The Multiverse of Percy Jackson

by The Gentleman with a Mustache

Percy Jackson and the Seven meet a Watcher. A deity that watches over a universe specific to a fandom. The Seven are given a chance to see different universes of themselves. Percy Jackson is owned by Rick Riordan and all properties are owned by their respectable companies.

14. Percy of the Dead Pt 3

The screen came back to life, showing the inside of the pub from different places, showing that it was empty, chairs put up, doors locked and lights off. Piper, Annabeth, and Sally were sitting at a table, Grover was leaning against an arcade cabinet while Jason was standing there with his arms crossed. "He's been gone a good twenty minutes."

"Seventeen." Grover corrected him.

"Either way... We need to think about blocking up this window here. We're totally exposed." Jason said, pushing his glasses up.

Piper then decided to ask, "How will Percy get back in?"

Jason muttered under his breath, "I'm sure he'll knock." He then looked around and sighed, "For goodness sake, let's get some lights on."

Annabeth panicked and stood up, "Jason, wait!"

Jason tried to flip some switches, but nothing turned on so he reported, "Power's off."

"That's a good thing. We don't want to advertise our whereabouts more than we already have." Annabeth advised him.

Jason sighed and whispered, "No, of course not."

"Do. We, Jason?" Annabeth emphasized, trying to make sure he understood.

"No, of course not, Annie. I'm just being proactive. There's no lights. There's no power. Where are the owners? And there's that bloody great hole in the window." Jason pointed his thumb to the open window.

Grover felt the need to remind him, "You did that, you twat!"

"Somebody had to do something! I don't know if you noticed back there, but we were in a spot of bother!" Jason retorted, which made Grover look away, looking a little guilty at his part in that whole ordeal.

When Jason complained about the window being exposed, many simply looked at their own Jason with an annoyed glance. "I swear if this cowardly prick complains about something he made, I swear I'll find a way to enter there and rip his jaw off." Ares said a little heatedly, Aprhodite had to place a restful hand on his shoulder to somewhat calm the God of War but not enough to not make Jason nervous.

"Damn, Ares. I thought you didn't care about what happens to these guys." Apollo commented.

"One thing I hate more than pacifists are cowards or people who do nothing but complain." Ares shot back against Apollo.

"On that, I agree with him. Especially when this version has done nothing to improve their situation or offer any solutions to their situation." Artemis commented.

"Jason, if you were in that situation, and the leader was away for long, what exactly would you do?" Leo asked, looking at his friend.

"Well I would have fixed that opening by placing a makeshift wall, it wouldn't be perfect but will at least make it harder for the zombies to enter. Then, I would check on the supplies to make sure we'd at least have enough to keep us alive for a while." Jason listed.

"Well one thing's for sure. They've got plenty of alcohol with them. I know Mr. D would love to be stuck in there." Percy said with a sigh.

"And I doubt the snacks that are hanging around will help them out for long." Frank commented.

"Remember what Grover said though, there's a Breville in the back of the pub. Whatever that means." Annabeth added.

Cortana, the space station's Sentient Intelligence informed them. "Breville is a home electronic appliance manufacturing company in Australia. So what that version of Mr. Underwood is suggesting that there is either a refrigerator, or a coffee maker, that can supply them for a while."

"Hopefully it's the refrigerator then." Hazel said.

Before Jason flipped the switch everyone but Zeus, Hera and Demeter cried out for him to stop. Thankfully they calmed down when the lights didn't turn on, causing Grover to say with a sigh of relief. "Thank you, power outages."

"Zombies may have lowered their intelligence, but they can still see when something changes." Athena said, sipping on some champagne.

When Jason was seen caving to Annabeth, Piper looked away from the screen, reasonably mad at this version of Jason. But when Jason verbally attacked Grover for telling the truth that caused the Grover Protection Squad to start showing real rage as Percy and Annabeth violently shook in their seats as electricity danced round Thalia's eyes and fists.

"Oh I want to have a long talk with him now." Percy growled, his sea green eyes glowing.

"Percy, please don't do something you'll regret." Grover pleaded nervously.

"We just want to talk to him, Grover." Annabeth said through gritted teeth.

"Annabeth, please no."

"Don't worry, Grover. We're just gonna talk to him about how to treat people properly." Thalia said, lightning crackling in her eyes.

"Thalia, come on."

"We just want to talk to him." The three said in unison with a growling tone, causing everyone to actually be concerned.

"Remind me to never do anything to Grover." Leo whispered to Piper who nodded in agreement.

Jason continued while everyone looked uncertain. "Somebody has to take control of the situation, and if none of you are prepared to accept that responsibility, then perhaps... I should." Jason said, pushing his glasses up once more, trying to look confident that he could become a leader.

Sally was fidgeting with her left arm as she asked, "Will Percy be gone long?"

Jason sighed and looked away while Annabeth answered her question. "He'll be back soon."

Jason looked back and asked, "How can you know that?"

Piper glared at him, "I don't think he'd leave us, Jase."

"Wouldn't he?" Jason said to Piper before looking at Annabeth. "Annie, how can you put your faith in a man you spectacularly binned for being unreliable?" Annabeth sighed as she listened to him while Sally looked uncomfortable.

Jason continued, "A man whose idea of a romantic nightspot and an impenetrable fortress are the same thing. This is a-this is a pub! We are in a pub! What are we going to do!?" Jason raised his voice, making Piper raise her hands in an effort to tell him to keep his voice down.

Grover suggested, "We could get a round in." Jason was starting to lose his temper.

"Look, let's just keep quiet and wait for Percy. We can barricade the window when he gets back." Annabeth said, keeping her voice just slightly above a whisper.

Jason crossed his arms, "What then? How long? Days? Weeks? A month? What about food? What are we going to eat?"

Piper had a hand on her forehead to try and stop herself from getting a headache before saying, "Toasties!"

Grover pointed out, "Yeah, there's a Breville out back."

Jason said out of exasperation, "Oh, great then, saved by nibbles! That must be why Percy took us here before he buggered off!"

Annabeth had to whisper her yell, "He's coming back!"

"Jason, I love you. But I really want this, sansbite version of you eaten by zombies." Piper said in a tired tone, she was clearly over watching this version of her boyfriend make an ass of himself.

(Sansbite is French for dickless.)

Jason sighed and rubbed his head in embarrassment, "I should be offended by that. I really should... But I'm in agreement. I'm not doing anything to help the situation."

Annabeth was starting to get angry the more Jason talked. "Why? Because he promised? And even if he does, do you think his master plan is going to extend to anything more than sitting and eating peanuts in the dark? What, he's just gonna stroll in, and suddenly everything will be ok!?" Jason yelled out.

That's when Annabeth stood up and shouted, "I DON'T KNOW, JASON!" This made Jason's eyes widened as she continued, "I don't know anymore than you do, but what I do know, is that we're here now, and we have to make the best of it!" Jason was stunned to silence as Annabeth ordered Grover. "Grover, get me a double vodka."

"Right you are." Grover walked away towards the bar.

Piper took a deep breath, "I'll have a drink too, actually. Would you like one too, Sally?"

Sally was messing with her wrist before looking at Piper with a smile. "Hello!"

"I honestly feel like I need a drink." Piper said with everyone but Percy agreeing.

"Well unfortunately we don't give alcohol to minors, even if you guys have been through more than any other person in history, I can't break that kind of rule. Besides, I'm pretty sure Mrs. Jackson-Blofis would kill me if I tried." Nick had to break the unfortunate news to them.

Percy gripped his arm, "I don't want a drink anyway..."

Sally looked at her son, and realized why he wouldn't accept it. Even now, that walrus-sized scumbag of a stepfather still affected him. She gently wrapped an arm around his shoulder, "It's ok, sweetheart."

Xion snapped her fingers, causing Nick to look at her as drinks landed next to everyone. "What? I gave them regular soda."

As she said that, Hazel spoke up. "Can I have some more Root Beer?"

"Yeah, your table has a teleportation pad that will summon any drink or food you want." Nick explained.

Hazel looked at it and a holographic keyboard appeared on the table. She typed in the drink and suddenly a can of root beer appeared before her. "This is amazing!" Hazel exclaimed before grabbing the soda can.

As soon as Sally was seen messing with her wrist, Annabeth's eyes widened like an owl. She silently increased her breathing, making her brain in overdrive to give her a different answer than the one she and her mother had already figured out. Athena was… conflicted. She shouldn't care about this woman's fate, especially when it is the mother of the boy she despises almost as she despised Poseidon. However, she knew this would tear the boy up, having to watch his stepfather and mother turn into zombies.

Jason through his hands up in the air and went up in hysterics as he shouted, "Right, great, fuck it! That's what we'll do, that's what we'll do! We'll all have a party, we will get completely smashed!" Jason then pulled a bag of snacks down, "We've got our nibbles! We've got our Mini Cheddars." Before throwing them to Annabeth.

"Jason!" Annabeth hissed.

"Twiglets!" Jason tossed a bag to Piper before grabbing one final bag. "Oh look! Hog Lumps!" He threw them away before they were caught.

Everyone looked to whoever caught them, revealing it to be Percy. Perfectly fine. "Pickle!" Sally stood up from the table and hugged her son.

"Hello Mum." He hugged her back before looking towards everyone. "Everyone ok? Any sign of John and Bernie?"

Piper replied, "We haven't seen them."

"Did you check upstairs?"

"We think it's locked."

"What's the phone situation?"

"Dead. Same as the power."

Percy nodded, "Ok." He opened up the bag and Annabeth walked up to him with a smile.

"How nice of you to join us." She commented.

"Yeah well, I promised, didn't I?" He asked before holding the bag out for her. She smiled and dug into the bag and pulled out a Hog Lump.

Jason stepped over to him, leaning from behind the bar. "How did you lose them?"

Percy turned towards them. "I just gave them th slip. It wasn't that difficult. They're not all that."

"How'd you lose them?"

Percy pointed to a door. "There is a backdoor, Jason. I tried to tell you before you went and smashed the window."

Jason turned his nose to him. "Well I wasn't the one blowing our cover by having a tiff with my boyfriend."

Percy scoffed. "He's not my boyfriend."

Grover stepped over, handing Percy a freshly made pint. "Might be a bit warm, the cooler's off."

"Thanks, babe." Percy joked while grabbing the pint and took a sip.

Annabeth then asked the question that was on everyone's mind. "So what's the plan, then?"

"Something tells me it's just drinking and eating peanuts in the dark." Percy sighed while pressing his fingers into his eyes.

"I mean, what else can you do, now that you've made it to your destination?" Leo asked.

"I'd say make sure that any way to enter is blocked." Jason suggested.

