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The Ever Twisting Wind: Threshold Breakthrough

Chapter Twenty Three: The True Face of Gods

Beta: ShadowofAxios

Andi, you sure the Technodjinn are operating out of this place? Wendy asked skeptically, as the young Greek goddess of the breezes materialized with Skyline's bow form nocked and ready for anything in the deserted main street in the small town of Seminole, Oklahoma.

"All the spoor indicates Alarak fled here." Andi reminded her partner who was currently taking the form of her Storm Mail. "Why?"

I dunno. I just have a bad feeling about this place. It's too quiet.

"I know. Where is everyone?" Andi asked rhetorically as she stretched out her senses and found no one in town. Well, except for what seemed like the local hospital and college at the northern edge of town.

This is why I don't trust these educational facilities. I watch movies, all the bad stuff happens in colleges. Or hospitals. And they're so close together too! That's double the likelihood of trouble!

"Wendy we're cutting back on your movie time, or maybe you should just stop with horror altogether."

...I like the scares.

Andi shook her head in exasperation.

"Why don't we just go check out what's going on, shall we? Something has to have turned this place into a ghost town."

Walking into the small local hospital a few seconds later, Andi was immediately presented by her answer. The whole place looked like it was set up straight out of some movie about a disease outbreak, complete with dying patients lying all over the place.

"What the hell happened here?" Wendy asked, expressing both their shock as they stood just inside the door transfixed by the scene before them.

Andi felt the divine hair on the back of her neck standing up. This was wrong, it felt so very wrong. It wasn't… natural. Not real, not right. This wasn't caused by nature or mortals fiddling with diseases.

"Before you do anything Andi, know that we didn't do this." A familiar voice said as the young woman with pale skin, short brown hair and large brown eyes that was the preferred form of the Technodjinn known as Alice walked towards them from between the rows of the dying.

"Alice." Andi greeted her sorta friend. "What happened?"

"You'll find out soon enough," the most moral of the robot gods Andi had met so far told her with a frown. "I just came here to tell you that we didn't start this. We are merely profiting off the pettiness of one of your fellow gods of Olympus."

"What by the Pit do you mean?"

Alice bit her lip, clearly tempted to explain but eventually just shook her head and teleported away in a cloud of neon green binary symbols.

"Well, that was less than helpful." Wendy noted with a frown.

"Yeah," Andi agreed with a sigh. "But we can worry about Alice being unhelpful another time. For now let's figure out what the hell is afflicting these people and see if we can help th-"

"You can't." A new woman said as she walked out to greet them from the same direction that Alice had.

She was a blue eyed brunette dressed in what might have once been a set of very professional looking doctor's scrubs. However they were wrinkled and stained enough to tell just from a glance that the poor woman hadn't had the chance to change out of them in a while. Between that and the general air of exhausation she exuded, it was easy to see she'd been busy for a long while now.

"Not unless you're a goddess. And maybe not even then." The woman said with a tired sigh. "Miss Alice was one and even she couldn't cure them. Just make them more comfortable in their final moments."

"A bit open minded, aren't you?" The goddess asked.

A mirthless chuckle escaped the woman, her eyes looking dead. "A bit. But honestly after everything this town and I have been through in the last few days… Well, it's either be open minded or go mad. And I refuse to do the latter while my neighbors are still alive!"

"Are you the only one taking care of them?" Wendy asked, looking around for any other medical staff.

"I had a skeleton crew here, we were barely a dozen strong."

"Were?"

"They're either sick, dead or worse."

"Worse?" Andi asked as her instincts went on edge.

"You'll see." The doctor said as her tired visage gained a haunted look and she nodded. "Doctor Mary Sue Stevenson by the way. Who are you?"

Andi opened her mouth to introduce herself and Wendy when the sound of chimes suddenly drowned out the sounds of the dying and bursts of green light appeared all over the place. Out of these flashes of light emerged packs of monstrous cyborgs that Andi recognized from the Battle of Manhattan.

"No, shit!" The doctor shuddered in fear and pulled out a pistol. "W-We need to move! We have to stop them!"

Even as she spoke, she blasted a hole in the head of the nearest cyborg.

"Sorry Dave!" She cried out, tears streaming down her face even as the cyborg collapsed and she sighted her gun on another.

"Wendy!" Andi shouted as she summoned Skyline and sent wind arrows flying, taking out a cyborg with every missile.

