Before Emily, James or Persephone could react that some of the HYDRA soldiers had come behind the and took hold of them and put knives against their throats. Emily was breathing heavy and she couldn't believe her eyes at the moment, Emily thought she had enough shocks even since the quest to save Artemis. The last thing she wanted or needed was one of her oldest enemies back and alive no less. Of how he was alive was beyond her, but as she thought of what happen last year in the first battle of Manhattan that she was part of that the Tesseract had took Thor and Loki back to Asgard. Till now she never gave much thought that the red skull could be alive else way, who knows of where he could have gone when that light surround the red skull. At the moment he was looking at Emily, Persephone and James, he had walked over to them and looked at James before he had spoke.
"I seen you before, I believe that you were part of the howling commandos, the group that was lead by Captain America?" James had growled and bite at him, the red skull had merely smiled.
"Indeed, I am." The red skull had backed away from James before he spoke.
"Well this is better than I thought when I got onto his ship, for I am sure Captain America and Lieutenant America would come now for sure. It would be better if one of the girls was Lieutenant America." Emily had noticed Hazel had looked over at her nervously, Emily understood why. There was a few of the demigods that know she was Lieutenant America and Hazel was one of the few demigods that knew. But than the red skull had walked over to her, the HYDRA soldier had forced her head back as he approached her. He had looked at her carefully, Emily felt uncomfortable as he looked at her and than he spoke once more. "You look familiar, are you related to Captain America in some way?" When he said that, that Emily had lifted her feet and pushed the red skull so that he fell to the floor and he glared up from the floor. "Feisty aren't we?" He hand got up from the floor but kept his distance this time. "So are you going to answer the question."
"Why do you care if I am related to Captain America?"
"Well you look similar to him but you look much like his niece though. There was claims that she was a demigod but that is unlikely though. But answer the question though." Emily just stared at him, and than she had lit up her hand behind her and touched the HYDRA soldier and the soldier had started to scream and let go of her. Because of that, that Emily fell to the floor and she manage to set up as she watched the HYDRA soldier had fell over the side of the Argo II and than she found herself face to face with one of the weapons that the red skull had made from the Tesseract. Emily had looked up at the red skull and he had a small smile on his face. "I should have figured that you were Lieutenant America." Emily had stood up and stared at him.
"No kidding." Emily tilted her head and spoke. "Did you get sun burn since we last meet. For if I remember correctly the last time we meet that your face was not as red as it was and you had hair as well." He shoot the weapon at her but Emily had quickly moved out of the way and it hit one of the soldiers instead and it was blasted into different pieces. There was gasp from the demigods when that happen. Emily had took off a dagger, one of the daggers she had since World War II, she had the dagger aimed at the red skull.
"You have quick relaxes, Lieutenant America."
"While if you are a Greek demigod and had been training for seventy year, you hone your skills and abilities."
"I highly doubt that you are a demigod. My guess you had the super solider serum." Emily looked over at the others that were standing around before looking back at the Red Skull.
"If I had the super soldier serum don't you think I would be bigger than what I am."
"You know it can be easily hidden."
"Why not try to find out for yourself if I am a demigod or injected with the serum. So that means, swords or daggers only." The red skull had dropped the gun down and pulled out a sword, Emily had put the dagger back and took off the bracelet and swished it to the right and it become a sword. It seem that didn't bother the red skull too much, for Emily was sure that he heard enough about her to know about her bracelet. It was the red skull that started the fight, Emily had learned quickly of how weak he was with the sword or at least didn't have the proper training from how he was fighting. For he was using only offense and all his strength. Yes, Emily felt she was being crushed under all that strength, but she had also fight with children of both Are and Mars of who were strong. Not as strong as the red skull but strong enough that Emily could manage to feed off enough to fight him till she learned his skills. When Emily had learned what his weakness was that she went into Greek mode along with using her powers.
As Emily fought that she heard the others fighting, she knows James had fought against HYDRA. James was the least one that she was worried about, but the others she wasn't as sure. Emily had managed to get the red skull against the railing due to her fighting style, her fast and nimble reflexes and her powers. Emily was sure that back when her uncle and the red skull that she would have a much harder time fighting the red skull than she did now. Partly because she would be tired from using her powers and she didn't have the same reflexes back than as well as have the same strong of using the powers more as she did know. She had quickly punched him in the face causing him to fall over the side of the ship, when Emily looked at everyone else that they were just finishing fighting with the HYDRA soldier and it was James who finished the fighting. James was cutting off the head of the last HYDRA soldier that was on the ship. James had than looked at her and spoke.
