Chapter two (PA)

Authors Note: So... three reviews saying that Percy is way too OP. I agree, but Thor, the Hulk, Odin, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon and many other beings can still kill him if they actually tried. Percy will get a lot stronger and will be required to be stronger to survive what's coming.
georgemathew336: I'm glad that you're sticking around and giving the story a chance. That goes out to those who followed and faved the story too. I'm sure that chapter three will make it all interesting for you.
Next, let me thank the people of the Marvel, Riordan, Transcripts, and Marvel Cinematic Universe wikis. You all provide incredible resources for fan fiction writers and I couldn't do it without all of you.
==May 2nd, 2015.==
It was finally the time for the party. The last few days had been great for Percy and he had mostly spent them with Maria... Maria, she was insatiable, and she kept coming back for more and Percy kept giving it to her until she eventually passed out. Percy made her dinner before sex and breakfast before she left the next morning and she was loving the royal treatment, and Percy was enjoying giving it to her just as much. Maria was actually very fun to spend time with and Percy could see himself continuing this arrangement with her. Pity that she was trying to gather information for Fury though, but she hadn't gotten anything.
Percy had already been introduced to the others and we all seemed to be getting along fairly well. Percy could tell the lovely Doctor Cho was sexually attracted to himself and Thor, but Percy didn't share women, so she would have to choose between them. Percy freely admit that was arrogant of him, but he wasn't at all sorry.
"So I heard you broke Thor's nose?" Clint asked.
"Yeah, I was surprised. I thought I'd have to hit him much harder to do that, but apparently not. I just wish that I could have went all out without destroying the planet. I really need to find a way to a lifeless planet, so I have a place to fight my world-ending Death Matches." Percy replied, causing Clint to smirk in amusement.
"Why not have regular Death Matches?" Natasha asked, entering the conversation.
"I find regular Death Matches boring. I mean you get punched, you get kicked or shot. I just find that boring and I need a real challenge, like someone who can control time, move inhumanely fast or is invulnerable. When you can cause national devastation you need a big battlefield to really cut lose."
"You have a strange idea of fun." Natasha replied in amusement.
"Well I tried fighting all day and fucking all night for a year, but the friction burn, tiredness, dehydration, wounds, soreness, and a lack of partners willing to try one or both really left me with no other option." Percy replied, causing Clint to crack up and Natasha to smirk. "I managed to get a woman from saying, 'I think I'm in love' to 'stay the hell away me'. I'm not sure if that qualifies as a notable achievement, but my cousin thought that I was a genius for discovering that."
"That's terrible!" Clint said, still laughing.
"And illogical! You would think you ruin a relationship by avoiding someone or being a jerk to them and not by having sex constantly until they finally dump you!" Percy added, keeping Clint laughing, with Natasha joining him. "But, apparently it works, but I still got insulted when my cousin said it was so simple a mortal could do it." More laughter, but at Percy that time.
Eventually the three of them ran out of things to talk about and Percy went to mingle with the others. Percy noticed that Maria was almost finished with her drink, so he brought her another one, getting a grateful smile.
"Well, you know, the suit can take the weight, right? So I take the tank, fly it right up to the General's palace, drop it at his feet, I'm like, 'Boom! You looking for this?'" Stark and Thor just looked at him blankly "'Boom! Are you looking...' Why do I even talk to you guys? Everywhere else that story kills." Rhodes said.
"That's the whole story?" Thor asked.
"Yeah, it's a War Machine story." Rhodes replied. Percy politely remained silent. His story sucked though.
"Well, it's very good then." He laughed "It's impressive."
"Quality save. So, no Pepper? She's not coming?" Rhodes asked.
"No." Stark replied.
"Hey, what about Jane? Where are the ladies, gentlemen?" Maria asked, causing Percy to discreetly smirk.
"Well, Miss Potts has a company to run."
"Yes, I'm not even sure what country Jane's in. Her work on the convergence has made her the world's foremost astronomer."
