CHAPTER TWO: A NORSE IN GERMANY

PREVIOUSLY:

Percy clicked his teeth, "Could you I don't know, be more specific with this 'location' that you speak of" he said using air quotes for emphasis.

Fury smiled tightly at him, "Maybe if you were here earlier you would know, but you were late you'll have to deal with it or if anyone here feels the need to let you know then they will disclose it out of their own free will" he said in a clipped tone before briskly walking out of the room.

The other avengers quickly scurried out of the room before he could ask them the location leaving him and Black Widow alone in the room.

He frowned at their abrupt departure before turning to Natasha to ask only to be cut short, "Nope" the red head said popping the 'p' before taking her leave.

His frown evolved to a scowl before he stood up and made his way out of the room.

'Great, just great I left Greco Roman bullshit behind now I'm on the receiving end of Norse bullshit' he thought grumpily.

NOW:

The avengers bar Bruce Banner who was working on tracking the tesseract's gamma radiation signatures back at HQ and Iron Man who was flying alongside sat in silence in a quinjet as they flew towards Loki's location in Germany, Percy had later found out that the location was Stuttgart after going through the SHIELD director's mind (but he didn't need to let them now that) but unlike the other avengers who sat in silence he tapped his feet impatiently on the metal floor of the craft which served the purpose of irritating Natasha.

He had ADHD they were going to have to deal with it.

"Nervous?" Captain America questioned with an inquisitive look on his face, Percy snorted "Believe me old man, if I was nervous you guys would've thrown off the jet already" he said making the Captain even more curious.

"Why is that?" he asked unfolding his arms, he was answered by Natasha this time "He is ADHD and dyslexic simply put sitting still is literally impossible for him" she answered as she assembled her Glocks.

Percy frowned at her, "I have a mouth and voice you know?" he whined making the other avengers raise eyebrows at him but did not comment as they were used to his acts of randomness.

"Is that so?" the Russian assassin questioned mockingly making Percy grumble in defeat as he knew that if he indulged her with banter that he would lose unceremoniously.

Better to have your dignity run over by a bicycle than being thrown into acid…..or worse given to deadpool to deflate.

He shuddered at that last part.

Their commlinks beeped making them place their hands to them to hear the incoming transmission properly, "Alright team, you are within a few miles of the opera house, the quinjet is going into stealth mode, your mission is simple and critical to putting an end to Loki's plan, you are to confront and capture Loki as well as Erik Selvig, the former will be confined aboard the hellicarrier and we will find a way to free the latter from Loki's psychic hold on him…." Fury was cut off by Percy, "Whoa, whoa whoa just hold up a second, are you forgetting that this guy is a divine being?" he questioned.

"Your point being?" Fury asked over the comms with a hint of irritation at being interrupted in his voice, Percy continued "So, don't you think that a divine being will not be fooled by simple mortal technology that is leagues below the level of tech his kind possess?" he asked patiently making Hawkeye's eyes widen in realization.

"So what are you suggesting? That the quinjet return and you all sneak up on him?" the director of SHIELD asked in apprehension.

Percy shook his head, "Not exactly, those of us that are light on our feet can proceed on foot while the quinjet can close in on the location with the rest of the team. Loki is an arrogant fellow, he won't expect to be sneaked up on" Percy confirmed firmly.

"I have to agree with Percy on this one, we can't get to cocky with Loki especially since he still has that damned scepter on his person" Hawkeye agreed with his comrade while the captain nodded in approval and looked at Percy with a sliver of newly added respect.

"An excellent strategy Perseus, proceed with it but the mission objective remains the same. Fury Out" and with that the transmission went silent.

Percy's eye twitched at the director's use of his full name before clicking his teeth and putting his cowl on, he got up from his seat and was met with questioning stares from his team mates. He walked over to a corner and hit the opening lever for the hangar bay making the other avengers clutch to their seats as if they were life lines.

Percy rolled his eyes at them, "Wimps" he muttered, before taking off in a sprint and jumping out of the quinjet frog splash style.

With great effort the captain managed to make his way over to the lever amidst the harsh winds and shut it down. "I like that kid, but sometimes I wonder if he's got a death wish" the captain muttered under his breath.\

Tony's irritating (to the captain at least) came over the comm links, "The kid is gonna splat in three, two…..oh he landed and rolled on the pavement and is now headed towards the opera house, sorry no cause for alarm" and with that he killed the connection.