"Well I had to have locked the back door if I came in through there." Percy figured.

"We just need to block the widow." Grover pointed out as it was still not covered.

"I'm sure they will." Frank said with hope.

The scene made a cut to nightfall with Percy asking, "Would anyone like a peanut?" He held the bag up for everyone. The door had chairs pressed up against it. The table in front of the group had multiple bottles scattered around.

It was silent as everyone simply sat around. That's when Percy looked towards Grover and suggested. "Why don't you do your Clyde?" Grover blew out some smoke and shook his head. Percy laughed slightly, "Oh come on, has anyone seen Every Which Way But Loose? Grover does the most amazing impression of the Orangutan."

Grover shook his head more, "No, it's not."

"It is. Come on, do it." Percy nudged his shoulder. Even Piper was wanting him to do it while Sally smiled. Jason turned his head away and put some fingers to his head. Grover then gently snapped, "I'm not a performing monkey!"

Suddenly, lights started to turn on which confused everyone. Percy stood up and got out from around the table. "The power's on."

Jason sat up straight in his seat. "It's not, I tried it earlier."

Percy waved his arm around to the lit up windows, showing that the open window was barred up with chairs. "No, but the streetlights have come on. It means the grid isn't out. It's the fuses. I'll just flip them back on. We can watch television."

Annabeth asked, "What about the lights?'

Jason felt the need to piggy back off of what Annabeth warned them. "Yes. We don't want to advertise our whereabouts more than we already have."

Percy rolled his eyes. "The lights operate on a separate circuit. I'll just flip the main breakers." Jason tried to rebuke and possibly argue about it, but Percy simply stopped. "It's quite simple, Jason." He moved his tie and walked away from the group.

"Well, if they can get the TV on, they could at least see if there are any updates on the News. Maybe it could lead them to a safe zone." Frank suggested as he rubbed his chin.

"Yeah, one problem. How much do you want to bet when the main breaker turns on and all the lights turn on as well?" Leo pointed out.

"I'll bet it's not on. It's fairly standard to turn off all the lights and main breaker when closing a shop down. Besides, if Percy knows this much about the pub, then he's fairly confident that it's not on." Annabeth explained.

"Knowing this Percy's luck, it's going to backfire." Thalia pointed out to her best friend.

"Thanks Thalia. I'm really feeling the love." Percy said with a cross of his arms.

Thalia gave Percy a love tap on his shoulder. "That has nothing against you Kelp Head, just this timeline really hates you for some reason."

Percy groaned, knowing she was right.

Percy walked towards the door off to the back of the pub, going through, he found another door to the side. After trying to open it, finding that it was locked, he moved on. Once he found the circuit breaker with all the switches on, he switched them all to off before flipping the main switch on. He then flipped one single switch before yelling out, "Is that it?"

Annabeth's muffled voice spoke out to Percy, "That's it!"

Percy nodded, and just when he was about to leave, he noticed a particular switch and turned it on. It was a light to the back door, which revealed a bunch of zombies that managed to follow him back to the pub. He quickly switched the light off, closed the circuit breaker, pulled a curtain down to block the window before walking back to the pub. Blatantly ignoring someone trying to open the side door.

Percy took a deep breath before biting into his fist and screamed into it. If he hadn't hated himself enough for screwing up his relationship with Annabeth, then he really loathed himself.

Annabeth sighed and rubbed his back, "It was a good try."

"Poor buddy." Apollo sighed sadly.

"Always be aware of your surroundings, regardless of how confident you are." Artemis said with a shake of her head.

"Okay, I was wrong that he'd make a mistake with the main breaker." Leo admitted.

"I'd be more concerned about one of the zombies trying to open the door." Hazel pointed out.

Zeus couldn't help but chuckle and shake his head. "Idiot." Poseidon turned his head to glare at his younger brother.

Percy looked visibly shaken with widened eyes and heavy breathing.

Over with the rest of the group, Piper was switching channels on the TV which only displayed stand by messages. Grover walked over to Annabeth and asked, "Annabeth? Have you got a quid?"

Annabeth nodded and pulled some change out of her pocket and handed it to Grover. Percy walked over to Annabeth. "Never anything on, is there?" She chuckled until she looked over to Percy and saw how shaken up he was. "What?"

Percy had a frown as he whispered, "I think we might have a bit of a problem."

"What do you mean?"

Percy turned his head to the door before whispering, "They followed me."

Annabeth started to look worried before asking, "I thought you said you gave them the slip."

Percy said in a sheepish manner, "Yeah..."

Annabeth took a deep breath to try and calm down before whispering, "Well, we just have to be extra quiet then, won't we?"

Percy nodded before Annabeth's eyes widened with realization, making Percy ask, "What?"

Annabeth spun around to Grover who was playing on the arcade cabinet. He must've won big because it started to make a lot of loud noise and coins fell out into a drawer. "GROVER NO!!" Annabeth and Percy shouted in unison before running towards him. Annabeth grabbed him and pulled him away while Percy unplugged the arcade machine.

It was too late. Windows all around began to get flooded with the silhouettes of the dead. Tapping against the windows and their moans and groans was all that could be heard.

Annabeth facepalm herself, calling her other self an idiot. Grover groaned as he did the stupid act and, of course, the silhouettes made everyone jump. "Welp, they're zombie chow now." Leo said with a panicked chuckle.

"There must be a different way to get out. Like a cellar. Every bar has a cellar." Hermes suggested.

"Hopefully it's not that locked room." Hazel said in concern.

"Could be the bedroom." Frank suggested out of hope while holding Hazel's hand.

Hephaestus sighed, "There's some sort of ironic statement about technology being man's downfall, but in this case, it's man gambling that caused their downfall."

Everyone looked on in worry as Percy put his hand on Annabeth's shoulder. Grover put his hand on Sally's shoulder. And someone put a hand on Jason's shoulder, revealing themselves to be John, the Bartender. Jason and Piper screamed and backed away. "Where the hell did he come from!?" Annabeth exclaimed.

"I don't know." Percy responded. That's when suddenly, Don't Stop Me Now by Queen played on the jukebox. "Who the hell put this on!?"

"It's on random!" Grover replied.

"For fuck's sake." Annabeth said.

Percy then spoke to Piper. "Ok, Piper, get Mum somewhere safe. Jason, kill the Queen."

"What!?" Jason exclaimed.

"The Jukebox!" Percy clarified. "Uh Annabeth, Grover, grab something weapon-y."

Grover pointed to the rifle. "What about the rifle?"

"It's not real!"

"Cocktails?"

Annabeth asked, "What do you mean?"

"The flaming spirits. Drambuie, Sambuca, brandy, get a rag in, light it!"

"The whole place could go up!" Percy immediately shot down.

"What then?"

Everyone jumped when John appeared, many curses were flung out. When Grover offered the Cocktail idea, Leo panicked. "Don't do that, the whole place will go up in smoke.

"Well they better think of something better. The chairs could potentially help as bludgeoning objects." Poseidon said, gripping his trident.

Percy looked to a stand that had a bunch of billiard sticks and jumped over the table. "How about pool?"

John groaned as he walked towards them while Percy tossed a stick to Grover and Annabeth before grabbing his own. "Ok, John... It's time at the bar!" Percy proclaimed.

What followed was Percy, Annabeth, and Grover hitting John to the exact beat of the Queen song while moving circles so they wouldn't get grabbed.

When Percy got the pool sticks, most actually thought it was a good choice until they started whacking John, though it did get some much needed laughs that it was to the beat of Queen.

Percy started bouncing his head from the Queen song, as did Annabeth. "Perfect song to slay zombies to." Percy laughed slightly.

Sally and Paul were bobbing their heads as well, having enjoyed Queen at their heights before Freddy Mercury's tragic death. Apollo snapped his fingers, always up for listening to his late son sing. Artemis rolled her eyes, but couldn't help but enjoy the beat.

The trio continued to attack John to the beat of Queen until Jason shouted, "I can't find the switches!"

"Then get the fuses!" Percy replied. Jason ran off to the back to find the circuit breaker and started flipping switches, having no care whatsoever as lights blinked on and off.

Over on the outside, the horde of undead were surrounding the building. Jason then noticed the zombies at the back door and started backing away. The glass broke which made Jason shake even more before a zombified Bernie showed up. She almost bit Jason's arm before he pushed her off and closed the door and locked it.

"Why did we let Jason go to the Breaker?!" Percy questioned as the Horde grew closer and broke into the back door of the Pub.

"I don't think the off button would be in there." Leo commented, before getting worried that Jason would get bitten.

Back with Percy, Annabeth, and Grover, they continued hitting John. Percy yelled to Jason, "Why is Queen still on!?"

"We have a situation!" Jason replied.

"I KNOW!!"

Grover's stick broke so he groaned. "Fuck this!"

"Grover!"

"Two seconds!" Grover ran to the bar while Percy grabbed John.

"Oi!" Annabeth called out, holding a fire extinguisher. Percy punched John in the face, which launched him towards Annabeth who hit him in the face with the extinguisher before spraying his face. John turned back to Percy, his face completely frozen.

Percy kept John at arm's length as Piper shouted, "PERCY!" She pulled out a dart from the dart board and threw it, nearly grazing Percy's face.

"No!" He shouted to Piper. She grabbed another and threw it, impaling John's arm. "Yes! Yes! In the head!"

Piper grabbed one more and threw it, only for her to pierce Percy's head. Piper gasped and covered his face as Percy screamed in agony. "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!!"

Then when Percy got hit in the head with a dart, several people either made a brief scream, or exclaimed out of phantom pain. Piper did the same thing as her counterpart and covered her face with her hands.

"Fucking ow!" Percy shouted, holding the side of his head, almost like he could feel that one.

Sally didn't punish her son for that curse, instead she and Annabeth gave him a pat on his back. Paul winced as well, he wouldn't admit it out loud but he may have had a dart pierce him during his college days, luckily it was the shoulder.

Ares flinched as he had been hit with darts in the past few decades in Biker Clubs. Zeus was the only one not panicking or sympathetic to Percy's pain, in fact in his head he was laughing up a storm.

Poseidon winced, "Good Chaos…"

"Flipping Hades, hope that didn't pierce his brain." Apollo said with a wince. Artemis was simply thinking of a way to apply that to any rapists or child molesters they find.

"I'm so sorry, Percy!" Piper said with her voice muffled.

"It's okay, clearly you aren't that good at Darts. Shouldn't have encouraged you to keep going." Percy said as he rubbed his head.

Grover called out Percy's name before holding the Winchester rifle and tossed it to Percy who pushed John away and caught it. He then bashed John's head and forced his head into the jukebox which sparked and killed John. Percy panted heavily before Grover threw his hands up, "Why didn't you just shoot him, man?"

