Changed a few things
An: I am going to start using 3rd person pov for the next chapter.
[January 2030]
[smallville Percy Pov]
Percy recapped everything that had happened in this new world.
First off, he had become close but not super close friends with a super powerful Alien. It wasn't exactly surprising per se, Percy always had a natural weirdness magnetism to himself, If something weird was happening, then Percy would somehow get involved.
Percy wasn't Clark's best friend at this point, but they were definitely becoming closer as time went on
Plus it was clear that Clark had been trying to find a superpowered friend, someone who could relate to him. Percy could understand that, he had gone crazy the first time he had found out about his own origins and knowing that he was not the only one of his kind was very reassuring.
He could not even begin to imagine having to deal with the constant lingering thought in the back of his head whispering about his own abnormalities, so Percy was more than happy to offer his friendship if it helped Clark deal with his issues, plus from what he had seen, Clark was a pretty cool guy, he was blessed with powers and he used it to help people.
That's a dictionary definition of a good guy and good friend, unless Clark is faking his entire Persona, which was very unlikely, Percy could see him and Clark becoming even greater friends.
He also helped Clark move into his new house and got him a better house, Clark's original house was shit so Percy peer-pressured Clark into moving into a much nicer place than Percy himself had bought for Clark, it was close to his job at the Daily Planet and next door to his crush some chick name Lois Lane.
He had also given the idiot magic glasses that would help him cover his identity instead of the normal glasses he was going to use, of course, they would have also worked since people do expect to see a superhero working with them but better safe than sorry.
Clark also had an entire thing with him being called Super-Man and Percy eventually convinced him to just confront the press and make it clear that he was there to help and nothing else, of course, there was the entire Government freaking out and trying to neutralize Superman but then the Public started liking him after he got a lot of good coverage thanks to Percy paying the Media companies and also their own fears on what would happen to them if they insulted a dude with superpowers.
Clark was pretty pissed about the paying the press thing but eventually understood Percy's point.
Percy didn't want to follow Clark and turn into a superhero and get a name like Superman but then things changed.
*scene*
Percy was just driving his new car and seeing his home city when suddenly there was an explosion.
Percy got out of his now upside-down car, and looked around to see what caused the explosion and was surprised by what he saw.
A glowing silver metal robot was floating in the air and shooting explosives all around him, Percy cursed, he had been so lost in listening to the song on the radio, his enhanced hearing didn't capture the flying robot.
Percy looked around towards the crowd of panicking people, he had to save these people, they probably had hopes and dreams and families who would be devastated without them.
Percy didn't need to think more and he flew towards the silver robot.
"Humans have not evolved to fly," the robot said mechanically when it noticed Percy flying towards him.
"I used to be human," Percy said but then corrected himself" well, I used to be half-human,"
"Your physiology is of a human, but your organs are not being used. " the robot replied.
"Why are you here?" Percy questioned instead of answering the robot's questions, the robot had calmed down and Percy would like to know why hundreds of people had died.
"I am Vi-Hann but the closest human translation would be Ray, I am programmed to reboot your planet so that my creators can colonize the resources of your planet," the newly dubbed Ray said.
Percy's eyebrows twitched"I am afraid I can't allow you to do that" and with that Percy punched the robot, it flew through the sky like a silver ray. [obligutary sorry for the pun]
Percy flew after it at super speeds and punched it into the water, Percy used his imagination to control the water and made it so Ray had no leverage to move and went into punch his head off.
suddenly he was hit by a bright hot ray of pure energy, it was powerful enough to melt the steel railings and brick sidewalk behind Percy but thanks to the blessing of Ra the Egyptian sun god, Surya the Indian sun god and Amaterasu the Shinto goddess of the sun, he could survive a hell lot of heat.
"Impressive, a majority of the metals on your elementary table would not have survived that," Ray said.
"I would tell you to go to Hades but robots don't have souls," Percy said, his sword was already ready, his new gleaming black crystal godly weapon in his hand.
"I will return in another bottle," the robot told him a matter of fatly before exploding in bright golden light.
Percy looked around, everyone had run out of the place except for a few people who were recording the whole ordeal, he then also noticed that the heat ray had burned all his clothes.
Percy panicked for a few seconds but then calmed his nerves enough to use water vapour to crush all recording phones and then he tried to see the mist, a superpower illusionary force that allows Divine entities to manipulate mortal minds to change what they saw, Percy changed the mortal minds who were recording the entire ordeal to make it look like Superman came in and saved the day and left.
He then jumped into the water and swam away.
