Chapter 6 I still don't own any thing.

"Hello again worm. After six days you're still not broken, that needs to be fixed." It was Leader again. It looked like he brought a big cart of different drinks. "You think these are drinks, well, they might as well be. For you at least. These vials are filled with different poisons, going from snake venom to Chimera blood. And maybe a few extra custom brews." Oh god, custom brews? I might as well surrender here, after all he might go easy on me.

"Let's start off easy, NOT. We're starting off with Chimera blood." He picked up a gold filled vial and shoved it into my mouth, I tried to resist but he punched me in the stomach and I choked it down. There was nothing at first, then a small tingle, then all at once the burn came. As it went down my throat, some of the poison had stayed in my throat. With the burning in my throat and stomach, I choked on it and some of the remaining blood got into my lungs.

I could not breathe, I was suffocating slowly. Leader was smirking madly and grabbed another vial. "This one you don't swallow." He whispered in my ear, then he poured it all over my head. It burned so bad. I screamed, tearing my poisoned throat open. Blood was rising starting from my stomach, I couldn't breathe- Wake up- it was suffocating me, burning me from the inside out.-Percy, it's just a nightmare-Everything froze, what was this voice, who did it belong to? I've never heard this in my cell before.-Percy, wake up, you're having a nightmare. Loki and I are here. C'mon just wake up.-I needed to wake up. Now I was floating above my cell and slowly floating upwards.

"There you go, c'mon, wake up. Good job, you did it." The soothing voice, Natasha. I was awake now, Loki and Natasha were in front of me. "Hey Natasha, Loki is on my floor, so he can get here quickly, but what about you?" I asked, groggy from sleep and not processing what I was saying. She blushed, looked away and pretended she didn't hear me. Loki smirked at me and Nat, wait. Nat? Am I starting to call her by a nickname now? Oh God I'm hopeless.

Then I realized something, "Hey Loki, how come you don't get nightmares? You were there longer than me." I asked. "As I am a god, I can push things from my mind if I don't wish to see them." Oh, well lucky him. I wish I could do that. "I'm fine now guys, it's just a nightmare. I'm fine." They didn't believe me. Natasha left first, and once she was gone I asked Loki, "Hey Loki, umm, I don't mean to offend you, but, can I have my own floor?" I asked quickly, trying to get it over with. "Yes, fine. If it makes you more comfortable, I will do it." He was smiling, not smirking, but smiling for once. "Thanks." I said and got a 'Your welcome' in return.

I fell back asleep moments later and didn't have nightmares about anything, but rather had a pleasant dream about a deadly spy with silky smooth red hair and green eyes.

I knew it was going to happen some time, and I dreaded my every waking hour waiting for it. But it's happening, we have to go see Fury. I really didn't want to, because this would require me to talk about my past again. Plus, I wasn't looking forward to when Tony made Fury explode from fury. On the ride over there I was staring out the window contemplating this when I heard my death call three people to my left, "Yay! We get to go see our friend the Pirate!" Tony and his nicknames are going to get him killed someday."Tin man, just be quiet for once. Not everyone likes your voice, actually, I think only you like your voice." Clit said smirking.

After a ten minute ride and some arguing on who could come up with the best nickname for Fury, Tony won with Captain Jack, we got to the SHIELD base. We walked around, stalling time until we get to Fury when Steve said, "Hey guys, we're late, really late. By like thirty minutes." This of course caused everyone to panic, except for Clint who crawled through the air ducts, and sprint to the briefing room. "You're late." A way too serious voice said. "And you decided not to tell me that you added Loki and another stranger to the Avengers team." Oh yeah, we're in trouble.

There was a very serious talking to about telling SHIELD if you are going to add mysterious people to the Avengers group, especially an ex enemy. No one took it to heart, except maybe Steve, but he took everything to heart.

"Now, I called you here to discuss a future mission, for all of you." Fury said

"Aww c'mon, missions are for the expert spies, not geniuses, playboys, billionaires, or philanthropists." Tony complained, whining in a way only Tony can.