"'Cut off one head...'"
"'Two more shall take it's place.' We better keep an eye out for any more HYDRA as well as monsters. Hopefully the red skull would stay died this time." Emily could tell that the others seem somewhat dazed by what just happened, expect for Emily, James and Hazel. But Hazel was a still somewhat dazed but not just as dazed.
"How is that he was alive in the first plane, I remember what you and your uncle told me of when he crashed that plane."
"I believe that the Tesseract had transported the red skull elsewhere. I am not sure where, remember what I told you about the battle of Manhattan a couple of years ago."
"Hang on." Emily looked over at Jason of who spoke up. "The battle of Manhattan took place a year ago or about a year ago." Emily shook her head as Jason said that.
"Jason, I wasn't tossing about that battle, I was talking about the battle between the avengers and the ale on army that entered though a portal that was made by the Tesseract." It seem that James realized what Emily meant.
"So he went to another world. I don't think it was in the nine realms, otherwise I think Thor and hai father would have knew about the red skull." Emily could tell Jason was about ready to say something but Emily had spoke before Jason could
"Forget about it for now Jason." Emily looked at the others before going on. "That goes for all of you, we have enough problems without being the Norse gods into this." When Emily hand said that Annabeth had spoke up.
"What the Norse gods are real." Emily tossed her sword up and caught it in it's bracelet form before looking back at Annabeth.
"For a daughter of Athena, you can be slow at times. I am not under an oath to keep the Norse gods a secret for as far as I know that our gods are unaware of them. Besides they are not connect to this planet in the same as our gods." With the look Emily had gave Annabeth had told her to drop it and that she would tell Annabeth more after this war ends. After that, that everyone had went different places on the ship, Emily had back to her room and sat down on her bed. After a few minutes that there was a knock on the door and Persephone had entered the room, Emily nodded to show her that she can come in. So Persephone had entered her room and sat down next to Emily, after a few minutes of silence that Persephone had spoke.
"Well it is clear that you never had a dull life did you?" Emily snorted and smiled slightly.
"Yeah, the only exception to that is the first thirteen years of my life. But there some things that happened that had left me puzzled. It wasn't till after I learned that I was a demigod that it made any sense, of course those were small things that I never really gave much thought of."
"You are a Greek demigod, aren't you?"
"I am indeed, but Camp Jupiter is part of my life now as well as the howling commandos, the hunt and Camp Halfblood." Persephone was about ready to say something when Emily heard her old name and James had entered the room and he so roped when he saw Persephone there. Emily had notice the slight blush appeared on his cheeks when he saw Persephone, Emily had also noticed that Persephone was blushing as well. Persephone had got up from where she was and spoke.
"I have to go." Persephone left though the door as her cheeks went to a deeper shade of red. Emily remembered a time when that was happening to James and herself.
"James, why are you here?"
"Well, I wanted to talk to you about the red skull."
"James, you know that would be pointless. For neither one us have the answers to that and we are still unsure about our guess. Besides compare to what happen when we reach Rome and than to Greece that the red skull would be more of a bump on the road. Even though he talks being a god or whatever, the Norse gods, he is unimportant at the moment and we need to focus on the task on hand."
"Year, you are right, but we would still need to look out for him and his followers," Emily nodded and James was about ready to leave when Emily had spoke.
"James." James had turned and looked at her and Emily had took off the necklace James had give her when they started dating and tossed it to him and he caught it. He looked a little puzzled when Emily did that. "I think it would only be fair if you have that, for we had seventy years to get over each other. We might still have feelings for each other but I think that time of our life has past. Besides we both admitted that we think of each other more as best friends than anything else."
"I had thought that it was unlikely we would go back to the old relationship but you can still have it." James was about ready to toss it back but Emily out her hand up motioning him to stop.
"No James. I think it would be better if you give it to the girl you date next, whoever she might be." James merely nodded and left the room.