Percy sighed and turned around to face Grover. "Grover, for the last time-" He accidentally pulled the trigger and a bullet shot out, destroying sold bottles. This made everyone jump before Grover looked at Percy with a smile.

"I fucking knew it! What'd I tell you? Big Al was right!" Grover pointed to him.

Percy looked back with a determined look on his face. "Okay." He grabbed the dart before ripping it out of his head, blood squirted out. "But dogs can look up."

When the Winchester fired, everyone jumped save for Ares and Zeus. Many had a disbelief look on they're faces as they couldn't believe the thing was not only a working gun but was armed at the sametime. "Holy crap!" Came from Hazel and honestly that was the best way to describe everyone's thought.

"Well now their chances have improved!" Leo exclaimed.

"That is one rifle, with a limited number of shells, at best, they can pick off the most dangerous ones near them." Athena said with a shake of her head.

"I gotta agree with my sis. Good weapon, but in the long run, it ain't gonna last them much longer." Ares added.

"Okay, hopefully nothing else goes wrong." Jason said.

"I swear, if you jinx us, I'm going to make you pay for a five star restaurant." Percy said, looking at Jason.

Annabeth sighed and smacked the back of his head, "No you are not, Seaweed Brain."

"No no, please let him. It would teach him not to stay stupid stuff like that." Thalia said with a laugh.

"Thalia! You're not helping!" Jason pleaded.

"If we die, cause you jinx us. You're not getting kisses for a week." Piper threatened, causing Thalia to gag and Jason to pale.

"Gross." Leo and Thalia said at the same time. Aphrodite couldn't help but giggle at her daughter making threats.

A quick jump cut showed Grover grabbing a box of ammo and Percy, now wearing a red bandana around his head, grabbed the rifle before asking everyone, "Okay, has anyone fired a gun before?"

Grover nodded, "Oh yeah."

"Apart from Grover."

Jason answered, "I'm a pacifist."

Percy rolled his eyes, "Apart from Jason and Grover."

Annabeth was actually curious, "Sorry, what was Grover's experience?"

"Uh, he shot his sister in the leg with an air rifle." Percy answered.

"I think you should do it." Annabeth said, trusting Percy with the rifle.

"I think we should all do it." Percy suggested.

"How can five people operate one gun?" Jason asked incredulously.

"None of us have any real experience, okay? Now we've only got..." Percy looked to Grover.

Grover looked at the box before saying, "Twenty nine."

"Twenty nine bullets."

Grover cleared his throat and muttered to Percy, "Call them shells."

"We've only got twenty nine shells. We really need to work together on this. I need someone to help me reload, and everyone else to look out. I will fire. As Bertrand Russell once said, 'The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.' I think we can all appreciate the relevance of that now."

Percy started walking to get into position before Annabeth couldn't help but ask, "Was that on the back of a beer mat?"

Percy admitted, "Yeah, it was Guinness Extra Cold."

"I won't say anything."

"Thanks." Percy and Annabeth shared a smile, before hearing some rustling against the open window.

"They definitely want to come in." Piper said in a sing-song tone to hide her anxiety.

Percy looked to Annabeth and requested, "Get Mum out of the way." She nodded and walked off. Percy held the rifle as he ordered, "Jason, Piper, let's go. Grover, give me some shells." The three of them huddled around Percy as he started loading shells into the rifle.

"Okay, teamwork. That's a good plan." Thalia said as she watched her three best friends get the rifle ready to fire against the horde.

"That's clever, I must admit." Athena commented.

Aphrodite saw that smile that Percy and Annabeth gave each other and couldn't help but smile as well. It seems like there's a small spark returning between them.

"Now, all Grace has to do is not fuck it up." Ares said, still glaring at the pacifist prick.

"Why Grace and not Jackson since he has the gun?" Hermes asked him.

"Cause even though Jackson made some screw ups, he at least manned up and tried to fix them or manage them. When Grace screws up, he bitches and moans while making the problem worse." Ares answered, which surprised everyone that Ares defended Percy.

"Did... Did I just hear that right?" Percy asked Grover and Annabeth.

"I'm pretty sure I cleaned my ears out this morning so I think I heard that correctly." Annabeth said, sticking a finger in her ear to make sure it was clean.

"There's no dirt in my ears so yeah, I heard that as well." Grover said, shocked by Ares' words.

Apollo gave Ares a love tap on his shoulder. "Damn, bro. Are you starting to like Jackson." He said with a brotherly teasing tone.

"Oh shut up, Jackson's still a little shit, but he's already saved our asses twice." Ares said, shrugging his shoulders.

"We really have changed, haven't we?" Hephaestus said, surprised by Ares' attitude.

Annabeth walked over to Sally and knelt down in front of her, noticing how Sally was rubbing her wrist. "Sally?"

Sally looked up and smiled, "Oh hello!"

"Would you like to come with me?"

"That'd be lovely." Sally said before walking with Annabeth away from Percy who was still loading some shells in the rifle. "It's nice to meet you, finally. Percy's always talking about you." Sally commented.

"Really?" Annabeth asked.

"Yeah." Sally nodded before gasping in pain as she sat down on a chair.

"Sally? Are you alright?" Annabeth asked as she knelt down in front of Sally.

Sally started to take off a necklace, "I've got something for you." She took off the jewelry and handed it to Annabeth. "Percy's father gave me this. Percy's real father, I mean."

Annabeth hesitated, "Sally, Percy and I-"

Sally interrupted her with a smile, "It seems only right." Then she started wincing in pain, making Annabeth look down towards her wrist. She slowly began to pull her sleeve back before gasping. On her wrist was a large bite wound that was oozing out blood.

"I didn't want to say anything." Sally said, making Annabeth look up at her. "I thought Percy would be worried." Sally's eyes were filled with sadness and pain.

Annabeth was the first to react, as the scene showed Sally trying to give the necklace, all Annabeth could do was allow the tears to flood her cheeks uncontrollable.

Percy wasn't any better as he saying repeatedly, "No... No no no no no no NO NO NO NO NO NO!" Grover had to hold Percy's shoulders while Sally hugged her son from behind. Annabeth simply leaned against Percy and Sally's arm as she cried alongside her boyfriend.

"Not you, Mom... Not you too..." Percy cried.

Poseidon had to stop himself from getting tears as well. Even though what he and Sally had was a fling, he still deeply cared for her. It's what caused his marriage with Amphitrite to become rocky.

Paul was trying his best to hold it together as he wrapped an arm around Sally's shoulders.

Thalia put a hand to her mouth to stop herself from crying. Sally was like a godsend to her. She was the mother that Thalia wished she had instead of who her and Jason's birth mother.

Frank held Hazel close as she let her tears flow out. Frank was holding it together better but his heart did ache. It was no secret that after the War, Sally stepped up and became the two's mother figures.

Nico was clenching his jaw, he wanted to tell them, he wanted to tell them so badly but he physically can't.

"I'm so sorry, Percy..." Annabeth whispered as she hugged Percy.

"Why... Why her..." Percy asked, holding onto Annabeth, his mom, and Grover for dear life.

"Just bad luck." Xion said as she glared at the screen.

Nick walked over to Percy and knelt down. "I'm sorry, Percy. I know I've been showing you guys a lot of bad stuff, and I promise to show you guys better stuff. I know I have no right to ask this, but can you hold out for 30 more minutes? We're nearing the end. Then we're moving on to something better. I promise."

Percy took deep breaths as he looked up at his host and tried to wipe his tears. "Just... Just give me a minute..."

Nick nodded, "Take all the time you need, buddy." He patted his shoulder gently before walking back to Cortana who was looking at Percy and Sally with sympathy.

As Nick sat up, Xion whispered to both Nick and Cortana. "You're going to be careful with your next couple shows. Last thing we need is the Lord of Tempest taking hold."

Nick looked over his list on his tablet. "Well, we've got a little music video after this. And then... Him." He showed Xion a picture of a great King.

Xion smiled lighty at the list. "Hopefully that will keep the Storm in check."

"I think they'll get a kick out of it." Nick said before looking towards Percy who took a deep breath.

"You ok, Percy?" Grover asked.

Percy shook his head, "I want to get this over with..."

Annabeth nodded and rubbed his hair and kissed his cheek. "We're gonna get through this." She said, wiping her tears away before running her thumb over Percy's cheek to get rid of his tears.

"Are you guys ready to continue?" Nick asked.

Percy sighed and nodded. "Yeah..."

Percy loaded one last shell before looking at Annabeth. "Annabeth!"

Jason pointed to the window, "Here they come!"

The bundled mess of chairs began to fall apart, showing the zombies attempting to crawl in. "Stay behind me! Stay behind me!" Percy ordered.

"There's one!" Piper pointed to one of the zombies.

Percy aimed the rifle and exclaimed, "Sorry, we're closed!" He pulled the trigger, only to hear a click. He looked at it and whimpered.

Jason suggested stupidly. "Try the safety button!"

Piper added, "Yeah, that happened to me on stage."

Grover groaned, "Oh, cock it!"

Percy pulled the lever and the shell casing flew out. He fired the rifle, and impacted the wall next to the zombie. Percy and Grover looked at each other before Percy fired once more. Somehow hitting the exact same wall.

A zombie burst his head through the window next to the door. Piper's eyes widened as she shouted, "Over there!"

"Over where?" Percy asked, shooting the zombie in the chest.

Grover clarified, "3:00!"

Percy spun to the door and fired once more, hitting a wall. He cocked it and fired again, hitting the zombie in the arm.

Piper looked back to the open window and exclaimed, "Oh, over there again! A quarter to 12:00."

"What!?" Percy fired once more, hitting a lamp.

Jason said, "11:45!"

"Keep it simple!" Percy shot a round into another zombies' throat, gushing blood everywhere.

"Top left!" Grover exclaimed, and Percy finally turned back to the window and cocked it. He pulled he trigger only for a click to happen. "Reload."

"I'm on it!" Percy said as he quickly loaded some shells into the rifle. As the zombie was about to climb over the window sill, Percy cocked it once more and aimed before firing, hitting the zombie square in the head. "Nice shot!"

"Gods, I really suck with guns." Percy said with a shake of his head.

"You also suck with a bow." Thalia said in a joking manner trying to lighten the mood. "Imagine if you can use ranged weapons."

This caused Percy and the rest of the seven unaware that most of the Gods were sweating bullets at the thought.

"Well I know I'm definitely not signing you up for the Marines." Ares said with a shake of his head and a chuckle.

"Oh, no. Whatever shall I do?" Percy said in a joking tone.

