Chapter 2: Magician Meets Demigod

Sadie Kane grabbed her alarm clock, which was beeping for thirty minutes now, and threw it against the wall, breaking it. She got out of her bed and groaned, before walking over to her closet and putting on a casual t-shirt with a pair of jeans and her typical leather jacket and combat boots. She heard her brother, Carter, yell from the living room.

Carter: SADIE! COME ON! WE'LL BE LATE!

Sadie: I'M COMING! GIVE ME TWO MINUTES!

Sadie *mutters: Bloody wanker.

Meanwhile At Camp Half-Blood

Erwin walked into his cabin when Clarisse slammed him against a wall.

Clarisse: YOU'VE GOT EXPLAINING TO DO!

Erwin: What arr you talking about?

Malcolm: HOW ABOUT THE FACT, THAT YOU HAVE A SECRET ROOM UNDERNEATH YOUR CABIN!

Percy Annabeth: What's going on?

Clarisse: "Erwin" here has been lying to us the whole time!

Erwin: I truly don't know what they're talking about.

Clarisse opened a trap door, revealing a secret room leading underneath Erwin's cabin.

Clarisse: What do you call that?!

Erwin: So I have a secret room. That doesn't make me guilty of anything. The Hephaestus cabin has one as well.

Malcolm: Let's take a little journey into your secret room and show Percy and Annabeth what you're hiding.

The five of them walked downstairs and Percy and Annabeth both gasped when they saw what was down there. Inside it was the old Soviet flag, a Soviet field marshal's uniform, multiple intelligence, recon, and troop reports along with blueprints for new weapons.

Annabeth: What is this place?

They heard a gun cock and looked behind them, to see Erwin aiming a MP-443 Grach pistol, chambered in 9x19mm Parabellum bullets, at them. Erwin's voice changed. They hear the voice they usually heard. Now they heard a thick Russian accent coming from him.

Erwin *aiming his pistol at them: So now you know the truth.

Percy: Erwin, put the gun down. We can settle this peacefully.

Erwin: My name isn't Erwin. It's Alexei Gregorovich Zhukov. I expected Annabeth to at least find out. But a mindless brute sich as Clarisse? Now that is a surprise to me.

Clarisse growled at that comment.

Malcolm: Didn't Rommel have a son?

Alexei: Yes, but he wasn't called, Erwin. I thought that was a big hint. However it appears that nobody even suspected me.

Percy: But why?

Alexei: Why what?

Percy: Why choose Rommel's son as your alias?

Alexei: Because I'm a communist in a capitalist country. You know historically, you capitalists have funded fascists, so a fascist field marshal's son made more sense, while I slowly put my plans into action.

Annabeth: What plans?

Alexei: Annabeth, you disappoint me. Did you not wonder what happened to Thorn after the mission? Did you not notice the increase in monster attacks on demigods? Did you not find the fact that two demigods from a powerful Greek god suddenly appeared out of nowhere?

Annabeth, for once, didn't have an answer.

Alexei: Of course not. Percy, what do you see when you look at new york?

Percy: A crowded city of 8.4 million people.

Alexei: I see a city of 8.4 million angry workers desperate for their liberation from the oppressive bourgeoise and tyrannical capitalists who merely trample over them and suck them dry for money. Thorn has confirmed my suspicions. A war is coming. And one where we will need a lot of help.

Clarisse: And how will this war play out, because we don't know anything about it.

Alexei: Simple. You'll be put on the defensive, and start using guerilla tactics to try and gain an advantage. Sure you'll destroy a few supply lines and maybe take out an important leader, giving you a small chance of winning. But it will be a long and costly war.

Malcolm: And with your current preparations?

Alexei: I'll take the fight to the enemy. Put them on the defensive. They made a powerful enemy by threatening to stab the motherland's eastern lands with their poisonous imperial dagger. Now the workers will crush them. The Red Army will march over their corpses and take their motherland.

Percy: You're crazy.

Alexei: Learn to face the coming revolution. For it is not stopping for anyone. Pick a side. You are either with us or against us.

