Chapter 15 I don't own anything.

Percy's POV

It had only been three days. Three days since my first Markus nightmare. I had more scars than I wanted to count and I was scared to fall asleep. The portal stabilizing machine was finished. It was being put together on the game floor right at this moment.

Right now we were eating lunch, no one had the heart to cook so we had take out. No one cooked because we knew the time would come for us to dive into the portal. We were nervous, if the old Avengers team without Loki and I couldn't come close to stopping the Chitauri, what would one more person do.

Loki was on his floor meditating and focusing his magic so he could power it, Nat hadn't been using guns much since she had heard about the mission. She had been wanting to try something different with knives and blades, but old and faithful would do anyone good on this mission. Cap was making a plan with paper and pencils, but with none of us knowing what the inside looked like, we had no map to go by.

"Alright team, we have no map, and we'll be lost in that... Whatever kind of building they use. So we've got to come up with a plan that can change depending on how the building is designed." Steve said.

"Well, we could split up with one of us going alone, because Loki won't be there and that will leave seven of us." Clint said, "We could go in groups of two, pairing up the two people who would do best with each other."

"Ok, so Big and Green would probably be going alone. Him being all smashy and stuff." Tony said, famously using his talent to push on peoples buttons.

"Yes, he would probably go alone. Percy and Natasha would go together, they fight well together and would kill me if they weren't together," Steve said, smiling a little at us. We just smirked back at him, "Tony and Clint could go together, Tony, you could lift him up to higher places for him to get a better vantage point." They agreed with that, "Thor, you and I would go together, when you smash your hammer on my shield the sound waves knock down and stun the enemy. Did I cover everyone?" Steve finished. Everyone nodded, then Nat spoke,

"How do we do this, we may have groups of two. But still, how are we going to do this?"

"Together." Steve answered.

Everyone just smiled and were probably reminiscing about something that I wasn't there for, when Tony asked,

"What are we gonna do now, we have our plan. The machine is being put together and I'm bored."

"You're always bored, Tin Man." I said.

"No, I am a human being, not a board."

Everyone groaned at the horrible pun that Tony had probably planned from the start. I just headed for the couch to sit down and rest for the mission.

Sometime later the portal machine was finished. We had all just sat around and thought about the mission and what could happen. We entered the game room to find Loki already there.

"Are you ready?" Loki asked. We all nodded and stepped up to wait. Tony helped put on the wires and attach them to Loki's hands. Tony stepped back as Loki started chanting under his breath, if they do they

"Suineg a era yeht od yeht fi, tuo erugif ot elpoep rof egassem sdrawkcab a yllaer si siht."

Purple light flowed from Loki and through the wires into the machine. A purple wall of what could have passed as Jell-O filled the open space. Tony pressed a button on the machine and the lights went out. The lights had gone out on seven blocks in each direction, but it was working. The electricity sparked as it ran along the outside of the machine.

BOOOOOM!

Smoke flooded the room, I couldn't see anything. Thor used his storm powers to use the wind to blow the smoke away. I looked at the portal. A wall of purple had filled in the machine.

"Go, it's working. I'll stay here and keep watch." Loki's tired voice spoke to us.

We all put the COMMS into our ears, except Bruce and walked through the portal.

It was like stepping through a normal door way, except the door way was filled with water. I fell to my knees once I got through, I felt drained from the journey through. The team was around me, all on the ground too. I noticed my surroundings.

We were on the ground, there was a replica of the portal behind us. The ground was made of dark stone and far in front of us was a huge stone castle. Loki's voice came through the COMM,

"From what I remember, there are several entrances at the front of the structure. They all lead to the same place, Thanos's throne. All you need to do is send one group up each path and take out every single Chitauri you find. This will quickly eradicate the monsters from this whole place." Alright, I can do that.

We jogged forward quickly, trying to get there as fast as possible but still have energy. We arrived at the front gates, there were seven entrances. We each took one. Nat and I entered the farthest right one, we walked into the castle. Behind us we heard a roar. The roar of the Hulk.

Nat and I moved on, so far there were no Chitauri. But of course I had to jinx that. We turned a corner and saw a group of Chitauri. I sprinted forward and slashed at one, slicing its stomach. I jumped on another one and stabbed my sword through its chest.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

The rest of the monsters were dead, courtesy of Nat's pistols. I turned to her, she blew on the ends of her guns.

"Oh c'mon, that's not fair." I complained.

"Toughen up, we've still got more Chitauri to kill." She replied, and walked ahead of me.