"There's the Navy." Poseidon joked alongside his nephew and son. That made Percy laugh slightly and look at his father. "Thanks, Dad."

Poseidon smiled back and nodded.

Annabeth narrowed his eyes as he thought about something before she realized. "Wow. I just remembered something. Grover's dialogue matched Percy from the beginning."

"What do you mean?" Percy asked.

"Remember when Grover was playing that video game, and you gave him some tips?" Annabeth asked.

Thalia's eyes widened. "They just mirrored each other! That's an awesome detail."

"That is pretty cool, I'll give them that." Percy said with a small chuckle.

Percy held the rifle as he pointed to the window, "Ok, Jason, Piper, let's block up this window! Grover, take over for a second." He handed Grover the rifle as Jason and Piper split up to grab more chairs and material. Percy ran over to Annabeth and Sally and asked, "What is it? What's wrong?"

Annabeth looked at Percy with sadness, "Percy, I'm so sorry…"

Percy knelt down next to his mother, "Mum, what's wrong?"

"I didn't want to be a bother…" Sally said as she looked at her wrist.

Percy looked at the sleeve before rolling back to see the bite. His breathing became heavy as he looked at her. "Mum, I don't understand!" How did she get bit, he thought to himself.

"The man in his pajamas… I didn't want to say anything. I thought you'd be upset." Sally said, her face getting more pale and her breath more shallow.

"No! No, you should've said!" Percy exclaimed, wrapping an arm around her shoulder. Grover looked to where they were and handed the rifle to Piper. "Take over a sec!"

Piper turned to Grover, "What's going on?" She took the rifle and watched as Grover ran over to them. "What's up? What's wrong?" Grover asked.

Jason looked at them and asked, "What the hell's going on?"

Annabeth replied, "Sally's hurt!" Sally began to lie down with Percy hovering over her.

Piper handed the rifle to Jason, "Take over a minute." She then ran over to them. "I know first-aid!" Jason held the rifle before looking at them, realizing what he would have to do.

"Mum… Just hold on, Mum. You're gonna be fine." Percy said, trying not to sob.

Sally had a weak smile on her face. "I never thanked you…"

"For what?"

Sally held the flowers. "For these. To a wonderful… Mum. It's been a funny sort of day, hasn't it?" That's when she started to twitch.

Percy was now sobbing, "Oh no, no, no, no, no! Mum, come on! Stop it, stop it, stop it! Don't Mum, please don't go!"

Everyone watched with tears in their eyes, especially Grover who had to look away. Percy continued to sob as Sally Jackson passed away and it became silent, except for the multitude of moans and groans from the zombies.

Beside Zeus, there wasn't someone watching the scene with sadness in their hearts. As for Sally's family both immediately and found tears running down their cheeks.

"Oh Sally..." Poseidon said, a tear rolling down his cheek while Hestia ran her hand all over Poseidon's back to comfort her younger brother.

"I'm so sorry, mom." Percy whispered as he wrapped his arms around her.

"Shh, shh, shh, it's ok, sweetheart. This isn't your fault." Sally said, tears rolling down her cheeks as well.

"Damn it." Thalia cursed as she shook in sadness, she was thankful when Artemis gave her a comforting hand on her back. Artemis wasn't upset by Thalia's reaction, she saw this with so many of her Huntresses who lost their loved ones.

A click clack sound suddenly broke the silence as everyone turned towards Jason who aimed the rifle at Sally. "What're you doing?" Percy asked, horrified at Jason.

"We have to deal with her." Jason said, holding the rifle.

"Jase!" Piper exclaimed.

"For Christ's sake!" Annabeth said with gritted teeth.

"She's gonna come back." Jason warned them.

"She's not going anywhere." Percy shook his head.

"Well, she'll change."

"She's my Mum!" Percy cried out.

"She's a zombie."

Percy shouted to Jason, "Don't say that!"

Jason gripped the rifle and put his finger on the trigger. "Step aside. I'm gonna count to three." Percy and Grover both had expressions of anger as Jason counted to three.

Percy then grabbed a beer bottle, smashed it, breaking it into a sharp object. "DON'T POINT THAT GUN AT MY MUM!" He screamed at Jason as he held it at Jason's throat.

Annabeth stood up from her kneeling position. "Percy, calm down!"

Grover grabbed another bottle and held it against Jason's neck as well. "DON'T POINT THAT GUN AT SALLY!"

"Grover, don't exacerbate things!"

"What does that mean!?" Grover asked, never having listened to Percy and Annabeth's conversation at the bar the previous day before yesterday.

Piper then stepped up next to Percy. "This isn't exactly fair!" So Grover handed her his broken bottle. "Thank you." She said before holding it to Percy's face.

"It's ok." Grover grabbed a wine bottle opener and aimed that at Jason's neck.

Percy turned his head towards Jason and his sea green eyes glowed. "You son of a bitch..."

Annabeth immediately got in Percy's face and made him look at her. "Percy, Percy. Don't. Don't take your anger out on him. He's not who you should be angry at!"

"Why am I being fair at this moment?" Grover asked as Piper shrugged.

"I don't know why I didn't break my own bottle?"

Jason simply remained silent as he had a feeling that if he said something, he'd be in serious trouble.

Percy turned his head away from Jason before looking at the screen.

"Not quite the Mexican stand-off I was hoping for, but it'll do." Ares said, shrugging his shoulders.

Hera smacked the back of his head, "Silence, Ares."

"Please, can we just stop and think about this!?" Annabeth tried to get in between Percy and Jason.

"Tell him to put the gun down." Percy said with a raised voice, tears dripping down his cheeks.

Jason looked towards Annabeth and said in a calm voice. "Look, Annabeth, she's gonna change. You know I'm right, and when she does, she's gonna come and she's gonna kill ALL of us. That's what your ex can't seem to realize."

Percy had a humorless laugh as he exclaimed. "That's what this is about, isn't it!? It just- it's just he doesn't like me! He's always hated me and now he wants to shoot my mum!"

Jason tried to say, "She's not-" Only to be interrupted.

"You never thought I deserved her, that I was good enough!" Percy exclaimed, making Annabeth look at him in shock.

"What're you talking about!?" Jason asked.

"Oh come on! We all know you're in love with Annabeth!" Percy revealed, making Piper look down and remove the bottle from Percy's face.

Jason shook his head, denying the accusation. "That is not true!"

"Yes it is!"

"That is not true."

"There's no way that's true." Jason said not believing this is happening, unaware that Piper and Aphrodite had known the whole time, hell everybody knew except Jason and Zeus who looked even more surprised.

"Dude. Have you not seen the way your other self has acted with Annabeth?" Leo asked.

"You constantly fold whenever she stops you from acting like a complete dick to Percy." Frank added.

"I'm sure that just means I take advice from individuals who aren't doing stupid things." Jason reasoned not buying what his friends were saying.

"Dude, I could be rich, and I don't think I could even afford to be that delusional." Percy said with a shake of his head.

Ares, Apollo, Hermes, and even Hephaestus laughed at that.

"Good one, Kelp Head!" Thalia laughed as well. Making Jason look at her a little hurt. He then glared at Percy, insulted that everyone is claiming his other self has a thing for Annabeth was ridiculous in his mind.

"Yes, it is." Piper revealed, making Jason look at her. "What!?"

Piper took a steady breath as she said with a shook breath. "I know you only hung out with me at college to get close to Annabeth, and when she knocked you back, I was there to pick up the pieces. I've come to terms with that, Jase. Why can't you?"

Jason turned to look at Annabeth. "Annie, I want you to know that my feelings for you have always been essentially-"

Annabeth immediately interrupted him, "Jason, please! There are slightly more pressing matters at hand here!"

"Yeah, like the fact that Jase is pointing a gun at my mum!" Percy growled as he glared at him with tears leaking down.

Jason shot back, "I'm not the one who's being unreasonable, Pickle!"

"For Christ's sake, she's not dead!" Percy was in deep denial about his mother.

"She's finished! For a hero, you're quite a hypocrite!" Jason glared back at Percy.

Percy exclaimed, "You're the one who's gone from being a chartered accountant to Charlton Heston!"

Jason immediately denied, "I am NOT a chartered accountant!"

"Well, you look like one!"

Grover supported his friend and growled, "Yeah!"

"I'm a lecturer!" Jason proclaimed.

"You're a twat!" Percy corrected him.

"Yeah!" Grover agreed with him.

Jason brought the conversation back to Sally. "She's not your mum anymore! In a minute, she'll be just another zombie!"

"Don't say that!" Percy cried out.

"We're not using the zed word!" Grover said, reminded about Percy telling him not to say the word.

Annabeth then shouted as she smacked everyone's weapons down. "PLEASE, CAN WE JUST CALM! THE FUCK! DOWN?!" Everyone stood there, their weapons down as Annabeth continued in a calmer tone. "Now… I can see what Jason is trying to say."

Jason nodded, "Thank you, Annie."

"Even if he's being a twat." Annabeth glared at him, showing that she wasn't on his side.

Piper couldn't help but agree with Annabeth. "Yep."

When Jason called Percy a hypocrite, Thalia spoke up first with electric venom. "Says the pacifist aiming a gun at a body that isn't moving!"

Jason frowned, now realizing what everyone was talking about with his other self and Annabeth. "Oh... Oh..."

Aphrodite sighed and shook her head. "That kind of attempt never works."

"I can't tell if I should applaud my other self or sympathize with her for coming to terms with having to essentially be the rebound girl." Piper said with a hand to her arm.

Annabeth gives Piper a pat on her shoulder. Grover chuckled at the zed bit, glad to see he was listening to his friend. Everyone saved from Jason and Zeus, laughed when Annabeth called Jason a twat with Piper agreed.

"God, I really am one, aren't I?" Jason said with a hand on his head.

"Look, none of us are perfect, we're all either idiots or assholes." Percy said. "The most important part is if you can change yourself to be better." Temporarily forgetting about his anger with Jason for trying to shoot his dead mother.

Xion was tapping her foot, it was getting close to when she could no longer hold back the truth.

Annabeth turned to look at Percy. "Percy. Percy, look at me." She grabbed his cheek gently to make him look at her. "I can't begin to imagine how hard this must be for you. But we can't afford to fall apart. Percy, babe… I know you don't want to hear this…"

Before she could say anymore, Sally Jackson stood up from the floor which made everyone turn towards her and take a step back. Sally looked at Percy, her eyes milky white, like all the other zombies surrounding the building. Percy silently cried as he faced the truth of the situation.