"And the company that Pepper runs is the largest tech conglomerate on earth. It's pretty exciting."
"There's even talk of Jane getting a... um, uh... Nobel prize."
"Yeah, they...they must be busy because they'd hate missing you guys get together." Maria mock coughed. "Testosterone! Oh, excuse me." Percy followed her away, he didn't wanna deal with those two anymore.
After spending most of the party figuring out how Bruce and Natasha would successfully have sex, and labeling it a lost cause, Percy joined the others in trying to lift Thor's hammer.
"But, it's a trick!" Clint said, referring to everyone trying to lift Mjolnir.
"Oh, no. It's much more than that." Thor replied.
"Uh, 'Whosoever be he worthy shall haveth the power!' Whatever man! It's a trick."
"It's just a worthiness enchantment, either you're worthy or you aren't." Percy said in amusement. Percy loved watching people try to rationalize magic.
"Well please, be my guest." Thor replied.
"Come on." Stark said.
"Really?" Clint asked.
"Yeah!" Thor said, as Barton got up.
"Oh this is gonna be beautiful." Rhodes said.
"Clint, you've had a tough week, we won't hold it against you if you can't get it up." Stark said, Percy laughed along with the others.
"You know I've seen this before, right?" Barton said before grabbing Thor's hammer and failing to lift it. "I still don't know how you do it." He added.
"Smell the silent judgment?" Stark said.
"Please, Stark, by all means." Clint said, as Stark got up.
"Oh, here we go."
"Okay."
"Uh-oh."
"Um-hmm."
"Never one to shrink from an honest challenge."
"Get after it." Clint said..
"Here we go." Natasha said.
"It's physics." Stark said ignorantly.
"Physics!" Banner exclaimed after Stark grasped Thor's hammer.
"Right, so, if I lift it, I...I then rule Asgard?" Stark asked.
"Yes, of course." Thor replied. That was dumb. Stark was far too immature.
"If you can prevent his father from beating you bloody for your daring..." Percy interjected, causing some laughs.
"I will be re-instituting Prima Nocta." Stark said, to Percy's disgust. Stark tried to lift the hammer, but he thankfully failed. "I'll be right back." He came back wearing his armored hand, Stark tried to lift the hammer again and failed. Wearing their armored hands, Stark and Rhodes both tried to lift Thor's hammer.
"Now who can't get it up? And with Rhodes helping you." Percy commented with a smirk, causing everyone but his victims to laugh.
Next up Bruce tried, even acting like he was going to transform. Steve made it budge a little, and then Percy...
Percy picked it up without any difficulty, feeling power course through himself. It was addictive, and Percy kinda wanted one for himself. "Interesting... Worthiness Enchantment, grants someone nigh-limitless power, nigh-omnipotent control of weather; including lightning, barrier projection, energy sensing, energy absorption and redirection, ability to resurrect the dead, chronokinesis, and several other powers that I won't say. It's a masterpiece." Percy said, before sitting it back down.
"You can keep Asgard, just send me any slutty near-immortal women who live there," Percy said, causing Tony, Rhodes, Clint, Maria, and Natasha to laugh. "I'm serious. I have no hobbies and need new ways to occupy my time."
"You actually managed to lift it, I'm impressed. Asgard will want to keep their women of ill-repute though." Thor said. "I'm surprised that you could detect all of those enchantment, Perseus. You should be well on your way to being a master of magic."
Everyone began speculating that it was rigged to disadvantage mortals, but Thor stood to retrieve his hammer.
"Yes, well that's, uh, those are very, very interesting theories. I have a simpler one." He lifted his hammer and flipped it "You're all not worthy." There was a chorus of disagreement from the others. There was a loud screeching noise, causing everyone to cover their ears. They all let our hands down as the noise faded.
"Worthy... No... How could you be worthy? You're all killers." Some busted looking robot said.
"Stark." Rogers said.
"JARVIS." Stark said.
"I'm sorry, I was asleep. Or...I was a-dream?" Scrapmetal said.
