A/N: Hellooo! Here's this week's chapter. I just wanted to say, I know that the timelines are seriously messed up in this fic, but please bear with me. Pretty soon Team Flash's timeline will get back on track. And then I'll probably mess it up again about three to four weeks after I finish this. Sorry/not sorry. :)
Okay, this time the scenes are from (1) Silverado, (2) Pumpkinhead, and (3) Up. The first conversation was from (you guessed it, Melanie Arden Desmond) The Princess Bride. In the second breach, the scenes are from (1) Bambi, (2) Finding Nemo, and (3) Cats and Dogs. The song was "Sunday Clothes" from Hello Dolly!
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Sadly, we weren't done yet. Next, we were sent to Earth-150, which turned out to be one of my least favorites. Not because it was dangerous, but because it was so...so disgustingly happy. Have you ever watched a TV show or movie and just wished that everyone would die, just so they had some tragedy in their lives? That's how I felt on this earth. Yes, I know that these people's lives probably weren't perfect, but that's just the vibes (Wow, Percy, you're saying. More puns?) I got from the place. That sounded way darker than I meant it to. Sorry for all of those innocent children's dreams that I may have just crushed.
The journey over was pretty uneventful, as we were only seeing black. It was like staring into space, minus the stars. Apparently, the multiverse still thought we needed to slow down and listen to some music, because for some reason we were listening to a guy with a soulful, bluesy voice sing, "Every time I look at you, I don't understand why you let the things you did get so out of hand. You'd have managed better if you had it planned. Why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land?"
Then his voice faded away, to be replaced by a girl's as we were thrown onto soft white sand. I don't think the girl who was speaking noticed us at first because her voice continued.
"-demigod of the wind and sea-"
"Yes?" I interrupted as I pushed myself to my feet. Behind me, the sand rustled dryly as my companions did the same.
The girl who had been speaking before I interrupted (no, that wasn't rude) had dark skin and curly black hair. She was dressed like someone going to a luau and held a crude wooden paddle in one hand. In front of her stood a huge, hulking man with similar hair covered in tattoos and wearing a grass skirt.
"Um, I wasn't talking to you," the girl informed me.
"But you said "demigod of the wind and sea." That's me." I jerked a thumb back towards Annabeth. "Ask my girlfriend."
Annabeth rolled her eyes. "Seaweed Brain, you're technically only a demigod of the sea. Jason would be a demigod of the wind."
"Yeah, but I can make hurricanes," I said as I waved her off.
Barry's eyes widened. "You can do what?"
"Oh, did we forget to mention that?" I smiled. "Sorry."
"Anyways…" the girl trailed off before turning back to the man she had originally been talking to, apparently. "Maui, shapeshifter, demigod of the wind and sea-"
The guy cut her off just like I had, but we stopped paying attention after that.
"What is going on here?" I demanded of Annabeth and Barry. "He can't be a demigod; I've never seen him before. And honestly? No demigod looks like a cartoon character brought to life."
Barry frowned. "I think this is that new Disney movie…"
Annabeth's gray eyes glinted more than a little maliciously. "Oh, Hades, no. I did not decide to travel the multiverse just to get stuck in some idealistic world where people sing every. Single. Thing."
She jinxed it. She definitely jinxed it, because as soon as she said that, the big guy broke into song.
"I can see what's happenin', yeah-"
"Really?" I interjected. "'Cause I sure can't."
The guy turned to me and gave me his own version of a death glare (see, I told you. It's everywhere), but it didn't bother me much. "Can I just sing the song? Thanks." Then, without further ado, he began to sing again. "I can see what's happenin', yeah. You're face-to-face with greatness and it's strange-"
"Well isn't he just an egotistic, narcissistic, berdévontas, paidariódis-"
I sighed. "Annabeth, you're slipping into Greek again."
"CAN I PLEASE JUST SING THE SONG?!" the big guy demanded again.
All three of us made distasteful expressions before chorusing, "Fine."
"You're face-to-face with greatness and it's strange. You don't even know how you feel; it's adorable! Well, it's nice to see that humans never change…"
We jumped back into the breach that eventually popped up after several more minutes of Disney-style torture as soon as we could, ignoring the shocked cries of, "What the-?" and the surprised squawk from a chicken. Yes, a chicken.
Well, after carrying us to five different earths with no success, Barry declared he needed to eat and did just that, surprising Annabeth and I by pounding at least twenty burgers in quick succession. I noticed they were all from some restaurant call "Big Belly Burger," and when I asked about McDonalds, the only reply I got was, "Mc-what? Is that like, some Scottish restaurant on your earth?" Thank goodness at least one earth had been spared the horror of McDonalds.
Then we moved on to the next earth, Earth-2013. This one...this one was disturbing, to say the least. Our encounter with this earth was fairly short, so most of what we saw there was actually in transit.
This time, the multiverse seemed to be in a sleuthing mood, as we saw several different detectives at work. One was a young woman with strawberry blonde hair, another was two boys who looked like brothers, and the ever-enduring Holmes. That particular scene was accompanied by a clearly British voice saying, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
When we popped out of the breach, we didn't even wait for it to close before we raced back into it. Why? The first thing we saw was a man in a flannel shirt carrying a chainsaw. The chainsaw was running and the guy was jumping straight into the mouth of a shark that was flying through the air.
