AN: This will be a Percy x Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman story but there will be a lot of stuff before that but rest assured, in the end, Percy will end up with Diana but just follow the story until that.
An: Things are in motion, I have the next 60 chapters outlined and I can't give you a definite update schedule but I will post as often as I can.
[December | 2029]
[3rd Person Pov | New York boxing stadium ]
Jack or as his stage name Atlas punched his opponent in the ribs.
Crunch!
His opponent staggered back thanks to the strength behind the blow, Atlas didn't let his enemy recover and immediately went into punching the living crap out of his opponent, the drugs he took to enhance his strength were affecting his brain and sending him into a rage-filled frenzy.
The referee started screaming at Atlas to calm down before he killed the man but to Atlas, it was just blurred background noise that his muddled brain couldn't comprehend.
A few hands grabbed him and Atlas kicked and punched chaotically, screaming bloody murder as he was pulled off the man.
***Scene change***
[February | 2030]
[3rd Person POV | Mount Othrys, Greece]
Jack and Mike hiked up the ancient mountain.
Jack was banned from boxing after his last episode and the use of strength-enhancing drugs, the only reason he wasn't in prison was because he had spent most of his money on bribes.
Mike, a childhood friend of his, had decided to take him hiking, a regular hobby of Jack, to cheer his depressed friend up.
"Fun Fact: This mountain was originally called Othrys by the ancient Greeks and believed to be the place where an ancient god held up the sky," Mike said, trying to get a reaction out of his longtime friend.
"I don't care," Jack said.
Mike sighed "Come on Jack, talk to me, I am your best friend since we were on the streets, I am always going to be there for you"
"I don't need help Mike," Jack said coldly, he was always stubborn
"We both know that's not true," Mike replied.
Jack didn't reply to that.
The rest of the hike consisted of uncomfortable silence.
***At the top***
They reached the top of the mountain and explored for a bit, striking small talk to keep things less awkward.
"Check that out," Jack pointed at a small hole at the outer edge of the mountain.
"Is that … glowing?!" Mike questioned in bewilderment.
"Let's check it out," Jack said and without warning, he slid into the caravan and crawled through it.
Mike was weary but he was not going to let his suicidal best friend go into the dangerous unknown alone.
He went into the strange glowing hole.
***Time skip***
"Wow!" came the voice of Jack.
Mike got out of the hole and he had to agree.
The place was 20 feet high and had a giant 20-foot statue of a kneeling man with the entire mountain on his back and his arms supporting the mountain.
There was writing carved on the cave wall and there was a tree below the left eye of the giant statue man.
"How is this even possible!?" questioned Mike looking around the cave in absolute awe, this might have been made by ancient Greeks or more logically some rich dude.
"I don't know but I like it," Jack said looking around the place in amazement and greed.
"Do you think Aliens made this" Mike asked?
"The guy in Metropolis, no-" Jack was cut off
"Mortals" an ancient but strong sounding voice boomed.
Mike froze in fear for a second but Jack immediately took out his climbing pickaxe and took a stance.
"I am Atlas, Titan of strength and endurance," The voice echoed around the cave, making it sound sinister.
Mike took a step back" Let's leave before this … thing kills us" He sounded scared.
"I could kill you or you could fight to the death and the winner would become the strongest being on the planet" The tree below the man's left eye glowed.
They both got a feeling that this was true and if they completed the outrageous task, they would become the strongest person on the planet.
"We would never do that" Mike said, he was confident that neither he nor Jack would do anything like this, he and Jack had been friends since they were nobodies on the streets and a sketchy voice would not break their Friendship-THUD.
Jack had hit his friend with the climbing pickaxe.
"Sorry Mike, but times are changing, the only way you are important is when you have powers of destruction." Jack didn't sound sorrowful as he saw his best friend's betrayed eyes close for the last time.
"This is what I like about you mortals, you would kill your own for power" the sound sounded amused, watching best friends kill each other was probably its version of TV.
"Give me my power" Jack yelled back at the statue, he only wanted the strength, the death of his friend was just an unfortunate sacrifice he had to make.
"Very well but you are going to have to lend me your body for 24 hours and after that, you will have all my strength for the rest of your life," The voice said.
Jack thought about it for a few seconds and then nodded.
"Okay, but what is your name," Jack thought he should know the name of the guy who is giving him superpowers.
"My name is-" the statue glowed blood red and the essence went into Jack, Jack's consciousness immediately passed out but the light kept coming into his body.
A bright red light filled the entire cave and then the body of Jack was replaced with a man about 10 feet and built like a barrel.
