Sup, I finished the 21th chpt, can u believe it? I really hope to wrap up this soon so would love all the critism and feedback I can get. I bet most of u r waiting 4 Trials of Apollo 2 right? The countdown bgins!

Leo POV

"So, why are you hanging with us?" asked Leo. He bounced the tennis ball off the wall for the 1000th time. Tony was updating his latest suit, but Leo could tell he was listening in.

"No reason." Luke said. Leo frowned. For the two days the guy had got out of the infirmary, he had spent the time hiding in the workshop with him and Tony. It was kinda weird, all he did was hover over in a corner and stare at the wall, or toss darts at a dart board.

"So, any plans for Halloween?" Tony asked.

Leo scowled. "Reyna said we couldn't go trick – o –treating. Piper sided with her." Apparently, candy had some bad effect on him . . . girls were always exaggerating everything. "She even said I can't go to the Central Park Spooktacular." He pouted at the wall.

Tony shrugged. "You can always buy candy. Pepper always buys like ten tons of sweets to give out to the kids who come. And I provide the tricking of course." He and Luke shared at evil grin. The two of them had lined the vents with fake sticky spider webs, just for Clint.

Leo sighed. As fun as that sounded, sticking around inside on one of the coolest holidays of the year seemed really mundane. Especially if all the TV specials were lame.

Everyone seemed to be on the same schedule ever since Dead 1 and Dead 2 came back. Speaking of which, he wondered if Nico's sister was awake yet. Nico and Bruce were always in the sick bay, with Bruce worrying if the girl was in coma or something.

Percy was distant and spent most of the day in the water. Reyna kept sparring and training with Natasha and Steve. And the resident artist drew. Yup, just the normal days. Ugh. He really wished he was with Jason and the others. Tracking down Apollo sounds better than sitting around wasting life (since he actually aged now). And they had no clue how to find Thanatos, just grreeaatt.

"Stark, Valdez, conference room. And you can come if you want Blondie."

"Thanks talking vent," grumbled Leo. He was use to Clint creeping around the vents and talking to them. He plugged in ear phones and walked to the elevator, drowning the world's problems in music.

Tony and Luke were making awkward conversation. Leo turned the music higher, drums blasting his ears deaf.

The doors opened to reveal Captain One Eye, great. Everyone was already there, sitting around the table. Reyna motioned for Leo. Glaring half heartily at her, he reluctantly removed the ear buds.

Fury tossed a file onto the table. "Your newest target."

"You want us to terminate him?" Nico's eyes had bags under them, but they sharpened as he scanned the page.

"This is Michael Velucian," said Fury. Clary visibly flinched, casing Reyna and Natasha to glance at her curiously. "He is one of HYDRA's secret solder trainers that we rounded up. Unfortunately, he isn't talking."

"You want us to interrogate him?" Reyna said. She and Steve exchanged a glance.

"That's cool. I know an intel broker in Lower Manhattan, he could tell us what makes your prisoner tick," said Percy. Fury gave him measured look, before his eye swerved back to the file.

"This is the information we have from one of his students, the only source," He glanced pointy at Clary, "he isn't cooperating and resisted all our methods. He is pretty high up on the command chain, so HYDRA is probably looking for ways to eliminate him before we can full get the information we need."

Tony snickered. "What a shock."

"Can I talk to him?" Clary's voice was smaller than usual. The usually emotionless girl looked pretty pale. He tiny fists were clenched tightly.

Fury's face morphed into some expression that quickly disappeared. "I think that can be arranged." It was pretty clear he had been planning that all along.

"How much information do you want?" asked Percy. He stopped. "I mean, to what extend can we interrogate him?" Fury walked out without answering. "Gee, really helpful," muttered Percy.

Nico turned to Clary. "Anything you know that can help us. Maybe this man has a fear?"

"Yeah, maybe he doesn't like candy or is afraid of having fun," muttered Leo. Percy elbowed him.

"He is afraid of heights," whispered Clary, "He would jump out of the plane at my skydiving lesson in Budapest." Reyna looked concernedly at her.

"Are you alright? Maybe you don't have to –"

"I'm fine," Clary said. Her voice hardened. "In fact, I have many things I want to ask him."

Ten minutes later, they were on the roof. Bruce had gone downstairs, mumbling about checking up on Nico's sister. He was just too passive. Reyna did summon her dogs though, as substitute lie detectors.

The prisoner guy, Michael, looked really calm. In fact, he looked like he was on vacation, enjoying the view. His brown hair was perfect and clothes were clean. He was smiling, but his pupils were dilated in fear.

