A/N: Ta-da! I have another chapter! And it's totally not late at all.
Lying only trappest thou in a web of lies.
Yeah. Whatever you say, Ranger. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter. To be honest, this one scene is what the entire story is based off of, so... I have been waiting to share this one with from the beginning. It's kind of like with "Where's the Starbucks?" I thought of one scene and decided to write an entire story based off of that. Heh heh. I need some serious help.
Nay, thou art perfectly sane.
I thought lying would only trap me in a web of lies, Ranger.
Verily, but the same fate doth not await me.

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Third Person POV

Oliver and Kara grimly set down next to Barry and Wally, who stood at the edge of the shore, staring into the water. Percy had gone under a few minutes ago and hadn't resurfaced. Not that he would, after all. He did fall two hundred feet.

"We killed him," Kara said sadly. "There are four of us, and no one thought to catch him." Oliver and Wally lowered their heads in sadness, but Barry frowned.

"Yeah, about that-"

A giant spout of water exploded out of the center of the lake and arched, dousing the four heroes in freezing cold water.

"What the hell?" Wally demanded. Then it got weirder.

The waters of the lake parted (literally like the Red Sea), revealing slimy green algae and tons of oyster shells. The taller underwater plants had slumped to the ground, covering the rocky bed with their shining leaves. Then, walking down the center of an aisle created by two forty foot walls of water leading directly to the four figures on the shore, came Percy Jackson, holding a wet cat by the throat with his right hand.

"You're alive!" Oliver shouted in amazement as Kara's smile spread like butter and Wally looked on hopefully. Barry watched Percy storm towards the four of them with an annoyed expression. Probably because the suit was now wet and he now had Cisco screeching in his ear.

"Yeah!" Percy responded angrily. "And you're jerks! These things are alive down here." He raised the bedraggled cat he held in his fist and shook it slightly before tossing it back into the wall of water. "You think I like falling thirty stories? After the first time, it's just annoying. Bad enough I had to jump off that bridge to get away from you," he continued pointing at Barry. "Seriously, one of you can fly. You could've at least caught me."

No one seemed to know what to say to that except Barry. "Calm down, Rogue Wave."

"Oh-ho-ho," Percy said sarcastically. "Using my doppelganger's code name now, are we? What that supposed to mean? That I'm somehow unstable? Just because I get mad one time over something completely insignif-" He stopped, as if he finally realized what he was about to say. "Well played, Flash. Well played."

Kara looked out across the water, which was still divided in two, and noticed that the water had, for the most part, settled down, in terms of the cats clawing at its surface. Percy followed her gaze and seemed to realize for the first time that he was still holding the water apart. He grimaced, like, Oops. I forgot that was there, and the water dropped back into its original position. Oliver and Wally both thought they saw just a few cats still struggling to the other shore, but they couldn't be sure from so far away.

"Let's go back to STAR," Barry suggested. "We can work on figuring out how we actually killed those cats without having them multiply and work on how to do it more reliably. We can't exactly drop them off this cliff every time."

Percy shrugged. "Well, it's been working so far…" Everyone looked at him like, Really? "Fine," he said putting his hands in the air. "It was just a thought. I've personally found dropping things off cliffs to be very effective. I mean, there were these guys and the Roman legionnaire ghosts in Alaska and…" he paused. "But then it didn't really work for Luke...or me…or Annabeth..."

Kara nodded. "Yeah, okay…" Then she turned to Barry and mouthed, Are you sure he's sane?! Barry shook his head no.

"Let's just go already," Oliver said testily in a true display of his people skills. (In case you were wondering, that just meant grumble and brood at everyone until they do something that saves your life. And even then, he might still grumble at you.) He nodded to Barry, who grabbed him and sped off.

"Annnnd there goes my ride," Percy drawled, watching Barry's lightning streak away.

Kara started, "I could fl-"

"No flying." Percy said flatly. He turned to Wally. "I'm going to let you run me back to STAR Labs now," Wally's eyes narrowed at Percy's somewhat condescending tone, "but be careful with the merchandise. You mess with me, I run you through. Comprendo?"

