Hero's Journey (A Percy Jackson X Young Justice Crossover)

Chapter 9

Mount Justice
September 8th, 23:32

After everything was done, Percy drank some nectar to regenerate. Now, all that was left was waiting.

He decided to stay in the infirmary just in case Wally got worse. At first everything seemed to be normal, but after not even a quarter his state worsen off even more. His natural regeneration kicked in and speedster tried to fight this, but at the same time his whole body radiated with energy. This time, it was not like before. His organism was literary shining and crackling with golden lightning. Speed force was crashing with divine energy and both were devastating his body while doing so. It seemed like both tried to reform him, recreate him in different ways. Percy constantly tried to suck the conflicting forces, but his trident kept overheating. After the crisis was dealt with, different leaguers like Flash and Zatarra came to the Cave, but none could do much. Zatarra used his magic to continue sucking the additional energy when Percy had to rest. Wally should have already been healed, but conflicting energies kept devastating him. Nothing seem to work in the long run.

At some point Percy had to take a longer break. His trident was so overheated from constant sucking energy only to release it in the air that when Percy accidentally touched the metal wall with it, said wall melted. He decided to call doctor Sandsmark who fancied herself expert on all things mythological.

"For the last time. I have no idea what to do!" She screamed through the phone.

"But there must be something. He is getting torn apart by conflicting forces. From what we established, Speed force is trying to heal him while my blood inadvertently mixed with some of ambrosia magic is doing the same, but in completely different way. The two energies conflict and he is only being more and more devastated." Percy explained.

"And what do you expect me to do exactly? It's not like I am a child of Apollo to heal him. It was stupid of you to give him your blood. It only made things worse."

"If I didn't, he would have died. When draining the ambrosia, I at the same time took away his speed force for a time being. His natural healing did not work."

"But now it does... You must replace his blood! Whole thing. One hundred percent. Once there is no more divine energy, speed force will kick in!" Percy could hear doctor scream with excitement. She was like Annabeth when she solved a really difficult problem. It hurt him, but not as much as it used to. He was finally getting over her choice. Percy ran as fast as he could back to the infirmary.

"We need more blood. Much more!" He screamed at them. "All his blood needs to be replaced!"

"Why?" Kaldur asked in confusion.

"Hello Megan. It's Percy's blood that is causing this. If we remove it from him, Speed force will heal him. But you can't just remove all the blood. We must replace it! That is brilliant!" Megan caught the idea first.

"I am going to the nearest blood bank. Back in a flash" There was a zoom and flash was gone to get supplies. Percy smiled weakly. This guy joked in face of tragedy. Definitely he got some style. Awaiting his return, the team set up all the machines. The container for Percy blood was reinforced with several spells. There was no telling what it would do now that the divine energy was destabilized. Percy observed as the team worked together to save their friend while himself he kept draining excess energy to buy them some time. He could sense that with each drain he became both stronger and weaker. Come on Wallman. You can do it. Don't give up now.

When he returned, he was wearing a backpack with insignia of the blood bank in nearby city. He wanted to make a witty comment, but the team jumped at him and took the backpack.