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The Ever Twisting Wind: Threshold Breakthrough

Chapter Fifteen: Times of War

Beta: ShadowofAxios

"Stop!" Andi demanded, putting her divine power into her voice as she looked angrily at the Campers of Apollo and Ares Cabins that had been on the verge of coming to blows. They had literally drawn arms and donned their armor and were facing off against each other on either side of Camp's central hearth.

And all over the spoil won in a recent operation against the Titans. A silly little flying chariot of all things! They had pegasi darn it!

"Have you two bunches of imbeciles forgot we are at war!?" She asked, her human form wavering as her agitation got the better of her. She had been practicing with taking on her godly form lately and while it was still a work in progress, mainly because she couldn't decide what to make it, she was making headway. It also made it harder to maintain her human shape at times as she now had a tendency to shift into her malleable energy shape at times of heightened emotion.

Micheal Yew, the current head of Apollo cabin, stepped up.

"Lady Andromeda surely you'll side with us! I mean, Will is your boyfriend right?" Micheal said gesturing to Will who had been uncomfortably sitting on the sidelines of the dispute the whole time.

Will, her darling boyfriend, looked wide eyed at his brother and held up his hands, "Whoa, whoa! Do not use me as a bargaining chip here! I'm neutral!"

A sharp wind blew throughout Camp, squealing in the air as Andi's eyes became empty voids of white light.

"You little-! How dare you! I am a goddess! I will not choose one side over the other just because I am dating one of your brothers! My judgement will be fair and just!"

"Let them have it, Lady Andi!" Clarisse shouted eagerly. "Show them what they get for being cheating scoundrels!"

"Clarisse do not push me. I am already angry over this... this nonsense! I would think you would be like minded during wartime! We do not need this juvenile bullshit!"

"She's got you there, Clarisse." Silena said with amusement from where she and the rest of the Campers were watching the fight from the safety of a patch of grass next to Cabin Eleven who was also providing everyone with free popcorn. Between that and the free Diet Coke that Chiron was being generous enough to provide from Mr. D's private stash, the whole thing had become quite the viewing party. Even the Trainer of Heroes had joined in the festivities and was watching things unfold with amusement while chatting with Ida.

"Silence from the peanut gallery! This has gone on for long enough. If both Cabins can't play nice, maybe your toy should be taken away." The goddess informed imperiously. "And Chiron! Do something!"

"I think you have everything in order, my lady." Chiron said offering a double thumbs up.

Stupid centuar. Thinks he's so smart. Fine! Andi thought and turned to the still arguing Cabins.

"Enough of this nonsense!" The goddess shouted, her patience with this farce at an end. "If you two bunch of fools want to fight over that stupid chariot so much, then I'll just get rid of it!"

With a snap of her fingers, the flying chariot that had been floating serenely over Cabin Seven all this time distingerated in front of everyone's eyes. The two warring Cabins cried out in dismay at the sight while the spectators had the gall to make sounds of disappointment.

"There! Now you have nothing to fight about! You want to be angry with someone? Be angry with me! I don't give a damn!" Andi declared with a glare glowing with her divine power that had the foolish Campers cowering in fear.

Satisfied that the Campers had the idiot worked out of their systems for now, Andi turned and began to walk away

"Now, I'm gonna go do something productive for the war effort. I hope that you lot do the same!" The goddess said warningly as she and Wendy teleported away.

"Ya look angry," Lucy the harpy said the moment Andi and Wendy teleported into Azeios' camp. "Here, drink this. It help you calm down."

"Dealing with idiot children can grind one's nerves." Andi huffed as she accepted the cocktail glass the harpy pushed towards her with a push of her wing. A glass filled with a mix of what was at least three dozen different types of alcohol and a sprinkling of nectar.

"Ah, Lucy gets it. Children dull and uneducated. Can't even recite score from two-thousand Super Bowl. Good inspiring story. Should lose toe for each wrong answer."

With the intention to make allies for the war, the goddess of breezes had come to one of the best sources of fighters she knew of, Azeios' camp.

Now it was just a matter of convincing them to offer their aid for the Olympian cause.

"Lucy, enough with the drinks." Azeios said as he sipped from his own tankard of mead that had been provided to him by the resident potioneer slash mixologist. "We have serious business to discuss."

"Aw~!" The insane harpy whined as she pouted. "But I thoughts getting drunk when angry make for best times. Make talking serious business easier. We does it every Super Bowl!"

"If it's any consolation, Azeios, I can't get drunk unless I want to anymore."

