Chapter five (PA)

Review Responses:
xeunobre: He won't be growing a beard, sorry.
Guests 1 & 2: I'm glad you like it.
Jelly w celly: I was hoping that my jokes would be well received.
victorsan12345: Vision had to be created to safely burn Ultron out and Percy kept an eye on them and he could just steal the Mind Stone "for the greater good" when he was new to the Avengers. He's collecting them mostly in secret, that mention in chapter one was for the audience/readers and not for the characters. Percy wasn't in the fight? He destroyed nearly a hundred Ultron Sentries and crushed Ultron's primary body, Percy was the MVP. To me some things just needed to happen and because if Percy's existence both Maximoffs are alive, Percy's death allowed him to be warned of Thanos and begin working towards his destiny, and Tony's guilt for his part in Percy death would further the plot and, in my story, cause Tony to create fail-safes and learn a little humility.
I appreciated your review, but I felt that my position/reasoning needed to be explained.
Authors Note: I'd like to thank Marvel wiki and the Transcript wiki.
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==May 11th, 2015.==
It was a brand new day and Percy now had the difficult task of deciding how to eliminate his next target, Samantha McGee. Percy could easily kill her, but the energy inside her might cause an extinction level event. Percy was essentially left with the option of absorbing her power and applying it to his own magical power, but that would paint a colossal target on his back and make his family nervous. Nervousness for immortal super-powerful beings was never a good thing, and they would not like being surpassed by Percy in power...
Percy sudden realized that he was being an idiot! He had already surpassed most of them and they hadn't said a thing! Percy was certain that it was mostly their arrogance that helped him. Percy really could be insecure some times. With that in mind, Percy teleported behind her and trapped her in a bear hug, and then teleported them to a desert.
When Percy arrived, he pulled on the power contained within her and began rapidly absorbing it. Percy spent minutes absorbing her power, which seemed to be as limitless as the sun itself and he wasn't sure how much of it he could even hold.
Eventually, after growing his power a shocking amount, the flow stopped and she managed to get free from Percy's hold, and tried attacking him. Percy blasted her body into a dust and left its remains, if they could even be called that to be forever concealed by the desert. As the sun rose into the sky, Percy teleported away, while contemplating how to do the impossible.
Percy arrived near the current hide-out of one Cain Marko... the Juggernaut. Percy had to defeat him. The problem was that it was near impossible to do so. Percy had to find a way to do the impossible, while surviving uninjured enough to still be able to build his harem.
Percy easily sneaked into his hide-out, got right up behind him, and then teleported them both away, to the planet Mars.
"You got balls, Kid. What do ya want?" Cain asked.
"To eliminate the threat you pose to the world. It's nothing personal, you have just caused a lot of damage and trouble." Percy replied, and Cain laughed. "I'm gonna pretend you're laughing due to hysterical fear." Percy added, causing him to laugh even harder. Percy super-sped to him, grabbed a hold of his neck, and began rapidly draining his power. "Surrender you are no match, lowly villain!" Cain laughed harder, still unaware of Percy's draining of his power.
"You feel that light-headedness? That's your brain being deprived of oxygen!" Percy bluffed. Meanwhile, Cain just looked amused. Percy was bleeding him dry, but he was still standing! "How are you still standing?"
"Because yer doin nothin to me, kid." Cain said arrogantly. Percy had drained so much of his power from him that Percy's had more than tripled!
"Not even slight trouble breathing?" Percy asked.
"Nothin," He replied.
"You'll break and I'll use the fame from defeating you to get a harem." Cain laughed in response. Percy realized that the Crimson Gym of Cyttorak was actually inside of of Marko, so he just ripped it out of him.
Percy was amazed to find a gem inside; it wasn't an infinity gem, but it could enhance his powers to similar heights, or Percy could just use its link to Cyttorak to bleed that bastard dry. He could sense that if his flesh touched the gem then he would become a slave to Cyttorak, so Percy conjured a gauntlet to filter the power and telekinetically secured the gem inside of it.
Percy finished off Marko and then teleported back to Earth.
When Percy arrived, he summoned the other gems of Cyttorak and when they appeared, he modified the gauntlet to include them.
Oh this was going to be fun... Percy thought with glee.
