? Percy's POV:
"Okay. Here's the plan," Percy said, leaning in. "Poseidon will guard the flag. Ares and Apollo are our enemy territory fighters and Nike is our enemy territory scouts. Hephestus, just set up as many traps as you have built on the border. Iris is on border patrol, Athena and Zeus are our home territory fighters and Hebe can guard the jail. Lila, can you organize that?"
A tall girl with long braids nodded silently. "Hebe cabin, follow me!"
A few kids trooped off after her. Percy turned to Will. "Can you organize Ares, Apollo, and Nike?"
Will grinned. "Cmon, guys." About half of the campers trooped off, yelling and cheering.
"Iris, position yourselves around the territory. Zeus's Fist is home base, report back there with anything. Avengers, come with me." Percy snagged the flag and started trotting through the woods. We trailed after him.
"So, er... what's the plan?" Clint asked. "Do we have a battle strategy?"
Percy looked at him like he had just told him he ate green thumbtacks for lunch. "Umm... no. We stand guard over the flag until we win."
"Errr... and what if we're attacked?"
"We won't," he said confidently. "We've got it all worked out. . . Probably. I mean, we won't die."
"Wow, thanks for the reassurance," Clint said, rolling his eyes.
"You're welcome!" Percy said with a smile.
?Tony's POV:
"It's coldddddd," Peter whined.
"I'm boredddd." Clint groaned.
"Oh, hush, stop acting like babies." Percy rolled his eyes. Then he went rigid. He looked around. Then something crashed through the bushes.
It was Will. "Percy... they're coming... come on... the Hermes cabin..."
Percy drew his sword. "Oh no you dont!" He crashed off. "PEANUT BUTTERRRRRR!"
What kind of battle cry is 'peanut butter'? I thought.
Then he stopped. "Oh, you guys just guard the flag, kay?" Then he ran off again, Will following him.
"Er. Okay. Um... I guess we guard this then." Steve said, staring out into the darkness.
"Umm... yep," Bucky said.
"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" Peter suddenly yelled, causing Natasha to jump up, and cover her ears because he was right next to her.
"What?" I asked.
"There was a CHIPMUNK!" Peter exclaimed.
"Uhm. . . cute?" Bucky said.
"I KNOW!" Peter yelled.
"Can you possibly get any louder?" Bucky asked.
"Yeah, sure," Peter said.
"Wait, no. I didn't mean literal-"
"CHIPMUUUUUNKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!" Peter screamed at the top of his lungs.
We all covered our ears. "What the hell kid?" I said once he was finished screaming the word 'chipmunk'.
"He asked me to," Peter said, pointing at Bucky.
"It was sarcasm," Bucky explained, exasperated.
"Oh. . ." Peter said. "Oops, sorry."
We all just kind of stood there in awkward silence for five minutes, we weren't really sure what to do, I mean, we knew we were supposed to guard the flag, but we didn't really know what to do if someone attacked (which would most likely happen in the near future). Percy said we didn't need a battle plan, which was kind of weird, but what did we know about this kind of capture the flag.
Suddenly I heard a rustle in the bushes.
It sounded like this: "Rustle rustle crunch stomp."
Will crashed through the bushes. "Butterfly formation!"
We looked at each other. "Um. Butterfly. And that is...?" I asked, perplexed.
"Oh, come on! Seriously? Okay," Will said. "So everyone spread out in a half circle and get your swords ready. Then one of you come stand in front of the flag with me."
We clumsily did as we were told. A few other campers crashed through the bushes and immediately formed a defensive line in front of us. I nodded, impressed.
We waited in the dark, swords drawn, the only sound our breathing and clashing of distant battle. Suddenly, about a dozen campers with red plumes on their helmets. They were chased by blue-plumed campers.
"IT'S SHOW TIME!" Will yelled. "Campers, forward!"
The first line rushed forward and... well... fought. They clanged swords and hit each other. They swiped the plumes off one another's helmets and knocked each other between the eyes with the blunt end of their swords.
I watched, eyes bugging and mouth hanging open. Here there were teenagers and kids less then twelve years old, knocking each other out.
