Ooooh we are finally at the final battle!

Its going to be a thrill ride now. ;)

So without further ado, here it is!

Tony

It all went to hell from there.

Destruction was all around me. Pieces of debris flew around me as I placed my armor on the ground to put it on.

There was a cascade of whirs and creaks as I encased myself in the metal cocoon. I felt ten times safer with it on.

I took off towards Loki with my armor on. The half bloods and Avengers had immediately taken off and taken on their respective enemy. But both Loki and Luke were still together and I found that a bit strange. I normally thought of Loki as the "I work alone and need no help because I am so powerful" type. But here he was with this Luke character.

Honestly, when I saw Luke, I didn't see much. I mean sure, the guy had muscles and looked pretty strong for a teenager, but all I saw was a kid who was trying to be something more than he actually was. And that was it. He held a sword in his hand and seemed pretty comfortable with it but seriously, who fights with swords anymore?

Well, apparently all the half bloods did. I figured that out not too long into the fight. But they seemed pretty good at what they did so I decided not to object.

The clearing was pretty bare other than the fact that it was covered with grasses. But it wasn't long before I realized that our enemies were looking for something.

"JARVIS, tell me. What do you think those two are looking for?"

The cool British voice replied almost immediately. "It seems they are looking for a particular type of plant sir."

The HUD screen in front of me focused on a strange-looking plant in the middle of the clearing. "This plant sir."

I nodded not having time to argue. But…why would they need a plant?

"The plant seems to be giving off an energy signature that looks vaguely Asgardian. But not exactly. It is definitely something different." It was like JARVIS read my mind.

But even with the lack of information, I managed to figure out that Loki must want to enhance his powers. But what about Luke? Would he give some power to him as well?

…There wasn't time to contemplate things like that. All we had to do was defeat them. And quick. Before they got to the flower.

I took off towards where the majority of Avengers were situated and took hold of Rogers.

"Hey, they're trying to get that flower." I pointed towards it.

He abruptly stopped his action of throwing his shield. "What? Why?"

"I don't know but that's what they're doing. I think they want more magic. All we need to do is stop them from getting it."

He steeled his eyes and threw his shield at Loki only to have it deflected. Then he nodded and shouted, "Protect the flower! Follow me!"

The others didn't argue. Thor, Natasha and Clint followed him towards the flower and formed a protective circle around it. The Half Bloods still fought the enemy. I went over to help them.

As I got there, I realized what was happening was not good.

I saw Loki raise his staff that he somehow must've summoned with his magic and directed it towards one of the kids. I think his name was…Nico.

"No!" I shouted at him and flew over to intervene, but it was too late.

I saw Nico's eyes take on a blue hue as Loki told him to attack. The other half bloods didn't know what was happening.

"Get back!" I shouted at them.

"But Nico-" Whoever had spoken was cut off. There was a loud rumbling from beneath the earth. I looked down to see what was happening. It was then that I noticed the hair like cracks appearing in front of Nico.

I looked up and saw that he had a gruesome smile on his face. It chilled me to the bone. I looked back at the ground in front of Nico and saw that the cracks had given away to an abyss. I stepped back in surprise along with all the other half bloods.

"Oh no…" I heard someone behind me whisper.

What the hell was happening?

I soon got my answer. And I definitely did not like it.

Dead…things came crawling out of the abyss. I had no way to properly describe them. They were literally just skeletons holding swords and guns. But there were hundreds of them and they just kept crawling out of the hole in the earth one by one.

I grew rigid inside my suit.

There was no way we could take on these things. They just kept pouring out and there was no end to them. And it was all because Loki had taken control of Nico.

I shot a powerful repulser blast at a handful of the skeletons. Their bones broke apart and they clattered to the floor.

"Ha!" I exclaimed. But my success was short-lived. As quickly as I shot them, they reassembled themselves. Before I could even count to ten, the skeletons were back to their original forms with no damage whatsoever.

The girl named Thalia appeared beside me.

"They won't die like that. They can't die. They're literally unbreakable. The only thing we can do is stall them." She paused. "We're going to have our hands full."

All I could do was nod. I was too busy shooting everything I had at the skeletons that got too close.

I groaned as they kept coming back together. We needed extra power. Something big and strong...

Bruce. Obviously.

I quickly scanned the area and found Bruce trying to help out the others while trying maintaining control over himself. I flew over and landed with a thump beside him.