Over the next hour Percy turned deserts into forests, purified and created water, cured all known diseases, resurrected dead fish, restored cut forests, created absolutely massive amounts of crops and gave them to those who needed them, gave people the means and skills to tend to those crops; so they could continue feeding others, erased nuclear waste, created schools and imparted knowledge to adults to teach them, cured air and marine pollution, erased the worst of chemical and biological weapons from existence, and stripped terrorists of their weapons and then bound them in chains.
Percy did all of this in his personal Black Ops armor to protect his identity.
And the gems still had plenty of power, most drawing directly from the source. Percy created shields against demons of all types; on a solar system level and made it so that they drained energy from those trying to break them, but only Percy could drain energy from the shields. Percy's gauntlet still had a lot of power left, so Percy healed any damage to earths magnetic field and atmosphere. He decided to reinforce the barriers around earth to prevent attack.
Still, the gems had plenty of power. Percy was beginning to wonder if Cyttorak was truly omnipotent, and after teleporting back to earth to check the time, he decided to do some asteroid mining with his powers.
Percy mined every asteroid that he could, likely making quintillions of dollars in the process and the gems still had a decent amount of power; even when he extended his island further, and created heavily warded warehouses and vaults to store his loot. At least Percy was making some progress on draining Cyttorak's powers. Percy was still getting annoyed though, so he just started destroying Hell Lords, and other demons, and siphoning their power into defenses for their now former dimensions. Lucifer Lightbearer, Beelzeboul, Asmodeus, Thog, and Olivier, were all killed and Percy acquired their dimensions for his very grateful uncle Hades after fully-warding them and finally exhausting the power in the gems, breaking them and then destroying all remnants of them.
"Perseus," Hades greeted.
"Lord Hades... I come to you with an offer, but I also wish to inquire about Maria, Lisa, and Frank Castle."
"Fields of Asphodel," Hades replied. "Why do you ask?"
"They're the family of Frank Castle, a son of Athena and were all caught in the crossfire of a gang war... Frank is avenging them right now. As for why I ask, I recently defeated the Hell Lords, Lucifer Lightbearer, Beelzeboul, Asmodeus, Thog, and Olivier... So I'll give you their dimensions and souls, but in exchange I want those three relocated to Elysium and the same for Frank when he eventually dies, and an oath on Chaos that you won't use this increased power against the Olympians, their allies and servants, or their interests."
"Very well..." Hades agreed, finding the offer incredibly beneficial. "I agree to your terms and I swear upon Chaos that I shall not use my increased power against the Olympians, their allies and servants, or their interests. Furthermore, I swear upon the River Styx to not inform Athena of your association with her son." Hades was risking being destroyed by the power of Chaos if he broke that oath, which he wouldn't do.
Both sensed several members of the remaining Octessence die.
"Destroying those pricks is hard when you have to trick them into killing each other," Percy commented to his uncle's shock.
"You caused their deaths?" Hades asked.
"Yeah, they were all on the list. So were their Exemplars. It needed to be done and the risk is minimal. They were all arrogant enough that they never imagined themselves being tricked." Hades looked amused by Percy's last remark. That applied to the Olympian's too.
Their business having concluded, Percy and Hades said their goodbyes and Percy teleported away.
Over the next five minutes, Percy absolutely dominated the Uprising Storm; easily destroying Horrorscope, Catastrophobia, and Cryptomnesia. They were all pathetic! Percy ambushed and easily slaughtered them all despite being outnumbered.
The Pantheon, led by an ambitious demigod son of Loki was easily wiped out, and Percy made sure that all of them died.
Percy was very pleased to once more sense the deaths of a few more members of the Octessence. Percy teleported away, pleased with his days work, and making a note that he had only been active for ten hours.
When Percy arrived, he noticed that the Avengers had recently called him, and promptly flashed away his armor and teleported there.
"There you are!" Rogers called out, angrily. "You didn't answer the call for the mission!"
"Because I was on one, but what was it?" Percy asked, asked noticing the glares directed at him.
Rogers sighed. "Show him the footage, the mission is no longer feasible anyway. The target disappeared." Steve said, and Maria played it.
Percy quickly learned that he was the target, but for recruitment or arrest. Percy really did look awesome in his Black Ops armor, and was proud of his design of it.
"He fixed a lot of bad things and he disappeared while we were waiting for you. Anyone who would use such levels of power to help people instead of rule or conquer them was someone that I wanted as an Avenger." Rogers said, still angry.
