lashing out with his fists, smashing as many of them as he could. With him using brute force to rip and tear through the robots, grunting as they clawed at him and blasted him with their lasers.
Fortunately though, his durability held up and he manged to power through as he crushed and mangled several more of the monkeys.
"Hmm, if Ivo's Magnificent MONQIs don't float your boat, maybe my Amazing Amazo will better suit you." Ivo continued, his voice tinged with amusement at the names he had chosen to give his creations. If you couldn't make yourself laugh, then really, what was the point?
In response, a large, humanoid android exploded forward from the shadows. Closing in on Superboy before he had time to react, unleashing a punch that slammed into the clone's face, which it then followed through, sending the clone flying into the crates behind him.
"Or better slay you." Ivo finished with a little giggle.
Pushing himself out of the wrecked crate, Superboy looked up to see the broad shouldered, six and half foot tall android approaching him. It was the same android that he had seen in Batman's footage, fighting against the Justice League.
"Accessing: Superman," Said Amazo in a tinny voice as it closed in on Superboy.
Narrowing his eyes, Superboy lunged at Amazo with a growl. Only for Amazo to catch the punch in its hand, stopping it with ease, after which it twisted and slammed a knee into Superboy's gut. Following through with this attack, Amazo then let loose an uppercut, launching Superboy through the roof and high into the air with strength comparable to Superman himself.
So strong was the blow in fact, that the clone was sent hurtling through the air and out of the railway yard, after which he crashed through the roof of a nearby school building, some several hundred feet away. With the clone crashing straight through several floors, only to end up landing in the middle of a large gym.
Groaning, Superboy made to stand up, however before he could a force from above smashed him back into the floor, creating a small crater beneath him as the wooden floorboards beneath him cracked and splintered.
Superboy had messed up, he knew that much. He had let his anger get the best of him and rushed in like an idiot. If he had spent a few minutes to think and strategise, like Perseus had told him, then he wouldn't be in this situation. If only he had exercised a bit of caution, and waited for a bit of back up.
Then again that hindsight was a bitch.
It was with that thought in mind that the clone was lifted up into the air, choking as the android's hand clenched around his throat, after which it unleashed a brutal punch into his gut, with the blow sending him flying backwards, blood spraying out of his mouth.
"Yes, crush him Amazo! Maim this wannabe hero!" Ivo called out gleefully, entering the gym himself now, before he took a seat on the nearby bleachers, surrounded by his mechanical MONQIs/ bodyguards.
"Superboy!" Aqualad's voice suddenly called out, attracting both Ivo, Amazo and Superboy's attention as he ran into the gym, Robin following after him, his water bearers active as he lashed out with a whip made of water.
"Accessing: Martian Manhunter." Amazo's voice rang out, even as the android suddenly became intangible. The whip of water passing through Amazo's head harmlessly. Two shurikens flying through after, both of them thudding into the floor a couple of metres away, after which they both exploded.
Turning to face its new opponents, Amazo's voice rang out once more. "Accessing: Captain Atom."
What followed next was a beam of energy erupting from Amazo's hand, one which made both Aqualad and Robin dive out of the way. Aqualad rolling to his feet on one side of Superboy his water bearers shifting into the shape of hammers, while Robin rolled to his feet on the clone's other side, his staff extended and at the ready.
"Come on you two, if we work together we can take it down!" Aqualad said, look to his two companions as he did so, the three of them now standing and circling the much taller android as it looked around at them with its cold, emotionless eyes.
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(Outside of the school)
"Come on, it sounds like the fighting has started." Percy called out to both Miss Martian and Wally as they ran towards the building, the three of them just arriving, after having spent the last couple of hours following Aqualad's coordinates. Not that they needed his coordinates anymore, after all they had been able to hear the sound of fighting from nearly a mile back.
"I'll run ahead!" Wally said, looking to Percy as he did, before, upon Percy nodding, he grinned and blurred away.
"M'gann can you link us all up?" Percy asked as both he and Megan made to enter the school gym. Both of them listening to the sound of crashes and shouts, recognising the sound of Aqualad, Robin, Superboy, and the newly arrived Kid Flash as they fought with whoever, or whatever was inside.
Unsheathing his sword, Percy coated his body in a mine mist of water from the atmosphere as both he and M'gann burst into the gym. Both of them just in time to see Superboy sailing through the air just in front of them, as he crashed into a nearby wall.
