The God of Heroes

by AlfyreGree

Percy has lost almost everything and finds himself in a new universe. He's not alone though, and he's definitely not he same as he was before... Eventual PercyxRaven

2. Chapter 2

Do not expect this rate of upload forever, I'm just really into it at the moment, it will pass, eventually.

Third Person POV

The Justice League was not having a good time. They had just stopped the sun from being blotted out, only for something else to go down immediately after.

Superman was the first to hear the screams, before Batman got the alert on his comms. The league rushed to Metropolis to find the cause of the commotion.

Raging through the city streets was a thirty-foot humanoid being with only one brown eye. He had curly brown hair and was wearing what looked like Greek armor over a large T shirt and some jeans. He wielded an enormous wooden club and ran through the streets, screaming randomly and smashing the ground randomly, as if it were his enemy.

So far there hadn't been any casualties, but he was doing a good job of destroying the city. The Justice league observed this from the air. Superman, Wonderwoman, Martian Manhunter, Zatara, Shazam, Hawkgirl, and both Green Lanterns Flew alongside the Batwing, which housed Batman, Green Arrow, Aquaman, and Black Canary.

Batman narrowed his eyes as he eyed the creature, as he listened to Wonderwoman over the comms, "It has the basic characteristics of a cyclops, but it is larger, stronger, and much more human like than any I have ever encountered. I've certainly never encountered one wearing armor, much less clothes."

"As disturbing as that Is," Flash's voice was heard as he circled the monster from a distance on ground level, "It doesn't change the fact that it needs to be stopped. I've evacuated everyone in a one mile radius around him."

Superman nodded as he hovered over the scene, before turning to the lanterns, "Make sure he doesn't go far." They both nodded and flew down. the got on opposite ends of the creature and formed green walls around it, keeping it in its one mile radius.

The creature didn't seem to notice however, and kept attacking the ground in random places, switching after a few minutes of pounding, as if searching or the right spot.

Superman turned to Wonderwoman, "What's our best play here?"

She frowned at the scene below her, "Most cyclopes are savage, and know nothing but violence, but this one seems different, perhaps we can reason with it?"

He nodded, "Alright, you and Zatara try to reason with it, we'll keep our distance and intervene if necessary."

The amazon nodded and flew down to the creature, alongside the well-dressed magician, who floated down on a magical platform.

They soon hovered in front of the creature, "Halt!" Wonderwoman called out.

It stopped pounding on the ground and stood up at to look at the pair. They hovered in front of his eye, which was almost as big as one of them, "Who are you?" it asked in a deep voice, though laced with anger and impatience.

Wonderwoman straightened up, "I am Diana of Themyscira, and this is my associate Zatara. We cannot allow you to continue destroying this city."

The monster shook his head, "City? I… I can't stop! I have to destroy Gaea!"

Flash raised an eyebrow from his vantage point on a building, surveying the scene, "Gaea?"

Zatara spoke up, "Gaea is the Greek goddess of the earth, or more accurately she's the earth itself."

"That sounds like he's trying to destroy earth," Shazam commented, "Right?"

Wonderwoman glared at the creature, "We cannot allow you to destroy Gaea, stand down now, and perhaps we can help you."

The monster narrowed his eyes, "You protect Gaea! You're on her side?! Then I will hit you with a stick too!"

He bellowed out a war cry, that sounded remarkably like "peanut butter" to Diana, before swinging his club at her with surprising speed. She just barely caught it, sending a shockwave through the streets as she struggled to hold back the mass of wood. She looked over at Zatara, "Do something.!"

The magician nodded and started chanting a spell. When he released it however, nothing happened.

Diana looked at the stunned magician, "What's wrong? Why didn't it do anything?"

He shook his head, "It's like he's invulnerable to my magic! Or more like… my magic is incompatible with him!"

"Then clear the scene!" Batman barked over the comms, "Send in the heavy hitters."

With a nod, Superman and Shazam flew towards the monster, as Diana shoved the club away with a burst of strength and started punching him in the face. This sent him stumbling back a few steps, giving Superman and Shazam time to go for each of his arms, slamming him to the ground and holding him in place. Or at least they tried.

The monster seemed to finally snap out of its disoriented state, and roared in anger, before fighting the beings holding down his arms. To the entire leagues surprise, he actually managed to push the two titans back a bit.

"What the heck is this dude?" Shazam asked.

As he struggled against the arm, Superman grunted and called out, "We're gonna need some back up.

Martian Manhunter flew in as the cyclops screamed in rage and threw the two heroes away violently, sending them flying through buildings, and swatting Wonderwoman off of his chest.

The Martian then began to grow to match the creature's size and grapple with it. In the Batwing, the three heroes sat behind the dark night all thought the same thing. They pushed the eject button on their seats, causing panels above them to open up so they could be ejected safely, without disturbing the pilot. Green Arrow and Black Canary both pulled their chutes and aimed towards some buildings while simultaneously firing off arrows and sonic blasts to distract the enemy. Aquaman on the other hand, chose to forsake the parachute and instead plummet towards the ground.

The king of Atlantis summoned his trident midair and aimed it towards the ground, before he landed with enough force to put a crater in the street. He stood up and levied the trident at the creature, "Halt your assault fowl beast! Lest you face the wrath of the king of Atlantis!"

This seemed to catch the creature's attention, as he turned to look straight at Aquaman, almost forgetting his colossal Martian opponent. However, a punch brought him back, and he quickly grappled J'onn and threw him over his shoulder before making his way towards the king of the seas. Ignoring as Superman used his heat vision on him, and only flinching as Shazam fired his lighting at him. He swatted another attack from Wonderwoman away and finally towered over Arthur Curry, who was trying his best to look tough in front of the monster.