"-Atlas" the old titan looked at his new but temporary form, this was his last chance at revenge, he had used up all his powers, he would kill the Olympians and then this man would probably rule the world using the strength of atlas.
The cave crackled, the mountain was collapsing, Atlas then jumped and due to his sheer strength, the cave floor collapsed in itself and Atlas flew through the Mountain, jumping towards Olympus.
***Olympus***
Atlas was surprised, to say the least.
The entirety of Olympus was… gone, the Olympian throne room was the only building remaining and it had no thrones but only the dead bodies of the former rulers of the cosmos.
In bright bold letters made of Gold, no doubt the ichor of the former immortal gods were the sentences "Where there is oppression, there will be resistance" and "Justice Prevails".
At the bottom of the message was "Otera, Founder and Patron goddess of the Amazons " and "Kartros, the new god of War who ended his own misery".
Atlas looked around, this was done by two people, a woman and a lowly god of war who killed himself, Atlas didn't even know immortals could fade themselves.
For the first time in a long time, Atlas was scared, the world had changed, two former mortals had killed great gods who ruled over them, the revolt was not surprising, the gods were tyrants with no regard for human life, from what his daughters, the herpsides, had told him, even the goddess Artemis, the one who claimed to be the protector of woman, massacred an entire town of woman because the mother of their queen bragged about having more kids then Leto.
He didn't have much time left, he could already feel his essence fading back into his prison, maybe that was safer than this new world.
The great Greek gods couldn't adapt to change and they faded for it.
With that last thought, Atlas left the once sacred mountain, he still had a few hours left and he intended to enjoy his freedom.
***Time skip***
[February | 2030]
Percy glared at the TV, the media man was still calling him Tempest, the name sucked buttt he prefered a superhero status, the other option was people being scared of him and the government trying to kill him and he really didn't want that.
Fear is the reason he was exiled from his home, he was not going to give these people a reason to fear him here.
"Breaking news from Gotham, there is a bat the size of a man fighting the famous Batman," The reporter said as the screen showed a wrestling match between a guy wearing spandex looking armour but with a bat theme, and a 7-foot bat.
Percy immediately panicked thinking one of Dracula's monsters had attacked Gotham city and removed his outer clothes revealing his Superhero costume because it was a costume, and Percy then flew very high up into the air and went into Mach 2 speed towards the city of crime.
It took no time for him to find the Man-Bat flying into the sky trying to shake Batman off him.
"Hello there," Percy said, sounding abnormally calm for someone dealing with 7-foot bats.
The monster and batman seemed to be startled at hearing a voice beside them when they were flying above all Gotham skyscrapers.
Batman seemed to realise the superpowered guy from NYC was flying beside him.
He also seemed to realise that this was the guy who could kill him in a second.
"Need a hand," Percy asked before using his strength to separate the Man bat and batman. Percy punched the man-bat to the ground with his pinky and then flew the Batman to the roof of the Wane tower for humour's sake.
"Stay here, I am going to kill the monster" Percy summoned his sword, the pure black sword with silver accents appeared in his hand.
"The monster is just a genetically mutated man, Don't kill him, I can heal him," Batman said, Percy had to give it to the guy, most mortals would be too scared to speak to him when they meet the first time.
"Sure, I will bring him here and then you cure him, Batman or do you prefer Bruce Wayne" Batman's eyes widened but Percy was already gone.
It was not hard to find the 'genetically mutated man' but keeping the police from killing it was much harder.
"Calm down, The Bat thing is somehow a man and I am going to let a man in a bat costume turn him back into a man," Percy said to the SWAT teams that were firing at him, his invincibility was just the curse of Achilles without the mortal spot so he could still feel pain, though the bullets don't affect him, they couldn't even compress his skin but they sure were annoying though.
"Weapons down," an old man who looked like a commissioner from a detective show said and as the bullets shower stopped, Percy took the screeching man-bat and flew into the sky towards Wane towers.
The Batman had a syringe in his hand and Percy was again impressed by how calm the mortal seemed while facing a Bat the size of a human.
The Batman injected the syringe into the man-bat and the man-bat instantly passed out.
"Nice" Percy said and the Batman just nodded slightly while staring suspiciously at the hero of New York.
"How do you know my identity," Batman asked, he had a relaxed position, ahh, Batman knew he couldn't take Percy on with his current arsenal so he was trying the friendly card.
"A friend told me, '' How long have you been doing this?" Percy questioned.
"5 years, Why are you here? Gotham is my city" Batman answered and questioned
"Well, I thought there was a monster in Gotham and only my type of weapons work on monsters" Percy answered.