"Burn, burn!" Wendy cried out as she began firing off fireballs.

Within seconds the dozen or so cyborgs in the immediate area were dealt with but Doctor Stevenson barely seemed to notice, instead breaking out into a run towards the inside of the building with Andi and Wendy hot on her heels.

"There'll be more of them inside! We have to kill them before they kidnap anymore of my patients and turn them into more of themselves!"

"Damn them." Andi cursed as she flew inside like a zephyr, seeing groups of the poor mutilated innocents that had been transformed into monsters clawing for patients, grabbing them in tight grips and teleporting away.

They were all over the hospital. Literally dozens of them. In response, Andi wrapped her winds around them and tore them to pieces. That got most of them. Others though were burned alive as Wendy lit them on fire. Even Doctor Stevenson got in on the action, firing her gun with impressive accuracy she killed at least three of the monsters.

"Got them all." Andi told Doctor Stevenson as she transformed back into her human form next to the doctor. "They did manage to get a few people before I could stop them though."

"T-Thank you." The doctor said as she moved to help the patients that were still there. She looked like she wanted to cry, but nothing came out and she instead put away her weapon before moving to haul up a nearby patient that had somehow fallen off their bed back onto it.

"Let me help you," Wendy said as she rushed over.

"Thank you," Doctor Stevenson said with a suppressed sob as with Wendy's help they got the poor dying man back onto the stretcher laid out in the corridor that served as his makeshift bed.

"If you want to thank us, maybe you could explain what in the Pit is going on here." Andi said as she put a comforting hand on the doctor's shoulder. "Maybe we can help."

Doctor Stevenson gave a tired sigh but nodded.

"Follow me to my office. We can talk there."

Sitting in the office, the doctor looked like she aged by ten years as she sank into the plush chair behind her desk, greedily enjoying the small comfort it gave.

Andi sat across from her in a more standard chair, looking as serious as she could. "So, walk me through all this."

Nodding numbly, Doctor Stevenson explained all she knew. Shakily drinking from a plastic water bottle in between sentences.

"It started with the plague." The poor doctor said with a sigh. "It swept through the town in a single day. We all went to bed perfectly fine and woke up the next day on the verge of death. Well, all except for me. I was instantly swamped and despite doing everything to call for help from out of town, nothing ever came out of it. It's like nobody could even understand what I was saying."

Andi and Wendy exchanged a look. That sounded a lot like someone was using the Mist to keep this quiet. Who was it though? The Technodjinn? Could they even manipulate the Mist like that?

"So then those Technodjinn cyborgs started kidnapping your patients?" Wendy asked with a frown.

"Yeah, this disease… it's like they want to have it? I don't know why though. I-It just came out of nowhere!" The doctor rubbed her eyes with the heels of her palms. "I've tried everything but nothing works. I couldn't even ease my patients' discomfort until that other goddess appeared."

Frowning, Andi cupped her chin as she pondered on this.

"Alice actually helped?"

Doctor Stevenson nodded. "She tried everything she could to save them but couldn't."

"If the Technodjinn were the ones to cause this disease then why would she help?" Wendy said, looking confused.

"Maybe they didn't." Andi said as a disturbing conclusion began to form in her mind. "Maybe she was telling us the truth when she spoke to us when we first got here?"

"That one of the Olympian gods caused this? Surely you can't believ-"

"An Olympian god?" Doctor Stevenson said in a gasp, her face pale. "Like Apollo?"

"He is a god that can forge diseases."

"No, no! It can't be true!" Doctor Stevenson said, crying out in dismay. "This can't be my fault!"

"What do you mean?" Andi asked as a sinking feeling began to overcome her.

"T-There was a guy! At the bar a while ago. He was chatting me up, really laying it on thick. It was cute, but I wasn't really in the mood for it and told him off. He looked pissed but left."

"He called himself Apollo didn't he?"

The doctor nodded with a horrified look.

"...Even for him, this seems too much. Lord Zeus would surely say something for such an action." Wendy frowned.

"What's a small town of a few thousand people in the grand scheme of things, Wendy?" Andi told her partner with a dark look. "You know how they were back in the old days. They used to destroy whole cities. What's a few thousand people?"

"It's a waste of possible worship!" Wendy pouted.

"Again. What is the worship of a few thousand?"

Andi and Wendy's conversation were cut off when suddenly Doctor Stevenson threw herself at the goddess' feet and clutched desperately at her jeans.