The Cyclops narrowed his eye at him, before widening it in apparent anger. He pointed a finger at Aquaman, "THAT DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU!"

Aquaman looked down at his trident, then back up at the cyclops, "Excuse me?"

"THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR STEALING!" the monster roared, before rearing back and punting the king of Atlantis as hard as he could, catching him off guard and sending him flying all the way back to the green energy wall, where he almost broke through it but merely slid down it in a daze.

The creature growled under his breath and started stomping towards the man, now fully concentrated on him. Batman began turning his Batwing around, preparing to drop a payload of ice bombs, but was distracted by a sudden thumping from the roof of his jet. Suddenly, a pair of sneakers appeared in front of his. Face, attached to what looked like a teenager wearing a simple shirt and jeans. He had a messy black hair over sea green eyes, and he was somehow managing to balance on the jet, despite the g force.

Batman could only stare at the boy, until he pulled out a three-foot sword out of seemingly nowhere. He quickly turned the controls and did a barrel roll to try to knock the kid off, as he was obviously more than he seemed, but the boy was quicker. He shoved his blade into the hull of the jet and held on tight, somehow managing to stay on. Batman finally stopped, allowing him to look up and glare at the caped crusader, though he did look a little green as well.

He stood back up and began slicing away at the cockpit window, though not to break through. when he was finished, he had carved into the window "ALL STOP I WILL TAKE CARE OF HIM"

Batman narrowed his eyes at the boy skeptically, but the teen simply stared back for a moment meaningfully, before jumping off the Jet.

Batman quickly turned the jet to see where the boy went, only to see a flash of black wings attached… to a horse? Flying down towards the ground.

He grimaced before speaking over to the comms, "Everyone stop attacking, fall back and observe. Somethings coming."

"What's coming?" Superman asked.

"I don't know, that's why I want you to observe." Batman responded. He then pushed his own eject button, letting the jet go to autopilot as he glided down towards the scene on his cape.

The other heroes all stopped attacking and simply watched curiously as a flying horse descended towards the Cyclops, who was still walking towards Aqualad, with his club ready, as it got closer, they saw that someone was riding on top of the horse-bird thing.

"By the gods…" Wonderwoman whispered as she watched. Superman, who was hovering next to her, looked at her curiously, "What?"

She looked at the creature in awe, "It's a pegasus! Mother told me that they had gone extinct…"

The pegasus made its way in front of the cyclops, who stumbled back in surprise at it, before gasping, "Brother!"

Many of the Leaguers had to do a double take, unable to see the resemblance between the man on the pegasus and the thirty-foot Cyclops. Superman used his super hearing to listen to what the man was saying

"…It's over buddy, she's gone. You need to calm down."

The cyclops looked confused, "But we were just fighting her. She's tricked you brother! We need to find her!"

There was a sudden blast of thunder after the man said, "I swear on the Styx that she can't hurt us anymore."

That seemed to convince the creature "She's gone…"

"Yeah buddy, she's gone."

The cyclops the surprised every Leaguer by bursting out crying, "SO IS ELLLA!"

The creature then started shrinking as tears cascaded from his eye like a river, as the pegasus landed in front of him. Once he was the size of a fairly tall man, the rider got off the pegasus and rushed forward to him as he fell to his knees, wrapping him in an embrace, and trying his best to comfort the crying creature.

The Leaguers took this as their cue to get closer, as the man continued to hold the sobbing monster, "Ella's gone! Father's gone! Everyone is gone!"

Everyone was fairly uncomfortable, and unsure of what to say, However, that was when Aquaman limped forward, leaning on his trident. Upon seeing the two, he groaned and readied his trident" out to the man, "I take it this monster belongs to you then?"

The teen looked back at him in anger, and the Cyclops sputtered out, "T-That guy has father's trident!"

The man sighed, "Tyson, I know this isn't easy to understand, but this is a different world. That isn't dads— "

"It is! I know godly weaponry brother, trust me!" the now named Tyson, insisted, though still unable to stop his crying.

The man slowly nodded and stood up straight, before turning to Aquaman. He then walked casually towards the king of Atlantis, causing all of the Leaguers to tense in anticipation but the teen simply stopped a few feet away from him. "Where did you get that Trident?" He asked flatly, gesturing to the weapon.

Aquaman held his head high, "It is the right of every King of Atlantis to wield the Trident of Poseidon."

The teen just nodded, "Yeah I guess that makes sense. Though I am wondering… does his son have the same, right?"

Arthur only had time to squint in confusion before his weapon flew out of his hand, and into the awaiting fist of the unknown teen, whose green eyes began to glow. Overhead dark clouds began to swirl in as he walked away from the stunned Atlantean.

He turned around to find Batman standing right in front of him, "Who are you?"

The man gestured to the Trident, "I was about to explain. My name is Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon… from another universe. I was told that dimension hopping is sort of common around here."

Batman narrowed his eyes, unflinching as rain started to pour from the sudden storm, "And who told you that?"

"A guy named Kaldur, who I'm pretty sure works with… oh," He had turned around to find Aquaman kneeling before him.

The king of Atlantis looked terrified, "Forgive me Lord, I did not rea—" He was cut off as the trident clattered to the ground in front of him.

He looked up in shock at Percy, who looked very uncomfortable, "Cool it man, I'm just a demigod, I'm not a fan of the whole "bowing" deal okay?"

