Beneath the Pain - Percy Jackson and the Avengers Crossover

Chapter 5

Tony's POV
What the heck is he doing out here?! He's going to get himself killed. "Percy! Go back in the tower and we'll handle this." Cap yelled. Thor rested a hand on his shoulder, trying to ease his worry. Even after only a day in Stark Tower, everyone seemed to grow to care for him. Me in particular. Percy shook his head and took out of his pocket . . . a pen?! How does he expect to defend himself from these things. With. A. Pen? As the monsters advanced, more streamed from the alleys and streets from the sides. There were more of those dog things, a few lions that were larger than usual, a lion with large bat wings and scorpion tail and a bunch of . . . girl teenagers? In cheer leading uniforms as well.

All Percy did was roll his eyes and uncap his pen. It was amazing! That tiny pen turned into a 3 foot long sword made of a bronze I wasn't familiar with. And I'm familiar with every single metal on Earth, so why can't I identify this one? One of the cheerleaders started talking and it seemed slightly enchanting. Percy did not seem affected in anyway, talked back and started slashing at the monsters. All of us but Thor, Loki and Vision seemed surprised. In fact, Thor and Loki were enjoying this. Thor even brought Pop tarts and a bag of popcorn as he and Loki watched in amazement.

They just sat there as my nephew exploded all these monsters into gold dust. At one time, a dog thing pounced on him and as he was ready to meet his doom, an arrow pierced its head and it exploded into gold dust. We all looked up and found a teenage girl with spiky black hair with her own bronze tipped arrows and a bow. Glancing at her quiver, I noticed no empty space where her arrow should have been. This day was getting stranger and weirder. We all stood - or sat, meaning Thor and Loki - watching these two, mainly Percy, completely annihilate all these monsters. By the time they were done, only half an hour had gone past, however, I noticed that a girl teenager, who turned into some sort of monster, say something to Percy before he finished her off.

He capped his sword up, then started laughing and talking with the girl who helped him as if nothing had happened here. None of them had a single scratch on them! The only proof that the monsters were ever here was the littering of gold dust throughout the street. I couldn't hold my excitement in any longer. "My nephew is awesome! This shows why he's related to me." Some of the Avengers laughed as Percy and the other girl walked over to us. Crossing my arms, I did say, "Although, you've got a lot of explaining to do." He raised an eyebrow. "Starting where?" Percy said sassily. I chuckled lightly. "Maybe for starters, who she is."

They seemed to be having a little silent conversation between themselves, telling each other things before they talk to us. "Okay, this is my cousin, Thalia Grace." Thalia elbowed Percy in the stomach when he said her last name. "And for the record, no one calls me by my last name, Thalia is fine." Got to be reminded not to get on her bad side. We all remained silent as everyone walked our way towards my tower. At the sheer sight of it, Thalia nodded with a slight grin on her face. Of course everyone is amazed by my tower. I designed it.

Upon reaching it, I noticed Percy beginning to pale on our way to the elevator. "Perce, you've ridden this before, you can't really be scared of it." I mentioned. I mean seriously, he's gone on it before, why would he be so scared now? I could hear him mutter, "Memories." And that's all there ever was. Thalia had to come in for explaining since she was there with Percy blasting those monsters to bits.  Reaching the top floor, Peter was now resting on the couch, going through multiple photo shots he'd taken, as Wanda was watching the news on TV. The second the elevator door opened, Thalia dashed out, pulling a shuddering Percy along with her. More questioning and explaining.

We all scampered out the elevator door, eager to hear answers. Percy was shaking from head to toe on the couch as Thalia sat next to Percy, trying to console him. Patting him, Thalia retorted, "Percy might not be ready to explain just yet. Flashbacks really get to him." For kids like them to have this experience with weapons and dealing with weird monsters as if they were nothing, something must've shaken him up to do such a thing to my nephew. Bruce pondered something before clearing out, "Okay. But looking at his records, he hasn't gotten a check up since he was 12 so I'm going to have to give him one, especially after dealing with all those monsters." After Bruce finished his sentence, Percy snapped out of his flashback and jolted his head upwards.