The second Annabeth and I saw that, we started smacking Barry's arms and yelling, "Wrong earth! Wrong earth! Get us out of here now!"
So we turned around and went back.
Earth-799 was also...interesting.
The multiverse finally decided to stop giving us headaches as we traveled, so it was more like rushing through a dark tunnel.
When we emerged, the first thing we saw was a gleaming white pegasus flying through the night sky.
"Yes!" I crowed. "We're home!"
Annabeth smiled happily, gray eyes shining with mirth.
Barry watched the pegasus fly with wide eyes. "Woah. Is that normal here?"
"Yeah," I nodded, smiling. But Annabeth frowned.
"You can see through the Mist?"
"That's the thing that makes everything look normal, right?" When Annabeth nodded, he replied, "Yeah, I guess."
Annabeth jerked her chin at the rapidly disappearing pegasus in the distance and asked Barry, "Can you follow it? I want to talk to the rider."
"Yeah, but how are you going to signal the rider?"
Annabeth gave him a look like, Please, don't insult my intelligence. I know exactly what I'm doing. "You're lightning will make them curious, and it'll be even more obvious since it's dark. Percy described someone taking him who generated lightning, so they'll be on the lookout for strange lightning. They'll come down to see what it is and we'll talk to them."
Barry shrugged. "Sure."
He grabbed our arms and ran us until we were just ahead of the flight path of the pegasus. He kept us there for a while until the pegasus gradually began to descend, heading towards a clearing in a park.
When the pegasus landed, Barry raced us up towards it until we were only five or so feet from the horse. Seated on the pegasus's back was a girl a few years younger than us.
"Who are you?" I asked. Annabeth and I were familiar with pretty much everyone in both camps, since we had been going back and forth quite a bit lately, but this girl was no one we'd ever seen before.
The girl stared straight at me like I was the anomaly and replied, "I was about to ask you the same thing."
Annabeth stepped in. "Are you new to Camp Jupiter?" The girl could technically have been from Camp Half-Blood, but she had a distinctly Roman feel to her that apparently Annabeth had picked up on as well.
"What?" Uh-oh. A girl with a pegasus that gives off a Roman vibe but doesn't know what Camp Jupiter is? Please let this still be our earth. Please.
"If you've never been to the camps, how did you get a pegasus?" I asked.
"There's only one Pegasus," the girl answered hotly, "and he's right here."
Barry frowned and cocked his head. "I thought you said you had a pegasus," he said to me.
"I do," I insisted. "And besides, I've seen the Pegasus before, and he's not pure white." Then I raised my hands in calming gesture. "Here, this'll settle it. I'll just ask the horse who he is." The girl looked alarmed after I said it and glanced down a her pegasus, a protective look in her eyes.
"Do you have any more surprise powers you'd like to tell me about before we continue?" Barry inquired sarcastically.
"Well, besides the puppet master, hurricanes, and talking to horses," I counted off on my fingers as I spoke, "there's the earthquakes and I think you already know about the waves. I busted open your cell with that one."
"Why am I not surprised?"
Then I turned back to the pegasus and directed my thoughts to it. Hey, I said. How's it goin'?
What do you want, mortal? the horse demanded. I could practically hear the insultingly polite British accent, even though I was fairly certain that the Pegasus was American.
I frowned. Most horses, including pegasi, address me as lord, my lord, or, in Blackjack's case, boss. Not that I was offended or anything, but - okay, yeah, I was. It's bad enough that most people assume Barry's the biggest threat just because he stands out the most and is fast enough to kill them in less than a second if he felt like it - oh. I think I see their point.
Um, I just wanted to know what your name was.
The pegasus tossed his head angrily, intelligent eyes trying to bore holes in my eyes. I believe Emily already explained that to you. I am Pegasus.
Okay, so the girl's name was Emily. Also, this horse was crazy.
I don't think the real Pegasus would like you naming yourself after him.
I am the real Pegasus!
I pulled out of our mental conversation after that. Talking to this horse was driving me crazy. "Yeah, okay, so… Your horse is nuts, Emily," I informed her. "And rude."
"He's not a horse!" Emily insisted. "And how do you know my name?"
"He told me," I answered gesturing towards the pegasus. "Inadvertently, but he still told me."
"You really talked to him?" she asked suspiciously.
"Well, yeah. I'm a son of Poseidon. It's one of my powers."
"You mean Neptune?" Emily laughed. "Good one."
My eyes widened. Uh-oh. Laughing at the idea of demigods. Not good.
Annabeth noticed too. "It's true," she confirmed a little nervously. "He's the son of Neptune's Greek form. I'm a daughter of Athena."
"You're both mortals," Emily responded disparagingly.
Ouch. That hurt. It was also our cue to leave. This girl was obviously affiliated with the gods, but she had no idea that demigods were real, which meant this was the wrong earth. Again.
But just to be sure, Barry decided to ask one more question. First he turned to Annabeth and I. "Where did you say Mount Olympus was again?"
"Above the Empire State Building."
It was a testimony to how fast Barry had adjusted that he barely blinked when I said that. "Okay, Emily, is it? Is Mount Olympus above the Empire State Building?" he questioned.
"No," she responded like we were idiots. Why does everyone just jump to that conclusion when you ask a question that's obvious to them? "Olympus is another planet, duh."
My eyes widened until they were big as saucers. "Wrong one. Wrong one wrong one! Let's get going, before something badhappens and we get stuck here!"
So we left.