He nodded numbly as the storm dispersed above them, no longer being summoned by the power of the trident. "I was just trying to make a point. But by the looks of it you aren't unfamiliar with the concept. Who are you?" He gestured to Wonderwoman.

She looked uncertain, but answered, "I am Diana of Themyscira. Daughter of— "

"Wait wait, let me guess," Percy interrupted, "Daughter of Zeus, right?"

She blinked, "Indeed, how did you know?"

He shrugged, "I knew a daughter of Zeus back on my world, she looked a bit like you. Plus, the odds were that you were his kid, he's a bit of a manwhore, no offense."

Before Wonderwoman could respond to that, not that she'd know what to say, he turned back towards Batman, "Back to the main topic, I ran into some of your friends at a place called project Cadmus, Kaldur, Robin and Kid Flash." He raised an eyebrow as he watched flash and Aquaman sigh, while Batman remained stoic, "We found some pretty interesting stuff there, so we should probably go meet them their soon."

"We?" Superman asked.

Percy rolled his eyes, "I sort of promised them I'd come meet you eventually to get myself, "Registered" or whatever, but then Robin got the call about Tyson here, so I had to leave them, I'm sure they're wondering where I went. That brings me to my final point: I will take responsibility to the trouble my brother caused."

"But Percy—" the cyclops looked like he was about to protest, but Percy snapped to look at him, "Quiet!"

The cyclops nodded sadly, which caused Percy's face to soften up, "It's okay man just, let me take care of this alright/"

As Tyson nodded, Flash spoke up, "I'm sorry, just time out real quick. You two are brothers? How does that work?"

Percy shrugged, "It's not too complicated. We're both sons of Poseidon, my mom was a human, his was a nature spirit."

Batman glowered, "Just because he's your brother doesn't mean you should protect him from the consequences of his actions. He should be held accountable so he can learn from his mistakes."

Percy glared back, "There is a lot of things you don't know, and it's a bit harder for him. He's only eleven after all."

"What?" Shazam exclaimed, "You mean he's not even full grown?"

Batman and Percy ignored him however, as the they were too busy having a stare down, Bat glare vs. wolf stare. It went on for a few moments, before finally, Batman grimaced, "Fine. The two of you will come with us to Cadmus, and then we will keep you at our HQ until we decide what to do with you. Understood."

The entire league looked at the scene in shock, "Did Batman just lose a stare down?" the original Green Lantern asked, Martian Manhunter leaned towards him, "I think he might have."

Percy nodded to the Dark Knight, "Fine by me. But one of you will have to carry Tyson, he's too heavy for blackjack to carry us both."

Batman tilted his head, before noticing the pegasus trotting towards Percy. "Is that his name?"

He raised a gloved hand towards the beast snout, and stroked it a few times before Percy scoffed, "Don't let him pet you!" at which point the horse yanked his head away.

Batman raised an eyebrow as the demigod climbed on to the pegasus' back, "He's obedient."

Percy narrowed his eyes as the Pegasus whinnied unhappily, "He's my friend, not my slave… Yes, I agree Blackjack, he is a bit of an asshole."

Batman glared at him, "You expect me to believe you can talk to horses?"

Percy smirked, "This horse can fly, my brother's a cyclops, and you're dressed like a bat. There's a lot of improbable things going on. Besides, Poseidon created horses, it only makes sense." He Then trotted away, leaving Batman to wonder how that "only makes sense"

He stopped by Tyson, who was flinching away from the dark skinned green lantern, who was trying to pick him up with his ring, "It's okay buddy, we're going with them."

The cyclops looked at him in surprise, "But they were attacking me…"

Percy nodded, "Yeah, but you were freaking out in a populated area, they thought you were trying to hurt people. They're actually the good guys, superheroes."

At this his eye started to well up again, "I was causing trouble for superheroes?" he buried his face in his arms, "I really am a bad monster!"

Percy got off his pegasus in a flash and was by his side in an instant, "No you are not! I know what was going through your head Tyson, you did what you thought was the right thing, they just didn't know that. Tyson, you and I, we're all we've got now. We have to stay strong for each other, understand?"

The cyclops nodded, "I understand brother, I'll try."

With that he was officially calmed down enough for the Lantern to lift him up in a construct. Soon the league was flying towards DC, following the incredibly fast pegasus, with the teen demigod on its back. They were all wondering about his past, why he was so angry, and above all: what kind of messed up shit he had been through to be able to stare down the Batman himself.

Percy POV

I made to keep the green guy holding Tyson in my sight as I lead the superheroes back to D.C. I patted Blackjack's mane as well, "You're doing great buddy, just a little further and you can rest."

The pegasus snorted in exhaustion, I think you owe me like… five dozen donuts after this boss.

I chuckled a bit and told him I'd do what I can. He truly did deserve it. I had never seen him fly as fast as he did today. Either he was working harder than he ever had before or… something else. Not to mention Tyson. The way Kaldur and the others talked about the League as if they were a huge deal, so either they overhyped them, or Tyson was more powerful than I thought. I knew he was stronger than the average cyclops but… it's something I'll have to look into.

There were a lot of things I was dreading looking into. The trident for example. That, plus the thunder, and Wonderwoman, confirmed that there was another cast of Greek gods in this universe. With my luck, it wouldn't be long before I met one of them. I was sure however, that they were not the same as the ones from my universe.

For one thing, Thalia couldn't punch a cyclops in the face like Diana could, last, I checked at least, she also seemed way more durable. That would point to the gods of this world being more powerful, but when I held dad's trident, it felt weak. The closest I had gotten to my father's power was sitting on his throne to get his attention, and that felt a thousand times more powerful than holding that trident. All I really felt was a boost in my powers over water. The Trident seemed to recognize me as the heir to the sea though, it was all so confusing.