"Avacadoes, forward!" Will shouted, and we jumped and leapt forward.
A mean-looking camper immediately thrust his sword towards me, and startled, I used my sword like a baseball bat and knocked it away.
"Go, Tony! Knock him out!" Yelled Percy, taking on three campers at once. His sward moved so fast I could barely see it.
"Knock him out?!" I continued batting away the sword, sweating hard.
"Yeah! Hit him over the head or smack his legs and trip him or something! I don't know!"
I glanced around. "If you say so..." I brought my sword up, dodging a swipe from the boy, and slammed it down on his head. (Blunt end, of course.) He slithered down to the floor. "Aaah! I just did that!"
"Yeah, you did! Now hurry up and keep fighting!"
Two minutes later, the last Red was knocked down to the ground. The Avengers and I stood together, breathing hard, eyes wide.
But Percy wasn't about to give us a break. "Come on, you guys! We gotta go!"
"Go where?" Clint panted, standing over the flag.
"Go find the flag! Ares and Apollo are probably getting it by now, we gotta go back them up!"
I wasn't about to be the tired one when a teenager was looking like they just spent a day sipping coke on a pontoon. I took off through the bushes.
"Uhhh... Tony, wrong way!" Percy called after me, and I stopped and trekked back, embarrassed.
"Um, right. Which way, then?"
Percy set off the other way and we followed him, running hard. We met ran into a bit of trouble at the creek (a burly kid who Percy referred to as "that dumb old Hecate idiot") but he knocked him flat with a burst of water to the noggin.
Suddenly, Percy grinned and started sprinting faster. After a second, we burst into a clearing of chaos. Annabeth was up a tree holding the Red Team flag and shouting orders to a shifting crowd of blue and red.
"Blue team! On ten! Βιάσου τους!"
"What?" I hissed. The Avengers shrugged.
"Rush them!" Percy whispered, then launched himself into the fight.
The blues began to form a wall, still in combat, except for a few that stayed at the base of Annabeth's tree.
"GO!"
All blues rushed forward, knocking through the red's defense, all screeching "PEANUT BUTTER!" like Percy before.
"Avengers! To me!" Annabeth leaped from the tree and was surrounded immediately by blues, battling reds on all sides.
Natasha shrugged and hurtled herself into the fray.
We followed suit.
"GO, GO, GO!" Everyone started sprinting, flag streaming out behind us and reds crashing through the forest after us. We leaped over the creek, and...
"SAFE!" Chiron yelled.
The blues began screaming and Percy began his celebratory water show, which included multiple water statues of reds laying crumpled on the ground.
My favorite was the one where the Avengers and I kicked demigod butt while guarding the flag.
?Will's POV:
After everyone settled down, we started walking out of the woods. The Avengers' faces were a mix of happy, tired, shocked, and totally weirded out, which I do understand, capture the flag is. . .intense here.
"So, what happens now?" I asked.
"What do you mean?" Natasha said.
"Well, like, are you gonna go back, or stay the night- because if you're gonna stay the night, we'll need more beds- or are you gonna. . . I can't really think of any other options other than go back or stay."
"Well, dying's an option," Nico said, ever so helpfully.
"Yeah. . . I don't think so." I said.
"We're probably going to go back to New York, we have other teammates who would probably not appreciate us just disappearing over the night," Bruce said.
I nodded thoughtfully. "Well, then I guess we should-" I started to say, but Mr. D came up behind us and cut me off.
"So, what's gonna happen with the Advertisers over here?" he asked.
And that was when Tony lost it.
"OH MY GOD!" Tony yelled. "HOW HARD IS IT TO GET THE NAME AVENGERS RIGHT? FIRST IT WAS AVERAGES, THEN AVOCADOES, AND NOW ADVERTISERS! IT'S THE AVENGERS! A-V-E-N-G-E-R-S!"
"Oh hush, Tonsil Stork," Mr. D said. At this point, Tony looked as red as that pimple my half-brother Austin got on his nose two years ago. That thing was massive.