We kept walking, on and on. It got boring after a while, just stone walls. That is, until we came across a split in the path, Tony's voice came across the COMM,

"I'm guessing most of you came across the split too?"

"Yeah" Everyone chorused.

"Each of you take a path," Cap said, "They probably meet back together with each other, or other ones."

I took the right path, making me the most right person in the whole castle. I kept walking, alone this time. I came across stairs, I just assumed that some of the others had found stairs too. But you know what assuming does, it makes an ass out of u and me. I climbed the stairs, hearing a large crash below me. It was the Hulk, the roar that followed it kinda gave it away.

I kept climbing, then I came across a hole in the wall. It had a path of stone leading to it, and I heard shuffling noises coming from inside. I crouched and crawled in, there were eight Chitauri and one smaller looking one in the room.

I stepped inside, running forward with the element of surprise. I slashed one in half, and fell to my knees to slice at one's legs, stabbing it through the chest. The Chitauri retaliated, one stabbed at me with its spear, I deflected and stabbed back at it, impaling it through the stomach. I stepped forward and slashed sideways, executing two with one blow. The remaining four advanced, the smaller one staying slightly behind the rest. I spun in a circle, slicing three of them in a row with one slash.

The last one stepped forward, it came into better light. I stood up, only to stumble back as the thing pulled down a hood. Markus. He stepped forward twirling a knife menacingly, the same knife from my nightmares.

"Ah, so good to see you again. It's been, what? Four hours since our last session together. Did you miss me." Markus's muddy green eyes glinted in the light.

I just growled and slashed side ways, he deflected.

"Oh, no talk, just fight. Well then, I'm not holding back."

He stabbed at my arm with my sword in it to disarm me. I backed up, he followed. I slashed my sword downwards in an arc, Markus stepped to the side and slashed me across my side. He smirked and stepped forward, I stabbed my sword forwards, hoping to impale him. He dodged again. I sliced my sword against his leg by pure luck, but he didn't seem to be affected, too focused on me to notice.

I feinted right and whirled around, bringing my sword down on his shoulder. He screamed and tried to jerk away as my sword cut his flesh. I didn't relent. I ripped out my sword and slashed him deeply across the stomach.

"That's what you get for betraying Camp, torturing me, and daring to ever go against the Avengers." I spat, and walked back to the stairs, ripping off a section of my shirt to staunch the blood.

I limped up the stairs, talking into the COMM,

"So I fought some Chitauri and killed Markus, the one who has tortured me the last few nights."

"Fuck yeah! Get revenge! Go Avengers!" Tony cheered.

"Yeah, yeah. Go team! Woooo." I said in a not excited tone of voice at all. "Oh yeah, a while back did you guys come across any stairs?"

"No." Was chorused around the COMM.

"Oh, well. I did." I said.

"Okay, don't move, we need to find you now. You might have found a different section of the castle." Cap said.

"Yes, I agree. If you have found another section of the castle, you must all travel there. This might be the way to Thanos." Loki said from home base.

So I stood there, waiting for the team to find me. Most of them having to backtrack a long ways. I felt the blood dripping from my wound and realized I would need to cauterize it for the upcoming fight. I peeled away the improvised bandage and used my rarely used power over fire.

I covered my index finger in it. I slowly dragged it across my cut, it was really deep and needed to get fixed. I bit down on another piece of my shirt to keep from screaming. It was done. I lay there, recovering from the wound when I realized, how would Hulk get to where I was. Could he even hear me or the team over the COMM?

This was all answered when the team arrived with a calmed down Bruce Banner.

"How did you become de-hulked?" I asked.

"An incident involving Thor's hammer." Bruce answered me, rubbing his head.

I just nodded and stood up, grabbing my sword as I did. I looked to the team and kept on moving up the stairs.

A while later we came across a set of doors. This would have been fine, if they hadn't been able to fit a 20 foot tall giant through. I looked to the team and they nodded. As I was about to push open the door I remembered something.

My plan to change the world. I had put a lot of thought on whether or not to do this. But I would, because it was the only way.

I opened the doors.

And it is done! Next chapter will probably be the last one for the main plot line, however horrible it may be. There will be a chapter in which I talk about what to do next and story Ideas, I have a couple in the back of my mind so be ready.

So they went through the portal! This chapter was kinda rushed because I am having internet issues and I needed to get this out before my internet goes out.

Thank you to all who have read, faved and all of that good stuff. This story is almost over, and be ready for the ending I've got an idea for Percy's change the world plan.

I love you all, I'm out! Peace!

-Nerd.