Wally blinked at him a couple times before starting forward in a burst of yellow lightning and running off without Percy.

"Get back here you astrapí daímonas!" he yelled after Wally's long-gone lightning trail. (A/N: This means something along the lines of "lightning demon".) When he turned around, he saw Kara giving him an apologetic smile. "No," he protested. "No no no no. I can walk back!"

"Sorry, Percy. That'll take too long." Without another word, Kara grabbed Percy and carried him up into the air.

Percy may or may not have screamed. But don't you dare say anything. He'll probably kill you if he ever found out I even hinted at the fact. I mean, speculation. Not fact. Definitely not fact.

(P.S.: If any of you are looking for me, I'll be in hiding in the Athena cabin at Camp Half-Blood, okay? Hopefully Annabeth can convince him not to kill me.)

Percy's POV

Whatever that author chick says, I did not scream, okay? I did not. Why would I? I was on a completely different earth with no Zeus to blast me out of the sky, unless he somehow followed me through the breach and had been waiting for this very moment just so that he could fry me with a decent and excuse and wow the ground was really far down and-

I was not nervous at all. In fact, I let out a cry of pure fea- joy as we soared through the air like a missile about to drop and blow up, scattering itself into tiny little pieces.

Luckily, there were no incidents with lightning bolts from dark matter explosions and/or Celestial bronze cylinders containing the power of the gods. There also weren't any problem with the passing pigeons, which would have been just as bad.

But when we did finally get to STAR Labs, I was ready to get off the roller coaster. I got the feeling Kara had flown a little slower and gentler than usual. She was so nice and considerate, unlike some people (cough - speedsters - cough).

Since there really wasn't any way for her to fly directly into STAR Labs without running into walls constantly and eventually bringing down the entire building, she set us down just outside the door to the labs.

Once I had regained my bearings - that I never lost! - I narrowed my eyes and clenched my fists. "Kid Flash is so dead," I growled.

"I will never understand why they settled on that nickname," Kara muttered on my left.

I frowned. "That's really his superhero name?" She nodded. "Oh. Well, I was just going for something insulting and demeaning, but if that's his real name… I'll have to think of something else."

Kara and I entered the building. As we walked, Kara frowned and asked, "Did you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"There was some kind of creaking noise," she answered, cocking her head. "It sounded like the plumbing or something."

Styx. I took a few deep breaths trying to calm down a little. It wasn't that big of a deal that I had to fly, was it? "Let's keep going," I suggested after a few seconds.

We finally got to the elevator, which had like, a million buttons, and pressed the one that would take us to the floor the Cortex was on. It was kind of awkward just standing there, listening to the elevator play "Singing in the Rain" with Kara still in her super suit (is that what they're called?).

When we got to the Cortex, Barry and Wally were already changed out of their suits and Oliver had removed his mask and hood. I got the feeling they were explaining to Caitlin, Cisco, and HR exactly why their suits now smelled like the bottom of a lake because they stopped talking as soon as I walked in. I noticed Cisco glaring at me and muttering, "Reinforced tri-polymer...stupid son of the sea god…" Caitlin rolled her eyes and HR just kind of...watched me, like he was trying figure something out.

I did a little mock salute with two fingers to Wally. "Hope you had a good life, Banana Boy. I flew here. Guess how much I liked it."

Wally just rolled his eyes. "Like there's anything you could do to me. I'm a speedster and you're a kid with a sword."

Before he or I could really get into it, Barry pulled Wally aside with, "I need to talk to you after dinner." Probably for the best. I may or may not have been contemplating what he would look like hanging upside down from his ankles. Or running himself into walls. Over and over. And over. And, just for good measure, twenty more times. Luckily for him, they distracted me with pizza. I really need to work that. Every time someone wants me to stop doing something, all they have to do is offer me pizza!

After we finished demolishing roughly thirty pizzas (apparently, I wasn't the only one who could eat around here), Barry pulled Wally aside and lowered his voice to what I assumed was supposed to be a tone quiet enough we couldn't hear, but ah...we could. "Why did you wipe out earlier?" Barry muttered. I would've eavesdropped a little more, just because I could, but apparently I was in for an intervention of my own.