Stark tapped his device. "Reboot, Legionnaire OS, we got a buggy suit."
"There was a terrible noise...and I was tangled in... in...strings. I had to kill the other guy. He was a good guy." The walking junk pile said.
"You killed someone?" Rogers asked.
"Wouldn't have been my first call. But, down in the real world we're faced with ugly choices."
"Who sent you?" Thor asked.
It replayed Tony's voice. "I see a suit of armor around the world".
"Ultron!" Bruce called out.
"In the flesh. Or, no, not yet. Not this...chrysalis. But I'm ready. I'm on a mission." The now named Ultron said.
"What mission?" Natasha asked.
"Peace in our time." Ultron said. Suddenly the Iron Legion bots smashed through the walls and attacked the team. Percy flashed on his armor and began fighting, blasting one that was almost on Natasha into nothing and cut another in half. Percy quickly blasted five into slag with lightning from his finger tips before picking up dozens and telekinetically crushing them.
They quickly defeated the robots, and Percy had dispelled any remaining doubts about his fighting skills.
"That was dramatic! I'm sorry, I know you mean well. You just didn't think it through. You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change. How is humanity saved if it's not allowed to...evolve?" Ultron picked up one of the dismembered Iron Legions. "With these? These puppets? There's only one path to peace: The Avengers' extinction." Thor suddenly threw his hammer at Ultron and smashed him to pieces. After Thor destroyed his body, Ultron began singing. "I had strings, but now I'm free. There are no strings on me, no strings on me."
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In the lab...
"All our work is gone. Ultron cleared out, used the internet as an escape hatch." Bruce said.
"He's been in everything. Files, surveillance. Probably knows more about us than we know about each other." Natasha said.
Percy was glad that he was a new addition to the Avengers and joined under a false name. Hell, his private island was incredibly well protected and even Maria didn't know its exact location due to the paranoid levels of defenses Percy had placed upon it.
"He's in your files, he's in the internet. What if he decides to access something a little more exciting?" Rhodes suggested.
"Nuclear codes." Maria and Percy said at the same time, before looking at each other in embarrassment.
"Aw, that's cute." Stark said, teasing us, and causing a few Avengers to chuckle.
"Nuclear codes. Look, we need to make some calls, assuming we still can." Rhodes suggested.
"Nukes? He said he wanted us dead." Natasha said.
"He didn't say dead. He said extinct." Rogers said, correcting her.
"He also said he killed somebody." Clint said, to my concern.
"But there wasn't anyone else in the building." Maria said, unknowingly drawing Percy's attention to her injury. He quickly healed it, earning himself another thankful look.
"Yes, there was." Stark said, before bringing up the now destroyed 3D image of JARVIS' consciousness.
Percy rolled his eyes, if an AI was the only casualty then they were doing better than expected.
"This is insane." Banner interjected.
"JARVIS was the first line of defense. He would've shut Ultron down, it makes sense." Rogers said.
"No, Ultron could've assimilated Jarvis. This isn't strategy, this is...rage." Banner said, before Thor suddenly grabbed hold of Stark by his throat and held him up.
"Easy, Thor. We need the arrogant prick to defeat Ultron."
"Thanks, Percy, love you too, man." Stark said sarcastically.
"Fail safes to shut Ultron down in an emergency?" Percy asked and Stark said no. "Uh huh. Well, you said the L-word, but I think we need to bring toys into the relationship." Percy said, earning light laughter, before withdrawing one of his creations. "These are objects designed to install mental limits, IE concealing certain dangerous knowledge, and an inactive object designed to punish murderers." Percy quickly placed them on Stark. "After Ultron is beaten, they will prevent you from recreating such things and punish you when you do. The punishment is feeling the pain of your victims."
"Damn!" Several people exclaimed.
"Don't worry. They can be easily removed and if enough people support that, after Ultron's dealt with, then I will."
"Thor, the Legionaire?" Rogers asked.
"Trail went cold about a hundred miles out but it's headed north, and it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it, again." Thor said in reply.
