CHAPTER FOUR: ENERGY HEIST
PREVIOUSLY:
"For goodness sake would you shut up Percy! She's not that old and besides we are both immortal so HA!" Nico said exasperatedly.
Percy bobbed his head up and down in approval before speaking once more, "I'm guessing the reason you're dressed in the tux is to take her out on a date" he said matter of factly as he went back to punching the (now wailing) sand bag.
"How did you…? Oh yeah mind reading power" Nico said, Percy nodded, "Well If I were you, I'll get to it. That suit looks nice and I would hate to see it smeared with your blood when she runs you through with her electric spear for keeping her waiting." He said.
"Shit" Nico cursed as he ran into a shadow and shadow travelled away causing his green eyed cousin to chuckle.
"Well I better give Mando that answer before he pops an artery in anxiety" he said as he left the bag and picked up a towel while heading for the showers.
'I really need to find myself a girlfriend' he thought to himself as he stepped in the shower, 'Meh, work first, relationship pursuit later' he thought once more as he turned the shower knob.
NOW:
A black limousine was blazing across a lonely stretch of road in New Mexico at top speed, it was being escorted by a bunch of armoured vehicles and a military helicopter.
Behind a scope that was following the movements of the limo was the Blood Merchant AKA Perseus Jackson (not that anyone knew that, Kowalski never even saw his face).
He zoomed in on the well dressed occupant in the back of the limo with the scope of his sniper scope, he steadied his breathing and hand movements making himself completely still.
When it seemed that he was going to fire, he moved his aim to the pilot of the chopper and fired, the force of the bullet caused the pilot's head to explode like a grape being squashed, sending the helicopter crashing down into an armoured vehicle while exploding in the process.
Smiling to himself, he quickly disassembled the sniper gun and pulled his cowl from his chin to his nose leaving just his eyes visible. His blood merchant suit was simple in nature and very effective in use with its form fitting design made from a black material that was reinforced with celestial bronze.
Turns out that celestial bronze could actually be harmful to mortals if a smaller amount of it is combined with a mortal material, material ranging from cloth to titanium would do the trick as combining said materials with the divine metal would corrupt it making it harmful to mortals.
He jumped of the roof of the Burrito store that he was in and landed quietly on the floor, by now the soldiers were calling in reinforcements for the evacuation of the Tesseract that was on board and Senator Hopkins, the occupant of the limo tasked with the delivering of the Tesseract to S.H.I.E.L.D.
He craned his neck and rolled his shoulders causing them to making popping noises before grinning under his cowl.
He whipped out his adamantine Glocks and opened fire on the soldiers as he sprinted towards them, the adamantine bullets hit through with deadly accuracy causing blood to erupt in showers from various parts of their body where the bullets hit their mark.
Finally the few remaining soldiers spotted him sprinting towards them causing them to open fire on him. He danced out of the way of the bullets favouring evasion techniques in place of revealing his invulnerability (who knew how many prying eyes were watching?), he continued dancing, as in literally dancing out of the way of the bullets until the soldiers ran out of ammo.
Without giving them a chance to reload, he furiously unloaded the remaining bullets in his clip at them causing more blood to to flow.
Seeing as they all were dead, he casually walked over the vehicles that were riddled with bullet holes causing him to cringe slightly as he remembered that the vehicles were expensive 'there goes the budget' he thought dryly as he assessed the damage.
With one more look at the damage he shrugged it off as it wasn't his problem and walked over to one of the armoured vehicles.
He grabbed the door and ripped its door right of his hinges with a simple tug of his hand, walking into the vehicle, he stretched out his senses before smirking faintly and walked to a corner of the vehicle where he opened a hatch on the metal ground.
His hidden smirk turned into a full blown grin as he picked up a metal briefcase that was hidden in the secret compartment of the vehicle.
He walked out of the car and walked over to the Senator's limo, he rolled his eyes as he saw the Congress member quivering like a leaf, he gave the limo's doors the same treatment as the armoured vehicle and ripped its door clean off.
The senator paled even further as the mercenary stuck his arm into the limo and put his arm around his neck causing him to faint.
Percy sighed in irritation at the spine less individual in front of him, putting that thought to the back of his mind he grabbed the pendant around the man's neck and tore it off roughly.
He examined the diamond shaped jewel on the pendant with narrowed eyes before smirking once more and crushed the jewel in the palm of his hand revealing a small key.
Without any further delay, he used the key and opened the briefcase that he retrieved from the armoured vehicle, inside the briefcase was the glowing blue cube known as the Tesseract.
He smiled, feeling quite good with himself before he heard a clicking noise. He immediately snapped the briefcase shut and pocketed the key before quickly rolling away.
He looked up and frowned in displeasure as he saw the floating form of the engineering master piece known as the Hellicarrier, he could have easily mist travelled away but he wanted to see where this was going.
Multiple ropes were thrown down from the Hellicarrier as Tens of S.H.I.E.L.D agents slid down and surrounded him and trained their weapons on him.
A bulky male agent walked up to him with firearms raised and poised to shoot, "Get on your knees!" he barked at the Blood Merchant causing the mercenary to suck in a breath between his teeth, he was a rebellious person as a child and said rebelliousness did not go away as he grew, rather it grew stronger.
If this guys gave him that order one more time, he was going to shove that blaster up his rectum.
"I SAI….." the agent tried to speak again but was sent into the realm of unconsciousness by a swift punch to the throat causing the metaphorical lid of order that was keeping the chaos at bay to pop of making the situation to descend into chaos.
The agents opened fire on him causing him to pull out a Kitanna blade and begin to deflect the energy blasts.
He used the flat side of the sword and slapped a bolt of energy into the chest of an agent sending him crumpling, he performed a perfect roll and stabbed a soldier in the shoulder blade making the agent fall to the floor as he screamed in pain.
He rolled again and swung his sword in an arc while still crouched, neatly severing off the legs of several agents, he got up and stuck the tip of his blade into the muzzle of a blaster that was about to shoot him at point blank range.
The agent holding the blaster fired only to widen his eyes in horror behind his head gears as he realized that the muzzle of the gun was blocked firmly. Seeing that there was no opening to escape from the bolt of energy ricocheted in the gun causing a backlash which made the gun explode.
The agent was blasted backwards and collapsed in an unconscious heap, for the next few minutes Percy dodged, deflected, stabbed and slice at the S.H.I.E.L.D agents whose numbers began to dwindle rapidly.
Soon the entirety of the agents were in bleeding and unconscious heap, strangely though Percy noticed that he did not kill any of them rather choosing to either maim them or knock them unconscious.
'Meh, there's still blood everywhere so I guess I kept up my reputation' he thought with a shrug.
Suddenly his ears perked up to a whizzing sound and he quickly raised his left hand just in time to catch an incoming arrow, he narrowed his eyes at the arrow as he heard a beeping noise from it before his eyes widened in realization but it was too late.
The arrow exploded sending him to the floor to kiss the asphalt, he quickly stood up and turned to the direction the arrow came from.
He saw a black haired man with an arrow nocked in a bow trained on him, he made to mist travel around him regardless of revealing one of his 'trade secrets' to pound him to the ground but stopped suddenly as his eyes widened in recognition.
"MICHEAL?!" he asked / yelled incredulously.
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