Jason handed Percy the rifle, to which he took and aimed directly at his mother. There was a raise of her eyebrows, and her eyes widened. Almost as if… she recognized him, and what he was about to do. "I'm sorry, Mum…" She looked horrified at her son, but no noise would come out.

Jason then exclaimed, "Do it!" This caused zombie Sally to glare at him and snarl. That's when Percy fired the rifle, blood and brain matter splattering from the back of her head as she dropped to the floor.

"She... She knew me..." Percy's eyes widened, realizing what was so different about the zombies.

"What do you mean by that?" Paul asked.

"He's talking about the fact that these zombies still have their souls." Hades revealed, glaring at Xion for muting him and his son.

Xion released heavy breaths as she sweat heavily. "Sorry about..." Xion sucked in some more breaths. "Dad gave me an order... to keep you two from revealing... the truth... before someone else... figured it out..." Xion kept breathing heavily until they became even. "Gods, you two were hard to hold."

"Yeah, no shit! You have no idea how badly we wanted to tell them!" Nico exclaimed.

Percy turned to look at them with a horrified expression. "You knew? All this time?"

"We were silenced by this child before we could tell. We knew since your other self's argument with your Satyr friend." Hades explained.

"Honestly I was hoping you guys would have figured it out with Paul but damn do you have some logical minds." Xion sighed, pulling out a strange flask from her pocket before drinking it.

Percy glared at Xion before looking down and put his hands on his head. "I'm going to kill my mom... And she knows..." He was almost on the verge of crying once more.

Xion put away her drink before walking over to Percy and knelt in front of him. "Listen, you may not see it as a good thing at the moment. But think of it like you freed her soul. After all, a Soul shouldn't be trapped in a... dead... body..." Xion's eyes widened in almost horror. "Nick, can you do a scan on this world's underworld?"

Nick was confused but asked Cortana. "Cortana, do a scan of the Underworld, please?"

"You got it, Chief." The A.I. typed into a holographic keyboard. "Any specific filters that you need?"

"A list of the Gods active and send the results to me." Xion said with a silent curse under her breath.

Cortana typed in the filters before a quick scan showed a profile for every God, Titan, and Giant in the Underworld. A hologram of a folder appeared before becoming real and Cortana handed it to Xion.

"Why are you concerned with my kingdom?" Hades asked with suspicion.

She looked through the list, scanning each name. "What would happen if the God of Death couldn't collect the souls of the dead?" Xion asked the King of the Underworld.

"That's already happened before, when he was trapped in Alaska." Frank said, confused on what she was trying to say.

"Now add a virus that is spreading across the world with outbreak zones filled with death. So if something prevented Thanatos from doing his job while Apollo released a plague on humanity, and no souls can be freed from their bodies when they die, what would that make?"

Everyone's eyes widened before turning to Apollo. "Woah, woah, woah, hey, hey, hey, don't look at me like that. I don't just make up a virus or plague as I like! What reason do I have to make up something like that!?"

"You didn't make the Zombies, they're a byproduct of-" Xion's eyes widened. "Found you." Xion pulled up a screen showing Thanatos trapped in a locked box.

"How did that happen again?!" Hades shouted in rage.

"I don't know but now we know the problem." Xion admitted, just annoyed she didn't figure it out sooner.

"How're we supposed to help him, when we're stuck up here?" Annabeth asked.

"I'm putting in a request for a squadron to go down there. They'll handle it." Cortana continued to type on the keyboard.

"Hopefully that will clear things out in the future of that timeline." Xion said before turning to Percy. "Sorry that you had to see all of this... This was the one thing I knew was going to hurt to see."

Percy sighed and rubbed his eyes. "Can we just... Keep going? I want this movie to be over already." Annabeth hugged him gently, ruffling her fingers through his hair.

Percy dropped the rifle and took deep breaths as everyone watched, nearly on the verge of tears, especially Annabeth. She felt guilty for having to make Percy face the truth about what he had to do. Jason took his glasses and, without reading the room, said. "Well… I think we're all agreed. You did the right thing there."

Percy was pissed off now as he spun towards Jason and punched him in the face, knocking him to the floor. Jason then grabbed the rifle, aimed at Percy and cocked it. Annabeth shouted, "Jason, no!"

Jason pulled the trigger, only for it to click, showing that it was out of ammo. Annabeth and Piper were especially shocked as Piper hissed like a scolding mother. "Jason!"

Jason then got up. "Right! I'm leaving!"

"What!?" Annabeth asked.

Jason tossed a coat rack that was pressed against the main door. "I'm not staying here!"

"Jason, don't. It's suicide!" Annabeth exclaimed.

Grover shrugged his shoulders. "I think he should go."

"We will. We can run. We can defend ourselves." Jason explained, trying to get others to join him.

Piper then asked, "What do you mean, We?"

Jason was confused. "What do you mean, what do I mean we?"

"Opening that door now would be a very, very silly thing to do." Piper warned him.

Jason scoffed, "So you're just gonna stay here with him!?"

Piper sighed, "Look, Percy-"

Jason interrupted her. "After everything he's gotten us into!?"

Piper screamed at him, "WILL YOU LET ME FINISH!? Percy didn't ask you to come here! You came here for the same reason I did because you didn't know what else to do! Now get away from that door this instant!"

"But-"

"JASON!" Piper shouted, making Jason finally step away from the door and behind one of the windows. It became silent as everyone finally seemed to calm down, while the zombies still went on moaning and groaning while banging against the glass and doors.

Jason looked down slightly and spoke softly, "I'm so sorry, Piper."

Piper had a small frown as she suggested, "Maybe I'm not the one you should be apologizing to."

Jason nodded before calling out, "Percy." Percy turned to look at him. Jason looked up and said, "I'm so sorry…" Percy nodded, showing that he accepted the apology.

Ares' blood boiled with rage when Jason pulled the trigger. "Grace, be grateful I know the differences between you and that version of you, cause I would have ripped his cowardly traitorous arms off then and there."

Jason's eyes widened at the threat, and felt really ashamed of himself. Piper glared at the screen, "He's lucky I'm not there, I would've charmspoken him to..." She hesitated before sighing and rubbing her face. "No... I don't want that."

When Jason ran to the door and removed the barriers, everyone became concerned. Once Jason said he was leaving, Athena spoke up. "That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard."

"Just another reason for this coward to bite the curb or become lunch meat." Ares said with a shake of his head.

"Ok, dude. I get it. You hate this version, but that's still Dad's son." Hermes said, looking at him.

Ares looked back, his eyes filled with the familiar flames that Percy saw once they met. "Look at me, Hermes. Does it look like I give a fuck?"

"To be fair with Ares, since when have we actually cared about Father's kids unless we spent enough time with them?" Artemis asked Hermes.

"Until me!" Thalia raised her hand.

"You're an exception." Artemis pointed to her.

Jason sighed and rubbed his face. "Now I know how you felt at the beginning, Percy."

"Sucks, doesn't it? To see an absolutely pathetic version of yourself doing everything you would not do." Percy sighed.

Everyone was glad that Jason was willing to apologize to Percy. "At least he is realizing he is a piece of shit." Apollo said.

Percy looked at Apollo in surprise. "Woah..."

"What?" Apollo asked.

"I've never heard you curse before." Percy commented.

He raised his hands. "Hey, I gotta let my cool guy persona down every now and then."

Artemis rolled her eyes, "And you still remain an annoyance to me and my hunters."

"Come on, I can't be that bad." Apollo said with a shining smile.

"I have to get ear plugs to not listen to your stupid Haikus." Artemis said with a straight poker face.

"But my haikus are great!" Apollo exclaimed. "I'll show you!"

Nick spoke, "Excuse me! We have a movie to finish!"

Apollo groaned while Artemis looked at the host with a grateful look on her face.

That's when suddenly the window behind Jason broke and immediately he was grabbed by zombies. Piper screamed, "JASON!"

"No, no, no!" Jason tried to reach for her as Percy, Piper, and Annabeth rushed and grabbed a hold of his legs trying to pull him back. "Jason!" Annabeth screamed as zombies began biting into his neck and body. Grover grabbed the rifle and proceeded to reload it.

That's when suddenly, two zombies tore his shirt open and began to dig their hands into his guts, making Jason scream as well as the others for they screamed at the gore that was happening. Jason's intestines were ripped out and he closed his eyes and slumped his head, showing that he was now dead. Zombies then ripped his arms off and Piper, Annabeth, and Percy accidentally ripped his legs off before Jason's head was also ripped off.

Piper screamed, "JASON!!" Before rushing to the door and unlocked it. Percy and Annabeth screamed in unison as they got up from the floor, "PIPER, NO!!"

Piper opened the door and screamed, "I'M COMING, JASON!" She then used Jason's severed leg to knock zombies away as she went into the horde of undead.

When Jason was ripped apart, Xion quickly snapped her fingers as everyone got a vomit bag and they released everything they had in there. Only ones who didn't use it were Hades and Ares who both look at the scene with light disgust in their eyes and the hosts who have seen worse.

"HOLY FUCK!!!" Was the major sentence almost everyone shouted.

Piper wiped her mouth before looking away, holding Jason tightly as she couldn't watch her boyfriend get mutilated like that.

Thalia finished vomiting, but when she looked up her eyes glowed electric blue as she stared down at the horde. She didn't care that they still had their souls, they just tore her baby brother apart. 'Hades, I'd be granting them mercy.' Thalia's dark thoughts gave her justification for acting on it if she could.

Then when Piper went straight into the horde, Leo and Jason shouted in unison, "ARE YOU CRAZY, PIPER!?"

Aphrodite pressed her hand to her mouth and tears immediately filled her eyes at her daughter just throwing her life away.

Percy gulped down his worry, "Maybe... Maybe she survived. We didn't hear her scream or anything like that."

"What's... What's the number one rule of horror movies?" Leo asked. "If you don't see a body, it doesn't mean they're dead. So maybe she managed to get out of there."

"If Seaweed Brain managed to weave through that horde, then surely she did too." Annabeth suggested, trying to make Piper feel better.

The side door was also broken and zombies began to pour in. "Oh dear!" Percy exclaimed as they weren't sure what to do now that zombies were beginning to come inside the pub.

Grover then asked, "Cocktails?"

Annabeth replied, "Do it!" Grover handed the Winchester to Annabeth who gave it to Percy as she grabbed the coat rack. She rushed to the side door and pressed the coat rack against the board to keep them back as Percy began to fire on the zombies. He managed to kill one zombie before pressing against the legs of the coat rack to add additional support for Annabeth.

While that was happening, Grover went to the bar to grab a bottle and open it before putting a rag in and grabbing a lighter and lit the cloth up. He went out from behind the bar and shouted, "Heads!" Before the back door was suddenly broken down and Grover was pulled in.