"Not the point," the giant said with a sigh, brow furrowed. "But fine! Let's talk business! What do you want Lady Andromeda?"

"I thought that was obvious?" Wendy asked as she took a break from guzzling down the barrel of apple cider that Lucy had provided her to butt her head into the conversation.

"Wendy shush!' Andi chided as she stirred her drink. "Keep trying to get drunk on apple juice."

"Okay~!" The young Aura declared happily as she went back to drinking her alcoholic apple juice like a pro. Maybe they were hanging around Dionysus a bit too much.

"Is that safe?" Azeios asked worriedly. "She's so young."

"She's fine," Andi said waving a hand dismissively. "She's a Southern Aura, she can burn off the alcohol by just using it as fuel to light her hair on fire later."

"If you're sure," the giant said uncertainly.

"Andi said it's okay so it, it i-is," Wendy said with a slight slur, her cheeks flushed red.

Lucy tried to nod in agreement but instead of inspiring confidence in her leader it seemed to have the opposite effect and had Azeios look even more skeptical.

"Let's not get distracted." Andi said snapping her fingers to get his attention away from the lush Wendy was trying hard to become. "I ask you again, would you be willing to fight for Olympus against my Grandfather's upcoming invasion of Manhattan?"

"I dunno, Lady Andromeda." The friendly Arkadian giant hedged. "Many of my people want to escape the fighting. Not join it. Plus, I honestly can't say that I feel confident in the chances of an Olympian victory. We are talking about a war against both the Titans led by the Crooked One himself and the Father of Monsters! How can I ask my people to join in a lost cause like that?"

"Because it isn't a lost cause." Andi insisted, her words full of her firm belief. "The odds are stacked against us, I'll give you that much but we've survived worse. In the Gigantomachy, we had the Gigantes literally climbing Mount Olympus and we still managed to pull off a win in the end. We can pull off the same here."

"Another miracle?" Azeios asked skeptically.

"We are the gods of Olympus." Andi pointed out cheekily.

"Lady Andromeda!" An unfamiliar Aura called out frantically as she suddenly materialized next to Andi. "The attack! It's started!"

"What!?" Wendy shouted, expressing everyone's opinion on the matter even as her hair temporarily transformed into a pillar of fire as she burned off the excess alcohol in her system.

Taking her partner's statement of incredulity as a genuine question, the unknown Aura repeated herself. This time, she shouted it at the top of her voice as if that might get her message across better.

"The Titans are attacking Manhattan!"

"Shit, I thought we still had some time left." Andi cursed as Skyline appeared out of the aether in her grasp in bow form. Turning to Azeios, she shot him a pleading look. "Please, help us protect the world from my Grandfather. If he wins, who knows what will become of your people. Even those neutral may not be spared his ire."

The Arkandian looked hesitant even then but the decision was taken out of his hands by the shouts from all across his camp.

"Get the weapons! We need to be ready ten minutes ago!"

"Someone prepare the Jeeps and the ATVs!"

"Where I park my HAVw A6 Juggernaut?" A cyclops shouted as he burst out of his save, dressed up as a Clone Trooper from Star Wars complete with what Andi hoped was a working Blaster scaled for his gigantic proportions.

"Swords, get your swords here! End of the world, you'll need a sword!"

"Chainswords! Chainswords for anyone who wants them!" A giant clad in the armor of a Space Marine from Warhammer 40k shouted as he tossed the aforementioned weapons at his fellows from the door of what looked like a giant sized forge.

"We got Veritechs set up! Only five! Get 'em while they're hot! Can't go to war without a transforming robot capable of a missile massacre or a dozen!" Another cyclops dressed up as Breetai from Marcross shouted at his fellows as he taxied one of the aforementioned mecha out the door of a previously concealed hangar built into a hill.

What's with all the cosplay!? Andi thought as an honest to Olympus Madcat battlemech stepped out of a cave. Did all of Azeios' people get exiled from the rest of monsterkind for being nerds!?

Looks like, Wendy sent back as she watched starstruck as the Space Marine clad giant pressed a button and a Imperator-class titan began raising from a hidden underground bunker.

I am not buying you one.

Aw! Wendy whined.

Seeing as his people readied themselves for war without any input from him, Azeios could only sigh.

"I suppose we will fight with Olympus after all." The Arkadian said with resignation.

"Don't be upset. We decided ages ago!" Lucy told him with a shrug that looked incredibly strange considering her avian features.

"Since when?" Azeios asked, surprised.

"Like just now?" Lucy replied, sounding just as confused.