I was freed from my confusing thoughts however, as we finally burst through the clouds over D.C.

As we soared towards Cadmus, Superman took the lead. He floated down to the ground in front of the teens, who looked to have been explaining what happened to the police. Superboy was hunched over on the steps. When he saw Superman land, he stood up excitedly, revealing the S on his chest that matched his fathers. He looked up at the man with a hopeful look, but Superman could only respond with a look of confusion and frustration.

"Is that what I think it is?" Batman asked

"He doesn't like being called an it…" Kid Flash drawled.

"I'm Superman's clone!" Superboy declared, causing many of the Leaguers to look at him in shock.

"Alright, as shocking as this is, mind explaining what that is?" Robin asked, pointing to Tyson, who was sitting down in a green sphere that looked a little too much like a cell for my taste, but I wasn't going to push it yet. His eye was still red from crying.

I narrowed my eyes and stepped in front of my brother, "He also doesn't like being called an it."

"Oh, I'm sorry," Robin shot back, "You can hear me now? The way you flew off without even acknowledging us before had me wondering."

Enough~ Batman stepped forward to break the awkward silence, "Talk. Now."

It took a while for them to explain everything, but at the end, exactly what I expected to happen, happened.

"You killed him?!" Superman glared down at me, while I stared back defiantly. In the background, the lanterns were carrying the creature's headless corpse out of the building, with looks of disgust on their faces.

"I did." I answered simply. "Don't worry, Kaldur here gave me the whole speech on how you do things around here. I'll do my best not to let it happen again."

"That's not good enough." Batman shouted, "If you've done it before chances are you'll do it again, who do you think you are that you can— "

"I'm someone who has been hunted by monsters since he was an infant." I growled back, "In my world, being a demigod means you have a powerful scent. Monsters will come from miles to get a piece of you, its either kill or be killed. I was only able to avoid them for so long because my mother married the scum of the earth to mask my scent with his filth. I've spent years living that life, so I'm "sorry" if I acted on instinct."

Batman gritted his teeth before turning away, giving his attention to the other teens, who had been watching the scene in shock. "As for you. Cadmus will be investigated, all 60 levels, but let's make one thing clear:-"

"You should have called!" Flash finished for him. He stood a ways behind Batman along with Aquaman, who was trying to look kingly while still giving me nervous glances.

"End results aside," Batman continued, "We are not happy. You hacked justice leagues systems, disobeyed direct orders, and endangered lives. You will not be doing this again."

Kaldur stepped forward, "I'm sorry, but we will."

"Aqualad, stand down." Aquaman warned.

"Apologies my king, but no." He responded, gaining a look of shock from the older man. "We did good work here tonight, the work you trained us to do. Together, on our own we forged something powerful, important."

"If this is about your treatment at the hall," flash said, "The three of you—"

"The five of us." Kid Flash corrected. "And it's not."

Robin stepped forward, "Batman we're ready to use what you taught us, or else why teach us at all?"

Superboy, who still seemed pissed about Superman, spoke up angrily, "Why let them decide? It's simple: get on board, or get out of the way."

At that I couldn't help but let out a chuckle. Gods help me but I liked Superboy's style. Unfortunately, this caught the Bats attention again, causing him to turn to glare at me, "You said five, I'm assuming he's your fifth."

My eyes widened as I realized where this was going. Before I could protest Kaldur spoke first, "He may be rough around the edges but he is powerful, skilled, and deep down, he has a good heart. He's already saved two of us at risk two his own life. He will be a valuable asset."

"Hold on a second!" I shouted, getting everyone's attention, "I never agreed to this! I've already been a part of a team before, it didn't go well, I'm not looking for a repeat."

Batman walked towards me, "You are new to this universe, an unknown. You claim you kill on instinct. Do you expect us to let someone with the instinct of a killer just roam free?" He asked, eventually standing in front of me to show how much taller her was, which was a few inches at most.

I shrugged, "If nothing comes after me I won't have a reason."

He shook his head, "Not good enough. Until we know for sure that you can be trusted, you have two options. A: you join this team where you will be under the supervision of the Justice League, and kept in check by those who we do trust, or…"

He gestured to the side where Wonderwoman stepped forward, "You can come with me to the land of the Amazons, where you will reside under the watchful eyes of the gods."

I felt my face pale, "I'll stick with the Team then, hands down."

Wonderwoman frowned, "Really? I would have thought that—"

"That I would want to get to know the gods of this world? Maybe kiss their asses and go on pathetic little errands for them? I snapped at her, causing her eyes to widen, "No thanks. I've had enough of that in my old world. In fact, if you can deliver a message to your gods I would much appreciate it, "Stay away from me, and I'll stay away from you."

I turned away from the stunned princess and looked back at Batman, "But, Tyson stays with me, wherever I go."

He simply nodded, "That was the plan. You seem to be the best able to keep him in check."

I narrowed my eyes, "He doesn't need to be kept in check, he needs time to process. Before we were transported here, we were in the middle of serious battle… he lost his girlfriend during the process."

At this, I thought I saw Batman's gaze soften a bit. But it was gone as soon as it appeared, "Sounds intense. Care to share about it?"

"No."

"Why not? You realize it makes it sound like your hiding something."

I turned away angrily as I tried my best to keep the images of my friends dying from flickering violently through my head, "I'm not hiding anything! I'll tell you eventually, but right now it just…"

I was searching for the right words, but was surprised when I heard Batman find them for me, "It hurts to remember?"