Percy saw this and shouted, "Grover!"

"Hurry up!" Annabeth shouted.

Grover managed to wrench himself free from the zombies' grip and ran out and shouted, "Percy, look who it is!"

It was Clarisse, still nude as she walked towards Grover. Percy's eyes widened as he exclaimed. "Fuck-a-doodle-do!

Clarisse grabbed Grover, trying to bite his neck, only for Grover to wrestle with her and wrap his arm around her throat. "Don't groan at me, you thick fuck!" Grover growled.

Percy shouted, "Grover!"

Annabeth was struggling as she shouted, "I can't hold them!"

A zombified Bernie came up behind Grover and bit into his neck while Clarisse bit a good chunk of his arm off. Grover screamed in pain as Percy screamed, "NOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Annabeth looked behind her, seeing that the horde was getting closer and closer. "PERCY!"

Percy's eyes filled with rage as he called out, "CLARISSE!" That got her attention as she looked up at Percy and stood up. "I SAID LEAVE HIM ALONE!" He fired the rifle and the rifle went through her eye and out through the back of her skull as she fell down. Percy wanted to shoot more off of Grover now that they were crowding around him, but there were too many.

"NOOOO!!!" Grover's friends shouted when he was bit, they were angry as they watched their friend being swarmed in by the horde.

"I'LL KILL YOU, CLARISSE!" Percy shouted, his eyes glowing bright.

"But you already did, Percy." Frank said after Percy shot the Zombified Clarisse.

Percy took a deep breath to calm down while Annabeth and Grover flinched at the way Clarisse died.

"Well... At least my daughter is at peace now." Ares said, a little solemn.

"Now how are we going to get out?" Annabeth wondered out loud.

"PERCY, BAR!" Annabeth shouted, making Percy look around him seeing how close they were to getting killed. Percy helped Annabeth push the horde back with the coat rack before running to the bar and jumping over.

The zombies were now surrounding the bar, leaving the two surrounded and nowhere to go. Percy shouted, trying to call out to Grover. "GROVER!? GROVER! GROVER!"

That's when a very bloodied and very much bitten Grover jumped over the bar and with them. "What!? Ugh, chuck us a cloth, will ya?" Grover asked kindly while pressing a hand to his neck.

Percy reached to the counter and grabbed a cloth before tossing it to Grover. He then stood up, holding a bottle of alcohol. He pulled the cork out with his teeth and spat it out and poured the contents all over the bar counter. He then grabbed the lighter before lighting the bar on fire, which certainly helped keep the zombies back.

Annabeth then remembered something, "Where are the shells!?"

"They're on the bar…" Grover replied, making Percy groan. "OH FUCK!"

Percy stood up and tried to reach over to the box, only to be burned by the heated metal. "Ow! Fuck it!" He laid back down on the floor with everyone else. "What're we gonna do!? Where are we gonna go!?"

Grover patted the floor in between them. "The cellar!"

Annabeth agreed. "Maybe we can get out!"

"There's a barrel hatch that leads you to the street!" Grover explained.

Percy exclaimed, "What, you mean go back outside!?"

Suddenly, the ex-pornstar turned zombie got into the bar, making Percy exclaim, "OH GIVE US A FUCKING BREAK!"

Suddenly, the flaming shells began to fire off due to the fire. Several of the bullets managed to kill a zombie or two before one of the bullets ricocheted off a bell and into the zombies' head. "GO!" Annabeth and Percy exclaimed before opening the rug to find a cellar latch.

"Okay, getting outside is now the safest place to be at the moment." Frank said as he could tell that if they stayed, they were going to die.

"Yeah. The pub is screwed, especially now that it's burning." Percy agreed.

"Let's not forget, there could still be hundreds of zombies out there." Annabeth suggested.

"That's a risk they're gonna have to take." Thalia said, worried for them. "Please tell me I found the military or something to help clean up."

Xion didn't say a thing but did have a smile on her face.

They made it inside with Percy holding Grover by his arm over his shoulder before setting him down on the floor. Annabeth grabbed a bunch of rags and knelt down before putting them on Grover's bite marks. Percy saw the barrel latch and the doors that led to the street. "I can see the street." He tried to open them, but they wouldn't budge. "Come on… Come on! WHY WON'T IT OPEN!?"

Percy then stopped and sat on the latch, losing all hope as tears filled his eyes once more. "So that's it then, isn't it? We're trapped. Hey, let's go to the Winchester! Who's fucking idea was that!? Man, I really ballsed this up." He was on the verge of crying as he placed his hands on his head.

Annabeth looked towards him and sat down next to him. "No, you haven't."

Percy cried out, "No, I have, Annabeth! I couldn't save us. I couldn't save Pi or Jason. I couldn't even save my mum. I'm just- I'm useless…"

Annabeth looked towards him, "You shouldn't feel so responsible, you tried. You did something, that's what counts."

Percy sighed and looked away, "Yeah, I suppose…" They could hear the footsteps of the zombies as they were directly on top of the cellar door.

Annabeth asked, "Do you think they'll get through?"

Percy nodded, "Yeah…"

She then turned towards Percy, "How many shells have we got left?"

He held the rifle and looked into the chamber. "Two. I suppose we could take a few of them out if they stand in a line."

Annabeth then said something very morbid, "I wasn't thinking about them…"

Percy understood and nodded, "I know…"

"What the fuck!" Frank said in surprise. "Since when was that an option?" Clearly disturbed by this new plan.

Percy and Annabeth looked at each other before she replied, "When they lost all hope."

"But... Suicide?" Sally asked, her hands to her mouth, and even Paul was shocked that they were considering it.

"It's a better fate than ending up like Grace." Ares said, a frown on his face.

Poseidon and Athena were also shocked at the consideration. Athena was... In turmoil. "It... It can't be the only option." She said, trying to remain calm. "They haven't looked everywhere, there could still be a way for them to get out."

"Don't those things have a switch or lever that opens those up though?" Hazel asked, clearly remembering some stuff from the prohibition during her childhood.

"Yeah, they can't give up now! They're at the final stretch!" Grover said, trying to lift their spirits up.

The light of the fire seeped in through the lines of the cellar door, showing that the zombies were one step closer to getting to them. Percy then realized something, "What about Grover? There's only two shells."

Grover raised his hand, "I don't mind being eaten."

"Uh, actually I do! It wouldn't taste good to them!" Grover exclaimed.

Percy held the rifle and looked at Annabeth, "How're we gonna do this?"

Annabeth turned to face her body towards him. "Um, I don't know. One of us has to go first."

Percy suggested, "Then maybe one should do the other, and then do themselves."

Annabeth shook her head with a morbid laugh. "Oh, then maybe you should do me. I'd only muck it up if I have to do myself."

Percy then did a simulation with his finger by pointing his finger gun at Annabeth before doing the click clack noise before pointing at himself and blowing a raspberry as he made his hand explode. Percy sighed and shook his head, "Do you know, I don't think I've got it in me to shoot my flatmate, my mum, and my girlfriend all in the same evening."

Annabeth looked confused at him calling her his girlfriend. "What makes you think I've taken you back?"

Percy put a hand around her shoulder, touching her hair as he asked, "You don't want to die single, do you?"

Grover then groaned, "Actually, I would like to be shot."

"While that's sweet of you, Percy. Now is not the time to get back together." Leo said.

"Actually... It's the perfect time. If they're gonna die... Then they might as well die together." Annabeth said with a smile.

"Except I'm still gonna get eaten." Grover said with a shaking of his shoulders, showing that he was nervous.

"And I agree with my other self. I don't have it in me to kill everyone I've loved in one evening." Percy said in a sad tone.

Percy sighed, "Besides, I've changed. I haven't had a fag since yesterday, I promise."

"He hasn't." Grover said, trying to support his friend.

Annabeth pursed her lips before suggesting, "Maybe we should have one now." Before digging into her pocket and pulling out the box of cigarettes that Percy tossed out in her apartment. Percy was shocked and Annabeth explained, "You left them in my flat."

"Yeah, in the bin!" Percy exclaimed.

"I was desperate."

Percy released a noiseless laugh, "Sneaky monkey."

Annabeth looked sheepish as she pulled out two cigarettes while Percy pulled the lighter out. "Sorry."

Percy winked at her as he put one of the cigarettes in his mouth. "Won't say anything." He then lit up the lighter and Annabeth looked behind Percy and her eyes widened with realization. Percy looked towards her direction in confusion until he raised the lighter to find… a lift control for the latch. He grabbed it before looking at Annabeth with hope back in his eyes.

Everyone gasped. "They have a way out!" Sally said, happy they have a means of escape.

"I knew it!" Hazel cheered as she wrapped her arms around Frank. This caused her friends to cheer with her as Hades, feeling Pluto inside of him swell with pride for his daughter's thinking.

"Thanks Hazel." Percy smiled at her, which made her smile back before resting her head on Frank's shoulder.

"They're gonna be ok." Paul said, rubbing Sally's arm.

"Hopefully most of the zombies are in the pub to give them a running start." Nico said.

"They're almost free." Poseidon whispered to himself.

He stood up and knelt down in front of Grover. "Come on, we're getting out of here."

Grover took a deep breath. "I might just stay here."

"But we can get out." Percy argued.

"I think you two should make a go for it."

"What are you talking about?"

Grover's eyes had sadness but also acceptance as he said, "I'll only hold you back."

"Yeah but…" Percy stopped when he saw Grover shake his head. Percy frowned, but nodded as he understood. He wanted to cry, but instead, he gave Grover the rifle. "Then maybe you should have this."

Grover held it by the barrel and asked, "Don't you want it?"

Percy shook his head, "No. Can't hit anything with it anyway, I'm rubbish." Grover chuckled through his nose, knowing that was true. Percy then spoke up once more. "Grover, I'm sorry."

"What for?" Grover looked at him with weak eyes.

"'Cause you know, I was shouting at you and that earlier on."

"It's alright… I'm sorry too."

Percy shook his head, "It's ok."

Grover smirked. "No… I'm sorry, Percy."

Percy was confused before suddenly recoiling from the smell but couldn't help but laugh. "Oh God… That's not funny!"

Grover laughed as well. "I'll stop doing it when you stop laughing."

"I'm not laughing…" Percy was and lowered his head. Grover leaned his head towards Percy's before he put the cigarette in Grover's mouth and lit it up for him. The cellar door was busted through, making Grover and Percy look towards the door.

Grover looked to Percy, "Better be off."

Grover and Percy looked at each other before smiling with tears. "You've always been my best friend. My first real friend. I love you, G-Man." Percy said.