"That's not ages ago!"

"It isn't?

Not wanting to let Lucy's madness drive the already frazzled Azeios over the edge, Andi stepped in.

"For Olympus?" Andi asked the two questioningly.

"For Olympus!" The two leaders of the camp of neutral monsters shouted back, the harpy enthusiastically while the giant remained hesitant and bewildered.

Good enough. Andi reasoned. At least we're on the same page.

"The flank of the Titan column marching up Sixth Avenue is unguarded!" The giant piloting the Imperator-class declared as Andi, Azeios and his warband moved to intercept the Titan Army as they advanced through the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. "Lady Andromeda! We should attack!"

Andi took a second to survey the enemy with her Μυστικά μάτια της θείας σαφήνειας (Mystic Eyes of Divine Clarity) to make sure the observation was correct and suppressed a minor shudder at the diverse mix and sheer number of monsters marching up the iconic street. There must have thousands of hellhounds, harpies, Stymphalian Birds, Empousai, Scythian Dracanae, Laistrygonian Giants, Telekhines, and what seemed like every other monster besides. Heck, they even had Hyperborean Giants and Cyclopes!

Worse with a massive Imperator-class titan on their side, they hadn't exactly been quiet. Having a warmachine as tall as a skyscraper in your warband pretty much made stealth impossible. As a result, though they somehow escaped detection till then, the enemy had seen them coming now and were rapidly organizing a defense. If they wanted to strike, they had to strike now.

"Go!" Andi ordered. "Hit them with everything we've got!"

"For Olympus!" The Imperator-class' pilot shouted as he fired his immense mecha's weapons and instantly vaporized an entire section of the enemy column even as his fellows repeated his warcry as they too joined the attack.

Soon exotic weaponry of all kinds flew at the rest of the Titans' minions from the cosplayers' hobbyist imitation warmachines even as their more conventionally armed comrades charged the reeling enemy lines. Andi adding her own contribution by using Skyline to snipe anything resembling an officer or commander amidst the Titan ranks without mercy.

I am so glad we have nerds on our side. Andi let out a low whistle of amazement as Azeios and his band of crazies effectively halted an entire part of the Titan Army's advance all on their own.

Can I have one, please Andi! Wendy begged even as she remained wrapped around Andi in Storm Mail form. Just one of the small ones! Just imagine the mayhem we could unleash on our enemies if I had one!

No means no, Wendy.

Aw~!

"Huh? Strange magic be thrown around." Lucy said suddenly as she flew over to perch next to Andi on one of the Imperator's observation decks. "Lucy thinks some dummies need a smacking. Lady Andromeda come too. Might need help."

Andi took a moment to survey the immediate situation. Azeios' warband didn't need her help. They were doing just fine. Better than fine if the way the Arkadian had just ripped the spine out of a Hyperborean giant and was now using it as a whip was any indication.

"Sure? Where are we going?" Andi asked the harpy.

"Over theres!" Lucy said pointing off towards Union Square Park where as Andi turned her eyes in that direction, the goddess saw a small, beleaguered group of loyalist Hecate kids led by Lou Ellen Blackstone about to be overrun by their traitorous siblings led by Alabaster C. Torrington and a host of empousai. Just like the empousai had split into those who had joined the Titans and those who stayed loyal to Lady Hecate, her kids had likewise split with most of the younger ones remaining loyal to Olympus and staying Camp whilst the older ones joined up with the Crooked One.

"Let's go!" Andi said even as with a thought and a tiny exercise of her divine will she teleported Lucy, Wendy and herself directly between Lou Ellen's group and the enemy poised to wipe them out.

"Want to try your luck, Alabaster?" Andi asked, raising Skyline at the boy with an arrow of raw magic already nocked.

Lou Ellen and her loyalist siblings cried out in joy and relief at her arrival whilst most of the enemy froze in fear. All that is except their leader. Unlike his men, the brown haired Alabaster just laughed and his green eyes shone with genuine amusement.

"Like a pitiful goddess like you could ever defeat me!"

Andi's blood boiled at the insult and the plants of the park stirred to life in response to the anger of the goddess of the Wild even as the dryads who inhabited them manifested themselves, armed with wicked clubs and angry snarls on their faces.

"Wow, he on power trip. Let's me handles this, lady goddess girl." Lucy said instead as she looked at Alabaster's group with a predatory smile. "No needs goddess get hands dirty."

"Yes, let the stupid harpy try first. I will enjoy killing her and making you watch, my lady." The freckled face traitor taunted, spitting the honorific out venomously.