"Accessing: Flash." Amazo's voice rang out, only for the android to disappear in a blur a few moments later, dodging around several strikes from Robin and Aqualad, as it instead shoulder charged Kid Flash, knocking him clear off of his feet.
"Accessing: Black Canary." Amazo continued, slamming a foot down on the winded Kid Flash's back, even as it open its mouth an unleashed a controlled, high pitch screech at the other two heroes.
"Arghh!" Aqualad cried out, as both he and Robin collapsed to their knees, both of them clasping their heads and covering their ears. Though noticeably blood could be seen dripping down Aqualad's neck, showing that he had not been quick enough to block out the high-pitched sound waves.
"Leave them alone!" Superboy roared as he pushed himself out of the wall and bull rushed the android, bellowing all the while as he leapt at him and attempted to grapple it off of Kid Flash.
"Accessing: Martian Manhunter." Amazo intoned, turning intangible as he did so, and allowing Superboy to hurtle straight through him.
"Accessing: Superman." Amazo continued, suddenly gripping Superboy's ankle as it did so, before it swung him up and around, after which it slammed him into the floor, once, twice, and then a third time, following on from which the android then tossed the clone into the recovering Aqualad and Robin.
"Accessing: Cap…" Amazo began to speak again.
Only this time the android never got a chance to finish, as without warning it was lifted up into the air by an invisible hand and tossed into the bleachers.
'Good work M'gann.' Percy thought to the now hovering Miss Martian.
'Thanks Percy'. M'gann replied with a smile.
'Right, it looks like Amazo has been rebuilt, and considering he gave the League trouble, I think we are going to need to work together to bring it down.' Percy began, using M'gann as a conduit to communicate with the rest of the team.
'What do you think we're doing?' Robin bit out, as he stood up shakily, both Aqualad and Superboy joining him, along with Wally as they all turned to watch Amazo stand up from the partially wrecked bleachers.
'Enough Robin, Perseus is right. We are all here now, and like he said we need to work together as one cohesive unit to bring Ivo's android down.' Aqualad cut in, looking to Percy now.
'Yeah, ok, fine!' Robin replied, not looking at Percy as he instead spun his staff in his hand and set himself into a fighting stance, facing the oncoming android.
'Good', because I have a plan!' Percy spoke up, his green eyes flitting around the gym taking in all of his surroundings, as he considered what he already knew about Amazo's abilities.
Oblivious to their mental communication, Professor Ivo chose that moment to speak up. "Oh how interesting, I didn't know there was another Martian. Guess the Big Blue wasn't the only one hiding a kid. Another Flash rip off too by the looks of it, and little Robin, you I at least knew about. The other one though, you I don't know!"
As he said that Ivo, from where he was sat at the top of the bleachers surrounded by a dozen MONQIs, looked down speculatively at Percy. His lips curving up into a smirk as he saw Amazo approaching them. "Analyse the newcomers Amazo, let's see whether they have anything useful to add to your repertoire!"
"Analysing… information downloaded." Amazo's voice rang out, its red lensed eyes flashing, before with a wave of the hand it sent Miss Martian flying into a nearby wall. "Accessing Miss Martian."
"Miss Martian!" Aqualad shouted, even as Superboy charged forward once more, Kid Flash shooting after him as he appeared behind Amazo, going for the knees even as Superboy barrelled towards the chest.
Neither of them made contact though, as without any warning Amazo shot up into the air and telekinetically blasted both Superboy and Kid Flash backwards. After which it dodged past several hastily thrown bird-a-rangs.
"Hmm, it looks like you are not as weak as the others," Ivo chuckled dryly, safe behind his swarm of MONQIs as he saw Amazo continue to fight off the young heroes. Overwhelming them as he lashed out with telekinetic power, knocking Kid Flash, Superboy, Aqualad and Robin around as they continued to use hit and run tactics on it. "Now try the other one."
With that the android's eyes flashed red again, its gaze fixed on the silently watching Percy. Who thus far had stood back, his ivory coloured sword resting gently on his shoulder as he followed the ongoing fight with his gaze
"We need to dissemble the android before it absorbs more powers." Aqualad shouted out, forming a pair of whips with his water bearers, which he then lashed out with, wrapping them around both of the android's ankles. Only for Amazo to take on Martian Manhunter's abilities and turn intangible.
"Good luck with that," Ivo chuckled leaning back on the bleachers. "Amazo finish them, priority alpha."