Steve Rogers rubbed his head as he felt a migraine coming up, he didn't know what was worse, Tony Starks arrogance or Percy's psychotic tendencies.

And it wasn't helping matters that both of them were as random as a bottle of blue coke in place of a bottle of regular coke.

The air suddenly got chillier for him as he felt a large amount of killing intent focused on him for having such a thought.

WITH PERCY

Percy growled sub consciously and a large amount of killing intent oozed from him as he felt a distortion in the universe in a pattern that indicated that someone had dissed blue food.

BACK WITH THE TEAM

The quinjet in stealth mode stayed afloat above the opera house while the remainder of the team charged into the building with various weapons at the ready only to pause in surprise as they saw all the guests of the event huddled to a corner with fear in their eyes.

That wasn't the cause of their surprise however, No, the cause was the mercenaries numbering from between one hundred and twenty to two hundred and fifty all in ready positions with their weapons trained on them.

In a different universe this would have been a major problem as it was not in the intel, but in this universe such was expected since they were told to expect anything.

Breaking it down further they were not surprised by the presence of the mercenary's but rather how the hell that number of humans could actually fit into the rather lavish but otherwise average sized opera house.

Their surprise however did not last long as Black Widow and Hawkeye dived in opposite directions while the captain covered his person with his vibranium shield as a barrage of lead bullets were released on them.

Natasha took cover behind an elevated pavement and quickly whipped out her holstered hand guns, without much a thought in regards to proper aim she rapidly fired at them sending blood spraying as the pieces of lead tore through major blood vessels in their body.

Unlike Natasha who went low, Clint went high by climbing atop an armoured vehicle (no doubt a property of the mercenaries) and began to fire arrow after arrow at specific points in their bodies which either de commissioned them or maimed them depending on the arrow he fired. Once more unlike Natasha and Percy who had no qualms with killing off their opponents he only killed targets as a last resort.

Apparently he was still steadfast to Chiron's teachings.

No matter the amount of missions he under took he couldn't help but feel smug at the thought on the look of Artemis' face as well as the look on the face of her pompous feminazi's when they saw how much more accurate he, a son of Apollo was at archery than said huntresses.

He just hoped that the gods of Olympus had taken their eyes of his matter, he doubted that the goddess of the hunt would take his belittling of her huntresses lightly and he really did not want to wind up as a giant bunny with antlers.

Despite his years of inactivity due to being frozen in ice, his combat skills had not dulled in the least rather they seemed to have improved greatly.

He rose from his crouched position and threw his shield like a Frisbee nailing several of the hired guns in the face sending them into blissful unconsciousness, he closed the distance between himself and a group of hired guns who had emptied their clips and were struggling in vain to reload, the shield flew back into his waiting right arm and just as it was in his grip he didn't hesitate to use the momentum of the shield to his advantage and slamming one in his chest sending him sprawling.

He quickly moved his hand in a back hand strike nailing another one in the face with the flat side of his shield. He ducked as the butt of a rifle sailed past where his head once was, it seemed that these ones had realized the futility of trying to reload their weapons and decided to using the guns as make shift clubs.

The captain raised an eyebrow at the unspoken challenge before attaching the shield to his back, he rolled his shoulders and set his palms into fists.

One of the mercs rushed at him wildly clearly intent to bash his head in with butt of the rifle, the captain side stepped the attack and stretched out an arm to grab the unfortunate fellow by the neck before he could barrel past.

With little effort, he pushed the man backwards only that he didn't let go of the neck causing the end result of the action was that the man was choke slammed to the floor harshly bashing his head on the wooden floor and rendering him unconscious.

The other men suddenly lost the previous courage they had and quickly back tracked in another hopeless attempt to reload their weapons.

An attempt which was promptly crushed as several repulsor blast of low intensity connected to their chests and abdomens rendering them unconscious with singed clothing and slightly burnt skin.

Tony Stark AKA Iron Man landed on the scene, "Seems like you guys got yourselves a full house" he quipped in the signature robotic voice of his that was associated with his suit.

"Save the smart ass comments for later Stark, we have a bunch of mercenaries to dispatch" Steve said before frowning slightly at his use of modern day speech at the beginning of his sentence.