"My lady, please tell me what I need to do to save my town! Please! I'll do anything! Anything at all!"

"Is that a ring I hear?" A light male voice asked as Apollo appeared, looking like some doctor from a Telly show that Andi couldn't properly recall but vaguely remembered.

"Lord Apollo," Andi and Wendy greeted coldly.

"Lord Apollo! Please lift your curse. If you do that, I'll do anything you ask of me!" Doctor Stevenson begged, still prostrate on the ground.

"Would you now?" Apollo asked with a smug grin. "Anything?"

"Anything."

"Lord Apollo-" Andi began but was stopped when her half-brother raised a hand to silence her.

"Stay out of this Andi. This is my business now."

Andi obeyed and closed her mouth but that did not stop a massive frown spreading across her face. Satisfied that he wasn't about to be interrupted now, Apollo smirked and looked down at the poor doctor with lecherous want.

"What I want, my dear doctor, is you." Apollo said with a disgusting grin as he savored his victory. "I want you from this day forward to become mine in every way, shape and form. To be my slave."

The doctor hesitated for a second. Horrified by what he was demanding of her. Yet, that lasted for only a moment before she was fueled by determination.

"If you swear by all you hold dear that if I do so that you'll save my town, then I'll do it. Happily."

"I swear on the Styx that if Dr. Mary Sue Stevenson accepts to be my slave I shall release Seminole, Oklahoma from my curse."

A boom of supernatural thunder sounded in the distance and Andi couldn't help but pinch the bridge of her nose. It was a minor release but a needed one for all the anger bubbling at this, this childishness!

"Ugh." Andi grumbled, looking on with distaste. Artemis? Sister, I need some backup here. Apollo's being creepy and killing a few thousand people just to get a girl.

"Now Mary Sue, swear on the Styx as well."

There were tears in her eyes, but Doctor Stevenson did not even hesitate as she opened her mouth to doom herself.

"I, Doctor Stevenson, swear-"

"Stop!" Lady Artemis demanded, her voice radiating animalistic fury as the goddess of the hunt appeared in her child form in a stream of dazzling moonbeams.

"Apollo, what is this madness?" The older goddess demanded, staring up at her twin with her furious amber eyes.

The sun god paused at seeing her there and looked at Andi with annoyance. Andi herself just pretended to look innocent, offering him a tiny smile.

"Tch, just business Arte."

"So madness. And here I thought Dionysus was the crazed one." Artemis said with a shake of her head. "Lift your curse and stop this madness or I will punish you."

To emphasize this point, she raised her bow and leveled it at her twin's groin.

"No! Please Lady Artemis! I am doing this willingly!" Dr. Stevenson said, jumping to her feet to stand in front of Lord Apollo with her arms spread out to shield him.

"You only say that because you fear that Apollo will not lift his curse."

"And can you promise me that he will if I refuse? Or that one of you can lift it?"

Artemis frowned and shot Andi a look, who could only shake her head. Disease was firmly in Apollo's domain as the god of plagues. There was no way she could work around his magic and neither, she imagined, could Artemis.

"I don't think even an Oath on the Styx can do it. He'd just weather the curse and shrug it off. But that just means even if he's already sworn to do so if the doctor agrees, he doesn't need to lift it either."

"But I would be incentivized to do so," Apollo said, leering at Doctor Stevenson meaningfully.

Artemis scowled all the harder at that. "I will be informing Father about this Apollo. Even for you this was in poor taste."

The god of the sun shrugged, an 'innocent' smile on his perfect face.

Andi shook her head, looking as disappointed as Artemis felt at their brother.

"But enough dilly dallying, Mary Sue, make your Oath." Apollo said, radiating lust. "I want to sample my new property."

The doctor nodded and still crying made her Oath.

"I, Doctor Stevenson, swear on the river Styx to be Lord Apollo's loyal s-slave in exchange for his lifting of his curse on Seminole, Oklahoma."

There was a boom of supernatural thunder and suddenly the doctor was surrounded by a burst of bright light. As it faded, gone were her scrubs leaving her nude except for a collar and leash that Apollo held in his hand. The sun god was not satisfied with just this humiliation though, and had used a tiny fraction of his power to transform her into an immortal effectively dooming her to an eternity of slavery.

"Go to my palace on Olympus," Apollo ordered his new slave. "I will be there shortly."

Tears still streaming down her face, Doctor Stevenson nodded and was teleported away.

