Percy flinched as thunder shook through the Quinjet. He certainly hoped that that wasn't Zeus. But well, Percy wasn't really much of a problem anymore in that respect. The least Zeus could do was cut him some slack.

He glanced over at where Loki was tied up and cuffed to his seat. Captain America and Stark were watching him from close to where Percy himself was sitting.

Percy was levitating a cellphone and reading through reports as Nat contacted base.

He looked up when Cap said, in a tone that only Stark or Percy could hear, "I don't like it."

"What?" Stark asked. "Rock of Ages giving up so easily?"

"I don't remember it being ever that easy," Cap said, grimly. "This guy packs a wallop."

"Agreed," Percy said as he frowned at his cellphone. "He's up to something."

Stark glanced over at him and said, derisively, "And you would know, Shark Boy?"

Percy's frown tightened, "I wish you wouldn't call me that."

"I don't even know why you're calling the kid that," Cap said blandly.

Stark rolled his eyes and then said, turning his attention back to Captain Rogers, "Still, you are pretty spry, for an older fellow, Captain. What's your thing? Pilates?"

"What?" Cap said, sounding even more confused.

"It's like calisthenics," Stark said. "You might have missed a couple things, you know, during your time as a Capsicle."

The way Cap looked at Stark made Percy want to cackle in amusement.

Clearly those two had rather huge egos. It would be amusing to watch them butt heads.

"Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in," Cap said with narrowed eyes.

"Yeah, there's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you," Stark responded, as he jerked his thumb over his shoulder to Percy. "Case and point."

It looked like Cap was about to demand answers when thunder and lightning nearly hit the jet, making it shake violently.

Percy felt tension racing up his spine. He hissed under his breath, "Damn it, I hate flying."

"Where is this coming from?" Natasha muttered from the co-pilots seat.

Thunder continued to rumble from overhead. Percy noticed that he wasn't the only one who looked a little nervous. Loki was staring up at the ceiling of the Quinjet a little nervously.

"What's the matter?" Cap asked the god. "Scared of a little lightning?"

"I'm not overly fond of what follows," Loki responded.

Percy frowned and stood up, slipping his phone into his pocket, and moving closer to Loki as the Quinjet shuttered. Percy's gaze flicked upwards. Someone was up there.

He tensed as Stark moved towards the bay doors. Percy narrowed his eyes and lifted his bike with his mind, preparing to throw it at whoever had landed on top of the Quinjet if need be.

With one smooth flick the bay doors opened.

And then a man, or what looked like a man in clothes similar to Loki's dropped down onto it, holding in his hand a hammer.

Percy could feel his tension becoming thicker as the man moved forward. Stark raised his hand to fire, but with one smooth stroke the hammer sent Stark flying back into Cap who had started to move forward as well.

Which left Percy alone, facing off with this guy, this god.

Percy had a feeling that if he threw his bike at this man it would get hammered back at him. He allowed his bike to lower and turned to focus his attention on the man's mind.

Almost as soon as Percy had touched the god's mind the man had thrown his hammer at him, although not as hard as he probably could have. It sent Percy flying backwards, slamming into Stark and Cap as they tried to get back up.

In the next moment the man grabbed Loki and flew out the bay doors.

"Now there's that guy," Stark said as he firmly pushed Percy off of him.

"Another Asgardian?" Natasha asked from the co-pilots seat.

"Doesn't matter," Stark said as he headed for the bay doors. "If he frees Loki or kills him, the Tesseracts lost."

Percy grimaced a little in pain as Cap helped him to his feet as the older man said, "Stark, we need a plan of attack!"

"I have a plan." Stark said. "Attack."

Then he flew out the bay doors too and followed after the god.

Cap shook his head and grabbed a parachute to follow after him.

"I'd sit this one out, Cap," Natasha said.

"I don't see how I can," Cap responded as he fitted the parachute onto himself.

Percy stared at him as Natasha said, "These guys come from legends, they're basically gods."

"There's only one God, ma'am," Cap said as he headed for the bay doors. "And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that."

Then Cap jumped out of the jet too.

Percy stuck his head out and watched him fall for a moment, taking in the weather for a moment before he turned back to Natasha and shot her a grin as he closed the bay doors.

"Yeah, I think I'm sitting this one out."

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Steve wasn't very happy at the moment. Their prisoner had been taken by another so called 'god', Stark had run off on him to bring Loki back without coming up with a plan, and Steve was having to work with a kid to potentially save the world.

So yeah, not the best day.