"So what you're saying is that missions aren't meant for me." I said, smirking at Stark

"Enough talk, let's get on with the debriefing." Steve said, looking at us disappointedly.

"You're no fun Spangles." Tony pouted.

"Continuing with the debriefing now. Down in South Africa there was a terrorist attack, normally these attacks are relatively small scaled. So we would usually send Black Widow and Hawkeye, but this attack was seriously planned out from the start. This attack was aimed at a research facility for skin regeneration. For anyone not Stark or Banner, this is world breaking technology. This discovery could heal wounds that were previously thought of as incurable So I need this group of half assed heroes to go and save this technology, any questions?"

"Yes actually, will there be any shwarma?"

"No Tony, we're done here, can we go now?" Natasha asked.

"Yes, you're dismissed." Fury said.

We headed back to the tower, preparing for the mission when we realized Fury never told us when this mission would happen. After a quick phone call to 'The Pirate' as Tony says, we found out it would be happening tomorrow.

"Aww, I never get to rest from a fight and then this comes along and happens. I just want a break." Tony complained, he seemed to be doing that a lot lately.

"Calm down, Man of Iron, it is okay. It should be an easy mission, as we have the great Percy Jackson with us." Thor said loudly, "At least when we get back we can celebrate our victory with strawberry pop tarts!"

"That's assuming we win at all." Bruce pointed out.

"Don't be a Debby Downer, it'll be fun. We'll just walk in, shoot them, get the package, and get out. Easy as pie!" Tony exclaimed almost too happily.

"Whatever Tony." Me and Loki chorused as if practiced.

After that it was time for lunch, and we didn't feel like arguing, well, at least not too much. We just ordered Mexican food. We had a contest to see who could drink the most hot sauce. Clint won, but only because he replaced everyone's with Ghost Pepper sauce. Once that was done we all sat down around the couch to watch a movie, apparently, since everyone's mouth felt like fire, they thought Frozen could fix it. Two hours and three horrible covers of Let it Go later, we felt it was time to go to sleep.

I went to my brand new floor, consisting of only me, and did a nose dive onto the bed, hoping for only mediocre nightmares. Because after all, at this point the nightmares would always come and haunt me.

Leader came yet again, carrying this long tube like thing covered in blue, cold ice on the outside. He set it on the ground and left, then came back with another one looking like it was covered in orange marker. "You wouldn't know what these are because you are too stupid for your own good. This is the fire tube, and this is the ice tube." Leader said in his gravelly voice, pointing to each one respectively. I already knew that he was going to hurt me with them, but I didn't know how bad. He took the fire tube in his gloved hand and said, "Do you know what happens when rubber is heated then cooled over and over to extreme temperatures? It cracks, so I came up with a new name for you, Rubber Boy. He grabbed my right foot and jammed it into the tube, it burned horribly, my screams and the smell of burning flesh filled the air. Then he took it off and immediately jammed the second tube on my foot, it was blissfully cool for a second then it froze solid. Then the heat, then the cool. Over and over until I passed out. Leader slapped me awake and told me to look at my foot, I looked down and there was a crack of frozen flesh along the outside of my foot. But since the wound had been burned, it had been cauterized too, stopping it from bleeding. It was horrible, the pain in having the muscle in my foot frozen solid, I was screaming even louder as he hammered on it with his fist. Then he got up and started shaking me, back and forth really quickly. "WAKE UP!" I heard yelled into my ear and I woke.

"Oh thank God you're awake." It was Natasha, she had woken me up as usual. "You were screaming really loud, I had to hold a pillow over your mouth to muffle the screaming." I couldn't process what she was saying, I was too busy sobbing at the memory of the pain. Whenever Loki had been there, I had held in the crying to stay strong for him, but Loki isn't here now, only Nat.

"Hey, Percy, it's okay, you're safe with me now. I'm here, it's okay." I had a feeling that she had never shown anyone this side of her before, so I felt kinda special at that moment. So in a moment of stupidity, I asked her,

"Hey Nat, I don't think I'll be able to get back to sleep, so can you stay with me and wake me up if I have another nightmare?" In my defense, I was still groggy from sleep, it usually takes me thirty minutes to even get up and get in the shower. So this was coming from sleepy Me, not awake Me.