"Dumb kiddies, listening to lying Titans. You alls dumb. Very, very dumbs." Lucy insisted as she pointed a talon at the Titan group. "Betray goddess and mommy, you really, really dumbs. No worry, no worry, me fix you right better."

Her crooked and gnarled teeth twisted into a manic grin as arcane energy rolled off her feathers in rippling waves.

"Ten twenty-two, ten twenty-two, hut hut Boom!" She shouted as she pointed her wings at Alabaster and his men.

"Was that supposed to be a spell?" Alabaster said, laughing even as the empousai wisely turned to run.

"Wait for it." Lucy said with an evil grin. "Sometimes takes time."

She'd just finished speaking when energy exploded from her feathers, shooting at the group of empousai and the teenagers leading them like a hail of bullets.

One bolt disintegrated a hybrid monster unfortunate enough to be hit, another turned its victim into a stone statue as another collapsed into a pile of soap bubbles when struck. Each bolt hit its victim with a different effect, ranging from outright erasure from existence to turning them into a bobblehead. Whatever effect it caused however, they were universally fatal. As a result, with one fell swoop the enemy was completely defeated. Including the arrogant Alabaster who had been reduced to a scowling little bobblehead.

"Collection got bigger. Whoo! Always hard to get that one happen." Lucy cheered and flapped her wings in glee as she did a touchdown dance in the air.

...Never get on Lucy's bad side. Andi noted to herself.

Or ever let her meet Beatrice. Wendy added.

The image that thought planted in both their minds had the partners shuddering.

Vanishing the disturbing thought from her mind, Andi floated over to the Hecate loyalists and asked, "What are you doing here on your own? Why aren't you with the other Camp units?"

Lou Ellen scowled, her tiny fists balled. "They didn't want us there. Thought we might betray them like Alabaster and the others did. S-So we thought to fight on our own to prove ourselves Lady Andi."

"They's can join with Azzy and the rest of us." Lucy offered, having finished her victory dance.

"You the guys with the 40k Titan?" One of Lou Ellen's brothers asked pointing off towards the looming form of the Imperator in the distance.

"That us," Lucy agreed with a grin. "We's got big guns!"

"I vote we join them!" Another young boy declared, getting many nods of agreement.

"Lucy, need my help getting back?" Andi asked even as she saw a strange sight at the Empire State Building that caught her attention.

"Nos, lady goddess, go see why minor gods suddenly come down from Olympus. Me bring little magic kiddies to Azzy." Lucy said as she flicked her new demigod bobblehead absentmindedly.

Is it just me or is she getting even harder to understand as time goes along? Wendy asked with a sense of exasperation and confusion.

It's not just you. Andi reassured her partner.

"Then I'll leave them to you." Andi said as she floated into the air. "I'm off to Koreatown! See you later!"

With that she shot off towards the Empire State Building and the cluster of minor gods gathering at its base, sniping any target of opportunity she could along the way.

"Lady Hecate, everyone, why are you all here?" Andi asked as she landed beside her superior just outside the doors of the Empire State Building a few minutes later.

"Joining the fight of course," Eris said walking up to Andi. "And don't disturb Hecate, she's working on something big."

The goddess of chaos, discord, and strife and fellow MGS member was in a black toga, her eyes gleaming, and had a smile like a serial killer might wear sketched across her face. An image not helped by the bloody kitchen knife she was carrying around as her infamous golden apple was gripped in her other hand, Titans carved into it in jagged letters.

"Something big? What exactly?"

"A curse." Hecate said as she finished and a wave of dark energy swept across Manhattan. "It won't kill all of the Crooked One's monsters but it'll thin the herd somewhat as it were."

"Do I want to know how?" Andi asked warily.

"No, no you don't." Eris told her with a vaguely uneasy look which coming from her said wonders. A conviction affirmed by the howls of pain that suddenly began to fill the air.

"Could you break Morepheus' spell?" A tall and handsome young man with snowy white wings, holding a sacred matrimonial torch in his hand asked Hecate. "If you did, we could have the Titans retreat immediately. They can't attack with mortals about, it's against the Ancient Laws."

"Unfortunately not, Hymenaios." Hecate said with a sigh. "He's holding onto the dreams of the mortals tight. Too tightly for me to wrest them from him and wake them."

"That damned traitor!" Eris hissed angrily.

"Guys! Look who's decided to make an appearance." A man dressed like a farmer from the Midwest complete with plaid shirt and flannel suspenders said as he pointed to another group of gods that suddenly appeared across the street from where the loyalists were gathered.