*Scene end*
Clark laughed a lot at that story.
He had revealed his life story to Clark, he had not gotten into detail but he had given him a faint outline, but Clark's reaction was ... interesting to say the least.
*Scene*
"I am from another earth," I said randomly, Me and Clark were having a conversation about our new year's resolutions and the excuses our brains have already come up with to not do any of them. I had decided to trust Clark, my 6th sense told me I could trust him and I had learned over the years to trust his 6th sense.
"You are from another earth " Clark repeated, stunned, I was reminded that he was grown up as a human and learned that he was an alien when he was 16 and that things over here were still relatively normal, things still surprised him, well, the entire multiple earth thing surprised me too but Clark' surprise was clearly higher on the surprise-o-meter.
"You might want to sit down for this because I am going to really mess up your perception of reality," I said and led him to sit down on the couch inside my new 4 BHK super luxury apartment in New York.
"Okay, I guess I should start from the beginning," Clark nodded his earlier shock melting away to give rise to curiosity "Well, I guess I am going to give you context first, You see there is an infinite amount of multiverses, and all these multiverses have their own laws on how they work," I said,
"Wait, Do different multiverse have their own laws of Physics. " Clark interrupted me with an ocean's worth of curiosity in his eyes.
"It's possible but it would need to be looked into, now don't interrupt me until the end," I told him and received a sheepish look in return "So from the Multiverse I come from, gods of old exist, the Greeks, the Norse, the Indian, etc, all of them exist" I stared sternly at Clark before he could cut me off and question me, He understood that he could question me in the end and I would answer.
"After WW2, there was a pact between 'the big three' AKA Zeus, Posiden and Hades that they will not have any more children since they affected the world too much but in reality, it was actually because of a great prophecy that predicted the possible end of the western civilization, given by three tyrants who suppressed all form of free will, they are called the Fates" Percy had to actually suppress a growl at the thought of those particular deities.
"Well, Zeus broke the oath first and had a daughter with a movie star, he then proceeded to have another kid with the same woman but in his roman form but I will explain that later, then Posiden broke the oath and had a kid with a mortal/ normal human being and had me" Clark looked surprised but was too caught up in the fairy tale to actually comment about it, now that Percy thought about it, Clark was going to have a very hard time believing in the gods...He would burn that bridge when he gets there.
"Well, what everyone didn't know was that a very powerful entity had decided that it was time for the tyranny of the fates to end, this Powerful entity was the Lucifer Morningstar of the Abrahamic religion, now the central deities of Abrahamic religions are not to be taken lightly, they are highly powerful old primordial entities who get their power from all-powerful God, these entities are called celestial, the celestial Lucifer has been trying to give humanity free will since the beginning of creation and he decided that he was going to end the rule of Fate, so when I was still in my mom's womb, he gave me free will, but I am part of the prime universes and we have 3 replica universes that are the same to an atomic level but when I came out of my mom's womb, I was a boy but the other universe, I came out as a girl and in the 3rd universe, I was dead before being born "
"This alerted the Fates about something fishy was going on and they kept a close eye on me and my female counterpart while destroying the 3rd universe, so when I was 12 I learned about my demigod heritage and that there was an entire camp of kids who were children of the Greek gods from mythology and then I was sent of to a quest that is not related for now,"
" I let prophecies guide my life, never realizing that I had free will, heck, I even led an army of child soldiers to war when I was 16, they were all children of gods who wanted attention from their parents and most of them died for it," Percy remembered the shrines they had to burn in the aftermath of the war, if his demigod mind was not made to deal with trauma, he would have a led a much more depressing life, Clark was silently listening and absorbing information with a blend of horror, anger and curiosity.
"we eventually won the war and as we were dealing with the aftermath, I received a dream from the Devil, Lucifer told me about free will, about my female counterpart and how she had done everything I had done, he told us about how we could help kill the fates and give free will to everyone, we were suspicious but both of us hated the fates so we took the opportunity and after a long battle killed the 3 tyrants" Clark looked a little sick but stayed quiet " It paid off since we did give everyone free will, we basically denied fate, and destroyed destiny and then we stripped the power of the fates and made them mortal, they died of old age." Percy then gained a smile when he started the next part.