"What?" He asked through gritted teeth.

I drew back my faceplate.

"We need the hulk."

"But-" Bruce started to protest.

"No buts. We need more power and the Hulk is all we got left. There's an army of skeleton warriors that can't die and we need your help to stop them."

Bruce scrunched his eyes shut and seemed to count to ten. I looked at him expectantly.

He finally sighed and said, "Okay. Ju-just stand back please."

I backed away a couple of steps, only far enough to give him space to transform. As I waited for the Hulk to appear, I saw Bruce's body grow rigid. He let out a deep breath and I could tell that the transformation had begun.

His bones and muscles grew and popped as he started to triple in size. It truly was a magnificent thing. I only saw this once before and that was when that stupid black hole had decided to drop by in our lab. And I was definitely not used to it. I didn't think I would ever get used to it.

And it looked so painful.

Having your bones and muscles ripped apart just so you could grow into something that was triple your size and a hundred times more dangerous.

Finally, after about a minute or two, the transformation was complete and I was face to face with the Hulk.

Bruce

I noticed two things when the transformation ended.

First, was that I was awake. I could feel myself. I was awake and I wasn't in the back of the Hulk's mind. And I was sure I could feel the Hulk's subconscious poking at me as well.

So we were both awake. That was definitely a first.

The second thing I noticed was that I could see everything as well. Usually in my transformations, I couldn't see anything. I would be asleep in the back of my…the Hulk's…mind. Now though, I could see everything that was happening around me in a strange green hue.

So I tried something.

Walk forward.

I spoke to the Hulk…or me, or someone. And surprisingly, it happened. I walked forward. Or, more like the Hulk walked forward.

And I almost trampled Tony in the process.

'Stop!' I mind shouted.

'Stupid Banner.' I heard the Hulk rumble through my brain.

That unnerved me to no extent. It would take a lot of time to get used to that.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Tony appear, flying next to my face.

"Hulk? Buddy, you in there?"

I tried to form words to answer Tony, but for some reason it was really difficult to.

So instead, I tried something else. 'Hulk, tell Tony that I'm here too.'

He grunted in bare acknowledgement and rumbled, "Hulk and Banner."

I saw Tony fly back in surprise. "Wait, what?"

I tried to form words once more and found that this time, I could. With all the strength I could muster up, I said, "Tony it's me, Bruce."

Tony flew up to my…our….face and stopped, apprehensive.

"Bruce?"

"Yeah."

"But how-?"

The Hulk spoke again. "Fight now, questions later.

I smiled inwardly. I couldn't have said it better myself.

Tony was left speechless and that rarely happened. "But-you-" He stuttered. "You know what, forget this. I don't even know anymore." He threw his hands up in the air. "We'll sort this out later."

He flew off towards the growing army of dead skeletons.

'Come on Hulk, we need to help them.'

'Hulk knows.'

He started walking towards the scene of the most damage. That was with Percy and Annabeth. They were being surrounded by dozens of soldiers holding swords and guns.

When they saw me approach, they backed up. I sighed within myself. I had to tell them it was me. I forced myself to speak through the Hulk's mouth.

"Guys, I'm here."

They looked up with surprise written all over their faces. "I'll explain later," I said quickly. Then I let the Hulk do all the smashing.

I felt him-or myself-bashing the heads of skeleton people together as well as smashing some of them to the ground. Very soon, many of them were broken on the ground.

Ha!

I wasn't celebrating for long. As soon as we had smashed the things, they just reassembled themselves.

"Stupid!" The Hulk roared into the sky and took the things and kept smashing them repeatedly into the ground. Each time they would only put themselves together again.

"Hulk, Banner, whatever, they won't die that way! The only way we can do some damage is if we get Nico out of Loki's control." Percy shouted.

'Puny god?' The Hulk rumbled inside of me.

'Yes. We have to get the puny god.'

"Okay." I said with difficulty in my voice. I noticed that the harder the Hulk fought, or the more energy I used up, the harder it was for me to talk to people on the outside.

I walked around the chaotic battle. Natasha, Clint, Steve and Thor were all centred around a lone flower in the middle of the clearing. Using their powers, they stopped any of the dead guys from getting too close to the flower. Most of the Half Bloods were all scattered around the clearing trying to stall the skeleton creatures.

