Chapter 4

"So…" Percy trailed off as she and Steve sat in the back of the quinjet in silence on their way to Germany.

Steve just looked at her with a confused expression on his face. "What?"

"You come here often?" By the gods, she SUCKED at making conversation and flirting. This was why she and Leo mashed well together as friends: they both were terribly awkward around new people of the opposite gender.

Percy heard a snort come from the pilot's seat in the front. Shooting a glare towards the redheaded female, Percy turned her attention back onto the man across from her whom was watching her with amusement dancing through his eyes.

Percy sighed and smiled. "Yea, yea, I know. Not the best opening line in the world, but you gotta admit it was sorta funny, right, Cap?"

"Oh, yes, of course."

"My humor is wasted on all of you it seems. I can't wait until the youth throwing a temper tantrum is captured because he will SURELY appreciate my attempts at conversation."

Percy watched as Steve stood up and grabbed his shield, turning his back on her and most likely rolling his eyes at her. By Zeus, Percy loved acting like a human that wasn't like a gazillion years old and hadn't created the universe, and didn't have several million children.

"Captain, Miss Jackson, we're approaching the museum where Loki was located… And it looks like he has begun. Cameras inside have shown him stabbing something into a man's eye which has caused the people inside to run out into the streets in a panic." Natasha reported as they were fast approaching the museum.

Percy grinned. "Ah goody! We didn't miss all the fun after all!"

Steve shot her a look. "How old are you?"

"Age is but a number Gramps. It doesn't matter what age you are, but how you look… just ask all those peeps in Hollywood."

They were interrupted. "Cap, it looks like you're needed down there. Loki is about to fire on an old man."

Steve opened the hatch and peered down and then without hesitation, jumped out, freefalling. After a few minutes of staring after him, Percy just sighed and was about to sit back down when Natasha called her name.

"Miss Jackson, it looks like Cap could use your help."

"Of course he could. After all, he is an old man."

With that, Percy disappeared in a bright light and reappeared in the middle of the crowd that were frozen, watching as Loki and Captain America were fighting. Sighing in exasperation, Percy snapped her fingers which caused the civilians to disappear in a bright light and appear safely in their homes with their concerned loved ones surrounding them.

Loki, having blasted Rogers away with his scepter, turned towards her and glared. "You."

Percy grinned and finger waved at the pagan. "Hello, luv. Did ya miss me?"

"Does a mortal miss an ant when it is squashed?"

"I don't know, I'm afraid I haven't had the pleasure of being squashed like a bug in recent years. But I'm sure you are one to rectify that for me, Loki of Asgard, slave of a being that would like to control and destroy the universe?"

"I am no one's slave!" Loki snarled, his attention completey on her and not noticing the fastly approaching man in a suit of armor until it was too late when he was blasted onto the ground.

Captain America had risen to his feet by this time and was approaching where Percy and Iron Man were now standing, Iron Man having almost every weapon in his suit armed and ready to fire at the Asgardian.

"Make your move, Reindeer Games." Loki raised his hands in surrender and was then surrounded by a couple of SHIELD agents that had riden in the quinjet with Captain America, Percy, and Natasha, handcuffing him and moving him into the quinjet.

Percy snorted at Iron Man's nickname. "Nice, you mind if I use that the next time I talk to him?"

Iron Man, having retracted all the weapons and his suit and removed his helmet, turned to the female after having greeted Captain America. He smirked at her, having a feeling that the two of them were going to get on famously. And he couldn't help but feel like he knew her from somewhere.

"Of course not, as long as you introduce yourself to me."

The three began to walk onto the quinjet, Percy snapping her fingers and having Loki's scepter fly into her hands, the two men looking at her startled.

"My name, Tony Stark, is Persephone Jackson, but I believe you knew me years ago, as Seph Jacks, your nanny when you were 5 to when you were about to turn 7."

Tony's eyes widened in shock and rememberance having finally placed her. "Y-You were my favorite nanny that my father ever got to watch over me, you know."