"now we were armed with free will but we had no idea what to do next, me and my female counterpart, who was named Pacifica, decided to stay in touch but neither of us had an idea about what we could do, one day I was exploring the ocean as a son of Poseidon does and I found a sunken ship, it wasn't badly damaged but it was still underwater, I suddenly realized that there was a world outside of the U.S that I had not seen thanks to the chaos going on in the U.S, and how there are probably a million other pantheons that I would have never seen if the fates still reigned supreme, so I decided that I am going to explore the world, I asked Pacifica and she was also planning the same thing, so I fixed the ship I found at the bottom of the ocean, kissed my family and friends goodbye and set sail with a lot of resources and an intention to explore" Percy was now grinning.
"And I did just that, for 5 years I travelled the entire planet, I mostly stuck to the divine part of the world and I changed so many things, I started and ended wars, Collapsed civilizations, solved millennia-old mysteries and learned the darkest secrets, made friends and many more enemies, I got new powers and weapons, I even got a few romantic interests, though nothing serious since I was still exploring the world, eventually my own gods called me back since there was another war going on, of course, dominated this war thanks to my new powers and weapons and knowledge, after the war, I was ready to go back to exploring but I was too powerful and too influential, I couldn't even walk without a cohort of gods on my tail, I couldn't even go out of my own pantheon without starting a war over who keeps me. " my expression turned darker.
"Lucifer came to me and Pacifica, he told us that we had somehow turned into gods, He didn't know how exactly but all he could say to us is that there are a lot of things going up in heaven, his siblings were mad at us, apparently God with a capital G had mysterious plans for us, Lucifer revelled the existence of other multiverses, which was not surprising since my best friend was from another multiverse, and the celestial cluster/ galactic walls, you see Clark, for 20 multiverses there is only 1 hell and 1 heaven created by God, normally 1 person has thousands of variations of them throughout this celestial cluster but there are 20 Percy's and Pacificas including us. this has the entire Heavenly court paranoid and then God banned them from hurting any version of us. Lucifer doesn't know what God is up too but it is something big, Lucifer also told me and Pacifica are confirmed domains, he didn't know all our domains but we definitely had the domains of exploration, thanks to us exploring the divine world, ships, we did travel around in a ship named Ascension, space colonization, we were pretty interested in space and engineering, and the last confirmed domain is fun, Pacifica and I are extremely fun to be around, there is another domain that I would not like disclosing anytime soon We were also apparently new type of gods called 'new gods' and Lucifer thinks that God is planning to make us important figures in this new species of gods most probably new celestial gods, " Percy was smiling half-heartedly.
"He sent us to this multiverse, a multiverse that was also in control of our version of the fates but had gained free will after me and Pacifica destroyed destiny, Pacifica is in a mirror universe to this one where everything is the same... well everything was the same until one universe got male me and another got female me, oh and we can't go back to our own multiverse" Percy took a pause and let Clark digest this information. "I know it's going to be hard to believe but it's the truth and you can ask me any questions about it and I will answer most of them".
Clark had a thoughtful look on his face, Percy could practically see the questions in Clark's head. Percy couldn't even guess what was going on in his mind, His entire perception of reality had been shattered, Clark must be wondering about the Infinity or quests Percy did, the powers Percy earned from his odyssey, the weapons he acquired, the monsters he fought.
Percy wondered what question he would ask first.
"You dropped out of high school ?" Clark asked as if that's the most important part in the entire story of gods and monsters and the fact that his friend is an actual god.
Percy had just revealed the existence of the omniverse and gods with unimaginable power and Clark's first question was if Percy had an education.
"I did drop out of high school when I was 16 to explore the world and most of my knowledge is from youtube videos but I did end up going to online classes and getting a somewhat certified engineering degree, Thanks mostly due to my space flight domain basically giving me the knowledge but I did put everything together myself by pure common self and street smarts," Percy said.
"So you are an actual god with a degree in Space travel," Clark asked looking amused.
"Yeah, that's basically it" Percy shrugged.
Clark's expression was serious now, "I also wanted to ask about the entire killing thing"
"Don't worry, I only kill immortals, unless we are in a middle of a war but even in that I try to keep human casualties to a minimum, and well immortals can't exactly stay dead thanks to the entire immortal thing, they reform in anywhere between a month and a lifetime, it is not exactly constant," Percy dismissed Clarks fears easily and Percy could see the relief on Clark's face, he was probably very freaked out about the possibility that his friend could be a murderer.
"So killing an immortal is basically like going to an immortal prison" Clark confirmed.
"well there are very few weapons that can permanently kill an immortal, I do have a few weapons like that, but I haven't faded an Immortal," Percy explained.
"Okay," Clark said slowly "what about the entire my best friend is from another multiverse".