I turned back to him, and simply nodded. He nodded back, "Fine, but you will tell us eventually, as well as how you got here."

I snorted, "Oh that's not hard. The three fates sent me here."

Wonderwoman looked at me with interest, "The sisters of fate did? Why?"

I shrugged, "They said I had fulfilled my destiny, but that there was more I could do in this world. Personally, I think it was just another ploy to screw my life up even more than they already had, but who knows."

Wonderwoman seemed to think a lot on this, while Batman turned to the other teens, "Alright then. You'll get your team. But for now, go rest. This was a long day." He turned to walk away, but not before saying, "Good work."

The others started high fiving each other, celebrating their victory. Kaldur laughed as Kid Flash hung his arm around his neck, before turning to me, and waving me over. I rolled my eyes and walked up to them. However, I didn't join in on the goofing around.

"I'm only going to say this once," at the sound of my voice their laughter died down, "It looks like we'll be working together, whether I want to or not. I will do my best to look out for you all, but be warned, if any of you should betray me, or my brother, I will not hesitate to do to you what I did to that thing back there. Remember that."

With that I turned and walked away toward Tyson, who was no longer in the green cage, and currently pestering a very uncomfortable Hawkgirl about her "Fancy stick". I was glad that he wasn't sobbing anymore, but I could tell from just looking at him that he wouldn't be the same as before, ever again.

I shook those thoughts out of my head, and focused on the present. Maybe finding out he was going to work with superheroes would cheer him up.

"We're gonna be superheroes!" Tyson chanted as he ran ahead of me in our new home. I sighed as he continued to repeat it like a mantra.

"He's quite excitable, isn't he?" Came the monotone voice of Red Tornado. I learned soon that he was in fact a powerful android created by a madman. All in all, pretty cool.

I shook my head, "Normally yes but his… this is something else."

It had been two days since we had arrived on the new earth. After the events of the first day, we had spent the night at their Hall of Justice. Tyson and I were both "Registered" when we got there, but I didn't tell them anything they needed to know. Once he had learned he was going to work with superheroes, Tyson acted like he had just won the lottery. He hasn't stopped smiling since, but I can tell that it's false. Whether he's focusing on something else to take away the pain, or just plain denying what happened, I knew that it would have to stop eventually. I didn't have the heart to do it yet though, because when the time came for him to accept his emotions, I knew he would never be the happy, innocent, little brother I knew ever again.

We were now in an enormous cave, the hollowed out inside of Mount Justice. I wasn't sure what it looked like outside yet, as we had used something called a Zeta tube to get here, which was basically teleportation, but way better than the Gods' flashing, as I didn't feel the need to throw up afterwards.

Tyson was busy looking at anything and everything he could find in the well-furnished cavern, so Red Tornado went ahead and showed me where we would be sleeping. I had personally requested we share a room for the time being, a request they didn't understand until he destroyed his bed in his sleep last night, reacting to a nightmare. The room was very large, with two king sized beds, one of them apparently reinforced with titanium. I only chuckled at that, knowing it wouldn't make much difference.

We returned to the main room to find Tyson fiddling with the TV. Red Tornado turned his head to indicate curiosity, "The Television is already operating at optimal condition."

Tyson popped his head up. "Oh, I know Mr. Robot sir, I was just upgrading it."

The robot walked forward, "How so?"

Tyson grinned at the question, and scrambled to the couch to grab the remote, he turned on the TV, "Now it can pick up every channel in the world, the quality is much better, and I've added surround sound."

The android stared at him, "We were gone for 6 minutes and 28 seconds."

I patted the machine on the back, "Cyclops are naturally gifted with building and fixing things, but I didn't know you knew how to work something this advanced. Did you learn it while interning at dad's palace or something?"

Tyson blushed and shrunk away, "No I just… looked at it for a while and figured it out."

I blinked, "Since when could you do that?"

Before he could answer, a robotic voice sounded, "RECOGNIZED, MARTIAN MANHUNTER. MISS MARTIAN, SUPERBOY."

I looked at Red Tornado questioningly. He simply nodded, "It seems your roommates have arrived. Why don't we go welcome them?"

I nodded and followed him, with Tyson to the teleporter room, which was wide and circular, almost like an arena. Out of the glowing gateway walked Superboy, wearing a simple pair of pants and a black T-Shirt with a Red S symbol printed on it. We gave each other a simple nod as the other two came through.

One was the tall, green, weird looking guy I met before. I heard that his name was Martian Manhunter, though whether or not he was actually form mars was still up for debate. Next to him came a more normal looking girl in a similar, though brighter, outfit. She had red hair and a pretty face, the only thing was that her skin was just as green as the man next to her.

Once everyone was here, I was about to introduce myself, but Tyson beat me to it by bursting out from behind me, "Hello!"

Superboy, having seen him before, only raised an eyebrow, but the girl reared back in shock, until Martian Manhunter put a hand on her shoulder and gave her a look. They seemed to have some sort of mental conversation, before she looked back at us with a blush, "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to be rude— "

Tyson waved her off, "It's okay! I understand. Cyclopes get a bad from meanies like Polyfemur."

The girl looked confused until I clarified, "He means Polyphemus. Seriously dude you fought him, how could you forget his name?"

Upon looking at the clone, M'gann got a look I knew all too well, "H-Hi… I like your shirt."

He just looked at her, before muttering, "Thanks… where are we sleeping?"

"I will show you." Red Tornado volunteered, before leading the teen to his room.