The Iron Man clapped a little, "Good job cap, very soon we'll be able to get you to talk like a modern day American" he said before spinning around and releasing tiny concentrated blasts of electricity which sent the mercenaries in the line of fire into a twitching fit as several volts of electricity travelled through their bodies.

The fight continued in earnest while the guests watched in awe as the handful of heroes single handedly fought back the army of professional mercenaries.

Well not exactly an army, but there were a lot of them.

The most troubling thing for the team as of now was that there was no sign of Loki or even Percy who was supposed to have arrived by now.

Their first question was answered as what was left of the hired guns vanished in a bright blue flash making them close their eyes to shield their eyes from the bright light, once the light cleared they all opened their eyes and were greeted by the sight of Loki standing at the centre of the room in his Asgardian apparel with his scepter clutched firmly in his right hand.

The avengers immediately trained their weapons on him, "I suggest you come quietly Reindeer games" he said in a tone devoid of any sort of humour which was quite unusual for the smart mouthed billionaire playboy.

The Norse god of mischief sneered at them, "Pathetic, I expected more from this sorry excuse of a world" he stated while giving them condescending looks.

Hawkeye rolled his eyes at the classical 'bad guy monologue' before releasing an arrow at the god, Loki's poisonous green eyes flashed a bright blue and the arrow fizzled out of existence for a moment before re appearing in reverse this time with the tip glowing the same blue as his scepter before tearing through the archer's shoulder causing him to cry out in pain.

Hawkeye dropped to a knee in pain as Black Widow rushed to his side and pulled the arrow out of his shoulder.

She did not notice his eyes flash a harsh blue for a second before it went back to his normal brown eyes.

Loki smirked slightly before opening his mouth to gloat once more, "You see…." His monologue was promptly silenced as a black blur slammed to his side sending him skidding on the wooden floor with a loud huff that indicated the air being knocked out of him,

Percy straightened himself and removed his mask, "So…..what'd I miss?" he asked cheekily making the other avengers face palm at the uncalled use of the question.

Loki blinked to regain his focus only to meet the business end his own scepter, he looked up to see who ever it was that had the ability to surprise him.

His eyes widened in shock, "You.." he never finished his statement as Percy whacked him by the side of the head with the flat side of the sceptre's blade.

"This guy talks too much" Percy complained while the team looked at him with narrowed eyes, "Where have you been?" Steve asked suspiciously making the green eyed male roll his eyes.

"You guys were here dancing with these loonies…." He started while gesturing to the unconscious mercenaries lying about who strangely did not vanish with the others when Loki appeared, "…while I was out there taking out the real heavy hitters who were on their way here with some real military grade armaments" he said with a huff at their distrustful looks.

It was Natasha's turn to roll her eyes, "I never said that you weren't busy 'Bloody'" she said with a hint of irritation in her voice.

Percy sniffed, "I know that 'B'" he replied before turning back to the unconscious Norse on the floor, "So….who's carrying Reindeer Games?" he asked making Tony smirk as the face of mask slid open, "That's what I said! You and I should totally go out for some Sharwarma sometime" he gushed while Percy blinked in surprise.

"Seriously guys…who's carrying this guy's ass?"

LINEBREAK

The avengers as well as Tony and a bound Loki sat in silence, Percy was as still as a corpse which came as a shocking but not unwelcome surprise to the other avengers.

If they so much as heard his feet tap once on the floor, they would have actually considered throwing him off the aircraft.

Suddenly thunder boomed across the sky making Loki flinch and the hair on Percy's neck stand on their roots. "What? Scared of a little lightning?" the captain mocked but was answered back by the Norse deity in a calm and collected voice, "No, I'm just not fond of what happens after" Loki replied.

Percy frowned and the buzzing noise in his head that warned him of incoming danger blared.

He quickly tackled Tony out of the way just in time to avoid a streak of lightning that tore through the roof, a man clad in armour similar to (but not quite there) Loki jumped in, grabbed the god of mischief and took off through the hole in the roof.

"After Him!" the captain barked out as he quickly unbuckled himself, Percy got off the groaning form of Tony Stark and narrowed his eyes at the hole in the roof which water was now flowing freely from.

This was starting to get ridiculous.

AN: Well confession time, I haven't watches Civil War yet so I don't know any references to said movie. I live in a rural area so movies usually get here late.

If by the time I get to the civil war arc and the movie isn't available to me yet, I'll just read it off Wikipedia.

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