Alexei walked out of the room, pistol in hand, and went to school (Second amendment. He can legally walk around with a pistol).

At the Brooklyn Academy for the Gifted

Sadie was grabbing her stuff from her locker, when she closed it and gasped seeing Alexei (previously Erwin) beside her. He was quite and didn't say much about himself in the class introductions other than his name. This made him cold, distant, and in a way...mysterious. Sadie wanted to know more about him. Carter walked up behind her.

Carter: Over Walt and Anubis that quickly?

Sadie: Oh yes, brother dear. He's far more interesting.

Carter: Really? We don't know anything about him. All we know is his name. He didn't say anything else about himself in the class introductions.

Sadie: That's precisely what makes him interesting. Come on, let's see if we can sit with him.

Carter: Fine. But no asking him out.

Sadie *pouting*" Fine.

They walked to the cafeteria and sat down at Alexei's table after getting their food and caught the end of a sentence that one of Alexei's friends was saying.

Alexei Friend 1: ...поэтому я считаю, что мы должны начать наступление, как только выпадет снег. Враг не сможет передвигать свои танки, если его нефть замерзла. (...therefore I believe that we should launch an offensive as soon as it snows. The enemy can't move their tanks if their oil is frozen.)

Alexei: Но вы забываете, что у нас десять миллионов развернутых войск и еще двадцать миллионов в резерве. Мы сильно превосходим их числом. Кронос и Гея были бы глупцами, если бы выступили против нас. Революция удалась в прошлом не просто так. (But you forget, that we have ten million deployed troops and twenty million more in reserve. We outnumber them, severely. Kronos and Gaea would be fools to march against us. The revolution succeed in the past for a reason. )

Alexei Friend 2: Я все еще скептически отношусь к тому, сможем ли мы выиграть эту войну. Конечно, у нас есть новое оружие в производстве, но сколько времени пройдет до массового нападения на нас? (I'm still skeptical whether or not we can win this war. Sure we have new weapons in production, but how long until a mass assault is brought upon us?)

Alexei: Товарищи, в одиночку мы противостояли фашизму. В одиночку мы отбросили немецкого захватчика от Сталинграда. В одиночку мы шли на запад к победе. Теперь новый враг хочет вонзить свой кинжал в наши восточные земли. Я не беспокоюсь. Мы победим их, как победили немцев. Советские рабочие непобедимы. Мы непобедимы. Пока я живу и дышу, Советский Союз не падет. (Comrades, alone we stood against fascism. Alone we drove the German invader from Stalingrad. Alone we marched west to victory. Now a new enemy wants to stab their dagger into our eastern lands. I do not worry. We will beat them as we have beaten the Germans. The Soviet workers are unconquered. We are unconquerable. As long as I live and breathe, the Soviet Union will not fall.)

Alexei's friends: Понял, товарищ фельдмаршал. (Understood comrade field marshal)

Carter and Sadie looked at each other confused. What were they talking about? Carter tried to look at Alexei's notebook, but he stopped her.

Alexei: Unless you want a hole in between your eyes, I wouldn't do that.

Carter gulped and nodded in fear.

Sadie *whispers to Carter: Now I really like him.

In the duat, Apophis' cell

Apophis was having a peaceful nap when he felt a strong presence inside his cell. He opened his eyes and got in a striking position.

Apophis: Whoever you are, you must really want to die.

A deep voice laughed.

Apophis: WHO ARE YOU?!

???: I am Kronos. Lord of time...and the future destroyer of Olympus.

Apophis: What do you want?

Kronos *appearing in front of Apophis: To help you achieve your wildest dreams.

Apophis' eyes widened.

Apophis: You can help me swallow Ra? That feeble old sun god? What's the catch?

Kronos: Simple. I give you, your sun god to swallow, and you destroy Olympus, while we help each other in our wars against those who have wronged us. The age of the gods is over, wouldn't you agree?

Apophis: Yes. But Osiris rules over the land of the dead. What do we do about him?

Kronos *smirking: Oh I know a certain trick to bring Osiris back to the land of the living. Along with his wife. I believe that their names are...

Apophis *smirking:...Julius and Ruby Kane.