"So buddy, any chance you can spit out everything and we can get on with our lives," asked Leo. The guy looked at him, but didn't acknowledge him. Same thing for the last hour. They had tried intimidation, good and bad cop, having him stand on the ledge, etc.

They couldn't do anything, well, hurtful, because Fury needed Mikey unscathed for something. Reyna was whispering encouragingly to Clary behind a wall. Maybe seeing one of his students would make him crack.

"So Mickey, you hungry? Maybe you could spill the beans and we go for some pizza? Or how 'bout tamales, you're Mexican right?" Leo grinned at the guy. "You guys do Día de los Muertos? Of course you do. We don't have that, but I think you can go trick – o – treating."

"Leo, shut up. You can't annoy the answers out of someone," grumbled Percy. "And stop bringing up Halloween, Reyna already said you can't go terrorize kids for candy."

Leo gave Percy an insulted look. "I don't terrorize them; I just turn up the heat –"

"You vill not brekf me." Finally, silent and evil spoke. Hmmm, he had a funny lilting Russian accent, wonder if he was doing on purpose or he was just bad with American accents. He didn't look Russian for the record.

"I will not count on that Velucian," Clary walked quietly up to him. The man's eyes widened.

"Clareessa, the runawah Beta," he snarled, "You are a traitooorrr to us all. I knew you verr diffurent once dey picked you up."

Clary narrowed her eyes. "Yeah, well, I don't mix with murderers, or people who want to dissect me, or people who kidnapped me, experimented on me, wiped my memory, and whole other list of things I forgot because of you!" She held the point of her sword under his chin. "And if you do not cooperate, this will get unpleasant."

The man smiled. "You alvays had fierce rebel spurit, vury American ef you vill. You ver the purfect prototype, the secon enhanced ve had, but vetter. Ve reprogrammed you purfectly." Clary didn't even flinch.

"That half human android had no business being the Alpha. He would have left, just as I. You may have given him metal parts, but you cannot break the human heart," She said softly. Clary smiled. "Now talk or you will regret it."

He gave her the classic bring – it – on face. Clary grunted grimly, before shoving him off the roof.

Steve and Clint immediately leaped forward. "What –"

They could hear him screaming on the way down. Clary stood on the ledge emotionlessly. She held out a hand. The man was levitated back onto the ledge, gasping.

Damn, Leo thought, why didn't I think of that?!

"We can repeat this over and over again," called Clary coldly, "You know what I am capable of. After all, you taught me many things." Leo shivered. He never thought cute little red heads could get so scary.

The man coughed. "What do you want to know?"

Clary narrowed her eyes. She held out a piece of paper and a pen. "A list of all HYDRA operatives you know. We need all your passwords and active projects."

He started writing.

"And I want to know what did you to Ethan?" Percy said.

"I have no idea what you are talking about," the man said.

"Ethan Nakamura, you guys turned him into a half metal liquid thing," Percy.

"Ah, you must mean Operative Delta. We have managed to fuse man with a new metallic composition we call multinetic polyalloy," he said proudly, "A great advancement according to my superiors."

Percy moved so fast all Leo saw was a blur. His hand slammed the bad guy into a wall. "Are you telling me you turned one of my friends half metal," he growled, "and you're happy about it?" Behind Percy, Luke looked really angry too. Leo wondered if he should remind them that Ethan tried to kill them a few days ago.

"We rescued him. He was pale and looked half dead; at least he looked like that in the pictures before the augmentation." The man stuttered, probably feeling the rise of anger around Percy. Leo swore the air was trying to turn red.

Percy released his grip, breathing levelly. The man collapsed, his face bright red.

"We know all about your Percy Jackson," He wheezed out, "Your world is about to crumble into oblivion."

"He reminds me of Octavian," remarked Nico.

"Nah, Octagon was a pathetic blond scarecrow, this guy looks like the classic evil henchman." sneered Leo.

"Explain the augmentation," said Percy.

"Yeah," chimed in Clary, "I know you people did that to me too. Don't you dare deny it!"

The man hesitated. "You know, I haven't seen tennis in a while. Percy and Clary could hit you back and forth above the skyscrapers like a tennis ball," Leo suggested.

"Project SANA or Special Advanced Human Augmentation was created back in the 1900s. They were trying to create the perfectly enhanced human. At time, there were many attempts, like the Super Soldier serum created by Abraham Erskine or the Red room procedures. Today, we have more advanced methods. Carissa was the second enhanced we created, that survived her augmentation trial without visible physical or mental defects. Once we perfected her, we tried other formulations, like the one we used in Ethan."