"Shut up Aristaeus!" The collective gods, on both sides, shouted causing the poor guy to smirk for some odd reason.

"So why are you bunch of losers fighting for the Twelve?" Nemesis, dressed as always in her favorite red jacket, black jeans, and black boots asked even as she played with her whip menacingly. "You know they don't care for us. If they did they wouldn't have let us become so neglected by the masses."

"Maybe," Hecate spat back. "But that's still better than Kronos and his short sightedness. If we let him win, he'll just get us all killed."

"You chose to side against us out of fear of the Technodjinn!?" The frightening looking Melinoe scoffed. Her left side was black and hardened like a mummy whilst her right side was pale and chalky as if she were drained of all her blood. And to further add to her horrible visage, her eyes were empty black voids. Perhaps in a bid to soften her terror inducing looks, she was dressed in a fashionable golden dress complimented by a golden shawl. "After Kronos wins, he'll crush those upstarts and we'll have nothing to fear."

"It might be too late by then," Eris shot back. "And that's even if he wins. Which we aren't just going to sit here and allow."

"Brave words, Eris." Nemesis spat back.

"Really?" Hebe asked with a raised eyebrow. "'Cause from our point of view, we have you guys outnumbered."

"Really?" One of the traitor goddesses dressed in a brown gown and a wreath of leaves on her head said as she snapped her fingers, causing hundreds of monsters to suddenly materialize from nowhere.

"Pomona! We were supposed to keep those in reserve!" The two faced god Janus' left head cursed. "Now you're shown our hand!"

"It was time already." The unrepentant nature goddess said with a shrug.

"She's right! Monsters charge! Clear the way for Lord Kronos!" Nemesis ordered and the monsters started running towards the loyalist minor gods.

"Let's go face our demise." Oizys sighed as a warcry, looking miserable with her long dark hair that covered one of her eyes and radiating a black abyss of depression. She looked like a gothic teenager with a spiked helm and leather armor adorned with many skulls.

She's really pushing that depression aspect of her domain isn't she? Wendy commented.

Yeah...

"Aim that depression at the enemy dear." Hebe told her, a strained smile on her pretty face as she began tossing watery orbs of energy at the monsters.

"Gotcha Miss Prez. They'll want to curl up into a ball and contemplate why their lives recycle endlessly and how pathetic it is that they only live to die at the hands of children. Forever and ever."

And just as she said, a whole third of the monster army fell to the ground in bouts of crippling depression and anxiety before they began crying out about their fate.

Wow she's terrifying! Andi gulped but offered her fellow minor goddess a nervous smile even as she reduced a Hyperborean Cyclops into a bloody mess with a vertical twister.

"Where's Nike?" Someone whispered on their side as divine energy blasted from their hand.

"With Zeus, duh! You know he needs his pocket victory goddess right now."

"Ugh!"

The fighting paused temporarily when what could only be described as a shot from an orbital laser hit Madison Square Garden Park off in the distance. As if that wasn't flashy enough this was followed by flashes of green light heralding the arrival of dozens of glowing green pyramids, cubes and ships Andi recognized Alarak fielding. The Technodjinn had arrived.

"That bitch! She just killed Morpheus!" Nemesis shouted suddenly.

"Told you they'd be a problem." Hecate said triumphantly as she used the goddess of retribution's distraction to send her flying with a beam of energy. "Andi! Go stop GLaDOS! We have the situation here under control! Go!"

"But-"

"Sister, go!" Hebe shouted as she dueled with what looked like a Dracaenae witch.

"Alright! Just hang in there!" Andi told them as she flew off, the winds whistling around her as she went to face GLaDOS' forces to lessen the bloodshed they would be sure to unleash.

"Silena! Help me!" A tall, beautiful and glamorous Asian girl with dark hair in ringlets and warm brown eyes that Andi vaguely remembered was named Drew cried about desperately as she was being dragged off by two humanoids with ashen, grayish skin, balding hair and a whole host of cybernetic implants. A pair of well placed arrows on Andi's part easily took care of them and Drew scrambled back to the dubious safety of Aphrodite Cabin's wavering lines.

Andi glanced at the daughter of love as she fled but most of her attention was on the two new corpses she'd created, for unlike most monsters they did not completely fade into gold dust. Their cybernetics had but the human bodies did not and to Andi's horror she recognized at least one of them. It was Kevin from Cabin Eleven who had disappeared at some point during the Battle of Zeus' Fist. Heck under the dissolving black metal armor he'd been wearing were the tattered remains of a Camp Half-Blood shirt.