Without his slave to act as a meatshield, Artemis finally took her shot and an arrow planted itself into his groin.

"Ow~!" The sun god howled in agony. "Was that really necessary, Arte?"

"Yes, yes it was. You were monstrous today, Apollo." Artemis said, glaring at him furiously even as the god of healing healed himself.

"Whatever you created, the Technojinns wanted it." Andi informed the sun god. "And they made off with several mortals filled with the stuff. Let's hope they don't weaponize it against Camp. We're still recovering from those we lost in the Battle of Manhattan."

Apollo just scoffed.

"Isn't that why you are here, Andi." The god of light said with a shrug. "You're their Bane. It's your job to prevent that. So go do it already."

"Yes, thank you very much for making it more difficult. Have a good day with your concubine." Andi said with as much respect as she could muster, which wasn't much at all, and offered a small bow.

"Slave, Andi. Slave." Apollo corrected with a smirk.

Andi's hands twitched as she had to actively stop herself from summoning Skyline. Artemis had no such restraint and simply proceeded to shoot her twin in the groin once more.

The goddess of breezes treasured the lecherous god's howls of pain.

"Go Andi. I will deal with punishing Apollo." Artemis urged. "The Technodjinn must not be allowed to get their hands on Apollo's plague."

Andi nodded and, spinning on her heel, transformed into a breeze and left the hospital with Wendy following closely behind.

Both of them feeling utterly filthy over this whole episode.

Seminole State College was a pretty standard American Community College and its campus reflected that. Or it would have if not for the additions that the Technodjinn had made to it. All over the place were now scattered slots along the wall, kind of like compartments that more often than not housed one of the monstrous cyborgs standing upright and staring out into space with a blank eyed look.

Are they asleep? Wendy asked as she transformed into her Storm Mail form.

Before her partner could even finish her question, the answer presented itself as the cyborgs jerked to life and marched out of their alcoves, advancing menacingly towards Andi. Like the mechanical zombies that they were, the cyborgs raised their arms as if reaching towards her hungrily. However, unlike normal zombies the cyborgs' arms were equipped with weapon implants from which they shot beams of green plasma at the goddess of the wild.

"Yeah. I am in no mood to deal with you. Not after the day I've had so far." Andi declared with an angry growl. "So buzz off!"

Calling on her powers, she converted that last shout into a powerful Canary Cry that shattered the very electronics that were animating the corpses attacking her, causing them to collapse to the ground as their cybernetics disintegrated into gold dust.

Think that got them all?

I hope so. Andi thought, her anger still at a vicious boil. I want to get as far away from this town as quickly as possible and that means beating the circuits out of whichever Technodjinn douche is running this place pronto.

"Whoever is in charge of this sick operation, show yourself already!" Andi roared, giving voice to her angry frustration.

"Gladly, Bane!" A sick conglomeration of a dozen different voices replied as a single powerful green laser scythed through the entrance lobby that Andi was standing in, forcing the goddess to jink through the air in evasive maneuvers before it cut off.

"My, my, you are difficult to pin down aren't you?" The source of the disturbing voice said as it revealed itself to be a Frankenstein's monster made out of the stitched together parts of multiple people and augmented with an assortment of cybernetics.

While it maintained a vaguely humanoid shape like its minions, this Technodjinn stood at least ten feet tall and had to bend over like a hunchback just to properly fit in the building. It also had at least three arms that Andi could see, each of which by the skin tone still visible under the inhumanly pale pallor that it shared with its subordinates alone obviously originally belonged to different people. On its shoulder was mounted a large cannon with what looked like a liquid metal muzzle that had fired the laser from earlier but was now reconfiguring as if it was switching weapons. Its face was a mishmash of grafted skin stretched across a metallic skull and had a pair of implants for eyes that vaguely resembled a set of googles.

All in all, it looked very much the kind of monstrosity that would command cyborg zombies.

"I've got a name. Use it!" Andi shouted at the Technodjinn angrily as she fired a vertical tornado at the robot god.

"Are we exchanging introductions now?" The abomination said with a chuckle even as an energy shield that wrapped around its body allowed it to weather Andi's attack without sustaining any damage. "If so, then you may call me Doctor Borg, Andromeda Aurae. Remember that name well for the short time that you will still live!"

With that taunt, his shoulder cannon finished its reconfiguration into a missile battery and fired off a barrage of micro missiles at Andi.