Grover smiled back, "You've always pushed me to be braver, and you helped me find Pan. I couldn't do any of that without you. I love you too, Perce."

Percy laughed slightly and punched his shoulder, "You didn't need me for all of that. You've always been capable of doing it all yourself."

The two hugged tightly, showing a deep bond of brotherhood between friends. Apollo sniffed at the bromance in front of him.

Thalia had to stop herself from crying because she too loved Grover. After all, he got Annabeth and Luke into Camp Half-blood, even though she was supposed to be the only one. Annabeth rested her hand on Grover's shoulder, he was like a brother to her ever since she entered Camp Half-Blood.

Grover smiled at her before bringing her in for hug as well. The trio hugged for a few moments. "You're the best Satyr we've ever known." Annabeth said.

"You guys are the best friends I've ever known." Grover said with a smile, almost on the verge of crying. "Just do me a favor... Don't waste your lives. Love each other to your fullest, and... Try not to be like your other self, Percy."

Percy laughed slightly and patted his back. "And don't be like your other self." He joked back.

Percy looked at him for a few moments before standing up and walking to the latch, conveniently finding a fire ax while Annabeth grabbed a chain. Zombies continued to tear the wooden door off as Annabeth said with remorse. "Bye Grover… Love you."

"Cheers."

Percy gasped slightly, "I love you too, man." Annabeth grabbed the control and turned it on, levitating the latch up and opening the doors.

"Gay." Grover said before chuckling until he was no longer in sight.

The couple rose up from the latch, seeing the amount of zombies still trying to get into the pub while a group of them chewed on the remains of Jason. However, Piper was no longer in sight. Percy and Annabeth looked at the zombies before each other. "Ready?" Percy asked her.

She nodded, "Ready."

"They've got this." Thalia said, crossing her arms. "Those freaks have no idea who they're messing with."

"I believe in you two." Sally said, putting a hand on both Annabeth and Percy's shoulders.

Jason then spoke up. "Wait, where is Piper?" That got everyone's attention.

Annabeth looked everywhere on the screen, her keen observations couldn't tell her anything. "She's... Gone. I don't see a body anywhere."

Piper's eyes widened. "I... I must've escaped!"

Aphrodite gasped, "Please... Please let it be true!"

Jason looked at Piper and hugged her. Even though his memories of Piper were false because of Hera, he still cared for her.

The two raised their weapons, ready to escape or die trying. Before they could do anything, a bunch of really bright lights stopped them. That's when military trucks pulled up, ramming zombies over before stopping in front of the pub and soldiers began to pour out of the trucks.

"Section one, ready!" A soldier shouted as the soldiers knelt down, readied their rifles. "Zombies to your front, fire!" They began unloading their ammunition into the zombies, killing them. Behind the soldiers, another group was holding the zombies back while another squad went inside the burning pub.

Percy and Annabeth were watching all of this, until a silhouette figure stood in front of them. "Oh my God! Percy!" The figure exclaimed.

"Thalia!?" Percy exclaimed. It was indeed Thalia, holding her gold club.

Thalia smacked two zombie twins down with her golf club before running up to them. "How're you doing?"

The couple looked at each other before looking at her and replied in unison. "Surviving."

"Hades, Yes!" Thalia stood up from her seat and cheered with her arms in the air. "I brought the cavalier!" She shouted in her best cockney accent.

Percy and Annabeth ran up to Thalia and hugged her tightly. "You're fucking brilliant, Thalia! We could almost kiss you!" Annabeth exclaimed. Thalia laughed and hugged them back.

"How about buying me a pizza at that new pizza place down Sally's place and I'll call it even." Thalia jokingly said.

"Deal." Percy said with a smile before gently punching her shoulder.

Thalia laughed and punched his chest before they sat back down at their seats. Artemis looked at Thalia with a proud smile.

Thalia then explained, "They're taking us somewhere safe. I thought you two might want to tag along. Is it just the two of you?"

Percy and Annabeth looked down in sadness before nodding. Thalia looked down as well before taking a deep breath. "Well… Glad somebody made it." She then nudged her head to the military trucks. "Come on."

Percy and Annabeth followed her, holding hands as the screen faded to black.

Suddenly, a television turned on showing a show as the announcer spoke. "Next! We'll hear the story of 10-year-old Enrique Ramirez who fought off the reanimated corpses of his entire family! It's all coming right up on Zombies From Hell!"

That's when the channel was changed to a news channel. "Six months on, and to many, the events of Z-Day must seem like a bad dream." The news showed footage of military firing on zombies and evacuating survivors. "And as we now know, the phenomenon resulted from the use of highly dea-"

The channel was changed once more to the News Anchor that gave very useful information during the initial attack. "It's not something I ever expected as a newscaster to ever have to say on air. Removing the head or destroying the brain. Incredible."

Another channel changed to a talk show from before speaking with two members of the band, Coldplay. "Dead excited now to have a top band with us talking about their work for the charity Zombaid-"

Once more the channel was changed to another news as a trailer was being filled with zombies in chains and handcuffs. "The fact that mobile deceased retained their primal instincts make them ideal recruitment for the service industry." The news showed a now zombified Nancy Bobofit moving carts in a grocery store parking lot. "As well as proving themselves in other roles such as-"

Another channel showed a funny game where zombies were attached to a bungee cord on an inflatable slide trying to reach huge cuts of animal meat. "He can't quite get it! Oh he's fallen, he's down and he's down!"

And finally, another channel showed another talk show where a woman was speaking about her husband who was a zombie. "I don't see nothing wrong with it, but I know that some people would see something wrong with it, but he's my husband, you know? I still love him. I've still got the ring on my finger, Trisha."

Trisha, the host of the show, looked a mild bit disgusted. "You go to bed with it?"

Many in the room were confused with the channel surf-like nature on the screen. "What is going on?" Hera asked as she blinked her eyes multiple times to prevent the headache from the changing channels.

"Woah, woah, woah, six months!? This whole zombie attack was resolved in just one day? That's insane! I was almost expecting either an apocalypse situation or maybe it would take more than just a week, but one day!?" Leo exclaimed.

"Because unlike all of those zombie movies, the truth is a situation like this would be resolved because of the military and their quarantine procedures." Nick explained.

"But still, it was all just relegated to one day, that's crazy." Percy said in surprise.

"More than likely it was more than one day but they were more easy to cover up events. Z-Day most likely was when there were just too many to stop from being noticed." Xion reasoned before checking something on her phone.

"So, everything's fine now?" Percy asked Nick.

"Pretty much yeah." Nick nodded.

Thalia laughed, "Well look at that, the girl that was a complete twat to Percy and also called Grover, leading to them nearly getting killed got zombified herself."

Sally looked at Thalia, "Language, young lady!"

"I'm not apologizing for this one, Mrs. Jackson!" Thalia retorted.

"Ok, I gotta ask, if any one of us were a zombie, would you keep us alive or put us out of our misery?" Hazel asked.

"I... Don't think I could do it." Percy replied, looking away a bit. Annabeth looked at him before holding his hand gently.

"I'd do it, simply because it's more mercy than letting people be like that." Jason answered the question.

"I agree." Thalia said with a nod.

Away from the TV, the camera went to the floor of a familiar house where Percy walked to the edge of the living room before yawning loudly, like he did the day before the attack. He walked over to Annabeth who was on the couch watching the TV as she changed the channel once more.

Behind the couch was a large shelf with pictures of Sally, Paul, Piper, and Jason, with flowers placed in vases. Indicating that it was a shrine for their friends and family.

"Initial claims that the virus was caused by Eurasian infected monkeys, has now been dismissed as bull-" Annabeth turned the TV off and spoke in a funny low tone. "Hello."

Percy walked to the couch and planted himself next to her and kissed her cheek. "What's the plan then?" He asked.

Annabeth took a breath, "Right, a cup of tea… then we get the Sundays. Head down the Phoenix for a roast, veg out in the pub for a bit. Then wander home, watch a bit of telly, go to bed."

Percy nodded with his thumb up. "Perfect."

Annabeth raised her thumb up as well, "I'll get the kettle on." Before getting up from the couch.

Percy then requested, "Can I have two sugars, please?"

"Oooh, adventurous!" Annabeth lightly squealed with excitement.

Percy scratched the back of his neck, "Actually, I might pop into the garden for a bit."

"Go on, then."

Percy sighed and muttered, "Two seconds." Before getting up from the couch.

"Glad to see that you two kept our memory alive." Sally said when she saw the shrine which earned her a hug from Percy and Annabeth. Once Annabeth described the day's plan, that caused some giggles from the girls. "Of course you plan out your whole day and date." Piper said, holding in her laughter.

"Yeah well, gotta plan it out if you don't want to end being a living zombie like we saw before everything." Annabeth said.

"Besides, I gotta make up for all the times I've been unreliable and disappointed her." Percy said, holding Annabeth's hand.

Jason looked at Piper, "Maybe we should do that, plan things out, now that we've got a chance at peace."

"I'd like that." Piper said as she pecked Jason on the cheek.

"We're still going-" Hazel whispered before Frank responded.

"Yes, I got tables for us at 6 on Friday." This caused Hazel to simply rest her head on Frank's shoulder.

"Oh! If you guys want to have your dates or do something, I can give you a better tour of this establishment. We've got a lot of stuff here if you're curious." Nick spoke up.

"I'm a little curious." Athena commented.

"Dad also has some locations perfect for dates so if you want, ask Nick about getting there." Xion said.

"Should we be concerned?" Nico asks.

"Only if you enter through the portal with Nick or any of his guys." Xion replied.

"It's an option of course. I am more than willing to supply you guys with everything you guys need. I have rooms, beds, showers, game rooms, a library, a kitchen, a gun range, a gym and training area." Nick listed off.

Everyone looked interested in several things that their host listed off in the station. "But we can get to that later. Let's finish the movie!" Nick proclaimed.

The camera then cuts to Percy opening the improvised door to the shed before entering inside and grabbing a PS2 controller and sitting down. The video game announced about Player 2 entering the game, though it was a low volume. So Percy reached for the remote where suddenly a zombified Grover almost tried to bite Percy's arm.

"Grover!" Percy scolded, quickly reaching back to stop himself from getting bit. Grover had a leash and chains tied to the ceiling and had a controller in his hands. He groaned as he and Percy began to play, like old times. Percy and Grover looked at each and Percy was the only one who could smile, but it was clear both of them were having a great time.

The movie ended with another Queen song, You're My Best Friend.

"What? How am I in the shed?" Grover asks.

"How did he get past the soldiers?" Frank questioned.

"I am confusion." Was all Percy could say.

"Don't worry guys, I've got a couple of clips that'll explain it. But for now, I wanted to get your guy's opinions about what you just watched." Nick said.