"The genie's out of that bottle. Clear and present is Ultron." Natasha said.
"I don't understand. You built this program. Why is it trying to kill us?" Dr. Cho asked, and for some reason Stark started laughing, Banner was subtly shaking his head at him to get him to stop.
"You think this is funny?" Thor asked angrily.
"No. It's probably not, right? Is this very terrible? Is it so...is it so...it is. It's so terrible." Stark said.
"This could've been avoided if you hadn't played with something you don't understand." Thor said.
"No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It is funny. It's a hoot that you don't get why we need this." Stark replied.
"Tony, maybe this might not be the time to..." Banner said in warning.
"Really?! That's it? You just roll over, show your belly, every time somebody snarls." Stark said.
"Only when I've created a murder bot." Banner said in reply.
"We didn't. We weren't even close. Were we close to an interface?" Stark argued.
"Well, you did something right. And you did it right here. The Avengers were supposed to be different than SHIELD." Rogers said, critically.
"Anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole?" Stark asked.
"Don't bring up past glories to distract from your colossal fuck-up." Percy said in annoyance, causing a few Avengers to smirk.
"The point is," Stark began, after glaring at Percy. "We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the live long day, but, that up there? That's...that's the end game. How were you guys planning on beating that?"
"Together." Rogers replied.
"We'll lose." Stark replied.
"Then we'll do that together, too." Rogers said. Stark looked at him for a moment before turning away. "Thor's right. Ultron's calling us out. And I'd like to find him before he's ready for us. The world's a big place. Let's start making it smaller."
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Hours later...
"He's all over the globe. Robotics labs, weapons facilities, jet propulsion labs, reports of a metal man, or men, coming in and emptying the place." Maria said.
"Fatalities?" Rogers asked in visible concern.
"Only when engaged. Mostly guys left in a fugue state going on about old memories, worst fears, and something too fast to see." Maria replied.
"Maximoffs. Well, that makes sense he'd go to them, they have someone in common." Rogers said.
"Not anymore." Maria replied, handing him a tablet showing a photo of Strucker's dead body with the word PEACE written in blood on the wall next to him.
"He must have known something, this killing makes no sense; unless it was merely an act of hate, rage, or self-righteous wrath." Percy said, in observation. "Do we have a list of known associates?"
"Yes, but only physical files." Maria said, before gesturing for Steve and Percy to follow her.
They arrived near the files a minute later, and Percy quickly went through names.
"Aw, shit." Percy said minutes later.
"What?" Stark asked.
"Ulysses Klaue. Operates off the African coast, a black market arms dealer, and he currently has billions in Vibranium which was stolen from Wakanda." Percy said, earning suspicious looks from several Avengers. "I was gonna take it from him, and charge Wakanda a fifty-million dollar fee for recovery. I estimated that it would take a few days, and that was great pay and a once in a lifetime opportunity."
"Where is this guy now?" Rogers asked, following my line of thought.
"No freakin clue." Percy replied.
"I was asking Stark..."
"That makes more sense, my bad." Percy said, causing several people snicker.
"I know where he is, lets get ready to go." Stark said,
Percy flashed on his armor and then went to wait by the Quinjet. Percy was quite proud of his armor, he designed it to incorporate modern and ancient forms of combat. It had gun holsters on each leg, optional machine guns that he could flash on to replace his shield. It was almost completely indestructible and was suitable for almost every kind of warfare except for cyber and biological, and he didn't even care for the latter. Percy shook himself from my musings as the other Avengers neared the Quinjet.
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They arrived near Ultron, at just the right time to hear him call Stark a sickness. Percy was beginning to agree with that assessment.
"Ahh, Junior." Stark said, entering with Thor, Steve, and Percy behind him. "You're gonna break your old man's heart."
"If I have to." Ultron replied.
"We don't have to break anything." Thor said, trying to avoid a fight.
"Clearly you've never made an omelet." Ultron said, causing Percy to smirk.
"He beat me by one second."