"I always knew you were making a super army," said Clint, "just didn't think you guys would use kids." He shook his head.

The man smiled humorlessly. "Children can be molded easier."

"But why did you try to dissect Clary," Percy said, "I don't get it."

"We captured – found Clarissa on the streets. She had a special type of blood we hadn't encountered before. Doctor Strucker immediately ordered we try Trial II on her. When that succeeded, we trained her like we planned. However, Doctor Strucker thought the implant could be improved, so we were ordered for surgery."

"You mean dissection," corrected Leo. The man snarled at him.

"Wait, you implanted something in her?" interrupted Tony.

"The neuron chip," Clary yelped, her hand flying to the back of her head.

"Ah yes, you are injected with millions of genetically modified neurons, all connected to a neuron chip implant. It is the source of your abilities."

"You mean my telekinesis, healing, and the tattooing thing," whispered Clary. She pulled up her sleeves and stared at her arms. Leo now understood why she never wore short sleeves. Her arms were littered with silver tattoo symbols.

"Actually, you came to us with those powers. When we found you, you had the ability to draw symbols that did amazing things, and you had unusual weapons on you. Of course they were studied, but nothing was discovered, except only you could bear those marks.

You attained telekinetic and telepathic abilities –"

"She can read our minds?!" yelped Tony. He glared at Clary accusingly. "That was never mentioned."

"Yes it was Tony," said Natasha, "She just never demonstrated it."

"Because she cannot read minds. That technology has not been perfected yet. Clarissa can delete minds. Yes, dear, we never attempted any memory wipes on you. You did that purely on your own." The man smiled serenely.

"I didn't do anything," Clary said. She looked pale, like paler than Nico.

"We couldn't stop it. It was hard to control and train you to use it, as it was at an experimentary stage. It was one of the reasons we injected you with depressants. Emotions seemed to spike up the flares, so we had to suppress them. Not a big loss, we wanted you to be mentally invincible anyway."

"No," Clary murmured. Reyna gave Percy and look. He muttered something to Luke, who led Clary back inside.

"Alright, continue writing your list while we ask a few more questions," said Percy. Leo looked at the paper. The list was pretty long. He scanned some of the names, most were of strangers, though some looked really familiar. Was that fourteenth name his accountant?!

"Where is the HYDRA base where all these experiments are taking place?" demanded Clint.

He shrugged. "I am a cognitive training specialist. I only know the base where I worked at, which was captured by SHIELD. The other base was blown up by Beta."

His eyes flickered, was that a lie? Damn, Leo wished Frank was here. He was like a human lie detector.

"When you said Clary was the Beta, and Ethan was the Delta, who is Gamma and Alpha then?" Percy persisted. Steve coughed uncomfortably.

The man shrugged.

"Ok, what about Loki's spear. Yes, we know about it. You stole it out of SHIELD custody, so where is it?" Reyna said, hiding the fact that they have seen it.

The man shrugged again. "Strucker made a deal with someone. The spear was loaned out for the two new subjects, one of them Nakamura. Something about them being special, because well, they were demigods. Yes, we were aware of the Greek world, the basics anyway."

"Yeah, not surprising, considering SHIELD's horrible firewalls," muttered Reyna.

"Who was the spear loaned out too?" asked Percy.

The man smiled, but he was looking behind them. "Hail HYDRA." An arrow embedded itself into his heart. Leo froze, before leaping down.

He glanced behind them, to see the shadows of two figures zipping like Spiderman. Except they were swinging with grappling hooks. At a really fast speed. Like pros.

"One of them is Ethan," said Percy, squinting, "the suns glinting off the metal. I think the other is a girl with a silver ponytail, though guys wear ponytails too, so not really sure. Dang, they're gone." Reyna and Clary cursed.

"I bet the other was enhanced too," said Nico. He and Reyna casted grim looks at the skyline.

"Well, we need to find them," said Leo, staring at the dead body with an arrow through the heart. It had a note attached:

Happy Halloween demigods. Who would like to die first?

Leo shuddered It was so clique, it was scary. "Fury's going to kill us. Can this day get any better?" He asked sarcastically.

JARVIS's voice crackled into existence. "Mr. Stark, Dr. Banner has told me to inform you Bianca di Angelo has woken."

So, I know the story timing is kind of confusing. I confused about it myself. All I know is that the whole story takes place after the avengers 1st movie, and iron man two, but before TtDW and TWS (though some parts are a little more confusing since I overlooked a few things). I am considering redoing this story after I'm done, but not real sure. Anyway, Happy Halloween!