Oh gods! They're using our dead against us! Wendy cried out in horror.

"Not on my watch!" Andi roared furiously as she raised her bow and fired a shot skyward. The moment it left her bow, the arrow immediately duplicated itself into hundreds of bolts of elemental fury that fell down on the Technodjinn forces, especially the cybernetic zombies. The damned things fell easily enough as did most of the machine gods' ground forces but their ships mostly weathered Andi's angry attack intact. A dozen or so were sunk but there were still at least twice that number in the air and busily unloading troops. Thus the park was soon filled with bursts of green light and filled up with hordes of cyber zombies, skeletal robots and android Protoss all over again. All supported by mecha that reminded Andi of those she taggled with in Sybil's base that must have been from Robotech.

There were so many of them it had forced the Titan Army's forces in the area, a squad of Telekhines manning a fancy looking trebuchet and their Laistrygonian guards, to actually fight side by side with the equally beleaguered Aphrodite Campers just to hold the damned machines off.

"Where are their gods?" Andi asked, eyeing the hordes suspiciously. "And why aren't the ships providing cover fire for their ground troops?"

This is just a distraction that's why. Alice's voice said into her mind. These ships aren't even armed. They're purely here to transport troops.

Gloating? Andi snarled in her mind as her grip tightened around her bow.

Call it a guilty conscience. I am the conscience of the Technodjinn, I get hit with it a lot. The Technodjinn goddess sent back with a mental shrug. You might want to go hunt down my siblings though, they are on the prowl and any of your friends in their way will die.

Fine… I'm trusting you Alice because unlike the rest of your Pantheon, you actually seem to care. I hope you continue to do so.

I care because I can. Mother fed me Morpheus already. Even if I had to share it with Sbyil, I'm full. I'm still an amoral monster, don't ever forget that.

Even a monster can feel things, Alice. The wind goddess reminded as she called on the forces of nature under her command. They responded eagerly and suddenly hundreds of Nature Spirits and Aurae materialized out of nowhere.

Oh, I know. Just wanted to remind you of that. Alice said distractedly. I'll go now. Need to digest my meal if I want to barf up Morpheus later so he doesn't fade entirely. Consider that my gift to you. Friends?

He's kinda my enemy at the moment, but sure. Friends.

Cool! Have a fun Titanomachy, Andi! Alice said as her mental presence finally retreated.

That last bit was weird. Wendy noted. She almost sounded high.

She is digesting a pretty powerful minor god. Andi pointed out. So maybe she is?

"Help the Campers," Andi ordered her servants even as she had her mental conversation with her partner. "I'll take out the ships!"

"Thanks for the assist Lady Andi!" Silena finally found enough of a breather to shout, having been a little too busy before now blasting away at the Technodjinn hordes with love blasts to talk. Something that might have been the only thing that saved her Cabin from being completely overrun.

Seriously, love was a deadly kind of energy it seemed.

"Don't mention it!" Andi shouted back as she took aim at the transport ships above.

Firing her bow, she sent another rain of arrows at the hovering transport fleet. Her bolts of explosive wind colliding with the ships' shields, making them ripple and crack one by one from the sheer force of her arrows leaving them vulnerable as a second wave of arrows finished taking them out. As explosions lit up the sky over the park and debris rained down, the Technodjinn's enemies - monster, Camper and Nature Spirit alike - cheered.

"Alright, one down… a lot to go. It's going to take forever to find GLaDOS in this madhouse of a battle." Andi muttered as she tried to think up a way to draw the nuts and bolts goddess out.

She waited for a second for Alice to be generous and give more advice but all she got was a rather gassy burp in reply.

Sorry! The Technodjinn sent back. And no more freebies. Mother will get upset. I don't want to be spanked.

What are you twelve?

I'm only one and a half years old actually. Alice sent cheekily before retreating once more with a delirious little giggle.

Yup. High. She's definitely high as a kite.

Andi! Above! Wendy shouted suddenly and Andi looked up to see what had her partner all bothered only to see a huge pig with pink flamingo wings flying towards Madison Square Garden Park.

The Clazmonian Sow!? Just great! As if we didn't already have enough problems!

"Lady Andi! Go take out the flying porker!" Silena shouted as she leapt down from the top of a battlepod which fell apart into two neatly bisected halves as she landed. "We'll contain the rest of the machines."

"Good, I was getting hungry!" The goddess of the Wild declared as seeing the sow made her hunting instincts sing. She blamed Artemis for that.

