CHAPTER 5: BATTLE OF MANHATTAN 2.0 part one
PREVIOUSLY:
Percy brought out his Glock and began to clean it, "I finally managed to climb out of Tartarus, it took me two weeks to do so but I got the job done and crawled out right out of the rug in the cabin I left my step father in in Alaska, my happiness was amplified even further when I saw my father figure alive and well albeit in a crudely made wheel chair but at least he was alright"
Percy holstered the gun and brought out the other one and began to clean it as well, "Despite everything I knew I had to get a job and since I didn't have a qualification of any sorts I began to do odd jobs just so I could feed my step father, that is until I heard of a guy who needed a hit done…I'm sure you can figure the rest out" Percy finished as he holstered the second gun.
Over the comm Tony whistled loudly making everyone wince at the volume before speaking, "You my friend have a shitty life" he said before pausing slightly, "Hold that thought, Reindeer Games' here".
At that the avengers snapped out of their personal musings and hardened their resolves, this Tesseract/Asgardian bullshit was coming to an end today.
At least they had one more thing to channel into anger towards the incoming Chitauri.
NOW:
"He really knows how to piss off a deity"
"Look who's talking, kettle"
Tony had met with the Norse god of mischief at Stark Towers and after a somewhat lengthy discussion (by Percy's standards at least) about how it was futile and pathetic for the Avengers to even consider coming out her to hold of the invading Chitauri from Loki's perspective and a counter from the Iron Man himself on how if the avengers were unable to defend the Earth, then the Norse could rest assured that they would definitely avenge it.
Percy teared up at that part but was ignored by his team mates.
The outcome of the meeting was that Loki lost his temper (something Percy applauded the billionaire for) and threw him out of Stark Towers.
From the top floor.
Though the avengers were not bothered by that little detail at all, he had a badass suit after all.
Erik Selvig had finally snapped out of Loki's mind manipulation but it was already too late as the Tesseract had already hooked up to the doo hickie (Percy's words not mine) and had opened up the portal from which hordes of Chitauri on flying motorcycle thingies (once again not my words) and transport vessels containing foot soldiers emerged from.
The quinjet opened fire on the first group of Chitauri that touched down on the asphalt and the large bullets reduced the other worldly invaders to mince meat decorating that area with purple blood.
Despite the amount of damage the quinjet's ammo could do, the heroes knew that it could only hold off the invaders for so long. The aircrafts ammo was limited and it would need what little that was left of it to fight its way out after dropping the team off.
The quinjet began to descend after it had cleared out the invaders in that area but Percy was impatient and did what he always did whenever he was aboard a quinjet.
He jumped out.
His other team mates face palmed at that but did not voice out any complaints as they were already used to his randomness.
Percy landed on a flying bike that was occupied by an unsuspecting Chitauri, the alien was startled by his sudden arrival and was too late to do anything as he was yanked off his vehicle and landed with a splat on the asphalt.
Percy looked at the complicated controls written in a strange language on the machinery with furrowed brows before throwing caution to the wind with a simple "Fuck it" and began to randomly push buttons.
The first button he pushed abruptly stopped the hover bike (my words) and he began to plummet down to the streets of Manhattan at rapid speeds, he panicked slightly but still managed to push the button again and it (thankfully) restarted the engine and he began to hover once more.
"Okay, don't 'fuck it'" he mumbled to himself before cautiously pushing another button which sent out a bolt of plasma at another Hover Bike that was coming his way.
He grinned slightly and began to push the same button over and over again sending out bolts of energy of varying sizes some of which hit their intended target and some which missed their target and hit a stray car causing it to go up in flames thereby burning the nearby foot soldiers.
Percy quickly got bored of sitting at a place and firing energy beams and on seeing the handle bars on the bike he decided to try out a hunch of his and rested his hands on both handle bars before twisting the right handle bar.
His hunch was proved right as he quickly took off across the air in a burst of speed while he screamed out a "Wa Hoo!" in elation.
He kept firing blast of energy at random Chitauri bikers and foot men as he soared across the Manhattan skyline.