"Honestly, while there were some fun moments. I honestly hated seeing my other self making things worse for himself and I'm not happy about..." Percy didn't finish, clearly not happy about what happened to his mom.

"Honestly I'd say this is the worst Zom-Com I've ever seen. But that was mostly due to the fact that my friends were dying." Leo answered.

"Loved the gore." Ares said with a chuckle.

"Of course you did." Hephaestus said with a roll of his eyes.

"The romance certainly took a step back, but it was a lovely story." Aphrodite said.

"I'm more curious about what happened to me." Piper said.

"And how did I actually give the zombies the slip? Because I must've done a terrible job if they still followed me." Percy said, scratching his head in embarrassment.

"You mind answering these questions, cause I don't think me and dad knows?" Xion asked Nick.

Nick looked towards his A.I. assistant. "Can you pull up the shorts?"

Cortana nodded and typed on her holographic keyboard. "I have three shorts that actually give explanations to the plot holes. Starting with plot hole 1. How Percy gave the zombies the slip."

The screen showed Percy waving to the camera. "Hello, my name's Percy, and this is what happened to me when I acted as a decoy to save my friends."

The screen cut to Percy running with the undead behind him. "Firstly, once I had the undivided attention of the undead, I had to make sure they kept following me so they wouldn't lose interest." Percy kept waving and calling out to them. Once he was quite a ways away from the undead, he had to stop.

"Contrary to recent theories, the living dead are actually very slow moving." Percy had to check his watch and then tie his shoes while the zombies slowly moved after him. "This meant that every fifty meters or so, I had to stop and wait for them to catch up with me."

Percy then ran near an alleyway and smirked, "Having done this low speed pipe pipery for a while, I decided to fix those dead pricks by jumping into a dumpster and hiding for a bit." Percy jumped into a dumpster and waited for a bit.

"I counted to twenty elephants then ran back to the Winchester, securing the moment that I've given them the slip." Percy smirked as he jumped out and ran off from behind the horde. Unbeknownst to Percy, one of the zombies looked behind and noticed Percy.

"Okay, that explains how I gave them the slip." Percy said.

"But... They still noticed-" Annabeth's eyes widened. "Oh my Gods... Remember what your counterpart said when you got to my apartment?" She asked, looking at Percy.

He was confused before his eyes widened as he realized as well. "It only takes one of them to realize you're up here. Holy shit..."

"It was a good attempt, Perseus. I will give you that." Artemis said, her eyes had sympathy for the only man she has respect for.

"Okay, that explains how Percy got away from the zombies. But how come we didn't see my body?" Piper asked.

Cortana typed on her keyboard and announced, "Starting Plot Hole 2. What happened to Piper after leaving the Winchester."

The screen then showed Piper who gave a little wave. "Hello… My name is Piper and this is what happened after I ran out of the Winchester, using my boyfriend's leg as a cudgel.

Piper was seen using the leg to knock any zombie away while trying not to get grabbed or bitten. "As I cut a weave through the zombie hordes, it dawned on me that my chances of saving Jason as he had been torn into a number of pieces and no amount of first-aid training would help. Realizing that I was now adrift through a sea of dead people, and with no way of getting back to the pub. I decided to make good on my escape."

Piper smacked a zombie away and noticed a tall tree branch and made her way through it. "I scaled a nearby tree and, somewhat overwhelmed by the emotional moment, I passed out." Piper was asleep on the branch, the zombies having no way of getting to her.

Piper woke up a few days later and rubbed her head when she saw the ruins of the Winchester. "As I came around, I could see that the Winchester had burned down and the area was completely deserted. Being a cautious old stick, I decided to remain in my tree for several days, feeding on the remains of my boyfriend's severed leg. Just like in that film, Alive. Which coincidentally, Jason and I saw on our second date!" Piper was eating bits and pieces of Jason's severed leg. "Although, that's only because we couldn't get in to see Kenneth Branagh's Much To Do About Nothing."

Piper then climbed down from the tree and wandered the abandoned street. "After a number of days, I climbed down and after some investigation, I discovered that the area was under quarantine. The zombies had more or less been gone and everything was pretty much back to normal. I'm now living in Birmingham with my aunt and remain in Christmas card contact with Annabeth and Percy."

When they saw she climbed up a tree and passed out, that answered why she wouldn't be among the zombies when the military came or revealed she was still alive. However when she revealed she ate Jason's leg, the vomit bags were handed back with Zeus getting up from his chair with rage glowing in his eyes.

Nobody was more grossed out than Piper as she vomited violently. Jason kept her hair out of her face as she tried to breathe but wretched as she emptied her stomach.

Nick noticed Zeus standing up. "Woah woah, hey hey! Unlike Tantalus, she's doing it out of survival, not to piss you off!"

"THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR SUCH CRIME!" Zeus' voice boomed as he tried to release lightning in his hand. Before he could release it, he disappeared in a popping noise.

Everyone turned to Xion who glared at the spot where Zeus was at. "I think it will be best if he doesn't show up for a few hours."

Nick was almost going to protest, but the more he thought about it, the more he thought it was a good idea. He looked towards Piper and Jason. "You guys ok?"

Piper gave him a thumbs down for understandable reasons, Jason had a worried look mostly from his father's rage.

"Glad my dad sent you that crate of vomit bags?" Xion asked Nick to which he nodded.

Hestia hasn't said much, but she walked over to Piper and gently rubbed her back. "There there, darling. This will help you." Her hand glowed a gentle orange and whatever it did, it helped Piper as there was color coming back to her skin.

Jason looked towards her and bowed his head, "Thank you, Lady Vesta."

"Where did he go?" Hades asked, referring to his younger brother.

"Believe it or not, this isn't the first time my dad had to deal with Gods. Luckily, a good beating is sometimes needed, so Zeus is going to be fighting against four of my dad's enforcers to help cool out some steam." Xion explained, wondering who her dad will send against Zeus.

Hera almost wanted to be worried, but the affair he had that birthed Thalia and Jason almost made her not care anymore about what happens to him. She's simply had enough of him.

"Anyways, let's play the last one." Xion said.

Nick nodded and looked to everyone. "Everyone ready?" They all nodded, and Piper finally gave the host a thumbs up.

A zombified Grover was on screen and groaned before acting completely normal with a wave. "Hello! I'm Grover, deceased. And this is how I became a zombie and got from the pub cellar to Percy's garden shed to start my life as a dead person.

The screen changed to Grover who was very pale and bloody, holding the Winchester rifle as he glared at the cellar door as zombies came pouring in. "When Percy and Annabeth went up in the lift, I decided, "Well hell! I'm not going to give up without a fight!"

Grover aimed the rifle at the zombies as they climbed down the steps. "I fired my two remaining shots, scoring a chin and brain shot respectively. Fortunately, the second zombie to fall through was a great, big, fat fuck, whose prone body provided a temporary barricade as I dragged myself beneath the cellar steps." Grover crawled under the steps, using the second zombie as cover.

Grover watched as the military cleared out the zombies and searched around. "Shortly afterwards, the army arrived and cleared the building and surrounding area. They did not discover me however, as I was too weak to call out, having lost almost all of my blood. After a while, I passed away peacefully." Grover panted heavily before closing his eyes, having died. Later on, he opened his eyes to show the same milky white eyes as the undead.

"A week or so later, Percy returned to pay his respects, and to his amazement, discovered me bumbling around in the cellar." Percy stepped into the cellar before his eyes widened to see his friend was still there, now a zombie.

The scene changed to show Grover shambling after Percy who was leading him out, in the cover of night. "He tempted me back to his house under the cover of night, using himself as bait, and locked me in the shed where I've been existing for six months while Percy put me through a rigorous training program."

Grover had the chain as he looked out of the shed door. "I no longer get the urge to eat him. Though… wouldn't mind giving Annabeth a little nibble." He made a little giggle before the screen cut to black.

"Good use of those last two shots." Ares said with a grin and well many wanted to call Percy crazy to bring a zombie back home. All but Athena, Hades and Hera thought that Zombie Grover no longer having the urge to eat Percy was sweet, until the mention of wanting a bite of Annabeth.

"Okay, so Annabeth should never go in the shed... ever." Athena said to everyone's agreement.

"Yeah, no thanks. Please do not go in there ever." Grover pleaded with his hands together.

"Yeah I'm never going in there." Annabeth said with a shake of his head.

"And that's all of the plot holes. I hope that cleared things up for you guys." Nick said.

"Yeah that helped out a lot. At least... Most of it did." Piper said, shuddering at her plot hole.

"Still not a fan of what happened to my friends." Percy said.

"I honestly did not like watching my other self." Jason commented.

"I think we'll need some time before watching as heavy of themes again." Sally added.

"Oh absolutely. Please take some time. How does... An hour or two sound? Then we'll move on to our next showing?" Nick asked.

"I think two sounds perfect." Percy said as he got up. He and his family left the room. Followed by his friends and their respected parents and finally Hera with Hestia. Leaving only Xion, Nick, Cortana and Athena in the room.

"So, should I be concerned about my father's wrath when he comes back?" Athena asks Xion.

"Yeah, dad won't bring him back until he calms down." Xion informed Athena before turning to Nick. "That might take a couple showings if that's okay?"

Nick shrugged his shoulders. "Cool with me."

Athena asked, "And how long will these viewings be?"

"Oh they can take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour or a half. Though, time works very differently between universes so it could be hundreds of years to him, but hours to us. We'll have to wait and see." Nick explained.

Athena accepted the answer before standing up and walking off. Once she got to the door, Nick called out, "Oh and Athena?" She turned around to look at him with a raised eyebrow.

"I'd think about talking with your daughter. Just a suggestion." Nick said. Athena frowned but didn't say anything as she walked away.

Once Athena left them, Xion stretched her arms before getting up from her chair. "Welp, I have to go. Dad needs me for something else." Xion said as she turned to Nick. "Next time I show up I'll bring some things for these guys to watch so be ready." Before Nick could ask what she meant, she teleported with only the sound of a pop behind.

Nick sighed, not getting a chance to say bye. Cortana then asked, "Should I make an alert for when she arrives?"

"Nah, it's fine. She'll pop up when she does. Let's just go ahead and get a tour program going for the group so they can see the whole station." Nick said.

"Will they see the Hive, Chief?"

Nick shook his head, "No, it's too dangerous, and we'll explain why. We don't need them getting curious and suspecting something."

Cortana nodded, "Understood, Chief." Her figure then disappeared into multiple blocks before traveling up into the ceiling.

Nick sighed and rubbed his head, "Maybe this wasn't such a good idea…"