CHAPTER 7: BATTLE OF MANHATTAN 2.0 part three
PREVIOUSLY:
There was a bit of silence as if the Captain was contemplating on his choice before he finally spoke, "Head to the Hudson river, there're a few civilians there who couldn't evacuate on time" he answered with a huff that indicated that he was in combat.
"Roger that, hehe, get it Rogers?" Percy joked over the comm but was answered by all his team mates at once, "That's not funny" they all deadpanned making him huff but regardless he began to make his way to the river Hudson.
As he ran towards that direction, his eyes fell on a Maserati Spyder that was parked on the side of the road making him come to an abrupt halt, he looked around for any possible witnesses and on seeing none he shrugged to himself before hopping into the vehicle where he hot wired it before taking off towards the Hudson at blazing speeds.
As he drove, he idly wondered whether he would see the Hudson river god again just like all those years ago in the Battle of Manhattan…a battle that was fought in Manhattan…and now another was being fought in Manhattan…with him heading to the same river.
How the hell did he not notice this!
NOW:
Pushing that particularly unnecessary thought aside due to the currently less than tidy condition of Manhattan, Percy switched the Maserati Spyder's gear to the final gear before promptly pushing his foot further on the gas pedal.
Within a few seconds, despite his less than conventional driving skills (it was unclear if he was driving that way because he was unable to drive an automobile of such caliber, or if he was simply driving that way because he did not own said automobile) he arrived at the Hudson river in record time with the car –surprisingly- unscathed.
Despite his arrival, he did not slow down, causing the Chitauri grunts in the area to stop their harassing of the civilians who appeared to be saying their last prayers and then opened fire at the vehicle.
Percy didn't even flinch as the plasma beams shattered the windscreen and a few grazed both sides of his cheek, once he was close to them, he opened the door and jumped out before whipping out a Glock and firing a shot at the gas tank causing it to erupt into flames as it exploded, sending bodies and limbs (belonging to Chitauri of course) flying about.
He blinked before face palming as he realized that he could have just ran them over instead of blowing the poor car up.
So much for 'unscathed'.
Getting over that fact, he quickly turned to face the civilians, "There's an escape route in the shopping centre whose name the author does not remember, Iron Man's guarding that joint so you can escape through there" he said.
All he got in response was a bunch of deadpan stares at his confusing statement.
Percy face palmed hard, forgetting his own strength and breaking his nose in the process causing the civvies to flinch at the sound and sight of blood flowing freely from his nose.
"Bloody Styx!" he swore while he lifted his palm to his nose before promptly popping the appendage back in place with a disturbing pop.
Cue flinching from the audience.
"How many shopping centres do you guys have in Manhattan?" he questioned irritably making the humans blink before scrambling away from the less than psychologically stable avenger.
Anyone who could break his nose in the process of face palming was not okay.
Thunder cracked loudly in the sky causing the troubled (in a way) half blood to stare up to the sky where he could faintly make out the outline of Thor smashing his hammer into the skull of an armoured Leviathan/ Worm hybrid.
But that wasn't the cause of the noise.
Another worm hole had opened up in the sky, a little distance away from the first one and despite the distance between himself and the scientific anomaly, he could still see the outline of another mother ship out of which more Chitauri military transport flew out.
Percy's usual smile fell off his face at the sight, he wasn't worried about the ugly faced invaders, no, rather he was concerned about this fresh batch of Chitauri…something seemed…off about them.
They were…different from their earlier Chitauri brethren and it irked him to no end.
They seemed to be tainted with dark power…
…just like the presence in Tartarus.
There was no use in messing around anymore….it was time to end this.
Percy sucked in a sharp breath through his teeth at the thought before his sea green eyes lost their glint of madness in them…and gained a hard look in them.
The look on the face of a general who initiated a genocide just for the sake of winning a war.
The look on the face of a cold blooded assassin when he was about to end the existence of his target.
The look on the face of a god who had an insolent mortal in his presence.
The look of the destroyer.
His open palms clenched into fists, he was going to have to pull a 'Super Saiyan' if he wanted to get this charade over with.