I noticed M'gann watching him leave sadly, so I patted her on the shoulder, "Don't worry about him, he's just having trouble fitting adjusting, up until a few days ago he lived his whole life in a test tube."

She looked at me, "I guess we're all having that issue. This is my first time on Earth, it's still taking a lot of getting used to."

I was about to ask about Mars, when suddenly Tyson started sniffing the air in M'gann's direction. I looked at him curiously, "Tyson? What's wrong?"

He narrowed his eye, "She smells funny."

M'gann blushed at the comment, but I tensed up. That was the code Tyson usually used when there was a monster disguised as a human.

I turned back to her and drew my sword, making her flinch, "What's that?" behind her, I saw Martian Manhunter tense up as well.

I smiled warmly, "It's alright. I'm not trying to hurt you, I just want to see something. Can you touch the broad side of the blade?"

She still looked confused, but she nodded and reached out her index finger to touch Riptide, only for it to phase right through.

I sighed in relief as I lowered my blade. Martian Manhunter looked at the girl with interest, "Niece, you never told me you had mastered matter shifting."

She looked at her hand in shock, "I didn't know I had…"

I spoke up, "Sorry but I don't think you did. You went through the blade because it's made out of Celestial Bronze. It only harms gods and monsters. It passes right through mor—regular people."

The Manhunter nodded thoughtfully, "Interesting… however I'm afraid a blade like that won't be very effective in our world. Most of our enemies are far from divine."

I nodded, having long since realized that. I looked back at Tyson, "Anyways see buddy? She's not a monster."

He didn't look convinced, "She doesn't smell bad like a monster, but she smells different like… like she's hiding another form."

I looked at him curiously, "How could you smell that."

"Indeed," Martian Manhunter said, "It would not make sense for one to be able to smell a martians in disguise form, but it is true that that is not her true form."

M'gann looked at him in alarm until he said, "Her true form is more like mine. She chooses to look more humanoid to appease the populace, as well as for her own reasons."

She looked at me shyly, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be deceitful. Shall I… change back?"

I widened my eyes, "Oh no! No no no that's not what I meant! Sorry we're being really rude here interrogating a girl about her looks, aren't we Tyson." He looked at me curiously until I looked at her meaningfully, and he noticed how upset she was.

Immediately his suspicious face melted away to a look of worry, "I'm sorry! I didn't want to be mean, I was just—"

"We're just a bit paranoid," I finished for him, "In our world monsters have a bad habit of sneaking up on you disguised as just about anything you can think of."

"Please don't cry!" Tyson begged, looking about ready to start sobbing himself.

M'gann noticed this and couldn't help but let out a little laugh, "You're really kind, aren't you?"

Tyson didn't seem to know what to say to that, but I did, "Yeah, his strength is only matched by his heart. Anyways we've kept you standing at the entrance, let's look around, we haven't gotten around to all of it yet either."

She smiled and nodded enthusiastically before turning to her uncle, giving him a big hug, making him smile. "I will come to visit you soon. I wish you luck M'gann."

She hugged him tighter, "I'll miss you."

After they had finished their goodbye, he exited via the teleporter, leaving her with us. We made our way around the cave, chatting about random stuff for a while.

"So just what does a monster smell like?" M'gann asked as we were walking through the halls

Tyson thought for a moment before responding, "Like a stinky sewer filled with rotten eggs."

She giggled at that before quieting a bit, "And what to I smell like?"

He brightened, "Kind of weird, but also kind of like Mr. Delphin!"

She looked at me for clarification, but I was having trouble controlling my laughter, "What? what does that mean? She asked worriedly."

Once I caught my breath I answered, "Delphin is the god of Dolphins, I only met him once but it's pretty good if you ask me."

She looked unsure whether to be flattered or offended for a moment but eventually settled on flattered.

Eventually we found her room, and left her to get settled, but as we were walking, Tyson stopped on one door.

I looked at him as he began to frown, "What's wrong?"

He just closed his eye for a moment before speaking. Only he was speaking in the voice of Superboy, "Goddamn asshole… keep me in some cave so he doesn't have to look at me huh?"

My eyes widened, "Tyson stop!"

He stopped and opened his eye and looked at me pleadingly, "He needs help."

I sighed, "I know buddy, but it's not our place. Besides, you shouldn't eavesdrop on him while he's in his room like that."

"I couldn't agree more." Said a very angry voice. I looked over to see Superboy standing in his doorway, glaring at us. I simply rolled my eyes.

"Dude I already told him not to do it again, are you really going to be one of those guys who hold needless grudges?"

He silently walked past me, hitting my shoulder as he went past, indicating that he in fact was going to hold a needless grudge. I was just sighing to myself when I heard Tyson's voice shaking, "I'm sorry Percy…"

He looked ready to cry, I was about to try to cheer him up when the voice sounded again, "RECOGNIZED, BATMAN, AQUAMAN, FLASH, AQUALAD, BLACK CANARY, ROBIN, KID FLASH."

After it was done I simply turned to Tyson, "Relax, he'll get over it…. Probably. Now come on, I think we're supposed to be a part of this.

We made our way back to the Teleporter room to find Batman standing in front of the others, a scrawny kid I was going to assume was Robin, a guy with red hair that had to belong to Kid Flash, an angry Superboy, and Kaldur who seemed to be the only one standing at attention. Behind them was flash and Aquaman, who gave me a respectful nod. Behind batman stood Red tornado and a very provocatively dressed woman.

Upon seeing me and Tyson, Batman gestured for us to come over and stand with them so we did. However, as we approached I noticed some nervous looks from the new guys towards Tyson, but they seemed content to remain silent about it since Batman hadn't said anything.