But she could get grumpy over that later, right now she had a flying pig to kill. So pushing aside all distracting thoughts she leapt into the air after the monster and began peppering it with arrows. Whatever the damned thing's hide was made off though, it was tough enough that the arrows barely did anything more than leave blisters even as they detonated with the force of sizable explosions.

"Tough critter aren't you?" Andi noted rhetorically as she swerved out the way of a beam of dark green gas the Sow breathed out which hit a building on the other side of the park and promptly caused it to decompose.

"Hey! Watch out, you stupid pig! There are mortals inside the buildings!"

The monster just oinked its lack of concern for the life of the pathetic mortals, its words, and banked for another shot at Andi.

"Keep this up and see if I let you in on a quest and don't chain you down to a mountain!" The Aurae goddess sneered.

Your rates suck anyways! All no mortal deaths, no collateral damage! No fun! The Sow grunted in disdain. Besides when Lord Kronos wins there won't be quests anymore, silly goddess!

"You so sure your side is gonna win?" Andi asked as she tried the trick she had used against the Cetus when she went hunting with Artemis only for nothing to happen.

The Sow had the gall to laugh at this in its own squealing way.

We have Lelantos, Titan of Air, on our side. What is the power of a mere goddess of breezes against his might?

"Oh, save it you conceited pig!" Andi snapped back as she evaded another beam of noxious gas. "He might have given you some of his protection but he isn't here to fight for you. And I'm more than enough to kick your fat ass!"

Fat!? I'll show you fat, you tight skinned flesh puppet! The Sow screamed in rage as it suddenly blurred forward and slammed one of its hooves into Andi and sent her tumbling towards the ground with the immense forces behind the blow.

Argh! Wendy cried out in pain. I feel like I just hit by a bloody mountain!

Note to self, watch out for its stomps.

"That the best you got?" Andi shot back tauntingly as she stabilized her flight. "Because I think we're getting our second wind, you gibbering side of bacon. Now be good game and give me a moving target!"

The sow squealed at her, acidic spittle flying as it flew at her at top speed. It was fast, but Andi had learned that already so she was easily able to react in time and evade it, returning fire with explosive wind arrows as she did. Undeterred, the monster simply banked and breathed a stream of its trademark decomposing gas and attempted another charge.

Andi swiped a hand through the air, blowing away the deadly fumes and spread it out so thin that it wouldn't be able to harm anyone. All whilst she effortlessly flew out of the monster's clumsy charge.

"Sow, get a breath mint." The goddess taunted. "Now let's kick things up a notch."

The infuriated Sow swore incoherently as it turned for another run at Andi when suddenly the damned flying pig oinked a loud acknowledgement at something only it could hear and turned away from their little aerial dogfight.

Did we scare it off? Wendy asked hopefully.

No! It's gunning for the Empire State building! It's going to join the fight there! Andi thought in horror as she shot after the Clazmonian Sow.

Uh, Andi, I don't think so. Look! I think it's chasing that helicopter.

Helicopter? What heli- Andi cut herself off as she spotted it. Just ahead of the evil flying pig was a helicopter shakily making its way towards the Empire State whilst narrowly avoiding blasts of the monster's decomposing breath. One that Andi's divine senses told her was being piloted by a very important mortal, one of only a handful that Morpheus' still intact power had not put to sleep and who only had a trainee's license for the damned thing she was trying to fly!

"Wendy hold this thing off! I'll go save that crazy girl before she crashes into something and kills herself." Andi told her partner even as she disengaged Storm Mail.

"Wait, what!? Andi!" The Aura shouted in indignation as she was forced to suddenly avoid a blast of the Clazmonian Sow's noxious breath.

"You can do it!" Andi shouted back encouragingly as she flew faultingly towards the equally shaky helicopter trying to make its way to the Empire State Building.

"You're Lady Andromeda Aurae, newest goddess of Olympus." The tall, slim girl with frizzy red hair, a freckled face, and green eyes at the helicopter's controls said with awe as Andi flew into the machine.

"And you're Rachel Elizabeth Dare, soon to be vessel of the spirit of the Oracle of Delphi. Now scoot. And let someone who knows what they're doing fly this thing before you crash!" Andi shouted at the girl in the oversized shirt and jeans covered in a psychedelic mix of dried paint splotches.

"But I kind of-"

"First rule, do not backtalk the goddess trying to save you." Andi snarked as a loud squeal was heard and glancing back Andi saw the Clazmonian Sow powering through Wendy's Phoenix Feather enhanced fire blasts to doggedly continue its pursuit of the helicopter. "Ugh, that stupid Sow. Alright, Miss Dare, I need you to hit that pig."