"I don't kill," Batman said, bringing up the whole Percy trying to kill the monstrous Bat.
"Monster death is basically a prison, they can't truly ever die, trust me, I have dealt with a lot of them, plus they are not completely sentient" Percy didn't give Batman the time to answer "If anything Supernatural pop's up or you just want information on Supernatural, here is a card" Percy gave batman one of his magical contact cards "It will contact me immediately, I also have a phone number, it's written on the back," Batman just raised an eyebrow at that, "I don't particularly care about having a normal life and I don't think you want to kill me since you save people and I save people" Percy was not good in conversations with people who don't speak back, "You know what, I am Percy Jackson, just call me Percy" the Batman just stared at Percy's outstretched hand like it was going to be used to kill him.
"I am going to leave you to it then" and Percy then flew out of Gotham city.
That was awkward, the guy had good intentions since he was saving people a lot but he sure was not the kind of guy to start conversations with.
Percy flew over lower Manhattan and was surprised to see Police cars surrounding a collapsing building, if the big sign at the front was anything to go buy, this was the Boxing stadium.
Percy flew down toward the guy with the microphone, "what exactly is happening here" Percy asked.
The commissioner raised a hand and the idiots pointing a gun at the invulnerable superhero pointed their guns back at the building.
The commissioner looked at Percy with mistrust and fear but held himself together somewhat.
"One of your buddies, He used his bare hands to collapse all exist, and snipers don't affect him" The commissioner was squirming uncomfortably while talking to Percy.
"Well, then I will handle it" Percy declared but a random bold police officer spoke up "This is our job and we have it covered, it is also a crime to interfere in Police business".
"Well then, I am just a guy who is going to help stop a dangerous criminal the NYPD is not equipped to handle" Percy smiled sweetly and then flew into the collapsing boxing stadium.
Percy was surprised to feel the presence of Atlas, the titan of strength, an enemy who he had defeated in his youth with the help of his friends and an angry greek man-hating moon goddess who he had the respect of
…. Percy's childhood wasn't very normal.
Percy would have explained how he ended up getting the respect of the man-hating goddess Artemis but he was still on edge by the presence of Atlas so he was just going to explain it in one paragraph.
Artemis might have started with blind rage towards the male species in ancient Greece but Percy had met her in the 21st century and the gods had changed over the aeons and Artemis had stopped hating the male species as much as she did during ancient Greece and so all Percy had to do was carry the entire atmosphere and he got her respect, easy peasy, right?.
The explanation was interrupted by someone throwing weights at Percy, Percy caught the weights by the rod.
"Not cool, bro!" Percy had no idea why he said that but he did, so deal with it.
The guy who threw the weights at him was the ultimate Jack, he was buff and super tall and had more muscles than the hulk on steroids, he was also pure brawns which Percy knew since he was trying to collapse the building by destroying the upper roofs and the fact that he had too many muscles and was blond.
Percy knew from experience the blonds were either really smart or really really dumb. Plus the guy was wearing greek armour with an armoured skirt.
The man growled and jumped at Percy and Percy quickly dodged the tackle by moving towards the right.
"That was rude," Percy casually commented." didn't your mom teach you to tell your name and about how you got your powers before attacking a flying guy" Percy was trying to use humour to get answers.
The man growled before standing with his back straight at an impressive 10 feet. "I am Atlas, I used to be this stadium's champion and I am going to be the world's new champion" His voice was hoarse and loud like a soccer mom with a voice modifier.
"So rule the world," Percy asked, still playing the role of a funny guy, "My childhood imagination was correct! the supervillains always try to take over the world." with that Percy flew straight at Atlas and punched him into the wall, Percy would need to figure out how this dude got his powers later but for now the guy was taken care of.
-THUD!
Percy felt an intense pain on his back and the next thing he knew was that he was flying into the sky and not of his own accord.
Percy took control of the water vapour all around him and then made a cocoon around himself to slow his speed and stop the stinging pain on his back
The curse of Achilles might have made every part of his body invulnerable but he still felt pain.
Percy then dissipated the cocoon and flew by his normal method of just moving in the 3rd dimension.
Percy summoned Apollyon, his sword, and flew back at Atlas who was wearing a victorious smirk, while flying towards him, Percy willed the water from the pipeline to bust open and cover Atlas's face, predictably Atlas opened his mouth to scream and Percy willed the water into the guy's mouth and the water instantly evaporated.
Percy grimaced, The guy had somehow gotten the strength of Atlas and his insides were made out of pure titanic energy, if Percy cut his skin, the titanic energy would get out and would do a lot of damage.