We took our places, at the end as Batman began his speech. "This cave was the original secret sanctuary of the justice league. We're calling it back into service. Since you all are determined to stay together and fight the good fight, you'll do it on League terms." I noticed him eye more a little more than everyone else with that last statement. He gestured to the woman and the android behind him, "Red Tornado volunteered to live here and be your supervisor. Black Canary is in charge of training. I will deploy you on missions."

"Real missions?" Robin asked skeptically.

Batman nodded, "Yes, but covert."

"The League will still handle the obvious stuff," The flash explained, before pointing to the lightning symbol on his chest, "There's a reason we have these big targets on our chests.

"But Cadmus proves the bad guys are getting smarter," Aquaman continued "Batman needs a team that can operate on the sly."

"The seven of you will be that team." Batman stated.

"Wait, seven?" Kid Flash asked.

Batman gestured behind him, where M'gann was emerging from the doorway, shyly, "This is the Martian Manhunters niece. She will be joining you."

M'gann waved to the newcomers, "Hi."

"Liking this gig more every minute…" Kid Flash muttered as he practically drooled at her.

"And you've all met Percy. He claims to be a demigod. That's his brother Tyson, a cyclops, as you can obviously see. I'll let them explain more at their leisure but for now, I suggest you take this time to better acquaint yourselves. You will be spending a lot of time together after all."

With that, he, and the rest of the adults save for Red Tornado exited through the Zeta tube, while the android went off into the cave to do who knows what. Leaving us looking at each other awkwardly."

I decided to break the silence, "So… anyone like campfires?"

After a bit of work everyone was sitting around a campfire, outside the cave on the beach at the base of Mount Justice. And of course, it was uncomfortably silent."

Robin, who still insisted on sunglasses, even though it was getting dark, was the one to break it. "Alright, well maybe we should start by introducing ourselves, public identities' of course, and what we're all about. I'll go first: I'm Robin, Batman's protégé. I don't have any powers per se, but you really don't need any when you're properly trained, and properly equipped." He ended it by flashing one of his birdarangs.

"He's also known as the "Boy Wonder"" Kid flash whispered not very quietly to M'gann, who leaned away from him as he got to close.

"That was one headline!" Robin grumbled, "When are you going to let that go?"

"Try never!" Kid Flash laughed, "As I'm sure you all know, the names Kid Flash, I work with the Flash. I'm admittedly not as fast as the Scarlet Speedster, but I'm still faster than a speeding bullet. Any questions from the audience?"

Tyson raised his hand, as if he were in a classroom. Kid Flash raised an eyebrow, but upon a glance at my glaring face, he quickly said, "Yes you! big guy up front!"

Tyson smiled as if he were lucky to be chosen, "Why do you call yourself Kid Flash?"

Kid Flash, seemed to stammer a bit while Robin was failing to hold in his laughter, even Kaldur was smirking, "Well, uh, it's because I'm fast like the flash and… I'm a kid…."

Tyson nodded, "That's cool and all, but what about something a bit more original. Like Speedy!"

Kid Flash looked away a bit miffed, "It was already taken."

He turned to Superboy next, "How about you big guy?"

The boy had been staring into the fire, and looked up to say, "I was practically born two days ago. I'm not exactly overflowing with stories, or experiences."

Kid flash mouthed, "wow" before turning back to M'gann, "How about you Gorgeous? Anything you'd like to share?"

She brushed her hair out of her face, "Um, well my name is M'gann M'orzz, but you can call me Megan. I'm uncle J'onnz niece, but one out of hundreds. He wasn't sure which one to bring to earth, so he held a contest to decide, I entered, won, and… here I am."

Kid Flash grinned, "A champion huh? Cool. So, can you like, do all the things your uncle can?"

She shook her head, "I know a few things, but Uncle J'onn knows some very advanced techniques. But I do hope to one day be as good as him."

"I'm sure you will," I finally spoke up, almost startling the others, "But a better goal is to surpass him, why settle right?"

She smiled, "Yes I suppose you're right."

Kaldur spoke next, "I am Kaldur'ahm, but you may call me Kaldur, or Aqualad. I was lucky enough to be chosen by my king to fight with him on the surface world, I—"

Robin leaned forward, "Not to be rude, but can we finally talk about the one-eyed elephant in the room?"

I narrowed my eyes, "Depends on what you have to say."

Tyson leaned over to me, "I think he means me brother." I tried my best to keep my composure at that, unlike Robin and Kid flash, even M'gann let out a giggle.

Robin pulled himself together, "But seriously, Batman told me you took one almost the entire league, Superman included. First of all, how did you survive, and second of all, why were you rampaging in the first place?"

Everyone looked at him in interest waiting for his answer, even Superboy. Tyson was beginning to shrink away from the attention so I saved him. "We were in the middle of battle when we were transported to this dimension. It just took him a while to realize that the battle had ended."

Kid snorted, "Seriously? How can you not know that you're not in a battle?"

Tyson looked down, "I'm a little slow…"

"No, you're not!" I corrected him, making everyone flinch, "It happens to the greatest warriors. It's not uncommon to lose your mind a little when you're fighting desperately to survive." I noticed Kaldur nodding knowingly," Besides, you're still young, you shouldn't have had to be there to begin with."

Tyson frowned, "But I helped!"

I nodded, "Of course, without you I would be dead. What I mean is the gods should have been there themselves, but they hid like a bunch of cowards."

The others stared at me curiously, Robin asked, "What were you fighting that could scare a god?"

