Sunny days at the tower 2
Percy couldn't help but notice that in the coming weeks after her bizarre trip to help a lord of order that she was being monitored a bit too much for a random security guard. The cameras seemed to follow her wherever she went, Jorge checked on her often and when he wasn't, he or one of her senior colleagues was lurking somewhere not far off. Percy wasn't sure if she should be insulted at this clear lack of faith in her abilities after the fiasco on her first day or worried that somehow, someway footage of her at the tower of magic had been relayed to her employer.
This all came to a head when Percy and Jorge were doing a sweep of the basement parking lot and adjoining rooms after an unauthorized access was reported.
"Jorge can you be honest with me real quick" Jorge looked over from checking underneath an SUV "what's on your mind rookie"
"Am i in trouble or something, i've just noticed that i tend to be checked on more than most" Jorge seemed to pause then sighed, dread starting to rise within her that he seemed to notice when he glanced at her, softening his expression. "Don't worry rookie you're not in trouble, Mr Wayne was looking for extra security for an out of office job and was considering you, he wanted to be sure you weren't affected by your first day and that you'd be suitable for the job"
Percy's heart sung with relief and smiled lightly "thank the gods, what kind of job is it" she asked curiously jorge looked over and smiled "personal security for an diplomatic attendance outside the country" percy wanted to be happy but her mind churned with worry, that would require flying and she might be on Zeus's good side more often than not but she still didn't like the thought of it. Percy was about to respond when she heard something clatter on the ground for a moment both her and Jorge stopping on the spot and going quiet. "You hear that" she whispered "yeah, we'll split up and see if we can catch whoever got in" he whispered back as they both slowly split off in different directions slowly making their way to where they thought the sound came from.
Creeping silently through the parking garage, Percy was slowly inspecting for any signs of disruption when Jorge called from the otherside "HEY WE GOT A BODY HERE". Percy immediately moved over to Jorges side for back up, when she got there Jorge was inspecting the body, a male, throat slit and sitting in the car with his hands on the wheel.
"this is one of the cleaners, radio in i want this tower on lockdown and a floor by floor sweep done in pairs on all levels", sensing the importance of a murderer potentially infiltrating the tower percy got on the radio quickly relaying the instructions and while she was at confirmed that someone was indeed missing from the cleaning crew. A low siren slowly pulsing through the garage started as the doors of the garage gave an audible click locking them in.
"alright towers locked down and i've confirmed that the cleaners are missing someone so he could still be down here" percy said as she walked back over to jorge who was checking the glove boxes "good thinking and you might be right" looking through the last and not finding what he was looking for he sighed "shit, our cleaner here was a registered carrier usually left his piece in the car and i can't find it" standing quickly he radioed in "be on guard the intruder may be armed with a small firearm" as he said this there was an audible bang from somewhere in the garage and soon after the lights all turned off drenching the garage in darkness. Flicking on their small handheld torches and unholstering their firearms jorge said "powers gone he must be in the main switchroom, come on" as they quickly though cautiously started towards the switch room "and remember these suit jackets may be bulletproof but your head and legs aren't, be careful" percy could only nod in consent as they had neared the room.
When they got to the switchroom they found the lock with a hole in it, quietly moving to either side of the double doors both Jorge and Percy holding onto the handle of a door. Jorge counted down from three, on go both yanked open their door aiming their pistols and shining their light into the room. Not seeing any immediate danger Jorge cautiously stepped into the room starting a sweep behind the electrical boards. Hearing frantic thuds of bare feet on concrete percy was about to turn around when they abruptly stopped and a hard shove from what felt like feet propelled her into the room landing roughly on the floor.
A loud giggle and the slam of the doors followed and suddenly Jorge was by her side aiming at the doors as Percy picked herself up off the floor. "You alright" he muttered still aiming at the door "yeah, fucker caught me off guard is all" percy said now back on her feet. Performing the same breach with the doors they did before percy and jorge swept their lights around the garage, everything still and nothing out of place.
