The Kid has a Sword

STEVE WAS WALKING WITH NATASHA TOWARDS Dr. Banner, who was trying to avoid people and was accompanied by a black haired boy or as Steve had came to know him, Perseus or Percy as he preferred. Well, at least that's what Coulson told him.

"Percy Jackson" he shook hands with the dark haired boy. "Captain" he said, both of them with the same air of leadership. "Dr. Banner" he greeted and shook his hand. Bruce looked a seemed to have a look of confusion plastered on his face but shook his hand nonetheless, "Oh, yeah. Hi. They told me you'd be coming." He squinted his eyes a bit, sunlight reflecting in them.

"Word is you can find the cube" he said while the four of them started walking. "Is that only word on me?" Bruce asks as he looks the blonde haired man up and down. "Only word I care about" he answered quickly.

Bruce seemed to appreciate the sentiment and continued," It must be strange for you, all of this" he says pointing around the battleship. Steve looks off to a group of men running, reminiscing his days in the army. "Well, this is actually kind of familiar" said Steve. Percy smiled a little as he saw the spark of happiness in Steve's eyes, it was similar to what he felt when he was speaking about his time at Camp Half-Blood.

"Gentlemen, you might want to step inside for a minute. It's gonna get a little hard to breathe." Natasha said suddenly. She was so silent, Percy almost forgot she was there. Keyword, Almost. "Is this a submarine?" Steve asked still not completely accustomed to the modern technology. "That would be cool" Percy said, excited for if it was submarine he would be in his domain an no way of getting striked out. Natasha gave him a side glance but didn't say anything.

Bruce analysed Percy for a moment, he had known him for about five minutes and the kid didn't seem any special except for his very likable personality, other than that Bruce didn't know what was so special about him. But, Bruce had learned not to judge so quickly through his own experiences. "Really? They want me in a submerged, pressurized metal container." Bruce said after a while, his face contoured in confusion.

They moved towards the edge of the Hellicarrier, where four huge lift fans mounted on the sides starts to lift into the air as the ship takes flight. Steve has a look of awe on his face as both Percy and Bruce just had a small smile on their faces.

"Oh, no. This is much worse" Bruce said, they enter the bridge of the ship where many agents are sitting in front of computers. Percy saw Maria shout instructions here and there and then he saw the director or Nick Fury, who was sitting in the command chair.

"We're at lock, sir" Maria informed Fury. "Good. Let's vanish" he replied.

As the Hellicarrier flies suddenly, the entire ship was covered in reflective mirror, camouflaging the ship in the sky. Percy, Steve and Bruce enter the glorious, gleaming bridge.

"Gentlemen" Fury greeted. Steve slipped him what looks to be a ten dollar bill. Fury extended his hand, Bruce reluctantly shook it. "Doctor, thank you for coming."

"Thanks for asking nicely. So uh... How long am I staying for?" He asked rubbing his hands together, nervously. "Once we get our hands on the Tesseract, you're in the clear " Fury answered.

"Mr. Jackson, thank you for coming" Fury looked towards the black haired boy who was standing beside Steve and offered him a hand. "No problem and call me Percy" he shook his hand.

"Where are you with the Tesseract?" Fury turns to Agent Coulson, while Natasha eyes a picture of a man. "We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cellphones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us." Coulson replied.

"That's still not gonna find them in time" said Natasha, her emotions were running high as Clint was being controlled by the enemy. "You have to narrow the field. How many spectrometers do you have access to?" Bruce asked. "How many are there?" Fury asked in return.

"Call every lab you know, tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays. I'll rough out a tracking algorithm based on cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work?" Bruce said, going full scientist mode meaning everything went over Percy's head.

"Agent Romanoff, would you show Dr. Banner to the laboratory, please." asked Fury, Natasha nodded and walks off leading Bruce. Percy said heard her say, "You're gonna love it Doc, we got all the toys" before they disappeared down to hallway.

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Right now, Percy was standing alongside Steve and Agent Coulson who was talking about his Captain America trading cards, they're vintage as they waited for a facial match for Loki. "I mean, if it's not much trouble" Coulson was persuading Steve to sign his vintage trading cards. "No, no. It's fine" Steve answered a little uncomfortable with all the attention.

Percy liked Steve. He was also very much like Jason, with his blonde hair, blue eyes and his natural air of leadership . So far, he was liking most of his team members. Steve and Bruce he had no problem with but Natasha was another case. But before coming to a conclusion, he also had to take in to consideration that he hadn't actually talked to her.