Shit! Wendy, outside! We need more space to evade! Andi ordered her partner even as she blasted the roof of the building open to allow the Aurae to pull them to safety.

The missiles were relentless though and they followed after her, rapidly closing the distance despite Wendy's best efforts at evasion.

Can't shake them.

Don't worry. I got this. Andi reassured her Aurae lieutenant as she expertly fired wind arrows from Skyline, knocking the missiles out of the air one after another causing them to explode in ominous green explosions.

With that immediate threat dealt with, Andi turned to Doctor Borg and found that the Technodjinn had followed her out of the building and was now standing in the carpark looking up at her with a confident grin. One that the goddess of breezes dearly wanted to punch right off his face.

"So you can evade that as well?" The monster asked, sounding terribly amused for whatever reason. "Well, let's see how well you can manage against a more substantial arsenal shall we?"

With that his body was surrounded by ominous green light that seconds later shot up into the air and transformed into a massive octahedron-shaped starship that put the entire college campus in its shadow. A ship that almost immediately began lashing out at Andi with lasers, plasma bolts and all manner of energy weapons.

Olympus! That must be his divine form! Wendy cursed as she desperately tried to dodge the storm of projectiles sent their way. Andi, we can't-

I know! Andi sent back even as she gathered her power.

In a burst of golden light, she too transformed into her divine form. Now a tiny pixie, she weaved through Borg's barrage. Her graceful, almost playful motions making their life and death struggle seem like it was little more than a game.

She, of course, did not limit herself to evasion and even as she danced through the air, her wings of Mist and life energy were busy lashing out at Borg's massive ship body. Stretching immensely from her tiny body, they snapped like whips as they struck the vessel in a bid to smash it to pieces but were rebuffed time and time again by its powerful shields.

Because it just had to have shields, didn't it!? Andi cursed as she switched from using her wings as whips and instead had them fire bolts of energy at Borg instead, only to see him weather the changed attack with equal indifference.

"You think such pathetic attacks would be enough?" Borg taunted. "Try harder, Bane!"

"What did I tell you about using my name, you knockoff Frankenstein's monster!?"

"Attempt to ridicule me as much as you want but me and my children are much more efficient uses of the raw materials that make up the human body than what nature came up with!" Borg shot back with a demented laugh as he fired a massive beam at Andi.

It was so huge that despite her incredible speed, Andi still only barely managed to fly out of its firing arc. The surrounding landscape was permanently scarred though as the beam carved a deep trench through the earth.

"Raw materials!? Is that all you see humans as?" Andi shot back angrily, firing a dozen spiralling horizontal twisters at the Technodjinn only for them to be effortlessly tanked by his formidable shields.

"I could call them meatbags if that soothes your oh so delicate sensibilities." Borg said with clear amusement. "Whatever you call them though, it does not change how worthless they are. They are little more than inefficient biological machines. Only through conversion to my children can they transcend and gain worth."

"As what? A bunch of mindless zombies?" Andi asked, revolted.

"As efficient tools for something greater: Me!" The evil god declared pompously.

"Is that why you came here? To collect more 'tools'?" Andi snorted in disgust as with a beat of her wings, a dozen twisters screeched into existence and made to collide with the Technodjinn mad scientist.

"No, that I can do anywhere." The machine god countered as he let the attack splash against his shields and he counterattacked with a missile barrage. "I came here for a specific little gift your god of plagues was nice enough to leave lying around."

"What the hell do a bunch of machines need with a biological plague?" Andi demanded as she fired from her bow. Instead of arrows, thousands of wind blades shot from her weapon and proceeded to cut the missiles into pieces.

This still left hundreds of blades flying at Borg, but like all of Andi's other attacks so far they too failed to make a dent against his powerful shields.

"As my brother Alarak showed you, a war is coming. One in which we will need every weapon we can get our hands on. This is just one of them." Borg said as he fired a translucent beam into the distance which somehow ripped a large chunk of earth out of the ground and pulled it towards Andi and himself.

"This is not the way!" Andi retorted as she dodged out of the way and the chunk of earth slammed harmlessly against Borg's shields. "We shouldn't involve innocent people in our wars!"

"Tell your sun god that." Borg said with a spiteful chuckle as he unleashed another super beam that Andi once more only narrowly avoided and which dug a deep trench into the surrounding countryside.

At the reminder of what Apollo had done, Andi felt her anger bubble to the surface one more. Deciding not to let it go to waste, she used it as fuel to let out a Canary Cry in the hope that the sound waves would do something against her opponent.