As they started back towards where they found the body a sudden scream from above started them as a body dropped down kicking Jorge in the head hard making him fall to the side, the body quickly turned towards Percy and she had to quickly dodge back as a knife lashed out at her. Getting her light up and on her mystery attacker she stuttered for a moment, standing in her light was a bald man smiling in only black jeans holding a knife in his right hand and a gun in his let, what really stood out was the numerous tally marks all over his body, a fresh one on the left side of his chest 'what the hell' percy thought.
taking advantage of her momentary stutter the bald man rushed Percy kicking the pistol out of her hand and brought his knife up to slash at her throat. Percy quickly backed up again and then again in a chase of cat and mouse as the attacker continued his relentless assault, the attacker realizing the need to switch tactics began stabbing at her. A moment later Percy got her chance to counter when her attacker over-extended on a stab at her left side. Percy moved into his guard and trapped his arm between her arm and body and threw a punch striking his nose and hearing a crunch. Smile widening as blood poured out his nose the man brought his other arm up, the one with the gun "oh shit" percy said as she quickly let his arm go, stepped back and kicked him in the chest to throw him back and disrupt his arm as he fired off a shot. Unfortuanetly due to her luck his shot struck true hitting her on the right side of her chest and the force making her stumble back a step. As he steadied and aimed again Percy quickly dived towards one of the cars, scrambling behind it as shots rang off.
Percy peeked back over the car when she heard the click of an empty weapon, as the man dropped the gun and started towards her, jorge back on his feet, rushed the man picking him up and slammed him onto the floor following up, with a hold on his leg, threw him into the side of another car. As the attacker started to stand up Percy rushed in towards him slamming his head into a car window and shattering it which brought Percy a precious second to back up as he staggered on his feet.
As he shook his head, blood flowing freely from a cut on his head percy saw jorge slowly creeping up behind him, giving her a nod, percy rushed the man and once in range jumped and drop kicked him in the chest sending back into the arms of jorge who promptly lifted him into a suplex dropping him hard enough there was an audible crack from his back and head striking the pavement, backing up a bit both jorge and percy waited for any sign of movement. Once a short amount of time had passed both percy and jorge breathed out a sigh of relief, percy moving in to secure the man with cuffs and Jorge calling for the authorities and for the lockdown to be lifted.
With the authorities arrival and consequent restraining of the unconscious man now named Victor Zsasz for medical services (Jorge dropped him hard), a prolific serial killer who'd been in and out of arkham asylum, percy's day was starting to look a whole lot better, though she'd have a bruised chest till she got home 'getting shot hurts' she thought as she absentmindedly touched the bruising. As jorge and percy stepped back to let the authorities handle the scene Mr Wayne appeared next to the pair making percy jump slightly 'by the gods he's silent' she thought "Jorge, Ms Jackson i wanted to thank you both for this" he said as he shook both their hands "it was no problem sir, and i suspect this was a good enough example of skill" jorge replied eyeing percy. "It was and so Ms Jackson" Mr Wayne said nodding and turning towards percy "i would like to extend an extra security job with extra pay for you at the end of this week as one of my bodyguards for a peace summit i am attending between North and South Rhelasia" percy whilst knew the offer was coming was still surprised she was considered for the position since whilst had shown she was competent was still relatively new to all of this, she would never turn down some extra money though so "yeah id be happy to be security for you" she replied with a smile.
Smiling, Mr Wayne replied "that's good to hear, Jorge will provide you with the details but it is good to have you on board" with that he shook both their hands once more and was then out the door probably heading back up to his office. "Whys Mr Wayne invited to a peace summit, he doesn't seem the type you know" percy asked turning to jorge who started chuckling
"he's not but Wayne Enterprises has provided a lot of medical and technical supplies for both nations in the past and so he was invited to witness what could be a momentous occasion of a nation unifying" percy nodded going along with what he was saying "so he's there for the publicity" jorge erupted in laughter "yeah pretty much, come on i'll show you the information you'll need".