"Well, when I was in Greece, in the Athena Parthenos, there was a portal and my best friend dropped out of it, her name is Otrera, the founder of the amazons, well she hadn't founded the amazons when I met her but she was still creating it, we spent years together and I helped her complete her goal and gave her a weapon to permanently kill the greek gods of her multiverse, though she told me she would only use it as a last resort," Percy said remembering his sister like a friend, they had grown very close but in a platonic way.
"Was Otrera from this multiverse?" Clark asked,
"Yup, I should probably check up on her," Percy said.
"Okay, I am just going to believe you about the entire infinite Earth things, now tell me all the powers you got " Clark seemed excited about divine powers.
"well, I mostly just got Weapons instead of Permanent powers but I do have a few permanent powers,
I mean I can create and control water to a molecular level thanks to my dad and a blessing of a bunch of other water deities,
I can also create seismic waves aka I can create earthquakes in mid-air, I can also stop earthquakes and I can also create and stop storms thanks to my dad and minor blessings from other sea deities,
I am also super resistant to heat thanks to the blessing of Ra the Egyptian sun god, Surya the Hindu sun god and Amaterasu the Shinto goddess of the sun
I can understand and write any language and speak any language thanks to the blessing of Salmon of Knowledge, a literal fish of knowledge,
I can also fly by a lot of methods that I can't be bothered to explain.
I also have wings thanks to Ishtar from the Babylonian pantheon but I am not going to unfurl them since I only do that in emergencies,
I have laser eyes as a gift from killing Kansa and Ravana from the Indian/Hindu Pantheon and this power was given by the Holy Trinity of the Hindus,
I can bind any weapon I get as a gift or a spoil of war to me so only I can use the weapons and I can access them anywhere thanks to Hitchaman god of war in Shinto Pantheon,
I also have super fast reflexes and Enhanced senses thanks to me being a god and a lot of blessings
I am also invulnerable thanks to bathing in the River Styx but I did have a mortal spot that was very vulnerable but that was removed by Friga as a gift for bringing back her favourite son and revelling Odin's schemes,
I can also run pretty fast not as fast as you can, Mr Light speed, but I can reach hypersonic speeds, I also have a lot of strength because most gods mostly just punch all their problems out of existence
I also have natural knowledge about space ships and can just telepathically control any space ship and also create super fast and futuristic spaceships thanks to my space domain and my own knowledge,
I can also store items in pocket dimensions thanks to the Egyptian pantheon
I also have echolocation, yes to initiate that power I had to scream and run straight into a wall but it was worth it"
by the end of Percy's power list, Clark was staring at Percy with amazement.
"and you call me overpowered" Clark complained.
"well, I am pretty powerful but you are also invulnerable and you can also fly and you also have super strength and super sped and super reflexes, heat resistance, laser eyes. I suppose you have the entire x-ray thing and I have my elemental control" Percy mused out loud
" mutual superpowers... that is a new level cool, " Clark said, the small-town boy was getting very awed at how the conversation has turned out.
The rest of the time was spent by the two soon to be legends just chatting about how cool each other's powers were
They were allowed to be prideful sometimes
*scene end*
that was a fun conversation and Clark had believed Percy much faster than he expected but he wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. He was also very thankful that Clark didn't bring up the entire 'cant return home thing'.
Percy had also decided to turn into a superhero, this worlds people needed protection and he was not going to just sit around if he could save lives.
Then he had embarrassingly enough gotten a super-suit.
Scene*
"Why do we have to do this" Percy groaned slapping his head on the table
"Do you want to be naked in public again?" Clark asked.
"No" Percy grumbled out.
'Excuse me but there is a decorum in the library and-" A library employee started
Percy growled like a hell hound and the employee yelped and ran away.
"Did you really have to do that" Clark asked with a frown?
"Of course I did Boy scout," Percy said not bothering to look away from his computer
The screen displayed a full dark blue bodysuit with a sea green belt with Percy's symbol and the sheet are had a bigger version of his symbol but in green and white
it was just a sword in a fancy T shape.
"Remove the sword handle" Clark suggested
"That would turn my sword to a fancy and pointy T" Percy replied.
"It is much more family-friendly, plus you might even get a name starting with a T," Clark said as if it was a good thing.
"I am going to kill anyone who doesn't call me Percy" Percy grumbled
"You can not pay the press enough to make them call you Percy" Clark snorted "They would probably call you something like Aquaman or Tempest."
"Oh, gods no" Percy groaned,
*sight from Clark*"Let's focus on the symbol," Clark said.