"Slowing down is part of aging, Stark." Percy said, with false solemnity, causing the Maximoffs and Thor to smirk. Percy also took this time to begin copying the knowledge of Klaue's finances. And he already made billions, goody.
"Ah, this is funny, Mr. Stark. It's what, comfortable? Like old times?" Pietro said.
Percy was just wondering why he called him Mr. Stark. It sounded far too respectful.
"This was never my life."
"You two can still walk away from this." Rogers said to the twins.
"Oh, we will." Wanda replied.
"I know you've suffered." Rogers continued, trying to get through to them.
"Uuughh! Captain America. God's righteous man, pretending you could live without a war. I can't physically throw up in my mouth, but..." Ultron said.
"If you believe in peace, then let us keep it." Thor interjected.
"I think you're confusing peace with quiet."
"Yuh-huh. What's the Vibranium for?"
"I'm glad you asked that, because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan!" Ultron said, before the Avengers were suddenly attacked by the Iron Legion, and Stark attacked Ultron.
Percy sighed and began obliterating the Legionaires, en masse. He crushed them with telekinesis, blasted them with lightning, cut and tore them apart, until there were finally none left. Percy moved on to deal with Klaue and his lackeys.
And then the Maximoff girl tried messing with his mind. Percy casually knocked her aside with an electrokinetic blast, but her brother quickly rescued her.
Percy picked up a disturbance at the edge of his telepathic range, and inspected it.
"Damn, the Hulks went berserk. I'm heading out to confront him, I'll focus on calming and containing first." Percy said, before flying towards Johannesburg.
Percy arrived near Johannesburg less than a minute and he interrupted Banners rampage, by using his Adamantine shield to tank a punch. Percy quickly copied someones language skills, so that he could communicate with the bystanders.
"Clear the area! Women and children first!" Percy called out, and they readily obeyed. "Calm down, Hulk, the sexy brunette is messing with your head!" And then the jade bastard threw a car at him...
Percy telekinetically redirected it and then caught a punch from Hulk, and then punched Hulk in the face, sending him flying backwards. Hulk shook his head, trying to focus but was kicked right in the face and into a building... unconscious.
When Hulk transformed back into Banner, Percy picked him up and then repaired the damage that the Hulk caused with minimal effort on his part.
"Alright. Banners back to being himself. Where do we regroup?" Percy asked over comms.
"The ship. Did you break Klaue's soldiers arms and legs?" Stark asked.
"Yes. Wasn't sure how you or Cap would feel about me killing them." Percy said, before beginning his flight back to the ship.
"It would have been okay, but it wasn't preferable." Stark replied.
"How is everyone?" Percy asked in concern.
"Their alive and uninjured, but the witch really affected their minds." Stark replied. "How'd the fight go?"
"It was relatively short. I used my powers to restore the damage done to the city, so maybe that'll lessen the public outcry some, but that's wishful thinking. I did pull enough language skill out their heads enough to order an evacuation, and I contained the fight to one location."
"That's good."
"I'll be at your location in a few seconds," Percy said, before seeing the Quinjet and beginning my descent.
"I see you now," Stark said, as Percy landed in front of him.
"Good, your vision hasn't gone in your old age," Percy said, with a smirk.
Stark glared in reply and Percy outright smiled. Percy sat Bruce on the Quinjet and buckled him in.
"How is he?" Natasha asked in concern.
"Just unconscious, he should wake up soon." Percy replied, making a mental note of her feelings for him. Aphrodite must love the possibilities offered with those two.
Hours of flying later and they had arrived on a farm...
"What is this place?" Thor asked.
"A safe house?" Stark asked.
"Let's hope," Clint said, as they all entered the house. "Honey, I'm home." A heavily pregnant woman walked in from the kitchen.
"Hi. Company. Sorry I didn't call ahead." Clint said.
"Hey." She said, before they began to kiss.
"This is an agent of some kind." Stark said to Thor, Percy gave him an amused look.
"Gentleman, this is Laura." Clint introduced.