"Yeah, umm, sure." If I had been fully awake at that moment, I would have realized that I made the famed Ice Queen Black Widow herself, blush and stutter. But I was almost asleep, and I would realize this in the morning. So I snuggled up to her like she was a big teddy bear and fell asleep. When I would wake up in the morning, I would realize that I didn't have a single nightmare and it was the most restful sleep I had ever had.

Tony POV

"JARVIS, Tell all of the Avengers and Loki to get their asses up here minus Aquaman and Natasha." I whispered, trying not to wake up the two love birds despite them being a few floors beneath me."

"Yes sir, would you like me to make the screen bigger?"

"Yeah, just hurry up." I couldn't wait for the looks on their faces, I mean who wouldn't be shocked at seeing Percy holding the Ice Queen Natasha in his arms, and he didn't have a shirt on. Once they got up here, after me laughing hysterically at the curlers in Loki's hair, let's just say that they were mad.

"Tony, we might be science bros, but that doesn't mean that you can wake me up at," Bruce looked at his watch, "4:56 AM, really? C'mon, just wake me up later."

"No, guys just look at this and don't question why I'm up this early." I said hurriedly, 'They've got to see this.' I thought.

"Fine, Man of Iron, but after this I am going back to my chambers to sleep." Thor said sleepily.

"Alright, whatever, just look at this and don't freak out too much, that means you Clint." I said excitedly.

When I turned the screen towards them Steve was the only one who processed it truly because he always woke up early, army stuff. But then the rest of them finally woke up.

"What!"

"NO WAY!"

"Haha, Percy got some, or at least got close."

Many of these things were heard around the tower at the exact moment and it was so loud that it woke up the people who were being spied on, Percy and Natasha.

Percy POV

I woke up to lots of screams and I bolted up in bed, though strangely it was harder than usual. Then I remembered, Natasha! Oh CRAP, I just woke up Black Widow with a sudden jerk. I turned to my left and saw Nat sitting up with major bed head and the most angry look I have ever seen before. So that's how I stumbled into the living room of the Avengers tower at 5:00 in the morning with Natasha holding me in a leg lock riding on my shoulders.

When we stumbled in to the room, I saw Clint looking extremely mad, like someone just had sex with his sister or something. Then I saw the other Avengers looking at me with a fearful look, but not at me. No the fear was for me. Next I processed the screen in the corner showing a picture of my room.

Then I put the pieces together, Nat and Clint are basically brother and sister and it looked like I slept with Natasha.

"Hey, Clint, it's not what it looks like. I just woke up in the-" I was cut off by Clint tackling me, luckily Natasha jumped out of the way in time before I flattened her. Clint started punching me and kicking me, screaming, "How dare you sleep with Natasha, she's my sister!" Then the punches started to slow, and then they stopped. I looked up, expecting to see Clint being held back, but he, and all of the Avengers were staring at my chest. Loki was just staring at me sadly.

I looked down to see that I didn't have a shirt on, but that wasn't the problem, no. It was all of my scars, criss crossed on my body. Luckily I sleep in shorts, or else they would have seen a lot more. Some of the scars were ragged and uneven from monster cuts. Others were smooth and straight from swords and knives. Then there were the other scars from my time with the Chitauri, burn scars, circles from nails.

"Oh, umm, yeah. These are my scars from various monster attacks and t..torture." I stuttered, trying to get through the sentence.

"Oh my God, damn kid. You didn't tell anyone about this?" Tony said, shocked and surprisingly mature.

"They're just scars, n...nothings w...wron...ng with me..." I said, trying not to get choked up. "C'mon guys, we've got a mission to do." I said.

It is done! Whew, longest chapter yet, 2,500 words give or take a few. Also, did you figure out all of the hidden references for games in the last chapter? No? Oh well, I'm the Nerd so I have to know this stuff, it's part of the job. Next chapter is the mission, I'm already working on it.
I'm out!

-Nerd