I Am Not Your Sidekick

Language, Kaldur!

Here I am again.

I woke up on the concrete floor, cold and stiff.

I felt the outline of a bandage around my hear and a strange stiffness in my abdomen.

"Finally awake, I see?" A gruff voice said out of the darkness.

"Who are you? What do you want?" I managed to croak out.

"My name is Deathstroke,  but you shall call me master" he appeared in the dim light.

I snorted. "Yeah, and you shall call me waterboy.  Not gonna happen. "

Suddenly a hand reached out and grabbed me by the throat, faster than I could see.

"Do you honestly think this is a joke? I saved your life. I brought you here. You are in my debt. Now if you want to survive in this city or any other city for that matter, you will do everything I say exactly as I say it. Got it?"

I said nothing. I just glared at him.

He let me go and I coughed,  trying to get rid of the burning sensation in my esophagus.

"What exactly do you plan to do with me?" I asked.

"Perceus Jackson..." he mused. "I'm going to break you and make you my weapon. "

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Kaldur'ahm Pov

"I need you to focus the one thing that absolutely terrifies you, but keeps you going." Twelve year old Percy said after several attempts to teach me how to travel through vapour.

At first we both failed miserably,  but he never gave up on it. He kept on trying to succeed. He wasn't the type to give up that easily.

So I surprised myself when I focused on him. A son of the sea god was absolutely terrifying,  but he always had my back. I would've died several times if it weren't for him.

His face lit up and he grinned and clapped his hands.

"You're doing it Kaldur!" He shouted happily.

I looked at my hands and saw that it was slightly transparent.

"Okay, now comesthe hard part. You need to keep the focus on that thought and you need to focus on keeping your molecules together. Imagine where you want to go."

He held his hand out and we both vapour travelled away. He ended up at the snackbar and I ended up in a kelp forest a few feet away.

Percy approached as soon as he saw me and he grinned like a maniac.

"I told you that you could do it!" He laughed.

I smiled at the memory as I vapour travelled all aroundthe city.  On the lookout for an exploded building and a wounded boy not too far from it.

I stopped near a television shop where the news was on. Pictures of the Wayne Industries building showed, but  A minute later it showed a picture of spread debris debris and flames licking up at the broken glass.

That's it! That's where Percy would be. I just hoped that I wasn't too late..

I vapour travelled one last time to where the  Wayne Industries building was and looked around.

It sure was a mess. Pieces of metal and glass decorated the street and news reporters stood all around.

"Where are you,  Percy?"

"He's not here. He's been gone for almost twenty minutes now." A female voice said out of a treen a few feet away. I walked closer  and asked,

"Where did he go?"

"You mean, who took him where?" The woman said, jumping out of the tree and landing in a crouch.

Catwoman.

"Aren't you supposedto be in Arkham Asylum?" I raised and eyebrow.

"Aren't you supposed to be with your team right now?" She asked.

"I came looking for a friend. How did you know who I was talking about?" I curiously asked.

"Word spreads between villains. Joker got him and then he was sent back to Arkham where he spread the word. Every hero and villain knows about him all around the world and we are fighting for the new so-called Son of Poseidon. You've already messed up. He doesn't want to be a hero. He said so himself. But what's to stop him from becoming a villain?" She grinned.

"Where Is he?" I asked irritably.

"Deathstroke took him to his lair. The kid was injured and unconscious. Deathstroke is tending to his wounds and after that, Perceus is indebted to him and he will owe Him his life."

I let that sink in for a moment before I looked at her sceptically.

"And where were you when all this happened?"

"When He said he didn't want to be a hero, or when Deathstroke saved his life?" She asked.

"Both."

"First behind the building listening in and second in this very tree."

"Do you know where Deathstroke is?" I sighed.

"Ha! You think I'd tell you that?"she snorted. "  I'm not on your side, little sidekick. Sure,  I flirt with the bat and I helped you this much, but in case you haven't noticed, the odds are in our favour. You'd have to do everything you can to win this war. But until then,  I have to run. The bat's on his way."  Catwoman pointed behind her and then turned around and left.

I punched the tree."Damnit!" I shouted.

"Language,  Kaldur!" I heard Percy's voice mocking me in my head.

I smiled.