If it did, Borg certainly didn't show it beyond his shields flaring for a moment.

Crap! I'm running out of ideas. Andi realized with a frown.

Andi! I've got an idea to knock its shields down. Wendy suggested suddenly as they weaved through a net of lasers trying to cut them to pieces.

What do you have in mind? Andi asked curiously. Wendy usually left the thinking in battle to her, so she was honestly plenty surprised her partner was making a suggestion.

Don't you have a spell that over stimulates the nervous system? The Cruciatus Curse? Betcha it can do the same to this guy's electronics. Or at least some of them.

The Torture Curse!? You can't be serious! Andi couldn't help send back even as she gasped whilst shooting down a set of missiles Borg had fired her way.

Would you honestly mind if you tortured this sicko? Wendy asked with the mental equivalent of a raised eyebrow.

No, but… Andi began and tried to come up with a rebuttal but failed. Alright! It's worth a try anyways.

"Hey, Borg! Eat this! Crucio!"

At her incantation, a beam of red light leapt from Andi's outstretched hands and slammed into Borg. The effect was immediate and the whole vessel wobbled in the air as if shuddering. This was soon followed by a host of jerky motions as the Technodjinn suffered under the effects of Andi's curse.

"W-What have you d-done to me!?" Borg cried out in recognizable pain as small explosions began to riddle the surface of his ship body and his shield flickered. "H-How are you affecting my system like this?"

"A magician never gives up her secrets." Andi shouted back tauntingly. "But here's another one for you to ponder. επικαλούνται: κατάρρευση (Invoke: Implosion)!"

The flickering of Borg's shields had created brief instances where he was vulnerable. These openings were tiny, lasting little more than a second or two. Too narrow for all but the luckiest mortals to exploit, but to a goddess?

It was child's play.

As her spell struck true, space began to distort from within the divine ship, creating a powerful vortex that that started to suck in everything around it thus destroying the vessel from the inside.

"No, NO!" The ship boomed as it started to break apart.

Borg was not going to just leave without a parting shot though and even as his voice was reduced to a garbled mess as his body crumbled, he shouted his defiance. "How DArE yOU?! MY V-Ven-VENgeANCe wILL bE WITHout MeRCy!"

These were his last words though as with a whimper, the last of Dr. Borg's divine body was sucked into the vortex Andi's spell had created and erased from existence.

"Tch, go pout to someone who'd care." Andi scoffed, returning to her mortal guise. She was panting from an admittedly rather tiring fight, dodging all that firepower thrown her way wasn't easy after all, but was nevertheless sporting a winning smile across her face.

"Man, you can be scary when you try." Wendy pointed out as she retook her own humanoid form to stand next to Andi.

"Thanks," The goddess replied with a smile. "But it isn't a total victory. He transferred his consciousness out of that ship at the last second and got away."

"Again!?" Wendy said with a groan. "Why are these Technodjinn so bloody hard to kill?"

"If they were easy to finish off then they wouldn't be the threat that they are," Andi reminded her lieutenant.

"I know, but still-" Wendy didn't finish her sentence, instead opting to trail off in a wordless grunt of frustration.

"Yeah." Andi agreed. "Let's just go shall we? I don't want to be here any longer."

That sobered Wendy up immediately and she shot the nearby medical centre where Apollo had revealed just how monstrous Andi's fellow gods could be one last disgusted look.

"Yeah, let's get out here." Wendy agreed. "I need a long bath to wash off the stink of this place."

Andi nodded. She didn't think a bath would be enough but it was definitely a step in the right direction.

"We'll take a soak in the hot tub together." Andi told her partner as she pulled the younger girl into a hug.

Wendy nodded and they both teleported away at last.

A few days later, Andi found herself on Olympus meeting up with her superior, Hecate.

"Hi, Lady Hecate." Andi greeted, trying not to let her annoyance at being called away from her hunt of the Technodhinn show. "I am busy dealing with some Technojinn issue. So I hope this won't take too long?"

As much as she hated it at times, she could not make waves in godly society. So she had no choice but to be polite despite her mood.

The taller magical goddess gave her that ever knowing smile she was famous for. It made Andi's hackles rise since Apollo was a seer too and he was on her shit list right now but she restrained herself from reacting. Barely.

"There is about to be an issue in the Wizarding World. One that will need your attention and should it be resolved in a satisfactory manner will greatly aid you in your efforts against the Technodjinn."