Percy was drumming a rhythm against her leg nervously as she waited beside Mr Wayne and jorge. Both parties from the separate country states were here but no one had attempted to move indoors and begin proceedings. "What are we waiting for" whispered percy to jorge, Mr Wayne however was the one who heard her and smiled "we are waiting for the arbitrator to arrive, rumor has it that it's superman" jorge chuckled beside them "i wouldn't get your hopes up, they said the arbitrator is arriving by car". waiting a couple more minutes and percy was seriously starting to get bored, sensing that Mr Wayne sent her over to one of the coffee stands to get him a drink.
However the girl at the stand was totally ignoring "heeeyyy what's wrong with you, can't you see i'm here" she whined, the girl looked away from the reporters for a moment and glanced at her "fuck off" before looking back over at the reporters again like nothing happened. Ooooooooohhhhhh percy did not like this girl, as she turned away to go try another stand a white limousine pulled up in front of the building and, was that lex luthor. Percy turned back towards the stand worker to confirm, previous fight forgotten, when she was met with an empty store 'what the hell, wasn't there a worker here' percy slightly starting to feel crazy glanced up slightly and was met with a white masked figure holding a rocket launcher standing on the roof of the stand. "WHAT IN HADES NAME ARE YOU DOING" she yelled as she jumped up onto the counter then again to snag the masked girl's ankle dragging her down and off balance as the shot of the launcher went wide hitting the water fountain in the center of the circular patch of greenery the road went around.
Percy heard screams all around and would've seen them too if she didn't get a boot to the face as the girl used her face as a springboard and launched herself over to the limousine. Percy scrambled to her feet and raced after her but it looked like she wasn't needed. Some redhead with a bow had managed to tackle her and hold her long enough for them to be surrounded by officers with rifles. As she made her way back to Mr Wayne and Jorge, they looked to have been thoroughly amused by what had occurred despite the imminent threat to their safety. "Have a good laugh did you" she said as she got back to her spot, jorge just burst out laughing whilst Mr Wayne politely chuckled "can say that's probably one of the more interesting ways i've seen someone stop an assassination attempt" jorge said as his laughter died down, percy scowled but it quickly melted away to a smile as he was probably right. From there everyone was rushed inside to further secure them as the now identified red arrow, courtesy of Mr Luthor, and the assassin were arrested.
Percy was bored, this stupid meeting had been going on forever and nothing still had been agreed upon, she couldn't even slip away or entertain herself with something because they'd been seated with other members of the political parties and journalists at the tables in front of where the two leaders were currently arguing. It didn't help that the assassin from earlier had escaped jail with aid from accomplices so Jorge was being extra cautious and serious as they sat around. When the announcement of tea was called for, Percy stifled a yawn as she looked behind her, only to pause when she saw one of the teens from the tower there. He seemed to have noticed her too but seemed to recognise she was meant to be here, he swiftly turned around once the woman with the tea cart drew closer and as he started talking to her, she noticed he'd pulled two handheld devices out and was drawing water in from around the room.
The server quickly pushed the cart towards him and he slammed the water down in place as a shield, something Percy subtly bolstered with strength with her own abilities as the cart hit the barrier and exploded sending smoke throughout the room. When the smoke cleared the server was getting to her feet after being thrown backwards and quickly moved to the side as the window behind her shattered as a helicopter flew right up beside it.
Out of the helicopter stepped a group of black clad ninja looking men 'so cool' thought percy, before two more stepped out. A man with armor along one arm wearing a hockey mask and a redheaded man dressed like the other ninjas. As Cheshire engaged in combat with red arrow, the security personnel of both Rhelasian officials rushed to engage the ninjas resulting in a confused mess of fights. Jorge busy rushing Mr Wayne to the back of the room left Percy to handle any incoming assailants, percy sidled up beside aquaboy "hey aqua boy who are they" she asked. Aqualad turned to her with a frown 'shit did she get his name wrong, oh who cares' "the league of assassins,those two are sportsmaster and the red dragon while cheshire is the one currently engaged with red arrow, all highly skilled assassins" he said. Percy nodded along "cool cool, dibs on the hockey player" aquaboy just gave a curt nod like he understood her abilities and turned to face the redhead 'Huh that Dr fate must've said something' she thought before turning back to the hockey enthusiastic stalking towards her.