He cast a glance at the Hudson River before scoffing…he didn't have time to waste on bickering with a misfit of a spirit when he could find other alternatives.
The other river was not an option either.
He took another look at the sky, the second worm hole to precise before crouching down to a knee and closing his eyes and pouring in a lot of concentration and divine energy into what he was about to do.
The second batch of Chitauri had touched down and his suspicions were proven true as their speed and strength (judging by the way one of them flipped a truck without a hint of strain) was leagues ahead of their brethren.
Heck, some of the newer ones ate any of the earlier Chitauri that were stupid enough to come too close to them.
Not that he could see this…visually at least, every living thing had fluid in them after all.
A large hoard of the second batch rushed him intent on ripping him apart…literally.
His eyes snapped open and a roar… the roar of the one true Leviathan tore out of his mouth, halting the rushing Chitauri in their charge.
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The eyes of the invaders widened in horror for a second before they all exploded causing purple blood and gore to splatter about.
Percy looked to the sky once more and roared again causing a harsher clap of thunder that out classed that of the Norse god of Thunder to tear through the sky.
Lightning flashed erratically and as if a fire hydrant had had its top blown off violently, a torrential downpour began to fall over the city of New York as a whole.
'Over kill, but it'll do' Percy thought as he began to join the droplets of water to form spear, before solidifying said spear into ice.
The ice spears began to rain down mercilessly on the streets of Manhattan, ruthlessly ripping apart buildings and Chitauri alike causing the rain water that was flowing into the city's drainage to turn into a murky purple.
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From the start of the torrential down pour, his team mates didn't need a weather forecaster to tell them to find shelter of any sorts and to find it as quickly as possible.
"DID YOU KNOW HE COULD DO THAT?!" Tony yelled over the constant strikes of thunder making Natasha shoot him a dirty look due to the fact that she was the closest to him and his yelling was vibrating through her ear drums.
"I DIDN'T, DID YOU?!" Clint asked Natasha causing her to wince and stuff her ears shut with her pinkie finger, "FOR CHRIST'S SAKE WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP YELLING IN MY EAR!" the red head snapped causing the males to look sheepish.
The icicles of doom slowly but surely began to abate until all that was left falling from the sky were a few droplets of rain water.
"Wait a second…" a look of realization dawned on Steve making a panicked expression appear on his face, "…where's Thor?" he questioned shakily making the other avengers blink before turning around and surprise, surprise, the Asgardian was not with them.
Well, the Hulk wasn't there either but they were sure he would improvise.
Hopefully.
Just before the patriot could undergo a huge scale freak out, the Odinson landed…well more like crashed right in front of the shade they were all huddled together in.
"Greetings my friends…" the Asgardian prince drawled deliriously while trying to get on his feet only to fall back on his behind.
Tony blinked under his mask, "Did this guy get drunk while we were sweating our asses off fighting aliens?" he questioned –to no one in particular—incredulously only to get a bunch of shrugs in response.
"That is untrue man of metal…" the son of Odin grumbled as he rubbed a nasty purple bruise (that the team had somehow missed before) on his forehead, "…I was in pursuit of my brother Loki before the storm began, once the down pour began I decided to continue in my pursuit of Loki against my better judgment only for the hail to begin, fortunately I was able to evade the sharp ones, but my flight was put to an end as a hailstone the size of a, well stone struck me on my forehead" Thor finished only to be responded with silence.
That is until the click of a camera going off sounded.
The other avengers turned to look at Tony questioning gaze who in turn responded to their looks with a deadpan expression on his face.
"This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to have something in my possession that can embarrass a god…do you seriously expect me not to take it?" he asked with an eyebrow raised under his mask.
"…"
"That's what I thought"
Suddenly, their comms crackled to life and they quit their banter to listen to the voice of Percy over the out opline, "Unless any of you are immune to electric shocks or being struck by lightning, I would suggest you get your persons off any conductive material in your vicinity" Percy's voice said with his voice being a confusing mixture of emotionless and humorous before he cut the connection.