Close to the flower in the middle, Tony and the girl named Thalia were trying to attack Loki, Luke and Nico. Both Loki and Luke seemed to be trying really hard to get the flower. What was so important about it?

I-the Hulk- ran over to them at top speed.

I could feel the Hulk's fury toward Loki. I had glimpses of our last battle with Loki. In my mind, I saw Hulk smashing him in the ground many time, over and over again. I could understand where the anger came from as ironic as it sounded.

As the Hulk and I got to Tony and Thalia, I saw the skeletons almost drowning the two of them. As quick as he could, the Hulk barreled into the thicket of them taking down a bunch of the skeletons. Of course it was pointless since they just kept fixing themselves, but it did buy us some time.

I went over to stand beside Tony and Thalia.

Thalia's eyes widen as she sees me. "Oh my god! What is that?"

I could feel the Hulk's annoyance at her words.

"That's Bruce Banner better known as the Hulk." Tony stated as normally as if he was telling her the weather. Her eyes widened.

"Yep. Hello Thalia." I said in my voice.

"Puny girl." Said the Hulk's rumbling voice.

"Oh my god…" She whispered.

"Yeah…still not used to that."

I could feel the Hulk bare his teeth in a gruesome grin.

We didn't have time to talk more. I saw the skeletons reassemble themselves and stalk slowly towards us. Tony shot repulser blast after repulser blast at them. At the same time, Thalia locked into combat with 5 of them at once.

The Hulk's strategy was, as always, to smash.

As we were too busy fighting to realize, something happened that changed the course of the battle for the worst. I wasn't paying attention at all and I would only curse myself for it later.

Only when it was too late did anyone notice that Loki had plucked the flower.

He broke off a piece of the flower and take out two other objects from inside his robe. He gave a piece of each to Luke and himself.

The next thing they did was eat the plants. Raw.

Now I only noticed these things when it was too late. That was why when Loki slammed his staff to the ground, I was very much surprised.

As he slammed his staff on to the ground, a wave that almost felt like a sonic boom rolled over us. The hulk and I were thrown back along with everyone else at least 10 feet. I heard Tony groan beside me as he got up. I wasn't the least bit hurt and sat up with ease.

The skeletons around us fell and crumbled to dust as well. I saw Nico who was the closest to Loki keel over and fall face first to the ground. I was almost positive that Loki's control over him was lifted.

Both Thalia and Percy ran to him as fast as they could after they got over their initial shock. They knelt beside him to see what was wrong.

I turned my attention back to Loki. I saw a faint shimmer of gold surrounding him, almost like an aura of power.

Tony flew up to my face.

"He has more power. I think that was why he needed the flower. It gave him the power."

I-the Hulk-nodded. That would be the only reason he would need the flower. Why else would he go through so much trouble to get something as stupid as that? But the strange thing was, was that he had given some of the plants to Luke as well. That would mean that Luke has some of the magic as well.

"Now, I will have my revenge." Loki spoke slowly and deadly.

"We will have our revenge." Luke intervened.

"But brother-" Thor tried to show Loki some reason.

"But brother nothing!" Luke screamed. "We are not brothers. We were never brothers and never will be brothers."

I saw hurt glimmer in Thor's eyes but it quickly disappeared.

"Luke don't do this!" Annabeth came running in from behind. She got about five feet toward them before she was stopped by what seemed to be an invisible barrier of energy.

"Why?" Annabeth asked, her voice wavering. I was sure that her and Luke had a lot of history.

"Because Annabeth! Don't you see? This is the only way that anyone can survive. This was our only choice."

"No it isnt-!" Annabeth started to say but was cut of by Loki.

"Enough! Enough games. I have waited for this for too long. Today will be your downfall." He turned to Luke and nodded. Luke copied the action.

Loki slammed his staff on to the ground once again and another wave rolled over us. But this time, it was different. As the wave rolled over top of Tony and I, the air around us wavered.

"What the hell-" But Tony couldn't finish his sentence because we were quickly sucked into blackness.

I could feel myself being forced to transform back to my original self against my will. Everything around me was distorted and I didn't know what the hell was going on. I was so confused.

Soon, the distortion of colours stopped and I was instead faced with endless black.

It was then that I realized that the real fun hadn't started yet. It was just about to begin.

And there you have it. I hope this chapter was okay for you guys..._ I had some trouble on it.

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-Detective DG