I stared at each of them for a moment, debating whether I should tell them, but then I looked at Tyson, and saw fear growing in his eye, so I turned back to them and shrugged, "A monster, unlike any this world has seen I'd wager. I don't mean to be secretive, but the experience is still fresh so—"

"Of course!" M'gann responded, "You don't have tell us anything you don't want to."

I nodded to her gratefully, but could tell by the looks on the others faces that they didn't really share the same sentiment. Robin however seemed to get over it pretty quickly, "So your demigod huh? Who's your godly parent?"

I was about to answer when Kaldur spoke up, "My king told me that you are the heir of Poseidon, correct?" I simply nodded, "He also told me you refused his worship."

This made the others do a double take, "Wait, you had a member of the Justice League ready to worship you?" Kid flash asked.

I sighed, "Yeah that was weird. I'm more concerned about where he got dads trident though, in my world he was rather fond of it, he wouldn't let just any mortal use it, no offense."

Kaldur seemed to study me as he spoke, "The Trident of Poseidon has been passed down to each king of Atlantis for centuries. Legend has it that Poseidon left it to us before the gods receded from the mortal realm. As far as I know, Wonderwoman is one of the very few people still in contact with them."

I blinked, "So they spend all their time cooped up in heaven? I think I'm beginning to like this world."

M'gann looked at me with concern, "You talk as if you hate them. Aren't they your family?"

I laughed out loud at that, not caring about the look of shock on her face as I asked, "You've read the Greek myths, right? If you have, you should know that my "family" is like ten kinds of messed up. The nicest ones I've met have all still threatened to incinerate me on at least one occasion. My father almost did on accident. The farther I can get from my "family" the happier I'll be."

The Martian girl looked at me sadly, "I'm sorry."

I waved it away, "It's fine, I should try not being so touchy about the subject."

Kid tried to change the subject, "So, Son of Poseidon, that must come with some pretty cool powers, right? I mean obviously the water thing is part of it."

I nodded, and to demonstrate for M'gann, lazily waved my hand towards the waves to my right, willing a wave to start growing out of the turf and begin to form a watery version of the Martian girl She seemed pretty impressed by this, as did the others. "I can control water to do basically whatever I want. It also heals me and makes me stronger when I'm in contact with it. I can talk to any horse like creature, and every creature of the sea through my mind. Which is how I was able to talk to Kaldur while we were trapped." I decided not to mention the skill I had picked up in the fight with Gaea, at least not until I had better control of it.

"So, wait," Kid piped up, "You can talk to fish," I nodded, "And you can talk to Kaldur," I nodded again now worried about where this was going. However, Kaldur sighed and cut him off early

"I am not a fish Kid." He stated it as if he had explained it way too many times.

Kid Flash held up his hands, "Hey I never said you were, it's weird though that you would just randomly claim not to be, am I right guys?"

Everyone silently agreed to ignore him and move on. Robin looked at Tyson, "So, what can you do? Other than turn huge and powerful enough to give Superman a hard time. Don't get me wrong that's a very valuable skill if you ask me, but Batman said we would be sent on Covert missions, and not to offend ,but you don't exactly seem the covert type."

Tyson looked nervous for a moment, before I patted him on the shoulder reassuringly. "It's okay dude, just show them."

He looked at Robin, "Can I have one of your bird thingies?"

Robin looked uncertain for a moment, but I just nodded to him to let him know it was okay, so he took out a birdarang and handed to Tyson, who began to hunker down and tinker with it in his hands.

After a moment, he held it up to reveal that instead of a bird shaped boomerang, it was now bent and reformed into the shape of an actual bird."

Robin winced at the sight, "You do art, that's nice…" He trailed off as Tyson pressed a button on the birds back, causing it to whirr to life and begin flying away.

As everyone watched it go in awe, Kid flash whispered, "That doesn't obey the laws of physics at all…"

I chuckled at their reactions before explaining. "Cyclopes are the ones who created the weapons of the gods. Like the rest of his race, Tyson is incredibly gifted at crafting things, from awesome battle armor, to tiny, delicate tools. He'll probably be able to make you just about any tool you want if you ask nicely."

Kaldur was the first to speak, "That is very impressive. I believe I speak for all of us when I say that we are very grateful to have you on our team."

Tyson smiled happily, rubbing the back of his head, as the others laughed and joked around some more. I watched the scene with a smile, reminded of the times I had with the Sev—

Shit.

M'gann looked at me with concern, "Percy? What's wrong?"

I soon became aware of the fact that there were tears streaming down my face. I stood up from the log I was sitting on, "I think I'm going to all it a night."

"Dude, are you alright? Do you need—"

I'm fine" I reassured Robin, " I just need to get some rest.

"Brother: Tyson asked, concerned " Should I come with you?

I shook my head, "No you stay here and have fun. You've earned it. I'm just tired, and havee aa bit of a headache."

I then turned and walked away, not interested in talking anymore. As i walked back towards the entrance to the cave, I again felt myself trying to stop the flickering images of my friends dying, over and over and over.

I didn't sleep that night.

Chapter 2!

The next chapter might be a bit more focused on team bonding or something like that idk. Also, I'm brainstorming ideas for Percy's Superhero outfit, I will not just stick to regular Greek armor, as that is just lazy, and no matter what I don't want the plume helmet, cause really it just looks silly in my opinion.

If anyone is wondering, there is something going on with Tyson, that I will eventually explain. Several things actually.

As for the pairing, I'm leaning heavily towards Raven being with Percy, I can imagine a lot of awesome scenarios with them an besides: a god and a demon? It's just too good.

What about Tyson though? Do you think he should be paired with anyone? Or would that be weird?