Something to Fight For (Percy Jackson and the Avengers Crossover)

Chapter 25 - Please Don't Squeal

When the 'war' with the aliens finally ended, Percy wanted to do nothing else but lie on his bed at camp and sleep. Actually, he hadn't been home for a while, so maybe he could do that as well. 

Unfortunately, the team had other ideas. They sat awkwardly in the shawarma shop, and Percy silently lamented over his lost sleep. Blackjack was inside as well along with the other pegasi, so that certainly freaked out the store owner. Though he wasn't particularly sure what the mortals saw. 

He could have sworn someone muttered, "Weird horse," when they walked in. Of course, since the Avengers consisted of superheroes, horses were allowed in the store. 

The other really irritating thing was that Thor finally worked out who he was. That, in all honesty, was rather disappointing for Percy because he had originally wanted to tell the team of his misadventures and amazingness. 

"YOU'RE PERSEUS JACKSON!" Thor yelled in excitement, probably deafening everyone in a 12-mile radius. 

The team clutched their ears in agony, and Percy nodded with a pained expression. "Yeah, that's me." 

"NO, I MEAN YOU ARE THE PERSEUS JACKSON! HERO OF THE MORTAL WORLD." Thor boomed out, all but jumping around with glee. 

"Yeah, the one and only," Percy replied with a small sigh as he tested his hearing. Yeah, he was pretty sure he had lost his hearing. 

"OH FOR THE LOVE OF VALHALLA, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED YOUR QUESTS!" Thor squealed, causing the rest of the team to stare at him in utter astonishment and pure disbelief. 

"Did....did Thor just.....squeal?" Tony whispered quietly. Some people, like Clint, didn't even hear him because they were now deaf. The people who did hear simply shook their heads in confusion. 

"I have no idea what is going on," Steve said with a sigh of defeat as he sank back into his chair and picked up his shawarma. "I don't even care anymore." 

Natasha, obviously agreeing with him, also picked up her food and began to eat it slowly. Clint, having no idea what was going on, followed their lead. 

"Thor, you can explain to them," Percy waved as his phone buzzed in his pocket. 

Thor almost flipped the table in his excitement, and he turned to the others with shining eyes. "Please, please do not squeal," Percy added quickly. 

"YOU CAN COUNT ON ME!" Thor shouted loudly, causing yet another thousand people to become temporarily deaf. 

When Percy exited the shop and walked a distance away, he heard screams of panic from the civilians. 

"I CAN'T HEAR!" One cried in alarm, snapping his fingers experimentally next to his ear. 

"NEITHER CAN I!" Another bawled loudly. 

The children found this incredibly funny and started playing Chinese Whispers. Percy imagined that it would not go so well since they were basically lip reading. 

He pulled out his third phone, the one that he rarely used. It only had two apps, both that self-erase after an hour. Clicking on the text app, he scrolled up to find out who had texted him. 

It was R.

'What do you want?' Percy typed out quickly. 

'Boss has a mission for us,' R replied just as fast. 

'Now?'

'Now,' R confirmed. 

Percy sighed and called Blackjack over. "I got to go," he called to his team. No one noticed him, they were too busy listening to Thor. No doubt the god had dramatized his quests.

"Come on boy, we need to get to the HQ," Percy said as he climbed aboard the pegasus. 

"Oh, we haven't been there in ages," Blackjack neighed as he took off from the ground. 

"I know," Percy mumbled. He really wasn't in the mood today. "And they have been pestering me for ages."

Honestly, he didn't even know much about the people in HQ. He had joined up for fun after accidentally beating up one of the members because he was being followed. Then he had started to do the odd jobs, freezing water into ice to cause some businessman to slip and things like that. 

He had met R during one of the duo missions, and they had decided to call each other by their 'codenames'. Self-made of course. It was the first letter of their last names. 

So, Percy was J. 

And R was R. 

Simple right? 

Percy always slightly disliked the HQ because of their name. Honestly, it was just as ridiculous as SHIELD. To make it worse, Percy always hated things that related to weird acronyms that related to animals. 

Come on, what kind of name is HYDRA? 

Sorry, it's short. I'm running on 5 hours of sleep and I'm dying. I hate procrastinating. Probably will update again sometime this week. 

Thanks for reading!

~ѕιℓνєя