"That's easier said than done!" Robin shouted in response to Aqualad's words, as he threw several projectiles at the android, each of which exploded in midair, unleashing a wave of fire through the air.
"Accessing: Unknown." Amazo's voice rang out, even as it landed on the ground, its ability to fly no more, the earth beneath it shaking and the wooden floor boards cracking.
The moment it landed however, was the moment Percy struck. With barely a thought he lashed out with his free and, drawing upon all of the water he had been gathering up in the pipes around him over the last couple of minutes. In response to this actions, all of the pipes exploded due to the sudden overwhelming water pressure, with water exploding out all around the gym like geysers.
"Everyone get away!" Percy shouted, as he suddenly leapt forward, his every step measured as he manipulated the water, surrounding Amazo in a rapidly revolving orb of water.
"Foolish boy, haven't you realised what Amazo can do? He copies powers, all you're doing is giving him more ammo!" Ivo sneered from the bleachers, his face twisting into a nasty grin.
In response to that, Percy merely grinned, sweat noticeably beading on his forehead. His eyes fixed on the android to the exclusion of all else, even as it whipped its arms out attempting to manipulate the water.
Only for nothing to happen, as instead the water began to hiss, releasing acrid, foul smelling, and corrosive steam.
"Cover your mouths." Percy grunted as he began to shift his hands through the air.
"What! What the hell is going on!? What are you doing!?" Ivo shouted, his confidence fading rapidly as he leapt to his feet. His eyes widening even further as he saw Amazo's body had begun to dissolve. With the rare, organic, alien metal that made up its body noticeably starting to corrode.
"Your toy can copy powers sure, but it can't replicate decades upon decades of skill and experience with said powers. It can't develop them, and push them beyond the scope of what was previously thought possible." Percy grinned, shifting his hands again as he manipulated the Ph. of the water, turning it more and more acidic and corrosive as he manipulated it on a molecular level. A feat that required a lot of concentration, especially with sheer the quantity of water he was manipulating, all of which he had to fight for control over, even as he controlled and altered it.
"Amazo voice override, accessing: Super…!" Ivo began to shout, pulling out a small hand held device from his pocket as he did so, which he activated, only for the device to be knocked out of his hands and destroyed the moment he did so.
"It's over!" Percy shouted, before with another grunt he released his control on the orb of highly concentrated acid, allowing it to splash onto the floor.
The now armless, legless and deeply corroded body of Amazo landing on the wooden floor below with a clunk, its head noticeably melted, and the rest of its remains barely recognisable as it looked like little more than a hunk of steaming, melted metal.
With the hunk of metal even now continuing to dissolve, even as the floor beneath it was eaten away by the acid and it fell into the basement below and out of sight.
"No, how, what have you done… arghhh!" Ivo began, before his tone turned into high pitched shriek when he suddenly found his limbs frozen and his body lifted into the air, as if he were being held by a gigantic, invisible hand. The MONQIs that were surrounding him all getting blasted off of the bleachers, only for them to be destroyed by Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash and Superboy.
"What we did was follow a plan. Superboy, Aqualad, Kid Flash and Robin acted as a diversion, distracting you and your android. All the while I gathered the water I needed to finish Amazo." Percy began, a slight smile on his face as he looked around at the other, tired, but exultant heroes. "On top of that they also covered for Miss Martian whilst she went invisible and approached you from behind."
"Hi!" Miss Martian said cheerfully, becoming visible as she hovered just over Ivo, one of her hands extended and her eyes glowing green as she used her telekinesis to keep him incapacitated.
"Good job on destroying his override device by the way Miss Martian!" Aqualad added on, giving credit where credit was due. "That was some quick thinking on your part. I mean, we'd suspected that he might have had something like that, but even so, you saved us a lot of hassle there!"
M'gann's smile dimmed slightly at that. "I would like to say thanks, but that wasn't me. Someone else destroyed it before I got the chance!"
The others paused at that, all of them looking slightly confused, before Kid Flash blurred over to the remains of the device, only for him to then lean down and pull a long, green arrow out of the floor.
"Wait! This is Green Arrow's… arrow." Kid Flash said, a frown on his face as he approached the others, even as they congregated in the middle of the gym.
"The adults!" Robin growled, his previous smirk fading as he instead scowled, "They still don't trust us! They've been shadowing us this whole time!"