"I know all your names," Laura said, they all looked at her awkwardly. No-one there knew Percy's real last name. He was extremely paranoid and distrusting, depending on who you asked.
"Ooh, incoming," Clint said, in warning. Two children ran into the kitchen, and a Kodak moment ensued.
"Sorry for barging in on you." Rogers said.
"Yeah, we would have called ahead, but we were busy having no idea that you existed." Stark added, causing Percy to roll his eyes. Percy fully intended to keep his family secret, and destroy anyone who tried hurting or endangering them. So, Percy wouldn't begrudge Clint or anyone else for doing the same.
"Yeah, well Fury helped me set this up when I joined. He kept it off SHIELD's files, I'd like to keep it that way. I figure it's a good place to lay low." Clint replied.
Percy nodded in understanding, before noticing Thor leaving the kitchen, both Cap and Percy followed him out.
"Thor." Rogers said in concern.
"I saw something in that dream. I need answers, I won't find them here." Thor said, before using his hammer to fly away; Rogers turned to enter the house when he seemed to suddenly stop.
"Psychic shields might keep the Maximoff girl out of your heads. I can install outer shields in your minds, but it requires a great deal of trust, because the telepath can look around and possibly learn your secrets. More shields can be installed further in the mind, but that requires absolute trust, because the telepath will see a lot of your secrets." Percy said, catching his interest. "I normally wouldn't offer, given how little you all know me, but the effects are severe on all of you, and it's better to be rejected and say that I at least offered. There's also telepathic immunity training, but it can take months."
"I'd like the shields," Rogers said in reply.
"Alright, you'll need to think of something requires your full focus. It keeps your thoughts from wondering to classified intel and secrets. Tell me when you're ready."
"I'm ready," Steve said, moments later. Percy placed his hands on Steve's temples and began the shield installation. Percy weaved his magic into shield form with practiced ease. Sadly, he couldn't leave himself a backdoor without it being found by others, Percy was left with no choice but to risk closing a way to foresee any betrayal from them to protect them. Percy really wasn't pleased with losing this resource for information gathering or identifying potential traitors.
Percy finished minutes later. "It's done," Percy said, and he nodded. "I'll offer it to the others, too. Though, I doubt that they will all be interested."
Surprisingly, most of them were. Banner refused, worried that it might trigger the Hulk. Natasha refused, but she was interested in telepathic immunity training. Clint was the most eager and asked Percy to make his extra strong. Tony agreed, but he intended to make a tech-based option for himself later and undertake telepathic immunity training.
Percy had already overheard Bruce and Natasha talk about running away, and Percy was going to go wish them luck, until he overheard something very personal and then decided against it. Percy was distracted from his musings by Stark walking in with Nicholas Fury, who Percy knew had been hunting down HYDRA cells.
"Director Fury," Percy greeted. "How did the hunt for HYDRA cells go?"
"I found a lot of people who were cut into pieces, torn apart, had the water ripped out of them, and were dehydrated... you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?" The Avengers were shocked by the brutality against HYDRA, even if they did deserve it.
"I'm not allowed to comment on the actions of the Olympian's Special Forces groups... I can only assume that they angered the council greatly."
"No shit," Fury replied. "Thousands dead; slaughtered, and most of the bases were looted and looked like scenes out of a horror movie. Over 20,000 members of HYDRA were killed. You destroyed a lot of valuable intel."
"No, I had a son of Hades retrieve it for me. I missed very few HYDRA members."
"And the fleet of ships that you destroyed?" Fury asked.
"The owner killed my cousin... a son of Zeus. You seem awfully curious about myself and the Olympians activities... Were Maria's attempts to bug my home not successful enough for you?" Fury's eyes widened, shocking those who knew him best.
"Okay, you know a lot about SHIELDs activities..." Fury said in concern.
"And yours, how's Junior doing?" After hearing this Fury realized that he and Jackson; yes, Fury knew his birth name and family name, had each other in check.
Fury decided to move on.
To be continued in chapter three.
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