"He is a son of Poseidon, not Zeus, he can not summon lightning!" Thor cried out in incredulity making the red headed Russian assassin turn to him with a dull expression on her face, "When it comes to Percy Jackson…" she paused slightly, "…Just be prepared to keep an open mind" she finished making the Norse god of thunder slump slightly in defeat at her argument (AN: Humble or not, it's depressing to lose an argument to a lady…trust me, I know).
"Well…I guess we should move our behinds of to a safe zone" the billionaire intoned while the other team members, sans Thor who resumed his search for the Norse god of Mischief, began to move to a safer location.
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Through his hydro sensing –a skill he picked up in Tartarus—Percy could tell that his team mates were out of harm's way and despite his emotionless face he let out a relieved breath.
Despite the short time he had spent with these people, he had come to see them as family and so putting them in harms way was the last thing he wanted to do.
Not that he would ever tell them that though.
Relief aside, Percy closed his eyes once more and focused, he felt the familiar tug in his gut and continued to build up said tug without so much as flinching.
Which was surprising considering the fact that it felt like his stomach had been torn open and his guts were being used to make balloon animals.
The effects of his concentration became visible as all the surrounding water from various parts of the area began to gather around him and spin in a vortex.
Once he had enough water swirling around him, he pushed his arms outward causing the vortex of water to mimic his movement and explode out wards, levelling many buildings and sweeping multiple injured and bruised Chitauri off their feet.
This was just the beginning however, as he raised his right palm upwards causing lightning to flash erratically once more, before clenching said palm into a fist and bringing it down to the ground swiftly causing the asphalt to crack under the force of his fist.
The effects were immediate as lightning literally rained down from the sky, electrocuting multiple Chitauri all over the city of Manhattan severely thanks to the amount of water around and causing a few unfortunate automobiles to explode sending shrapnel into other less than unfortunate Chitauri.
The barrage of lightning strikes caused the city of Manhattan to shake under the combined amount of force they struck the ground with.
The entire barrage of lightning strikes went on for a total of forty five seconds before it stopped and the stormy clouds cleared away to reveal the shining sun as if the storm hadn't happened in the first place.
The destroyed buildings all over Manhattan begged to differ.
Percy dropped to both knees in exhaustion as his cold sea green eyes reverted back to the original (in a way) demented sea green, he wanted to do nothing more than fall into a peaceful slumber.
The screaming voices over his comm had other ideas though.
"…RE YOU CRAZY?!" the voice of Steve Rogers barked over the comm link making Percy grumble before he sat up, "Anything I should know about or are you guys going to try giving me a migraine?" he questioned dully.
He could faintly hear Natasha mumbling something along the lines of 'tell me about it' but didn't comment on that.
It was Clint who answered the question, "The council decided to initiate phase 2 because apparently we were 'fighting a lost cause' and now Tony decided to be a moron and is currently guiding the Nuke into the inter dimensional portal." The son of Apollo replied making Percy wince slightly.
"Okay, that's brave and all but in case you have forgotten, there's a second wormhole in the sky and even though I'm pretty sure I destroyed the mother ship in that one, I know for a fact that another one will soon take its place…so…anyone here got another nuke?" he questioned eagerly.
A little too eagerly.
"That's the thing, your little lightning show created a backlash of energy that closed the portal" Natasha chimed in.
Their conversation was cut short by a loud boom causing them to look up just to see Tony Stark fall out of the worm hole just before it closed up.
"Well I'll be damned, he did it" Percy chirped, "Yes…and he's still falling" the Russian spy deadpanned.
The millionaire's plummet of death was cut short as a large hand made of water rose from the streets and grabbed him before he could slam into the pavement before slowly bringing him to the ground and gently dropped him.
Well…more like dropped him once he was six feet from the ground.
"Well that's it for today folks, goodnight, I'm beat" and with that final quip, the half blood succumbed to exhaustion and passed out.
AN: Well, here it is, the final part of the Battle of Manhattan 2.0, (spoiler alert: there will be a version 3.0).
Nothing much to say I guess, but please do review it makes me willing and eager to write and post more chapters with better quality and (with the right amount of reviews) longer chapters.
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