"A bit far from Canada aren't you, are you lost or do you just have some interesting fashion choices'' she called out making him chuckle "i'm gonna snap you like a twig little girl" he said as he brandished his javelin moving in towards her. Unholstering her pistol Percy let shots fly as she rushed towards a katana that had been dropped. 'Gods this thing feels weird' and it showed in her first few strikes against the man that she was clearly used to a heavier weapon.
A couple swings in and Percy was getting the hang of it and started to put together her own combinations. At one point percy and sportsmaster clashed their weapons into a standstill each fighter pressing in trying to overpower the other "i'm surprised you could keep up girl, but your gonna need to be better to beat me" percy gave him an almost lazy look "sure buddy" and quickly unholstered her pistol firing three times , once through his foot, then his shin, then his knee before the click of an empty gun sounded. "Ahhh" sportsmaster grunted, losing his balance and tipping backwards, giving one last swing as he did and managing to strike her across the face, drawing a line of blood across her cheek .
As percy's head whipped to the side she saw aqua boy get hit with a flurry of punches then kicked to the ground sliding till he was at the ledge of the shattered window. Aqua boy was on his knees stumbling and trying to get up and in a split second definitely unthought out decision Percy ran forward throwing her borrowed sword at sportsmaster so she could slip by and rush the red dragon as he stood above Aquaboy ready to finish him. "NO" yelled as she leaped at the red dragon tackling him around the waist and sending them both out the shattered window. Tumbling through the air, Percy could tell she really messed up this time, as she attempted to flatten herself out she was slammed into from the side as that stupid redhead started to grapple with her, occasionally getting a hit in. their grappling definitely wasn't helping as they started to spin faster and faster making percy's stomach start to revolt. "Oh i think im gonna puke" the red dragon's eyes widened comically right before he got a face full of vomit "OH YOU DISGUSTING IDIOT" he roared loud enough that the gods on olympus probably heard him, before they both slammed into the balcony covering the entrance to the building and everything went black.
Percy slowly opened her eyes, seeing nothing but a white bright light "am i dead" she muttered confused as to what was happening "no but you sure seem to be good at getting yourself close to it" said a rough voice to her left. Looking over, eyesight starting to clear percy saw jorge sitting in a chair reading a book, when he noticed she was looking at him he set it down and properly faced her "how you feeling kiddo" he asked softly "everything hurts" percy replied, because it did, after her initial confusion was over all percy could feel was immense pain everywhere. "Not surprising considering you fell out of a building, i reckon the only reason you're still alive is because that red headed bloke cushioned your landing a bit" jorge said grimly "he live" she asked "no" "good" she mumbled closing her eyes. Jorge snorted with amusement before tapping his book twice to get her attention again "should you wish to continue at this job you'll be on desk duty for a bit once you get better enough to return to the tower"
"and how long will that take" she mumbled jorge just sighed again "probably a month, you've got deep bruising through your whole body, a concussion and a couple broken ribs, the fact you got off with just that is a miracle itself" he said slightly exasperated by her unbothered expression.
"Wayne Enterprises will continue to pay you however do you have someone to help you at home while you rest" percy thought for a moment before sighing in defeat "yeah i can make a call, get someone over, is that all" jorge simply shook his head "no but the rest can wait till we get back to the states, and you've got one more visitor before we put you under and ship you over anyway" he said standing and walking off.
Taking his place was the teen hero Aquaboy "come to thank me have you" she mumbled at him. He looked up at her before getting up and deeply bowed to her "you have my profound gratitude for the sacrifice you made, i hope to honor any favor you may need in the future" he said. 'Man this kid is overdoing it' she thought "hey it's fine aquaboy, no thanks needed but i will be saving that favor for later" she watched his bro twitch at the aqua boy comment and smiled "if that is all then i will take my leave" he said standing and leaving. Percy, rather content with what had occurred decided she deserved a nap and promptly let herself fall into the realm of morpheus.