With nary a thought, a spear of wind, smelling of a gentle spring breeze took shape in Dare's hands.

"Whoa! A spear? B-But I don't know how to throw a spear?! Can't you do it?"

"I'm flying the helicopter."

"But you're a goddess."

"And I'm already using a lot of my power to aid my forces on the ground who are trying to prevent the Technodjinn from advancing and killing us all. Plus, I'm still new to this!"

"You just suck at instances," Dare told her bluntly. "Lying isn't good, my lady."

"...There will always be a ginger in my life telling me these things." Andi muttered, eyes closed as she calmed herself and forced herself to not smite the mouthy mortal girl. "And fine, I do. Like I said, still learning! Now throw the bloody spear!"

"O-Okay!" The mortal squeaked in fear and drew the wind spear back, giving it a clumsy toss at the monster chasing them. "There!"

The spear flew true regardless, whistling through the air and swerving like a leaf in the wind as it course corrected. It struck the Sow just as it was about to release another toxic breath attack, the spear suddenly growing twice the size of the monster and began sparking like a bolt of lightning as it shot straight down its mouth, spit roasting the pig which fell towards the earth as a giant roasted hog though Andi teleported it away to her palace before it hit dirt.

"Andi! Why the hell is that the spoil?" Wendy asked as she flew into the helicopter now that the threat was gone. "How are we ever gonna finish eating it anyways? Most of the Nature Spirits living in the palace are vegetarian!"

"Don't ask me! I don't manage the spoils. And we'll figure it out, somehow." Andi shot back. "Oh! And before I forget, good job Wendy! And thanks Father for loaning part of your power back there."

There was a distracted rumbling of the clouds in reply.

"What was that spear called?" Dare asked, looking at the trail of destruction the spear had caused after it had dealt with the Clazmonian Sow. Namely the dozen or so skyscrapers that now had a rather prominent hole running right through them.

Sure hope someone moved any mortals that might've been in danger out of the way. Looking at you Tyche!

Don't worry, I did. It's late night anyways, it's easy to make sure no one was in the office. Couldn't do anything about those the Sow killed though, she hit a gosh darn residential building! There are limits to what even I can do.

That sucks. Andi replied. But thanks girl for helping me out, you rock!

You too! Catch up later, plenty of work for both of us to do before this battle ends!

Right. Hang in there!

Same! The goddess of luck said as she withdrew.

"Gonna call it the Spear of Heaven since its a Father-Daughter combo thing. Hm, patent pending."

"Neat." Dare claimed as the goddess landed the helicopter in the middle of a deserted West 34th Street in a textbook perfect landing.

"Yep." Andi said as she hopped out of the pilot's seat. "Okay, we're here and each of us have jobs to do. So let's get out and start doing them!"

"Yes, my lady." Dare said with a nod and scurried off towards the Empire State Building.

"And where do we go?" Wendy asked.

Andi just pointed at the still ongoing melee between the two opposing groups of minor gods on West 33rd Street.

"Oooh."

Done and done! Thanks to Nameless and Axios as always!

Wow, now this was a chapter! A lot of call backs, OCs coming out of the woodworks and new ones we put in from the MGS, all hail! So we got Lucy coming back, showing how much of a frightening psycho she can be in a fight, with a RNG effect spell. Yay? Yay. And we have all the nerds amongst the neutral monsters. Watch out Titans, for we have nerds. Oizys was really fun to think up. Just that gothic girl that is just all 'fine, I'll help but I won't like it.' type feel to her really appeals to me. And then she's freaking hella scary. Just, there's a lot here so try not to skim or you'll miss something!

Nameless: Yup, we try not to introduce completely one-off characters if we can help it. So since we created such an interesting group as Azeios and Lucy's crew, we decided to make use of it. Then there's the MGS. Is anyone surprised we did our thing and used it as an excuse to introduce a whole host of obscure minor gods?

Because minor gods are honestly more fun than the major ones. And of course Rachel and Andi meet. And like Andi said, she'll always have a ginger pointing stuff out to her. So that's going to be a fun thing to work on.

Nameless: And lastly, well not quite but it is in this AN at least, we have the Technodjinn making their move. Oh, and yes, they have a Borg god now. He'll make his appearance soonish. But seriously of all the things we're using for their motifs, he's got to be the most scary. Imagine what would've happened to Drew if Andi hadn't saved her? A Borg Drone with charmspeak anyone? Shudder.

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