"It's a rush isn't it!" a voice yelled from his right side causing him to turn his head in that direction and see Natasha in the back seat of the Hover Bike with two daggers firmly planted on opposite sides of a Chitauri's neck as she controlled the Chitauri's movements so as to ride the bike.
"You're damn right it is!" he yelled back making the red haired beauty grin at him before twisting the daggers a bit and zooming past him.
Percy quickly shifted his head to the side as an arrow sailed past his head and struck a Chitauri biker that was headed towards him in the fore head.
He gave the archer a look but received a cheeky smirk and two fingered salute in response before the Hawkeye took off running in another direction.
He was rubbing off on them after all.
Percy grew tired of the Hover Bike and reduced his altitude to ground level before gassing up the bike thereby speeding toward a group of Chitauri before jumping off and rolling to a crouch at the last moment just as the bike slammed into their group and exploded killing them all in the process.
Percy quickly whipped out his two Glocks and with a feral grin on his face he opened fire on another group of unsuspecting invaders.
The adamantine bullets ripped through their other worldly armour like it was nothing causing purple blood to spray like a fountain.
One of the aliens in the group was smart enough to dive for cover before crawling out of the range of fire and firing off a bolt of plasma from his plasma rifle.
Percy saw the bolt of energy coming a little too late and paid the price for it as the energy bolt slammed into his mid section making him grunt as the force of the blast pushed him back a bit.
He looked at the point that the energy bolt hit him and grinned as he saw that not only had the curse of Achilles done its job, but the fabric of his clothing was not even singed from the attack.
The wisdom goddess might have been a bitch, but she was a genius for creating divine Athenian silk.
Don't bother asking how he got his hands on that.
He looked up from his stomach and chuckled a bit as he saw the dumbfounded expression on the Chitauri's face, despite his amusement he didn't give the offender ay time to regain his senses and ended his life with an adamantine bullet to the skull (did the skeletal structure in the head of these things qualify as skulls?).
With a quick movement of his wrists he unloaded the empty clips of both guns and quickly reloaded them just as three more Chitauri's charged at him with battle cries and their bayonets raised for the kill. They had learnt from the error of their fallen comrades that the bolts of plasma could not kill him and decided that the best course of action was to stab him to death.
Percy inwardly snorted at their logic.
Regardless of that he let them come anyways, just as they were a few feet in front of him he holstered his guns and got into a boxing stance.
The first one attempted to stab him in the gut but he cleverly (albeit unnecessarily) danced out of the blade and as the alien sailed past him he brought his elbow backwards harshly.
The elbow impacted on the back of the invaders head with a sickening crack sending said invader falling forwards in a lifeless heap. Despite that quick kill the other Chitauri did not slow down but rather chose to double team him and stab him from his left and right sides.
Percy frowned at that, he did not know whether to feel insulted at the fact that the aliens did not acknowledge his skill in being able to avoid their sub par attempt to gut him or feel sorry that they were too stupid to realize that he could easily avoid the attack.
He settled for the latter.
Just before the blades of their bayonets could make contact with his sides he took a quick step backwards and allowed the two dead brained aliens to stab themselves through the gut.
Percy snorted once more.
He whipped out his guns once more and took off running to another area that had a large concentration of Chitauri invaders.
He skid to a stop and fired two shots into the head of an alien that was about to fire off a shot into the back of the unsuspecting captain who was fending off two other aliens killing the foot soldier and getting a nod of thanks from Steve.
The sound of a repulsor blaster going off rang through Percy's ears making him turn to his back where the sound came from where he saw two Chitauri's laying on the asphalt with gaping holes in their chest where purple blood flowed from freely.
His comm crackled to life, where the voice of Tony stark came from "I'm still waiting on that thank you" the billionaire quipped sarcastically.
Percy rolled his eyes at the Iron Man but his lips twitched up was into a smile, "I'll pay for our next meal if we come out of this alive" he replied back before shutting off his comm link.
Percy made to turn around but was stopped short as a loud roar echoed through the air.
AN: Short chapter but meh, maybe if you guys put some ideas for me in your long reviews I'll incorporate those ideas into the story and if possible make the next chapter(s) longer, until then…
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