Tony flung his arm out, almost punching Mr. D, but before he could, Annabeth, pulled his arm back. "you know, I think it would be a good idea to try to refrain from punching Dionysus. No matter how annoying he may be, he is a God who can turn you into a dolphin with the snap of his fingers." she said.
"He-he's DIONYSUS?" Tony exclaimed.
"Well, who did you think I was Stank? Aphrodite?" Mr. D replied snarkily.
"I- that explains so much," Bucky said.
"Yes, yes. Now back to my question, what are the avenues," Mr. D turned and smirked at Tony, "going to do? Because I refuse to have them sleeping in my cabin."
"We're going to go back to New York City sir," Steve replied with a smile. He's so polite, it's almost annoying.
"You're so polite, it's annoying," Nico said, apparently he thinks so too.
"Wonderful, when will you be leaving?" Mr. D asked.
"An hour at the most," Bruce said.
"Delightful." Mr. D said, then turned around and started walking away.
"Is he always like this?" Peter asked.
"Yep," Percy replied popping the 'p'.
We walked to the edge of the border, passing a bunch of campers, a few of which gave the Avengers strange looks.
"So. . . goodbye?" Piper said. I don't think she really knew what to say. I mean, what do you say to people who kidnapped your friend, fought you-well, technically we fought them, but same difference- then follows you, but then suddenly you're friends and now you're saying goodbye. Does that make sense?
"Yeah. . ." Bruce said, just as awkward as Percy.
Suddenly Leo collapsed on himself. He was. . . sobbing. "I'LL MISS YOUUUUUUU!" he said. All of us demigods could tell it was fake, Leo does this all the time, he's a surprisingly good actor. But the Avengers, however, didn't know it was fake, because they looked a bit taken aback by his sudden. . . outburst.
I fought the urge to laugh, and it looked like the seven were doing the same, but soon, we couldn't anymore, and doubled over laughing. Nico, kept a poker face the entire time though, which was impressive, but unsurprising.
The Avengers looked like they were having one of those 'what the actual apple fritter is going on right now' moments, but with eight demigods laughing hysterically, one sobbing of the ground, and one just standing there like this was a normal occurrence (which it was), I don't blame them.
Then, just as suddenly as he had started, Leo stopped crying. He got up, wiped his eyes, and brushed off the dirt on his pants. Then he noticed the Avengers were looking at him funny. "What?" he asked. "I was just trying to spice things up a bit."
Nico shook his head. "Only Leo," he muttered.
"Well, we should be leaving soon if we want to make it back to New York before dark," Bruce said.
"Yeah, we should head out." Natasha agreed.
"Okay, well it was nice meeting you," Jason said, almost as polite as Steve.
"Well, meeting you officially, technically we met you when we crashed Festus into your weird llama tower," Percy said.
"YES! FINALLY, SOMEONE WHO AGREES WITH ME!" Clint yelled.
"What?" Hazel asked.
"I've been telling Tony that his tower looks like a llama for ages, but he somehow doesn't see it."
"Clint, how does my tower looks like a llama, it's made of metal and glass," Tony said.
"It's okay Clint, he just doesn't see it because he's not on our level," Percy said.
Clint and Percy fist-bumped. "Nice meeting you dude," Percy said.
"Likewise, I'll have to ask Nico for your number later," Clint replied.
"Oh no," Nico whispered.
"Well, I guess we'll see you later," Bucky said.
"Yeah, bye," I said.
"Goodbye."
"Adios."
"See you later."
"Bye."
"Goodbye!"
"Text you later."
"Don't die!"
"Yeah, or get eaten."
"See ya'."
"Bye?"
And with that, the Avengers passed through the border, and into the woods.
"Good riddance." Mr. D said, causing me to jump, apparently, he had snuck up behind me.
"Well that was. . . interesting," Frank said.
"Yeah." Leo said. "anyone hungry?"
Nico rolled his eyes. "I'm going back to my cabin," he said.
"Yeah, same," Piper said.
Suddenly my phone vibrated. I took it out and saw that I got a text from Tony in the group chat.
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Metal Man
You live in one crazy camp
You
I know, and I like it
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