Percy was so awesome that Steve wanted to recruit him twice!
"Uh huh. Zoom in on his gauntlet." Percy said, in a bored tone. They obeyed. "His powers were derived from the gauntlet on his right arm, they enable god-like levels of reality manipulation. He was trying to exhaust that energy and its source. He was seen on Mars, where he killed an extinction-level threat." Percy said, to their shock. "The source was eventually weakened so badly that its enemies attacked and killed him, and then turned on each other. Only two of these beings survive now."
"How do you know all that?" Rhodes asked in interest. A scan of his thoughts revealed a desire to improve intelligence gathering capabilities for America, and he was hoping they could reverse-engineer Percy's and the Olympian's surveillance methods.
Percy replied by flashing on his Black Ops armor and removing the helmet.
"But, yes, Steve. Since I'm so awesome that you want to recruit me twice, I'll join the Avengers." Percy said, causing a few Avengers to laugh. "I am sorry that I didn't answer the call, but I was on a mission and had been fighting since before sun rise."
"The threats dealt with?" Steve asked, much less angry now.
"Yes," Percy replied, not offering any more information.
"What were these threats?" Thor asked.
"Exemplars, Hell Lords, and New Gods," Percy replied, causing Thor to look stupefied and surprised.
"Y-you..."
"Um, Thor, you okay?" Natasha asked in concern.
"What are those threats?" Stark asked, directing the question at Thor and Percy.
"Beings as mighty as Godheads in some cases or even stronger. Over the last two days beings of great power have fallen... including beings as powerful as Elder Gods who's names I dare not speak. I wouldn't even speak the names of Hell Lords." Thor replied. "How did you kill beings as powerful as the eight?"
"Easily. I didn't. I tricked them into killing each other by framing their pawns for killing the others pawns. I left a little evidence behind and they fell for it. I used some magical artifacts to bolster my own power and kill the Hell Lords and bartered their former realms and the souls within them to my uncle Hades."
"I'm impressed," Thor stated. "For a second I thought that you had surpassed me in power."
"Not quite, but I'm optimistic. Even then once you become the King of Asgard you'll be even closer to near invincibility."
"Why do you seek such power, my friend?" Thor asked.
"I want to discover the limits of my power and potential and eventually ascend to godhood under my own power... no one has ever truly done that."
"Well, I'll surpass you both in power and win the measuring contest that you're engaging in," Stark interjected. He didn't expect Percy and Thor to both laugh at him.
"Maybe in a few decades of advancement and after dumping billions into a single suit you'll be able to stall us for a few minutes." Percy said with a smirk. "Thor and I can one-hit your ass right now. Your suits are great, but your body isn't strong enough to survive a full-power hit from us even with them on. Plus you're too much of a pussy to inject yourself with Extremis."
"Damn!" Rhodes said in both shock and amusement.
"I fought Thor, actually. I held my own." Tony replied.
"I hold back while fighting on Earth, unless I'm fighting someone of similar strength and durability." Thor pointed out.
"Yeah right..." Tony said in derision. "You two are just messing with us mortals."
"He's a God of Strength, Stark. He might be able to lift millions or even billions of tons." Stark didn't believe that for even a second. "Fine. Don't believe us. It doesn't really matter, but when you learn the truth don't look shocked."
"Stark, Perseus is being serious. I could easily kill you with my full strength and damage the planet in the process." Thor said, but Stark stubbornly refused to believe that Thor was as strong as he and Percy both claimed.
"Oh well. I'll get to film you getting your ass kicked by a god some time." Percy said. "Should get lots of hits on Youtube... but if you really take a pounding then I might put it on a porn site as a joke." Several of people chuckled about that, but Tony looked more annoyed. "Tony Stark gets pounded by Thor's big hammer... that should get some views." All of the Avengers laughed except Tony, but even Tony's lips upturned.
"Anyway," Tony said. "I'm building a new base of operations for us and I want all Avengers living there." Only Percy looked irritated.
"I have a palace on a private island and I usually walk around nude or with barely anything on..." Percy replied in mild amusement.
"It's wonderful. It's dinner, dessert, sex, a free show, and breakfast the next morning." Maria said to the Avengers amusement.
"If it's required then I'll try to remember to not expose myself..." Percy said, but he wasn't thrilled with having to change.