Anyway, back to the conversation at hand. It seemed Percy had missed most of it and was going to say something but was cut off by a agent saying, "We got a hit. Sixty-seven percent match. Wait, cross match, seventy-nine percent." Phil was quick to run to the Agent and ask,"Location?" "Stuttgart, Germany. 28., Konigstrasse. He's not exactly hiding." Was the reply he got. Fury looked up from the screen they had all gathered at and said, "Captain and Percy. You're up"

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Percy was in a suit, not ideal for a fight but he can work with it. He was inside the Stuttgart Museum, where a gala was being held. The others would be arriving by a Quinjet while he was sent ahead to refrain Loki from doing anything to the citizens. He saw Loki enter the gala, his scepter disguised as a cane. "I have eyes on Loki" Percy said softly, in the com that was fitted in his ear. Loki starts to descend towards the head doctor. As he nears the stage, Loki flips his cane the other way. The guard notices it and pulls out his gun as Loki clubs his head. But, unfortunately for Loki, Percy had noticed too. Chaos had erupted over the whole museum. Guests had started to rush out of the building.

Loki grabbed the doctor and flipped him on the marble table of the mythological creatures bilchsteim. Loki pulls out an optical torture device and plunges it into the doctor's eye. The doctor twists and withers in pain but all in vain. Percy tackles him leaving the doctor to run, he didn't want to risk taking out his sword yet, so he opted to his fists. Loki snarled, his face twitching with anger. He backed away towards the exit, Percy had to act fast he couldn't let him hurt the mortals and he had to keep Loki's focus on him.

"You cannot defeat me, puny mortal" Loki said with his normal menacing expression. Percy uncapped riptide and said," Bold of you to assume I'm mortal." satisfied with Loki's wide eyed expression, Percy lunged.

Loki intercepted his strike with his scepter and pushed him back. "Demigod" he said, in a menacing drawl. Loki charged at him, Percy easily sidestepped his strike as Loki was fully focused in one direction. Loki's scepter met Percy's riptide.

The crowd had forgotten to run seeing these two fight was like an enchantment was casted on them, stopping them from moving. Percy had managed to draw a little blood from Loki's arm. His black and white suit had now disappeared and was replaced by his usual green and black attire and his majestic golden horns. Loki had quickly deduced that he couldn't keep Percy off of him more than a few seconds. But that few seconds were enough for Loki to cast spell on the frozen crowd and make them kneel for him, like the king he was. This time when he pushed Percy, his scepter glowed surging everyone to kneel. His clones which had appeared with the power of the scepter, "Kneel before me" They spoke in perfect unison making tham sound insanely creep.

Meanwhile, Percy was doing better than he thought he would. He hadn't really practiced that much over the course of the past two years, just the occasional spar with Nico and to test a few of the new campers. But it also might be the fact that Loki was using a scepter, that had magical properties but wasn't really a good match with a sword.

Loki attacked him once again but this time he wasn't so lucky. He was pushed into the wall, hard. He had to take a few moments to refocus, in which Loki took his time to say his excellent and dramatic speech.

Loki lifts his arms, grinning widely. "Is this not simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel." He finished satisfied as he saw them kneel before him. His satisfactory expression is however, changed when he sees an elderly man refuse to kneel.

"Not to men like you" his words echoed through the crowd while all others hunched in cowardice. "There are no men like me" Loki exclaimed, with a menacing expression. "There are always men like you" he replied, quite courageously. While all this was happening, our young hero was in the corner trying to deal with his head which seemed to have blurred everything but was slowly but surely coming back.

"Look to your elder, people. Let him be an example" he said, before raising his scepter to execute the man. Right as the beam of energy shoots out of it, Captain America arrives, diving just in time to shield of the blast and knocking Loki down.

"You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing." Captain said as Percy regained conscious and Loki stood up.  "The soldier. A man out of time" Loki said. Percy readied his sword, anticipating a fight. "I'm not the one out of time" He said. Above the Captain, a Quinjet arrived. A machine gun pointed towards Loki with Natasha on the inside operating it.

"Loki, drop the weapon and stand down" Her voice rang through the crowd. Like lightning, Loki sends a blast of blue energy at the Quinjet, Natasha maneuvers it just in time, giving Cap and Percy time to attack Loki. Cap threw his shield at him as Percy dived towards Loki with his sword.  Loki flings Cap to the ground and Cap throws the shield but Loki swats it away like a bug.  Loki knocked down Cap and pointed the scepter to his helmet. "Kneel" he said.

Before Cap could do anything, Percy flipped the scepter out of his hand and kicked Loki in the chest. He made Loki stand up and held his hands behind his back. "This guy's all over the place" Natasha said. Suddenly AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill started to play from the Quinjet speakers.

"Agent Romanoff, did you miss me"