"Maybe." Percy muttered, not too concerned even if it was true. Instead he approached the still incapacitated Professor Ivo and placed his hand on his head.
With barely a sound Ivo then slumped over out cold, as Percy used a by now favoured trick of his to render people unconscious.
Seeing this M'gann released her telekinetic hold on Ivo, allowing him to fall to the floor with a thump, his head bouncing off of the ground loudly.
"Was that really necessary?" Aqualad asked dryly.
"Yes." Replied M'gann, not looking at Kaldur as she did so, as she instead walked to the hole in the ground and then used her telekinesis to lift the warped and melted remains of Amazo out of it. "Unless you want to carry this with your bare hands?"
"Point taken." Aqualad nodded.
"Wait isn't anyone at all bothered by the fact that Green Arrow has been following us this whole time?" Kid Flash asked, both him and Robin sporting incredulous looks at how nonchalant they rest of them were all acting.
"Not really, if it was one of the heavy hitters like Superman, Wonder Woman or Martian Manhunter, then yes, maybe. But considering how dangerous the cargo we were supposed to be protecting was, I am honestly not too bothered that they thought to put extra security on it. In fact I applaud the decision, though it would have been handy if the extra security had actually gotten their hands dirty when we were ambushed." Percy said, sheathing his blade now, not that he had actually needed it. After which he instead began to head for the exit.
"Hn, he has a point." Superboy grunted to Kid Flash and Robin, before both he, Aqualad and M'gann followed Percy. With both Robin and Wally sharing a look, before with a shrug they followed him too.
"M'gann can you call the Bioship down? We'll finish delivering the cargo to Star Labs, after which we'll deposit Ivo in custody and report back to the League." Percy said, sparing the mad scientist a speculative look as he did so.
The guy was a maniacal little shit, but in all honesty his android hadn't killed anyone, despite having the capabilities and the opportunity. In fact if anything it seemed as if Ivo had been testing his creation out, as opposed to just using it to cause mass death and destruction like he could have done.
"Right," M'gann nodded, before she closed her eyes and summoned her ship over.
"Urgh, I'll be glad when this is all over. This was not a fun mission!" Kid Flash groaned as they waited for the Bioship to arrive.
"A mission is not supposed to be fun, Kid!" Robin replied rolling his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah I know. But still, it's good to have fun while you're working Robin!" Kid Flash retorted. After which the two of them soon started to squabble.
"How did you think the mission went Perseus?" Aqualad asked, ignoring the two bickering, younger teens as he instead looked to the leader of the team.
"I think, that we have a lot of work to do. We all dropped the ball today. But still, I think it is good that we managed to come together and deal with the consequences of our previous failure. You especially impressed me Aqualad, you did a good job taking charge of the other team." Percy replied, choosing his words carefully as he didn't want to get anyone down. Though at the same time he couldn't ignore how they technically failed the mission. Not that that stopped Aqualad from smiling slightly. "Oh yeah, and I've told you before, don't call me Perseus." Percy then continued.
"Then what should we call you dude, we can't just call you Percy, you have to have some kind of alias if you're a superhero!" Kid Flash butted in loudly, his words drawing the rest of the team's attention.
Percy paused as he heard that, his eyes narrowing. He had considered the whole alias thing before, and he knew it was about time that he picked one, after all heroes had secret identities and hero names and costumes for a reason.
"Alright then. You can just call me Riptide." Percy finally replied, smiling slightly as he saw all of them blink in surprise. "It's short, sweet and rolls off the tongue, plus it pays homage to my heritage."
"Riptide?" Aqualad echoed a slight frown on his face.
"Hmm, I like it!" Miss Martian cut in cheerily, even as the now visible Bioship land on the ground just in front of them.
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AN: Urghh, that was a pain in the arse chapter to write! Still I managed to get it out, and hopefully you enjoyed it! Still I am hoping to truly diverge from canon events soon as I want to start bringing in the New Gods, the Atlanteans and the Amazons and exploring the different races and cultures. Still needs must. I only hope you all enjoyed it?!
Other than that I have chosen the name Riptide, thanks a lot for all of the response I received, many of which were very supportative, and very handy in helping my come to a decision.
I've recently been watch a new to me series called, Attack on Titan, and it's kind of awesome. What would people think about a Percy Jackson/ Attack on Titan crossover? It could be interesting I reckon.
Thanks a lot for reading and I hope you all leave a review!
Please check out my other stories if you have the time. There are a lot of them!
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