A/N: Hey, peeps. I'm back. A little insight about the chapter, it starts the morning before the Electro attack. More insight: the Prophecy of Seven never happened. Also, I'm obviously not an expert on Ancient Greek armor, but when I say breastplate, I actually mean the entire front thing. I have no idea what that's called, and Google wasn't helping. Maybe I should let you read the story so you actually know what the heck I'm talking about.

Disclaimer: I still don't own either of these. I will tell you if I somehow, magically acquire the rights, but chances are slim.

Percy's POV

I woke up as the sun started shining into my window. My clock read 9:30, so I hauled myself out of bed. I pulled a camp T-Shirt on and a pair of shorts. I looked around for my sweatshirt. I found it thrown over the back of my chair. On it, was a note. First in English, and then in Greek. It read, "Percy, last night, a new Great Prophecy was recited.

The son of the sea will keep his vow,

And help his home, should fate allow,

Athena's foe will take a stand,

To protect New York from evil's hand,

The lost will be found, with twisted soul,

And only one can make it whole.

This new prophecy was recited when you saved that girl. Or more accurately, when you took on a 'superhero' name. Which is why we have giving you this gift. We understand that these superheros have a tendency to have secret identities. Now, when you flip up the hood of this sweatshirt, it will become a suit of armor, with a helmet. Take off the helmet, it turns back to a sweatshirt. The helmet was made specially for you. It should all be light, but durable. We hope you succeed in your quest. -Hermes and Poseidon. P.S. We also modified your sword. Now, instead of passing through mortals, you can use it as a blunt instrument, but it is incapable of killing them, no matter how much force you put into it."

I stared at the sweatshirt in disbelief, mostly because that meant that the gods had stolen it. Then again, the note was from Hermes. I glanced at the sweatshirt. I put it on and flipped up the hood. Sure enough, a few seconds later, I was wearing a surprisingly light, flexible, breastplate of what I guessed was leather and celestial bronze, and a similar helmet. The helmet was light, and I was surprised to find that it didn't make my face sweat. I ran over to the mirror in my room and looked at my reflection. I was wearing the bronze helmet and breastplate. I had no sleeves. I noticed that my pants had changed, too. I was now wearing semi-loose black pants with pockets and black sneakers.

I pulled the helmet off and my clothes went back to normal. I ran downstairs where my mom was putting pancakes on the table.

"Oh, Percy. I was just coming to wake you!" I sat down at the table and started eating. The pancakes were gone in an instant.

"Thanks, Mom! I'm going to go for a walk, down in Central Park. Grover told me that some of the in the naiads were complaining and pestering him because of those superheros and villans always fighting. I promised to help."

"Okay, be safe!" my mom called as I left.

I headed over to Central Park, but when I arrived, it was chaos. There was some maniac in a cheesy costume fighting Spider-Man. He seemed to be doing fine until the maniac, Electro I think, zapped him and he went flying into a wall. Electro turned back to the people in Central Park and continued his attack. Quickly, I flipped up my hood and instantly, my outfit changed into the armor.

"Yo! Sparky! Over here!" I yelled. Electro turned.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"Name's Riptide. You probably haven't heard of me," I said. Just then a third person joined in.

"Riptide? You're that guy who save the girl from the mugger!" I turned around to see Spider-Man.

"Yeah…" I said slowly. "How'd you know?"

"Oh, someone started a blog."

"What?!" I yelled.

"Well, yeah. The girl you saved."

"I'd hate to interrupt you two, but I thought you were trying to stop me?"

"What an ego," Spider-Man muttered.

"Trust me, you don't know ego's like I do." The sky rumbled. "I wasn't even talking about you!" I grumbled. Just then, Electro tried to zap Spider-Man again. Drawing Riptide, I ran at him, blocking the lightning bolts. When I was close enough, I slammed the pommel of my sword in his face. He stumbled backwards, but recovered fast. He sent a bolt of electricity at me. When it hit me, a familiar feeling came over me. I remembered my fight with Thalia, right before the Oracle showed up in the woods. I remembered how Thalia had used her spear as a conductor. Water is a conductor. I stood up, groaning, with a new plan.

"Spider-Man! I have an idea, but you need to keep Mr. Fry-off-your-eyebrows, here, busy."

"Okay, but I hope it works. If it doesn't, then our eyebrows won't be the only things getting fried." I stood still and closed my eyes. I called to the water from the lake where I fought Hyperion. My eyes snapped open and the water was rushing around me.

"Spider-Man, out of the way!" I yelled. Spider-Man shot a web at a nearby building and swung out of the way. I doused Electro in water, and surrounded him in a bubble, except for his head.

"Let me go, you–" he was cut off by Spider-Man, who had webbed his mouth shut. Electro tried to zap his way out of the water, but instead zapped himself.

"Nope, not happening!" Spider-Man called.

"You try to zap your way out, you zap yourself instead," I stated clearly. Electro stopped struggling. "Good. Spider-Man?"

"On it!" Spider-Man leapt forward and knocked out Electro. I returned the water to the lake, now that I didn't need to contain Electro. I turned to Spider-Man.

"Thanks for the assist," he said.

"No problem!" I said lightly. We stood in awkward silence until a redheaded girl my age came running up to us with a camera.

"Spider-Man! Riptide! My name is Mary Jane Watson. Can I interview you two?" she said, gesturing to her camera. I looked at Spider-Man who looked startled by the girl.

"Oh… Uh… Sure," I said, hesitantly.

"Okay. First question. Do you know each other, do you work together, or did you meet today?"

"Well," I said. "I knew of Spider-Man, but before today, I've never met him in person." Spider-Man nodded in agreement.

"Why did you save that girl in the alley?"

"To keep a promise," I said. The girl –Mary Jane, paused.

"Hmm… What do you think of each other?" Spider-Man answered first.

"Wow. I mean, I read the blog, and that girl seemed really grateful. You seem like a good person."

"Uh, thanks. I think that Spider-Man is pretty cool and I would disagree with Jameson calling him a menace. I–"

"MJ! Where's Peter? I can't find him!" A boy with light brown hair came running over to Mary Jane. Next to me, I heard Spider-Man mutter something under his breath.

"Oh shoot! Look at the time! We should both probably be going now, bye!" Spider-Man yelled. Taking it as a cue to leave, I disappeared into the crowd. I ducked into the woods and took off my helmet. When I was back in my normal clothes, I rejoined the group of people that had gathered around the unconscious Electro. I saw Mary Jane, the boy looking for a Peter, and Peter, from the cemetery. I'd assumed that the the boy looking for Peter had found him. By then, the police had arrived and were sectioning off the area. Peter spotted me and started heading over with his friends.

"Hey! Percy!" he called. When they got to where I was standing, he introduced his friends. "This is Mary Jane Watson and Harry Osborn. We hear you'll be joining our class this year."

A/N: These chapters are getting increasingly longer. The first one was around 900. The second one was probably around 950. This one is over 1000. They'll probably vary. I was having trouble finding a good place to end it. Well now this chapter is done. Please review!

-fezzesarecool1011