"I am not removing the sword handle" Percy responded
after a few minutes, Percy had removed the sword handle.
It was a point T with 3 dots inside the triangle that stuck out of the circle. (refer to the book cover, I made it myself)
"now the suit" Clark pointed towards the screen.
"Okay, I guess we can make the main suit out of indestructible godly fabrics and Athenian silk on the inside to make it super comfortable, wait, what is your suit made out of" Percy suddenly realized that Clark made his superman suit in his own house and he had fought a robot with explosives and his suit hadn't even be scratched.
"My suit was made by Ma out of the Kryptonian fabric that was wrapped around me as a baby, it became indestructible under the yellow sun's radiation."
"...I am not even going to ask how long the baby blanket was. moving on, I will make the main the main part of my suit indestructible but the Green shoes and the Sea green cape can be made out of more important stuff, the shoes can be made out of the weave of Fate which used to hold the free will of every creature in two multiverses and then I am going to make the cape out of the fabric of reality which does not do much but it is indestructible and it tells me about any funny business going on like Time travel and Universal Portals and reality-bending"Percy brought out a sea green fabric that was going to turn into his Cape really soon and the last remaining piece of the Fates plan, it almost seemed cruel to make the fate's last mark into his shoes but he was going to fo it anyways.
"Dam," Clark said and Percy started laughing, "What?" Clark asked looking very confused.
"Inside joke from a long time ago, you won't get it," Percy said
The joke was never explained.
*Scene ended*
and just like that a few days later, Percy was introduced to the world
* a few days later*
There was absolute chaos in Central Park, There were 20 people strategically placed with guns and they were wreaking havoc all over the place, the ground was littered with bodies and the grass was red with blood.
A police car exploded, and then out of the chopper filled sky descended a figure.
"Has Superman come to our rescue?" A reporter questioned but her question was answered when the camera zoomed in to a figure in Blue spandex with sea-green boots and a super fancy sea-green T in a circle, The male figure was also wearing a sea-green cape with a hoodie that he was not wearing.
The terrorists started shooting at the Figure but all that did was create a small spark on his suit and bounced off, not bothering the Man.
The man flew ahead and caught a terrorist and threw him into another terrorist, there was a splatter of blood and the terrorists were knocked unconscious, there was a rocket blast on the Hero.
Bang!
The hero just stood there smirking as the dust cleared, the terrorists were now scared and decided to run away but the figure had different ideas and flew towards the first group who looked absolutely terrified of the figure, the police seemed to snap out of their shock and immediately moved to capture the terrorists.
The figure raised his hand and suddenly there were tentacles of water everywhere and they started capturing the criminals and throwing them in front of the surprised police.
The police were panicking but had no idea what to do, a random police officer did what NYPD did the 2nd best and started shooting randomly, the other Poilice joined in.
The man looked amused but instead of saying something he just flew away into the sky and all the water remembered that gravity exists and fell away.
"ladies and gentlemen, It seems that New York City has its own Hero," the reporter said with a mix of excitement and fear.
*In New York*
In the New York Times, everyone was going crazy trying to find out bout the new Hero.
In the executive meeting room, the man in question was being discussed.
"First Gotham had Batman then Metropolis had Superman and now New York has this guy." A person in a very nice looking suit said.
"The internet is calling him Tempest, he was a T as a symbol, he was fast, violent and he can control water" Another reporter informed.
"It's clear that he is extremely powerful, I suggest we paint him in a ... admirable picture, superhero of New York, etc" The second in command suggested/commanded.
"Are you joking, This man is a complete mystery, we have to warn the public" another member yelled.
"It would be dumb to be on the shitlist of someone who can shrug off an RPG" The head of the company decided.
So the next day, Percy smiled as he saw that the news was showing The Tempest as a Superhero like character.
"I am going to have to bribe them to call me Percy," Percy said.
*AN*
well, that was fun, I am going to binge-watch the entire DCAU
next chapter forward, I am going to use 3 rd person POV and I am going to introduce Batman next
Also Happy Birthday Percy Jackson, I wouldn't be here without you
*AN*
*Post Authors note scene*
*a couple of years after the creation of the celestial cluster*
"So, you are telling me, there is going to be a second version of celestials that are going to be the supreme rulers?" a young Samael asked.
"Yes, they are going to have the ability to adapt and change to any time, they are going to be truly eternal like you," said Samael's father, the almighty power said.
"what will their names be?" Samael asked, too young to worry about his own safety.
"Actually all 20 of them have a common name" God said
"Percy, Percy Jackson".
