Percy Jackson vs Spider-Man crossover

Chapter 11: Illusion and reality

Peter

"What have you done to Percy?"
Peter stutters, not understanding where his friend went.

Mysterio shrugs his shoulders.
"I sent him to an alternate universe. He will suffer and not come back."

"What? But why ? What did he do to deserve this?"

Mysterio unhooks his friends, and turns sharply to Spider-man.
"What did he do? WHAT HE DID?!" roars the latter.

Peter sweeps the air with his hand.
"Yes, that's what I just asked."

"THAT'S WHAT YOU JUST ASKE-... well, anyway. Yes, what he did. Well, nothing."

Peter tilts his head to the side, uncomprehending.
"Why are you doing this then?"

Mysterio holds his head in his hands.
"Because it's me. Me who should be in his place. I was supposed to be the perfect hero, the demi-god, the cool one that everyone worships. But I didn't fit the prophecy because I'm not a son of the big three. What he did? Been born."

Spider-Man lets out a hiss.
"Oh dude! You're a weirdo!"

"I thank you for the compliment. But you see, he was out of my league. Too many allies. Too much power. I had to trick him."

Under his mask, Peter raises his eyes to the sky.
"And now he's going to tell me his Machiavellian plan..."

Mysterio takes a theatrical pose.
"I killed his parents!"

Peter stops dead in his tracks.
"What?"
The anger was in his voice.
"Is that why he's in this state?"

Mysterio laughs, one hand on his helmet, giving him a degenerate look.
"And you want to know the best part? Everyone thinks he did it! I created a grand illusion, so his friends are hunting him down! And -ARGH-"

Mysterio falls to the ground, his helmet cracked.
Spider-Man stands in front of him, his fist in the air.
"Shut up."

Mysterio laughs.
BAM

"I...-BAM- told you...-BAM- to SHUT UP!"
At the end of each word, Spider-man would bring his fist down on Mysterio's helmet.
"Bring it on Percy!"

"ATTACK!"

Peter turns around and sees the freed enemies hurling themselves in his direction.
"DON'T INTERFERE!"

Peter propels himself at them, and goes on a rampage. A few seconds later, he was back on top of Mysterio, a gash on his arm and blood pouring from his head, the suit torn in places, proof that he had suffered heavy injuries. But he didn't seem to realize it.

"HEY! WHERE IS PERCY?"shouts a female voice.
But Spider-Man doesn't pay her any attention.

Peter continues to hit Mysterio, telling him to bring Percy back.

And he takes a heavy blow to the face, getting thrown several feet. He gets up and sees Percy's friends. The girl drops to the side of Mysterio, on her knees.
"Percy!"

Peter gets back to his feet, in incomprehension.
"Percy?"

Mysterio laughs and the demigods stand before him. He points at Spider-Man.
"It's all his fault. He manipulated you!"

And the demigods throw themselves at Peter.
"What are you doing? I'm not your enemy! I'm a friend of Percy!"

The youngsters don't listen to him and try to hit him, but he dodges by taking refuge on the roof.

"Talking won't help, Spider-Man! I manipulated them, they think I'm Percy! I've undone their illusion that Percy is a murderer. So they just want to protect me. And you want to kill me. The human mind is so easily controlled."

"Rhaaaa! You're not gonna let Percy go, are you?"

"No. You're sharp."

Spider-Man weaves a web over Mysterio's helmet, approximately where his mouth is.
"Haha very funny. But just so you know, here I'm doing the sarcasm."

He sighs.
"Anyway. I'll try to hold everyone back until he gets here."

And he jumps towards the demigods who were advancing towards him, Jason flying towards him, while Mysterio laughed out loud.

Percy

An illusion huh.
Percy doesn't know how long he's been here, but it's getting to be a long time. His opponents keep changing form and he keeps avoiding their attacks, unable to bring himself to hurt his friends even if they are illusions. How to make?

He thinks intensely.
But the illusions appearing very real do not leave him any respite. He dodges a lightning bolt that falls on a pillar. Then he falls to the ground and a sword sinks into the wall behind him. The illusion withdraws the sword, leaving yet another hole in the already shattered wall.

And suddenly, an idea starts to form in Percy's head.
The people change, but not the scenery. There must be a reason.
Instead of observing his opponents, he observes the surroundings.

"No way..."

Percy taps his head.
A door stood in front of him. And the attacks of the illusions keep pushing him in the opposite direction of the door.

Percy smiles.
"Looks like you really don't want me to go through that door, huh?"

The attacks redouble in intensity, and despite all his efforts, he does not manage to approach the door.

He grumbles.
"Seriously you break me the candies there! I see that a solution."

And he takes a big breath, lowering his sword.
He starts to walk.
He stops dodging attacks. He gets slashed in the leg and stumbles, but keeps going. He takes a blow to the stomach that takes his breath away, but he keeps walking. Inexorably, he approaches the door. He suffers mortal wounds but they do not kill him, the wounds fading away only a few seconds after being inflicted. When he gets within a few feet of the door, the illusion once again takes the form of the three Spider-Men, who throw themselves at him, swinging at breakneck speed. But he doesn't flinch, and reaches the door.

He puts his hand on the handle and opens it, glancing back.

The illusion no longer tries to stop him.
One of the Spider-Man (the one he knows) hugs the other two.
"I love you guys!"

The other two seem as surprised as Percy. Suddenly, he gets sucked through the opening, and falls to the ground.

"WHAAAAAT?! How did you get out of the illusion?"

Percy gets up and wipes the dust off his shoulder.
"Well, through the door, of course!"

He looks around. Mysterio was staring at him with his mouth agape (well, Percy assumed it was, he couldn't see anything with the helmet, which was badly cracked, by the way). Mysterio's allies were on the mat, roughly covered in tarps. As for Spider-Man...

"Ah Percy it's great to have you here! I'm a bit overwhelmed!"

He lay with Thalia's spear at his throat, the other demigods circling around him, threatening.

"What the hell is going on here?"asks Percy.

"It's a long time to explain. Go take out Mysterio and everything will be fine."
Peter's tone becomes serious.
"He's the one who killed your parents."

Hearing these words, Percy draws his sword and runs towards his enemy, furious.

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Hello half god!
I hope you are well and that the chapter was fun to read! I for one loved writing it.

We're getting close to the end, 1 or 2 more chapters max!
Thanks for following this adventure!

See you soon for the next chapter,
Until then,
Stay cool, demigod 🔱😄

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