Percy de-summoned Apollyon and started thinking extra hard on how to take down the strongest guy in the Greek pantheon.
He didn't get to think for too long because he had to dodge cars that were being thrown at him.
Wait!
Those cars could hurt civilians.
Percy quickly reached the nearest water body, a water storage facility, and manipulated it into a tentacle to catch the cars, Percy then threw the cars back to Atlas to momentarily distract the big guy.
Percy knew that he was strong but he was not the god of strength and Atlas would win in a competition of strength but he was somewhat clever and he was going to have to use that to his advantage.
He then remembered an episode of Ben 10 he saw back when he was 20 (It's a good show), and when Vilgax got super-duper strength and Ben trapped him in a place where he didn't have any leverage and therefore made the super squid's strength useless.
Sadly, Percy did not remember how Ben trapped vilgax.
Percy then got a really good idea that had a 65% chance of working.
"Yo, big guy, come and catch me" Percy then flew super close to Atlas and started heading towards upper bay.
Atlas growled at the challenge and started jumping after Percy, walking into the trap like a mindless animal.
Percy kept taunting Atlas, making sarcastic comments that would make Chandler from F.R.I.E.N.D.S proud.
"Come on by, I have your proteins, " Percy said to the bodybuilder and that is when Atlas attacked and jumped on Percy.
Percy let the overgrown mass of muscle tackle him into the sea.
Percy immediately felt stronger but he still wasn't strong enough to defeat Atlas in strength.
Percy used his extremely limited knowledge in hand to hand training to dodge Atlas's main strike and then caught his hand and used the titans own strength against him and threw him into the middle of the lake.
Atlas looked pissed and tried to swim towards him but couldn't.
Percy had layered Atlas's entire body with water to trap him there and he had also made an air bubble around the guy.
The guy could have infinite strength but he still needed leverage to move and in this position, he had no leverage making his strength useless.
Percy smiled and shot out of the water and saw the multiple reporters waiting there yelling for him.
Superman had told Percy to talk to the media so Percy did just that.
The Tempest floated to the ground and was immediately confronted by multiple reporters because Percy was the Hero, Tempest was just a public identity.
"Are you an Alien"
"Where do you come from"
"Are you and superman friends"
"Why are you here"
Tempest raised his hand in a surrender motion."One at the time people," After a few more seconds of de-escalating chaos.
"Which planet are you from," a reporter asked.
"I am from a not so far away planet called earth," Tempest said with a charming smile on his handsome face.
The reporters looked confused and intrigued by this.
"Then how do you have these powers," another reporter asked.
"I am from another universe where certain people have powers," Tempest said carefully, the revelation of gods would be too much for mortals right now, they were having a panic attack dealing with Superman and Tempest, not to mention all the tension in the Pentagon.
"Could you please elaborate?" another reporter asked
"the string theory is the basic explanation, look, it's hard to explain but I am the only person who could come from my own earth to this earth and I am here to protect the earth from threats so that humanity could mature and evolve, " Tempest said.
"Are you and Superman friends?" Another reporter asked.
"Yes, we are, now I am going to have to leave," Tempest said and Percy flew out of the semi-circle of reporters and towards his home.
Percy was intercepted by Superman.
"You wouldn't believe what happened today" Superman sounded excited.
"Use your X-ray vision to see the water" Percy replied, waiting for Superman's reaction.
"... Why is there a guy made out of muscles and energy trapped in the water" Superman sounded confused.
"Humans got the power of an ancient titan and tried to take over NYC" Percy explained in brief."You?"
"Midget with problems created war toys and tried to kill a criminal," Superman said.
They both stared at each other for a second.
"You have a bat on your cape," Superman said.
Percy tried to look at his back but just spun in a circle.
Superman laughed at this but Percy just huffed! and brought his cape to his eyes and sure enough, there was a small bat sized tracer there.
"Huh, Should have guessed, the crazy rich guy wants to follow me" Percy mused before throwing the bat tracker into upper bay.
Percy knew that he and the bat guy would meet again, they were both heroes and there would probably need to team up some time.
***Pentagon***
"These superheroes are not looking for trouble and are protecting the people, we will only confront them when they become a threat," The President of the USA said.
"But, Mrs President, these 'superheroes' are too powerful to be left alone, we wouldn't be able to stop them if they decided to just force their way into the white house," an official said.
"And what about the supervillain that attacked NYC, the only reason NYC is still standing is because of the Tempest, we are going to have to put our faith in these superheroes"
The general did not agree but didn't speak up.
Later that day, the general called up his daughter.
"Amanda, we have a problem".