"It's required. We need to be able to gather the team more quickly." Steve replied. "I understand that you were on a secret mission, but us knowing that you are gone will help a great deal. Being able to just call or knock on your door will solve a lot of problems. You can still take your dates to your home, of course, but we need to be able to contact you."
Percy nodded, but he was still mildly annoyed.
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It was finally the day of Thor's departure and Tony and Steve were debating whether or not Vision was truly worthy of Mjolnir... much to Percy's annoyance. Percy didn't care either way.
"I'm going to miss these little talks of ours," Thor said.
"Well, not if you don't leave."
"I have no choice. The Mind Stone is the fourth of the Infinity Stones to show up in the last few years. That's not a coincidence. Someone has been playing an intricate game and has made pawns of us. But once all these pieces are in position..."
"Triple Yahtzee?"
"You think you can find out what's coming?"
"I do. Besides this one, there's nothing that can't be explained." Thor had Heimdall activate the Bifrost, which caused Thor to vanish in a show of light and return to Asgard... burning a circle in the grass where he was standing.
"That man has no regard for lawn maintenance. I'm gonna miss him though. And you're gonna miss me. There's gonna be a lot of manful tears."
Percy smirked. It sounded like Tony was going to be the one crying.
"I will miss you, Tony."
"Aw, give him a kiss!" Percy said jokingly, breaking the solemn mood and causing them to laugh.
"Yeah? Well, it's time for me to tap out. Maybe I should take a page out of Barton's book and build Pepper a farm, hope nobody blows it up."
"The simple life."
"You'll get there one day."
"I don't know, family, stability. The guy who wanted all that went in the ice seventy-five years ago. I think someone else came out."
"You alright?"
"I'm home." After Tony drove away, Percy and Steve began walking back inside. "Looking forward to your date tonight?" Steve asked, referring to Percy's second date with Natasha. Percy had finally mustered up the nerve to confess to overhearing her tell Bruce that she was sterilized and that Aphrodite thought that he should romance her and heal her. Surprisingly, Natasha had agreed to date him despite Bruce just recently disappearing... when asked, Natasha explained that it just felt right to her.
Maria's response was that Percy would make Natasha feel all kinds of right, a response that amused the others. Poor Maria was now fending off inept seduction attempts by both Rhodes and Pietro, but she was trying to persuade Natasha to share Percy, which Percy found amusing and was agreeable too. It was no slight to Natasha, but she probably couldn't fully satisfy him. Percy preferred to tire himself out, drain himself, and then finish with himself and his lovers thoroughly exhausted. Percy had a feeling due to Lady Aphrodite's blessing that he would soon have two women and properly begin his harem... but he would keep the numbers small. He actually liked having a connection and a relationship with women.
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==August 2nd, 2015.==
Percy's feeling proved true and after Natasha sampled the goods and had realized just how insatiable Percy was she opted to share with Maria... Natasha being bisexual helped too. Percy and Natasha took turns enjoying Maria and often times shared her and Natasha enjoyed the attention of Percy and Maria in return.
Percy had also been training with the other Avengers; mostly hand-to-hand combat and such, and Percy quickly identified Wanda's abilities as just over-stimulated facets of her innate magical ability. Percy began training her when he had time and she was rapidly gaining great skill and power in telepathy and telekinesis, and could now form magical bolts, teleport with high proficiency, and create magical shields. Percy already taught her how to tap into various energy sources for greater magical feats, but Percy refused to teach her invocation spells or even mention the dangerous practice. Percy didn't want an ally of his enslaved to some mystery being with delusions of importance. Unfortunately, Wanda was also attracted to him; at least physically anyway, which Percy found adorable.
After a sensor was tripped, Percy flashed on his armor teleported to the roof top...
After a quick scan, Percy saw a shrunken person... which, to Percy, meant Pym Particles.
"It's okay, he can't see me," the person said moments before Percy looked directly at him.
"I see you and hear you," Percy replied in annoyance. "Now use those particles and grow into a big boy."
"He can see me." Scott enlarged himself back to normal size and waved to Percy. "Hi. I'm Scott."
"Nice to meet you, Scott. I'm Percy. Now what are you doing here?"
"First off, I'm a big fan. I cried when I learned that you died by getting crushed by a city... manly tears, but I cried." Scott said.
"Thanks... now why are you here and who are you?"
"I'm Ant-Man."