Oliver and Kara gave me that look, like, You will talk to me now and you will enjoy it, so I followed them into the hallway.

"Alright," Oliver said gruffly once he was sure no one could hear us, "what's going on with you?"

"Nothing," I replied automatically.

Oliver made an irritated sort of huffing noise and started, "Don't give me that bull-"

"Percy, look," Kara cut him off. "We're working together to solve this problem, and if there's something wrong with you, we need to know. Not knowing could put all of us in danger."

I sighed pressing my face into my hands. "Fine. Fine fine fine fine fine. I'll tell you." Kara and Oliver exchanged glances in triumph, even after I continued, "But no one else hears this unless I tell them."

"The others should know," Oliver insisted. "Keeping secrets is a bad idea."

"You're gonna lecture me on that, Mr. I-don't-want-to-reveal-my-not-so-closely-guarded-identity? Look, this information is vital to the safety of my camp. My family. Spread what I'm about to tell you around, especially on my earth, and people in my family will die."

Oliver and Kara glanced at each other again before responding together, "Alright."

"Okay," I let my breath out slowly before beginning. "All demigods have some sort of power. In some, that power isn't as obvious. Children of Aphrodite mostly seem to inherit a love of fashion magazines and messing with people's love lives. Children of Ares get their father's short temper and love of turning people into rodents, although they can't actually do that on their own." Kara raised an eyebrow. "In others, like me, that power is much more noticeable.

"The mini dark matter explosion we created at Camp Half-Blood hit everyone in the camp. Here, that same explosion gave everyone powers. One my earth…" I sighed. "Now everyone has more power than they can handle."

"How bad is it?" Kara asked tentatively.

"For the less powerful kids? Not bad at all. Their powers get a little boost so they'll be better prepared when the next monster comes after them. For more powerful demigods like me? Very bad. The creaking pipes Kara heard on our way up are normally something I can control. But now, the same amount of energy - of power - I used to use to make a six foot wave now makes a hurricane, complete with blustering winds and crashing waves."

"I don't understand how this is dangerous, or even bad at all," Oliver admitted. "How can being more powerful be a bad thing?"

I shook my head. "Eight of the most powerful demigods on the planet were in the camp at that time. Four of us are children of the Big Three. If we all get mad at someone or something, even if it's not really, important, we will destroy the camp. If monsters knew this, they'd probably organize an attack just to get us to use our powers. They'd sacrifice their reincarnate-able-"

"Is that a word?" Kara muttered to Oliver.

"I don't think so," he responded.

"-lives just to kill the demigods. So, tell me. Will you keep my secret?" I finished.

Both of them nodded their agreement. I nodded once in thanks. So basically there was a lot of nodding. If you were looking at us, you probably would've thought we were life-sized bobbleheads. Without springs or plasticy looking faces. So actually, you wouldn't have thought we were bobbleheads. Dang it! I always try to over explain my metaphors!

We all walked back into the Cortex just in time to see Barry and Wally finishing their conversation. Somehow, I was pretty sure I may have been mentioned in that conversation.

"Let's all go get some sleep," Barry said as soon as we walked in. It's getting pretty late, and we're going to have a long day tomorrow."

"Yes," HR smiled, "don't forget everyone! Training tomorrow morning!"

"Training," I frowned. "Training for what?"

"Savitar," Barry answered grimly. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Wally worried expression. This normally wouldn't be suspicious when talking about a speed god that was going to murder your older sister, but he also looked like he was keeping some kind of secret.

"See you all tomorrow then," Oliver said as he walked out the door. "Call me if anything happens tonight."

Cisco and Caitlin both exchanged goodbyes with everyone and then headed out as well.

"Um, Barry?" Kara asked tentatively. "Where should I stay?"

"Not to worry, fair maiden," HR said with a flamboyant bow. "There are several rooms here in STAR Labs that have been equipped with beds, for some strange reason."

"Are you three going to be okay here?" Barry checked. We all nodded and then he too left for his cozy bed at home. Well, at least this time I wasn't sleeping on a gurney.