So far, though, the kid wasn't following him, so that was making it a little better.

Steve hadn't known what to think when the kid had started raising heavy objects from the ground without even touching them.

It made him feel very uncomfortable.

One thing was for sure, he was going to look up this kid, Agent Jackson, when he got back to the hellicarrier.

Steve shook his head and focused back on the matter at hand as he landed, rolling with the impact as he did so.

In one swift move Steve unattached himself from the parachute and then headed off in the direction where he could hear the sounds of a fight coming from.

He could hear the sound of snapping trees, and Stark's energy blasts, as well as a few crackles of lightning.

Of course those two were already going at it.

Steve just hoped that Loki hadn't escaped during this fight.

That would be an entire problem in and of itself.

When he arrived at a clearing that had several uprooted trees among other things, he jumped on top of one of them and gazed down at the scene below him.

The being and Stark had just gotten back to their feet and were about to attack each other again.

Steve sighed tiredly and threw his shield.

It ricocheted off the hammer in the man's hand and also off of Stark's armor before coming back to him.

He caught it deftly and shouted, "Hey! Thant's enough!"

Steve jumped off the fallen tree and landed lightly on the ground in front of them both.

He spoke directly at the man who had taken their prisoner, "Now, I don't know what you plan on doing here."

The man snapped back at him, "I've come here to put an end to Loki's schemes!"

"Then prove it!" Steve responded firmly. "Put the hammer down."

"Um, yeah, no!" Stark called to him. "Bad call! He loves his hammer!"

The man backhanded Stark with the hammer, sending the billionaire flying backwards. And then this being turned his attention back to Steve, as he raised his hammer.

"You want me to put the hammer down?" he demanded.

Then the man leaped into the air, the hammer raised, clearly about to bring it down on Steve's head. Steve crouched, raising his shield. The man brought the hammer down onto his shield and an instant later a massive implosion of light shook the area.

Steve is thrown backwards by the shockwave.

His eyesight returns as the light dies. He is lying near Stark, who has started to get up. He pulls himself to his feet, eyes fixed on the man.

The other looks at them both.

Steve meets the man's eyes, "Are we done here?"

Slowly the man nodded his head, before looking up towards where a cliff sits.

Steve looks up in that direction too.

There sitting on the cliff, watching them, is Loki. The being hadn't even tried to escape.

That caused a certain amount of dread to enter Steve's chest.

He didn't like this one bit.

But they have no choice but to bring Loki back to the hellicarrier, so Steve starts up the cliff-face towards the being.

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When Cap and Stark return the god from before is with them dragging Loki closely behind him. Percy is standing on the bay doors, waiting for them. After Loki was grabbed by the other god, Natasha and their pilot set them down to wait for Stark and Cap to come back with their prisoner.

Percy raised an eyebrow as they arrive at the bay doors.

He calls down to them as they start walking up back towards the body of the Quinjet, "Took you long enough!"

The look Stark gives him as he removes his Iron Man helmet is clearly annoyed, "Look here, Jaws. . . maybe you should have gone after him if we took too long for you."

Percy smirked at that statement as he took in the guy that had grabbed Loki and flew off with him.

"Who's that?" he asked gesturing at the guy.

"I am Thor of Asgard," the guy said stiffly as he studied Percy.

"Another god," Percy said calmly. "Fantastic."

The look that Thor shot him was nearly poisonous.

Stark snorted, "If you don't want to get beaten up by his hammer, I would shut up, kiddo."

"I wish," Percy said as annoyance flashed across his face, "that you all would stop calling me a kid."

"How old are you then?" Cap asked as he grabbed Loki from Thor and began to escort him up the ramp.

Percy scowled at that, "Seventeen."

That caused Stark to laugh a little, "And you say you're not a kid!"

Percy's eyes narrowed, his thoughts full of anger and also pain. He hadn't really been a kid since the Kingpin's guys had snatched him off the streets. Somehow being experimented on like a human guinea pig made you lose some of your innocence.

Not that he was going to talk to Stark of all people about that.

Percy blinked in a little surprise when both Stark and Cap flinched a little and rubbed at their heads, clearly both feeling some traces of Percy's anger and pain. Thor was staring at him.

And then Loki laughed, saying, "Oh, Agent Jackson. . . You don't even realize your projecting what you're feeling onto everyone else, do you?"

Percy could feel a blush slide over his face as his anger burned at that comment. And then he spun back towards the interior of the Quinjet and marched back inside without giving Loki so much as a backwards glance.

He really didn't like that guy.