"A protege of Hank Pym?" Percy asked.
"Yes!" Scott answered truthfully.
"Cool... now as for the why you're here?"
"I was hoping I could grab a piece of technology just for a few days, and then return it. I need it to save the world. You know how that is."
"Yes, I do. What piece of technology and for what reason?"
"A signal decoy invented by Hank Pym... and I can't tell you the reason." Scott replied after being told not to blab anymore by Hank Pym.
"So basically you need to reclaim some possibly outdated 90's tech for its creator to stop Darren Cross from mass-producing Pym Particle fueled suits and selling them to terrorists and countries. We can't let you in, but I can retrieve the tech for you."
"Really?" Scott asked, but he was shocked that Percy knew all of that and so were Hank and Hope Pym.
"Yeah, plus it might piss Tony off. Ultron nearly killed me and then the Avengers were required to live here to gather for missions faster."
"It seems like a nice place," Scott said in confusion.
"I sleep and walk around in the nude... or used too. Now every Avenger and most staff have seen me naked due to my bad habits. That was awkward." Scott laughed. "You ever see a dear in headlights? I was getting a lot of shocked looks until I realized that I forgot to put on clothes. I'm glad that it was a warm day..." More laughter.
"Anyway, I'll get the Signal Decoy. I'll be right back." Percy said, before teleporting away. Percy quickly retrieved the Signal Decoy and then teleported back to the roof.
"That was quick," Scott said.
Percy handed it to him. "Next time, just ask. You could have gotten your ass kicked or you could have gotten yourself brutally killed."
"Thanks," Scott replied.
"Now get out of here before the arrogant asshole funding this comes by and throws a tantrum." Percy said, amusing Scott, Hank, and Hope.
Hours later...
"You gave away tech to an unknown?" Tony asked in annoyance.
"No. I gave away tech that your father stole from SHIELD to someone who needed it to stop Darren Cross from selling weapons to terrorists and spreading dangerous tech all over the world. I knew exactly who he was, who gave him the tech, their mission, and their intentions... besides the tech was made in the 90's and I've seen far better. Besides, the alternative was beating the poor sap into submission and he could have evaded long enough to steal it anyway. He was going to get it either way purely due to that sole advantage of being able to shrink that small." Percy replied, finding the whole conversation tedious.
"You called me an arrogant asshole and implied that I throw tantrums like a child."
"Yeah... I can see the future now apparently. That's basically what you're doing." Percy replied, amusing Natasha, Wanda, and Pietro.
"How do you even know that this guy can be trusted?"
"I read his mind and recognized the tech as Hank Pym's and confirmed that it was given to him. Aside from that, I'm tracking him and Olympian Intelligence is watching the situation and advancements in interest." Percy said.
"Why?" Stark asked.
"Because their glitchy and unreliable and users can accidentally exile themselves into another realm or risk insanity due changes to brain chemistry. Pym knows how to protect against that, but Darren Cross is an amateur. The human body can't handle them long-term; it's risky primitive tech, but is a good first step towards something worthwhile."
"What do the Olympians think of my tech?" Tony asked with a smirk, but Percy replied with an unamused look.
"Your suits are less than shit to them. Despite whatever arrogant delusion you're operating under you are merely smart for a mortal and your technology isn't a threat to immortal gods and it barely warrants their attention. It doesn't advance humanity. It compensates for the fact that you're a helpless rich boy with no fighting skill and possess the wisdom of a court jester. Ultron wasn't a threat to them and neither is your pitiful Hulk-buster armor."
"Holy shit! He burned you good!" Rhodes said in awe. Tony glared. "Oh, come on. You walked right into that one. You basically asked for him to insult you and he was being completely serious."
Most of the Avengers enjoyed seeing Tony Stark humbled a little and it sped up the ending of that annoying conversation.
"Couldn't you have just beat the guy down?" Sam asked
"I probably would have killed him by accident and he was a good guy. He was trying to do a good thing and the tech didn't even belong to Stark in the first place, was outdated, unused in storage, and preventing the proliferation of the Pym Particle was necessary. Can you imagine fighting an army of insect-sized lunatics? It would be extremely tedious and difficult. It would be a long drawn out war and more than half our team could fall to ambush."
Days later Olympian Special Forces would capture all samples of the Cross Particle and destroy them for being worthless and then execute all those in possession of them.
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