Andi frowned as she sat down on the chair opposite Hecate at the table in the cafe on Olympus where the older goddess had arranged their meeting. "What problem?"

Before her fellow minor goddess could answer, Hebe teleported to stand next to their table.

"Girls! You will not believe what's going on right now! Follow me!" She spun around and headed off, clearly expecting them to follow.

The goddesses of magic and wizardry exchanged a look before simultaneously shrugging and got up to trail after the excitable Hebe.

She led them to the steps of the Council Chamber of the Olympians and a sight that truly blew their minds.

Before them were the Big Three - Even including Hades, even though it wasn't the Winter Solstice- presenting a united front against a sole god:

Apollo.

The air was charged with a sense of fear and it was clear that the god of the dead was using his Helm of Darkness to cause fear and terror to a bound Apollo. A fact made even more clear by how the sun god was squirming like a scared little boy and trying to get away from the Silent One. Trying and failing as the Celestial Bronze chains that were wrapped all around him and looped through a ring embedded in the ground kept him firmly in place. The fear radiating from the helm had to be at its maximum because even Hecate, who being a denizen of the Underworld probably had ample experience with its power, looked like she was having a minor panic attack just by being near it.

As her Uncle Hades did this, both her Father and Uncle Poseidon took turns blasting the demented sun god with the Master Bolt and Trident of the Sea. Their attacks unerringly finding their mark in the god of light's groin.

"What the Pit is happening here?" The young goddess asked, her eyes unable to peel themselves after from the divine trainwreck in front of her. In fact she was doing her best to etch this scene into her memory forever.

Was this what she thought it was!? Was Apollo really getting his just desserts for being an absolute piece of shit?

"Father was beyond angry about what Apollo did in Seminole. Our Uncles too." Hebe told the two like the gossiping goddess she was. "So they decided that they needed to heavily punish Apollo for what happened, especially with what he did to that poor mortal doctor. They called it one of the most barbaric actions that a god has done as of late. Something that was worse than even some of our worse atrocities from back in the old days. Considering the Oath she made, they can't exactly free her, not without causing her to suffer Styx's wrath but they can make him treat her properly. This is part of that, this punishment will remind him that he needs to treat her with respect. Or that's what the lesson is from what I gathered."

"And making it public serves to further humiliate him and to make him an example to other gods so they know the consequences for being a monster like he was." Hecate added with an approving grin. "Appropriate."

Upon hearing this, that justice was being done for all those poor mortals, Andi felt a sigh roll out of her tired divine body and she finally managed to look away from Apollo's comeuppance. She had honestly thought that he would get away with what he'd done and that had made her deeply uncomfortable. Not only from being a fellow god to such a monster, but a deep fear that if given time she might one day end up becoming just as terrible as he was. She had thus been out of sorts ever since the fateful events in Seminole.

In taking her eyes off Apollo's just punishment, her electric blue eyes caught sight of a thankfully fully clothed Doctor Stevenson standing off to side with an adult sized Aunt Hestia who seemed to be safe guarding her for now.

And sharing popcorn with the poor abused woman. Man her aunt could be as sadistic as her brothers when she wasn't dolling out her sweet auntie routine.

It was a deeply unnerving realization.

One she was still processing when the childish form of Artemis walked up to Andi, standing shoulder to shoulder.

"Not all gods are like Apollo, Sister." The huntress said, looking both disappointed and saddened when she gazed at her brother. "Most of us have outgrown being barbarians."

The goddess of breezes nodded, feeling very, very relieved indeed.

"That's good."

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

Yeah, not the best showing of the gods, but you got to remember that they can be such petty brats. This is par for the course when dealing with 'rejection' apparently. Or at least with Apollo from the times he was spurned.

Nameless: Don't believe us? Go read the Trials of Apollo. He does go extremely overboard when dealing with rejection. Not as extreme as we made him be here, but we honestly do not think his actions here were much of a stretch from what he did in canon or in the myths.

At least we got to see Alice again, however brief. Hopefully the Techie's don't go into biological weaponry. Seeing as they are pretty much immune to the stuff. XP

Nameless: Hope you liked the glimpse we gave you of Dr. Borg. The Borg are inherently scary but we tried to add our own little spin on it. Not sure if it makes it scarier or less. Not even sure which of those we wanted, though we can only say that we tried to add our own original spin to them.

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