Steve just watched startled, having not realized that Percy would also know Howard's son. Natasha and the others on the quinjet listened to the two, unashamed at eavesdropping to gather information.

"Of course I was! I was always helping you with your creations and snapping up treats… Speaking of which, still like Take 5's?" Percy asked with a grin, snapping up a king sized package of the chocolate, and handing it to Tony who returned her smirk.

Then Tony remembered that she had given him the start of a program years ago before she had left for his birthday when he was six years old and that he had imporved upon until he had his most trusted friend. "You know, I searched for you for years when I went to college to tell you thank you for helping me create JARVIS."

Percy smiled at Tony, knowing that even if she hadn't given him the basic code for JARVIS, he would have developed him anyway, it just would have taken him longer. "It is alright, Tony, and besides, I'm glad that you've had JARVIS with you for all these years. And I-"

Percy was cut off as lightning began to spark all around the quinjet, causing Loki whom had been staring intently at Percy for a long time, to glance at the ceiling nervously.

"Scared of a little lightning?" Steve quiped.

"I'm not overly fond of what follows." Loki said, turning slightly paler then before. Percy began to grin, knowing exactly whom was causing her uncle-worthy theaterics.

Then there was a loud boom on the top of the quinjet, as if someone had landed on it. Tony had stood to go check it out, but Percy had pulled him, and Steve - as he had been about to follow him - back.

"Allow me, boys. It's been a long time since I've seen our visitor."

Loki began to puzzle over this clue on whom this woman was, as did Steve, Tony, and Natasha, when the hatch was opened with a snap of Percy's fingers. And a figure dropped onto the open hatch and seemed to only be able to see Loki, that was until Percy stopped him with her words.

"Thor Odinson! Don't you dare take your brother off of this jet in that manner! Especially without even greeting me, your favorite aunt!"

Loki sucked in a breath as he finally figured out whom this woman was, although he knew she was no Asgardian. He now knew what and whom she was, and he couldn't be more thankful that she hadn't smitted him on the spot for threatening some of her creations.

Thor had frozen, as had the others in the quinjet at her words. Thor turned his head slowly and saw a woman he had thought he would never see again.

"Aunt Seph!" Thor boomed out delightedly. Going over and lifting her into a bone crushing hug, even as Percy snapped her fingers, causing the storm to stop outside and for the hatch to close. "It is with great pleasure that I see you before me alive and well. We haven't seen you in many thousand earth years!"

Percy smiled slightly, knowing that Natasha, Steve, and Tony had heard, the former immediately reporting this to her boss.

"It's great to see you too, nephew. Now why don't you sit down beside your brother while we head towards - what did you call him? - the Son of Coul is waiting with his superior."

"Tis a fine course of action, Aunt."

"Seph? You really are Aunt Seph?" Loki interrupted, his voice broken slightly and the blue eyes that Percy had noticed when first encountering him exiting the Tesseract and just during the little scrimish in Germany had leached to his regular green eyes that were almost the exact same shade of green as her's.

"Yes, Loki dear, I am. And I'm glad to have you with us totally for the moment, and not under the influence of that demon that you made a deal with when you fell from the rainbow bridge in Asgard."

"Demon?!" Thor asked, worriedly thinking it was the demons that their aunt had warned them about when they were younger that Loki had made a deal with.

"Nah, not those demons, nephew, but the one Loki has made a deal with, is as close to a demon as can be possible. But do not worry, little nephew, for I am here now, and he will not be able to influence you and command you for much longer."

Tony couldn't take it anymore. "Who are you?!" After getting puzzled glances from the three of them, Tony elaborated. "Apparently, your L'Oreal's and Reindeer Games's Aunt, you saved Captain Spandex here from bullies when he was younger, and you were my nanny when I was really little. You are obviously older then your appearance presents and older then the two nitwits there. So, I ask again, who are you?"

Before Percy could come up with an extremely funny response that would not answer his question what so ever, L'Oreal blew open her mystery box like Scooby-Doo and the mystery gang.

"She is the creator, friend Stark. She is the Creator of all that is in the universe. She is what you humans call God."